On 23 Feb, Frankie wrote:
> I am sure that when I first started using debian/linux I had a program
> (I think part of another packages), and if you ran "thisprogram
> anotherprogram" then it would rum anotherprogram and tell you exactly
> how much time was allocated to the running of that program.
On 16 Feb, J K wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering how to configure packages that I installed with
> dpkg -i .deb. After installing a package, I got a message
> saying package depends on another file, and that that file was not
> installed. I have installed the other package now, and wonder ho
On 16 Feb, Person, Roderick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> My 3.5 floppy is out of alignment, I know for other OSs there is software to
> help you align your drive is there any for Debian or Linux in general.
>
> thanks
> Rod
>
>
Alignment? Are you sure? I thought that alignment problems needed an
osc
On 11 Feb, Tim Buller wrote:
> A bit more info...
>
> It looks like the problem is being caused by the hot-swappable SCA bay
> that is part of the Intel Astor Chasis in which this system is installed.
>
> Info from the Symbios boot-up sequence:
>
> SCSI ID = 0 6
> Vendor = ESG SHV
> Device = SCA
On 11 Feb, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> I just rebooted my new 2.2.1 drive on my laptop.
>
> Where my bios is set to defaults (i.e., PnPOS), it locks up
> at boot. When I change my bios settings to enable serial port, and
> enable parallel port it boots up, but gives the following warning:
>
> cs:
On 5 Feb, Mike Marsman wrote:
> Hey all ... I think I have a question for ya (hopefully it's not
> completly stupid)
>
> I'm running deb w/ the 2.0.34 kernel installed -- I want to recompile the
> kernel so I can add network support, but I've come accross a problem.
>
> I can switch to /usr/src
On 28 Jan, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade
> 2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg
> download, it would take a long time and be expensive :(
>
>
> Anthony
>
>
I'm afraid that enough has cha
On 25 Jan, Chris Wong wrote:
> Hmm,
>
> Is there a certain # I should get from different CPUs? I mean,
> my P200MMX is getting like, 400 or so, and my dual P2-300 is
> getting a total of like 700 or so. Is this right?
>
> Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998
> htt
On 5 Jan, ktb wrote:
> Hi, I've been hard at work getting nothing done as usual. I have
> three things I'm trying to accomplish but lets start with #1 and see if
> I can't get this to work. I've been trying to figure out how to use my
> cdrom. I have been reading the cdrom HOWTO. This is
On 22 Dec, Kirk Hogenson wrote:
> The problem is that "you" own the X session, "root" doesn't.
>
> The easiest way to get this to work is to type
>
>xhost + localhost
>
> before you do your su. This means that you'll let anyone
> from the host "localhost" (ie, your computer) connect to your
On 17 Dec, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> I installed debian on a professor's machine yesterday, but have hit a
> barrier: we don't know what the video "card" that it uses is. Unix/
> linux tech support in our department is non-existent (which is why he
> asked me for help). It can't eve
On 16 Dec, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote:
> I have a Toshiba t211x series laptop with a pointer (accupoint) on the
> keyboard.
> Does anyone know how (if) I can configure this in X11?
> Regards,
> Stephen Lavelle
>
I think it looks like a PS/2 mouse, software-wise. Try "ps2" as the
mouse type
On 2 Nov, Debian-User wrote:
> can anyone tell me how to make images your background in wmaker? I dloaded
> some of those
> themes from e.themes.org which are .jpg format then i converted them to xpm
> with the gimp.
> But i can't figure out how to set it to my background. Can anyone help? Am
On 1 Nov, Oz Dror wrote:
> Hi
> I have hust installed debian 2.0 on new P-II machine.
> MB ASUS P2B-S (with aic7890)
> I have 2 SDRAMS 128MB each.
>
> When I try to boot linux with more then 128M linux crashes.
>
> Is this a hardware or software problem.
>
> -Oz
My guess is hardware. I have 2
On 29 Oct, Kevin Grant wrote:
> Thanks for the help I've gotten on this so far. Unfortunately it doesn't
> seem to be working. I seem to be caught in a catch-22 situation as far
> as getting the system to behave as I want it to. Here's the situation:
>
> I have one dos/windows only hd. I have
On 7 Oct, tracheotomy_bob wrote:
> First the most important question. Does anyone have experience running a
> Matrox Millennium G200?
> I assume it needs special drivers as they're not standard in XFree86, so
> where do I get them from?
> Can anyone recommend a truly excellent card for X.
Not
On 5 Oct, Nuno Carvalho wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
>
>> Make an ~/.xsession file and put "exec wmaker" on it. Then chmod +x it.
>
> I just commented the line with xterm on Xsession global (/etc/X11/) and
> it worked ! :)
>
>> The file is /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.
On 2 Oct, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Try lm_sensors.
>>
>> http://appindex.freshmeat.net/view/904554804/
>
> Cool. Have you compiled this?
> (Which do you pick? lm78-1.2.3.tgz or lm_sensors-1.4.6.tar.gz)
>
> I get:
>
> # insmod ./lm_sensors.o
> ./lm_sens
On 1 Oct, Paul Reavis wrote:
> My latest motherboard has a CPU temp sensor and fan tachometer feature.
> Are there any linux drivers/programs for reading these?
>
Try lm_sensors.
http://appindex.freshmeat.net/view/904554804/
--
Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
Mathematics gradua
On 22 Sep, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hi all,
> I would like to buy a pcmcia scsi card for my laptop. Can someone suggest me a
> model that is know it works with Debian linux?
>
There is a complete list of supported cards at
http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/SUPPORTED.CARDS
Unfortunately, th
On 19 Sep, Remo Badii wrote:
[snip]
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> Possibly you did not build and install the pcmcia
> modules? The pcmcia modules are added on to the kernel, and come
> separately. Install the pcmcia source package and look for
> instructions on using make-kpkg to create
On 18 Sep, Randy Edwards wrote:
>Could someone tell me exactly what the dists/proposed-updates
> subdirectory is for?
>
>Yes, I know it's for "proposed updates" ;-), but what for what dist?
> Hamm? Slink? Does this subdir function as sort of a new "incoming"
> type of subdir so that the
On 16 Sep, Shane S. wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> So do you think I should forget about recompiling the kernel
> and just install it as if there is 1 processor?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September
On 16 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everybody, I just installed gimp and was trying to resize an image
> from 640x480 to 1024x768. I can't seem to do it. In gimp if you use
> the resize the image it resizes the window and leaves the image at
> 640x480. Do you have any suggestions. I can't
On 12 Sep, Michael Beattie wrote:
>
> I know that KDE is still in the development stages, but one small bug that
> bugs me is that when using the K file manager to open text, .c or image
> files, The respective viewers/editors take the file's path and location to
> be seperate arguments. For examp
On 14 Sep, Person, Rod wrote:
> Anyone using KDE, do you have this problem, can you help..
>
> When I start KDE as the default window manager it takes 1/2 hour
> or more to load. Then once it does load it is take just as long to do
> anything.
> I added kdmdesktop to my Xsetu
On 14 Sep, Kent West wrote:
> Anyone know how to change resolution/screen size on a laptop that doesn't
> have a separate numeric keypad? I can lock the number keys on that are
> imbedded in the alpha keys, but that still doesn't let me do the
> Ctrl-Alt-Minus key combo. Nothing I've tried has work
On 9 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, i'm trying to mount some CDRW media, but its not working. :(.
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/timothy# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
> mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad sup
On 2 Sep, Max wrote:
> I'm about ready to setup a machine with 512 MB of RAM and I'm
> wondering how much swap space I should allocate. I've read about the
> 2x rule, but 1 GB of swap seems somewhat excessive. I've also been
> told that Linux will not use more than 128 MB of swap. So, how much
On 29 Aug, Christopher M. Wesneski wrote:
> I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and
> isapnp.
>
> pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings)
> isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550
>
> Everything works great.
On 28 Aug, Brian Morgan wrote:
> Running debian 2.0 / 2.0.34 (stable) and having trouble getting my sound
> card to work. I can get the cd rom player in X to run, but not through
> the sound card. I didn't see anything in the device drivers setup when
> I installed debian, and wasn't sure how els
On 28 Aug, Ossama Othman wrote:
>> from what I remember Beowulf uses PVM, and that is already packaged.
>> They basically seemed when I read their pages to be makeing "add ons" which
>> make PVM more powerfull
>
>>From what I recall, PVM is being superseded by MPI. There is already a
> Debian pa
On 28 Aug, Young, Ed wrote:
>
> I'll bet this has been covered, and I feel shame for not knowing and not
> being able to find out how, but
> How do I create a custom boot disk? Is there a utility, or just a sequence
> of steps?
>
> Thanx,
>
> Ed
The package you want it boot-floppies. Be warn
On 26 Aug, Mike Roberts wrote:
> I and a friend both have the same problem on our older 386 machines -
> the resue disk for hamm takes about 15 to 20 minutes to load the root
> filesystem and the kernel image. These same floppies work just fine
> on newer systems. We've both already completed the
On 15 Aug, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I've managed to install the base system via floppies and I've spent
> several hours downloading packaged with dselect, and all seemed to
> be progressing nicely. I've only rebooted the system twice, and
> after downloading and installing something to do
On 28 Jul, Justin Liu wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I have an IBM Thinkpad 560 with Debian 1.3.1 (among other OS's) installed on
> it and I was looking for some equipment recommendations. I plan an upgrade
> to hamm sometime soon.
>
> I want to get a 56K PC card modem, hopefully one that will also work with
On 17 Jul, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> "Carlo U. Segre" wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm
>> distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11.
>>
>> 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a
>> configuration issue but I know
On 19 Jun, Babs wrote:
> Hiya People,
>
> I work for an isp and am fairly new to linux still, but have some
> experience with recompiling the kernel and module installation and
> configuration. I'm looking for a drv and/or module for a drm-1804x scsi
On 6 Jun, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> Thanks for the input George,
>
> I have looked all through the bo archive (using dselect) for a package called
> make-kpkg. I do not see one on my mirror by that name.
^ Try kernel-package instead. The program to run (after you
have installed
On 26 Apr, Asher Haig wrote:
> Is it possible to make linux print to an appletalk printer? I see papd
> can spool from appletalk to an lp printer. Can it work the other way?
>
> I want to print to an HP 6MP hooked up via a Jet Direct Plus to 10bT
> ethernet. It does NOT have a specific IP addres
On 21 May, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> Hello & help!
>
> I hope someone can help me with this problem that is getting worse and
> worse...
>
> I tired to install fvwm95 and all I got was a plain login screen that
> would log into a plain window with a single xterm. I tried to remvoe
> the windo
On 21 May, Philip Restuccia wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I sent a request for help on this topic a few days ago, but have
> received no responses
> as of yet. In case I wasn't clear enough on my needs the first time,
> I'm trying again.
> If you saw the first request and just don't know of anything that w
On 17 May, Stefan Baums wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'll buy a notebook computer shortly, and one of my prime concerns is
> that GNU/Linux will not only run on it somehow, but actually use the
> available hardware features. At the moment, I'm considering the
> Toshiba Satellite 300 CDT and the HP Omniboo
On 21 Apr, Adalberto da Silva wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I wish my question is only a little bit ou of scope...
>
> My computer is a dual boot MMX230 with 120 MBytes RAM and three IDE
> hard disks (2 Megs for Win95 and 11 Megs for Linux - this is an
> indication for my choices. But I do use
On 10 Apr, John Maheu wrote:
> There is a good signal 11 reference on the web somewhere - unfortunatly I
> can't remember the address.
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
--
Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
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On 8 Apr, Kenneth L. Summers wrote in reply to
> David B. Wilson
>> Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
>> (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.)
>>
>
> The method I tell folks around here to use is to go to a virtual console,
> pre
On 22 Feb, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 11:33:03PM -0500, Stephen P. Ryan wrote:
>> On 20 Feb, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
>> > 1FA: is what I get when I try to boot from My hard drive. I had this
>> > problem once before and the problem mysteriousl
On 20 Feb, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> 1FA: is what I get when I try to boot from My hard drive. I had this
> problem once before and the problem mysteriously went away. It hasn't gone
> away yet on this box. this disturbs me. This is a new machine with a
> 9gig cheeta drive, 1st (system) partit
On 17 Feb, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On 16 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>> Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it
>> on my PII/233 for comparison if you want.
>
> and Alex Yukhimets:
>
>> Same here, only with PII/300.
>
> You can find the source code here:
>
>
On 16 Feb, Ben Pfaff wrote in response to someone else who wrote:
>I would like to know how debian handles in a machine with two pentiums. =
>Are two cpus quicker then one in any situation. I mean does every =
>program run quicker.
>
> Generally any particular process will only run on
On 16 Feb, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this is off topic, but I don't have access to cola (and
> newsgroups in general) and I feel more confortable asking here, because I
> want Linux specific answers.
>
> Ten days ago a professor here bought a Pentium II/233 system. H
On 6 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been eyeing some multi-processor motherboards. After checking several web
> sites, I've come across a factiod that only Intel supports "dual mode". So,
> what is "dual mode"? And does one need "dual mode" to run Debian under SMP
> kernel option? Or can one
On 29 Jan, David B. Miles wrote:
> New Debian User!
>
> I have a Compaq Elite 4/75 CX laptop.
> I have an IC ethernet card (network card).
>
> I installed Debian on the laptop using disks.
> I would like to make a network connection through the network card and
> then install the rest of the debi
On 24 Jan, Steve Hsieh wrote:
>
> Sorry if my previous post on this made it out as well.
>
> It seems that on Debian, the maximum single file size on ext2fs is 1GB and
> not 2GB. Can someone confirm this, and suggest how to fix the problem,
> if possible?
>
I no longer have the space to test th
--- "dc" wrote:
>Enough is enough.
I agree. I'm sick and tired of debian-user being hijacked by whining
"dissidents".
>It is time for Bruce Perens to step down form the leadership position, and an
>interim leader take his place until a new leader can be chosen at the formal
>election.
--- Jason Costomiris wrote:
Macs (using netatalk, of course) can file just fine, but can't
print. What am I missing?
--- end of quote ---
I haven't tried this, as I'm sitting in the middle of more Macs than I care to
think about, and I need to print to AppleTalk printers (the reverse problem,
whi
--- Timothy Phan wrote:
I've been mirroring the ftp.debian.org on the bo/ and bo-updates/ for
months now. The activities on this version seems to slow down quite
a bit. Now, I'm thinking to mirror the hamm/ as well. Would someone
tell me approximately how much more disk space do I need
--- Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
Perhaps, the driver must be compiled inside the kernel, since some drivers
have their parameters analised in boot time but not in loading module time.
If there is some PNP card, you may have problems.
--- end of quote ---
I think you can put the parameters in the
--- Jesse Goldman wrote:
I've just put Debian 2.0.30 with version 6 of the deadlock patch on a new
2 CPU machine. The messages file tells me that the two CPUs were
initialized OK and that the machine is running roughly at 400 MHz. If I
run "bogomips", however, I still get out 198 MHz. I'm guessing
--- Marc Fleureck wrote:
Does somebody know what cards are compatible and give good
performance ? Is e.g. Matrox a good choice (say Matrox Mystique or
Matrox Millenium) ? What's the difference between Matrox Mystique and
Matrox Mystique ii ?
--- end of quote ---
I think Matrox is a good choice,
--- You wrote:
When running top on my 2 cpu machine, I get some interesting states:
12:12pm up 18:03h, 5 users, load average: 1.52, 0.76, 0.49
65 processes: 61 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 90.2% user, 107.5% system, 0.9% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 128044K av, 11052
--- Karsten Bolding wrote:
Hi
Does anybody know if this card woks with XFree.
Matrox MGA PowerDocEd 2MB PCI grafikkort
--- end of quote ---
Yes, it should. That's a Matrox Millenium PowerDoc Edition, which is supported
by the SVGA server in XFree86 3.3
Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linu
--- Frits Daalmans wrote:
...have recently obtained a new program for molecular modelling. It was
produced under the GPL and (very well) written in C (IMHO).
...
- If I contact the author of this 'moldy' program, Keith Refson, and
ask his permission to compile and package it for Linux (only i386 f
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The following files are corupt
debmake.list
mgetty-docs.list
mgetty-fax.list
mgetty.list
mount.list
xmix.list
These files reside in the /var/lib/dpkg/info directory
could someone or a few poeple even compress those for me
and send them this way ;-)
If they can't be se
--- Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> However, I don't think your 2940U is the problem. The no_reset
> parameter is to prevent the HBA from resetting the SCSI bus, which it
> does by default to allow all the SCSI devices on the bus to initialise.
Then I don't need the `linux' label anyway.
<...>
The l
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry for this silly question. I am new to both Debian
and Linux.
My disk has following partions:
/dev/hda1DOS
/dev/hda2extended partion
/dev/hda3swap
/dev/hda4Red Hat linux
/dev/hda5Debian 1.3
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
with the cost of multiple cpu motherboards going down i
was wondering if anyone has created a super debian system?
allan
ps what apps are you runnning?
--- end of quoted material ---
Yes, I have. 2xPPro 200/256k on a Tyan S1662D, 128M RAM. I pulled the hard
drives
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