"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to compile the latest version of xcircuit as the version in
> the unstable is also a bit dated.
Yeah, sorry. :-/ (I'm having some issues with the autoconfiscation,
which aren't hard to work around, I just haven't had the time. I
should s
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've never looked at Emacs (actually I have, but the guide I was looking
> at was rather poor). Is it easy to re-program control keys?
Yes (albeit in Lisp); my .emacs file has, for example
(global-set-key "\C-xf" 'fixup-whitespace)
to change what ha
Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to build some (scientific) package with gcc-3.2 in
> order to take advantages of my "Mobile Pentium 4". But, before to
> do it, I would like to know if it will not distord my Debian
> testing/unstable box: in other words, can we use package
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:33:16PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
>> The Debian build of xcircuit doesn't use the Tcl wrapper, but it does
>> use the Python wrapper. If neither of these mean anything to you, y
Søren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
(Please set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters!)
"Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough
> information in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting into a
> graphical environment (i.e. X) so that I can instal
Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How are you supposed to install the lm-sensors-source when you compile
> your own kernels. the resulting file from make-kpkg modules_install
> depends on kernel-image-2.4.20. I just --force-depends'd it in, I assume
> that's not the proper way.
This wo
"dhobner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have configured and built a new kernal under debian. I want to
> clone the kernal and install it on many identical machines.
Take the .deb file that 'make-kpkg' produced, copy it around your
network, and install it on each machine. Setting up a network
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Even though the kernel apparently cannot be built with 3.x, I tried
>> it as you suggested. It got further than before, but now it can't
>> build the (debian stock) lm-sensors-source modules:
...
> That's a multi-line string which is a C extension no lon
Bruno Diniz de Paula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm writting a program that deals with some kernel structures (defined
> on the kernel source includes), as well as with some definitions from
> libc6-dev under asm/... and linux/... The problem is that some of the
> symbols are duplicated and, wh
Andrej Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to be able to call a script with multiple keys in a way
> that it would know how it was called.
So use command-line arguments, or write a separate script for each
key. They're cheap. :-)
> The main reason I want to do this is to gain more f
Benjamin Swatek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm running debian testing on a apple powerbook and try to configure
> kmldonkey and kxine, both complain about a wrong prefix and that they
> don't find KDE headers, where are mine?
I seem to have some headers in /usr/include/qt3, though I've never
a
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> debhelper 4.1.45 (=sid/sarge) builds OK, then resulting .deb then
> depends on debconf-utils (>= 1.1.1) [source: debconf]
>
> debconf 1.2.35 (=sarge) build-depends on debhelper (>= 4.1.27)
> Which makes me wonder: How did debconf/debhelper get int
alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For example, I use an alias ' win+ ' to get into my Windows 98SE
> From Debian
> alias win+='mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/da1; cd /mnt/da1;
> ls'
>
> alias win-='cd; umount /mnt/da1' (to unmount)
> (I created da1/ in /mnt/
>
>
> I have mult
"Jan C. Nordholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> can someone point me to a source of information where it is
> explained why there is only one kernel-source package (2.4.20) and
> ATM two kernel-headers package sets (2.4.20-1, 2.4.20-3)? Trying to
> manually compile a module for my 2.4.20 kernel wi
"Josh Guffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, is there a way to list only the packages with no dependencies?
> Or, some other useful way to find packages that got installed because
> of other packages that aren't there anymore?
If you install packages with aptitude, it will keep track of this f
Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In a shell, it is easy to change the environment by using
> "export". E.g. switching the "PRINTER" env.
(Correct terminology would be "setting an environment variable"; in
Bourne-style shells, this happens to be done via the 'export' command.)
> Is there
Piero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A question about Nic cards and modules.
> This is the output of "ifconfig eth0":
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:AA:3B:E0
>inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST
"Jan C. Nordholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've compiled the kernel myself, using kernel-source-2.4.20, and
> compiled the additional modules I needed (nvidia etc.) using
> kernel-headers-2.4.20.
Oh. In that case, you should ignore the kernel-headers package; it's
just a subset of what's al
Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is easily done when:
>
> I have a useraccount on both machines under the same name (i.e.
> kevin) and
This isn't a requirement;
> I've generated a public key on my home machine using ssh-keygen and
>
> copied that key to the .ssh/au
Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I installed a woody base system and then install the xserver-svga
> required by my nVidia GeForce3 card and a window manager.
That's from XFree86 3.3.6, which is still needed for some cards that
aren't supported in 4.x. You almost certainly want xserver
"Kevin Griffis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I use PuTTY on a Win98 machine to connect to my home machine behind a
> router, tunnelling VNC over SSH. Is it possible to tunnel through a router
> using Cygwin/SSH and get an X desktop?
I bet you don't mean "router", but rather "NAT box". Regardle
Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to filter a file from tcpdump (actually tethereal) using awk,
> but am stuck in one spot.
>
> In words, what I'd like to do is:
>
> 1. only read lines with the word "Message" in it
> 2. in lines with "Message", output everything to th
(Please don't top-post; it makes it harder to follow what's going on
in the thread.)
Tommy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I ran the debianized clean and make
> make-kpkg clean
> make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
> and the kernel header files are
>
> ii kernel-headers 2.4.20-8 Header fil
Piero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I believe I have, after many pains, istalled the network. But I have
> not installed X window. How can I test if it works?
ping? Apply DNS using 'host'? Look at a Web page using lynx or w3m?
FTP? Connect to an arbitrary TCP port using 'nc' from the netcat
pa
Sara Gil Casanova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of problems
> with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using Netscape instead I
> had a chance to see them a little "better". Do you think it could be so, or
> would they l
David CABATON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, i install a woody and after u install gnome with a "apt-get
> install gnome" but it's a meta package so this line install ALL
> gnome as gnumeric, gnome-games, abi, etc.
>
> I want to install the minimum of gnome, just the administrator,
> sy
Ben Kal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One more tip for dealing with Debian packages of custom kernels and
> other home-brewn 'Debianized' software: it is possible to maintain a
> local archive of Debian packages, on your hard disk, from which you
> can install packages with apt-get just like from
"Emma Jane Hogbin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a way to boot into a "safe-mode" instead of having xdm start? I
> didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless
> screen of junk. I need a way to boot the computer to the prompt instead of
> having xdm start. Is it
john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The modem is an external one made by (?for) Microcomputer
> Research UK Ltd, uses a serial port
It's almost certainly compatible. (Serial modems are decades-old
technology now, and don't depend at all on what's inside the box.)
The big compatibility iss
lists1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here's my partition scheme. Opinion?
IMHO it's way too complicated. :-) My laptop has two partitions, for
/ and /home, and I'm quite happy with that. Having /home separate is
useful since if you reinstall you can do it without nuking all of your
personal d
Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for the help.
>
> I've installed the pcmcia-modules-2.2.20.
>
> During boot, I see no errors now related to PCMCIA.
Do you see non-errors? My laptop spews a fair bit of information
about PCMCIA chipsets and what not...
> But when I plug in a lan card,
matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> what wireless access points (wap) are linux users using?
I happen to have a D-Link DWL-900AP 802.11b access point. It works
fine, except that I forgot the administrative password and now can't
reconfigure it at all.
> obviously cost, administration
"Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Am I the only one getting debconf errors during installations? I
> suspect that this began after the upgrade to perl v5.8x, and the
> installations appear to complete successfully . . .
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Can't exec "/tmp/config.15
Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can't log on through kdm_greet. All I see is a momentary loss of
> video signal then the login screen comes back.
That symptom sounds very much like you're successfully logging in,
whatever your X session is runs to completion, and you automatically
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> anyone know if it's possible to pass the value of variables assigned
> within a bash script back out to the executing shell?
No, unless you run the child script using the '.' builtin.
> I've written a tiny script to figure out the IP address of my
> (dyna
David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I run fluxbox and KDE. where can I put setup files ie xhost setup,
>
> Most google searches suggest .Xclients, .xinitrc or .xsessions,
ITYM .xsession (singular).
> On debian, when booting via a graphical login manager (I use KDM)
> these do not appear to
David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can enable other users to log into my x server with xhost +, I need
> to do this because I want ro run a program via user web crontab which
> uses xmessage.
Uh, there's no better solution at all? With the default Debian
settings, the X server doesn't l
Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200
> cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> setup (hd0)
>> Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no
>> Checking if "/grub/Stage1" exists ... no
>> Error 15: File not found
>>
>> /boot/boot/grub/Stage1 does exist, thou
javier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am a new Debian user. I used to work in Mandrake and there the x86
> packages are compiled for i586, while in Debian they are compiled for
> i386. From my experience, I know you can improve the performance
> recompiling the kernel for your particular machine a
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm thinking of getting a Linux embedded PDA, but was wondering what
> people would advise. Looking at what's out there Sony's Zaurus looks
> pretty good.
AFAIK the Zaurus is the only one that blessedly runs Linux. There are
hobbyists who also run Linu
"Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have some programme. When I run it with X with depth 8, I see
> error:
> Cannot allocate colormap entry for "gray"
> Cannot allocate colormap entry for "yellow2"
> ...
> and this program don't work correctly.
> When I run it with -depth 16 or 24 I don''t s
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I downloaded the ac2 patch for the kernel 2.4.20 and applied the same.
...
> make[2]: Circular
>/home/software/kernel/alan/kernel-source-2.4.20/include/asm/smplock.h <-
>/home/software/kernel/alan/kernel-source-2.4.20/include/linux/interrupt.h dependen
eric lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I follow two boods, one is "HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML
>and CSS" the other is "Teach yourself WEbPublishing with HTML and
>XHTML"
>
> may be best weblanguage is java or java script, let me explore html
> and cgi and perl first
(Disagree
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Haskell, Erlang and Clean are functional programming languages.
>
> Lisp is very similar in terms of the paradigm.
>
> Is Lisp a functional language?
I believe so, yes; the opposite is "imperative language", a la BASIC,
C, Java, Perl, etc.
--
David M
Dai Yuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bruce Park wrote:
>
>> Dai,
>>
>> I'm confused to why you aren't just using one boot loader to control
>> everything. Can you tell me why you are using two boot loaders?
>>
> My reason is here:
>
>>
>> > Now I put them together. My intention is: let GRUB lo
eric lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear advanced webprogramers or linuxer:
>
>Could we using c replace perl in cgi programming?
Sure, nothing's intrinsically tied to Perl at all. Look at
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html for the CGI
specification, including a listing of the en
eric lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks your reply, but it is not work( I did not know why yet, maybe
> some where in my /etc/apache/httpd.conf I should add load mod_perl
You don't *need* mod_perl to run CGI scripts. (And if you're doing
testing/developing and don't need tight integration w
Jörg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a file called header.tex in my home directory which I use for
> every LaTeX document. When I try to do
> \input{$HOME/header}
> at the very beginning of my document, emacs colors everything in
> math-mode-colour because of the "$"-sign.
(Does TeX
Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i just wanted to use lm-sensors to check voltages, temperatures ..
Do you actually have (supported) sensor hardware? My laptop, for
example, doesn't, though my desktop machine does.
> 1 I installed lm-sensors, lm-sensors-source and i2c-source
> 2
"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just recently installed and successfully converted an rpm package to
> a deb package. I installed the deb package and there were no
> errors... or so I thought. The package that I converted was the
> j2sdk_1.4.0_01 and now whenever I try to run anything
"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My understanding with the original Bourne shell was that when it
> starts up, it will execute .profile in the users home directory. How
> does this work in bash? I have a .bash_profile but I know that it
> isn't executed since my PATH variable isn't update
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From what I can gather on this hesiod library, it's a dependency of
> zephyr which comes from a dependency from cyrus21 (unstable).
No, it's an intrinsic dependency of zephyr. In particular, zephyr can
use it to find the zephyr servers when the host man
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where would you require zephry over DNS?
I suspect there was antecedent confusion. *Hesiod* is built on top of
DNS. (I think historically Hesiod might predate DNS and it's used for
things besides getting server names corresponding to services.)
> What's
"Tobias Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just recently started a new project; to put together a new
> firewall/gatway/webserver/etc at home. Now, I installed Debian 3.0
> on an old p2-machine and then I did an dist-upgrade to the latest
> unstable/testing. Everything worked just fine, bu
Luc Lefebvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am developing an app using the default woody python/gtk install. Would
> it be wise to update to the "unstable" python <2.2> and python-gnome
> <1.99> and all of the associated libraries. Basically I would like the
> added functionality in the newer
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> mother:~# cat /proc/swaps
> FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority
> /dev/hda2 partition 996020 0 -1
>
> mother:~> free
>total used free shared
eric lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> www:/home/fsshl# telnet localhost 80
> Trying ::1...
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
That means your Web server isn't running. '/etc/init.d/apache start'
as root; if it fails, error messages might be in /v
Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "man dpkg" shows an interesting option, -root. If this works as
> expected, it could be used to install .debs without "contaminating" the
> system.
It doesn't do what you expect. It's more intended to be used in a
situation like booting from the rescue d
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am compiling my kernel and pcmcia modules from source.
>
> Do I need both pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-source. Or will the tools and gizmos
> that come with pcmcia-cs get built when I compile the pcmcia-source
> package.
You need pcmcia-cs, too; pcmcia-source only builds
Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:08:29AM -0800, Joris
>> Huizer wrote:
>> > I think my security settings are too restrictive. When I try to
>> > log in at mail.yahoo.com using lynx I get an error "client
>> > does
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes:
> The slrnpull program provides the option to
> use the env variable NNTPSERVER instead of
> passing the newsserver by argument.
>
> As being not that experienced in unix I had
> a look at the rcS script to look how this
> might be done.
As in, the very fi
"Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - nvidia kernel driver source compilation - error when make install due
> to different kernel compiler version/current installed compiler version
> -
>
> Hello, this question has been clearly addressed in the README file on
> Nvidia's website, but what should
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I run apt-get update&&apt-get upgrade frequently. Seems a recently
> installed package is broken (I'm suspecting fileutils).
>
> When I do an ls I get:
> ls: reading directory .: Function not implemented
>
> When I do an apt-get upgrade I get:
> 27 packages upg
Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 26 Dec 02 15:00:22 GMT, David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've been using mini-dinstall to maintain a small private repository
>> (mostly with my custom-compiled kernels). You can add other things t
"Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> make xconfig
...
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display
> "10.100.4.2:0.0"
...
> Yes I was login directly as root
*Why*? Building a kernel isn't the sort of essential system
administration task that requires root access; you're much
b d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have multiple alpha systems, and unfortunately as it turns out
> must compile Xfree86 from source, due to the fact that the official
> alpha packages of debian do not currently have my video card
> supported, yet support exists according to the xfree86.org
> webs
Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Part 3 of my "kernel compile saga."
>
> My new kernel compiles OK, it boots OK, but there are no modules. Typing
> lsmod shows no modules loaded, even though /etc/modules says:
...
> A look in directory /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers confirms that the
"Stig Are M. Botterli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Moseley
>wrote:
>>
>> $ dpkg -l | grep font
>>
>> ii gsfonts-x110.16 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11.
>
> This package is a real uglificator. Replace it with a dummy equiv.
Why do you
Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:02:19 +
> Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I installed a new kernel as per:
>>
>> http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.en
>>
>> as non-root. make-kpkg failed, with this error:
>>
>> need root priviledges
"Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi.
> Who can explain?
> ps ax | grep lpd
> 398 ?S 0:00 lpd Waiting
> 5593 pts/13 S 0:00 grep lpd
> ps ax | grep [l]pd
> 398 ?S 0:00 lpd Waiting
>
> What do [l]?
As far as grep is concerned, [l] is a regular expressi
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I converted a .dvi file into a .ps one. The converter (dvips) couldn't
> find the font (Computer Modern) for the .ps file, so the font displayed
> wrongly in gv.
What's the error message you're getting? CM, being the TeX standard
font, really should Just Work.
Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Warning: ignoring snd_major=116, no such parameter in this module
> Warning: ignoring snd_cards_limit=1, no such parameter in this module
> Warning: ignoring snd_device_mode=0660, no such parameter in this module
> Warning: ignoring snd_device_gid=29, n
Dominic Iadicicco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My question is: Do you have to run an windows manager in order to
> use an application?
You shouldn't, but...
> I have the .xinitrc file just starting mozilla and it starts fine.
> I have access to the mouse but the keyboard does not let me type
> a
Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a ham v90 winmodem .. I tracked down the driver for it which is
> Intel-V92ham-451 It installs with ...
>
> make clean
> make ham
> make install
When you 'make ham', how does it find your actual kernel source? You
almost certainly need unpacked ker
Jeffrey Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a general way to disable start up of specific daemons at boot
> time.
Delete their startup links in /etc/rc2.d or /etc/rcS.d.
> I know I can rip the whole package out, or do a "update-rc.d -f
> remove lpd", but is there a more elegant way?
Wh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have a Pentium 200 MMX running Debian Linux v1.3. The machine has
> recently moved and now needs a new fixed IP as it is functioning as a
> server. What files need to be modified for this IP change?
You should only need to change /etc/network/interfaces. You might
willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bit of a dumb question but i couldn't find the answer anywhere.
> Using the fluxbox version from testing, double checked if everything
> was correct but the slit doesn't seem to be working. Does anyone
> know if the testing package has the slit compiled into it?
Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can I get the column position using flex? (for better error handling)
I don't see any obvious way to, which seems a little surprising. You
might try redefining the YY_USER_ACTION macro, though (see
(flex)Miscellaneous in the Info docs):
%{
int line
Elijah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to configure my AC97 card since I just removed my c-media to make
> room for my tv-tuner.
My understanding is that "AC97" isn't actually a particular type of
soundcard, but a sort of meta-standard...
> I added the ac97_codec in my modules to make it
> w
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Saunders) writes:
> My only query is that when specifying the root file system i have to
> specify using the /dev/hd* notation rather than the devfs way.
> is there anyway i can direct the kernel to a root filesystem
> using devfs?
It seems like the kernel "find the root p
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any suggestions? 3D support, too?
If you already have a reasonable video card, you might find it just as
easy to get a second (PCI) video card. XFree86 supports this
configuration very well these days, and it's how my dual-head machine
at home is set u
Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have VIA on board sound and an additional Xwave 4000 PCI sound card.
> The first one (VIA) is supported by kernel (built-in) and for xwave 4000
> I use alsa-0.9. The confusing thing is which card is connected to
> /dev/dsp0 and which to /dev/dsp1. How can I
Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can no longer boot my Woody laptop. Here are the last few lines of
> boot up:
>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel momory 208k freed
> kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
>
> I u
Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i compiled my own 2.4.20 kernel and it works great.
> Then sometime later i compiled the nvidia module via
> the 2 nvidia packages in the distribution.
> When i upgrade the kernel soemtime in the future and thus compile my own
> kernel again, will i
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hum, well I need to read more. I thought it was Xinerama that made the
> dual head thing workable -- using two as if one screen. If you are not
> using Xinerama then can you describe your setup and what it's possible to
> do?
You need a window manager t
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Z Maze sez:
> } If you already have a reasonable video card, you might find it just as
> } easy to get a second (PCI) video card. XFree86 supports this
> } configuration very well these days, and it's how my dual-head mac
Paul W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've now found that I may be able to get sound using a kernel 2.5.11
> or above (http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/audio.htm), is
> there a specific version that anyone could recommend?
I'd stay far, far away from the 2.5.x kernel series; it's the
dev
Frank Lenaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I configured MIT Kerberos 5 and can now use kerberised telnet, ftp,
> rlogin and ssh. However, I also want to have X over Kerberos.
My understanding is that you don't, really, and that the Kerberos code
that appears in X might have maybe done authentica
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Exim's panic logfile shows "TCP service "smtp" not found"
...that suggests that /etc/services is corrupt...
> daddy:~# telnet localhost
> telnet: could not resolve localhost/telnet: Servname not supported for
> ai_socktype
...as does this. You probably need to reinst
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been rolling my own kernel using make-kpkg and the other wonderful
> tools we Debianites have at our disposal for over a year now, yet
> something just occured to me. Is it possible to compile individual
> kernel modules outside of the actual kern
Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On the XFree86 page: http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status9.html#9
> some video cards only work with 3.3.6 X servers and others work
> with 4.2.1 X servers.
>
> If i put the two video cards in the pc, can i choose
> whether to start the 3.3.6 server or the 4.2.
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Questions: I was told to get 2.3.1-8, not 2.3.1-9.
(Why? The Debian changelog for libc6 suggests that it's mostly
non-i386 portability fixes; I'd doubt it would actively hurt anything.)
> Therefore, a
> simple apt-get install libc6 will not be enough.
Alex Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AK> would someone told me what is the meaning of:
AK> 1)defaults00
AK> 2)defaults11
AK> 3)defaults10
AK> 4)ro 00
mount options/dump/fsck
See mount(8) for information on what can go in the "mount
Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LZ> We consider putting Linuxes (or should it be Linuces? )in the
LZ> classes, but don't want the students to be able to boot single
LZ> user and then rm -r *, or open accounts and try to get into the
LZ> network.
LZ>
LZ> Is there an easy was to put a pass
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OO> By the way, I don't think I understood what you and David were
OO> talking about concerning mbr and the master boot record and floppy
OO> booting. Could you please elaborate?
The default Debian setup allows you to select which partition to boot
from,
Clare Johnstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CJ> On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:
EC> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AT> Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can
AT> I just blithely replace the library?
EC>
EC> As long as you aren't talking about a libc5 to libc6 upgra
Rene Mayrhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RM> Has anybody tried the Iomega DittoMax (7 GB compressed) under
RM> Debian 2.0 ?
It works (more or less) with the current betas of the ftape drivers.
See http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/, and look
under "development". (To be fair
B Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
JG> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:
RvdM> When you point apt's config file, sources.list, to more than one Debian
RvdM> archive, is it possible make sure it uses a specific site when the same
Rvd
BG Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BL> Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx
BL> or xdm?
startx uses .xinitrc; xdm uses .xsession.
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