techlists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
techlists> I have an AMD k7 800mhz computer. The mother board has on
techlists> board sound. it's a VIA AC 97 audio Chipset. Anyone have
techlists> any luck getting this to work.
It works just fine for me using the ALSA driver[1]. You need to build
it fro
David H Silber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DHS> I would like to use DocBook to create the documentation for a project
DHS> I'm working on (see signature) but have been unable to find instructions
DHS> for generating various formats of output.
DHS> I guess what I'm really loooking for is a cookbook
Gladimir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
G> The default debian installation did not install my kernel source
G> files, so I am using dselect to get those files.
I'd just get a kernel tarball off of ftp.kernel.org or a mirror and
unpack it somewhere handy.
G> I found the source files and marked kerne
Jamie Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JW> I'm trying to install Xlibs-4.0.3. But this conflicts with xlib6g
No, it only conflicts with xlib6g (<< 4.0), which means you can and
should install the xlib6g out of testing as well.
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.or
xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
X> You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run?
X> well, last week I noticed that after it ran, it said .3% non contiguous.
X> Today it ran and it said .6% non contiguous.
X> My question is.. why diesn't fsck fix the non contiguous errors it
X
Phew. Let's see...
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JP> So... Even though I set MODULE_LOC correctly, it is unset by the
JP> script. heodd thing is that KSRC is not changed. The only part of the
JP> script that seems to change these variables is in the tpo of the file:
JP>
JP> KSR
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JP> :: David Z Maze writes:
JP> KSRC:=/usr/src/linux
JP> MODULE_LOC:=/usr/src/modules
JP>
DZM> Can you try locally changing the second line to
DZM> 'MODULE_LOC?=/usr/src/modules'? If that works, I can ma
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DZM> Can you try locally changing the second line to
DZM> 'MODULE_LOC?=/usr/src/modules'? If that works, I can make the change
DZM> in the package, too.
JP>
JP> Yes, that works! I wonder why the behavior was different for KS
Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JDP> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:42:31PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
JDP> :Better is to use the ogg format instead of mp3. Ogg is free.
JDP> :It is also said to be technically better. Install vorbis-tools.
JDP>
JDP> I did run across that, where "technic
Emil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Emil> Preparing to replace imagemagick 3:5.3.5-2 (using
.../imagemagick_3%3a5.3.5-3_i386.deb) ...
Emil> Unpacking replacement imagemagick ...
Emil> dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_3%3a5.3.5-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
Emil> trying to overwr
William Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WM> In the course of installing ntp, apt updated my C development stuff.
WM> Now upon compiling applications that compiled cleanly before, I get
WM> pages of warnings and failures. For example:
WM>
WM> In file included from /usr/include/linux/affs_fs_i.h
Kurt Dresner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KD> Does anyone know what happened with the recent (last couple of weeks)
KD> update of gdm, such that the login screen is just really ugly looking?
KD> It used to have the little picture and just the simple "welcome to
KD> hostname" screen. Now it has all
Ian Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
IP> Hi All,
IP> Just came across a point about Time and Date and CRON which could cause a
IP> problem for those who are unaware.
IP>
IP> If you have CRON running and you set back the Date or Time backwards, CRON
IP> will not run until at least the old time has
Markus Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MH> does anyone know which program i can use to view pdf, ghostscript
MH> and postscropt files?
("Ghostscript files"?) I typically use gv for viewing PostScript
files, and it can display PDF files as well. ghostview is an older
program which can also dis
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CF> You *really* can't do LaTeX without the real book "LaTeX, A
CF> document preparation system" by Lamport. At least that has been my
CF> experience in twenty odd years of TeXing. And if you're into very
CF> arcane type setting you can't do without "The
JakeCatfox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JCF> This is probably a stupid question, but: I'm trying to install
JCF> the driver for my Lucent 56k modem, but once I installed the
JCF> package, it told me I needed "kernel-image-2.4.5". I am running
JCF> kernel 2.4.5, and don't know what it means by kerne
Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
HS> There's a Sun Sparcstation at work that I would like to use
HS> "virtual terminals" on, if it's even possible. So, is it ??
HS>
HS> 'uname -a' tells me this:
HS>
HS> SunOS fred 4.1.3 1 sun4m
The Linux virtual terminal support is provided by the Linu
Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JJ> NO, you misunderstood my question. I know what to do with the debs, once
JJ> I have them downloaded. I want to know how to tell the offline-box which
JJ> debs to use without doing apt-get update (because it's
JJ> impossible).
You can just copy the pac
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AC> Is there any way to play midi files on Linux?
I tend to use timidity for software-only MIDI playback, but it's
computationally intensive and has huge patch files. (The results do
sound pretty good, though.) If you have an external MIDI device and
Tim van Erven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TvE> When I create the file ~/.xsession, X won't start anymore. I want to
TvE> report this as a bug. Please advise on the relevant package.
This is really not enough information to help figure out what's
wrong. What are you putting in the file? (Just tou
Sandor Barany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> where can I find a (daily) list of updated/new packages? Or is there a
SB> search engine for that?
Announcements of updated packages in the unstable distribution are
sent to debian-devel-changes; you can presumably subscribe to it using
a technique an
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RB> I'm trying to use lm-sensors, so far with no luck. The Readme.Debian
RB> is a bit unclear to me. It says:
RB>
RB> To use lm-sensors, you need the lm-sensors module package and an i2c module
RB> package installed. You will probably need to build the mod
mike polniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mp> I installed the i2c source first and followed the QUICKSTART instructions:
mp> cd to i2c dir and do make make install depmod -a
mp> This installs the new i2c header files .
mp>
mp> Then install the lm-sensors source and edit the Makefile so that
mp>
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RB> Thanks for the info. So is the relation between lm-sensors and
RB> lm-sensors-source that the latter provides drivers used by the former
RB> (sort of like alsa, where you need to build the driver, but the
RB> utilities can be obtained by binary package)?
Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JM> Whenever I try to run something from an Eterm or xterm I get this error:
JM> xmms: can't open display (null)
JM> But my display is set to "sabertooth:0.0". (The correct name).
JM> I've changed it to "localhost:0.0", "127.0.0.1:0.0", and "192.168.1.2:0.0
Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JDP> I know this has come up before, but my searching skills aren't up to
JDP> the task of finding it in the archives apparently...
JDP>
JDP> I have about 20 workstations on the way for incoming students and They
JDP> all have GForce2 cards (AFAIK this
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> anyway i compiled that kernel also with make-kpg and wanted to install
BB> it but:
BB> dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.9_Custom.1.00_i386.deb
BB> (--install):
BB> failed in buffer_write(fd) (8, ret=-1 backend dpkg-deb during
BB> `./lib/modul
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ES> there is a problem with libao2 trying to overwrite a library that
ES> libao0 also provides
(Report a bug through the Debian bug-tracking system! See
http://bugs.debian.org/ for some details. It'll be far more likely to
reach the maintainer and actually
Qmichiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
q> I've got sound working for normal users and I can mount one of two
q> cdrom drives with normal users by using a link (/dev/cdrom ->
q> /dev/hdc) to it. It's than mounted to /cdrom. When I'm root I can
q> play a audio cd in /dev/hdc just by clicking on /cdr
ENG YI HAN writes:
ENG> I've found the ISO files to make Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r4 at this address:
ENG>
ENG> http://planetmirror.com/pub/debian-cd/2.2_rev4/i386/
ENG>
ENG> Do I need the '.list' files to make the ISO 9660 CDs? WHat is the usage
ENG> of the '.list' files?
ENG>
ENG> Can I just downl
Greg Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GF> I installed some 3rd party packages onto my Sid system with apt-get,
GF> making the necessary entry into sources.list. I would like to remove
GF> all of them. Is there any simple way to do this, or do I have to remove
GF> them one by one?
If I wanted
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AO> gzip foo.pcf
AO> cp foo.pcf.gz /usr/local/fonts
AO> mkfontsdir /usr/local/fonts
AO> xset +fp /usr/local/fonts
AO> xset fp rehash
AO> xlsfonts | grep foo
AO>
AO> gs document_with_that_fonts.ps
AO>
AO> if it works... add that path to your /etc/X11/XF86Co
Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ES> How do I go back to the previous version as the new Xfree
ES> dont support some old monitor that I am using?
What you really care about is the X server. For hardware that isn't
supported by XFree86 4.x, unstable/testing includes the X server from
XFree86
Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FF> I need to document a lot of C++ code in LaTeX. What kind of tools
FF> are available for that. I'm thinking of both scripts that creates
FF> a LaTeX file from a C++ code (To start the documentation), or
FF> a LaTeX style.
There are a couple of options
Otis Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OW> I wanted to know if Debian, 2.2.19 allowed the user to create
OW> system disks directly from the installed OS instead of having to
OW> download them from the web? Being new to Linux I decided to check
OW> first. Any assistance you can provide will be apprec
George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GK> Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a
GK> character-mode terminal? There seem to be any number of them that can be
GK> used under X, but I can't find any that can be used in character mode.
For something quick, che
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AP> I always find good answers to LaTeX questions on comp.text.tex.
The other extremely useful thing to do is install the tetex-doc
package, and then browse through /usr/share/doc/texmf (or,
equivalently, /usr/share/texmf/doc). Many (most?) of the LaTeX
e
Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RCL> Is there a simple way of get a list of each of the libraries and
RCL> programs on my machine? While it is simple to extract the package
RCL> versions from dpkg, its the versions of some of the programs that I need
RCL> to find.
Any competent dpk
jeffrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
J> It is said that emacs is single threaded.
Yup.
J> * Why is it so ?
J> * Is there any work in progress to make it multithreaded ?
J> * Is there any disadvantage or disadvantages if it is
J> multithreaded.
Well, aside from the buzzword-coolness, there's no
Jeffrey W Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JWB> Today's update to X in unstable overwrote my XF86Config-4 without even
JWB> asking permission. My config file was very tweaked. Why does this
JWB> happen?
See Debian bug #123053 (serious).
(Reading/filing reports in the Debian BTS tends to be a f
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> I'm building my kernels (2.4.16) using kenrel-package. The lm-sensors
SB> package says that I should build the modules for lm-sensors from it's
SB> source. Is this correct, or should I use the ones in the kernel tree?
There are actually two parts to the k
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> OK, I'm trying to get lm-ensors working. Several people have pointed me to
SB> the lm-sensors source, and i2c source packages, and the kernel-package
SB> package.
SB>
SB> I'm already building kernels using the kernel-package tools. One of the
SB> nice thi
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MW> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:06:13AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
DZM> If you're using an older kernel or want the updated i2c drivers,
DZM> you can also install them from the i2c-source package (in which
DZM> case you should comple
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> I built, and installed a 2.4.16 kernel using kernel-package (with all 12c
SB> options slected).
SB>
SB> The i unpacked the debian source lm-sensors modules package in /usr/src.
SB> The I compiled using the dbian/rules. This all went well.
(I tend to reco
I have about four completely different login accounts that I use
regularly. They may as well be in separate universes; one is on my
laptop, for example, while another will let me log in on most of the
machines on the main MIT campus (with a fairly non-standard filesystem
setup). Regardless, thoug
Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MC> If I think this is what you want then all you would be is on the
MC> server that is exporting the NFS shares, remove 'no_root_squash'
MC> from the /etc/exports file on the shares you want to export
That doesn't solve the problem of user A poking at user B
Seneca Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SC> 2. As root, I do not have the authority to start or chang any
SC> screensaver settings, however when I am an ordinary user, I
SC> have the authority to start and change the screensaver
SC> settings. The first time I used the screensaver
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JS> I see on Redhat machines there is a file
JS> /boot/module-info- with valuable information about
JS> modules and there relation to hardware components e.g.
JS> Is there something similar available for Debian?
There's an /sbin/modinfo program that prints
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have managed to get
SB> lm-sensors built, and the modules load. However sensor-detect does not give
SB> me enough info to get the rest set up.
SB> Next adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 (Non-I2C
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> On Sat Dec 15 11:03:05 2001 David Z Maze wrote...
DZM> Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have
SB> managed to get lm-sensors built, and the modules load. However
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PJ> When using sensord/lm-sensors, what device should the software watchdog
PJ> check to see what the CPU temperature is?
*looks at watchdog source* Hmm. It looks like watchdog expects there
to be a character device (or maybe a pipe) that it can read the
t
Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MDS> More and more, *nix developers are following the dark path of using
MDS> whitespace in directory and filenames -- something which I've always
MDS> detested, from an sa standpoint ;<
MDS>
MDS> For example, on my upgraded potato box I may want to do
Sean Perry writes:
SP> You really need to think of apt like a web browser. It knows how
SP> to show you what is out there and let you download it.
I think in most cases you want to think of a real front-end tool
(like, for example, aptitude) as a Web browser. 'apt-get' is like
wget; if you know
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PJ> Is it possible to get sensord to log in English measurements
PJ> instead of Metrics?
Hmm. Doesn't look it. For a momentary check, you can run 'sensors
--fahrenheit', but to make sensord also use English units you'd need
to change prog/sensord/chips.c
Timo Boewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TB> is there no PostScript to TeX / PDF to Tex converter available?
This tends to be a Hard Problem, what with PostScript being Turing
complete and being able to easily represent more things than TeX can
(pictures and rotated text come to mind). You might
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LH> I installed a a base fileserver this morning using Potato Reiser boot
LH> floppies.
Huh? (Potato's initial release long predates the reiserfs fad; potato
doesn't natively support the 2.4 kernel, so you either need a
moderately-patched system or a pa
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LH> I am having problems getting ipmasq working with 2.4.14 kernel and
LH> iptables so I wanted to created two interfaces for one of my machines
LH> until I get ipmasq working properly.
LH>
LH> One interface is a standalone for internet use
LH> One int
Titus Barik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> More information about /dev/cdrom:
> Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
> Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
> /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
> Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface
> No gen
Michael Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in RedHat (ie,
> where to put user defined commands that should run at boot time?)
You might want to look at the Debian FAQ, particularly question 10.6
("It looks as if Debian does not use rc.local to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
(Please post in plain text only, no need to send HTML mail...)
> Latex and sgml are all widely used in linux documentation world, but
> who can tell me which one is the best and which one will be the best
> in the fu
Andreas Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:04:01AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
>> dpkg -i blah.deb
>> [...]
>
> If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into
> trouble?
Of what sort? dpkg doesn't need the package file to uninstall an
installed pa
louie miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any ideas how can i remove the pam authentication
> on debian?
I don't think you can; essential things like login and the various X
display managers are linked against it.
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
"T
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm often find some maillist descript installing debian package in
> this way: apt-get install jade apt-get install docbook apt-get
> install docbook-stylesheets .. but in debian mirror the full
> package files isn't similar,such as
>
> apt-get install
> docbook-styles
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have just a comment now. I love Debian, i really do but i has one
> major lack. I'm talking about a main rc file like the rc.config on
> SuSE. In this file should be informations wherer deamons/services
> should be started or not. That is necessar
timothy bauscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I realize that most developers will laugh at
> my request, but that's fine.
>
> I am not very proficient in C/C++.
>
> What is the EASIEST, free way to create an
> application for Gnome?
Learn Python. (It's not actually that difficult; the language
Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've just recompiled kernel 2.4.18 a inserted all i2c* as modules.
> Then installed lm_sensors deb package.
> It wants i2c-viapro (my mother board is MSI Turbo with this chip)
> but this module is not in kernel tree. Where can I get it a and
> how to com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
(Plain-text only, please.)
> My first language is not english.Can anyone tell me the standard
> pronounciation of "Debian"?
I say "DEB ee un" or "DEB ee an".
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht
Ren Weili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> what is the diference between ifup and ifconfig?
ifconfig is a low-level tool you can use to bring an interface up or
down, set its address/netmask/broadcast address, etc. ifup/ifdown are
higher-level tools that parse /etc/network/interfaces and run i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> While I was installing the rsh-server, I encountered
> the following problems.
> Setting up exim (3.33-1.1) ...
> Error: system's FQDN hostname (pa1_2.mildred.cpsc.ucalgary.ca) doesn't match
> RFC1035 syntax; cannot configure the mail system.
> dpkg: error processing
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It doesn't sound like a problem with ssh to me, it sounds like you
> haven't set the DISPLAY variable correctly, and therefore probably
> haven't run xhost either.
If ssh X forwarding is enabled, the sshd on the remote end should
automatically set a correct (
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm trying to set up lm-sensors on woody. I ran sensors-detect and
> it found a sensor on the MB. My question is where do I get/build
> the module? In my case I need i2c-via.o
You need to build the modules from sources provided in the
lm-sensors-source package; insta
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I want to find out about a package. I mean, like what it
> actually does, what is the right command, when the package is not
> installed but apt-cache knows about it?
I'd recommend not trying to do everything from the command line.
These days, I like
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have come to the conclusion that the reason why I can't mount a
> music cd is because the type entry in fstab is iso9660, which is not
> the format for a music cd.
No, you just can't mount an audio CD (there's no filesystem on it at
all, in the tradit
Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is the default in Debian (in lilo.conf) but it is not
> necessary, even if the guy in front of the computer types the usual:
> linux single :he will not get root access to your computer without
> knowing the passwd. (At least on testing with a 2.4.x ke
Schoppitsch Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone have an idea (or a source) how to connect
> a LinuxBox to a HP48gx calculator in a simple (maybe
> with modemu, pppd, minicom), slim (C-Kermit is too big)
> and foolproof (I am not a 'Connection-Specialist') way.
>
> The HP48 supports Ke
Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want remove xdm package so I'm not using it (I've remove all links
> related in all runlevels, but I don't need this using hard disk for
> more). But if I try an apt-get remove xdm it also removes
> x-window-system... why? I think this is a
(Original reordered somewhat...)
Darryl RXthering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DR> I have only installed so far using dpackage.
DR>
DR> If I do apt-gets for a whole set of packages, I will get my add-ons
DR> upgraded to the latest and greatest (if I understand this
DR> correctly). But I still will
Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JR> I am in the process of converting from SuSE to debian, if I choose to
JR> use testing/woody, will the upgrade automatically follow woody as it
JR> moves into stable? That is, if I begin following woody with apt, will I
JR> continue to follow woody as i
Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RCL> I'd like to insmod the netatalk module at startup.
RCL> I'd be grateful to know how to do this.
Just add 'netatalk' to /etc/modules.
RCL> "alias net-pf-5 appletalk" in /etc/modules.conf doesn't seem to
RCL> be the debian way...
That line doesn
Christian SPENER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CS> i made a deb file from tar.gz file, did everything like in the new
CS> maintainer guide.
(Note that questions about building packages might be better asked on
the debian-mentors list, which is more aimed towards helping beginning
or prospective pac
Gil Elad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GE> I downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0.2 on my Potato box from
GE> www.xfree86.org, NOT via apt-get. How do I update apt so it won't
GE> shout about dependency problems because I supposedly don't have X,
GE> when I try to download other packages?
I assume y
D Hoyem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DH> Being a Debian newbie and running Potato2.2r on a PII
DH> 350 this is the course of action that I'm thinking of
DH> taking to do a upgrade to Woody is it flawed?
DH> 1. Do a apt-get install on Adrin Bunk's .deb files
DH> 2. Do a apt-get install kernel 2.4
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> However, the last few lines of output when compiling the .deb seem a
Mark> little worrying:dpkg-deb:
Mark>
Mark> building package `hotplug' in `../hotplug_0.0.20010228-3_all.deb'.
Mark> dpkg-genchanges -b
M
Renai LeMay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RL> can someone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is used for?
The /proc filesystem consists entirely of virtual files created by the
kernel for various purposes. kcore happens to be an image of the
system memory; it's probably useful for kernel debugging.
Jeffrey W Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JWB> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
g> i use http.us.debian.org in my sources.list, and it's been terribly
g> troublesome recently. apparently one or 2 hosts in that round-robin
g> are not responding, so my updates and upgrades always ge
ad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ad> Something weird happened while I ripping audio CD, such error message
ad> shows as below..
ad> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cdparanoia -vsQ -d /dev/cdrom
ad> cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
ad> (C) 2001 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus
ad>
ad> Re
Alejandro Diego Garin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ADG> Could you tell me what is the deb-src link to download de source
ADG> packages in potato?
It's generally exactly the same as the 'deb' line you have in
/etc/apt/sources.list, but with 'deb-src' at the front of the line
instead.
--
David Maze
Rohan Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RD> I was just wondering what is going on with libsdl1.2. I can't install
RD> zsnes and tuxracer so far; probably more packages will be broken. Any
RD> idea what to do?
For a start, look through the Debian Bug Tracking System
(http://bugs.debian.org/);
I'm trying to use X fonts that actually correspond to the size of my
display. XFree86 4 is good about letting you specify the physical
size of your display in the XF86Config file, and reporting that as the
display resolution via xdpyinfo. So far, so good; on my laptop, it
tells me I have 123x124
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> What tool do I need to read the tracks of an audio CD, and writing
SB> them to a file on the hard disk?
Probably something along the lines of cdparanoia. If what you're
actually doing is creating a bunch of Vorbis[1] files, you might find
a tool like abc
ol1 writes:
ol1> Also sprach Preben Randhol:
PR> Which installer should I recommend to a beginner of Debian (and Linux?).
PR>
PR> I remember I saw somewhere on the web an article that covered a lot of
PR> debian installers, but I cannot seem to find it.
ol1>
ol1> apt-get
ol1> all the gui stu
Rick Thomas writes:
RT> 1. I have two hard drives sda1 and sdb1. I have RedHat installed on sda1
RT> and Debian installed on sdb1. The master boot record on the sdb1(Debian
RT> disk) was accidently erased. I can still mount the drive but I can no
RT> longer boot from the sdb1 drive.
Are you u
Andy Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AL> I've done an apt-get install ipmasq and it seems to have installed
AL> correctly. However, when I type the command 'ipmasq' I get the error
AL> message 'IP Masquerade has not been enabled in the kernel'. I installed
AL> Potato using the 3 ide-pci flav
John Purser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JP> I'm running Woody and I'm confused about what sources to list for apt-get.
JP> When I look at the ftp sites I see directories for Potato and Stable. I
JP> thought Potato was Stable. Also I see Woody as well as Unstable AND
JP> Testing. I'm not sure wha
Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AM> A simple way around this issue is when installing the tgz, run the
AM> following procedure to install it under /usr:
AM> And it should all be okay.
...until woody gets release and you try to upgrade, at which point
things will suddenly get confused.
Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JM> I want to compile lm_sensors. I'm using kernel 2.4.9 on woody.
JM>
JM> I've got my kernel and disable its i2c and bttv support. Why? Oh, they
JM> say that i2c is needed to be updated, and I guess that bttv should also
JM> be updated...
JM>
JM> So, I've
xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
X> how stable is testing? would it be too risky to upgrade from stable
X> to testing?
It depends on what your goals are. I'd say that tracking testing is a
good idea if you consider yourself a Linux weenie to the point that
bleeding-edge == good, but you don't
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BW> It's generally better to go with the higher resolution 100 dpi
BW> fonts, right? With the latest upgrade, I swapped the order of the
BW> fonts in /etc/X11/fs/config and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that the
BW> 100 dpi fonts would take precedence.
BW>
Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JM> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:25:54AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
RB> This sounds about right; it's what I did. I used the debian
RB> source packages (i2c-source and lm-sensors-source, as I recall).
RB>
RB> You do need to disable i2c in the main kernel
Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JT> is it possible to fetch news with slrnpull and read it with
JT> Gnus/XEmacs?
JT>
JT> I have the following in my .xemacs/init.el:
JT>
JT> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool "/var/spool/slrnpull/"))
JT>
JT> but when starting Gnus, it complains
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