bind9 and microsoft issues

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, I keep getting flooded with messages like Jan 31 17:30:14 polaris named[232]: client 207.46.150.12#32645: query (cache) denied Jan 31 17:30:14 polaris named[231]: client 207.46.150.12#32645: query (cache) denied Jan 31 17:30:14 polaris named[232]: client 207.46.150.12#32645: query (cache)

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:48:27PM -0300, Albert Knox wrote: > hi! i'm trying to compile a program from sources, but when I type "./configure" it >says that gcc is not working. The package is installed. What can be the problem? A micrometeorite destroyed one or two bites on your hard drive! :) A

Re: bad dynamic tag

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:17:14AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > I've had trouble booting since I installed woody a couple > of months or so ago (kernel 2.2.20 #1), but things have > become so bad recently that I'm hoping I might get some > help from you kind folks. (I've found correspondence a

Re: QT Libraries, help needed

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:53:58PM +0100, Peppe wrote: > Hi, > I have problems with the QT libraries: > > But > 1) gcc doesn't compile ANY qt-based program, like even tutorials O_O > 2) the binary compiled on another system doesn't start... Are you using qmake? Or your own method. Are you using s

Re: usbdevfs boot error

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:22:48PM +, Guldo K wrote: > Hello everybody :-) > > usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout > usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed dev 2 ep 0x85 len 512 ret -110 This means that you have some USB device that either broken or the driver for it is broken. Some IN endpoint (EP: 5 IN )

Re: Debian + SB51G

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:22:23PM +0200, Bruno Agostini wrote: > Hello > > I have a SB51G Shuttle barebone with an integrated > Intel I845GE graphic controler and an ATI Radeon 9100 > in the AGP slot. > > The installation of Debian 3.0 failed when I > configured the X server. I compiled the kern

Re: dual booting

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:03:10AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > MS-DOS and the Win95/98/ME systems need to be on what they think is C:, > which would mean the first drive that has a filesystem they can read > (FAT, VFAT, FAT32,) and preferably the first primary partition of the > first physical dr

Re: Linux vs Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:46:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi group, > > > MindCraft has been well established as nothing short of a HOAX put on by > Microsoft. IIRC it was a test between two servers, one of which was > configured by the best minds in the business. The other configure

Re: ethernet card

2002-12-13 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:14:35PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: > Greetings. > > Going to be getting DSL, soon, and I just don't know what make/model of > ethernet card I should get. > > PCI is a given, but I need something that goes well with >=2.4.19 kernels > and Debian 3.0 > > I've heard Inte

Re: urgent - system slow after spamassassin

2002-12-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:30:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > after installing spamassassin, my system has become terribly slow! i > thought that it must be becasue spamd is trying to scan all messages. so > i modified ~/.spamassassin/user-prefs. here is how it looks: I had s

Re: spamassassin out of memory

2002-12-16 Thread Adam Majer
Just use a message queue so it doesn't kill your box. See my message from 2 minutes ago... On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:50:06PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Dec 2002, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: > > Salut, > > > > J'utilise spamassassin pour filtrer mon courier ? moi, ? l'aide d'un > > .for

Re: Soundcard Problem VIA Technologies

2002-12-16 Thread Adam Majer
By any chance, do you have the volume up? Use something like aumix (it's also a package -- nice text mixer) to set the volume. And make sure that the module is loaded :) [just add the module to /etc/modules but I think you got that step :] - Adam On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 07:53:46PM +0100, Christi

Re: getting networking to work [was Re: ethernet card]

2002-12-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:29:14PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: > On 12/16/02 23:40, Andrew Hurt wrote: > >On 12/16/02 15:32, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > >Once I connect (using the PPPoE interface within the router), I get > >access to the outside! My connection was turned-on today and I'm >

Re: Quake 3 + nVidia drivers

2002-12-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:56:29AM -0500, John Mitchell wrote: > On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:57 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > Using quake 3 on debian woody with the nvidia drivers the game loads > > > fine but the display is all garbled. > > > > What parts of the display are garbled? > > th

Re: Woddy and ATI Radeon 7500

2002-12-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:41:07PM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > Guess I'm new around here, so hello to everyone. > I recently bought a IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses a ATI Radeon 7500 mobiliti as > it's video card. Using woody, I can't setup my X server. when I issue the > command "start

Re: 2 Problems Quake3 and Bind9

2002-12-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:42:43PM -0600, Jason Jorgensen wrote: > Now, the more important question! > Quake3. I recently upgraded my Debian unstable workstation and now all > of a sudden my Quake3 for linux wont respond to my mouse movements. The > mouse buttons register fine inside the game, bu

X in unstable is unstable [hosed] ?

2002-12-20 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, I just wanted to report a nasty problem with X in unstable. After about 6h of uptime, it starts to reset the screen. I have to reboot - restarting X does nothing. Here's the tail of the X log: (==) Wacom tablet top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=30480 bottom Y=24060 (==) Wacom tablet top X=0 top Y

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:32:43AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > date; burn-cd.sh; date > > > > > > and burning the CD using cdrdao (48x drive -- about 4 minutes to burn a > > > CD) caused the system clock to fall behind about *50* seconds. > > >

Re: Promise PDC20265 lockups...Please help

2002-12-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:55:38AM -0500, Bradley Alexander wrote: > I'm having problems with a Promise controller on my motherboard. > Everything works fine until I plug a drive into it, which kinda defeats > the purpose of having it on the motherboard. :) > > In any case, it is 1GHz Athlon-C run

Re: Cobalt Raq2 network trouble while boot....

2002-12-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:47:11PM +0100, Samuele Bosco wrote: > Hi @ all ! > Thi is my first post on this ml And my first experience with debian > :-) > > I'm trying to debian-ize a Sun Cobalt Raq2 with Paul Martin's how-to, > that seem the easiest way to do it > > So, i've installed m

Re: swap not being used

2002-12-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:40:21PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > mother:~# cat /proc/swaps > FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority > /dev/hda2 partition 996020 0 -1 > > now say i'll start openoffice and mozilla and a cou

Re: Cobalt Raq2 network trouble while boot....

2002-12-23 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:33:01AM +0100, Samuele Bosco wrote: > Il lun, 2002-12-23 alle 01:57, Adam Majer ha scritto: > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:47:11PM +0100, Samuele Bosco wrote: > > > The /nfsroot was mounted > > > The kernel image was ok and readable .

Re: Cobalt Raq2 network trouble while boot....

2002-12-23 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 09:51:44PM +0100, Samuele Bosco wrote: > Il lun, 2002-12-23 alle 19:49, Adam Majer ha scritto: > > During a regular install, Debian is going to ask questions > > on what to install and the rest of the parameters. That > > means you need some sort

Re: sendmail just queueing everything

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 02:12:57AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > On my (home) box, I seem to to have a problem with sendmail: it just > queues everything until I start a queue-run manually, then everything > goes out as expected. > > Eg I send a mail at 01:18, and at 01:52 it's st

Re: ide disk access problem

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 04:15:28PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > I unburied the router and determined that it's a hardware > incompatibility. The disk worked fine in the router. The router's > disk is a WDC2320H -- identical except for lower capacity. The > router's disk works in my work

Re: Survey: Should MySQL be chroot'ed?

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:35:22PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hi > > I'm currently preparing the 4.x version of mysql (see /experimental/) > and thinking about chrooting the daemon in /var/lib/mysql. Chroot it but make it an option selectable from debconf or something. thanks, Adam --

Re: howto for compiling of deb packages

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 10:52:32AM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote: > Hello > > I have to know how you can build deb packages from source. Could somebody > tell me if there exists an apt-get(able) doc package that introduces me > in the topic of compiling your own deb packages from source? Just use

Re: XP doc to Debian printer?

2003-11-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:28:42PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:04:04PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My grandson does homework on an XP laptop which connects to our wireless > > network but all the other computers on the network are Debian. Last > > year we

Re: Woody -> Sarge apt-get dist-upgrade

2005-05-15 Thread Adam Majer
Andy Hawkins wrote: >Hi all, > >Now that Sarge has entered freeze, I'm considering upgrading my Woody box to >it. This runs the firewall for my local network (connected via Ethernet >cable modem) handling mail (Exim v3 and fetchmail), news (newsstar and INN >v2.3.2), web proxy etc. > >Is the upgra

Re: partitioning help

2005-05-15 Thread Adam Majer
Franklin Parlamis wrote: > i tried to partition my hard drive for a debian woody install. it is > just south of 80 Gb and IDE (from a Compaq EVO D510 I am tranferring > from Windows platform). i wanted to go with 6 partitions, which would > require using an extended type physical drive to put th

Re: 3D gaming

2005-05-23 Thread Adam Majer
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >Hello, > >Does anyone know why FLOSS programmers haven't built superb 3D games, say ones >comparable to titles like 'Halo' or 'Burn-Out'? > >I'm not sure how tough it is to create high-profile games like these two, but >I believe that it can't be as tough as something

Re: exim SMTP Authentication

2005-05-24 Thread Adam Majer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Exim can't find the drivers which leads me to believe that the exim > package wasn't built with AUTH capabilities. If that is so, does > anyone use exim with smtp auth or exim4 with SMTP auth and is is > built into that package? > > There are two exim packages, e

Re: ia64 available packages

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Majer
Rick Pasotto wrote: >I'm thinking of getting an AMD-64 machine. Is there an easy way to see >if all the packages I currently have installed are available in the ia64 >distribution? > > > It is easier to see which ones are not available. Anyway, AMD64 uses an amd64 port, not the ia64. ie64 is for

Re: What to do with source package?

2005-05-28 Thread Adam Majer
Hendrik Boom wrote: >I'm consideeing adding functinoality to a Debian package. >But I have no experience with source packages and the like. >It seems to be distributed in two parts: a .tar.gz file, >and a set of diffs applied to that. >What's the proper way to make the source for the current versi

Re: cd player blocks the soundcard for xmms

2005-05-28 Thread Adam Majer
Adam Hardy wrote: > I searched the mailing list and saw quite a few people with the > opposite problem, but for me, I can play CDs happily but doing so > blocks the soundcard for XMMS and I can only free it up by rebooting. > > My soundcard is otherwise configured fine and plays sounds for most >

Re: Frozen Sarge?

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Hi all, > I know that Sarge has been "frozen" for a while now but updates keep > coming in. Today I got 77 updates to installed packages and I update 4-5 > times a week. Are these updates that were already in the pipeline and > the package maintainers are pushing them throug

Re: HP 3325 Inkjet on Sarge

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
shatam bhattacharya wrote: > Hi list, > I am facing problems installing my HP printer (make 3325 inkjet). > This could be of some help, http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_3325 - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Two internet connections

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
Hans du Plooy wrote: >My feeling is that the mailserver tries to respond to the connection via >it's default gateway. How do I tell it to respond via the interface >that the connection was made on? > > You need to set up routing tables with the ip(8) tool. That is in the iproute package. You e

Re: Cannot boot Debian Unstable after shutdown.

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
Carl Fink wrote: >On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:19:28PM -0400, KS wrote: > > > >>And the last = sign keeps on blinking, nothing happens. The rescue disk >>also gave similar results! >> >> > >Bootloaders need to know the physical location of the kernel. If it moved >and you didn't rerun whatev

Re: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-386 (2.6.11-5) detection problem with Zaurus (OpenZaurus)

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
Mary & Mark Pinderski & Johnso wrote: >I ran dmesg to a file, plugged in the Zaurus, then ran >dmesg again. This is what diff showed (without the "<" >">" characters). ># dmesg >usb 4-1.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd >and address 3 >usb 4-1.1: khubd timed out on ep0in >usb 4-1.1: dev

Re: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-386 (2.6.11-5) detection problem with Zaurus (OpenZaurus)

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
Mary & Mark Pinderski & Johnso wrote: >Any ideas on what happened? I've checked the >kernel-image 2.6.11 doc files "changelog.Debian.gz" >and "Debian.src.changelog.gz", but I didn't see >anything related to the Zaurus or to usbnet. > > I just wanted to add that you should look at the changelog f

Re: Sarge problems with MySQL and DBI / DBD::mysql

2005-06-21 Thread Adam Majer
Oliver Elphick wrote: >which returns 0 rows, works correctly in mysql. But when it is passed >through this statement in Perl: > >my @row = $dbh->selectrow_array($sql) or >&failed(__FILE__, __LINE__, > "Failed to run the sql statement with error >

Re: kernel status or possible update

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Majer
John Graves wrote: > I have sarge running with kernel image 2.4.25-1-386. My processer is > a P4. Is there any advantage to updating to 2.4.27-686? What risks > am I running. Or am I better to ugrade to 2.6?? If you use HT (you need to run SMP kernel for that), then 2.6 should have much bett

Re: cannot burn 612MB iso

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Majer
Kudret Güler wrote: >No problem on writing, no problem on mounting the new cd-rom. However >when I try to read one of the mentioned files, errors appear in >/var/log/messages > >But now that I rebooted the system this morning, after burning a fresh >copy with the same iso file I created yesterday,

Re: no updates in 3 or 4 days

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Majer
Jochen Schulz wrote: >Today it looks like they found another provider. Three cheers for >whoever that is! Giving away rackspace, redundant power supply and >unlimited bandwidth for free is not very common. :-) > > One of the addresses seems to be, $ whois 128.101.80.133 OrgName:University

Re: Upgrading from mysql 4.0 to mysql 4.1

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Majer
stud rocket wrote: >Hi all, > >What's the best way to upgrade from an existing MySQL 4.0 install to >MySQL 4.1? I'm running etch, and I have a number of existing >databases and database users that I want to smoothly upgrade. > >I noticed the 4.0 and 4.1 packages conflict, so can I just remove 4.0

Re: Upgrading from mysql 4.0 to mysql 4.1

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Majer
stud rocket wrote: >On 6/28/05, Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>1. Backup all databases. `man mysqldump` will help you here >> >> > >Definitely. I was also planning to just backup the binary db files in >hopes I can just drop them int

Viper II and X

2000-06-08 Thread Adam Majer
Hi, I have a little trouble (read: LOTS!) of configuring my AGP 4x Viper II for X. What video setup should I use?? I want to be able to at least use SVGA modes but all I have is VGA16 at best Thanks in advance, Adam Majer Sincerely, Adam Majer

Re: video

2000-06-13 Thread Adam Majer
> I'm setting up potato on a clone laptop. My only problem so far is the > video chipset. It's a Silicon Motion Lynx family. Anyone ever heard of it, > or know how to config the XF86 to use it? > > Wayne > I had the same problem with my Viper II - no support for the Savage 2K chipset. Heck,

Re: sound module for CS4236 in Potato-r4?

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:17:41PM -0800, Klaus Neumann wrote: > Hi, > Can't find the right sound module for my CS4236 in Debian potato r4. Any hint > will be appreciated. Thanks! This is from kernel 2.2.19, Documentation/sound/README.OSS Crystal CS4232 and CS4236 based cards such as AcerMagic

Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:32:04AM -0500, Sam Cook wrote: > I am a new user trying to install vanilla potato from an existing dos > partition. Everything seems to go okay until I try to create a boot > disk. > I get errors with the format of the floppy (invariably). Dos system has > no problems wi

Re: install

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:44:10PM +, Krzysztof wrote: > Witam! > Mam takie pytanko: Jak skonfigurowa? bezpieczny serwerek dost?powy na > SDI ?. Dodatkowo wyposa?ony w Firewall kt?ry zapewni bezpiecze?stwo > na wysokim poziomie). English in the list please... I don't know what SDI is. If

Re: device 3dfx ker 2.4.17

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:11:24PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500. I have compiled the kernel > with 3dfx support. It is my understanding that I should now have a > /dev/3dfx drivers, but I do not. I had downloaded the device3dfx > drivers but after readi

Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:33:31PM -0500, scook wrote: > I kept trying, changing to idepci flavor and using different diskettes, > and finally got one to format without errors. > Now I am just using lilo on hda and when I give up I > dd if/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 > (from page 137

Re: Compaq qvision 2000+ and x

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:53:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone have any information on how to configure xf86 for a Compaq > qvision 2000+ video card and Compaq 1024 monitor. At this point I'm pretty > sure there is no driver support for this card but any ideas or suggestions > wo

Re: Latest kernel

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:16:55AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using woody; what is the latest kernel that is suitable for the > distribution? 2.4.17 I'm not sure but since 2.4.15 (I think) all new kernels in 2.4.x series are just bug fixes. - Adam

Re: realplayer seem can not plugin to netscape477

2002-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:46:03PM -0500, eric wrote: > > Dear realplayer tech or unix/linux programmers: > > On the netscape477, even I download realplayer, > everytime I click vedio at cnn.com, it still repeat to ask me to get > plug in again which I already did, that's why I get the > rp8_li

Re: Windows vs. Linux

2002-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:49:32PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote: > Someone asked me what the difference between Windows and Linux was, > and I presumed to answer: > > Windows grew out of the work of self-involved gameplayers, and > Linux grew out of the work of people > concerned with usi

Interresting report by logcheck....

2002-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, I just got this from logcheck: is mail is sent by logcheck. If you do not want to receive it any more, please modify the configuration files in /etc/logcheck or deinstall logcheck. Active System Attack Alerts =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Feb 1 13:02:28 polaris named[201]: "robotattack.c

Re: Interresting report by logcheck....

2002-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:01:48PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:10:07PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > > > What does this mean? I am running bind but it is behind firewall and > > inaccesible from outside.. > > > > logcheck is being

Re: sound module for CS4236 in Potato-r4?

2002-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:31:34PM -0800, Klaus Neumann wrote: > Thanks a lot for your reply. Something is still wrong here. > I get at boot time: > Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? Ahh - so at least it is detected now AFAIKT. > Where do I find the correct irq settings? > /pr

Re: Interresting report by logcheck....

2002-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:47:21PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > admin singular -- robotattack.com is my home machine. > > RFC 1033 defines a machine name as an absolute address (A) or a > pointer (CNAME), and later states that an ns record contains a machine > name, which would seem to make

Re: Why do I have 431 copies of the nmbd process running

2002-02-02 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:32:23PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have basically a woody install running Samba, looking after a home network > with (when I am not there) one windows client connected occassionally > > I went away on business on

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-02-02 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:46:47AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Personally, I'd love to be able to SSH out to my home box, but the company > I'm in have an MS Proxy server blocking the way and it won't let anything > out without authenticating using an NT account. :( The funny thing is that i

Re: solved: CS4236 in Potato-r4- new problem

2002-02-02 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 02:10:15PM -0800, Klaus Neumann wrote: > After I screwed up my system while trying to upgrade to Woody, I made a > complete re-installation of potato from CD. Now my sound works perfectly. > Thanks to your advise, Adam! > > New problem: I can dial to my internet provider, c

Re: ATI Radion video card

2002-02-06 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:03:15AM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone gotten XFree86 up and running with an ATI Radion video card. > I just did an install on Friday and once again X has got me stumped. > > Any tips, hints, words of wisdom, or random thoughts would be greatly > a

Re: Mutt

2002-02-06 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:26:55AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > Thanks, Stephen, even now I get: > -rw-rw 1 ngterry mail > > If I want to delete mails in Mutt, I still get "Mailbox is read-only". Why? When I set up my /var/spool to be mounted over NFS I got exactly the same problem. It had to

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:36:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:19:29 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > > > VIA686a > > > > apparently all straight 2.4 kernels are affected by this. allegedly, there > > are ac

Re: partition types

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:56:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK, I've got a REALLY STUPID question here. :/ there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers :) > I decided recently that I wanted to try out the "Linux from Scratch" > project (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org). In orde

Re: dns

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:23:03AM +0300, Alexey wrote: > There is a dnsutils package in Debian. Is contains some utilities. > Is it a Debian-specific software? > > I can connect to the provider, run pppd. There appears resolv.conf with > "nameserver..." lines. I can ping those servers, and it's p

Re: video card

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:56:52PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I plan to buy a computer equipped with a processor AMD Athlon xp 1600+. > My vendor suggest me to use the video card ATI expert 2000 > with linux (my dist is potato 2.2r2 with xfree 3 ) > There is a lot of drivers ATI in the l

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:33:36PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > i try "ping aa.b.cc.dd" and get 100% packet loss. ifconfig says > the connection is up. (ifup at first reports rx on 1 address; > if i ifdown and then ifup again, it reports rx on 0, rx on 1. > what's up with that?) > > yes, the 10ba

Re: Games on Linux?

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:57:32AM -, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > It is soo sucky that you get so many good games for windows like Half > Life and Diablo II and very few for Linux. I for one would like to see more > games supporting the linux os. I obviously wouldn't expect Microsoft to > relea

Re: Games on Linux?

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:06:23AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It would be s easy on most cases if they just used OpenGL and not > > Direct3D. > > That's why Quake III runs so well under X and nonOpenGL game

Re: PPP and Linux 2.4.9

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:26:46PM +, Mark Sweeting wrote: > --- ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 08 > February 2002 04:32 am, Mark Sweeting > > Thanks for the suggestions so far. Yes, I do have ppp > installed, pppd is up and running, and it appears all > the packages needed are in

Re: Installation of X

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 01:25:28PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I want to install an X system on my Dell inspiron 8100 notebook and > after that install KDE, but cannot find any X system that will support > my video card. The card is Nvidia Geforce2 GO 32Mb (dell mobile). > > Does a

Re: ati radeon XF86Config

2002-02-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 12:36:53AM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > Can anyone supply a copy of their working XF86Config-4 they use with > the ATI Radeon? Here's a few choice lines from my configuration - can > you spot the error? > > > Section "Device" > Identifier "ATI Radeon" > Driver

Re: Games on Linux?

2002-02-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:27:16AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Did loki put all their games up there for free or something? > > No, but thier binaries were publically avalible. You'll have to buy the > Windows version to get the data files to c

Re: sources.list question

2002-02-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:51:17PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote: > [snip] > > > I remember pine is only available as source due to licensing issue and > > removed from binary distribution. If I were desparate, I might download > > source package and compile. (Which I believe comes with pico.) > >

Re: Can't dpkg-reconfigure ssh

2002-02-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:19:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > When I run "dpkg-reconfigure ssh", I just get dropped back to a command > prompt. No questions; no disk thrashing; no bells and whistles. > > I originally told sshd to not run; now I want it to run. I know I can > just delete the file

Re: ati radeon XF86Config

2002-02-10 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:59:54PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 10:15:47AM -0500, Timothy Burt wrote: > > 1) Have you compiled support for agpgart in the kernel? And are you > >using the kernel-supplied radeon driver? > > Following your suggestion, I installed the r

Re: user homedir chroot jail..

2002-02-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:23:29AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 04:37:01PM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: > > how can i deny to a user with shell access the browsing of /home ? > > thanx > > chmod 711 /home > > So they can go into directories they know about, but they wont be a

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

2002-02-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:51:58AM +1030, Thomas Cook wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, > 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in it. When I boot the machine and it does a > memory check it reports 229376 kB OK, but: > > # cat /proc/meminfo > tot

Re: LILO other=/dev/hda6 (boot logical partition)

2002-02-13 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:59:49PM -0800, ben wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:28 pm, Michel Loos wrote: > [snip] > > > > As far as I know Windows can only boot from a primary partition. Since > > you have more then 4 partitions some must be secondary partition: you > > won t be able to boot

Re: nfs is slow

2002-02-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:13:58AM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > myhost:/mydir /myotherdir nfs > user,noexec,dev,suid,rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 > > Is there some app in debian with which i could easily messure the > saturation of my connection? Try nload (package nload) Someti

Re: hardware question

2002-02-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:26:34PM -0600, Richard wrote: > I am going to be putting together a new computer in the next couple of > weeks. When i do i want to install debian on it. I am looking at a kr7a > abit motherboard with the KT266A chipset. I was wondering if anyone has > heard anything abo

Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules

2002-02-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:27:08PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: > Kernel command line: > > Shouldn't the value of append show up there? > > My next course of action, (and I'm running out of courses [:)] , is to > recompile the kernel without IDE/ATAPI support. Any other ideas? YEs, I have: Kerne

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:14:36PM +0100, Gr?gory Kar?kinian wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you guys, that's exactly the answer i needed :). I can't compile a > kernel on this machine (it's a 486 @ 66 mhz.. Slow even to untar :p). > I'll keep my 2.2 for now. You _can_ build it - it takes about 2-4h de

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-25 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:38:45PM -0500, Lex Spoon wrote: > > I think for the kind of money you are talking about, you can hire > administrators who know Unix. Honestly: wouldn't you want professional > (or at least competent) adminstrators for Windows, too? Ease of Windows > administration is

Re: Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:52:55AM +, Randy Orrison wrote: > I figured that the two v 3.3.6 packages (note that I've added the "-v3" > to the appropriate line, that was quite confusing for a while) were > obsolete, and deleted them (while X was not running). Ha! xdm wouldn't > start! I put t

Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:47:15AM +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: > Hey, > > A few months ago I noticed that _something_ had changed on my Debian > installation that caused xterms not to react on my backspace key as one > would expect. > > With a lot of tuning, help from friends, reinstalling and >

Re: How do tell if X is using acceleration...?...

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
Hi, On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:20:42AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > I am thinking that my machine is not using acceleration. It is an > athlon 600 with a voodoo3500. Graphics seem to be slow and take > the CPU to over 75%. This even happens when moving an opaque > window. My XFConifg-4 fil

Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:57:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have one of these printers. The only way I ever got > it working was using gimp-print(?) and CUPS. lpr and > all of that wouldn't work. Also with this setup the > quality was awful. It would only do greyscale. When I >

Re: Package Repository

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:49:53AM +, Nicholas Avenell wrote: > Okay, A simple question, for which a simple answer would be appreciated: > > I am looking for a simple, step by set guide to turning a directory > full of .deb files into something I can access with a sources.list entry. > > In t

Re: Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:24:53PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Note that testing and unstable contain packages for the nvidia drivers > that will download the drivers and create Debian packages out of them. > They're a bit more convenient than messing with the tar.gz's manually. Oh yeah, I've hea

Re: boot-floppy

2002-01-10 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:20:02AM +0800, sina wrote: > I download the file boot-floppies_2.2.26.deb but I don't know how to use it, > I want to > install debian in a notebook from floppy (as the notebook has no CD-ROM) does > the file I download right? Could you tell me? .deb are Debian package

hdparm and old system

2002-01-10 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, I have a 486 with 1 byte serial FIFO. This means if I transfer stuff through my modem, I get a bunch of bits lost when HD trasnfer any data. To fix the problem I unmasked IRQs on the HD controller. This worked with 2.2.x series. It fails to unmask the interrupts in the 2.4.x series. in /

Re: hdparm and old system

2002-01-10 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:56:59PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a 486 with 1 byte serial FIFO. This means if I transfer stuff > > through my modem, I get a bunch of bits lost when HD trasnfer any > > data. To fix the problem I unmasked IRQs on the HD controller. > >

Re: Testing to unstable

2002-01-10 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: > > Hi, > > I had a system running testing for a while, and I decided to try unstable. > I did a dist-upgrade and everything seemed to go fine, however on reboot, > the new 2.4 kernel won't boot correctly, it fails to mount root

Re: hdparm and old system

2002-01-10 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:01:02PM +, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > > It's a 16450 UART [or something like that]. Hence 1 byte FIFO instead of > > 16 byte FIFO. > > > > If the interrupts were unmasked properly then I wouldn't need to get new > > hardware... As I said, it works in 2.2.x series...

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