Kernel-Recompile edba too big

2003-03-17 Thread Bob Underwood
Hi all, I just recompiled a 2.4.20 kernel to include the 2.7.0 i2c modules. It appeared to compile correctly. However, when I attempt to boot the kernel, I immediately receive the error message: "EDBA too big." A search of google doesn't turn up a lot of help. There is one reference to the

Re: Athlon MP boards that work with woody

2002-10-09 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:00, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > What MB's have people used with Woody successfully, unsuccessfully? > > Thanks I'm using an Asus A7V333, with the 2.4.19 kernel (compiled from source) and i2c compiled from source. Works quite well. bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: rage128 and dri (?)

2002-10-21 Thread Bob Underwood
sent to poster in error. message to list below. On Monday 21 October 2002 14:17, Phil Reardon wrote: > I am trying to get XFree86 4.2 to like my rage 128 video card. I > can get a grey X screen up and mouse around, but thats all. When I > ctrl-alt-backspace, I see these messages on the consol

Re: Problem with DRI and ati 128 card

2002-11-13 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 11 November 2002 01:57, Dave North wrote: > The recent update on sarge to xfree86 4.2 (I hope I got that right) > broke DRI on my ati 128 card. I was able to fix this by replacing > the two new files /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r128_dri.so and > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o wi

printer.c loading at different location than printer

2002-11-14 Thread Bob Underwood
hi all, i have a usb printer which is located at /dev/usb/lp0. dmesg reports the printer is at /dev/usblp0. obviously, it doesn't work this way. there is no /dev/usblp0 on my system. i haven't a clue how to either relocate the printer or to redirect the module loading. any help would be ap

Re: 2.4.18 to 2.4.19/20 locks up

2002-12-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 01:07, Charles Lewis wrote: > I wouldn't even worry about upgrading except that I keep hoping > that maybe a dri fix for my rage128 card will appear. have you tried the kernel modules at http://dri.sourceforge.net? i'm using them with a custom 2.4.18 kernel (rage128 p

Re: Can only login as root

2002-12-29 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 28 December 2002 22:28, matt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Woody v3.0 with a 2.4.18 kernel. > > I can only login as root, if I try to login as anyone else it does > not even ask for a password, it juts says 'Login incorrect'. > > Regardless of which username I enter it always says 'System b

Re: Free Cell

2002-09-07 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 07 September 2002 15:51, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > On Friday 06 September 2002 5:47 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:26:07PM -0700, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > > > How do I find and install "FREE CELL"??? > > > > Try g

Re: Problem detecting sb128PCI

2002-09-11 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 September 2002 07:04, Pierre Dupuis wrote: > Hi all :) > > First i want to thanks everyone on this list, community spirit is > great and debian is one of this ! > > I have a problem with my sb128PCI, it seems the mixer device ok but >

Re: Package Manager doesnt start.....

2002-09-11 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 September 2002 09:55, Hoffice-Rafael Puyau wrote: > Dear All, > > I can't open the package manager on Linux Under Kde I click on > Package Manager Link but nothing appears.. So how can I fix > this problem. I try to log wit

idebus=xx and lilo

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, i have a new mainboard running woody with kernel 2.4.19-k7. during bootup, i get the following message: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx. lspci -v shows (in part) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, med

Re: idebus=xx and lilo

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:25, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Bob Underwood wrote: > > i have a new mainboard running woody with kernel 2.4.19-k7. > > during bootup, i get the following messa

Re: Setting-up CDRW

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Underwood
I just did this again last evening on a new machine and it was loads easier than i remembered it being. I'm using kernel 2.4.19-k7 with both an ide cdrom and an ide-scsi cdrw. i added this line to /etc/fstab: /dev/scd0 /cdrw iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 my /etc/m

Re: Help needed setting up CDRW

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 08:53, Michael Olds wrote: > This boils down to two problems: if a module is missing, where can > I get it? I did a Google search and there are a zillion references > to the missing modules but no mention of where they can be found. > > And Second, what is the proced

Re: Help needed setting up CDRW

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Underwood
e other kernels besides "bf" > support this file system type? > > Best Wishes! > Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org yes, they do. I also use the ext3 file system. best wishes. bob > > -Original Message- > From: Bob Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: We

Kernel Modules

2002-09-19 Thread Bob Underwood
Hi all, I've asked related questions in the past without success. So, I'll try one more time. I'm just looking for a pointer to the correct place to resolve the difficulty. I'm using the XFree86 experimental 4.2.1-0pre1v1 debs because my rage pro 128 is not supported by previous editions.

Re: Kernel Modules

2002-09-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 19 September 2002 09:44, Volker Cordes wrote: > Bob Underwood wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I've asked related questions in the past without success. So, > > I'll try one more time. I'm just looking for a pointer to the > > correct place

Re: Install problems on Asus A7V333

2003-12-01 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 30 November 2003 2:01 pm, Chris Gumm wrote: > I'm trying to get debian installed on an asus A7V333 and I am > running in to a problem. Now, I didn't think debian supported the > RAID controler so I disabled it with a jumper setting. Now when it > gets to the partition hd, I have 3 choices

Re: Install problem

2001-03-05 Thread Bob Underwood
try just hitting the enter key. worked for me. bob On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Fernando wrote: > > I booted from CD#1 i386. Partitions and everything seem to be fine. It's now > at a sreen asking for Debian Archive Path. > > I've tried /archive/debian , archive/debian , /debian , debian, > dists/

Re: I need a filter for Epson Stylus Color 400

2000-12-22 Thread Bob Underwood
My Epson Stylus Color 400 installed well during the system installation process. Just use the Stylus Color I selection as the one specifically for the 400 doesn't work. If you want, I can send my printcap separately. bob On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Santiago Fernandez wrote: > I need printcap entries

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On my system, to get around this situation, I installed the paraport modules during the initial install and used modconf later to add lp. bob On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote: > > I have just installed potato on a machine which happily > ran slink before. During the install it refused to

Re: debian install

2001-01-28 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, EuphoriaDJ wrote: > So should I go back to Corel which I got rid of because I did not see the > advantage to learning another packager, OR > should I try debian both have software I like and deb will most likily to be > able to upgrade to X 4.0 and 2.4 kernel > heck deb is us

Re: Network; UNEX Card (RealTek8139) wont work...

2001-08-12 Thread Bob Underwood
I had a similar problem when I added net cards. IIRC it was a config problem with the /etc/hosts and the other machine nor properly configured. can you ping this machine from the other? Bob On Friday 10 August 2001 03:40 am, Tor Arvid Lund wrote: > Hi Emil, thanks for responding... > > > Are

Re: Will the Progeny graphical install process inspire our developers ?

2001-11-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 16 November 2001 03:03 pm, Patrik Modesto wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:16:37AM +1000, Jason Currey wrote: > > A GUI installer might not make install easier, but it gives first time > > linux users a much better feeling about installing the product. > > Yes! But it makes it a bit ea

Re: bug: "neighbor table overflow" message

2001-11-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 19 November 2001 09:51 am, Josef Dalcolmo wrote: > Hello, > > I am getting a "neighbor table overflow message" during installation of > woody from 2001-11-09 and also afterwards > Does anyone know where this message comes from? > > > Best regards -- > Josef Dalcolmo not sure where yours

Re: Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

2001-11-22 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 22 November 2001 04:54 pm, Serge Rey wrote: > i did the upgrade yesterday, and along the lines of brian's suggestion, > this worked for me: > > 1) change apt sources to point to woody > 2) apt-get update > 3) apt-get -u install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl > 4) apt-get -u dist-upgrad

Re: rtl8139 vs. 8139 too

2001-12-08 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:56, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know which of these drivers works better for people in > kernel 2.2.x. > > Reason: one of them may be enabled as the default driver in the next > woody installation system (boot floppies). > > Gruss/Regards, > Edua

Re: kdm

2001-12-10 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 10 December 2001 11:53, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello All, > > After upgrading to woody (from potato) I get some unexpected behaviour from > kdm. > > 1) In the kdm window, I see a lot of users listed, basically all users are > listed. I only > want root and myself listed there (as it was w

Re: kde install

2001-12-11 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 08:26, Norman Cohen wrote: > I try to install KDE on potato 2.2 r4 on a ppc by putting the following > in my sources.list: > > deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto > then wvdial > > and then running > > #apt-get update > #apt-get install task-kde > however as m

Re: kdm

2001-12-11 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 05:02, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > Like Bob Underwood said. You can edit the users and session types by using > the control center and go to system/login manager. > > With respect to your strange kdm behaviour. I remember that during the >

Re: After upgrade to woody, having weird problem with KMail

2001-12-11 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded to woody, and now when I get my email with KMail, half of the > emails don't have "no subject" and sender "unknown" But when I look at the > headers the information is there. this was discussed recently on debian-kde. the w

Re: Can't find vroot.h

2001-12-12 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 16:32, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I am trying to compile a couple of screensavers, and they call for a > file called vroot.h, apparently in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/. I looked > at packages.debian.org for which package it comes in (I would have > thought xlibs-d

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-14 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 14 December 2001 16:49, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2001 08:50, Heilig (Cece) Szabolcs wrote: > > I have the same problem, that fix did'nt helps me out. I saw also the > > mailboxes in text-editor. I don't know why, the downloaded mailbox > > contains random newline cha

Re: Configuring apsfilter and Lexmark Z11

2001-12-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 16 December 2001 23:02, Akintayo Holder wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to get my Lexmark Z11 to work with debian. I have found a > driver and instructions to configure apsfilter to work with the driver. > The problem seems to be a difference in the apsfilter currently used in > debian a

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-19 Thread Bob Underwood
Virginian, mostly retired, 54, liberal in all matters I consider important. User not developer, part-time freelance writer, Tuesday is bridge day! BS in psych; Masters in Philo. bob On Wednesday 19 December 2001 02:24, Matt wrote: > Forget support and distro discussion for a second.. > > Who

Re: OT-COX DHCP Cable Internet conversion

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 17:03, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Greetings: > > I wanted to post a quick note here for others going through the Cox cable > internet transition from Excite to Cox dhcp servers. > > When (if) you get your kit, copy the provided number and log onto the cox > web ser

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 22 February 2002 22:57, Stephen Nosal wrote: > Folks - > > I recently got Time Warner Road Runner installed. It seems to be a straight > forward dhcp install but I'm having a problem getting dh-client running. > I've manageed to make it work with the same box running NT, as well as an > o

Connecting to Port 631

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
I installed cups and kprint on a different machine and can't connect to localhost:631. The error message says: "Could not connect to host localhost (port 631)" /etc/services has these lines: ipp 631/tcp #Internet Printing Protocol ipp 631/udp #Internet P

Re: Connecting to Port 631 - THANKS

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 23 February 2002 13:58, ben wrote: > On Saturday 23 February 2002 10:51 am, Bob Underwood wrote: > > I installed cups and kprint on a different machine and can't connect to > > localhost:631. The error message says: "Could not connect to host > >

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 23 February 2002 19:59, dman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:22:01AM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > | Am fed up with Windows on a single workstation in a small non-profit > | organization, used mainly for word processing and mailing. This weekend > | I have to reinstall the O

Re: Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro TF

2002-02-27 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 07:42, Bill Triplett wrote: > am not an expert, but barring the lack of any other useful advice to > your question, it looks to me like the Rage 128 Pro TF chipset (from > lspci) is not listed in the supported chipsets in the logfile. Check the > XFree86 website and se

Re: Refresh dselect db?

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 28 February 2002 18:12, Troy Telford wrote: > I hope this will be simple... > > I recently re-installed Debian. After revising my apt.sources list, as > well as a good 'ol dist-upgrade to bring my system up to Debian > 3.0/unstable, I discovered an interesting problem: > > For some rea

Re: Open Office on Woody?

2002-03-02 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:28, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > On Saturday 02 March 2002 01.07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > I noticed all the talk of Open Office on potato, but is it also on woody? > > and, if so, where? > > > > Thanks > > Hi, I've been running it for a while on Woody, (2.4.17). As far

Re: Any good ftp front end

2002-03-04 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 04 March 2002 14:33, Bastiaan Naber wrote: > Try deadftp, although it is gnome I find it the > most usefull ftpclient I have found. > > Cheers, > Bastiaan > > On Monday 04 March 2002 20:17, R.Pac wrote: > > Hi , > > > > > > can someone give me any good ftp front end > > based on gnome or

Re: Flashplayer for potato?

2001-10-11 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 11 October 2001 08:46, Stan Brown wrote: > Can someeon point me to a place to get a Netscape FalsgPlayer plugin for a > Debian stable machine? go to www.macromedia.com/downoads works well with my netscape in woody; worked well in potato hth bob

Re: bad file

2001-10-14 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 14 October 2001 05:26, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:18:55 PDT, Kevin writes: > >its got nothing to do with the attribs or the perms > > > >lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on > > ./guide.it.html > > > >and i cant fsck it because im not local and

Re: Help : Keyboard + ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

2001-10-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 18 October 2001 10:27, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just tried to upgrade to woody from potato, but I've lost my French > keyboard. > Now, I have an American keyboard, and I don't know what to do to > retrieve my original one. > I'm using console-tools. Can anybody help me

Re: how to make Lexmark Z11 work with Debian?

2001-10-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 19 October 2001 11:49, Jerry Wang wrote: > I installed the following packages:apsfilter, lprng, lprngtool > and downloaded cZ11.tar.gz from > http://www.kornblum.i-p.com/Z11/LexmarkZ11.html, after make and make > install the cZ11 driver, I use lprngtool to setup printer, but lprngtool > s

Fwd: Re: how to make Lexmark Z11 work with Debian?

2001-10-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 19 October 2001 21:07, Jerry Wang wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 02:48, Bob Underwood wrote: > > On Friday 19 October 2001 11:49, Jerry Wang wrote: > > now the following packages are installed on my Debian -- cupsomatic-ppd, > cupsys, cupsys-pstoraster, xpp, apsfi

Mouse

2001-10-21 Thread Bob Underwood
I have an interesting situation with the mouse on the little woman's box. I recently swapped her old two-button for a three-button Logitech mouse. The new mouse doesn't work on her box, but it does on mine. The relevant sections of the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file are identical. Early on, I di

Re: Mouse

2001-10-21 Thread Bob Underwood
; /dev/input/mice exist? if not, you need to create it with mknod. does gpm > run? > > patrick > > On Sunday, 21. October 2001 18:43, Bob Underwood wrote: > > I have an interesting situation with the mouse on the little woman's box. > > I recently swapped her old two-bu

Re: gif support grayed out..

2001-10-26 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 25 October 2001 23:15, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 26-Oct-2001 Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have > > gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making? > > i made a new, 300x300 pixel whi

Re: List traffic

2001-10-28 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 28 October 2001 03:25, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > >Is it just me, or has the traffic on the list died to about 1/100 of what > > > >it was a week ago? I used to get probably 180 messages a day from this > > > >list and now I get.. 4. I wonder if my ISP is screwing around with > >som

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-10-31 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 17:57, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Is my interpretation correct, or have I misunderstood > > the man page? (My main concern is that I don't want to > > accidentally upgrade to woody). > > You are mostly correct. IIRC, if the package structure ch

Re: potato 2 woody upgrade problem

2001-11-02 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 02 November 2001 20:26, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > Added woody to sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade and > then waited a long time even on a DSL line to download and then the > following happened. > > Get:489 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main xsitecopy 1:0.9.10-1

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-09 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 08 November 2001 11:48 pm, 57j wrote: > I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the Xwindows GUI > login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? > > Thanks, > Cathy Cramer from an earlier discussion, (16 Feb 2001), worked for me: -copied te

permissions for pon/poff

2001-11-13 Thread Bob Underwood
I just set up a new box for a friend, installed from 2.2r3 and upgraded to woody. He can dial out as root (a no-no) but not as a normal user, so it's apparently a permissions problem. I added the user to the dip and dialout groups with no change. Poking around, I notice that /usr/bin/pon and

Re: permissions for pon/poff

2001-11-13 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 07:01 pm, John Hasler wrote: > Bob Underwood writes: > > He is brand new to Linux (first installation) and using KPPP. > > > That's your problem. I thought you were using pon and

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > >  > > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the > > updates ).  The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon > > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem see

Re: Lexmark Z22 on debian OR printconf deb package

2001-11-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 16 November 2001 01:48 pm, Pilluli wrote: > Hi all, > >I've got a Lexmark Z22 printer that I'm not able to > set up under my debian box. I've checked some > resources on the web which say that there is no > support for the Z* series under linux but the thing is > that the utility "pri

Re: [dspoon@satx.rr.com: Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?]

2001-11-18 Thread Bob Underwood
My Netscape, woody, 2.2.19 kernel, locks up similarly when the window to confirm cookies pops up and I have any of the bookmark folders opened. I've come to expect it and I still forget. bob On Saturday 17 November 2001 01:04 pm, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Yes, I've had Netscape lockup just its

Real Player as Plug-in

2001-09-16 Thread Bob Underwood
surely, I'm missing something here. I've spent quite a bit of time over two days looking in the archives, but still haven't a clue. I've downloaded and installed the realplayer package, which apparently debianizes and then installs the rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm file previously downloaded

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

2001-09-16 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 16 September 2001 21:29, DvB wrote: > > > added the following to the helper applications: > > > description: real player > > > MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin > > > Suffixes: ra,ram > > I believe the mime type you want is audio/x-pn-realaudio (without the > "plugin"). > > HTH th

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

2001-09-16 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 16 September 2001 21:29, DvB wrote: > > > added the following to the helper applications: > > > description: real player > > > MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin > > > Suffixes: ra,ram > > I believe the mime type you want is audio/x-pn-realaudio (without the > "plugin"). > > HTH su

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 17 September 2001 03:00, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have also sent this to debian-user, I think other users might be > interested... > > my apologies for replying off list. this kmail defaults to the originator and i didn't verify the right addy. bob

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 17 September 2001 03:00, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have also sent this to debian-user, I think other users might be > interested... > > Bob Underwood wrote: > ... > > > i looked at all the files in the /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 directory and > > all appear corre

Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel?

2001-09-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 21:19, richard wrote: > A still new installation of potato from CDROM. > > Upon mount /dev/cdrom or mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom I get the > subject error message. > > The line >/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,no auto > is already in /etc/fsta

Re: xserver-xfree86 install problem (debian-testing)

2001-10-07 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Do you still have the 2.2.18pre21 kernel that shipped with potato? If so, either disable the framebuffer interface in xserver-xfree86 (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86) or upgrade your kernel to one that supports framebuffering. It's also probably preferable

MAC Address and Ethx

2001-12-30 Thread Bob Underwood
I had a phone call from my Cable ISP the other day, stating that I should reconfigure my computer or risk losing connectivity. The web site they pointed me to is a windows site, basic config stuff. Later phone call to tech service (level one and level two) confirms they are going to start che

Re: MAC Address and Ethx

2001-12-31 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 31 December 2001 14:59, Ray wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:36:17PM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: > > I had a phone call from my Cable ISP the other day, stating that I should > > reconfigure my computer or risk losing connectivity. The web site they > > point

Fwd: Re: MAC Address and Ethx

2002-01-02 Thread Bob Underwood
Oops, hit the wrong reply to button. My apologies to Mr. Spoon. bob -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: MAC Address and Ethx Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:05:19 -0500 From: Bob Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Monday 31 December 2001 18:49, Donald R. Spoon wrote:

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 13:23, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: > hi, > > I'm going from a Mandrake 8.1 system to debian. I've had there (some > weeks ago, not working anymore) internet sharing enabled. When > switching, I also want it to be correct again. The problem is My debian > does not recognize

Gateway Configuration

2002-01-10 Thread Bob Underwood
With the impending demise of @home and transferrance to cox.net, I need to reconfigure my gateway from a static ip to dhcp. I'm sure I'm missing something here, so help would be appreciated. the /etc/network/interfaces file reads as follows: iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet st

Re: Gateway Configuration

2002-01-10 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 10 January 2002 11:11, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:50:42AM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: > > the /etc/network/interfaces file reads as follows: > > [...] > > iface eth1 inet dhcp > > hostname: what @ home gave me > > Try it w

Re: icons in kmail

2002-01-10 Thread Bob Underwood
There's an issue with libpng compatibility. (Take a look at debian-kde archives for more details.) It's been fixed now in unstable (thank you daniel and chris for your quick work on this). I have had unstable kde for quite a while and it works quite well. If there are no RC bugs in the new

Re: Apt question

2002-01-22 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 20:23, Scott Henson wrote: > A few weeks ago I heard something about pinning in apt. If I remember > correctly you can put sid in your sources.list and pin its urgency down > to 50 and there for you could install stuff in sid with out upgradeing > to sid. Or something t

Re: OT: hardware recommendations?

2002-01-28 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 27 January 2002 22:32, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Greetings, all. > > My PII-233MHz is beginning to show its age (already?!), so I'm looking > for a replacement. The idea of saving a few bucks by building my own > system from components has its appeal, but frankly, I'd really rather > not bo

Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - add'l info

2001-05-18 Thread Bob Underwood
rgmammyyokum > 192.168.1.4 pappyyokum.siliconhollow.orgpappyyokum > 492.168.1.5 crunchwolf.siliconhollow.orgcrunchwolf > > > /etc/networks > localnet 65.14.207.0 > > > i can ping mammyyokum, both by name and by ip; i can ping localhost, i cannot > ping ei

Fwd: Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - solved

2001-05-20 Thread Bob Underwood
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - solved Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 11:52:43 -0400 From: Bob Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this turned out to be a compatibility problem. originally, i had cards using the rtl8139 and tulip modules. i re

Re: user name and password

2001-05-21 Thread Bob Underwood
IIRC, CorelLinux doesn't ask for a password on install. Just leave the field blank. Log in first as root, then the Corel Control Center will ask for one. Bob On Sat, 19 May 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:52:08PM -0700, Jim Mohr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I h

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-10-05 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:32 pm, calvin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:24:10AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: > >>Top posting leads to a big mess. Every non-technical person does it > >>and it ends up with them saying "let's use a forum or something" > >>because they can't follow the thread

APIC error

2004-10-21 Thread Bob Underwood
I have a Giga-byte GA-7DPXW+ mobo with dual Athlon MP 2800+ cpus. The kernel is a custom 2.6.8, basically the stock k7-smp kernel with PCMCIA, ACPI, and OSS removed, compiled with gcc-3.3. Trying to clone a hard disk using dd, i get the following error repetitively: APIC error on CPU1: 00 (40

Re: APIC error

2004-10-21 Thread Bob Underwood
I posted: > I have a Giga-byte GA-7DPXW+ mobo with dual Athlon MP 2800+ cpus. The kernel > is a custom 2.6.8, basically the stock k7-smp kernel with PCMCIA, ACPI, and > OSS removed, compiled with gcc-3.3. > > Trying to clone a hard disk using dd, i get the following error repetitively: > >

Re: OT: Judicial election/appointment (was Re: Is Linux Unix?)

2004-07-30 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 25 July 2004 11:16 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Varies by jurisdiction. > > Superior (county) judges are frequently elected. > > State/Federal judges are appointed by governors and presidents, > respectively.  I don't believe any state has an elected judiciary, > although California has r

Re: gnutella

2003-12-21 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 December 2003 6:39 am, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > I was recommended various peer networking software for debian. I > have installed gnutella. Will someone give me instructions on > setting it up and use pls. A brief note is great, e

Re: many marillat users don't realize their Packages.gz is old

2003-12-27 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 26 December 2003 4:22 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Dan> Because of the broken Last-Modified, I am unable to get fresh > Dan> copies of > Dan> > http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > Dan> from my ISP's cache!: > >

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-28 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 December 2003 9:53 pm, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:23:29 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > > I've done installations in the meantime with RH & 9, Mandrake > > 9.2, and Suse with 2.4 kernels, and they all run both the USB > >

Re: apt-get install problem

2003-12-29 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 8:04 am, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Today's upgrades included 'foomatic-filters'. When dpkg asks about > instlling the new `/etc/foomatic/filter.conf' I press 'd' to see > what has changed and the program hangs. Ctl-C aborts the i

Re: apt-get upgrade.... dont.

2004-01-21 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 2:00 pm, Jacob S. wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:34:16 -0800 > > Day Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Corel 1.2 (the debian 2.2.18 kernel) > > apt-get upgrade tries to hit on corel.com for the upgrade list.

Re: dpkg, make-kpkg and 2.6 kernel

2004-02-01 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 31 January 2004 5:04 pm, Darryl Barlow wrote: > I have used make-kpkg to make a 2.6 kernel deb which > is producing a strange > error on attempted installation. I simply used the > source package with the > config file from the 686 kernel

Re: Corel - which debian?

2004-04-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 19 April 2004 11:51 am, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Does anybody know for sure on which version of Debian Corel Linux was > based? I'm pretty sure it was before Potato - Potato was probably still > testing, but I'm not familiar with Debian that far back. > > Thanks > -- > Kind regards > Hans d

Re: XFree86 problems

2002-04-03 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 16:53, Fanch wrote: > I have now tried to install Debian 3 times without succes on an i586 > which has run RedHat6.2 until I began my Debian experiments... > > I have 2 good years experience with Linux through RedHat and have no > problems with the course of the install.

Re: XFree86 problems

2002-04-04 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 04 April 2002 15:04, Fañch wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Bob Underwood wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 April 2002 16:53, Fanch wrote: > > > I have now tried to install Debian 3 times without succes on an i586 > > > which has run RedHat6.2 until I began my Debian

Re: xserver-xfree86 not found on mirror

2002-04-12 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 12 April 2002 10:23, Janis HAGELBERG wrote: > I've upgraded my debian potato dist., but now xfree doesn't > work anymore. the problem seems to be that the xserver-xfree86 > doesn't exist on any official debian mirror. did the name > changed, or am i looking for the wrong package? > becaus

Re: java

2002-04-13 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 13 April 2002 09:38, Ted wrote: > Hi.. > Could anyone let me have the sources lis address for the blackdown > java and is there a file anywhere of preferred sources ??? > Regards > Ted Wager deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free --

Re: frozen-bubble

2002-04-16 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 11:33, James Vahn wrote: > Does anyone know the cause for this? > > [SDL Init] X Error of failed request: > BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) > Major opcode of failed request: 144 (XFree86-VidModeExtension) > Minor opcode of

Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 13:01, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I find debian-cd complicate and I cannot find the reason why it should be. > All I want is to go to my usual mirror site and get woody distribution > files and write them to a cd so that I can go home and update my > computer to woody. 'potato'

Re: woody's "frozen-bubble" package

2002-04-20 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 20 April 2002 13:04, James Vahn wrote: > Does anyone know the cure for this fatal error? > > [SDL Init] X Error of failed request: > BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) > Major opcode of failed request: 144 (XFree86-VidModeExtension) > Min

Re: 2.4.18 - nic modules

2002-05-02 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:25, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > > Try 8139too. I don't know the whole story, but something about > > different people maintaining it now caused the name change. > > Most excellent - that was the answer I needed to get it to work. I would > like to know the reason fo

Re: Proble - XFree86 4.2 and ATI 3D Rage LT Pro

2002-05-25 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 25 May 2002 10:07, Russ Cook wrote: > Another respondent suggested I run XFree86 -configure to get a starting > config file. I did, and it worked - although low res and distorted. I > then restored my original guess at synch rates, and got my original > symptons, which confirms your s

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