Re: Installation Problem

1997-09-16 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Chi Yung YUEN wrote: > > I tried to install Debian 1.3.1. I got "cannot initialize swap partition" > error and it stopped the installation. I've already tried 3 rescue disks. > I don't know what went wrong. Can anybody help? > I'm using Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI card, Quantum Viking 4.3G HD. I've ha

Re: Debian & Adaptec AHA 2840VL/2842VL

1997-09-16 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Otavio Exel wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 with an Adaptec AHA 2840VL/2842VL > SCSI card; while the RESC1440 disk is beeing loaded I get a lot of error > messages; some of them are: > - encountered spurious interrupt > - failed to initialize module ? > - In swapper task - not sy

Re: howto enlarge root partition by merging with other?

1997-09-16 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Andy Spiegl wrote: > What I would like to do now is enlarge / by merging it with > the newly created partition. Do I have to copy everything > to a backup, run fdisk and then copy it back? Or is there > an easier method? (No, I don't just want to mount it) > And is this process really all that e

Re: 06032921167-0001@T-Online.De

1997-09-17 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Eloy A. Paris wrote: > > I am getting bounced back messages every time I post to debian-user. > The bounced message says that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an > unknow user. > > Is it just me or everybody is having this problem? I've the same problem since yesterday. Dieter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Netscape 4.03 for Linux is out!

1997-09-17 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Brian K Servis wrote: > > It comes in three forms: standard, professional and > just the stand alone browser with now news/mail/composer/etc. What are the differences between these three forms? Dieter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout

1997-08-08 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
hi everybody, my name is Dieter and I'm having problems to install the debian Linux distribution. My hardware: - Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM - Adaptec AHA2842 (IRQ 11) - ATI Graphics Turbo (Mach32 mit 2 MB VRAM) - NE2000 compatiple card IRQ 15 IO 0x300 - IO

Re: install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout

1997-08-08 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hello Paul, thanks for your quick answer. I've already ordered Debian 1.3.1 at JFL in Berlin. I hope to have more luck with the more recent version. Have a nice day! Dieter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EM

Re: install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command d

1997-08-11 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hallo Ralf, vielen Dank für Deine Antwort. > Ich hatte genau das gleiche Problem mit einem Adaptec 2842VL und der > Debian-Distribution von JF Lehmanns. > Anscheinend wird der Adaptec von anderen Modulen (vermutlich fuer andere > SCSI-Kontroller) durcheinandergebracht. Hört sich nicht gut an. Da

Re: PPP ?

1997-08-18 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > I have been trying to figure out how to setup a PPP connection to my > school (Univ of MD) for almost a month. Go http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue36/ppp.html This is an excellent article about setting up a PPP connection to an ISP (Novice to Novice --- A 10-Minute Guide for

Re: baskspace and delete keys under XFree86?

1997-08-18 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Paul Miller wrote: > What is the deal with my delete key acting as a backspace key under X? Some keys behave different under different software environments. In the Juli 97 issue of the Linux Journal appeared an article "Consistent Keyboard Configuration" by John F Bunch. It explains, how to co

install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout

1997-08-22 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
On Friday, 08 Aug 1997 10:54:01 +0200, I wrote the following mail: = BEGIN OF MAIL == hi everybody, my name is Dieter and I'm having problems to install the debian Linux distribution. My hardware: - Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM - Adaptec AH

Anybody in for helping a new debian user with aic7xxx ?

1997-08-22 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hi everybody, since 2 weeks I'm trying to install the debian linux distribution, first attempt was with 1.2.8, second with 1.3.1. Both resulted in crashing down during the boot process (look for subject "install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout"). During

Re: Anybody in for helping a new debian user with aic7xxx ?

1997-08-22 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Tim Sailer wrote: > Do you have an early 2940 in the machine? I had this same problem, > and had to get a BIOS upgrade from Adaptek. It's revision B with BIOS 1.21 > The 2940 and it's chipset are considered beta, at best. I have a > production system with a 4 month old 2940 in it that runs > w

Re: Anybody in for helping a new debian user with aic7xxx ?

1997-08-22 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hi Mark, thanks a lot for your reply. The 2 PCs are SCSI-only systems, HDs and CDROM are SCSI-2. Here are the main hardware components: - Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM - Adaptec AHA2842 (IRQ 11) - ATI Graphics Turbo (Mach32 mit 2 MB VRAM) - NE2000 compatiple

Re: Anybody in for helping a new debian user with aic7xxx ?

1997-08-23 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hi Craig, thanks a lot for your replay. > for the record, i've built at least half a dozen debian systems with > adaptec 2940 scsi controllers. with no problems. most of these are > running linux 2.0.29 or 2.0.30. Installing them was straight-forward, > just boot off the boot/rescue floppy and f

Re: Anybody in for helping a new debian user with aic7xxx ?

1997-08-23 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hi Damir, thanks a lot for your reply. > I have VLB2842 based card and I _never_ > got a stock boot disk to work with that setup It's not only the 2842, but the 2940, too. > The problem seems to be due to whole _slew_ of different SCSI driver > probes on the stock boot floppy which confuse the

Re: Trouble using SDXC 128GB card

2021-10-27 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:41:33 + schrieb Musbur : >I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad T480s. Recently I bought a SanDisk Extreme >Pro 128GB SDXC card for my digital camera, but I quickly found out that >the system can't work with that card. >. >The camera can format, read and write just fine. Perh

Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-26 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:39:36 -0500 schrieb : >I use popa3d. Me too. popa3d is simple, small and effective. Dieter

QEMU/KVM doesn't open new window - Access only via vnc viewer

2022-03-31 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hi, I'm just about to install Debian11/Bullseye on a host. There are several VMs running under QEMU/KVM to set up. With Debian9/Stretch I created a new VM via command line: /usr/bin/kvm -drive file=/qemu/win-70/win-70.jessie.raw,if=virtio,media=disk,cache=none,format=raw -name Win-70 -vga std -m

Re: QEMU/KVM doesn't open new window - Access only via vnc viewer

2022-04-06 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:42:43 +0100 schrieb Gareth Evans : >A different invocation method, but does this help, or give a clue to something >equivalent? > >https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/09/msg00691.html The link was the path to the solution. For gtk output in a newly created window I h

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

2022-04-16 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Fri, 15 Apr 2022 07:03:14 -0400 schrieb Sam : >That's pretty much it. I want to mirror all my updates to a single server on >my LAN and have everything on my LAN apt update from it. This seems more >efficient than having everyone download their own copies. For mirroring a repository I recommen

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 schrieb David Christensen : >I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and >mouse GUI events over the past year or more: Same for me. System is Debian 9.13 (kernel 4.19.0-0.bpo.19-amd64, XFCE desktop) running on an ASRock DeskMini H110M.

sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-04-30 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hello everybody, I'm using an Epson EcoTank ET-2711. Printing with CUPS is no problem, but scanning with sane. According to http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-EPSONDS the Epson EcoTank ET-2711 (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x1143) is completely supported by the sane-backend ep

Re: sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-05-01 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Sat, 30 Apr 2022 18:25:24 -0600 schrieb Charles Curley : >Web sites usually document the most recent release, whereas Debian old >stable may not have the latest. I connected the ET-2711 to a host with Debian 11.3: 'scanimage -L' did not recognized the ET-2711 as a scanner. So no supporting bac

Re: sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-05-01 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Sun, 1 May 2022 12:26:00 +0100 schrieb Brian : >Download the Epson (non-free) drivers. Done. The ET-2711 is now recognized in buster and bullseye as locally connected scanner. I can scan with simple-scan and 'scanimage -T' completes without any error. But xsane terminates with 'Segmentation f

Re: sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-05-03 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Sun, 1 May 2022 12:26:00 +0100 schrieb Brian : >you have a modern device (from about 2018) that does not support AirPrint Sorry, that's wrong. In my previous postings I was regarding a connection via USB cable. For that case the sane-backend epsonds does not work, but the epsonscan2 backend f

Re: sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-05-04 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Tue, 3 May 2022 23:19:17 +0100 schrieb Brian : >AirPrint is not mentioned in the device's specifications at > > > https://www.epson.co.uk/products/printers/inkjet/consumer/ecotank-et-2711/p/23003 This website says: >Optical Resolution >2,400 DPI x 1,200 DPI (Horizontal x Vertical) but xsan

Re: sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-05-04 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Wed, 04 May 2022 11:42:39 +0100 schrieb mick crane : >You can probably type "scanimage --help -A -d 'airscan:w0:EPSON ET-2710 >Series'" >to get a list of capabilities. This is the ET2711 specific output: >Options specific to device `airscan:w0:EPSON ET-2710 Series': > Standard: >--resolu

Re: sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-05-04 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Wed, 4 May 2022 12:50:14 +0100 schrieb Brian : >I wonder whether the net backend is required. What happens if the >entry is commented out? My fault: net was enabled, therefore I thought, that it is necessary. According to your proposal I disabled net and access to ET2711 is possible. So no nee

Needless DNS queries

2022-06-07 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hello everybody, I've installed AdguardHome to serve the clients in my home network. After checking AdguardHome's query logs I noticed a lot of needless DNS queries. When a client queries for a domain and the answer is NXDOMAIN, there is immediately a second query with the original domain name,

Re: Needless DNS queries

2022-06-14 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Thanks to everybody, who replied. After some more reading and tinkering I've made the following observations: The response code NXDOMAIN means: domain name did not resolve. In this case the search option becomes important. Whenever a domain name does not resolve, the client's resolver (at least i

Re: automate resumption of session

2023-09-13 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:14:53 + schrieb "Russell L. Harris" : >When I leave the office for the day, I typically shut down the >computer. The next morning, the first order of business is to >recreate the previous working environment or ``session.'' For each >article, this entails: Don't close