Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul William wrote: You and everybody else with a 2.6 kernel and an nVidiot card. I can't Nvidias latest drivers work with a 2.6.0 kernel. That is 5336? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 1) Go to http://www.minion.de/ and get the appropriate driver. 2) Realize that nVidia is more trouble than it's worth. 3) Chuck nVidia card, get a video card who cares about the Linux community (like, say, ATI). This from nvidia dow

Re: Frontpage ext

2004-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: Mozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can someone please point me @ docs to install frontpage 2002 server extentions on woody. What is your final goal? I see three distinct possible courses of action. 1) The more-work route: Cut your losses and scrap the Frontpage idea, post

Re: sarge install problems

2004-04-06 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
wex wrote: Don't start a new thread within an old one. Lilo is broke on the installer: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group:linux.debian.user+author:joey+author:hess&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=1CZin-80n-41%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=3 Boot the installer vanilla and let him install

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove non-installed packages

2004-04-06 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Vincent Lefevre wrote: I'm currently using XFree86 4.2 and I don't want to upgrade the X server and X applications for the moment, because of bugs. I've added the following to my /etc/apt/preferences file: Package: xfree86-common Pin: version 4.2.* Pin-Priority: 950 Package: xserver-common Pin: ver

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove non-installed packages

2004-04-06 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: I don't understand it either. I have as only entry in preferences: Package: * Pin: origin schuldei.org Pin-Priority: 999 My X packages come from there: deb /http://www.schuldei.org/debian/bruby/ ./ Yet, here too, apt-get dist-upgrade -s

Re: something wrong with BIG jigdo templates?

2004-04-07 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Christian Schnobrich wrote: On Mit, 2004-04-07 at 00:30, Christian Schnobrich wrote: The URL in the first post was wrong, and perhaps a few more words are in order. After reading a little about debian for hppa, it was obvious that I'd better try sarge. I went to the debian "Downloading Debian CD i

Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin

2004-04-07 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Enrique Samson Jr. wrote: Excuse me but I can't seem to find the root of the threed from the archives. What is the trouble being talked about here? Because I'm also having mine. I'm using Mozilla 1.5 from debian package 1.5-3. I have downloaded the java plugin from netscape.com and it was auto i

Re: Does mozilla hang on some sites for you?

2004-04-07 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Bill Moseley wrote: This is on sid, but this has been an ongoing problem for quite some time. Mozilla hangs on some sites, and I'm wondering if anyone else has this same problem. It seems to always hang at http://abcnews.go.com and Well, the consensus seems to be it's Java, but WFM! I have: Moz

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-07 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm 2.5.10-2. The problem now is, that I had my whole configuration in a file ~/.fvwm/post.h

Re: install help: boot floopies + sarge-i386-netinst.iso (d-i beta3)

2004-04-07 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Andrés A. Rocchia wrote: Hello, first sorry for my english I´m trying to improve it :) I´m trying to install debian sarge with boot floppies and sarge-i386-netinst.iso (d-i beta3) mounted as a loop device in the ramdisk. I put the sarge-i386-netinst.iso in a ext2 partition /dev/hda6 (/home) then

Re: upgrade broken (Testing) for 10 days - libxrender

2004-04-08 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Uwe Dippel wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:30:17 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: a apt-get dist-upgrade is usually recommended since it also installs/removes packages when the distribution changes. Try that first, see if the problem remains. # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building

how to draw boxes with graphical chars in txt files?

2004-04-08 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi World! I have a quirk: I like to show graphical character boxes in my .cpp files. This used to work, who knows when, with this: setfont -u iso01.uni alt-8x14.psf.gz It shows the boxes but midnight commander has the wrong border characters. And of course he cannot find iso01.uni. Two quest

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-08 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Stefan Bellon wrote: hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm 2.5.10-2. The problem now is,

Re: Warning: Do not use gcc-3.3.3-5 in testing

2004-04-08 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
MrVanes wrote: Hi, I recently apt-get updated my debian-testing machine and received g[cc ++]-3.3.3-5. After this for some reason I (re)compiled Qt 3.3.1 and got stuck with a broken KDE i.e. I could no longer start KDE through KDM. Starting KDE from xdm, or from a bare xsession was possible, but f

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-08 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Pigeon wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:55:20AM +0200, Fr?d?ric Dreier wrote: That's to be expected. It's the framebuffer. It exists because it works better for some people. Actually I though it was the way to get an higher resolution console. not really a 'must' but console looks better :-)

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-08 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: Frédéric Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul Johnson wrote: Steve Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: How is ATI support better than Nvidia ? As far as I know, both provide binary drivers, and nvidia was at this game much earlier than ati. I had nothing but bad experie

Re: Problem installing libxft-dev from Sarge

2004-04-08 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Martin D. Weinberg wrote: I get: dpkg -i /data/weinberg/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (Reading database ... 148677 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libxft-dev 2.1.2-5 (using .../libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb) ... diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Stefan Bellon wrote: hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Stefan Bellon wrote: hugo vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] Unless someone knows this, my only solution is to subscribe to the mailinglist and ask :-( Which mailing list? http://www.fvwm.org/contact/ I don't see how the upstream FVWM mailing

Re: mozilla 1.5 spell checker does not work?

2004-04-10 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: Hi, I am using Mozilla 1.5 on Sarge (kernel 2.4.24-1-686). When composing news in the Newsreader, I notice that if I run the spell checker (by clicking on the Spell icon), it doesn't catch any spelling mistakes. Suggestion what I am missing here and how to make it work? Thanks, ->

Re: back up and lilo

2004-04-10 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hans wrote: Happy Easter, I want to experiment a little bit with my system. Before that I want to back up my stable system to another partition, in case I mess up. What is the smartest way to do that and how do I change lilo.conf so that I can boot in to both partitions? E.g. stable system on

running jigdo-lite batch

2004-04-11 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi world! I would like to run jigdo-lite in batch mode. That way I can stack 3 runs and have them done overnite. Is that possible? Man and Howto not too helpful. Mailing-list is mostly spam. Could hack the script. Takes time. Thanks! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Knoppix autoconfig for workstations

2004-04-12 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
John Harrold wrote: Is it possible to use knoppix's autoconfiguration utilities with debian on workstations. this way i can avoid mucking around with: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 I am writing from memory here, because I got rid of my Knoppix remaster partition, but Klaus Knoppix did quite

Re: running jigdo-lite batch

2004-04-12 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Gregory Seidman wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:13:13PM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: } Hi world! } } I would like to run jigdo-lite in batch mode. } } That way I can stack 3 runs and have them done overnite. } } Is that possible? Man and Howto not too helpful. Mailing-list is mostly } spam

Re: aptitude hosed X

2004-04-13 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Christian Schnobrich wrote: Hello, the current problem first: somehow I managed that X wouldn't start anymore (long story below). I spent the evening tracing and fixing several issues. There's no more (EE)rrors left in the output, but X still doesn't work. One line says: (II) Loading sub module "

beep story

2004-04-13 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I just noticed the beep package. It makes your PC speaker beep with frequency and duration as variables. Is there a way to find out how long a Debian package has been around? I fiddled with this years ago and ended up with a beeper that could do just that: the idea copied from a win

Re: how to draw boxes with graphical chars in txt files?

2004-04-13 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Hi World! I have a quirk: I like to show graphical character boxes in my .cpp files. This used to work, who knows when, with this: setfont -u iso01.uni alt-8x14.psf.gz It shows the boxes but midnight commander has the wrong border characters. And of course he cannot

Re: testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Phil wrote: I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome. How can

Re: Mozilla 1.6 not printing anything

2004-04-16 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
J.S.Sahambi wrote: I am using Mozilla Debian Package 1.6-4 on Debian/unstable. When ever I print anything through mozilla. nothing goes to printer. In case I print to a file, the file is created but if I send the file to printer with the command "lpr mozilla.ps", still nothing prints out. I am

Re: Distribution Upgrade

2004-04-17 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Curtis Vaughan wrote: When doing a distribution upgrade I got a message telling me to issue the following command: readlink /boot/boot.b | cut -f2 -d- | cut -f1 -d in order to find out the parameter for "install =" in /etc/lilo.conf By issuing the command: readlink /boot/boot.b | cut -f2 -d- | cu

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Geoff Thurman wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch the rest). To

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Geoff Thurman wrote: Hello Hugo, That's interesting; I'll have to remember to add YMMV in future. I think the Ctrl-s and Ctrl-q bit might be in Paul Sheer's RUTE User's Tutorial and Exposition, but I'm not sure. I first saw it in a post on this list, from, I think, Colin Watson. The shift-Pgup

Re: lm-sensors

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Alex Lorca wrote: hi all i'm trying to install lm-sensors in a debian woody 2.4.25 i made: - apt-get lm-sensors-source i2c-source - unpack and make-kpkg modules-image - install the .debs - run sensors-detect and detected the following: # 2C adapter drivers # modprobe unknown adapter Philips Parall

Re: Sarge not working

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Dave Thorn wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:40:00PM +, Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi, i've downloaded 2 first cd iso of sarge today and boot with the first, i configure my location keyboard, and after when its time to initialize a hard drive, it couldnt complete this step etc.. or something that me

Re: Nero

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:12:32PM +1000, Jac van Oosterom wrote: My system is windows 2000 Bad thing! Get Debian and use cdrecord. Right on. Then while you are booting Debian and he offers to format your drive, go ahead and use that window$ partition and have hi

Re: lm-sensors

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Alex Lorca wrote: A note on the jpeg images: the jumps in temperature occur because I turn an external fan on/off. That makes a huge difference in CPU temps. It was noted in this list a while ago: best is to maintain positive pressure inside the case with a fan: you keep

dvd burners

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi world! I noticed that dvd burners are quite reasonably priced now. Any recommendations? I also noted terms that I am not familiar with: Write Speed: 8X DVD+R, 4X DVD+RW, 8X DVD-R, 4X DVD-RW, 40X CD-R, 24X CD-RW What does DVD+R/-R DVD+RW/-RW mean? And a 10-pack of DVD+RW is only $40.- Hugo

Re: SATA hard drives?

2004-04-19 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new computer that has a Soyo Dragon motherboard, with Onboard SATA/RAID: 2x Serial ATA, RAID 0/1, .. and a IBM 160 GB Hard drive 160 GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive. Can Debian be installed on this setup? Is there anything special I have to do during installa

Re: Sarge Jigdo Image

2004-04-19 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Peter A. Cole wrote: Hi all, I'm probably doing something stupid here, but I can't seem to get the current official Sarge ISO image from Jigdo to work. I jigdo'd the CD last night and booted my Dell notebook off it today, but it tells me I don't have a valid Debian CD. When jigdo finished, it to

Re: Is SWEN back?

2004-04-19 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Marc Shapiro wrote: I hadn't seen any SWEN in months, so I slipped up and posted a few messages to the list using my regular account (instead of this HOTMAIL account set up only for posting to debian-user and receiving all of my SWEN). Yesterday, I received what looked like a SWEN e-mail. The

Re: New sarge installer casues problems on laptops

2004-04-20 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed sarge using the new installer last week. So: a) whoever's in charge of the installer, the sequencing of startup scripts need to be fixed and b) can anyone suggest a way to stop the network before a suspecnd so that I can restart afterwards reliably? The in

Re: Kernel build: QT package requires older gcc

2004-04-20 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Bill Moseley wrote: Geeze, I can't get kernel-image-2.6.5 to work right (wireless busted), so trying to build from source using the new QT interface. Here's my gcc: laptop:/home/moseley# gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401) Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is fre

apt preferences in latest Sarge don't work the way they used to

2004-04-20 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Today I tried to install a Sarge system with the 4.3.0 x-window-system coming from www.schuldei.org because it has a patch that combines xservers with distinct video cards. The /etc/apt/preferences has: Package: * Pin: origin schuldei.org Pin-Priority: 999 And the /etc/sources.list

Re: apt preferences in latest Sarge don't work the way they used to

2004-04-21 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=schuldei+group:linux.debian.user+author:vanwoerkom&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=TgUh.T6.43%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=5 This reference mentions that you ought to specify FQDN but that it works with

Re: How to make your own customised Debian CD?

2004-04-22 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Use the netinstall CD and install the base system 2) Install all desired software. And make sure to install mondo: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/mondo Then just run mondoarchive and you are done. It creates however many CD's or DVD's that are needed to con

Re: Configuring HP Deskjet 3535 with CUPS

2004-04-22 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
welly hartanto wrote: Hi, all... Here i come with another stupid question :-) I've got sid with 2.4.25 kernel, a HP Deskjet 3535 printer, and an 'apt-get install cupsys'.. I'd tried to get my printer work by configure it via "http://localhost:631/admin"; I choose the USB Printer #1 (3535)--> i

Re: How to make your own customised Debian CD?

2004-04-22 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks awesome. Can the content of the CDs be restored to another PC of different hardware configuration? Thanks ! Yes. I did mondoarchive on my Debian system desktop and restored it on the laptop of my sister. Mondo's homepage is here: http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/

Re: How to make your own customised Debian CD?

2004-04-22 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks awesome. Can the content of the CDs be restored to another PC of different hardware configuration? Thanks ! One more thing: he uses 9 levels of compression: I use 9 which is bzip2. So that puts one partition of 5GB that is 1/3 used on one CD that is 85% full. Hug

Re: Instalar Gnome en una instalacion limpia (con apt)

2004-04-23 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola lista!! Acabo de instalar el "x-window-system" con el fin de instalar un gestor de ventanas. Estoy interesado en instalar el escritorio GNOME, desde los cd-roms de la distribucin (Debian 3.0r2). Lo he intentado con el~ sig. comando: "apt-get install gnome" tal y como

Re: Problem with video card when installing X

2004-05-01 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Barrie Stott wrote: I have a new machine and am installing Debian Woody on it. Everthing seems to be fine till I get to installing X and then I get the error: (EE) No devices detected According to the blurb on the box, the card I am using is a Sparkle Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128Mb DDR+TV and the p

2.4.26 faster than 2.4.25?

2004-05-01 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi, I noticed something weird. I installed the 2.4.26 kernel which I roll my own because of Backstreet Ruby. It seems much faster in booting than 2.4.25. Anyone notice this? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

debian refcard

2004-05-01 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi, Debian News had an item about the Debian Reference Card: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200404/msg01219.html So I got the thing and it comes in 2 formats: 1. the pdf file 2. the source as XML. I haven't got a clue what to do with the XML file, Any suggestions? Nex

Re: measuring cpu frequency

2004-05-01 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Ivan Fernandez wrote: OK, I've been trying to set up cpu frequency scaling in my Dell Inspiron 5150 (3.06GHz Mobile Pentium 4, debian testing and 2.6.5 kernel). I seem to have everything in place, cpu frequency scaling compiled into the kernel, together with performance and powersave governors, us

Re: printer puzzle

2004-05-02 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Richard Lyons wrote: I am constantly puzzled by printer configuration. Every time I get it right, I then discover that there are exceptions - applications that do not use the general settings. Can anyone explain to me why the gimp always has its own list of pinters and usually can print even w

Re: Geforce2

2004-05-02 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Sergio França wrote: Preciso de uma ajuda. Não consigo instalar o GeForce2 no Windows XP. Como devo proceder. Grato, Sergio França Inglès, por favor o gmane.linux.debian.portuguese -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Creating deb packages

2004-05-02 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi, There was a good description of this here: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%22creating+deb+packages%22+group:linux.debian.user&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=19990207111807.A13858%40glitch.snoozer.net&rnum=1 That is completely outdated. Is there a recent description of how no

Re: Newby can't get Xwindows running

2004-05-02 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
David Moore wrote: As a complete novice to Linux, please bear with me if my explanation of the problem is confused. I installed Debian 3.0 r2 woody kernel 2.2.20 (many times on 2 different machines) using defaults and keeping as simple as possible, but I have not been able to get XWindows running.

Re: Debian CDs --> local archive

2004-05-02 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hans wrote: I have a set of 13 CDs with the complete testing archive. How can I move all the debs on them to one big archive on my harddrive, and change the sources in apt.sources to that archive so that I don't have to insert CD after CD when installing/upgrading? --Hans You have a moving targe

Re: OT: manpage fun facts, or how much documentation *is* there anyway?

2004-05-06 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Karsten M. Self wrote: Background: so I'm explaining to dear old Mom, I mean, dear Mom, how there's tons of documentation available on GNU/Linux systems, that it's typeset for the user on the fly through the man system, and how in fact one of the first uses of UNIX[tm] by AT&T was as a document ed

Boot with USB-disk + linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 (sid)

2007-02-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Because I prefer to run with a Debian Kernel instead of rolling my own I decided to try again. Installed linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 on Sid. There is a USB disk installed that has entries in /etc/fstab. I boot with that image and I get: ... Sun Feb 25 11:11:28 2007: fsck.ext2: No such file

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 08:43:32AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: This actually falls into a similar category as one of my favorite phrases ever: "There are no atheists in foxholes". Well, people do like to pretend that they are in control of the world until they reali

Re: debian astrolog package tips

2007-02-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: mrweb wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007 06:03, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: mrweb wrote: Hi, I am using astrolog with both Sarge and Etch, it installed perfectly each time that i installed it with a simple call to "apt-get install astrolog" minus the quotes

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

2007-02-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:53:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: One of the things that draws me to KDE is the fact that _almost_ everything is configurable (I can't change the foreground text color on the items in t

linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

2007-02-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Is there a place where the difference between these latest kernel binary images is documented, other than looking thru the config files or the descriptions of the packages. When I install Etch on my machine from the daily built, it pulls in -486. With that and grub I can boot into a USB

Re: linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

2007-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a place where the difference between these latest kernel binary images is documented, other than looking thru the config files or the descriptions of the packages. When I install Etch

Re: linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

2007-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a place where the difference between these latest kernel binary images is documented

Re: linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

2007-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a place where the difference between these latest kernel binary

Re: [SOLVED] linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

2007-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a place where the difference between these

HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

2007-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, When you use multiple videocards/monitors/keyboards/mice and Debian stock kernels, the starting of gpm/gdm will fail because of the absence of mice. Have no idea why so with the Debian stock kernels and not with my own generated kernel. But this is the fix: Put this script into /etc/i

Re: HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

2007-03-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 14:50, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, When you use multiple videocards/monitors/keyboards/mice and Debian stock kernels, the starting of gpm/gdm will fail because of the absence of mice. Have no idea why so with the

Grub: menu character sizes

2007-03-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Grub's menu uses 80x25 character sizes on its menu. I would like to change that to something smaller. Trying 'terminal --lines=50' does nothing. Anybody gotten grub to put smaller characters on its menu? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: [SOLVED] linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

2007-03-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a place where the

update-initramfs question

2007-03-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I run this: ~Sun Mar 04-13:57:19SDA6# update-initramfs -u and I get: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 does not exist. Cannot update. That happens to be true. (Surprise!) But how does he know that initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 is the 'newest kernel' as the man-page has it? uname -r has: 2.6.20-

Re: update-initramfs question

2007-03-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I run this: ~Sun Mar 04-13:57:19SDA6# update-initramfs -u and I get: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 does not exist. Cannot update. That happens to be true. (Surprise!) But how does he know that initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 is the 'newest kernel' as the man-p

No modules.dep

2007-03-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, In booting one kernel version I get a string of messages flashing by at boot in the very beginning: FATAL: modprobe: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.20-ck1/modules.dep That message is from modprobe in the initrd.img that is loaded first. And true enough: examining the initrd.img: there i

Re: update-initramfs question

2007-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:19:54PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I run this: ~Sun Mar 04-13:57:19SDA6# update-initramfs -u and I get: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 does not exist. Cannot update. That happens to be true. (Surprise!) But how does he know that

Re: No modules.dep

2007-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In booting one kernel version I get a string of messages flashing by at boot in the very beginning: FATAL: modprobe: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.20-ck1/modules.dep That message is from modprobe in the initrd.img that is loaded first. And true enough

Re: Wrong MB for Linux ???

2007-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: Without research I purchased the ECS KA3 MVP motherboard AMD Athlon 64 AM2 combo from NewEgg. This seems like a very nice MB in many respects but I have encountered two problems. First, Standard CMOS Features does not list my dvdrw and cdrw drives. There are two ide

DST switch in US now early

2007-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Given the early switch to DST in the US on March 11, if I have the latest libc6 and libc6-dev in Sid (2.3.6.ds1-13), the time change will be automatic? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SOLVED: Cannot boot using Grub from CD

2007-03-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:42:12PM +, Chris Lale wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:55:14PM +, Chris Lale wrote: [...] Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue... so grub cannot find the file, probably the

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely because such threads have tended to be short-lived. However, the off-topic posters (and I have been guilty myself) seem to have taken this to mean that this list is appropriate for any and all discussions b

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mike McCarty wrote: Joe Hart wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt that this is specific to debian, but has anyone noticed this bug in acroread? I've noticed that if I print pages in reverse, I can't print in the forward direction until I quit the program and restart it. What happens

Re: daylight savings time

2007-03-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Marty Landman writes: I've got NTP running... NTP has nothing to do with DST. The servers send UTC. It is up to the clients to deal with their time zones. Only problem is that I am getting the time as an hour earlier than it really is, since the new daylight savings time

Re: OT: Hardware Q's

2007-03-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: My mobo died (running something like an AMD XP1700 - I forget the exact specs), and I'm looking for a cheap replacement. Newegg.com has a: Biostar GF61M7-combo 32 AMD Athlon64 3000+ Socket 754 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard for $126 that looks promising (htt

dvd + xine = 100% CPU?

2007-03-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I play .avi files with xine and get about 17% CPU usage with them. I play a DVD with xine and the CPU shoots up to 97% and xine complains about missing frames. Is that normal? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: input/output error, looks bad!

2007-03-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I have a very strange and ominous problem. After trying to exit from slrn, slrn spent a very long time writing the updates .jnewsrc file, eventually exiting with a disk full error. (I have multiple gigs of free space in / and /home). Following this I could not do anything

Re: Strange problem with iceweasel, google, and nytimes

2007-03-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul E Condon wrote: I use iceweasel for web browsing. A few weeks ago I noticed that I could no longer scroll up and down in nytimes web pages using the up and down arrow keys. I tried lots of things, and finally found a correlation: The problem starts after I visit www.google.com . (For a lon

Re: smartctl usage (was Re: input/output error, looks bad!)

2007-03-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-03-18, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-03-18, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and what this show? /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d ata /dev/ I decided to start with the long self test, which is running now: smartctl -t long -d ata /d

Re: audio recorder on etch?

2007-03-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Scheduling an audio recording with sound-recorder failed on my etch box. Only about the first 3 hours were recorded, resulting in a file just 2.0 GB large. (This was a recording of an opera production, so it is difficult / impossible to predict suitable breaks in order

Re: audio recorder on etch?

2007-03-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I record KUSC operas with mplayer. Evidently you have broadband, and I do not. I have... at work. This was a recording from a FM tuner via my usb sound card... But I just recorded 5 hours = 2.2GB without a problem. But I have ext2. mplayer

Re: dvd + xine = 100% CPU?

2007-03-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
George Hein wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I play .avi files with xine and get about 17% CPU usage with them. I play a DVD with xine and the CPU shoots up to 97% and xine complains about missing frames. No problem with newer PC's. A three years ago xine worked well on a thinkpad

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: This past week my motherboard died. Again. In fact, for the third time in three years. All were BioStar M7NCD Pro or Ultra boards. I think it is time for a change (especially since apparently only one place in the world has any and those are open box with only a 15-d

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:12:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am in the market for a new mobo too. My strategy with Newegg: AMD - Top Sellers - *Linux works review* - under $200 - ATX form: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 http://www.newegg.com

Re: What's the status on the Debian manual for the upcoming Debian Etch?

2007-03-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:07:02PM +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: Hello and thanks for the reply! I was thinking about the Debian Bible. The latest Debian Bible which I have found is for Debian Sarge and personally when I use a Linux distribution I really want to use every tool

fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Having always had fvwm as window-manager, I decided to look at fvwm-crystal and installed it. Fvwm-crystal may be *based* upon fvwm but it sure is not in the *tradition* of fvwm. In fvwm the centerpiece is the the config file, .fvwm2rc that you change with any editor to change anything

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After > reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages > (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on > one detail: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes a day to a week to configure how you

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes

Re: Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joerg Lange wrote: Hi all, is there a simple tool to monitor high system loads and outages in debian? For me, it would be completely sufficient if there would be a tool that samples every minute or every few minutes (e.g. in a cron job) the system load and reports any issues to the user in a si

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 23:53 +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? I usually use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldc

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