Re: Timing issue with fstab NFS mounts

2016-05-13 Thread David Witbrodt
> While the rest of my system is just cherry, I have not yet been able > to solve the problem of why an NFS mount and associated binds don't > work unless and until I wait a minute or two after the system comes > up [...] Sounds like the normal 90-second NFS grace period to me -- a feature,

Re: 0.7.46 changelog: Change /run/network ownership to root:netdev.

2013-11-30 Thread David Witbrodt
  I don't understand that entry.  Should I have /run/network group set to netdev?  Should I have a netdev group somewhere?  Is there a bug? You do not need to do anything. At boot, the 'network' in /run is supposed to have its ownership changed from root:root to root:netdev by

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com Sent: Sun, September 25, 2011 10:30:30 AM Subject: Re: Reducing kernel compilation time I'd guess you're including the kitchen sink. Don't build the hundreds of driver modules your machines won't ever use. That is the key to reducing build

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
From: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com Sent: Sun, September 25, 2011 11:27:13 AM Subject: Re: Reducing kernel compilation time If that option had existed when I was learning about this, it would have saved me many, many hours! But then you wouldn't have learned as much.

Re: hardware acceleration, radeon driver 6.14 (unstable)

2011-02-22 Thread David Witbrodt
From: Jim McCloskey mccl...@ucsc.edu Sent: Mon, February 21, 2011 11:33:15 PM Subject: Re: hardware acceleration, radeon driver 6.14 (unstable) * Dave Witbrodt (dawit...@sbcglobal.net) wrote: | But when I run glxgears, it reports 60 frames per second, which isn't exactly the |

Old Seamonkey emails into new exim4 maildirs

2008-12-30 Thread David Witbrodt
Hi, I was wondering if any email gurus are reading debian-user, and are willing to share some advice? In the past, I used email client apps like Seamonkey to retrieve email from my ISP's POP3 server. I tend to save a lot of emails, sorted into directories based on who-was-the-sender or

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread David Witbrodt
Hi Carl, It's not just that, though. Any Flash movie will solidly lock it. For instance, Pandora loads, then the laptop stops. I don't know if my experience will help, but when the 'flashplugin-nonfree' package was updated to the 1.7.* series, I started experiencing freezes for about 30

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread David Witbrodt
... ran the suggested command line incantation in the bug report, update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so then ran Iceweasel again. The result was that 1.7.2 now works as good for me as 1.6.3 ever did. Hey, did you know that flashplugin-nonfree was removed from Lenny

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread David Witbrodt
Thanks, I ran purge on the four oldest. Three of them reported an error: rmdir: failed to remove `/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486': Directory not empty dpkg - warning: while removing linux-image-2.6.22-3-486, directory `/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486' not empty so not removed.

Re: uvesafb with linux-image-2.6.26-1-686

2008-08-14 Thread David Witbrodt
The Changelog on the latest 2.6.26 kernel in Sid has this: * [x86]: Enable modular FB_UVESA. (closes: #473180) and Sid now has v86d: http://packages.debian.org/sid/v86d [...] It says right here that installing v86d and linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 and booting with:

Re: don't really need cpp-3.4, do I?

2008-08-09 Thread David Witbrodt
However, I would like to keep this version of gcc. cpp-3.4 appears to be just the pre-processor. I supposed I can remove this and still be able to use the 3.4 gcc compiler (I want to retain libg2c0 as well). Do I understand this right? Sure, if you want to program in C without ever using

Re: why can't I update libg2c0 [was: Re: don't really need cpp-3.4, do I?]

2008-08-09 Thread David Witbrodt
hmm ... just took another look at the package descriptions. It seems that the problem is libg2c0. How come this still depends on an older version of gcc-3.4.6? I link some of my programs with some FORTRAN libraries and need libg2c0. So for now I have been keeping gcc-3.4 at its older

nVidia binary on 2.6.26 [was: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid]

2008-08-05 Thread David Witbrodt
- Original Message From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] My big problems now are: a) nvidia binary driver doesn't build on .26 (which I need for other reasons), Sorry to hear that. I've been using the beta 177.13 driver for quite a while now. I built a custom 2.6.26 kernel

Re: nVidia binary on 2.6.26 [was: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid]

2008-08-05 Thread David Witbrodt
Where is the beta? Stable is at: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86 Browsing to nvidia.com gets you their funky home page, with a bunch of useless links -- none pointing to driver downloads. Clicking on just about anything, you then get pages that have a more useful top menu, with

Re: [!] 2.6.26 + vga=791

2008-08-02 Thread David Witbrodt
From: David Witbrodt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2008 11:41:47 AM Subject: Re: [!] 2.6.26 + vga=791 David Witbrodt wrote: So now I have to go item by item and investigate the diff in .config files, which is vast because

Re: [!] 2.6.26 + vga=791

2008-08-01 Thread David Witbrodt
- Forwarded Message From: David Witbrodt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 1, 2008 10:34:51 PM Subject: Re: [!] 2.6.26 + vga=791 But I did something interesting: I recompiled 2.6.26-1-686 but changed to .config file to what I

Re: 2.6.26 + vga=791

2008-07-31 Thread David Witbrodt
I reported here on 5/18/2008 that I couldn't use vga=791 with the Debian 2.6.25 kernel, but *could* with the 2.6.25 from kernel.org. Same issue with 2.6.26: vga=791 gets undefined video mode. Yet it works fine with 2.6.26 from kernel.org, so it is clearly a Debian issue. In the 2

Re: 2.6.26 + vga=791

2008-07-31 Thread David Witbrodt
And I tried vga=0x0317 and get undefined videomode. Bummer. Just for sanity's sake, did you try vga=0x317? Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xscreensaver and XDM login window

2008-06-28 Thread David Witbrodt
Has anyone on this list who runs XDM tried to get the 'xscreensaver' to run on the login screen? The 'man' page gives some instructions, but those do not work for me. In fact, the suggestion to place xhost +localhost in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config does not work. On my system, the way to run

Re: kernel update breaks network

2008-05-22 Thread David Witbrodt
I just updated an Etch server to linux-image-2.6.18-6-k7 (from -5-) and after a reboot network won't come up. The network card is an Intel 100mbit, uses the e100 driver. The driver loads, but trying to bring eth0 up gives me a does not exist error. [...] Any ideas appreciated

Re: Using 2.6.25 + Nvidia + VMware

2008-05-17 Thread David Witbrodt
Dave, thanks for pointing out the v86d error in the wiki. But AFAIK in Debian kernels vesafb has always been compiled into the kernel, not as a module, making its inclusion in the initrd unnecessary. That's what I thought, as well. When I checked the 'initrd.img-version' file, it wasn't

Re: Using 2.6.25 + Nvidia + VMware

2008-05-16 Thread David Witbrodt
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In upgrading to 2.6.25 I ran into problems, as follows: 1. When I use linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 or 2-686 from binary or from source I cannot use vga=791 or I get undefined video mode number: 317. When I compile from kernel.org's 2.6.25.3 I don't get

Re: 2.6.25 + vga=791

2008-05-15 Thread David Witbrodt
In installing linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 I find I can no longer use vga=791 on the kernel commandline. I get undefined videomode number: 317 that's 791 hex. Here's something funny: I just saw this error message tonight, building a new machine with an integrated ATI X1200 GPU. I'm too

Re: 2.6.25 + vga=791

2008-05-12 Thread David Witbrodt
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:39:20PM +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Monday 12 May 2008 15:52:15 Hugo Vanwoerkom, vous avez écrit : Hi, In installing linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 I find I can no longer use vga=791 on the kernel commandline. I get undefined videomode number: 317

Re: adding a module to an initrd.img

2008-05-12 Thread David Witbrodt
I generated a module called v86d which is in /sbin I want to add that to initrd.img-2.6.25-1-686 No amount of fiddling does it. When I do: zcat initrd.img-2.6.25-1-686 | cpio --list the module never appears. I tried adding a file to /etc/modprobe.d and adding v86d to

Re: Kernel source packages..

2008-04-13 Thread David Witbrodt
Can anyone shed any light on the differences between the various kernel source packages in the repository, and which is the best choice for just being able to reproduce the running kernel? The example in my Martin Kraft book refers to: apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 but I

Re: unable to start xcdroast as root

2007-11-16 Thread David Witbrodt
Hi, From the root console: # /usr/bin/xcdroast The reply: (xcdroast:18770): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: If I start from a user console I get the window that says you must first start as root to set up. If I set the suid bit on xcdroast it tries to start from a user but

Re: Dual Boot with win me

2005-06-17 Thread David Witbrodt
klkl lklk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am going to use fips to split my windows partition and then make the root/swap partitions. Should I install LILO in the MBR or in the first sector of the boot partition. The last time, I installed it in the boot sector, now where? What are the

Re: Sarge Released!

2005-06-06 Thread David Witbrodt
Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, now that Debian 3.1 is out, does anyone know if any books will be written to cover the new distribution? A new edition of "Debian GNU/Linux Bible" has been waiting for Sarge for a few months now, slated for a mid-July release last time I checked.

How can I share a mailbox between multiple OSes

2005-06-04 Thread David Witbrodt
This is a newbie question. I just installed Debian and several other OSes onto my old machine. As I have been reading the docs, and have started configuring things to my liking, I found myself wondering whether an email application exists that would allow me to store my mailbox files on a common

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-06-03 Thread David Witbrodt
"Pedro M (Morphix User)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody improve the page http://wiki.debian.net/?Move about the same topic ?. Thank you a lot. After reviewing all of the helpful suggestions provided on this list, I chose this method; it seemed simple and elegant. It bombed out pretty

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-06-03 Thread David Witbrodt
Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to try reading the Howto on upgrading hard drives. More specifically, step 7 lists several different ways to copy an installation from one drive to another and mentions which directories to exclude.

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-06-03 Thread David Witbrodt
David Witbrodt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tar cvf - / | (cd /mnt/; tar xvf -) I'm a dummy. I had just spend the past several days reading docs, including the 'man' page for 'tar', and failed to notice that the "cvf" and "xvf" switches for 'tar' do not have the '-' charact

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-06-03 Thread David Witbrodt
Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - specifies stdin, or stdout as files, where the | pipe character sends data. You only need to use it if you use the f flag, which requires a filename. Combos along the lines of tar cv srcdir | (cd dest; tar xv) will work, too. Thanks for the

[SOLVED] Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-06-03 Thread David Witbrodt
After having installed Debian to a partition on an old hard drive, connected to the motherboard's IDE controller, because the new drive (where I wanted to place Debian) wasn't recognized by the Debian installer CD (unsupported PCI controller), I found that I needed to transfer my working Debian

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-05-28 Thread David Witbrodt
Matias Rollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bash# mount /dev/hdg5 /mnt; mount /dev/hdg2 /mnt/boot/ and so on then.. bash# tar cvf - / | (cd /mnt/; tar xvf -) Change the root of the system. chroot /mnt And then modify grub config files in order to boot from your new hdg drive [

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-05-28 Thread David Witbrodt
Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: differences between the (cd/net) install kernel and the installed systenm kernel nibbled your butt eh Ya, big time. some mb system bios will NOT let you boot from PCI controllers you can keep your grub info on /dev/hda ... and boot into / which is on

How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-05-27 Thread David Witbrodt
I just installed Debian for the first time. I have two hard drives, one on the motherboard IDE controller and a bigger, better one on a PCI controller card. I wanted to install Debian to the drive attached to the PCI controller, but the installer didn't recognize the card, so I was forced to

Thanks to S.O'Rear, R.Sanchez, P.Condon, G.L.Fairless, K.vanWyk, and Laurabelle!

2005-05-26 Thread David Witbrodt
Last fall (Sep. 25) I posted a message: "Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB" (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/09/msg02943.html) and received plenty of information, advice, tips, hints, and encouragement. I am sorry to say that, due to circumstances beyond my control,

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-05-16 Thread David Witbrodt
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users? I'm a newbie to Linux, but I have found several titles useful (you should definitely get used to using 'man' pages, 'info', listservs, wikis, etc., though!): 1. Debian GNU/Linux Bible (new version soon

Re: Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

2004-09-26 Thread David Witbrodt
Paul E Condon wrote: I joined this thread late. Now I have a better idea of what you need. You want to preserve Windows on the old smaller drive. To do this remove the old drive while you work at gettind Debian up and running on new drive. Pretend everything is going to work, it probably

Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

2004-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
I am about to install Linux for the first time in the next week or two, as soon as I finish backing up my old hard drive. I received a WD 160 GB hard drive as a gift earlier this year, but have not found a chance to install it until now. I assumed I could just plug it in, but when I began

Re: Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

2004-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
Stefan O'Rear wrote: Linux autodetects nearly anything. Non-hardware things like PPPoE (IIRC this is used by DSL) can be trickier. Also, there are Linux-hostile hardware vendors out there; be very careful near wireless LAN cards, modems, and 3D-accelerated graphics cards. (ATI refuses to

Re: Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

2004-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
Stefan O'Rear wrote: If you have a local network (if you have a router you have a local network) than you don't need to worry about DSL. If you have a working router and a working NIC you have working internet. It's not a real router, and I do not have a LAN. It's a router built-in to

Re: Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

2004-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I just moved to an area w/ SBC DSL service. I had it set up a couple of weeks ago. The SpeedStream modem works no problem with Linux. Plug it into your NIC, get your IP address through DHCP and browse to http://192.168.0.1 to set up your connection and what not.

Re: Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

2004-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
Stefan O'Rear wrote: My understanding of DHCP is that it is a networking protocol supported by some specific Linux package(s). As a newbie, I know about power buttons, but not technical alterations to configuration files in the event that the installer cannot figure out what to do.

Re: Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

2004-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I received a WD 160 GB hard drive as a gift earlier this year, but have not found a chance to install it until now. I assumed I could just plug it in, but when I began reading about it I realized that my old PC (circa 2000) cannot handle IDE drives larger than 137

Re: Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

2004-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
Stefan O'Rear wrote: Looking in the 2.6 tree, there are drivers supporting the Highpoint 343, 345, 366, 370, 370A, and 372. Now that is helpful information! (May I ask how and where you found this, so I will bother other folks less in the future? The sooner I can become

Re: Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

2004-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
Paul E Condon wrote: I just Googled '5100b modem' and found: http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101306.asp Reading these instructions, it seems to me that 5100b is a wanabe router, and that it seems to have all the functionality that you actually need. You can configure it by

Re: Newbie first-time install advice: Highpoint Rocket 133SB

2004-09-25 Thread David Witbrodt
Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:57:23PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote: I would still like to know how you looked up the info on which drivers were supported. Is that info from the net, or from your system? Which kernel does it refer to? It refers to kernel 2.6.0

I'm new to Debian and need advice

2001-08-08 Thread David Witbrodt
Hi, I'm in the process of backing up a decade's worth of old files I want to keep, burning to CD-R. Once finished, I plan to partition and install 4 OS's, including Debian. I have the CD from a book, Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleased, but the kernel there is 2.0.36. From the reading I've done,

Re: I'm new to Debian and need advice

2001-08-08 Thread David Witbrodt
Kirk, Thanks for the response! I can't speak for most people, but I personally enjoy testing. It's not quite as stable as, well, stable, but I rarely encounter any significant errors. The benefit is that you get much newer versions of many of the packages. That helps. I will probably