Re: nvidia legacy driver//kernel 2.6.32 issues

2010-04-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Francesco Pietra wrote: Following apt-get dist-upgrade with debian squeeze i386, upgrading from kernel 2.6.30 to 2.6.32, the xserver was broken at startx because kernel compiled with gcc 4.3 while now gcc 4.4. I could only boot from previous 2.6.30 to have the xserver at startx. Following

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: hi folk, got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am i wrong??) well: everything works fine except for

how come...

2010-04-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, How come the latest linux-image-2.6-686 in Sid is: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-headers-2.6-686 and is set to linux-image-2.6-686 (2.6.32+24) while apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6-686 gives: linux-image-2.6-686: Installed: 2.6.32+25 Candidate: 2.6.32+25 Version table:

Re: how come linux-image-2.6-686 doesn't point to latest image in Sid?

2010-04-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:41:43 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: How come the latest linux-image-2.6-686 in Sid is: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-headers-2.6-686 and is set to linux-image-2.6-686 (2.6.32+24) while apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6-686 gives

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:26:14 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: This is a graphical representation of the problem: http://www.esnips.com/doc/84c672ef-50e8-446e-9560-4c4316ae68e9/do_sysup_201004 Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:33:20 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: You might want to try a Linux sniffer and see what you can come up with. I've heard about a product called wireshark, but I've never used it. You can also ask your ISP how long

Re: horrible mc colorscheme

2010-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1. And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-( No kidding! How do I get back to what I had? Anybody? OK. What about this. Can anybody explain

Re: horrible mc colorscheme

2010-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas Siedlich wrote: Hi Hugo! On 2010-04-06, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: OK. What about this. Can anybody explain the following: h...@debian:~$ which mc /usr/local/bin/mc h...@debian:~$ mc -V GNU Midnight Commander 4.7.0.1 [...] h...@debian:~$ /usr

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:12:32 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: It still happens with static nameservers of Google and OpenDNS. It's the ISP This is sounding more and more like an expired DHCP lease. You really need to investigate this, as I suggested earlier. ISPs

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 11:41:32 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But if the ISP hung up on me I would get a 'debian pppd[1192]: Hangup (SIGHUP)' and I don't get that. If my IP expired I would not be able to ping it, but I can. I just can't dig anything. A better test

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:26:14 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: This is sounding more and more like an expired DHCP lease. You really need to investigate this, as I suggested earlier. ISPs really don't want dial-up users to be connected very long

horrible mc colorscheme

2010-04-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1. And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-( No kidding! How do I get back to what I had? Anybody? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:37:42 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Look through /var/log/syslog and see if you can find something which identifies the lease length. For example, on my ethernet link, I see a message in the log which says dhclient

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Freeman wrote: On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 01:09:11PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... Dodgy copper between me and the ISP? In Mexico? You mean dangling copper? Like that thing hanging down from the pole in front of the house and that banged-up box on the corner that everybody puts their left

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wayne wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. /etc/ppp/resolv.conf always contains: nameserver 148.240.118.40 nameserver 189.209.208.181 Don't know. Have you contacted your ISP to see of they are correct

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:06:51 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. /etc/ppp/resolv.conf always contains: nameserver 148.240.118.40 nameserver 189.209.208.181 although the timestamp

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Freeman wrote: On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 12:06:51PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. /etc/ppp/resolv.conf always contains: nameserver 148.240.118.40 nameserver 189.209.208.181 although the timestamp

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows black screen

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Trebbien wrote: I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409, running Debian testing (Squeeze). This morning when I started my laptop, the computer booted and I was able to use my GNOME desktop as usual. This afternoon, however, when I started my laptop, the screen went black a

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Run Pppconfig and enable either Persist or Demand. But then it would dial again after SIGHUP and I know that works. I am trying to find out why I cannot dig anything anymore but still ping my own IP. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: I have seen a number of help requests on this list recently that indicate that there are a number of people who initially installed grub, had problems, and reverted to lilo. Then they experience subsequent problems when a kernel is updated, a new kernel is installed, or

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mihira Fernando wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:42:49 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: But if it dropped me I would see a SIGHUP in syslog and I don't. I can still ping the IP that was assigned to me. Hugo You can always ping the IP assigned to you from your OWN PC

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wayne wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Wayne wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a dialup modem. O --- SNIP --- They work now because I can 'dig www.google.com' and get 216.239.32.10 and then 'host 216.239.32.10' and get Name: ns1.google.com Address: 216.239.32.10 How did you get

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:06:51 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. Is there any chance you could setup pppconfig to use static nameservers? If yes, choose that and set the nameservers you want

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mihira Fernando wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:00:52 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: I can now host 8.8.8.8 and get google-public-dns-a.google.com I can dig google-public-dns-a.google.com and get google-public-dns-a.google.com. 86283 IN A 8.8.8.8 But when I ping 8.8.8.8

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:06:51 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. Is there any chance you could setup pppconfig to use static nameservers? If yes, choose that and set

Re: GRUB2 == Non Bootable System

2010-04-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:58:56 -0700, briand wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 17:46:49 -0700 Scarletdown scarletd...@gmail.com wrote: I just did a fresh very basic Debian Sid install on my experimental system (one hard drive with only a single partition), basic install meaning

Re: Installing Video Drivers Manually

2010-04-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-30 10:10, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: For Debian users is there a suggested and correct method for installing nVidia drivers on their desktop systems? I was told by other distributions I

'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. /etc/ppp/resolv.conf always contains: nameserver 148.240.118.40 nameserver 189.209.208.181 although the timestamp on the file changes with each connection: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53 2010-04-03 11:00

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-03 13:06, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. /etc/ppp/resolv.conf always contains: nameserver 148.240.118.40 nameserver 189.209.208.181 although the timestamp on the file changes

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-13 04:20, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in the 1960s. http://www.hyperwords.net/ it doesn't like iceweasel.. Sure it does. Me using it is QED. what version

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-12 23:27, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/12/2010 12:11 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:58:08 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100312_092355, Stephen Powell wrote: Paul, please provide the following information: (5) The contents of

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Matteo Riva wrote: Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx driver was working fine? What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those versions? 1.7 is a major headache for me:

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2010-01-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have 2 internal ATA HDD's and 2 disks in external USB enclosures. When you boot (this is Sid) the 2 USB disks report their presence between the messages: 'Loading, please wait...' and 'Init 2.86 booting' in the very beginning of the boot process. Now the funny

Re: Kernel compile and install does not create initrd

2010-01-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Patrick Wiseman wrote: I have compiled a custom kernel, using 'make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --initrd --revision=sage.1.0 kernel-image', 'sage' being the name of my machine. I then installed it, using 'dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.30_sage.1.0_amd64.deb'. I had thought that would be enough to create

Re: Kernel compile and install does not create initrd

2010-01-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: I have compiled a custom kernel, using 'make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --initrd --revision=sage.1.0 kernel-image', 'sage' being the name of my machine. I then installed

Re: debugging initrd image

2009-12-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Reid wrote: On Saturday 26 December 2009 15:11:59 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, What is the way to debug an initrd file and drop into a shell? You can use the break options (detailed in another reply) to get at it live during the boot, but I have often found it useful to just unpack

Re: debugging initrd image

2009-12-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 02:11:59PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, What is the way to debug an initrd file and drop into a shell? Yes, with the parameter 'break' . See http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug . That's what I was looking for. Thanks Tzafrir. Hugo

debugging initrd image

2009-12-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, What is the way to debug an initrd file and drop into a shell? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Reid wrote: On Monday 21 December 2009 15:52:29 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have 2 internal ATA HDD's and 2 disks in external USB enclosures. When you boot (this is Sid) the 2 USB disks report their presence between the messages: 'Loading, please wait...' and 'Init 2.86 booting

USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have 2 internal ATA HDD's and 2 disks in external USB enclosures. When you boot (this is Sid) the 2 USB disks report their presence between the messages: 'Loading, please wait...' and 'Init 2.86 booting' in the very beginning of the boot process. Now the funny part: in my homegrown

Re: motherboard battery low?

2009-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:27:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been changed. I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off. Is that because the battery is low on power? What changes, BIOS time

Re: motherboard battery low?

2009-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 12/18/2009 12:27 PM: Hi, I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been changed. I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off. Is that because the battery is low on power? I don't suppose

motherboard battery low?

2009-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been changed. I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off. Is that because the battery is low on power? I don't suppose there is a way to change the battery without losing all the BIOS settings. What is

Iceweasel 3.5.4.1

2009-12-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I got this: /home/hugoMon Dec 14-09:43:31HDC5# apt-get install iceweasel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the

Re: Iceweasel 3.5.4.1

2009-12-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-12-14 16:48 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I got this: /home/hugoMon Dec 14-09:43:31HDC5# apt-get install iceweasel Don't use apt-get if you intend to obtain helpful error messages. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information

Re: Udev ATTR instead of SYSFS

2009-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Witbrodt wrote: David Baron wrote: Getting a lot of warnings about this on recent udev upgrades. I tried substituting in some of the rules files but might have caused problems. Fact is that this was tested with the recent broken udev and problems were (also?) from udev itself. Should

iceweasel 3.0.6 to 3.5.5

2009-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Is there a need to create a special profile for this upgrade or can I just do the upgrade and keep the same profile? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: iceweasel 3.0.6 to 3.5.5

2009-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:52:22AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a need to create a special profile for this upgrade or can I just do the upgrade and keep the same profile? The same profile works fine. Thanks Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Udev ATTR instead of SYSFS

2009-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dave Witbrodt wrote: David Baron wrote: Getting a lot of warnings about this on recent udev upgrades. I tried substituting in some of the rules files but might have caused problems. Fact is that this was tested with the recent broken udev and problems were (also?) from

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

2009-10-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
green wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2009-10-27 07:32 -0500: No matter what I do I cannot get my deadkeys to work in openoffice. Anybody have better luck? éáñ like these... It works fine for me, on a mostly Lenny system, in a terminal, in openoffice, in iceweasel (soon to be replaced

Re: google chrome extensions

2009-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:57 -0400 Bogdan mending...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest chromium build ( 4.0.223.11)? They seem to install fine but they do not work, and

deadkeys with openoffice

2009-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, No matter what I do I cannot get my deadkeys to work in openoffice. Anybody have better luck? éáñ like these... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: google chrome extensions

2009-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:30:31 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:57 -0400 Bogdan mending...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest

Re: root fs incorrectly unmounted

2009-09-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-14 16:00 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-13 17:31 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On a recent Sid upgrade upon booting I now get the message that the root fs was incorrectly unmounted. How do I debug that t find out what is wrong? I

Re: root fs incorrectly unmounted

2009-09-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-13 17:31 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On a recent Sid upgrade upon booting I now get the message that the root fs was incorrectly unmounted. How do I debug that t find out what is wrong? I see no log messages about that anywhere, it just appears on the console

Re: root fs was not correctly unmounted

2009-09-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Geert Stappers wrote: Op 20090913 om 12:30 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom: Hoi, Na een dist-upgrade met Sid krijg in met opstarten nu een bericht 'root fs was not correctly unmounted'. Ik had moeilijkheden met util-linux, nu opgelost. | $ aptitude show util-linux | Pakket: util-linux

root fs incorrectly unmounted

2009-09-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, On a recent Sid upgrade upon booting I now get the message that the root fs was incorrectly unmounted. How do I debug that t find out what is wrong? I see no log messages about that anywhere, it just appears on the console. Thanks. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

debports

2009-08-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I want to install this: Package: kcontrol (4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6) [debports] So I changed my sources.list to: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib debports and did 'aot-get update' but got: W: Failed to fetch

Re: debports

2009-08-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I want to install this: Package: kcontrol (4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6) [debports] So I changed my sources.list to: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib debports and did 'aot-get update' but got: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org

Re: [SOLVED]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-20 18:42 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: snip Wait! There is a sequence! So hwclock from util-linux-ng 2.16 needs /dev/rtc0 to function. If that is not around because in the kernel Device

Re: [WORKAROUND]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-19 20:37 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-19 19:08 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So my question is: who at boot time is responsible for realizing that the hwclock is kept in local time and UTC time

Re: [WORKAROUND]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-20 17:24 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-19 20:37 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-19 19:08 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So my question is: who at boot time is responsible

Re: [WORKAROUND]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-20 18:42 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: This is *not* the kernel you used when you filed #542443. Good eyes! Indeed it is not, it is the latest Debian Sid kernel 2.6.30-1-686 And what about your home-brew kernel? I am adding those now

Re: what happened to the -ls option of konsole?

2009-08-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com [2009 Aug 19 12:40 -0500]: Hi, Before upgrading to the current konsole I used to be able to get a login session with the -ls option. But that option is gone. What do you have to do to get a login session with konsole

Re: [SOLVED]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-20 18:42 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: This is *not* the kernel you used when you filed #542443. Good eyes! Indeed it is not, it is the latest Debian Sid kernel 2.6.30-1-686 And what about your home-brew kernel

Re: what happened to the -ls option of konsole?

2009-08-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Nate Bargmann wrote: * Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com [2009 Aug 19 12:40 -0500]: Hi, Before upgrading to the current konsole I used to be able to get a login session with the -ls option. But that option is gone. What do you have to do to get a login session

Re: [WORKAROUND]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Just did a giant Sid dist-upgrade. It caused trouble with the clock. The hwclock is kept at local time. And 'hwclock --debug --directisa' says just that. But now when the system boots it thinks that the time is UTC time and so for the local time it subtracts 5

what happened to the -ls option of konsole?

2009-08-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Before upgrading to the current konsole I used to be able to get a login session with the -ls option. But that option is gone. What do you have to do to get a login session with konsole? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [WORKAROUND]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-19 19:08 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So my question is: who at boot time is responsible for realizing that the hwclock is kept in local time and UTC time? And the answer is: /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh and /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh do

Re: what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-17 15:22, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Just did a giant Sid dist-upgrade. It caused trouble with the clock. The hwclock is kept at local time. And 'hwclock --debug --directisa' says just that. But now when the system boots it thinks that the time is UTC time

what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Just did a giant Sid dist-upgrade. It caused trouble with the clock. The hwclock is kept at local time. And 'hwclock --debug --directisa' says just that. But now when the system boots it thinks that the time is UTC time and so for the local time it subtracts 5 hours. That causes

Re: --initrd

2009-08-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Johann Spies wrote: According to the kernel-package README.gz one can use the following command to compile a kernel with an initrd.img: $Get_Root make-kpkg --initrd --revision=3:custom.2.0 kernel_image In the past I could compile a kernel like that and when I install the package an initrd

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Biebl wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 console-kit-daemons. Do I need all 60? What do they do? Actually there are 64 threads all the time. This describes the phenomenon: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 console-kit-daemons. Do I need all 60? What do they do? Actually there are 64 threads all the time. This describes the phenomenon: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57491 Nobody noticed this? You

Re: New list debian-user-dutch started

2009-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, There is a new mailinglist: debian-user-dutch You can subscribe here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-dutch/ If you have an idea how to give this more publicity, I am interested to know how. Does not appear yet as gmane.linux.debian.user.dutch Hugo

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Biebl wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 console-kit-daemons. Do I need all 60? What do they do? Actually there are 64 threads all the time. This describes the phenomenon: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Hi, perhaps it's OT but still the debian list is the best one (my subjective opinion), so I dear to ask here. I'm willing to build an app that starts 3 threads, especially (soap client, server from libcsoap and terminal), so I couldn't manage to do the job in C++, because

60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 console-kit-daemons. Do I need all 60? What do they do? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

2009-08-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-09 04:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,09.Aug.09, 05:32:55, Long Wind wrote: I use sarge When I reboot/halt, the speaker beeps Is there any way to config speaker not to beep? Does your system beep whenever you trigger a shutdown or halt? The only way I know is

Re: mondoarchive with 2.6.30 debian kernel

2009-08-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Has anybody used mondoarchive with the latest 2.6.30 Debian kernel? For me it fails with that he cannot figure out the filesystem that is used for initrd. That's because the phrase that mindi looks for in the krnel image to see what fs initrd is using has

Re: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: USB disk fails to show at initramfs

2009-08-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I installed linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 on Sid and got an error: In the very beginning at the initramfs phase only one of my 2 USB disks shows up, causing the boot to fail because partitions from that drive are in /etc/fstab. It's always the same one that fails

mondoarchive with 2.6.30 debian kernel

2009-08-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Has anybody used mondoarchive with the latest 2.6.30 Debian kernel? For me it fails with that he cannot figure out the filesystem that is used for initrd. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Keyboard in X does not auto repeat cursor keys.

2009-07-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
green wrote: Sthu Deus wrote at 2009-07-15 06:42 -0600: After update of x-server packages keyboard does not auto-repeat cursor keys. How I can fix that (i believe it can be done through a config file)? Check the man pages for xset(1) and xev(1). 'xset r' enables autorepeating in general

Re: How to activate VESA mode on boot-up?

2009-07-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert Latest wrote: Hello folks, recently I accidentally hosed my old kernel image (it was something that ended on -k7). The only reason I'd kept it was because I couldn't get anything but the ugly boxy 80-by-something text mode console fonts to work with the 2.6.26-x-686 line of Debian

Re: reconfigure X

2009-07-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
to specify a mode line like the days of old, but that should largely be gone now. But forget about multiseat configurations with the latest xorg, we took a step backwards sorry to say. http://bugs.debian.org/525736 hugo vanwoerkom What results are you getting with the monitor

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 22:03:39 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of resolving dns taking a long time. Basically the issue is: If I want to access a dns such as google, or debian.org, it takes for ever to

Re: iceweasel puzzle

2009-07-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I use iceweasel to visit the site http://www.strictlysudoku.com. In the left-hand column there are ĺogin' and 'register' links. If I click one of those, a window pops up, but it is completely blank. On my wife's computer, which uses the same gateway/firewall, and which

linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: USB disk fails to show at initramfs

2009-06-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I installed linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 on Sid and got an error: In the very beginning at the initramfs phase only one of my 2 USB disks shows up, causing the boot to fail because partitions from that drive are in /etc/fstab. It's always the same one that fails to show up. Never happened in

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: changing /etc/default/console-setup should be enough, xorg.conf is ignored. Aah.. That explains it. Restart hal, at least in theory. Yes, in theory. In practice it may be different. I restarted it by means of /etc/init.d/hal restart, and got

Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

2009-05-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Alex Samad wrote: Hi Has any one been able to compile the kernel module for this kernel ? I have. As usual you need a fix: http://www.saarlinux.de/blog/?p=5 which is contained in here: http://communities.vmware.com//thread/188410?tstart=0 replace the tars in vmware

Re: etch make of 2.6.29 kernel is Broken.

2009-05-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Martin McCormick wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: So what's 'y' in /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh? This is an excellent question. That particular application /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh is a 294-line bash script snip I am afraid

Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

2009-05-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alex Samad wrote: Hi Has any one been able to compile the kernel module for this kernel ? I have. As usual you need a fix: http://www.saarlinux.de/blog/?p=5 which is contained in here: http://communities.vmware.com//thread/188410?tstart=0 replace the tars in

Re: etch make of 2.6.29 kernel is Broken.

2009-05-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Martin McCormick wrote: If I start to build a custom kernel, the process runs for about a minute and blows up as follows: snip /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y' make[1]: *** [usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz] Error 1 make: *** [usr] Error 2 So what's 'y'

Re: xmodmap

2009-04-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:07:03 +, marc wrote: I'm trying to use the following local .xmodmaprc keycode 26 = e E e E eacute Eacute keycode 31 = i I i I iacute Iacute keycode 32 = o O o O oacute Oacute keycode 30 = u U u U uacute Uacute keycode 57 = n N

Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1) + keyboard woes

2009-04-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,26.Apr.09, 16:40:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Where do I start? http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide Good place to start, offers no fresh insight. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1) + keyboard woes

2009-04-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I run a two-seater on Sid and upgraded xserver-xorg to where it uses hal and console-setup. Now the downarrow and leftarrow keys don't repeat on X, but they do on the console of seat1 (seat2 has no console VT's). Uparrow and rightarrow do repeat. None of the mentioned info helps with

Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

2009-04-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Steve Kreyer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem using my TTYs in conjunction with the nvidia binary driver: When I want to switch to any tty using Ctrl+Alt+FX, the graphic card doesn't want to output anything, and my monitor turns off. I've done a lot of research concerning this issue, but

Re: GRUB Error 18 booting lenny

2009-04-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Vwaju wrote: I have a Dell Dimension 4100 and brand spanking new 250 GB 1 ATA/100 8MB 16MB 7200RP HDD. The 4100 is from 2001, and the BIOS version listed in setup is A06. I installed lenny. At Software Selection I chose Mail Server. When the installation was completed, and I rebooted. Then I

Re: GRUB Error 18 booting lenny

2009-04-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Vwaju wrote: I have a Dell Dimension 4100 and brand spanking new 250 GB 1 ATA/100 8MB 16MB 7200RP HDD. The 4100 is from 2001, and the BIOS version listed in setup is A06. I installed lenny. At Software Selection I chose Mail Server. When the installation was completed, and I rebooted. Then I

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Sjoerd writes: Just for my information: why is chrony better than eg. ntp? I thought the ntp daemon also adjusted the clock rate to synchronise the system with the online ntp-servers. Chrony corrects the clock more quickly when it is far off, does a better job of keeping it

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