After the sound of my system thrashing being a better alarmclock than
the conventional variety, I started checking my system's load average
(among other things) periodically. From what I saw in uptime, my average
load average tends to range from 1.0 to 3.0, with occasional spikes up
to 6.75 (which
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 12:33:47PM +0200, Miroslav Mazurek wrote:
I'm trying to install Potato (2.2r3) on PC with 386/387, 16MB, 2GB SCSI IBM,
Advansys SCSI, ATAPI CDROM and NE2000 compatibile.
Does this make any sense? Would that configuration be usable for anything?
Any suggestions? I run
I've only just gotten this system onto the network (after 4 months (that
long?!) of trying). The probem of the past was my borked ethernet card.
It has just been replaced (warranties are good for something), but now I
have a possibly not hardware problem.
Simply stated, after this system is
About a month ago a bug (not yet archived) that I had filed was closed.
I couldn't reproduce the bug after using a newer upstream version. The
problem is, is that the bug is back with the packaged version of this
newer source, and I'm not entirely sure as to the best way of sending in
the
Charlie Grosvenor wrote:
I am using Debian woody and am using the xserver-s3 I can go into
X ok but in the information that gets logged to the console I get the
following:
sh: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: No such file or directory Couldn't
load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB
Sean Perry wrote:
On 09-Apr-2002 Theo Bierman wrote:
Hi All
I am trying to build a .deb package using fakeroot from any *.tgz
file. And I
kepe on getting :
fakeroot debian/rules binary
dh_testdir
make: dh_testdir: Command not found
make: *** [thread-stamp] Error 127
Any
lilifan2 wrote:
Almost all books and docs say that primary partitions can
contain extended partitions.
And they can. My system has 4 primary and 4 extended partitions, with
the extended partitions contained in hd3.
1. I don't think primary partitions
can physically contain extended
Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to calculate valid modelines for a configuration. Does anyone
know
where in the world (or on the web) that modeline calculator is???
/usr/share/doc/xserver-common-v3/VideoModes.doc.gz
It shows how to calculate a modeline. If needed, I can send it directly
black.fish wrote:
hi! i've got a problem with my debian woody. when i installed it there
was an error message like: writing lilo... hmm, i think you're
writing a fs ... this might be an important bug it came when i
the installer was just writing the base of woody. since i can't boot
In
Rainer Sigl wrote:
On a debian machine I have the problem that after a reboot ps and
similar commands as 'top' aren't working. The command simply hangs and
does no response. Every else is working well beside openafs didn't
work too after reboot because openafs-client (updated by dselect) was
Mike Fedyk wrote:
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 12:43:52AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 15:33:36 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
Package: kcalc
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 392
Maintainer: Debian QA Team [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Architecture: i386
Martin Edward John Waller wrote:
I've done a potato install but can't boot from the
hard disk (have the floppy boot working OK tho').
I get the above message (L 80 80 80 continuosly).
Is there a way to fix this? I installed lilo
diecrtly onto the mbr.
Does the information in
Rohan Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In Debian unstable, I tried to do :help, but got this error:
Sorry, help file /usr/share/vim/vim60/doc/help.txt not found
So, I tried gunzipping the help.txt.gz in that directory, and then Vim
complained it could not find tags. I figured it was
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to reconfigure fetchmail on one of my woody machines.
I tried using dselct to delte reinstall it. That did not prompt me
for
configuration data, so I tried dpkg-rconfigure fetchmail. This just
returned a prompt.
How can I do this?
Install and run
When I try to use a CD Player program, it works fine under root, but
under a
normal account it tells me that it can't access /dev/cdrom. I believe
I have
the /etc/fstab file configured correctly so I'm pretty clueless on how
to
fix this. I have pasted my fstab file on the end of this email.
John F Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the latest vim. When I try to issue the :help command I get
the
following
error:
Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for *.gz:
E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off
E434: Can't find tag pattern
Hit ENTER or type
Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: No puedo bootear Debian.
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1904 01:00:41 -0600
Ok, a few hours delay in delivering messages is understandable, but
this is a bit much.
No wonder the subject
news [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setup: Woody/testing
After installing vim with apt-get, I find that the debianizations that
So, vim 6.
have been done cause sections of my .vimrc, built up over time on
several different platforms to be unusable.
[...]
Chris Jenks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know that this has been covered recently, or at least I think it
has, but
I was not able to find it in the archives after 2 hours of reading
(probably just couldn't find the right thread). I went from 2.2r3 to
2.2r5
to Woody, and installed Xfree86
I just did my semi-frequent update of my system. Because of a hardware
problem, I currently rely upon floppies to do all of my file transfers
(the affected system has not connected to another system since 5 years
or so), so I can only do a large transfer every couple of weeks or so.
Before I could
Jeremy Whetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I searched the archives for this one, but maybe I didn't look for the
right thing. I'm trying to figure out how to do the on-the-fly X
screen resolution changing (via Ctrl-Alt-+ or -) with a laptop
keyboard. I know that on a regular keyboard that
Andreas von Heydwolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just today I installed potato from floppies on a 486 SL 25 laptop
built
in 1993. I have never used a pcmcia card in my life, don't own one and
don't know anyone who has one. It looks as if the 486 can hold two
cards
in one slot (or would it be
Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 15:40, Mark Janssen escreveu:
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote:
hello,
I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX
(33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb)
before they go to the
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:29 AM +0100, Karsten Heymann
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
* Seneca Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020201 11:05]:
David Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a very good reason for not wanting to install GNOME or another
Kapil Khosla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could not install my base system due to network problems and stopped
installation and did reboot.
I then installed xserver-vga16, xf86setup.
When I do startx i get the following error.
dbe : Unknown error loading module
Config error
I grew a little tired of compiling kernels with pcmcia support, and then not
being able to use my pcmcia hardware, so I decided to take a break from it
for a while and try a pre-compiled kernel
(kernel-image-2.4.17-386_2.4.17-1_i386.deb). I noticed in the description
for pcmcia-cs that:
Brian Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't seem to get X to install correctly no matter what I do.
What version?
Everything else seems to work fine and installing without X works fine.
I've been using the simple install and have tried various combinations
of the X window system and X
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Seneca Cunningham wrote:
I have just been rearranging all my partitions, and now it looks like
the
most recent change is messing my system. A shortened version of the
first
couple post-post lines is:
L 40 40 40
.
Any comments on that ?
I have MS-DOS 7.0 installed on /dev/hda1, and lilo is set to boot /dev/hda,
and it works fine. But the 01's you're getting has a different meaning than
my 40's. To quote the lilo manual:
Seneca Cunningham wrote:
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; Joey Hess
I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I
want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the
network that I use was set up, the gateway software that was decided upon
requires the browsers used to have java support. I can't get away from it, I
David Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 20:44, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that
I
want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the
network that I use was set up, the gateway software
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:00:30PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
[ moved prefix reply to end (hi Karsten)]
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
I need the pcmcia module to get access to my ethernet card and cdrom,
but I
just can't get
Doug Jolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi --
I'm new to Debian. Can anyone please tell me what the deal is
with the libz1 package? It seems to be needed by quite a few
other packages. Accordingly, I was surprised when I couldn't
find it on my distribution CDs. I was even more surprised
I managed to get the system to boot with my old potato rescue disk.
It seems that lilo was looking for the MBR or something similar in the wrong
location. Without putting out any error messages, when I had last run lilo
before the problem, it put the boot device to /dev/hda5, an extended
I need the pcmcia module to get access to my ethernet card and cdrom, but I
just can't get pcmcia-source to compile. I've tried to do it with woody and
sid, but I just can't seem to get my pcmcia module to compile. I get
warnings about how malloc.h is deprecated throughout the entire process, but
I have just been rearranging all my partitions, and now it looks like the
most recent change is messing my system. A shortened version of the first
couple post-post lines is:
L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
Moments before I was going to downgrade back to X3, I got X4 working...
sort-of.
I finally got rid of the pixel lines and black screens with random white
pixels by setting changing colour depth. The colour depth that gave those
problems is 16. At 24, X could not find any working screen modes. At
As I previously wrote:
Matthias Wieser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2002 03:29 schrieb Seneca Cunningham:
I am want to resize all of my partitions, and from what I have read,
parted
is a way to do it. I originally tried the version in potato, but it
didn't
yet do
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 03:38 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
(EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
Fatal server error:
no screens found
this is basically telling you that none of the values that might run can.
Yes, I had
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
[snip]
My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and that's
the
newest stuff I'm allowed to customise)). Anyway, all that I have been
able
to find out about the video setup
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 03:28 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
[snip]
My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and
that's
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 14 January 2002 06:30 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
[snip]
I tried my old X3 config file, and X4 couldn't parse it... the logfile
says:
Parse warning on line 43 of section Keyboard in file XF86Config.bak
Ignoring obsolete keyword
I have a problem that seems like login is working too slowly for my
computer, or my computer is too slow for login (a little more likely).
Occasionally I get results similar to the results for this fictional user.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 icosagon tty2
icosagon login: foo
.orig.tar.gz
instead of gunzip.
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:16 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
I downloaded the source so that I could see if I could do anything about
it, but gzip is complaining that it isn't in gzip format. Is there any
special package I need to get to be able
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 13 January 2002 02:11 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
[snip]
X -configure is...
(==) CHIPS(0): Min pixel clock is 11.000MHz
(--) CHIPS(0): Max pixel clock is 56.000MHz
... and from the xf86cfg -textmode method...
(==) CHIPS(0
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 14 January 2002 04:56 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
The X3 xf86config program says _not_ to probe clocks, but
X4 looks like it is probing clocks.
my understanding of clock probing is that the card is either physically
capable of standing the probe
Matthias Wieser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2002 03:29 schrieb Seneca Cunningham:
I am want to resize all of my partitions, and from what I have read,
parted
is a way to do it. I originally tried the version in potato, but it
didn't
yet do what it needs to for my first
It seems that old bits of memory have been put onto the screen (as I am
probably the last person to realise), when the screen is in pixel-lines. The
two examples of this I have are the xf86cfg graphics going into the
pixel-lines after using it without adding the -textmode. The other, more
recent
I am want to resize all of my partitions, and from what I have read, parted
is a way to do it. I originally tried the version in potato, but it didn't
yet do what it needs to for my first step: reducing the FAT16 partition by
about 900M. So I upgraded to the woody version and now I get this:
stefao melchior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering if any of you can help me suggesting how to upgrade perl
from 5.004 to 5.6.
I don't know of any easy way... the way I did it was with brute force and
ignorance (of conflicts) with dpkg. There are a few awkward dependencies. I
did it with:
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seneca Cunningham wrote:
I have just upgraded XFree86 from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the
upgrade, I changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the
screen
consisted of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines
were 1
I have just upgraded XFree86 from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the
upgrade, I changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen
consisted of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines
were 1 pixel in width and the bottom width was 3 pixels, with 2 wide black
Jason Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 04 January 2002 10:13 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the
upgrade, I
changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen
consisted
of vertical lines running down my display
I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I
changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted
of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines were 1 pixel
in width and the bottom width was 3 pixels, with 2 wide black
frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Assumming you can get some sort of ethernet connection, install
apache/some
web server on the computers you want files off. This how I transfered
files
off my brother's winblose box, just needed him to enable tcp/ip, and
install
the windows apache off a computer
Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would suggest that you look into making a ethernet-serial connector. I
won't swear that this can be done...but I would expect that you can find
the pin-outs for a standard 10bT connection and match them to the
pin-outs for the DB9 connector and make a cross over
Right now my system is half-working and is a combination of potato and
woody. I am trying to compile a new kernel after having a number of problems
with my system. The instructions for compiling a new kernel say to enter in
make-kpkg clean, but that doesn't work on my system.
Sorry about the delay, but I left the computers for a moment, and everyone
wanted me to have a byte to eat. So in the order that I received the
questions and responses, I have my response and/or output.
J.A.Serralheiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
just compile the kernel the generalw way. make-kpkg
D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you can just hardlink /usr/bin/perl5.6.1 (or
/usr/bin/perl-5.6) to /usr/bin/perl.
# ln /usr/bin/perl5.6.1 /usr/bin/perl
I did it, and it works now. Thanks.
Seneca
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is http://www.linuxdoc.org up? I've tried to get through, but each time I've
tried in the past little while my connection timed out.
Seneca
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
have you considered upgrading the kernel? you might also need to reinstall
gcc. it's sounding more and more like you've got a busted system. when
configure fails, what's it telling you in the output?
Even before this message I had thought of reinstalling gcc, and
As I had previously wrote:
This is getting to the point that I am actually thinking of trying ALSA
Well, I had tried that, and found that the package alsadriver is not
available for the version of the kernel that I am using (2.2.19). I
downloaded the drivers, followed the installation
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
run dmesg, optionally piped through more, to see how the boot treats your
soundcard. if the card isn't recognized on boot, not much of anything else
can happen with it. post the output of dmesg and any other output
generated
in the course of trying to get the card
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if every method of generating sound produces the same output and given
that
the system does acknowledge the card, it would seem that the driver is at
fault. it may have come up before. check the archives.
I have checked the archives, and I couldn't see a similar
I've RTFM (with the 'R' pronounced red not reed), checked the manpages
info, the HOWTO's, Google, and some other places over the past two days.
With all those resources, all my soundcard will put out, other than the
standard beep, is a squawk. The squawk length has nothing to do with format,
just
On my machine, two or three different programs have given me segmentation
faults. The two that I remember are Enlightenment and bwBASIC. The
segmentation fault in Enlightenment only happened once, and Enlightenment
was removed soon thereafter.
In bwBASIC, however, I was able to reproduce the
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:02:07PM -0500, Seneca
Cunningha([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Before anyone tells me to convert the Windows computer, I am not
allowed to change _anything_ about that computer.
Define change.
If you want to set yourself
I am looking for a fast and reliable method for transferring files between
systems.
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seneca Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SC and other such difficulties, could it just be a few bad transfers
SC by floppy, as large packages (1.4M) have to be made
I wish that the solution were so simple as this..
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, $0.00 solutions below:
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:02:07PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
I am looking for a fast and reliable method for transferring files
between
systems.
...
In response
Hardware and budgetary issues add difficulty to finding a fast and reliable
method for transferring files between systems...
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:21:15PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
[snip]
The amusing part about getting an ethernet card
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does the Windows box have a modem? Does your Debian laptop have one?
I've done modem-to-modem file transfers before. Okay, this was so
long ago they were both running MS DOS 3.3, but it should still work.
Can you *borrow* two external modems for a few
These are three problems that occured in relatively quick succession in the
listed order:
1.XFree stopped using its global xinitrc file. It used it a few times,
then
I changed it from using xserver-vga16 to xserver-svga. Any way to get
my
computer to start using it again?
2.
Something that I have noticed in my time using dselect is that in the main
package listing, there are some lines that only have partial information on
them. This is when it is set to verbose. The information that seems to be
invisible is found on the dividing line, but does anyone know why I get
I have just installed XFree86 onto my computer, tried it with a few
configurations that look like what should work, and Fatal server error: No
valid modes found and X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown keeps coming up. I have the rest of the output on file. About 45
lines
-Original Message-
From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: December 8, 2001 19:50
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: XFree86 problem
Seneca Cunningham, 2001-Dec-08 09:24 -0500:
I have just installed XFree86 onto my computer, tried it with a few
configurations that look
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