Re: File Transfers

2002-01-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
, send OK 8(I think, it's in a logfile) characters later, and so on Time for a byte to eat, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps. how long do you think it took to transfer the kernel source by floppy

Re: File Transfers

2002-01-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
and doesn't boot if its hardware is changed). I _really_ want to at the very least get the two newest computers connected. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
can be accessed. I have reinstalled kernel-package three or four times, with the most recent time being from a second download. I am attempting to use the version of kernel-package that is in woody. What do I need to do to get further in my attempt to compile a kernel? Thanks for any help, Seneca

Re: make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
lines long. I want to get my system fully working eventually, so I might try the non-debian way later on, but for now I want to continue trying with the debian way. Should I see about downloading kernel-package from potato? Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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]

What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-05 Thread Seneca Cunningham
of similar problems that I have seen and checked are at least half a year old, and all say that it was fixed, and these are in older package versions than mine. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What part of XFree86 causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread Seneca Cunningham
of similar problems that I have seen and checked are at least half a year old, and all say that it was fixed, and these are in older package versions than mine. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps. If this message was received earlier, please tell me. From my end it looks like

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: XFree86 upgrade to 4.1.0

2002-01-07 Thread Seneca Cunningham
for -a. Use it at your own risk. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-07 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Questions about parted

2002-01-12 Thread Seneca Cunningham
, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions about parted

2002-01-13 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-13 Thread Seneca Cunningham
values. This is interesting, I would have thought that the values would be the same. What sort of effect could this have? I have been spending my time with XF86Config-4, is there some other file that I should try changing? Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-14 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-14 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-15 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Login problem

2002-01-15 Thread Seneca Cunningham
to be able to decompress the source? I have gzip version 1.3.2-3, tar 1.13.25-1, and login 2902-8. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Login problem

2002-01-15 Thread Seneca Cunningham
.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

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-16 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-16 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-16 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: Questions about parted

2002-01-19 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-23 Thread Seneca Cunningham
. At 15, I got a pixel lines with some colour variation. At 8, I got a black screen with random purple pixels. And at 4, it works. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I boot and get: L40 40 40 40 40...

2002-01-28 Thread Seneca Cunningham
that kills the system). Do you know of any way to fix this without reinstalling the entire system? The only way I can do any installation is by floppy. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I boot and get: L40 40 40 40 40...

2002-01-29 Thread Seneca Cunningham
/hda and root=/dev/hda5. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Compiling pcmcia-source

2002-01-29 Thread Seneca Cunningham
help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling pcmcia-source

2002-01-30 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: libz1 package

2002-01-30 Thread Seneca Cunningham
when I couldn't find it in the packages section of the Debian web site. I'm sure I'm missing something pretty basic. I wondered about that myself, when I first started with Debian. zlibg1 provides libz1, so you need to install it. Hope this helps, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I boot and get: L40 40 40 40 40...

2002-01-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: I boot and get: L40 40 40 40 40...

2002-01-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
. 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

What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
X4 installed and working, but I don't want to install any desktop managers. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

x11 installation problems

2002-02-01 Thread Seneca Cunningham
are the error messages, what's in your XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file, what's in the log files, and what's your hardware? Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

a problem with pcmcia-modules-2.4.17 in sid

2002-02-02 Thread Seneca Cunningham
force it? All of these packages are the version that is in sid. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
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

Re: X configuration problem

2002-02-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
. Or maybe someone could point me to where the error is in this case, In this case it could just be where many errors with X are, in XF86Config. Hope this helps, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Seneca Cunningham
slow, but anything is faster (and more stable) than watching it labour through windoze. I don't even have most of the DOS commands (fixing a corrupt floppy, and the harddrive was overwritten with floppy info instead of the floppy). Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pcmcia

2002-02-19 Thread Seneca Cunningham
laptop from 1995 can hold two of). Could I use the a card that I would buy today or have standards changed and I would have to look for a vintage pcmcia network and/or modem card? I think that you would be limited to the 16-bit PCMCIA cards, and not be able to use the 32-bit CardBus cards. Seneca

Re: Laptop keyboard and switching X resolutions

2002-02-22 Thread Seneca Cunningham
can normally use outside of X (Alt+Fn+u, sometimes also requiring Shift in that mix also, (Alt+4 on the numeric keypad) to logout). Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

update problem

2002-02-23 Thread Seneca Cunningham
gv_3.5.8-25_i386.deb ibritish_3.1.20-21_i386.deb ispell_3.1.20-21_i386.deb less_373-2_i386.deb magicfilter_1.2-49_i386.deb dpkg-dev_1.9.19_all.deb git_4.3.20-2_i386.deb patch_2.5.4-9_i386.deb sysutils_1.3.8.5.1_i386.deb lynx_2.8.4.1b-3_i386.deb Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't start x after woody upgrade

2002-03-10 Thread Seneca Cunningham
-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/startx.1x.gz xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debianized vim

2002-03-18 Thread Seneca Cunningham
upgraded from vim 5 to vim 6. To get the helptext back, I looked at the default vimrc provided for vim 6. The ending of my vimrc now is: if has(autocmd) filetype plugin on Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No puedo bootear Debian.

2002-03-21 Thread Seneca Cunningham
of that is that old) be expected to. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vim help file Error detected while processing BufRead Auto Commands for*.gz

2002-03-22 Thread Seneca Cunningham
command to continue What gives? This issue came up on monday night (EST). vim has changed. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200203/msg03259.htm l Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with CD-ROM and mail server

2002-03-23 Thread Seneca Cunningham
. Are you part of group cdrom? Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vim help -- not finding help.txt

2002-03-24 Thread Seneca Cunningham
it was because the files in /doc were not gunzipped, but Vim then complained it couldn't find help.txt.gz! Any ideas what to do? Did you just upgrade from vim 5.6 (a couple people had problems with the helpfile after the upgrade (its in the archives))? What is in your /etc/vim/vimrc? Seneca [EMAIL

Re: How to reconfigure fetchmail?

2002-03-24 Thread Seneca Cunningham
fetchmailconf. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: L 80 80 80 80, etc. on boot

2002-03-25 Thread Seneca Cunningham
a floppy, you might not have closed the drive door. Otherwise, trying to boot again might help. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ps is not working

2002-03-29 Thread Seneca Cunningham
listed? Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kcalc math bug?

2002-03-29 Thread Seneca Cunningham
on my calculator are calculated in the proper order, contrary to what you would want. It looks like you wanted left-to-right operator precedence rather than using order of operations. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: LILO doesn't work!

2002-03-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
again. (Yes, that's all there is for that error code) Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modeline Calculator

2002-04-01 Thread Seneca Cunningham
to you... it's a bit large to be posted (~23k). Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: confused: primary and extened partition

2002-04-05 Thread Seneca Cunningham
and see the partitions listed. The extended partitions are the ones contained between the '' '', and are contained in the preceeding primary partition. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fakeroot

2002-04-09 Thread Seneca Cunningham
ideas quick hint, look in the debian/control file of the package you want to build. There is likely a line Build-Depends. make sure you install every package in that list. Is debhelper installed? dh_testdir is in the package debhelper. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: sh: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: No such file or directory

2002-04-15 Thread Seneca Cunningham
wrap your mail. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

a closed bug reappears

2002-04-17 Thread Seneca Cunningham
in the information. Do I send a message to the old bug report, directly tell the maintainer, or do I just file a new bug report. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ethernet problem, driver or hardware

2002-04-28 Thread seneca-cunningham
. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation problem

2002-04-30 Thread Seneca Cunningham
of disks. Checking the kernel-config for the 2.2r4 installation floppies, advansys is compiled in. The current potato is 2.2r6 -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

safe load average

2002-05-01 Thread Seneca Cunningham
, something I was wondering about would generally be considered a maximum safe load average. I have had some problems with some hardware that look almost as if this machine wants to become a toaster (hopefully the hardware wasn't damaged, only confused, by the heat). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED

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