Es Postgres una buena BD

2001-02-25 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Venía la pregunta sin un tema así que le he puesto tema) Hola debianeros, no se mucho de postgresql, es mas se poco sobre bases de datos pero he empezado a estudiar fuertemente :), el caso es que no tengo argumentos para indicarle a

Sobre enlaces duros

2001-02-25 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, walter wrote: _de_Anton?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?io_=C1lvarez_el_Fri=2C_Feb_23=2C_2001_a_las_10:36:15PM_+?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xfree 4 y woody Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:29:43 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Es Postgres una buena BD

2001-02-25 Thread Roberto Meyer
Hola, AC On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AC (Venía la pregunta sin un tema así que le he puesto tema) Hola debianeros, no se mucho de postgresql, es mas se poco sobre bases de datos pero he empezado a estudiar fuertemente :), el caso es que no tengo argumentos para

Es Postgres una buena BD

2001-02-25 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Miquel wrote: El Saturday, 24 Feb 2001, a las 14:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: Hola debianeros, no se mucho de postgresql, es mas se poco sobre bases de datos pero he empezado a estudiar fuertemente :), el caso es que no tengo argumentos para indicarle a cierto

Re: Es Postgres una buena BD

2001-02-25 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:08:05 +0100 (CET) Antonio Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yo soy un convencido del software libre. Soy autónomo. Uso Postgres para mi negocio y te puedo decir que ahora confió en Postgres porque ya lo he usado, pero mis necesidades son muy pequeñas y no sirven de

divx ;-)

2001-02-25 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hola Ayer probé el avifile para reproducir Divx en una Mandrake 7.2. Ahora he visto que hay más programas que saben hacer lo mismo: xmps xine (avifile) Me gustaría saber si alguien los ha probado a ver cual es el más completo, mejor rendimiento, etc. Supongo que al usar todos las DLL's de

Re: divx ;-)

2001-02-25 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:56:36 + (GMT) Carles Pina i Estany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No tengo la respuesta a tu pregunta, pero... [...] Parece que xmps y xine (que estan en sid, despues quizás me los bajo) son más bien entornos para ver todo tipo de videos, y avifile es para ver xmps y

Re: divx ;-)

2001-02-25 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hola No tengo la respuesta a tu pregunta, pero... [...] Parece que xmps y xine (que estan en sid, despues quizás me los bajo) son más bien entornos para ver todo tipo de videos, y avifile es para ver xmps y algunos avi (algun otro xanim me lo cogia y avifile no) [...] Si Linux es lo

Re: divx ;-)

2001-02-25 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:21:33 + (GMT) Carles Pina i Estany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Si Linux es lo mismo que Windows, ¿por qué hay los dos? Si no es el Que Linux es lo mismo que Windows??? yo no he dicho eso (espero!) :-) OK, debería haber usado el condicional. Lo que quería haber dicho

Re: Kernels: fallo al compilar?

2001-02-25 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 24 de febrero de 2001 a la(s) 22:31:12 +0100, Amaya contaba: ¿Tú también has actualizado binutils? ;-) Cosas buenas y malas de usar unstable. ¿Para cuándo un binutils stable y actualizado? :^) -- David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Linux Registered User #87069

Re: Sobre enlaces duros

2001-02-25 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 25 de febrero de 2001 a la(s) 10:27:40 +0100, Antonio Castro contaba: Tienes permisos para ello ? Están ambos en el mismo FileSystem ? Ambas cosas son imprescindibles. Yo he leído que hacer un enlace duro a un directorio tenía alguna implicación de seguridad pero

que es hurd

2001-02-25 Thread David Felipe Arias Ochoa
quisiera que algiien me explicara mejor los que debirn/hurd

Consejos futura debian en mi PC

2001-02-25 Thread Toni B
Hola a todos os escrivo con kMail des de una SuSE 6.2 que aunque esta actualizada al kernel 2.4.2 necesita de algunos cambios que solo veo posibles con la actualizacion de distro. I mira por donde encontre una Debian 2.2r mui bien de precio por lo que no me pude retraer de comprarla en USA. I

[blu@lady-armanoid.dhis.org: Re: ¿Red con Mulinux como? solucionado]

2001-02-25 Thread José Miguel Sisó Espitia
- Forwarded message from Blu [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:18:56 +0100 Status: O Content-Length: 1186 Lines: 34 On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:40:38AM +0100, José Miguel Sisó Espitia wrote: Hola Rafa y compañia:

Re: que es hurd

2001-02-25 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
Y el domingo 25 de febrero, David Felipe Arias Ochoa escribió: quisiera que algiien me explicara mejor los que debirn/hurd Hola David, Supongo que sabes más o menos lo que es Linux. Linux es el núcleo de un sistema operativo tipo Unix. (No es Unix, porque Unix es una marca registrada) Para ser

Re: Es Postgres una buena BD

2001-02-25 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:08:05 +0100 (CET) Antonio Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yo soy un convencido del software libre. Soy autónomo. Uso Postgres para mi negocio y te puedo decir que ahora confió en Postgres porque ya lo he usado, pero mis

framebuffer con una Matrox G200

2001-02-25 Thread Santi Moreno
Hola gente, Alguien ha conseguido configurar el framebuffer con una Matrox G200?, yo he instalado el module matroxfb y se inicia en el arranque pero soy incapaz de cambiar la configuración por defecto de 640x480x8bpp, he intentado appendear al kernel en lilo.conf con lineas como:

Modconf con kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-25 Thread Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal
Será una tontería, pero me he actualizado el kernel a 2.4.1, y ahora al intentar hacer un modconf me dice que no hay ningun módulo. Sin embargo, me coge bien los modulos de las tarjetas de red, y algunos otros... Tengo q decirle algo al modconf para que vea los nuevos modulos? Gracias por vuestra

Re: Modconf con kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-25 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:21:36 +0100 Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Será una tontería, pero me he actualizado el kernel a 2.4.1, y ahora al intentar hacer un modconf me dice que no hay ningun módulo. Sin embargo, me coge bien los modulos de las tarjetas de red, y algunos

RE: Modconf con kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-25 Thread Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal
Las modutils que me salen al hacer insmod -V son las 2.4.1 Gracias por la ayuda... Luisma Será una tontería, pero me he actualizado el kernel a 2.4.1, y ahora al intentar hacer un modconf me dice que no hay ningun módulo. Sin embargo, me coge bien los modulos de las tarjetas de red, y

RE: Modconf con kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-25 Thread Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal
De todas maneras, para evitar los problemas de dependencias, añadí al sources-list la linea: deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main que se comentó hace unos dias. Gracias Luisma

Re: Modconf con kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-25 Thread Christoph Simon
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 00:19:07 +0100 Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: De todas maneras, para evitar los problemas de dependencias, añadí al sources-list la linea: deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main que se comentó hace unos dias. 2.4.1 está bien. El

Re: Modconf con kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-25 Thread David Felipe Arias Ochoa
deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main añade esa linea le das apt-get update luego apt-get upgrade y listo, el problema es que no vas a poder usar el programa de debian para los modulos pero si los carga puede darte cuenta con depmod -v On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:21:36 +0100 Luis M.

Hay problemas con LE?

2001-02-25 Thread Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal
Este fin de semana no me he podido conectar a La espiral, a alguien mas le pasa? Gracias, y que no sea nada :-) Luisma

Re: Hay problemas con LE?

2001-02-25 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On lun, feb 26, 2001 at 02:30:16 +0100, Luis M. Arroyo Egoscozabal wrote: Este fin de semana no me he podido conectar a La espiral, a alguien mas le pasa? ¿Cómol?, voy a ver... :-((( Parece que el servidor se ha caido, perdón por las molestias. Mañana se arreglará dado que el

Re: Es Postgres una buena BD

2001-02-25 Thread A . Ramos
El Banco Espirito Santo cambió de IBM a UNIX todo su sistema informático Esto que significa realmente? de IBM a UNIX ?? entonces AIX que es? :)) IBM=hard UNIX=soft :P -- A. Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: servidor de data

2001-02-25 Thread Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro
Olá lista, alguém aqui conhece um bom servidor de data (para usar o rdate)? não sei se foi para essa lista, mas alguém tinha postado uns servidores de data da nasa... Use o ntpdate que é mais robusto e aponte para ntp.ansp.br: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# ntpdate ntp.ansp.br []'s Hélio

Re: servidor de data

2001-02-25 Thread Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro
Funcionou pela metade :-) !! Executei os dois comandos, rdate -s 200.20.186.75 e depois hwclock -w, e os dois relogios ficaram sincronizados. O problema eh que ficaram 1 hora adiantados, como se estivesse no horario de verao !! Quando eu fiz a instalacao do Debian 2.2r0

UDMA 66 numa Epox MVP3G2

2001-02-25 Thread Itamar Grochowski Rocha
Olá pessoal, tenho uma placa mãe Epox MVP3G2 com controladora ide e suporte a UDMA 66 (que funciona no rWindows) que usa o chipset é VT82C596B da VIA. Estou compilando o kernel 2.4.1 habilitando a opção VIA82 CXXX chipset support e Use PCI DMA by defaul when availble¨ assim como manda o

Re: UDMA 66 numa Epox MVP3G2

2001-02-25 Thread Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro
Pois é, vejo que ela continua a 33Mb/s ao invés dos 66 esperados :-( Mesmo forçando com ide=ata66 na chamada do kernel o resultado é o mesmo. Forçando com hdparm não funciona? Talvez a chamada que o sistema passar para a controladora não esteja sendo aceito (por isso joga para uma

Mirror

2001-02-25 Thread Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro
Pessoal, Por motivo de espaço em disco, estou removendo do mirror debian.lcmi.ufsc.br (vulgo ftp.br.debian.org) os packages para as arquiteturas mips, alpha e m68k, pois somente assim conseguirei incluir o unstable (sid), incluindo os fontes, que até o momento encontra-se

desabilitando su

2001-02-25 Thread Cosmo
All Enconteri um tutorial sobre seguranca e em um dos capitulos dizia como desabilitar o comando su. Basicamente era o seguinte : Edite o arquivo su (vi /etc/pam.d/su) e adicione a seguinte linhas no arquivo: auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so debug Acrescentei essa linha

Re: UDMA 66 numa Epox MVP3G2

2001-02-25 Thread Carlos Eduardo P. Santiviago
Itamar Grochowski Rocha wrote: Olá pessoal, tenho uma placa mãe Epox MVP3G2 com controladora ide e suporte a UDMA 66 (que funciona no rWindows) que usa o chipset é VT82C596B da VIA. Estou compilando o kernel 2.4.1 habilitando a opção VIA82 CXXX chipset support e Use PCI DMA by defaul

Re: rpm .spec to ../debian

2001-02-25 Thread csj
On Sunday 25 February 2001 08:14, Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a quick and dirty way, say a script or utiltiy, to convert an rpm .spec file into the ../debian (sub)directory needed by build-package and friends? Don't know how relevant it is but I would start by looking at

Re: kernel compile warning

2001-02-25 Thread Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to sid and is now trying to compile kernel 2.2.4 the old fashioned way. However, I get this warning when using make menuconfig...should I worry?make : warning clock skew detected your buil d may be incomplete. I am using k-6 II 450 if that

Re: From: in mutt

2001-02-25 Thread Scott Vaverchak
I would also suggest to change your reply-to. For me my user name is adeo but email is suadeo, so i would suggest changing your reply (if you need to). my_hdr Reply-To [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! anyone could help me on how to set the From: when using, or maybe in exim, I used pine

Re: From: in mutt

2001-02-25 Thread Scott Vaverchak
Opps. I messed up. I forgot to put the : in there... here is what it should look like... my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There, now I feel better ;p -- Scott Vaverchak { [EMAIL PROTECTED] { suadeo : [+ dat] to speak in favor of; suadeo : to recommend, advise (a person); } }

Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread James K. Wiggs
Folks, I'm finding it impossible to get networking functional on the box I've just installed 2.2r2 on. This is not an exotic setup, and I've successfully installed several other distros on it at one time or another, but the Debian install has been a complete wash. Why does my NetGear

Upgraded to Windows 2000 - now all files saved are corrupt

2001-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
I installed Win2k on two workstations now all the files I open and save back to my Debian 2.2 file server are corrupt, filled with nonesense (probably nulls). I downloaded and upgraded samba to 2.0.7 but the problem still persists. Can anyone help me with this problem? Chris MasonBox 340,

Re: poweroff just doing shutdown

2001-02-25 Thread Tibor D.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all processes are ended.. the machine just hangs with poweroff on the screen. ^alt del reboots fine. FYI the exact same machine, with potato, poweroffed fine on a previous installation. Thank you Maybe your apm isn't activated (or even isn't compiled into the

Re: poweroff just doing shutdown

2001-02-25 Thread Romain Lerallut
could you have changed kernel in the meantime ? or try to see if you have a module called apm.o I had the same stuff until I recompiled my kernel with apm support.(I haven't tried as a module). Bye Romain On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all processes are ended.. the

KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread John Mautz
I have a woody system running xfree 4.0.2 and want to give KDE a try but can't find the KDE package. I checked the archives and tried 'apt-get install task-kde' but I get the following message: Package task-kde has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread John Griffiths
I figure I need to add the a location to sources.list but don't know which site to add. (Currently apt-get is looking in: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib for gods sake get ftp://security.debian.org/debian

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:50:31 -0800, John Mautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a woody system running xfree 4.0.2 and want to give KDE a try but can't find the KDE package. I checked the archives and tried 'apt-get install task-kde' but I get the following message: Package task-kde has no

Re: X on a Fujitsu Lifebook 420D (fwd)

2001-02-25 Thread Rafael Hinojosa
Alright, As I mentioned earlier, I've managed to solve the initial font problem I had, and get X up and running. Now, I'm faced with the 1 offset I read about all over the web. I tried using vga=770 (or vga=7) but get no luck. I've read on some places about a CONGIF_VIDEO_GFX_HACK, which

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread hogan
ftp://security.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib I thought security only had stable? Took a peek... Seems it does have more.. HOWEVER.. There is no ftp://security.debian.org/debian There is ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato|sid|slink|stable There is

Re: help with voodoo 3

2001-02-25 Thread Andrew Wettstein
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:01:13AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: dear all, i'm having the hardest time getting my voodoo 3 to work correctly. i'm running woody with X 4.0. i can run gears, and resize the window without a noticeable change in framerate, so SOMETHING has to be going

Problems with I/O to Syquest Sparq

2001-02-25 Thread Pascal Hos
I am trying to acces my parallel Syquest Sparq 1GB drive. I'm running kernel 2.4.2 with the epat, pd, and paride compiled as modules. The BIOS is set to use EPP and I'm mounting /dev/pda1. Now I can mount /dev/pda1 no problem and I can do an 'ls' and get output no problem. However when I try

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread mike polniak
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: again, just for my own curiosity, do other distributions also autoload modules on boot using /etc/modules? I don't think other distros have an update-modules etc., but i just don't know exactly how they do it. Take a look at the script for modutils in

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach mike polniak (on Sun, 25 Feb 2001 07:06:30PM -0500): I don't think other distros have an update-modules etc., but i just don't know exactly how they do it. Take a look at the script for modutils in /etc/init.d. Its one of the first scripts run from sysinit. It runs

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread John Mautz
Okay, I added - Add: ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato main crypto optional qt1apps And now I get a message stating that task-kde depends on kview and is not going to be installed. So, I did an ap-get install kview and kview depends on tetex-lib (= 1.0.6-7). Okay, I try an apt-get

IRQ Conflice [NIC and USB Controller]

2001-02-25 Thread David Frey
I think I may be having problems with my NIC as a result of an IRQ conflict between my NIC (D-Link DFE-530TX) and my USB controller. I don't know about the USB controller, but the NIC doesn't work. How can I change the IRQ? It's an Award bios. Let me know if you need more info to explain this.

Re: poweroff just doing shutdown

2001-02-25 Thread hanasaki
that fixed it!!! wierd thing is this is plain potato and it worked without the apm=on in past installs on the same machine. On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Tibor D. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all processes are ended.. the machine just hangs with poweroff on the screen. ^alt del reboots

Re: IRQ Conflice [NIC and USB Controller]

2001-02-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
Try disabling your USB controller, and see if it then works. If you have onboard USB, you should be able to turn it off in the bios. David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I think I may be having problems with my NIC as a result of an IRQ conflict between my NIC (D-Link DFE-530TX) and my USB

Re: Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
james, the tulip driver is problematic. we've had cards at our installfests that required the tulip.c driver from the 2.4.* kernels. can you ping the card's IP? what does /var/log/messages say? why don't you recompile the kernel and turn off Lite-On 82c168 PNIC. compile it as a module or

Problems getting debian to run SMP...

2001-02-25 Thread Jason N. Price
I just compiled a custom 2.4.2 kernel so I could trim it down and add SMP support. I selected SMP along the way, recompiled, changed my lilo.conf and rebooted. Upon reboot, 'uname -a' gives the following: Linux debian 2.4.2 #1 SMP Sun Feb 25 18:54:43 CST i686 unknown This line leads

Re: Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread MaD dUCK
it doesn't happen to be an ISA card, does it? i.e. do you have to worry about IRQ's ? if so, you need to compile a module or hack the kernel sources. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- windows nt crashed. i am the blue screen of

Error

2001-02-25 Thread eileen
Hi, Can someone tell me how to fix this error after installing XF86. /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd (invalid argument) I have a Microsoft serial mouse. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is

Re: Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 25 Feb 01, 8:43 PM, MaD dUCK said: it doesn't happen to be an ISA card, does it? i.e. do you have to worry about IRQ's ? if so, you need to compile a module huh?? why?? why not pass a kernel argument to set up the IRQ? you can do that with the append directive with lilo. or hack

LONG FILE NAMES

2001-02-25 Thread D. Hoyem
I have Debian installed on hdb2(swap) and hdb3(/), hdb1 is a small vfat partation. hda is exclusssively vfat wind98 programs. When I did the install of Debian I mounted hda in /Fat-c and hdb1 in /Fat-d. I attempted to put them in the /mount directory, one would go there but the other would

Re: Problems getting debian to run SMP...

2001-02-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Jason N. Price wrote: I just compiled a custom 2.4.2 kernel so I could trim it down and add SMP support. I selected SMP along the way, recompiled, changed my lilo.conf and rebooted. Upon reboot, 'uname -a' gives the following: Linux debian 2.4.2 #1 SMP Sun Feb 25 18:54:43 CST i686

Re: Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Sun, 25 Feb 2001 05:49:01PM -0800): On Sun 25 Feb 01, 8:43 PM, MaD dUCK said: it doesn't happen to be an ISA card, does it? i.e. do you have to worry about IRQ's ? if so, you need to compile a module huh?? why?? why not pass a kernel argument to set up

postgresql startup script

2001-02-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Could some kind soul help out with this? I built postgres from source instead of using the .deb, and all works fine except for having it start on bootup. I'm stuck on trying to get the startup script to run as user 'postgres' instead of as root. I tried to have it issue the command: su postgres

Re: Problems getting debian to run SMP...

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi there, do a cat /proc/cpuinfo. if everything looks in order, than you're fine. i'm pretty sure the stats are combined figures. pete On Sun 25 Feb 01, 7:45 PM, Jason N. Price said: I just compiled a custom 2.4.2 kernel so I could trim it down and add SMP support. I selected SMP along

Re: Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread James K. Wiggs
Nope, it's a PCI card. It's getting configured at IRQ 9, and looking at /proc/pci and /proc/interrupts it's clear there are no IRQ conflicts. On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: it doesn't happen to be an ISA card, does it? i.e. do you have to worry about IRQ's ? if so, you need to

Re: poweroff just doing shutdown

2001-02-25 Thread mike polniak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that fixed it!!! wierd thing is this is plain potato and it worked without the apm=on in past installs on the same machine. Check the kernel config for CONFIG_APM_DISABLE_BY_DEFAULT. In the stock kernel 2.2.18 it is set=y. So even though CONFIG_APM=y you

Re: Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread James K. Wiggs
Peter, Thanks for the info. I find it sort of astonishing that there are problems with the tulip driver. This has to be probably the most commonly used driver other than the ne2k. I've been using these NetGear cards in most of my boxes for about three years and never had *any* problems

Re: LONG FILE NAMES

2001-02-25 Thread D. Hoyem
Thanks for being the focus point I figured out this problem.. the /etc/fstab had hda1 and hdb1 listed as msdos instead of vfat. --- D. Hoyem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Debian installed on hdb2(swap) and hdb3(/), hdb1 is a small vfat partation. hda is exclusssively vfat wind98 programs.

Re: Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread Pascal Hos
as86 is part of package bin86 Pascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 25 February 2001 20:40, James K. Wiggs wrote: Peter, Thanks for the info. I find it sort of astonishing that there are problems with the tulip driver. This has to be probably the most commonly used driver other than the

Change group to access hardward is the right way?

2001-02-25 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, A while ago, I saw a posting saying that if, say, I want to access audio stuff, I should add group audio to my normal user account. By the same arguement, for cdrom, hd, floppy, etc, I should add them to my normal user account. After a while, I find myself almost like the

[OT] Grub

2001-02-25 Thread Joey Kool
If this is better off posting to grub's mailing list, just tell me. Thanks. Situation: /dev/hda running WinNT /dev/hdb running Debian /dev/hdb1 = /boot /dev/hdb2 = / /dev/hda is set to bootable. I can bootup using nt's os loader then booting lilo. What I want to do is

RE: help with voodoo 3

2001-02-25 Thread Marc Wilson
You need to be in 16-bit color, otherwise DRI on a V3 doesn't work. I don't know about the write-combining error. Here's my XFree86.log file for you to look at. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From: Peter

Re: Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi james, yes, the most commonly used pci drivers are the 3com vortex/boomerang, the dec tulip and the intel etherexpress pro 100. the problem is that there's a register on these cards, the general purpose register (CSR12) which are programmable by the vendor. they all do it a bit differently.

Re: LONG FILE NAMES

2001-02-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote D. Hoyem [EMAIL PROTECTED], # attempted to put them in the /mount directory, one # would go there but the other would not... both were # labeled vfat:win95 and I assume that you can not have # 2 of the same in /mount. The problem is that when I You can only mount one partition per

Re: wvdial/ppp config question

2001-02-25 Thread Robert Cymbala
Would you consider using pon to conntect to your ISP? It can be configured with pppconfig. Then try ``pon '' (part of the pon/poff/plog trio). --- Lily O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using wvdial to connect to my ISP. It connects and starts pppd, but none of my internet apps (lynx,

Re: Problems with tulip driver

2001-02-25 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Sun, 25 Feb 2001 07:02:06PM -0800): as far as debian goes, i can understand your frustration. however, i'll tell you this much. i've used redhat, suse and debian extensively. when it comes to: updating your system recovering from a Really Bad

Re: postgresql startup script

2001-02-25 Thread Aaron Brashears
Does the source distribution come with the file bin/postresql-startup in the PGHOME directory? In the debian distribution, this script is called by /etc/init.d/postgresql and handles startup based on the configuration file. On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 08:52:02PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Could

Upgrade Problems (Stable-Testing)

2001-02-25 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Good evening everyone, This is my first experience with upgrading from one version to another. I love the debian apt-get tool; for routine upgrades and keeping my system in top order with security updates it has been the greatest help. The upgrade from stable to testing has not been fun so

Re: postgresql startup script

2001-02-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Unfortunately, no, it doesn't. It comes with pg_ctl, which is as far as I can tell just a wrapper around postmaster. Since sending the message, I've solved the problem thusly, and it seems to work: (contents of /etc/init.d/postgresql :) #! /bin/sh # # To stop postgresql running, do # ln -sf

Re: How did linux corrupt hda1 (C: drive) fat16 filesystem?

2001-02-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
M David Tilson wrote: Tried to cp a file from hda2 (linux) to hda1 (fat16). Now lilo cannot find anything on c: to boot. You didn't do 'cp foo /dev/hda1', did you?

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:58:26PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I'm tryng to build a machien this weekend to see if I can use testing. I need largefile support, and that appaears to be the best way to get, but I also need a machine thats reliable enough for production work. In any case, I

Re: [OT] Grub

2001-02-25 Thread Brian May
Joey == Joey Kool [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey So using cfdisk, I made /dev/hda not bootable and /dev/hdb1 Joey bootable. Put stage1 and stage2 and menu.lst and other Joey files in /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/* to /boot/grub/ I booted Joey with the grub bootdisk and grub root

Re: Change group to access hardward is the right way?

2001-02-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:49:18AM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, A while ago, I saw a posting saying that if, say, I want to access audio stuff, I should add group audio to my normal user account. By the same arguement, for cdrom, hd, floppy, etc, I should add them to

Re: [OT] Grub

2001-02-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:17:00PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Joey == Joey Kool [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey So using cfdisk, I made /dev/hda not bootable and /dev/hdb1 Joey bootable. Put stage1 and stage2 and menu.lst and other Joey files in /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/* to

Re: Mozilla instability - followup

2001-02-25 Thread b3
Hi Glenn! You might want to check in the menu config files for your various windowmanagers and see if they are passing some kind of strange arguments to Mozilla that you may not have been passing on the command line. (some windowmanagers seem to have some REALLY strange ideas about passing

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Daniel Jones wrote: [...] And, as has already been pointed out, get security.debian.org added as well. Yes, except that the given line was wrong and that, AFAIK, there is no security updates for testing anyway! -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pppconfig

2001-02-25 Thread hammack
I still have a problem establishing a connection to my ISP. I would like to establish email and connect my Netscape/StarOffice to the net. I have run pppconfig and ran "pon ridgenet" but nothing happens. I noted that I didn't have a "/dev/modem" so I created the following: ln -sf /dev/ttyS2

Re: [OT] Grub

2001-02-25 Thread Joey Kool
My version of grub is 0.5.93.1 Seems like this version of grub does not have setup as a command. I'm running potato now, so guess I've to get grub 0.5.96.1 from testing. On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:17:00PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Joey == Joey Kool [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey So

Is there a way to unify gnome/kde menus.

2001-02-25 Thread Timothy Ball
I have both kde and gnome on my machine and I find that they work great... except for the menus. Moving apps like gimp and kword around on the different menus is kinda *annoying* then there's the debian menu. Argh. Has anyone tried to unify these ever? Could there be made a .deb that does this by

Re: cannot apt-get libc6-dev

2001-02-25 Thread Jason N. Price
If the RAM were flaking out, why would it just fail on one package and the same package every time? I would think it would fail more frequently and randomly. I'm not saying that can't be it, just not the behavior I would expect in that situation. I'll try swapping out the RAM tomorrow just

mouse works under gpm, but X screws it up

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i have an microsoft intellimouse 1.1a. it has 3 buttons, plus a wheel. it works great under gpm. device=/dev/psaux type=imps2 append=-R imps2 -- this line was me fooling around the problem is, when i start X, the mouse is definitely not happy. random

Framebuffer server uses lots of CPU?

2001-02-25 Thread Rob Rati
I have X installed on a PII-233 but have had to use the XF86_FBDev xserver because the others won't work with the video card. I noticed the machine was a bit sluggish, but I figured that was the processor. Recently I was running top and noticed that the XF86_FBDev was taking up about 42% of the

Re: mouse works under gpm, but X screws it up

2001-02-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED], # append=-R imps2 -- this line was me fooling around Get rid of that, and instead add a this line: repeat_type=raw #Option Protocolimps/2 I don't know if it's case-sensitive, but IMPS/2 works for me... It might make a

Re: Framebuffer server uses lots of CPU?

2001-02-25 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:42:42AM -0600, Rob Rati wrote: I have X installed on a PII-233 but have had to use the XF86_FBDev xserver because the others won't work with the video card. I noticed the machine was a bit sluggish, but I figured that was the processor. Recently I was running top

make-kpkg

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, I'd love to RTFM on this - but I can't find the FM (the man page doesn't enlighten me on this issue). Is there a way to use make-kpkg to simply build a stand-alone module (in this case, openafs from the openafs-modules-source package) without invoking a full kernel build? The first thing

help with voodoo 3

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'm having the hardest time getting my voodoo 3 to work correctly. i'm running woody with X 4.0. i can run gears, and resize the window without a noticeable change in framerate, so SOMETHING has to be going right. however, whenever i try to play quake3 or unreal tournament, i get a

Problem with --revision and make-kpkg

2001-02-25 Thread Lars Jensen
I can't make the --revision flag work with make-kpkg: First I issue: make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 kernel_image make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 modules_image (to make the pcmcia modules) When I next issue: dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.18pre21_Custom.1_i386.deb I get the error below:

Problems mounting a NFS share

2001-02-25 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all I have problems mounting a NFS share. I would like to copy my whole system to another PC so i entred in my source PC's export file / (ro,no_root_squash) # IS THIS CORRECT? i want that EVERY file then is copied like it was on the old system (cp -a) I have done the above

Re: X problems after upgrade

2001-02-25 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Nathan wrote: -I recently upgraded to 4.0.2 from 3.3.6 using dselect so all dependencies -should be OK and now X won't start at all. I ran xf86config and created the -new XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 and every time I try to run X, it gives me -this error msg: - -X: cannot

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX Probs W. 2.4.2

2001-02-25 Thread Willi Dyck
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:16:25PM -0800, David Frey wrote: I just compiled a 2.4.2 kernel. The compile went fine. Ran lilo, rebooted...everything looking good. The big problem is that my NIC (a D-Link DFE-530TX) doesn't work. I would like to elaborate on doesn't work, but I'm afraid I

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