Re: Running VMWare Player with 2.6.15 kernel

On 5/29/06, Tony Terlecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone managed to get VMWare Player (not the full Workstation) running on top of a 2.6.15 kernel? [snip] I'm compiling using the same kernel headers from the running kernel and the same version of gcc as was used for

apple DRM, vmware and itunes, ipod

Hi Little did I suspect I'd be tied to windows by way of the DRM apple wraps around their itunes. Not to be impeded from my goal of having a linux box, I settled for the moment on running itunes from within VMWare workstation while apple dukes it out with antitrust lawsuits and hopefully opens

Re: how to change locale settings

[snip] export LANGUAGE= and testing if that makes any difference. Once you have figured out which setting causes the problem you have to find out where it gets set. A likely candidate is /etc/environment. thank you thank you it is all fixed now adam -- ~ in the battle between my demons

how to change locale settings

Hi again. OK so I recently switched to a non-UTF locale to un-break emacs (or to attempt to un-break it) and supposedly I switched to en_US the ISO one but now anytime i run any program I get the following error: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale

Re: emacs broken - displays empty rectangles in place of all characters

[snip] Hi Adam, you may have an error that I found. Are you using an UTF-8 locale? if so, do this: 'LC_ALL=en_US emacs' and see if that fixes it. Cheers, Kev Tried this without success. Also tried reconfiguring my locales, and all of the things suggested in bug report 364504.

emacs broken - displays empty rectangles in place of all characters

Hi folks I'm a bit of a newbie. I'm not sure what I've done to break emacs, but when it pops up now there are no characters, just empty rectangles - which makes me think the fonts are broken, but I don't know how to fix them. I also get this error: emacs Warning: Cannot convert string

emacs displays empty rectangles in place of all characters

Hi folks I'm a bit of a newbie. I'm not sure what I've done to break emacs, but when it pops up now there are no characters, just empty rectangles - which makes me think the fonts are broken, but I don't know how to fix them. I also get this error: emacs Warning: Cannot convert string

keeping the same packages on multiple machines

Hi I am running a P4 desktop and a centrino notebook with Debian sid and I wanted to know what the best way is to keep the same set of packages installed on both machines. For the initial setup of the laptop, can I install a base system and then rsync /usr and /var/lib/dpkg from the desktop, or

Re: building an etch box

I had a crazy time upgrading from sarge to sid, but eventually I got through it. Here are some things I did. 1) do your kernel first - you need a 2.6.15 or everything will break. I had to use dpkg with force-break and all that to just get the packages that belonged to the kernel 2) If you

Re: X Problem with Etch

try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -p low this will tell it to ask you any possible questions, which have always included picking a video driver moduel when i ran that command good luck adam

kernel headers for 2.6.15.1-i686 (newbie)

Hi all. I'm running debian from within VMware Workstation, and VMware tools needs the kernel headers to compile. The only kernel headers I can find are for 2.6.8 can anyone tell me where to go to get headers for 2.6.15, or what I can use instead of headers? thanks Adam