Re: Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
been using it nonstop. I'm using testing, but can't think of anything which has changed since last Wednesday which would make such a difference... On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:11:14PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host

Re: Re: Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, Can you provide more information on your hardware? Output from a plain: lspci would be a start, as would the dmesg output. Okay, attaching those two. On my 1998 era PII machine with BIOStar M6TLC motherboard (Intel 440LX chipset), dmesg reports ACPI disabled in BIOS. I also purged

Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I have a seven-year old dual 450 MHz PIII machine which I upgraded from sarge to etch about a month ago. Running 2.6.16, 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 stock kernels, I have had frequent lockups, on the order of two to four per day before I go back to 2.6.8, but five just this morning between 9:30

Re: 'Applications - Preferences - Font' not working.

2004-05-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 05:34, Adam Bogacki wrote: Hm... 'libmetacity' does not seem to exist on my system. Tux:~# apt-get remove metacity Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package metacity is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0

Mounting NFS from an initrd

2004-02-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm trying to make an initrd script which allows mounting root NFS with a stock Debian kernel-image package, in the spirit of Russel Coker's http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200109/msg00307.html So I stuck a script in /etc/mkinitrd/scripts/nfs , and when I

Re: Mounting NFS from an initrd

2004-02-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 18:54, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, I'm trying to make an initrd script which allows mounting root NFS with a stock Debian kernel-image package, in the spirit of Russel Coker's http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200109/msg00307.html So I

Freenet seed nodes

2003-09-02 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, I'm looking for a seed node or two to use for freenet. I've installed freenet on a bunch of stable systems and the seedNodes have all failed in multiple attempts over the last two weeks (Attempts were made to contact 30 nodes. 30 were totally unreachable... The request couldn't even

Including external modules in initrd

2002-06-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm building a beowulf whose nodes have Intel gigabit NICs, whose drivers are not in the stock kernel. So, I got the e1000 driver (and debianized it, but haven't ITPd or uploaded yet), and would like to use it for nfs-root. The problem is, I can't get this module into the

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Robert Funnell wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get dist-upgrade This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between releases), I'd strongly recommend dselect or another tool with interactive

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Falk Hueffner wrote: Ted Goodridge, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I have to install stable first (on an alpha...due to woody install glitches), Hmm, what's wrong with the

tdfx X driver is whack; can't boot 2.4.2 image

2001-03-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, Just upgraded to the latest X 4 (and the rest of sid), and I can't be sure X worked since 4.0.2-2, but -11 is quite broken! At 1600x1200, I get about 30 lines of garbage at the top of the screen- in the right colors, roughly- and black for the rest of the screen, and the cursor is correct

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Mike Fedyk wrote: I'm going to keep my search to a text based email client, because I don't like to have to use vnc to view my email from home... Mutt is great in an Xterm, and picture viewing is good too. I wonder if mutt can use links or netscape for html viewing... Anyone know? It's

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Martin Bialasinski wrote: * Adam C Powell, IV Adam wrote: Oops, typo in the email! I was trying /#undel:hdb1 but to no avail. Just tried it again, no such file or directory. mc -V says the undelfs is not compiled in. I have no idea why, the object file is compiled during build. Maybe

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Martin Bialasinski wrote: * Adam C Powell, IV Adam wrote: Hi, So I looked through /var/lib/dpkg/available and found something promising-looking in mc. I installed, ran, read the instructions, and tried to cd /#debug:hdb1 but it kept saying no such file or directory. It's cd

Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, [Please cc me in replies... Thank you.] I erased a file this morning on an ext2fs partition on a potato machine, and would like to recover it. So I looked through /var/lib/dpkg/available and found something promising-looking in mc. I installed, ran, read the instructions, and tried

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
mike polniak wrote: Adam C Powell IV wrote: Can anyone help me to properly use mc or any other undelete function? Try apt-get install recover Then go to www.linux-mag.com and read about recover and undeleting files in the August 2000 issue. Oh, excellent, cool, amazing! That's

Re: sound question

2000-11-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Pittman wrote: Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, I just recompiled my kernel so that my sound now works. The only problem is that I have to enter: modprobe nm256 in order to get the module to load into the kernel. Any body know how I can automate this or

Re: debian: dhcpcd with Microsoft Windows2000 server

2000-09-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendan J Simon wrote: Our company has a Win2000 Domain server which has DNS and DHCP services. I have installed dhcpcd on our Debian Linux machines (PowerMac G4, PowerBook Pismo and a P133 machine) and they obtain the IP address and gateway from the Win2000 server without any problems. The

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-02-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendon B wrote: Okay, what about md v.90 in kernel = 2.3.40 or 2.4? I checked 2.3.40 and the old raid is in it. Where can i get a kernel that has new raid that is at least 2.2.14 or better? If you're satisfied with 2.2.14, just get the RAID 0.90 patch at

Re: Help HOWTO's

2000-01-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
JB Popnoe wrote: Beginner Linux - Up and running / need lots of examples and will start slow - using man help and would like to print some pages - mouse running but still need X11 -Debian manual back cover says intro - however Chpt. 9 makes a lot of assumptions that I

Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700

2000-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jonathan Markevich wrote: I got one of the above printers and reinstalled apsfilter with the Ghostscript escp2 driver but can't print... I get an error in filter f or something like that... Let me cut to the chase... I need a printcap! Has anyone else here got one of these working? I

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Khimenko Victor wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: AI Apologies for the delay, I've been having some email trouble. Future followups AI will be a lot quicker. AI Khimenko Victor wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

Re: ssh encryption

2000-01-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
hypnos wrote: Am I correct in assuming that the encryption between client/server is started before any exchange of data takes place? Specifically, I'm wondering if the username is passed in clear-text or encrypted when using the -l username option to ssh client. The machine public keys are

Re: PC as serial terminal via telnet

2000-01-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Philipp Braunbeck wrote: Hello folks, I'd like to connect a PC running Debian (zaphod) to our server (trillian) running Suse 6.0. Trillian connects to an intelligent Specialix SIO multiserial board. Zaphod should connect to this board via ttyS0/1 using telnet. Uh, using telnet? Via SLIP

Re: Help! - DEC Alpha install

2000-01-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Shawn wrote: I am installing Debian on an Alphastation 255 and am having problems getting Debian to boot from MILO. The error messages of interest are as follows: You might get more/better help on debian-alpha list, I usually subscribe to that and not this because of the traffic here, and

Re: my font suddently become very ugly

2000-01-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Shao Zhang wrote: Howard Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, A couple days ago, my font is just suddently become very ugly. I orginially thought it was the fvwm problem, then I found that all other window's manager have the same problem.

Re: mouse refuses to configure!

2000-01-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Joshua N Pritikin wrote: + The mouse hardware and cables are okay because the mouse works fine in Windows 95. + I suspected gpm so I disabled it with gpm -k and removed the startup file from /etc/rc6.d. Does the mouse work in GPM? Did you try gpmconfig in a console? That might help

Re: Sound in Debian

2000-01-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jeff Flowers wrote: Greetings, I have been using Debian on and off for some time. However, I have not yet seen how to add sound to a Debian system. Is there a package for Debian that supports sound? If it matters, I have an ESS 1371. What kernel are you using? If potato with one of the

Re: Two SCSI

2000-01-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christopher Clark wrote: I would like to set up a computer with two SCSI cards, probably an Advansys U2W and a NCR. i.e. two different makes. I know recent Red Hats can cope with this but am not sure Debian can. Are there any gotchas? This seems like more of a kernel issue than a distro

Re: NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

2000-01-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Dave Sherohman wrote: Adam C Powell IV said: Is there any way to set an NFS timeout so it only tries for, say, five seconds? Or anything else I can do to allow root logins to the clients when the server is down? Otherwise, I have to power cycle and wait for fsck... From man mount

Re: RAID trouble with SMP kernels

2000-01-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
aphro wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote: hazels Is it at all possible this could be a kernel compiler issue? I built the kernel with hazels the latest gcc, which is 2.95.2-3. hazels hazels If no answer by Friday I'll go to to the vger kernel list. ouch!!! dont ever

Printing to serial port?

2000-01-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I have a StarMax (Pmac 4400 clone by Motorola) with a LaserJet 1100 connected using PowerPrint, which is a mac serial to parallel interface which comes with MacOS driver software. How can I print to the serial port? I tell printtool to use device /dev/ttyS1, and when I print, it

NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

2000-01-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I have /var/spool/mail nfs mounted on my client machines, so users on the clients can use movemail to get their mail, and so mail sent to the client machines will go to the universal spool on the server. Unfortunately, when the server goes down, even root cannot log in to the clients,

Re: NIS and groups

1999-12-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter Ross wrote: On 03-Dec-1999, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] How do I set things up so that either it will recognize group memberships on the NIS server, or else allow me to add NIS users to local groups? Do I need to eliminate local groups like floppy, mail, etc

Re: apt-get on local filesystem

1999-12-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Robert J. Alexander wrote: I have a copy of debian/dists/unstable on my hard disk I am too dumb to understand how to specify the correct string in /etc/apt/sources.list so that apt will use this source instead of the HTTP sites (to which I have no connectivity). Use

NIS and groups

1999-12-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, To get Netscape movemail working on my NIS server, I did: adduser hazelsct mail so NS could write a lock file to /var/spool/mail. However, when I try to do this on the NIS clients, I get # adduser hazelsct mail Adding user hazelsct to group mail... usermod: hazelsct not found in

Re: WHAT THE F**K!!! (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP)

1999-12-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Ironically, your lines are too long. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd

Re: WHAT THE F**K!!! (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP)

1999-12-02 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Paul McHale wrote: Steve, I agree that I am using MS Outlook. I think it is the best program available for my use. I don't understand your difficulty. I forwarded the message to my linux server and opened it with mutt. It came across in plain text. I double checked the outlook

Re: Joystick on a SB32

1999-11-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ingles, Raymond wrote: From: David Blackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound support in my kernel, how can I get the joystick port on my SB32 to work without turning off auto-PNP in BIOS, and isapnp'ing it. I'm not sure you can. Somehow the

Re: RAID trouble with SMP kernels

1999-11-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Is it at all possible this could be a kernel compiler issue? I built the kernel with the latest gcc, which is 2.95.2-3. If no answer by Friday I'll go to to the vger kernel list. Adam C Powell wrote: Greetings, About two months ago, I built 2.2.12 with SMP and RAID 5 for my dual-Celeron

Re: Gnome/E

1999-11-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I have installed Gnome and Enlightenment on my Pentium 133/64MB RAM; I think Gnome is doing fine; there's no need to use dual Pentium machines. Currently it's pretty basic, no browser or file manager. For the file manager, you need to install gmc. There's a slightly

Re: Potato ISO-Images

1999-11-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, can anyone tell me, where I can get the ISO-Images for Potato with Kernet 2.2.13 ? I don't think there are any potato ISO images at this point. We don't even have finished boot floppies for many platforms! Sorry, -Adam P.

Re: CD-Writer recomendation!

1999-11-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: Hello again, A friend of mine is interested in buying a CD-Writer. He asked me to recomend a model to him, but I have no idea. Can anyone help me to go through this situation? There's a nice document on IDE CD-Rs and Zips at

Re: Font in GNOME

1999-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Sven Gaerner wrote: Hi! I'm running potato with GNOME and gmc with some icons on the desktop. The font of this icons is very bad to read... Can anybody help me? Is it that it's too small, or the letters are misshapen? I had some really ugly letters in the window title bars of

Re: HELP, my installation is broken!!

1999-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Svante Signell wrote: In an attempt to upgrade from slink to potato the installation got broken. The following I need help with. 1. Networking using eth0 and another computer as gateway is no longer functional. How do I reconfigure networking?? I'm not sure, that should be working.

Re: Proposal: Source file package format

1999-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Svante Signell wrote: Greetings, What do you think of the following proposal: In order to simplify for package authors/maintainers and to reduce duplication, distribute the source file packages in .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) format. This avoids the need to provide both .tar.gz, .src.rpm and

Re: NIS

1999-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Marcin Kurc wrote: I was a little bored today so I looked into the new NIS package. It works fine if you change a small thing :) Check out your /var/yp/Makefile, you probably have an entry like this: # Should we merge the passwd file with the shadow file ? # MERGE_PASSWD=true|false

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

1999-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brian Servis wrote: *- On 12 Nov, Adam C Powell IV wrote about Re: stopping x from starting automatically Is there some reason xdm and gdm are linked from /etc/rc.2 and /etc/rc.3? I thought only runlevel 5 was supposed to start X by default. I remove these links myself, but it seems

Re: Small observation [FYI]

1999-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter Iannarelli wrote: Hello all: I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the following: When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between /bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash. Following the loss of this sym-link all

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

1999-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, Is there some reason xdm and gdm are linked from /etc/rc.2 and /etc/rc.3? I thought only runlevel 5 was supposed to start X by default. I remove these links myself, but it seems like making this default would be real easy, and would make Debian that much more standard. If no reason by

Re: NIS

1999-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ramin Motakef wrote: Hi! DonĀ“t know if this is our problem, but after a recent ubgrade of a slink box the +::: entryies in /etc/passwd and /etc/group on this box where missing. I didnt notice this at first, as i was logged in as root, so i dont know which package caused this

Re: NIS

1999-11-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
A me too: NIS stopped working for me about a week ago. All I did was add a user, then cd /var/yp; make. Normal console login at the clients just spits me out as if I gave a bad username or password. gdm shakes and says, Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. Logging in as

Re: Why use Enlightenment?

1999-11-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Another opinion, worth what you're paying for it: I actually switched from E to sawmill and then back to E. Why? Part of it was the eye candy, I really like the real-time ripples on the bottom of the screen using just 2% of cpu (Celeron 333), translucent drag is dead cool, tooltips are classic,

Re: NIS

1999-11-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Marcin Kurc wrote: I was writing about earlier but everybody said thet NIS works fine :) It looks that nis 3.6 doesnt support shadow passwords. I'm using 3.4-1 and it works fine. REALLY? Can you say, release-critical bug? The docs say nothing about this. I don't see any reported bugs on

Re: Couldn't update dpkg

1999-09-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Patrik Magnusson wrote: I hope these lines say it all (because I can't think of anything to add). Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Koyote wrote: It would be nice if Debian had a similar one-floppy net install arrangement. Hmm, seems to me that though it may take a bit more (nine floppies for slink) the same thing is available. Shouldn't be too hard to set up an install based on three floppies (the

Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
W. Paul Mills wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam C Powell IV) writes: William T Wilson wrote: They probably aren't, but based on what you have to say here, I'd check and make sure that your network card isn't sharing an interrupt with your ide interface. Ahem, from the original

Re: Netscape (wishlist/ buglist such)

1999-09-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 01:46:51PM -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: - Both in the browser in the mail subsystems, images should be loaded AFTER the whole text/HTML code has been loaded (and displayed) Just a comment on this one. Netscape (and other browsers)

Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
rick wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Greetings, I'm having bizarre troubles with the base 2.1 system (2.0.36-scsimod) on an Abit BP6 dual-celeron system with Triton IDE DMA chipset and twin 3C905 ethernet cards. After my first net access (via eth0), be it ping or

Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
William T Wilson wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote: I get this all the time when I try to access a drive that is in sleep mode. It takes it a minute or two and then it comes back to life and works normally. I have an old '96 era Intel Triton motherboard. Okay

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Richard E. Hawkins wrote: Damon dabbled, Seeing Debian is such an internet-centric (ie., apt) distribution, it would be nice if you could install the whole thing with one the one or two boot disks (I'm sure you can with redhat). Even if the boot disk had a little FTP client (like wget

Re: failed network stuff

1999-09-02 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jim Warren wrote: I did a cold boot and it fixed the problem You'ved saved me again. Zeen. No problem. :-) It's funny- I had just subscribed to debian-user that very morning, and asked one question, and for every one I ask I like to try to answer one, so yours was it. :-) On one of those

Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm having bizarre troubles with the base 2.1 system (2.0.36-scsimod) on an Abit BP6 dual-celeron system with Triton IDE DMA chipset and twin 3C905 ethernet cards. After my first net access (via eth0), be it ping or apt-get update or whatever, the next disk access causes an IRQ

Re: [Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)

1999-09-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Evan Van Dyke wrote: Jean-Philippe Guirard wrote: On Linux, you will only be able to use the 3Dfx 3D accelaration with the applications specially designed to use it (Quake 2 is the only one I know of) from a VGA console. Or have an accelerated Server... don't know how accelerated

Re: failed network stuff

1999-09-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hey Jim, Did you boot Windoze since last power cycling? Win98 somehow disables the card. But you probably know that, having read the same web sites I have about the Z505S. Just wanted to say hi. :-) Zeen, -Adam P.