Dan Christensen j...@uwo.ca writes:
I've just bought the following motherboard
Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H, 9400G IGP, 512MB
but can't get X to run. I'm using an old Debian etch installation, but
I have upgraded X and the kernel to lenny. I used the nvidia installer
to install driver
I've just bought the following motherboard
Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H, 9400G IGP, 512MB
but can't get X to run. I'm using an old Debian etch installation, but
I have upgraded X and the kernel to lenny. I used the nvidia installer
to install driver version 180.29, and have confirmed that the
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
On 02/11/2009 09:39 PM, Dan Christensen wrote:
I have a system running etch. I believe it has this kernel installed:
linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2
The motherboard failed a few days ago, and I've just got a new
motherboard
Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com writes:
What I would do is put a live system on a USB flash drive (System Rescue
CD is what I usually use) and mount the unbootable hard drive from
within the live system. At that point you could wget a kernel deb from
http://ftp.uk.debian.org onto your old
Dan Christensen j...@uwo.ca writes:
Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com writes:
What I would do is put a live system on a USB flash drive (System Rescue
CD is what I usually use) and mount the unbootable hard drive from
within the live system. At that point you could wget a kernel deb from
http
Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote:
Now one thing about my system is that mounting /usr will be a bit
awkward, since it is lvm over several raid 5 devices.
Can anyone think of a way to install a kernel .deb without
I have a system running etch. I believe it has this kernel installed:
linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2
The motherboard failed a few days ago, and I've just got a new
motherboard and cpu. However, the machine won't boot.
The new cpu is a Core2Duo, but even though the kernel is
If I run kbdrate as root from the command line:
# kbdrate -r 23
Typematic Rate set to 21.8 cps (delay = 250 ms)
it works fine. But if I run it from a script in /etc/apmd/event.d
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
resume)
kbdrate -r 23 21 | logger
;;
esac
I get
ioctl(KDKBDREP):
I'm hoping to avoid a reinstall.]
After getting dpkg working, are there any suggestions about how to
restore the other parts of /var?
Thanks for any advice. Please cc me on replies.
Dan
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Peter De Wachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:16:24PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
But on a 14 inch 1600x1200 screen it's too small. Can anyone
recommend any good fixed-width fonts which are available in
large sizes? (truetype
Tim locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
uh, how can I make use of xfonts-terminus? I've
installed it but there was no readme or man page to
help out...
There's a readme in /usr/share/doc/xfonts-terminus.
% xterm -fn terminus-20
works for me.
But on a 14 inch 1600x1200 screen it's too small.
Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can get into my company's intranet with this:
ssh -n -L 4281:www.secure.com:80 ssh.secure.com sleep 43200
Then, to access http://www.secure.com/page.html, I use
http://localhost:4281/page.html. And this works, so long as all of
links in
Hi All
I have a problem with SB Audigy soundcard, i have to do a insmod
emu10k1.o every time i have done a reboot, i tryed to put in a alias in
the file /etc/modutils/aliases no cigar soo i put in the line
alias sound emu10k1 in the file /etc/modules.conf but no luck so now i
dont know anymore.
for the rgba setting in
XftConfig is reversed. When I set it to bgr (I'm pretty sure my Dell
Inspiron UXGA screen is bgr, as you go left to right), a small dot is
rendered as a blue pixel to the left of a red pixel, rather than the
other way around. Anyone else having this problem?
Dan
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Hi all
Im having som problems with sub, i have dl the driver from tekram, bu it
only a .c and a .h files, ant i dont know how to compile them so it
works, or some other way of gettign this scsi controler to work, via a
moduls. Pleas guide me im a total newbe
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Hans Ekbrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:54:56PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
I want to route some traffic though a remote computer (R) to my home
computer (H).
[web traffice]
Another way of doing it, a bit more unsecure maybe, would be to
install a proxyserver on R
Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hans Ekbrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:54:56PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
I want to route some traffic though a remote computer (R) to my home
computer (H).
[web traffic]
Another way of doing it, a bit more unsecure
C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Dan Christensen wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm having what sounds like the same problem. See bug #96709
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=96709repeatmerged=yes
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C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I installed a machine from debian unstable a few weeks ago, and I've been
utterly unable to get X forwarding to work when logging into the machine
remotely.
I'm having what sounds like the same problem. See bug #96709
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ssh -C -X ipmasq_box from work_linux_box
ssh -C -X xserver_box from ipmasq_box (same session as above)
In a new work_linux_box session: export DISPLAY=ipmasq_box:0.0
xterm
Don't set the DISPLAY variable. ssh does it for you.
Dan
Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm a little embarrassed. I've installed debian around 50 times, but
somehow I can't do it on this computer. I've started the installer (off
of floppies), and I've gotten to the point where I should be able to
install the base system over the
I get the following error message once or twice an hour in my syslog:
May 31 13:25:55 ren kernel: request_module[net-pf-10]: fork failed, errno 11
This happens whether or not I have
#alias net-pf-10 off# IPv6
commented out in my /etc/modutils/aliases file (and I did remember
to run
the dif is from version
to wersion, so i can finde the version best for me.
Sorry if this Q has been up before, but im fearly new to Linux.
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Philip Bubel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am having problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE. I'm running kernel 2.4.3 with
the latest potato packages of IPMASQ and PPPOE, and the kernel is complied
correctly (I think). I am able to use PPPOE no problem, as the Linux box can
connect to the internet,
Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Philip Bubel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am having problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE. I'm running kernel 2.4.3 with
the latest potato packages of IPMASQ and PPPOE, and the kernel is complied
correctly (I think). I am able to use PPPOE no problem
Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i dont use hardlinks.. ( creates portability problems )
If you have standard Debian software installed, like gzip, then
you use hardlinks.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# ls -l /bin/*zip*
-rwxr-xr-x4 root root46160 Dec 2 1999 /bin/gunzip*
-rwxr-xr-x
Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- yes the hardlinks for gunzip and gzip is not a issue in that
case since its in the same directory/partitions
- hardlinks is a problem when it crosses directories
and partitions since it keeps the leading /
Hardlinks can't cross partitions.
allocation.
Gnu tar tries to handle the latter, according to the docs.
But I've had trouble with unpacking hardlinks with Gnu tar. They seem
to be stored in the tar file including the leading /, so they can't
be unpacked with /usr mounted as /mnt/usr, say.
Dan
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Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i think the problem you have w/ hardlinks is more basic,
how to create hard links or soft links... not a tar problem
...
relative links is the preferred methodology ( hard or soft )
and avoids the leading / and allows the portability of
the files to be
Dwayne C. Litzenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Turn on forwarding:
echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
That's already done. As I said, I can connect to remote systems
through the firewall machine, and data flows back and forth. It's
just that it freezes up within a couple of minutes,
My main machine, scratchy, is connected to the net using PPPOE (PPP
over ethernet) over DSL. I have another machine, cheddar, connected
to a second ethernet card on scratchy with an ethernet crossover
cable. I am trying to using netfilter (iptables) to masquerade
cheddar behind scratchy, and it
Does anyone have any clever solutions to the following problem of a
similar nature: I want to run a job at 28 day intervals, i.e. on
every fourth Sunday.
Dan
Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is my problem with the Linksys NIC:
. I have two NICs: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 and Intel 10/100
. Using 2.4.3 Kernel and have tulip.o module compiled in it.
. The Interl NIC is detected as eth0 (btw, did I compile any support
for that card?
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:41:29AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote:
For the record, the stp driver in gs works great for me with my
epson stylus color 860. The print-4.0a3 package, available from
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/, contains instructions
For the record, the stp driver in gs works great for me with my
epson stylus color 860. The print-4.0a3 package, available from
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/, contains instructions for
recompiling gs with the stp driver which are specifically for
Debian.
Also available there is a .deb of
I use the following to make capslock act as control in the console
window. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to do this without
installing console-tools, which depends on console-data and
console-tools-libs, which altogether require almost 5M of disk space
on my machine. Any thoughts?
Dan
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:00:43PM -0500, Dan Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I use the following to make capslock act as control in the console
window. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to do this without
installing console-tools, which depends
Is there a way to convert an existing partition to reiserfs? Or does
one have to create a new reiserfs partition and copy stuff over? Is
there documentation outlining the procedure?
Dan
Stewart James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Is anyone successfully running wp8 under debian unstable or testing.
On execuation I get an error, can not find libXpm.so.4 it is unstalled it
is there(/usr/X11R6/lib/). If I copy the library to /usr/lib. wp finds it
but segfaults.
To install
brian moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:44:27PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
Hey,
I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo),
and I was noticing that 'linux' was using nearly 50m of memory. I
was rather disturbed, and wondering why
/spool/news/message.id/046/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Input/output error
% cat /var/spool/news/message.id/046/\[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cat: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Input/output error
Can anyone explain what could be causing this? Could my hard drives
be failing?
Thanks for any help,
Dan
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, for example.) It
has very blotchy vertical lines.
Dan
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Michael Abraham Shulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just upgraded a bunch of packages to unstable and now my X server
dies saying
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
This happened to me to. I downloaded the xfonts-base deb and did dpkg
-i on it (same version I already
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:36:39PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
I have put limits in /etc/security/limits.conf to prevent a user from
bringing down my machine by using up all the memory, and I have
uncommented the line
sessionrequired
, but these settings are
ignored by both ssh and xdm logins.
Moreover, the tcsh limit command and the bash ulimit command are
also ignored, in all cases.
Can anyone suggest a way to set process limits for ssh and xdm logins?
Any help appreciated.
Dan
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Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You do need to install nessusd on the machine you are going to scan, right?
Really? I don't think that is the case. I thought the whole point
was to be able to scan a machine from the outside
The solution to my problem turns out to be a missing directory:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
anybody gotten this to work? if so what did you do? i can't get it to
login..i added a user (test/test) but it wont let me login.
I didn't try nessus with potato, but with woody I am having no trouble
logging in. I made the user name for nessus the
Is there an easy way to determine what makes a filesystem busy, e.g.
what prevents me from remounting /usr readonly after an upgrade?
Usually some file that was erased is being held open by a process,
but I don't know an easy way to determine which file or process.
lsof | grep usr is a start, but
Christophe TROESTLER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an easy way to determine what makes a filesystem busy, e.g.
what prevents me from remounting /usr readonly after an upgrade?
Usually some file that was erased is being
Lately when I've been doing 'apt-get -s dist-upgrade' on my woody system
I often get dozens of things like
Inst kernel-package [shellutils on hurd]
Can someone tell me what this means? Thanks.
Dan
by server.
debug: Connections to local port 119 forwarded to remote address
news.jhu.edu:119
debug: Local forwarding listening on 127.0.0.1 port 119.
bind: Address already in use
Disconnecting: cannot listen port: 119
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When I logout from my Debian machine (recently updated from woody)
after connecting via ssh, the following message is put into my
syslog. I can't figure out what is causing it. Any ideas?
scratchy sshd[1415]: PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; MAIL
Thanks for any help.
Dan
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/ssh_config:ForwardX11 yes
/etc/ssh/sshd_config:X11Forwarding yes
Supplying the appropriate command line options doesn't help. The
machine is running
ii ssh1.2.2-1.4 Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH)
Any suggestions?
Dan
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code and output also on that
channel. But this seems a bit tricky to set up.
Thanks for any ideas.
Dan
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, but you are encouraged to cc your replies
directly to me.
Thanks very much,
Dan
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Scott Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
D == Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
D Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very
D strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from
D cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point
Setting /dev/ttyS1 irq to 7; ejecting cards; inserting cards.
setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 7
sleep 1
cardctl eject 0
sleep 3
cardctl insert 0
Of course, the irq you choose may need to be different.
Hope this helps.
Dan
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but thought I'd start here first. Thanks for any
information.
Dan
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What happened? Would manually changing all the bad symlinks
in /etc/alternatives to point to the right place be the correct
fix? Is there an automatic way to do this?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Dan
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Graham Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I went that path also (dist-upgrade to get potato) and had some of the
same problems.
The most serious for me was that my pcmcia modem card stopped working
somewhere along the way.
I also have had this problem. One thing that makes my modem work
:
Scripts must follow the #!/bin/interpretername convention
in order to be executed. They will not automatically be
executed by /bin/sh.
Dan
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of the problem is
fixed.
Comments or requests for further information, to the list or
directly to me, are welcome. Should I submit this to the bug-tracking
system? I've never done this -- is it self-explanatory?
Dan
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this as a bug in the installation procedure. Either
fetchmail should deliver to user (without the @localhost)
or exim should be configured by default to accept such mail.
Dan
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The reason that I'm asking is that I have a Celeron chip, so I
was surprised to see 486 stuff. Thanks for any info.
Dan
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