Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Dave Bresson
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Andrew n marshall wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > > Install perl-5.004 (not -base) > > I have perl-5.005.03-7 installed, which I would think would be enough. > > > When will people learn? > > When there is obvious documentation on the difference, such in the

Re: APIC error

2001-02-20 Thread Dave Bresson
it does so to a measurable degree. > > Also, the kernel mailing list is going to be packed with emails about APIC, > if you feel like sifting through the moutain of posts. > > Cheers, > > Sean > > > On Monday 19 February 2001 15:46, Dave Bresson wrote: > > Hi,

APIC error

2001-02-19 Thread Dave Bresson
Hi, in my system logs i'm getting tons and tons of this error message: APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC erro

annoying modules.dep message

2001-02-17 Thread Dave Bresson
Hi, Just a quick question that shouldn't be too hard to answer. Since rolling my own 2.4.1 kernel, I'm getting this annoying message during bootup that i can't get to go away: modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.1/modules.dep i tried doing a 'depmod -a' t

annoying modules.dep message

2001-02-16 Thread Dave Bresson
Hi, Just a quick question that shouldn't be too hard to answer. Since rolling my own 2.4.1 kernel, I'm getting this annoying message during bootup that i can't get to go away: modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.1/modules.dep i tried doing a 'depmod -a'

Re: IMPS/2 problems after kernel 2.4.1 update

2001-02-16 Thread Dave Bresson
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: > Okay, first of all, please use paragraphs. They exist for a reason :) > Since it's too much trouble for me to break things up to present a nice > clear, response, you'll have to deal with my babbling. > Yeah, sorry about that...my babbling doesn't tra

IMPS/2 problems after kernel 2.4.1 update

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Bresson
Hi there, I'm having a problem with my Microsoft Intellimouse (an intellimouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel that uses the ps/2 interface) since going from a 2.2.x kernel to 2.4.1. The way i have setup (and how everything worked perfectly before this upgrade) was that gpm was set to read

Re: can't listen to my audio cds

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Bresson
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, brian moore wrote: > In order to make groups work, you have to log out and log back in (only > root can change which groups you're in, else they're inherited from the > program's parent ... logging out takes you back to login or xdm, which > is running as root and can start it

can't listen to my audio cds

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Bresson
hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation. The problem is that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio cds. Before anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and the drive does work properly otherwise. By this, i mean that i can mount any kinda of data cd t

netmap_lm

2000-08-24 Thread Dave Bresson
Hi, i just did a port scan of my machine, and noticed something out of the ordinary (at least to me). I could account for every open port on my machine but one: port 1493, which nmap reported as being netmap_lm . I'm curious as to what this really is, since i can't figure it out. It's not in /

screensaver not working in gnome/enlightenment

2000-08-23 Thread Dave Bresson
Hi, i'm running off a new install of Potato, with GNOME and E all happily working. However, their is one problem. The various utilities in all the GNOME menus for screensavers don't work. In other words, i can't get the screensaver to kick in at all after it's initial idle time (or for that ma

Re: Voodoo 3

2000-08-20 Thread Dave Bresson
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, David Bellows wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm now trying to configure my Voodoo 3 2000 card for fullscreen mode. > As far as I can tell I've installed everything from the Debian CDs > pertaining to glide and mesa and 3dfx. Now I'm left with a > device3dfx.tar.gz in /usr/src. W

Re: console-apt

2000-08-20 Thread Dave Bresson
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Dave Bresson wrote: > > > > how do you get console-apt? I can't find any package in potato named > 'console-apt'. Are you talking about aptitude maybe? Or is there some > other place i should look? > > oops, sorry to answ

console-apt

2000-08-20 Thread Dave Bresson
how do you get console-apt? I can't find any package in potato named 'console-apt'. Are you talking about aptitude maybe? Or is there some other place i should look? thanks, dave

getting dma66 support in kernel

2000-08-19 Thread Dave Bresson
so i used to be running the 2.2.17-ide kernel which came with potato, but have since took it upon myself to go with a homegrown kernel, one which i have configured and compiled myself. I downloaded the source to 2.2.16 and patched it to the latest 2.2.17pre19. I configured, and compiled it usin

Re: problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-18 Thread Dave Bresson
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, David Wright wrote: > > a) If you're compiling a kernel module, you need kernel headers. > When people write /usr/src/linux, they really mean "the kernel headers > for the running kernel". Okay, i *do* have the kernel headers in /usr/src, (/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.17/inc

Re: problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-18 Thread Dave Bresson
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, David Wright wrote: > > a) If you're compiling a kernel module, you need kernel headers. > When people write /usr/src/linux, they really mean "the kernel headers > for the running kernel". Okay, i *do* have the kernel headers in /usr/src, (/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.17/inc

problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-18 Thread Dave Bresson
So with the new release of potato, i've gone and done a clean install onto a new machine of mine. The problem at hand (i think) stems from the fact that this machine has a HighPoint 66 card, so i thought it ideal to install the special 2.2.17-ide kernel included with potato. So during the fresh

problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-17 Thread Dave Bresson
So with the new release of potato, i've gone and done a clean install onto a new machine of mine. The problem at hand (i think) stems from the fact that this machine has a HighPoint 66 card, so i thought it ideal to install the special 2.2.17-ide kernel included with potato. So during the fresh