On Tuesday 20 October 2009 21:45:35 David Baron wrote:
Last couple of days! Filled up /var causing numerous problems.
These files are over 1 gig. I deleted the day-old ones to free up space.
The older ones are tiny.
What's happening? Fix?
These are mostly messages from gpm
Oct 20 14
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 21:45:35 David Baron wrote:
Last couple of days! Filled up /var causing numerous problems.
These files are over 1 gig. I deleted the day-old ones to free up space.
The older ones are tiny.
What's happening? Fix?
These are mostly messages from gpm
Oct 20 14
I have been holding up the upgrade because of this. Meanwhile, several new
versions have been on Sid. Other grave bugs have been closed.
Is it safe to upgrade libc6 stuff?
Is this bug still current?
An amd-64 version bug?
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My daughter was running ppracer in a KDE3.5 session when the system stopped
cold. At least, the UI, Xorg was frozen, no escape ctrl/alt/F1 to console.
After reboot, had a slew of these in the logs:
Nov 11 20:55:15 d_baron kernel: [drm:drm_lock_take] ERROR 1 holds heavyweight
lock
Running
On Sunday 18 October 2009 18:41:09 David Baron wrote:
As undemocratic at it seems, sometimes it is necessary from some logins not
to be able to access internet browsing and such.
How might one set this up?
The following command was suggested on a site sporting a similar thread:
iptables
Is there any way to reduce the printing of black ink in an HP690C inkjet using
CUPS or HPLIP or properties in okular, et al?
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The firewalls, i.e. guarddog, etc., set up rule sets for iptables. Iptables
documentation says its for ip4. There is also an ip6tables. This does not have
all the chains and rules set.
Seems things are using ip6 now. Netstat cites ip6-localcost;.
Should ip6tables replace iptables?
Should
I connect now through pptp. The computer sends the login and a cron job
attempts to keep the connection. Various files in /etc/ppp/peers have login
info and some options.
How do I change to a router (the router logs in and tries to keep the
connection)?
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Running from a kernel build with the old deprecated proc stuff inactivated as
recommended--I get these warnings from lilo:
~$ sudo lilo
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 21:08:55 David Baron wrote:
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 20:23:54 debian-user-digest-
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Hey,
Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest chromium
build ( 4.0.223.11)?
They seem to install fine but they do
I connect now through pptp. The computer sends the login and a cron job
attempts to keep the connection. Various files in /etc/ppp/peers have login
info and some options.
How do I change to a router (the router logs in and tries to keep the
connection)?
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As undemocratic at it seems, sometimes it is necessary from some logins not to
be able to access internet browsing and such.
How might one set this up?
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Hey,
Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest chromium
build ( 4.0.223.11)?
They seem to install fine but they do not work, and also, are not
getting listed when
On Sunday 18 October 2009 18:41:09 David Baron wrote:
As undemocratic at it seems, sometimes it is necessary from some logins not
to be able to access internet browsing and such.
How might one set this up?
The suggestion was made to use iptables, gui-owner -- drop.
Iptables is configured
Are these going to be released to SId?
Repos still list rc6-experimental. I have seen references to 2.6.31.4 !
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Are these going to be released to SId?
Repos still list rc6-experimental. I have seen references to 2.6.31.4 !
I don't pay close attention to what is in the repos, but I don't recall
seeing an
Last couple of days! Filled up /var causing numerous problems.
These files are over 1 gig. I deleted the day-old ones to free up space.
The older ones are tiny.
What's happening? Fix?
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Last couple of days! Filled up /var causing numerous problems.
These files are over 1 gig. I deleted the day-old ones to free up space.
The older ones are tiny.
What's happening? Fix?
These are mostly messages from gpm
Oct 20 14:23:47 d_baron /usr/sbin/gpm[4547]: *** err
As undemocratic at it seems, sometimes it is necessary from some logins not to
be able to access internet browsing and such.
How might one set this up?
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After recent upgrades from Sid, I am getting error messages on bootup which
(for now, apparently) are harmless:
1. Udev complains about sysfs -- either update kernel or disable CONFIG_SYSFS.
Udev may not function correctly .
2. Isapnp complains about its conf file, no action taken. ISA
On Thursday 01 October 2009 08:54:45 debian-user-digest-
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really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately
acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The
option Fit to printable area in the print dialog.
I have that always
For the last few weeks (after some upgrade on Sid), I get the syslogd messages
(i.e. stopped packets by firewall) also in kde konsole or yakuake windows
(virtual consoles) as well as in real ones. This happens in both kde3 and
kde4 so is not a kde4 upgrade issue.
Changing
This used to work quite nicely. However, now, obvious porn with all the right
text is not trapped. Has the configuration changed or is this simply broken?
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On Monday 07 September 2009 03:08:49 debian-user-digest-
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Purging bittorrent and the othes leaves me with obsolete init.d scripts
from jackd and timidity. I want these packages but not necessarily the
init.d scripts to start them. (In fact, Timidity now has a
The upgrade from sid finds it unsafe to change to dependency based boot and
leaves it unconfigured with a couple of missing .rc files.
1. Is the system bootable at this point?
2. Downgrade this to testing? I did that but can always re-upgrade.
3. Leaving the co-version sysvinit-utils for now
On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:23:10 debian-user-digest-
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The upgrade from sid finds it unsafe to change to dependency based boot
and leaves it unconfigured with a couple of missing .rc files.
What are .rc files?
Reinstalling over testing did not flag them
On Saturday 29 August 2009 23:00:53 David Baron wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2009 16:53:08 David Baron wrote:
My (older analog hw) modem, had connected on /dev/ttyS2, no longer
works, say in minicom. I am running Sid. Anything I should know about
here?
There is a lot we should
On Sunday 30 August 2009 07:07:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org
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On windows machines, there is google desktop which searchs the files
contents. Mac has spotlight which also search the file contents in a
mac machine.
In linux, I know the command 'locate' which search
On Thursday 27 August 2009 16:53:08 David Baron wrote:
My (older analog hw) modem, had connected on /dev/ttyS2, no longer
works, say in minicom. I am running Sid. Anything I should know about
here?
There is a lot we should know about here if we are to help you. Exactly
what model
My (older analog hw) modem, had connected on /dev/ttyS2, no longer works, say
in minicom. I am running Sid. Anything I should know about here?
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Running Debian Sid, I get messages akin to the following on bootup (these are
from guarddog since the originals are not recorded anywhere):
Using iptables.
Resetting firewall rules.
Loading kernel modules.
Setting kernel parameters.
/tmp/kde-davidQusEQL/guarddogZsvEBa.tmp: line 1291: warning:
My (older analog hw) modem, had connected on /dev/ttyS2, no longer works, say
in minicom. I am running Sid. Anything I should know about here?
Anything in upgrades on Sid within the last few days?
Example, gpm failed on a reboot today after upgrade. Had to change the
gpm.conf file to access
It is on the heavy side but works well. Got tired of the double and triple
clicks happening with other rodents.
This one has a receiver that plugs into a USB. Is there any way to get it
working through one of those UBS-PS2 adapters (it did not come with one)?
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My (older analog hw) modem, had connected on /dev/ttyS2, no longer
works, say in minicom. I am running Sid. Anything I should know about
here?
There is a lot we should know about here if we are to help you. Exactly
what model modem do you have, exactly what have you tried, and exactly
Code for this dinosaur apparently exists in the kernel sources. Make
menuconfig show no options to compile it, however.
Any way to do this? Deprecated? Not working?
(I have very old sources that I used to build manually but these have not been
touched in a couple of years, it seems, no longer
RKhunter cistes the following: directories /etc/.java and /dev/.udev
The .java is emtpy.
The .udev has db names rules.d uevent_seqnum watch
Do these belong there or are they a problem?
Delete them?
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I want all browsers to go through a proxy localhost:3128 or such.
How might I set this up system-wise (as root) ?
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I am toying with livedrive which is an ecomomical storage site. It caters to
the windows crowd but, partly at my nagging, set up ftp access. I now nag them
for rsync :-)
The problem with ALL of these is upload speeds. The large backup needs the
rockest solidest connection to simply get done.
I have seen postings about rsyncing through curlftpfs mounted sites,
suggesting this can be done. I have not succeded at this--rsync thinks it is
uploading but nothing is actually done.
I have seen posting stating that libcurl does not support rsync.
Any way or package to enable this?
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I mean, really stuck, with oops-like kernel messages complaining about the
process. How do I get rid of it?
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This goody lets one mount a remote ftp to one's local filesystem using fuse.
However, navigating this mounted filesystem is s slw as to render it
quite problematic. Anything accessing it such as dolphin or a terminal session
gets stuck up quite well.
I do not understand curlftpfs's
Setting up java-gcj-compat-headless (1.0.80-5.1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative rmiregistry can't be master: it is a
slave of java
dpkg: error processing java-gcj-compat-headless
compiled 2.6.30-2 off Sid, built and booted up just fine.
Firmware-linux for matrox cards is incorrect. So I tried some surgery. I tool
mga-warp.c and mga-ucode.h from 2.6.28, which had working firmware, and
placed in the 2.6.30 sources (after having saved the orignal mga-warp.c and
the
The renicing daemon and will reset POSITIVE or 0 nice levels to processes
after certain running times (or can send kill signals for negative numbers).
Is there any way to have is ignore/exclude specific processes?
Alternative renicers that work as well or better?
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I compiled 2.6.30-2 off Sid, built and booted up just fine.
Firmware-linux for matrox cards is incorrect. So I tried some surgery. I tool
mga-warp.c and mga-ucode.h from 2.6.28, which had working firmware, and placed
in the 2.6.30 sources (after having saved the orignal mga-warp.c and the
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:00:13 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org
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I started out with a hd install of Knoppix 3.3. This was excellent,
simple to install (though getting sound a ADSL pptp was tricky at first!)
I used that happily until I discovered apt-get updates and
I started out with a hd install of Knoppix 3.3. This was excellent, simple to
install (though getting sound a ADSL pptp was tricky at first!) I used that
happily until I discovered apt-get updates and upgrades. The system has been
steadily upgraded to Sid, 2.6.30 custom kerenel, KDE 4.2.2, etc.
I compiled and an now running the 2.6.30 kernel.
1. Ext3 fs now default to writeback data mode instead of ordered-data. I does
seem quicker. Question is whether this mode is safe? Should I tune2fs back?
Should I use extents along with the writeback data mode?
2. Following new error:
svc:
On Monday 15 June 2009 08:20:23 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org
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Even more. I get a bootup error message failing to set date (and time)
to ... the following day + 3 hours!!
You may have a bad system clock. That does happen on some older
hardware or if a CMOS battery goes
Probably a bug in the latest and greatest xorg off Sid.
Somewhere along the line, tty's get lost. That's right ... lost. Hitting
alt/ctrl/F1 yields either the Debian blue swirl or once kde4 is up, a funny
version of the current screen. alt/F7 gets the kde session back. No TTY0
session.
Get no
I am liking this more and more. I have preferred opera but the current version
is awful slow to start doing anything. Chrome, it's just there, up and
running.
A few points:
1. It does not download anything without knowledge or permission. Others will
open an upgrade available window on start
Has been happening quite a bit lately:
Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800
seconds ... that is 30 minutes.
The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint
about 10,800 seconds of time, killing itself now! Restarting it again
works
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1. It does not download anything without knowledge or permission. Others
will open an upgrade available window on start and give you the choice.
Chrome, if you do not defeat this feature, upgrades will show
Has been happening quite a bit lately:
Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800
seconds ... that is 30 minutes.
The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint
about 10,800 seconds of time, killing itself now! Restarting it again
works
The Google Chromium Browser is working on my Debian box. Very quick, works
certainly better the kde4 konqueror. Flash not yet implemented.
There is a .deb package. Has a nice convenience (should be an option
postinstall, however): the installation will somehow set it that apt-get
update will
Has been happening quite a bit lately:
Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800
seconds ... that is 30 minutes.
The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint
about 10,800 seconds of time, killing itself now! Restarting it again
works
Has been happening quite a bit lately:
Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800
seconds ... that is 30 minutes.
The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint about
10,800 seconds of time, killing itself now! Restarting it again works
I am getting a lot of these today:
... spamd[7741]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases
/root/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: Interrupted system call
There is no such file(s).
What is happening here?
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These are the latest fad. Comes with USB connector and a windows program
(which wine will not run).
Connecting the USB yields the usual vfat file system. It mounts
read-only-- left to it own devices, KDE will mount it in /media/disk.
How might I use this contraption. Maybe (maybe
These are the latest fad. Comes with USB connector and a windows program
(which wine will not run).
Connecting the USB yields the usual vfat file system. It mounts read-only--
left to it own devices, KDE will mount it in /media/disk.
How might I use this contraption. Maybe (maybe not), an
This is a video addon driver for Matrox cards. Compiled and installed using
module-assistant (m-a).
A manual modprobe for this yields a segmentation fault. However, the thing is
loaded:
~$ lsmod | grep mga
mga_vid12492 1
mga29556 2
drm
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The new console-setup from Sid providing uniform console properties to
Xorg and elsewhere places init scripts:
~$ locate console | grep rcS
/etc/rcS.d/S48console-screen.sh
/etc/rcS.d/S49console-setup
On Thursday 21 May 2009 00:33:23 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org
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The new console-setup from Sid providing uniform console properties to
Xorg and elsewhere places init scripts:
~$ locate console | grep rcS
/etc/rcS.d/S48console-screen.sh
/etc/rcS.d/S49console-setup
Until I can get something else on the level of an nvidia, I am stuck with this
old clunker. I have installed the required firmware-linux and mga-vid which is
recommended for video viewing with this card.
Problem: Any attempt at DRI freezes system. This may be a bug in the firmware
after being
The new console-setup from Sid providing uniform console properties to Xorg
and elsewhere places init scripts:
~$ locate console | grep rcS
/etc/rcS.d/S48console-screen.sh
/etc/rcS.d/S49console-setup
These get run fairly late on the bootup sequence. This is OK but can yield a
funny screen
I enabled dovecot's pop3 and could get the messages that way, just fine.
Messages just sat in the mail /var/mail/$USER directory running the IMAP. Had
been working just fine yesterday.
Any ideas? Need to add something to exim4 config? Bug?
Should it have affected the IMAP at all??
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I enabled dovecot's pop3 and could get the messages that way, just fine.
Messages just sat in the mail /var/mail/$USER directory running the IMAP. Had
been working just fine yesterday.
Any ideas? Need to add something to exim4 config? Bug?
Should it have affected the IMAP at all??
Worked OK,
On Sunday 10 May 2009 11:46:55 Frank Mehnert wrote:
David,
On Saturday 09 May 2009, David Baron wrote:
Trying to build the vboxdrv.ko for an rt-patched kernel. For some reason,
the script is trying to (or thinks it sees) the unpatched version.
m-a built modules do not have this problem
Upgraded 2.6.29 kernel source from Sid.
On boot, floods the screen with stuff like
unix _struct disagrees
This may be from udev trying to respond to a kunix.ko
Did not know there was such an animal. Kernel is compiled using the same
.config as worked in 2.6.29 1-3.
Luckily, I have a
Upgraded 2.6.29 kernel source from Sid.
On boot, floods the screen with stuff like
unix _struct disagrees
This may be from udev trying to respond to a kunix.ko
Did not know there was such an animal. Kernel is compiled using the same
.config as worked in 2.6.29 1-3.
Luckily, I have a
Just upgraded. Seems OK, however
1. Wants to remove inputs, i.e. keyboard and mouse, x drivers. Managed to keep
them. However, listchanges says they are now ignored. What's the story here?
2. Along the bootup init, the screen font gets changed to a sans-serif 16pt
font. The upgrade config said
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Just upgraded. Seems OK, however
1. Wants to remove inputs, i.e. keyboard and mouse, x drivers. Managed to
keep them. However, listchanges says they are now ignored. What's the
story here?
If
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 01:43:05 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org
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What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine,
since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files,
would like to index all, including metadata...
I have not used any of them extensively,
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I just noticed a new package in squeeze, firmware-linux, which contains
the binary firmware that was formerly included in Debian kernels [...]
What I want to know is what kinds of problems I might
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 09:29:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org
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Those of you who do not see this error, you lucked out--closer/better
connections to various servers involved. You would not notice such a
wordaround.
Maybe you should file a bug. If the error is
Upgrading has become very tortuous, tedious and nigh-impossible because of
all
those empty strings for SOAP errors. This had been fixed, keeps coming
back.
I have found that if packages are installed one-at-a-time, apt-listbugs will
report. Of course, many packages get grouped by their
Upgrading has become very tortuous, tedious and nigh-impossible because of all
those empty strings for SOAP errors. This had been fixed, keeps coming back.
I have found that if packages are installed one-at-a-time, apt-listbugs will
report. Of course, many packages get grouped by their
On Thursday 09 April 2009 18:11:41 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org
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Any hints about dialing numbers by your laptop keyboard to a phone
connected through modem?
minicom?
echo?
Minicom will work fine but you have to go through a whole command sequence to
do it. Minimally:
After my nvidia card died, I had to settle for a Matrox g200 (agp) to get my
system on line again. This card is not the worst around, only 8m, supports
3d-acceleration, allbeit, no screamer.
So ... it was working. I noticed errors asking for a firmware. Found a
firmware-linux package and gave
Building rt patched kernel using:
make-kpkg --append-to-version -davidb-rt kernel_image
dpkg-gencontrol -DArchitecture=i386 -isp \
-plinux-image-2.6.29-davidb-rt -
P/usr/src/linux/debian/linux-image-2.6.29-davidb-rt/
dpkg-gencontrol: error: package
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Apt-listbugs fails with empty string from SOAP which is not so clean
:-)
Any way to fix/work around?
I gave /etc/apt/apt.conf an acquire group with some retries and a nice
long timeout, i.e.
Apt-listbugs fails with empty string from SOAP which is not so clean :-)
Any way to fix/work around?
I gave /etc/apt/apt.conf an acquire group with some retries and a nice long
timeout, i.e.
Acquire
{
Retries 3;
Timeout 999;
};
Such was apparently done to fix previous filings of this bug
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I just got a notification that debian-user just joined plaxo. (Since
debian- user is in my address book, we can now connect, share photos, etc
.:-) )
Why would we want to do such a thing?
Why I posted
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I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup
mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of
my current project. thanks!
Zu3d. Get it off qt-apps.org
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I just got a notification that debian-user just joined plaxo. (Since debian-
user is in my address book, we can now connect, share photos, etc .:-)
)
Plaxo is an addressbook service that works well with ms-outlook, worse with
outlook-express, NO interface to Linux.
I have been bugging them
Apt-listbugs fails with empty string from SOAP which is not so clean :-)
Any way to fix/work around?
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Apt-listbugs fails with empty string from SOAP which is not so clean :-)
Any way to fix/work around?
I gave /etc/apt/apt.conf an acquire group with some retries and a nice long
timeout, i.e.
Acquire
{
Retries 3;
Timeout 999;
};
Such was apparently done to fix previous filings of this bug
This, from apt-listbugs, is making it nigh-impossible to upgrade anything.
I have apt-listbugs and a ruby-text module from Sid.
Is there a fix or workaround?
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Very nice. Screen flooded with them. NO notification from change logs. Nada.
Just a init screen full of requires .conf, will be ignored in future
release.
Does one simply append .conf to all the files in modprob.d? If so, anyone have
a simple sed or perl script to take care of this?
On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:20:29 debian-user-digest-
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No but I found the answer in /var/log/mail.err
Apparently the rules about Dovecot mail_location had changed and the
Debian package did not warn me at install time about this.
I needed to prepend
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 00:28:00 Ken Teague wrote:
David Baron wrote:
No, not a big gamer but newer kde needs opengl. I remember the wierd
artifacts in that old Mac64 with my own compiled dri stuff and my son's
complaining about that card. The nvidia was great in comparison
Artifacts
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 22:22:06 debian-user-digest-
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Hi All,
After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the
contents of any emails
I have had a working IMAP setup for as much as a year even though I
don't understand dovecot
My rusty trusty mx400 legacy nvidia kicked. Had to get another cheap or free.
A dealer-friend gave me several to try out, two sockitomes, a voodoo and a
matrox-PCI.
I have learned a lot. The old mach64 has its dri stuff in the kernel package
now but that old 8-megger just never really hacked
David Baron wrote:
1. Which is better (I assume the matrox but am willing to learn
otherwise) ?
Allegedly, Matrox cards has had great support under X for quite some
time. I guess the real answer to this will be dependent upon what type
of stuff you do on your PC. I'm going to go out
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:17:45PM +, Bhasker C V wrote:
Hi all,
I tried to google around but could not even get a match near to what i
want. In fact i am running short of terminologies to
For booting, one can do as one does using LVM. Keep the needed small
partitions in ext3 and put everything else in ext4.
Is it possible to change existing partitions or logical LVM partitions using
tune2fs or similar?
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I got into Debian the easy way, from a Knoppix (3.3) hd install. Been using it
every since, compiling kernels, upgrading to Debian Sid and experimental kde4
and all. The bootup still says: Knoppix 2booting.
All the initscripts and things have been upgraded. So why is this still there?
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 02:09:09 debian-user-digest-
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Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program
which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux
programs around, Celestia and Kstars.
Kstars is simple s
Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would
not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around,
Celestia and Kstars.
Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other
hand, performs quite well, even with my legacy
I have a program to control a speakerphone modem. One thread monitors for
rings, based on xringd code, using an icotl TIOCMIWAIT. This uses one file
descriptor number to the modem /dev and runs in the background. Other threads
open of the modem for write access and send sequences to answer the
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