On Wednesday 23 June 2004 13:38, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> The 2.6 kernel requires the qt library for "make xconfig".
>
> Could somebody kindly tell me which of the many qt libraries listed in
> Sid are needed here? I have libqt3c102 and libqt3c102-mt, which are
> supposed to be the Trolltech libra
On Monday 14 June 2004 09:51, Pablo Cebrian Piazuelo wrote:
> Please, I have installed Debian 30r2-i386 succesfully. But, when I get into
> the shell and I want to change to Xwindows, a message appears saying that I
> have Screens detected, but any can be used. So I can't get into the
> Xwindows.
On Saturday 05 June 2004 03:40, Bradley Alexander wrote:
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> I did a dist-upgrade on one of my sid boxes yesterday, and I can't get
> xserver-xfree86 to install. Because of that, x-window-system-core and
> x-window-system cannot install. When I run
I am trying to apt-get upgrade a machine which is about 1 month out of
date. When I do so it comes up with this error message, and then another
saying that the preinstall process failed ..., i.e. repeating this message,
and NOTHING else. Anyone got any ideas how to fix this?
This is a Debian uns
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 15:54, glenn wrote:
> Hi All
> I've got a couple of systems that I made the boot partion <8mb on. The
> time has long come that these are full and I can't upgrade the kernel
> image on them. I've alread cleaned out the old reduntant images etc
>
> The partions are at the f
On Monday 31 May 2004 22:49, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> after not noticing for months, I've finally beocme aware of the major
> behind-the-scenes feuding btwn xfree86 & x.org. From browsing the
> debian-x lists, I see that xfree86 will likely no longer be supported
> by debian after the cur
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 15:45, Franco Gorziglia wrote:
> Adam Kessel wrote:
> >There used to be WINE CVS packages at
> >
> >http://people.debian.org/~andreas/debian
> >
> >but they seem to have disappeared over the last several months.
> >
> >Is anyone aware of any working apt source for WINE debs?
On Friday 07 May 2004 14:22, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:37:33AM -0400, Thomas G wrote:
> > Does anyone know a way go get the limewire package working without the
> > java runtime packages that have been broken in unstable for some time
> > now.
>
> Unstable does not contain jav
On Thursday 25 March 2004 22:40, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> David Goodenough (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> > I am trying to run GnuCash, and it keeps complaining when I start it
> >
> > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> >
> >
I am trying to run GnuCash, and it keeps complaining when I start it
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
I ran dpkg-reconfigure locales and selected en_GB and en_GB.utf8
but I still get the error message.
The only effect of this error seems to be that GnuCash does not
know that the
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 18:06, Kent West wrote:
> David Goodenough wrote:
> >On Tuesday 09 March 2004 16:52, Kent West wrote:
> >>David Goodenough wrote:
> >>>On Tuesday 09 March 2004 15:12, Kent West wrote:
> >>>>David Goodenough wrote:
> >&g
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 16:52, Kent West wrote:
> David Goodenough wrote:
> >On Tuesday 09 March 2004 15:12, Kent West wrote:
> >>David Goodenough wrote:
> >>>I have a laptop which has been running Debian for around 2 years now,
> >>> with a user ID for
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 15:12, Kent West wrote:
> David Goodenough wrote:
> >I have a laptop which has been running Debian for around 2 years now, with
> >a user ID for me which works just fine. I can log on to a line mode
> > console or use KDM to log on to KDE - no prob
I have a laptop which has been running Debian for around 2 years now, with
a user ID for me which works just fine. I can log on to a line mode console
or use KDM to log on to KDE - no problems. The machine is running Sid,
and is pretty well up to date.
Recently I added a user ID for my son so th
On Monday 08 March 2004 18:57, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> * Alexis Huxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:03:08:15:06:04+] scribed:
> > > Regardless of kernel, I see this:
> > >
> > ># cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> > >Attached devices:=20
> > >Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
> > > Ven
On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:51, welly hartanto wrote:
> Hi, all ...I'm a newbie debian user. For now I've been using debian and
> samba as "interface" for those Win-based computers in my office network.I
> wanna ask you a question : 1. Is there a tool or utility to browse those
> Win-basedcomp
Why do the cron.daily/weekly sysklogd script exit doing nothing if the
/usr/share/doc/sysklogd directory not exist? It rightly checks that
the binaries it needs are there, but the doc directory is purely
documentation.
I hit this on a stripped down emebedded installation which I
noticed was not
On Monday 02 February 2004 14:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I have Soltek FRN2 motherboard with integrated Promise Fasttrak SATA RAID.
> In the reatil pack, there have been drivers for Win XXX included, but no
> LINUX drivers. ;-( NOONE - neither Soltek, nor Promise were able to send
On Sunday 04 January 2004 04:03, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> - snip -
>
> > Do you have scsi emulation enabled? Something like this in your
> > lilo.conf or menu.lst:
> >
> >"hdc=scsi" or "hdc=ide-scsi"
>
> Yes, "hdc=ide-scsi"
>
> > You can test it with the eject command:
> >
> >ej
I have an old machine that I keep up to date with unstable which does not
do any real work in case of disaster. All being well I then propagate the
new stuff to other Debian unstable boxes on which I am doing real work.
This morning I upgraded as usual, and all seemed well. One of the things
th
On Saturday 27 December 2003 23:07, David Baron wrote:
> What I meant by descritors is a file setting the options for the program to
> be run. The newest wine claims to let you override the configurations from
> the command line so this can be done, I suppose.
>
> David Goodenough
On Friday 26 December 2003 08:58, David Baron wrote:
> Wine is a very pesky utility.
>
> OK, stuff like windows solitaire and freecell run perfectly. MVP-Bridge
> hangs up. So did a sound-card editing program but it did get my installed
> MIDI devices correctly which nothing "native" has done so fa
On Thursday 25 December 2003 02:53, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to figure out how to boot Linux with serial console. The
> kernel switches console to serial, outputs something unreadable and then
> switches back to regular console. I guess that the problem is the penguin
> ima
Apart from setting up lilo and using /sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL instead of
/sbin/start-stop-daemon what else needs to be changed when converting a
chroot install into a real one?
Thanks in advance
David
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All the instructions I could find through Google for doing a chroot install of
Debian point me at at base2_2.tgz on archive.debian.org. This is a 2.2
install, rather than a 3.0.
Doing a google search on base3_0.tgz leads to a few messages about it no
longer produced.
What is the procedure for d
I know that what I want to do is not really "the Debian Way", but I do not
have an option, so I want to make the best of a bad deal.
I am trying to install Debian onto a Compulab 586BASE which has some
Flash memory built into it. This flash memory is supported by a compulab
supplied driver, part
On Thursday 24 July 2003 16:00, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:48AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> > >If it's running at 10Mbit, it will never be full duplex. If you're
> > >running at 100, then it could be full or half. If your network
> > >cables only have four l
On Sunday 13 July 2003 14:20, Brian Gonzales wrote:
> > > Can I just shitcan all of KDE and start with a fresh install?
> >
> > Yeah, that can work.
>
> Well, my question didn't come out as I expected. Is there a command to
> completely remove *only* KDE, then, do a fresh KDE install.
It depends o
Has anyone managed to get GpsDrive to download a map. As I understand it the
supliers of these maps were both taken over by Microsoft, and the URLs seem
to have changed from those used by GpsFetchMap (which ships with GpsDrive).
When I try to download from GpsDrive the download completes very qui
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 18:59, Charles Roberts wrote:
> Hello all:
> I am trying to get Debian running. The sequence of events:
> 1. installed 'woody' from floppy disks with the bf2.4 (what ever that
> stands for) images (I wanted to use reiserfs). The install when OK. Got
> a basic 'cli' Debian
On Saturday 07 June 2003 21:32, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 13:45:35 -0600
>
> Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have compiled a new custom 2.4.18 kernel using the great instructions
> > from http://newbiedoc.sourcefourge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
> > I am having problems wi
On Thursday 05 June 2003 21:15, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (05/06/03 12:37), Daniel Fredrickson wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:37:33 -0500
> > Subject: Debian compatibility with Mac G4 computer, and will it run
> > Blender 3-d modeling software, which runs under Linux?
> > From: Daniel Fre
On Thursday 29 May 2003 23:40, Miguel M. wrote:
> Hey,
>
> OK i found a site that I can d/l Wine from but I keep
> getting this error message:
> ---
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet
> dependencies:
> wine: Depends: libwine (= 1:0.20030529.034101) but
> 0.0.20030408-1 is to be instal
On Thursday 29 May 2003 10:46, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:36:35PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Try VNC (or Tight VNC) over SSH. IIRC, there was a thread in the last
> > month on how to get KDM/GDM/XDM over VNC. But t
On Monday 17 March 2003 03:15, Jim wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:09:03PM +0100, Thomas Weinbrenner wrote:
> > Jim wrote:
> > > I am getting the following errors when trying to run gnucash:
> > >
> > > ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> > > ERROR: file: "libgw-wct", message: "libgw-wct.so: ca
If I downloaded a package from one of the sources in my sources.list and did
not notice it at the time, how can I find out which source actually produced
this deb?
I have one of the KDE 3.1 sites in my sources.list, and I recently hit a
problem with mpeglib which would not upgrade due to a file o
On Friday 31 January 2003 09:18, nate wrote:
> Paul Johnson said:
> > What's the non-buzzword name for this? Bout as much as I know about Mt.
> > Rainier is that it's a volcano you can see from Portland on a
> > "five mountain" or better (ie, clear enough with just enough heat
> > distortion that
On Friday 31 January 2003 07:17, nate wrote:
> avnathan said:
> > i)How to config a local printer (I dont find /etc/printcap file) ?
>
> for both local and remote printers I use cups. apt-cache search cups,
> you'll need some print filters too. I use these packages:
>
> cupsys
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 17:38, Mariano Kamp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using eclipse (http://eclipse.org) to access a cvs repository by
> using ext:. The problem is that it asks for the ssh password on the
> command line. Anything I can do to pass it in automatically?
>
> The short help of ssh
On Thursday 05 December 2002 16:37, stan wrote:
> What tool can I use to view poer point file?
Try OpenOffice.org
David
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On Saturday 30 November 2002 16:56, Gregg & Monica wrote:
> I need to know if my computer can support debianand I need to knwo if
> it will support the gui...here are my computers info...
>
>
> cyrix MII 266Mhz, 4gig hard drive, windows ME loaded and updated, sound
> card w/powered speakers, 2u
On Friday 29 November 2002 12:58, Chip Rose wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm looking for a deb package (or any linux package) that would
> > provide a web based solution for users to
> > take surveys, answer questions and have the data
> > stored in some kind of
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 17:51, Tim Verry wrote:
> I really should have subscribed to this list a long time ago. Thanks again
> everyone for the help. I've been playing with this Debian box for a little
> over a month now. I have really gotten frusterated at times, but feel like
> I'm on to
On Monday 25 November 2002 10:38, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 06:00:19PM +0000, David Goodenough wrote:
> > I have an machine which I keep at unstable, and update daily. This is
> > mainly so that I can keep an eye out for problems. When I came to run
> > apt
I have an machine which I keep at unstable, and update daily. This is mainly
so that I can keep an eye out for problems. When I came to run apt-get today
it started quite happily, but I remembered that there was a change I had
intended to apply to /etc/apt/sources.list, so I interrupted apt-get,
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 14:32, Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> I've got problems to find out the proper keyboard configuration for my
> novatech laptop P4.
>
> In particular, the backslash key does not work.
>
> I have tried with keyboards 101,102,104,105 but none of them worked.
>
> A
On Monday 18 November 2002 12:49, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2002.11.18.1314 +0100]:
> > Are you running ext3, because if you are it is the journaling code
> > that is causing this, it runs every 5 seconds.
>
> In fact, I
On Monday 18 November 2002 11:27, martin f krafft wrote:
> my laptop harddrive makes a sound similar to drive access without
> a lot of head movement every 5.5 seconds, lasting for 1.2 seconds
> each. this is independent of noflushd running or not. i would be
> interested to find out what's causing
I recently upgraded a machine which had been installed as unstable but had
not been upgraded for a few weeks. Everything has upgraded cleanly, and the
machine used to work quite satisfactorily. Now when I boot the machine it
starts KDM quite happily, but then when I login using kdm it clears the
Is there a way to get a list of all the packages that are suggested by the
packages that I have installed, but that I have not installed? I ask because
apt-get is quite silent about such things, and if you do not read the change
logs sometimes the suggestion list changes, and I would like to see
Does anyone have a script that will detect that the ethernet port is
not connect to a hub/switch (mii-tool detects this well) so that when
I boot my machine when disconnected I do not have to wait for the
DHCP client to fail.
I currently have in /etc/network/interfaces:-
iface eth0 inet dhcp
an
I am trying to put together a filter for Cups to ensure that my elderly
Postscript printer only gets given Postscript Level 1 commands. Following
advice on the Cups list I creates a filter as below:-
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -s"OUTPUTFILE=%stdout" \
-dQU
Does anyone have a Debian form of the slmdm software? I can find lots
of RPM versions, including SRPMs, but as I understand it Alien does
not like source RPMs, and I would rather have source than binary.
Thanks in advance
David
It seems to have vanished. The FTP and HTTP servers both seem to be
down. Is this planned downtime or just a feature of the Christmas
break?
The domain name is there, but the machine seems to have gone to sleep
not evening responding to pings.
On Monday 08 October 2001 7:22 pm, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> David,
>
> thanks for your quick reply!
>
> David Goodenough wrote:
> > Thomas,
> >
> > I think that under the covers your box is a Clevo 2700C or there
> > abouts.
>
> Possibly, I hav
On Sunday 30 September 2001 9:26 pm, Francois Fayard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just bought a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100),
> and I have problems installing Debian on it. It seems
> that the kernel freeze at the first boot (The dbootstrap
> installation runs well, but not the first boot). It seems
>
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 4:49 pm, Chan Siu On wrote:
> > > Do you mean I have to install 2.4.x kernel and download the latest
>
> sis900
>
> > > module? 2.2.15 and later kernel seems to support sis900. But I will
>
> upgrade
>
> > > my system anyway - I don't have any better idea.
> >
> >No, I mea
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 3:55 pm, Chan Siu On wrote:
> >I had a similar experience trying to set up a Clevo 2700C. There are
>
> several
>
> >versions of the sis900.o module floating around, and the only ones that
>
> work
>
> >are the 2.4.x kernel ones. As far as I can tell for many 900s the ol
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 2:44 pm, Chan Siu On wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter installed on my computer but I
> have no idea how to install the module properly.
> I am using Debian Potato 2.2r3 with kernel 2.2.19pre17. When I select
> sis900 module from "modconf"
On Monday 20 August 2001 8:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the
> official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17,
> however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been
> unsuccessful in compili
On Thursday 02 August 2001 12:05 pm, Newton, Harry wrote:
> I am running a Debian 2.2, and have just upgraded/updated the system using
> apt-get and this /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable/non-US mai
I see from the archives that there have been problems
with LILO and Woody. Have they been resolved?
I took my (text only) 2.2r3 + 2.4.5 upgrade system which
worked quite happily and tried to upgrade to Woody.
Using dselect failed (template parse errors) but using
apt-get upgrade and then apt-get
I am tying to install Woody on a laptop so that I can
install XFree 4.0.3 and then upgrade it to 4.1 with an
extra fix as currently the SIS driver does not handle
my laptop's LCD properly. I also need to be running
a 2.4 kernel as otherwise the Ethernet NIC does not
work.
I installed 2.2r3 from C
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