Re: boot failure

2004-11-14 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Dan Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I answered yes to the question resulting from dpkg -i about making modifications to lilo... Dan This was a mistake. It shouldn't be but it is and the same thing happened to me. I was forced to use the boot floppy to boot and then went to the /etc

Re: Dell Latitude D800 w/ NVIDIA driver on Sarge, trouble setting resolution to 1920x1200

2004-11-12 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Ralph Seichter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree82, but I there is no 1920x1200 resolution which I could choose (only 1920x1440 pixels are available, which is too big). Are there some configuration options which I overlooked? I don't think so...I

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Jason Rennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing you could try: 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. That *should* bring your entire system up-to-date with the current Sarge. Jason Jason, Have you tried it yourself? I had a terrible experience with it and would not recommend it; many

Re: Mcopy not removing the ^M character

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Dickner
--- David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:26:55PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: Wouldn't $ tr '\r\n' '\n' dosfile unixfile do it? For me that doubles each newline, but I can't see why. But $ tr -d '\r' dosfile unixfile seems to do

Mcopy not removing the ^M character

2004-11-08 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, I have a text file that I burned onto a CD on a windows machine. I used mcopy with the t, a and T options to try and get rid of those ^M characters (I forget if that is the line feed or carriage return). They seem to be gone if I look at the result with more or an X text editor, but when

Re: Mcopy not removing the ^M character

2004-11-08 Thread Eric Dickner
--- David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're putting something on to a windows machine, wouldn't mcopy automatically use the dos CR-LF? I was trying to remove the CR-LF so the /etc/hosts file lookup wouldn't be messed up. I never did get mcopy -T (or any option or combination of

insmod agpgart.o needs parameters

2004-10-28 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, I am unable to load the module agpgart.o on a 2.4.18-686 kernel. I just let it autoprobe for the parameters but it wants me to provide them. It is for an i845 Intel graphics controller on the 0:2:0 PCI buss. Does anyone know how to form them? Thanks. ejd

RE: Re: MMap problem with apt -v 0.5.4

2004-10-27 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the archives or try google. That question comes up every month! -- Yeah, my bad, that was an easy one. I had just updated my kernel and thought the problem might be there. But maybe the frequency of the question should be telling the people

MMap problem with apt -v 0.5.4

2004-10-25 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, I am able to download the Packages file from http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free but it is large, about 3.1 Meg I think. When my version of apt tries to process this list it gives this error: Out of MMap memory or something like that. Of course, I tried to get a

RE: Re: Horrible Problem!! ide Interrupt error during install

2004-10-24 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Andrea Vettorello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could be a fault flat cable, or a dying HD. You can test the latter downloading an utility from the manufacturer of your HD to check it. Oh, and the CD-Rom could have problem to read disk too, specially if dust has accumulated on the lens,

hardware clock bug

2004-10-24 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, I saw the message hardware clock bug during a package inflating and ever since then Linux has been crashing. The Windows side of the disk seems to run fine but has strange times. Does anyone know what can be done about this? Is the hardware broken and Linux just less able to deal with

Horrible Problem!! ide Interrupt error during install

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, During a reinstall onto a dual boot partitioned hard drive I have twice in a row been stopped during the unpacking of the packages selected using 'tasksel'. Both times the error was a 'busy' coming from the 'hda' device. I think that is the CD-ROM, right? The machine will get stuck

More on the Horrible Problem!!

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Dickner
Oh yeah, and it reset the clock on the Windows side to Greenich time. I am pretty sure I didn't screw up the choice there, but I could be wrong about that... ejd __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now.

kernel-image and kernel-sourc question

2004-10-18 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, For the 2.4.27 kernel there are a variety of sub-releases, such as kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 that match up with header packages. Where is the source that these are compiled from? There is only a generic kernel-source-2.4.27 package available. And if I am interested in using the source I

Re: Serious problems after apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-10-12 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:21:08PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: ... I got all the packages...the problem is they sit in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory uninstalled, except for a few crucial ones that hurt more than they helped, like

Re: Serious problems after apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-10-12 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Tim Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works fine when you go from one (former) stable release to another, though you would probably have to enter it several times. Tim, I am going from stable to testing so that may be the problem. My instinct was that iterating through those

Re: Serious problems after apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-10-12 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm an idiot, and I gave you bad advice. dpkg -r /var/cache/apt/archives would work and would resolve the dependencies (and would take a long time). Carl, It went through everything, and I'm not sure that the above would do anything differently.

Serious problems after apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-10-11 Thread Eric Dickner
I downloaded hundreds of packages through an online apt-get dist-upgrade from a fast mirror and then from the central download site; I assumed that they were being installed by apt as it went along (it tok a day and a half by modem) but it seems only bits and pieces were installed. The bits and

RE: Re: Serious problems after apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-10-11 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following command will reinstall all packages on your system: COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | xargs apt-get --reinstall install -- Thomas Adam So I should just give up on using apt-get dist-upgrade and try to go back? ejd

Re: Serious problems after apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-10-11 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Bill Marcum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried aptitude? I bet it is in that mass of .debs that are downloaded but not installed I am sure it is a much needed improvement to dselect ejd ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself -

Re: Serious problems after apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-10-11 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What distribution did you START with? Woody, 2.2.20-idepci, from CD's I purchased. What distro is your sources.list pointing to? testing from the main station. I ran apt-get dist-upgrade pointing to a mirror at MIT but it was missing some packages

RE Re: Post apt-get dist-upgrade question:

2004-10-11 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Justin Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's the case, then the new KDE / Gnome should just work. Yes...but that is the least of my problems now. I have another thread going about some other more serious issues after this apt-get dist-upgrade. What is leading you to believe that

apt-get dist-upgrade Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous download, some 500 Meg... Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize the packcages it already got? Will it check these downloads for errors with an md5 or

Trouble with apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-10-07 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, I have a Woody 2.2.20-idepci system running on a Dell that I am trying to upgrade to 2.4.x (Sarge, or testing) with mixed results. At first I felt that I should download source and recompile the kernels, and I did that, but those kernels did not match any Debian patched headers, which I

Re: Trouble with apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-10-07 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It immediately went through my dependency tree and gave me a list of packages to apt-get -f install. I thought the power of apt-get was that it figured out what packages you needed and got them automatically? Did you try apt-get -f

linmodem works but hangs up when idle

2004-10-05 Thread Eric Dickner
I got a BCMSM 4212 to work on Debian 2.2.20-idepci with the driver .rpm from Dell but it seems to hang up after a minute or so of idle time. I used pppconfig to set no hang-up at all for idle time, and it seems to be sort of a random period, ranging from 50 seconds to two minutes. If it's doing

/etc/init.d/devpts.sh is missing..

2004-10-04 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, I must have deleted this somehow screwing with my system. There is a link from /etc/rcS.d/S35devpts.sh over to it that is broken. Can someone please post this script for me? Thanks, ejd __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage

wvdial doesn't seem to use login strings

2004-10-02 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, wvdial seems to be doing the wrong thing; instead of sending the Username and Password it seems confused and tries things like ppp and pppd when prompted. I tried to remove them hoping to handle the prompts by hand (which I'd like to do anyway...) but it won't dial then. Am I doing

Clarification needed for dist-upgrade instructions

2004-10-02 Thread Eric Dickner
Change woody to sarge in your /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade I received the above instructions from this mailing list. The bottom lines seem to be a little different from the documentation but it is the top line that lost me, and the docs didn't help. I have no

How to shut down all X apps?

2004-09-30 Thread Eric Dickner
I'm trying to install libc6 and it wants all of the X stuff shutdown. I can't recall the command to do this, but I thought there was one that brought the whole thing down for you... For whatever reason my /etc/init.d scripts give errors or don't work when I try to do gdm stop et al. Thanks,

What is the package to upgrade the whole distibution?

2004-09-30 Thread Eric Dickner
Is there a package that will take one from Woody to Sarge complete with the libc6 and all the rest? I'm running into a lot of trouble with the separate packages and I can't do a network apt-get because of trouble compiling the modem driver... Thanks, ejd

kernel-image-x.x.xx-i686-smc ? What's the smc stand for?

2004-09-25 Thread Eric Dickner
And how can I tell if I have a plain i686 machine or an i686-smc one? Thanks, ejd ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

modversions.h? Don't have it. Any solution?

2004-09-24 Thread Eric Dickner
Apparently I am not the first person to run into a problem regarding this particular header. A general web search revealed that all sorts of people have tried to compile drivers, found they needed but didn't have this thing, and then proceded to try all sorts of hacks. Are any of these hacks

Partly successful modversions.h hack....

2004-09-24 Thread Eric Dickner
I found a hack that sort of worked...create a file called include/modversions.h: #include include/modsetver.h This allowed the driver to compile with no problems but upon insmod the kernel complained that while it was version 2.4.27 the module had been compiled for version 2.4.18. Where this

modversions.h Missing In Action

2004-09-23 Thread Eric Dickner
When I configged the kernel I had in the .config file CONFIG_MODVERSION=y and yet I do not have that modversion.h header file. I have something called modsetver.h (or something like that) but no modversion.h Where is it?? I am trying to use a kernel that is compiled source from kernel.org. I

How to match kernel_headers and kernel versions?

2004-09-22 Thread Eric Dickner
I have the 2.4.27 kernel running and needed a kernel_headers_version to compile a native kernel module (modem driver). The latest headers package offered for 2.4.x was 2.4.18 which is what I installed. I was able to compile the object but when I go to insmod it into the kernel I am told that the

Re: How to match kernel_headers and kernel versions? Use unstable..

2004-09-22 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A foolish question. Proper version package is in unstable, something that I will have to get used to, apparently. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http

Re: How to match kernel_headers and kernel versions?

2004-09-22 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you compile the kernel yourself? In that case the headers you need should be in the kernel source tree. best regards Andreas Janssen Yeah, I did. The instructions from kernel.org told me not to keep the source there as the

Re: X and Intel I810 video card

2004-09-21 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Greg Vickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new to running X and I'm having a problem getting the I810 video card on this D845GLVA motherboard to run at 1280x1024 on my 17 TFT monitor: I snipped out part of your log and put '!' around the warning that states your problem. I

How to link kernel_headers?

2004-09-20 Thread Eric Dickner
I installed the kernel_headers_version package and it created a directory that was called: /usr/src/kernel_headers_version It seemed a trivial matter to make the link to be: ln -s /usr/src/kernel_headers_version /usr/src/linux Yet when I tried to rmp -rebuild rpm.src.rpm it went off

Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-20 Thread Eric Dickner
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've decided to buy a PC with Debian Preinstalled. Should I go with Stable Woody or Development Sarge? I installed stable woody from purchased CD's (which is what you will be buying) and have been able to upgrade it to Sarge status by recompiling the source

Re: I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-19 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Andrea Vettorello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you need some kernel header files you'll probably find them installing kernel-headers packages. Andrea Yeah, putting that empty directory there only made it insist on specific files. That at least led me to the proper package. I a

I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-18 Thread Eric Dickner
I am trying to compile some foo.src.rpm files. When I try to do this they look for headers under the /usr/src/linux link. I installed linux from CD's originally and they didn't put anything there...I don't even have that link. I downloaded a source kernel from kernel.org and many of the

Re: I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-18 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Stefan O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing. How to cope: # mkdir /usr/src/linux # mkdir /usr/src/linux/include Now the apps -I/usr/src/linux/include won't do anything, but they will still find the kernel headers because a set of known-good kernel headers is installed

Final Answer Re: Differences between binary images and compiled kernels

2004-09-17 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Configging a kernel is an arduous process of booting and then figuring out what you got wrong. Yes, it is. You guessed correctly when you said that I might have gotten a bad config file from the vendor of the binaries. Bad in that it while it was

Re: Differences between binary images and compiled kernels - 5 min

2004-09-17 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:20:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Differences between binary images and compiled kernels - 5 min To: Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make

Will Debian have libstdc++.so.5 soon?

2004-09-17 Thread Eric Dickner
I have an application that was developed on RedHat that is calling for it. Apparently Debian doesn't have it yet, at least I can't seem to find it as a package. Does Debian lag behind RedHat on a lot of things like this and if so by how long? Is it worth getting the .rpm and alien'ing it over?

Re: Will Debian have libstdc++.so.5 soon?

2004-09-17 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:40:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Will Debian have libstdc++.so.5 soon? To: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian/Unstable: libstdc

Re: Will Debian have libstdc++.so.5 soon?

2004-09-17 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Stefan O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unstable means that the packages actually get upgraded. With stable, all you get is security fixes. Well, that's good to know. The word has many bad connotations in spite of its official definition. But stable _does_ have libstdc++.so.5; you

Re: Differences between binary images and compiled kernels

2004-09-16 Thread Eric Dickner
(or as many) distributions if/as possible. It may be that Debian upgrades MUST be done their way and the vanilla way (ie make dep, make bzImage, ...) will not work right. If that is the case, then so be it, but I am surprised the old way will not still work... Thanks again, Eric Dickner

Differences between binary images and compiled kernels

2004-09-15 Thread Eric Dickner
I have two kernels on my system, one I bought and installed from CD's: 2.2.20-idepci, and the other is 2.4.27 that was compiled from sources from kernel.org. I'm having some hardware issues that I was confident could be handled by installing modules, but now I'm not so sure. Close inspection of

RE: Re: modconf sees no modules at all in recompiled kernel

2004-09-14 Thread Eric Dickner
snip-- Incidentally, if you didn't build your kernel the Debian way, did you specifically make the modules? If you didn't, you won't have modules to load, even if you specified them in the config. Justin Guerin No, I didn't. I just

Can't get APT to work on local files.

2004-09-12 Thread Eric Dickner
I can't seem to get apt-get to see some .deb files I have copied to the hard drive. I followed the instructions given in the APT HOWTO exactly but they don't seem to be very well written, at least in this section (2.2 How to use APT locally). I make a directory /root/debs, put the debs there and

Re: Can't get APT to work on local files.

2004-09-12 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To use the packages, finally, add: deb file:/root debs/ NB that there in no '#' here...does that mean to add that line to something else? OK, the debian refernce manual was much more clear. That line above should say: To use the packages

modconf sees no modules at all in recompiled kernel

2004-09-12 Thread Eric Dickner
I have two kernels running, one 2.2.20 installed from purchased disks and one 2.4.27 that was created by recompiling the old fashioned way, ie not by a debian package but from the sources that came from kernel.org. The problem is this: running the old linux there are a few modules installed that

Why no initrd for Debian?

2004-09-10 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I recompiled my 2.2.x kernel to 2.4.27 I followed the generic instructions rather than using a package. I was forced to skip the mkinitrd step as there was no file where the instructions told me there would be. When I went to edit

RE Re. Floppy not mounting on 2.4.x

2004-09-09 Thread Eric Dickner
Original Message: I think the msdos module is not loaded. Mount does not autoprobe for this file system by default. It checks /proc/filesystems, and msdos is only listed if the driver has been loaded. You can solve the problem by either - loading

Trouble mounting floppy with 2.4.27

2004-09-08 Thread Eric Dickner
I didn't have any trouble mounting my floppy drive as file system type auto with 2.2.x, but since my upgrade mount insists that I provide a file system type. I tried msdos but it tells me the kernel doesn't support that type. What might be going on?

Mouse Wheel not working.

2004-09-08 Thread Eric Dickner
I am using XFree86, but I'm not sure if the problem isn't with the Debian (2.4.27) configuration. Or is it a problem with how I've configured XFree? The KDE control center seems to think that the wheel is there and working fine. ___ Do you Yahoo!?

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2004-09-02 Thread Eric Dickner
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2004 : Issue 1051 Today's Topics: Re: alsa stopped working [ Mark Hannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Bluefish keybindings [ Francisco

Recompiling from 2.2.x to 2.6 OK?

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Dickner
Or should I recompile first to 2.4 and then to 2.6? Thanks, ejd ___ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Trying to build agpgart.o with an rpm from Intel

2004-08-26 Thread Eric Dickner
And I'm having no luck. Nothing seems to be where the rpm wants it to be. Is there anything I can do to make this rpm work? Is there anyone that knows where this module compiled for debian is? It's part of a native driver for the i810 Intel Extreme Graphics Controller. Maybe someone knows

Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Dickner
a disk management tool of its own but I don't trust it. For one thing it tells me that the size of my disk is the amount that is filled an that I have zero free bytes I don't want any part of it. What do we do for a lossless XP install? Sincerely, Eric Dickner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email