RE: Laptop install, console screen small

2001-11-16 Thread Lars Weber
colors. hth, Lars Weber -Original Message- From: Craig Coles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:58 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Laptop install, console screen small In this case X is not a problem, just the tty consoles. I

Re: parted bug.. dumpe2fks?

2000-06-21 Thread Lars Weber
Joseph de los Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I wanted to resize my partition and I was trying to use parted. I booted in single user, then unmounted my root partition (since that is what I want to resize) then executed parted. When I wanted to check the filesystem to resize it,

OT: GNU (was: Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian)

2000-06-09 Thread Lars Weber
Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The endless issues over free vs non-free and other license-related issues makes Debian look more like license nit-pickers than anything else. This doesn't seem to me to be a good image to have. It's not done the GNU project much good, and it would be a

Re: delete a mail from mail queue (exim)?

2000-03-17 Thread Lars Weber
Attila Csosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How could I delete a mail from the exim mail queue? /usr/sbin/exim -Mrm message-id (use mailq to get the message-id of your mail) See exim(8) for more info. Regards, Lars -- .. Like I always say -- nothing can beat the BRATWURST here in DUSSELDORF!!

Problems with Svgalib and PS/2 mouse

2000-02-27 Thread Lars Weber
When I installed svgalib some time ago I didn't manage to get the mouse to work (i.e. nothing happens when I move the mouse). This didn't bother me much until I found out about the svga-mode of xaos (which is really cool!). I have a Logitech MouseMan (PS/2) and the relevant entries of

Re: GRUB Anyone?

2000-02-22 Thread Lars Weber
Marshal Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't believe that installing the package makes grub as your boot-loader. At least, that was when I tried quite a few months ago. It still does not do so. To get yourself started you should read /usr/share/doc/grub/README.debian and the grub

My own bootlogo

2000-02-22 Thread Lars Weber
Greetings, Has anyone here ever succeeded in installing their own bootlogo? I've tried to do this for some time now, but somehow I don't get it. I use ppm2logo from the logo-select kernel patch[1]. The problem is that it segfaults every time after printing out half of the converted file. I

OT: Free-Quake

2000-02-19 Thread Lars Weber
Greetings all, Reading through a text written by John Carmack about the GPL release of Quake (found at http://www.idsoftware.com/q1source/q1source.txt): All of the Quake data files remain copyrighted and licensed under the original terms, so you cannot redistribute data from the original

Re: syslog facilities.

2000-01-28 Thread Lars Weber
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The daemon used to log its actions in /var/log/mail.info, in accordance with fetchmail man page. However, during the last few weeks the logs are stoped though the mail is continued to be fetch in what looks like a proper work of the daemon. This seems

Re: GRUB problems with Deb 2.0

2000-01-19 Thread Lars Weber
Hi! David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB RAM, VL bus mother board, adaptec 2840 with (now) one 1GB scsi drive (Bios is enabled on the controller for that drive) and a scsi CD ROM. Linux 2.0 is on /dev/sda1, swap is on