Re: root.root and netdev group for /dev/net/tun ?

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:19:42 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: The attributes of /dev/net/tun are controlled by the file /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules which is part of the udev package. Search for the character string tun in this file. You will find a line which looks like

Re: root.root and netdev group for /dev/net/tun ?

2013-07-28 Thread Stephen Powell
to it that you *want* to take effect. It is still necessary to coordinate the changes made by package maintenance with the changes which you yourself have made. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: root.root and netdev group for /dev/net/tun ?

2013-07-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:42:29 -0400 (EDT), Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 27 Jul 2013 at 22:19:42 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: ... The change does not take effect until the next reboot, of course. Wouldn't 'udevadm trigger' avoid a reboot? If you wish to avoid a reboot

Re: root.root and netdev group for /dev/net/tun ?

2013-07-27 Thread Stephen Powell
the next reboot, of course. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/548182802.2367641.1374977982693

What's with the blue overlining in text consoles? [SOLVED]

2013-07-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:10:18 -0400 (EDT), commandl...@telenet.be wrote: On 13/07/13 21:55, Stephen Powell wrote: Something strange has started happening recently. For a long time I have used ISO-8859-1 as my character mapping in text consoles. dpkg-reconfigure console-setup and I

What's with the blue overlining in text consoles?

2013-07-13 Thread Stephen Powell
know the cure? Is this a bug? If so, in what package is the bug? The problem does not seem to occur in a Gnome Terminal window, only on a text console. My system locale is en_US.UTF-8. I am running an up-to-date Jessie system on i386 architecture. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
Sun, 30 Jun 2013 02:09:35 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: ...logged in as root... su barney vi stuff Error: messages not turned on: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted The above is basically a normal result of the current environment. At another level

Re: How do I pad files in Linux?

2013-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 02:59:40 -0400 (EDT), Urs Thuermann wrote: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=64 file Thanks, Urs. I haven't tried this, but it looks like this should work too. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

How do I pad files in Linux?

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
this? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/173555076.1944854.1372523652842.javamail.r...@md01

Re: How do I pad files in Linux? (SOLVED)

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 13:19:22 -0400 (EDT), Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2013-06-29 at 12:34 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: I have a need to pad a binary file with some character (probably a null character) so that its total length is a multiple of some number. For example, I have a file called

Re: How do I pad files in Linux?

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
of the file, or nulls? Stephen asked for nulls, and you state zero's above. It appends hex zeros (0x00), or nulls. Also known as ^@ characters. The ASCII zero is 0x30. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
running jessie.) In fact, the biff package is not even installed. Ideas anyone? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:07:54 -0400 (EDT), David Guntner wrote: Stephen Powell grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Error: messages not turned on: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted (vi is actually nvi on my system.) This problem does not occur in a virtual terminal (vt1-vt6). It also does

Re: Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
done some su commands before invoking vi, if I recall correctly. Did you try doing the mesg y command at the initial login point, before su'ing to the user where you're trying to run vi? Yes, I tried that too. No difference. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: the continuing disappointment of Debian 7

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
not match my experience. For me, iceweasel never crashed (except for a power failure, which is hardly Debian's fault), and flash played just fine. (Of course, I was using flash-plugin-nonfree, not the default free player.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Operation not permitted error when using su

2013-06-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:39:32 -0400 (EDT), Chris Bannister wrote: Is there a difference if you su - barney ? No, there is no difference. I still get the same error. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-20 Thread Stephen Powell
to switch back to lilo, see my lilo web page at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: vga=ask doesn't work anymore

2013-05-20 Thread Stephen Powell
#fndef-231bbb76472490d8f289f110d30d2d982e08a663-0 Thanks for posting this, staticsafe. I am a lilo user, but if I am ever forced to use grub2 in the future, at least I now know how to get the vga option to work. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: vga=ask doesn't work anymore

2013-05-20 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: vga=ask doesn't work anymore

2013-05-20 Thread Stephen Powell
there on how well it works and how they like it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time

2013-05-10 Thread Stephen Powell
root file system specification. As I've said several times, it's UUID or LABEL. Period. It's all in the web page I referenced in my original post on this thread. Read the web page. It's all there. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time

2013-05-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 07 May 2013 23:28:47 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote: On Tue, 07 May 2013 07:55:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: This problem, and its solution, are discussed at length on my LILO web page, starting with the discussion of the boot configuration file record. http://users.wowway.com

Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time

2013-05-07 Thread Stephen Powell
, starting with the discussion of the boot configuration file record. http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm Basically, use udev-created symbolic links in /etc/fstab, /etc/initramfs/conf.d/resume, and your boot loader. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time

2013-05-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 07 May 2013 07:55:24 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: Basically, use udev-created symbolic links in /etc/fstab, /etc/initramfs/conf.d/resume, and your boot loader. Oops! I meant to say /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume, not /etc/initramfs/conf.d/resume. -- .''`. Stephen

Re: Man Hates Less

2013-05-07 Thread Stephen Powell
obviously gave it permission to delete less. You should pay closer attention to what you give it permission to do. Given that you did, your options are limited. Wait for less to be upgraded to a new release that is compatible with man-db, if possible. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: LILO documentation

2013-04-20 Thread Stephen Powell
web page myself; so if you have any complaints, the buck stops here. Also, if you have any suggestions for improving the page, I'm open to suggestions. If, after reading the entire page, you have any specific questions, I'll be happy to at least try to answer them. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: console mode

2013-03-30 Thread Stephen Powell
it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357239418.371627.1364650434440.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Stephen Powell
wheezy if I were you. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/530238282.488344.1356789125073.javamail.r

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Powell
of the source tree, is it not? So why build or install a headers package if the source tree is installed? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Powell
(and the references to 2.6.8 will disappear along with them). -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
. Please review the Introduction section of the document. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
are welcome. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/153650158.1022236.1352587520895.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Kernel documentation

2012-10-21 Thread Stephen Powell
online using this web site. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1872617213.603085.1350823856315

Re: What is the procedure for patching the Debian kernel ?

2012-10-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:02:20 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:39:02 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: Note that when building a headers package you must run the entire make-kpkg command under fakeroot: you can't use the --rootcmd fakeroot option in this case. I

Re: What is the procedure for patching the Debian kernel ?

2012-09-30 Thread Stephen Powell
command under fakeroot: you can't use the --rootcmd fakeroot option in this case. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: What is the procedure for patching the Debian kernel ?

2012-09-29 Thread Stephen Powell
multiple CPUs, etc. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1758089097.179265.1348953552532.javamail.r

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:36:08 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, 21:56:44, Stephen Powell wrote: So why does aplay fail? It's a mystery to me! Please post the output of 'aplay -l' and 'aplay -L'. OK, here it is: $ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:56:15 -0400 (EDT), Weaver wrote: Could it be something as simple as alsactl init as root? I just tried that. Here's what I got: alsactl: parse:1655: Unable to open file '/usr/share/alsa/init/ca0106': No such file or directory -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
that this is the future direction of Debian; so I would like to find a way for pulseaudio and alsa to peacefully coexist if possible. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
have to stop gnome. But even then, no output from playing audio CDs and no output from aplay. Yet, gnome can generate sounds. Maddening. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Getting 3D graphics support out of my ATI Rage XL video chip?

2012-09-08 Thread Stephen Powell
get knee-deep in this, I thought I'd ask the list if there's a better way. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is there a Debian package I can use? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Getting 3D graphics support out of my ATI Rage XL video chip?

2012-09-08 Thread Stephen Powell
server is using now. The package I was referring to apparently contained the source code for the mach64 kernel module, among other things. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Getting 3D graphics support out of my ATI Rage XL video chip?

2012-09-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:18:43 -0400 (EDT), Martin Steigerwald wrote: Is that chip on a graphics card? No, it is built into the motherboard. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-31 Thread Stephen Powell
. Thanks. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/869328987.788493.1346446652586.javamail.r...@md01

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:04:20 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: By the way, there's something I don't understand. A 32-bit processor can only access 4G of real (extended) memory, right? So why are there motherboards available for 32-bit processors that support installing

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:48:27 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: What I meant was that I may buy the new mobo, processor, and RAM that you suggested and put it in this second machine I'm talking about. Well, I've looked into it, and that's not going to work. The mobo you suggested has stuff

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:42:54 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I know enough to be dangerous, but not always enough to be competent. That's why I opened this thread in the first place. In this case the solution is as simple as downloading and reading the manual

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
and bought that lot of 14 DIMMs from E-bay; but without your assurances that it would work in my system, I would not have had enough confidence to buy it. Thanks for your help. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:45:23 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/23/2012 7:28 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: Hmm. I'm not even sure if this is the right kind of memory. It is. OK, if you say so. I guess oempcworld.com is trying to sell me faster memory than I really need. I was confused

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:37:17 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/24/2012 6:54 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: OK, now we're getting somewhere. There is an eight-pin connector coming from the power supply that plugs directly into the motherboard, in addition to a 24-pin connector coming from

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:16:12 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I don't see the 4-pin CPU power plug to which you refer coming out of the power supply. (Yes, I finally broke down and took the cover off.) Of course, it does have several spare 4-pin power connectors

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:07:49 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Now, my next step is to figure out what memory SIMMs to order. I'd like to install four 1G SIMMs, if they exist for this motherboard. But the devil is in the details. DIMMs not SIMMs. ;) SIMMs haven't been

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:41:26 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/21/2012 9:04 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: Stan, Stan, the hardware man! I knew you'd know! Where did you find the information that correlates CPUIDs with processor characteristics? Simplicity. Google CPUID 0F27. First hit

[SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357692593.580894.1345601046019.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen Powell
by an operating system, the machine has at least two CPUs. But that may not be 100% reliable. The machine has 1 GB of RAM installed. (Two 512M SIMMs and 2 empty SIMM slots.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen Powell
, but I don't know a valid userid/password combination to log in. All I can access right now is the BIOS setup program. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-15 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/587618271.293683.1342366893455.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-14 Thread Stephen Powell
://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm Although it is LILO-specific and Debian-specific, there is nonetheless some discussion about the boot process in general which may shed some light on this subject. HTH -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Stephen Powell
vary from one boot to the next. My advice is to bite the bullet and convert, permanently, to using an initrd. By the way, you may find my kernel-building web page useful: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-07 Thread Stephen Powell
. http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:53:27 -0400 (EDT), Dom wrote: On 07/07/12 16:53, Stephen Powell wrote: It's getting harder and harder to get along without an initrd these days. Why is it so important to you not to use one? As others have pointed out, using a UUID or LABEL specification for the root

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Stephen Powell
while running some other kernel. Cross-building an initial RAM file system is a bad idea when using MODULES=dep. Have you considered switching to LILO? http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Cancel debian-user

2012-06-13 Thread Stephen Powell
received from the list server.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1298572307.63762.1339637990067

Re: how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

2012-05-31 Thread Stephen Powell
kernel version 3.2.18. This issue, and many other gotchas, are documented on the above- mentioned web page. If you plan to use make-kpkg or make deb-pkg to build the kernel, the binary package is the one you want to install. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 03 May 2012 03:48:59 -0400 (EDT), Claudius Hubig wrote: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: It is my understanding that, assuming suspend/resume is supported, your swap partition should be AT LEAST as large as TWICE the amount of RAM. Suspend/resume will consume a RAM's worth

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Stephen Powell
/resume will consume a RAM's worth right out of the starting gate. The rest is then available for regular swap file activity. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver

2012-04-14 Thread Stephen Powell
for the memory boards. Then, put everything back together and hope for the best. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Lilo not recognizing keyboard SOLVED)

2012-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
for your contribution. As a LILO user, any other suggestions you may have for improving the web page will be considered as well. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Question about make-kpkg and versions

2012-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
convention. You are, of course, entitled to do it differently; but this method makes sense to me. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Question about make-kpkg and versions

2012-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
doing things. (I.e. is this a bug or a feature?) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Lilo not recognizing keyboard SOLVED)

2012-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm so please be as detailed as you can. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

2012-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
without suppressing true error messages? Maybe there's a module option that I can set in /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf, or something along those lines? Any help will be appreciated. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

2012-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
, CamaleĆ³n. I've looked over this thread. The explanation is complicated, and the solution doesn't sound particularly appealing, but I'll give this a try if I don't find a better one. Thanks again. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

2012-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:08:00 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: Isn't this a /proc/sys/kernel/printk issue? You can set kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3 in /etc/sysctl.conf. This looks promising. Where can I find documentation on this? -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

2012-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
that a frame buffer driver is being used. Add quiet to the kernel command line, this will suppress noise from other drivers as well. Thanks for the tip. I will consider trying this if I don't find a more selective solution. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

[SOLVED] How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?

2012-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
situation, that was sufficient. The messages that I was trying to suppress were at level 7 (debug-level messages); so setting the console loglevel to 6 was sufficient in my case. Thanks again. Thanks also to all who replied. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

2012-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:54:12 -0500 (EST), Jon Dowland wrote: On 25/01/12 23:38, Stephen Powell wrote: Did you use the --initrd option when you invoked make-kpkg? I thought make-kpkg was deprecated years ago? ... That depends on who you talk to. The kernel team used to use it to build

Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

2012-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

2012-01-25 Thread Stephen Powell
? The initial ram disk image is not created until the kernel image package is installed, but if you did not use the --initrd option when you invoked make-kpkg then when you install the kernel image package an initial ram disk image will not be created. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
a link to a useful diagnostic utility that will tell you a lot about the capabilities of your computer's BIOS. So even if you're determined to stick with grub-pc, taking a look at the above web page may not be a complete waste of time. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
concerning RAID, but I couldn't find anything about LVM. I have no experience with booting from a logical volume. You're on your own. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: linux-source-3.2.0-rc7

2012-01-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:32:32 -0500 (EST), lina wrote: On Friday 06,January,2012 10:42 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I'm also curious as to why you need, or think you need, to build a custom kernel in the first place. The wireless is not supported, bcm4331. so ... If the issue is that your

Re: linux-source-3.2.0-rc7

2012-01-05 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
. It doesn't match the default pc105 key mapping. I had reboot problems with it too, until I set XKBMODEL to dellsk8125. It works fine now. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: New User Help

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen Powell
- Translation Character set translation on received data Received data assumed to be in which character set UTF-8 See if that helps any. (You do know to switch to an SSH client immediately after configuring the network and the SSH server used by the installer, right?) -- .''`. Stephen

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
, whereas the left Alt key used in conjunction with F1-F12 is used to switch to consoles tty1-tty12. This was the default behavior in Lenny, but not in Squeeze. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-12-01 Thread Stephen Powell
. Well, we both learned something on this one. Glad you got it working. Sorry I wasn't more helpful. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: a quick Q: how do I get the latest kernel

2011-12-01 Thread Stephen Powell
stock binary kernel image package? In that case, Hans' post should answer your question. Or are you trying to build a custom kernel from source? In that case, why do you believe that you need to build a custom kernel? What is the ultimate objective? -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-30 Thread Stephen Powell
can now boot with no manual intervention. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-29 Thread Stephen Powell
, then run it manually and let me know that it didn't run automatically; so we can investigate the cause of that problem. Then reboot. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Building kernel headers 3.0.x-rt fails

2011-11-29 Thread Stephen Powell
://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm for the patch. I called it linuxv3.diff, I believe. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:21:53 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/11 15:10, Stephen Powell wrote: Since your permanent root file system is not a logical volume, chances are there is no LVM stuff in your initial RAM file system. Therefore, it is trying to access the SUSPEND/RESUME device

Re: Laptop Not Resuming From Hibernation

2011-11-28 Thread Stephen Powell
in comparison with the size of installed memory? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
. Also, I am going to rerun 'apt-get update' and see if the lines mentioninf lenny in /var/lib/dpkg/status go away. ... Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
as a prerequisite for something else, it will also be purged. That works for commands like aptitude full-upgrade and aptitude safe-upgrade. I'm not sure if it will have any affect with apt-get or synaptic. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:36:27 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Well, that didn't work, but I purged all of the packages with conffiles (manually, as I did

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
do_symlinks = yes specified in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Your /etc/lilo.conf file makes use of symbolic links; so it is important that they be maintained. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Stephen Powell
what you've done up to this point, provided you follow the directions in the release notes. My only suggestion would be to replace the Lenny backports kernels with standard Squeeze kernels. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Stephen Powell
that before. I changed lenny to squeeze in /etc/apt/sources.list, re-ran aptitude update (or apt-get update) and never had any problems. Re-examine your /etc/apt/sources.list file to make sure you didn't miss anything. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

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