Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-25 Thread Stephen Powell
to you. (For example, you may not have any packages on hold.) But you should do all the steps that do apply to you and in the recommended order. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: purge a package without removing config or remaining files

2011-11-23 Thread Stephen Powell
to the original names and you should be good to go. -- .''`. 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: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-11 Thread Stephen Powell
for testing modems. You can enter AT commands by hand and see the output, for example, even if you don't use it to connect to a remote system. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
. Perhaps my ThinkPad 600 page will be useful to you. http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm See the Configuring PPP topic in the Contents section. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-08 Thread Stephen Powell
that. The modem is pure software. The driver *is* the modem. There's no UART, no DSP, no nothing, in the hardware. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:25:04 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I would recommend using something like make localmodconfig to strip out drivers your hardware doesn't need. There are many hidden dependencies, such as SCSI support, that are not obvious

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Stephen Powell
errors there, please post your boot loader configuration file, /etc/fstab, and the kernel boot messages. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:46:13 -0400 (EDT), Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:43:20 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: It is important that you *not* use traditional device nomenclature, such as /dev/hda1 /dev/sda1 Why? Two reasons. First, whether an IDE hard disk shows up

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Stephen Powell
or LABELs. -- .''`. 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/1532239075.481697.1320198540616.javamail.r...@md01

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Stephen Powell
suspect you will do better with Wheezy. -- .''`. 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: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-10-30 Thread Stephen Powell
. This is also documented on the above web page. -- .''`. 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: [Semi-OT] Automatic subscription to self-opened bug reports

2011-10-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:22:50 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-10-29 19:00 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: I could be wrong, but I believe that you are automatically subscribed to bugs that you report yourself. You are indeed wrong. How did you get that idea? Based on past behavior

Re: [Semi-OT] Automatic subscription to self-opened bug reports

2011-10-29 Thread Stephen Powell
decided is important to 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/50717187.413448.1319907624555.javamail.r

Re: [OT] Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-08 Thread Stephen Powell
instead of attacking each other. Peace, my friends. Peace. -- .''`. 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: Kernel upgraded two or three times since install

2011-10-08 Thread Stephen Powell
to compile out-of-kernel-source-tree kernel module source packages when the kernel source code is not installed. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:45:34 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote: I was kidding :), since I'm a dino I know MS-DOS, on my Atari ST 80286 hardware emulater I used DR-DOS instead of the M$ thingy. Sorry. Didn't notice the winkies. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Custom Kernel and Swap

2011-10-03 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/1904652416.2270404.1317675132988.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: [OT] AC vs. DC (was British vs. American English)

2011-10-03 Thread Stephen Powell
voltages are impractical utilization voltages. Hitching his wagon to DC was Edison's biggest mistake. DC cannot be easily transformed from low to high voltage or vise versa the way AC can. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
, but that's not possible. Since the vast majority of the people who started the Debian project, including the founders, DEBra and IAN Murdock, were Americans, naturally they chose American English as the default. It made sense. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:54:07 -0400 (EDT), Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: Wonder where you looked up this stuff? http://www.urbandictionary.com The same source that was quoted earlier in the thread. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 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/1008258616.2241431.1317558174849.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
for the S. -- .''`. 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/84989179.2241638.1317559437216.javamail.r...@md01

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
that different national bodies convened to decide on standardized spelling, and the two organizations occasionally picked different standard spellings for the same word. That's why there are separate spelling dictionaries for British English and American English. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
at all. It's quite awkward. So what do I call myself then? Calling ourselves Americans is not technically correct, using the larger sense of the word American, but it's apparently the best we can come up with. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:08:11 -0400 (EDT), consul tores wrote: 2011/10/2 Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:20:57 -0400 (EDT), Nuno Magalhães wrote: i still get quirky about color instead of colour or centre vs center (which is which btw?). ... center is the American

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
is a grain (wheat, rye, spelt, etc.). And to the best of my knowledge, that is the only meaning of spelt in American English. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:01:55 -0400 (EDT), Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 02 October 2011 18:43:50 Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:34:23 -0400 (EDT), Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: ... the length came over form [from] France, but a good deal more recently than 1066

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:19:36 -0400 (EDT), Walter Hurry wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:37:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: A well-known example is Toys R Us I don't think that needs explanation. Toys Я Us is an American company. Yes, of course. But consul tores (obviously not his real name

[OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-01 Thread Stephen Powell
that they drink tea instead of coffee. By the way really mad to an American means really angry, not really crazy, just in case you didn't know. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:44:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote: In England, tea means a full meal. Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate. ... Hmm. Maybe that's Australia I was thinking of and I got the two countries mixed up. Anyway

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:36:23 -0400 (EDT), John Hasler wrote: Stephen Powell writes: And I didn't know that the British sense existed. Amazing, isn't it? Two cultures divided by a common language. Look up the British meanings of fanny and stuffed. I did. They're quite different from

Re: Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-30 Thread Stephen Powell
. It is covered in the Alternatives section and is mentioned here and there throughout 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

Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-29 Thread Stephen Powell
in the Maintenance Log section doesn't show a date of September 29, 2011, you're looking at an older cached version of the page. Reload the page (F5 in iceweasel) to see the most recent version of the page. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
, is http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm But, to each his own. Whatever floats your boat, man. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:53:59 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: If you decide to try kernel-package, make sure that you apply the patch file listed in the web page. It won't work properly with a version 3 kernel unless you do. Hum... you mean the one for EDID? I've compiled

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
, and they want to use it, fine. -- .''`. 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/378607842.2110586.1316993197410

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
to support that. Note that there is a patch you will need for kernel-package if you're using a version 3 kernel. See my kernel-building web page for details. http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm If you have a quad-core machine, you can set CONCURRENCY_LEVEL to 4. -- .''`. Stephen

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
apply the patch file listed in the web page. It won't work properly with a version 3 kernel unless you do. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
debugging information (if this isn't done by default). Thanks for the tips, Tom! I believe I'll incorporate one or both of those tips during the next revision of my kernel-building web page. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
time. And it is easy to make a mistake. For example, I've learned from experience that I need SCSI support in my kernel, even though I have no SCSI adapter in my machine. So much stuff emulates SCSI now, or uses SCSI protocols in communication. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: How the kernel knows?

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen Powell
after making changes and before rebooting. For example, update-initramfs -uk $(uname -r) Issue the above command as root. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:04:00 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Jung wrote: On Saturday 27 August 2011 17:57:00 Stephen Powell wrote: I am in a hurry to get to a wedding; so I don't have time for a more thorough reply right now; but you might want to take a look at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
to get to a wedding; so I don't have time for a more thorough reply right now; but you might want to take a look at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

For those of you having trouble with kernel-package and Linux V3 ...

2011-08-09 Thread Stephen Powell
version 3.81-8.1. There are reported problems with make version 3.82 and kernel-package. I haven't tried that yet. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: 3.0 kernel fails to compile

2011-08-02 Thread Stephen Powell
for kernel-package. See http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm for a complete explanation of my kernel-building methodology and the reasons behind it. You are of course entitled to disagree with me. ;-) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: 3.0 kernel fails to compile

2011-08-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:30:01 -0400 (EDT), Dave Witbrodt wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I don't like make deb-pkg that well for a number of reasons. One of them is that I get a linux-headers-* package and a libc-dev package too, whether I want them or not. make-kpkg is more flexible. I only

Re: lenny-squeeze upgrade - failed with grub-pc upgrade

2011-08-01 Thread Stephen Powell
to stay with grub-pc, stay on the line and maybe someone with grub-pc expertise will help you. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: restoring MBR

2011-08-01 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/1487787368.1018082.1312243126440.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: 3.0 kernel fails to compile

2011-08-01 Thread Stephen Powell
symptom of Debian bug report 635536. (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635563). At the very least, the above bug report illustrates that there are known problems with kernel-package with the 3.0 kernel. I assume that Manoj is working on it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

OT - boot floppy (was restoring MBR)

2011-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
about how one goes about restoration in such cases. In most cases, one doesn't want to restore the entire 512-byte sector, but only a portion of it: up to, but not including, the partition table. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:52:53 -0400 (EDT), Aaron Toponce wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 04:50:35PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Sometimes restoring a backup copy of the master boot record can be even more dangerous than wiping it out. The master boot record contains the master boot

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:34:44 -0400 (EDT), Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: That's a pity. IIRC, lilo used to save that under /boot. It still does. And lilo is still available. And I still use it. Unfortunately, it's too late for the OP in this case. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

2011-07-26 Thread Stephen Powell
(debian-user). And I don't like advertising on Debian sites, even unofficial ones. After all, Debian is a non-profit organization. (That's why its URL ends in .org instead of .com). -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: udisks and devices [was cannot mount floppy]

2011-07-24 Thread Stephen Powell
udisks? If so, here are some sources of information: man 1 udisks man 7 udisks man polkit man udisks-daemon man udisks-tcp-bridge /usr/share/doc/udisks/* Separate Debian package udisks-doc http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks HTH -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy [solved!]

2011-07-19 Thread Stephen Powell
exactly where, but it might shed more light on this situation. Thanks again, everyone- Glad you got it working. Thanks for the follow-up. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:58:27 -0400 (EDT), Tomas Kral wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 15:40 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: ... Issue man udisks for more information. Yes, this one did the trick... tcat@lynx:~$ udisks --mount /dev/fd0 Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/fd0 at /media

Re: NumLock in console

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
. This is a user-specific setting, not a global setting. -- .''`. 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: kernel compile error in wheezy

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
one or until you find an installed package that requires an older library. Then try again. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
Windows! ;-) -- .''`. 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/1441140062.735248.1310946914888.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Stephen Powell
with no operands to see if and where it was mounted. If it is not mounted, use the udisks command to mount the floppy, instead of the regular mount command. Issue man udisks for more information. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy

2011-07-16 Thread Stephen Powell
(and not a dependency) of bcc; so you may not have it installed on your system if you are in the habit of installing only dependencies and skipping recommendations. But it looks like it may be a requirement for compiling the kernel. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

2011-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm 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: GRUB OR LILO?

2011-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
installed and configured, it meets my needs quite well; and I have found it very reliable. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

2011-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:50:10 -0400 (EDT), Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: ... both versions of Grub use unallocated sectors to store extra code when they are installed in the master boot record.  This can lead to conflicts

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

2011-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:54:31 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: If it's installed in the master boot record, yes. If Grub Version 2 is installed in a partition boot sector, I believe it reads a list of blocks, just as LILO does. Only for finding the bootloader itself

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-07-03 Thread Stephen Powell
. And then, if the lack of support for interlaced modes has not been addressed in nouveau, I will have to get rid of my monitor. (My monitor requires an interlaced mode. That's why I still use nv.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: migrate from cobol to postgresl

2011-07-01 Thread Stephen Powell
is a database access language. If you wanted to translate COBOL to C, that would make sense. But translating COBOL to SQL? That doesn't make sense. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Subscription

2011-06-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:05:04 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 23:13 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:50:28 -0400 (EDT), Morning Star wrote: i want to join this mailing lists because i have a question about debian. See http://www.debian.org

Re: Subscription

2011-06-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:50:28 -0400 (EDT), Morning Star wrote: i want to join this mailing lists because i have a question about debian. See http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ for instructions on how to subscribe. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-08 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/552547774.68755.1307583947919.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: Switch to LILO from Grub2 ?

2011-05-15 Thread Stephen Powell
might work. I don't know. Try it and see. But it requires the partition be ext2 or ext3, I think. extlinux won't work with other file systems (reiser, xfs, etc.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Stephen Powell
nv has been removed from the distribution and the old binary version doesn't work with the new X server. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-09 Thread Stephen Powell
/KernelModeSetting -- .''`. 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/400717695.466909.1304992325326.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Stephen Powell
; so I've been forced to go back to the nv driver. (The problem seems to be on the kernel side, however, not in the nouveau X driver itself.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list

2011-05-05 Thread Stephen Powell
anyway. There is a sample /etc/apt/sources.list file on my kernel-building web page: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm Look for it under Step 1: Update Your sources.list File -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:39:16 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:32:43 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-24 22:19 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: ... The same bug can be reproduced by using the following kernel boot parameter: video=VGA-1:1024x768@87i

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:32:43 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-24 22:19 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: ... The same bug can be reproduced by using the following kernel boot parameter: video=VGA-1:1024x768@87i ... Please add these findings to the bug report. I will. But I

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:34:13 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:57:07 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: I can't use the nouveau driver because the nouveau driver doesn't work with interlaced video modes. I filed a bug report a good while ago. See http

Re: kernel 2.6.38 on Lenny

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell
/releases/squeeze/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html -- .''`. 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

Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell
really did try hard to make nouveau work for me, but it just doesn't. -- .''`. 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: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:14:39 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution. It is no longer maintained. NVidia abandoned it a while ago. It was still maintained by the X.org developers for a while

Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

2011-04-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:56:47 -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom others, I am replying to the last message I found in the thread. If there is one later, I didn't ignore it deliberately. * From: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com * Date: Mon, 6 Dec

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-04-18 Thread Stephen Powell
that uses the Nvidia drivers. -- .''`. 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/772452800.21893.1303173917605

Re: error installing kernel-image

2011-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:24:34 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: I had a similar problem described here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/10/msg00264.html Stephen Powell gave the same advice as above. :-) Following that, I tried this: # grep -r yaird /etc

Re: error installing kernel-image, solved

2011-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
scripts in /etc/kernel/postinst.d and /etc/kernel/postrm.d take care of creating and deleting the initial RAM file system images for custom kernels. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: error installing kernel-image

2011-04-14 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/1663235433.261291.1302830538326.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

[SOLVED] blank page after every page with HP PaintJet

2011-04-09 Thread Stephen Powell
feature, I recommend the paintjet driver over the pj driver to anyone who wishes to use the HP PaintJet printer under Linux, despite what the official recommendation says. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian Newbie need help - belated thank you to all

2011-04-03 Thread Stephen Powell
skipped over it. Even so, you did get a request for your Xorg.0.log file, which is what I would have asked for too. And as far as I can tell, you never posted it. You give up too easily. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

[SOLVED] Serial Connection

2011-04-02 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/1859366348.1893779.1301756864696.javamail.r...@md01

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
have any good alternative except nv. -- .''`. 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: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
the monitor I'm using now with one of them. But it's good to know that cheap video cards are available. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: apt makes it easy to track the new package but hard to dump the old

2011-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
::Get::Purge. -- .''`. 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/37884923.1903235.1301799801509.javamail.r...@md01

Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
(the one you didn't edit), rename the old version of the file to the production name, shutdown and reboot. The new network adapter will now have the interface name of the old adapter. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Serial Connection -- shielding

2011-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:30:59 -0400 (EDT), MAROUNI Abbass wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:27:39 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: As I've said before, the devil is in the details. You need to find out *exactly* how your cross-over cable or null modem is wired. There may be some asymmetry

Re: Serial Connection -- shielding

2011-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
of the experiment. Then maybe I'll suggest something else to try. -- .''`. 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

[SOLVED] dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
that everyone gets burned by this at least once. But once you find the solution, you never forget it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Serial Connection -- shielding

2011-03-29 Thread Stephen Powell
, but operationally it's much simpler. You want to do it with one cable? How about TCP/IP over ethernet and ssh sessions? That way, you can connect to any PC in the network with just one cable per server. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Cannot update wheezy

2011-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
not. With full-upgrade the dependencies can be resolved by giving permission to delete a couple of open office packages that are functionally replaced by a couple of libre office packages, IIRC. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Serial Connection

2011-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:40:40 -0400 (EDT), ow...@netptc.net wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:52:23 -0400 (EDT, Stephen Powell wrote: I haven't tried this, but one thing you want to make sure of is that you use a cross-over cable. The serial ports on PCs have what's known as a DTE interface

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