Re: ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance

2001-01-07 Thread mikpolniak
On 07 Jan 2001 03:58:45 -0500, Arcady Genkin said: I have an IBM ATA-100 30G harddrive, attached to a ASUS CUSL2-C (Intel 815EP-based) mobo. The kernel is not even using the drive in UDMA mode. The performance is *horrible*: every time I copy to the disk the CPU usage goes up all

Re: ISO problems (rsync is silently exiting)

2001-01-07 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:46:48 -0800, Mark Symonds said: Hi, Trying to make an ISO of potato on a windows box here. Following the instructions, I ran make-pseudo-image and now have a file called binary-i386-1.iso in the directory which is 634,220KB in size. Finally, I am to

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:52:17 +, sena said: On 07/01/2001 at 16:31 +0100, Stefan Frank wrote: What i'm doing usually is to rename the init-script under /etc/init.d/ to original-filename.NO. This will affect all runlevels but i don't care. IMO it's simple and quite obvious (for me at

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-01-01 Thread mikpolniak
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:04:30 -0800, Jerrud said: Hello I`m trying to compile the 2.2.18 kernel on my Storm Linux (debian based) computer, and I`m having troubles doing so. After I unpack the kernel, do make xconfig, make dep, and then make clean, I get an error in make bzImage. I

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:34:02 -0600, ktb said: On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:16:59PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: Can anyone tell me what this person is looking for here, and how I can find out where this is coming from? Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 31 11:06:47 tower

Re: Catch-22 with modules/backups

2000-12-23 Thread mikpolniak
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:32:34 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I did not install SCSI support during my debian-2.2.17pre6 installation, since I have no SCSI devices. I have one backup mechanism, a CD-Rewritable drive. The CD-Rewritable howto says I need SCSI support. (whoops!) I

Re: Catch-22 with modules/backups

2000-12-23 Thread mikpolniak
On 23 Dec 2000 16:27:02 EST, mikpolniak said: On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:32:34 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I did not install SCSI support during my debian-2.2.17pre6 installation, since I have no SCSI devices. I have one backup mechanism, a CD-Rewritable drive

Re: I need a filter for Epson Stylus Color 400

2000-12-22 Thread mikpolniak
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:23:34 +0100, Santiago Fernandez said: I need printcap entries and a filter (maybe from magicfilter) for a Epson Sylus Color 400. Has anyone some experience configuring this printer? I've tried different possibilities without success. I've read README-StylusColor

Debates about the 'deb' in debian?

2000-12-19 Thread mikpolniak
On a recent linux radio show a guest pronounced the 'deb' with an 'a' sound as in 'day'. And a bio article in the Nov/Dec issue of 'Maximum Linux' quotes Debra (Ian's wife) as '...remembering debates on how to pronounce the name'. So are there still debates about saying

Re: 8139too.o module loading problem

2000-12-18 Thread mikpolniak
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 02:05:08 +1100, M. V. Nguyen said: Hi, I get the following error message when trying to load the 8139too.o module. /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o: symbol for parameter debug not found

How to remove 'helix' packages?

2000-12-18 Thread mikpolniak
In attempting to compile the 'gimp-print' plugin for use as a printer driver it appears that the 'helix' version of gimp that i installed is preventing me from installing some needed dev-libs. Has anyone removed 'helix' pkg-versions (task-helix-core + task-helix-gnome) without

modules.conf more recent than modules.dep

2000-12-11 Thread mikpolniak
I was successfully running a new kernel -2.2.18pre21 then recompiled so i could update my ethernet card driver from rtl8139 to 8139.too. I rebooted from the new boot floppy. Then i did modprobe 8139.too and ifup eth0 and networking ran fine. So i decided to put alias eth0

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 packages and Potato

2000-12-05 Thread mikpolniak
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:45:28 +0100 (CET), Erik Noort said: Hiya I'm wondering how things are standing with XFree86 4.0.1 packages for Debian 2.2 (Potato). I've noticed that they are already available for Woody, but not for Potato. I've tried to compile the woody source package, but I

Re: Matrox G450 and XF4.0.1: solved

2000-12-05 Thread mikpolniak
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:27:08 +0100 (CET), Frederik Vanrenterghem said: Well, it turned out one has to do some nasty trick to get X up: after entering startx, all output is delivered to the second monitor port on the Matrox G450 card, so you have to hot-swap your monitor (if you're working

Re: (no subject)

2000-12-04 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:07:10 +, Francis Irving said: This can be quite fiddly to do. If you're using Windows 95/98, you can configure Lilo (Linux Loader) to let you dual boot. If you're using Windows NT/2000 you may find you need to use the free program BootPart under NT to add

Re: [OT] Navigator 4.75 hangs, any patches?

2000-12-04 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:19:54 -0500 (EST), J. Bruce Fields said: On 3 Dec 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: Gr. Navigator 4.75 hangs on some pages, eating all the CPU, and making all open netscape windows unuseable. This is on an i686, mostly potato. Any patches/workarounds for this

Re: Mount ftp fs

2000-12-04 Thread mikpolniak
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:50:07 +0100 (CET), Mats Eriksson said: Hi ! Does anyone know a way to mount a remote file systems over ftp ? I found something called userfs but it seemed incomplete and out of date. (I guess sitecopy is another way to do what I want to do but mounting would

Re: How to purge and reinstall XFree86 [woody] ?

2000-12-04 Thread mikpolniak
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:53:05 -0600, Brian Boonstra said: Ouch I've gotten myself into a real dill of a pickle. I run woody, but around Thanksgiving I hadn't upgraded for weeks. I did apt-get upgrade which screwed up KDE and X. After apt-get dist-upgrade, uninstalling and

Re: who listens on the port?

2000-12-03 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 01:43:50 -0800, Erik Steffl said: the nmap shows: 785/tcpopenunknown the netstat confirms: tcp00 jojda:785jojda:3984 TIME_WAIT tcp00 *:785*:*LISTEN how do I find who listens onj this

Re: who listens on the port?

2000-12-03 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 14:18:31 -0800, Tim Uckun said: At 10:18 AM 12/3/2000 -0500, mikpolniak wrote: any ideas which particular package does it? You can use update-inetd to remove or disable these entries in inetd.conf so the inetd daemon won't listen on these ports

Re: XFCE

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:13:42 -0500 (EST), Christopher W. Aiken said: Does anyone know id there is s deb package of the XFCE WM? I tried an apt-get install xfce and it failed with a not found. Point your sources.list to woody. I just d/l it a week ago and it works fine in my

Re:

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On , said: Hi, I just bought a new soundblaster 16 sound card. I have never installed a kernel module so could someone help me on this please? Actually this will hopefully be the first time I have sound on a Linux box. I installed a Creative soundblaster last week and

Re: Sound Blaster 16 Module

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 16:10:32 -0500, Eileen Orbell said: Hi, I just bought a new soundblaster 16 sound card. I have never installed a kernel module so could someone help me on this please? Actually this will hopefully be the first time I have sound on a Linux box. I

Re: APT and stable/unstable packages

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:04:14 -0800 (PST), Yuri Niyazov said: Please reply to my email address also, I am not subscribed to the list yet. I am currently running a hacked and hacked-over again old unstable version of 2.2. On a separate partition I am now installing 2.2 stable, and have a

Re: APT and stable/unstable packages

2000-12-02 Thread mikpolniak
On 02 Dec 2000 22:14:57 EST, mikpolniak said: On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:04:14 -0800 (PST), Yuri Niyazov said: Please reply to my email address also, I am not subscribed to the list yet. I am currently running a hacked and hacked-over again old unstable version of 2.2

hdparm ATA66 on new drive+new system

2000-11-29 Thread mikpolniak
Last week after i installed potato on a new system i ran hdparm to test the new ibm ata66 drive and it showed reads of 32mb/sec. Since then the only changes i've made have been apt-get installs which have increased my disk usage to 895mb. Now hdparm consistently tests reads at