Re: raid barfs at startup with 2.6 kernel

2004-10-05 Thread Paul Yeatman
-In response to your message- --received from Justin Guerin-- On Tuesday 14 September 2004 07:21, Blake Swadling wrote: OK, firstly i will say i know bugger all about the way raid works. however i have managed to set up, both running software raid (raid0). one uses 2 SATA drives and the

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-10-05 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:32 pm, calvin wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:24:10AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: Top posting leads to a big mess. Every non-technical person does it and it ends up with them saying let's use a forum or something because they can't follow the thread any

Re: kernel update, initrd image help

2004-10-05 Thread Ian L
nevermind, found out about hitting shift key during boot. still need help getting 2.6.8 working though :) Ian At 03:08 PM 10/5/2004, you wrote: one quick question: apt-get install kernel-image-x Thats going to install that specific kernel image alongside the existing kernel image, correct?

Re: kernel update, initrd image help

2004-10-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/10/04 15:08), Ian L wrote: one quick question: apt-get install kernel-image-x Thats going to install that specific kernel image alongside the existing kernel image, correct? i.e. its not going to replace it. if so, how do i get lilo to offer me the choice to boot into both?

Re: Postgresql upgrade!!!!

2004-10-05 Thread Katipo
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:44:48 -0700 (PDT), D S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody knows how to upgrade postgresql on Debian manually or by apt-get? The debian security web site has only the old 7.2 version. I tried to load it form other http sources but it can't find

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-10-05 Thread Grant
Bob Underwood wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:32 pm, calvin wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:24:10AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: Top posting leads to a big mess. Every non-technical person does it and it ends up with them saying let's use a forum or something because they can't

Re: How to change default partition scheme in chroot sid

2004-10-05 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Henry Lenzi said... I am currently running Woody and I created a chrooted sid partition. Here's my current partition scheme for sid: If sid is in a chroot, it does not have a partitioning scheme. It lives on the filesystem on which woody was installed. Filesystem

Re: GDM puts a semi-persistent X in the middle of the screen.

2004-10-05 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Adam Funk said... When I log out of xfce4, the gdm login box appears normally. Not long afterwards, an X (like the multiplication symbol rather than the letter) appears right in the middle of the screen. When I log back in, it stays on the screen until I run kmail or knode,

Re: Important

2004-10-05 Thread dave
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: From David Knell: E-mail address changed Hi - Owing to the unbelievable amount of spam coming in to this account (6000+ pieces over the space of one weekend) I've changed my e-mail address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward the e-mail you've just sent me to my

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-10-05 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:24:10 -0500 Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I run a list for techs/consultants. (ChannelVar.com) They are a VERY qualified bunch of guys. (Admittedly not linux users though) :) The preferred method is top posting. The preferred format is to allow html.

Compiler error for kernel 2.4.19- missing terminating character

2004-10-05 Thread Dayong Gu
Hi, I've compiled a 2.4.19 kernel on my debian system (2.2.20-idepci), but I got such kind of error: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2

downloading selected source packages automatically

2004-10-05 Thread ROBERTOJIMENOCA
I have to compile many packages from source because some of my patches are not applied upstream. So I download the source package (dsc, diff.gz tar.gz), dpkg-source it, apply my patches, dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot, install it and mark it for hold so when upgrading a newer version isn't

HP 2210 All in Wonder USB storage devices

2004-10-05 Thread Tom Allison
um How do I mount the usb storage devices? I have usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) but when I insert the CF card, I don't get anything on the syslog telling me that a device was found (I expected this for USB devices). I know I had this working under Linux at some point, but that was

Re: Sound recording in ALSA

2004-10-05 Thread robin
Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm using Sid with Debian's 2.6.8-1-686 kernel package on a Dell PC with an Intel 8x0 sound device and ALSA. My ultimate goal is to get liveice to read from the line in on my sound card, but I'm trying to take baby steps to get there. Right now I'm attempting to record

DVD standard + or -?

2004-10-05 Thread Curt Howland
I am interested in getting an opinion from folks. In the DVD standards wars, who do you think is winning, DVD+ or DVD-? Here's why I ask: The spankie CD/DVD drive in this Sony is both + and -, and it and Linux write to whatever blank media I choose to put in it. But I do not know if in the

Re: Nvidia + 2.6 kernel

2004-10-05 Thread Tim Connors
Andrew Schulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:56:37 -0400: The rivafb module is incompatible with the nvidia driver; see /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian. This shouldn't be a problem if you never load that module, but if it does ever get loaded for some

Re: Installing from net with floppy disks - syst em donĀ“t recognize my hard disk

2004-10-05 Thread Joey Hess
Juan Stiller wrote: im quite new to debian so i search on debian.org for the floppy images and make the disks. Please use the floppy images linked to from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: HP 2210 All in Wonder USB storage devices

2004-10-05 Thread robin
Tom Allison wrote: um How do I mount the usb storage devices? I have usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) but when I insert the CF card, I don't get anything on the syslog telling me that a device was found (I expected this for USB devices). I know I had this working under Linux at some

Re: Squid and increaing from 4096 file descriptors

2004-10-05 Thread robin
Jeff Green wrote: In running a squid on a large and capable (Dual Xeon 4GB RAM) server to supply furniture graphics for a large website we are unable to find any way to increase the number of available file descriptors beyond 4096. The server has the following ulimits:- ulimit -a core file size

Re: Recomended dual head video card

2004-10-05 Thread Dana J. Laude
On Monday 04 October 2004 23:44, Nick Hastings wrote: Hi all, for reasons I won't bother going into I'm about turn a server machine into a workstation (and perhaps occasional game machine). There are two nice 1280x1024 17 inch digital LCD displays available (Mitsubishi RTD179S) [1], so I

Re: GDM puts a semi-persistent X in the middle of the screen.

2004-10-05 Thread yo mero
the problem is the hardware cursor enabled this is the setting on my XF86Config-4 Section Device Identifier Generic Video Card Driver savage Option SWCursor on Option HWCursor off EndSection all solved

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-05 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
I'd just like to know what video card works best out of the box with debian. This is because I have just got woody, and aparently I, as a newbie, have to figure out how to install compile a special driver so woody can talk to the on-board four mb of memory on my Intel 82815 video card. I sure

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-05 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:28:54AM +, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: I'd just like to know what video card works best out of the box with debian. Do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Look at the choices for video drivers which are there. Google for video cards which work with those drivers.

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:28:54AM +, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: This is because I have just got woody, and aparently I, as a newbie, have to figure out how to install compile a special driver so woody can talk to the on-board four mb of memory on my Intel 82815 video card. I sure would

java plugin works, programs do not run (exception in thread main)

2004-10-05 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hello, I'm getting an error when tryign to run any java apps using ANY j2re from blackdown's site (sun and blackdown versions.) Plugin works fine, but I try to install LimeWire for java and get the following exception: Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/zerog/lax/LAX

Re: java plugin works, programs do not run (exception in thread main)

2004-10-05 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:49:45 -0400 Rohan Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm getting an error when tryign to run any java apps using ANY j2re from blackdown's site (sun and blackdown versions.) Plugin works fine, but I try to install LimeWire for java and get the following

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-05 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:29:26AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I prefer to avoid all such risks by having a small DOS partition and booting from that with loadlin.exe. I used to do this, and still have some machines set up that way. Since I discovered grub I don't bother any more. Any

how to configure SFTP

2004-10-05 Thread David Powell
Hi All, I'm trying to setup sftp on my debian box, but am having some difficulty. I can log into it via ssh (using private/public keys and associated passphrase), but when I try to make a connection via sftp I get the following error message: Request for subsystem 'sftp' failed on channel 0

Re: Fixed Mutt Error

2004-10-05 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 09:01:58PM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: I fixed the problem I was experiencing with Mutt complaining it couldn't open a temporary file. I changed the set tmpdir in .muttrc from /tmp to ~/Mail/tmp (and after creating the directory) restarted Mutt and the pager works

Re: Nvidia + 2.6 kernel

2004-10-05 Thread Paul Johnson
#secure method=pgp mode=sign -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Noah Durell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I was hoping to try out a 2.6 kernel. When I installed it (using apt-get) I couldn't get the nvidia drivers to install (using module-assisstant) nor by doing a manual

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:32:16AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:29:26AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I prefer to avoid all such risks by having a small DOS partition and booting from that with loadlin.exe. I used to do this, and still have some machines set up that

Re: how to configure SFTP

2004-10-05 Thread David Powell
Some progress to report. Just edited the sshd_config file to include the line: Subsystem sftp-server /usr/lib/sftp-server When I restart sshd (sudo sshd), I get no errors, so I'm assuming this means the config file is fine. I still can't sftp into the box though, same error as below...

Radeon 9200 AGP 8x

2004-10-05 Thread Jacob S
Hello list, I've managed to get a Radeon 9200SE working on one computer, but it uses agp 4x. On another computer I've got a plain Radeon 9200 that appears to be agp 8x only installed in a motherboard with the Nvidia Nforce2 chipset (which supports agp 8x). However, I can't seem to get the radeon

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