I'm using the stock kernel-image-2.6.6-i686 and my desktop is unable to
use either APM or ACPI, both of which are built-in.
BIOS has power-saving turned on, with the timer set to 30 minutes. When
booting the stock kernel, I get a message that my BIOS is from before
1999 and I cannot use ACPI.
Is there a simple way for someone to make his own .deb from a downloaded
tarball? I've read the New Maintainer's Guide but that doesn't seem to
be geared toward the Average Joe who wants to make one or two informal
.debs.
I'm not interested in building tarballs that are apt-get'able. For
I was able to use power management on my desktop with kernel 2.4.22 but
once I upgraded to another 2.4.X kernel I started having problems. The
desktop would go into power-saving mode but would not wake up no matter
what I tried.
I installed Debian from the beta 2 installer, and am running
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:34:18PM +0100, Israel Herraiz Tabernero wrote:
It seems your motherboard only supports APM, so you should specify
append=apm=on acpi=off in your /etc/lilo.conf, and remove all the
acpi related packages (such as acpid).
I just added this to lilo.conf, then put apm in
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:11:08PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
I wasn't clear from your message, how are you turning off you machine?
apm suspend usually (always?) requires a dedicated partition (which
usually needs to be created using a dedicated tool under M$) into which
it stores the memory,
I'd like to install Debian but have a slight problem: my Ethernet card
(ADMtek 983) requires the latest tulip drivers.
I have a DSL connection with PPPoE. I'd like to install a bare-bones base
system and install the remaining components via apt-get. The new drivers are
available in rpm format,
want here
...and then you'll probably have to set_hdrs in the rc as well.
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David Kanter
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file when I fetchmail -m 'procmail' and get mail from my ISP.
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David Kanter
FreeBSD 3.4
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I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to the newest frozen packages; upgrading ppp
REMOVED ppp-pam. Now I cannot connect to the Internet via Debian. I've got to
use Mandrake instead.
Is this some wierd dependency problem?
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David Kanter
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois USA
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I have compiled the 2.2.10 kernel for Token Rings with use of the Tropic
module. I have an IBM ISA Token Ring card. However, the boot-up process freezes
partway through the Token Ring phase.
During boot-up, I can see messages like the Token Ring's hardware address, and
something about 16MBps.
I'd like to use Debian (Slink) on my work computer because of the free tools
I'll need to do some Web page designing. Currently we use Windows NT and are
hooked up through a token-ring network using DHCP and Novell's
Netware/GroupWise.
The basic question is: Will I be able to hook my Slink box
When installing Slink today, I must have neglected the floppy module, because
now I cannot use /dev/fd0. (Was the module even listed in the block devices?)
That means I couldn't make a boot floppy.
What I've been doing is booting off of CDROM1 and typing rescue root=/dev/hda5
at the boot:
I'm not sure about using menus, but I've done the two-icon thing just using
xterm. In xterm, I did this:
xterm -name Mutt -title E-Mail -e mutt
xterm -name Slrn -title News -e slrn
This lets me chose a separate appicon for one without affecting the other.
Since Exit session in Wmaker saves
Did you have unix/:7101 as the first FontPath entry? If so, move it to the end
of the list and restart. Should work fine then.
-Dave
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/8/99 1:35:54 PM
I thought I had configured the true-type font server a few weeks
ago, but now I restarted X and all
First off, I have read the README.Debian file in /usr/doc/slrnpull/, but I
still cannot get slrnpull to accept my outgoing messages when running slrn in
spool mode. (Incidentally, is there a way to run slrnpull as non-root?)
As suggested, I did: adduser david news, adding me to the news group.
Why is the time as shown by asclock drifting so far from the real time? Does
Linux read the BIOS time, and therefore my BIOS clock is losing time quickly,
or is something else going on? Now the time is off by about 15 minutes, and it
makes crontab jobs sort of tricky.
Is there a way to sync
Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to update some
files from the unstable tree?
Here's why: I have Slink and downloaded Netscape 4.61 from the unstable tree.
Why? Getting a stable Netscape never seemed to work; not all the necessary
files would download, so I opted to
I would like to rewrite my address with exim. (I only send outgoing mail to the
Internet; no local mail.) I've read the documentation, but am still a bit
confused on exactly how to set up the re-write. I would like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to be re-written to [EMAIL
I've got a custom bootdisk that works fine. I moved the kernel to my home
directory using dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/david/vmlinuz. (I also used cat
/dev/fd0 /home/david/vmlinuz and it did the same thing.)
Everything is OK, except the file size of this new kernel looks like its the
size of an
I'll post this problem one last time: I must type runq at the console after
running fetchmail in order for my e-mail reader to see my new mail. This never
happened before, that is until I installed Netscape 4.61 the other day; before,
I would run fetchmail and smail ran the queue automatically.
After installing Netscape 4.61, via dselect using Slink, a message came up
during the configuration of the packages that smail might have to be restarted
. So I let smail restart.
However, now when I run fetchmail I must runq in order for smail to pick up the
mail fetchmail received and get it
After installing Netscape 4.61, via dselect using Slink, a message came up
during the configuration of the packages that smail might have to be restarted
. So I let smail restart.
However, now when I run fetchmail I must runq in order for smail to pick up the
mail fetchmail received and get it
Last night I set up fetchmail and smail. At first smail bounced back all
my remote messages (local messages were OK). But I made some changes and both
are working, I think, but I have some questions so that I'll get less error
messages.
Perhaps someone could give me hints on how to
Last night I compiled a new kernel and had it sent to a boot floppy instead of
the hard drive (using the standard Debian tools for compiling a new kernel).
Booting from the floppy is fine. However, I'd like to mount the floppy and get
the kernel image off of it, move it to /boot, and then
I compiled a new kernel last night with APM support. When I boot up, I get the
message about APM BIOS. However, it doesn't work all that well.
I run Window Maker, and after the selected dead time (as set in my BIOS), the
CPU and monitor go to sleep (before going to sleep, the box has been
I'm having the opposite problem: I can't get my kernel onto the hard drive!
When compiled a kernel last night, using the packaging you mentioned, I was
left with my own custom .deb file. When I ran dpkg on it, I was given the
option to create a boot floppy. I'm not sure why you didn't get this
When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message:
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
Also use the `xhost' program to verify that
I followed all the directions for making a custom kernel the debian way. When I
get to the make-kpkg part, everything works fine until I get this error:
make[2]: as86: Command not found
make[2]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot'
My printer, an HP694C, does the stair-stepping thing. When I set up Mandrake,
there was an automatic fix for this during set up. What can I do with Slink to
fix this?
Also, I use lpr. Is this the preferred way for printing with Debian?
Thanks,
Dave
I wanted to customize my kernel over the weekend, but after looking at what I
assumed to be the current kernel configuration (i.e., the options selected when
viewing make xconfig), I was left with some questions.
For instance, during boot-up I get the PPP messages. But in make xconfig, PPP
Wvdial only works with root access. Currently, I su root, and then type wvdial.
Is there a way so that I, when a non-root user, can start wvdial securely? I've
read that suid will work, but is an insecure way of doing it. I want to do this
the right way. Perhaps just su-ing root is the best?
Gnome, after installing it this weekend, left a bad taste in my mouth. I'd
prefer to use a straight-up window manager.
What's the best way to uninstall gnome and its associated packages? I think all
I downloaded was task-gnome-desktop, but I'm not sure. Should I let dselect
remove this
I agree. I tried Enlightenment out over the weekend and was thoroughly
unimpressed. It was very slow, and all those gibberish icons made no sense. No
offense, but it seemed like it was designed by some high school kid who likes
to play games all the time. Too much flash.
Window Maker isn't bad
Sounds like you could be trying to run X out of your monitor's scan range. Try
running XF86Setup, as root, and reconfigure.
Simon Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/13/99 11:29:47 AM
Hi all
I have just downloaded X onto my Linux box and this time I am determined to
get it up and running. The
What's the difference between the two? These are listed in my Window Manager
box under Window Maker. I also have Window Maker (Gnome), which is obviously
for Gnome. But what about those other two?
Thanks,
Dave
Am I missing something, or does the Mozilla browser that comes with Slink not
work?
After starting ppp, I can start Mozilla, and it goes to the Mozilla home page,
and that's about it. If I type a URL into the Web site box, then hit enter,
nothing happens. If I go to the bookmarks, I can't add
I use POP3 with my dial up connection, and wonder what people generally use as
a mail client for this situation. Do people just default to Netscape? I was
looking at Mutt, which looks a little confusing, but seems to be somewhat
popular.
Dave
I tried to update X on my Slink, but am not sure if I did everything correctly.
Because I don't have an internet connection available at my Linux box, I
downloaded most of the files from http://www.debian.org/~branden/ at another
machine and used dpkg to upgrade everything I could, such as the
I'm going to try out GNOME this weekend, but have read about many problems
regarding it's gpm. How can I avoid gpm from being installed during the
installation? Will I be asked about this after installing the package? And is
it possible to use my regular xdm with xbanner with GNOME? I assume it
I'd like to download a directory-worth of files using a T1 line and a Zip disk,
then bring that disk to my Linux box at home. How should I set up apt to read
the mounted Zip disk (/dev/hdd4)? I'm more concerned with setting up the apt
configuration file.
Thanks,
Dave
I need some advice on how to upgrade the XFree86 files that came with Slink. My
problem is that I have a card (STB nVIDIA TNT, 16 Mb of RAM) not listed in the
stable version, but listed in the unstable version of X. Newer versions of X
that came with Mandrake (in rpm format) work fine; but the
I'm assuming that I'll need to go on-line at some point during this update.
Since I cannot do that just yet where my Linux box is, what could I download at
another Internet-ready machine (which has a T1 line) to get deselect to work
right?
Also, how do dselect and apt integrate with one
I'll try the upgrade. I had heard there was one on an ftp site (something like
ftp.mokole.com), but when I logged on there was a message that nothing would be
made available for download.
I tried the xf86config again last night, and set the mouse port to /dev/psaux.
That did the trick. But the
I have Debian 2.1. After installation the console works fine but X does not.
When I startx, I will get a teal screen at a very low resolution, with the
mouse pointing to the left. Then everything freezes. If I hit a key, I get a
beep. I must go to a virtual terminal to shutdown.
I have run
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