On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 19:43:46 +0100
David Gardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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So, is there some sort of problem with kernel compiles here recently?
I notice we got new gcc packages yesterday...
Running: sid, up to date as of 12/25.
john.
Are you using debian unstable, and
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 19:43:46 +0100
David Gardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--snip--
So, is there some sort of problem with kernel compiles here recently?
I notice we got new gcc packages yesterday...
Running: sid, up to date as of 12/25.
john.
Are you using debian unstable, and
But of course you can ... from the cdrecord manpage:
If the overall speed of the system is sufficient and the
structure of the filesystem is not too complex, cdrecord
will run without creating an image of the ISO 9660
filesystem. Simply run the pipeline:
Has anybody else noticed that gimp1.1 has completely vanished??
Any ideas oh where it went or what happened?
And this isn't a dropped package ordeal, as it has vanished from woody.
Sean
john smith wrote:
hello,
I would like to know what other file managers are available besides
gmc..maybe there is something better out there?
I like gentoo.
Sean
apt-get install bin86
Sean
Vitux wrote:
Please tell me I'm a complete moron:
I can't find the above, neither in the us debian-mirror nor
in the danish (closest).
I need it for running Corel WordPerfect, and some folks here
told me I could just install it, and all would be well. I
believe so, now if I could only find
nedit would work but it won't allow multiple files to be open within one
window. gnotepad+ and gedit are exactly what i want but buggy enough to
not be very annoying to use (and c ain't my forte so i can't use the
source unfortunately :-( ).
VIM is pretty easy to use ... and gVIM, the
Stephen Zander wrote:
Could you both send me the output of
cat /proc/cpuinfo /proc/interrupts
off-list would probably be better. I'm wondering if I need to enable
interupts for this card and whether running an SMP system is making a
difference.
I'm running a Voodoo3 2000 PCI on a
No, but 2.2 (potato) does.
Sean
kasim kasmani wrote:
I currenlt use mandrake 7, but have heard raving
things about debian, so I was wondering does debian
2.1 support voodoo 3 video card?
Chris Hoover wrote:
I'm looking for information on setting up a dhcp server. Does anyone know if
a
howto or something like that exists? I went to linuxdoc.org and did not see
one, but it might be named something else.
I suspect the best thing at the moment would be the following:
I like to use apt-move to create a local mirror of all the packages I've
installed. This makes it easy to keep the other machines on my home lan
up to date. All I do is make the apt-move directory (in my case it's on
/mirror) mountable via nfs by all local machines, and go from there.
I think
wget will do thatman wget
Sean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know of a script that would save the html pages from a
website along with the pictures and any .tar.gz's down to a selected
depth?
This would be useful to save online docs for people on dialup
connections.
Just replace all occurances of unstable with potato.
Sean
Thomas C Sobczynski wrote:
Currently, my /etc/apt/sources.list is set to grab from the unstable
branch. I'd like to stick with the upcoming Potato release for a
while even as Debian moves ahead with unstable. What should my
Attila wrote:
I'd prefer a method based on 'dd' and 'cp'. It is possible?
If you have the debianutils package installed, you will have a spiffy
little program (shell script actually) called mkboot whose sole purpose
in life is to make a boot disk.
Sean
Phillip Deackes wrote:
When I do 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my already-woody system I get the
following:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ppp-pam
I am too scared to carry on. Is this a problem or is there something
else to replace ppp-pam?
Remember, apt-cache is your friend
Phil Brutsche wrote:
it's one of two ways Linux can use Intel-based SMP systems (the other is
IO-APIC used on PIIs on up, and maybe PPros).
Seems to be on the PPros too
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM0 Product ID: PROD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you'll just be playing 3D games go with a 3dfx card. I know visual quality
sucks, but at least your games will be playable.
I've found the Voodoo3 to have excellent 2D visual quality, and very
good 3D visual quality. I chose it over the other options because I have
I don't understand why anyone using Linux would resort to 3rd party
proprietary software to manage their boot-up. LILO will allow for as
many different OS boots as you are able to make partitions for. If you
have some beef with LILO, then there is always grub.
Personally I've always been well
apt-get upgrade will attempt to upgrade the packages which you currently
have installed on your system. If any of those upgrades require that
additional packages be removed or installed then the said package(s)
will be held back.
apt-get dist-upgrade will attempt to upgrade all packages,
Like with most things unixian, you have a few choices
I have /usr and /home on different partitions, so df -h gives me that
information.
Alternatively you could do du -sh /usr or du -sh /home. I'm sure there
are other options as well, but these seem to cover what I usually want
to know.
I don't use emacs either, and have always removed it with no problems.
Sean
Cameron Matheson wrote:
Hey,
I've noticed that installing Emacs is a big portion of installing Debian 2.1
Slink (if you choose the dialup profile). I was wondering if I needed
emacs. I don't use it, because I'm
A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file
... as its format is evidently fscked.
Sean
Gerhard Kroder wrote:
i've just setup a brandnew potato system (builtup from scratch as
potato) an try to get x/windowmanagers runnig. i noticed that
update-menus doesn't run
wow, don't know how I missed that ... thanks.
Sean
Marek Habersack wrote:
* Sean Johnson said:
A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file
... as its format is evidently fscked.
Even quicker is to edit it and add a backslash after every
'hints=something' line
I agree completely.
Sean
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
Fish Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my
machine to be making decisions as to whether it is
appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not. I should be
making those decisions because the machine
Speaking of Compaqs, is there anyway to free the memory sucked up by the
onboard video card? A friend of mine put a new PCI video card into his
Compaq, and I noticed that it still was only using 56M, even though the
onboard video card was not being used.
Sean
Nathan E Norman wrote:
On 11 Jan
So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible to get the SCSI card that came with
my Umax Astra 600S to work under Linux?
My Umax Astra 1200S came with a piece of crap $5 SCSI card that worked
under Windows only. I
If you're using the lastest quake2 package in potato, it's broken very
badly. You'll need quake2_3.20-3.deb.
Sean
Simon St-Pierre wrote:
hi my name is simon st-pierre and im not able to find a patch for
quake2 v3.20
and my computer crash over the internet i dont know if you have a 3dfx
For encoding, you want to use gogo. It's fast as hell (real time
encoding on a Pentium 200MMX), and makes quality files.
For listening, I like mpg123, but it's console based so it might not be
what you're looking for. XMMS is used my a lot of people, and it is
supposed to be a winamp clone. There
Read the SMP-HOWTO
Sean
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
Hi all Debian users,
I posted a message to linux-kernel to help me in a small paper that I
have to do for tomorrow and dont see an answer. It is a few related questions
about Linux + SMP. If there is a Linux
Use sudo.
Sean
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
Hi,
I would like to use my HP CD-RW 8200 as a normal user.
For this I turned the s-bit on in cdrecord/xcdroast/...
Is this the better way or there is a safer one?
With other words: is this safe?
I use an HP Deskjet 890c, and haven't had any problems. I've been using
the
550c print filter, which tends to go a bit heavy on the ink, and the
color
quality isn't great, but I hardly ever print color. I think there is a
filter
out there specifically for the 8xx series, but I've lost the url and
Recompile the kernel, and say No to PCI support, or just don't worry
about it as it's not hurting anything.
Sean
Graham Woodruff wrote:
Could I just ask if anyone out there has any 'post install cleanup' advice,
particularly to remove some of the spurious pci warnings,
From the NFS-HOWTO:
Many Linux distributions lack a exportfs program. If
you're exportfs-less you can install this script on your machine:
__
#!/bin/sh
killall -HUP /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
killall -HUP
to get
1024x780x32bbp on mine. Mind you I'm using the x-server that comes
with potato.
Marshal
From: Sean Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: voodoo3 3000
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 22:31:57 +
I have a V3 2000, and I use the SVGA X-Server available from
www.3dfxgamers.com. I
I have a V3 2000, and I use the SVGA X-Server available from
www.3dfxgamers.com. I believe it is a modified 3.3.5 SVGA X-Server.
Oh, and it works fine here ... I run at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sean
Nathan York wrote:
i have a voodoo3 3000 and was wondering if anyone knew the correct xserver
to
from Marathon Man :
..is it safe?...
Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
ha !!! i will !!!
i even compiled kernel on that monster...
OK
ps lousy translation from Russian:
Do you feel the pain?
No, doctor, i enjoy it...
I used to compress @ 224 or 256 kbps with bladeenc, but now that I've
been using lame instead, I encode at 128 kbps and end up with files that
are quite a bit smaller and sound just as good. Lame also allows for
variable rate encoding which for many songs lets me drop the bitrate
down to 112 kbps
me an idiots walk-through of
installing LAME? It's probably somewhere simple, but all the stuff about
LAME won't even compile by itself on the web page put me off. And of
course there's no package for it...
Thanks very much in advance,
Stuart.
Sean Johnson wrote:
I used to compress
Has anyone tried to get it to work via WINE?
James Pullman wrote:
It's very hard to tell people NOT to use a CODEC that's absolutely beautiful
to behold. It looks better then MPEG (which is non-free anyway) and is a
bootload smaller, better then AVI by a longshot, better then basically
Yes it can be done. You'll need to get the version of apt-get that is in
ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/upgrade-2.0-i386/ and then edit
your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the potato packages. Run apt-get
update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. It's been quite a while since I
did this
slink: to move in a quiet, furtive manner; to sneak
potato: a plant, emSolarnum Tuberosum/em, native to South America
and widely cultivated for its starchy, edible tubers.
Randy M.Kaplan wrote:
Can someone provide a definition of slink? of potato?
Thanks,
Randy Kaplan
--
I've found potato to be quite stable via upgrading from slink. Of course this
stability of only an 'average'. There have been moments when things were very
ugly
(i.e. the whole perl upgrade mess), but on the whole it's been pretty smooth
for my
home machine. I don't think I'd trust potato with a
It's written Starzilla, but it's pronounced KOffice.
Sean
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:19:00AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
J Horacio MG wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote:
Ben Collins wrote:
Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's
crap
I seem to remember this being a known bug with running Netscape in X @ 24-bit
color.
Supposedly changing the color depth to 32 or 16-bits or less will keep that from
happening. I could be wrong, but it might be worth a try.
Sean
Colin Telmer wrote:
Hi, the toolbar and frame around netscape
Unless you don't have an AGP slot, and then I'd go with the Voodoo3 2000 PCI.
Sean
Alexis Maldonado wrote:
Hello!
I think that a good choice would be a card with the Nvidia TNT2 chipset,
like the Diamond Viper V770. These cards have 32MB RAM on-board, and I have
seen them work very nicely
Unless you need to have color, I'd suggest getting a laser printer of some
flavor
(I'm partial to HP printers in general). If you need color, go with an HP 8**
printer. I don't know what numbers they have now, but I have an 890C, and have
been
very impressed.
Sean
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
I have TTF support in X-Windows now (via xfstt), but I cannot get
Netscape to use them (which was the primary reason for getting them in
the first place). I was wondering if anyone has any luck with getting
Netscape to recognize the TTFs.
Sean
The best screensaver these days is the monitor's power button. You don't really
have to worry about image burn with today's color CRT monitors (and I would
think this would be doubly true for LCD monitors). It's usually not a good idea
to leave a monitor on all the time, as for a CRT the
A registered company maintains legal liability. A profit making company also is
insured, which makes it feasible to sue if they decide to break a contract, etc.
Sean
Henning Makholm wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes:
There is the difficulty that Debian is an organization that is
An easier solution is to open Disk Administrator {Start-Programs-Administrative
Tools-Disk Administrator} and mark the Linux partition as active.
Sean
Jeff Katcher wrote:
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
yikes, that thing is stubborn. I've supposedly installed lilo half a
dozen times, and
Are you insane? That error does not have ANYTHING to do with the type of
processor
you have. I guess I have a fake PII chip in my PENTIUM PRO, as I too get that
error.
Sean
Mike Holliday wrote:
Hi,
That means that you have gotten one of the fake PII Chips, you can go to
www.intel.com and
I just set up a Linux partition for a friend of mine who is a dedicated
WinBlows user,
as he's been tinkering around with image editing stuff, and hasn't liked the
software
selection he's found for WinBlows. I mentioned the GIMP, and showed him what it
looked like and some of the elementary
First of all, NT is very stable in a workstation environment. As soon as you
start
using it in a server environment all bets are off. Also as soon as you slap
IE4 on it
all bets are off. I use NT on a pretty regular basis in a workstation
environment, and
it seems to me that as soon as you
Actually, even the kernels up to 2.1.129 need the append line added to
lilo.conf. I'm running a PPro machine with 128MB of ram, and unless I add
the append line under kernel 2.1.129 top only reports 64MB present.
Sean
- Original Message -
From: Jeff Noxon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
I'm using kernel 2.1.129, and the sound support for the Ensoniq card (1370) is
great.
Sean
At 12/16/98 1:22:00 PM, you wrote:
Ian wrote:
Yo-
Does anyone have this card working? If so, how?
You either need OSS/Linux, which is commercial (www.4front-tech.com) or
use the ALSA sound drivers.
One of the nice things about Debian/Linux as opposed to -other- operating
systems is that
software doesn't tend to fight with other applications. So, since you seem to
still be in window-
manager-browsing mode, I'd leave KDE installed, especially if space isn't an
issue. Currently I
have
I went to ftp.xfree986.org, downloaded all the necessary binaries, and then
just followed the
directions. Essentially, you put all the .tgz files in your /var/tmp folder,
then run a preinstallation
script, extract all the files (using a special extract binary), and then run
a
It looks like you're missing arguments in the mount command.
You might want to try:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
On my system, I've created a directory (mkdir /95) and added an entry into
fstab:
/dev/hda2 /95 vfatdefaults0 0
This way if I want to move a
The G200/G100 series of video cards are now supported with the XF86-SVGA server
under
XFree86 3.3.3, which was released about a week ago. I've found that the new
server also has
better support for the regular Millenium I cards.
The upgrade to XFree86 3.3.3 is pretty painless, and worked
Fist you need to boot up under linux, then using your favorite text editor (I
like vi) open up your
/etc/lilo.conf file.
delete the line that says 'delay=some number'
replace it with the word 'prompt'
Then move to the end of the file, and add these lines:
other=/dev/hdapartition number
Go to the help directory on the floppy that came with the card. There are
directions on how to
compile support for the Netgear card. All it involves is copying a file
(tulip.c) into your
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net directory and recompiling the kernel. Be sure to
remember the
questions
I get the same exact results with my PPro system (Intel 440FX chipset) and
Maxtor 7.2GB UDMA drive. This even happens under the developmental kernel
2.1.122 which I use for the better SMP handling. I've asked questions
before on newsgroups and such as to what could be causing this behavior, or
I have a Relisys AVEC Easy 3 scanner. It is of the EPP Parallel Port
variety, and I was wondering how I should go about setting it up under
Linux. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanx.
Sean
This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed
at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU
software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah,
blah that appears directly after login. Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated.
Sean
You can't install LInux with NT (or any other OS for that matter) running .
Since you
already have saved a good amount of space, you're well ahead of the game. All
you
have to do is insert the linux boot floppy, reboot, and follow the directions.
When
you install LILO, be sure to NOT install
Whenever I shutdown/reboot via the keypress Ctrl-Alt-Del, I get told
upon subsequent reboot of linux that the partition was not cleanly
unmounted, and then have to sit through esfchk. If I type shutdown -r
now, this does not happen. It seems to me that there must be something
wrong with the way
I just recently set up Debian 2.0, with icewm as my default
X-windowmanager. Everything was working fine. Then today when I went
back over to Linux (I have a triple-boot setup {WinNT, 95, Linux}),
and typed 'startx', the screen went blank, but nothing else happened.
Eventually the command line
Help
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