compaq evo - weird hd problem

2004-12-08 Thread stephen parkinson
was playing with drqueue, nfs and exec as one of default permissions well suddenly, almost sounds of singing/melody from compaq evo, thought it was my mp3 player initially evo hung on reboot and also after a power off/on, only the usb hard drive i had plugged in, is shown in the bios the evo

weird Mozilla progress report

2004-11-14 Thread stephen parkinson
libranet 2.8.1 + upgrades as per repositries Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 downloading a 2.4Gb dvd iso image download manager reports time left as 0-47:0-36:0-30 transferred as -2044276kb of 2097152kb at -24.1kb/s any ideas ? stephen -- To

Re: [OT] Sensible Dual/Quad w/ Lots of Ram System

2004-08-15 Thread stephen parkinson
Jacob S. wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:37:39 -0400 Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 05:40 -0700, William Ballard wrote: I'm totally pavlovian, saw a review of Dual Xeon vs. Dual Opteron on Infoworld and now I want to buy another computer. Probably won't. I

office suite capable of importing/converting applixware aw ag files?

2004-07-05 Thread stephen parkinson
got caught by proprietary file formatting :-) my applix was purchased approx 4-5 yrs ago i tgz'd the applix dir and now uncompressed on a libranet 2.8.1 box, applix complains loudly of missing libstdc++ 2.8 libs so do i build install libstdc++2.8 sources or hope for a open source program that

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-14 Thread stephen parkinson
Andrew Perrin wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, LeVA wrote: Hi! I want to download the pictures from a fuji digital camera. Hi - I use a fuji finepix 310 with no problems. When I plug it in the usb port, my kernel detects the camera: ---###--- Jun 14 20:40:22 leva kernel:

Re: what's the diff between non-SMP and SMP kernel?

2004-05-16 Thread stephen parkinson
cwinl wrote: Thank you !!! it works! i mistake debian for redhat. Thank you all! - Original Message - From: Greg Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 4:21 PM Subject: Re: what's the diff between non-SMP and SMP kernel? On Sunday 16 May 2004 12:17

Re: kernel 2.6.X and cdrecord / xcdroast

2004-04-25 Thread stephen parkinson
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 07:49:20PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do understand that we don't want scsi-emulation any longer. So far so good. Whatwhatwhat? This changed? I upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6 and didn't lose my

Re: new net install works, but sound is LOUD

2004-04-25 Thread stephen parkinson
Rodney D. Myers wrote: Just got my friends new computer working, using the net install. Everything is working as advertised, except that the sound in KDE is very LOUD. Before I left last night, I used aumix to mute, adjust, just plain abuse the sounds system. No affect It had no affect on xmms,

Re: prob with kernel headers - vmware modules compilation

2004-04-24 Thread stephen parkinson
glenn wrote: Every so often (actually quite often) vmware decides its kernel modules need recompilling - so I oblige it (i.e. vmware-config.pl). In order to do this it checks for the location of my kernel headers. I've always used the ones in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/location with no

Re: print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-17 Thread stephen parkinson
Matt Price wrote: anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of the kernel module tree from make xconfig? I would like to have an annotated copy (what modules are required on which machines for what purposes, etc...). If there's another similar pretty picture somewhere

Re: c++ reference package

2004-03-15 Thread stephen parkinson
Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:03:23PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a package with c++ references in one form or another? I found quite a lot of c references but could locate anything proper on c++. stl-manual and

Re: Network setup problems (formerly Can anyone give me a clue)

2004-03-08 Thread stephen parkinson
Ken Januski wrote: Hi, I'm starting this thread over from one that used to be called Can anyone give me a clue... . Sorry for anyone that was trying to help me with that thread. I'm thankful for your help but feel I need to rephrase the problem. First of all I have a crossover cable

Re: Let Sunbeam Tech know Case Mod products with Bin Laden are not welcome

2004-03-07 Thread stephen parkinson
Number Six wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 12:54:39PM +1100, Mathew Meins wrote: The Bin Laden one appears to ridicule him, from what I can see at the URL you posted. I really don't know what you're complaining about. The Saddam one has a big nose and looks like a caricature. What feature

Re: [HELP] Machine sleeps so cron-jobs and shutdown don't work.

2004-03-07 Thread stephen parkinson
Preben Randhol wrote: Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/03/2004 (13:38) : To my knowledge, you have to have the machine awake since crontab is running against an internal clock. Once ACPI/APM put it to sleep, nothing in the kernel code will wake it up. Only BIOS or LAN settings

Re: swapping interfaces

2004-03-05 Thread stephen parkinson
Michael Robokoff wrote: I have a machine with 2 ethernet interfaces installed. The systems installed with the Gigabit interface as eth0 and 100MB interface as eth1. Can someone tell me how to change this so the 100MB interface is eth0 and the gigabit interface is eth1? Thanks --Mike edit

Re: all my ext3 filesystems died - completely!!!!

2004-02-26 Thread stephen parkinson
Alvin Oga wrote: hiya stephen On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, stephen parkinson wrote: on return - and a lot of 'bus error' in xterm a reboot gave 'attempt to access past end of filesystem' on every ext3 filesystem only the hdb ext3 partition, being using by jigdo-lite survived what is the output

all my ext3 filesystems died - completely!!!!

2004-02-25 Thread stephen parkinson
started as a libranet 2.8.1, headed towards sid + extras (yes i know) had downgraded to a 2.6.1 kernel not quite sure about state of X left it downloading via jigdo-lite, with screensaver in open-gl random mode on return - and a lot of 'bus error' in xterm a reboot gave 'attempt to access past end

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-25 Thread stephen parkinson
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-25, Paul Johnson penned: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:48:55AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: As a USian, I'm really confused by this description of turning. Could you please explain the term tangle turning? If you were to perform a tangle turn in

Re: xtree for Linux

2004-02-24 Thread stephen parkinson
Thomas Dickey wrote: Tris Orendorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry this is so late but ... I suggest you look at unixtree, it is the real thing, very close to XTreeGold. Check it out at http://www.unixtree.org/index.htm . UnixTree is written by Rob Juergens and is Free

Re: Unable to cdroms in linux 2.6.3

2004-02-23 Thread stephen parkinson
John L Fjellstad wrote: David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: like. Under 2.6.*, you need /dev/scd0. Both can coexist until one is ready to leave 2.4.2* forever. K3B (KDE burner) wants all CD burners to mount to a / cdwriter directory. One can additionally mount to /mnt/cd0, etc. for normal

Re: Unable to cdroms in linux 2.6.3

2004-02-23 Thread stephen parkinson
Jeff Elkins wrote: On Monday 23 February 2004 3:49 am, stephen parkinson wrote: John L Fjellstad wrote: David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: like. Under 2.6.*, you need /dev/scd0. Both can coexist until one is ready to leave 2.4.2* forever. K3B (KDE burner) wants all CD burners

Re: Unable to cdroms in linux 2.6.3

2004-02-23 Thread stephen parkinson
Jeff Elkins wrote: On Monday 23 February 2004 3:49 am, stephen parkinson wrote: John L Fjellstad wrote: David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: like. Under 2.6.*, you need /dev/scd0. Both can coexist until one is ready to leave 2.4.2* forever. K3B (KDE burner) wants all CD burners

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-23 Thread stephen parkinson
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 02:23:38PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:20:48PM +, stephen parkinson wrote: assume perfect driver, what is difference in stopping distance 30mph cf 35mph According to the ODOT Driver Manual[1], page 39 (in the PDF

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread stephen parkinson
Nano Nano wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 09:19:46PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] movies on our computers. If they make it illegal for us to watch them, why would we buy them? It just doesn't add up. ...But it probably does add up for Congress. Of course, in that case, what's adding up

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-22 Thread stephen parkinson
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:07:07AM +, stephen parkinson wrote: Nano Nano wrote: I'm a grown adult who in various small ways makes a conscious choice to violate certain laws, in a non-harmful way. This occurs at many levels in society (5 miles over the speed limit

sid dvd jigdo template files renamed ??

2004-02-20 Thread stephen parkinson
whilst trying to jigdo sid dvd's, noticed that it now looks for jigdosid-386-1.template as opposed to sid-i386-1.template however ftp site filenames have not changed stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: D_GNU_SOURCE option for gcc?

2004-02-19 Thread stephen parkinson
Martin Dickopp wrote: stephen parkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas H. George wrote: I am using source code from UNIX SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING by Robbins Robbins. It gives a compiler error unless compiled with the option -D_GNU_SOURCE . Where does this option come from - its

anyone built sid dvd's - total size ??

2004-02-18 Thread stephen parkinson
just curious, jigdo-lite is chugging away and is currently something in excess of 4.6Gb. just wondered if someone knew the finished sizes ? stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: D_GNU_SOURCE option for gcc?

2004-02-18 Thread stephen parkinson
Thomas H. George wrote: I am using source code from UNIX SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING by Robbins Robbins. It gives a compiler error unless compiled with the option -D_GNU_SOURCE . Where does this option come from - its not in the man pages? Why is it needed when using the Debian gcc and g++

Re: Mplayer make all error message

2004-02-17 Thread stephen parkinson
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: First, my sincere thanks to all of you who wrote in or commented on the Mplayer rpm to deb issue. I did succeed in both installing it and playing it, but I've decided to take the advice of senior, more experienced members of both Xandros and Debian and stay

Re: Debian testing kernel for use with pwcx.o (webcam) module.

2004-02-17 Thread stephen parkinson
Adam Funk wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2004 23:20, Jerome R. Acks wrote: First, I'm assuming you have module-init-tools installed. I have modutiles, which I believe is the equivalent for 2.4.* kernels. After you have put the above lines in a file in /etc/modutils, run

Re: DVD install

2004-02-17 Thread stephen parkinson
Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On the Installing Debian GNU/Linux via CD Images page, reference is made to a DVD image ( Note that jigdo is the only way to download Debian DVD images). Does this DVD image exist anywhere? I've looked at the download

Re: help with 2.6.2 ide-cd, ide-scsi xine

2004-02-16 Thread stephen parkinson
John L. Fjellstad wrote: Realize you already solved it, but FYI, in 2.4.x you would do hdc=ide-scsi as the kernel parameter to tell the kernel which device is the cdrom, in 2.6.x, you would do hdc=cdrom (had to do it for my system to make it work) i didn't know of that, thanks i do have 2

Re: help with 2.6.2 ide-cd, ide-scsi xine

2004-02-15 Thread stephen parkinson
Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:56:43PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 15:33, stephen parkinson wrote: sussed it, diabled ide-cd-options line saying ignore hdc, hdd 2.6.2 - xine and sound now happy Can you be more specific about what

help with 2.6.2 ide-cd, ide-scsi xine

2004-02-14 Thread stephen parkinson
on a slightly modified libranet 2.8.1 box, dist-upgraded to a mix of testing/unstable, xine-gui with sound fine under a 2.4.24-smp kernel ok, installed 2.6.2-1-686-smp, figured out that i needed to add a couple of files, ok one would have done, in /etc/modprobe.d network containing alias

Re: help with 2.6.2 ide-cd, ide-scsi xine

2004-02-14 Thread stephen parkinson
stephen parkinson wrote: on a slightly modified libranet 2.8.1 box, dist-upgraded to a mix of testing/unstable, xine-gui with sound fine under a 2.4.24-smp kernel ok, installed 2.6.2-1-686-smp, figured out that i needed to add a couple of files, ok one would have done, in /etc/modprobe.d network

Re: help with 2.6.2 ide-cd, ide-scsi xine

2004-02-14 Thread stephen parkinson
Alan Chandler wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 15:33, stephen parkinson wrote: sussed it, diabled ide-cd-options line saying ignore hdc, hdd 2.6.2 - xine and sound now happy Can you be more specific about what you mean by disable ide-cd options line. I have a similar issue

Re: ADSL ISP in UK

2004-02-11 Thread stephen parkinson
Dave Howorth wrote: Hi, Does anybody have any recommendations or warnings about ADSL ISPs in the UK? I will also need (perhaps as part of the package) a mail address. (I'm currently with BTO but their refusal to support anything other than Outlook Express has finally stung me into action.).

Re: fetchmail with multiple accounts

2004-02-10 Thread stephen parkinson
Nano Nano wrote: I have seven different email accounts at Comcast.net, all used for various purposes. At the comcast level I have mail forwarded / don't leave a copy for six of the emails to the primary email. Then I use fetchmail to deliver the mail to my local user spool. It's efficient

Re: dual boot debian Windoze, need advice

2004-02-09 Thread stephen parkinson
Paul E Condon wrote: I want to dual boot an i686 machine with Debian Sarge and Windoze. My situation is somewhat special, so the directions that I find when I google the topic do not really apply IMHO. The i686 computer already has Sarge installed on a 60G HD, and Windoze XP installed on a 30G HD