Debian

emacs sarge surprise!
Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation where bsdgames and emacs21 get installed together. Emacs21 has aptitude as a dependency and cannot instal... 23 Apr 2008 22:55

emacs research
I'm about to do a bit of emacs research here. First I'm going to downgrade the system to sarge stable and see if I can install emacs and bsdgames and emacs add-ons and do it successfully. If that fails, one of two possibilities exist a) the hardware is failing it's close to 9 years old now, or b) the system w... 23 Apr 2008 04:20

Exim4 Incompatable Command Line Arguments
After yesterday's upgrades (NOT including exim4 packages), I get a failure to start exim4 running the /etc/init.d/exim4 script. If I manually run with presumably the same arguments, i.e. exim4 -bd -q30m, all is well. Anyone had this problem, fixed it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lis... 24 Apr 2008 04:28

Help - /usr not mounting!
I'm currently operating from a live CD as my /usr partition is refusing to mount at boot. fsck is not working - output below. # fsck -r /dev/hda5 fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) fsck.jfs version 1.1.10, 19-Oct-2005 processing started: 4/23/2008 6.10.34 The current device is: /dev/hda5 Block size in bytes: 4096 F... 23 Apr 2008 02:46

Problem to turn DMA on
Hi all. I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.21. It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it is not working. The command I run and its output are: # hdparm -qc3 -qm16 -qd1 -qX66 -qS120 /dev/hda HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted Di... 24 Apr 2008 15:03

hearse package broken
I have a few bones files from playing nethack by now and installed the hearse package. I played those games as a system user not as root. Whenever I run hearse as a user I get told that user token file /etc/nethack/hearse.user-token file exists but cannot be read permission denied. However when I run hearse a... 23 Apr 2008 01:58

Laptop Power Management and 2.6.24+
My apologies for the saga appearing below, but I'm starting to get confused about where Debian is going vis a vis power management for laptops, and hoped to beg some advice. I currently have 'laptop-mode-tools', 'acpi-support', and 'hibernate' installed, which have served me well in the past. I selected them ... 23 Apr 2008 04:20

External IP
Hi, How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW. Thanks. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org ... 24 Apr 2008 23:48

Gnome workspaces?
How do you get more then 8 Gnome workspaces? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org ... 23 Apr 2008 06:43

Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged
Hello, I want to call a script after I plugged my USB scanner. I use udev for this by adding a rule rd(a)blackbox:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat z_local.rules SYSFS{idVendor}=="1606", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0010", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", NAME="umax%n", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/umax1220u start", rd(a)blackbox:/etc/udev/r... 24 Apr 2008 15:51