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Laptop error message
by Ian Douglas 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

Hi folks, I am a newbie user and have recently installed Linux on my laptop (IBM Thinkpad 560E). (Is this the first sign of Linux addiction??). The installation appears to have gone smoothly, however, I recently issued a "dmesg" command to look up some boot details and found it contained the following error message repeated several times: Code: Bad EIP value. <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000002bb printing eip: 00000008 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0050:[<00000008>] EFLAGS: 00010216 eax: 0000530a ebx: 00000001 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: 000000ff edi: 00000292 ebp: 00000000 esp: c3bebec4 ds: 0058 es: 0000 ss: 0018 Process apm (pid: 3059, stackpage=c3beb000) Stack: 00480026 c3bebf28 00000000 c0110813 00000010 c3bebf28 00000292 00000018 00000018 c3bebf66 000000ff ffffffff ffffffff c0110000 40100000 c0110a7f 0000530a 00000001 00000000 c3bebf28 c3bebf2c c3bebf30 c3bebf34 c3bebf38 Call Trace: [<c0110813>] [<c0110000>] [<c0110a7f>] [<c01117b6>] [<c014e838>] [<c01324d6>] [<c0106e63>] Firstly, does anyone know what is causing this repeated error message and what I can do to cure it. Secondly, if I come across an error message like this in the future could anyone recommend any info anywhere which would help me understand what it means so I can learn how to interpret it myself rather than bother you guys again? Ian.

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duel displays???
by Dryden 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

Can i just use two gfx cards connected up to different monitors... or do i need a duel head card like some of the matrox ones. Its just ive got 2 gfx cards and i would like to use them in X when im debuging programs. will i have problems if they are different cards with diff memory etc...? ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Netscape 4.77 cache question
by Edenyard 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

Am I the only one for whom the Netscape V4.77 (Linux) cache doesn't seem to work? I have disk cache set to 20Mb, RAM cache set to whatever it came with, and the correct subdirectory in the home directory but it doesn't work as expected. I assume that, when I visit a site, the page that I look at is stored in the cache. When I click on the entry in the hotlist sometime later after having hung up the modem line, I should get the page back because it's been found in the cache. But it doesn't. I just get the error box with the unreachable host message. Maybe I've completely mis-understood how it's meant to work. But this is the way my little old DOS graphical browser works. Thanks for any ideas! Gerald.

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Everybody's Linux
by Laurie Brown 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

This looks worth a look: http://www.elxlinux.com See this write-up first: http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2800785910.html One plus seems to be that they appear to have used KDE, but included the Gnome libraries so GNUCash and Galeon work. Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie(a)brownowl.com PGP key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Alug] Some advice or pointers please...
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

Simon wrote: I need a \"web based\" PIM/scheduler/calender type piece of software, anyone know of a good multiuser environment type application ?? I don't suppose this is anywhere near the mark, is it? (Way off knowing me, but I'm trying to be helpful before drinking sufficient black sweet coffee to get brain cells stirring in any kind of coherent fashion.)(We should all be hibernating anyway; ridiculous idea, getting up and going out at this time of year). http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/calendar-ver7f.php Jenny

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Re: [Alug] RE: Website
by MJ Ray 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

John: > yes, see: http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net Talk about hiding its light under a vat of very thick concrete! I can't find a feature list for this (including, most importantly, does it do versioning?) and the docs dir in CVS is empty. Or am I just looking in the wrong place? -- MJR

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Some advice or pointers please...
by simon＠sparksy.org.uk 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

Hi guys, I need a \"web based\" PIM/scheduler/calender type piece of software, anyone know of a good multiuser environment type application ?? Simon

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Re: [Alug] Web site
by Dryden 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

> Proposal: > - Move the ALUG web site to static core and a Wiki > Your options: > - Idly support this move (most people) > - Pledge to help maintain the wiki when it's online > - Mutiny (feel free) It sounds cool to me. Ill even try and help if i can... well ill do more then i do on the list but thats not hard. What about just adding a fourm to the site? Sorry i wasnt at the last meat... i got the bus times wrong for the X94 and would of been kinda L8 =P. ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Re: [Alug] RE: Website
by MJ Ray 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

Ricardo: > Could the same be done with php? Would it require too much setting up? If you mean "are there wikis in php", I would expect so almost certainly. If you mean "can we allow arbitrary php in a wiki-style system", then hahahahahahaha no. > Could we use some kind of php Nuke/postnuke solution? (I might be missing > something here) I have one under development that we could use, but I didn't see ALUG as being that sort of site. Indeed, the Zope edition of the site had a squishdot which did SFA for its whole life. > Are these valid alternatives? It really depends on what we want out of it, > surely? It doesn't seem to clear to me what we actually want from the > site. Other than the basic info, it's no longer clear to me. I think it's to have some sort of "infobase" that we can store useful bits of info in easily for other group members. If we could attach files to it, it would get the suckers off the mailing list for good ;-) > We *should* consider some restriction IMHO, as there are plenty more > scriptkiddies and other destructive vermin than there are responsible > people... Pessimist. I disagree (about the numbers, not the need for some authentication). -- MJR

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RE: [Alug] Web site
by Peter Bassill 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

Hi all >OK, as part of my policy of announcing things about 17 years before I'll get >time to do it, I'm going to make the following proposal: > >Proposal: > - Move the ALUG web site to static core and a Wiki > Good Proposal >Your options: > - Idly support this move (most people) Sorry, I can idly support anything, i dont have enough blood in my caffine system > - Pledge to help maintain the wiki when it's online Pledge? Pledge? Like what americans do. Ill help support it yes. > - Mutiny (feel free) Is Mutiny not a hanging offence still? >Vote now :-) >-- >MJR Pete B Linux Maintainer / Developer and all round caffine addict

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