Re: NT y LINUX
El Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:58:17PM +0200, Ramiro Alba dijo: José Enrique Álvarez Martín wrote: [Problemas de Arranque Linux+WinNT] Ya vieron los HOWTO relevantes. -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 | www.gnu.org - Always Free, Always Cool, Always Linux
Re: Puertos no encontrados
El Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:37:13AM -0600, 'Marcelo E. Magallon' dijo: Javier Nogueira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lo que sucede es que cuando en el BIOS se pone NO en la opcion PnP OS, es el BIOS el que configura las direcciones y los IRQ de las tarjetas PnP, de manera que para el sistema operativo son tarjetas con direcciones e IRQ fijos. Si se pone SI en PnP OS, el BIOS le deja la tarea de configurar las tarjetas al sitema operativo. _Esa_ es la diferencia. En los casos descritos donde hay tarjetas PnP, son configuradas con el isapnp o son tarjetas PCI. En el primero, el SO fija los parámetros cada vez que la máquina arranca; en el segundo, el BIOS (o la tarjeta, o el BIOS y la tarjeta, no sé) fija los parámetros y linux es capaz de leerlos. Efectivamente. Ya se me hacía como medio raro. Eso me pasa por andar sacando conclusiones a la ligera. Pero según el problema original, _a veces_ pone problema. El problema _parecería ser_ cuando se configura desde Windows los puertos seriales, y se tiene activado el PnP OS. ¿Opiniones? -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 | www.gnu.org - Always Free, Always Cool, Always Linux
Re: MP3 - WAV
El Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:17:21PM +, Rafael Cordones Marcos dijo: Hola, Hola... [Pasar de MP3 a WAV] lazlo:~$ mpg123 -s fichero.mp3 Y ahora con sox quiero leer de la entrada standard pero no me sale! lazlo:~$ sox -t raw -u -r 44100 -w -c 2 - snd.wav Y si intentas `mpg123 -s fichero.mp3 archivo.wav`? -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 | www.gnu.org - Always Free, Always Cool, Always Linux
Re: HELP
El Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 05:40:55PM -0500, SAMUEL SOTO dijo: Por favor quisiera tener un documento que me informe acerca de todas las preguntas mas frecuentes del sistema operativo DEBIAN, pero en español ya que en su pagina web http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ se encuentra dicho documento pero en ingles y yo soy un cybernauta latino y se muy poco de ingles, ademas quisiera obtener respuesta a estas preguntas puntuales: 1. costo En teoría ninguno. Solo te cobran el valor del CD mas gastos de envío. 2. donde se obtiene 3. con quien se puede obtener Lo puedes conseguir por Internet en cualquiera de los mirror de Debian. En el homepage de Debian debe estar la información. Con quien? Bueno, depende de donde vivas... -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 | www.gnu.org - Always Free, Always Cool, Always Linux
Fuentes en WordPerfect8
Hola... Alguien sabe como hago para agregar fuentes a WordPerfect8 para Linux? -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 | www.gnu.org - Always Free, Always Cool, Always Linux
Re: MP3 - WAV
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: lazlo:~$ mpg123 -s fichero.mp3 mpg123 -s fichero.mp3 | sox -t raw -s -r 44100 -w -c 2 - salida.wav --- Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet 2:346/3.68 --- ...Hustler For Live. Nasty Django Feat. The Ultimate MC. 1998 --- Pine 3.96 + Sendmail 8.9.2 * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/pbrufal (2:346/3.68)
Programacion del puerto serie.
Hola a todos. Resulta que me he puesto a hacer un programa de comunicaciones de autómatas para clase (je je, el profe se quedó bocas cuando le dije que se lo hacía en Linux y todo ;-). Resulta que la conexion PC - Autómata se hace via RS232. Así que necesito programar el puerto serie del PC. Y mi pregunta es: * ¿Puedo modificar los parámetros de los puertos serie con funciones C? He visto algo en /usr/linux/serial.h, pero no sé si son esas las funciones o no. En caso de ser, : * ¿Hay documentación de esas funciones? * ¿O sabéis de alguna lista o grupo de news específico para estas cosas, howtos o lo que sea de lo que podais haber oído? Bajo DOS sí que podía mediante rutinas en ASM modificar los registros de los puertos y configurarlos a mi voluntad (desde dentro del código). Supongo que Linux no será menos en esto, además, estoy hablando de comunuicaciones y Linux sabe 'un poquito' de esto, ¿verdad? Venga, decidme que sí puedo hacerlo :D Lo que supongo que no me valdrán serán mis rutinas de ensamblador, ¿no? Un saludo y muchas gracias: Juan Carlos pd.- Otra cosa. ¿Como devería llamar en Linux al dispositivo 'ttySx'? ¿Puerto serie? ¿Dispositivo serie? ¿Teletipo serie? ¿Nombre de dispositivo serie? En mi programa, en la ventana configuración de comunicaciones te pregunta qué dispositivo serie quieres usar, y no sé como llamarlo acertadamente del todo.
KDE 1.1 funciona en Slink
Iniaki Fernandez Villanueva wrote: A ver si encontramos alguna solucion al kde. Hasta hace poco no lo usaba pq. con 32 MB no podia lanzar el netscape con varios xemacs pq. consumian mucha memoria e iba un pelin lento (ni podia compilar). Y justo ahora que he ampliado la memoria no puedo usar el KDE pq. me falla en el libkfile ese. Gracioso, verdad?? Bueno, parece que el problema está relacionado con el compilador egcs. Lo cierto es que compilé el paquete que contiene las librerías (kdelibs-1.1.tar.gz) y funciona. Las fuentes me las he bajado de: ftp://ftp.tsc.uvigo.es/pub/linux/kde/stable/1.1/distribution/tar/generic/source/gz Previo a la compilacion de kdelibs has de compilar kdesupport-1.1.tar.gz que contiene (entre otras cosas) librerias de jpeg que chekea el configure que crea el Makefile para compilar kdelibs y a continuacion hacer make install que te instalará todas las librerias de kdesupport en /usr/local/lib/kde/lib y por ultimo poner este directorio en LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Si no haces esto, aunque tengas instalado el kdesupport0g de la distribucion de kde para slink, el configure de kdelibs no da por válida la libreria libjpeg6a que hay instalada. Por otra parte has de instalar qt1g-dev-1.42-2 .deb y qt1g-1.42-2.deb de la distribucion inestable de potato. En fin una vez compilada libreria causante de los problemas, la substituí por la que habia instalada y los programas funcionan. Ahora bien, yo lo que estoy intentando es compilar todos los paquetes a partir de las fuentes y crear nuevos paquetes Debian para kde 1.1 que funcionen sin problemas, porque la opcion rápida de substituir la librería que no funciona por la recien compilada dentro de slink, no se si tendrá otros efectos no deseables. En fin despues de todo el rollo, espero que te hallas aclarado, sino me lo dices y en cualquier caso te puedo enviar la librería que he compilado Saludos -- Ramiro Alba Laboratori de Termotecnia i Energetica Departament de Maquines i Motors Termics ETS d'Enginyers Industrials de Terrassa C/Colom 11 Tf: 34 - 93 739 82 43 Fax: 34 - 93 739 81 01 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programacion del puerto serie.
Hola, Prueba con: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Serial-Programming-HOWTO.html Saludos, David Requena
Iomega ZIP 100
hola lista: Hace tiempo leí en esta lista que alguien tenía problemas con una zip. A mi me pasa lo mismo. Compilo en el núcleo las opciones: scsi disk iomega zip paralell port (o algo asi) y hay veces que me la reconoce, otras que el módulo sg_noseque me da errores. Insertando a mano el módulo ppa no ha habido manera de que funcione. Lo màximo que detecte 1 hosts scsi, pero no me deja montarla. Si alguien pudiese enviar a la lista las conclusiones que se sacaron la otra vez, le estaría muy agradecido. PS.:dijisteis algo como que tenia problemas con el lp,no?? PS2: el núcleo es el 2.0.34 (deb. hamm)
scanner
Estoy pensando en comprarme un scanner.Cual me recomendais y que soft hay por ahi... agur
Re: Puertos no encontrados
El día Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:13:42AM -0500, Ugo Enrico Albarello escribió: Buenas... PD: Ya van 2 opciones de BIOS que se deben tener en cuenta a la hora de instalar Linux. Una es la del hueco entre los 15-16M y la otra es esta, la de PnP OS. ¿Alguien sabe de alguna otra? Creo que se deberían remitir al grupo de Documentación. ¿Para qué necesita Linux el hueco entre los 15 y 16 MB? ¿Quizás para el fb? -- Saludos del General... ___ _ .-.-. .-. .-.---.---. - Coordinador de LiMa - ( ) \| | | | | | |) _ )Asociación de usuarios de LiNUX de Málaga | |_ / _ \ | |_| \_/ | \ _) http://iaeste.cie.uma.es/lima | _ )/_/ \_\|___)\___/|_|\_\___)- | |Correo-E:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_|Web: http://www.failure.ddns.org Clave pública PGP: http://www.failure.ddns.org/clave.zip pgpBMd8pXd4b2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Puertos no encontrados
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:08:35AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Ugo Enrico Albarello [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PD: Ya van 2 opciones de BIOS que se deben tener en cuenta a la hora de instalar Linux. Una es la del hueco entre los 15-16M y la otra es esta, la de PnP OS. ¿Alguien sabe de alguna otra? Creo que se deberían remitir al grupo de Documentación. Es raro, yo he puesto y quitado en forma indiscriminada la opción de PnP en multitud de máquinas que corren Linux en forma exclusiva, y nunca he visto que haga la más mínima diferencia. He probabo con varios kerneles con la opción `PnP Support' activada y desactivada. He probado todo eso en máquinas que tienen tarjetas PnP y en máquinas que no las tienen... y nada. Yo tengo puesta la opción PnP OS? [YES]. SEgún el manual de mi placa, si se pone en NO, la propia placa se encarga de configurar los dispositivos PnP. Como paso de que lo haga sola, y prefiero que lo haga el linux, pues que sea el sistema el que active las opciones. Funciona perfectamente con el modem, que es la única tarjeta PnP que tengo (bueno, pensándolo bien, también la tarjeta gráfica). Un Saludo Han Solo The Rebel Alliance Conecto, luego existo. Desconecto, luego insisto. Soy usuario de infobirria+ P.D. La firma no es mía, sino de uno que trabajaba, precisamente, en M$. Vivir para ver.
Re: NT y LINUX
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:58:17PM +0200, Ramiro Alba wrote: Tenemos Windows NT 4.0 instalado en una partición del primer disco y en otra(s) particiones del mismo disco instalamos Debian y onfiguramos Lilo para que arranque de los 2 sistemas. El arranque de Linux ningún problema pero el de NT comienza bien hasta que aparece la pantallita azul y despues de unos 10 segundos falla estrepitosamente. Esto no ocurre si el disrectorio root de Linux esta en una particion de otro discos. Si no es el caso, me he visto obligado a poner el Lilo en disket para el arranque dual. Hasta donde he podido me mirado la documentación de Lilo a fondo, pero no he dado con la causa. ¿Alguien sabe que demonios pasa? Yo lo plantearía de otra manera, que es la que a mi me ha funcionado: instalas lilo en la partición que va contener a linux, siempre por debajo del cilindro 1024 y en disco master. Luego copias el sector de arranque de linux en un fichero, con dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=521 count=1 (suponiendo que linux esté en hda2). Lo siguiente es copiar el archivo /bootsect.lnx a c: Si c: es una partición ntfs, tendrás que copiarlo primero en un disco. Entonces editas el archivo boot.ini, que es (hablo de memoria) hidden,read-only,system. Antes de editarlo tendrás que cambiarle los atributos, pero luego acuérdate de dejarlos como estaban. Como decía, editas el fichero y añades la línea c:\bootsect.lnx=Linux Con esto, serás capaz de arrancar linux desde el cargador de NT. Funciona perfectamente (doy fe); el único inconveniente es que cada vez que retocas el lilo, tienes que copiar el sector de arranque de nuevo. Todo esto viene mejor explicado en el howto Linux+NT+loader (creo que se llamaba así) y en el número 5 de Linux Actual. -- Un Saludo Han Solo The Rebel Alliance Conecto, luego existo. Desconecto, luego insisto. Soy usuario de infobirria+ P.D. La firma no es mía, sino de uno que trabajaba, precisamente, en M$. Vivir para ver.
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ??? (fwd)
[Lev, who's recovering after a debilitating and unexplained MB crash replies] Somone mentioned that Winamp was available as a linux port...is this true? if so, what's the URL? In answering your question, Winamp is well written, well-supported, and there's no maturing nicely excuse :). -levi On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Michael Beattie wrote: Mac, and that's still arguable)...and to top it off, Winamp, 'nuff said. Excuse me? Who wants _Win_amp on a linux box? X11amp works perfectly :) Even though it is still maturing nicely, x11amp has everything I need. (Except the File Info box - which is coming :) )
Networking IP Masq question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a question regarding networking and IP Masquerading that doesn't seem to be handled in just one HOWTO. Perhaps someone here can help. I have 3 boxes on a small home LAN, connected to the 'net with ADSL. I have 2 static IP's. Boxes 1 and 2 are both running debian Linux 2.1 with kernel 2.2.4 on box 1, kernel 2.2.1 on box 2. Box 3 is running Windows 98. Box 1 is the gateway box connected to the DSL router, and is running IP Chains. eth0 is set to my first static IP, and eth1 is set to 192.168.1.1. To connect the other 2 machines, I have an rj-45 cable running from eth1 on box 1 to a Linksys 10/100 ethernet switch, and boxes 2 and 3 are connected to the switch via the same method, with their respective eth0. At the present time, all three boxen have access to the 'net with IP Masq'ing and all is working fine. The question that I haven't been able to find the answer to is this. How, using the same network topography as I currently have, can I make use of my second IP? My guess is that it's something using IP Alias, but I haven't bee able to figure out on my own how to alias the boxes on my LAN to use the second IP. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not presently subscribed to debian-user, but I will be checking the list for replies to this request if you don't wish to respond directly back to me. TIA Steve Martin - - Steve Martin (not the famous one) | If a man's legacy is measured by [EMAIL PROTECTED] | his achievements, I haven't a nunya_ in EFnet #Linux | moment to waste. | First thing tomorrow... - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNwAUltHaod5HvfUxAQF7mAL/YXkFaujbiURp8VWF+rBnJcrY5GroS6ul nmfO+bUfJAcmooeWUnt4PJd13NCV8l5eLp1+fo8nL3IAoYuY5g3Cr7slzJWERBtd A64ClqHQMqweHF5ptKfyTNOK4ETMFSC6 =Fax8 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???
BENJAMIN FARRELL wrote: Heres a good point about linux, anyone found a good irc client for x (other than Bitchx in a E-Term :) that doesn't crash everytime you click (yagirc I gave up on irc a long time ago, even while in WinXX. The S/N ratio was too low.
Re: Sending mail on a dialup connection
Jor-el writes: When one has a remote connection, one can use fetchmail to download mail in a batch. I am looking for the opposite - sending composed mail from a designated mail folder as soon as the dialip link is up. So far, none of the MUA's I looked at seem to have this capabilty. Of course, I maybe looking in the wrong place - maybe MTA's are what I should be looking at? That's correct, the MTA would be doing this. The exim package does just this by default (see /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim). I suspect that other MTA packages do too, but I don't know for sure. Tim Moore
Re: ppp0
Chen Xu writes: When I tried to set up ppp on my Debian2.0 box, I found that I don't have interface ppp0 running. Actually it is not there. It should only exist while you are connected to your ISP. Is that what you mean? Any idea? how to fix? Not without more information. Exactly what have you tried, and exactly what happened? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: problems playing mp3.
i'm also having trouble w/ my sound card (just sent the email in fact =), but my cd playing works fine. it seems the cd doesn't go through the sound drivers. the drivers only control the volume level of cdrom played stuff. so its probably a problem w/ the sound config. look in /dev/sndstat for any problems. in addition, check your /var/log/messages for anything pertaining to the sound drivers (for instance, i get dma timeouts that show up there). if you need additional help, it would be helpful for the real guru's out there (as opposed to me...a wimpy newbie =p ) to give them your sound card type (the real sb i asume) and your irq/ioport settings. there just might be a conflict there. hope that helps. =) herbert ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Adam Shand wrote: hey. i've recently swapped from using a desktop to using my laptop for everything. i have sound compilied and it's working fine but i am having a problem playing mp3 with either freeamp or x11amp (either as a normal user or as root). the program loads up, but nothing happens when i hit play. in x11amp you can see the graphics (the specrum analyzer thingy) flash for a second but it immediately dies down. i'm starting to think that i must have sound configured incorrectly but i can play cd's okay (which i couldn't do before i recompiled my kernel). any idea's suggestions would be much appreciated. i'm running slink with kernel 2.2.2. am i just being stupid? thanks, adam. __ on boot up i get: Sound initialization started Sound Blaster Pro (8 BIT ONLY) (3.1) at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5 SB DSP version is just 3.1 which means that your card is several years old (8 bit only device) or alternatively the sound driver is incorrectly configured. Sound initialization complete triptoy(larry) grep SOUND /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_SOUND=y # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=y # CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set CONFIG_SOUND_SB=y CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=y # CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS is not set CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m # CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850 is not set # CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND is not set -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
non-us.debian.org having problems???
I was just wondering if non-us.debian.org is currently having problems, specifically with the potato archive? My /etc/apt/sources.list has the entry deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US, which I believe to be correct. Here's an example of what I'm seeing... The ssltelnet package depends upon libssl09, which is present. However the Packages file doesn't include an entry for libssl09, although it shows several packages to be dependent upon it. Consequently, dselect lists it as an obsolete/local package with no priority, section, or description available (I already had it installed). Some other packages appear to be missing their entries as well, although I didn't spend a log of time digging around to identify all of them. I've tried substituting potato for unstable in my sources.list file, as well as using Netscape to look at the archive/files directly.
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ??? (fwd)
Hey all, Just had to jump in with my $0.02 here -- Winamp is _not_ well written - it is a complete resource cow! It has many features that are just plain extraneous and introduce unnecessary overhead. I have trouble even *playing* mp3s on my family's Win98 box, a P133 with 32MB of RAM, let alone running something else while listening. X11amp uses less CPU time, it plays well, and it runs on GNU/Linux systems. Now if it was just open source... Steve On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: [Lev, who's recovering after a debilitating and unexplained MB crash replies] Somone mentioned that Winamp was available as a linux port...is this true? if so, what's the URL? In answering your question, Winamp is well written, well-supported, and there's no maturing nicely excuse :). -levi On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Michael Beattie wrote: Mac, and that's still arguable)...and to top it off, Winamp, 'nuff said. Excuse me? Who wants _Win_amp on a linux box? X11amp works perfectly :) Even though it is still maturing nicely, x11amp has everything I need. (Except the File Info box - which is coming :) ) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ppp0
CX == Chen Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CX When I tried to set up ppp on my Debian2.0 box, I found that I CX don't have interface ppp0 running. Actually it is not there. I can CX only see the interface lo, but not ppp0. It will show up as soon as the ppp module gets loaded and pppd sets the interface to up. If you have trouble configuring ppp, try pppconfig. It is a great tool. Ciao, Martin
ProFTPD Question
I am running Proftpd (slink) set up with the default config, it set up a /home/ftp were anonymous users are sent, but when I add directorys to the ~ftp dir, there are invisable to the anonymous user. Here the kicker, I can change dirs to the invisable directorys, go figure, can you help? -Matt- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midcoast.com/~kopishke http://169.244.227.129 MSAD#40 Home Page http://169.244.227.129/ss/MVHS Seed Savers Project http://169.244.227.129/MVCUG/Medomak Valley Computer User Group +--+ | *To see tomorrow's PC, Look at todays Macintosh* | |*If it says Windows 95 or better install Linux!*| +--+
Re: Ghost View / .ps viewers
In a message dated 3/29/99 12:24:01 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try the package (Don't know if it is Debianised, but it is GPL'd I think) pstools. This gives lots of nice command-line tools to pull out pages of a .ps file and stuff. Ed I was wondering if anybody has seen a new version of ghostview that allows you to do neat things like print every second page and other neat things right in the interface. I think I saw this in a SUSE dist.. I have hamm installed. Is this newer version packaged with slink?? Your responce will be much appreciated, (Please cc me directly)
Re: ProFTPD Question
Matt Kopishke wrote: I am running Proftpd (slink) set up with the default config, it set up a /home/ftp were anonymous users are sent, but when I add directorys to the ~ftp dir, there are invisable to the anonymous user. Here the kicker, I can change dirs to the invisable directorys, go figure, can you help? -Matt- Have you set permissions to be readable and executable for the directories? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midcoast.com/~kopishke http://169.244.227.129 MSAD#40 Home Page http://169.244.227.129/ss/MVHS Seed Savers Project http://169.244.227.129/MVCUG/Medomak Valley Computer User Group +--+ | *To see tomorrow's PC, Look at todays Macintosh* | |*If it says Windows 95 or better install Linux!*| +--+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- dyer
login.app setting color depth to 16bpp
I'm trying to set my color depth to 16 bpp, currently it's starting in 8bpp. I had :1 local /usr/bin/X11 :1 vt9 -bpp 16 in /etc/Xserver but it is not reading that. I think in wdm it was placed in a different file. Is this the right place for it? thanks Roddie Rod 'Man is the greatest cancer ever to be seen' -Entombed 'Contempt'
Re: PostgreSQL
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I wanted to install postgreSQL on a machine without X but postgresql needs xlib6g tk... Is there a package without X Tk .. support ? Why do we need X ? I run PostgreSQL on several computers. The X stuff is there for the X client and the tk stuff is there for the tk support. I think. It's been a while (couple of months, anyway) since I installed pgsql from .deb files, so I don't really recall, but I think that the .deb files installs everything, including the kitchen sink. You don't have a limited no-X version. I've run (and continue to run, my main database server has no X on it) PostgreSQL on computers without X, but I installed it from the tarballs from postgresql.org. ICOCBW. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
Re: ProFTPD Question
Matt Kopishke wrote: I am running Proftpd (slink) set up with the default config, it set up a /home/ftp were anonymous users are sent, but when I add directorys to the ~ftp dir, there are invisable to the anonymous user. Here the kicker, I can change dirs to the invisable directorys, go figure, can you help? I believe there is a directive you can put inside the ANONYMOUS block to specify where the root directory is. This prevents anonymous users from going 'below' the home directory that is set for them.
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Steve Beitzel wrote: Hey all, Just had to jump in with my $0.02 here -- Winamp is _not_ well written - it is a complete resource cow! It has many features that are just plain extraneous and introduce unnecessary overhead. I have trouble even *playing* mp3s on my family's Win98 box, a P133 with 32MB of RAM, let alone running something else while listening. X11amp uses less CPU time, it plays well, and it runs on GNU/Linux systems. Now if it was just open source... I believe it is as of 0.9a it is open source (if not free). www.x11amp.org has downloadable source which I grabbed and compiled... worked nicely. It's even closer to winamp than the version before it (even supports winamp 2.0 skins). However I can't get it to work with ESD... but that's ok, I got gqmpeg (which I think is even nicer!). There's such an abundance of mp3 players for linux that I don't think we need to worry about this for a while, I'm quite pleased! -Dano
Re: Sending mail on a dialup connection
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Jor-el wrote: Hi, When one has a remote connection, one can use fetchmail to download mail in a batch. I am looking for the opposite - sending composed mail from a designated mail folder as soon as the dialip link is up. So far, none of the MUA's I looked at seem to have this capabilty. Of course, I maybe looking in the wrong place - maybe MTA's are what I should be looking at? I have disabled exim's crontab, and placed `runq` in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/mail file. (It also invokes fetchmail.) This works fine for me. Any mail I send while online (such as this one) goes straight away, as exim tries to send before it queues the mail.. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: synchronize docs between os'es
David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I keep word/staroffice docs in several different os'es (debian is my primary), and it's getting to be a PITB to manually synchronize everything across partitions. Does anyone have a simple yet elegant way of handling this? I don't want to reinvent the wheel or make this overly complex. I have debian on several partitions - hamm, slink and potato. I have my home directory on a separate partition, which mounts on /local on each distribution's partition. (/home/bob is a symlink to /local/bob.) Thus I can access my mail, correspondence, etc. from any distribution. (I have a similar setup for /usr/local, which I use to build my packages.) This could be extended to your situation. If your alternate OS is DOS or Windowsxx, which aren't smart enough to read other file systems, you could keep all your word/staroffice docs in one directory or partition in the DOS/Windows partition. Set up your /etc/fstab to mount this directory/partition on a convenient mount point, with appropriate options for that file system. You mentioned several os'es. If the third one can read DOS/Windows file systems, you should be home free. If not, I don't know how you would handle it. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ??? (fwd)
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: [Lev, who's recovering after a debilitating and unexplained MB crash replies] Somone mentioned that Winamp was available as a linux port...is this true? if so, what's the URL? Its available in slink as x11amp otherwise, http://www.x11amp.bz.nu/ In answering your question, Winamp is well written, well-supported, and there's no maturing nicely excuse :). Well, it isnt made by nullsoft, but It's few and far between problems are slowly being ironed out. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - The best things in life are politically incorrect. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: login.app setting color depth to 16bpp
Roddie Rod wrote: I'm trying to set my color depth to 16 bpp, currently it's starting in 8bpp. I had :1 local /usr/bin/X11 :1 vt9 -bpp 16 in /etc/Xserver but it is not reading that. I think in wdm it was placed in a different file. Is this the right place for it? thanks Roddie Rod 'Man is the greatest cancer ever to be seen' -Entombed 'Contempt' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Rod, I just place it in my XF86Config file in the screen section as: Section Screen Driver accel Device S3 ViRGE (generic) Monitor drmon17 DefaultColorDepth 16 I dunno if login.app has it's own thing like wdm or not. Works for me. dyer
WinNT and Linux install question
Hi, Using Debian2.0. My home installation with Linux and Win95 works perfectly. Now I am trying to install Linux on my NT machine at work. For my home installation, I used CD-ROM method for installation and this is what I did: 1)Copy all the CD-ROM drivers from autoexec.bat and config.sys files to a DOS bootable diskette. 2)Boot from the 'DOS boot diskette+CD-ROM drivers'. 3)cd to the CD-ROM drive and run the Linux boot.bat file 4)Smooth as silk. It worked fine. No problem. Problem: With the NT machine at work, there is no autoexec.bat or config.sys files. So I could not do step#1, #2 as described above. I do not know how to configure the PC to boot from the CD-ROM. Can you help ? I downloaded the 'Linux+NT-Loader mini HOW-TO' and in step3.3 it says.. ..Now boot linux from diskettes... I do not have linux boot diskettes. all I have in the CD.. Rathon. Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: login.app setting color depth to 16bpp
Thanks. I guess, it can't get any simpler! I just set an hour search man pages and totaly overlooked that one. Thanks again! Roddie Rod 'Man is the greatest cancer ever to be seen' -Entombed 'Contempt'
ps vs free again
Hi, I saw earlier disscussions about ps and free. So what command can I use to actually display the total memory that is occupied by my system? Thanks. Shao -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: ps vs free again
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I saw earlier disscussions about ps and free. So what command can I use to actually display the total memory that is occupied by my system? Thanks. Shao -- Me likes 'top' Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- dyer
Re: ps vs free again
Hi, I just tried top, but it seems it is showing the same info as free which is included the memory cached but can be freed if another program requests in the memory used section. What I want to know is the exact amount memory used by system, I don't want the cached memory. Thx. dyer wrote: Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I saw earlier disscussions about ps and free. So what command can I use to actually display the total memory that is occupied by my system? Thanks. Shao -- Me likes 'top' Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- dyer -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Enlightenment crashes machine
Hi Dan Brosemer; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Netscape, in windows, in my experience, always had a tendency to | make a system run progressively slower until either netscape was | closed or everything crashed. I hadn't seen it under linux and | thought it had gotten fixed, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe that's | what you ran into, too? I have seen exactly this behaviour with Netscape (4.05, running under hamm, but installed by hand in /usr/local ) several times in the past few months. Slower and slower response, disk thrashing, top shows no memory or swap left, everything back to normal once Netscape is killed. But just under E? It seems a little bit strange to me. I think I'll get enlightenment 0.15 tonight and try it (been using 0.14). Like I said, netscape didn't do this under window maker. It's real confusing. (Also, it seems that I can use netscape under E, just so long as I don't do any finds on huge pages. Real odd, IMO. Has anyone packaged a newish version of mozilla? I'd like to see if it does the same things, but the version in potato is too painful to run. I think I also might try it again with top open to see what's going on with RAM, there could be a leak in E possibly (after all, it is still in development. :) Thanks for the speculations. -Dano FWIW, I have been running E0.15.4 for slink (without gnome) and had no major problems with Netscape. My only gripe with E is that I can not use wmmail docklet because E doesn't recognize it as such (unlike asclock and wmppp which run and look identical in E and WindowMaker). If anyone has solution to this I'd love to hear about it.. damir
some DNS config q's
hI all !
i have successfully configured
my DNS in a way that nslookup ftp.mydomain.com or ww.mydomain.com will point to
me, for example, 111.22.33.44 ... i am master to this domain and doing a $
whois mydomain.com will give myself (111.22.33.44) as primary DNS and some free
DNS service as 2ndary.
my question is, how do i
configure DNS so that doing $ nslookup mydomain.com alone, (that is, w/o
those prefixes i added like www, ftp, mail, etc) will immediately point to my
address ?
and another
thing,
about the lines in /etc/named.conf w/c
says,
options
{
directory
/var/named;
allow-transfer 111.22.33.44;
};
what if i want to allow 5 or
10 diff addressess to do zone-tranfers on my data, how exactly do that
?
thanks a lot and hope someone can
help,
Chadi
setting up a hostname
Hi, At work, my machine connects to a ethernet lan and it has a unique ip address. If the company's domain is xxx.xxx.xx, I want to set up a name so that I can telnet to my machine using shao.xxx.xxx.xx. I tied to edit the file in /etc/hosts but it doesn't work. Could someone please help me? Thx -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 09:16:11 -0800 (PST), Gary Singleton wrote: FWIW you might want to check out [EMAIL PROTECTED] (is that corny or what?). It's actually pretty neat you can do _everything_ through a browser. Download options are MS-Money, Quicken or comma delimited ASCII. Of course there are a lot of potential reasons not to like it including being used to Quicken or concerned about security or whatever. I don't use it but I might in the future. It isn't the same as doing it through Quicken. With Quicken and on-line banking charges, etc are downloaded and are intergrated seamlessly into my register. Cutting checks is the same way. Yes, you can do that with browser banking, but you can't take that and easily intergrate browser banking into a Quicken/Money database and do the things many people like. Budgeting, projected income/expenses, expense tracking, etc. I use Wells Fargo browser-banking and, although I liked it, found it lacking. I bought Quicken because of how its online banking worked. They sound the same but they are quite different. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNwBJLnpf7K2LbpnFEQIR5gCfS/D17nPymZpQmSWB9s8FQK5EIvwAoPpL LMJCLGmIQ8nGUcVwTJu4zGtZ =QeMf -END PGP SIGNATURE-
ppp problems...
Hi Debian-User, can someone tell me what this snippet of my ppp.log file is trying to tell me? Everything seems to be working OK but I didn't get these Unsupported protocol problems until recently. Is it something with my new ISP? Or is it because I compiled a custom 2.0.36 kernel? Or could it be because I recently did a dist-upgrade to slink? Any assistance is most appreciated. Thanks in advance, Gary Singleton _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Mar 29 20:34:48 zorak pppd[14962]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x6f magic=0xc399707] Mar 29 20:34:48 zorak pppd[14962]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x6f magic=0x1f8ff964] Mar 29 20:35:18 zorak pppd[14962]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x70 magic=0xc399707] Mar 29 20:35:18 zorak pppd[14962]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x70 magic=0x1f8ff964] Mar 29 20:35:48 zorak pppd[14962]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x71 magic=0xc399707] Mar 29 20:35:48 zorak pppd[14962]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x71 magic=0x1f8ff964] Mar 29 20:36:18 zorak pppd[14962]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x72 magic=0xc399707] Mar 29 20:36:18 zorak pppd[14962]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x72 magic=0x1f8ff964] Mar 29 20:36:48 zorak pppd[14962]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x73 magic=0xc399707] Mar 29 20:36:48 zorak pppd[14962]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x73 magic=0x1f8ff964] Mar 29 20:37:18 zorak pppd[14962]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x74 magic=0xc399707] Mar 29 20:37:18 zorak pppd[14962]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x74 magic=0x1f8ff964] Mar 29 20:37:48 zorak pppd[14962]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x75 magic=0xc399707] Mar 29 20:37:48 zorak pppd[14962]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x75 magic=0x1f8ff964] Mar 29 20:38:18 zorak pppd[14962]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x76 magic=0xc399707] Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: rcvd [proto=0x128e] d5 1b 5b cb 07 24 bb c2 4d e8 3b 70 e7 09 17 05 3d 63 df 43 09 04 1b 82 35 03 71 ad c4 22 9a 84 9b 6a b7 85 b0 2e 75 bb 82 c7 b0 8f 6f f5 c6 78 ce 9c 0f ef f9 50 7a 8b c9 b8 ee d7 58 5a 14 c5 ce 41 62 a2 09 26 c0 5b 52 7a 84 22 a5 a9 Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: 66 dc d8 09 07 4c b7 36 1b eb 08 aa a3 22 b5 02 27 19 d3 6b 38 23 c4 d4 24 d0 ab f8 53 24 1e a7 04 2d 0a 62 fc e2 91 aa 14 73 5f 50 3d f5 10 b2 97 99 20 a5 08 22 d7 3a 0b 5b ae fe 8b 7d 30 c0 d4 a4 4d f3 4d 4b 81 d7 ce 8f d9 db 1a 22 ad 24 95 94 a6 7e 5a Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: c4 dc 8e 75 3f 4f d3 0b 42 99 24 da 52 54 4e a4 5f 60 06 9d d6 f5 42 8a d7 60 ab 1d c1 d8 6e 34 ea 86 2f 3f 2e 52 1c 4b cd 29 17 d4 82 2c 3d fa e1 17 6a d2 46 f7 9e 97 4a ad 72 03 e2 fe b8 29 27 a3 0e 2d 77 12 45 00 82 08 b0 dc 03 ec 86 ae 12 95 65 0a 20 Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: 70 b9 d3 bb f6 c3 44 56 a4 92 2c aa 84 b1 ea cc ea 7d 7e ff 00 42 9e 35 a6 4c 7f 87 4b 20 a7 42 79 e4 9f db 0b 42 87 5d 35 8b 15 6a 35 27 df cd 1a 2d 36 56 a7 4d b5 eb ea b4 78 cc cc bb 87 e0 e6 9a 72 e2 f6 4a c1 f4 46 ce 16 90 6d cf 22 e5 3b df df b6 33 Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: 14 78 8c 2f 80 d2 a6 d3 73 54 d2 cb e6 e9 2e 36 3c 99 d3 ef d5 1c ef 3c 84 36 ec db 6d fc 54 36 f8 47 de e5 9d 26 2f 7c 5b 38 dc b6 0f a9 ba c3 99 5c 43 59 90 e1 56 89 50 37 1a f5 de 28 c9 26 82 d8 90 5b ca ba 97 4e 98 2e 1e bc c6 e4 f9 9f 5c 64 69 c9 b5 Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: f8 fe 4a 76 a2 93 f9 a0 2c 1d 0e e2 e6 dd 49 cc 14 a4 db c8 00 f6 47 54 e1 b7 1b 34 36 2c 92 92 00 27 4b f0 f7 f4 75 c7 27 d3 94 85 55 a9 c1 3c 13 65 1e dc c7 e9 11 d5 b8 68 1f 12 4b f7 7b 23 61 ba 64 f7 80 0e 54 e4 e6 17 5e c3 f3 c0 66 97 95 59 2f 2a ff Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: 00 17 88 16 dc 93 b0 03 73 a0 8a 86 ab 4a ab 4c 54 9f 7a 52 5d e7 25 dc cb 62 83 d1 72 c9 02 e3 5d 52 78 1d 88 d4 47 49 d7 70 cb 35 f7 a5 55 32 fb 81 86 56 14 b6 00 e8 bc 38 a1 47 7b 11 70 46 c4 1d 60 17 11 52 dc c3 f2 8d b1 4f a4 48 4e 94 24 05 Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: Unsupported protocol (0x128e) received Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: sent [LCP ProtRej id=0x5b 12 8e d5 1b 5b cb 07 24 bb c2 4d e8 3b 70 e7 09 17 05 3d 63 df 43 09 04 1b 82 35 03 71 ad c4 22 9a 84 9b 6a b7 85 b0 2e 75 bb 82 c7 b0 8f 6f f5 c6 78 ce 9c 0f ef f9 50 7a 8b c9 b8 ee d7 58 5a 14 c5 ce 41 62 a2 09 26 c0 5b 52 7a Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: 84 22 a5 a9 66 dc d8 09 07 4c b7 36 1b eb 08 aa a3 22 b5 02 27 19 d3 6b 38 23 c4 d4 24 d0 ab f8 53 24 1e a7 04 2d 0a 62 fc e2 91 aa 14 73 5f 50 3d f5 10 b2 97 99 20 a5 08 22 d7 3a 0b 5b ae fe 8b 7d 30 c0 d4 a4 4d f3 4d 4b 81 d7 ce 8f d9 db 1a 22 ad 24 95 Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: 94 a6 7e 5a c4 dc 8e 75 3f 4f d3 0b 42 99 24 da 52 54 4e a4 5f 60 06 9d d6 f5 42 8a d7 60 ab 1d c1 d8 6e 34 ea 86 2f 3f 2e 52 1c 4b cd 29 17 d4 82 2c 3d fa e1 17 6a d2 46 f7 9e 97 4a ad 72 03 e2 fe b8 29 27 a3 0e 2d 77 12 45 00 82 08 b0 dc 03 ec 86 ae 12 Mar 29 20:38:22 zorak pppd[14962]: 95 65 0a 20 70 b9 d3 bb f6 c3 44 56 a4 92 2c aa 84 b1 ea cc ea 7d 7e ff 00 42 9e 35 a6 4c 7f 87 4b 20 a7 42 79 e4 9f db 0b 42 87 5d 35 8b 15 6a 35 27 df cd 1a 2d 36 56 a7 4d b5 eb ea b4 78 cc cc bb 87 e0 e6 9a 72 e2 f6 4a c1 f4
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:46:24 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: Netscape mail (I know, I know) is already standard in most enterprises. Yeah, and IIS is the standard web server, doesn't make it worth the price of the media it is infecting at the time. There is also Ishmail (commercial) and others. Qualcomm told me that there will be a Unix version of Eudora when you see Satan skiing down the icy peaks of Hell. From what I've seen of Ishmail (and others) they aren't much better than the current offerings. Southsoft has been considering porting PMMail to Linux. Some of the beta team (myself included) have, at one time or another, nudged them in that direction. It will certainly be proprietary and commercial, but it will at least finally be a decent email client. What is REALLY needed is mail integrated with other applications. To do what? - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNwBKC3pf7K2LbpnFEQI2JgCgm6ZKwuYdAV8LKCSxZXvYfl78vAUAn146 wqQM7XVQnZK63fQ+ZJ8Nm0/a =LS4W -END PGP SIGNATURE-
help on setting up a host name
Hi, At work, my machine connects to a ethernet lan and it has a unique ip address. If the company's domain is xxx.xxx.xx, I want to set up a name so that I can telnet to my machine using shao.xxx.xxx.xx. I tied to edit the file in /etc/hosts but it doesn't work. Could someone please help me? Thx -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:54:06 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: Drag and drop from a spreadsheet, word processor, or graphics program ... the embedable opject idea. Having the mail program be able to directly render some standard wp formats, show graphic items within the document, etc. Drag FROM a email to a spreadsheet, database, whatever. Shared document areas and stuff. Sort of like how exchange and outlook are SUPPOSED to work only make it REALLY work. It is a powerful concept, just klunky in its implimentation and its wandering away from existing standards. Ohh... You mean make it easy for idiot users to send large attachments through a medium that wasn't designed for it, shouldn't be used in that manner, and causes more problems than is needed with each step of the way. If I were to do it I'd have the email client teach them how to send a [EMAIL PROTECTED]@^%$# URL. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNwBLyHpf7K2LbpnFEQK03ACgs0Q7gfvGtSmCoOMQ7BX9iN4GSeMAn3Fn tqvF93iRKRvabu/PhNlUa8cF =yzIQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error
This is an urgent plea for help! The problem is one I've experienced sporadically since I started with Debian several months back. Some packages won't install, giving an error such as this one: gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb Currently, I'm trying to upgrade to a 2.2.5 kernel in order to fix many problems on my system related to hardware. The kernel compiles fine, and make-kpkg gives me a nice deb. But as you can see by the error above, dpkg can't install it. I *can* use dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile filename new.tar and get a perfectly fine tarfile. I've taken this to #debian and to bugtraq. But nobody has encountered this problem before. I'm hoping someone on the list has, and can help. Or at the very least, someone can suggest a way for me to install the package using an alternate method. I'd hate to just jam the kernel into the system, and upset some precarious balance in the packaging system. All help is appreciated! Thanks, Robbie
Re: WinNT and Linux install question
I do not know how to configure the PC to boot from the CD-ROM. Reboot the machine. After the screen goes blank and it beeps, it'll probably count memory and they'll be a note on the screen that says Press DEL to enter SETUP or something. Some computers use CTRL-ALT-F1 instead of delete or whatever. At any rate, hit this key. You should end up in the bios setup menu, at which point there's probably an option for Boot sequence, likely set to A:, C: or C:, A:, which specifies which drives to try to boot from (in the first example, it tries to boot from your A: drive, and if this fails, tries the C: drive) If there's a CDROM setting, select it. Exit the bios, save your settings, and put the CD in the drive, then reboot. ..Now boot linux from diskettes... I do not have linux boot diskettes. You can make diskettes: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ch-install-methods.html#s-boot-from-floppies Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, Blame It On Me | --
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:11:57 -0600, Kent West wrote: 1) Up-front cash outlay for the second computer (important to poor folks like myself) Low end pentiums are dirt cheap right now and run Linux exceptionally well. 2) Physical desk space. Stuff the Linux box under the desk. Telnet in for console, use an X server (there is a free one and several commerical) or VNC for X apps. My Linux box is a P5-100, 64Mb RAM, 2Gb HD space (old SCSI drives). It is in a full tower stuffed under an extension of my desk. I use Exceed for my X server on my W95 box to run X apps and Tera Term Pro to telnet/ssh in. Until I could afford Exceed I used VNC. Both TTP and VNC are free products. :) - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNwBM23pf7K2LbpnFEQK9TACg71IjU0Hj7P/X8RnGINgY04NFDksAoPwN dfUe9Uql1MNUVd3gOQeYk62M =rxwt -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Help! StarOffice 5.0 problems
This problem should probably be directed at StarDivision, only they don't seem to have a tech support e-mail on their site. Perhaps someone else knows what's going on. I have Debian 2.0 and every time I install StarOffice 5.0, it runs fine until I have browsed the Web for a few minutes, at which point it crashes and refuses to run again unless I completely reinstall it. This is extremely irritating and I'm going to dump SO unless I can fix it. Any ideas what I might do? I am running X off of the S3 server, which Star Division does not suggest, but I tried setting the SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50 environment variable as they suggest, all for naught. Any suggestions? thanks, Bill
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:39:41 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: In large internal networks, email is an easy medium to share information between people at different facillities, etc. Mailing of presentations, spreadsheets, AV clips, etc. is very common. In the Unix environment people just NFS mount and use the proper groups for the same functionality. It is not the best for use in mailing lists and such but in a corporate network with many different platforms, it is VERY portable. The problem is the suits don't make that disitnction between inside and outside email. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNwBN4Hpf7K2LbpnFEQKD2wCfbJmmNYisQVflF4uVLNSXS4Ut8DIAni52 5e81bM6uN2eArsaA2b4/ShTo =MhRT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error
I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC dselect also worked the one time I tried during my dpkg hiatus. It ironed itself out in time and possibly updates, but I can't remember if dpkg or gzip got updated since then :( On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: This is an urgent plea for help! The problem is one I've experienced sporadically since I started with Debian several months back. Some packages won't install, giving an error such as this one: gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb Currently, I'm trying to upgrade to a 2.2.5 kernel in order to fix many problems on my system related to hardware. The kernel compiles fine, and make-kpkg gives me a nice deb. But as you can see by the error above, dpkg can't install it. I *can* use dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile filename new.tar and get a perfectly fine tarfile. I've taken this to #debian and to bugtraq. But nobody has encountered this problem before. I'm hoping someone on the list has, and can help. Or at the very least, someone can suggest a way for me to install the package using an alternate method. I'd hate to just jam the kernel into the system, and upset some precarious balance in the packaging system. All help is appreciated! Thanks, Robbie -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: non-us.debian.org having problems???
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 12:39:54AM +, Gregory T. Norris wrote: I was just wondering if non-us.debian.org is currently having problems, specifically with the potato archive? My /etc/apt/sources.list has the entry deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US, which I believe to be correct. Fair reply: non-us is _ALWAYS_ broken. It's being addressed, but the end result is almost certainly going to be that Debian will end up with a new non-us server in a new location and the ftpmasters will actually have access to the new machine. -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBEThe Source Comes First! - JHM Somehow I have more respect for 14 year old Debian developers than 14 year old Certified Microsoft Serfs. pgpyopQIAzeIs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Printer Troubles
I was actually going to check the message archive this time, but I'm sitting here at a Netscape status bar telling me Connect: Contacting Host www.debian.org... endlessly. Anyway, I can't even get my printer to print a simple text file. It is a Panasonic KX-P4430. I checked the basic stuff like making sure it was online and that the cables were properly connected. I have installed GhostScript, magicfilter, and lpr. If it matters, here is my /etc/printcap: lp|ps4430|Panasonic KX-P4430:\ :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ps4430:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ps400-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Do you really have a /dev/lp device? My parallel port printer uses /dev/lp1. Here are my file values (ls -l) crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 0 Oct 12 1997 /dev/lp0 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 1 Oct 12 1997 /dev/lp1 Perhaps you have a link, ln -s /dev/lp1 /dev/lp If you change /etc/printcap by hand, leave no space after any entries and perhaps all those lines beginning with tabs should remain tabs. Rather than change /etc/printcap by hand, you can easily replace it by running /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig --force Here are the messages I received trying to print a simple text file that just says testing inside of it: bash-2.01$ lpr test lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. bash-2.01$ lpq waiting for lp to become ready (off-line ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stroot 0test 4 bytes 2ndroot 1test 4 bytes 3rdroot 2test 4 bytes 4throot 3test 7 bytes 5thjason 4test 7 bytes 6thjason 6test 7 bytes 7thjason 7test 7 bytes bash-2.01$ I think I have included all the info that I should... By the way, when I upgraded from hamm to slink, I still had a printcap referring to /usr/sbin/ps600-filter even though magicfilter now puts this in /etc/magicfilter/ps600-filter I hope some filesystem standard is being followed. An installation warning would help. My slink upgrade produced the following benign message, You already have an /etc/printcap file installed. I assume that it is already correctly configured This doesn't affect your problem above. -- Jim Burt, NJ9L, Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mnsinc.com/jameson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (703) 235-5213 ext. 132 (work) A poor man associating with a rich man will soon be too poor to buy even a pair of breeches. --Chinese Proverb
Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FAT32 does not appear to be just a new partition type, which can coexist with FAT16 Linux partitions. Both utilities I tried (Win95 FDISK Maxtor Maxblast) required either all FAT32 or no FAT32, and Linux FDISK was then unable to add any Linux/FAT16 partitions, once there was a FAT32 partition. A comment in the PartitionMagic blurb (www.powerquest.com/press/pm4ships.html) also seems to indicate that FAT32 takes over the entire hard drive: For those consumers who find themselves with a FAT32 partition when they buy a new drive, PartitionMagic can convert FAT32 partitions to FAT16 partitions so that users can continue to use other operating systems and utilities. Does anyone know how to mix FAT32/FAT16/Linux partitions on a single hard drive? I want to do this because my 99.9%-full 1.2GB FAT16 partition expanded to 1.6GB when I copied it to a 2GB FAT16 partition(due to a larger cluster size, I guess), but took only 800MB on a FAT32 partition. I have used PartitionMagic to mix fat16/fat32 partitions on the same drive on two different computers - one with a WD ide and the other with a Quantum ide. I had no problems what so ever. For example one with four partitions was formatted like this: /dev/hda1 linux swap /dev/hda2 ext2 (Linux /) /dev/hda3 fat32 (windows c:) /dev/hda4 fat16 (mounted as d: in windows, and /dosd in Linux) -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux user.
Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error
Regarding: dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:21:46PM -0700, John Galt wrote: I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC dselect also worked the one time I tried during my dpkg hiatus. It ironed itself out in time and possibly updates, but I can't remember if dpkg or gzip got updated since then :( I won't ask you how, but I will ask how I can use apt to install a single file (namely, this new kernel-image deb). It's probably simple and obvious, but I'm not seeing it. Yes, the problem comes and goes rather randomly. At one point I went from about 15 packages which wouldn't install due to this problem to none, all in a single update. Thanks! Robbie
Re: PostgreSQL
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I wanted to install postgreSQL on a machine without X but postgresql needs xlib6g tk... Is there a package without X Tk .. support ? Why do we need X ? I think Oliver Elphick, the package maintainer, must answer this one. However, if I were you, I would try and install it with dpkg --force-depends. I use Postgresql regularly on a text based screen without problems. If it does not work, you can remove it again and install the latest postgresql from the postgresql home page in /usr/local. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5,6
Re: help on setting up a host name
Hi, I have all the passwd to access all the machines here, so what files do I need to modify in order to resolve the name. Carl Mummert wrote: You can't just add a line to /etc/hosts because that is not where remote queries for hostnames go. When a remote machine attempts to resolve a symbolic hostname like www.somewhere.com, the remote machine uses the DNS syste,, and in the end ends up asking the DNS server at somewhere.com for the numeric ip address. Thus to be able to see 'shao.xxx.xxx' you would have to convince the administrators of the DNS server for your domain to add an entry to the database for your computer. BUT you should be able to connect via the numeric address (i.e. enter the numeric IP instead of a symbolic hostname). This will work unless there is a firewall preventing incoming telnet sessions. If there is such a firewall, good luck. Carl -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error
apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.1 On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: Regarding: dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:21:46PM -0700, John Galt wrote: I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC dselect also worked the one time I tried during my dpkg hiatus. It ironed itself out in time and possibly updates, but I can't remember if dpkg or gzip got updated since then :( I won't ask you how, but I will ask how I can use apt to install a single file (namely, this new kernel-image deb). It's probably simple and obvious, but I'm not seeing it. Yes, the problem comes and goes rather randomly. At one point I went from about 15 packages which wouldn't install due to this problem to none, all in a single update. Thanks! Robbie Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
--- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snippage-- No, you could even retrieve this kind of features with bsod, a linux application to emulate Win1895 BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I've saw it a loong time ago either on sunsite or tsx-11 :-)) If anyone can find this please let me know, it would be a nice gag to play on my M$ loving pals g. --more snippage-- Well, in fact I only miss some games but dual boot is made for that, isn'it ? I've been beta-testing the Linux version of Civilization: Call to Power from Loki Entertainment Software and I'm really impressed. I've been a Civ addict since it's debut in what 1991 - 1192? Freeciv is pretty good but not as good as the real thing. Maybe if it sells well enough, LokiSoft will be able to port more things over. The SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) that it runs on looks promising for game development and there are some other tools available too. Oh, BTW it dropped right in to Debian with a couple of .deb libraries and the SDL in /local - easy install. References: LokiSoft - http://www.lokisoft.com/ Civ - http://www4.activision.com/games/civilization/ SDL - http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/ Regards, G.S. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Okay to remove timezone package?
I want to remove the timezone package in favor or timezones. But as it is an essential package, I get the warning: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! timezone 0 packages upgraded, 33 newly installed, 10 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5692kb/30.7Mb of archives. After unpacking 80.0Mb will be used. You are about to do something potentially harmful To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this is bad' Am I okay removing it? Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
Linux is young yet; just now becoming known to the masses. Up till not Most of Gnu Linux is actually very old; it is the commercialisation that is new. Most of Gnu/Linux is just a rework of very long established Unix tools. it has been more of a hobby for most people, it seems, than a concerted effort to be a Windows killer. So I wouldn't expect all the great apps In my view, trying to be a Windows killer, rather than itself, will be suicide for Linux. A few commercial suppliers will make a fast profit, but in the end, the people who have contributed to it will abandon it as it becomes commercialised, and the existing commercial software suppliers will start finding ways to undermine it, beyond the fear of free software. Incidentally accounting software was mentioned as a weak area. The problem with accounting software is that the people who understand the application are those most dependant on the profit motive and least likely to create freeware. (You may find that public service organisations produce free software, but that will normally be vertical market stuff for large oganizations, not horizontal market for small ones.) Being a hobby is beneficial, as it means that people are not facing commercial pressures to compromise quality for development cost and to compromise function for saleability.
Re: ps vs free again
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I saw earlier disscussions about ps and free. So what command can I use to actually display the total memory that is occupied by my system? Thanks. Shao 'top' gives a lot of very nice information in this regard.
Re: Bandwidth Control Program
With the new kernel 2.2, you can use IPROUTE2. The problem is that isn't a .deb package, so you must compile and install it, becase it's .tgz. Look at this web: http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/linux-diffserv/ We are probing this package, and i can asure you that is very interesting. Saludos. Russell Rademacher wrote: Hello guys. Okay. Here is a question. I am looking for a bandwidth control software so I can cramp down on the amount of bandwidth on certain network LANs that I am setting up here. In other words, we are an ISP here but we are expanding to provide LAN networks to several offices in this building where we resides so they have direct access to the Internet though our T3 connectivity here. So...I am looking for a bandwidth controller so I can limit the speed of the network to those people so they do not suck up all the bandwidth that is delicated solely to the ISP services and provide little of it to them which is sufficient for them to use. Anyone have any clues or help on setting this up? It will be 4 LANS which I have to connect to make this a go. :) -- Date: 29-Mar-99 Time:16:33:22 Russell Rademacher Grapevine2 Technical Support Specialist System Adminstrator Toll-Free: 800-267-3070 Phone: 716-214-5644 Fax: 716-214-5642 TDD: 716-214-5643 ICQ: 10663810 AIM: ElikCyber -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: use the Windowkeys
:- Ulrik == Ulrik Haugen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've used those keys for something different, but you may like that, or else someone else may... These are the lines of interest in my ~/.Xmodmaprc keycode 0x73 =Meta_L keycode 0x71 =Mode_switch Multi_key #I use a swedish keybooard. #Your mileage may vary. keycode 0x74 =Meta_R keycode 0x75 =Menu clear Mod1 clear Mod3 clear Mod4 addMod1= Alt_L Meta_R addMod3= Mode_switch addMod4= Meta_L Menu I don't have a very clear picture of what the different Meta, Mode_switch and Multi mean. Does someone know what they are or where can I read some descriptions? I always found the man pages of xkeycaps, loadkeys etc. somewhat cryptical Which I call in my ~/.xsession with xmodmap .Xmodmaprc This lets me use Mod_4 for all windowmanager stuff like selecting, minimizing, maximizing etc. This way I don't have to use Alt-Ffoo but instead i can use Win-X to maximize, without worrying that I loose the possibility to use a keyboard shortcut in any application. This is a good idea. So you can free the Alt-F1 that most window managers use for the drop down menus Also swedish keyboards don't have a real Alt-key to the right of the spacebar which is annoying in netscape for instance - if I'm on the phone or whatever and only have one hand for typing I can't go back and forth without using the mouse. This way I have both the Alt- and Win-keys on both sides of the spacebar. If the swedish keyb. is similar to the italian one, you have a Alt-Gr key on the right side, don't you? Also I would like to be able to get a compose key to work with a us keyboard, so that I can generate accented vowels needed in italian language. I think this is the same as my Alt-Gr which generates Mod_3, so perhaps you could just bind some key to Mod_3. I've tried but didn't succeed. How did you do this? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.4 #1 Sun Mar 28 11:09:03 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Debian CDROMS
:- Steve == Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pierfrancesco Caci writes: Seriously speaking, maybe it would be useful to provide a single-cd downsized distribution to be included in those multi-cd sets like infomagic or walnut-creek. Then, once you have the first cd, you will surely hunt the others. This was part of the design of slink_cd - the first official CD for all architectures should work standalone too... I saw this feature yesterday when I made my non-free+non-US disk. What I meant was that debian.org sites should provide a ready-to-burn single cd image in the archives. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.4 #1 Sun Mar 28 11:09:03 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Anybody have the time to help a newbie?
Hello. Ok. I have a copy of Debian on disk. I am attempting to install it on an IBM PS/2 386. When I boot up using the rescue floppy, I can set up to the point where it asks me to partition the hard drive. I select next, and I get an error stating Problem - No hard disk drives could be found. Make sure they are cabled correctly and are turned on before the system is started . You may have to change driver setings when you start the system with a command at the boot: prompt, or you may have to load a driver that is in a loadable module to solve this problem. I've tried all the other menu selections, and the only other one that works is the shell selection. If anybody could provide me with just the smallest bit of help, I would be very grateful. Thanx in advance, Jordan Urie email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SiS6326 chip and XFree86
Does anyone know when XFree86 3.3.3.1 get some kind of fix to SiS6326 chip based cards like Diamond Speedstart A50 what I have? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Quote from Heavenly Creatures (1994) Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Parker : She is the most unreasonable. Why could not mother die? Dozens of people are dying all the time, thousands, so why not mother? And father too.
Re: Mount for normal user
How can I mount devices (CDrom / HD) as a normal user. For example : $ mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb mount: only root can mount /dev/hdb on /mnt/hdb Normally the mount command checks if you really are root, and disregards group membership. You can allow users to mount a certain partition by adding the `user' option in /etc/fstab. For example, I have a line for a cdrom in my /etc/fstab that looks like this: /dev/hdd/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 The user option allows every user to mount and umount the cdrom, and noauto prevents the system from trying to mount the cdrom at boot time, which can be annoying if there is no cdrom in the drive. I've tried to add my user (sami) to some groups, but... : sys:x:3:sami adm:x:4:sami disk:x:6:sami lp:x:7:lp,sami mail:x:8:sami voice:x:22:sami cdrom:x:24:sami floppy:x:25:sami sudo:x:27:sami audio:x:29:mary,sami majordom:x:31:majordom Where is any help about Debian's groups... ? I don't know. Most groups are self-explanatory. However, How to remove user from groups (without VI) and is there a way to have all root permission without being root (UID 0) because some programs don't want to run as root ? If programs do not want to run as root there usually is a security reason for that. This means it can be in some way dangerous to your system, and you'd better not try to run it as root anyway. You can remove users from a group using the usermod command and the -G option. With the -G option you list the additional groups (beside the default group) that a user is a member from. If the user was listed with other groups as well, (s)he is removed from those. Check out the manual page. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
Re: operation not permitted?
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jayson Baird wrote: using cpio to undo rpm files (Alien to be exact), cpio returns for each file that the operation is not permitted...any ideas? You have to use fakeroot. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cyillic only) http://www.concentric.net/~jsbaird ICQ UIN: 19560609 -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SiS6326 chip and XFree86
I think XFree86 3.3.3.1 is coming with support of this chipset. But NOT using the accelerated S3 variant but the normal SVGA. -Mensaje original- De: Timo Reunanen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles 31 de marzo de 1999 22:12 Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: SiS6326 chip and XFree86 Does anyone know when XFree86 3.3.3.1 get some kind of fix to SiS6326 chip based cards like Diamond Speedstart A50 what I have? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Quote from Heavenly Creatures (1994) Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Parker : She is the most unreasonable. Why could not mother die? Dozens of people are dying all the time, thousands, so why not mother? And father too. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
star office
Hi, I am having some problem with Star Office 5.0, could someone shed some light on the situation? Apparently when I try to update the mail box Star Office start to freeze up my computer. What's happening is that my CPU is being overloaded when Star Office does this updating of the e-mail. I have a K6 AMD 300 MHZ with 64 MB of RAM, I wonder if that's not enough for something as resource hungry as Star Office? Shawn
Re: Printer Troubles
You need to start up the printer daemon. Only a priveleged user can do this so try: $su (enter your root password) #lpd #exit Then try and print the file again. Normally, you should get the lpd daemon started automatically at start-up, so you may well get an error message when you try this. Hopefully it will be helpful. HTH Rich Jason Dawe wrote: I was actually going to check the message archive this time, but I'm sitting here at a Netscape status bar telling me Connect: Contacting Host www.debian.org... endlessly. Anyway, I can't even get my printer to print a simple text file. It is a Panasonic KX-P4430. I checked the basic stuff like making sure it was online and that the cables were properly connected. I have installed GhostScript, magicfilter, and lpr. If it matters, here is my /etc/printcap: lp|ps4430|Panasonic KX-P4430:\ :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ps4430:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ps400-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Here are the messages I received trying to print a simple text file that just says testing inside of it: bash-2.01$ lpr test lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. bash-2.01$ lpq waiting for lp to become ready (off-line ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stroot 0test 4 bytes 2ndroot 1test 4 bytes 3rdroot 2test 4 bytes 4throot 3test 7 bytes 5thjason 4test 7 bytes 6thjason 6test 7 bytes 7thjason 7test 7 bytes bash-2.01$ I think I have included all the info that I should... Thanks in advance --Jason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
crc errors with LILO
OK, I don't know if anyone caught my last post RE this ,but here's a quick brief: I have a SCSI and IDE system...the scsi drive holds root, but the scsi adapter doesn't have the ability to load w/o first having drivers loaded up. So what I thought would work (as it did with my RH install), was putting /boot on the IDE drive, and everything else on the scsi drive. Debian however didn't let me do this, and insisted that the SCSI drive boot first. THe ony way I can get this system to boot now, is with a floppy. So now, I used lilo, and tried installing it on the IDE drive: silver168:~# lilo -b /dev/hda5 Ignoring entry 'boot' Added Linux * now, when I try to boot, it says loading linux, and then when it gets to the decompression part, it gives me a crc error, and halts. I've checked the disk, and copied over the kernel that's on the floppy (which is good), and I still get the error. Anyone know how to fix this? I don't like to boot off of a floppy... thanks!! -lev
not booting into Xwindows
can anyone tell me how to keep my computer from booting into Xwindows? This is a rather annoying automation... thanks :) -lev
Re: login.app setting color depth to 16bpp
In a message dated 3/29/99 7:27:34 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to set my color depth to 16 bpp, currently it's starting in 8bpp. I had :1 local /usr/bin/X11 :1 vt9 -bpp 16 in /etc/Xserver but it is not reading that. I think in wdm it was placed in a different file. Is this the right place for it? This option should probably go in your XF86Config file. -Jay
Strange behaviour of soundcard
I tried to config an Aztech soundcard on a hamm-system (kernel 2.0.34). In the first attempt I compiled the sound-support into the kernel. During this process I had to guess many things because the card is not in the list of supported cards and I don t have any papers of the manufacturer. So I was very surprised and happy that it worked at once, but then I had to realize that something is wrong. When I started some programs to test the card I could see that in some cases (playmidi, xblast) the system became very busy when I closed these programs. In the case of xblast it is so extreme that the soundcard doesn't work anymore after that. So, I had a second try with isapnp to give the system a chance to find out the best settings itself, but the problem is the same. Does anybody know what I can do to find out the reason for this problem? The output of sndstat looks normal. Thanks Kurt
Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???
Heres a good point about linux, anyone found a good irc client for x (other than Bitchx in a E-Term :) that doesn't crash everytime you click (yagirc anyone). The last time I looked there are several IRC clients for X.. I still find for everyday use Win95/NT is better (quaking, ircing, browsing, ftping). You can play Doom, Quake, IRC, Browse and FTP all on Linux... Have a look at FileRunner for FTP.. (Its a bit like WS_FTP), or install KDE and drag/drop from one folder to another, and each folder could be on separate FTP sites... It seems that linux has quite a good range of applications, just a case of find one, and one that works fine. 'The GIMP' 'Star Office 5' 'Corel WordPerfect 8' all FREE... John
Re: Do We Need a New Evangelist?
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 02:41:11PM -0800, ESP wrote: It's apparent that the two of you, and others, are willing to continue this stupid infighting out in the public for all to see. Whatever strides you may make for the Open Source community, you're doing it grievous harm by airing your personal differences in public. One step forward, three steps back. In case you didn't notice, you posted your invective on debian-user, not in private. So what are you so indignant about? Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: not booting into Xwindows
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: can anyone tell me how to keep my computer from booting into Xwindows? This is a rather annoying automation... Remove tyhe xdm package. thanks :) -lev Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: not booting into Xwindows
Remove the xdm script from your runlevel directory. If you're using runlevel 2 (most probably), then go to /etc/rc2.d, and delete the S**xdm package where ** will be some number. Sean Lev Lvovsky wrote: can anyone tell me how to keep my computer from booting into Xwindows? This is a rather annoying automation... thanks :) -lev -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan
Re: setting up a hostname
Hi, Other computers on your network can't see what you have in the hosts file. The hosts file is only used by your computer locally. To solve this, you can do one of the this things: a) Copy your hosts file in every computer you are going to use to telnet your machine b) You can ask your network's DNS (Domain Name Server) administrator to make this name (shao) to be an alias to your machine. This last option is the better one, because every computer in the world will know that shao.xxx.xxx.xx is your computer when they resolve your name. Hope this helps you ;-) Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, At work, my machine connects to a ethernet lan and it has a unique ip address. If the company's domain is xxx.xxx.xx, I want to set up a name so that I can telnet to my machine using shao.xxx.xxx.xx. I tied to edit the file in /etc/hosts but it doesn't work. Could someone please help me? Thx -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Thanks to Gregory T. Norris
Dear Sir, Thank you for your redirection in the way of install. It helped me greatly in overcoming the hurdle to installation. Tim P.S. Sorry for the delay.I've been trying to get the install correctly configured but have run into problems w/ the perl and lib6 packages not configuring correctly..It taken a little of my time and I might have to bother the user list again soon to help me iron this one out too. Thanks Again!!! _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95
After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help -- machine still goes directly to Windows. I think I need to mess with the MBR, but not certain how to proceed. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Hill -- * HR On-Line: The Network for Workplace Issues ** Ph:416-604-7251 -- Fax:416-604-4708 ** http://www.hronline.com **
Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95
Are you using exactly the same setup as before? Also, make sure that lilo actually runs without any warnings/errors. ANdrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Re: ps vs free again
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SZ I just tried top, but it seems it is showing the same info as free
SZ which is included the memory cached but can be freed if another
SZ program requests in the memory used section.
SZ
SZ What I want to know is the exact amount memory used by system, I
SZ don't want the cached memory.
{3} dmaze% free
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 47388 46280 1108 18440 1908 13340
-/+ buffers/cache: 31032 16356
Swap: 101216 6304 94912
I think the first number on the -/+ buffers/cache line is the number
you're looking for.
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Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?
Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?
what exactly is a segmentation fault?
Howdy all, I have just tried my 1st attempt at installing a non-debian package (multitrack-2.2.tgz). I followed the instructions... - place file in /usr/local - tar xvfz multitrack-2.2.tgz - cd multitrack-2.2 - make install When I tried to run the program (by typing multitrack), I get a segmentation fault error... I have heard this phrase before, but do not know what it means... can anyone help, or at least point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Rich
Y2K
I get a Slackware 2.0.29 Kernel of Linux. I'd like to know if it's Y2K. If not which version is Y2K. Thank you to answer me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Reynold GUERRIER begin: vcard fn: CSR de Port-au-Prince n: ;CSR de Port-au-Prince org:Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie adr:38, Rue Dufort, à côté de la Faculté Linguistique Appliquée;;;Port-au-Prince;;BP: 15815;Haïti email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work: (509) 45 4408 (509) 45 0567tel tel;fax:(509) 45 0574 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
Help bootable cd
I need fast help here. I would like to make a cdrom that I have bootable and run a certian command on bootup. I would also like to have a floppy that will boot from and run just like the cd will. This is for restoring an image file (dd) from the cd to the machine automaticly. I have Debian as well as RedHat avaliable. I am in desparatation here. Can anyone point me to the right direction?? -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slink upgrade and /usr/local problems locating libs!
Hey guys, Since I have upgraded to slink I have noticed that when I unzip certain tars in /usr/local the binaries seem to have trouble finding the required libs. For example, Wingz3 can't find libXpm.so.4 although it is in /usr/X11R6/lib. Wingz3 worked with hamm. Has there been some kind of change in Slink that would cause this? Rod
Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95
Jeff Hill wrote: After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help -- machine still goes directly to Windows. I think I need to mess with the MBR, but not certain how to proceed. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Hill I had the same problem. I partitioned my HD in this way /dev/hda1 - windows 95 /dev/hda2 - linux swap /dev/hda3 - linux and set /dev/hda3 as boot partition. When I reinstalled windows 95, /dev/hda1 has been set as boot partition. To fix the problem I: - rebooted Debiam form floppy - used fdisk (or cfdisk, I don't remember) to remade my linux partition bootable again - reboot -- Paolo Comi Italtel S.p.A. Research and Development Laboratories 20019 Castelletto di Settimo Milanese (MI) Italy tel: +39 02 4388 7963 fax: +39 02 4388 8472 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount for normal user
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 02:25:41PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: [some stuff] However, How to remove user from groups (without VI) and is there a way to have all root permission without being root (UID 0) because some programs don't want to run as root ? You should look into the sudo command. That allows you to give root access to certain people, or to only give access to certain commands. I use it as a smokescreen to keep myself from doing something dumb: if I can't run something without sudo, I take a good hard look at what my system is trying to keep me from screwing up. Rob -- The door is the key.
Re: Slink upgrade and /usr/local problems locating libs!
Hey guys, Since I have upgraded to slink I have noticed that when I unzip certain tars in /usr/local the binaries seem to have trouble finding the required libs. For example, Wingz3 can't find libXpm.so.4 although it is in /usr/X11R6/lib. Wingz3 worked with hamm. Has there been some kind of change in Slink that would cause this? Is the library really there, or is there just a dangling symbolic link? On my slink system /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 is a symlink to libXpm.so.4.10. If the latter file is not there, you need to install the xpm4g package if the Wingz3 is a libc6 program. If Wingz3 is a libc5 program, you need to install the xpm4.7 package from the oldlibs section. Check this out with `ldd Wingz3'. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
Re: what exactly is a segmentation fault?
When I tried to run the program (by typing multitrack), I get a segmentation fault error... I have heard this phrase before, but do not know what it means... can anyone help, or at least point me in the right direction? A segmentation fault means that the program made an illegal memory access. This can be done in many ways and it is now always the author's fault, it could be a library problem. First, run ldd /path/to/my program Every item in the list should have a left and right side. Next, run strace -o output program. At the bottom of the file called output you will see some cryptic function calls. They may offer a clue.
Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95
Subject: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95 Date: Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 07:50:27AM -0500 In reply to:Jeff Hill Quoting Jeff Hill([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help -- machine still goes directly to Windows. I think I need to mess with the MBR, but not certain how to proceed. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Hill Winzoze thinks it owns your box. When you installed Win95 it overwrote the MBR. You have to boot with a floppy and then fix /etc/lilo.conf. Then run lilo so that IT can take back the MBR. # LILO configuration file # generated by 'liloconfig' # # Start LILO global section boot = /dev/hda # Device containing boot sector compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. prompt # Force boot prompt map = /boot/map # Default = /boot/map Default = Slink2.2.3# Default = /boot/boot.number Timeout = 250 # Wait val/10 sec. after prompt then boot default # End LILO global section # Image sections # Linux bootable partition config begins # Debian 2.1 # Image= /boot/slink label = Slink Root = /dev/hdb2 VGA= 0xb append = lp=0x378,0 Image= /boot/Slink-2.2.3 label = Slink2.2.3 Root = /dev/hdb2 VGA= 0x317 append = lp=parport0 parport=0x378,none Image = /boot/memtest86 Label = Memtest # Win95 Why waste the disk space?? # Other = /dev/hda1 Label = win Table = /dev/hda HTH -- Information Center, n.: A room staffed by professional computer people whose job it is to tell you why you cannot have the information you require. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp0
Hi John, Thanks for your help, really. I actually did run pppconfig and answered the questions, but still not working. I suspect maybe there is something to do with my modem port. My modem is on COM4 and IRQ is 10. As defuelt, the IRQ asigned for COM4 may be different. I did 'setserial -b /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 10' to change COM4 to IRQ 10 manually after system comes up, but still did not help. Don't know if something wrong in the installation point. And, actually I have FreeBSD in the some box and when I set the PPP for FBSD, I had to recompile the kernel with the new IRQ value. And then it worked. I choose Debian to try because I like some of its features, i.g. the package management etc. But I have to say, at least to my limited experience, the installation is a little harder than FreeBSD. Any furthere help? Thanks alot, John. Chen On 29 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: I meant even before you got connected to you IPS, you should have ppp0 interface(network interface) running, which can be easily check by command 'ifconfig'. (According PPP-HOWTO, if I understand correctly). No. The interface doesn't exist until the connection comes up. When I set all the file in /etc/ppp/* following what PPP-HOWTO says and do 'pon;plog -f, I hear the sound from Modem but that was not dial tone. I could not connect to my IPS. The PPP-HOWTO can be most charitably described as misleading. Run pppconfig, answer the questions, and try pon again. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
printing quality
I have a problem with printing quality under debian. I am using an epson lx 300 dot matrix printer (i know that windows it can work also as epson lx800 lx810 jx80 - i may be missing a bit on the letters). the problem is that under linux when not printing unformated text ot from netscape i get horible results (including ps from other sources). If anyone can tell me how to solve the problem, and/or what filter to use under magicfilter. thanx
modules package
dselect lists the modules package as obsolete/local -- I sure didn't package it, so it must be obsolete. But dpkg -r modules reports Kernel was compiled with module support! Can't remove modules package!. Is it ok to --force this one? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, Blame It On Me | --
Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95
No changes to the setup and my bios is set to boot a,c. I had lilo boot windows at /dev/hda4 and slink at /dev/hda1. Everything was running well, except that I had to re-install Windows. I booted to Windows, went to command prompt, re-installed Windows, then rebooted. I expected lilo to be overwritten, but thought that if I booted by floppy to slink and then ran lilo, it would re-install and work fine. Not the case. While I could always boot slink from floppy, it would obviously be more convenient to boot from disk. Lilo was running without any warnings or errors. When I initially setup, I couldn't get lilo to run, but instead got an endless stream of 01 01 01 01 01 01. Someone suggested that this might be a faulty lilo and to re-install, which I did. Unfortunately, that was not the case. It was some fault on the Windows side. It seems like I remember reading somewhere once that the solution was to boot using the Windows Rescue/Reboot disk and go to command prompt and do an fdisk /mbr and then re-install lilo. But I've caused myself some extreme pain mucking with the mbr on a guess. I've ran Linux servers for a couple of years now, but setting up a dual-boot and making a desktop system is almost another world. Regards and thanks for any assist. Jeff Hill Andrei Ivanov wrote: Are you using exactly the same setup as before? Also, make sure that lilo actually runs without any warnings/errors. ANdrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: Jeff Hill wrote: After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help -- machine still goes directly to Windows. I think I need to mess with the MBR, but not certain how to proceed. Any suggestions appreciated. just to be sure: do you set your bios to boot on disk ? -- * HR On-Line: The Network for Workplace Issues ** Ph:416-604-7251 -- Fax:416-604-4708 ** http://www.hronline.com **
