Re: Gnome Apt traduzido
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Gnome Apt traduzido
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Re: Can't boot from hard disk
Paul Miller wrote: Mark Lawrence wrote: The /etc/lilo.conf looks like this: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only You should try 'boot=/dev/hda'. Notice that the '1' was dropped. This will put the boot loader on the MBR of the hard drive where you need it to call lilo on hda1. Sorry, I should have mentioned that I've already tried that, and have just tried it again to be sure. I get to the same spot, just after Loading Linux..., (sometimes Loading Linux...L) and it hangs. For what it's worth, when I've tried boot=/dev/hda before, I'd some times get to a message on the next line (I think it was uncompressing kernel, can't reproduce it now) before failure. Thanks -- Mark Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Font editor?
Hi! Is there a font editor included in Debian to let me edit the console fonts (.psf) (and unicode mappings) in a sensible way? I'd like to take the font on my video card and remap it to Latin-1 so I can use it as a console font. (And I need to fix the unicode mapping, since they seems to be all messed up in potato, whereas they worked in slink). -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log
lprng problem
I am having a hard time getting lprng to work. I am pretty sure the problem is in my /etc/lpd.perms file. With the default /etc/lpd.perms file, things print just fine. However, I want to restrict who can use my printer. The configuration below pretends to do exactly what I want it to, but print jobs are never actually printed, they just disappear. Other configurations I have tried give messages which clearly indicate that they won't work. This is what I am trying to accomplish: 1. Requests must originate from this host. 2. Root can do anything. 3. Only certain users can print. 4. Jobs can only be removed by user who created them (or root). I am not too concerned about who can connect, do lpq or status request (services X, Q and S, respectively), but would prefer restricting those to the users who can print, if possible. Any help in correcting my mistakes would be greatly appreciated. #allow all users on local host to connect, get status and queue ACCEPT SERVICE=XQS REMOTEIP=127.0.0.1 #allow root to do anything ACCEPT SERVICE=XRPQMCS REMOTEIP=127.0.0.1 USER=root #allow certain user(s) on local host to print ACCEPT SERVICE=RP REMOTEIP=127.0.0.1 USER=compman #allow same user on local host to remove job ACCEPT SERVICE=M REMOTEIP=127.0.0.1 SAMEUSER #all other access denied DEFAULT REJECT
Re: OT : RAM, please help.
* J W Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: system. Some will take it, others just float off into la la land when they are counting RAM. It is usually because the motherboard has a problem with the clock chip on the RAM(very tiny black chip, normally off to right or left side). IMHO, your best bet would be to return the RAM you have and get Huh? This is almost certainly the SPD (Serial Presence Detect) EEPROM. And why should the RAM have a clock chip anyway? But sorry, don´t know about other possibilities that can cause the original poster´s problem. -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font editor?
I'm not sure if this will do the job or not. It is a font editor, but it says .fnt instead of the .psf you mention. I don't know much about fonts so maybe I should have kept my mouth shut :-) Hope this info is helpful. begin quote from dselect's description of fonter fonter - Interactive font editor for the console Fonter is an interactive console font (8x16 .fnt) manipulation tool. It's a linux-console-only program that displays all 256 characters of the font on screen and lets you edit them in realtime. end quote On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, peter karlsson wrote: Hi! Is there a font editor included in Debian to let me edit the console fonts (.psf) (and unicode mappings) in a sensible way? I'd like to take the font on my video card and remap it to Latin-1 so I can use it as a console font. (And I need to fix the unicode mapping, since they seems to be all messed up in potato, whereas they worked in slink).
Re: Font editor?
I'm not sure if this will do the job or not. It is a font editor, but it says .fnt instead of the .psf you mention. I don't know much about fonts so maybe I should have kept my mouth shut :-) Hope this info is helpful. Seems to be about what I wanted. Thanks. Hmm, on exit it messed up my fonts even more than they were before. Now I can't reload anything. *sigh* Why won't setfont or mapscrn load the mappings file I tell them to? They say they do, but they don't. Nothing happens. *sigh* -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log
Re: bus error
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 10:18:56AM +0200, Jonas Steverud wrote: erasmo perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does somebody knows what does bus error means and how can i get out of this? From signal(5) on Solaris: -8-- Events directly caused by the execution of code by a thread, such as a reference to an unmapped, protected, or bad memory can generate SIGSEGV or SIGBUS; -8-- How to stop it? Don't know. I think these are results of programming bugs. On Solaris, the gcc compiler switch -Wcast-align should be used (and the source then corrected). From the manual Using and Porting GNU CC -Wcast-align Warn whenever a pointer is cast such that the required alignment of the target is increased. For example, warn if a char * is cast to an int * on machines where integers can only be accessed at two- or four-byte boundaries. -
Re: Font editor?
I'm not sure if this will do the job or not. It is a font editor, but it says .fnt instead of the .psf you mention. I don't know much about fonts so maybe I should have kept my mouth shut :-) Hope this info is helpful. Seems to be about what I wanted. Thanks. Hmm, on exit it messed up my fonts even more than they were before. Now I can't reload anything. *sigh* That doesn't sound good. Guess I didn't know what I was recommending! Sorry. Why won't setfont or mapscrn load the mappings file I tell them to? They say they do, but they don't. Nothing happens. *sigh* This Esc ( K thing might be the trick: quote from setfont man page `trivial' mapping is assumed. In any case the mapping table just loaded is activated by outputting the string Esc ( K. Giving a -m none argument inhibits the loading and activation of a mapping table. The previous mapping table can be saved to a file using the -om file option. These options of setfont render mapscrn(8) obsolete. end quote I hope that is more helpful than what I came up with last time.
Re: Does smail have an expensive option like sendmail?
According to John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Andy writes: Is there an equivalent option for smail? Put 'queue_only' in /etc/smail/config . I did that right away and it works great. Just one thing is too bad now: local mails aren't delivered anymore either. Is there a way to tell smail to deliver local mails right away, but queue everything that requires dialing out, i.e. has a destination outside the local network/computer? General question: How about switching to exim? I found out that debian now recommends exim as MTA. Is it worth the switch? Thanks a lot! Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: c++ include problem (preprocessor directives)
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: Subject: c++ include problem (preprocessor directives) In my files the headers are included like this: #ifdef NEWCPPH #include iostream #else #include iostream.h #endif #include cassert #include cstring #include input.h only then i get an error that the functions declared inside input.h can't be found. The linker says: main.o: In function `main': main.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `input(void)' main.o(.text+0x8a): undefined reference to `input(char const *)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [main] Error 1 what am i doing wrong? learn about C++ name mangling extern C is your friend It appears the functions defined in input.h are not being linked to main. Try compiling input.cpp file (you do have the funtions defined in a separate .cpp file don't you?) with output to an object file, say, input.o, then link with something like this: g++ -o main.o -Wall -pedantic -c main.cpp g++ -o input.o -Wall -pedantic -c input.cpp g++ main.o input.o -o main This will likely fix the linking errors. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)
xfs/xfstt
I'm a bit confused about xfs and xfstt. I understand that xfstt is for truetype fonts, and I have it working. But as far as I can tell, xfs doesn't offer any advantage (for a regular user) over just putting directories in the FontPath bits of the X configs. Is this true? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then : names the streets after them. -- Bill Vaughn
Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!
Karl J Klug wrote: Specify disk geometry when you boot: Is there a way to find out what disk geometry to specify? Why isn't it detected correctly / why is it detected incorrectly? Thanks in advance! - d.
Re: [Debian: XFree86] Minimal requirements
At 11:42 07.08.1999 -0400, you wrote MK MKI suspect that you could use the vga server, most if not all video cards MKshould support vga unless they are very outdated. If I am mistaken I MKwill gladly accept any and all _constructive criticism_ :-) MK The Reply begins here: For me it is enough, if I can run it in VGA mode and 256 colors. This will work NORMALY (what is normaly ???) with ALL graphiccards but I have no experience to do that Michelle
Lost directories.
In the past three weeks I have lost three directories. Just disappeared. I lost /usr/local/bin and had to start recompiling years's of work. Sure, it's my own fault, but in the several years I have been using Debian GNU/Linux, I have never had this happen. I can't believe I was doing anything even close to that directory. Then I lost /root. In the middle of a session, meaning I had to reconstruct the .bashrc and .bash_profile files. Very strange. I am sure I wasn't doing anything with /root! Today, I lost a small subdirectory, a symlink to another directory, in my home directory. In the middle of an editing session, I had to reconstruct that directory, as a symlink, and save all files I was working on in emacs. If I'd shutdown, I shudder to think what would have happened. I am fallable. However, these kinds of errors have not happened to me in many years. Suddenly, there is a rash of events. Can someone advise me whether there is something I ought to be aware of? Is this possibly a precursor of greater things to come? Hardware failure? I am worried. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Popping Sound problem
I get an annoying popping sound initially when sound files start playing. I have an Intel SE440BX motherboard with the Crystal CS4232 chip built in. I've compiled the kernel with sound as CS4232, io=530, irq=5, and dma=0,1. I generally run esd, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. Any insights? -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
CRC Checksum on Rescue boot
When using the rescue disk to install Debian from floppies I get a CRC error when it begins to decompress the kernel. I have put new memory in it, new hdd, and still the same error. It does use an older I/o card (it's a suped up 486, motherboard had no I/O channels) so could it be that the error is in the I/O card, or somewhere else? Any input would help. Thanks. Jayson Baird [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
An acquaintance of mine has a new Gateway P3-450 computer with a 12 GB hard drive. She wants to use about half that space for Linux, and I recommended to her that she get slink, because I use it myself and am fairly familiar with it. However, when I tried to install from the slink CD's, I got an error about Could not find a valid disk to install to. It seems that slink (and also RedHat 5.2) can't detect her hard drive! I investigated further (it's not a partitioning problem, BTW.. fips worked fine, and i even tried downloading a windows program to make ext2 filesystems and rebooting again, with no luck..) I eventually found out that in her BIOS, under Primary Master, is listed [None]. I can change [None] to [Auto] but that doesn't help. The only device on there at all is Secondary master, which is her DVD-ROM drive (which debian can read perfectly fine.) Any ideas on what I can/should do to get the Debian install program to recognize her hard drive and start installation? Your help is much appreciated thanks! Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 5 hours, 34 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org)
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Re: [Debian: Install] In relation to Debian FAQ 9.4
I have NOT used dpkg-split but looking at the man page (man dpkg-split)... You probably want to create a directory (as root): mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/parts Copy the part files from the floppies to this location. If there are MSDOS floppies and you already have mtools then cd /var/lib/dpkg/parts followed by mcopy a:filename . should work. Else you will probably need to mount the floppy disk on the filesystem one at a time and use cp. The command to recreate the package is _probably_: dpkg-split --join file1 file2 file3 (order should not matter) You might be able to use the -o pathfilename option/argument to specify where you want the resulting package file to be written out. In my own reading of the man page it seemed that the --auto command is probably something that you do not want to do. The dpkg-split --join command should reassemble the part to recreate the original package file. dpkg -i pathfilename should install the package. NOW THEN ALL of the above is based upon the idea that you already have a WORKING debian installation on the target machine. I am assuming that that is the case since you were able to use dkpg-split in the first place but I am completely confused (still) as to just what you are trying to do since to have used dpkg-split you would have to have had the original package file! -- To make an installation disk set you need to end up with a small stack of floppies containing resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin, base14.n.bin (currently 9 floppies for the slink distribution). Note that if you have a Linux (or UNIX) system available then the easiest way to do this is to download (or otherwise) get these files on the machine and then use dd to make each floppy: dd of=/dev/fd0 if=[path]filename Otherwise on a DOS box you need the rawrite2.exe program (read rawrite2.txt which should be with the program). The canonical location for all of these files (including rawrite) is debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/ On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 07:31:37PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, I have a question in relation to the Debian FAQ: 9.4 How can I get/install the Debian from a set of floppy disks? I had read the complete FAQ but I do not find a answer. OK, I have splitted a package in smaler parts (dpkg-split) and copied them to three Floppys. Now I want to know, how to install this 3 Floppys on my machine. What must I do with dpkg ??? Must I copy the files first onto my machine and un-split them or...??? Thanks for your help in advance Michelle
Re: How does one activate sound on Slink
This is a case where you most definitely want to read the HOW-TOs! The normal distribution kernels are compiled without sound support. The reasons are probably multiple, such as smaller size but in addition sound hardware is so non-standard that it is probably counter productive to even try to distribute a kernel with sound support compiled in. You need to determine the type of sound card that you have. If yours is a listed card then things will probably go quite smoothly. The generally big problem that most encounter is that the vast majority of compatible cards are only compatible AFTER some sort of DOS based initialization program has been run. With the old legacy cards this _can_ usually be handled by cold booting to DOS followed with a warm boot to Linux. With the PCI and Plug-n-Pray cards I don't think that even that works (OTOH I think that PCI and PnP are also better supported). BE SURE THAT YOU READ THE kernel-source/Documentation text files for sound drivers! Install the kernel source (you probably need around 10 Meg free space). Install the kernel-package: (debian/dists/slink/main/binary-all/misc/kernel-package_6.05.deb) READ the documentation in /usr/doc/kernel-package/ Manjo's README.gz is an outstanding document and will make kernel building a pleasure with the added benefit that the package management system will know about your new kernel and if you follow Manjo's advice then upgrades will not automagically replace your custom kernel. Personally, I strongly recommend that you compile the kernel for modular sound support. For many sound cards you HAVE to have the sound system in modular form (the kernel will fail trying to initialize a PnP sound card, which it trys to do before PnP is initialized). AFAIK there are no sound cards (that can be used under Linux) that can NOT be used as modules so... Note that for some sound cards you may HAVE to use a 2.2.x kernel and that is not a completely trivial upgrade to a slink system. If you do need to run a 2.2.x kernel be sure that you read the notes on the matter on debian.org (updates?). On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 01:50:31PM -0500, Jor-el wrote: Hi, I wasnt too concerned about audio when I installed Slink. Now, however, I feel the sudden desire to make my machine talk. The only question is how. None of the audio modules required have been installed to disk, and 'modconf' doesnt have any audio drivers listed. The install guide doesnt make any mention of sound. How the heck do I get started? TIA, Jor-el
Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
I'm not sure whether it's the same model or not. But I used to install potato on one G7-450 with 12GB HD. On that machine, fdisk on debian can read only first 8GB. So I end up repartitioning so Debian can live withing the first 8 GB, the rest of the disk, NT can handle that. There is also a post about fdisk on slink can not handle hd 8Gb a bit ealier. cheers, Chanop On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 01:37:06AM -0500, Colin McMillen wrote: An acquaintance of mine has a new Gateway P3-450 computer with a 12 GB hard drive. She wants to use about half that space for Linux, and I recommended to her that she get slink, because I use it myself and am fairly familiar with it. However, when I tried to install from the slink CD's, I got an error about Could not find a valid disk to install to. It seems that slink (and also RedHat 5.2) can't detect her hard drive! I investigated further (it's not a partitioning problem, BTW.. fips worked fine, and i even tried downloading a windows program to make ext2 filesystems and rebooting again, with no luck..) I eventually found out that in her BIOS, under Primary Master, is listed [None]. I can change [None] to [Auto] but that doesn't help. The only device on there at all is Secondary master, which is her DVD-ROM drive (which debian can read perfectly fine.) Any ideas on what I can/should do to get the Debian install program to recognize her hard drive and start installation? Your help is much appreciated thanks! Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 5 hours, 34 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301
Re: Popping Sound problem
I had to run esd with no option -terminate cheers, Chanop On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 11:16:23PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: I get an annoying popping sound initially when sound files start playing. I have an Intel SE440BX motherboard with the Crystal CS4232 chip built in. I've compiled the kernel with sound as CS4232, io=530, irq=5, and dma=0,1. I generally run esd, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. Any insights? -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301
Re: CRC Checksum on Rescue boot
Floppy disks built with rawrite or dd are notorious for not working properly. I had to rebuild one of mine numerous times (back when I didn't have a BIOS that would boot from CDROM) when I was doing my first Debian install. Make another one and see if the problem clears up... On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Jayson Baird wrote: When using the rescue disk to install Debian from floppies I get a CRC error when it begins to decompress the kernel. I have put new memory in it, new hdd, and still the same error. It does use an older I/o card (it's a suped up 486, motherboard had no I/O channels) so could it be that the error is in the I/O card, or somewhere else? Any input would help. Thanks. Jayson Baird [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: Realplayer woes
I've been running realplayer since kernel 2.0.36. Now I'm running G2 (beta) on potato with 2.2 kernel. If you are running 2.2, you'll need G2 because real 5.0 use some bugs in kernel 2.0 sound implementation. Unfortunately, I forget where I got it. It's from real web site. Chanop On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 12:08:25AM -, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Hi All, I have been having troubles getting Realplayer working. I've tried different versions different methods. With some methods, it wouldn't even come up, but segfault right away. Other times, it would segfault when it started to buffer a clip. The furthest I've gotten is by installing the RPM from http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html with the Debian install script. With that, I was able to watch a clip, but there was no sound. I'm running potato. Does anyone have a success story they can share with me? Thanks, --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301
Re: Can't boot from hard disk
Well since you are grasping at straws... 1. You did _run_ lilo after changing /etc/lilo.conf, yes? 2. What does rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 give you? (although your root=/dev/hda1 should over-ride) 3. Should you have the argument compact in your lilo.conf? 4. You don't have one of those BIOSes with a hole in the memory do you? While I have had this sort of thing happen before, rather than try to find out what was wrong I... Tried other resc disks for the installation (this has worked). I have also compiled (on another machine) and installed a new kernel and that worked. The thing that bothers me about this whole problem (yours and the ones that I have experienced) is that I thought that the kernel that gets installed in /boot is the exact same kernel that IS on the resc disk which suggests to me that the problem can not be the kernel itself but must be related to lilo and associated files (experience NOT withstanding). On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 01:52:33PM -0500, Mark Lawrence wrote: Just installed 2.1 (slink) from cdrom. Boots from floppy OK, but hangs after Loading Linux. The machine is a Pentium 200 with 96 MB of RAM. The master EIDE hd has 6.4 GB and is partitioned like this: device startstopmount point /dev/hda1 1 65 / /dev/hda266 81 swap /dev/hda382 337 /usr /dev/hda5 338 465 /usr/local /dev/hda6 466 784 /home The /etc/lilo.conf looks like this: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only /vmlinuz is a link to /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36, which is as it should be. The frustrating thing is I've done this installation on another machine and it's worked just fine. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Mark Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How does one activate sound on Slink
First off, using a 2.2.x kernel on Slink was no big deal for me. There was a single error message during boot, but it was just to let me know that /etc/init.d/network didn't need the route -add net lines anymore. 2.2.x automatically configures the parameters for this line on its own. Personally I never did get the OSS/free in the kernel itself to work. Then again, I didn't try too hard. I invested the $20 in OSS (www.opensound.com) which is a collection of modules providing support for many sound cards -- More than the kernel itself does. Installing OSS is a matter of choosing the platform (Linux 2.2.x glibc UP in my case) and downloading, running the installer, and then the soundon command. Total time to configure is maybe 5-10 minutes. On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Bill Leach wrote: This is a case where you most definitely want to read the HOW-TOs! The normal distribution kernels are compiled without sound support. The reasons are probably multiple, such as smaller size but in addition sound hardware is so non-standard that it is probably counter productive to even try to distribute a kernel with sound support compiled in. You need to determine the type of sound card that you have. If yours is a listed card then things will probably go quite smoothly. The generally big problem that most encounter is that the vast majority of compatible cards are only compatible AFTER some sort of DOS based initialization program has been run. With the old legacy cards this _can_ usually be handled by cold booting to DOS followed with a warm boot to Linux. With the PCI and Plug-n-Pray cards I don't think that even that works (OTOH I think that PCI and PnP are also better supported). BE SURE THAT YOU READ THE kernel-source/Documentation text files for sound drivers! Install the kernel source (you probably need around 10 Meg free space). Install the kernel-package: (debian/dists/slink/main/binary-all/misc/kernel-package_6.05.deb) READ the documentation in /usr/doc/kernel-package/ Manjo's README.gz is an outstanding document and will make kernel building a pleasure with the added benefit that the package management system will know about your new kernel and if you follow Manjo's advice then upgrades will not automagically replace your custom kernel. Personally, I strongly recommend that you compile the kernel for modular sound support. For many sound cards you HAVE to have the sound system in modular form (the kernel will fail trying to initialize a PnP sound card, which it trys to do before PnP is initialized). AFAIK there are no sound cards (that can be used under Linux) that can NOT be used as modules so... Note that for some sound cards you may HAVE to use a 2.2.x kernel and that is not a completely trivial upgrade to a slink system. If you do need to run a 2.2.x kernel be sure that you read the notes on the matter on debian.org (updates?). On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 01:50:31PM -0500, Jor-el wrote: Hi, I wasnt too concerned about audio when I installed Slink. Now, however, I feel the sudden desire to make my machine talk. The only question is how. None of the audio modules required have been installed to disk, and 'modconf' doesnt have any audio drivers listed. The install guide doesnt make any mention of sound. How the heck do I get started? TIA, Jor-el -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: xfs/xfstt
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 12:09:06PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: I'm a bit confused about xfs and xfstt. I understand that xfstt is for truetype fonts, and I have it working. But as far as I can tell, xfs doesn't offer any advantage (for a regular user) over just putting directories in the FontPath bits of the X configs. Is this true? Yes it does. you only need to have one computer with the fonts and the font server. this saves disk space on other computers of your network. -Lex pgpd1NYr6nsWc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Curriculum Vitae in LaTeX
A great resource for finding packages in LaTeX is http://www.ctan.org/CTANfind.html. A new package called currvita has just been released. Cheers, Graham
Clearing a mail spool of duplicate emails???
Hi, Sometimes fetchmail is interrupted when it is fetching mail from my pop account. The result of this is that I have duplicate emails in my mail spool. Is there a package which will scan my mail spool and remove duplicates? [perhaps I could work it into my .fetchmailrc or sthg, or ppp/ip-up.d or somewhere] TIA, frankie -- ,-. Frankie | Drum'n'Bass tunes and samples. frankie at skunkpussy.dhis.org | http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/ `-' pgpLJeFGSPrhT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Clearing a mail spool of duplicate emails???
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 04:09:50AM +0100, Frankie Fisher wrote: Content-Description: Removing duplicate emails... Hi, Sometimes fetchmail is interrupted when it is fetching mail from my pop account. The result of this is that I have duplicate emails in my mail spool. Is there a package which will scan my mail spool and remove duplicates? [perhaps I could work it into my .fetchmailrc or sthg, or ppp/ip-up.d or somewhere] TIA, frankie I have this problem too. I am using procmail that I set up to catch duplicate (using the example), but unfortunately when there are too many mails it does not work (message ids need to be in cache, but cache size is limited). Still, if you take your mails often that might be enough for you. Or you can use a bigger cache, I use 32kb now but i'm going to increase that. -Lex pgpU1I7dSFqGa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Debian: Install] In relation to Debian FAQ 9.4
Hello, I was thinking, that there is a possibility that I do not must copy all splitted files to my harddrive and the unspülit them. Oh yes, some of the machines working stand allone without a network. Only the 'base', XFree86 and StarOffice. And then the Computers are without CD-Rom or ZIP-Disk (no place because it is a Slim-Line and the harddisks are only 350 MB). Maybe I will install a LS-120 but curently I have no 90 US$ to do that. Thanks for your help Webmistress Michelle At 02:54 08.08.1999 -0400, you wrote MK MKNOW THEN ALL of the above is based upon the idea that you already have a MKWORKING debian installation on the target machine. I am assuming that that MKis the case since you were able to use dkpg-split in the first place but I MKam completely confused (still) as to just what you are trying to do since MKto have used dpkg-split you would have to have had the original package file! MK The Reply begins here:
gnome-apt
Where do I get a working version gnome-apt ? Since about one month when selecting Complete run apt prints Start Stop to the console but does not do anything. It shows the progress window for about half a second so I can read nothing. Bernhard Rieder -- __ ___ // )___---. \ |,( /`-- `.Bernhard Rieder \/ o\ ( _.-. ,'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ /`. \ , / | | \ ' .'`.; | | \.__ _-'.'| |--..,,,\_\ ''' _-'.' ___- ) ''''''---~
howto upgrade hamm - potato
I am using a weird hamm dist with a self compiled kernel (2.0.10), and some other software which wasn't available as packages with the features I needed (postfix, ssh2, perl, apache-ssl ...). How could I upgrade to potato without running in conflicts with dependencies? E. g. there will be probably a lot of conflicts with my own perl which isn't recognized as a debian package. I heard about a package called equivs which could be used to create faked debian packages. Can I use this package to tell the debian system that there is already a MTA (postfix) and a perl interpreter (in /usr/local)? How do I use apt-get to upgrade? Is it sufficient just to enter apt-get dist-upgrade and everything will get upgraded to the latest versions (stable or unstable)? TIA, Werner
PPP connection.
Hi, I am using Debian 2.0 with pppd 2.3.8 I use a dial up connection to my university ISP. I sometimes use either kppp or pppconfig. however, the problem was that everytime that I stayed idle for more than 60 mionutes, my isp cuts me off. This never occurred when I was using Red Hat (I could stay on as long as I want for weeks!!). So I thought probably it could be some features in Debian that I did not enble? or could anyone tell me if there's anyway to lock my ppp connection so that my isp does not kick me after 60 minutes of idle time? regards. Bill S -- If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer.
equivs doesn't work
I tried to use equivs to fake the perl package which is needed by sysutils and probably many other packages. I installed equivs (stable version) and put the line perl, perl5 into /etc/equivs.conf but the installation of sysutils still fails complaining about a not installed perl5 package (btw searching for a perl5 package on the debian site fails). I tried to use the latest unstable version of equivs but this version depends on a debian perl package and that is exactly one of the packages I would like to fake with equivs. Werner
Re: equivs doesn't work
* Werner == Werner Reisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Werner I installed equivs (stable version) and put the line perl, Werner perl5 into /etc/equivs.conf but the installation of sysutils Werner still fails complaining about a not installed perl5 package Werner (btw searching for a perl5 package on the debian site fails). The equivs version in stable doesn't work very well with apt. I assume this is the problem for you. You would have to bump up the version of the equivs package generated. Werner I tried to use the latest unstable version of equivs but this Werner version depends on a debian perl package and that is exactly Werner one of the packages I would like to fake with equivs. equivs 1.999.9 depends on perl | perl5, so this should work. Ciao, Martin
Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
There's a recent update to the Large-Disk mini-HOWTO which discusses this problem (and many others). It offers some solutions (which I have not tried--you are on your own). ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk Bob On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 05:35:46PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: I'm not sure whether it's the same model or not. But I used to install potato on one G7-450 with 12GB HD. On that machine, fdisk on debian can read only first 8GB. So I end up repartitioning so Debian can live withing the first 8 GB, the rest of the dis k, NT can handle that. There is also a post about fdisk on slink can not handle hd 8Gb a bit ealier. cheers, Chanop On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 01:37:06AM -0500, Colin McMillen wrote: An acquaintance of mine has a new Gateway P3-450 computer with a 12 GB hard drive. She wants to use about half that space for Linux, and I recommended to her that she get slink, because I use it myself and am fairly familiar with it. However, when I tried to install from the slink CD's, I got an error about Could not find a valid disk to install to. It seems that slink (and also RedHat 5.2) can't detect her hard drive! I investigated further (it's not a partitioning problem, BTW.. fips worked fine, and i even tried downloading a windows program to make ext2 filesystems and rebooting again, with no luck..) I eventually found out that in her BIOS, under Primary Master, is listed [None]. I can change [None] to [Auto] but that doesn't help. The only device on there at all is Secondary master, which is her DVD-ROM drive (which debian can read perfectly fine.) Any ideas on what I can/should do to get the Debian install program to recognize her hard drive and start installation? Your help is much appreciated thanks! Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 5 hours, 34 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: PPP connection.
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 10:13:35PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: Hi, I am using Debian 2.0 with pppd 2.3.8 I use a dial up connection to my university ISP. I sometimes use either kppp or pppconfig. however, the problem was that everytime that I stayed idle for more than 60 mionutes, my isp cuts me off. This never occurred when I was using Red Hat (I could stay on as long as I want for weeks!!). So I thought probably it could be some features in Debian that I did not enble? or could anyone tell me if there's anyway to lock my ppp connection so that my isp does not kick me after 60 minutes of idle time? You could set up a ping to some site which repeats every 59 minutes (ping -i 3540 somehost.somedomain). This would use minimal bandwidth. You should also use the persist option in ppp, which will reconnect you if you do get disconnected. Some ISPs (like mine) have rules against running anything which is used just to keep the connection up if you are not actively using it, so you might run into a problem here. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
[Debian: Install] Can not boot from harddisk
Hello, for some minutes I have installed the base system from floppy. Because I get the Mitsumi CD FX-400 not running. After installation I had removed the floppy from the drive and rebooted. The Hardware is OK, but at startup I get: IDE Drive 1 support PIO mode 3 data transfer 1FA: ...and hangs. I get not more as the '1FA:' If I boot from the Floppy (created by the setup) it will boot, but it takes about 4 miutes to boot from Floppy. Please can anyone help me ??? I had the 'boot from harddisk' error on ALL of my system but I do not know why. Michelle
Re: equivs doesn't work
On 08-Aug-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: Werner I tried to use the latest unstable version of equivs but this Werner version depends on a debian perl package and that is exactly Werner one of the packages I would like to fake with equivs. equivs 1.999.9 depends on perl | perl5, so this should work. Ciao, It worked for me, though I did have a problem with one package (kcrontab I believe) when I tried to install it. It would not see my fake kdelibs, if I recall correctly. I installed a newer kcrontabs deb package and it did not have this problem. -- Andrew
Re: gnome-apt
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote: Where do I get a working version gnome-apt ? Since about one month when selecting Complete run apt prints Start Stop to the console but does not do anything. It shows the progress window for about half a second so I can read nothing. Strange. This is all under the control of libapt-pkg which is also used by apt-get, so it should work if apt-get does. (Indeed, it sounds like it's working but thinks it has nothing to download or install.) What happens if you try to do the same actions with apt-get? - apt-get install foo is equivalent to marking a package for install, then Complete Run - apt-get dist-upgrade is equivalent to Smart Mark Upgrades then Complete Run Havoc
Re: Lost directories.
Hmm...well things don't happen by magic, though I sometyimes think they do ;-) So I guess that if you're not deleting stuff, and you haven't been cracked, then you must be suffering hardware failure. I'd make some backups and fsck your harddrives! Good luck, Steve
XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness.
Hi all, Let me tell you about strange happenings on my computer. Any suggestions/ideas would be most appreciated, though could you please cc a copy to me directly as I am currently reading the list on the web which usually has a day or two delay. I currently use a PCI graphics card on my computer, even though my motherboard has a built in graphics card. The reason for this is that X did not support the onboard chipset. This has changed however --- I believe it is now supported. I decided to bite the bullet and get my onboard card working. Let me tell you my strange and twisted story. 0. I should first mention that I have just done a very minimal upgrade to a few potato packages - basically just enough to get the latest apt working, as well as the XFree86 version 3.3.4 packages to install. This could possibly be relevant --- potato being unstable and all. 1. Having downloaded the latest XFree86 (version 3.3.4), I tried it on my existing setup (with my PCI graphics card) and it seemed to work fine. 2. I rebooted, got into BIOS setup, and tried to turn on my onboard graphics card. I found the BIOS option to do this, but the option was shadowed --- so that I was unable to change it from disabled to enabled. This was strange because the onboard card was turned on when I first got the new motherboard and I had been able to turn it off. I figured I needed to change some other option before it would allow me to turn the graphics card on. I fiddled with all sorts of things, but nothing would let me do it. 3. I tried physically removing the PCI graphics card, in the hope that then it would be forced to use the onboard card, but when I turned it on, it just beeped wildly at me. 4. One action of the BIOS setup menu is to choose optimal settings, I tried this to see what it would do, and it actually turned the onboard graphics card setting to enabled, though it was still in shadow so that I couldn't ajust this or any of the associated settings (such as how much memory to give the onboard card). I didn't actually keep these settings on exiting BIOS setup, for fear of nasty things happening, like neither graphics card working. 5. I gave up on changing graphics cards for the time being, so returned my PCI graphics card, and rebooted. I went to start up X and the screen went black. I tried changing back to a console and though at first it didn't work, eventually it did go back to console mode. I then switched back to X. This time the background and cursor came up properly, but the mouse wouldn't move. No response. I tried going back to consoles, but this time it wouldn't work. I tried kiling X through Ctr-Alt-Backspace but this didn't work, something did happen (see aside below), but X didn't die and the screen remained unchanged. Eventually I had to turn the machine off and on to get back. Aside: in the past (with this motherboard) when I have tried to exit X via Ctr-Alt-Backspace, something weird has happened. The harddrives have suddenly shutdown, then a few seconds later they start powering up again. It's a bit worrying and I don't know why it happens. I usually avoid this problem by getting out via a menu. Anyway, this time when I pressed Ctr-Alt-Backspace the disks powered down as has happened previously, but the was no exiting X! In fact when I did it a second time, the powering down happened again -- and still no change on the screen. So that's where I am now. X doesn't work anymore and I don't know why. Was it something to do with me fiddling with BIOS, or pulling the card out and back in again? Or was it something to do with the new XFree86 (3.3.4) that only showed up after a reboot? Or is the hardware playing up? Or is it something to do with moving to some potato packages? Or what? And why can't I select the onboard graphics card??? Are the BIOS options faulty? Or do I need to turn something else on/off before it works? Or is the graphics card hardware onboard dead or something? Or what? If any ideas spring to mind, I'd appreciate hearing them. Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!
Re: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness.
Cant help you much but I dont think you want to enable any type of shadowing with linux, be it RAM or a card. Ronnie On Sun, 08 Aug 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi all, Let me tell you about strange happenings on my computer. Any suggestions/ideas would be most appreciated, though could you please cc a copy to me directly as I am currently reading the list on the web which usually has a day or two delay.
Re: equivs doesn't work
* Pollywog == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pollywog It worked for me, though I did have a problem with one Pollywog package (kcrontab I believe) when I tried to install it. It Pollywog would not see my fake kdelibs, if I recall correctly. Maybe it depended on a specific verision you did not provide or such. Checking dpkg -s your-fake-package and dpkg --info problematic-package.deb should show why it doesn't work. Just if you have such problems in the future. Ciao, Martin
denial of service (login)
Hello, when trying to telnet to machine I have following problem: Trying 111.222.222.222... Connected to 111.222.222.222. Escape character is '^]'. and at this point the connection freezes, the same happens with finger, ftp and ssh. All those processes are allowed for my client machine (couple hours ago there was no problem...). I can still ping the server. The server is new, therefore I don't think that it is target of some hacking attempt. It is used for parallel computing with MPI - which uses TCP/IP for the message-passing, my guess is that MPI somehow took all the network resources for itself so that the server can not start telnet daemon. The system is running Debian 2.1 with the necessary upgrades for 2.2.10 kernel. Does someone has other ideas what might has gone wrong? Jozef Skvarcek ___ Dept. of Physics and Astronomy | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hunter College, City University of New York | 212-772-4032
Re: gnome-apt
Strange. This is all under the control of libapt-pkg which is also used by apt-get, so it should work if apt-get does. (Indeed, it sounds like it's working but thinks it has nothing to download or install.) What happens if you try to do the same actions with apt-get? I tried apt-get install bb and then apt-get remove bb. It worked. Then I tried the same thing with gnome-apt. For install gnome-apt wrote: Start Done file:/home/public/debian/ unstable/main bb 1.2-6 Stop but actually It didn't install anything. I installed bb with apt-get install bb and tried to deinstall it with gnome-apt: Start Stop without doing anything Update doesn't work either. In short words: apt-get works perfectly but nothing works with gnome-apt :( It only shows the progress-window for about half a second but does nothing. I use potato and run an update every day. My /etc/apt/sources.list seems to be correct since it works with apt. Any Ideas? Bernhard Rieder -- __ ___ // )___---. \ |,( /`-- `.Bernhard Rieder \/ o\ ( _.-. ,'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ /`. \ , / | | \ ' .'`.; | | \.__ _-'.'| |--..,,,\_\ ''' _-'.' ___- ) ''''''---~
Physically small boxes
Can one install Debian on a Cobalt Qube ? If not, are there other physically small boxes which would be suitable ? Cheers, -- Martin Oldfield
Re: IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith) writes: to take someone to court for violating the copyright. The FSF's position in a court case (if it were to ever come to that) is immensely strengthened and simplified by virtue of being the sole copyright owner. As such, they have much more legal clout they can use to _avoid_ court. Contrary to popular opinion the FSF is _not_ the sole copyright holder of GNU Emacs. The copyright to FSF Emacs is jointly held by the FSF and the Electrotechnical Laboratory (which is the Japanese government research institute that is responsible for Mule). Jan
Error of compilation of the kernel.
Hi all, I have installed the base of Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) and it works. I need compile the kernel (2.0.36) for add new properties but after the configuration I executed make dep ; make clean: make zImage and showed an error. This error is as86 - Command not found. It is produced while is executing make zImage. Why is produced this error? How can I resolve it? I have installed as but not as86. Thanks in advanced. Rafael Martín Candial. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Clearing a mail spool of duplicate emails???
* Frankie Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes fetchmail is interrupted when it is fetching mail from my pop account. The result of this is that I have duplicate emails in my mail spool. Is there a package which will scan my mail spool and What options do you give fetchmail? I just use -a (plus -vvv when I want to check something out), and right after correctly receiving a message from the server, it flushes it (this is version 4.6.4). So, in case of interruption, only the last mail should be duplicated, if at all. Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome-apt
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote: Update doesn't work either. In short words: apt-get works perfectly but nothing works with gnome-apt :( It only shows the progress-window for about half a second but does nothing. I use potato and run an update every day. My /etc/apt/sources.list seems to be correct since it works with apt. Any Ideas? To be honest I have no clue at all. I haven't rebuilt from scratch with the latest libapt-pkg in a while, so I'll try that today and if I have a revelation will let you know. Remember, gnome-apt is alpha software. :-) (though I would like it to work...) Havoc
Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink
I've upgraded my slink system to a 2.2.10 kernel, by downloading the kernel sources and using make-kpkg. I also upgraded to the new versions of netbase and dhcpcd, and almost everything works fine. The only problem I've seen is that I cannot print anymore. After attempting a print job, lpq shows me this: Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'HP DeskJet' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 17924 active Unspooler: pid 17926 active Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 11:25:08 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time active [EMAIL PROTECTED] A 923 (stdin) 322 11:24:58 Here is my /etc/printcap file: # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|hpdj|HP DeskJet:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Everything worked fine under the 2.0.36 kernel. /dev/lp1 does exist, and when I built the 2.2.10 kernel, I included parallel port support. Is there something else I need to do? Thanks, Kris
Re: Error of compilation of the kernel.
I believe I saw somewhere that the package bin86 must be installed to compile the kernel successfully. If you don't have bin86, I would suggest trying that. On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Rafael Eduardo [iso-8859-1] Martín Candial wrote: Hi all, I have installed the base of Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) and it works. I need compile the kernel (2.0.36) for add new properties but after the configuration I executed make dep ; make clean: make zImage and showed an error. This error is as86 - Command not found. It is produced while is executing make zImage. Why is produced this error? How can I resolve it? I have installed as but not as86. Thanks in advanced. Rafael Martín Candial. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 01:39:50PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: The only problem I've seen is that I cannot print anymore. After attempting a print job, lpq shows me this: Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', Everything worked fine under the 2.0.36 kernel. /dev/lp1 does exist, and when I built the 2.2.10 kernel, I included parallel port support. Is there something else I need to do? Yes. You need to change your device in your configuration to /dev/lp0 - 2.2.x kernels renamed the lp devices to start from 0 instead of 1 (more logical to computers and geeks). HTH, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [life is like a box of biscuits - yum, crunchy and full of crumbs]
Re: Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink
Maybe it was my imagination, but I think I had to change /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0 in my /etc/printcap after upgrading from a 2.0.x kernel to 2.2.1. I am still at a loss as to what caused this. You might want to try changing it, as you can always change it back if it doesn't help. I think the printer daemon has to be re-started for changes to printcap to take effect. For me, that is /etc/init.d/lprng restart (I think). I hope this helps. On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote: I've upgraded my slink system to a 2.2.10 kernel, by downloading the kernel sources and using make-kpkg. I also upgraded to the new versions of netbase and dhcpcd, and almost everything works fine. The only problem I've seen is that I cannot print anymore. After attempting a print job, lpq shows me this: Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'HP DeskJet' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 17924 active Unspooler: pid 17926 active Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 11:25:08 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time active [EMAIL PROTECTED] A 923 (stdin) 322 11:24:58 Here is my /etc/printcap file: # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|hpdj|HP DeskJet:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Everything worked fine under the 2.0.36 kernel. /dev/lp1 does exist, and when I built the 2.2.10 kernel, I included parallel port support. Is there something else I need to do? Thanks, Kris
Re: Clearing a mail spool of duplicate emails???
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 06:45:10PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: * Frankie Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes fetchmail is interrupted when it is fetching mail from my pop account. The result of this is that I have duplicate emails in my mail spool. Is there a package which will scan my mail spool and What options do you give fetchmail? I just use -a (plus -vvv when I want to check something out), and right after correctly receiving a message from the server, it flushes it (this is version 4.6.4). So, in case of interruption, only the last mail should be duplicated, if at all. man fetchmail (--expunge) HTH, Martin
Re: equivs doesn't work
On 08-Aug-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: Maybe it depended on a specific verision you did not provide or such. Checking dpkg -s your-fake-package and dpkg --info problematic-package.deb should show why it doesn't work. Unfortunately, I forgot to keep the package that I installed (the fake one) so I cannot run 'dpkg --info' on it, but below is the output on 'dpkg -s' and 'dpkg -S' I don't see the problem, and I was able to install a newer kcrontabs package with no problem. The older kcrontabs package was looking for an older kdelibs version, kdelibs0 I believe it was. /var/mail/block#dpkg -s kdelibs2g Package: kdelibs2g Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: contrib/x11 Installed-Size: 8 Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 5:5.99 Description: Fake kdelibs package. . /var/mail/block#dpkg -S kdelibs2g kdelibs2g: /usr/doc/kdelibs2g/copyright kdelibs2g-dev: /usr/doc/kdelibs2g-dev kdelibs2g-dev: /usr/doc/kdelibs2g-dev/changelog.gz kdelibs2g-dev: /usr/doc/kdelibs2g-dev/copyright kdelibs2g: /usr/doc/kdelibs2g kdelibs2g: /usr/doc/kdelibs2g/README.Debian kdelibs2g: /usr/doc/kdelibs2g/changelog.gz kdelibs2g-dev: /usr/doc/kdelibs2g-dev/README.Debian -- Andrew
Re: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness.
Is there a jumper on the motherboard (besides the BIOS setting) that physically disables the onboard video when you're not using it? On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi all, Let me tell you about strange happenings on my computer. Any suggestions/ideas would be most appreciated, though could you please cc a copy to me directly as I am currently reading the list on the web which usually has a day or two delay. I currently use a PCI graphics card on my computer, even though my motherboard has a built in graphics card. The reason for this is that X did not support the onboard chipset. This has changed however --- I believe it is now supported. I decided to bite the bullet and get my onboard card working. Let me tell you my strange and twisted story. 0. I should first mention that I have just done a very minimal upgrade to a few potato packages - basically just enough to get the latest apt working, as well as the XFree86 version 3.3.4 packages to install. This could possibly be relevant --- potato being unstable and all. 1. Having downloaded the latest XFree86 (version 3.3.4), I tried it on my existing setup (with my PCI graphics card) and it seemed to work fine. 2. I rebooted, got into BIOS setup, and tried to turn on my onboard graphics card. I found the BIOS option to do this, but the option was shadowed --- so that I was unable to change it from disabled to enabled. This was strange because the onboard card was turned on when I first got the new motherboard and I had been able to turn it off. I figured I needed to change some other option before it would allow me to turn the graphics card on. I fiddled with all sorts of things, but nothing would let me do it. 3. I tried physically removing the PCI graphics card, in the hope that then it would be forced to use the onboard card, but when I turned it on, it just beeped wildly at me. 4. One action of the BIOS setup menu is to choose optimal settings, I tried this to see what it would do, and it actually turned the onboard graphics card setting to enabled, though it was still in shadow so that I couldn't ajust this or any of the associated settings (such as how much memory to give the onboard card). I didn't actually keep these settings on exiting BIOS setup, for fear of nasty things happening, like neither graphics card working. 5. I gave up on changing graphics cards for the time being, so returned my PCI graphics card, and rebooted. I went to start up X and the screen went black. I tried changing back to a console and though at first it didn't work, eventually it did go back to console mode. I then switched back to X. This time the background and cursor came up properly, but the mouse wouldn't move. No response. I tried going back to consoles, but this time it wouldn't work. I tried kiling X through Ctr-Alt-Backspace but this didn't work, something did happen (see aside below), but X didn't die and the screen remained unchanged. Eventually I had to turn the machine off and on to get back. Aside: in the past (with this motherboard) when I have tried to exit X via Ctr-Alt-Backspace, something weird has happened. The harddrives have suddenly shutdown, then a few seconds later they start powering up again. It's a bit worrying and I don't know why it happens. I usually avoid this problem by getting out via a menu. Anyway, this time when I pressed Ctr-Alt-Backspace the disks powered down as has happened previously, but the was no exiting X! In fact when I did it a second time, the powering down happened again -- and still no change on the screen. So that's where I am now. X doesn't work anymore and I don't know why. Was it something to do with me fiddling with BIOS, or pulling the card out and back in again? Or was it something to do with the new XFree86 (3.3.4) that only showed up after a reboot? Or is the hardware playing up? Or is it something to do with moving to some potato packages? Or what? And why can't I select the onboard graphics card??? Are the BIOS options faulty? Or do I need to turn something else on/off before it works? Or is the graphics card hardware onboard dead or something? Or what? If any ideas spring to mind, I'd appreciate hearing them. Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new logo on debian.org
Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: John C. Ellingboe wrote: I'm with you also. The chick connected us with Linux but the new logo doesnt do anything for me at all. John C. Ellingboe don't you never see a Genius going out from it's lantern ? like Aladin's story -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I kinda understand the logo. The new logo is ok I guess, but it doesn't seem to connect me to anything Linux like the chick did. Johnbegin:vcard n:Ellingboe - KE4BPW;John C. x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:The Guntersville Computer Center version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Owner/Admin note:www.guntersville.net x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John C. Ellingboe - KE4BPW end:vcard
VMware for Debian
Hi all, I have a slink machine with 2.2.10 at home and tried to install vmware to port a Delphi (argh) program to gtk. I got the last vmware but installing it I get the following error: ### Something is wrong with the system include files on ### your machine! The file linux/version.h is for a ### 2.0.36 Linux system but you are running a 2.2.10 ### kernel. This will not work for building the VMware device ### drivers; you must have include files that match the version ### of your operating system. What is wrong? Thanks,Paulo Henrique
Re: equivs doesn't work
* Pollywog == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pollywog I don't see the problem, and I was able to install a newer Pollywog kcrontabs package with no problem. The older kcrontabs Pollywog package was looking for an older kdelibs version, kdelibs0 I Pollywog believe it was. Your fake package is called kdelibs2g. If kcrontabs needed kdelibs0, this dependancy was not fulfilled. Ciao, Martin
Re: equivs doesn't work
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 04:10:27PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Werner I tried to use the latest unstable version of equivs but this Werner version depends on a debian perl package and that is exactly Werner one of the packages I would like to fake with equivs. equivs 1.999.9 depends on perl | perl5, so this should work. I doesn't help me since perl (the interpreter) is one of the packages I have to fake. Maybe I could replace my perl with perl5 (if this has support for the Berkeley DB 2.0) but I wasn't able to find this package. Werner
Re: VMware for Debian
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 02:04:52PM -0500, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I have a slink machine with 2.2.10 at home and tried to install vmware to port a Delphi (argh) program to gtk. I got the last vmware but installing it I get the following error: ### Something is wrong with the system include files on ### your machine! The file linux/version.h is for a ### 2.0.36 Linux system but you are running a 2.2.10 ### kernel. This will not work for building the VMware device ### drivers; you must have include files that match the version ### of your operating system. What is wrong? The problem is header files version mismatch. You are running 2.2.10, but kernel headers included with libc are for 2.0.36 Here is simple solution: Untar driver-only.tar and vmnet-only.tar. Edit Makefiles in driver-only and vmnet-only directories to add current kernel headers to headers search path. For example I have the following include lines in driver-only/Makefile: INCLUDE = -I$(TOPDIR)/include -I$(TOPDIR)/common -I$(TOPDIR)/linux \ -I$(TOPDIR)/export/include -I/usr/src/linux/include and in vmnet-only/Makefile: INCLUDE = -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include If your 2.2.10 kernel sources are installed in different directory you should adjust /usr/src/linux/include to wherever you put your sources. After that just run make in vmnet-only and in driver-only directories and compiled the modules to vmware-distrib top directory. Run install.pl. It should not complain anymore. I have done this at least dozen times with different kernels and never had a problem. However modules need to be recompiled any time you change the kernel version. Thanks,Paulo Henrique -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
Re: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness.
- Original Message - From: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 12:41 PM Subject: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness. 1. Having downloaded the latest XFree86 (version 3.3.4), I tried it on my existing setup (with my PCI graphics card) and it seemed to work fine. Where did you get .deb's for 3.3.4 ? I've been looking for them ever since 3.3.4 came out. Thanks.
Re: VMware for Debian
Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: What is wrong? Thanks,Paulo Henrique I did the following: remove /usr/include/asm and symlink it to /usr/src/linux/include/asm the same with /usr/include/linux. symlink it to /usr/src/linux/include/linux it worked for me. vmware is running fine. PS: one should probably do the same with net an scsi, not? -- Weasel http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP encrypted messages prefered. See my site for my PGP key. -- The software said Windows95 or better, so I got Linux... Hi, It worked but when I turn power on. It boots and tell me that there isnt Win95 installed. How I installe Windowze in my machine? I dont have normal Windows here. Thanks,Paulo Henrique
can't start x on ThinkPad (Slink)
I just installed icewm on my ThinkPad and when I did 'startx' I got a pagefull of errors (too long to post here). X should run on the ThinkPad, because it worked when I was using OpenLinux on it. Any ideas where the problem might be? (--) VGA16: Revision 66. (--) VGA16: Using Trident programmable clocks (--) VGA16: chipset: cyber9382 (--) VGA16: videoram: 1024k (using 1024k) (--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90.000 MHz (**) VGA16: Mode 640x480: mode clock = 25.175 (--) VGA16: There is no mode definition named 800x600 (--) VGA16: Removing mode 800x600 from list of valid modes. (**) VGA16: Virtual resolution set to 800x600 System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp -eml Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' thanks -- Andrew
dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?
[02:26:37 shaul]$ dpkg --fsys-tarfile /cdrom/Debian-2.1/main/binary-all/x11/xfo nts-100dpi_3.3.2.3a-11.deb | tar xof usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright | less tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [02:27:08 shaul]$ dpkg --contents /cdrom/Debian-2.1/main/binary-all/x11/xfonts- 100dpi_3.3.2.3a-11.deb | grep copyright -rw-r--r-- root/root 9972 1999-02-23 11:00 usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright [02:27:36 shaul]$ When issuing the dpkg --fsys-tarfile I tried follow the packaging tutorial suggestions ( To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command: dpkg --fsys-tarfile filename.deb | tar xof usr/doc/\*copyright ) What am I doing wrong ?
Re: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness.
http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ xfree86-334/ Has some experimental stuff... On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Didi Damian wrote: - Original Message - From: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 12:41 PM Subject: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness. 1. Having downloaded the latest XFree86 (version 3.3.4), I tried it on my existing setup (with my PCI graphics card) and it seemed to work fine. Where did you get .deb's for 3.3.4 ? I've been looking for them ever since 3.3.4 came out. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness.
Of course, you're aware that those debs are not official and may give you problems. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: can't start x on ThinkPad (Slink)
Sunday, August 08, 1999, 1:15:41 PM, Pollywog wrote: I just installed icewm on my ThinkPad and when I did 'startx' I got a pagefull of errors (too long to post here). X should run on the ThinkPad, because it worked when I was using OpenLinux on it. Model of Thinkpad? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
Re: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness.
Of course. I should have mentioned that. On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote: Of course, you're aware that those debs are not official and may give you problems. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
How set desktop/resolution for xwindows?
How do I set the resolution for xwindows applications? I know with win95 I just right click on the desktop and resize it. But with my debian installation my applications are too large for the screen and I have to scroll up, down, left, and right to see the rest of the screen -- what a pain! I've tried formatting and repartioning and reinstalling debian to see if I missed a step during installation and I can't figure what I setup incorrectly. Please help. Thanks!
Re: VMware for Debian (installing Windowze...)
Hi, I got a DOS boot disk, with CD-ROM drivers (mscdex). I have a 32x CD-ROM drive. But the boot disk, cant find the CD-ROM drive... :( I does not use DOS/Windows a long time. Does not know how to activate the CDROM. mscdex output shows: a:\mscdex usage: MSCDEX [/E/K/S/V] [/D:driver ... ] [/L:letter] [/M:buffers] Thanks for any info,Paulo Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It worked but when I turn power on. It boots and tell me that there isnt Win95 installed. How I installe Windowze in my machine? I dont have normal Windows here. Thanks,Paulo Henrique You need ordinary Windows install media (ie the CD and a boot/install disk). vmware is _not_ an operatingsystem itself, it is just (well, nothing just about it, but...) a virtual PC into which you can install essentially _any_ operating system (including Linux - you can run Linux inside Linux, could be a nice way to experiment with bleeding edge stuff...) so therefore you need to be able to install the OS yu want vmware to run just as if you had a blank new PHYSICAL machine... HTH, /Michael -- | Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | | Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, POG#130, PPIG#11 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]|hotmail.com] [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/%7Ed1temp |
Re: can't start x on ThinkPad (Slink)
On 08-Aug-99 Steve Lamb wrote: Sunday, August 08, 1999, 1:15:41 PM, Pollywog wrote: I just installed icewm on my ThinkPad and when I did 'startx' I got a pagefull of errors (too long to post here). X should run on the ThinkPad, because it worked when I was using OpenLinux on it. Model of Thinkpad? oops It is a 560 -- Andrew
Re: VMware for Debian
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi, It worked but when I turn power on. It boots and tell me that there isnt Win95 installed. How I installe Windowze in my machine? I dont have normal Windows here. Thanks,Paulo Henrique Well, you need a lincense of the guest OS you want to run. Then simply insert the boot floppy or boot CD and install your OS of choice. -- Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP encrypted messages prefered. See my site for my PGP key. -- The software said Windows95 or better, so I got Linux...
Re: Error of compilation of the kernel.
Install the bin86 package, which contains as86. Bob On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 07:25:27PM +0200, Rafael Eduardo Martín Candial wrote: Hi all, I have installed the base of Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) and it works. I need compile the kernel (2.0.36) for add new properties but after the configuration I executed make dep ; make clean: make zImage and showed an error. This error is as86 - Command not found. It is produced while is executing make zImage. Why is produced this error? How can I resolve it? I have installed as but not as86. Thanks in advanced. Rafael Martín Candial. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: VMware for Debian
Vmware doesn't include the operating system. You need to install from a MS Win95 cd-rom or floppies. If one has Win95 already installed on their hard drive, it is possible to use that with the raw disk option, but I have had problems running it that way. There are instructions for all of this on the www.vmware.com site. Bob On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 03:20:13PM -0500, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi, It worked but when I turn power on. It boots and tell me that there isnt Win95 installed. How I installe Windowze in my machine? I dont have normal Windows here. -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: most: cannot display *.gz files
Matthias Murra hat gesagt: // Matthias Murra wrote: If anyone out there is running a slink system, has the version of most installed that came with it (or could install it for a few seconds :-) and would be so kind to tell me if most file.gz works, that might help. :) If it doesn't, I'd try installing the unstable potato version to see whether that gives an improvement. Hi, I tried this now and did get the same error with gzipped files: $ most /usr/doc/lyx/README.gz /usr/doc/lyx/README.gz: failed to open for reading. I had version 4.8.1-0.1 of most. I upgraded most to 4.9.0-1.1 and now everything works again. I still use less though... bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: How set desktop/resolution for xwindows?
How do I set the resolution for xwindows applications? I know with win95 I just right click on the desktop and resize it. But with my debian installation my applications are too large for the screen and I have to scroll up, down, left, and right to see the rest of the screen -- what a pain! I've tried formatting and repartioning and reinstalling debian to see if I missed a step during installation and I can't figure what I setup incorrectly. Please help. Oh, I want the entire desktop to show on the screen without having to scroll all over the place to see portions of the screen
RE: How set desktop/resolution for xwindows?
On 08-Aug-99 André Bell wrote: How do I set the resolution for xwindows applications? I know with win95 I just right click on the desktop and resize it. But with my debian installation my applications are too large for the screen and I have to scroll up, down, left, and right to see the rest of the screen -- what a pain! I've tried formatting and repartioning and reinstalling debian to see if I missed a step during installation and I can't figure what I setup incorrectly. Please help. What happens when you Ctrl-Alt-(+) or Ctrl-Alt-(-) ? Use the + and - keys on the numeric keypad. -- Andrew
Re: VMware for Debian (installing Windowze...)
add|ct|on wrote: i use mscdex also. for me what it does is automatically assign a drive letter for the cdrom based on the last free drive letter that DOS knows of. it's supposed to do this automatically. it also adds lines to your config. sys and autoexec.bat but these will not to do you any good in a linux based situation. i don't know anything about vmware. you can try this, though... tell me what drive letter you have mscdex installed on. thanks! -stephanie -- add|ct|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/index.html welcome to /dev/null, population: me -- - Original Message - From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 4:54 PM Subject: Re: VMware for Debian (installing Windowze...) | Hi, | I got a DOS boot disk, with CD-ROM drivers (mscdex). I have a 32x CD-ROM | drive. But the boot disk, cant find the CD-ROM drive... :( | I does not use DOS/Windows a long time. | Does not know how to activate the CDROM. | mscdex output shows: | a:\mscdex | usage: MSCDEX [/E/K/S/V] [/D:driver ... ] [/L:letter] [/M:buffers] | Thanks for any info,Paulo Henrique | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi, | It worked but when I turn power on. It boots and tell me that there | isnt Win95 installed. | How I installe Windowze in my machine? I dont have normal Windows | here. | Thanks,Paulo Henrique | | You need ordinary Windows install media (ie the CD and a | boot/install disk). | | vmware is _not_ an operatingsystem itself, it is just (well, nothing | just about it, but...) a virtual PC into which you can install | essentially _any_ operating system (including Linux - you can run Linux | inside Linux, could be a nice way to experiment with bleeding edge | stuff...) so therefore you need to be able to install the OS yu want | vmware to run just as if you had a blank new PHYSICAL machine... | | HTH, | | /Michael | -- | | Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | | | Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, POG#130, PPIG#11 | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]|hotmail.com] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/%7Ed1temp | | | | -- | Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null | | Hi, only one time, I got VMWare boot using the floppy disk. The others there is an error in floppy Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: floppy driver state Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: --- Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: now=12452977 last interrupt=12452692 last called handler=c8830af8 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: timeout_message=floppy start Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: last output bytes: Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 0 90 12452632 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 0 90 12452632 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 5 90 12452632 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 2 90 12452632 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 12 90 12452632 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 1b 90 12452632 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: ff 90 12452632 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: f 80 12452677 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 0 90 12452677 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 25 91 12452677 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 8 81 12452692 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 66 80 12452694 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 0 90 12452694 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 25 90 12452694 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 0 90 12452694 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 5 90 12452694 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 2 90 12452694 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 45 90 12452694 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 1b 90 12452694 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: ff 90 12452694 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: last result at 12452692 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: last redo_fd_request at 12452674 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: 20 25 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: status=70 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: fdc_busy=1 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: DEVICE_INTR=c882ff40 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: fd_timer.function=c882fea8 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: cont=c8838c78 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: CURRENT= Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: command_status=-1 Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: Aug 8 18:23:42 phantasy kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called So, I cant test mscdex... Thanks all that replied for so good support in Debian! :) Paulo Henrique
Re: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness.
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Nathan Duehr wrote: Is there a jumper on the motherboard (besides the BIOS setting) that physically disables the onboard video when you're not using it? I doubt it very much. Certainly I was able to disable/enable it in BIOS before and I don't think jumper leads have been touched in the meantime. I think I'll double check this though -- I haven't got anything to lose. Thanks, Mark. On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi all, Let me tell you about strange happenings on my computer. Any suggestions/ideas would be most appreciated, though could you please cc a copy to me directly as I am currently reading the list on the web which usually has a day or two delay. I currently use a PCI graphics card on my computer, even though my motherboard has a built in graphics card. The reason for this is that X did not support the onboard chipset. This has changed however --- I believe it is now supported. I decided to bite the bullet and get my onboard card working. Let me tell you my strange and twisted story. 0. I should first mention that I have just done a very minimal upgrade to a few potato packages - basically just enough to get the latest apt working, as well as the XFree86 version 3.3.4 packages to install. This could possibly be relevant --- potato being unstable and all. 1. Having downloaded the latest XFree86 (version 3.3.4), I tried it on my existing setup (with my PCI graphics card) and it seemed to work fine. 2. I rebooted, got into BIOS setup, and tried to turn on my onboard graphics card. I found the BIOS option to do this, but the option was shadowed --- so that I was unable to change it from disabled to enabled. This was strange because the onboard card was turned on when I first got the new motherboard and I had been able to turn it off. I figured I needed to change some other option before it would allow me to turn the graphics card on. I fiddled with all sorts of things, but nothing would let me do it. 3. I tried physically removing the PCI graphics card, in the hope that then it would be forced to use the onboard card, but when I turned it on, it just beeped wildly at me. 4. One action of the BIOS setup menu is to choose optimal settings, I tried this to see what it would do, and it actually turned the onboard graphics card setting to enabled, though it was still in shadow so that I couldn't ajust this or any of the associated settings (such as how much memory to give the onboard card). I didn't actually keep these settings on exiting BIOS setup, for fear of nasty things happening, like neither graphics card working. 5. I gave up on changing graphics cards for the time being, so returned my PCI graphics card, and rebooted. I went to start up X and the screen went black. I tried changing back to a console and though at first it didn't work, eventually it did go back to console mode. I then switched back to X. This time the background and cursor came up properly, but the mouse wouldn't move. No response. I tried going back to consoles, but this time it wouldn't work. I tried kiling X through Ctr-Alt-Backspace but this didn't work, something did happen (see aside below), but X didn't die and the screen remained unchanged. Eventually I had to turn the machine off and on to get back. Aside: in the past (with this motherboard) when I have tried to exit X via Ctr-Alt-Backspace, something weird has happened. The harddrives have suddenly shutdown, then a few seconds later they start powering up again. It's a bit worrying and I don't know why it happens. I usually avoid this problem by getting out via a menu. Anyway, this time when I pressed Ctr-Alt-Backspace the disks powered down as has happened previously, but the was no exiting X! In fact when I did it a second time, the powering down happened again -- and still no change on the screen. So that's where I am now. X doesn't work anymore and I don't know why. Was it something to do with me fiddling with BIOS, or pulling the card out and back in again? Or was it something to do with the new XFree86 (3.3.4) that only showed up after a reboot? Or is the hardware playing up? Or is it something to do with moving to some potato packages? Or what? And why can't I select the onboard graphics card??? Are the BIOS options faulty? Or do I need to turn something else on/off before it works? Or is the graphics card hardware onboard dead or something? Or what? If any ideas spring to mind, I'd appreciate hearing them. Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_
looking for a mail client
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there. I'm currently using netspace's messenger but it does not completly meet my needs. I'm looking for a mail client that has nested folders and good filters for moving incoming messages to dedicated folders (reply-to filter!). Another must is PGP support. SMTP and POP3 would be nice but are not a necessity. I've looked into mutt but it seems as if PGP support can only automatically verify messages that have a mime part application/pgp-signature. It cannot handle signatures that are (like this one) embedded in the mail text (please correct me if I'm wrong). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 Comment: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad iQCVAwUBN637Zr/AUNfRo6MpAQHWnwQAkp+XHrg6XPoOTngOyC6SVredxFYosnIU bIkBzyJr/Wh8jBgpBwX780NVH/dnJI1cCdt41uir8PQAe/xEb6IM2iZt5xXZmauC dUx8zWg5TAcsKQ3PA4t7qmD+gu+fyQO8Il1bKgB1Md9axS1ENS7p/qOxq2lzcWkF OkU5wsVE6q4= =Up+5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP encrypted messages prefered. See my site for my PGP key. -- The software said Windows95 or better, so I got Linux...
RE: looking for a mail client
On 08-Aug-99 Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there. I'm currently using netspace's messenger but it does not completly meet my needs. I'm looking for a mail client that has nested folders and good filters for moving incoming messages to dedicated folders (reply-to filter!). Another must is PGP support. SMTP and POP3 would be nice but are not a necessity. I've looked into mutt but it seems as if PGP support can only automatically verify messages that have a mime part application/pgp-signature. It cannot handle signatures that are (like this one) embedded in the mail text (please correct me if I'm wrong). Have you tried xfmail? It is no longer in development but suffices for me. I will probably move to kmail or Mahogany as those develop. -- Andrew
Re: How set desktop/resolution for xwindows?
Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config so that the virtual resolution is equal to the actual resolution. Or if you have several available resolutions, try ctrl-alt-+ to switch to a higher resolution. On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 02:07:52PM -0700, André Bell wrote: How do I set the resolution for xwindows applications? I know with win95 I just right click on the desktop and resize it. But with my debian installation my applications are too large for the screen and I have to scroll up, down, left, and right to see the rest of the screen -- what a pain! I've tried formatting and repartioning and reinstalling debian to see if I missed a step during installation and I can't figure what I setup incorrectly. Please help. Oh, I want the entire desktop to show on the screen without having to scroll all over the place to see portions of the screen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!
Karl J Klug wrote: Look at the disk settings in your BIOS to see what C/H/S settings are being used. If you can figure out what disk you have you can get the real C/H/S settings from the manufacturers web site. My BIOS won't tell me what C/H/S settings are being used, just size in MB, but I caught the C/H/S settings from the boot kernel (1024/240/63). However, I also found the data sheet for my hard drive, and although I'm not sure how to decipher it, I'm pretty sure the boot kernel C/H/S settings were incorrect. Here is the URL for the data sheet... http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/travel/14gsdata.htm - d. P.S. How do I specify C/H/S to the kernel? All my attemps yielded something like kernel not found at C/H or other. Thanks in advance!
Re: can't start x on ThinkPad (Slink)
* Pollywog == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pollywog Fatal server error: Pollywog could not open default font 'fixed' Do you have ii xfonts-100dpi 3.3.3.1-4 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi3.3.3.1-4 75 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base 3.3.3.1-4 standard fonts for X installed? Ciao, Martin
Re: equivs doesn't work
* Werner == Werner Reisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Werner I doesn't help me since perl (the interpreter) is one of the Werner packages I have to fake. Maybe I could replace my perl with Werner perl5 (if this has support for the Berkeley DB 2.0) but I Werner wasn't able to find this package. It is from unstable. But wait, do you mean, you currently don't have perl installed? Equivs needs perl (not only perl-base) for its operation. So install the perl package. Build your fake package that provides perl, install it, deinstall the Debian perl package (I think you have perl in /usr/local, no?). Ciao, Martin
Re: How set desktop/resolution for xwindows?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (André Bell) writes: How do I set the resolution for xwindows applications? I know with win95 I just right click on the desktop and resize it. But with my debian installation my applications are too large for the screen and I have to scroll up, down, left, and right to see the rest of the screen -- what a pain! I've tried formatting and repartioning and reinstalling debian to see if I missed a step during installation and I can't figure what I setup incorrectly. Edit the higher resolutions out of /etc/X11/XF86Config. -- *** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * * pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? */
Re: dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?
* shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shaul tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or directory ^^ Is your current working directory / ? Actualy, I find /usr/doc/packagename/copyright easier to use. Ciao, Martin
