Annoying file access behavior
Hi all. I have a bit of a problem. Every time I work with big files (movies, converting mp3s to wavs for ripping), my system slows down to a crawl for some time, while it is emptying the buffers. Here's a quick example: I'm converting mp3 into wav using xmms. The whole song will convert without any disk access whatsoever, then, after the song is over, the system basically stalls while the .wav file is dumped to the disk. This behavior is really really annoying me. Every once in a while, especially with big files around 50-100M, I have to sit there for maybe 10-20 seconds while system is practically frozen up. Is there any resolution to this? I'm going to upgrade to the latest 2.4 kernel soon, using 2.4.5 right now. Please CC me, I am not subscribed. Thanks, Andrei
Using netscape to access weird ports
Recently I've had to move my webserver from port 80 to another port (TimeWarner finally blocked off 80 for all personal accounts). For some dumb reason I chose 79, and now Netscape gives me security errors saying that access to this port has been disabled for security reasons. There gotta be a way to disable that security check in Netscape.ad, I just can't seem to find the option. Does anyone know which option in which file has to be removed/modified to allow netscape access to port 79? Please cc me, I am not subscribed. Thanks, Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: VERY URGENT
Whoa, thats the second rich guy to die today. Sani, quit this while you are not in jail yet. -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?
I think this was a problem with 2.4.3 kernel (I know I've had it on my system). The fix was to upgrade to 2.4.5 Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?
Well, if its a zombie process, it'll go away by itself after a while. Can you send an output of ps aux for that process (or top), please? Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?
I try to clean up the swap once in a while after running big apps: swapoff -a and then swapon -a. Note that while you swapoff, if you run X, it might freeze up for the duration of the execution (however, it unfreezes once swapping is done). Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Tuxracer and 3D accelaration in debian
One problem I ran into with 3D acceleration in X is that DRI only works in 16bpp mode. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
xmms problems?
Hi all. Lately I've been experiencing some weird problems on the box. every so often (rather often, like every 5 min or so), the CPU load would increase dramatically for a few seconds, and pretty much the whole box would almost freeze: mouse movement is very incremental, keyboard input is not accepted. This seems to happen when I'm using xmms 1.2.4-5. I have glibc2.2.3, 2.4.5 kernel, X 4.0.3 Any ideas? TIA, Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Best WM for slow machine?
I think afterstep has been omitted from the list. Its very configurable and stable. Here's the top output: 12477 scorpio9 0 1636 1636 1152 S 0 0.0 0.6 0:00 afterstep I've used it as my wm ever since I've had Linux, which started out on a 486-DX4 system with 32M ram. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
As a different post has suggested, it probably is a mixture of process and file table problem. The best solution would have been to reboot the system, and then pay close attention to it over the next few days to see how it goes. Also, as some processes die and before new ones spawn, you may be able to log into the system. Other than that, I'm not sure what you can do. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Hi, i seem to have a problem with my Debian box. When i try to login to it using ssh it accepts the login but then instead of the bash prompt i get the following erromsg: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable This has never happened before and i didn't anything in the configuration since my last remote login. What could be the problem? imre I've seen this before, and it has got something to do with too many processes running on the system, eating up the file descriptor table. We had a system in the office that had 50-some instances of a process running, and were getting this message (I believe). Please correct me if I'm wrong. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: How To Get Gimp 1.2.1 For Debian 2.2r2 ?
I dont know if there are any gimp1.2 binaries for stable. When I was living with teh stable, I just compiled gtk, glib and gimp manually. However, do not fear the unstable :) It's stable enough. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: [users] Unkillable process
also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500): scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead process, it doesn't listen to anything anymore. there is no way you can remove it without a reboot. the process is in uniterruptible sleep state (implying it's doing some kind of i/o), but it's definitely not interested in handling signals (even SIGKILL, which you're the kernel isn't supposed to let you ignore). had plenty of them, never succeeded without a reboot. but what do you care? just leave them? they aren't eating anything away. Thanks. Problem is this: now that I have a dead mozilla process in the background, netscape doesnt want to run without manual interaction (when I run netscape as that user, I'll have to manually kill a process that pops up because netscape saw a mozilla process already running). It's not bad, but it gets kinda messy after a while. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Unkillable process
'm running a 2.4.3 kernel with 2.2.1 glibc. Every now and then unkillable processes popup on my system (usually something that didnt shut down properly). It was xemacs once (and a ton of different processes that it runs), which prevented me running xemacs again as that user. Now it's mozilla .9. I have 2 processes sitting there doing nothing but preventing me starting netscape as a user. ps aux shows: scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin and I cant kill it with any signal. Short of restarting machine I dont have any way to get rid of them. Is there a better solution or an explanation why this happens? TIA, Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: XFree86 4.0.x tdfx DRI
has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. i was told that installing libglide3 would help - it did, but not enough. i still have the same problems. i also tried the debs of cvs dri. it did not help at all. everything worked perfectly with xfree86 3.3.6, mesag3-glide2 and libglide2. my system is a k6-3 500, 192mb ram, with a voodoo3 2000 16mb agp card. not on the list, so please cc any replies to me. I've pretty much followed the docs on DRI and X site about setting up the Voodoo3 card. Points of note: 1. You need either the kernel tdfx module, or DRI one. 2. DRI ONLY works in 16bpp, not 24bpp (took me a while to get that one). 3. I use xlibmesa3 and xlibosmesa3 libs. HTH, Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: XFree86 4.0.x tdfx DRI
irt point 1, i have the agpgart tdfx modules that came with 2.4.4 loaded - afaik the dri stuff is all loaded in the x server, not the kernel. am i wrong on this point? i'm running in 16bpp, and i have xlib[os]mesa3 installed. From what I remember, you can get dri from both kernel source AND dri.sourceforge.net Advantage of kernel being that it's compiled with the kernel together, you can compile it straight into the kernel, and X wont know the difference. Advantage of dri.sourceforge.net being that you get the latest DRI version. But the way it works is that X will have to load dri module when it starts up. But it doesnt matter where it's loaded from: whether it's already in the kernel, or it's in hte X modules, it'll work the same. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Video Drivers
Hello. I have and S3 Virge card (Diamond Stealth 2000) and would like to know how to install the proper XF86 server/driver. And where I can locate it with apt-get. It depends which X you have. in stable, you'll have to use either SVGA server, or S3 (I'd use xserver-svga). In unstable, it's all xserver-common with s3 driver, I think. Or just run hte xf86config and it'll tell you which server you need, and you can then apt-get it. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: help
Hi. You need to read a dual-booting HOWTO (one of the Windows-Linux HOWTOs) It explains in detail how to setup a dualboot system, and how to setup lilo so you can boot into whatever you have. Andrei
Re: device3dfx
I'm sure this is not the fix you are looking for, but I used to have the same problem with 2.2.18. After I built the 2.4.3 kernel, however, the module compiled beautifully. I guess you'd have to make bzImage, and tehn make modules, and try to build the device3dfx afterwards. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: problem w voodoo3/XF86-4
I have just spent several hours last night getting my new V3 card to work with 4.0.2. Here are my thoughts (And I did get it to work) 1. compile kernel with agp, DRI support (I didnt build DRI module like they suggested, I used DRI that came with the kernel source), and your chipset support. In X, put in Load glx Load dri into the Xconfig file. Verify that you are in fact using correct libs (in my case, I had to remove my old glut3g and mesa3g libs and install xlibmesa3 and xlibosmesa3. The best document you can read on this issue is the DRi user guide on X's page (http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.3/DRI.html), it explains how to vefiry you have everything setup. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Virtual Desktop
Whenever you are doing the xf86config (or your other favorite X config), when you get to the last screen where you are supposed to change video modes for color depths, just go ahead and change them. Once you specify the video mode for a color depth, it'll ask you wehther you want the virtual desktop or not. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: AnyOne know of a comprehensive tool for managing fonts?
As far as fonts go, try xfontsel -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: apache/php + apxs?
Well, apxs is just a tool for building and installing extensions modules in apache. It is supplied with apache-dev, so once you install it, you do have an apxs-enabled server. HTH, Andrei
Re: where do I specify my hostname for dhcpcd?
Just call it 'dhcpcd -h foo' if hostname is foo. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Dangers in upgrading to unstable?
I've upgraded to unstable over a period of time.libc first, then X yesterday. Its been pretty stable so far, but you never know, you may run into some upgrade problems with your hardware (took me a while to get the X upgraded properly so it was usable). Overall you should be alright, I think. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Still No Cursor in X
I'm not sure whether this has been tried yet When I upgraded to X4.0.2, I did lose the cursor (it was moving but invisible). Turned out the xserver was not upgraded, so it was still using the xserver-svga 3.3.6, instead of using xserver-xfree86. Once that was installed, cursor came back. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: How to convert graphics formats
Imagemagick Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Config. the Monitor
One solution here is to disable the virtual desktops in XF86Setup Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
X keyboard problems
Hi all. I have had to rebuild the system half way from scratch (messed up X). I've installed X 3.3.6 from stable as a base, and then upgraded some of X components to 4.0.2 (some apps like gimp1.2 is precompiled for 4.0.2 only). Right now 90% of the X on my system is 4.0.2,, the rest 10% 3.3.6. They both coexist happily, except for one thing... XKB doesnt work, which means that I dont have delete and backspace buttons, I have to ^H my way through my typoes. The message X spits out is this: cannot open keymap/xfree86 for reading Could not open XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB Can anyone please help me with this? I dont know how much code without typoes I can write :) Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
X4.0.2 and cursor
Hi all. I've tried to update to X4.0.2things went more or less decent, no major burps, except one or two 1. There was no cursor visible on the screen. I've tried two window managers, nothing. I can move it, but I have to guess where the cursor is. Has this problem been fixed yet, and if so, how to fix it? TIA, Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: apache/php + apxs?
To get apxs you need to install apache-dev Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Problems with apache.
If order to get the apache to find your index.html file in /var/www, you have to set DocumentRoot to /var/www Go to /etc/apache and edit httpd.conf file. You need to set DocumentRoot to directory where you want to serve hte default pages from. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: avi-player for debian
The best player out there is aviplay. Search freshmeat, I think URL is divx.euro.ru -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Port 12345?
To capture portscans, try portsentry. It'll dump warning messages into your syslog, and other log files, everytime a portscan trips it. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: sound volume
Well...there's volume knob on back of some soundcards :) Install a mixer app for X...or tehre's a volume controller in xmms. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Apache-ssl query
You cah get https to listen to port 80 and recognize unencrypted connections. (If you dont want to do it.you can install plain httpd, but be ready to run into potential config problems, increased memory usage, etc.) The docs on how to set up httpd with httpsd are on Apache-ssl site (in FAQ) Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: incomplete cookies with PHP
I had a problem like this once: cookies wouldnt set. Session variables wouldnt get registered. Solution was simple enough: turn off misconfigured junkbuster (in my case it doesnt let cookies through). But my script was a little different: I had session_start(); $product1=Hal2000; session_register(product1); You might setting the variable value first and then saving it into session. Andrei -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Cable Modem
You need to read Cable-HOWTO and Ethernet-HOWTO in order to find your NIC-specific information (NICs distributed by cable companies may not work out of the box). Other than that, get NIC working properly (proper kernel modules), fire up dhcp client of your choice with hostname you were given, and it should all work. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: new machine: what's wrong?
Thats most likely because you are booting a system that was build on your old box...different hardware, totally. I've had something like that happen to me when I booted a kernel from old system into new one (different architectures, 486-Pentium). System booted, but behaved very badly. Same story with Windows. I'd try to do a clean install somewhere on a partition you dont need. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Netscape color problem ..
Thats a problem with netscape and 24 bpp color. Use 16bpp colormap. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Common Lisp
I guess you could start with clisp, cause thats Common Lisp interpreter and compiler. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: PHP - A new approach
After a painful experience trying to get PHP4 working, I'm trying a new approach. I've removed MySQL, PHP4 and Apache completely. Would someone who has successfully installed PHP3 and Apache to a point where they can display a simple .php3 page on Debian 2.2 (potato) system please be kind enough to explain (as if to a child :O)), what steps they took, what extra bits need to be done. Here's what I did: 1. Install mysql and mysql-dev. Server and client. 2. Get php source. 3. Get apache source 4. Build apache with DSO support (in the README) 5. Go to php tree and follow instructions on how to build php with mod_php for apache. Basically, compile it from source, with some extra instructions. And that works perfectly Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Problems using php4
I guess try to look through the mime types in Netscape adn see whether there is any conflict there between several mimes, maybe there is one there that wants to save it instead of executing it. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Instalation of soundcard
[snip] alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/synthfm.sbk options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 to the /etc/modules.conf file, but executing: modprobe -a sound doesn't install the drivers. At least they are not reportet executing cat /dev/sndstat Make sure that modules are getting build and are where they are supposed to be. I'd try to install those modules by hand using insmod. This is what I do on my box: insmod uart401.o insmod opl3.o insmod sb.o io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 insmod v_midi.o insmod awe_wave.o Check hte logs, dmesg: if modules arent getting inserted successfully, there will be something in hte logs. Check that devices exist in /dev , if not, MAKEDEV audio. Check that your user can write to those devices (play around as root first to get them to work). Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: licq
After you installed the plugin, you still might get errror messages about not being able to see the plugin. The way around that is to start licq and specify directly where and which plugin to use: licq -p absolute_path_to_plugin like licq -p /usr/lib/licq/licq_gtk_gui.so Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: beg
I have a spare set. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: this beeping makes me sick
Unplug the speaker. Andrei
Re: No hardwarelist for Debian?
There is no Debian hardware list. Such as there is no RedHat hardware list. Nor Suse hardware list. If they exist, they are derived straight from Linux hardware list, aka list of hware supported by the kernel itself. So if you are wondering about your sound card, check out linux hardware-compatability-howto (not sure how updated it is, though), or ask on #linux on irc. Someone ought to know. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: gnapster
I've found that gnome-napster works perfectly whereas gnapster stays disconnected. However, gnome-napster has few less features, but at least its a temporary answer. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: DHCP client setup for @Home
I'm on @home as well, and pump just failed badly for me. However, dhcpcd worked out of the box, so to say: dhcpcd -h XXX did the job right then. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: Cross-window-paste-facility-thing ???
Emulate Third Button in X setup. third button does the pasting of highlighted text (in case of a 2-button mouse you have to click two simultaneously) Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: volume control?
That means your user can not write to /dev/mixer...I think. At least thats the problem I had. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: volume control?
What I did was a crude fixI just chown'ed mixer device to the user. On a single-user system it doesnt make any difference. Or you might just give 775 permissions to the device and see if it works. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: gtk/libpixmap?
Install gtk-pixmap-engine. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
Re: color in Emacs
This is from my .Xdefaults (you can make it if you want to..it makes no difference): XEmacs*Background: White XEmacs*Foreground: Black After you make the file, usexrdb -merge .Xdefaults to put it into the X. Then start emacs. Andrei First there was Explorer. Then came Expedition. This summer coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arshes.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: PC133 RAM doesn't work with Slink!?!
Chances are, its not slink problem, its your computer. Do you have any other OSs running on it, and if so, how are they working out? As a test..try installing with PC100 and switch to PC133. Is Your motherboard suitable for those RAM chips? You may want to get the RAM chips tested too, to eliminate problem in them. Andrei First there was Explorer. Then came Expedition. This summer coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arshes.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Can't get online
What seems to be the problem? Read Ethernet-HOWTO for specific card installations. Basically, main thing is to get ethernet card working correctly. dhcpcd will take it from there. Any error messages in logs, what are the symptoms? Andrei First there was Explorer. Then came Expedition. This summer coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arshes.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: holly crap!
I've done somethig very bad.. I did: rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? I guess you were in home when you did that. Well, nope. Unless you made backups, whatever you deleted is now gone. I dont think there's a way to recover it. I'd love to know a way, though, if there is one. (Perhaps a little modification could be done to rm commandmake a recovery bin of a sort, copy files into there up to certain size, not delete them. But thats up to individual sysadmins to implement) Andrei First there was Explorer. Then came Expedition. This summer coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arshes.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: same debian, new hardware?
[snip] I have once done a move to completely new hardware(486-Pentium). The only thing I found necessary to do is recompile kernel. All the binaries ran perfect after I recompiled kernel. But I took an old drive and put it into new machine. I guess you would need to install a minimal system, and put your drives into new system and copy stuff off them. It should work just fine. Andrei First there was Explorer. Then came Expedition. This summer coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arshes.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: How stable is WINE?
If it helps at all, I tried WINE few month ago off their site, building from source. Had quite a good success with it (Was able to run Starcraft, MS Word95). Not sure what version potato has, though. If you want the latest one, try it off the www.winehq.com Andrei First there was Explorer. Then came Expedition. This summer coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arshes.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: AfterStep and using Themes
1.7-1.8 Afterstep has a builtin theme support. You can use that engine, or do it by hand, just untar the tarball, and put files into appropriate directories (manually). If you will use the theme engine, go to GNUstep/Library/Afterstep/themes directory, and put your tarball there. Next update all, and under Desktop-Themes you will see that tarball. (if update all fails, just restart the AS session). Click on it and it should install fine. Andrei First there was Explorer. Then came Expedition. This summer coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arshes.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.
All apache needs at this point is the php module. I assume you have that. But you also need php with postgreSQL support, which is not there by default. apt-get it ( I dont know the name of it, but this was a case for me when I was getting mysql to work with php), and you should be fine. Andrei - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arshes.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Creative Soundblaster 16 PnP ISA
Its a PNP, so you need: 1. Install isapnp package. 2. Run pnpdump and create a config file for your card. 3. Run isapnp with that file. Use IRQ,IO, etc settings same as you supply to your kernel (if possible. pnpdump will tell you). 4. Compile sound support as a module. 5. reboot with your new kernel, and insert sound modules. I have a small guide written up on how to configure modem with isapnpits the same thing. http://arshes.dyndns.org/Linux/ HTH. Andrei - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)
One problem I had with that card is as follows: Ethernet-HOWTO suggests and you turn off the PnP mode, and set it to a specific IRQ/base. Until I did that, it would not work absolutely, and in syslog I would get a message about Tx/Rx timing out, possible IRQ loss. I swapped card out of computer, put it into a windows machine, ran the utility from SMC to set the card, put it back into Linux box, compile support into kernel, and it worked perfect. Andrei - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013
You should have the disk with drivers for your card. On that disk could be something called ezstart (or of the kind), thats a program to setup the card. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: PHP with MySQL
You need to install php-cgi and php-cgi-mysql packages.Actually that did not help me, so I downloaded and build php from source. Andrei - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Limiting Access
This may sound like a newbie question but, how do i stop a certian group from accessing my system via telnet? I've played with PAM to no avail, spent the last 3 hours on it in fact. System is 2.2, just need someone to point me in the right direction, if anyone can help, plz lemme know, it's driving me batty lol. Pete. If you know the IP address of that group, you can put it into /etc/hosts.deny and deny telnet for them: TELNET:some.bad.host, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx man hosts_access(5) Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: what is asp?
ASP==Active Server Pages. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: hacked?
If you know which user they logged in as, they can look up the ~/.bash_history file for that user for some hints. Other than that...install tripwire and you'll be sure when someone changes your binaries. You can also disable telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf so noone can telnet to you, and use ssh instead. HTH, Andrei - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Mouse and XF86Setup
As a wild guess , aside from gpm, do you have mouse support (ps/2) in kernel? Should be there by default, but just in case.. Andrei - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Where is ps command.
procfs, if I remember correctly. To find out where a given program is located: on the debian site, under Distributions-Online package list, second form is exactly for that purpose. Andrei Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:48:20 +1000 From: Brendan J Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Where is ps command. Resent-Date: 3 Apr 2000 23:48:42 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I am using Debian Potato. I installed a base 2.1 system from CD and then did an apt-get dist-upgrade. The ps command is not available. I thought it would be part of the base system but it appears not. What package do I need to install to get ps ? How can I find out this kind of information ? I tried apt-cache search ps | grep util and apt-cache search util | grep ps but I could see anything. Is there a better way ? Please CC any replies to me as well as the list. Thanks, Brendan Simon. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!
1. [snip] 2. My distribution doesn't make some device files, such as /dev/modem, /dev/audio, /dev/mixer, /dev/sndstat (I cannot use my SoundBlaster PCI 64, and I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I workaround this? Those devices, some of htem, are just symlinks. For example, /dev/modem/ is a symlink to /dev/ttyS1, so if you run ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem, it will make the symlink for you. As far as audio goes, to create those devices you need to go to /dev and ./MAKEDEV audio However, prior to that you have to include sound support into kernel, and with PCI card I am not sure hwo to do that (I think it is PnP, then you are sorta screwed.) Read Sound-HOWTO and Kernel-HOWTO for that. You can find them at linuxdoc.org 3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition, since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented? Well, one way is to unmount the partition (umount /zip , f.e) and defrag it. If its a /usr or /, then if you really wan to defrag it, then you have to do some more worka LOT more work. So dont worry about it. How big is the defragmentation, how many files you have and how big the partition is? HTH, Andrei - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Memory (RAM) problems?
This is normal, and done by kernel to keep memory full all the time, so access time to binaries is less (so your machine works faster). This can only be a problem on systems with low RAM (I remember having 48M, and having it all full.going into swap even when I was just running X alone). If you don't like it, there are 2 files you can tweak: /proc/sys/vm/pagecache and /proc/sys/vm/buffermem Read about them in kernel docs, but with 256M you have nothing to worry about. Just turn off the swap, and never touch it again. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: files within library files
The search engine on Debian site (online packages), second query box, that allows to search for files within packages. I think its bin86, or smthg like that. Andrew Is there some way I can find out... given a file how do I know what library file contains this file e.g. which library file/debain package would contain the file as86 Is there a search page to cater for such a request ? cheers, mb - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: S3 Trio3D/2X
I know it is still the same problem for you but my card does not work even in 320x200 with 16 colors... I have tried framebuffer but it didnot work either... Do you know any driver or anything i could do with it? I've helped someone on irc with this card recently. Basically, if you look in X docs, you'll know that card is not really supported. The only way to get it to work is try VGA server and tweak in there. The most the person I helped got out of it was 320x200. I'd guess buy another card. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question
I have Awe64 and managed to get it to work. Here is how I did it: 1. isapnp it. WHen you run pnpdump, you'll get 2 files: isapnp.conf and isapnp.gone. .gone file will tell you where NOT to put the card. Based on that information, make hte .conf file appropriately. I found that my card works perfectly without the Wave-table, so really all you need to setup in isapnp.conf is the first card entry. 2. WHen this is done, compile kernel, and include everything you need as modules. Soundcard M, OSS M, SB M, Opl3 synth. M, and low-level driver Awe64 M. Maybe I'm mising one or two, I'm doing this from memory. 3. make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install. 4. reboot. 5. Go to /usr/src/linux/modules, and lsmod to make sure you have no modules installed for sound. modprobe sound insmod uart401 insmod opl3 insmod sb param. from isapnp.conf Also, you may need to go to /dev and ./MAKEDEV audio Then addgroup user audio. This pretty much is it. I realize this is a hard way to do this, but it works for me. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: I have a hardware question.
[snip] I know these two hardware items ARE supported in the LINUX of today but does the LINUX of today cover any of the 2.1 releases??? The support for devices is not in Linux distributions, but in the kernel itself. Currently, the default kernel installed in slink is the 2.0.36 series, but you can download and install latest kernel without any problems (www.linuxhq.com) Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: starting x
my mouse doesn't move and the tab keys don't do anything either. My pointer just sits in the middle of the screen. dmesg reads: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. i am using the /dev/ttyS01 during config. my systems says ttyS01 at If you are using PS/2 mouse, your mouse is located on /dev/psaux /dev/ttyS0-4 are serial ports, so you need to know exactly where it is. Rerun xf86config or XF86Setup and set the right mouse type and device. beavis (butthead says hi!) Technically, Butthead does not say 'hi', he says Come to Butthead But 'hi' will work for now. *obviously too much B'n'B in early college years* Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: Rebuilding Kernel
Hi, I need to rebuild the kernel. My system does not have the /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.14/.config file. How do you create that file based on your current kernel?. Thanks for your reply. -shane cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig OR make xconfig RTFM before doing so, about all the options that you can select in kernel setup. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: error message
Where was the exim before? You might try to find exim.conf and link it to /etc/. Or just reinstall exim. Andrew i am getting this error message after loading my new kernel slink 2.2.14 datetime Failed to open configuration file /etc/exim.conf i looked in /etc and it is not there! do i need to point it to look somewhere else? thankx beavis - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card
Wild guess: upgrade X to 3.3.6? Andrew Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB or set the option for SW_CURSOR just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever for it. Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB or set the option for SW_CURSOR Is it a bug I can expect to be fixed anytime soon? I might as well have kept my pci S3 Virge 2MB and save the money! Thank You, -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anno MMDCCLIII aUC Valencia - Espa?a Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: Fw: error message
time: man date ssh: its in non-us, or just search the net and get teh source. Andrew ok, thankx i figured it out my next question is, how do i set up ssh on my slink box? i looked through all the dselect pachages and couldn't find anything. also, how do i change the time on my box? - Original Message - From: Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian list debian-user@lists.debian.org; recipient list not shown: ; Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 4:04 PM Subject: Re: error message Where was the exim before? You might try to find exim.conf and link it to /etc/. Or just reinstall exim. Andrew i am getting this error message after loading my new kernel slink 2.2.14 datetime Failed to open configuration file /etc/exim.conf i looked in /etc and it is not there! do i need to point it to look somewhere else? thankx beavis - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: Fw: error message
ok, that is a little too basic i run date Wed --nothing happens it says invalid date lets be practical if i want to change the time to Wed Mar 8 6:16:00 PST 2000--what do i do? date MMDDhhmmYY so date 0308061600 MMDDhhmmYY MM month DD day hh hour mm minute YY year Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Compiling X
Hi all. I recently had to build 3.3.6 version for glibc2.0. Went smoothhowever, after I replaced video card this morning, and reran XF86Setup, I ran into problems with users starting X (root can do it fine): Fatal Server Error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions. You should be using Xwrapper to start server or xdm. We strongly advise against making server SetUID. I've recompilied X and turned off all SetUID flags I could find but nothing seems to work still. And I kinda want to get back into user shell (for one thing, I can not use netscape and xchat, I'd stay root if not those things). Any suggestions? TIA, Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: Compiling X
I need to use 3.3.6 b/c of my video card, and only 3.2.11 version is avaibliel for slink that I use. I dont want to upgrade to potato right now, until I can get a CD. I don't think I could install 3.3.6 from potato b/c of the dependencies, unless I upgrade the systemam I wrong on that? Andrew Why are you compiling X?? Do you know debian packages? To my experience they work a lot easier then compiling yourself Just download the .deb packages you need (or use apt, you want the newest x but perhaps you don't want to upgrade your whole system to potato or woody, in that case you should download) and install them using dpkg... Ron On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Hi all. I recently had to build 3.3.6 version for glibc2.0. Went smoothhowever, after I replaced video card this morning, and reran XF86Setup, I ran into problems with users starting X (root can do it fine): Fatal Server Error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions. You should be using Xwrapper to start server or xdm. We strongly advise against making server SetUID. I've recompilied X and turned off all SetUID flags I could find but nothing seems to work still. And I kinda want to get back into user shell (for one thing, I can not use netscape and xchat, I'd stay root if not those things). Any suggestions? TIA, Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: securing ports
Is it possible to secure the ports on my Debian machine so that other machines on the internet cannot get through? Is there some way to configure pppd to block packets? ipchains. Read the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. Or just disable all the services through /etc/inetd.conf (not advised for a couple of ports). Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: compiling new kernel
i am trying to compile the kernel 2.2.14 on to my i386 machine please help if u can, thnakx update: after doing make bzImage, it starts to compile, which takes about 10 mins or so right. then at the end it says: as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s make[1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 why is this happening? i went over a redid the make menuconfig and even checked to make sure it saved properly .config in /usr/src/linux-2.2.14 Get bin86 package. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: securing ports
Which ports are inadvisable for closing? TIA, John N. It depends on what you do on the net. For example, some irc servers (irc.prison.net is one of tehm) require for you to run ident in order to connect to them. Obviously, you wnat to turn off useless ports...discard, daytime, time, finger, etc. Just go into /etc/inetd.conf and comment out services you don't want inetd to listen for. Like telnet.if you want to have outside access into machine, use ssh (port 22). So really you can have all ports closed off, that can be closed with inetd, but you will still need ipchains to secure other ports lke 6000 (X). To see the list of ports open on your machine, netstat or nmap yourself. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: set up AWE 64
Process of setting up AWE64 is as follows: 1. isapnp it. 2. Compile sound support in kernel as modules 3. make bzImage 4. make modules 5. make modules_install 6. reboot for new kernel 7. modprobe sound 8. insmod uart_401 9. insmod opl3 10. insmod sb with parameters from the isapnp file, as the card has been initialized. 11. Try it. I found that my card worked without adlib module and anything else, with just those modules HTH, Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: download
There is no difference between Linux for 486, Linux for 586 and so on. Just download the base system, follow instructions and you should be all set. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: LILO
Please help...I just re-installed Debian completely from scratch after having some problems with xwindows. I am dual booting using Boot Magic. Everything went real well this time. However, now when I want to go into Linux, Lilo hangs at boot up and won't do anything. What has happened, and what do I have to do to fix this? I do have my boot disks. Also, I would like to know how to get Netscape going. Finally, I have my modem and ethernet working. Had to add the drivers. Yeh. But now I want to get Netscape.Thanks for your help. Ray Ferrari. What happens at the boot? Do you get LI and then it hands, or what? Send the lilo.conf file so we can take a look at it. Netscape : just download files off the archive for navigator, and it will work fine. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: mouse
Very simple. Get the COM port where the mouse is from Windows. Then just follow a simple formula : Com1=/dev/ttyS0, Com2=/dev/ttyS1 and so on. That is the serial port that you put in when xf86config asks you for mouse port. For protocol you select Microsoft Serial (or something like that, it's #1 there, I think). Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: xwindows
You go back into linux. By default thesystem will detect unclean shutdown and will try to check/fix the partitions. You can look in log files, once you get in , for clues to what happened. /var/log/syslog and ~/.xsession-errors could be a good place to start. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: hdparm settings
Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. Andrew Hi all i have set a few hdparm settings to tune up my ide drive.. i however do not know how to make those settings permanent as setting switch -k1 does not seem to work. Should i just set the settings everytime my machine is rebooted in an init script or something?? thanx -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE
It is hard to diagnose a problem without knowing anything about circumstances. Is it happening at random or while you run a particular program? Check the logs after the restart, and ~/.xsession-errors file to see what can be potentially wrong. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: Configuring X
Hi, Due to the advice of a few wise individuals, I continue to make slow, but steady progress in getting Debian 2.1 installed on my IBM 390E laptop. I am a newbie and am currently trying to get X Windows running. I have tried both xf86config and XF86Setup and still am having problems. (A little background): My video card is a NeoMagic 256AV with 2.5meg of memory. My screen is capable of 1024 X 768 resolution at 60kHz. When I try to start X Windows, I get a fatal server error: No valid modes found. Can anyone give me some advice regarding what to do next? Or, is there by any chance someone out there running Debian on an IBM 390E that can give tell me how they have configured X? No valid modes found means that you are trying to push X into running resolutions that it thinks your card can not handle. I'd suggest you start at the bottom level , something like 640x480 and work your way up. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: Looking for monitor sync settings
During xf86config it says that I may find info on my monitor by reading /usr/doc/xserver-common/monitors.gz I do not know how to look at this file. cd to that directory, then type gunzip monitors.gz Then you can view the file. If you can't find any info on the monitor on the net, I sugest you start at the bottom and work your way up the settings. Like, choose most conservaative settings for hsync/vsync. Also, check the server you are running. What video card do you have? You could start with SVGA server, if your card is compatible with it. Do I want or need x on my computer? I am interested in running spreadsheet and database programs like star office or similar. Yeah, for StarOffice you will need X. It's generally a good idea to have it on a computer. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: Configuring LILO in Debian
Is it possible to go in and configure LILO to add dos as a boot: option? If so, can someone tell me how to do this? Here is a lilo file I use: boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hdb2 install = /boot/boot.b map = /boot/map vga = normal delay = 50 ramdisk = 0 read-only default = linux image = /vmlinuz label = Debian alias = linux image = /boot/vmlinbackup label = backup other = /dev/hda1 label = MS table = /dev/hda The last 2 blocks are responsible for loading different OSs( backup kernel and windows). You can just change this around a little and dos loading would work for you. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: netscape, arena etc in root
After installing the system from zero for the 4th time, I made the mistake of running a few browsers as root from root, so I ended up with a few arena. lynx and so on directories there, which I deleted thinking contained only cache or so. Any way, now they run with trouble, i.e., don't run good. 1. What exactly shoud I do, and how? Thanks, Antonio Reinstall them. You can not reconstruct the .directory by hand, at least it's not an efficient way. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: hdparm - hard disk tuning
Hi Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of your ide hard drives? Does it work and are there any drawbacks? Is there any software which can measure hard drive performance? I've used it, and it worked well. I think I've maxed the performance out on my drives. The drawbacksI am not sure. My drives are at least 4 years old and working fine. hdparm -tT device measures the speed of your hard drive transfer rate (-t is read to memory, -T read to disk cache) Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
