Xfree86-4.1 no compose key possible
Hi, I'm running kernel 2.4.18pre1 with testing. I cannot compose characters with Multi_key in Xfree86 4.1. I have got a Multi_key according to xev KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0xe1, root 0x58, subw 0x0, time 1386270115, (103,176), root:(245,318), state 0x0, keycode 116 (keysym 0xff20, Multi_key), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 characters: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 says Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us EndSection I would like to create the german a umlaut with Multi_keya as it has always been the way before reinstalling after a hard drive crash. What's wrong? What's missing? Where can I find documentation about all those options for the keyboard section? Armin
Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.
aviplay It is in testing.
Problems compiling kernel 2.4.16 under woody
Hi! I have installed one of the first potato releases from cd on a blank hard disk and compiled kernel 2.4.16. Fine. I then upgraded with apt-get to yesterdays woody/testing and no longer manage to compile the same sources. I have made make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make bzImage I have just set the processor to 'athlon' the chipset and the sound to 'via'. One of the last steps of 'make bzImage', the linking of the object files, failed with this error message drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o(.data+0xb4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 If I do not change the standard configuration, the kernel compiles fine. What does that mean? May I have missed installing an important package? The program/package versions are gcc 2:2.95.4-8 binutils 2.11.92.0.12.3-3 I failed to compile kernel 2.4.14 for the same reasons. I did not had success with gcc 2.95.2 and gcc 3.0.2 either. Armin
Solved: Problems compiling kernel 2.4.16 under woody
Patching kernel 2.4.16 to 2.4.17-rc1 did not do it. I have had to downgrade binutils to version 2.9.5.0.37-1. Thank you. On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:41:17AM +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: Hi! I have installed one of the first potato releases from cd on a blank hard disk and compiled kernel 2.4.16. Fine. I then upgraded with apt-get to yesterdays woody/testing and no longer manage to compile the same sources. I have made make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make bzImage I have just set the processor to 'athlon' the chipset and the sound to 'via'. One of the last steps of 'make bzImage', the linking of the object files, failed with this error message drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o(.data+0xb4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 If I do not change the standard configuration, the kernel compiles fine. What does that mean? May I have missed installing an important package? The program/package versions are gcc 2:2.95.4-8 binutils 2.11.92.0.12.3-3 I failed to compile kernel 2.4.14 for the same reasons. I did not had success with gcc 2.95.2 and gcc 3.0.2 either. Armin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdrecord can't burn
Hi, to say it short kernel support for graphics card + Xfree86 4.0.2 = cdrecord does not burn anymore I can write cds if I stop X and write cds at the console or if use the kernel driver for nvidia chips nv comming with X. Using the driver from nvidia or compiling support for graphic cards into the kernel shows a strange behavior: cdrecord starts printing the usual messages and hangs immediatly before it should start writing. Pressing Ctrl-C stops cdrecord and gives me the shell again, but the cd-writer does not stop. I have to reboot to get the blank cd out ouf the drive. Trying to force cd drive to eject the cd with eject causes the whole system to hang. Any idea? Armin
Re: Mouse stopped working in X
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:29:41PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: I've converted my Corel distribution to Debian potato. Although I had a few problems, most things seem to be fine, except my mouse now longer works in X. It doesn't work with any of the X servers, including within XF86Setup. It used to work before, and settings from before don't work. Here's the really strange part (which may be related): When I'm in the console, the mouse DOES work! I've never had that before, but I can move it around and copy and paste, just like I should when I'm in X. John In /etc/gpm.conf comment out the line containing =3sm or =sm3. I do not remember the parameter. Take a look and you will see which line I mean.
can't compile cdfs
Hello,
I've installed yesterdays frozen and recompiled the kernel 2.2.17. It's
up and running. Fine.
But I failed to compile the non standard kernel module cdfs.o.
I've linked /usr/include/{linux,asm} to
/usr/src/linux/include/{linux,asm-i386}.
I get following output from make.
I get the same error with 2.2.16 kernel sources installed.
I must have forgotten something?
What`s wrong?
Armin
gcc -O -Wall -c audio.c
In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:13,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/times.h:5: parse error before `clock_t'
/usr/include/linux/times.h:5: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/usr/include/linux/times.h:6: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
/usr/include/linux/times.h:7: parse error before `tms_cutime'
/usr/include/linux/times.h:7: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
/usr/include/linux/times.h:8: parse error before `tms_cstime'
/usr/include/linux/times.h:8: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
In file included from /usr/include/linux/timex.h:142,
from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/time.h:10: parse error before `time_t'
/usr/include/linux/time.h:10: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/usr/include/linux/time.h:12: parse error before `}'
/usr/include/linux/time.h: In function `timespec_to_jiffies':
/usr/include/linux/time.h:32: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h:33: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h: In function `jiffies_to_timespec':
/usr/include/linux/time.h:45: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h:46: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h: At top level:
/usr/include/linux/time.h:50: parse error before `time_t'
/usr/include/linux/time.h:50: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/usr/include/linux/time.h:51: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
/usr/include/linux/time.h:83: field `it_interval' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h:84: field `it_value' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h:88: field `it_interval' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h:89: field `it_value' has incomplete type
In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/timex.h:163: field `time' has incomplete type
In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:266,
from /usr/include/linux/tty.h:20,
from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:21,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:5: parse error before `ino_t'
/usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:5: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
union
/usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:12: parse error before `:'
In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:268,
from /usr/include/linux/tty.h:20,
from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:21,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/msdos_fs_i.h:36: parse error before `off_t'
/usr/include/linux/msdos_fs_i.h:36: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
union
In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:269,
from /usr/include/linux/tty.h:20,
from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:21,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/umsdos_fs_i.h:62: field `msdos_info' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/umsdos_fs_i.h:69: parse error before `off_t'
/usr/include/linux/umsdos_fs_i.h:69: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
union
/usr/include/linux/umsdos_fs_i.h:73: parse error before `}'
In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:270,
from /usr/include/linux/tty.h:20,
from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:21,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
Re: can't compile cdfs
(I've installed the 2.2.17 kernel on my old system and cdfs compiled
fine with it.)
This is the Makefile:
---
OBJS=audio.o cdXA.o cddata.o hfs.o iso.o proc.o root.o utils.o
cdfs.o: $(OBJS)
$(LD) -r $(OBJS) -o $@
$(OBJS) cdfs.o: cdfs.h
.c.o:
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -O -Wall -c $
.PHONY: clean reload
clean:
-rm -f *.o *~ core
reload: cdfs.o
umount /cdfs; rmmod cdfs; insmod cdfs; mount /cdfs
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:44:41AM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
This looks like some kind of #ifdef wasn't satisfied, and code is
now missing at the compilation stage. What macro definitions can you play
with in the Makefile?
Mike
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Armin Wegner wrote:
Hello,
I've installed yesterdays frozen and recompiled the kernel 2.2.17. It's
up and running. Fine.
But I failed to compile the non standard kernel module cdfs.o.
I've linked /usr/include/{linux,asm} to
/usr/src/linux/include/{linux,asm-i386}.
I get following output from make.
I get the same error with 2.2.16 kernel sources installed.
I must have forgotten something?
What`s wrong?
Armin
gcc -O -Wall -c audio.c
In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:13,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/times.h:5: parse error before `clock_t'
/usr/include/linux/times.h:5: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
union
/usr/include/linux/times.h:6: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
/usr/include/linux/times.h:7: parse error before `tms_cutime'
/usr/include/linux/times.h:7: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
/usr/include/linux/times.h:8: parse error before `tms_cstime'
/usr/include/linux/times.h:8: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
In file included from /usr/include/linux/timex.h:142,
from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/time.h:10: parse error before `time_t'
/usr/include/linux/time.h:10: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
union
/usr/include/linux/time.h:12: parse error before `}'
/usr/include/linux/time.h: In function `timespec_to_jiffies':
/usr/include/linux/time.h:32: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h:33: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h: In function `jiffies_to_timespec':
/usr/include/linux/time.h:45: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h:46: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h: At top level:
/usr/include/linux/time.h:50: parse error before `time_t'
/usr/include/linux/time.h:50: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
union
/usr/include/linux/time.h:51: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
/usr/include/linux/time.h:83: field `it_interval' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h:84: field `it_value' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h:88: field `it_interval' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/time.h:89: field `it_value' has incomplete type
In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/timex.h:163: field `time' has incomplete type
In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:266,
from /usr/include/linux/tty.h:20,
from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:21,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:5: parse error before `ino_t'
/usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:5: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
union
/usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:12: parse error before `:'
In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:268,
from /usr/include/linux/tty.h:20,
from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:21,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from cdfs.h:38,
from audio.c:27:
/usr/include/linux/msdos_fs_i.h:36: parse error before `off_t'
/usr/include/linux
Re: can't compile cdfs
I've downgraded from gcc_2.95.2-13.deb to gcc_2.95.2-5.deb. It's all fine again. There must be a change or an error.
Re: Maximum characters in username
If I'm right, only the first 8 characters are relevant. The rest is ignored. There is no difference between two user names, if the first 8 characters are equal.
Re: Funny format CD's...
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:35:55PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: Is it possible to mount the 7th track of a CD? The first 6 being audio tracks, and the seventh the first and only data track? I believe it is possible to write another track to a CD-R device later, as long as the disk hasn't been fixated. I was just wondering if it was possible to add a data track after adding audio tracks... Is it otherwise possible to rip a specific track, but not making it an audio track? i.e. suppose I write a data track to track 7, I'd like to rip it back to the CD image it was... I'd guess cdparanoia won't work, 'cause it extracts audio tracks to wave files... the last thing I can think of, is dumping the whole CD, and then cutting off the first part and possibly the last part, so that you'll only be left with track 7... Any ideas? Yes. There is a kernel module called cdfs. Find it on the Web and compile it and copy it to /lib/modules/kernel version/fs. It's easy to compile. You can do it. Just type make. Once installed, you can mount a cd with mount -t cdfs /dev/cdrom device target Take a look in target and you will see all tracks of the cd as files. You can copy them like files. That's nice for copying cd images. In addition, you can mount one of these files as a loop filesystem. Then you have the same effect as mounting conventionelly, but can choose your track. Armin
Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?
Use vim. It's hard to learn, but it is worse it. It's fast.
Re: SCSI bus reset when burning
Have you added your burner to the SCSI bus, later? Then check, wether your SCSI bus is terminated correctly. The device at the end of the cable must be terminated, only. For some burners you have to set the jumper to disable termination. That is revers to normal harddrive setting.
Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?
It's not boring, it's functional. And that's what matters.
Re: PCI 128...
Hi David, you do not need OSS. Use 1370, only
Re: Sound problems (PCI128)
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:03:10PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote: That sound thing in Linux seems to be a real mess... :( I downloaded kernel 2.2.14 to get support for PCI128. I don't know if it is 1370 or 1371, but I took a chance on 1370. Ányway, the wave is working but the midi isn't (I mean the midi port, I have an external synth module). So I wen't to irc.debian.org, and there someone told me to try alsa. However, I took the potato version since I thought that would work better with a 2.2 kernel. That whole stuff turned out to be packages needing other packages, so I thought it was best to stop and deinstall all the alsa stuff again. However. The wave is working. And so is the mixer, but the settings are low every time I boot the computer. According to the sound HOWTO a call to setmixer at boot time would solve the problem, but I have no such file. I have Xmixer, but as far as I know it can't set stuff from the console prompt. (cat /dev/sndstat says Operation not supported by device if that matters.) ...Well, I guess I could just add another question, which is probably simpler to answer. User root has a prompt which could look like Dwc:/usr/share#. But user diwic has only a $ (xterm says bash $), and a path would be very nice to have there too. / David -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Try lspci -v -v. It will tell you, which card you own. Look at the section name with multimedia.
AdLib ASB 64 4D IDE doesn't work
Hi, I can't get my soundcard to work. I've got an i386 with 40 Mhz and 8 MB ram running potato. The SCSI harddisk, the SCSI cdrom and the floppy drives are connected to the Adaptec 1542 CF (dma = 5, irq = 11, io = 0x330-0x333). There is no other controller (so there are no seriel ports and no parallel ports). The soundcard is an AdLib ASB 64 4D IDE with the Crystal CS4232-KQ chip set. It's a plug'n'play card. Must I use isapnp? To what values must I set dma, irq and io for which device? What values are to be speciefied for modprobe when loading cs4232? modinfo -p cs4232 says that I have to set io, irq, dma, dma2, mpuio, mpuirq, synthio, synthirq. What value is right, if I don't want to use the mpu401? I've tried some values: 0x534, 0x220 or 0x388 for io, 5 for irq, 1 for dma, 0 for dma2. I cat some wav files to /dev/dsp and /dev/audio, but received noise. I've even tried alsa. alsaconf detects the card as the only plug'n'play card and then the computer hangs. I've been forced to make an hard reset. Armin
Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?
Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. That's fine.
SOLVED: eth0: unknown interface
It is fine now. My /etc/init.d/network looks like this #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 lo I added the netmask to avoid the SIOCADDRT: invalid argument message at boot time. This has been a last years subject. Thank you. Armin
SOLVED: mouse with gpm and X
I have set repeat_type= in /etc/gpm.conf. The equal sign is the last character of that line. I now have a working mouse on the console and in X. Thank you. Armin
eth0: unknown interface
Hi, At boot potato gives me this message eth0: unknown interface: No such device I guess that eth0 is an interface for ethernet cards. I don't have one. So I don't need this message. What can I do against it? Is there a package which I can delete? Armin
Re: quick latex question
Foo \hfill bar \\
Re: Can't type in X
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 09:13:19AM -0700, Raphael Clancy wrote: Here's my sad story. To start, I have the worst video card ever... It's based on SiS 530 chipset. It's built on to the mother board oad uses 8 megs of system memory for graphics, of course it uses the first 8 megs, so any calls to memory have to be routed around the graphics, which is slooow. SiS is pretty cool, (even if they license their chips to hacks) They provide a version of XF86_SVGA which supports the 530, which just drops into the /usr/X11R6/bin/ directory and works fine. The problem is that it requires xfree86 3.3.5. I'm running slink which comes with 3.3.2(?), so I head off to http://www.xfree.org and grab the latest binaries and install them which goes pretty smoothly, after I find that I need to install the regframe lib. Then I drop in the SiS version of XF86_SVGA run the config and everything works great... Anyway here is the problem. A couple of days ago reading a post here I saw that xf86 3.3.5 was availible from Vincet's slink-update area so not being the smartest monkey, I decide that it would be great if my packages actually reflected my system. so I added the site to my list did an apt-get dist-upgrade. and it pulled down the files, installed and everything seemed to go ok I dropped in the SiS version of XF86_SVGA and as it was mighty late I went to sleep, however, when I restarted my system, it hung while loading the x font server (xfs). Using a rescue disk I was able to get into the system and remove the xfs entry from rc2.d . then I used apt-get to install the truetype sever (xftts). I rebooted, and it went just fine everything loaded, and wdm poped up, however, I was unable to type anything into the login box. in fact, my whole keyboard was dead with the caps-lock and numlock keys disabled (ie I could not make the LEDs turn on...) So that's where I sit... I can telnet to the machine, and all the gui functions work but I can't type. Suggestions? Check your mouse configuration. If you have told X that there is a mouse, but there isn't or it's another one, you are not able to type in anything. This normally happens when you forget to plug in your mouse after you done anything with your hardware. Armin
Re: Newbie question floppy format
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 06:47:16PM +, julie wright wrote: Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink? Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not work. Returned error - command not found. Thanks for any help in advance. JRW mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0
Reading defektive cdroms
Hi, is there a utility to read even defektive cdrom images? Armin
Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont
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lilo boot from scsi
Hi, I've got the Gigabyte GA-6BXE motherboard with Award BIOS v4.51PG, two IBM DTTA IDE hard disks, the Symbios 53c875E SCSI-to-PCI hostadapter, one IBM DORS-32160 and two IBM DCAS-34330 SCSI hard disks. I've installed linux on the two IDE disks and Windows 98 on the DORS. the DORS is my first SCSI disk on the Symbios. I would like to boot Windows from floppy disk using lilo. I've managed to do so on my old i386. But I failed on this system. My lilo.conf look like that: boot=/dev/fd0 map=/floppy/map linear image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 label=linux read-only other=/dev/sda1 table=/dev/sda label=dos I've even tried to remap the disk and added map-drive=0x80 to=0x82 map-drive=0x82 to=0x80 to the other= section. I always get the LILO: prompt and type in dos. Then the nothing happens and I have to reboot the system. Can you help me? Armin
printer accounting
Hello, can you suggest me a software for printer accounting, please? Armin
Re: PS/2 mouse rolling away
But I had never heard of mice dying like that, nor had I lost one in the last 5 or so years. What causes it? Hi Jonathan, my mouse is new. It's two weeks old. Armin
soundcard too silent
Hi, how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? Armin
Re: ide-scsi support
M SCSI support M SCSI disk support M SCSI CD-ROM support M SCSI generic support Don't compile them as modules. Compile them into the kernel. I've never managed even to compile these modules. I got errors. Armin
PS/2 mouse rolling away
Hi, my logitech ps/2 mouse behaves oddly. Sometimes, the pointer rolls to the top or bottom of the screen when pressing a button while moving left or right in X and on console. I can stop this by moving the mouse. But I can't play quake with this mouse. Armin
[solved] [off topic] installing linux form source
Hi, thanks for all your replies. I've installed the debian packages for Xfree86 3.3.3.1 from netgod.net/x on slink. X is fine now and I'm happy again. Thank you Armin
[off topic] installing linux from scratch
Hi, can anybody tell where to find information on how to install linux from c source code. Currently I'm using Debian. Debian is fine. But there is no support for my Riva TNT chipset in X 3.3.2.3. So I've installed version 3.3.3.1 from source to /usr/local. Now there are many very anoying problems with the dpkg dependency check, when installing application for X. dpkg won't let me install twm without installing xbase, etc. before. dpkg is missing an option to tell it, that an package has been installed by hand and there is no need to install the .deb package. I'm using very few package. Propably it's an option for me, to install linux from source code. My /usr/local is bigger then /usr. Armin
antialiasing for xterm fonts
Hi, is there a variant of xterm witch uses font antialiasing like xdvi? Armin
Re: EBCDIC -- ASCII|ANSI ???
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:28:40AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: Looking for something like beav that is more stream based. Ideas? It needs to unpack packed fields and correctly translate binary fields too. To translate EBCDIC to ASCII or ANSI use 'recode'.
Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:19:58AM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) Use 'tar xIf aaa.tar.bz2' in slink. The 'I' is for bzip2.
LaTeX: multicol.sty
Hi, which debian package provides the latex multicol environment? Has it been replaced by another one? Armin
Dawicontrol DC2975U
Hi, which kernel driver has to be used for the Dawicontrol DC2975U SCSI-PCI adapter? Armin
Re: getting out of fvwm
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:28:11PM +0800, Barry Kauler wrote: I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux! I got X windows running, with default window manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight into graphics mode and gave me a login window for fvwm. In Red Hat, this is controlled by /etc/inittab, which sets the initial runlevel to 3. 5 is required to launch X. In Debian, inittab has default runlevel set to 2, so why is it launching straight into fvwm? Does anyone know what config file needs to be changed so I can login to commandline only? Also when I exit from fvwm, refuses to exit to the commandline. I'm back at that darn login window again. Even ctrl-alt-backspace won't get me out. Hi Barry, ctrl-alt-f2 switches to the command line. alt-f7 switches back to X. Armin
Re: Boot probblem with xdm
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:23:34AM -0500, shadowze wrote: My install was going just fine until until I installed X on and ran the XF86 setup. Was curious about it. I can hand edit the xf86.cfg if needed or run the xf86config. During the setup, my bus mouse wasnt recognized so I quit the set up and on the next boot I guess xdm was written and now I cant log in through the x screen. Is there a way to stop the boot process before xdm starts? If not I guess I will have to reinstall. Im on the digest and not on USER so make sure Im cc:'d. Thanks in advance. Hi Robert, you can press Control+ALT+F2 to switch from X to the console. Press Alt+F7 to go back. Armin
Re: Boot probblem with xdm
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:53:12AM -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: How can I turn xdm off so that I can directly boot into a console and and then run startx to get to X? Hi, in slink, you have to uninstall xdm. In hamm, you have to add the line no-start-xdm to /etc/X11/xconfig. I don't use xdm. I always start X with xinit. So I can set the color depth to the value I need each time. Armin
Diamond Viper 550
Hi, I will get a Diamond Viper 550 graphics card, soon. Which is the best Xserver for it? Which X version do you recommend? Armin
Re: latex and memory related
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, Shao Zhang wrote:
Hi,
I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file.
The file looks like this:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\unitlength}{4144sp}%
%
\begingroup\makeatletter\ifx\SetFigFont\undefined%
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\fontfamily{#3}\fontseries{#4}\fontshape{#5}%
\selectfont}%
\fi\endgroup%
\begin{picture}(3804,2679)(2104,-5338)
\thinlines
\special{ps: gsave 0 0 0
setrgbcolor}\put(2116,-5326){\framebox(3780,2655){}}
\special{ps: gsave 0 0 0
setrgbcolor}\put(3331,-4786){\framebox(1395,1620){}}
\end{picture}
\end{document}
But, the latex command used about 70MB ram when it process the file,
and the dvips used just about the same ram. See below:
3916 shao 10 0 85788 83M 580 R 0 93.3 66.7 3:13 dvips
Is this normal?? What is the recommanded way to export the stuff from
xfig to latex??
Save your graphics as Encapsulated PostScript (eps).
Add
\usepackage{epsfig}
to the document's head.
Put your graphic with
\epsfig{file=filename}
I've heared of a latex package which can load a lot of common picture
formats. But I don't know its name. Sorry.
There is a disavantage in doing so. Text in your graphic is displayed not
in the latex font and/or in another size.
Armin
useable hardware
Hi, I'd like to get a new computer. I haven't found some components at the Hardware Compatiblity Howto. Can you tell me wether the listed hardware is supported? Can you even tell me if it is succested to use? - ELSA Erazer II, 16 mb, Riva TNT chipset Is 16 mb enough for a resolution of 1600 x 1280 x 24? - cdrom LiteOn 40x, AT-IDE Does linux boot from this cdrom at installation time? - hard disk IBM DTTA 351010 Is this fast ultra dma ide supported by linux? Or should I better use a scsi cdrom and scsi disks? Scsi is more expensive, not much faster, but easier to maintain. Armin
HTML formatter
Hi, is there a program that formats html source code. I would like to have a pretty printer for HTML just like 'indent' does with c source code. Armin
net-pf-19
Hi, I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.5. At boot it prints modeprobe: can't find module net-pf-19 two times. What's missing? Armin
fetchmail is slow
Hi, fetchmail is so slow. It takes so long 'til all my mail is downloaded. Can I speed it up? Armin
mailing offline
Hi, I use exim and mutt. I get my mail on demand with fetchmail. I'd like to send mails even when I'm offline. Is it possible to store those mails locally until I hookup to an ISP and having them send then? Armin
SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
Hi, Booting Slink with Linux 2.2.5 kernel I get the message SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument after mounting the file systems. What does this mean? Looks like an error, doesn't it? Armin
Re: fetchmail is slow
It's faster to compress /var/mail/armin and ftp it. I hoped, that someone knows some options to make fetchmail work faster. On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 07:05:16AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: Fetchmail is working fine here -- Hey, I used it just now to download your original mail. Sure its not your connection to the mailserver being slow? On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: fetchmail is so slow. It takes so long 'til all my mail is downloaded. Can I speed it up?
kernel 2.2.5 symlinks
Hi,
the README for Linux 2.0.36 kernel tells me, that /usr/include/{asm,linux,scsi}
should be symlinks to /usr/src/linux/include/{asm,linux,scsi}, respectively.
They aren't. They are normal directories. That's wrong, isn't it? The
installation of Slink has done so.
I've upgraded to Linux 2.2.5 kernel. Its README doesn't say anything about
those symlinks. But I've problems to compile some libraries. Someone
told me, that this can be caused by different versions of installed
includes or libraries, that don't fit together.
Must I delete the directories /usr/include/{arm,linux,scsi} and replace
them with those symlinks?
Armin
Re: Can not mail to myself
I can't send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (that's my login). That's not good, because fetchmail likes to do so. What must I do to bring this in order? Too little information. Try again, and list all your mail software, beside fetchmail. Do you run sendmail, exim, or some other package? Can you send mail to just armin (no @)? or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? use the command hostname if you don't know your machine's name. If one of these other addresses work, change your .fetchmailrc to use that instead. You can get plenty of info about programs by using the man command. (i.e. man fetchmail for info on fetchmail and so on.) I'm running slink with kernel 2.2.5. I use exim. There is no other mail software installed. I can send mail to armin and to [EMAIL PROTECTED] lebowski is the hostname. Sure, I've read the manual page of exim and fetchmail. But a manpage is more a reference than an introduction for an newbie. I've even looked into my ~/.fetchmailrc. The recipient was given as armin. The error message was: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ fetchmail Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 message for wegner at ldv.uni-trier.de (2454 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (470 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to armin! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from ldv.uni-trier.de fetchmail: Query status=10 I've configured exim with eximconf to local delivery and edited ~/.fetchmailrc by hand. I have added is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. fetchmail works now. Nevertheless I tested to mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following mail has been returned: From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Apr 15 17:02:18 1999 Received: from mail by lebowski with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 10Xnek-4o-00; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:02:18 +0200 X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:02:18 +0200 Status: RO Content-Length: 701 Lines: 23 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unrouteable mail domain localhost -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from armin by lebowski with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 10Xnek-4k-00; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:02:18 +0200 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:02:18 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Test Nr. C Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Test Nr. C Why can't I mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Armin
Re: latex cannot typeset a german \SS
Hi,
add
\usepackage{german}
to your document head and use
s
to generate a ß. If your document is in an other language you can
use the babel package.
Add
\usepackage[german,english]{babel}
instead of
\usepackage{german}
English is the normal style then. If you like to quote german text
you can change the language for a whole paragraph and more with
\selectlanguage{german}
quote some german sentences and switch back to english with
\selectlanguage{english}
Don't forget to switch back.
With the babel package it should also be possible to use
s
without switching the language. You can type Umlaute with
a
for ä and so on.
Armin
What is x11amp?
What is the program x11amp good for?
Can not mail to myself
Hi, I can't send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (that's my login). That's not good, because fetchmail likes to do so. What must I do to bring this in order? Armin
libraries documentations
Hi, there are a lot of nice libraries in /usr, but where are the documentations for the c/c++ libraries? Armin
cut-and-paste mouse problem
Hi, I've got a three button logitec mouse. when I click the middle mouse button the cut buffer is printed several times to the xterm prompt instead of one time only. How can I change this? Armin
Re: Mount for normal user
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 02:25:41PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: How can I mount devices (CDrom / HD) as a normal user. For example : $ mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb mount: only root can mount /dev/hdb on /mnt/hdb I've tried to add my user (sami) to some groups, but... : sys:x:3:sami adm:x:4:sami disk:x:6:sami lp:x:7:lp,sami mail:x:8:sami voice:x:22:sami cdrom:x:24:sami floppy:x:25:sami sudo:x:27:sami audio:x:29:mary,sami majordom:x:31:majordom Where is any help about Debian's groups... ? However, How to remove user from groups (without VI) and is there a way to have all root permission without being root (UID 0) because some programs don't want to run as root ? You have to add some mount options to the appropriate line in /etc/fstab. These are described in the manual page to mount. Type 'man mount' and read. Armin
Couldn't open /dev/fb0
Hi, I have installed 'ggiheretic' and 'vgaheretic'. When I first started one of both on the console I have been told that /dev/fb0 was missing. I have created it with 'MAKEDEV framebuffer'. Now I get the message display-fbdev: Couldn't open framebuffer device /dev/fb0: Operation not supported by device What does this mean? Armin
Re: Debian CD Resellers?
I am looking for somebody selling Debian CD sets containing beside the official images the non-free (the part which is freely redirstributable) and especially nonUS. Cheapbytes announced the nonfree section, but they do not ship nonUS. try www.linuxmall.com www.linuxcentral.com Of course, no US-based vendor is going to ship non-US to Rainer who's domain is .de; that's the whole point of non-US. Have a look at www.lob.de.
Re: Debian CD Resellers?
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 12:45:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, no US-based vendor is going to ship non-US to Rainer who's domain is .de; that's the whole point of non-US. you sure? I thought they wouldn't ship non-US to someone whose domain is a US based one. For instance, pgp, from outside the US we need to get it as pgp-i from non-US, whereas from within the US you'll get plain pgp ... which does not belong to non-US. Of course, a different issue is whether a US based vendor may ship ANY crypto related program outside the US borders. Get it with ftp from a german debian site. There is a directory call non-US. It is not to big. Armin
Re: Couldn't open /dev/fb0
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 01:35:28PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 12:13:52 +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: display-fbdev: Couldn't open framebuffer device /dev/fb0: Operation not supported by device What does this mean? Most likely that you don't run a 2.2.x kernel, or run a 2.2.x kernel without framebuffer support compiled in. That's it. How to compile framebuffer support in the kernel? Where to get the sources?
which graphic card and processor
Hi, Can I use the ELSA ERAZOR II and the ATI EXPERT 98 graphic card with X Window? Are there drivers? Can I use the AMD K6 processor with debian? What graphic card and processor do you recommend? Thanks a lot, Armin
Re: Help - a very little problem with latex
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:17:18AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I did a lot of research on this, but still cannot find the solution. I want to print a , or a in latex. But when I view them in ps format, it displays the strange symbol(a question mark upside down). From what I read from the books, there is no need to do anything special. What am I doing wrong? Try $$ instead of , and $$ instead of . The $ (string) sign switches math mode. Armin
size of swap
Hi, I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? Thanks, Armin
sun sparc 10 /sda3 whole disk
Hi, I'm trying to install debian on a sun sparc 10. When I klick on Initialize a Linux Partition, I'm set back to choose the color. I think that it has something to do with the third partition wich is of type whole disk. I removed this partition to look what happens. Now I can initialize linux partition starting with partition 4. But I would like to start with partition 1 which is root. Partition 2 is swap. Any ideas? Armin
partitions for sun sparc 10
I would like to install debian on a sun sparc 10 with 64 megs and 4 gigs of disk space. How many partitions can I create? Are there primary and extended partitions? There are following partitions on the system now. /root 128.25 MB /swap 128.25 MB /var128.25 MB /opt128.25 MB /usr128.25 MB /usr/local 1.13 GB /home 2.26 GB Can you give me some hints, please? Armin
Re: HP LaserJet IIIp configuration
I've got a HP LaserJet IIIp and chosen hpjet3 in magicfilterconfig. But when printing my LaTeX files with dvips the left margin is greater than I told to. Can you help me. I don't use magicfilter myself, but could it be that it is configured for letter paper whereas you are sending it A4? No, it's not. But I removed :px#1440 in /etc/printcap. It's better now.
HP LaserJet IIIp configuration
I've got a HP LaserJet IIIp and chosen hpjet3 in magicfilterconfig. But when printing my LaTeX files with dvips the left margin is greater than I told to. Can you help me.
SoundBlaster card configuration
Hello everybody, having problems with your SoundBlaster card. I recommend to recompile the kernel and to set the irq, ports, etc. Don't forget to say yes to the sound devices. I know, compiling the kernel is not the easiest thing and eats time, but it's worth this. Your new kernel perfectly fits your system. I've never had any problems with sound doing it this way. Possibly, there are parameters to give at the boot prompt wich serve this purpose as well, but I don't know them. Can you tell me about that?
Re: Soundcard under LInux ?
It is a PnP (but this doesn't make anything under Linux I think) Soundblaster- Compatiable-Card and it runs very well under DOS and Windows. Their it uses the default values (IRQ:5 or 7; Port 220 etc.). How can I configure it under Linux ? Must I make a device with MAKEDEV? How can I use it under KDE 1.0 or FVWM95 ? What is the BPLAY - Program ? Is there any other program which I can use for sound under Linux ? Recompile the kernel with the settings you gave. I've done so and never had any problems with sound.
Re: SCSI_error with ncr53c8xx
HTML BODY BGCOLOR=#FF After repartitioning my harddisk I wanted to reinstall hamm (2.0 r1). BRWhen I used dselect to install the packages I got the following error message BRwhile unpacking Xemacs20.4: PTTscsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 26898, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0, lun/TT BRTT0 Write (6) 1b 90 b0 f4 00/TT BRTTncr53c8xx_abort: pid=26898 serial_number=26918 serial_number_at_timeout=26918/TT BRTT/TTnbsp;TT/TT PTTAfter repeating the installation procedure the same message/TT BRTToccured at a different package. The problem is, that the system hangs completely./TT BRTTCould anybody help me?//TT PTTGunnar./TT /BODY /HTML Try the BSD driver for your scsi controller.
Re: root telnet
How to make telnetd accept root login ? Do not do that. Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Filenames vfat-fs
I mounted on my notebook the win95-partition as shown: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win95 -t vfat It seems to be with no problems. But in each win95 is a directory named Program Files. I can't change in this dir, because it's a space in the filename. Has it a way to change in this dir - other than mount the partition as ... -t msdos where this dir is named Progra~1? Thanks Matthias Try cd Program\ Files or cd Program Files You have to tell the shell that the space is part of the directory name. Do this by escaping the space, so it's no longer interpreted as a field separator by the shell, or make a single string out the directory name.
Re: Setting Prompt
OK, I did a search in Debian user's and came up with the the following to change my prompt: In /etc/profile I added the line, export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' This is the readout I got, crossyourfingers:~$ This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ I tried several other combinations, a few I tried, \w\ \w:\w\ None of these worked. Here is what my /etc/profile looks like: ~:$ cat /etc/profile # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/netscape:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/kent export PATH PS1 export PS1='\w:\\$ ' setleds -D +num$ umask 002 /usr/bin/check-sendfile What am I doing wrong here? I just want my prompt, as a regular user, to look something like this: /home/kent $ As root my prompt has the working directory listed. Where is the file for the root prompt? Maybe I could just look there and figure out how to set my regular user prompt? Thanks, Look if there is an environment variable PROMPT_COMMAND. If it is set, it blocks the use of PS1. Modify PROMPT_COMMAND or delete it. Take a look at the manual page of bash, first.
X keyboard mapping
I would like to switch between two keyboard mappings - us and german - whenever I need to. I've written two input files for xmodmap, accordingly. These are correct. I typed xmodmap file but nothing happend. I can remember that this worked some installations before. What could be the fault? Are there any other methods of keyboard layout switching under X? Armin
-- MARK --
Every twenty minutes my xconsole writes a string consisting of date and time, my hostname and the string -- MARK --. What does this mean? This is new and I can't remember when it first happened and what it caused to do so.
