Re: MouseMan ??
* Christopher W. Aiken in Re: MouseMan ?? dated 2001/06/18 21:17 * wrote: Thanks Hall. I got the mouse up and running (bothe Debian FreeBSD) except for the wheel. I would assume that the wheel is used to scroll up and down in lieu of the scroll bars in an apt such as Netscape. I did add the Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 to my XF86Config file but the only thing I can use the wheel for is clicking like a middle mouse button. Any ideas? I have the non-optical version of this mouse working with these settings: Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Drivermouse OptionDevice/dev/psaux OptionProtocolMouseManPlusPS/2 OptionButtons 6 OptionZAxisMapping5 6 OptionSendCoreEvents true EndSection and this in .xmodmap: pointer = 1 6 3 2 4 5 The thing to remember is that the wheel counts as two buttons and for X apps to recognize it then they must be buttons 4 and 5, I've set up the thumb button to be the middle button since I have a problem with moving the wheel when I try to click it to paste. -- creaky halls pgpo4J6qnsvUh.pgp Description: PGP signature
RealPlayer Proxying?
Is there something I can use to proxy realplayer requests through my firewall? I seem to remember that real.com used to have a proxy w/source available on their site but all I can find now is their 4000 US$ proxy engine. Surely there's something else/better available. -- really shack pgpbWcOfNnykW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RealPlayer Proxying?
* Timothy H. Keitt in Re: RealPlayer Proxying? dated 2001/06/18 13:30 * wrote: You can sometimes use an http proxy. Check the http-only buttons in the realplayer config. Tried that, but I'm looking for something geared specifically for real and etc. -- shaky cellar pgpuRpFrEkyFT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: still problems w/ horde/imp
* Mario Olimpio de Menezes in Re: still problems w/ horde/imp dated * 2000/08/16 15:41 wrote: On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: - Potato's php3-pgsql is linked against libpq from Postgresql 6.5.3, which may not be compatible with Postgresql 7.0.2; if you are using the potato php3-pgsql, have you checked for success reports with this combination from other users? I'm grabbing the sources to recompile php3 with libpq from postgresql 7.0.2. What version of php do you have installed, the one from woody (3.0.16-4) is compiled against PostgreSQL 7.0.2 -- ashley clark pgpJDEA10g7NG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Seriously screwed up PostgreSQL. 8-(
* Adam Scriven in Seriously screwed up PostgreSQL. 8-( dated * 2000/08/16 08:54 wrote: Hey all. Hey, Is there any way for me to completely remove all references to postgresql from my system, and then do a completely clean apt-get install postgresql (and the other tools, -contrib, -client, -doc), and have it actually work? I'm nervous that, in my blind fumbling, I've gone and completely screwed up something. As root, dpkg --purge libpgsql2 pgaccess postgresql postgresql-client \ postgresql-doc postgresql-pl ... Continue with whatever other packages were installed. Then you can apt-get install postgresql and start over. -- shaky caller pgpOWyFelr47H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bug in xmms? dependencies?
* Robert Waldner in bug in xmms? dependencies? dated 2000/08/16 15:09 * wrote: Hi! Hi. [waldner:~] xmms libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I removedreinstalled xmms, but to no effect, so I looked for the package containing libGL.so.1 (mesag3-glide2) and manually installed it. Now it's fint, but I don't know if I should file this as a bug or if I've done something wrong. Well, the problem is that xmms recommends libgl1, apt doesn't automatically install recommended packages. It's only recommended because you only need it to use some (one?) of the visualization plugins. IIRC. -- hacker sally pgpOMpD9rbw30.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: still problems w/ horde/imp
* Mario Olimpio de Menezes in still problems w/ horde/imp dated
* 2000/08/15 15:02 wrote:
Hi,
Hi
I also put the corresponding lines in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini
for dynamic extensions (pgsql.so).
It should have at least:
extension=pgsql.so
extension=imap.so
and possibly:
extension=ldap.so
However, when I try to connect to my webmail server, I get
Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_pconnect() in
/etc/horde/db_pgsql.inc on line 40
Did you restart Apache? /etc/init.d/apache restart
Does somebody know what's going on here?
I have:
php3-pgsql, php3, postgresql*-7.0.2 (deb's), horde/imp (from potato,
last release), etc.
Sounds right, I've got php3, php3-{imap,ldap,pgsql}, postgresql-7.0.2,
horde, imp.
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Re: vmware
* techlists in vmware dated 2000/08/07 11:47 wrote: I downloaded the tar ball of Vmware, I'm running potato. I ran the install script, and it ran fine until the config. It said that their were no suitable modules, and it would have to compile them. I said yes, but it couldn't find the correct directory for the C header files. What is the correct directory? I did a search and I found what I thought was the correct directories, under /usr/include I'm guessing this was wrong, because I got alot of errors. Can any one help? You need the source to whatever version of the kernel you're running. This usually goes under /usr/src/linux. If you're running a stock kernel you can get the kernel-source-x.x.x package for your kernel-image-x.x.x and I think that should be all you need. Once that is done vmware should work beautifully, I use it here all the time. -- hackers ally pgpSIbGclhMM8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86 4.0.1 from source
* Dave Wilk in XFree86 4.0.1 from source dated 2000/07/31 18:51 * wrote: Howdy folks, I successfully compiled XFree 4.0.1 from source with some very helpful suggestions from a /. post. I've compiled alot of source, but never anything this big. anyway, it went fine, everything in /usr/local/X11R6/ and all the configs are fine and I even get the xserver to start and initialize everything just fine except one thing. Even though I installed the fonts, and they exist in their respective dirs. (under /usr/local/X11R6/) I still get the following errors: Could not init font path element /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! Check your XF86Config file for these lines: Section Module Load freetype Load type1 EndSection These add freetype and type1 support to your server, there's probably equivalent lines for Speedo fonts, I don't know. -- really hacks pgpe8db7jssqf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I need help please
* Melissa Stirling in I need help please dated 2000/07/18 10:22 * wrote: I have a customer who would like to purchase a Toshiba from me and intends to run Debian Linux as the operating system. His question is this: He will either buy the Satellite Pro 4320 or 4270 which have with an AGP or PCI 3D Savage graphics card built in, does Debian support this hardware please? To the programs running there's not much difference between AGP/PCI but the S3 Savage is listed in the XFree cards database, so yes it should work. He also intends to use a 3Com PCMCIA 10/100BaseT Ethernet card with it to, model no. 3CCFE575BT. Do you know if this is also supported? I've had only good luck with the 3Com PCMCIA cards, so I would suspect it will work w/no problem. You should look at the Linux Laptop page (url not handy) for some real information though. -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgpTfPrQvOWy1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Enlightenment and X
* Sven Burgener in Re: Enlightenment and X dated 2000/07/18 21:13 * wrote: Hello Yet more Qs: 1) How to get the middle mouse working in enlightenment? I had it working under KDE before. (Logitech PS/2 mouse) Are you starting X differently? xdm vs. startx maybe? But it should be defined in your /etc/X11/XF86Config, meaning it should work whether you're using KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, fvwm, or any other WM. 2) How do I choose backgrounds from those -theme-whatever packages? They are installed, yet I can't find a way to choose them. It seems I cannot do that in Desktop Background Settings. When I click my middle mouse button and go to the Desktop menu there is an option called backgrounds. This menu is built when E starts based on the files under ~/.enlightenment/backgrounds, so you can place any personal images there and restart E to have it load them. -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgpRHGX52kGwV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Enlightenment and X
* Sven Burgener in Re: Enlightenment and X dated 2000/07/18 21:18 * wrote: 1) Is there any browser I can use in enlightenment? I dont particularly *like* Netscape, so are there any other options? (not lynx - I *need* / want graphics) You can try Mozilla, I've been using the one in woody now for the last couple of months with only a few annoyances. Mainly, secure sites don't work and occasionally if I push it hard enough it will come tumbling down. 2) Is there any way to 'enhance' mutt slightly within X? I mean, do you guys just start it within a console in X or what? Personally I use a translucent Eterm that automatically starts mutt with some predefined menus, look in the /usr/share/Eterm/themes/mutt directory for an example to start with. -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgpM9TSQg5XwU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX Gigabyte mainboard
* Conrado Badenas in BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX * Gigabyte mainboard dated 2000/07/17 19:02 wrote: Hi, all! Is anyone out there who owns a GA-5AX (rev 5.x) gigabyte mainboard? I would like to know the best BIOS and hardware configuration for my system. Now I cannot compile linux kernel because of signal 11 raises (Segmentation fault). I've read the Signal 11 FAQ (http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/) and I need some help. I don't own a GA-5AX but I might be able to help. The system characteristics follow: CPU: AMD-K6-2/450 (2.4 V) (dmesg says AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c) SPEED: 100MHz (external) x4.5=450MHz (internal) DRAM: 1 DIMM of 128Mb (10 ns, I think) (How can I know it?) If it is 10ns it will probably not work on a 100MHz bus. I've only seen one 10ns stick work out of about a dozen, and it only worked for about a week. You can try one of the memory tester programs in the hwtools package to see if it is a problem with your memory, errors should start showing up very quickly. About identifying it, if you look at the chips usually the last number will be the speed, eg. WTC626812B-10 is a 10ns chip, I believe my 8ns chips say something -8. Hopefully yours follows suit. Kernel compilation is not the only sympthom: sometimes the X11 server caughts signal 11 and exists, which is VERY annoying (good spelling?). It probably is your memory. The memory is overclocked and will sometimes (usually?) return bad data, which can be, well, bad. -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgp5QfY58QXwd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Monitoring program
* Brian Schramm in Monitoring program dated 2000/07/17 14:25 wrote: Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine? I control machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will do what I want. Why don't you turn off booting from floppy in the BIOS? -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgpT7QaQnu7xw.pgp Description: PGP signature
strange log messages
When I'm running vmware I get these strange log messages, should I worry about them, are they deadly? My machine has 160 meg and vmware is setup to allocate 64M for vmware clients. Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid... Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for vmware... Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for rpc.nfsd... Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for apache... Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for vmware... -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgpGPjz0SshfJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: strange log messages
* Moritz Schulte in Re: strange log messages dated 2000/07/18 01:33 * wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:35:28PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid... which kernel? 2.2.16 or early 2.2.17pre's? it's a known bug in them. upgrading to the last 2.2.17pre should solve the problem. 2.2.16. But is it a serious problem, or can I just wait until 2.2.17 is final? -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgpmTAga1XGwH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Stopping screen blank out.
* Marshal Wong in Stopping screen blank out. dated 2000/07/16 01:13 * wrote: Sorry for the newbieness of this question, but how does one stop the screen blank out in Woody. The reason is that I want to watch some VCDs, except after 10 minutes or so, the screen blanks. When I go to wake it up, the X server locks (and crashes and burns horribly.) I have no screen savers running. I tried setterm -powersave off, but under X it doesn't do anything. I'm using X under gdm. Any suggestions? man 1 xset ;- But seriously, xset s off, will turn off screensaving and if you have DPMS turned on you might want to turn it off, or make the delay longer with the xset dpms commands. FYI, setterm only affects the console. -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgp02cA8ENfPv.pgp Description: PGP signature
automated data distribution
I'm trying to find some software that will work with Linux to facilitate automatic data distribution across a Win9x/NT network. Does anything like this exist for Linux? Preferably Free (speech, not beer) but I'll take any suggestions. It's for distributing a custom warranty application at a networked office I help out at. I'd really like something clean, am I just going to have do something with logon scripts under Samba? or is there another way? -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgpdLflg1h0WH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: logrotate rotating too much
* Sven Burgener in logrotate rotating too much dated 2000/07/08 12:43 * wrote: Hi all Hi My logrotate contains a section for exim's main log file: Strange... my logrotate doesn't even mention exim, exim does it's log rotation in a cron.daily/exim script here, do you have both? Why though does it compress exim's other log files, too?! The cron.daily/exim script rotates mainlog, rejectlog and paniclog by default using savelog (from debianutils). -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgp9TNlI90YpJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Font corruption under X
* Mike Werner in Font corruption under X dated 2000/07/08 19:36 * wrote: Hiya folks. Some time back I started having a strange and sporadic problem with the displayed fonts in X becoming corrupted. Recently it started happening more often. I've not been able to determine what causes it, but it happens more easily when Netscape is running. I don't think I could describe what happens to the fonts, so I won't try. Instead, I got a screenshot of it. It's at: http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~mwerner/netscape.jpg Heh, I had that problem too, a while back. Recently, if I copy a URL using the mouse from an xterm (actually, it's rxvt that I use) and then paste it into Netscape's URL window the font corruption happens almost immediately. If it doesn't happen immediately, scrolling up and down a few times with the Page-Up and Page-Down keys will trigger it. Mine was never that consistent though. However, I'm just about positive it's *not* Netscape's fault. I've had this font corruption happen even if Netscape is not running. It's happened with FileRunner, mutt (running in an rxvt window), mc (also in an rxvt window), and even just in rxvt at a prompt. There may have even been other apps that it's happened with - the 4 listed are the one's I use the most. I've also determined that it happens whether I have Gnome running or not. And I just tried with a different window manager - I usually am using Sawfish under Gnome, installed blackbox and tried under that - with the same results. It would seem that the fault is with X itself somewhere, but I have no idea where. And since I've no idea where to look next I'm not sure what to do next. I came to the same conclusion that it had to be something in the X server but what exactly I don't know. I'm running woody up-to-date as of 5 minutes ago, kernel 2.2.16, PII 300MHz, 64 megs RAM, Helix Gnome / Sawfish. What video card are you using? I noticed this on a cheap S3 Virge/something (dx i think), upgrading my video card to a Matrox G200 seems to have solved the problem so I suspect it had something to do with the S3V implementation of the SVGA X server, but I'm still only guessing. -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgpT2d9Excw95.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: folders and mutt
* Sven Burgener in Re: folders and mutt dated 2000/06/19 20:33 wrote: On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 11:25:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Put all your mail somewhere like a ~/mail directory; then tell procmail (or an exim filter) to put inbox mail in ~/mail/inbox, and your other folders are stored as files in ~/mail. You can subdivide folders into groups by using subdirectories. Done so. I also added the following to my .procmailrc: DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/mbox Now, as mutt reads $MAIL by default, I would like to know how to change this behaviour. * man 5 muttrc | spoolfile | Type: path | Default: | | If your spool mailbox is in a non-default place where Mutt | cannot find it, you can specify its location with this variable. | Mutt will automatically set this variable to the value of the | environment variable MAIL if it is not set. 'c' in mutt changes from one folder to another. Have a look at the 'mailboxes' .muttrc command to designate several folders as ones in which you expect to receive incoming mail, then hitting 'c' will select the next folder with new mail by default. For this, I have the following in my .muttrc: mailboxes $HOME/Mail/mbox mailboxes $HOME/Mail/debian-user mailboxes $HOME/Mail/debian-isp mailboxes $HOME/Mail/debian-firewall mailboxes $HOME/Mail/debian-user-de You can also specify this in your .muttrc: set folder=~/Mail mailboxes ! +mbox +debian-user +debian-isp +debian-etc ... Funnily tho, when hitting TAB, I get a listing of the _directory_ ~/Mail. This way I also see my procmail logfile which I don't want to see when I browse through my mails; besides I didn't add it to my mailboxes in .muttrc... Isn't this weird or am I just doing something fundamentally wrong here? :) You can save your procmail logfile into a .procmail directory off your $HOME: PROCMAILDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PROCMAILDIR/procmail.log You can also do this little trick in your .procmailrc: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEBIAN=$MAILDIR/debian :0: * ^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ^X-Loop: debian-\/[EMAIL PROTECTED] $DEBIAN/$MATCH To automatically split any [EMAIL PROTECTED] emails to $HOME/Mail/debian/* Procmail has a lot of flexibility and if you want I'll send you my procmail rules which do neat things like eliminating duplicate messages based on Message-ID headers and fix archaic PGP message formats (---BEGIN PGP MESSAGE--- ... ---END ...---) I get to like mutt more and more every day. Me too. -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgpuqPH0TTu4Q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: what upgrades require reboot?
* Brian Stults in what upgrades require reboot? dated 2000/06/06 14:00 wrote: I am curious about when you need to reboot after upgrading packages. I assume if I upgrade a package like gnome-libs, I should restart gnome but it won't require rebooting. On the other hand, I assume that upgrading packages like bash and libc will require a reboot. Is that true? How can I know when I should reboot or not? The only package I can think of that would require a reboot is the kernel-image packages. With Linux all user-space programs are just that, user-space, meaning that stopping and starting them is enough, no reboot required. Things that would be kernel-space are things like filesystem drivers, raid support in the kernel, c. Unfortunately MS has tainted people's views of just what exactly an operating system is and contains and requires reboots for the simplest things (ahem, network configuration)! -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL$ P L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG public keyhttp://ghoti.org/ pgpeOVwT8xTgz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: befuddled
* Stan Kaufman in Re: befuddled dated 2000/05/27 08:54 wrote: If you're connecting via an ISP using DSL, you don't need to set up dhcp; pppoe does the work, and you set the configurations in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider, and etc/init.d/network. Details are in /usr/doc/pppoe/README.Debian which is installed when you install the pppoe.deb package. Just for your information, not all DSL providers use pppoe. My DSL uses DHCP, when it's up... -- Ashley Clark pgpvzUt2ghSGN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Network Cards
* Jay Kelly in RE: Network Cards dated 2000/05/26 17:52 wrote: If I have my ip addresses set in the /etc/init.d/network (for slink), then upgrade to potato, do I need to redo the ifconfig but in /etc/network/interface. I use to run slink I configures my cards in the /etc/init.d/network then I upgraded to potato. Now if I look in the /etc/network/interfaces file its empty. But when I do a ifconfig I can see both card. Will I need to transfer all the ip information over? No you don't need to redo your network settings in /etc/network/interfaces. Everything will work as it did before but when you are feeling up to it there is nothing stopping you from changing to the new setup. -- Ashley Clark pgpAndzaG4Lg6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cpu arch performance
* Lee Elliott in cpu arch performance dated 2000/05/23 22:49 wrote:
Hello list(s),
Just something I noticed after setting up an x86 system after running
Debian on m68k.
The m68k system was an Amiga with an m68060/50MHz which gave a BogoMIP
rating of 99.something. The x86 system is a dual PIII 650MHz system and
it rates as 2600 BogoMIPs. This would seem to imply that on a per MHz
basis, the m68060 is the equivalent of two PIIIs.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
BogoMIPS bo'go-mips The number of million times a second a
processor can do absolutely nothing. The {Linux} OS measures
BogoMIPS at startup in order to calibrate some soft timing loops
that will be used later on; details at the BogoMIPS mini-HOWTO
(http://www.hobby.nl/~clifton). The name Linus chose, of course, is
an ironic comment on the uselessness of all _other_ {MIPS} figures.
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Re: ftp / ip_masq_ftp
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: HI Hi i am still having problems ftp'ing behind a slink masquariding firewall. I have added the module ip_masq_ftp to the kernel but that doesn't appear to have resolved anything... Do I still need a proxy?? or shall i use squid to proxy being that it is in the DMZ? Do other ports masquerade correctly, ie. 80 (http), 22 (telnet)? If not, have you turned on ip_masquerading for your kernel? I don't mean compiling it in, there's a file in /proc (I don't remember exactly where) you have to twiddle with to turn it on, something like /proc/net/ipv4/all/ip_forward (?). At least it's that way with 2.2 kernels, I forget about 2.0. Any help would be great. Hope this helps, you shouldn't need a proxy, unless you want to cache data as well. -- Ashley Clark pgpC8AZ89wfqg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Frame Buffer Modes - 2nd post
* Kevin Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ashley Clark wrote: Depends (I think), if you are using the vesafb then you are stuck with whatever mode you choose at boot-up, if you are using one of the other framebuffer drivers I *think* it is just a matter of picking the right mode number to switch to a 80x25 mode whether it be graphics or text, but it will still be through the framebuffer. You should know that I have only a limited amount of experience with Linux framebuffers on my laptop using vesafb. Hi Ashley. Thanks for the reply. I'm using vga16fb to make it generic to several system platforms - regardless of the video card within the system. Haven't had any experience with that one. I'd sort of figured that fbset was the way to go, and I even found some of the info I was looking for in the matroxfb docs (by chance and desperation). However, I haven't been able to find modes that work with the vga16fb. Back to, Use the source, Luke! thing, I think. I'm not sure if you know this already or not but there's a package, videogen, I think, that will generate fbset modelines. That might be helpful in generating them, it takes all the relevant info and spits out modelines for resolutions you define, pretty straightforward. The docs on this stuff is pretty sketchy and not all too comprehensive or friendly. I'll give you that, I was extremely lucky to have mine work, but vesafb is much easier to set up, if you have the hardware. Have you used fbset much? Not really... -- Ashley Clark pgpKPuVntPBOQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Frame Buffer Modes - 2nd post
* Kevin Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks for the post, Eric; however, I've been looking at fbset and I haven't an answer to my problem so far. The question is: Using fbset (or otherwise), how do I get back to the normal, original 80x25 character console after booting with a kernel (with lilo option) that's put the console into, say, 640x480? Can I use fbset for this? Is it possible? Depends (I think), if you are using the vesafb then you are stuck with whatever mode you choose at boot-up, if you are using one of the other framebuffer drivers I *think* it is just a matter of picking the right mode number to switch to a 80x25 mode whether it be graphics or text, but it will still be through the framebuffer. You should know that I have only a limited amount of experience with Linux framebuffers on my laptop using vesafb. -- Ashley Clark pgpEssKGii9Fg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mail: Netscape and double-trouble
* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm using potato, and just discovered the first mail clients I tried (mutt and balsa) don't provide any filtering. So I figured I'd try netscape's mail. I can't speak for balsa but you can use procmail to filter your mail to be read with mutt, it's actually pretty easy and the setup is described in the QuickStart file in the procmail package. -- Ashley Clark pgpoxQyXbi44C.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ftp problems in masquerading with WIN box
* Bill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Yes, ip_masq_ftp.o is installed in /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ does this need to be configured? and if so can you please tell me how? You'll need to load the module, you can add ip_masq_ftp to /etc/modules and then run modprobe ip_masq_ftp, that way it will be loaded now and whenever you reboot -- Ashley Clark pgpXHD3OP7aW6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: no such device as /dev/lpt1
On N¨m, 16 Ba2000, Kent West wrote: Thanks Jim, for the response. That helps clear up a couple of things. So now, when I do an insmod lp, I get this: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_ieee1284_nibble_mode_ok /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_unregister_device /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_enumerate /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_claim_or_block /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_register_device /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_wait_peripheral /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_release You should use modprobe lp to load all the dependant modules, like parport and whatever else. insmod just tries to load the module you specified while modprobe attempts to load it and any others it depends on that aren't already loaded. -- Ashley Clark
Re: Soundblaster AWE64
On N¨m, 17 Hai 2000, Michael Symalla wrote: I tried to install a Soundblaster AWE64 under Debian 2.2. The Kernel 2.2.14 is compiled with the following options: * Sound card support * OSS sound modules Additional low level sound drivers --- [*] Additional low level sound drivers * AWE32 synth But the only message I recieve from my kernel during booting is: Sound initialization started AWE32: not detected Sound initialization complete I have a SB AWE64 and it is a plugplay model. If your's is pnp as well you have to compile the sound support as modules and then use isapnp to initialize the cards many dma/io/irqs before loading the sound modules. You should also be aware that pnpdump for some reason does not detect all three io settings for the wavetable chip so you must manually add them in. I can send you my isapnp.conf file if you want to look at it. -- Ashley Clark
Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
On Hai, 17 Giªng 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. Any suggestions??? Have you checked the immutability bit with chattr, try a chattr -i fonts. But it looks like your hard drive is corrupted, I'd fsck it before trying to remove the directory/file. -- Ashley Clark
Re: error installing debconf
On Sáu, 07 Giêng 2000, Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.60 (using .../debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debconf ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package sudo with nondirectory Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) It's an easy fix to fix it, in the Makefile of the source, one line has bin where it should say sbin Patch follows: --- Makefile.orig Fri Jan 7 23:31:21 2000 +++ MakefileFri Jan 7 23:25:45 2000 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ install -d $(prefix)/usr/share/man/man3/ pod2man Client/ConfModule.pm $(prefix)/usr/share/man/man3/Debian::Debconf::Client::ConfModule.3pm # Install bins - install -d $(prefix)/usr/bin + install -d $(prefix)/usr/sbin find Client -perm +1 -type f | grep -v frontend | \ xargs -i_ install _ $(prefix)/usr/sbin -- Ashley Clark
Re: error installing debconf
On Sáu, 07 Giêng 2000, Mike Werner wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:30:17PM -0600, Ashley Clark wrote: It's an easy fix to fix it, in the Makefile of the source, one line has bin where it should say sbin But in the debconf_0.2.65_all.deb there is a *file* named /user/sbin - it's a shell script to be precise. And what the system is complaining about is that it doesn't want to replace a directory with a file. I wound up unpacking the deb into a temp directory, renaming the offending file, and rebuilding the deb. I'm not sure if it worked correctly, but it worked well Yes, the /usr/sbin file is one of two that should actually be in /usr/sbin, by changing the line in the Makefile, it creates the directory and when creating the deb file, places in it two files, dpkg-preconfig and dpkg-reconfigure. enough to let me install debconf. And that meant I could install a couple of things that had gotten stuck due to depending on debconf. You could just configure the unconfigured packages by running dpkg --configure --pending, but I'm unsure that by not installing those files whether or not that will affect other packages that depend on debconf. -- Ashley Clark
Re: IMAP authentication is broken
On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: Hello, Hello I´m running potato and up to yesterday Wednesday I was happily accessing my mail from netscape using imapd. But with the latest update I made to the system imapd always refuses to authenticate my account (however imap was not updated). From the syslog: allegro imapd[1330]: AUTHENTICATE LOGIN failure host=allegro I can login to my machine with no problems and everything else, including inetd services, is running ok. Someone suggested a PAM-related problem. If this is the case, how do I trace the problem? any other suggestions? Do you have a cram-md5.pwd file in /etc? If so, imapd as well as ipopd will look in it for passwords instead of using PAM, you can either put your passwords in the file or rename it. Look at /usr/share/doc/libc-client4.[567]/md5.txt for a more detailed explanation. -- Ashley Clark
Re: running programs as another user from menu
On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got a strange question... is there a way to add a program to the menu in kde but run as another user? I'm considering setting up a portion of my mailing lists to go to a separate user account on my home computer so that I can have two pine sessions running at the same time, one for my 'regular' mail and one for this subset of mailing lists. Is there a way I can set up a menu item that access pine from that user's point of view while being logged in as my 'default' user? Or is the only way for me to do this to open up a konsole window, telnet to localhost, log in as that user and _then_ start pine? You could use ssh and have the command be something like: ssh -t -l user2 localhost pine Then all you have to do is type in your password for user2. -- Ashley Clark
Re: the gimp?
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote: I like Debian's approach to distributing only gnu free software. But taking out gif support in the gimp is going too far IMHO. You're more than welcome to install the gimp-nonfree package if you absolutely must have compressed gif support. I prefer that the gimp is not distributed with Debian if Debian can't leave the gimp package intact. Why? I'd rather a have a completely free version with an optional nonfree module than to have to chunk the whole thing into nonfree, but that's me. -- Ashley Clark
Re: acroread broken? (potato)
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, W. Paul Mills wrote: acroread has always worked for me, xpdf and ghostview often do not! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashley Clark) writes: Have you tried xpdf, or ghostview or gv to see if the file works in any of them? I've found that the portable pdf format isn't entirely portable ;) Me too, but you never know...it's not impossible, just very improbable ;) -- Ashley Clark
Re: acroread broken? (potato)
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Having just received a very amazing CD, enjoying it on a Mac and a Windoze machine, I thought acroread would probably work with it. I get messages about compressed pdf from other pdf readers. There is some problem with graphics rendering on the potato system, and when I try to follow links, I get either a segmentation fault or some other error. When I run ldd the following happens: $ ldd /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread libreadcore.so = not found libAGM.so = not found libCoolType.so = not found libICC.so = not found libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000c000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x4004f000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4005a000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400fa000) libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40103000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40106000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x401c4000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x401cd000) $ I can't speak for the problems you're having with the PDF file but the libraries that are missing above are simply in a non-standard place. The script in /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread determines where they are/should be and sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly if you ran LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/acroread/libs ldd /linux/bin/acroread you would indeed see something like this: libreadcore.so = /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libreadcore.so (0x4000e000) libAGM.so = /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libAGM.so (0x401c8000) libCoolType.so = /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libCoolType.so (0x402e8000) libICC.so = /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libICC.so (0x40519000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x405c) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x40603000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4060e000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x406ae000) libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x406b7000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x406ba000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x40778000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40781000) Can I reasonably get this thing to work right, or am I stuck until Adobe chooses to release a binary compatible with my libaries? Or what? Have you tried xpdf, or ghostview or gv to see if the file works in any of them? I've found that the portable pdf format isn't entirely portable ;) -- Ashley Clark
Re: How do I tell Debian database about a program?
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Ray Schultz wrote: A friend and myself are setting up a Debian server for our LUG. It is based on 2.1. Except my friend wanted to custom compile Apache to do some automatic module loading. My question is what command do I use to let the Debian Database know that Apache has been installed but not with a deb package? You should create/install an empty package that has in the control file Provides: apache, apache-doc, apache-whatever... But be warned that other packages that depend on Apache may depend on a particular feature or directory locations within the debian package of Apache. Am I correct to be concerned about this? My system needs to know that a program like Apache has been installed in order to keep the libraries updated when it comes time to upgrade to Potato? You really only need to be concerned if you want to install a package that depends on apache. But if you're compiling apache you probably want to compile those modules as well. Upgrading to potato shouldn't provide any problems with user-compiled software (except possible glibc 2.0.x-2.1.x problems) and apt-get won't upgrade a package you don't already have installed unless you want to install that depends on it, thus the suggestion above. -- Ashley Clark
Re: How do I tell Debian database about a program?
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 28-Oct-99 Ashley Clark wrote: You should create/install an empty package that has in the control file Provides: apache, apache-doc, apache-whatever... With the equivs utility or is there some other way? Yes, equivs should be adequate (I personally though have never done the steps I've advocated, they're just the ones I would take. ;) I suppose you could build the deb file by hand but equivs seems to be much easier. -- Ashley Clark
Re: playing MP3s with xmms
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: @phoenix:[/home/ssahmed] splay /usr/mp3/zen.mp3 splay: Failed to open sound device. I got the same error message when I specified the device file to be /dev/audio, /dev/audio1, and /dev/dsp (which is the default I think). Do you have write access to /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, and /dev/mixer? Simply adding yourself to the audio group and logging back in should be enough if not. -- Ashley Clark
Re: apt-move
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, M. K. Honeycutt wrote: SECTIONS=main contrib non-free non-US/main I believe this is your problem, it should be SECTIONS=main contrib non-free non-US/main At least, that works for me... -- Ashley Clark
Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: the way to solve the problem would be to create a package called e.g. secure-kernel, which would depend on the most secure kernel-image-ver. Then if the security team has newer kernel with security bugfixes, they would make a new version of secure-kernel which would depend on the fixed kernel. I, for one, wouldn't want my kernel upgraded automatically, no matter what the fixes involved are. Here's why: I have compiled my own kernel with my hardware selected (sound, tape drive, scsi card, network card) and Debian simply can't afford to make all possible combinations of kernel configurations to provide an easy upgrade path for users. Now, possibly there could be some kind of secure-kernel package which would do nothing more than simply inform you during upgrade that a newer kernel with such-and-such security patches is available and recommend how to upgrade, that's seems more reasonable to me at least. -- Ashley Clark
Re: Modems, caller id, and init strings
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: What's the easiest way to get an init string into the modem? Specifically, I want AT#CID=1 to put the modem into caller-id reading mode. Is there a simple way to do something like 'echo AT#CID=1 /dev/modem'? Take a look at the chat program provided by the ppp package, you can generate scripts that send and wait on modem commands with it, or you could do it in perl probably ;-). -- Ashley Clark
Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: That is the point of this idea. If you want your kernel to be upgraded automatically, you install secure-kernel, if you only want to be informed, you install secure-kernel-info, if you don't care at all, you instal neither. I had read nothing of this secure-kernel-info package, but that would be reasonable to me. -- Ashley Clark
Re: beeps playing through pc speaker
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Jim Ruby wrote: Hi, I would like to have all sounds play through my sound card. example, a very basic one, when you hit the backspace key at a shell prompt and the system beeps through the pc speaker, how can I get that to go to the sound card instead of the pc speaker? In my computer I made a connector to go from my motherboard's speaker connector to the PC-Speaker connection on my soundcard (SBAWE32). If your card has some place to attach your speaker to this will work, otherwiseYMMV. -- Ashley Clark
Re: timezone
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one change the timezone setting? /usr/sbin/tzconfig should do it. -- Ashley Clark
Re: removal of essential packages
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers an option. When I am issuing the command dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base only a help message is displayed. This is frustrating since dpkg --force-help displays the command as valid. I am not able to install a lot of important packages since I have to replace perl-base v. 5.004 with v. 5.005 and the 5.004 perl with the newest one. I am stuck again with a debian package problem. These problems are consuming most of the time for administering the system (my next system will be slackware). If anything is depending on perl-base you have to issue a dpkg --force-remove-essential --ignore-depends=perl-base perl-base -- Ashley Clark
Re: word not so perfect
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, tf wrote: I'm on a roll. In trying to install wordperfect 8, I followed the instructions on their site: gz guilg00.gz;tar guilg00 And got an error, not in gzip format. Corrupt download? Hope not. Did you download it with netscape? Usually netscape decides to decompress gz files for me but keeps the gz extension, check if it's already uncompressed, tar tf guilg00. -- Ashley Clark
Re: word not so perfect
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, David Blackman wrote: Netscape DOESN'T decompress anything. That's odd, it does on mine (sometimes). I've downloaded several items, usually of the form blahblah.txt.gz with Netscape and it then views them for me, uncompressed, in a browser window. Trying to save them also decompresses them. I just tried it, ghoti.org/~aclark, there's only one gz file there. -- Ashley Clark
Re: make-kpkg
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: Does anyone know which package contains make-kpkg? kernel-package -- Ashley Clark
Re: lpd: daemon not started.
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 12 Sep 1999, Justin Settle wrote: Hello, I can't seem to print anything out with lpd + magicfilter. I can cat file out to the printer and I believe that magic filter is setup correctly. The problem is that if I do a lpc status it says no daemon present. I do a lpc up all and it says daemon started but if a lpc status is done again it reply's no daemon is present. lpr filename does nothing - the printer doesn't move and the file never appears in lpq. I got something similar with lprng no server present, I think. Turns out there were some left over control files in my /var/spool/lpd directories. By stopping lprng, deleting them and starting lprng again it allowed me to print again. -- Ashley Clark
Full Duplex Sound...
Is it possible? I have a full duplex card and I'd like to be able to record and play through it at the same time. Is this a pipe dream or do I need something like ALSA? I'd rather not have to fork over the money for the OSS drivers but what would be involved in switching over to ALSA? How would that affect my current sound programs (eg. xmms, mpg123, etc.)? -- Ashley Clark
RE: boot from hd (was RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?)
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote: Thanks for the help ! I'll give this a try. When I boot I get 1F0 in the upper left part of the screen. I think this is also the address of the CDROM drive. Probably coincidence. Actually the 1F0 is a prompt provided by the mbr package that replaces the master boot record of your harddrive. If I remember correctly 1 boots the first partition, F boots floppy A, and 0 allows selection of booting from any partition 1-4 regardless of their active setting. -- Ashley Clark
Re: a2ps using too big of paper on dj500, and magicfilter eats text
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: I briefly had magicfilter working, but now it simply spins the desket, draws no paper, and prints nothing. a2ps is being just as uncooperative, making pages that are a bit too long. I found a default setting to change in gv (now it's letter), and /etc/paper reads letter. How in the world do I solve this? I've never used anything but networked laserprinters before. For a2ps and my DJ895 I had to change the line in /etc/a2ps-site.cfg saying --medium=libpaper to say --medium=Letterdj as I found no way to change the size of a letter page with libpaper. If you find that out it would be greatly appreciated. -- Ashley Clark
Re: Thanks and more questions:)
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, Jon Hughes wrote: Secondly, does Debian have a utility that will let me repartition my drive without data lost? [snip] Any advice? I don't think Debian has anything like that yet (other than ext2resize, which as I understand is still being worked on quite heavily). I would recommend (and use myself) PartitionMagic. I've never had problems using it to resize and move any and all partition types. The only problem it has is in handling the new (2.2.x) swap partition types 128 M (it won't let you create them but it will leave them alone) God, Root. What is the difference? Pitr, User Friendly Good quote. :-) -- Ashley Clark
Re: Swap partition
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to have a 16MB swap partition on hda2 but i deleted it and added a bigger partition using fdisk which has now become hda5. The problem is that when i shut down the system... it comes up with a prompt deactivating swap...cannot find hda2. So basically i think that the system is still set up to use hda2 which is now replaced with hda5... how can i reconfigure the system to use hda5? edit /etc/fstab -- Ashley Clark
Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a non-installed function. It could be great if under Debian, when we type a command that don't exist, it would automaticly search the command from a small APT database or from the internet if diald|direct connection is here. And we could specify in a conffile to download the software or to install directly from the CD. Wouldn't it be cool ? Is it possible to program ? Egads man! That would be a lot of work, for it to work (I personally wouldn't want it on my machine for numerous reasons) you'd have to make *EVERY* program that executed a program check with apt/dpkg to see if a package contains that executable. The only other way around it would be to write a wrapper program that would take as arguments the command line to search for and possibly install. This would be easier but you'd still have to tell all other programs to change what they execute in order for your program to search for new packages. -- Ashley Clark
Re: xntp3 replacement on Potato
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Alec Smith wrote: On Debian 2.1 systems I always used xntp3 to sync my system clocks. I've noticed Potato doesn't have a .deb for xntp3, and when I tried manually compiling from the sources used to build the 2.1 debs, I got an error I'm assuming is glibc2.1-change related. I've also tried ntpdate from the 2.2 distro, but it doesn't seem to sync my clock at all Any suggestions? Is there some trick to making ntpdate work? I'm running potato with some stable packages as well and the xntp3 deb from slink works fine. YMMV. Just add the line for stable into sources.list and do an update, install xntp3. -- Ashley Clark
Re: AWE64 Problems
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I have re-compiled my kernal (2.0.36) to include the appropriate sound support, and I have also set up the pnptools (via pnpdump) to initialise the card at boot. You really should use modules for sound cards (especially plug and play ones). The problem seems to be that the initialisation of the card (via PnP) takes place after the sound support from the kernal has loaded. What I get at boot is the message that sound support is being initialised, but no cards are picked up in the kernal drivers. Later on in the boot process, the PnP tools initialise the card with no errors. I would like to hear from anyone who has has experience with getting the AWE64 working under Debian as I don't know what to do next - the only other option is to boot DOS and load the DOS drivers, then boot Debian. Although not an AWE64, I have an AWE32 and it is very similar, just compile the sound drivers into modules and the order that init calls the scripts should be fine (i.e. isapnp, ..., modutils) -- Ashley Clark
Re: strange bug in useradd in potato ?!?
Quoting Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, All i'm running potato and just tried to upgrated telnetd to 0.14-1 and this is what i got: Setting up telnetd (0.14-1) ... adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists. Adding system user telnetd... Adding new group telnetd (101). Adding new user telnetd (101) with group telnetd. useradd: unknown group telnetd adduser: `useradd -d /usr/lib/telnetd -g telnetd -s /bin/false -u 101 telnetd' returned error code 1536. Aborting. Cleaning up. Removing user `telnetd'. userdel: user telnetd does not exist Removing group `telnetd'. groupdel: group telnetd does not exist dpkg: error processing telnetd (--configure): Any ideas why useradd died? What error 1536 means More than likely you have nscd running. I'm unaware of a way to circumvent this problem other than running /etc/init.d/nscd stop before doing upgrades that add new users/groups. You should really (according to the description) only have it loaded if you are using slow services for user/group files (eg. LDAP, NIS). Basically (as I understand it), nscd caches passwd, group and host entries to speed up these searches, consequentially calling useradd doesn't refresh the cache when it adds a new passwd/group entry. Therefore, when the user is added it isn't aware of the group that was previously created. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature. And if it is a bug, whether it is against useradd or nscd. -- Ashley Clark
Re: Apache-ssl php/MySQL problem
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrew Glover wrote: LoadModule something /usr/lib/php3/apache/mysql.so Close. You don't need the line you had here, just put in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini a line saying extension=mysql.so and then restart apache, then your MySQL pages should load You might also want other extensions, eg. gd.so, ldap.so, imap.so, etc. -- Ashley Clark
Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: spire kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? (Yes, I've done all the necessary pry-configuration -- isapnp configures the card correctly, and the modules load fine) If I'm not mistaken it sounds like your soundcard is sharing an IRQ with something else. Even though it wasn't listed in the /proc/interrupts my video card was on IRQ 10 and was causing similar problems with my AWE32 (until I changed it to IRQ 5). Occasionally, if a lot of background processing is happening I still receive that error and sound will skip a bit but I assume that is unavoidable (correct?). -- Ashley Clark
Re: Video modes for X?
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, John Gay wrote: clock freq, then the horiz and vert freq's are listed by period. Is there a simple formula to translate these periods to the settings used by X, or does the Video card have some influence on these setting as well. I used XF86Setup to set up my X server. Is there a simple way to back up the settings for X? What files should I save? My system automatically boots into X using xdm. If I trash my X settings, can I get into a terminal to move the back up files to recover from serious failures? I meant to bring in the manual for my monitor to copy the info into this mail, but I left it at home. Would this info be useful to someone to suggest settings for X? I can bring it in tomorrow. Read the XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO and if that gets too complicated (it did for me) there is a program on sunsite, oops metalab called videogen, it will ask you for your horiz, vert freqs and a few other odds and ends and print out modelines. It's at ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/videogen-0.16.tar.gz, I don't think there is a deb of it but I could be wrong. -- Ashley Clark
