makeinfo
Hi there, I was experimenting some new things here and I decided to try to build binary packages from the source ones (to get benefit from compiling them with pgcc instead of the regular gcc) and, although I suceeded to do that with some packages, others failed claiming they could not find the makeinfo command... I tried to browse the /var/state/apt/lists dir but couldn't find out which package to install in order to have this command available... Can anyone help me? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Files with *strange* permissions
Hi there, I'm facing quite a bad problem here im my Linux Box, and I'd like to try a bit more before I give up, format the HD and reinstall it all... Last tuesday I had to shutdown Linux because I had to do some work on Win98, unfortunately... The shutdown procedure worked fine, I worked all afternoon on Win98 and shutdown the machine to go home... Yesterday I came back and, to my surprise, when I tried to boot on Linux the system halted with a kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:02 (I guess these were the numbers)... Next thing I plugged my HD in another Linux box and ran e2fsck -y on it... As I already expected, after complaining about a whole lot of errors, when it exited I only had a /lost+found dir, with lots of subdirs and files in it... Lucky enough, by browsing the subdirs I could rebuild the whole root dir structure (it seems e2fsck only moved the complete root dirs to /lost+found and renamed them with those numeric names - the whole subdir tree inisde each of them was 100% preserved), and I was left with some empty dirs and some weird files that seem to be undeletable... When I tryed to boot, I doscovered the default boot image was corrupted (crc error), but lucky enough the other images worked fine, so I just booted from one of them and ran lilo again; then the computer booted fine and everything worked perfectly! Now, I'm left with one final problem... the files and dirs left on /lost+found can't be chown'd, chmod'd or erased... all of them (except for one) have the first permission bit (when doing ls -a -l) either b, c or s... also, some of them seem to have a HUGE size (like 4294967295 in 2 of them), but then when I select them on MidnightCommander it recognizes a negative size... Also, some show invalid sizes, like (on ls) 1, 7 or 164, 246 (with the spaces)... Also, all of them have a name that starts with #... Lastly, when I run e2fsck again it complains about fsck.ext2: Ext2 file too big while calling ext2fs_block_iterate in pass 1b and then finds two duplicate blocks (always on the same two pairs of inodes)... If I try to run e2fsck -c it complains about the file too big thing and aborts... I'm almost sure it is related to the /lost+found files... Now, how can I get rid of them? Is there a chance, or will I be forced to format install it all again? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Re: Files with *strange* permissions
Guilherme writes that he has encounted files he cannot delete. (...) For the unalterable files, lsattr gives ext2fs atrributes. chattr will change these attributes, which include immutable. This will usually help remove unalterable files. The file system debugger also will do this job. Hmmm... just tried that now... all I get is a lot of Opperation not supported by device While reading flags on ./#491 (and others) Invalid argument While reading flags on ./#175 (and others) Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on ./#592 (and others) And all I could do was delete 2 files (which accepted the chattr thing)... Now, what else can I do? How do I access the file system debugger? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Re: Files with *strange* permissions
Guilherme writes that he has encounted files he cannot delete. (...) The file system debugger also will do this job. OK... this worked fine, the files aren't there anymore! Now, when I rebooted e2fsck complained about the file too big thing again... what can it be? Also... what could have made all this mess with my HD? I thought of either a windows virus (because it messe with the boot block) or some physiocal HD problem... As the HD is still on its warranty period, I should discover it as quickly as possible! Another thing... how can I know which (or how many) blocks the e2fs system has marked as bad? This could be a good measure for the disk's health... TIA, Guilherme Zahn
MSMail client scientific plotting/fitting program
Hi there, do anyone know a Linux client for MSMail? Also, do anyone know of a good Linux replacement for Windows' Microcal Origin? I'd need a program that can create scientific graphics/plots (no need for 3D plots), do both linear and nonlinear function fitting (preferrably it should allow the user to enter his own functions, as I'd need to do many non-standard fits, like a sum of Legendre Polynomials, for instance) and be able to exchange data with MS Excel and/or Microcal Origin (even if it cannot export and/or import the graphics, I'd need to import/export the data)... If possible, I'd like it to be at least *a bit* intuitive to use, also... TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Re: MSMail client scientific plotting/fitting program
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hey... Brazil is not *THAT* far... But well... let's say I see some coincidences between our president and Darth Vader... Both said something like forget all I've said before I was what I now am... ;-) do anyone know a Linux client for MSMail? You need to elaborate further. Are you looking for an MS Exchange client, or merely an Internet email client? MS Exchange... I already have an Internet e-mail client (or should I say 2, Netscape Mutt? ;-)... Is there any??? []'s Guilherme Zahn
Useless (broken?) IDE HD
Hi there,
I know it's somehow OT, but you were the only guys I thought could
give me some ideas...
well... at home I've got a VA34324A Samsung HD (IDE, 4.3Gb) that
decided to stop working this weekend. As I'm completely out of money for
at least 2 months and short of backups for a big chunk of the data it
contains, I'd like to see if there's any way to put it back to service,
even if just for a short time. Here's what happens now that it's
installed as 2nd master in my work PC:
1) When I turn on the computer, BIOS recognizes OK it and it passes all
tests fine;
2) Linux boots, kernel recognizes hdc: SAMSUNG VA34324A, 4124MB w/478kB
Cache, CHS=14896/9/63, UDMA (i.e.: fine);
3) fdisk sees all four partitions OK and warns of no problems;
4) When I try to mount any of the partitions, I get a lot of equal
messages:
hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
}
hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide1: reset: success
The FAT32 partition mount in the end, still gives me more error messages
but I can at least browse through it and retrieve some files) but the
ext2 won't mount (ext2 filesystem panic, of course, because of the read
errors).
When I boot Win98 (still w/ the broken HD as 2nd master), win98's fdisk
won't even notice there's a 2nd HD and Partition Resizer win warn of an
error (something like ¨partition 1 out of boundaries¨) and won't
recognize anything (not even the 1st HD)...
Now, is there any chance that it's not a hardware fault? If so, how
could I try to make it work? I'm accepting mostly every possible idea,
no matter how risky or absurd it may seem, as the worst that could
happen as losing the HD I can't use now!
TIA,
Guilherme Zahn
PS: Please c/c myself on the replies, OK? Due to the heavy traffic on
the list I had to sign it through another e-mail address, and it's been
hard to check it lately!
Re: mutt questions
Hi lazy folks ;- Hi!!! ;-) More lazy stuff: using the mc editor (very practical to zap entire lines of the first mail when you reply, or to copy similar lines) Well... this one is very good for us, old MS-DOS users (it's very similar to MS's EDIT ;-)... I also like A LOT the jstar editor (joe's editor, wordstar emulation)... I just feel back to those times when we used WordStar and/or the console version of Borland's programming tools, w/ all those '^K' stuff... ;-) No, I don't think a newbie should learn'em, but if I've already commited some neurons to recording it... why not to use'em? ;-) Ciao!! GZ
Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO
Well... my personal oppinion surely agrees with Havoc's, and I'm just addind my $2c... I sure don't want to see ONLY X-friendly configuration programs, specially because after you get some insight on the matters this proves to be a slow, sometimes unreliable and, sometimes, even impossible way to configure what you want (just remember the problem with Win95's hardware configuration... if your hardware is misconfigured and you can't run the GUI, then you can't hace access to the tools that let you correct the mistake - so you're stuck!)... On the other hand, the GUI-versions of those tools are of great value to the user that has little time to read the whole documentation about some feature (say, SAMBA) and want to do his learning 'as time allows it', going from a basic setup to an advanced and optimized one setp over step, in a reliable way... For this purpose, you can have either a well-commented configuration file (and, in the case of SAMBA, I've never seen one that's 100% complete - RedHat's one is good, Debian's one is better, but each one has it own tweaks, and I may want to try a mix of both) OR a well-documented GUI-tool, like gtksamba, which organizes the parameters in groups and calls the man file for each parameter when asked... This is a great way to do your learning and to walk over the gap that separates the regular user from the power user... This was the road I have chosen years ago in respect to Windows (using the excellent documentation that the Norton Utilities used to provide for its tools), and that's the road I've chosen to learn more about Linux. In the perfect world, the GUI tools and the console tools will both be available, and completely independent - i.e., you can choose to install and/or uninstall each of them whenever you want to w/out messing with the other. ...just my $2c... Guilherme Zahn (still a 'pseudo' power-user)
mutt questions
Hi there, I decided to try using mutt as my console-mail-reader because of pure lazyness (I was used to Pine, but I'd have to grab and compile it, so... ;-), and I'm quite disappointed with the lack of 'easy-configurability' of it (compared to Pine)... So, I'd like to ask a few questions... 1) How do I define a default 'reply-to' address? 2) How do I define a default 'save to' folder? I took a look in my .muttrc file, but didn't find much there to help me solve these two... Apart from that, the use of the cursor keys is quite confusing, also... I don think it's a good policy to have the 'down' key to move you to the next message... sometimes we only want to go down a single line... What about using 'n' for 'next message' and 'p' for 'previous message' (and the cursor keys for their intuitive funcions) TIA, Guilherme Zahn
ne3200 EISA
Hi there, we've got 4 NE3200 EISA boards here and, unfortunately, I haven't found a driver for them to work under Linux yet... Has anyone managed to set up one of these?? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive
I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have a drive that has at some stage Some BIOSes lets you do this. But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary any more since the 80's. More that that, it's REALLY dangerous to do so in new IDE drives (something to do with geometry parameters, if I'm not mistaken)... Now, how would I LOW FORMAT a floppy disk??? []'s Guilherme Zahn
DOWNGRADING glibc (2.1.x = 2.0.x)
Hi there, unfortunately, as every attempt to make my programs work under glibc 2.1.x (now I'm not even sure if it's a glibc problem or if the problem is on PGI's most recent F77 compiler, but it doesn't really matter, as I'm running out of time), I decided to downgrade my system from glibc 2.1.x to glibc 2.0.x... Now, is there a less-painful way to do it or should I just reinstall slink from the beggining TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Re: Printer stair stepping
My printer, an HP694C, does the stair-stepping thing. When I set up Mandrake, there was an automatic fix for this during set up. What can I do with Slink to fix this? Also, I use lpr. Is this the preferred way for printing with Debian? Well... The solution I found wasn't really 'The Debian Way' of doing it, but worked perfectly... I just installed the lpr magicfilter DEB's via DPKG RedHat's printtool ( control-panel, needed by printtool) via alien, and now my printing is just fine (probably exactly the same way as Mandrake's... ;-)
Re: General kernel questions
I wanted to customize my kernel over the weekend, but after looking at what I assumed to be the current kernel configuration (i.e., the options selected when viewing make xconfig), I was left with some questions. (slip) Well... This may be either a stupi or naive question, but it just came to my mind that *maybe* you (David) have got it all slightly wrong (kind of a 'windows scar')... (1)Have you already compiled a custom kernel for you or (2)are you using the one that comes with Debian? If the answer is (2), then the mistery's solved... The 'default' kernel comes with a more-or-less 'comprehensive' build, with almost everything considered 'basic' for a regular user compiled into it and almost EVERY module compiled, also... It is NOT the same setting you see when you take a look in the 'defaults' for make menuconfig (or xconfig or just config)... Maybe I got it? Guilherme Zahn
LessTif 0.89
Hi there, do anyone know when (or *if*) LessTif 0.89 deb's will be released? I was taking a peek at LessTif's Homepage and, among other wonderful news, they say that now Netscape-smotif should be running 'out of the box' with LessTif... In case the deb's are not on the 'soon released' list, has anyone successfully installed LessTif (and LessTif-devel LessTif-clients) from the RPM's with ALIEN? []'s! Guilherme Zahn
Re: Manually importing Debian menu to WMaker
Sanity check: you installed WindowMaker from the debs? Yeap! But I guess I found out what was going on... (...) Also, make sure you don't have a file ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook, and that the file ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu contains only the one line menu.hook (with the quotes). Gotcha! That was the problem! My WMRootMenu had some entries on it (possibly from a previous - and ill-succeeded - installation of WindowMaker I tried some months ago), and NO reference to menu.hook! I erased the rest and left it just as pointed and - voila! - it works fine now! Now, just a quick question... is there a way to add my own entries to the WM menus? In Fwhm95 there was... Ciao Guilherme Zahn
OT: using printtool under Debian
Hi there, today I was following a suggestion sent here and installed RH's printtool using alien... The installation goes fine (except it wants control-panel also installed, but this is also easy to do), but then when I try to add and configure my printer here I find some problems: 1) It complains that it won't find './printerdb' (but keeps running) 2) When I choose 'select' on 'Input Filter', it comes with an error (because of the previous error, I think)... 3) When I try to print a test ASCII page it comes with: 'couldn't execute ¨lpr¨: no such file or directory'... Is there a way to get round all this? ;-? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
NetBIOS over IPX
Hi there, we are trying to migrate our network here from the *%$@ NT to Linux (our firts tests were enough to convince the Senior SysOp), but we have to route NetBIOS over IPX for some subnets, and we couldn't find a way to do so (nowadays we're only able to route NetBIOS over IP)... We're using ipxripd for the IPX routing... Which app should we use to do the NetBIOS routing over it??? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Manually importing Debian menu to WMaker
Hi there, After some months w/ fvwm95, I'm experimenting WMaker, and I quite like it (lighter seems more stable)... but there's a problem: The Debian default menus aren't merged w/ WMaker's own menus at installation, and I don't know how to do so... Can someone help me? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Re: Yamaha sound
i got a Yamaha sound card but I can't manage to load sound as a module, because i don't know exactly which card it is... Is there a way to get the irq, dma, and such things it uses ? I also run NT but I neither can find these informations there... Hi! Well... it seems it is either a on-board card that uses a Yamaha chipset or a 'SB compatible' that uses the OPL3-SA? chipset (where ? can be 1,2 or x - chipsets code YMF 771, 715 719, respectively). The latter ones are easily supported by Linux using the OPL3-SAx PnP module... To find out what you should try, there's two tools: 1) For ISA cards, try using pnpdump... the best way to use it is to redirect it's output to a file (eg. '$pnpdump isapnp.conf.tst') and then use this file as an input to isapnp (for that purpose, copying that file as /etc/isapnp.conf should be enough). 2) For PCI boards, try 'cat /proc/pci'... And good luck! Guilherme Zahn
Netscape (wishlist/ buglist such)
Hi there, I know this isn't the most appropriate place for that, but... What's the 'right' way to send bugs and/or wishlists about Netscape, posting it straight to Netscape or sending them to the Debian netscape package administrator? As I've noticed there's a lot of people talking about Netscape here, I'll send you a *brief* summary of the most common bugs and of the wishlist I'll post'em... This might be interesting for the Mozilla development group, too, don't you think? *Most common bugs: Segfaults Bus errors seem to be very common (to me and to others) when: - Closing the original browser window (IF you started NS from a browser window); - Sending a user/password pair; - In WindowMaker, if you set the child windows to open on the same window as their parents, when Netscape tries to create a new window, if you're NOT in that workspace, ciao baby! - The already famous 'mailto:' bug - HTML mail isn't THAT well supported either, as when you delete them or while you're editing them Netscape seems to be MUCH more prone to segfaulting... *Wishlist - Netscape should learn from Opera include buttons that allowed one to control the loading of images and the processing of Java JavaScript for each window (on the individual browsers AND on the mail window)! - Both in the browser in the mail subsystems, images should be loaded AFTER the whole text/HTML code has been loaded (and displayed) And last, but not least... Is it just me or everyone's noticed that Netscape's MIME encoding/decoding is just TOO slow??? Ciao all! Guilherme Zahn
Re: Netscape (wishlist/ buglist such)
Just a comment on this one. Netscape (and other browsers) do exactly that. However, if the image tags are not accompanied by width and height parameters, Netscape can not render the page until the image headers are downloaded and known. It would be really slow for it to re-render the page after every image, since it changes the page flow and table sizes, etc.. Hmmm... there's a good point there... ;-) But, are you positive that Netscape does that? I ask because of one of the things that nags me most in Netscape Mail: sometimes I receive a HTML e-mail w/ images (for instance, an info clipping of some kind) and, if I press 'stop' too soon (in less that, say, 30s) it seems to load only part of the text... ;-/ []'s GZ
statically linking libc6
Hi there, SInce I upgraded my system to glibc2.1, there's some vital software that refuse to run, even if I compile it again from scratch... Now, I'm willing to try some desperate moves before I give up and try to downgrade my whole system (that, by now, is 100% potato)... So, as I'm not a *real* programmer, so I can't go on tracking the bugs on the original code, I was trying to recompile the program w/ libc5 (thus getting rid of the libc6-related problems), but for some reason the compilation couldn't be finished... I think the problem may be related to the PGI Fortran compiler (unfortunately I have to use this one, as fort77 seems to refuse part of the code), but I couldn't think of a solution... There's one solution that I think *maybe* could work, but I'll need some help from you all... I though of compiling the program statically linked to ALL the libraries it uses in my home PII-300 (running RedHat 5.2 glibc2.07) and then installing it here, in my work's 486-DX4/100... But then, there's a whole lot of question in my head... a) Will it work? It uses not only libc6, but lesstif xlib6g, too... b) How do I tell the compiler to statically link EVERY library ? c) How do I make sure the compilers make 486-compatible binaries, instead of PII-optimized ones? TIA, Guilherme Zahn PS: I'm *really* afraid that one of my next posts will have to be on 'how to fully downgrade a debian system w/out wiping out the whole disk :-(((
Re: cfdisk big-disk warning
Duggan Dieterly said: just to let everyone know, cfdisk does not work with window FAT32 file partition tables. use fdisk instead. What happens? I've been able to create partitions extending beyond cylinder 1023 with (the current as of one week ago Potato) cfdisk, although the version on the install disks won't handle large disks. Well... back at home I was able to run cfdisk (the one that comes w/ RedHat 5.2 - I don't know the version) and set up my complete 4.3Gb HD, including the FAT32-LBA partition...
Killing 'undestructable' processes
Hi there, this time I have a pretty quick and direct question: is there a way to kill those processes that refuse to die (for instac,e netscape will behave that way after a crash - and not even a kill -9 does the trick)??? TIA Guilherme Zahn
Re: ftp can build data connection - masquerading problem?
Any ideas?? Correctly masquerading FTP sessions requires a special module, ip_masq_ftp in 2.2 version kernels; Do you have this module loaded (or built-in to the kernel)? Hmmm... I have to check it out... Should it be loaded in the masquerading server or in every Linux box whose IP is masqueraded?? Thanks! Guilherme Zahn
Re: hardware...
) Stuff to consider: ) * drivers don't exist for sound cards with Aureal chips ) and the new Soundblaser Live. Drivers do exist for the SB Live. I haven't checked out the latest versions which are supposed to add /dev/audio and /dev/dsp, but the old version did work w/ CD audio. The Creative site has these drivers: Well, the support people from Diamond told me that there's drivers for some Aureal chips, too, as the one used in the Diamond MonsterSound MX300 (not for my MX200, though :-( As for printers, most of the *new* Epson Styllus Color work fine, too... []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: Netscape
Netscape is stable except for when I browse in multiple windows, then closing any window may kill my entire netscape suite (downlaod,s collabra, everything), it isn't only closing the original window that does it. I've seen exactly the same problem here... teh workaround I found was to start Netscape through the Mail window, so that closing any browser window won't kill the suite...
Compiling w/ libc5
Hi there, I was wondering what would I need to do in order to compile a software I've got here linked to libc5 and not to libc6... I assume that just editing the Makefiles and changing 'gcc' for 'altgcc' would be much of a naive try, wouldn't it? What should I do then? The program also uses the PGI F77 compiler and the lesstif libraries... What should I do to make sure that the program is linked to libc5 and NOT libc6? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
TeK WYSWYG editor?
Hi there, do anyone know a good WYSWYG TeK editor for Linux (much like Scientific Word for Windows)? In case you don't... Is there any program to convert from any of the 'regular' word processors to TeK (even if I'd have to do some 'fine tuning' on the TeK file later, it would be *a lot* easier then learning TeK from scratch, wouldn't it? ;-) []'s Guilherme Zahn
dhcpcd question
Hi there, I've faced what I could call a bug (I think) in dhcpcd, and I'd like to know if there's a known workaround for that... My linux box should get it's IP address from a DHCP server, and it really does it perfectly UNTIL they move my PC to a different subnet (what seems to be happening quite frequently here)... When it happens, the only way to make dhcpcd get an IP address for me is to delete the /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.cache file... Then, shouldn't dhcpcd deal with that automatically? Is there a way to make it do so or should I report it as a bug? []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: dhcpcd question
I added an rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.* to my dhcpcd start script. I know that dhcpcd works well on redhat and does not suffer this problem. I've looked through their start scripts and can't seem to find a major differences in the way debian and redhat call dhcpcd. Any more ideas? OK... Just done that, too... But you got me really curious... what could be the difference between the way RH and Debian do the same thing? ;-?
ftp can build data connection - masquerading problem?
Hi there, Lately I've been facing a strange and very annoying problem... When I try to do FTP from a site, it will almost surely drop my connection out when I try to build a data connection (either through a 'get', 'retr' or just a harmless 'dir') with a message like: ftp dir 200 PORT command successful. 425 Can't build data connection: Connection refused On other systems I've had a 'address already in use' or something, so I felt it could have to do with the IP Masquerading... I can't say for sure if it started just after we set our Linux router to do IP Masquerading or not, but I feel it was 'almost at the same time', so maybe I've just overlooked something when I did that... HTTP connections AND apt-get run just fine, though... Any ideas?? []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: Netscape
Hmm, that's an interesting thought. I don't run KDE (I run IceWM), but I often have Netscape crashes. But I'm running on a 1MB older video card and only 32MB RAM and am always getting messages from Netscape about not having enough resources (or memory?) to set color pallettes (or somesuch -- I just ignore the messages now so I don't remember what they say). So it may be that the people having crashes have fewer resources than the people not having crashes. Hmmm... I had never thought of that before... The message you may be 'forgetting' is something like 'can't allocate color for default background' or something, given ONLY when Java comes in... I have the same (I mean, *when* I enable Netscape's sluggish Java support)... Like you, I have a *%$# 1Mb video card (well, it *used* to have 2Mb, until I tried some experiments with its bus clock XF86Config options)... I don't think it has something to do with the problem (as I crash w/out java enabled), but on the other hand... I have here both fvwm95 KDE, and for some strange reason Netscape seems to be more stable (even if slower) on KDE than on fvwm95 (my default WM)... Could it be that it has something to do with resources and/or key/mouse bindings? That's an interesting issue for the Gurus... ;-) GZahn
Re: Netscape
Well... The only somehow 'reproductable' crashes I remember of comes when: 1) I try to delete HTML-ized e-mails from the messager window... It won't happen 100% of the times I do it, but, say, 10%... 2) I press 'enter' after entering my username password for some sites; this happens quite frequently (Hmmm... I'd say 30% of the times, specially if the NS windows on the site requiring authentication isn't on the 1st plane (i.e., it's either under another - NS or not - window or on another desktop). Also, sometimes Netscape crashes just when I press the 'stop' button on Navigator, or when I click on a harmless link... or even when I'm just typing a new e-mail... These crashes aren't so common as the other ones, but seem to happen at least twice or 3 times a day... []'s Guilherme Zahn
Parallel Port Scanner
Hi folks! Some days ago someone posted here a link to a page where I would find notes and/or drivers for using a parallel port scanner under Linux... OK, but the *%$@ here entered the page with Netscape and deleted the message... but, as always, netscape crashed before I could save the page into my bookmarks, so could anyone post it again??? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Re: FAT32 e Compactador DOS-Linux
Fala Lindalvo, o negocio eh o seguinte: O Linux soh consegue acessar volumes FAT32 a partir do kernel 2.2.x, e o seu Slack deve estar com o 2.0.x, neh? OK, uma sugestao seria atualizar o kernel, mas isso nem sempre eh possivel, (afinal eh mais um download de 14Mb, neh)? Quanto a um compactador com suporte a multiplos arquivos com versos DOS/WIN e Linux, tente o RAR... eh shareware, voce encontra com facilidade por aih. Tem uma versao pra WIn bem facil de usar, uma versao pra DOS que vem com um shell bem intuitivo (no mesmo jeitao do antigo DOSShell)- no Linux nao tem nada disso, eh command-line mesmo, mas o help eh bem completo. Ele te da uma compactacao BEM superior aa do Zip, GZip ou Arj, mas eh BEM mais lento (nada que chegue a assustar em um PII, mas num 486 ce vai penar um bocadin se quiser usar a compctacao maxima ;-). []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: Parallel Port Scanner
Hey! No wonder everybody just loves this list! In a few minutes I got a couple of GREAT answers! I've followed the links and found myself stuck again in a dilemma... My PP Scanner is made by a Brazilian company (TCE), so I guess it's just an OEM repackage... Anyway, I know it supports a TWAIN driver... Now, what the hell is a TWAIN driver? I've been trying to find it out, but to no success... I think it means my scanner shall be a SCSI-based parallel port device, isn't it? On the other hand, I'm trying to get in touch with TCE's e-mail support to have more info on it (but they are so slow and, you know, I couldn't help asking you all! ;-) TIA Guilherme Zahn
Re: Strange (?) boot-up messages
here I am, still trying to fine-tune my PC and understand it a bit further... That attitude seems to be the minority these days, judging from the recent flamefests on Slashdot. Well... I'm really somehow 'old-fashioned'... ;-) OK... I'm puzzled by the 2nd one... what does he mean by 'Cannot find map file'? I guess he means that he can't find the /boot/map file, No, its looking for a System.map file, which lists where all the functions live when the kernel is in memory. (useful for debugging kernel panics among other things). OK... and how do I build a System.map file? ;-? Aug 18 16:45:32 groo /usr/sbin/gpm[152]: Skipping a data packet (?) Aug 18 16:45:32 groo /usr/sbin/gpm[152]: Skipping a data packet (?) What's that all about? ;-? Perhaps it has something to do with your other problems? Don't really think so... This one happens in my work PC, where the mouse is connected to /dev/ttyS0 and, even when the kernel seems to map it to /dev/ttyS00, the mouse works fine... believe it or not! ;-) What is 'perpendicular mode'? Do the massage mean that my FDC is wrongly configured for Linux or what? ;-? Can you use your floppy drive just fine? Looking at the source in drivers/block/floppy.c, it has something to do with seeking and getting high transfer rates (128k/s) on special floppy drive controllers. OK... I'm sure this VERY old FDC unit wouldn't support it! As the floppy unit is working fine, I must presume that Linux is only trying to see if it supports perpendicular mode each time I change the disk in the FDC... No problem, then! Ciao, and thanks for your help! Guilherme Zahn
e2fsck w/out boot?
Hi there, I was wondering if there' s a way to run e2fsck w/out booting the machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run e2fsck remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to do the first step (the system says / is busy)... The reason I ask that is because earlier today X aborted complaining of (got it from syslog): Aug 20 09:56:26 groo kernel: free_one_pmd: bad directory entry 0400 But when I booted the system it said /dev/hda2 is clean... I know, I should run restart -F, but I was just wondering if there was an easier way... ;-) Ciao! Guilherme Zahn
Re: e2fsck w/out boot?
Did you go to single user mode before you tried to remount root read-only? Have you more than one e2fs partition? The answer is 'nope' to both, and I think you've just got it... should have entered single mode BEFORE trying that! I guess it's just one typical case of the famous 'DOS/Win former user syndome'... ;-) BTW... how do I get into single user mode? ;-?
Strange (?) boot-up messages
Hi there, here I am, still trying to fine-tune my PC and understand it a bit further... Now, I've been puzzled by some messages I find in the boot sequence and by a particular message I find in the syslog: When I boot the system, as soon as the klogd is started here comes the following messages: Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: klogd 1.3-3#31, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: Cannot find map file. Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: Loaded 25 symbols from 4 modules. OK... I'm puzzled by the 2nd one... what does he mean by 'Cannot find map file'? I guess he means that he can't find the /boot/map file, but it's there (together with a boot.0300 and a boot.0302 - btw, what are those files anyway?) Is it somehow serious or dangerous for the system? A bit later, when setting up the serial ports, it states: Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 OK... whay ttyS00 and not ttyS0?? At home it happens just the same way, but there I have RedHat 5.2 installed and because of that I can't seem to find a way to get rid of the old /dev/cua0 mouse device, because if I link /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS00 can't find the latter and if I link it to /dev/ttyS0 it won't find a mouse... ;-/ And then, by the end of the boot-up procedure, I get this one (just like that, doubled): Aug 18 16:45:32 groo /usr/sbin/gpm[152]: Skipping a data packet (?) Aug 18 16:45:32 groo /usr/sbin/gpm[152]: Skipping a data packet (?) What's that all about? ;-? Last, in my syslog I will find, from time to time: (...) kernel: floppy0: perpendicular mode not supported by this FDC. What is 'perpendicular mode'? Do the massage mean that my FDC is wrongly configured for Linux or what? ;-? Thanks for your attention!!! Guilherme Zahn
Re: IP-Masquerade
The HOWTO suggested I should try something like ipfwadm -F -p deny (setting 'deny' as the default rule) ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -P tcp 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -D 0.0.0.0/0 ^^^ is there a typo here or you're using the entire range from 192.168.0 to 192.168.255. If you're using one C class (192.168.0.0), your mask should be 255.255.255.0 (or 192.168.0.0/24). Nope... we have at least four C classes from that router (192.168.10.0, 192.168.11.0, 193.160.12.0, 192.168.13.0), so I decided to try the more general approach just to make things easier... I'll try to follow some of the other suggestions, though, just to make the setup 'cleaner' (I think that specially using the '-W eth# should make the whole setting match my needs, allowing ONLY calls from the internal networks to be masqueraded... ;-) Just curious: você não está utilizando o potato? Kernel 2.3.x? Por que não utiliza o ipchains? (sorry all others :) No, potato kernel 2.3.x are in my personal machine... the router has a much more 'conservative' setup ;-) Thanks for your support, everybody!!! Guilherme Zahn
apt-get strange behaviour
Hi there, From some time on (since I've last upgraded apt-get? Can say for sure! ;-/) I've been facing some strange problems with apt-get... When I do a 'apt-get update' it seems to go all over the download of the packages (as expected), but then it come to a segfault when building the dependency tree... If I run 'apt-get update' again, I find it has something else to download, then all goes fine, so it seems apt-get is OK'ing some package file bero it is REALLY 100% downloaded (thus the segfault when building the dependency tree on the first try)... Any guesses on what could be going on? I use apt-get 0.3.11... Ciao, Guilherme Zahn
IP-Masquerade
Hi there, today I was trying to set our computers to do IP-Masquerading (we'll be changing our external provider, and while the old one did the masquerading for us, the now one doesn't)... I tried to do everything as explained in the IP-Masquerade HOWTO, but for some reason things weren't running quite fine (well... not fine at all, as the packages coming from one adapter wouldn't see the other eth's)... I found a way to set things to work, but I'd like to know if this creates any problem or opens any security breach (and, if it does, what should I do)... The idea was to get our subnets 192.168.x.0 to go through a REAL net... The HOWTO suggested I should try something like ipfwadm -F -p deny (setting 'deny' as the default rule) ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -P tcp 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -D 0.0.0.0/0 (and the same for udp) I removed both lines and tried: ipfwadm -F -p accept -m (default policy: accept, masquerading) Now everuthing works fine, but I'm somehow suspicious this may open a whole in our security... does it? Is there a safer way to do it? []'s Guilherme Zahn
(OT) Correcting VFAT problems from Linux
Hi there, I think this is 1/2 OT, but as I could think of nowhere else to ask... ;-) I needed some tool to diagnose a VFAT (FAT32) partition from inside Linux... The reason why I want to do so is that all the tools I've tried to use from inside DOS/WIN refuse to run properly (it seems there's some rather serious problem with my 4.3Gb Samsung UDMA2 IDE HD, and as far as I can tell it seems to 'freeze' when trying to read some sector - at least from DOS/WIN - generating 'stack overflow' messages)... Anyway, I sort of thought (wondered? hoped? dreamed?) that maybe if the diagnostic tool was running from Linux it might be possible to overcome this problem (maybe just a slight difference on the way Linux accesses the HD, or some fine-tuning on hwclock's settings, could do the trick)... TIA, Guilherme Zahn
killing ALL of a user's processes at once
Hi there, I was wondering if there's a way to kill all of a user's processes at once... This would be VERY useful in cases like today, when I made a little mistake in my crontab and a process that should be started at 6h00 am was started once for each minute between 6h00 and 7h00... OK, it was VERY stupid to put * 6 on the crontab instead of 00 6, but then the only solution I found to stop all those 60 processes that were running when I got here, at 9h00, was to reboot the machine... []'s Guilherme Zahn
package update log?
Hi there, I was wondering if there's a maillist where the package manteiners post their update log... If not, I think the Debian people could think of that... Just, everytime a package update is uploaded (either to the stable OR unstable distribution) they would send the changelog.DEBIAN file to the maillist (so that the users can see if that update is relevant/ interesting to them or not)... ...just a suggestion (in case one such list doesn't exist - if it exists, please just give me the directions to subscribe to it! ;-) []'s Guilherme Zahn
Weird Problems w/ Netscape fvwm95 (was: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61)
Hi there, I was following the thread and then it came to my mind to ask about a minor, but weird, misbehavior of Netscape for Linux (this has been happening to me since Communicator 4.5 - now I using 4.61): When I'm editing a mail message, I frequently use shift+ctrl+arrow to highlight the next word (or the bunch of blank spaces up to the next word)... OK, this has always worked fine in the Win version, but for some reason in the Linux version it only works *sometimes*; other times when I do that the screen will just blink quickly and the mouse cursos will walk a bit (as if the keys were moving it)... weird, isn't it? Now, to be true, I've only noticed that behavior when running Netscape under fvwm95 (on KDE it seems to run OK, and I haven't tried it with WMaker, Enlightenment or whatever)... Also, from time to time (specially when I try to be a bit quicker - or impatient - than I should) Netscape will claim that it was unable to process a mouse click or something... Do anyone know what can be going on? Is it a Netscape or a fvwm95 problem? []'s Guilherme Zahn
Netscape segfaults...
Hi there, once again, the problem is called Netscape... (4.61 ;-) From time to time, my Netscape just ¨dies¨ (unfortunately, most of the time I can't get the error message because I run it straight from the fvwm95 menu)... The few times I could check the message, it was either a Segmentation Fault or a Bus Error... Also, after a small part of these crashes, Netscape refuses tu run again, also either with a Segmentation Fault or with a Bus Error (usually even before creating the ~/.netscape/lock file)... On these (unfortunately not SO rare) events, I can't even run a xterm (xvt runs fine, though) - it won't open without any visible error message and the only solution is a complete reboot (just killing X restarting it or logging out in again don't do any good)... Can anyone tell me if there's a way to get the system bask to work without a reboot? What is this ¨Bus Error¨ anyway? Is this a fault in my system (hardware?) or one of the ¨regular¨ Netscape/xlib6g faults? []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: [Debian: XFree86] Errors
Config Error: /etc/XF86Config: 190 VertRefresh 40-100 horizontal sync value expected _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Please can anyone Help me ??? Hi Michelle! Well, at least the problem *seems* quite easy to solve! Your /etc/X11/XF86Config file is incomplete... X expects to find both a value to the vertical AND to the horizontal sync, and it can't find the horizontal... Now, there's two options for that: 1st (the easyer one): Try to run xf86config OR XF86Setup... answer the questions and... voila... your system should be working fine (I hope! ;-) 2nd (harder, but not much! ;-): Edit ¨by hand¨ the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and, after you find the ¨Monitor¨ Section, insert a line for the horizontal sync on your monitor... I've included the ¨Monitor¨ section of my XF86Config file as a guide, OK? ;-) Here it is: Section Monitor Identifier SyncMaster 3Ne VendorName Samsung ModelName SyncMaster 3Ne HorizSync 31.5-48.5 VertRefresh 56-75 Gamma 1.2 Modeline 1024x768 65.00 1024 1056 1200 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync Modeline 800x60050.00 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync Modeline 640x48031.50 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync EndSection Hope this helps! Guilherme Zahn
Re: Installing Netscape
Sounds like my box. I use ICE, cant start Netscape. I have to use the TKdesk browser and double click it then it starts. I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86- unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz Hmmm... First, I wasn't aware that apt-get could install .tar.gz files ;-? Are you sure it hasn't jusrt grabbed the netscape package from the internet once again? Well, anyway... try running ¨netscape¨ from a xterm and see what's the system's output (if Netscape doesn't start, the system WILL tell you something about it - either a ¨command not found¨ (in which case you should add a link to netscape in the /usr/local/bin directory) or a ¨libc.so.6 not found¨ (in which case you should check if glibc is installed and the links OK) or even a ¨bus error¨, ¨segmentation fault¨ or some other error message (in which case, I'm sorry to say you should just uninstall your netscape and try installing it once again - maybe just doing a: tar -xvvzf navigator-v461-export.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz then changing to the directory tar creates and running ¨install¨ or something (the script that comes with netecape) Hope this helps! Guilherme Zahn
Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error)
Hi there, I was trying to compile and install the 2.2.10 kernel, but something didn't come out so well as I expected... I did it the ¨general linux way¨, so I did: make menuconfig (OK) make dep (OK) make clean (OK) make modules (OK) make bzImage ...and that's where the error came up... the compilation was going on fine, but then, suddenly, the make process aborted because of a ¨Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11¨ (full error messages and such are in the end of the e-mail)... What's up? Is this a problem with the kernel code or with my compiler? I have already had problems to compile the 2.3.11 2.3.12 kernels (to be short, couldn't compile them at all - it seems they have problems in the fat and smfs code)... TIA, Guilherme Zahn --BEGIN INCLUDED MESSAGE-- make -C fat make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/fs/fat' make all_targets make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/fs/fat' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -DCPU=486 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c fatfs_syms.c gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -DCPU=486 -c -o buffer.o buffer.c gcc: Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11 make[3]: *** [buffer.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/fs/fat' make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/fs/fat' make[1]: *** [_subdir_fat] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/fs' make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2 --END INCLUDED MESSAGE--
non-'us-ascii' characters again...
Hi I'm really puzzled this time... As I said in a previous message, when I try to enter non-'us-ascii' characters on an xterm all I get are escape sequences like \350 and such... Well, despite all the help I could get, this hasn't changed (even with my ~/.inputrc and ~/.bashrc including all suggested lines)... OK, but today I did a test I should have done before and... for root, who hasn't got any of those lines in his ~/.inputrc (the file doens't even exist) or ~/.bashrc... I tried to take a look on /etc/inputrc and /etc/profile, but only to find that: /etc/inputrc: set input_meta on set output_meta on /etc/profile (stripping all the unrelated lines): LESSCHARSET=latin1 OK... how can that be? It seems I'll have to comment all those lines you (and the docs) suggested to put on my ~/.bashrc and ~/.inputrc, but can anyone tell me why is this so? Also... I was told that there shall be a problem with my keytable, as it converts double quotes to \250 (half size dbl quotes)... How can I correct that? This is REALLY important... []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: gnome-apt
Update doesn't work either. In short words: apt-get works perfectly but nothing works with gnome-apt :( To be honest I have no clue at all. I haven't rebuilt from scratch with the latest libapt-pkg in a while, so I'll try that today and if I have a revelation will let you know. Well... unfortunately I must tell you that from some time to now I've been having just the same problem with gnome-apt... It does the whole dowload of the ¨.deb¨s, and then just beeps and goes back to the initial window... It seems to be a small problem that was introduced from 2-3 weeks to now, I'd say... The solution I use is to empty the /var/cache/apt/archives dir, then run gnome-apt and then,, after the download is done, cd /var/cacge/apt/archives and do a dpkg -i *.deb... Just a workaround, but works... Also, a qustion... couldn't gnome-apt (and apt-get) be set to resume downloading automatically until the doanload is finished (like wget does?) Guilherme Zahn
Re: New kernel problems
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:43 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this. Any advice? I usually see this error when IDE support has not been compiled in the kernel. So I'd make sure that in the Block Devices section you have 'Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support' 'Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support' set to yes. Nope... it as long as I can read the signs, the IDE device was found, so the problem seems to be that the e2sf (second extended file system) was either left aside or created as a module during the krenel creation... Run make menuconfig again and check this out in the ¨filesystems¨ part... the second extended filesystem MUST be created as part of the kernel (otherwise, how would the kernel open the e2fs filesystem to read the modules? ;-) Guilherme Zahn
non-us-ascii characters
Hi there I've been facing some curious problems when trying to use non-¨us-ascii¨ characters in my Linux box... In a regular xterm, in the command prompt, an ¨e¨ with an acute displays like ¨\351¨, and ¨a tilde¨ like ¨\343¨ and so on... in the same xterm, if I use the Midnight Commander internal editor, everything displays fine (except for the c cedilla, wich displays absolutely nothing), and if I use Joe I just get the wrong, us-ascii, characters (and e acute displays like an i, an a tilde like a c and so on)... Now, why is it so? I use glibc 2.1 and, in my .bashrc file, I added the following lines (as I was told to): LANG=pt_BR LC_ALL=pt_BR LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 LESSCHARSET=latin1 export LANG LC_ALL LC_CTYPE LESSCHARSET What's up? How can I have, at least, a consistent output (I mean, every console app undestanding the keyboard the right way)? Oh, tes... I have a even more serious problem with that... for some reason, the double quotes come like '\250' on the xterm console, come like a '' on Joe and, even if in the MC internal editor they seem like double quotes, they aren't understood that way on scripts, so that the only way to build decent scripts (and to run certain commands) is to copy the double quotes from somewhere else and paste in there... Any suggestions on how to solve that (even if ONLY that)? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Re: non-us-ascii characters
What's up? How can I have, at least, a consistent output (I mean, every console app undestanding the keyboard the right way)? for bash (and all readline programs) create file ~/.inputrc with: (...) Well... I forgot to say that I already had a .inputrc... anyway, I added three of those escape sequences that you told me, but I still get the \350's and such when use those characters... ;-/ Any other comments/suggestions? First, normal double quotes have code \042 not \250. You my have keyboard badly remapped. I see \250 on my terminal as double quotes, but half size. All programs use only \042. Well... that's what I thought... and where do I change that? ;-) Second, your joe is configured for 7-bits characters, use it with option -asis or change /etc/Muttrc or ~/.muttrc. Thanks! I did that, and solved the problem with joe... only one thing: that's not .muttrc, but .joerc (and .jstarrc ;-) []'s Guiherme Zahn
Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting
dpkg --purge xdm works for my 2.1 system. Then you must kill -9 pid_for_xdm. Hmmm... I was thinking of a workaround that *may* work fine... what if you just remove the ¨xdm¨ script from the /etc/init.d folder (and the links in the /etc/rc.# folders, also)? This should do the trick *without* the need to completely remove xdm form you system (you may want it back someday) AND without bringing up any problem with broken dependencies... []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: SB16 PnP CD-ROM - proprietary or IDE?
Here's a scenario. I boot up DOS, along with the PnP drivers, so my soundcard and CD-ROM work fine. Then I soft boot using my Linux boot disk. During boot up, I observe these messages: hdh: Matshita CR-581 ATAPI CD-ROM drive ide3 at 0x168-0x16f, 0x36e on irq 10 These messages do *not* appear if I hard boot straight into Linux. (snip) Finally, the command ln -s /dev/hdh /dev/cdrom does not work. There is no /dev/hdh, although linux finds hdh:Matshita CR-581 ATAPI CD-ROM drive during start-up. Well, here the problem *seems* simple: you just forgot to mount your CD unit with mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdh /mnt/cdrom That's why Linux can't find the filesystem there... Also (I think) you should only do a ls to a mounted filesystem... Other possible reason is that the device in /dev/hdh hasn't been created yet... for that purpose (I guess) you'd have to use MAKEDEV, but then it's a bit beyond my present knowledge... As for reasons why the device doesn't show up when you hard boot into Linux... have you tried plugging the CD-ROM cable straight into the IDE card? This might even solve the previous problem, and the CD unit should be recognized as /dev/hdb, hdc or hdd (if it's plugged as 1st slave, 2nd master or 2nd slave, respectively). For the messages you sent I'm almost sure it is a REAL ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM drive. Hope this helps! Guilherme Zahn
Re: Is it safe to upgrade slink to libc-2.1 from potato
I want to ask if it is safe to upgrade slink's libc-2.0 to potato's libc-2.1. Are there some slink packages dependent specifically on libc2.0, which would not work with libc-2.1? Well... I'd say for 99% of the people I know the glibc2.1 worked wonderfully, and they're very happy with it... Unfortunately, though, I stand on the other 1%, and I must tell you... after a while it gets REALLY hard to do a downgrade in the glibc (as everything else in my potato system is now glibc2.1-dependent)... In my personal case, the problem was that I HAVE to run some scientific analysis programs that simply refuse to run since I installed the glibc2.1 (there's rumors that they have eliminated some ¨under-the-roof¨ instructions that shouldn't be used anyway, but those programs used)... Anyway, bottom line is that, IMHO, if you only use ¨regular¨ Debian programs (the ones usually distributed with it or with any other Linux distribution like RedHat, Caldera or such) there should be no problem at all... []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: Is it safe to upgrade slink to libc-2.1 from potato
Thank you. This is OK for me. BTW, which applications you use, which depend on libc20? Is it matlab or what? Mathematica people were wise to compile their 3.0 version static. Well... unfortunately (did I REALLY say that? ;-) it's not a commercial suite, but a freeware group-developed suite called RadWare (created by David Radford, of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory). It is very useful for Nuclear Spectroscopy Analysis, specially for gamaXgama coincidence experiments... Anyway, I've already written Mr. Radford to see if he's already aware of that problem (and if he knows of any worakaround or solution)... unfortunately I'm quite ignorant about both C and Fortran (what is my Pascal useful for, anyway? ;-), so I can't even try to hack the code ¨by hand¨... []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: X window resolution extremely low
I installed slink on my workstation here @ work, and I'm having problems with the resolution of X...it's horribly low. I'd say 300x240.(...) the vid card unit is a SiS620 (if I'm correct)...with, what I believe is 8MB RAM (anyway for me to check this?) Welll... good and bad news... the support for the SiS620 is now present in the new XFree86 3.3.4... The bad: The deb's for the new XFree are still under work, so you won't find them yet in any ¨regular¨ Debian distribution... As for the vid memory... I've heard that these on-board AGP video cards share the ¨regular¨ memory with the remaining of the system (well, this is what I've heard, but I haven't had a board like this im my hands to check yet). []'s Guilherme Zahn
Mozilla vs. Communicator
Hi there, I have quite a ¨strange¨ doubt to pose you all... I've noticed there's different packages for Netscape Communicator Mozilla... Is the up-to-date Mozilla release as good as Netscape Communicator 4.61 (or hopefuilly better, as NS seems to enjoy a lot the ¨killing itself for nothing¨ business)? Does it include the e-mail reader/composer and the HTML editor? Which libraries is it based on (is it still Motif/LessTif)? Bottom line, do YOU think it's worth trading my Communicator 4.61 for Mozilla 19990716.M8-2? []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: Mozilla vs. Communicator
(snip) as NS seems to enjoy a lot the ¨killing itself for nothing¨ business)? This may not be netscape's fault; there are indications that there may be a subtle compiler problem affecting X resulting in these crashes. Hmmm... and do you have an idea of wheter the XFree team is working on it? The strange thing is that this seems to affect ONLY Netscape... Which libraries is it based on (is it still Motif/LessTif)? Gtk (the source still supports using Motif/LessTif as the GUI library, but Gtk is the default). That's REALLY great news, as Motif/LessTif are both ugly and problematic (I have SERIOUS problems to make the LessTif based apps use a good color palette - and the palette seems to change from time to time, according to its own will! ;-( Bottom line, do YOU think it's worth trading my Communicator 4.61 for Mozilla 19990716.M8-2? No. Mozilla looks promising, but still has quite a way to go to get at the stability level of netscape. You need not trade in though; mozilla and netscape coexist happily. Hmmm... despite my lack of HD space, I'm thinking seriously in giving it a chance... ;-) []'s Guilherme Zahn
dpkg locking my machine from time to time/ fsck
Hi there, As it was the second time I've experienced SERIOUS problems with dpkg this week, I think it's worth poting something here... Monday I was updating my gmc package when dpkg locked (I think it was on the ¨unpacking replacement...¨ stage) and the system became so unstable that I had to reboot the machine. Today it happened again (now I was updating the samba package), also in the ¨unpacking replacement¨ stage, but now the PC really froze and I was forced to reboot it the hard way (power off, power on and pray). Now, both times fsck complained (of course!) and eventually found ¨Duplicate/Bad blocks in use¨. Both times I had to use e2fsck to solve the problems (fsck complains about something like ¨unexpected unconsistency found¨), and today I had the attention to run e2fsck w/ the ¨-c¨ option (check for bad blocks) enabled, but it didn't find any. So, the (rather obvious! ;-) question is: what's up? Is it a problem with dpkg, a problem with my harddisk or what? Also, why doesn't fsck solve the problem but e2fsck does? I really appreciate all kinds of feedback on this problem... Ciao, Guilherme Zahn
dpkg problem (rather serious)
Hi there, Yesterday I was trying to run apt-get to update my gmc package when somethig weird happened and it had a major lock (I think it locked when running dpkg)... Now, dpkg refuses to run because, when reading the database, it finds a problem in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.list file... The initial problem was that there was a lot of (non-ascii) garbage at the end of the file... I backed it up and removed the binary garbage, and now I get the following message (this time I was trying to remove at in ordre to have the database OK and then reinstall it): BEGIN INCLUDED MSG- ROOT:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -r --no-act at (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing at (--remove): files list file for package `at' is truncated Errors were encountered while processing: at Processing was halted because there were too many errors. -END INCLUDED MSG- Now, how can I arrange things in order to have dpkg running fine again? I looked in the dpkg help files and couldn't find any useful info about it (I hoped to find some ¨--force-install¨ or something)... Alternatively... could someone out there send me (in pvt, of course) a copy of the /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.list file? My version of at is 3.1.8-4 []'s Guilherme Zahn
Making my Diamond MonsterSound MX200 work
Hi there, I'd like to know if any of you folks managed to make a Diamond MonsterSound sound board work under Linux... I own one and I feel really disappointed to be forced to silence while Linuxing... []'s! Guilherme Zahn
