Re: Swapfiles
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:34:54PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Oki == Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oki Hi, On a 128Mbytes machine, how much swap space can it Oki handle? Would it be all right to assign it 384Mbytes? Yes. I typically assign twice as much swap as RAM, I no longer remember the rationale behind it, but there's nothing wrong with 384Mb either ;-) I think the original rationale has to do with core dumps. I read somewhere that to get a successful core dump swap must be = 2 * ram. That said, when was the last time you read into a core dump? When was that last time you dumped core??? It's just one of those laws of the universe that you don't want to violate lest you will fly off the surface of the earth at a constant velocity tangent to a point on the curve. /sillyness -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding monitor refresh rates?
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 08:31:31AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I need to find refresh rates for 2 monitors: Panasonic TX14H35ET Hansol Electronic E14AL I've had good luck finding specs at: http://www.griffintechnology.com/monitor.html -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:47:20PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a CD-audio what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? TIA for an advice. cdda2wav is faster and works best with very clean CDs. cdparanoia does a better job of ripping my daughter's scratched up CDs. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality
In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to /dev/audio has really lousy sound quality. You can hear the sound, but there's a loud hissing or static sound on top of it. I had this I have been having the same problem and have lived with it for a few monthes. The main thing that didn't work for me was saytime, and that kind of bothered me because on my previous computer I put saytime on an hourly cron job so I don't loose track of time :-) Reading this thread finally pushed me to find a workaround for saytime, and I will be glad to share it with any other emu10k users who might want it. Basically I edited the source code to dump it through sox with play -t ul -r 8000 file.au. Not pretty but it works. Email me directly if you want it. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Sound after restarting from win$$
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 06:06:09PM +0100, Axel Minck wrote: Hi, After restarting from windoze (I know, it's bad but I am forced to use it for my work) to linux I have no sound. Has someone a solution to avoid turning off the computer before starting linux? In my case I have learned that if I reboot I don't have any sound until I start gmix at least once, then everything is fine. I don't have to touch any of the adjustments, just bring up the panel. That may be just in my particular setup, but you might give it a try. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: mac alternative to wine?
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:36:25PM +0100, Peter De Wachter wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:50:30AM -0800, Stonelx wrote: Hi all, I installed wine on my potato box and have really enjoyed it! I'm interested to know if there is a similar package for apple programs? You can try Ardi Executor (www.ardi.com). I've never used it, so I don't know how good it is. It's non-free, but a time-limited demo is available. I'll second this one. I used the demo a couple of times back on either slink or Redhat 5.2. I still have an RPM I downloaded if you can't find it (3.6mb). The filename/version that I have is executor-21-glibc-demo-rpm.tar.gz, although newer version would probably be better if it will run on your existing system. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:05:15AM -0500, Titus Barik wrote: I'm trying to make an ISO image of a Windows 98 Second Edition CD. I've done this before in Windows, but not in Linux. This is what I use, and it seems to work well: mount /cdrom mkisofs -r -J -R -o mycd.iso /cdrom optionally mount mycd.iso in loopback mode and check it out... cdrecord -v -data -isosize mycd.iso I have also used the following: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=mycd.iso cdrecord -v -data -isosize mycd.iso Beware of special cases, like those combincation Mac/Windows game cds. Hope that helps. Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Sound applications..
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:48:43AM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: I have a creative soundblaster 16bit on my deb 2.2r3 i like saytime and mpg123 and i'm wondering what sound applications there are and from where i can get them.I am interrested only in those console apps. Anything related to sound and music. Thx, Dani. apt-get install wavtools apt-get install playmidi -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: My modem..argggg
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: Ok.I can't recompile the kernel,seems like some package are missing,asm,.. I got some little ppp tutorials from the net and read them quickly and set up the /etc/ppp main files. Btw,pppconfig still can't find anything on the ttyS*,and wvdial says i/o error.. Well,i started pppd after i configured those /etc/ppp files and watched the logs. Seems like everything is ok,but the modem ain't responding,like ppp started by root,then exited.. Probably the first step is to find out what kind of modem you have and make sure it's not a winmodem. If you have a real hardware modem pppconfig probably would have detected it. If you have a winmodem there are linmodem drivers for some of them, and with others you are out of luck. One good way to check out your modem is open the case, get the FCC number etched into the card, and then go to http://www.grapevine.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html If you have an ISA modem, many of them are PNP (plug and play). The package isapnptools has a program pnpdump which will tell you info about your isa devices, including modems. If your modem is really old (like more than 5 years old) it might not be PNP, in which case the above wouldn't work. If you have a PCI modem, then lspci -v should show some info on it. If this machine also runs windows, can you go into the modems section of the control panel and verify which com port your modem is on? com1=ttyS0, com2=ttyS1, etc. If you have a hardware modem, and pppconfig doesn't detect it, you can tell it what port to use. If you know you have a hardware modem you might want to start with minicom (apt-get install minicom). This is a terminal program which will dial your modem, etc. First time, run as root and use minicom -s. You can use ATDTnumber to dial your ISP, and then interactively give it your ID and password. If you can do that much, your modem is fine, and you have a ppp configuration problem. Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: My modem..argggg
Hi, OK after my last response, I saw your other postings. I didn't realize we had about 5 threads going here . . . it might be simpler to keep this all on one thread. Anyway . . . If it is a 14400 ISA modem, then you probably have jumpers you can set. It is quite common for com3 to go with IRQ 4, rather than IRQ 5. Traditionally, COM1 and COM3 share IRQ4, and COM2 and COM4 share IRQ3. Not knowing what other devices you have in your computer (such as serial mouse on com1?) it is a little hard to say for sure, but I would try setting the jumpers to use COM1 - IRQ4, and then run pppconfig. If that doesn't work try COM2 - IRQ 3. I've used a few USR hardware modems, and I have never had to setserial manually, hence I doubt you have to go through that. Also, your 14.4 modem may be old enough that it's not PNP. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: star office 5.2
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:53:46PM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote: Hello. I've tried to set up Star Office 5.2. I first downloaded so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin from the Sun's website. Then I made the downloaded file executable, and ran it as root, with option /net. Now, When you ran the initial install as shown above, did it go through the whole GUI install with accept license, choose directory, copy lots of files to that directory, etc.? I've heard that soffice has some library requirements which aren't part of a normal install. I don't remember what they are - that's just what I saw on a thread a while ago. I installed this myself last week without a hitch on a stock Potato machine. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Debugger for C programming?
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:32:40PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put watches on variables etc. Another debugger is xxgdb. I used to use it a lot. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Emacs question
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:18:09AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: I have what seems like a simple question but has become tough to find an answer. I have been playing around with Emacs for a little while and have noticed one thing thats really bothers me. Why can't I tab(indent) a new line in c-mode? Basically when I open a *.c file and want to indent a line I hit tab and nothing happens. This is only is c-mode. This also happens if there is no .emacs file in the homedir also. My observation - Emacs does a excellent job with C/C++ code. Most of the time if I hit tab and it doesn't indent where I expect it to go, it is because I have a syntax error, such as a missing semicolon or parenthesis. Once I fix that problem the indentation works correctly. I think I am a better programmer because of it. I pick up on those little errors while writing code, not as compilation errors. For syntax highlighting here are a couple of lines from my .emacs file which I believe are the right ones: (global-font-lock-mode) (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t) -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: OT:mutt: skipping deleted messages
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:44:49PM +0200, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: Hi all, I'm experimenting a little with Mutt, and noticed the following problem: while browsing through a mailing list, I tend to mark messages as to be deleted rather quickly. Sometimes too quickly. Unfortunately, I can't view that message once it's marked as to be deleted, since it's being skipped while moving up in the list. Can this behaviour be altered? Under the there is more than one way to do it catagory. . . Type the number of the messages you want to check. Like 192enter, whill jump to that message. Then U - upper case U will undelete a thread of necessary. The J and K is really cool - I didn't know that one. Probably better. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Bug in mutt?
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:15:49AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: For some time now I've noticed that if by mistake I press Ctrl-s in mutt it freezes and has to be killed. It's not due to anything in my .muttrc file because it happens even when this file is not there. Has anyone else noticed this? As others have mentioned Control-S is stop, and Control-Q is continue. You have no doubt heard of XON/XOFF...? Well, Control-S is XOFF and Control-Q is XON, or so I have been told. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Can the scsi emulation kill the hard drive?
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:23:31PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: On Saturday Sep 08 23:22 Herbert Pirke wrote: ** I had a similar problem with my debian box a few weeks ** ago. Unfortunately I forgot the exact message, but ** there were some unreadable files in /var again. This ** was just after installing the SCSI emulation for my ** ATAPI-burner. ** ** Was that just a coincidence or can the SCSI emulation ** be responsible for this? Don't know if the SCSI emulation is the reason for this. But your experience sounds if it is. Is your SCSI emulation installed correct? If you use IDE hard discs you have to disable SCSI disk support. SCSI support, SCSI CD-Rom support and SCSI generic support are the three things that have to be anabled in kernel configuration if you only have IDE drives. I have all IDE drives, except for my Parallel zip drive which is kind of a scsi device. I have scsi disk support (for the zip drive), plus all the other stuff for scsi-ide burner emulation, and it lives together happily . . . so far ;-) In my lilo.conf I have append=hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi where they are cdrom and cd-burner, but I don't do that with hda hard drive. I suppose if you have scsi emulation on your hard drive, that might not be a good thing? Otherwise I suspect the scsi emulation isn't the cause of your problem. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Printing go bye-bye
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0400, Kyle Girard wrote: Somewhere in between now and about hmm a month ago my ability to print has ceased. Here's some background info: Distribution: sid (current as of this morning) kernel 2.4.9 Printer: hp720c I am using magicfilter with pnm2ppa my printcap hasn't changed in a long time.. # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|hp720c|hp:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp720c:\ ^^^ Could it have moved from lp1 to lp0? That happened (or vice versa) to people a year or two ago. My 2 standard potato PCs with one parallel port each call it lp0. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:20:57PM -0600, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: I would do that, but there is one main problem that i can't remember if i mentioned way back in the beginning...I have my three hard drives on a Promise UDMA66 card...and my DVD and CD burner are on the motherboard. So...maybe that's the problem my BIOS is having. It could be conflicting with my Promise card's BIOS and not knowing which drive to boot up, so the BIOS overrides anything else. I might be stuck with trying GRUB...but not much is going on there either...I made a GRUB boot disk...and when it boots, it doesn't give me a menu or anything...just says GRUB . I'll get Linux on this machine one way or another. Just don't know the best way to go about doing it. I have a backup of Win2000, and the rest of the drive, so that isn't a problem(not that I know of). Anyone out there have a Promise card, and had Windows2000 installed first, then tried to install Debian? If you did, please let me know how the heck you got it installed. The help would be GREATLY appreciated!!! :)) I'm not giving up... A few years ago, when I was first learning linux, there was a rule that a pc operating system MUST boot off one of the first 2 IDE drives. I believe that wasn't a LILO thing so much as in IA (Intel Architecture) thing. Of course at that time, we had a 512 Mb booting rule too . . . Maybe the above doesn't apply any more, but it might. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: startx not for normal user?
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:04:30PM +0200, Remco van 't Veer wrote: Hi, I just installed Debian on a fresh workstation but only root can open a X session. First I tried startx using a normal user but it complains: I just built this potato box, and I don't think I had to fudge anything to get non-root use, although I have seen that on other boxes. I suggest you check out /etc/X11/Xserver as it may be significant. ~ /etc/X11 $ cat /etc/X11/Xserver /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA Console The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server. The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server: RootOnly Console (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console) Anybody -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: GNOME Blank Screensaver
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:49:56PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to set up a blank screensaver under GNOME? Try adding xset s on in your .xinitrc file. man xset -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Sound problems
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:43:00AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: I am running Potato that was moved from Progeny. I am haveing a very bad sound problem. At this time sound does not work at all. Here is the details: Dell Opliplex gx 110 computer stock. Intel 810 sound card in it KDE desktop Hi, I have a new GX200 with the i820 sound on the motherboard. It kinda' works . . . If/when sound becomes important to me, I expect to buy a new sound card. It will play wave files, but not midi. You know how a winmodem uses the main CPU to do a lot of the work that the modem's chips normally do . . . well we have a win soundcard, or software sound card. I also use the 2.2.19 kernel, and compile the basic OSS i8x0 support into the kernel. Using gmix to substantially boost the volume, I can use wavp to play .wav files, or gtcd to listen to music, but you can't record sounds because the card isn't supported that far. If I play xgalaga the machine locks up really hard, to the point where I have to do a hard reboot. Saytime comes out as gibberish. If you look in /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/i810_audio.c you will see the paragraph entitled Fix the sound on dell. I tried changing that code as recommended and recompiling the kernel, but it still doesn't work right. I have looked through a bunch of the alsa documents, and tried that a little, but the standard potato stuff doesn't work. I downloaded the 0.5 source and wanted to try that, but I ran out of time and ambition. I couldn't figure out how to merge those modules with my existing kernel source tree (I build my kernels the old fashioned way, not the Debian pkg way, and that may be part of my problem here). Let me know if you get it working, otherwise I plan to spring $30 for a PCI-128 that I know will work. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: gnome/mouseroller
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:17:29AM -0300, Rafael Sasaki wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:04:35AM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: now for the mouse roller and I am SET! Hi, if the mouse roller is the wheel, I just put on se Section Pointer of XF86Config file the line: ZAxisMapping4 5 and it`s working fine. Sweet! I have been meaning to get around to figuring this out. Thanks for the help. Works fine on potato with x3.3.6. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Wordperfect Suite 8 for Linux
Hi, I have the free download wordperfect 8. I unwrapped the tarball into /usr/local/wp8 or something like that, and made a simlink to the ultimate executable. It's been a long time . . . I remember I had to install a few libraries... xpm4.7, xpm4g, and one more I believe. At www.corel.com they used to have a big linux session with a mailing list. I poked around in the mailing list archives to find this out. Someone said to create this little script to launch it and it worked: #!/bin/sh WORD_DIR=/usr/local/wp8 BINDIR=$WORD_DIR/wpbin $BINDIR/xwp Hope that helps. On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 07:19:34PM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: Nathan, THere is a Debian program called alien, under which $ alien -r SomePackage.deb will be converted to a SomePackage.rpm You could query the Debian list debian_user debian-user@lists.debian.org for someone who lives close to you and could do the conversion. The Wordperfect.deb would have to be copied from the CD to the host harddrive. Probably about 500 MB of space is needed for the process. You would still have to solve the problem of getting the WordPerfect.rpm back to your System for installation. MarvS From: Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wordperfect Suite 8 for Linux Hi, I am running Mandrake 8 on my main computer, and am quite pleased with it. I have always worked with Wordperfect in the past and have been very satisfied. I do not have Wordperfect installed on this. I purchased Corel's Linux Delux Edition, quite a while ago. This installs with Wordperfect 8 as part of the set up. What I am wondering is if there is some way that I can install it on Mandrake 8 from the Corel CDs, or if there is some other way. Thank you for any help that you can give me. Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: AudioPCI: choppy sound (ES1371)
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:11:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using a Creative AudioPCI sound card using an Ensoniq ES1371 chipset (kernel modules es1371). The card works fine so far, e.g. when using xmms / freeamp and that. But when currently testing more complex media caps of my sys - mean playing demos from lokigames - the sound gets very choppy and pauses sometimes for some milliseconds. I read that some video cards may be the reason for polling the PCI bus. But I wonder when lokking at this: Any DirectX game / Windows: bad QuakeIII (OpenGL) / Windows: good Descent3 demo (OpenGL) / Linux: bad Heretic demo (OpenGL software renderer) / Linux: good Heretic demo (OpenGL hardware renderer) / Linux: bad Hi, I realize this doesn't help much, but my wife has an Ensoniq PCI128 using the ES1371 driver and it works fine. I've been compiling sound into the kernel, not module, with 2.0.36-2.2.17 and windows. It's a Pentium 133, and we don't play the above games, but it works fine on windows directx games and minor linux stuff - never choppy. All this really means is the linux driver does a good job at what it was intended to do. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: error message with libdb.so.3
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:31:35AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:46:32AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: I had this problem too. I copied libdb.so.3 from another box to /lib. Later while doing an apt upgrade I got a message saying something like libdb.so.3 is not a symlink. FYI . . . on my pototo box it is in fact a link to another library. lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 14 Apr 17 19:25 /lib/libdb.so.3 - libdb-2.1.3.so Perhaps someone with a working woody box can tell you what they have - anyone? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: xv alternatives
Hi, I don't know if it is quite the same, but I use display and convert that comes in the imagemagick package. imagemagick is free as long as you use the libmagick4g library instead of the libmagick4g-lzw (which comes from non-free). I didn't make a concious effort to choose the free version so it probably is the default. Disclaimer: I'm a geek, not a lawyer. On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would like to find a new image viewer to use. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find one that's as good as Xv. eeyes seems pretty nice, but I refuse to install the necessary GNOME libraries to make it work. I grabbed the source to see if it might be possible to build it without GNOME, but it can't be done. I've tried xzgv, but that doesn't seem very useful. It doesn't seem to be able to modify images at all, or convert between formats. The features I really want are: 1. Lots of easy keyboard commands (Tab Backspace were great in XV) 2. Intelligent scaling (I liked the zoom maxspect feature of XV, where it would zoom as close as possible to the screensize without changing the aspect ratio). 3. Simple image manipulation algorithms. I especially like the smooth algorithm, which would attempt to smooth out rought edges that resulted from scaling an image. 4. Simplicity. I don't want to have to install CORBA to get an image viewer. I want a nice, simple image viewer. I use the GIMP, but that's much bigger than what I'm asking for here. So what do people here like? Thanks. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: stable packages without priorities
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:15:24PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: Hi On my potato system I see: $ apt-cache check Bad prio eximon,3.12-10.1 == 0 Bad prio elvis-tiny,1.4-10 == 0 Bad prio cfingerd,1.4.1-1.1 == 0 Bad prio rxvt,1:2.6.2-2.1 == 0 Bad prio joe,2.8-15.3 == 0 Bad prio nis,3.8-0.1 == 0 Bad prio rxvt-ml,1:2.6.2-2.1 == 0 Bad prio exim,3.12-10.1 == 0 Bad prio qpopper,2.53-4 == 0 Bad prio sendfile,2.1-20.3 == 0 I get exactly the same thing, and I doubt your system and mine are hosed in the exact same way. I'm not going to worry about it. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: shutdown as user
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: Hi! What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? There are different ways... One way is to use sudo. Some people like it, others are scared of it. Read the acrhives and you decide for yourself. Refer to the current thread about shared root. Here is another way... edit /etc/inittab. There is a line: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now change it to: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now Then if you walk up to the console an hit CONTROL-ALT-DELETE it will shutdown (if X isn't running). Not elegant, but it works, and doesn't introduce any new security issues. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: What's with the Oracle for inux?
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:59:05AM -0500, Jason Holland wrote: Jonathan, I don't know what version that magazine had, but if you got to http://technet.oracle.com, and register, you can download, or order a free version of Oracle 8i (8.1.6) for linux, either enterprise or standard edition. its a pretty sweet deal! kudos to oracle! Jason I saw a boxed package at Staples (office supply store) with CDs and I think it had a book. It was about $90. If you are impatient and can afford the price, that may be the way to go. I don't remember the details but I really don't think it was a crippled version. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: printtool
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:11:57AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I'm trying to get my printer working after an upgrade. I've posted several other messages to the list, so I won't repeat them now. My question is this.. When I try to configure printtool for my Epson StylusColor 600 printer, there is nothing listed about resolution settings, paper type, etc.. And printtool locks up and won't do anything. Obviously a bug? If all else fails try magicfilter instead of printtool. Always worked fine for me. And I see it has filters for Epson StylusColor 600 printer at 360, 720 and 1440 dpi. # apt-get install magicfilter # magicfilterconfig HTH -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Print to windows Printer?
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:15:43PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: Anyone have a quick and dirty on setting up a Potato box to print to a windows based printer, or a cut-paste they can send me? I've used pbm2ppa to print to an attached HP820Cse windows only printer. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: cron.daily and slrnpull
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:43:15AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I configured slrnpull to run only on demand, but cron.daily keeps trying to run it every morning. As I am only connected to my ISP intermittently this is wrong. How do I change this (apart from deleting the entry in cron.daily, which doesn't seem to be right)? I deleted the entry in cron.daily and haven't had any side effects that I can see. (yet...?) -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Required Hardware?
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:39:07PM -0400, Jeffrey H. Young wrote: I have an Intel 386, with 3.5-1.44MB 5.25-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says the system should have 12MB RAM. Any chance I can get my system running with only 8MB? I have a 486 with 8mb of RAM. I installed slink on it last year, and upgraded to potato this year. The upgrade was fine with 8mb, but I wasn't able to do a clean install with 8mb. I tried a couple of different boot disks, but didn't find one usable, so I went with the upgrade. Can your machine see the 1279Mb disk? I suspect it will only see 512mb or something like that. Hope that helps. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] = 'shutdown -h now'
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:07:56AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Group, Currently when I 3-finger-salute my laptop It seems to run 'shutdown -r now' I remember a previous post which mentioned changing this to 'shutdown -h now' - but I can't seem to dig it out ... can anyone jog my memory... See your /etc/inittab file: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now change the -r to -h and you should be all set. Since inittab is read on boot, I expect it would take a reboot to take affect. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Loading X w/only netscape
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:16:27PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to setup an account on my system.. but when a user logs in (via KDM) if possible i don't want it to load a windowmanager and all i want it to load is netscape, also i want it to log back out when netscape exits.. is this possible? Hi, I just tried this and it worked for me . . . you don't need a window manager, just netscape on X. I'm using startx not kdm, but it probably works similarly. You don't get a border, so you can't resize, but netscape fills 90% of my 1024x768 screen. With a few extra commands you can probably make it just right. Well, it's a thought . . . = my .xinitrc = #!/bin/sh . /etc/X11/Xsession = my .xsession #!/bin/sh xinit $HOME/.xinitrc -- -auth $HOME.Xauthority #commented this out! fvwm2 netscape -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Newbie Slink install CDROM problem on old computer
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 08:07:26PM -0400, Andy L. Krietemeyer wrote: I have run dmesg and it reports my CDROM has been probed as hdh. Answering hdh or /dev/cdrom or dev/hdh does nothing to help. Hi, If the CDROM is plugged in the primary or secondary IDE controller on the motherboard then it would normally be hda-hdd. Since this is what most people do with modern gear, the default devices are only hda-hdd. If you are like me and your CDROM is hanging off a soundcard or add-in card, then hda-hdd isn't enough. If this is your case, you need to add a mount point. I had that problem with my /dev/hde. If this is your case and you need to add a mount point, log in as root: cd /dev ls -l hdh (to see if you already have one) if not ./MAKEDEV -n -v hdh (-v is verbose, -n is simulate) The above is a dry run; you haven't actually done anything. if the dry run looks good, then ./MAKEDEV -v hdh (for real this time, no -n) Even if this isn't your problem, I don't think it will break anything. I have mount points for /dev/hdc and hdd, and I don't have those devices, so I wouldn't think it would matter. Then you might need to make a link to cdrom: ln -s hde cdrom Good luck! -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: gif
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 02:31:32AM +0800, Kreaped Ripping Reaper wrote: how do i make .gif in linux? If you have an existing picture: convert myjpeg.jpg mygif.gif man convert . . . it can convert about anything to anything. It's part of the imagemagick package. Be advised the is a legal/political issue with GIFs. You may want to stick with .jpg or .png -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: giving access
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -0700, Joseph de los Santos wrote: Hello, How do I give permission to a non-user account to use the modem (thru pon isp) and other hardware devices? (e.g. printer, etc) For dialing out to isp, I think most folks (including myself) add users to the dip group. If you are using the modem for other than a ppp connection, put the users in the dialout group. Most users don't need to talk to the printer directly. Once you set up a print spool handler like magicfilter or apsfilter, they submit jobs to the printer. I saw a current thread on these. Hope that helps. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: 2 newbie questions
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:30:07AM -0400, Peter Solinsky wrote: I have a boca-research modem which is PNP compatable but debian can't detect it. Do I need to manually set the jumpers for and open COM and IRQ for it to be recognized? Try http://www.grapevine.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and make sure you modem is on the good list. 2nd: I am having trouble getting xwindows to work properly. When I run xf86config and set the card for SVGA, my monitor blanks and I get nothing, the main problem is I cannot get linux to reboot without entering xwin at startup which means my screen blanks at startup and I can't rerun config w/o wiping everything and starting over. CNTROL - ALT - BACKSPACE will kill xwindows and get you back to the command line (usually). You probably have xdm, which is a package which launches Xwindows automatically on bootup. If you don't have a good X setup, then it can be a hassle. Once you get X working if you want to use xdm that's fine. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: ppp problem
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:43:27PM -0400, Sandy Shapiro wrote: I installed Debian (Slink) on another computer, and I think I may have missed something in setting up the ppp connection. I can dial out, connect to, and log on to my ISP. But when I try to ping a site, I get the error message: unknown host. When I use Mozilla, it says: Unable to locate the server. Ifconfig says that ppp is running. Wvdial says ppp negotiation detected; starting pppd. Everything seem to be working except I can't communicate with the ISP. Is there something I can edit to fix this? Is more information needed? Did you put a DNS nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf? Like so: nameserver 208.130.43.5 nameserver 208.130.42.5 -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Documentation for Newbies (was: win and linux)
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:43:22PM +0300, Serkan ?nci wrote: hi, I'm too new for linux and loaded to my computer linux yesterday. However I want to use my old O.S.(windows 95) too but now I can only use linux. How can I use linux and windows together. I have got some documnets but I coludn't find any satisfactory answer. I added something to lilo.conf but there is no change. I know this question is very simple for you but any solution or reference to a document will be very good for me... /* answer this specific question */ When you change lilo.conf, you must run the program /sbin/lilo to take the changes you made and write them to the boot sector. You didn't say if you did that, but if not, that is probably your problem. /* begin newbie documentation lesson */ As a linux newbie, you may not realize it, but the answer to 90% of all your questions is already on your computer. Seriously. The only only answers that aren't there are the brand new ones (like what driver do I use for some card which just came out last month). Lilo has been around as long as linux, and the rules for lilo don't change much. Furthermore, you probably got the documentation for the version of software you installed, so you may have better documentation than anyone else. Therefore you should really get in the habit of looking for this stuff yourself. Personally, I feel a great deal of pride in finding my own answers. This is pretty arbitrary, but I figure if I have read documentation for at least 4 hours and I still can't find an answer, then it's time to post a question. Places to look: - cd /usr/doc and do an ls. Wow, look at it all. There is a directory for almost each package you installed. Usually, this is a very good place to look, but now always. Some distributions (I'm on Debian Slink) use a different location than /usr/doc. - the man pages. There are millions of them. If you think there is a man page out there but can't find it, try man -k keyword. - the info pages. There are a lot of these too. The info program is a browser of sorts. - There are HOWTO and MINI-HOWTO documents all over the place. Some documentation is stored in html files. Locate will help you find them. - locate - On windows you have the ability to find files. You can do that on linux too. In both cases it scans the entire disk, and takes a few seconds. On linux, though, there is a scheduled cron job that runs (usually in middle of the night) which scans the entire disk and makes a locate database. At that point you can type locate lilo and it will show you all the files with the phrase lilo in them. It's case sensitive, so try locate lilo Lilo LILO, and in my case it shows a nice file called /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO.gz which I can view with zmore /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO.gz The job that runs at night is called updatedb. If you try locate and just get some error message, then it's because updatedb hasn't run yet on your new system. Run updatedb as root (it takes a few minutes) and then locate should work fine. - Buy a decent book. This simple statement can spark many hours of debate regarding which books are best, but I won't go there today. - Poke around at http://www.debian.org There is documentation out there also. Typically it's the same stuff that is on your disk but it's worth a shot. - Web search. I like http://www.google.com (no need to start a debate here either), and you will find more documents and lessons learned. Hope that helps. I'm sure other people have other sources of information. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: debian + red hat linux
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:38:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, I have a pentium/100 computer whose bios cannot boot from cd-rom. i want to install debian and red hat as follows: /hda1 2.5 gig. debian /hda2 1.5 gig red hat /hda3 115 meg. swap. i dont have partition magic but i would like to know if it is possible to install debian (with booting from hard drive) and then install red hat linux on the second partition and then set it up so i can choose which i want to use. Hi, I expect that a Pentium 100 would come with a BIOS that can only boot within the first 512 Mb of disk. If so, you would have to do a bunch of fiddling to get it to work as shown above, because each kernel would have to be below that 512 mb barrier. I always make a small /boot partition of about 10mb at the head of the disk. In your case make two, their small . . . and I would make a shared /home (right now I am using 88mb, so 500mb should be enough for most people, but this point is highly debated). /hda1 10mb Debian /boot /hda2 10mb Redhat /boot (put as /rhboot in Debian's fstab) /hdax 500mb joint/home /hdax 2xRAM jointswap /hdax 2 GB Debian /root /hdax remainder Redhat /root The important point I wanted to make was the 2 small partitions at the front. The rest is arbitrary. The advantage to the layout I have shown is that if you change your mind about distributions, you keep the first 4 partitions no matter what, and the only thing you would be wasting is a 10mb chunk. To configure LILO in a case like this, I think I would pick one distribution as the master, probably Debian. Keep only one lilo.conf and execute lilo from there. Just my 2 cents worth. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: locate warning . . . ?
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 03:10:35PM -0600, Bryan Walton wrote: Greetings, Today, I have noticed that when I do a locate on something, I get a warning message that locatedb is more than 8 days old. See the example: Any ideas about what this means? The program updatedb needs to run regularly to update your locate database. - Take a look at you /etc/crontab. Mine shows: # m h dom mon dow user command 40 6* * * rootrun-parts --report /etc/cron.daily If you look in /etc/cron.daily directory, you will see a find script, and if you look in that, you will see it calls updatedb. In my case it runs at 6:40am every morning (I think that is a non standard time that I chose). If my computer isn't powered up at that time, it wouldn't run. Is that your case? - I have a potato machine I upgraded from slink a few months ago. It seemed like there was a typo in one of the scripts (or something like that) which caused this problem as you described, even if the machine was left on. I think the problem got fixed when I did an apt-get upgrade. I might be wrong about this, it's been a while . . . - If in doubt, run updatedb as root before doing a locate (like if you just installed new packages and want to do a search). -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: skipping forced fscks
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:13:20PM -0800, aphro wrote: I am about to shutdown this machine which has 221 days of uptime and want to avoid the 'file system has gone too long without check, check forced' message upon reboot, whats the best way to go about doing it? is it even possible ? shutdown -r -f now (where then -f means don't fsck) also does anyone see any problem(serious) with running a 2.0.36 SMP kernel on a k6-3 ? i figure it should work as the older kernels were pretty As long as you didn't compile kernel with the pentium flags, it should work I would think, but I'm just guessing. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: [NEWBIE]not installing from which partition?
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 07:43:55PM -0500, Dave Linsalata wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie to linux and have a quick question about installing debian. The installation manual for intel says that if you have a linux system running already (I have Mandrake), then you can update from that system and just over-write it with debian. BUT, it says do not do the install from the partition you are going to be installing onto. They are stating the incredibly obvious. You are going to format these partitions, and so you can't put the installation medium on them if you are going to format them. Unfortunately, I only have a /boot (100 meg), a swap (100 meg), and a / (3 gigs). Is it possible to do the install from linux or do I have to use windows? (plz plz plz say it is possible...installing linux from win2k is a bitch and a half...) Do you have a Debian CD? If so, then that is your medium, and you re-use your existing partitions. If you ftp'ed down a bunch of files, then you will need to put them on a CD, a FAT partition, or an linux partition that isn't going to be wiped. Does that make sense? There are also ftp, apt-get, and floppy installs, but that is another story. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Boot mystery
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 01:21:57PM -0600, Charlie Kroeger wrote: Hi, got a problem... I've installed Debian 2.1 i386 on my second hard drive in a file system and a swap file I created with partition magic. I installed Debian by booting with a windows boot disk with a CD ROM driver and then loaded Debian from the CD. Everything went well. The installation found my file system and created a partition called /dev/hdc5. The swap was activated and given the designation: /dev/hdc6 and when it came to installing LILO, I agreed to what the installation suggested: /dev/dev/hdc2 Hi, Please spell it out for us (the telepathy is weak): /dev/hdc1 = what? how big? hdc2 = hdc5 = hdc6 = Map it right out for us . . . A couple of things you probably know, but I will say it again anyway: - There is a rule about the kernel has to be in the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. On older bios this means 512mb, on newer ones, 8gb. - If you have 2 or more IDE drives (including a cdrom) the kernel must be on one of the first 2 IDE drives. So, if you have an /dev/hda hard drive, a /dev/hdb cdrom, you can't put linux on hdc. Try swapping hdb and hdc. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Help! Memory gone missing...
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 01:06:28PM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: This is new. When I upgraded 128 - 192, the full 192 meg was seen correctly (no need for append line in lilo.conf) Hi, I have never been able to figure out why some folks need the append line and some folks don't, but it sounds to me like you just joined the group that does require it. Maybe I am just too accepting, but I would add the append line, and if that fixed it I would quit wondering about it, and move on to bigger and better things . . . -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: SMP-howto
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:26:35PM +0200, Vitux wrote: Is there a SMP-howto? See: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/smp.tex (although it is pretty deep stuff, at least my my standards) (if you don't have tex stuff installed, just browse the file) Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a dual PII-350, 256ram? edit /usr/src/linux/Makefile and uncomment the line that says SMP=1 (remove the # in front of it), and compile a kernel (ref kernel HOWTO). That is all I have ever done. There may be things you can do to optimize the usage of both processors, but I never bothered. I found that if you run a bunch of small programs they will balance themselves pretty well (example: run 10 instances of something to calculate pi). One big CAD program won't balance itself unless it was written for SMP. It is said that newer kernels (like 2.2.14) do a better job with SMP than 2.0.36, but I have never tested it. (yes, I'm new at this ;-) We all are. You can be the world's expert on one thing, and you still don't know a damn thing about the other 99% of it. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Last chance: unresolved symbols and depmod weirdness
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:36:35PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: Please tell me I'm a moron and I'm clearly not running *command x*. Please tell me something... It's getting so blowing the thing away and reinstalling takes less time and frustration. Hi, Here is my cheat sheet of steps I follow every time, and it works every time. I will admit that there are some subtle things about modules I don't understand, but I get the idea it is important to have version names match because that is how the system finds them. For instance I have: /lib/modules/2.0.36 /boot/System.map-2.0.36 /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 It seems to me once upon a time I wasn't this verbose on my filenames and I had a lot of error messages. I didn't add that step 15 just for the hell of it . . . that's my notation for I learned it the hard way. == How to build a kernel 1) Install the Kernel package 2) symlink /usr/src/linux to your kernel directory 3) cd /usr/src/linux 4) make mrproper 5) make xconfig 6) make dep 7) make clean 8) make boot (or make bzImage) 9) make modules 10) cd /lib/modules; mv 2.x.xx 2.x.xx-old 11) cd /usr/src/linux; make modules_install 11) cd /boot mv vmlinux-2.x.xx vmlinuz-2.x.xx-stock 12) cd /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot cp zImage /boot/vmlinuz 13) emacs /etc/lilo stock - /boot/vmlinuz-stock linux - /boot/vmlinuz 14) /sbin/lilo -v 15) make sure the module/kernel names match 16) reboot! -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Fetchmail, sendmail... let's do a thread about mail!
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 05:10:49PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: I got a few question concerning, you've probably guessed it already: mail! I've created a user email, every once in a while this user should use fetchmail to empty some mailboxes (somewhere on a distant server) and then use procmail to take it into some mailfolders. The mail should reach the right user... HOW?? (If there's a better way please tell me.) I also got this little sendmail problem it won't send to other computers then those on the LAN, some dns things. I told sendmail to use dns and I don't have a smarthost, what else could it be? Ron Hi, I use fetchmail at the user level. Each user runs fetchmail to get mail from the distant ISP mail server. Exim is a decent MTA. Let it send mail around your system and to the ISPs smtp server. Obviously you need to have ppp/lan and your resolv.conf working . . . The following line in /etc/exim.conf will make it so all the mail you fetch will go to the user's mailbox asap. Otherwise, you only get 10 mails now and the rest comes in a few minutes. smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 Other MTAs are decent too. No religious wars please! -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Off topic: Free POP3 email
Hi, Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to ask this question to a group of folks I know I could trust, so I wrote to you. I set my 12 year old daughter up with her own Linux box, and she is doing pretty well. Until now she hasn't had her own email, but I guess it is time to set her up, so I'm looking for free email. I don't care for Hot-mail or other web based mail, rather I would prefer something pop3 based, so she can use a regular Linux mail reader off-line. Furthermore, I would like to find an place where the likelihood of a young girl getting inappropriate spam (porn, etc) is kept to a minimum. Any ideas? Since this is off topic, it might be appropriate if responses came to me instead of bogging down the rest of the group. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Need help on installing CD-ROM drive
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 01:42:38AM -0800, Ricardo Rivera wrote: I'm a newbie to Linux. I've installed Debian in my Packard Bell Packmate 850. It's a 486 DX/2 50 mhz with 20 mb of RAM and a Sound Blaster 16 card with a CD-ROM attached to it. The system does not recognizes this CD-ROM drive. I tried to install different driver modules but the only one that do not failed was the SoundBlasterPro driver for the CD-ROM. But it does'nt work. I managed to install all drivers modules and the base system using floppies. I would like to have my CD-ROM to work properly in order to continue installing other applications from the Debian CD-ROM. Hi, I have a CDROM hanging off a SB16 card too. Mine is an ATAPI cdrom, but not all of them are (look for messages about it in the bootup stuff or dmesg). Since the CDROM is on the ide2, it will be /dev/hde, but that isn't there by default. This fixed mine, and it may work for you: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV -v hde (note: you can use ./MAKEDEV -n -v to do a test run) Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Setting up Debian
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 03:51:54PM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: I'm a newbie to Debian, but an old computer hand... experiencing considerable difficulty in setting up a Debian Linux system on my DELL Pentium III 34gb drive I set up a 8gb partition using fdisk and formated the lower 24gb with MS format. Then I used Partition Magic 5.0 to set up a 1,000mb root partition, /, a 2gb /usr partition and a 1gb swap partition. I used Partition Magic to format each partition (root: Linux ex2; usr: Linux ex2; Swap partition: swap) There is a rule that OS's must boot within the first 1024 cylinders of the drive (I guess it's a BIOS limitation for PC style architecture). On older computers like my P90, that mean the first 512mb, on newer ones like your's I guess that is about 8gb. So having the lower 24gb as windows won't work. You need to get that windows partition down to just below 8gb. You may want to put a small /boot partition (like 10mb) next, a few gigs of linux partitions, and then a big honking D: drive for windows. I don't have experience with partition magic. I guess it't pretty neat, but I don't thing it will allow you to break the 1024 rule (I could be wrong, I usually am...) And like someone else said 1gb of swap is an awful lot. The traditional standard is 2x your RAM. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Flash + Netscape (autodetection problems)
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 03:44:07PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all! I've installed Flash plugin for netscape. Neither of the sites can autodetect that the plugin is installed. Even at www.flash.com I had to click on If you know that you have Flash installed link. Typing about:plugins in netscape shows Flash installed. This is my experience also. I assume (right or wrong) that the web server doesn't interpret linux browsers so well. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Fwd: Corel Install/SetUp
Can anyone help this guy? REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I don't think he is on this list. .. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup Supposedly an award winner for ease of use and install, especially a Linux beginner. My system - Dell Dimension XPS. Pentiun 2-333. 384 MB RAM. Viper 2 AGP video card, 17 ViewSonic monitor. I installed Linux on a slave HD (IBM IDE 8 GB). After entering my user name and waiting for the install to complete, a DOS-like screen appeared asking me to log on. I couldn't because the screen continually flashed off and on until I was forced to reboot into the VGA mode. Here I found my mouse worked but I couldn't type any entries under any application. I tried 2 different keyboards - no luck. Graphics are fuzzier than w/WIN 98 (Maybe this is normal for Linux) The display area is oversize and I have to keep dragging it to the left to get to the corner controls. I tried a reinstall with the same results. Corel has not returned my calls after long waits for tech support. Nice of them -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: menu 2.1.5-2.1 broken?
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 09:32:02PM +, leckert wrote: Has anyone else experienced a rather substantial loss of menu items after upgrading to menu 2.1.5-2.1 in frozen? I am using windowmaker, and I no longer even able to select a terminal from my drop down menu. I am running two boxes, one with gnome and one without, and it happened on both. Or have I missed something lately about a change in setting up menus? Yes, I noticed the same thing in fvwm after an apt-get upgrade today, and yes it installed the new version of menu. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
[jpb@cybertours.com: Re: menu problems]
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:30:38AM -0500, eric k. wolven wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Menus in all my windowmanagers are incomplete and some applications don't work.Eg, netscape doesn't respond even from the commandline, much less the menu. The app starts then...nada. menu_2.1.5-2.1_i386.deb and plugger_3.2-1_i386.deb seem to be bad. If you did an apt-get upgrade you probably got them. In my case I went to /var/cache/apt/archives and the old ones were there, so I removed the latest ones, installed the older ones, and I was all set. Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:28:06PM +, Big Gaute wrote: I've decided that I like my emacs to have nice green letters on dark background. To this end, I looked in the emacs manual and created a file ~/.Xdefaults with the following incantations: emacs.background: Black emacs.foreground: LimeGreen Put this line in /etc/bash.bashrc: alias emacs=emacs -bg Black -fg LimeGreen -cr LimeGreen Not elegant, but it works. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: New HP Printers...?
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 04:48:05PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: Hello, I am looking at buying a new printer, and had my eyes on a HP DeskJet 710C, which I would definitely have bought if I only ran Windows. I wrote: The 710C is a Windows printer. Someone hacked together a driver that works very well for black and white for the 710, 720, 820 and 1000 Hi, I have an HP820Cse on one computer, and it's a Windows only printer as described above. I use a pbm2ppa driver, but if you print 2 pages from netscape it takes 90% of the cpu for about 2 minutes. In other words it's a real performace pig (it's a pig in windows too). In all fairness it does a really nice job, but I wouldn't buy one today. My theory is that some of the HP printers have the words: HP Deskjet xxx For Windows written right on the front of the printer, and these are the ones to avoid. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: suidregister problems after dist-upgrade today
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:55:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: 0 S Jan 14 Adam Klein Uploaded suidmanager 0.42 (source all) to master That'll fix it. It worked. THANK YOU!!! I had been struggling with the same problem for a couple of days. That kind of timely advice is what makes this list so great. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: Help with X Windows
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:56:21PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey everybody! Now that I have gotten my scripts and executables to work (thanks to your help) I was wondering if I could customize the menus in X Windows so that my games would show up in the menu (I looked for a config file for something like that, but I couldn't find anything. The window manager I am using is olvwm, if that matters. I use fvwm2 and I edited the file /etc/X11/fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook You may have a similar olvwm file. Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: Exim: more than 10 messages received in one connection
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: ...snip... Does anyone know the line I need to add to my exim.conf file? smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 works well for me. This will dump them all as soon as it comes in. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: PPP, CDROM, and Floppy Questions
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:22:26PM -0800, AU,SCOTT CHUONG wrote: ...snip... 1. PPP After running pppconfig to setup a connection to my ISP, I noticed I can initiate the modem to dial but consequently it simply hangs up. I went to my 2nd virtual console and issued: cat /dev/ttyS2 (my modem) to see what input was being obtained and noticed the modem hangs up right around the time the opening page of the ISP is being brought up (I see the Welcome to then the modem disconnects). Is this because the chat script has some form of timeout (ie: if the next expected line: sername, is not received, does the modem hangup)? On the ppp.log, I see the modem remark: alarm, then remark: fail. as someone else mentioned in the last day or so, try minicom -s to set the serial lines up fine. 2. CDROM I've gotten a hold of an old 2X CDROM and a Sound Blaster 16 board. The CDROM connects through the SB so I chose the SB Pro option in the modconf program to install the CD. I see the CD drive being accessed (the led lights up) and modconfig states the installation was successful. Unfortunately, when I reboot and go to /dev, I see no form of CDROM device that I can mount. The installation mentions a sbpcd device and the /var/devices list mentions a sbpcd device but no form of this device exists in the /dev directory. Have I missed a step or did the installation actually fail? if this is an ATAPI drive on a SB card, then it will mount up as /dev/hde, but you don't have a spot for it yet. Try: cd /dev ./MAKDEV hde then edit /etc/fstab appropriately. 3. Floppy Disk After mounting my floppy disk drive (1.44 drive), I note that issuing the mount command shows the drive can read msdos diskettes. Unfortunately, when I attempt to view the contents of a msdos diskette (using ls or dir), I get garbage which seems to be the parts of a Microsoft Word document that I know resides on the diskette. Have I done something wrong or missed invoking an option? try: man mtools Hope that helps. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: MTA
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:42:27PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: Hi! I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not connected to a network (not in Debian, though, haven't tried sendmail in Debian), so I wonder what the best setup is for outgoing mail when it is only to send mail when I connect to the ISP (and directly when I do that, preferrably without manual intervention). I'll cast another vote for exim. When you send mail it goes into an exim queue and when you connect to the internet (pon) it starts sending the mail automatically. I have a cron job which connects early every morning, does fetchmail and slrnpull, waits a few mintues for exim can do it's thing, and disconnects. Later in the day I do the same thing manually. The only gotcha with is arrangement is if you want to send an email with a large attachment you need to stay connected long enough to let the thing go. Since I rarely do this I just keep an eye on xnetload until is says zero. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: Summary: logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user, gnome logout button?
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: - I want to enable my family to use Linux instead of the other OS. Therefore it is important that they can start the computer, run it and shut down in a CONTROLLED way. Restart/shutdown are menu entries in the other OS!! I've thought about this a lot too. Can you teach your kids to type sudo reboot? (I don't mean that sarcastically, I have kids too . . .) You may even be able to put it in a menu item. I think visudo and has options to give people just certain priviliges. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: the perils of software re-use
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 06:22:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The visiting Americans nodded appreciatively, but then did a double-take as the kangaroos reappeared from behind a hill and launched a barrage of Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. A friend of mine proposes this be marketed as a game. Call it Kanga-Doom. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: need help with modem
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:19:59PM +, Robert Helmer wrote: Jason, You can change the permissions on the device ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by the dialout group, and put the users who can use the modem in the dialout group. Some of us use the dip group instead of dialout. What's the difference? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: good book to learn perl
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 01:47:52PM -0600, ktb wrote: aphro wrote: can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl ? :) recommend Learning Perl, Schwartz and Christiansen. Don't let chapter I second that recommendation . . . and once you get get good at it get the O'Reilly's Programming Perl, more in-depth. I tried to read Programming Perl first, but that was a mistake. Go with Learning Perl. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian/GNU Linux (Slink)
losing mail?
Hi, I'm using mutt/exim/fetchmail and have been quite happy with it . . . until now. I'm pretty sure I lost 56 pieces of mail this morning. I've always been intrigued with the interaction between the 3 above tools. Basically, I: - connect to the internet, - run fetchmail - exim delivers me 10 pieces (yes, I know I can change that...) - I start mutt and read those 10 pieces - in a few minutes exim delivers the rest of the mail (if you read this list I'm sure you have plenty of mail in the morning too ;-) Now for the interesting part. I've got mutt running, and when I go to exit mutt, it usually shows me the rest of the mail. It seemed to work like it worked reliably. I have a cron job which runs every morning. Basically it runs pon, fetches mail and news, and disconnects. Normally I don't have mutt running at that time, but last night I went to bed with mutt running. I got a note which is generated from the cron saying fetchmail received 56 pieces of mail, but the mail was no where to be found. I guess when I exited mutt it overwrote the new mail in /var/spool/mail/joe, but why doesn't it do that all the time? I think this happened to me once before. I guess the best thing to do is to make sure I exit mutt, but I wish there were a more bullet proof solution. Am I missing something? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian/GNU Linux (Slink)
Re: Lotus Notes
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 06:18:56PM -0400, Jim Penny wrote: Has anyone been able to get the lotus notes binary to run undeer Debian? Hi, I believe Lotus has released Domino R5 server under linux, and that you can download it for free. We use Notes at work, and I had thought about setting up Domino at home in hopes that I could use it as a client somehow, albeit overkill. The server app needed a lot more horsepower than my Pentium 90, so I gave it up. I think they will have a native linux Notes client this winter. If you somehow get it to work, please let me know, because that would put me one step closer to eliminating windows all together. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian/GNU Linux (Slink)
Re: PPP for non-root users
How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? adduser username dip Thanks from me too! I've been doing sudo pon for a long time, but had just resigned myself to it... This mailing list really is the greatest source of information. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)
Re: i can't hear my cd's
using cdtool's cdplay, i can't hear my cd's. are there any special configs to get the audio? (there are no probs with the device (/dev/hdc).) try: ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom chmod 777 /dev/cdrom -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)
Re: emacs or xemacs ?
I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? On my meager Pentium 90, Xemacs takes about 20 seconds to load, and emacs loads in about 3. I prefer emacs. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)
How to set line length?
Hi, I am using mutt, exim, and emacs. I would like to be able to just type long lines as paragraphs and have something break the line length off. I know this is a standard feature in most mail systems, and it must be here, but I can't figure out how to set it. I understand some email readers don't handle long lines well, and I don't want to be rude when I send mail to those people. This must be in the documentation somewhere, but I have been unable to find it. I tried to RTFM, and if I only knew which manual, I would be OK. I considered setting up an emacs macro, but I figured there must be something in mutt which I need to set? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)
Re: [LILO] how to boot a second IDE HD?
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:20:19PM -0700, Jack Lee wrote: Hi: Currently, I'm running linux well on my first IDE HD, but the problem comes when I try to use lilo booting the second IDE HD. Please give me some advices. Thanks :) Oh, by teh way, the first IDE HD (/dev/hda) is the master drive on first IDE controller. The second IDE HD (/dev/hdd) is the slave drive on second IDE controller. I've tried to modify /etc/lilo.conf to boot the DOS on /dev/hdd3, but it fails. The error message appearing at the booting time is the following: Hi, It seems to me there is a rule about booting off hda and hdb only (I think the documentation says the first 2 ide drives). It's right up there with the 1023 sector rule. I hear folks have gotten around that now-adays, so maybe there is a way around your problem too. Can you rearrange things and hang it off the primary slave? That works. Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)
Re: 800x600 Xwindows screen format
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:49:57PM +1000, Brian May wrote: Does anyone have tips on using XWindows on a low resolution screen (eg laptop)? I find that lots of programs (eg emacs, xemacs, xnetscape, and from memory xfig) open up windows that a too big to fit on the screen, and it is awkward have to resize the window automatically after reloading. I don't particularly want to go into each application one by one to try and change the default load position, either - as I would have to find the special procedure for every application. ...or is this a bug in my window manager (fvwm95)? Would using another window manager help? I know from the window manager sets the windows initial size and position, but the application can override it. I have no idea if this is the case or not for the above applications. (actually - I am not using this computer - I prefer fvwm) -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tend to get in the habit of hitting ALT-F10 which is maximize, or in this case resize to fit. Once upon a time, I was in your position, and I took the time to make aliases for all the common commands. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)
Re: newbie install problem with CD-ROM mount
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 10:33:18AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: I am totally new to linux and debian. I tried to install from CD-ROM but it (a Hi-Val (MITSUMI) FX400) wasn't recognized. Following the Hi, I don't have a MITSUMI, but I have an old Soundblaster CDROM hanging off the sound card. This makes the cdrom the 5th ide device, or /dev/hde. The defaults in /dev only go up through hdd. When I first did an install I had to install the base off a hard drive. Then after the first reboot (half way through the install) I was able to switch to another virtual console and: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV /dev/hde Then I was all set. Later I did a: ln -s /dev/hde /dev/cdrom I apologize if this has nothing to do with your problem, but I sounded like it did. Good luck either way. Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)
