Re: SoundMAX AD188X supported?
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:51:26PM +0100, Karsten Bolding wrote: I'm compiling the 2.4.0-test4 kernel but can't find any info on the following sound card: SoundMAX AD188x. As I remember it's card which is in Intel 810 chipset. Just go and find Intel ICH audio support under OSS sound modules in sound section. Or try alsa (www.alsa-project.org). Both of them worked for me. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:45:39AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might resolve this or should I install modutils from scratch? Just install modutils from woody and that's all you need. If you are upgrading box with dialup connection you need propably ppp package from woody and if you compile ppp options as a modules, you will need such lines in some file in /etc/modutils dir (I've made file /etc/modutils/ppp for this): alias char-major-108ppp_generic alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate Naturally after creating such file you need to run update-modules to put changes into /etc/modules.conf. That's all what I needed on my home box (standard Debian 2.2) to have 2.4 kernel working perfectly. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: new Kernel 2.4 missing Old Tulip module ?
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:48:17AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: The structure of the /lib/modules directory has been changed in the 2.4 kernels so I guess the modutils can't find the correct kernel module. (try lsmod, it should list all modules that are currently loaded) I don't know how to fix this however (see my previous mail :-) Upgrade to modutils from woody. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: Kernel 2.4 on potato
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:28:33PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: I'm using kernel 2.4 on my potato box without any problems. I've installed modutils from woody to recognize new directories organization under /lib/modules/ and ppp package from woody to make ppp work as a module with such modutils configuration: alias char-major-108ppp_generic alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate With these two modifications everything works just fine. Here you have official list of needed packages from kernel 2.4.0-test10 source: o Gnu C 2.91.66 # gcc --version o Gnu make 3.77 # make --version o binutils 2.9.1.0.25 # ld -v o util-linux 2.10o# kbdrate -v o modutils 2.3.18 # insmod -V o e2fsprogs 1.19 # tune2fs --version o pcmcia-cs 3.1.21 # cardmgr -V o PPP2.4.0# pppd --version o isdn4k-utils 3.1beta7 # isdnctrl 21|grep version BTW I use e2fsprogs 1.18 from potato without any problems. Any other newer packages like pcmcia-cs or isdn4-utils I don't use so I don't care about them. thanks for the supply of information. much appreciated. i've done the check and one thing i would like to confirm is the following: Gnu C 2.95.2 Gnu make 3.79.1 binutils 2.9.5 I use exactly the same versions - versions from potato distribution. List above is from original /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes file and in most cases lists MINIMAL versions of programs needed. So it's not a problem for most programs when you have higher version. this are the versions on my potato box. comparing to your listing would it matter if i use them with kernel-2.4.0-test12 (or whatever is the latest)? List of required packages for kernel 2.4.0-test12 is exactly the same (I've checked patches 2.4.0-test11 and 2.4.0-test12 and don't see any changes to the list above). I've compiled 2.4.0-test12 without problems but this kernel is weird for me - it has problems with dosemu and with ReiserFS, which I need, so I decided to stay with -test10 version and wait for final 2.4.0. But this was bad for me - if you don't use dosemu and ReiserFS just give it a try, without them it works just fine. Good Luck and remember - you can always return to normal stable 2.2.x so you risk not so much ;-) -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: Kernel 2.4 on potato
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:25:32PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: hi. not wanting to reinvent the wheel, is it possible to use the kernel 2.4 with potato? if yes then what files, if any, should i get and from where? i've heard people say that it is possible but being the stubborn me i like to see it for myself so i'm willing to spend lots of time to make it work (if it's possible). I'm using kernel 2.4 on my potato box without any problems. I've installed modutils from woody to recognize new directories organization under /lib/modules/ and ppp package from woody to make ppp work as a module with such modutils configuration: alias char-major-108ppp_generic alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate With these two modifications everything works just fine. Here you have official list of needed packages from kernel 2.4.0-test10 source: o Gnu C 2.91.66 # gcc --version o Gnu make 3.77 # make --version o binutils 2.9.1.0.25 # ld -v o util-linux 2.10o# kbdrate -v o modutils 2.3.18 # insmod -V o e2fsprogs 1.19 # tune2fs --version o pcmcia-cs 3.1.21 # cardmgr -V o PPP2.4.0# pppd --version o isdn4k-utils 3.1beta7 # isdnctrl 21|grep version BTW I use e2fsprogs 1.18 from potato without any problems. Any other newer packages like pcmcia-cs or isdn4-utils I don't use so I don't care about them. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: agpgart, XFCom_810 and the Dell OctiPlex
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:16:30PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: I helped a colleague this afternoon install 2.2r2 on his new Dell Optiplex GX110. The installation went very smoothly indeed. I hadn't done an install from scratch with potato, and I was really impressed. The problem, though, is getting X working. This is a known issue, I think. These machines seem to have Intel i810 video cards, which are not successfully autodetected by anXious. I've looked around on the web and found some information, but nothing specific to Debian. If I understand correctly, these cards need a kernel module called `agpgart' and they need the SVGA server. But I also gather that Intel has released their own version of agpgart.o as well as their own X server for the i810 chipset (XFCom_810). The combination of these two is said to yield better performance, and the instructions on the Intel web-site seem fairly clear. But I thought I should check here before plunging in, to see if anybody has experience doing this on a Debian system, or if any of you unfailingly kind and knowledgeable people had any advice or warnings to offer. I'm using the agpgart package and the X-Server from Intels website for our X-terminals. This combinations works pretty good. The standard svga server is definitively slower and not that stable. I use linux kernel 2.4.0-test10 with Debian 2.2r2 and agpgart module is an option in kernel. I compiled it statically into kernel (I had problems with module) and everything works very good with standard svga server. Naturally all on Dell OptiPlex GX110. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:37:46AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: That is *not* why we backport security holes. Let's look at apache. A security hole is discovered in apache. Debian has a current version (1.3.9) in it already. The apache team releases 1.3.10, with a fix for the security hole. And 70 other, unrelated, changes. Now, is it safer to backport the fix to 1.3.9, or to just shove all those changes into frozen? You wanted us to release *when*? BTW, this is a real life example. Don't think that I'm your anemy. I just know that many people don't know about things more or less specific to Debian (like changelogs etc.) and don't have time end energy to check packages and their changelogs and so on. They just see things like Debian has version 1.3.9 of apache and secure version is 1.3.10 and up so Debian isn't secure. As you can say it's also real life example. Maybe they should be much more sceptic when thet write articles like this but many people think like this without expressing it on paper or webpage. I fully understand why Debian packages maintainers backport security fixes to packagest in frozen instead of making new package versions. But, like we say in Poland, every stick has two ends (sling has even 3 ;-) ). Debian publishes security advisories for a reason. Debian has a security website for a weason. Debian packages have changelogs for a reason. It's not as if this information is hard to find. Yes but, as you see, for many normal users it's too much work to be done to check everything. They just take fresh distribution and say What? Fresh dist with old packages, even such with security holes? What's going on?. Not so many think like It's Debian so it's 100% secure. I think it should be solved in some way, but i don't know how :-( -- __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article
On SecurityPortal there is an article about Debian 2.2 security: http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet2830.html Just read it and tell me what you think about it. -- __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odp: Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article
Just read it and tell me what you think about it. I think it has some valid points. He brings up issues that make sense and should of been taken care of a long time ago (eg: commenting out archaic services in inetd.conf, default homedir perms, etc). Maybe Debian maintainers should go over 2.2 with a fine-tooth comb and release a 2.2.1 security/system update? But this guy talks about security holes just by checking package version numbers! He dosn't look what has been done with package (debian specific changes including backported fixes for security holes). I often wrote maintainers that Debian should implement right package versions. For example: package in Debian has number 1.4-1. Security hole is discovered and it's fixed in normal 1.5 version. But when this package (1.4-1) is in frozen state there is no posibility to generate package 1.5-1 and put it into frozen. So maintainer backports security fix and makes package 1.4-2 which has no security hole. But for guy like this writer (and for many normal users) this package has security hole. Not so many look at the changelogs or try exploits - they just look at package version (it's 1.4) and look at the advisory, in which they read that hole has been fixed in version 1.5 so they think that Debian is insecure. And I think this is big problem for most people. _ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Yamaha YMF 724
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:41:35PM +0100, Andreas Sliwka wrote: Hi, I got a new board with an Yamaha YMF 724 on board. How can I get this chip to play sound? I'm afraid you cannot without money. Yamaha has decided to make NDA with OSS/4Tech and only commercial drivers are available for this chip. For details go to www.alsa-project.org and to black list. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: Problems with mutt 1.0.1 i under slink
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 12:52:25PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All, A few days ago I've send a message about successfull packaging of mutt 1.0.1 for slink. Unfortunately things are more difficult :-(. The new version of mutt works without problems on my office PC, which is continously connected to the Internet and is systematically upgraded (so now it is probably running debian 2.1r4 or so). My home computer runs the debian2.1r0 (first stable), and mutt 1.0.1 causes the memory protection error. Probably I should upgrade to slink r4, but making it by modem is really painfull. Which package should I upgrade? ldd shows that mutt uses only: ldd /usr/bin/mutt libncurses.so.4 = /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x4001) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4005) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) These libraries are the same on both mentioned computers... Maybe try to build this package on your home computer? I'ts only one apt-get command ;-) BTW is there any easy way to burn on CD only the modified packages, needed to r0 - r4 upgrade? Yes - take new packages, put them in directory structure similar to this on official CD, use mkhybrid to generate ISO9660 image and use cdrecord to burn CD. But IMHO just wait for potato - it's promised to end of Feb'2000. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: What's gone in Corel Linux
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 11:30:28PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 10:21:09PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. Well apparently Corel made some major changes in the final because according to this page: http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm , Corel Linux is based on Debian 2.2. Actually, Debian 2.2 doesn't exist at the moment; potato has no version number as of yet. According to http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ it's _likely_ but not _certain_ that potato will be release 2.2, but it could easily be something different. (e.g. 3.0?) Yes - Debian 2.2 kernel dosn't exist. But Corel Linux is based on Debian 2.2. kernel (It's writen on Corel WWW. What it means?) not on Debian 2.2. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: ymf724
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 11:48:12PM +0530, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: anybody using yamaha YMF724 PCI sound card? I can't seem to use opl3, opl3sa or opl3sa2 modules. Use alsa sound driver (from deb packages, but they are so old in slink that dosn't support this card, or directly from www.alsa-project.org). Normal kernel sound subsytem dosn't sopport this card. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
KDE 1.1.2 for slink problem - kfmclient
Hello! I've used KDE 1.1.1 (naturally from kde.tdyc.org) on my slink system without problems but some days ago I've upgraded it to version 1.1.2. Everything works OK except kfmclient. When I try to browse any directory on KDE Desktop (my home directory from icon on Desktop or any other directory) or try to open any URL address kfmclient opens window swith all menus and with empty content - it works forever. I can stop it and try to reload but without success. It dosn't show anything. Is it bug in my KDE setup or in KDE itself? Thanks in advance for help -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: OPL3-Sax
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 09:54:02AM +0200, Rune Linding Raun wrote: a lsmod here gives: opl3sa2 3400 1 ad1848 15060 1 [opl3sa2] mpu401 17676 1 [opl3sa2] and in conf.modules: options opl3sa2 io=0x100 io=0x201 io=0x220 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x370 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1 I prefer ALSA driver. Here is my /etc/conf.modules configuration: alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-opl3sa2 options snd-card-opl3sa2 snd_port=0x240 snd_wss_port=0xe80 snd_midi_port=0x300 snd_fm_port=0x388 snd_irq=10 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma1_size=64 snd_dma2=3 snd_dma2_size=64 snd_isapnp=1 snd_id=YMF-719 # OSS/Free setup alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm1-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm1-oss And my lsmod: snd-mixer-oss 3592 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm1-oss 12788 1 (autoclean) snd-card-opl3sa28712 1 isapnp 23169 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2] snd-cs4231 15864 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2] snd-mixer 25824 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-card-opl3sa2 snd-cs4231] snd-pcm1 16500 0 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-cs4231] snd-opl31956 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2] snd-timer 7500 0 [snd-cs4231 snd-pcm1 snd-opl3] snd-hwdep 2484 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2 snd-opl3] snd-pcm 8696 0 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-card-opl3sa2 snd-cs4231 snd-pcm1] snd-mpu401-uart 1692 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2] snd-midi 12144 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2 snd-mpu401-uart] snd32972 1 [snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm1-oss snd-card-opl3sa2 snd-cs4231 snd-mixer snd-pcm1 snd-opl3 snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart snd-midi] soundcore 2444 4 [snd] I'm playing now some mp3 files with 44.1kHz (using mpg123) without any problems. I also use normal OSS drivers with such configuration: alias char-major-14 opl3sa2 pre-install opl3sa2 modprobe -k ad1848 post-install opl3sa2 modprobe -k opl3 options opl3sa2 io=0x240 mss_io=0xe80 mpu_io=0x300 irq=10 dma=1 dma2=3 options opl3 io=0x388 And lsmod: opl3 10476 1 (autoclean) opl3sa2 3644 1 ad1848 15420 1 [opl3sa2] mpu401 17964 1 [opl3sa2] sound 55388 0 [opl3 opl3sa2 ad1848 mpu401] soundcore 2444 7 [sound] With this configuration I've sometimes problems (but right now it works OK also with 44.1kHz). Maybe your problems are not configuration-specific but hardware specific (I don't like built-in hardware since my strange problems with Matrox G200 on mainboard)? Good luck! -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: OPL3-Sax
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 09:59:02AM +0200, Rune Linding Raun wrote: hi ! i got a laptop with a yamaha opl3-sax (ymf719) soundchipset system: deb 2.1 with kernel 2.2.13 amd-k6-2 333 128meg ram the problem is that 16 bit sound cant function at 44kHz if iam going to listen to eg mp3 :) i have to tell the player to sample in 22kHz otherwise it sounds really scambled and it looks as it get worse if i move the mouse or the hdd is active?? i cant see any dma/irq conflicts in my /proc and besides it works perfectly on 22kHz besides i got my laptop with winblows and it worked fine in 44kHz, i got this laptop for a year now and nobody seems to have the answer;not being able to get 44kHz really stinks :) Take a look at http://www.alsa-project.org/ - this is really greatest sound-driver for Linux. I use it with my YMF719 without any problems (earlier I used normal Linux kernel drivers but with problems like yours). Just download from ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub sources of alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils, do ./configure ; make install for all of them and everything should work. Good Luck! -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: OPL3-Sax
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 01:53:26PM +0200, Rune Linding Raun wrote: i guess iam using the alsa driver its those integrated in the 2.2.x kernel? No. Alsa isn't integrated into kernel. Even in 2.3.x. anyway the last release of alsa didnt help the problem Are you sure? I talk about alsa 0.4.1d from 1999/10/24. And for best results use alsaplayer to play MP3 files (from http://www.alsa-project.org/~andy/). If you use potato deb file with alsaplayesr is in distribution. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
weird KDE 1.1.2 problem on slink
Hello! I've downloaded and upgraded KDE from 1.1.1. to 1.1.2 on my slink system and now I've one little problem - KFM stoped to show me contents of folders and URLs. When I click on an folder or try to open any URL kfmclient opens window but absolutely empty and works forever trying to show contents of dir/URL. Is it normal in KDE 1.1.2 ? I cannot watch contents of anything on disk since upgrade. Can anbody help me? PS. Please reply to me on my priv address - I read this list from time to time. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:10:06PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: I've tried XFree 3.3.5 but it dosn't work for me too. Try Xserver 3.3.4 from www.xfree86.org or packaged for Debian from: http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-334-slink/ (but server from xfree website works for me better than from deb package). None of them worked. Returned the same results. :-( Neither debian packages nor tarball from xfree86 web site had work. Meanwhile I'd downgraded xfree86-common package from 3.3.5 to 3.3.4 and my older XF68_FBDev X server started to work again. This one it's 3.3.2 ! At least it works. I don't understand why SVGA doesn't work - at least it's recommended by xfree86 web site. Do you use Xserver-svga 3.3.4 from www.xfree86.org? I've used debian package for it and xserver 3.3.5 in both formats and they didn't worked. But 3.3.4 form www.xfree86.org works great. My is 3253081 bytes. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 04:53:58PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: Hi, I'd an S3 Trio3D2x AGP 86C362 graphic card and was working fine on hamm with an older XF68_FBdev X server. Yesterday, I upgraded my machine to slink and downloaded xserver-svga and xserver-fbdev packages. Xfree86 web site says I should use SVGA X server: well i'm unable to get it to work. When I launch SVGA X server my monitor get darked with no chance to go back to console(just ctrl+alt+del). The output it's: I've tried XFree 3.3.5 but it dosn't work for me too. Try Xserver 3.3.4 from www.xfree86.org or packaged for Debian from: http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-334-slink/ (but server from xfree website works for me better than from deb package). -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: re: Re: init id S
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:08:31PM -0500, Koyote wrote: ttyS2 is there, plugged into the pcmcia slot. It is removeable, so I guess I should make this a mountable device? Wait a minute: wvdial finds the modem as ttyS2, but the boot process finds only ttyS1 with a 16550A UART Now, I did go through and setup serial support in this install (it was a clean install to see how the installer copes with my scsi cdrom) and now I'm not getting the ttyS0 is a 8850 (? not sure I remember) that i used to get. What's up with that? I'm not a PCMCIA guru but as I think when modem is on PCMCIA card line in /etc/inittab should be only when this modem is in slot. And as I know this is what (among other things) pcmcia-modules package does. It loads any needed modules into kernel, inserts apropriate lines in configuration files and restarts all neded daemons. And when card is disconnected it works just in opposite way. Just consult any linux-pcmcia-user (I'll try to speak about it with my friend which works with such configuration). -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: init id S
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 09:12:30AM -0500, Koyote wrote: I'm showing this periodically, and I haven't a clue what it is: INIT: id S respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Anyone know what this is? Look at your /etc/inittab what has id S. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: Anyone using an S3 Trio3D/2X graphic card ?
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:54:08PM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: Just take a look at very new XFree86 3.3.4 - as I remember it has support for S3 Trio3D. Just take server (SVGA or S3 or S3V?) from address: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.4/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers/ and give it a chance. S3V server it's for S3 Virge graphic cards. S3 server doesn't work. SVGA works but just with 320x200 ! I must wait for support of this graphic card. Are you sure that only this resolution is supported? I've worked over 1 week with HP Vectra VEi8 with integrated Matrox MGA200 video and I had also only 320x200 resolution but after this time I've managed how to make it work (with Xserver-SVGA version 3.3.4) and now I've good resolutions (1024x768 and 800x600) with high refresh rates but modelines are very untypical. If this Xserver recognizes this chipset it's only a matter of good (for this particular card) modelines in XF86Config file. And as always you have option of framebuffer device - wit this Xserver S3 Trio3D works for sure but without full hardware acceleration. Just take a look at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9903/msg00324.html and answers for this question. One fragment of one of replies: ___ I am using Debian 2.0 I have upgraded to the XFree86 from slink, and have download the S3 server 3.3.3.1 from xfree86.org, but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Oh, yes, i have it too and it works good in 1024x768 and 32 bit color. But, you have to upgrade to kernel 2.2.x and use the framebuffer device. This gives you that nice little pinguin at boottime ;-) you can find all necessary info in the source docs: linux/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt and linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt Than you can use X with XF86_FBDev X-server. I'v read in dejanews that some others have it running also. There's also a howto somewhere on the net, but i lost the bookmark :-( ___ Framebuffer HOWTO is at: http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk/programming/Framebuffer-HOWTO-1.1.html Good Luck! -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: Anyone using an S3 Trio3D/2X graphic card ?
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 01:19:59PM +0100, sdf wrote: Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I think that at one time (6 weeks ago?) I tried to get this card working for a friend, but I read the docs for the current (at the time) X versions, and that card was not supported. We swapped it with a Banshee 16MB, which worked fine. Well I'll need to wait till have support for my graphic card. Actually, XFree86 project says they are still developing support for such graphic card and the only available X server it's XF86_VGA16 . As you could imagine I'm using that. Using 640x480 resolution with 16 colors makes me remember the old days of my 386sx at 16MHz. :-) Just take a look at very new XFree86 3.3.4 - as I remember it has support for S3 Trio3D. Just take server (SVGA or S3 or S3V?) from address: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.4/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers/ and give it a chance. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: Adding users - two quick questions
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:06:59PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the user's homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but you may have other reasons. Just make sure that the entry in /etc/passwd for the user accurately reflects their homedir, then 'chown -R user ~user' and 'chmod -R u+rwX ~user'. Question is why useradd john -d /home/john doesn't work You should use -m option. useradd john -d /home/john -m. From useradd man page: -m The user's home directory will be created if it does not exist. The files contained in skeleton_dir will be copied to the home directory if the -k option is used, otherwise the files contained in /etc/skel will be used instead. Any directories contained in skeleton_dir or /etc/skel will be cre ated in the user's home directory as well. The -k option is only valid in conjunction with the -m option. The default is to not create the directory and to not copy any files. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: KDE 1.1.1 will it run under slink?
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 11:24:55AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last question for the night. Running slink, can I use kde 1.1.1 from the binary debs without running into library problems? You will need to upgrade to qt1.44 (package qt1g from unstable). Everything else should be OK. (This refers to the KDE Hamm packages. Slink packages are not available) If not, should I be able to find kde 1.1 on the 2 binary cd sets? No, KDE is not part of the Debian distribution because of license trouble. You will need to get them from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/ or a mirror site. All is OK but in this directory (in hamm) there is a qt1.42 deb file! I work with it from 4 days and everything is OK. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: POP3 server
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 04:04:23PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Varga Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't use qpopper version 2.51 since it has security holes in it. there is a qpopper 2.3 debian package in stable, contact the maintainer to know whether it has fixes to close the sechole, if it is not fixed, then try to use the unstable. Ofcourse it was fixed. You don't think debian would distribute a qpopper package with known r00t security holes in it for over a year do you ... Most of the 2.4 and early 2.5 qpopper packages had a license that made it impossible to include it with Debian, so Debian shipped with a fixed 2.3 instead. Now with latest version (2.53) license has changed so now it's possible to distribute latest version of qpopper with Debian. Just take a look at potato. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 08:53:04AM -0400, Dpk wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rigacci wrote: I have two questions: 1) Is it possible to change imap without recompiling it? I read a lot of warning for using a configuration file. 2) Is there a Debian policy about mail in user's home directory? I know this isn't one of your questions, but why not give each user disk quota in the directory /var/spool/mail? This would avoid questions 1 2. I'm not the one who was asking but I can answer this question from my point of view (I also think about quota restrictions to my users): I want to give 5MB total disk space per user. So as I understand qouta mechanism I cannon check if it's OK when I've two quotas on two filesystems. Each user should have all his/her files in $HOME (mail folders, WWW files etc.). What will happen when I want 5MB limit and user will have 3MB inbox on first filesystem and 4MB mail/WWW files in $HOME? For me the only solution is to have all users' files in $HOME. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: Debian And IBM MCA Bus
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 04:00:04PM +0200, Ralph Thomas wrote: IMHO the microchannel architecture is not yet supported by the Linux kernel. I have several IBM PS/2 Model 77s (9577) 486 DX4, Fast SCSI 2 and MCA Bus. Does anyone know if I can use Debian on these machines? MCA architecture IS supported in Linux (for sure in 2.2.x kernels but you ca use them without problems with slink). -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:55:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just compile it myself. You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb from them. Now I really wish I could figure out the damn details as to how to do this. Any one care to explain? I'm lost in a maze of manpages all alike. [dpkg-source -x? dpkg-buildpackage -b? dpkg-deb?? Red Hat makes this so easy it's not funny.] In Debian it's very easy. Just download package-nameorig.tar.gz package-namediff.gz and package-name.dsc . Then do dpkg-source -x package-name.dsc and it will untar orig.tar.gz into separate subdirectory ./package-name and apply debian-specific diff.gz . Go into this directory and do make -f debian/rules binary and after compilation you will have binary .deb file in your start directory ( in ../). -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.
Re: Multi-CD install
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 12:24:22AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: Hi, The dselect interface now has an 'Access' option of 'multi-cd'. What is this? I've heard that as of Slink, the Debian binary packages can no longer fit in one CD. Is this due to that - one now has to change CD's to go through the entire install? When I select the multi-cd install, dselect give me the error 'Cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/available' . The only file in the multicd directory is shvar.multicd . Is this correct, or am I missing something? My CD vendor is Linux System Labs. You should have 2 CD's with Slink. And when you install dpkg-multicd from first cd (by hand) you should insert SECOND CD and rund dselect, then choose multi-cd access method and all other steps as usually. And when dselect will install packages it will ask you for first CD and then (after installing all packages form first CD) for second CD. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.
Re: Upgrade LyX from Potato?
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 03:32:49PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to upgrade to LyX 1.0.1-1 from potato, since it seems slink was released still with LyX 0.12.0.final-0.1. So far upgrading packages from slink in hamm has gone ok, but of course slink wasn't unstable but frozen. Will I have any problem upgrading a hamm package with one from potato (including upgrading dependencies)? No. I've done it on 4 computers without any problems. You don't have to install any additional new programs or upgrade any programs. Just do dpkg -i lyx*deb and all will be OK. Else, would it be a good idea to uninstall my current version of LyX and installing a LyX 1.0 tarball? First of all install LyX not from tarball but from deb file from potato. It will do all Debian-magic for you. You don't need to deinstall old LyX. New LyX will upgrade your actual LyX without any problems. But if you prefer to deinstall current version - this will work also but you will loose all system-wide configuration files. If you will do an upgrade your system-wide configuration files will be preserved. Also, I posted the following question a couple of days ago... every now and then, afterstep's menu config file (/etc/X11/afterstep/menudefs.hook) seems to change back to before I added new menus (from /opt). Anyway I can avoid it? Try to do it debianish. Debian has it's own philosophy of menus (because it makes one menus system for all window managers) so you should find some information about it and do all your changes in places which are used by menus system and not in ready to use menu files because they are generated all the times when window manager starts (as I understand and as I noticed doing this myself). -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Good programmers won't code for free so Linux cannot be good -- just like Van Gogh could not have been a good artist.
Re: apt-get and broken CD layouts
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:16:10PM +, Marc Haber wrote: Hi! When I was new to debian, I made a hamm CD that is severely broken in its directory structure. # ls /mnt/cdrom binary-i386 disks-i386 upgrade-i386 # ls /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386 Packages. Packages.gz devel hamradio net tex doc ... So, binary-i386 is complete. My /etc/apt/sources.list says deb file:/mnt/cdrom/binary-i386/ / apt-get update works, but (for example) apt-get install joe tries to install from /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/editors/joe_2.8-10.deb which clearly does not exist. Which line do I need in sources.list for my broken cd? First create /mnt/main and then mount there CD. And in mnt create links dists, stable and frozen pointing to main. In /etc/apt/sources.list put this: deb file://localhost/mnt stable main This way everything should work as expected. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) The day Micro$oft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners
Re: apt-get and broken CD layouts
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 10:49:22AM +, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:22:43 +0100, you wrote: First create /mnt/main and then mount there CD. And in mnt create links dists, stable and frozen pointing to main. In /etc/apt/sources.list put this: deb file://localhost/mnt stable main This way everything should work as expected. This way, I'd basically create a directory tree that does look like a non-broken CD. Yes, it was my intention. :-) Small errata: links dists, stable and frozen should point to actual directory (/mnt) not to main! Simply dists---. , stable---. , frozen---. And apt looks into /mnt/dists/stable/main and it will look in fact into /mnt/main as it should in your case. Link frozen is sometimes needed by apt-get so you should also create it. I see, this might be the only way to get apt-get to work on that CD. I think so. I've used it to get apt-get to work with my strange slink mirror. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) The day Micro$oft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners
Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:49:26AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: I just bought a 6.4GB but Linux only reads it as 6.0GB, which Kernal do I need to get the full access Roderick: Are you sure that isn't an Unformatted size? I had that happen to me just recently: My HDD was advertised as a 10.4 gig drive, (they disn't say unformatted, but that is what it was. linux fdisk sees it as 9.5 gigs. Formatted capacity. I' sure this is this case. HD discs are 2.0MB unformatted and 1.44MB formatted for PC (1.4MB for Mac). -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) This message is SHAREWARE, please register...
Re: 2.2.1 and /dev/sound
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 07:39:30PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: I've finally convinced 2.2.1 to run X and my network. I still haven't figured out why kerneld doesn't start anymore and do this automatically. Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes Kerneld isn't needed any more. The kernel will auto-load modules for you anyway - if /etc/conf.modules is set up correctly. But the sound doesn't work now. the basic cat /usr/lib/exmh/clink.au /dev/audio yields bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device Looks like the kernel couldn't find a driver for that device. As near as I can tell all the needed modules are loaded: eyryttyp0:hawklsmod Module Size Used by uart401 5588 0 sound 54456 0 (autoclean) [uart401] soundcore 2084 3 (autoclean) [sound] serial 16840 1 (autoclean) ne 5964 1 83905944 0 [ne] It's a 16 bit soundblaster knockoff. I must be missing something here. The sb driver isn't there, I assume you wanted to use the soundblaster driver? I changed the IRQ while configuring (which is now really awkward--in xconfig, it is now necessary to turn all of the choices to Y rather than M to unlock the boxes). You don't set IRQ etc. for modules. It can't be done that way. IRQ, ioaddress, and dma must be specified on the command line when loading the driver, or in /etc/conf.modules. Here is the sound part of my conf.modules: alias sound pas2 alias char-major-14 pas2 options pas2 io=0x388 irq=10 dma=5 pas2 is the driver for my proaudio spectrum 16. Substitute sb or whatever driver you need to use. And set the correct parameters for your card. Soundblasters tend to use io=0x220, irq=5 or 7, dma=1. You may need to specify dma16 too. Keep in mind that in newer modutils packages (for sure in modutils form slink) you don't use file /etc/conf.modules but /etc/modutils/aliases and /etc/modutils/arch/i386 (or other architecture). -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) This message is SHAREWARE, please register...
Re: 2.2.1
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 05:03:06AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I'm now using 2.2.1 on hamm, also with no problems apart from the need to change the port on /etc/printcap. What software did you upgrade before going to 2.2.1? Are you running anything as modules, and if so how did you configure this? I downloaded 2.2.1 and tried to install it. My ethernet, scsi, cd, and lp were not available (compiled as modules). My root filesystem is on an ide drive, but /usr is on a scsi. I thought this would work with scsi as a module. Are you using kmod? Thanks for any help. I tried to run 2.2.1 with problems with modules and I discovered that file /etc/conf.modules is no longer the one in which is configuration of modules. Instead you have file /etc/modutils/conf.i386 or if you have package modutils form slink yoy put everything into two files: /etc/modutils/aliases and /etc/modutils/arch/i386. That's all. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) This message is SHAREWARE, please register...
Re: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 10:35:46AM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you read the message? The one which is planted locally here states: == Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:38:57 + (GMT) Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA X-IMAP: 0897750745 110670 This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. == so it looks like a really bad idea to delete it (unless you have no other mail in your folder). And it's not created by netscape, but by the mail software itself. I guess I overlooked the fact that I upgraded pine recently. However, in my understanding, these are only required if you pop or imap which I don't do. If I am correct, those messages are used to keep track of items like which mail has been pop'd so that you don't pop it again. I don't pop anymore so I find them simply annoying. Maybe this will be the last straw that moves me from Pine to Mutt (although I suppose Mutt could do the same). Cheers. It's not dependent on which mail program you use - mutt or pine. On my server all acounts which use imap have such things in mailboxes so I guess its form imapd. But absolutely you should try muttt - it very nice piece of cake. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) This message is SHAREWARE, please register...
Re: Strange thing ...
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:25:21PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. Yes! But do you know where to get these packages nowadays! In other words does anyone know of a bo packages archive! I think Ana will appreciate that! I think this may be a problem that all Debian users need to deal with. The fact that old files that may be needed to upgrade are no where to be found stinks. In this case even if one had a CD one would not be able to upgrade as the required perl (Why not use Python? at least it doesn't change too much between minor versions as perl seems to do.) was never part of the stable distributions. Look at www.debian.org ! On main page is text: Old versions of Debian Debian 1.3 (codenamed bo) can be found at ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/bo/ -- --+ Leszek Gerwatowski| --+ ... Wsio plawajet - skazal Panatarejew ... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Pine configuration changed
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1) the question: To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder sent-mail-jan-1998 ? everytime I execute pine. Formerly it was only asked once at the beginning of each month (maybe it will go away tomorrow!). I checked both ~/.pinerc and /etc/pine.conf and neither has anything specified for pruned-folders. Is there a way to stop this? I noticed it also. Solution: change owner of your ~/.pinerc file. It's owned by root (I don't know why) and it cannot be changed by normal user (pine checks date of this file and if it's older than 1 month - it's from month different than actual? - it asks about sent-mail* folders). Thanks, that fixed it. Funny though, it only changed ownership for my login account, not for the others on my system. This same way it was on my computer- only my account's .pinerc was changed. Maybe because it was installed from my account (i was in my home and was installed from root's account). __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pine configuration changed
In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1) the question: To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder sent-mail-jan-1998 ? everytime I execute pine. Formerly it was only asked once at the beginning of each month (maybe it will go away tomorrow!). I checked both ~/.pinerc and /etc/pine.conf and neither has anything specified for pruned-folders. Is there a way to stop this? I noticed it also. Solution: change owner of your ~/.pinerc file. It's owned by root (I don't know why) and it cannot be changed by normal user (pine checks date of this file and if it's older than 1 month - it's from month different than actual? - it asks about sent-mail* folders). __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
chage not working
I'm working with normal Debian 1.3.1r6 and have problems with chage. When I try to change anything with it I can put new values but at the end chage says: chage: error changing fields Naturally chage -l works well. I prefer answers to my private e-mail. Thanks in advance. __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdwrite and cd writers
Hi all, not really a debian question, so please excuse me if someone's bothered. Is there any other SCSI cd writer supported by cdwrite (I have 2.0, any new release?) except hp, yamaha, philips and kodak? I have a teac r55s and it seems it's not supported. Is it really unsupported? Since it's so difficult to find external SCSI writers, I'd like to knmow it before I return the writer. Yamaha looks like the only other chance available here. Any advice/model to avoid? First of all don't use cdwrite but cdrecord. Cdwrite isn't supported since 2 years and author wrote that i wiil be no further version. Cdrecord is new program (and much better) and best of all it supports your CD-Recorder (since version 1.6a9). Cdrecord's homepage is at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html Good luck! __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdwrite and cd writers
On 11 Feb 1998, Stefan Berndtsson wrote: Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, not really a debian question, so please excuse me if someone's bothered. Is there any other SCSI cd writer supported by cdwrite (I have 2.0, any new release?) except hp, yamaha, philips and kodak? I have a teac r55s and it seems it's not supported. Is it really unsupported? Since it's so difficult to find external SCSI writers, I'd like to knmow it before I return the writer. Yamaha looks like the only other chance available here. Any advice/model to avoid? First of all don't use cdwrite but cdrecord. Cdwrite isn't supported since 2 years and author wrote that i wiil be no further version. Cdrecord is new program (and much better) and best of all it supports your CD-Recorder (since version 1.6a9). Cdrecord's homepage is at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html cdrecord (including 1.6a9) is using illegal code, which makes it impossible to compile on all versions of linux. small example, found in lib/format.c va_list rargs; rargs = va_arg(args, va_list); this is possible on linux/x86 because va_list is a void * on linux/ppc however, va_list is a struct, and handled by va_ppc.h and this makes compilation fail. format() will need to be rewritten without a recursive use of va_list. /Stefan Yes - it uses illegal code but it works (on Linux x86 machine)! __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdwrite and cd writers
On 11 Feb 1998, Stefan Berndtsson wrote: Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cdrecord (including 1.6a9) is using illegal code, which makes it impossible to compile on all versions of linux. [...] Yes - it uses illegal code but it works (on Linux x86 machine)! yes, and Linux/x86 isn't the entire world, and Debian isn't a project for Linux/x86 exclusively. That kind of attitude makes me truly sick.. Don't be so sick :-) IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE it's better to have working program than to change CD-Recorder (I assume that this person runs Linux on x86). And it sounds good that someone is supporting this piece of hardware (and in future propably it will be supported). __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kernel 2.1.68/69
can anyone get 2.1.68 or 2.1.69 to compile? hamish Hamish, 2.1.67 had some changes to the installation scripts that broke make-kpkg. I've been watching the lists and I don't think anyone has noticed yet (except you and me). 2.1.68 has all kinds of new signal stuff that don't compile properly at all. 2.1.69 is said to be stable, though I haven't tried it myself. I've tried 2.1.69 with make-kpkg without (almost) any problems. I had problems to compile sound and umsdos modules but everything else works without problems (i'm not sure if i've done everything right way but i had Debian 1.3.1 and i upgraded ldso to latest version from hamm and compiled ne modutils - 2.1.55, and naturally kernel itself). New kernel runs on my home computer so there is no network in it (i didn't compiled it even as a module). __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ATAPI NEC CDROM Changer
Timothy Phan wrote: I do not quite know how the ATAPI CDROM work. I've alread gotten all the base install. Now, I need to do the dselect and mount the cdrom. However, it seems that the CDROM is not recognizable the the system. I did a manual mount: $ mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdb1 /cdrom and it gives me some error: --- isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 04:41 iso_blknum 16 block 32 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1 or too many mounted file system. --- Instead of: $ mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdb1 /cdrom use: $ mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdb /cdrom because there is no partition table on CD. NEC CD Changer is for Linux like normal CD - only one slot at time is seen. When you want to change visible slot use setcd program (it should be in Debian distribution) or compile program from kernel sources (look at file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd). __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re : I need help with my Gravis Ultrasound
Hi! I have trouble configuring the MPU-401 MIDI interface under Linux; my sound card is a Gravis Ultrasound Extreme, which is just like GUS MAX, mostly. I cannot also initialize it under Linux, so I have first to boot with MS-D*S :-( and execute the init programs. Has anybody any experience with this card? The documentation included (.PDF) is for Windows users, and doesn't explain these matters. I really need your help. Look at page: http://home.pf.jcu.cz/~perex/ultra/ It has really great Linux GUS Driver and all documentation fo Linux. __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Best Ethernet Card
Hi! Can anyone tell me which 100MB Ethernet Card is best for Debian (driver quality, stability, support and also performance)? I'm planning to switch to 100MB Ethernet Network and want to be shure that my new network card will work without any problems. Thanks in advance! __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: quake + GUS
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:32:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User Mailinglist debian-user@Lists.debian.org Subject: quake + GUS Hey Does anyknow have sound from his GUS when playing LinuxQuake package? Yes. I have. :-) I've GUS Classic Card and i tried to run Quake wit driver from Linux kernel. But this driver was unable to work with Quake. Then I used another driver from http://romeo.pf.jcu.cz/~perex/ultra/ . This driver is much better and with it I had no problems. Unfortunetly there is no debian package with it but you just take sources, untar it, do make install and everything works OK. Naturally if you want to run it every time you start your Linux box you should write small script in /etc/rc.d to load this driver at startup. __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Opinions expressed are mine, they are free, and worth exactly what they cost. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making debian packages
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: [Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] I've made my own deb file with polonisation stuff for tetex. I know that other people may want to use it so i think about putting it in contrib directory. Why in the contrib directory? Why don't you want to become a maintainer? Only if you don't want to maintain (correct bugs found) the package afterwards, it should be put in non free (there are other cases, but I don't think they apply here). Generally, Debian isn't too keen on non-maintained packages, as they will probably have to be removed in the future (when we use different libs etc), and will only result in user-irritation in the long run. How to become a maintainer: see First of all I WANT to maintain my package. But I don't have so much time to do all the things described in debian-policy. I've made this package and I want to share my work with others. I know that there are many people in Poland which want to use this package (few of them already use it as testers). Second of all my package is not so typical becouse it's made rather as a bunch of other packages which can be found on the Net then my own work. I've just generated all needed files from instalation scripts in those packages and put it in right places so teTeX can use it (naturally my work was to choose dirs, to choose files needed and to write small debian installation script which configures teTeX to use my package but that's all). Becouse in tetex-pl (so it's called by me) there are 3 packages with non-GPL licencies and the main difference is that authors want to distribute the whole package with sources and not only separate files from it I had to put whole packages in tetex-pl. Now I know that it can by freely distributed (in sesn of GPL). But in fact there is no tetex-pl-source package at all (all sources and original docs are in tetex-pl) so as I understand I cannot put it in main distribution. It can be freely distributed so not in non-free. So I think myself that it should be in contrib directory. So now you have much more information and I wait for good advise for me. Naturally thanks all of you for making such great product as Debian and thanks to Joost Witteveen for this message. Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
making debian packages
I've made my own deb file with polonisation stuff for tetex. I know that other people may want to use it so i think about putting it in contrib directory. Maybe someone could tell me what should i do wit my deb file? I know that i should put it on master.debian.org/pub/Linux/Debian/Incoming/ but what more should i do? Thanks for help! -- ___ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Opinions expressed are mine, they are free, and worth exactly what they cost. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: failure notice
I'm using qpopper_2.2-4.deb and I have 2 strange problems: 1. When someone connects to it's port with MSIE 3.0 I have such line in my /var/log/messages: -ERR Unknown command: auth . I've searched RFC's about POP3 and really there is no such command but why MSIE tries to do it? Maybe something's wrong in my (or my clients) configuration? Anaway I don't want to have my log files biger then they should be. 2. Sometimes qpopper dosn't remove user.lock file and such user has no access to mail. I've noticed it in few days and it looks like 3-4 users in a day have such problems. What's going on? Any help will be greatly welcomed! Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dinamic Routing
I'm looking for dinamic routing package for debian (as I guess gated would be goodbut in standard Debina distribution there is only gated) and for any person expirienced with it!!! Help! Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New samba problems
Hallo! I've one problem: I used to work with samba 1.9.16alpha10 . Everything was fine except one thing - after some time started new samba daemons (I was running it as a daemon, not from inetd) and they ate my CPU - idle was 1% and load average after 1-2 hours was about 3.00-4.00. So it was nice but not so much :-) . So when new samba (1.9.16.p9) became available I've decided to make upgrade to this version. But now I can't run it as a daemon!! From inetd it runs quite smoothly but response is much slower. I've no problems with new multiplicating daemons (naturally) but I've no browsing - when I try to search whole network from Win'95 workstation there is no serwer available, but when I try to mount directory from server (naturally writing exactly the name of the serwer) it works. When I try to use smbclient, it prints four or five times strange message - get_hostbyname() - host not found serwer1 (serwer1 is the name of my linux box) and refuses to work. This name is in /etc/hosts and I run also bind withiut any problems! So I've one question - WHAT'S UP?? Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg
Can anybody tell me where can i find make-kpkg ?? I've looked for it on my entire system and everything i've found is debian.rules in /usr/src/linux. From describtions on mailing-list i gues that it does this same thing as make-kpkg but am i only man in the world, who doesn't have this program? Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APM problems
From some time i use APM on my computer with some success but i've two questions : 1. From time to time when computer goes into suspend mode monitor turns off and then after 1-2 seconds turns on and an terminal i've such messages: apm_bios: set display standby: Unrecognized device ID apm_bios: set display ready: Unrecognized device ID I thought that's problem with my monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 15GLi) but my friend has NEC XV15+ and has this same problem. What's up? 2. When i use command apm -s or apm -S from the command line every even time (first time, thirdth time, fifth time ..) it prints strange message: apm_bios: busy: Unable to enter requested state After this message everything goes OK (APM works) but what means this message (naturally i know what means this message, but why it's printed)? Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
