Re: Coverting elm alliases file for use bu mutt?
On Sat Feb 2 06:43:06 2002 Stig Brautaset wrote... * Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I'm migrating to a new woody mail machine, and switching from elm to mutt in the process. I have several hunderd alliases in my elm config. Has anyone a sugestion as to how to convert these for use by mutt? You won't like this answer, but here it goes: vim. Honestly, I used vim and a very simple macro that I repeated many times to convert my gnus aliases to mutt aliases. Go to the first alias you want to convert, then follow this: 1. Hit 'q1' in commandmode (you should get RECORDING in the status bar). 2. Hit '^' to go to the beginning of the line. 3. Use general movement commands when editing this alias that will work for all the aliases (e.g. move to end of line, or move to '@' then back to the preceeding space or whatever using the search-movements). 4. As your last command, do a 'j^' in commandmode to move to the beginning of the next line, so that your macro can be executed several times automagically without you having to change line manually. 5. Hit 'q' in commandmode to finish the recording. 6. Hit '@1' in commandmode to check that your macro works to your satisfaction, then use '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' where N is the number of remaining aliases to do the whole lot. 7. Don't worry, vim has excellent undo-features for when you fuck up ;) OK, thnaks for showing me how to do that. Now, the next question is, what is the format of the mutt allias file. Looking through the manuall I am a bit confused. In elm you specify: 1. the alias (shortcut) 2. Whether it's a person or a list 3. The address that the alliase expands to 4. The text that will appear on your screen to confirm which alias you have slected (long description). Thes fields don't really seem to match up to the fileds in mutt. Am I missing somethign? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
How can I make mutt use different .sogs for local/remote mail?
I'm converting from elm to mutt. Elm supports a local signature filename, and remote .sig file. How can I get mutt to do this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
How do I enable threads in mutt?
Yes, another mutt question :-( That's this weekends project. How do I enable threads? If I do ESC V, which sould collapse all threads, I get an error message: threads not enabled So, how do I enable hem? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
mutt setup help, please
I'm migrating from an HP-UX workstation, as my primary machine to a woddy box. I'm also migrating from elm to mutt for my MUA. I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail, which then hands it to procmail, which in turn filters the mail useing the SpamBouncer (tm) recipies. Under this system mail from mailing lists gets stored in ~/mail/list_allias. Using elm on the HP, when I hit c (fro change folder) I can enter a = and see a directory of the ~/mail directory. I can then move around and select the desried mailbox file. How can I configure mutt to do something similar? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Problems with console-log package.
Historicaly, I've kept a couple of 5 to 10 line xterms up on my desktop doig a tail -f o the mail logfile, and the system messages file. I would like to use the console-log package to do this on my new woody machine, but there apears to eb a problem with it. This morning at 6:23 when the mail log file was rotated, consol-log did not pick up on this. I'ts still showing the end of yesterdays file :-( This seems to eb a basic shortcoming in this package. Am I missing somehting in how to set it up? I would be happy to contribute my existing solution (which works 80 to 90% of the time) to anyone who is working on this. I might even be talked into doing a bit of perl hacking to get soemthign that should work 100% of the time, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel! -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Sample exim config file?
On Thu Jan 31 23:29:30 2002 dman wrote... On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:04:40PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | After listening to everyones recomendations on an MTA for my needs, I | decided to give exim a try. | | I used eximconfig, and took choice 2, but i'm afraid that I don't | understand the questions it asks well enough to arrive at a working config. | | Here is what I'm trying to set up. I want all outgoing mail routed to | mail.xx.com, where xxx is one of my ISP's. I want the user ID's rewriten to | match how he recives mail for me (I'm pretty certain I have this part | correct). I wan't to retireve mail using fetchmail, which will then hand | off to procmail, which after filtering will place some mail in specific | mail foolders (list subscriptions), and then will pass the remainder on to | my default mailbox. This is a classic smarthost configuration. See http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user%40lists.debian.org/msg82754.html for step-by-step answers to the questions. Thanks for the help. I found out that the problem was that I had set up .forward, as specifed in the SpamBouncer instructiosn, wgich did not work with exim. I presently _am_ using forwar for my sendmail installation on the HP, so it sounded like I need to do that. In an effor to break the big problem down into small amangeable chunks, I deleted it, and vola, things started working! Looks like exim does not know how to deal with ,fooorwards? Does tha make sense? As for the rewriting of names, edit /etc/email-addresses and add an entry for each user or read spec.txt regarding rewriting rules. I don't think you really need them anyways since you set the From: header in your MUA. Umm,. I do need to hide the reall origin as much as possible. You would not believe what sidiotic checks are being prefromed by some mailing lists (in the _name_ of anit spam :-(). FreeBSD is just nuts babout this. | Does nayone have a smaple exim config file I could look at? If you really want it, but my setup is quite a bit different -- I send outgoing mail directly to the MX handlers and incoming mail is received directly (it would work just as well coming from fetchmail though, there's no difference). I reallu _hate_ having to go to realy, but the above mailing lists are forcing me to. Do you have a real registerd domain reverse DNS working/ If so, what did it cost who is doing it for you? Thanks, for the help, again. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Coverting elm alliases file for use bu mutt?
I'm migrating to a new woody mail machine, and switching from elm to mutt in the process. I have several hunderd alliases in my elm config. Has anyone a sugestion as to how to convert these for use by mutt? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
console-logs, does it work for anyone?
On my woody machines console-logs do not recognize thta the logfles thye are tialing have been rotated. Has anyone made this work? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Any comercial apps made it back to the community?
On Thu Jan 31 09:43:32 2002 wrote... This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --1012488211 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was reading today about the pending release of libranet 2.0. And, realizing that they are the last commercial linux based on Debian, got me to thinking. (scary as that is!) Of all the other commercial versions, Corel, Storm, Prodgeny, has any of their advancements made it back to the debian community since their demise. Thats what the Progeny web pag said was going to happen to there stuff, which I really enjoyed. However I have seen no evidence of it. I can't say whether this is the fault of the folks at Progeny, or the NIH syndrome a Daebina. Any comments? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
MTA recomendations?
I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA. Heres the setup, the box will realy all outgoing mail through a local ISP. It will run fetchmail to retireve mail from that ISP, which will then call procmail to use SpamBouncer, which will in turn call the MTA to deliver mall to a local mailbaox. It will be read using elm (or perhaps mutt). I would think this was a failry common stup. Oh, BTW user names on the local box do not map directly to user names at teh ISP, so I need for the MTA to rewrite the sender on the way out, and I need for it to understamd that mail for, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is really for the local user sandi. Thanks for any sugestions on this, as this Christmas present is runig a bit behind schedule, and I'm getting a lot of flack from te local user community :-) -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Any comercial apps made it back to the community?
On Thu Jan 31 13:58:00 2002 John Kuhn wrote... On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:49:32PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: Thats what the Progeny web pag said was going to happen to there stuff, which I really enjoyed. However I have seen no evidence of it. I can't say whether this is the fault of the folks at Progeny, or the NIH syndrome a Daebina. At least some packages have made it from Progeny: Package: autoinstall 0.9.7.2 Progeny Debian auto-installation system Cool! What I _really_ liked about that distro, was that it had such a nice suer interface set up as default. Even the gdm greeter looked spiffy. Of course the hardware autodetection was pretty nice also. I suppose there is no hope of any of this neat stuff making it into woody, before it is released? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Sample exim config file?
After listening to everyones recomendations on an MTA for my needs, I decided to give exim a try. I used eximconfig, and took choice 2, but i'm afraid that I don't understand the questions it asks well enough to arrive at a working config. Here is what I'm trying to set up. I want all outgoing mail routed to mail.xx.com, where xxx is one of my ISP's. I want the user ID's rewriten to match how he recives mail for me (I'm pretty certain I have this part correct). I wan't to retireve mail using fetchmail, which will then hand off to procmail, which after filtering will place some mail in specific mail foolders (list subscriptions), and then will pass the remainder on to my default mailbox. Does nayone have a smaple exim config file I could look at? At the moment _I believe_ iahe the outgoing side of this working, but the incoming side is clearly broken. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
How to downgrade binytils?
I'v got a woody system that I'm trying to install Oracle 9i on. It's my understnading that I have to downgrade the binutils package to get back to an earlier version of libc to prevent the Oracle installer from core dumpoing. How can I do this safely? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
How can I run moon-lander?
I installed the Debian package of moon-lander, but I'm having a bit of a problem getting it to run. If I start it at a console session, I get an error message about vesa framebuffer not being able to switch modes, and if I start it in Z it pops up, and closes back down too quickly to see the eror message. Also can I run it on a machine without sound? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Help installing Oracle 9i
I have installed Oracle 9i on a Progeny machine. The machine has a 2.4.16 kernel, and the libc is libc6 2.2.1-1 , binutils is 2.10.0.27-0.cv. Now I'm trying to install it on a woody machine, witha 2.4.17 kernel. Libc is libc6 2.2.4-7, and binutils 2.11.92.0.12.3. The Oracle installer simply core dumps. A kind soul sufested downgrading binutils to the potato version and trying. This leaves me with several questiosn. 1. Since the installer won;t run at all, isn't it likely that I also need to downgrade libc? 2. How can I safely downgrade packages like this? 3. Has anyone sucessfully installed 9i on a woody machine? Any inpit, whatsover would eb helpful. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Oracle 91, and libc questions
I have installed Oracle 9i on a Progeney debian machine which has a 2.4.17 ernel, and libc libc-2.2.1.so. Now I'm trying to install it ona a woody machine, whic also has the 2.4.17 kernel, but libc libc-2.2.4.so . But infortunately the java based installer just core dumps :-( Is there some way to generate, say a chroot'd envrionment where the installer would see the earlier libc version? I hate to have to install an older version, just to make Oracle happy. Any sugestions appreciated. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Why do I loose framebuffer when I upgrade kernel from 2.2 - 2.4 ?
I'm building a new wooody machine. I noticed that when I upgraded suing the 2.4.17 precompiled kernel from the 2.2.?? defauly woody installed one, that my machine quit booting inot framebuffer (vesae? vga?). Why is this? How do I correct this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Where can I gei CUPS ppd files for HP 690C LJ5M?
Thaks to dman, I've discoverd CUPS. Its' wonderful! Now how do I get ppd's for my hP690C and LJ5m? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
A cups printing setup question
Given a woody machine pritning to a locally atached printer via cups, and a remote machine with cups installed. How do I setup the rmote machine to access the printer on the machine that hosts the printer? I'm using the web based setup on port 631, and I can't seem to get it to work. My major area of confusion is when I get to the screen to specify the path to the printer. I've been trying somethign like: ipp://localmachine:631/printer_que But I'm not getting it to work. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
New woody machine, can't ssh to it.
I can't seem to get ibound ssh working to a new woody box. Here is what ssh -v has to say about it: Script started on Tue Jan 22 09:27:45 2002 $ ssh -v teddy OpenSSH_2.9 FreeBSD localisations 20011202, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: restore_uid debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 210 geteuid 0 anon 1 debug1: Connecting to teddy.fas.com [205.159.77.231] port 22. debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 210/210 (e=0) debug1: restore_uid debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 210/210 (e=0) debug1: connect: Connection refused debug1: restore_uid debug1: Trying again... debug1: Connecting to teddy.fas.com [205.159.77.231] port 22. debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 210/210 (e=0) debug1: restore_uid debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 210/210 (e=0) debug1: connect: Connection refused debug1: restore_uid debug1: Trying again... debug1: Connecting to teddy.fas.com [205.159.77.231] port 22. debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 210/210 (e=0) debug1: restore_uid debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 210/210 (e=0) debug1: connect: Connection refused debug1: restore_uid debug1: Trying again... debug1: Connecting to teddy.fas.com [205.159.77.231] port 22. debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 210/210 (e=0) debug1: restore_uid debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 210/210 (e=0) debug1: connect: Connection refused debug1: restore_uid Secure connection to teddy.fas.com refused. $ ^D Script done on Tue Jan 22 09:27:58 2002 What have I done wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?
I'm replacing a HP-UX workstation with a woody box. One of the functions of this HP box is to rotuinely check that status of a HP jetAdmin printer. Can I get JetAdmin software for Linux? If so has anyone got a pointer to a location? Any words of wisddom here? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
What am I doing wrong? (Parallel port printer)
00:0d.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:07.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0b.1 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 8 model 0x8027 found, IO at 0xe000-0xe01f, IRQ 5 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5914 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev B) usb.c: registered new driver hub uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:07.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0b.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0d.0 uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 5 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:07.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0b.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0d.0 uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 5 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:02) ... Using r5 hash to sort names reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format ReiserFS version 3.6.25 VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 264k freed Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1) i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module bttv: driver version 0.7.83 loaded bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:07.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0b.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0d.0 bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0b.0, irq: 5, latency: 32, memory: 0xde00 bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb bttv0: using: BT878(Hauppauge (bt878)) [card=10,autodetected] bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5] i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0. bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=61381, tuner=Philips FM1236 (2), radio=yes bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found i2c-core.o: driver i2c msp3400 driver registered. msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3430G-B6, has NICAM support msp3410: daemon started bttv0: i2c attach [client=MSP3430G-B6,ok] i2c-core.o: client [MSP3430G-B6] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0). bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951) i2c-core.o: driver generic i2c audio driver registered. i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. tuner: chip found @ 0xc2 bttv0: i2c attach [client=Philips NTSC,ok] i2c-core.o: client [Philips NTSC] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 1). i2c-core.o: driver tv card mixer driver registered. tvmixer: debug: MSP3430G-B6 tvmixer: MSP3430G-B6 (bt848 #0) registered with minor 16 tvmixer: debug: Philips NTSC lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 i2c-core.o: driver i2c ir driver registered. lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR) bttv0: i2c attach [client=Hauppauge IR,ok] i2c-core.o: client [Hauppauge IR] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 2). scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: BTC Model: BCE1610IM Rev: 0.19 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 teddy:~# ls -l /dev/lp* crw-rw1 root lp 6, 0 Jan 21 09:51 /dev/lp0 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 1 Jan 21 09:51 /dev/lp1 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 2 Jan 21 09:51 /dev/lp2 teddy:~# cat /etc/services /dev/lp0 bash: /dev/lp0: No such device teddy:~# Script done on Mon Jan 21 09:54:29 2002 So it appears as though something is wrong with communication to teh printer, correct? I've got parallel port, and the IEE support compiled in the kernel. So what do I check next? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Where does dselect store it's selections?
I had high hopes of getting my wife's new woody machine deployed this weekend, but I seem to have sliped inot a descending death spiral on that machine :-( Presently both printing and email are horibly broken on it. So I fired up dselect, amde the mistake of telling it to update, and tried to seect cups, instead of lprng. Unfortuantely, I go inot a depedncy loop, that I could not figure out how to resolve, as I tried to exit the selection step., so In desperation, I control C's out of it. Seems to me, that I probably should go back to the set of working selections I had before firing it up, and I reacll that it keeps a backup file f the selections before it was fired up, but i can't remeber where this lives. Help please! Where is this abckup file, and does my plan make sense? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Where does dselect store it's selections?
On Sun Jan 20 12:35:40 2002 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote... On 20-Jan-2002 Stan Brown wrote: I had high hopes of getting my wife's new woody machine deployed this weekend, but I seem to have sliped inot a descending death spiral on that machine :-( Presently both printing and email are horibly broken on it. So I fired up dselect, amde the mistake of telling it to update, and tried to seect cups, instead of lprng. Unfortuantely, I go inot a depedncy loop, that I could not figure out how to resolve, as I tried to exit the selection step., so In desperation, I control C's out of it. Seems to me, that I probably should go back to the set of working selections I had before firing it up, and I reacll that it keeps a backup file f the selections before it was fired up, but i can't remeber where this lives. Help please! Where is this abckup file, and does my plan make sense? dpkg --get-selections output edit file by hand dpkg --set-selections output Not particularly pretty but it will work. Thnaks, but hoopefully I don't have to resort to that. I have not fired up dselect since I had teh loop. If anyone could kindly tell me where it stores it's backup selections file, i should be able to roll back to before I invoked it last time. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
CUPs printing, and local parallel port?
I'm restructuring my ssytems to take advantage of some new machines. I'm trying to move a HP 90C that I had hosted on a HP-UX box to a Debian woody machine. Thanks to dman, I've discovered the wonders of CUPS. It Rcoks! However whne I go into the web admin page, and try to set up this printer, the local parallel port is not offered as a choice! The model for this printer exists, and as far as I know it's only capable of working off of a parallel prot. So, what have I got wrong, and how do I fix it? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
minimal wine confing?
I'm building a Debian woody box to replace my wifes HP-UX worksation. One of the +must haves_ from her is the ability to play the Windoze version of solitare (which she does using WABI, remeber WABI?). Yes, I've shown her several of the native versions, she wants the Windoze version. Seems to me I should be able to do this with wine, right? I don't want to bring up the whole Windoze desktop, just run the sol.exe, and have it pop up in the exisitng Gnome desktop. Can anyone point me to s HOWTO for this? Or show me a working config file? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Problems with HP 690C, and CUPS
OK, I recompiled my kernel with the parallel port compiled in, instead of a module, and with the IEE mode enable, and now the CUPS web interface sees the printer, and knows what it is! This isporgress. Problem is that when I send it a test page, it just sits there. If I push the top button on the printer (form feed if I recall coreclty?) The test pages comes ut lookin nice, but the CUPS interface thinks that I need to restart the printer. As evicenced by the Start Printer choice, intead of the Stop Printer choice apearing. Also the CUPS system does not think that the job got printed, and it tries to print it agian :-( Sugestions? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Hylafax client problems
I'm tryng to set up my woody machine to send faxes (as a clinet to an existing Hylafax server). I edited /etc/hylafax/hyla.conf and added: Host: black Where black is the servers name. But whn I run sendfax, I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/hylafax$ sendfax -d 7453195 /etc/services textfmt: No font metric information found for cob. Usage: textfmt [-1] [-2] [-B] [-c] [-D] [-f fontname] [-F fontdir(s)] [-m N] [-o #] [-p #] [-r] [-U] [-Ml=#,r=#,t=#,b=#] [-V #] files... out.ps Default options: -f com -1 -p 11bp -o 0 Error converting data; command was textfmt -B -f cob -p 11 -s default /tmp//faxsndAwqbGM /etc/services What can I do to fix this ? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Reconfiguring outboud mail
I'm in the process of building my wife a new machine (woody). Frankly when I first isntalled it, I did not pay much attenntion to seting up mail, and now I'm ready to set it up. What do I need to do to rerun the mail configure script? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Hep, please, I;v messed up lprng
In atempting to reconfigure lprng, Ive maanged to really muck thigs up. Here is what I did. 1, Went inot dselect, and removed lprng. 2. Manually deleted /etc/lprng 3, Using dselect reinstalled lprng. Unfortunaely, at this point in time, I'm getting error esages about lprng.conf not existing. I'v tried dpkg-reconfigure lprng, to no avail. But dpkg -S lpd.conf shows lprng: /etc/lprng/lpd.conf lprng: /usr/share/man/man5/lpd.conf.5.gz lprng: /etc/lprng/lpd.conf.local What cab I do to fix this mess? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
fetchmail - procmail - spambouncer - sendmail problems
I'm trying to set up a Debian woody system to replicate what I've had working on a HP-UX box for several years. Here is how it goes. I use fetchmail to retireve email from several different POP accounts. Fetchmail then invokes procmail, via the .forward file. Procmail uses the spambouncer recipies from spambouncer.org to filter the email, and it's either sent to my defaul mailbox, or put into various folders. The problem seesm to lie with sendmail. Basicly all of my mail is being rejected. Here is a snippet from the mail logfile: Jan 19 23:30:01 teddy sm-mta[3688]: g0K4TwrM003681: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=0 0:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=32291, relay=mail.awod.com. [208.140 .99.1], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown It appears as though sendmail does not recognize that the mail is for me? Or have I got yhis all wrong? In any ase, how can I ake this work on Debian? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Screensaver while gdm is runing?
On Thu Jan 10 23:16:31 2002 Dries Kimpe wrote... On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Stan Brown wrote: What's the trick to geting xscreensaver to run, whicle gdm is displaying alogin prompt? I added to /etc/X11/gdm/Postsession, the following /usr/X11R6/bin/screensaver -display $DISPLAY -no-splash -timeout 5 0nice 10 But I don't see the process runing. See man page for xscreensaver... It doesn't lock/run as root because of safety reasons. It just drops privileges refuses to do anything else. gdm runs as root... Command xscreensaver -nosplash [1] 7019 ---([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(05:13:22)--(/home/lts)--- Command ---([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(05:13:23)--(/home/lts)--- Command ps -ef | grep xsc nobody7019 6970 15 05:13 pts/500:00:00 xscreensaver -nosplash ---([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(05:13:27)--(/home/lts)--- Command xscreensaver-command -lock xscreensaver-command: locking not enabled. ---([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(05:13:34)--(/home/lts)--- Command OK, so now that we have identified the problem, how to we fix )work around) it? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Screensaver while gdm is runing?
What's the trick to geting xscreensaver to run, whicle gdm is displaying alogin prompt? I added to /etc/X11/gdm/Postsession, the following /usr/X11R6/bin/screensaver -display $DISPLAY -no-splash -timeout 5 0nice 10 But I don't see the process runing. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Help please, getting lird working
Can someone please tell me what it takes to get the IR remote working on my WinTV card. It plays TV fine, but even after installing the lird, and lird modules package, I can't get it to work in fbtv. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Fetting lird (Intrared control) working?
I havve installed the lircd packagem and the lircd modules package. I let the later compile the modules, and guess at configuration setings. I am runing a custom 2.4.17 kernel, and have a Haupanage (sp) WinTV card installed, and working, that came wth an ifrared remote control. What I'm trying to do is use the control for gbtv, and xawttv. I looked at the config files genereated in /etc/lird, and the referenced some config files for the Hauppanage card (sp) byt relative path name. Yhe only place I could find them on my system was under /usrshare/doc, so I copied the referenced files to /etc/lird/haupanage (yse I carefully copied the spellling there :-)). But still my remote does not work. I no longer get complainrs when /etc/init/lircd start is run. I'm att a loss, how can I further troubleshoot this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
hdparms new system
I've gt a new modern mtherboard, and an IBM drive in a system I just built. I thought I'd play around with hdparm, and tweak up the disk preformance. I've got a custom compiled 2.4.17 kernel. Much to my supris, virtually everything I tried came back as not available. Are ther kernel patches, or something that I need to apply to get DMA, and 100Meg transfer speed working? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Getting modules loaded automaticly at boot.
I'm building a new testing machine for my wife, and it has a WinTV card in it. If I modprobe bttv manually the card works fine. However I would like to get this module loaded autmaticly at boot time. I've looked at the update-modules man page, and I still don't understand how to acomplish this. How can I get this module loaded at boot time? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
A lilo.conf question
I'm trying to set up a amchien that I need to pass multiple append commands to. I need to tell it to use framebuffer, and to reserve /dev/hdc for the ide-scsi driver. I can make it do either, but not both. Here's the relavent peice of what I've got for lilo.conf: image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only append=video=vesa:mtrr vga=0x31b What I think shhould work, but doesn;t is: append=video=vesa:mtrr vga=0x31b hdc=ide-scsi If I enter it that way, I get the ide-sci driver, but no frmebuffer. Frambuffer (at least getting the machien to come up in it) seem very fragile to me. It seems like if I touch anything it doesn't work :-( What am I doing wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Help removing failed package
Im seting up a new testing: machine. I sat down and worked through dselect to select all the packages I wanted. Now I have one (trafstats) that is stuck in limbo. dselect shows it sa stae C, and it makes the install step fail. I tried doing a dpkg -r trafstats, but that also fails. How can I remove this failed package? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Galeon for woody?
I've been palying with Galeon on FreeBSD, and I'm pretty impressed! Where can I get a .deb for woody? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Galeon for testing?
I've been playing around withe Galeon browser on another OS and I decided I really like it. I wnet to instll it on my Debian testing system using dselect, and I can't seem to find it. Anyone know where I can get a .deb? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Problems with gnome sound after upgrade from Progeny to woody
I finally bit the bullet, and upgraded one of my Progeny machines to woody this weekend. Things went reasonably well, althoug certainly not automaticly. In any case, when I loged inot a Gnome session, things were not very useable, so I loged out, deleted .gnom* .esd* .saw* and loged back in. Well now I don't have any sounds in Gnome. Sound itself works fime from non Gnome (console) sessions. What do I need to do to fix this? And how can I avoid this problem on future upgrades? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
HELP! please, the packaging system has a package stuck in it's craw!
I'm trying to upgrade a machine from progeny, to woody. At the moment my main problem is that the packaging system has the package trafstats stuck in it's craw, and I cna't seem to get it out! dselect shows it as status C, and I'v tried removing it wiht various invocations of dselect dpkg, and apt-get. but i have not gotten it out. At this point, I just want to forcibly remove all traces of this programs. Whan can I do to acomplish this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
tar question
How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with causing recursion? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Zaxis maping in XFree864?
I'm seting up a machine with scrollwhell mouse using woody. It seems to me that I should be able to use Zaxidmapping to map the scrollwhell to up and down mouse movements. Is this possible? If so how? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
How o execute cgi using lynx?
I'm trying to get xmltv working on a Debian stable machine. I've downloaded the latest perl, and installed in in /usr/local/bin, to not conflict with the Debian supplied version. The I used the CPAN module to install all teh required perl modules. Now, I can run all the free standing scripts (using #!/usr/local/bin) without a problem. This resulsts in my having a XML file with the listings in it. Tis is not very useful by itself, I need to run the CGI script supplied with thsi package to select which programs I wish to watch. Acording to the docs, I should be able to use: lynx lynxcgi::pick_cgi (pcik_cgi is the name of the CGI perl script). However doing so just results in the following error mesage: Excutanle lnk is rejected due to loaction or path. So, I went and looked in /etc/lynx.cfg, and it looks like I should be anle to run anythign on the loack machine (if I'm understanding what I see there, corectlly). This package looks very useful in minimizing the time I waste looking at TV (so I can sepnd ore time playing with computers :-)). How can I make this work? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Scrollwheel mouse/gpm/X ?
I just got my first mouse with a scrollwheel. I'm runing woody with XFree864, and have gpm runing reflecting the mouse into X using /dev/gpmdata. How can I enable the scrollwhell? For both gpm and X if possible. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Eficient usage of modern hardware.
I have alwys in the past been using recyled older computers, so this never caem up. Now I find myself in the fortunate poisiton of have several modern machines wuth AGP 4X, AYA-100 266 MHZ bus, etc. Here is the question, given a woidy install, what do I need to to to make certain each of these new enhancments actullu gets used, isntead of falling back to compability mode? X setup? boot time kernel options? compile tiem kernel options? And how can I determien for ceratin whether they are or are not getting used? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Conflict between doc-central and Koffice
I'm trying to install doc-central on woddy, but dselect tells me that it deppends upon Python 2.0, ehich confilts with an earlier version of Python, which kvio depends upn, and Koffice depends upon kvio. What a mess. In FreeBSD it's possible to have multiple versions of say, tcl/tk, which is infamous for incompatible versions. It does this by installing each as [package_name].[version]. Couldn't Debian do something like this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Is this list appropriare for Debian parisc Linux?
Just put the woody pre-release on a 9000/7350125 this weekend. It's neat. Is this the list to discuss issues with this version of Debian? If not, could someone sugset a more appropriate list? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Help please, setting up lm-sensors
On Sat Dec 15 11:03:05 2001 David Z Maze wrote... Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have managed to get SB lm-sensors built, and the modules load. However sensor-detect does not give SB me enough info to get the rest set up. SB Next adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) SB Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): SB Can't open /dev/i2c0 (No such file or directory) This looks wrong (either /dev/i2c/0 or /dev/i2c-0 would be plausible). Looking through the sensors-detect source, though (it's just a Perl script), it tries all three of i2c-0, i2c0, and i2c/0. What version of lm-sensors are you using? Of i2c? Im really not certain how to tell. Both are the version form the Debain -source package for testing. Looking in the CHANGES file, the latest version mentioned in both is 2.6.1 -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Help please, setting up lm-sensors
On Sat Dec 15 11:58:04 2001 David Z Maze wrote... Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB On Sat Dec 15 11:03:05 2001 David Z Maze wrote... DZM Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have SB managed to get lm-sensors built, and the modules load. However SB sensor-detect does not give me enough info to get the rest set SB up. DZM SB Next adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) SB Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): SB Can't open /dev/i2c0 (No such file or directory) DZM DZM This looks wrong (either /dev/i2c/0 or /dev/i2c-0 would be DZM plausible). Looking through the sensors-detect source, though DZM (it's just a Perl script), it tries all three of i2c-0, i2c0, DZM and i2c/0. DZM DZM What version of lm-sensors are you using? Of i2c? SB SB Im really not certain how to tell. Both are the version form the SB Debain -source package for testing. Looking in the CHANGES file, SB the latest version mentioned in both is 2.6.1 The right way to check is to do 'dpkg -s lm-sensors-2.4.16' and 'dpkg -s i2c-2.4.16', and look for the Version there. The reported versions should be something like '2.6.1-1+2.4.16', depending on the version of the source you built and the --revision you built your kernel with. OK, Source: lm-sensors (2.6.1-3) Source: i2c (2.6.1-1) Other things that come to mind: 'modprobe i2c-dev' as root. Do you have a /dev/i2c directory then? Does your new kernel use devfs? Did your old one? (If you do, /dev will show up in /proc/mounts, and you'll probably have a /dev/.devfsd special device.) If you're not using devfs, you need to make sure that the i2c devices exist in /dev, doing (as someone else suggested) '/sbin/MAKEDEV i2c'. progeny:~# modprobe i2c-dev progeny:~# lsmod Module Size Used by i2c-dev 3968 0 (unused) i2c-core 13200 0 [i2c-dev] mousedev4432 1 input 3584 0 [mousedev] emu10k155696 0 (unused) sound 54992 0 [emu10k1] ide-scsi7616 0 progeny:~# ls /dev/i2* /dev/i2c-0 /dev/i2c-14 /dev/i2c-2 /dev/i2c-25 /dev/i2c-30 /dev/i2c-8 /dev/i2c-1 /dev/i2c-15 /dev/i2c-20 /dev/i2c-26 /dev/i2c-31 /dev/i2c-9 /dev/i2c-10 /dev/i2c-16 /dev/i2c-21 /dev/i2c-27 /dev/i2c-4 /dev/i2c-11 /dev/i2c-17 /dev/i2c-22 /dev/i2c-28 /dev/i2c-5 /dev/i2c-12 /dev/i2c-18 /dev/i2c-23 /dev/i2c-29 /dev/i2c-6 /dev/i2c-13 /dev/i2c-19 /dev/i2c-24 /dev/i2c-3 /dev/i2c-7 The machien has never had /dev/fsd on it. I ran /sbin/MAKEDEV 12c (when did it move there from /devg ?) with no complaints, but even after all of this, I wind up with this: #cut here # I2C adapter drivers # I2C chip drivers #cut here To make the sensors modules behave correctly, add these lines to /etc/modutils/local and run update-modules: #cut here # I2C module options alias char-major-89 i2c-dev #cut here When I run sensors-detect. What else can I try? Thanks for the help. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
lm-sensors (well really module handling) question
I'm seting up 2 machines, one has woody on it, and the othher a base Progeny istall from CD. On both machines I have custom compiled using kernel-package a 2.4.16 kernel. On the woody machine I installed i2c, and lm-snsors using kernel-package, and all went well. Then I copied over teh two original tarballs for these modules to the Progeny machine, npacked them and used the older version of kernel-package to create and isntall them. All this appeared to go OK, however If I try to modprobe i2c-dev, I get a not found error message. However If I look in /lib/modules/2.4.16/misc I see the .o file for this module. What have I done wrong, and how can I get this to work? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Help please, setting up lm-sensors
I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have managed to get lm-sensors built, and the modules load. However sensor-detect does not give me enough info to get the rest set up. The machine is a Epox EP-8KTA3PRO with a VIA KT133A chipset. Here is a typescript of the sensors detect run: Script started on Fri Dec 14 21:35:36 2001 progeny:~# sensors-detect This program will help you to determine which I2C/SMBus modules you need to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. You need to have installed lm-sensors modules before you can use some functions of this utility. Also, you need to be root', or at least have access to the /dev/i2c* files for some things. If you have patched your kernel and have some drivers built-in you can safely answer NO if asked to load some modules. In this case, things may seem a bit confusing, but they will still work. We can start with probing for (PCI) I2C or SMBus adapters. You do not need any special privileges for this. Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): Probing for PCI bus adapters... Use driver `i2c-viapro' for device 00:07.4: VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo ACPI Probe succesfully concluded. We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. Load `i2c-viapro' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): Module loaded succesfully. Do you now want to be prompted for non-detectable adapters? (yes/NO): To continue, we need module `i2c-dev' to be loaded. If it is built-in into your kernel, you can safely skip this. i2c-dev is not loaded. Do you want to load it now? (YES/no): Module loaded succesfully. We are now going to do the adapter probings. Some adapters may hang halfway through; we can't really help that. Also, some chips will be double detected; we choose the one with the highest confidence value in that case. If you found that the adapter hung after probing a certain address, you can specify that address to remain unprobed. If you have a PIIX4, that often includes addresses 0x69 and/or 0x6a. Next adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): Can't open /dev/i2c0 (No such file or directory) Some chips are also accessible through the ISA bus. ISA probes are typically a bit more dangerous, as we have to write to I/O ports to do this. Do you want to scan the ISA bus? (YES/no): Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83781D' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83782D' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83627HF' Trying address 0x0290... Failed! Probing for `Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595' Trying general detect... Failed! Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. Just press ENTER to continue: I will now generate the commands needed to load the I2C modules. Sometimes, a chip is available both through the ISA bus and an I2C bus. ISA bus access is faster, but you need to load an additional driver module for it. If you have the choice, do you want to use the ISA bus or the I2C/SMBus (ISA/smbus)? WARNING! If you have some things built into your kernel, the below list will contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones! To load everything that is needed, edit /etc/modules and add the modules listed here to it: #cut here # I2C adapter drivers # I2C chip drivers #cut here To make the sensors modules behave correctly, add these lines to /etc/modutils/local and run update-modules: #cut here # I2C module options alias char-major-89 i2c-dev #cut here progeny:~# Script done on Fri Dec 14 21:35:54 2001 -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working
On Thu Dec 13 01:59:04 2001 wrote... dman == dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dman | NO, joy there either. I assume you mean append=video=vesa vga=794, dman | right? dman Yeah. I copy-n-pasted from above, but didn't look closely at that dman part. dman Have you tried a lower resolution? The whole table of mode numbers is dman given in .../Documentation/fb/vesa.txt.gz. I think you can also use vga=ask, in which case you will get a choice of modes. Well, I tried that (along with about a hundred other coombinations), and it allowed me to choose a higher resolutin, but did not get the vesa frambufffer working. This is getting to be _very) frustrtating. I've been trying to get frambuffer working corectly for about 3 days now :-( -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Re:_spurious_8259A_interrupt:_IRQ7_??
On Thu Dec 13 01:50:31 2001 Paolo Falcone wrote... Stan Brown mentioned: A new woody machine that I am seting up just started dispaying this on the console. spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 I also have the same predicament, though when I checked the archives, they said that this is normal, and doesn't cause any damage to your system. Is there any way to prevent this from echoing? Can anyone ven tell me what an 8259A is? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Are the X server starup messages kept in a logfile anywhere?
I'm interested in reviewing how well I have the X server configured on a new machine. Are the X server startup messages stored in a logfile somewhere? I'm runing XF864 on woody, if it matters. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
How would I go about implmenting boo.log?
In a discussion yesterday, someone mentionde that all teh messages generated by the init.d scripts are stored in /var/log/boo.log on RedHat. I had forgoattten this , since it's been years since I fooled with redHat, and I don;t have access to a machien runig RedHat to look at how this is done. How would I go about implementing this on asy a woody machine? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ??
On Thu Dec 13 10:25:47 2001 J.A.Serralheiro wrote... something about the printer not being requesting any service and the interrupt line is generating interrupts. maybe some interference, I dont know. Its not a problem because the hardware has a bit to let the cpu know if in fact an interrupt has happened. nks. How _it is_ a prlem that it is writen to the system console, thus mesing up any session that one is using there. This seems to be a basic flaw in Debian's setup, at this point in time I have 2 (out of 4) Debian machines that the console is unusable on because if this nonsense. I guess I have to dig out the O'riely book, and figure out how to edit /etc/syslog.conf to fix this. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
AGP speed?
I'm building several new machines that have AGP 4X capable graphics cards in them. I had _assumed_ that the utiliztaion of this was a hardware question, and that it would just automagicly work. However a disscussion on this lsit this morning has lead me to question this assumption. What's the story hrere? Do I need to tweak some config file to get this utilized? Both in X, and in frambuffer, are of interest to me The card's are Radeon LE's, if it matters. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Latest GnuCash .debs
I found .debs of the latest GnuCash at www.gnucash.org, but no discussion of what version of Debian they are for. Any chance these will work on woody? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Gnome window manager problems with woody.
On Wed Dec 12 00:27:45 2001 Marc Wilson wrote... --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:01:14AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I'v added swafish-gnome, but when I try to configure it using the Gnome control panle, I can't get the configuration tool to run. Sawfish's configuration tool isn't going to be available unless sawfish is actually running... which window manager has control? Mmm, I _think_ swafish, since that's the only one I selected in dselect. How can I determine this for certain? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working
On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... | Adding video=vesa made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an | append statment, still no framebuffer. For lilo both vga= and video= should be in append. I've also read for older versions of lilo that it didn't handle hex numbers correctly so you would need to translate that vga= into decimal for it. OK, so I added: append=video-vesa vga=0x31a Re-ran lilom and rebooted, still nof cute little Penguin Any more ideas? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
More lm-sensors questions
I'm still trying to get lm-sensors working on my new machine. The motherboard in question si a Gigabyte GA-71XE. Here is what I have done so far. I built, and installed a 2.4.16 kernel using kernel-package (with all 12c options slected). The i unpacked the debian source lm-sensors modules package in /usr/src. The I compiled using the dbian/rules. This all went well. So, what do I need to do to actually get the correct modules loaded access the infomration? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ??
A new woody machine that I am seting up just started dispaying this on the console. spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Whart's it trying to tell me? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
No GnuCash in woody?
I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add GnuCash using dselect, but searching for cash in dselect did not turn up anything. Am I doing somehting wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working
On Wed Dec 12 22:39:50 2001 dman wrote... On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... | | | Adding video=vesa made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an | | append statment, still no framebuffer. | | For lilo both vga= and video= should be in append. I've also read | for older versions of lilo that it didn't handle hex numbers correctly | so you would need to translate that vga= into decimal for it. | | OK, so I added: | append=video-vesa vga=0x31a | | Re-ran lilom and rebooted, still nof cute little Penguin | | Any more ideas? How about append=video-vesa vga=794 NO, joy there either. I assume you mean append=video=vesa vga=794, right? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Help please, geting framebuffer working
I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package. First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but the results were not so good. The first console gets messed up during the boot up messages, and winds up unuasble to log in on (lookes like it might get left in raw tty mode). Then if I run fbi, the colors of the displayed images are all wrong. Soem kind soul on this list advised me the thet the ATI Radeon framebuffer support is very imature, so I decided to try the VEAS framebuffer mode. I enabled it in the kernel, and rebooted, but I did not get a frambuffer, juts plain old console. I've read the framebuffer HOWTO, but it seems a bit too old to help me. What am I doing wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working
On Tue Dec 11 19:41:19 2001 dman wrote... On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The | I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package. | | First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but | the results were not so good. The first console gets messed up during the | boot up messages, and winds up unuasble to log in on (lookes like it might | get left in raw tty mode). Then if I run fbi, the colors of the displayed | images are all wrong. | | Soem kind soul on this list advised me the thet the ATI Radeon framebuffer | support is very imature, so I decided to try the VESA framebuffer mode. I tried the 'atyfb' driver with an ATI Rage P/M Mobility, but didn't get anything. | I enabled it in the kernel, and rebooted, but I did not get a frambuffer, | juts plain old console. | | I've read the framebuffer HOWTO, but it seems a bit too old to help me. It's not too old, mainly. | What am I doing wrong? # grep ^kernel /boot/grub/menu.list kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16-custom.1 root=/dev/hda4 read-only video=vesa vga=0x31A If I do vag=ask in lilo.conf, than it does stop and prompt me for a resolutin, however, I still don;t get framebuffer. Adding video=vesa made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an append statment, still no framebuffer. Is it possible that my Radeon cards aren't VESA 2.0 compliant? If so, can anyone point me to a place to talk to the Radeon frambuffer developers? I've got 6 of these cards, and i don't want to have to buy 6 more cards :-( -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
How to capture start up messages?
I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody system boots. dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the kernel, and I'm seeing erros after that, that flash by to quickly to read. How can I do this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Gnome window manager problems with woody.
I'm having troubles with geting a window manager to work with Gnome in woody. I'v added swafish-gnome, but when I try to configure it using the Gnome control panle, I can't get the configuration tool to run. Sugestions? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
lm-sensors build, sanity check
OK, I'm trying to get lm-ensors working. Several people have pointed me to the lm-sensors source, and i2c source packages, and the kernel-package package. I'm already building kernels using the kernel-package tools. One of the nice things about this is that I can place the kernel sources in arbitrary places, such as ~/kernel_build/version_no. If I am reading the lm-sensrs source README corectly, I will have to unpack the lm-sensors source inot /usr/src/modules, even though my kernel sources are not in /usr/src. Am I reading this corectly? Second question, isn;t the 12c code what I'm already using to control my TV card? If so why must I rebuild it for lm-sensors, and will this break it's other functionality? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
ATI video card confusion
I'm in the process of puting together several Debian systems, that will run either woody or Progent (not certain yet). I ordered all the parts for these machines at once, in an atempt to have all the same components, well it seems to not have worked out quite that way. I order ATI Radeon LE video cards, based upon a recomendation from the Duke Of URL Linux midrange system web page. Of 5 cards I recieved 3 have fans on them, and 2 do not. A the ones _with_ fan have a 2 x (I think) 15 pin DIP header on the top of the card close to the metal plate that goes in the hole in the case. The onew without fan actually have a sticker on the that says' Radeon LE, well one of the 2 does :-). The ones with fan don't have this sticker. They do have a part no. of R6 DDR SG32M on them. I'm confused! What do I have? and what X driver, and framebuffer driver should I be using? What started me down this road, is I have XFRee86$ (both Progeny supplied, and woody supplied) workign corectly with the units _with_ fans. I have not yet installed any of the non-fan units, so I can't speak to those. However when I compiled a 2.4.16 kernel and opted for framebufffer suuprt using the ATI Radeon driver, I got some strnage results. The first console started up looking OK, with the Penguin in the upper left hand corner, but shortly after that the startup messages stared overwriting it. This console was the useless, I was able to use other text consoles, but they got meesed up easily requiring a rest, and when I tried to display graphics using fbi, the colors were all messed up. Help, can someone give me some advice here? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
geting lm-sensors working
For the first time in my life, i actually have hardware new enough to have temperature, and fan speed monitoring! I'm able to look at these in the BIOS setup screen, and I want to be able to monitor them from with Linux (woody). I'm building my kernels (2.4.16) using kenrel-package. The lm-sensors package says that I should build the modules for lm-sensors from it's source. Is this correct, or should I use the ones in the kernel tree? Is there a HOWTO on getting this working? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
How can i install woody?
I have a new machine, on which I wish to isntall woody. What's the best way to do this? I have fast network conectivity, and for potato systems in the past, I have just downloaded the boot, root, and driver floppies, and done an install via ntework. But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, right? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Is it possible to get an ISO image of woody?
I'm trying to install woody on several computers, and on one of them, I'm having trouble with the floppy. Since i have aquired a new CD burner, I thoght I would try a CD based install, but I can't seem to loacte the ISO's. Do they exist? f so where can I grab them? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(
I'm runing potato + Progeny + 2,4 kernel on 2 machines one at home, and one at work. Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which I NEVER use). I've posted about this twice in the last week or so, but never goy any useful answers. So this morning I wnet through dselect trying to compare packages between teh machines, I dleted a few packages on the machine at work in an effort to get rid of this (since it make using the console impossible). Now it's worse! Now in addiation to that error I'm geting cdrom: open failed HELP PLEAS!! This _must_ be a periodicly scheduled task. oing a crontab -l as root does not lead me to anythign other than things I have added. So, how can I figure out what tasks are being run periodicly by various packages? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(
On Wed Dec 5 13:45:00 2001 Shri Shrikumar wrote... On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 18:19, Stan Brown wrote: Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which I NEVER use). Find out if your floppy drive is mounted by using just mount Nope, the floppy is not mounted. df would also show an error if there was some problem accessing the device. if there is an error on any device - just try umounting it and using umount -f (as root) if necessary. I've posted about this twice in the last week or so, but never goy any useful answers. So this morning I wnet through dselect trying to compare packages between teh machines, I dleted a few packages on the machine at work in an effort to get rid of this (since it make using the console impossible). Now it's worse! Now in addiation to that error I'm geting cdrom: open failed Do you use cdrom sources with apt - if so, you might want to switch that off. check your fstab to see if the cdrom or floppy are mounted automatically (they probably shouldn't be and there should be noauto in their options) Niehter one is in fstab. I installed over the network, and have never put cdrom in the apt-get souces lisiting. With regards to access to console, Have you tried switching to another console like tty2 - tty6 to see if the messages show up there as well. Right, they show up on hte one you are using :-(. If I leave something runing in one and switch away from it, it's disply remians OK. if I run something, and stay on that one, it get messed up. Also, if you ssh in, the messages should not show up. this should make troubleshooting easier. True if I work from another machine, they don't show up. Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Help Please! end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (flopp), sector 0
This is driving me nuts! I have a machine (potato + Progeny + 2.4 kernel). Some time back after adding a buynch of packages, which unfortunatley I don't remeber all of, it started giving the error in the subject line every 5 minutes or so. This makes this machine almost unusable on the local console! Has anyone else seen this, can they tell me what package to delete to stop this? Please? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
lynx: Executable link rejected due to loaction or path
I'm playing around with a project called xmltv. It sucks down TV listings, and generates an XML file containing them. The a cgi script is used to pick which ones to view/record. Looks pretty neat. Here is the problem, I'm not certain how to set up to use the cgi script. I would actually like to use it in Apachae, however the docs from the project recomend first trying it as: lynx lynxcgi::pick_cgi pick_cgi is a perl script (+Lot's of perl modules used) So first how can I get lynx to accept this script? Second how can I set up Apache to allow use of this this script the data files for it? Both Apache and lynx are installed via Debian packages. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
doc-central not working
Browsing trhough dselect I discovered a neat package called doc central. It is supposed to let you access all the .usr/share/doc useful inof from a web browser. neat idea! Unfortunatley, when I try to sue it, I can get as far as the indexes, but any atempt access actual documentation results in a Forbiden error from Apache. What do I need to do to fix this? The system is potato + Progeny + 2.4 kernel. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Framebuffer AVI player?
Thanks for the hepl. Sorry to repost this, but i never saw my reply show up in the lists. On Sat Nov 24 20:01:38 2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote... K, that got me closer. I woulnd up using: =20 mplayer -vo fbdev -fbmode tv -vm [file_to_play] =20 Anid it displayed, centered on the framebufer display. However it was pretty small (about 3 x 4), The framebuffer device does not expose an interface to the hardware video scaler, and software video scaling is pretty slow. Mplayer (which I have never used) may not be capable of software scaline. OK, that makes sense, sort of. Allthought I recall when I set up fbtv, that I hade to set up a resolution that matched it's desried resolution, so I don;t believe it's actually scaleing things. Aklso in looking at it's def in /etc/fb.modes, I note that I did not have to do anything to define it's color depth. I run fbtv as fbtv -mtv and it pretty much fills the entire screen, whi= ch is what I want to replicate, while playing recoded video. TV tuners usually include their own scaling hardware, and they draw directly into the video output. Hence the difference. The best solution would be to define a video mode at the same size as the AVI files you are playing. I have special modes I use for playing DVDs, for example, to match the resolution and frame rate of most films. So, you are syaing thta my problem is with the size of the files I am recording? If so how can I amke the size of these, the same as the ones I'm getting with fbtv? Or would I be better of defining a ne frame buffer mode toi match the size: of the ones I am recording? This is all initial setup, so I really have no exisiting files I'm interested in. How can I set up a frame buffer def to match the size and color depth of the files I am presenlty recording? How can I change the size of the files I am recording? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Latest Galeon? will it work on potato?
I saw the slashdot articel on the latest galeon. Since i'm looking for something to replace netscape (which has crashed 3 time this morning, already). I went tot hat site. I'm runing potato + Progeny + 24. kernel. WThe source traball failed configure, saying it needed a newer version of glib. I noticed there was a tarball of the compiled entity. Will this owrk on my machine? I waned to know before unpacking it, since it upnacks inot some places I would rather not have clutered up with non-working stuff. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Debian TVIO like PVR
On Fri Nov 23 16:37:33 2001 Rich Puhek wrote... nate wrote: One thing to remember is that the Tivo has a few minor advantages: 1) Your serial port/USB port probably has a fairly high-priority interrupt, this is why your mouse movement will cause your processor to stop working on the encoding. 2) The Tivo probably has hardware dedicated to the specific purpose of video processing (a FPGA/CPLD type device, or maybe even an ASIC), where as your PC has to make do with a general-purpose microprocessor. 3) Your microprocessor is a CISC device (i386 class, etc are all CISC processors). I would guess that it is quite likely that the different execution times for the different instructions would be a challange in a realtime (or near realtime) environment. The PowerPC is a RISC chip, which (among many other things...) means that every opcode on the chip will average about the same (around 1.5 to 1.7 cycles/instruction IIRC). It may not be a real big deal, but then again, might be interesting to see how performance is with Debian on PPC. I've been playing with this this weekend. Setup is a Athalon 750mhz, very lightly loaded machine, just really running vcr. I found thta with a resoluting of 384x288 I would drop a single frame or so about every 2 to 5 seconds. Change the resolutin to a more usable 640x480, and it goes up to like 25 frames every 2 to 5 seconds (esentially unusable). Loooking at the CPU utilization, it was hovering aroun 40 to 45 percetn. Nothing else was going on. So, where is the limitation here? PCI bus transfer speed? or what. How can I improve this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
How to set up a _lower_ resolutin in frambuffer?
I'm playing around with vcr like recording this weekend on my Debian system. Seems I may need to se my frambuffer to a lower rsolutin/higher color setup to get full screen playback, givne the quality of video stream that my machien seesm to be able to encode. I need to se it to a resoluting of 384x288 and a cloro depth of 24. Looking throuhg /etc/fb.modes, I don't seen any configs that are _lower_ than the standard 640x480. Can anyone clue me in as to how to define a mode to meet my needs? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Getting php4 to work on potato?
I'm having a bit of a problem geting php4 to work on my stable + Progeny + 2.4 kernel machine. I have apache installed and woorking from a .deb package. I downloaded and compiled php 4.0.6, and all went well. I uncometed thet AddType lines in the default /etc/apache/httpd.conf file, and I copied php-ini.dist to /usr/local/lib/php.ini (is this correct for Debian?) I did not edit this file (should I have?). I stoped and restarted apache. I had already created a directory for webvcr, which in theroy should have working .php files. However when I point my browser to the .php file, it just offers to downladit. What am I doing wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
apxs Apahce script?
I'm trying to get php4 installed corectly on my potato + Progeny + 2.4 kerenl machine, in order to use webvcr. I have installed apache using dselect. Acording to the php4 docs, I need to find a script called apxs, but a find fails to locate it. What am I doing wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Debian TVIO like PVR
On Sun Nov 25 12:32:21 2001 Shaya Potter wrote... On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 08:45, Stan Brown wrote: I've been playing with this this weekend. Setup is a Athalon 750mhz, very lightly loaded machine, just really running vcr. I found thta with a resoluting of 384x288 I would drop a single frame or so about every 2 to 5 seconds. Change the resolutin to a more usable 640x480, and it goes up to like 25 frames every 2 to 5 seconds (esentially unusable). Loooking at the CPU utilization, it was hovering aroun 40 to 45 percetn. Nothing else was going on. So, where is the limitation here? PCI bus transfer speed? or what. How can I improve this? I'm not an expert at this, this knowledge is just from reading places like arstechnica av forum and doom9. are you trying to encode to Divx? as people have said that takes a lot of cpu, and latency (such as interrupts) can kill you. I'd reccomend (especially if you have lots of disk space) to do something like, setup a program that captures to Huffyuv (a lossless compression), this will take lots of space, but if you set it up to cron encode overnight when you aren't capturing you should be fine. Well. I suppose that depends upon what lot's of disk space is. I would like to be able to record, say 6 to 8 hours worht, before encoding. Any idea what that would tak? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Getting php4 to work on potato?
On Sun Nov 25 14:11:55 2001 Antti Tolamo wrote... Stan Brown wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem geting php4 to work on my stable + Progeny + 2.4 kernel machine. I have apache installed and woorking from a .deb package. I downloaded and compiled php 4.0.6, and all went well. I uncometed thet AddType lines in the default /etc/apache/httpd.conf file, and I copied php-ini.dist to /usr/local/lib/php.ini (is this correct for Debian?) I did not edit this file (should I have?). I stoped and restarted apache. I had already created a directory for webvcr, which in theroy should have working .php files. However when I point my browser to the .php file, it just offers to downladit. What am I doing wrong? Sounds like Apache doesn't recognize PHP at all. Either it is defined inccorrectly in apache conf files , you don't have PHP installed or Apache doesn't recognize it for some other reasons. I had similar problem, but it was corrected by adding right php definions to files httpd.conf. and mime.type. I'm not sure what apache you're using, but in stable apache packages those files are created and used. However, far as I know they're only used in Debian. Since PHP was installed as a module to apache, I also checked at httpd.con was the PHP4 enabled after installation from Debian package. It wasn't and I uncommented the module in there. My present thought is that I have not compiled php4 coreclty. It appears that I may have needed to secify i path to something called apxs. Problem is I don't seem to have any such thing on my system. Also, I have modifed httpd.conf, but not mime.types. What needs to go in there for php4? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: apxs Apahce script?
On Sun Nov 25 17:58:02 2001 Meir Kriheli wrote... On Sunday 25 November 2001 18:57, Stan Brown wrote: I'm trying to get php4 installed corectly on my potato + Progeny + 2.4 kerenl machine, in order to use webvcr. I have installed apache using dselect. Acording to the php4 docs, I need to find a script called apxs, but a find fails to locate it. What am I doing wrong? apxs is in apache deveolpment. apt-get install apache-dev Thanks. Now the plot gets a bit murkier. Dselect won't install apache-dev. The problem appears to be that the version of apache-dev that is avaialble requires apache-common 1.39 and 1.2.10 and I'be somehow got 1.3.14 installed. This machien is a potato machine + Progeny upgrades + 2.4 kernel. What should I do to fix this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Framebuffer AVI player?
On Sat Nov 24 01:31:30 2001 Damon Muller wrote... Quoth Stan Brown, So, I now have vcr working and capturing files, which I can play back with aviplay. However, I really like watching tv in frame buffer mode, so here's the question, Is there a AVI player that can display to the framebuffer? Mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/) will do this. I've personally tried it out on the Matrox FB and it worked fine. Note that there are no debian package, but the source contains (or did once) a debian control file (build by debian/rules binary), but it builds and installs fine from source. Thanks, I got it, and compiled/installed it jsut fine. It plays on the X display by defaul, but when I try to use the -vo fbdev I get the following error: Script started on Sat Nov 24 09:34:35 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ mplayer -vo fbdev test.avi MPlayer 0.50 (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) Reading /home/stan/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/stan/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 18 audio 40 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/stan/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Playing test.avi Detected AVI file format! MainAVIHeader.dwFlags: (2064) HAS_INDEX TRUST_CKTYPE VIDEO: [DIV3] 384x288 24bpp 29.97 fps 405.0 kbps (49.4 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x33564944 size:384x288 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334 Detected audio codec: [mp3] drv:1 (MPEG layer-2, layer-3) mp3lib: Processor ID: 622 mp3lib: Using AMD 3dnow-dsp(k7)! optimized decore. AUDIO: srate=44100 chans=2 bps=2 sfmt=0x10 ratio: 8000-176400 Detected video codec: [divxds] drv:4 (DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3)) fbdev: 8 bpp output is not supported. Sorry, selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Exiting... (End of file) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ Script done on Sat Nov 24 09:34:39 2001 The test file was recorded with vcr using this config file: [defaults] quality = 95 keyframes = 15 codec = DivX ;-) low-motion attributes = BitRate=1600 source = Television norm = ntsc verbose = 1 freqtab = us-cable audiofrequency=44 audiobitrate=64 resolution=384 framerate = 29.97 grabdevice=/dev/video0 I'm afraid, that i don't understand all this stuff yet. So what stupid newbie mistake am I making? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Framebuffer AVI player?
On Sat Nov 24 18:45:28 2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote... You are trying to play 24-bit video on an 8-bit display. Nearly nothing works with 8-bit color because such displays are usually palettes, whereas 16- and 24-bit are continuous color spectra. Change your frame buffer device to 16- or 24-bit color. You can use the fbset program or change it at boot time. See the documentation for fbset for more information. K, that got me closer. I woulnd up using: mplayer -vo fbdev -fbmode tv -vm [file_to_play] Anid it displayed, centered on the framebufer display. However it was pretty small (about 3 x 4), I run fbtv as fbtv -mtv and it pretty much fills the entire screen, which is what I want to replicate, while playing recoded video. Mode tv is defined in /etc/fb.modes as follows: mode tv # D: 49.188 MHz, H: 46.580 kHz, V: 75.008 Hz geometry 768 576 768 576 32 timings 20330 128 32 32 8 128 5 endmode Oh I had manually run an fbset -depth 24 before this test, if it matters. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Debian TVIO like PVR
I would like to build a TVIO like Personal Video Recorder using a Debian Linux machine. What hardware (in addition to the basic computer) will I need? WinTV card? Special Video car dor TV out? Obviosly I will need a failry fast machine, I'm Planing somehting like a 1.2GHZ Athalon, and lots (40 - 120G) of disk space. I would like to use IDE disks, if they are fast enough. What software packages do I need? Is there a HOWTO obd.or other docs on this?n this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Getting vcr compiled on stable?
Has anyone managed to get vcr http://www.stack.nl/~brama/vcr compiled on a Debian STABLE machine? I'm trying to build it on a potato + Progeny + 24. kernel machine, and i'm going around in circles (- It requires libavifile. which I have both managed to compile from source _and_ find precompiled .debs of. However the latest stable version of that seems to be 0.53.5. Runing configure on vcr runs OK, with these libs, but when I try to :make it it sats support for 0,53 has been droped. The VCR homepage has a tarball of libavifile version 0.6, but configure on it fails, even after I run the aytogen.sh script supplied with it. Any clues to get this working would be _greatly_ appreciated! -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Framebuffer AVI player?
This weekennds project (well one of thme), is to prototype a VCR like system, using my Debian system. Ultimately I will have a more powerful system to run this on, but i think I can get the concepts straight with this one. So, I now have vcr working and capturing files, which I can play back with aviplay. However, I really like watching tv in frame buffer mode, so here's the question, Is there a AVI player that can display to the framebuffer? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Cahnging default vi?
One of my potato + progeny machies seems to heve elvis as the default for vi. After a few days of being anoyed by it's aberent non standard behabior, I'm ready to change to something else (vim perhaps ?0 ( or the real thing if the FreebSD vi has been ported). In any case, how do I change the default vi on this machine? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
WinTV cards (which one ?)
I'm building a new machine for my wife, for Christmas. She has made a specifc request for TV on it. I have a WinTV card in my machine, and it works OK. I went looking to buy one ofr hers and found out that they come in a variety of proces. Which ones are best supported under Debina? I see everything from a WinTV Go for $49 to a WinTV persona Video Recorder for $199. What extra features does teh PVR model have? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Reconfiguring sendmail?
I have a Debian potato + Progeny + 2.4 kernel machien at work. Iam setting it up as an Amanda tapehost. All is going well. As a final setep, I want to foward some of it's mail to another amchine. I don't remeber what I told sendmail when I installed the machine, but in any case, it's not correct. How can I force debain to re-offer me the install time config options for this package? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Recording externaly sourced sound?
I want to be able to play on my laptop some music that I have on LP's, cassettes ect only. First step seems to be to get this sound converted to digita, right. So, I hooked up the tape output of my preamp to the line in on my sound card. Music came out of the computer speakers. This looked good. So I did: cat /dev/dsp sounfile But when I trued to play this back with: cat soundfile /dev/dsp I did not get anything out. What am I doing wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
xmixer?
I'm starting to explore the mysteries of recordingsound from an external source. A kind soul on this lsit has pointed me to a nifty looking tool called gramaphone, so I'm exploring it. It seems to ned something callde xmixer. Any idea where I can get this program? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
