Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-21 Thread Krzys Majewski
Good question! For me the attraction is that I live in a small apartment so I don't really have room for a separate TV/DVD player. Oh, and also money. My 17 ViewSonic CRT + Pinnacle PCTV card + lirc + xine + xawtv makes a very good tv/vcr. Plus I already have the cable for

Re: what music players?

2001-10-21 Thread Krzys Majewski
What's Schutzverletzung and Bock? -chris Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linux rebootet man in drei Fällen: Neuer Kernel, neue (Board-)Hardware, neue Partition angelegt Aber Windows rebootet man auch in drei Fällen: Schutzverletzung, Bluescreen, keinen Bock...

Re: GeForce3: X won't start!!!!

2001-10-21 Thread Krzys Majewski
Not sure if you're having the same problem, but in my case the Geforce3 would not work in any mode higher than 16bpp. Nvidia acknowledged this as a bug (but only after I'd spent a week on the it, gaah). -chris Aaron Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just got a new

Re: woody + xmms v1.2.5 (deb 1.2.5-2) SEGFAULT

2001-10-21 Thread Krzys Majewski
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you installed the xmms-aalsa plugin - remove it, it is broken. Bummer. I've built mine from source and it also has problems. Hm. Anyone got a better one? -chris

Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
Jason Boxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 23 September 2001 02:28 pm, Krzys Majewski wrote: Anyone run a matrox g450? I've got one working with kernel 2.4.8 and X 4.1.0, but it did hang my box once. Maybe I should be using the drivers from the Matrox site instead? The Matrox

Re: Configuring GCC search directory

2001-09-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:04:43PM -0400, Akintayo Holder wrote: | hi, | I am trying to install palm dev tools on woody. I would like to knwo how | you set the search path for the GCC compiler ? any information about | where i can find the env var of

OT: reply-to-list in Gnus?

2001-09-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
I should probably post this on gnu.emacs.gnus, but I'm too lazy to read that whole newsgroup in addition to this list.. Anyone know how to do a followup to an nnimap group (in this case, the debian-user list) in such a way that the list, rather than the OP, appears in the To: header?

gradually upgrading from glibc2.1 to glibc2.2 ?

2001-09-23 Thread Krzys Majewski
Hi folks I've got a (highly customized) debian/potato box. (If you're tempted to reply at this point with why the hell aren't you running debian/unstable, don't.) One day the current unstable glibc2.2 debian will become stable (or maybe it has already?) and I will want to upgrade. I don't want

matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-23 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone run a matrox g450? I've got one working with kernel 2.4.8 and X 4.1.0, but it did hang my box once. Maybe I should be using the drivers from the Matrox site instead? The Matrox drivers need the code for X 4.0.2/4.0.3 to compile. I know, I know, I should just try it and see,

`holding back' packages?

2001-07-01 Thread Krzys Majewski
1. How can I `hold back' packages so Debian doesn't upgrade them? 2. Does apt-get/dpkg always overwrite existing files, or only if their timestamps are older than the corresponding file in the .deb? I run a customized potato box. Usually I keep custom stuff separate from Debian by installing

Re: `holding back' packages?

2001-07-01 Thread Krzys Majewski
On 1 Jul 2001, Mario Vukelic wrote: On 01 Jul 2001 10:53:56 -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: 1. How can I `hold back' packages so Debian doesn't upgrade them? use dselect. You can put pkgs on hold with = Thanks. Is this persistent, in the sense that I can use dselect to hold back

Re: `holding back' packages?

2001-07-01 Thread Krzys Majewski
Bottom line for me is, it's my box, I need to override Debian occasionally. There used to be (still is?) this thing called `equiv' for registering locally installed things with dpkg, but it's more of a hassle than I'm willing to put up with for every tarball I

Re: Rage128 and DRI

2001-05-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
mikepolniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Once you get that far , if you have the latest KDE installed you can enjoy the beauty of anti-aliased fonts. Once you see them you won't go back to ugly fonts. That sounds interesting, can you elaborate? Is this a hardware feature of the card?

Re: is this video-card supported?

2001-05-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
See http://bytesex.org/bttv/index.html for linux tv card support. -chris A. Demarteau (linux rules!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, are the following 2 cards supported yet: Matrox MARVEL G450 (card has onboard tv-tuner) Matrox G450 thanx --- Andor Demarteau [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Jumpstart install of debian?

2001-05-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Andrew D Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another solution would be to use cpio to make an archive of the file system and then expand this out onto a clean machine. I recently did this and found it to be relatively painless. I did only use one large partition (well two but I'm not counting

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:41:38AM -0600, John Galt wrote: In vi, :1267 works... Also, for vim, start your editing session right at the exact line you're interested in via vi +1267 filename.here propagandaThe correct solution is emacs

create your own GNU/linux distribution on 3 floppies

2001-05-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Uses syslinux, busybox, and make. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~majewski/giab/ -chris

mount/umount hangs after I messed with /etc/mtab

2001-05-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
I am unable to mount/umount anything after messing with my /etc/mtab last night (I had removed a floppy without umounting it, and was getting Device busy when I tried to remount/umount it, so I nuked the floppy line in mtab, without backing it up, yay). Now when I try to mount or

kernel rebuild w.o./ purging 3rd-party modules?

2001-05-14 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody know how to do kernel rebuilds in such a way that existing 3rd-party kernel modules (ie those not included in the kernel src tree) aren't removed from /lib/modules/... ? -chris

2.4.2 + imm.o

2001-05-14 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'm finding the OS really sluggish when using my parport zip100 drive (imm driver). This is a 2.4.2 kernel. Here's what happens when I modprobe parport_pc: May 14 08:41:24 mi kernel: 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes May 14 08:41:24 mi kernel: 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 9 May 14 08:41:24 mi

IPMasqing NFS

2001-05-08 Thread Krzys Majewski
I would like to NFS-mount a directory on a remote host located behind an ipmasq'ing gateway/firewall. The gateway runs 2.2.17, the remote box runs 2.4.2, the local box runs SunOS-5.8-i386. I tried adding trivial rules to my ipmasq script, copying the ones for sshd and replacing the sshd

[OT] kapm-idled takes up 77% of CPU?

2001-04-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Dig this: 3 root 20 0 00 0 SW 0 74.0 0.0 672:35 kapm-idled 10858 root 10 0 35540 8332 1628 S 0 0.5 6.5 0:03 X 4208 root 9 0 968 964 744 S 0 0.3 0.7 0:14 dozed 31364 krzys 10 0 1492 1492 692 R 0 0.3 1.1 0:00

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-03-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Haha. Yes! -chris Christopher Mosley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just had an idea. Did you ever hear the story of the Princess and the Pea. No mattter how many matresses were placed between the Princess and the pea, she was still disturbed by the presence of the pea. Your being bothered

are X binaries compatible across X versions?

2001-03-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Will all X 3.3.6 binaries run on X 4.0.2? What about the other way around? What other files are dependent on the server version? For example, if I upgrade the server from 4.0.2 to something else, which tarballs do I need to get besides Xxserv.tgz and Xmod.tgz? (This may sound off-topic, but

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-03-29 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oliver Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:19:19PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: Noise. -chris You might want to look at http://www.quietpc.com . They claim their CPU fans are practically inaudible. I ordered a SilentDrive enclosure from them and I'm very happy

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-03-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
Noise. -chris On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: Why do you want to burn you CPU? a fan is very cheap.. less than $15 some models. You can buy one in all computer stores. Just curious.. why do you want to make this? (maybe you have other solutions) This is strictly

Re: OpenSSH grief part 2

2001-03-25 Thread Krzys Majewski
is a fluke, and there is a bug in the openssh code that prevents it from working if the DSA keys are missing. -chris On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Luigi Fabio wrote: On 23 Mar 2001, at 20:52, Krzys Majewski wrote: What happens if you ssh -v -v -v to both the good machine and the bad machine? The output

Re: anyone playing DVDs?

2001-03-25 Thread Krzys Majewski
S.Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xine is an excellent DVD player and I'd suggest you check it out first: http://xine.sourceforge.net/ (main website) http://xine.cjb.net/ (Xine resource page) http://www.nott.ac.uk/~psystrj/XINE-FAQ.html

Re: anyone playing DVDs?

2001-03-25 Thread Krzys Majewski
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the response! I've downloaded the xine-0.4.01 source. I can get this to build no problem. I then downloaded the same source with the DeCSS descrambler built into it. I get this error, similar to the errors I get when trying to compile

Re: anyone playing DVDs?

2001-03-25 Thread Krzys Majewski
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the DeCSS-enabled xine compiled. Has anyone got a dvd (.vob??) file I could try it on before I install a DVD-ROM and go rent a movie? -chris OK, another update.. I managed to download a .vob file after an hour of searching.. I guess

[OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-03-25 Thread Krzys Majewski
This is strictly non-Debian but I haven't found any info on this anywhere so maybe someone can help: can I run a PIII with the CPU fan unplugged, provided I underclock it? I ran my Katmai 500MHz processor with the fan unplugged for a whole day, underclocked to 333MHz, it didn't even

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-03-25 Thread Krzys Majewski
Pentium CPU's generally come with fans, so it's clearly not a price issue.. I would have thought that at least one advantage of not having a cpu fan is obvious, but if not, then feel free to view this as a strictly theoretical problem.. -chris On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Griffiths wrote:

Re: anyone playing DVDs?

2001-03-25 Thread Krzys Majewski
S.Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Krzys == Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Krzys What's with the failed to initialize X shared memory Krzys extension stuff? How can I fix this? I'm running 3.3.6, Krzys which is supposed to work, albeit without Xv. Upgrading

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: Use the 'kernel-source' packages and you will get extra features and bugfixes patched in by Debian which are not in stock Linux. For example 'kernel-source-2.2.18pre21'. When installed the archive gets put into Is this anything like RedHat's

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official kernel source? Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the nature of a patch. For the most part patches are created to fix bugs that were unknown when the

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yarbrough wrote: Krzys Majewski wrote: OK, so these are official kernel.org patches then? Or something else? Here is the README.Debian file from kernel-source-2.2.18pre21: (yes it looks like somebody forgot to update the title) kernel-source-2.2.17 for DEBIAN

Re: Star Office

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
Michael Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: standards. If you want WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean), use LyX. LyX rocks, too bad its latex conversion is not invertible: foo.lyx - foo.tex - bar.lyx != foo.lyx In fact, the example I tried (some random thing I was typing) broke hopelessly

Re: Authoring tools (was Re: Star Office)

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lyx requires non-free software, thats a showstopper. It does? Which? -chris

anyone playing DVDs?

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
OK I'm about to re-open the dvd can of worms. The video place down the street rents them out, and since I don't have a tv or a vcr, this might be an elegant solution to the movie problem (yes, I know about the MPAA, sigh). Is anyone playing DVDs succesfully in linux? I don't have any

Re: Potato and satellite internet connection

2001-03-23 Thread Krzys Majewski
I know nothing about satellite internet connections, but FWIW I'll guess that getting this to work should have little to do with which official Debian release you're running. Maybe you can find out what other satellite users with unixlike operating systems are doing, and try to imitate

Re: OpenSSH grief part 2

2001-03-23 Thread Krzys Majewski
What happens if you ssh -v -v -v to both the good machine and the bad machine? The output below suggests that the bad machine is choking on both your rsa key and your dsa key. The good machine only chokes on the dsa key, so maybe it's using whatever rsa key you give it (and perhaps this

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-23 Thread Krzys Majewski
There is an official debian way to recompile kernels, but I don't bother.. download the kernel source from debian.org or kernel.org (avoid minor versions which are not divisible by 2, like 2.1.* or 2.3.*) read the README in /usr/src/linux, and you're go. Basically make menuconfig

reconciling/registering local customizations with dpkg/apt?

2001-03-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone have a good way to register local customizations with the Debian package mechanism? For example, suppose file X is provided by Debian package Y.deb, and I patch X to provide some functionality local to my domain. I would now like to protect X from being completely

migrating a redhat box to dpkg/apt-get?

2001-03-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone taught a redhat box to use .deb packages instead of .rpm's? I'm helping administer 100+ redhat boxes, and investigating the possibility of using dpkg/apt-get, rather than rpm, for propagating local customizations. Since the redhat file structure would probably need to be preserved,

Re: Dual ethernet cards

2001-03-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
I've never seen the errors you describe, but I do run 2.2.17 on a firewall/router with two NICs. I accomplish this by passing the arguments ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=3,0x280,eth1 to the kernel. -chris Steve Doerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I just rebuilt the 2.2.17

Re: Putting computer on standby or sleep

2001-02-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
I use a combination of 'hdparm -y' and 'apm --suspend', run via a script that sits in the background checking if the cpu is idle and there has been no typing on the console recently. Details on request. -chris Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I would like to know if (and

Re: backing up a complete linux system

2001-02-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
Mike Egglestone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. I trying to do a backup of my system and I think I might have the backup part rightcorrect me if I'm wrong I could use this command tar -cvzf hda2.tar.gz / ( I don't need to add this ... --exclude hda2.tar.gz do I ??)

Re: Wake Up on LAN

2001-02-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
I use /usr/sbin/arp. There are programs that build WOL packets out there - look for ether-wake.c, for example, -chris c-3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For WOL you need to know the node adress of the network card in the computer you want to wake up. Under Windows you can easily get it

3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

2001-02-11 Thread Krzys Majewski
So I'm trying to teach my boot floppies to do networking.. I try to insmod my NIC driver, 3c59x.c, but I get this: 3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy What now? With my usual kernel this module is loaded with no options, and I'm trying this on the same hardware. insmod reports no

Re: 3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

2001-02-11 Thread Krzys Majewski
only have to do: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up asuumed that your kernel detects your card correctly. Greetz, Sebastiaan On 11 Feb 2001, Krzys Majewski wrote: So I'm trying to teach my boot floppies to do networking.. I try to insmod my NIC driver, 3c59x.c

eth0: unknown interface: No such device

2001-02-11 Thread Krzys Majewski
OK here's the deal I'm trying to make a bare-bonez floppy distribution with networking capability. I'm testing it on my usual workstation. This machine uses the 3c59x driver for eth0. Now, I've compiled the 3c59x driver into the kernel on the floppy distro, but when I run ifconfig I get:

why does eth0 require modprobe?

2001-02-08 Thread Krzys Majewski
For those of you who have been following with baited breath the ongoing saga of my boot floppies: I am now loading a kernel from floppy #1 and a compressed root image from floppy #2, at which point I get a shell enabling me to mount floppy #3 and copy additional goodies from it.

How to make a boot/root floppy?

2001-02-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
I've been trying to roll my own boot/root floppy with syslinux. So far I've managed to put a kernel on one floppy, a root fs on another floppy, boot the kernel, mount the root fs. The snag I've run into is that the root floppy isn't big enough for libc, /bin/sh, and whatever stuff I'd like

mke2fs: error in loading shared libraries

2001-02-06 Thread Krzys Majewski
Why does 'mke2fs /dev/fd0' give mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 mke2fs: error in loading shared libraries: mke2fs: undefined symbol: e2p_edit_feature ? I've done a dist-upgrade but no juice. -chris

depmod: not an ELF file

2001-02-06 Thread Krzys Majewski
Why does 'update-modules' give: depmod: not an ELF file? I've done a dist-upgrade but no juice. -chris

Re: SSH won't accept logins without password

2001-02-06 Thread Krzys Majewski
Do your ssh and sshd versions match? I have a slink machine with sshd 1.2.26 and a woody machine with sshd version OpenSSH-1.2.3 and ssh version OpenSSH-1.2.3. All login attempts are made from the woody machine (OpenSSH). Connects to the old ssh daemon on the slink machine work, connects

Re: depmod: not an ELF file

2001-02-06 Thread Krzys Majewski
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:30:51PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: Why does 'update-modules' give: depmod: not an ELF file? I've done a dist-upgrade but no juice. I've had this happen when I transferred a module incorrectly. I think

kernel panic while mounting initrd.gz

2001-02-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'm using syslinux-1.50 to roll my own boot/root floppy. So far, I know how to put a kernel on one floppy, rdev it to /dev/fd0, and mount a root fs located on a second floppy. What I would like to do is mount the root fs from a file system image file on the first floppy. I tried to do this,

RE: update-menus

2000-12-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
if I change machines. The other option I was thinking about is to run some kind of preprocessor, like cpp or m4, from my .xinitrc for example. -chris On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 19-Nov-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: How can I make update-menus coexist with my custom

How to make diald coexist with eth0?

2000-12-06 Thread Krzys Majewski
How can I set things up so that, if the eth0 interface can't be upped (for example, the cable modem is unplugged, or something is broken on the remote end), diald is started? I guess I could put an if ifconfig eth0; then ... in /etc/init.d/diald. But is this the best way? Just now

Re: How to make diald coexist with eth0?

2000-12-06 Thread Krzys Majewski
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: You want to re-set your routing tables with your network configuration scripts. There are mechanisms in place for doing this with the ifup and ifdown commands -- directories in which scripts are placed to be run at when an interface is en/dis abled. Firewall and

Re: DPMS not working

2000-12-06 Thread Krzys Majewski
Try putting Option DPMS in the Monitor section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config. Though be warned that, as others have mentioned, DPMS may do weird bad things with X4, like crash your X server. -chris Michael Abraham Shulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Does anyone have any ideas

Re: Mount ftp fs

2000-12-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Mats Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi ! Does anyone know a way to mount a remote file systems over ftp ? I found something called userfs but it seemed incomplete and out of date. (I guess sitecopy is another way to do what I want to do but mounting would be cooler.) See ange-ftp

disable remote connections to local ports?

2000-12-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
How can I set things up so that connections to a local port, say , are only accepted if they are coming from localhost? More generally, how can I shut off all outside access to my machine, except for the ssh daemon? I've got ALL: ALL in /etc/hosts/deny, and ALL: 127.0.0.1 in

[OT] Navigator 4.75 hangs, any patches?

2000-12-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
Gr. Navigator 4.75 hangs on some pages, eating all the CPU, and making all open netscape windows unuseable. This is on an i686, mostly potato. Any patches/workarounds for this sort of problem? -chris

how to not log connections from localhost?

2000-12-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
How do I tell inetd/tcpd to not log things like: Dec 3 16:59:07 localhost ssh[17364]: connect from 127.0.0.1 -chris

Re: [OT] Navigator 4.75 hangs, any patches?

2000-12-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when exactly does it hang? ive seen a lot of hangs on startup if a working DNS is unreachable. nate Krzys Majewski wrote: Gr. Navigator 4.75 hangs on some pages, eating all the CPU, and making all open netscape windows unuseable

Re: gnus disconnected mode

2000-11-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does it support disconnected mode imap? that is my one big remaining gripe about pine (and as far as i know mutt's imap support is more primitive then pines still). Yes, it does. I tried it with 5.8.3 and it sort of worked (I can't remember what

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: When I get particularly behind, I just delete a few days (or weeks) worth of posts. Debian Weekly News tends to highlight significant list events. What's this? Does it say things like, This week Krzys Majewski posted a really stupid question? Should I be worried

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
Lawrence H. Robins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (250/day)? All my mail is handled by a server at my school. On this server, I run procmail (via ~/.forward and ~/.procmailrc)

[OT] gnus automatic-expiry

2000-11-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gnus has a couple of nice features. One is automatic expiry: for selected groups (including all of the high-traffic Debian lists I'm on), mail sits around for about a week, then automatically gets deleted. Will this work in conjunction with

Re: Sound

2000-11-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying to get some sound out of my Linux system, and am pretty baffled. I gather there are several different ways to do it, and would like to know if there is a preferred one. I have an ISA AWE-64 soundblaster on a 2.2.17 kernel metoo 1)

update-menus

2000-11-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
How can I make update-menus coexist with my custom wm config files? For example, I rolled my own ~/.vtwmrc. Now, I apt-get install xinvaders. I would like a menu entry for xinvaders to appear automagically in my window manager, without losing my other customizations. The current behaviour

Re: Problems with the 3Com 3c905B NIC

2000-11-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Alson van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before that I tried two different NICs to no avail, which leads me to believe NICs may be inherently flaky. So maybe try another one (I convinced my local h/w vendor to lend me this one, slightly used, and I ended up buying it). 5x9

Re: System.map

2000-11-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Robert A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just kinda curious...how important is it to place the new System.map file (created when you compiled a new kernel) in the /boot directory? I have compiled a number of kernels and, after looking at this discussion, I checked my /boot directory to

Re: The Microsoft tax

2000-11-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, I'm thinking of buying a new computer and I was looking for information on getting a refund for Windows. Hrm. A few months ago I bought a custom computer from the shop down the street (Hi, I'd like to buy a computer What kind? A grey one

Re: new installation

2000-11-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
john gennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've put together another box with items left over from upgrades plus a new 10.2G IDE hard drive. So far I've only installed Debian on boxes already having a running system (originally W95 and later just DOS 6.22 which I find easy to start with). This

Re: Problems with the 3Com 3c905B NIC

2000-11-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
FWIW I've got a working PIII/3c905b/terayon setup. My only initial problem with it was dyslexia: 509 is not the same as 905! IOW, you need to use the right driver, which in my case means alias eth0 3c59x in /etc/modutils/aliases. Before that I tried two different NICs to no avail, which

Re: screensaver/dpms

2000-11-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
Look in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset_0 Put something like xset -dpms xset s off in one or some or all of these files. -chris

can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)

2000-11-13 Thread Krzys Majewski
How do I fix this? More generally, where do I look if I'm having problems of this form? -chris

Re: can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)

2000-11-13 Thread Krzys Majewski
Look in /lib/modules/x.y.z/ where x.y.z is your linux kernel version. If the modules are not there, you will have to compile them from the kernel sources. (first, check if they are not included as part of the kernel). Silver Hrm no, I think the tap modules are aliases for something, and I'm

what happened to ssh2?

2000-11-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Where did the ssh2 in stable go? -chris

Re: exim help needed

2000-11-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Thanks Carel! This is exactly what I had in mind, but I didn't know how to pull it off. Much nicer than my /etc/init.d/tcp-pipes hack, though a bit more overhead (slow on this 486/33, should be ok on the p3/500). groetjes, chris So I did it differently using tcp-wrappers/inetd, like this:

DPMS on console?

2000-11-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Is there a DPMS-capable console blanker? I'm running this machine strictly in console mode, and the screenblank nicely after a while while, but I'm a bit disappointed that the monitor power LED doesn't start blinking and stuff. Maybe it's still sucking up lots of power despite being dark? I'm

[OT] power supply meltdown, part ][

2000-11-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody have experience with old 486 power supplies? I've got one here on my vintage 1993 486/33, I've unplugged the fan on it coz it was noisy and I'm too lazy to go to the basement, hunt for a voltmeter, soldering iron, and play the old 12-7V conversion game again. So I'm wondering what are the

sysklogd breaks noflushd

2000-11-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Noflushd spins the disk up immediately after spinning it down, unless I do a etc/init.d/sysklogd stop. This the potato sysklogd and a noflushd compiled from the sources in woody. Presumably the problem is noflushd logging a Spinning down... message, which gets flushed to the hard drive, heh.

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Scott V. McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that this thread has got me interested, could anyone explain how to use the test patterns? The short answer is I don't know, the long answer is, if you see a large rectangular grid on your screen, and it looks warped, twiddle the dials on your

Re: sticky bit, powersaving hdd spindown

2000-11-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i've been meaning to ask you about you suggested power-supply quietening technique. you said you moved the power supply outside the case, in order to allievate the heat buildup inside the p/s case. yet on at least my machines, the powersupply has ventilation

How to link libc.a instead of libbsd.a

2000-11-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'm trying to compile ssh on an old (slink and pre-slink) machine with some potato on it. I'm getting undefined references (e.g to _sigintr), which symbol indeed does not appear in /usr/lib/libbsd.a (this is the bugger being linked). On a whim, I did an nm on /usr/lib/libc.a and,

Re: hdparm to increase performance

2000-11-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In case you guys missed this one, check it out. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/272 I just increased my harddrive throughput by 5 times. Mike Do you notice a difference though? I increased mine from about 3Mbps to about 18Mbps,

Re: Quick way to tell if online for use in cron script?

2000-11-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Maybe see the ifconfig manpage. -chris

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 08:58:01PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various parameters of a CRT monitor? On http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ there is a tool called ctscreen which should

Re: sticky bit, powersaving hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Under DOS there was the possibility of treating some of your RAM like a disk (hence the name ramdisk). Not sure if Linux can do this, but if so, then just copy the binary to a ramdisk and run it from there. Yes it can be done. You will need to enable

Re: sticky bit, powersaving hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of months. it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy hdd powersupply fan. I can't help wondering if you could do away with the hdd altogether, e.g. booting

mv -i doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody else have this problem? /bin/mv -i and /bin/mv --interactive do not prompt before moving. From the stable fileutils. -chris

Re: mv -i doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oh haha, a reading problem. thanks, chris -i, --interactive prompt before overwrite

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Claudette Woodgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Corey, Where shall I send the case of beers and the strippers? I finally have my Xfree86 4.0.1 up and running, at 1280x1024x16bpp. Thank You ! OK I've never understood what's so great about high resolutions. The higher the resolution, the

Re: Making the computer less noisy

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Jean-Michel Kelbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi ! i am wondering if there is a way to make the computer less noisy at some moment (the NIGHT). What I mean is that the CPU fan does a lot of noise, and the Hd too. Is there a porgram to make the cpu fan less rotating (if the cpu doesn't work

test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone have test patterns for help with adjusting the various parameters of a CRT monitor? -chris

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if you installed into /usr/local like your supposed to your fine, if you just overwrote random stuff in /usr your hosed. X wants to go in /usr/X11R6, /etc/X11, and so on. What you want to do is make a backup of all the relevant dirs before proceeding.

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