I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This
works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot
include pictures (they are ok., latex -- xdvi shows them...). Do I have
to include them in a special format (I tried .bmp, .png, .ps as input;
latex --
| 1 Compile sound into a new kernel
| 2 Get sndconfig and xplaymidi from the woody section of the debian.org.
|
| sndconfig is the same tool that you have on RHL.
Does anyone know if sndconfig can be used on potato systems, or is
there a library incompatibility? The download page doesn't suggest
| I write there something like this:
| file systemmount pointtype
| options dump
| /dev/hdc/cdrom auto
| 0
|
| Is that correct ?
I believe it needs to look like this:
/dev/hdc/cdrom iso9660
As Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| just because the module should've been loaded doesn't mean it was loaded
| *correctly*.
I have a Sound Blaster Vibra 16 and had to reconfigure it when I moved
to the 2.2.17 kernel and the OSS sound modules. I'm very happy with
the results of that
Well, despite the risk of being screamed at from the prestigious:
Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior
at Princeton, I'd still like to gather courage and ask a question.
I helped a colleague this afternoon install 2.2r2 on his new Dell
Optiplex GX110. The installation went very
| is there a way to find out
| 1.) which packages have changed
| 2.) which I have to download (I don't need to update the ones I don't
| have installed yet;-))
From Nils Lohner's announcement:
A complete list of the packages that have changed with this
I'm following up on a query of my own from some time ago, in case it's
of use to anybody who has encountered similar problems.
I wrote:
|one of my
| frustrations since upgrading to 2.2. series kernels has been that I
| lost PLIP. If I try to
This is a potato system kept up to date with the most recent additions
to proposed-updates, and security.
In an effort to solve a problem I have with Sawmill menus, I tried to
install the package libgtk1.2-dev, but got the response below:
This may not be a debian-specific question but I think it probably is,
since it involves (at least in part) the debian-specific menu system.
I run two boxes, both with potato installed, both up to date with the
latest revisions (as of Wed evening, Nov 22nd anyway) from
proposed-updates and
| I have to set the time but I didn't get it, I read the mans and docus,
| but it won't work. Can anyon tell me what to do to just change the
| time?
I have always found it simplest to do this by way of the net. The
rdate command contacts a time-date server and sets your system-clock
| i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. but
| unfortunatly there is only a woody version :( is there any way to get
| skipstone for a potato system?
I have Skipstone running fine on my potato system, and I really like
it.
I installed Mozilla from Debian (M18-3 in stable), and
| but when I try to insmod sb I get:
|
| Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o
| /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
| Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
| including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
I'm not sure if my own
| How come _I_ don't have that file? What, are you special or
| something? What version of vim are you using? Mine's 5.5.
Maybe it's because (like me until recently) you didn't realize that
vim actually comes in two packages---vim itself and vim-rt. The second
package contains the run time
Further to an earlier request about hardware
Can anyone provide advice about the status of support for ATA-100
IDE controllers---more specifically, the Promise ATA-100 cards?
Is there support for these in the 2.2 series kernels, or in 2.4?
There seems to be some controversy about whether
Does anyone know of any issues installing potato on a system with
these components:
. Asus K7V motherboard with an Athlon 800mhz processor
. Matrox Millennium G400 (16MB video ram)
. Western Digital 15.3G 7200 RPM hard drive
. Futura 17in Monitor, 1280x1024 resolution
. Toshiba CDRW/DVD
| Gnumeric 0.47 from potato is a little bit buggy, often the cell
| formats I made are gone. So I would like to upgrade to woody. Now my
| questions. Is this bug fixed in woody and can I risk an upgrade?
I upgraded to the woody version of gnumeric because the potato
version kept producing seg
make[1]: Entering directory =
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot'
as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
make[1]: as86: Command not found
make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory =
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot'
make: ***
| Is there a way to search the contents of a tar.gz file withouth
| having to extract everything. Specifically, I want to determine
| the disc-id of an audio CD, so I downloaded the freedb database in
| tar.gz format. Of course, it's a very large file. I would like to
| grep the contents to
I asked this earlier, but our mail-server was down and I think it
didn't get posted.
I upgraded to potato on my home-machine about a week or so ago and a
couple of days ago compiled and installed the 2.2.17pre20 kernel
source that comes with the 2.2 CD's.
All seems fine (the upgrade was very
Hello:
I upgraded to potato about a week ago, and more recently compiled and
installed the 2.2.17pre20 kernel. So I've been watching the log-files
sort of closely in case any problems emerge. I was bothered to notice
this in daemon.log this morning:
Sep 1 23:03:26 debian init: Trying to
John:
I'm afraid I don't really know how to help, but this sounds very
strange to me. I think that the problem must be specific to this
box. In the 5 years I've been running Linux (first Slackware, then
Debian), the only program that has ever brought down the whole system
has been Corel's
I upgraded to potato from slink yesterday, and the process was in
general very smooth indeed---the easiest upgrade I've done.
I'm left with one problem though. Gnumeric seg-faults every time it's
called. This is a disappoinment, because one of the reasons that I
wanted to do this upgrade was the
In case anyone has had similar problems, I'm responding to my own post
earlier today about gnumeric (in potato/stable) crashing as soon as
it's called.
I upgraded to the version in woody, and the problem has gone,
Jim
Hello.
I've been trying to compile and install the wv library. This is the
most current version of a project formerly known as mswordview---a
set of conversion utilities for MS Word documents. Mswordview is
packaged for potato and for woody but in a relatively old version
which handles only MS
| 1. run /etc/init.d/portmapper stop
| 2. put exit 0 (without quotes) as the first uncommented line in
| /etc/init.d/portmapper
| 3. If apt/dselect/dpkg every ask you to update that script, keep
| the one you modified (the new one will be
| /etc/init.d/portmapper.dpkg-dist)
This will work for
I am looking for a window manager for debian that will
not soakup the system resources. Which one would you
suggest?
I remain fond of asclassic---small, light, simple, good-looking and
very configurable. It's an old version of Afterstep, maintained for
those who like the basic features of
Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Yes, I basically agree with that, but getting the document into
| html as well as ps I have found to be a bore. Last time I tried
| latex2html on a 100,000 word tex document, it died miserably. Are
| there better alternatives for producing html from complex latex
Gijs van der Brugge wrote:
| Firstly, what it says is that i ought to replace kerneld with kmod
| and a link to information is given. To me this wasn't very clear so
| i ask your help how to replace kerneld with kmod. Secondly, there
| are some messages about kernel modules not being able to
| Hmm, ok, but the networks file is stock, set up by the debian
| install. I have upgraded the kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.15 - would
| this be the route of the problem?
Yes, this is why you're getting the SIOCADDRT error messages.
Actually, one of the changes between slink and potato that's not
Im still working on getting exim working here. I try to telnet
localhost 25 and I get connection refused. I tried grep smtp
/etc/inetd.conf and get smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim
exim -bs
what would keep telnet from conecting?
You can get this behaviour if the loopback device
| How do I give normal users permissions to mount cd-roms? Do I add
| them to a group?? Which one? Please 'CC' me in a reply.
If you put this line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide
then any user should be able to mount a cdrom file-system at /cdrom,
with
I'm still getting these 404 errors in response to `apt-get upgrade'
and `apt-get dist-upgrade':
Failed to fetch
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/debconf_0.2.80.15.deb
404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
| man apt-get says:
| An update should always be performed before an upgrade
| dist-upgrade.
I had done `apt-get update' before each attempted upgrade step.
A number of people have been having these problems (judging by the
list).
I just kept trying, and eventually it half-worked
| Given that the directory isn't being rotated, is contantly growing,
| neither keysmoop nor keysmoops returns any hits on Google, and
| that smoop looks suspiciously like snoop..
Forgive me; I mis-typed. The directory is actually `ksymoops' and it's
obviously not the result of a security
| One of the the required or standard or important packages in frozen
| (potato) recommends the ksymoops package. I avoided it for a long
| time, not feeling need for it, but since I like to = (hold)
| installed packages, and was even more annoyed by the suggestion
| coming up, I went ahead and
In upgrading from slink to frozen a couple of weeks ago, I seem to
have messed up my info system. This is too bad because it's the way I
like best to get at documentation.
I assume that the problems have to do with the shift to the /usr/share
directory structure. Under slink, all the info files
A day or two ago I took the plunge and upgraded to frozen. A few small
glitches, but they were easily dealt with and mostly I was very
pleased by how smooth and how straightforward the upgrade process
was. Thanks and praise to the developers.
I have one problem however.
I had three versions of
I have some people here pressing for an upgrade from slink to
frozen. Is this a reasonable time to attempt it? I haven't seen so
many reports of problems on the lists recently.
Thanks for any help,
Jim
| what would be the easiest way to transfer (alot) of files from my
| desktop computer to my laptop? They both run Debian. The laptop
| does not have a network card.
You can set up a PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) connection
between the two, connecting the two parallel ports by way of a
| I'm about ready to go out and buy a new computer. I'd really like
| to buy a system with Debian preinstalled. I called VA Linux, and
| even though they sell Debian, they won't sell me a computer with
| Debian on it. Penguin uses Red Hat as well.
You can order custom-built systems from
I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've
been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel
(custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS.
Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on
Saturday. Everything seemed fine to
I get exactly the same error from time.nist.gov, but:
debian# rdate ntp2.usno.navy.mil
Sat Jan 1 10:45:27 2000
works exactly as before.
Looks like it's a problem specific to the server time.nist.gov.
Jim
| Just installed emacs and opened rmail just to see it works. To my
| surprise, all my inbox messages are now gone into RMAIL and can
| only be read from emacs.
|
| Anyone know how I can get them back? I'll probably play about with
| RMAIL but I want it as just another imap client...not as one
| PS - do you know a URL on how to use rmail?
The on-line help (in Info) is good in this respect, I've found.
In Info (Ctl-h i), go first to Emacs and then search down for `Sending
Mail' and `Reading Mail with Rmail'.
The package Minfo provides a nice-looking and easily-navigable GUI for
Hello:
Does anyone know if there is a .deb available for Emacs 20.5 suitable
for slink?
I know that there was some discussion of including it in the current
stable release but I didn't see a definitive announcement and it
doesn't seem to be in the current 2.1r4.
It would be nice to have the
I'm reluctant to re-open what I know is an old discussion, but
... I've looked in the list archives, and I've searched on the web.
All I want is a simple spreadsheet program---very basic arithmetic
functions, the ability to save the worksheet as a PS file for
previewing and printing, and a
| Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ?
For good clear Debian-specific information, you can read Dale Scheetz'
book `The Debian Linux User's Guide' on-line at
www.linuxpress.com. Around p.170, I think.
Jim
Dear Philip:
I use GNU emacs rather than Xemacs, so I hope my answers won't be
misleading. I don't think they will
| Emacs' flyspell-mode has support for English, but I need spell
| checking for English, German, and French. Is this a built-in
| facility or is it accomplished by ispell as
Jocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have a strange problem I haven't seen before. When I type poff
| my machine hangs. ctrl-alt-del doesn't work ctrl-alt-[---] doesn't
| work. All I can do is pressing the button to reboot.
and John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded:
| Yes. You are using a
Dave Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| The debian homepage: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable talks
| about the new version of apt being available from netgot.net's home
| page. Clicking the link gives a 404 and searching through the site
| doesn't show it anywhere.
|
| Does anyone know
| Why can't I unsubscribe from this group with a message to
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| And I'm putting unsubscribe in the subject
One source of difficulty here is when people who are subscribed to
debian-user-*digest* try to unsubscribe from debian-user. Which is
impossible since strictly speaking
| I have a slow machine (486, with 16 Mb of RAM) and I'm trying to
| keep as faster as possible. Working in command line mode I've no
| problem, but in X ... So I'd like to know what's the better choice
| for a window manager on a system like mine. Now I'm using twm. Are
| fvwm2 or BlackBox
Hello everybody.
After several months of work, I've persuaded the IT support people at
work here to let me have a box on which I could install Debian myself
for office use. Until now, it's been a question of `Which do you want:
Mac or PC?' So this is something of a departure and an experiment.
Debian Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I am desperately trying to insert a z with caron (it looks like
| this:
| .
|
| Could someone tell me what packages I need and what I have to do
| then to insert this character into my emacs buffer?
It wasn't clear to me from your message
| When I upgraded pcmcia-cs package to 3.0.14, I found my pcmcia
| network card does not work. It seems the problem is not easy for me
| to solve because the error messages are complains about NULL
| pointers in the kernel and lots of CPU register error messages are
| dumped. Since network
| Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a
| dos-readable way?
You can use the mtools package. It provides a set of commands that
lets you read, write and manipulate files on an MSDOS system. Its most
typical use is to transfer files between a linux system and a
diskette.
| I recently upraded my motherboard and installed Slink where I was
| using Hamm before, so a number of things changed at once. But:
|
| I am attempting to run pilot-link stuff, as well as connect my UPS
| again (best power fortress). Both of these things worked with my
| old motherboard (A
| Is there a HOWTO on how to compile my own pcmcia modules? I have
| the source but I have never done this before. I will go into the
| source and see if I can find some docs there.
The PCMCIA HOWTO is very clear and complete about this. The latest
version is available in various formats at:
| ok, get hte package strace.
| send that to the debian list .
OK, this is in connection with my troubles in getting PCMCIA services
to work with Slink on my laptop (custom-compiled kernel 2.0.36), maybe
because of IRQ conflict.
Doing `setserial /dev/ttyS1' produces this on console and in
Hello.
I recently installed Slink on a 5-year old laptop that had remained
unused for some time. This was never a top-of-the-line model, and the
hardware at this point might not be the most trustworthy.
Nevertheless, the installation went smoothly. I compiled a custom
kernel (2.0.36), and that
| Ditto!
|
| It only happens when I telnet in from work. Thanks - I assume I
| don't need to worry about it.
I've had the problem even when running apt-get (0.3.7, compiled for
slink) from the console accessing a (partial) archive on the local
system. I don't think it was caused by faulty
Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| but the only time I find I _HAVE_ to use dselect is for something
| like replacing smail with exim-- I've never found a way to convince
| dpkg to do that for me.
No, but dselect isn't necessary for this, is it? Won't
`Apt-get install exim'
do it
Can anyone recommend a decent mpeg video viewer? Do any even exist?
I've had good results from mtv (aka `mpegtv'). There's a .deb package
available for free at http://www.mpegtv.com/
This is free for personal use, but it's nagware---if you elect not to
pay a $10 registration fee, you're
Hello. I have two questions that I would appreciate some advice on, if
anyone has time. I'm running slink with a 2.0.36 kernel.
[1] I'd like to try `gawk' instead of `mawk' (currently
installed). But `mawk' can't be removed by dpkg since basefiles
depends on it. Is apt smart enough to
| Hi debian users,
| I have three printers here:
| 1) Canon BJC-4100 Color
| 2) HP LaserJet IIP plus
| 3) Epson LX-300.
| Anyone here using anyone of these printers under Debian can help me?
I thought I had responded to your first post yesterday, but the message
seems to have
| I have efax-0.8a, and used it to send text and postscript files. I
| chose it because it's small.
I also use efax and have been extremely happy with it---small, easy to
use, and easy to configure.
It comes with a frontend script called `fax' (oddly enough) which
means that for, most
| So the question is:
| Is the map file that is mentioned in lilo.conf not the same file
| as the Syetm.map file, and am I supposed to place the System.map
| file in a special location without lilo's knowledge?
These are different files with different functions. The /boot/map file
is a file
I finally upgraded to slink, and everything seems fine; there were
only minor glitches in the upgrade---I had to install telnet and
telnetd manually, for instance. (Thanks to Jason Gunthorpe for advice
about using multiple CD's with the new apt.)
There's a new message when I boot, though:
| Can someone please tell me how to get removed from this mailing
| list. NOTE: Before you let the flames fly realize that I have
| tried all of the suggested ways to get removed, i.e. mail -s
| unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've also tried
| sending unsubscribe commands such as: unsubscribe
|
| 2) Use a null modem cable to connect to a desktop and piggy back
| ride on that systems CD-ROM.
|
| Q: I don't know if the Linux base system supports null modem
| connections. Anybody any idea?
|
| Yes, it does. I have just installed debian on a laptop which only
| has a floppy drive. I
There have been several posts on debian-user asking how to use apt-get
to upgrade from hamm to slink, now that the binaries no longer fit on
a single CD.
I've seen two answers so far on the list---both of them containing
very helpful suggestions, but very different from one another, and
both
| Netscape, in windows, in my experience, always had a tendency to
| make a system run progressively slower until either netscape was
| closed or everything crashed. I hadn't seen it under linux and
| thought it had gotten fixed, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe that's
| what you ran into, too?
Excuse me, but I have to do this in TeX, no LaTeX.
epsf.tex works in plain TeX, as far as I know. In the TeTeX
distribution, it's in /usr/lib/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex. It's
well documented there. Here are some excerpts from the file:
---
This file contains TeX macros to include
Hello.
| I have configured Exim. Only one thing does not work the way I want
| it to. When I send a message, my local username is filled in in
| the From: line instead of my username at my ISP
| ([EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
In the file /etc/exim.conf (at the very end of
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| X has the right permissions. But I thought of something else that
| might be causing the ploblem. To get X11 working (as root), I had
| to change XF86_VGA16 to XF86_S3. The book 'Running Linux' suggested
| to change the link /usr/bin/X11/X to
| 2.2.0 will be available in deb packages, Real Soon Now (tm),
| I'm sure. Since slink is now in 'frozen' status, the kernel will
| show up in potato, not slink, I think.
Thanks to the many people who responded to my earlier question about
things to watch for in compiling and installing
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