cardmgr on ThinkPad problem
I just updated Slink (apt-get update and upgrade) and cardmgr was upgraded. I lost networking on that machine and will probably have to reinstall Linux because I have no idea how to fix it when I need the network to upgrade anything on the laptop. :( Any ideas? (other than putting a hold on cardmgr next time) -- Andrew
Re: looking for a mail client
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 11:53:29PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote:
I'm looking for a mail client that has nested folders and good filters
for moving incoming messages to dedicated folders (reply-to
filter!). Another must is PGP support. SMTP and POP3 would be nice but
are not a necessity.
mutt certainly does the PGP (see below). Sorting messages into
folders is generally not the job of the mail client, but rather that of
something like procmail. These filtering programs can do pretty much
any sorting or other automatic manipulation of mail you desire. You can
probably do this filtering from within mutt too, but it's not the done
thing. mutt doesn't do SMTP and the POP support is quite weak and would
bypass any filters written externally.
Another program to look at is Gnus. It should support everything you
want, although PGP may be an add-on package. Run it as M-x gnus RET
from within any Emacs.
I've looked into mutt but it seems as if PGP support can only
automatically verify messages that have a mime part
application/pgp-signature. It cannot handle signatures that are (like
this one) embedded in the mail text (please correct me if I'm
wrong).
That's right, but the following procmail magic will perform the required
transformations to make it recognise messages like yours:
:0
* !^Content-Type: message/
* !^Content-Type: multipart/
* !^Content-Type: application/pgp
{
:0 fBw
* ^-BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-
* ^-END PGP MESSAGE-
| formail \
-i Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=encrypt
:0 fBw
* ^-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
* ^-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
* ^-END PGP SIGNATURE-
| formail \
-i Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign
}
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pgprrLLCTLKM9.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Re: Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink
*- On 8 Aug, Patrick Olson wrote about Re: Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink Maybe it was my imagination, but I think I had to change /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0 in my /etc/printcap after upgrading from a 2.0.x kernel to 2.2.1. I am still at a loss as to what caused this. From the Documentation/Changes file in the 2.2.x kernel tree: Parallel Ports == As of 2.1.33, parallel port support can now by handled by the parport driver. Be aware that with Plug-and-Play support turned on, your parallel port may no longer be where you expect it; for example, LPT1 (under DOS) was sometimes /dev/lp1 in Linux, but will probably be /dev/lp0 with the new Plug-and-Play driver. If printing breaks with the new driver, try checking your lpd configuration. A good source of more information is the Documentation/parport.txt file included with the kernel. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: VMware for Debian
*- On 8 Aug, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote about VMware for
Debian
Hi all,
I have a slink machine with 2.2.10 at home and tried to install
vmware to port a Delphi (argh) program to gtk.
I got the last vmware but installing it I get the following error:
### Something is wrong with the system include files on
### your machine! The file linux/version.h is for a
### 2.0.36 Linux system but you are running a 2.2.10
### kernel. This will not work for building the VMware device
### drivers; you must have include files that match the version
### of your operating system.
What is wrong?
Debian has a non standard method for the kernel headers in
/usr/includ/{linux,asm}. You need to either link these directories to
your actual kernel headers or you need to modify the Makefiles in the
driver-only.tar and vmnet-only.tar file in the vmware-distrib directory
to include your kernel headers. This has been discussed MANY times on
this list since April. Check the list archives at www.debian.org.
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Re: looking for a mail client
I'm certainly no expert on using mutt, but it does have mail filtering capabilities. See folder-hook for more info. As far as creating subdirectories, etc., mutt will store mail pretty much anywhere you want it to. So, under your ~/Mail directory, you could create a debian directory, and then have debian-user, debian-mentor, etc. as mail files. AFAIK, you can't have something like a mail file debian with subdirectories on it. Though, the difference should hardly be an issue. In my few days of using it, I have found that mutt definetely sucks less than many other mail clients. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: looking for a mail client
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 06:23:46PM -0700, Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: I'm certainly no expert on using mutt, but it does have mail filtering capabilities. See folder-hook for more info. No, it doesn't. folder-hook is used to apply settings only to one folder. For example, I have mutt set the reply-to properly whenever I'm reading a folder for a mailing list (like this one, check my headers). -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping. --Friedrich Nietzsche
New kernel problems
I'm using slink, and need to recompile the kernel. This is on a computer where LILO won't install, so I have to boot off a floppy. Ran 'make menuconfig', and double-checked that Second extended fs support was not compiled as a module. In the Makefile, I set : ROOT_DEV = /dev/hdb3 Ran make-kpkg kernel_image. I then executed: dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.6_1.00_i386.deb directing it to make a boot . I get this error on restart: VFS: Cannot open root device 03:43 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this. Any advice? --- This is what we do. This is who we are. Hail Eris! -- Kallisti -- All Hail Discordia!
Re: How set desktop/resolution for xwindows?
The resolutions your X server supports and will run with are set in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. In a normal configuration... To change resolutions on the fly, the three key command: CTRL-ALT-+ (AND YOU HAVE TO USE THE NUMBERPAD'S PLUS KEY) Will cycle through the resolutions set up in the above file. Hopefully this is what you were looking for? On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote: How do I set the resolution for xwindows applications? I know with win95 I just right click on the desktop and resize it. But with my debian installation my applications are too large for the screen and I have to scroll up, down, left, and right to see the rest of the screen -- what a pain! I've tried formatting and repartioning and reinstalling debian to see if I missed a step during installation and I can't figure what I setup incorrectly. Please help. Thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: looking for a mail client
I stand corrected. I was actually thinking of the mbox-hook, but that only processes messages /after/ they have been read. Seems procmail would be the ticket for filtering large volumes of mail. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: looking for a mail client
I use Netscape Messenger and IMAP instead of POP3 to talk to my mail server. This allows me to keep my mail on the server and sync up multiple machines -- whatever OS I'm running, whatever... there's usually a version of Netscape Messenger available for it. To get my mail delivered into folders, like mailing lists, etc... I use procmail. On the machine where the mail gets delivered, all mail goes through procmail and it sorts it and puts it into the correct folders, which are really just mail files. Then since IMAP understands that I'm subscribed to these different folders, I can access them from Netscape and the read-mail flags and whatnot stay synced up nicely from machine to machine. I don't know if this would help you get to what you want, as I've not played around to see what Netscape will do for PGP. In addition, if I need a quick check on mail, I can run pine or mutt or elm, or any other standard mail program that understands user home directory mailbox folders and check mail via ssh or dialup modem connection to a tty behind the firewall... works very nicely. I think many of these programs would do the PGP sigs properly with the appropriate add-on's -- there's a PGP signature add-on in a package for pine, and I know there are others on this mailing list that use mutt and elm that have their sigs added and incoming sigs checked for them also. I just wanted to suggest IMAP as a solution if you have multiple machines you check mail from... it makes management of large folders of mail very easy. Only thing I've run into that I don't like about Netscape Messenger is that there's a command in the windows version called Synchronize for off-line mail reading, and there's no equivalent in the Unix version. Annoying, but livable. On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there. I'm currently using netspace's messenger but it does not completly meet my needs. I'm looking for a mail client that has nested folders and good filters for moving incoming messages to dedicated folders (reply-to filter!). Another must is PGP support. SMTP and POP3 would be nice but are not a necessity. I've looked into mutt but it seems as if PGP support can only automatically verify messages that have a mime part application/pgp-signature. It cannot handle signatures that are (like this one) embedded in the mail text (please correct me if I'm wrong). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 Comment: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad iQCVAwUBN637Zr/AUNfRo6MpAQHWnwQAkp+XHrg6XPoOTngOyC6SVredxFYosnIU bIkBzyJr/Wh8jBgpBwX780NVH/dnJI1cCdt41uir8PQAe/xEb6IM2iZt5xXZmauC dUx8zWg5TAcsKQ3PA4t7qmD+gu+fyQO8Il1bKgB1Md9axS1ENS7p/qOxq2lzcWkF OkU5wsVE6q4= =Up+5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP encrypted messages prefered. See my site for my PGP key. -- The software said Windows95 or better, so I got Linux... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: cardmgr on ThinkPad problem
Upgraded slink to what? On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: I just updated Slink (apt-get update and upgrade) and cardmgr was upgraded. I lost networking on that machine and will probably have to reinstall Linux because I have no idea how to fix it when I need the network to upgrade anything on the laptop. :( Any ideas? (other than putting a hold on cardmgr next time) -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: looking for a mail client
Hi, Mutt is the best mail client I have ever seen. I will still recommand it to you. For your concern about the pgp as mime encrypted, please have a look at the file: /usr/doc/mutt/PGP-Notes.txt.gz There is a work around which may satisfy you. Shao. I've looked into mutt but it seems as if PGP support can only automatically verify messages that have a mime part application/pgp-signature. It cannot handle signatures that are (like this one) embedded in the mail text (please correct me if I'm wrong). -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: cardmgr on ThinkPad problem
You problably need to recompile pcmcia modules! I useually recompile pcmcia modules whenever I upgrade my kernel or pcmcia cardmgr. BTW, you can fit pcmcia source in a floppy. Chanop On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 11:07:42PM -, Pollywog wrote: I just updated Slink (apt-get update and upgrade) and cardmgr was upgraded. I lost networking on that machine and will probably have to reinstall Linux because I have no idea how to fix it when I need the network to upgrade anything on the laptop. :( Any ideas? (other than putting a hold on cardmgr next time) -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301
Re: looking for a mail client
Hi,
This is for receiving messages right??
What if I want to send the pgp sigs in the old style rather than
as mime encrypted??
Most of the mail client does not yet understand mime encrypted
PGP signatures, and it will cause a lot trouble for those people
who receive such a message.
Thanks.
Shao.
Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's right, but the following procmail magic will perform the required
transformations to make it recognise messages like yours:
:0
* !^Content-Type: message/
* !^Content-Type: multipart/
* !^Content-Type: application/pgp
{
:0 fBw
* ^-BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-
* ^-END PGP MESSAGE-
| formail \
-i Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=encrypt
:0 fBw
* ^-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
* ^-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
* ^-END PGP SIGNATURE-
| formail \
-i Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign
}
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Re: Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink
Brian Servis wrote: From the Documentation/Changes file in the 2.2.x kernel tree: Parallel Ports == As of 2.1.33, parallel port support can now by handled by the parport driver. Be aware that with Plug-and-Play support turned on, your parallel port may no longer be where you expect it; for example, LPT1 (under DOS) was sometimes /dev/lp1 in Linux, but will probably be /dev/lp0 with the new Plug-and-Play driver. If printing breaks with the new driver, try checking your lpd configuration. A good source of more information is the Documentation/parport.txt file included with the kernel. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis - Thanks to everyone who replied. I had always wondered why the parallel ports started at 1--it's good to see that they've made it consistent with numbering of other device types. - Kris
Re: cardmgr on ThinkPad problem
On 09-Aug-99 Nathan Duehr wrote: Upgraded slink to what? No, I had slink installed and all I did was run 'apt-get update' and then apt-get upgrade and five packages were upgraded. Disaster followed. I will probably need to reinstall. -- Andrew
Netscape died on me.
Hi, I did a dselect upgrade on my potato box today. I saw that some Netscape base stuff got upgraded. After that my NS 4.61 static motif wouldn't run anymore. I tried to uninstall and reinstall, but no go. What happens when I try to run NS is: /usr/lib/netscape/base/uri_escape: No such file or directory /usr/lib/netscape/461/navigator/navigator-smotif.real: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/build-tree/plugger-3.0/plugger.so: undefined symbol: flose How do I get Netscape back? TIA -- o - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: cardmgr on ThinkPad problem
On 09-Aug-99 Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: You problably need to recompile pcmcia modules! I useually recompile pcmcia modules whenever I upgrade my kernel or pcmcia cardmgr. BTW, you can fit pcmcia source in a floppy. I suspected that and I am recompiling the kernel now. I will have to find those modules and put them on a floppy, otherwise, I smell a reinstall. thanks -- Andrew
Re: new logo on debian.org
John C. Ellingboe wrote: Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: John C. Ellingboe wrote: I'm with you also. The chick connected us with Linux but the new logo doesnt do anything for me at all. John C. Ellingboe don't you never see a Genius going out from it's lantern ? like Aladin's story -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I kinda understand the logo. The new logo is ok I guess, but it doesn't seem to connect me to anything Linux like the chick did. John Debian is arguably the best linux (and other OS) distribution out there, but in my humble opinion it's new logo isn't. Give me 'ole blue eye' any day. John -- Powered by the Penguin
Re: Netscape died on me.
Did you try first purging all of the netscape stuff and then reinstalling? It's not an elegant solution but it may work. I've pretty much stuck with the 4.08 version for some time because it's given me few problems (though this apparently isn't universal). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:29:59AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: * shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shaul tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or directory I missed this in the shaul's message at first, and nuked the orig. message, so I don't have the context. Sorry. Actually, the problem that he has here is that xof were the options specified on his commandline. In effect, he was trying to extract a V7 tar archive from the file usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright. If this filespec is present on the system, I doubt that it's a tarfile. :) You'll probably get better results using xO and then the filename in the tar archive for the copyright file. (This is, of course, presuming that your tar is compiled with stdin/stdout as the default device.) -- Bryon Roche, Kain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Easy way to install potato?
Hi, I'd like to do a fresh install of potato? What's the easiest way to do that? I'm thinking of installing the base slink stuff, and then using apt to update upgrade after pointing sources.list to the potato stuff? Is this right? Thanks, -f-
Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
Okay, I found out that the latest 2.3 kernels have preliminary ATA/66 support, and I'm willing to give it a shot. Now I'd like someone to help me make my own custom bootdisk... should I just download the source, compile the kernel locally, and copy the image over to a standard Debian slink bootdisk? And, if so, how do do I make the new kernel NOT install itself on my hard drive? (I will copy /boot and vmlinuz first, of course, but i'd like it if i could configure it to install straght to the bootdisk, of course...) Any tips from anyone? Colin McMillen Alec Smith wrote: My guess is that she's got one of the Promise Ultra ATA/66 controllers which the kernel (2.0.36) on the boot disks has no clue about. Currently Ultra ATA/66 support is under development, so I'd expect it very soon in 2.2/2.3 kernel versions. As a work-around, you may try connecting her HD to the motherboard EIDE controller, then enabling the drive in the BIOS. Be sure to use a standard IDE cable as the Ultra ATA/66 wire is a different design. It is my understanding that you can plug an ATA/66 drive into an ATA/33 socket (motherboard) with no side effects other than the drive acting a little slower. Alec -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 2 hours, 0 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org)
Re: Easy way to install potato?
On Sun, 08 Aug 1999, Francis J. Bruening wrote: | Hi, | | I'd like to do a fresh install of potato? What's the easiest way to do that? | | I'm thinking of installing the base slink stuff, and then using apt to | update upgrade after pointing sources.list to the potato stuff? | Yup. I'd install the bare minimum, and then go right to installing potato packages.
Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!
Karl J Klug wrote: I think this is the drive that was in the Thinkpad we installed Linux on. We used 1825/240/63 for the parameters. I tried, but not matter what I entered, it kept seeing 1024/240/63. As a test of sorts, I tried to install FreeBSD and it came off without a hitch. What could possibly be going wrong here? Thanks in advance. - d.
Re: Easy way to install potato?
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 09:04:54PM -0700, Francis J. Bruening wrote: Hi, I'd like to do a fresh install of potato? What's the easiest way to do that? I'm thinking of installing the base slink stuff, and then using apt to update upgrade after pointing sources.list to the potato stuff? Is this right? Do a dist-upgrade instead of just an upgrade. You may have some problems with perl5.005 (or possibly not). Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: looking for a mail client
Hi, Somebody has already posted a solution to convert all the incoming mails with pgp signatures to the old style when displaying in mutt. Here is a solution if you want to send the message with pgp signatures in the old style so people can view it in pine with no trouble. Put the following line in your ~/.muttrc(assuming you are using pgp) macro compose S Fpgp +verbose=0 -fast +clearsig=on\ny^T^Uapplication/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign\n or macro compose S Fpgp +verbose=0 -fast +clearsig=on\ny^T^Utext/plain; format=text; x-action=sign\n Hope this helps. Shao. I've looked into mutt but it seems as if PGP support can only automatically verify messages that have a mime part application/pgp-signature. It cannot handle signatures that are (like this one) embedded in the mail text (please correct me if I'm wrong). -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
X windows (linux) video screen corruption
My Linux pc now boots and tries to startx immediately. I believe it is attempting to 'probe' my video card and when it does this it corrupts the video screen. It also aborts starting x leaving the screen corrupted. I can see from key presses that it's dropped to the console, but I still cannot make out the characters on the screen. 1) How can I keep the system from (starting x)? (boot disk maybe?) 2) Why is this probing of the ramdac causing my screen corruption (I'm using an ati vgawonder video card)? I've spent all the time I can on it right now, but I'm hoping some can suggest some things that I can do to get my system going again! By the way, I've only gotten this far due to this mailing list! I'm learning a lot from the just reading the mail and special thanks to those who have responded to my e-mails (pleas of help). I don't get respond immediately unfortunately so thanks for your help! Shawn Shaleh Perry (responded to x windows question) Brandon Robinson (responded to x windows question) Gareth (responded to zip disk question) Brian Zervis (responded to zip disk question) Bren Cranston (responded to zip disk question) Nate (responded to zip disk question) Mark Wright (responded to zip disk question) Jeff Beley (responded to zip disk question) David Wright (responded to zip disk/insmod question) The
Re: X windows (linux) video screen corruption
Remove package XDM -Original Message- From: Wendell Buckner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users Group debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, 9 August 1999 14:52 Subject: X windows (linux) video screen corruption My Linux pc now boots and tries to startx immediately. I believe it is attempting to 'probe' my video card and when it does this it corrupts the video screen. It also aborts starting x leaving the screen corrupted. I can see from key presses that it's dropped to the console, but I still cannot make out the characters on the screen. 1) How can I keep the system from (starting x)? (boot disk maybe?) 2) Why is this probing of the ramdac causing my screen corruption (I'm using an ati vgawonder video card)? I've spent all the time I can on it right now, but I'm hoping some can suggest some things that I can do to get my system going again! By the way, I've only gotten this far due to this mailing list! I'm learning a lot from the just reading the mail and special thanks to those who have responded to my e-mails (pleas of help). I don't get respond immediately unfortunately so thanks for your help! Shawn Shaleh Perry (responded to x windows question) Brandon Robinson (responded to x windows question) Gareth (responded to zip disk question) Brian Zervis (responded to zip disk question) Bren Cranston (responded to zip disk question) Nate (responded to zip disk question) Mark Wright (responded to zip disk question) Jeff Beley (responded to zip disk question) David Wright (responded to zip disk/insmod question) The
Help!: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness.+Packard Hell
Hi! i have the same problem! It seems to me, there is no jumper, that disables the my onboard(Anchorage PB790, Packard Bell XLE 1423) video(ATI Rage II+ (Direct)(Draw)), but 2 Mb is too few! PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 (4A3NT0X0.11A.003.P06.9709) let me disable PCI(onboard) graphics card for ISA: Advanced Video Configuration Palette Snooping: Disabled/Enabled PCI devices may need to know if an ISA graphics device in the system in oder to enable that card to function correctly. If you are using an ISA graphics card, you may need to set this value to Enabled Must i using ISA graphics card? Help! 2Mb is too few! Kotya Nathan Duehr schrieb: Is there a jumper on the motherboard (besides the BIOS setting) that physically disables the onboard video when you're not using it? On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi all, Let me tell you about strange happenings on my computer. Any suggestions/ideas would be most appreciated, though could you please cc a copy to me directly as I am currently reading the list on the web which usually has a day or two delay. I currently use a PCI graphics card on my computer, even though my motherboard has a built in graphics card. The reason for this is that X did not support the onboard chipset. This has changed however --- I believe it is now supported. I decided to bite the bullet and get my onboard card working. Let me tell you my strange and twisted story. 0. I should first mention that I have just done a very minimal upgrade to a few potato packages - basically just enough to get the latest apt working, as well as the XFree86 version 3.3.4 packages to install. This could possibly be relevant --- potato being unstable and all. 1. Having downloaded the latest XFree86 (version 3.3.4), I tried it on my existing setup (with my PCI graphics card) and it seemed to work fine. 2. I rebooted, got into BIOS setup, and tried to turn on my onboard graphics card. I found the BIOS option to do this, but the option was shadowed --- so that I was unable to change it from disabled to enabled. This was strange because the onboard card was turned on when I first got the new motherboard and I had been able to turn it off. I figured I needed to change some other option before it would allow me to turn the graphics card on. I fiddled with all sorts of things, but nothing would let me do it. 3. I tried physically removing the PCI graphics card, in the hope that then it would be forced to use the onboard card, but when I turned it on, it just beeped wildly at me. 4. One action of the BIOS setup menu is to choose optimal settings, I tried this to see what it would do, and it actually turned the onboard graphics card setting to enabled, though it was still in shadow so that I couldn't ajust this or any of the associated settings (such as how much memory to give the onboard card). I didn't actually keep these settings on exiting BIOS setup, for fear of nasty things happening, like neither graphics card working. 5. I gave up on changing graphics cards for the time being, so returned my PCI graphics card, and rebooted. I went to start up X and the screen went black. I tried changing back to a console and though at first it didn't work, eventually it did go back to console mode. I then switched back to X. This time the background and cursor came up properly, but the mouse wouldn't move. No response. I tried going back to consoles, but this time it wouldn't work. I tried kiling X through Ctr-Alt-Backspace but this didn't work, something did happen (see aside below), but X didn't die and the screen remained unchanged. Eventually I had to turn the machine off and on to get back. Aside: in the past (with this motherboard) when I have tried to exit X via Ctr-Alt-Backspace, something weird has happened. The harddrives have suddenly shutdown, then a few seconds later they start powering up again. It's a bit worrying and I don't know why it happens. I usually avoid this problem by getting out via a menu. Anyway, this time when I pressed Ctr-Alt-Backspace the disks powered down as has happened previously, but the was no exiting X! In fact when I did it a second time, the powering down happened again -- and still no change on the screen. So that's where I am now. X doesn't work anymore and I don't know why. Was it something to do with me fiddling with BIOS, or pulling the card out and back in again? Or was it something to do with the new XFree86 (3.3.4) that only showed up after a reboot? Or is the hardware playing up? Or is it something to do with moving to some potato packages? Or what? And why can't I select the onboard graphics card??? Are the BIOS options faulty? Or do I need to turn something else on/off before it works? Or is the graphics card hardware onboard dead or something? Or what? If any ideas spring to
Re: Netscape died on me.
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I did a dselect upgrade on my potato box today. I saw that some Netscape base stuff got upgraded. After that my NS 4.61 static motif wouldn't run anymore. I tried to uninstall and reinstall, but no go. What happens when I try to run NS is: /usr/lib/netscape/base/uri_escape: No such file or directory /usr/lib/netscape/461/navigator/navigator-smotif.real: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/build-tree/plugger-3.0/plugger.so: undefined symbol: flose How do I get Netscape back? TIA The only NS related file that was upgraded recently was either netscape-base-4 or netscape-base-461 I'm not sure which. Hmm, I just looked at /usr/lib/netscape/*. There is no 'base' subdir there, but there is a 'base-4' subdir with the uri_escape file. I suspect a possibly broken netscape-base-4 package, perhaps? I'm using communicator, not naviagator, so thats why I'm not having the same problem you are. Hmmm, I just looked at the netscape wrapper script. It makes a reference for uri_escape to 'base' not 'base-4', but I don't have a 'base' dir there. I'll bet that on my sys, uri_escape is never used for some reason (communicator, not navigator, remember), so its not failing on me, but this looks like a problem with netscape-base-4. Try changing the references to uri_escape in the wrapper script to 'base-4' and see if that helps (Perhaps just a symlink of 'base' to 'base-4'?). Just a thought. -- Ed C.
Abou ps and top.
I installed the potato last week. Today I found that I could not use ps and top command. I may find some command which I will not use. What is wrong with it? Do you think that I forgot to install some important package? --- T Suzuki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Abou ps and top.
Takanori Suzuki wrote: I installed the potato last week. Today I found that I could not use ps and top command. I may find some command which I will not use. What is wrong with it? Do you think that I forgot to install some important package? 02:29am ~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/top procps: /usr/bin/top 02:29am ~$ dpkg -S /bin/ps procps: /bin/ps Make sure procps package is installed. -- Ed C.
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I need a tool to format my hard drive into vfat under linux. Superformat
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On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:01:52AM -0700, Gregory Vandenbrouck wrote:
I need a tool to format my hard drive into vfat under linux. Superformat
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for exists ?
Format for FAT or VFAT ist the same. It's mkdosfs and it's in the dosfstools
package.
apt-get install dosfstools
If it's not VFAT what you are after, but FAT32 then read the manpage and use
the -F 32 option.
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Re: most: cannot display *.gz files
Hi, I tried this now and did get the same error with gzipped files: $ most /usr/doc/lyx/README.gz /usr/doc/lyx/README.gz: failed to open for reading. I had version 4.8.1-0.1 of most. I upgraded most to 4.9.0-1.1 and now everything works again. Thanks for trying and posting the results! I'll try installing the unstable version of most, then ... I still use less though... Does less decompress gz-files on-the-fly, too? Greets, Matt
Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!
My BIOS won't tell me what C/H/S settings are being used, just size in MB, but I caught the C/H/S settings from the boot kernel (1024/240/63). However, I also found the data sheet for my hard drive, and although I'm not sure how to decipher it, I'm pretty sure the boot kernel C/H/S settings were incorrect. Here is the URL for the data sheet... I guess you're using a motherboard with a not-so-recent BIOS (like mine, which is from 1997) and a 2.0.x kernel. Please see the Large Disk Mini HOWTO on details concerning your problem. I've had to deal with the same issue, and I've installed a 2.2.x kernel solve it, as suggested in the HOWTO: As just mentioned, large disks return the geometry C=16383, H=16, S=63 independent of the actual size, while the actual size is returned in the value of LBAcapacity. Some BIOSes do not recognize this, and translate this 16383/16/63 into something with fewer cylinders and more heads, for example 1024/255/63 or 1027/255/63. So, the kernel must not only recognize the single geometry 16383/16/63, but also all BIOS-mangled versions of it. Since 2.2.2 this is done correctly (by taking the BIOS idea of H and S, and computing C = capacity/(H*S)). Usually this problem is solved by setting the disk to Normal in the BIOS setup (or, even better, to None, not mentioning it at all to the BIOS). If that is impossible because you have to boot from it or use it also with DOS/Windows, and upgrading to 2.2.2 or later is not an option, use kernel boot parameters. P.S. How do I specify C/H/S to the kernel? All my attemps yielded something like kernel not found at C/H or other. Thanks in advance! You could try setting these parameters (see the Large Disk and / or the Boot Prompt HOWTO), but I have tried, too, and failed miserably. I had to re-format the drive a couple of times in the process ...). :-/ If you have thought about updating your system in order to run a 2.2.x kernel, this might just be the time to do it. HTH, Matt
ppp difficulties
I've installed potato on my machine at home. The initial install was done with the base disks, then the rest of the packages were put on the machine using an ethernet card and a mirror of the unstable tree from a friends machine. I made a complete mirror on my machine using lftp, then removed the ethernet card, took the machine home and tried to set up ppp connections to my two providers. This is where the problems came. pon won't do anything. More correctly, it starts a chat session, which doesn't manage to get anything through to the modem. chat just sits there sending ATZ and waiting for an OK. Doing it by hand doesn't work either. cu had terrible trouble getting to the modem, complaining about it being in use by another process, and denying permission even to root. There are no lock files mentioning /dev/ttyS? in /var/lock or /var/run. I decided to force the issue and chomd a+rxw /dev/ttyS1 this allows cu to run, and I can get a connection to the provided which allows terminal access. When I try to start ppp on a connection obtained through cu (which I have done successfully before), pppd complains that the cu process owns /dev/ttyS1 and won't allow a connection Ideas anyone? Robert King, Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Australia 3875 6677 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/robertk/ This library is open one hour each fortnight. No book shall leave these premises. We have sworn it with an oath! -- Library of King Ashurbanipal, Babylon, ca. 3000 BC.
Re: cardmgr on ThinkPad problem
Get packgae pcmcia-cs-source or get pcmcia source from linux pcmcia homepage. your kernel problably load pcmcia modules that are compiled for other version if you have modules version enable in yoou kernel! To be safe, recompile with your new kernel and new pcmcia card manager. Chanop On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 03:14:19AM -, Pollywog wrote: On 09-Aug-99 Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: You problably need to recompile pcmcia modules! I useually recompile pcmcia modules whenever I upgrade my kernel or pcmcia cardmgr. BTW, you can fit pcmcia source in a floppy. I suspected that and I am recompiling the kernel now. I will have to find those modules and put them on a floppy, otherwise, I smell a reinstall. thanks -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301
Linux Kernel 2.2.10
I have just downloaded and installed the image and headers for the 2.2.10 kernel, and I am now getting the following error on boot SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument Does anyone know what the program is? Regards Graham
Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!
Matthias Murra wrote: I guess you're using a motherboard with a not-so-recent BIOS (like mine, which is from 1997) and a 2.0.x kernel. My BIOS is dated 6/8/99 and the Official CD, which I am trying to install from, uses a 2.0.36 kernel. Please see the Large Disk Mini HOWTO on details concerning your problem. I've had to deal with the same issue, and I've installed a 2.2.x kernel solve it, as suggested in the HOWTO: I've read the HOWTO, but installing a 2.2.x kernel is not an option yet since I haven't been able to install Debian yet. Should I install a 2.2.x-based distribution and _then_ install Debian over it? How soon 'til a 2.2.x-based Debian? If you have thought about updating your system in order to run a 2.2.x kernel, this might just be the time to do it. All in due time, I assure you. Thanks anyway! - d.
Re: Linux Kernel 2.2.10
Hi Graham, On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 08:48:51AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just downloaded and installed the image and headers for the 2.2.10 kernel, and I am now getting the following error on boot SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument Does anyone know what the program is? did you by chance upgrade from a 2.0.x kernel? If so you need to know that the networking code in the 2.2.x kernels has changed. You do not need to explicitly use the route command - the kernel will do this for you. Call to route and friends usually result in the errormessage you mentioned. Check /etc/init.d/network and comment out the route commands, this should do the trick. I am not sure if you need the gateway setting in this file either. Have fun. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works. ***
Re: Physically small boxes
Can one install Debian on a Cobalt Qube ? If not, are there other physically small boxes which would be suitable ? Hiya, The Prob of the colbalt qube is that the kernel they use is so hacked to bits that you can hardly upgrade it. Installing debian on it is quite simple just do not try to update the kernel. We have als tried to install debian on the netwinder and that works quite well. -- Geordy Korte --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ 14458242 http://www.nai.nu | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key |--
Re: Weird trouble
I have a Cable Modem and I allow certain people to Dial in to my box to get net access, since 5 days ago they have not been able to get in some windows message like the host has diconected you! Well I am happy to say I DID NOT TOUCH A THING in a long time its been running like a champ! I dont even use that machine its just a server! Any ideas All help appreciated What do the log files tell you ??? /var/log/daemon /var/log/message /var/log/debug (if you have PPPD debug on) -- Geordy Korte --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ 14458242 http://www.nai.nu | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key |--
Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!
My BIOS is dated 6/8/99 and the Official CD, which I am trying to install from, uses a 2.0.36 kernel. Your BIOS shouldn't be a problem then. Have you checked the BIOS settings? I've read the HOWTO, but installing a 2.2.x kernel is not an option yet since I haven't been able to install Debian yet. How come? I simply created a partition that would hold the basic Debian slink system on the 8.4 GB drive that cfdisk detected in conjunction with the 2.0.x kernel, when what in fact I had was a 10 GB drive. Make this partition as large as you would make, say, your /usr partition. Install Debian on that partition, update the packages necessary for running a 2.2.x kernel (see the Debian website), and then create partitions on the full drive that cfdisk now (hopefully) sees. After getting the 2.2.x kernel to run and having cfdisk see the entire disk, I created a small 150 MB partition for /, and copied everything but /usr to the newly created partition. You may choose to create additional partitions for /home, /usr/lib, /var etc. After you create the appropriate mount points on this new 150 MB root partition (i. e., the partition that is mounted on /) for the /usr partition (and others, if created), and move the files in those partitions up one (or more) level(s) -- so that you don't have /usr/usr/... after mounting the drive that previously held your entire Debian system, including /usr/..., on /usr --, and adapt /etc/fstab to the new layout, everything should be working fine. (Please be careful during this process, or you will find yourself in a complete mess. If the instuctions above were a bit brief, e-mail me for an attempt at clarifying them. As usual, no warranties given. :-) Should I install a 2.2.x-based distribution and _then_ install Debian over it? I have never tried this -- I'm pretty new to Debian myself, having switched from SuSE (and haven't looked back since!) -- and to me, it sounds like asking for serious trouble. How soon 'til a 2.2.x-based Debian? I have no idea, but someone on this list mentioned not long ago that the number of release-critical bugs would have to drop quite a bit before anyone would think about releasing potato as the new stable dist. Greets, Matt
Re: Bug#42675: Debian install problem on new machine
This would be much better asked on debian-user (bigger audience), so I'm forwarding it there for you. Julian I have just taken delivery of a shiny new Gateway PIII machine on which I am trying to install Debian. I have done many debian installs before, so I am not a raw novice. For some reason on this machine it gets part way through booting from the Debain 2.1 (slink) rescue floppy when it just stops soon after detecting the ide HDs. ie The last few boot lines are: hda: WDC blah blah blah... hdc: IOMEGA ZIP blah blah blah.. hdd: CRD-8400B, blah blah blah ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0f3f6 on irg 14 Looking at the boot log of my other (old) machine it then should probably go off and do something like: FDC 0 is a blah blah md driver 0.blah blah and so on. I have tried following the Debian tips of removing plug and play cards but with no luck. I even tried the safe rescue floppy, then tried a Debian 2.0 bootable CD but still got stuck in the same place. I then tried the Redhat 6 boot floppy and it started up fine making it past the Debian sticking point with no trouble. Any ideas? Machine vitals: Gateway GP7-450 PentiumIII 450 128MB RAM SCSI card (for tape drive only) Adaptec AHA-2940 (removing this didn't help boot) 8.4 GB ATA HD ATAPI CD-ROM 3Com Etherlink 10/100 PCI ethernet card ATI Rage 128 16MB 2X 3-D AGP Graphics Accelerator (Don't know if X is going to like this?) SoundBlaster Audio PCI 64D Soundcard (removing this didn't help either) PS/2 KB mouse - Dr Richard WraithIT Manager Trinity College Parkville Melbourne Australia tel: +61-3-9349 0112mobile: 0417 361 093 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +61-3-9347 1610
Bug#42675: Info received (was Bug#42675: Debian install problem on new machine)
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Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!
Matthias Murra wrote: Your BIOS shouldn't be a problem then. Have you checked the BIOS settings? Yeah, all the settings are Linux-friendly. How come? I simply created a partition that would hold the basic Debian slink system on the 8.4 GB drive that cfdisk detected in conjunction with the 2.0.x kernel, when what in fact I had was a 10 GB drive. Certainly an option, but I was holding out for a more out-of-the-box solution. The only thing I'm confused by is: After you create the appropriate mount points on this new 150 MB root partition (i. e., the partition that is mounted on /) for the /usr partition (and others, if created), and move the files in those partitions up one (or more) level(s) -- so that you don't have /usr/usr/... after mounting the drive that previously held your entire Debian system, including /usr/..., on /usr --, and adapt /etc/fstab to the new layout, everything should be working fine. What exactly do you mean by create the appropriate mount points ? I have never tried this -- I'm pretty new to Debian myself, having switched from SuSE (and haven't looked back since!) -- and to me, it sounds like asking for serious trouble. Yeah, not a great idea, but it was the only one I had up until you replied. Second to just installing a different distribution. Thanks again! - d.
Unable to open an initial console
Unable to boot. Upon boot-up machine stops and hangs and displays the subject error message. Have been running all unstable for years with no problems. Am currently running all potato. Problem may have occured upon nightly ftp update of potato. Don't know how to recover from this problem. Is it recoverable or must I shudder! completely reinstall? All help sincerely appreciated. Best regards, Victor
itserv config
Howdy, when I sent a message to this list, asking how can I set up a Win gateway someone mentioned itserv. I downloaded it, and set up on my Win98r2. But I found no documentation about setting up Linux clients. If someone has ever used this utility, please let me know how can I configure my Linux box! Note that I am quite a newbie (using Linux since march :), so if someone could explain what do I need, how to set up, etc, that would be a GREAT help. Thanks, Algernon NG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
itserv config (2)
Sorry for mailing again, but I forgot to mention, that I am subscribed to digest, but the thing is too important to me to wait the next issue, so if anyone who would reply to my message, please CC it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Algernon NG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound module problems
Hi all, I'm running 2.2.10 here, and am having a few problems with sound - whenever a program tries to access the sound device, logs show this error: Aug 9 11:00:10 aardvark modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-0 Aug 9 11:00:10 aardvark modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-0-3 I don't have either module compiled, nor can I see any mention of where they should come from. lsmod shows this afterwards: aardvark# lsmod Module Size Used by soundcore 2372 0 (autoclean) (unused) modprobe -a opl3sa2 works fine, however. Do I need to add aliases for sound-slot-0 and sound-service-0-3 or what? Thanks, Matthew
Debian support for PAP
Any recommended dialers for Debian which supports PAP? regards, = = Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = = == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 = == = = = = E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] = WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Re: Esound and vmware
Hi! thanks for your replies! It works now. I've used ESD with VMWare fine. What are the permissions on /dev/dsp? What user is running VMWare? What user started esd? Perm: 666 same user for all But here was my mistake: if you start esound with # esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 it should let other program access to /dev/dsp I was running esound 2.6. I upgraded to 2.10 and now it works! Thanks again, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Many people easily confuse innovation with the latest influenza epidemia from Redmond.
where is libpam.so.0?
debs, the error message i get when i try to rum pon is that libpam.so.0 is needed. how do i get this file? ia,t. bentley taylor. //
Re: Perl without DB and NDBM
On Friday 6 August 1999, at 15 h 9, the keyboard of Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm needing a perl binary w/o -ldb and -lndbm in order to run Sybperl. In short: don't. In long: there is no reason to use Sybperl: - it duplicates the Perl setup and libraries (making installing a new Perl module a pain), - it does not have a standard API, meaning that you'll have to rewrite everything if you switch to another DBMS, like PostgreSQL. Use DBI and forget Sybperl. (I query a Sybase database from my Debian machine.)
Re: where is libpam.so.0?
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 05:14:53AM -0700, pplaw wrote: debs, the error message i get when i try to rum pon is that libpam.so.0 is needed. how do i get this file? Hi, $ dpkg -S libpam.so.0 libpam0g: /lib/libpam.so.0 libpam0g: /lib/libpam.so.0.66 Install libpam0g. Mirek
Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!
How come? I simply created a partition that would hold the basic Debian slink system on the 8.4 GB drive that cfdisk detected in conjunction with the 2.0.x kernel, when what in fact I had was a 10 GB drive. Certainly an option, but I was holding out for a more out-of-the-box solution. Not with the current state of potato. ;-) What exactly do you mean by create the appropriate mount points ? Okay, here's the situation: You have created one partition (which I will refer to as P1) of, say, 500 MB, that you use for initially installing the Debian slink system and which you intend to use as /usr/lib later on. After you have installed slink and upgraded the required packages from unstable to be able to run kernel 2.2.x, everything is stored on this 500 MB partition (P1). After cfdisk recognizes your entire hard disk, let's say you decide to create a 150 MB partition (P2) that you want to use a your root partition (/), a 800 MB partition (P3) that shall become /usr, and another 2 GB partition for the home directories of the users on your local network, which shall consequently become /home (P4). (Let's assume you initially created two users foo and bar, so that /home/foo and /home/bar exist.) This partition scheme might not exhaust your hard disk space (especially if Linux is all you install on that drive), but you might want to leave some space unpartitioned anyway. The great thing about the UNIX file system is that you can decide to make a separate partition for any part of the file tree later, move the stuff below a certain directory on that partition and mount it, thereby reducing the load on the partition that initially carried these dirs and files and which had become so clogged up. :-) Now, you change (cd) to / on P1 and move everything except /usr and /home to P2. (See the mv man page on how to do this in one go, I can't quite recall from memory, I'm afraid). Then you cd to /home and move the contents of this directory to P4. Then cd to /usr and move everything except /usr/lib to P3. Then cd to /usr/lib and move everything to the root directoy of the current partition (P1). Remove /home and /usr (including subdirs) from P1. If I haven't forgotten anything :-), you should now have: - P1 containing all dirs and files that initially resided under /usr/lib. - P2 containing all dirs and files except for the contents of /usr and /home. - P3 containing all dirs and files that were located under /usr, except for /usr/lib. - P4 containing /foo and /bar, the home directories of the users foo and bar. Coming back to your question: You do lack mount points on P2 for the data on P1, P3 and P4. So create (mkdir) /usr, /usr/lib and /home on P2, otherwise you cannot mount the contents of these partitions at the appropriate level in the directory hierarchy. Don't forget to edit /etc/fstab to reflect your changes before you reboot! See the existing /etc/fstab for examples. (If you use lilo, this applies to the lilo configuration file as well. Rerun lilo after editing the latter.) Hope this has helped to make my point a bit clearer. :-) Cheers, Matt
Re: Debian support for PAP
On 9 Aug, A. M. Varon wrote: Any recommended dialers for Debian which supports PAP? regards, = = Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = = == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 = == = = = = E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] = WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I have used X-ISP a lot. It is easy to set up, supports PAP and multiple ISP's. -- o - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: looking for a mail client
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 07:18:25PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: I stand corrected. I was actually thinking of the mbox-hook, but that only processes messages /after/ they have been read. Seems procmail would be the ticket for filtering large volumes of mail. procmail also offers the following advantage: since it processes each message as it comes in, everything's ready when I sit down and type mutt (or pine, or whatever). In contrast, it's not much fun to watch my mailreader choke on a couple thousand messages if I've been away for a few days. -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
Re: Debian support for PAP
A. M. Varon writes: Any recommended dialers for Debian which supports PAP? Run pppconfig and then use pon and poff to start and stop ppp. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: gnome-apt
Update doesn't work either. In short words: apt-get works perfectly but nothing works with gnome-apt :( To be honest I have no clue at all. I haven't rebuilt from scratch with the latest libapt-pkg in a while, so I'll try that today and if I have a revelation will let you know. Well... unfortunately I must tell you that from some time to now I've been having just the same problem with gnome-apt... It does the whole dowload of the ¨.deb¨s, and then just beeps and goes back to the initial window... It seems to be a small problem that was introduced from 2-3 weeks to now, I'd say... The solution I use is to empty the /var/cache/apt/archives dir, then run gnome-apt and then,, after the download is done, cd /var/cacge/apt/archives and do a dpkg -i *.deb... Just a workaround, but works... Also, a qustion... couldn't gnome-apt (and apt-get) be set to resume downloading automatically until the doanload is finished (like wget does?) Guilherme Zahn
Re: New kernel problems
Daniel Lesage wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device 03:43 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this. Any advice? I usually see this error when IDE support has not been compiled in the kernel. So I'd make sure that in the Block Devices section you have 'Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support' 'Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support' set to yes. Hope this helps -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them?
Re: New kernel problems
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:43 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this. Any advice? I usually see this error when IDE support has not been compiled in the kernel. So I'd make sure that in the Block Devices section you have 'Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support' 'Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support' set to yes. Nope... it as long as I can read the signs, the IDE device was found, so the problem seems to be that the e2sf (second extended file system) was either left aside or created as a module during the krenel creation... Run make menuconfig again and check this out in the ¨filesystems¨ part... the second extended filesystem MUST be created as part of the kernel (otherwise, how would the kernel open the e2fs filesystem to read the modules? ;-) Guilherme Zahn
[HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)
Hello ! I've installed Debian-Skink on my friend box which used to run under Win95. The problem is that I'm not able to access the installed printer. It's a Canon LBP 660, a M$-specific hardware !-( And I don't know how to customize the printcap file. = Are there drivers avalaible for such printer ? If so, where can I download them ? = Or, do I have to try each filter under /etc/magicfilter ? Can you please CC me your answer as I not on this list. Thanx in advance for your help, Max
Re: Any help with Realtek RTL8139 ?
Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: Hi, I'd two machines at home and I'm unable to get them working both on linux. _ I do not know if this will help but I have one of these cards and I had to use a DOS program to set the card id numberin its hardware registers. Windows 98 sets it automatically but not in the hardware registers. Windows NT and Linux does not set it at all. I had the same problem as you only I could not get the card to connect to the internet. I was not using it for an internel network. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
non-us-ascii characters
Hi there I've been facing some curious problems when trying to use non-¨us-ascii¨ characters in my Linux box... In a regular xterm, in the command prompt, an ¨e¨ with an acute displays like ¨\351¨, and ¨a tilde¨ like ¨\343¨ and so on... in the same xterm, if I use the Midnight Commander internal editor, everything displays fine (except for the c cedilla, wich displays absolutely nothing), and if I use Joe I just get the wrong, us-ascii, characters (and e acute displays like an i, an a tilde like a c and so on)... Now, why is it so? I use glibc 2.1 and, in my .bashrc file, I added the following lines (as I was told to): LANG=pt_BR LC_ALL=pt_BR LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 LESSCHARSET=latin1 export LANG LC_ALL LC_CTYPE LESSCHARSET What's up? How can I have, at least, a consistent output (I mean, every console app undestanding the keyboard the right way)? Oh, tes... I have a even more serious problem with that... for some reason, the double quotes come like '\250' on the xterm console, come like a '' on Joe and, even if in the MC internal editor they seem like double quotes, they aren't understood that way on scripts, so that the only way to build decent scripts (and to run certain commands) is to copy the double quotes from somewhere else and paste in there... Any suggestions on how to solve that (even if ONLY that)? TIA, Guilherme Zahn
Re: New kernel problems
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device 03:43 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this. Any advice? I usually see this error when IDE support has not been compiled in the kernel. So I'd make sure that in the Block Devices section you have 'Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support' 'Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support' set to yes. Nope... it as long as I can read the signs, the IDE device was found, so the problem seems to be that the e2sf (second extended file system) was either left aside or created as a module during the krenel creation... Run make menuconfig again and check this out in the ¨filesystems¨ part... the second extended filesystem MUST be created as part of the kernel (otherwise, how would the kernel open the e2fs filesystem to read the modules? ;-) This is the mistake I made the first time around. I then rebuilt the kernel with e2fs built-in, but got the same error message. I'll try Paul's suggestion tonight, though. Dan.
Re: Disk drive: going, going, ...
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 09:29:09AM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: If you want to get back up and running fast, do dpkg --get-selections /usr/local/dpkg_packages. Then, when you reinstall, skip all of the initial dselect stuff until you do dpkg --set-selections /usr/local/dpkg_packages. All of the packages that you had on your old system will be automagically selected in dselect for you! Thanks, good idea. Unfortunately, my drive died very soon after I posted my first inquiry. I will be purchasing a new one this week. -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Testing a new kernel
Hi. I've just completed my 1st crack at compiling the 2.0.36 kernel to optimize my system. I've read through the HOWTO's and all the on-line documentation, and I think I understand (and successfully done) all the steps except for installation. But I have a bit if anxiety about trying out the new image (too many bad experiences left over from the MS Registry), and I'd like to verify that I understand what I'm doing. I checked the archives, but I don't see an answer... maybe I missed it. Anyway: I have a new bzImage and bzdisk created, but I'd like to test the new kernel without removing my old image or updating LILO (yet). From my understanding, if I reboot the machine with the bzdisk I created, then the new kernel should be loaded without effecting the old image on hda. If everything tests out OK, I can run make bzlilo to do the permanent install. If something is wrong, then I just remove the disk and reboot, which will load my old kernel image. Is that correct? Sorry to take up bandwidth with this question, but as a newbie, I wanted to make sure I learn the right way to do things. -- Stanley J. Benes Technology and Innovations Group Motorola, Inc.
Re: cardmgr on ThinkPad problem
On 09-Aug-99 Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: Get packgae pcmcia-cs-source or get pcmcia source from linux pcmcia homepage. your kernel problably load pcmcia modules that are compiled for other version if you have modules version enable in yoou kernel! To be safe, recompile with your new kernel and new pcmcia card manager. I tried all that. I believe something went wrong yesterday and I somehow deleted part of my kernel image and that is the problem, because I cannot find the kernel image. I don't know how this thing is able to boot into Linux at all. I am going to reinstall now. thanks -- Andrew
Re: non-us-ascii characters
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 11:36:24AM -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: Hi there I've been facing some curious problems when trying to use non-¨us-ascii¨ characters in my Linux box... In a regular xterm, in the command prompt, an ¨e¨ with an acute displays like ¨\351¨, and ¨a tilde¨ like ¨\343¨ and so on... in the same xterm, if I use the Midnight Commander internal editor, everything displays fine (except for the c cedilla, wich displays absolutely nothing), and if I use Joe I just get the wrong, us-ascii, characters (and e acute displays like an i, an a tilde like a c and so on)... Now, why is it so? I use glibc 2.1 and, in my .bashrc file, I added the following lines (as I was told to): LANG=pt_BR LC_ALL=pt_BR LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 LESSCHARSET=latin1 export LANG LC_ALL LC_CTYPE LESSCHARSET What's up? How can I have, at least, a consistent output (I mean, every console app undestanding the keyboard the right way)? for bash (and all readline programs) create file ~/.inputrc with: set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on set editing-mode emacs set horizontal-scroll-mode on \e\e[C: forward-word \e\e[D: backward-word \e\e[3~: kill-word \e[1~: beginning-of-line \e[7~: beginning-of-line \e[3~: delete-char \e[4~: end-of-line \e[8~: end-of-line Oh, tes... I have a even more serious problem with that... for some reason, the double quotes come like '\250' on the xterm console, come like a '' on Joe and, even if in the MC internal editor they seem like double quotes, they aren't understood that way on scripts, so that the only way to build decent scripts (and to run certain commands) is to copy the double quotes from somewhere else and paste in there... Any suggestions on how to solve that (even if ONLY that)? First, normal double quotes have code \042 not \250. You my have keyboard badly remapped. I see \250 on my terminal as double quotes, but half size. All programs use only \042. Second, your joe is configured for 7-bits characters, use it with option -asis or change /etc/Muttrc or ~/.muttrc. Mirek
Re: Any help with Realtek RTL8139 ?
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 09:10:25AM -0500, John Foster wrote: Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: I'd two machines at home and I'm unable to get them working both on linux. Which kernel do you use? You will need to build a custom 2.2 kernel. Try to build it as a module and put rtl8139 in /etc/modules Then watch what the kernel says when booting. I do not know if this will help but I have one of these cards and I had to use a DOS program to set the card id numberin its hardware registers. I doubt this is the problem. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpP0357otNRI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?
%% Jan Vroonhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jv Contrary to popular opinion the FSF is _not_ the sole copyright jv holder of GNU Emacs. The copyright to FSF Emacs is jointly held by jv the FSF and the Electrotechnical Laboratory (which is the Japanese jv government research institute that is responsible for Mule). How do you determine this? All the copyright statements I saw in 20.4 after a quick check were merely by the FSF, including such docs as etc/DISTRIB. That's quite fascinating if true. I wonder what the story is behind this; RMS has never been willing to do this before, and for him to bend like this simply to integrate what is, quite frankly, not a very good implementation of i18n (IMO, of course) is interesting to say the least. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Management Development Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist --- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
Re: Testing a new kernel
Hi, Why don't you add the new kernel image to lilo while keeping the old one? Everytime when I upgrade the kernel, I change my current kernel to label=old, and put the newest one with label=linux. So, if your new kernel does not work properly, you can always type old at the lilo prompt to switch back to your old kernel. Below is my lilo.conf file: boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map default=dos prompt timeout=50 image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only vga=normal image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.6 label=old read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda Hope this helps... Shao. Stanley J. Benes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've just completed my 1st crack at compiling the 2.0.36 kernel to optimize my system. I've read through the HOWTO's and all the on-line documentation, and I think I understand (and successfully done) all the steps except for installation. But I have a bit if anxiety about trying out the new image (too many bad experiences left over from the MS Registry), and I'd like to verify that I understand what I'm doing. I checked the archives, but I don't see an answer... maybe I missed it. Anyway: I have a new bzImage and bzdisk created, but I'd like to test the new kernel without removing my old image or updating LILO (yet). From my understanding, if I reboot the machine with the bzdisk I created, then the new kernel should be loaded without effecting the old image on hda. If everything tests out OK, I can run make bzlilo to do the permanent install. If something is wrong, then I just remove the disk and reboot, which will load my old kernel image. Is that correct? Sorry to take up bandwidth with this question, but as a newbie, I wanted to make sure I learn the right way to do things. -- Stanley J. Benes Technology and Innovations Group Motorola, Inc. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
2.1r1 Install kills bsd- and other partitions
Hi, IIRC: (1) after trying to install Debian in hda5 (this or hda9 were proposed by dselect) (see Fdisk1 below) and using hda10 as swap partition, I found hda8 and hda2(?) killed. I couldn't boot Debian, because LILO didn't want to install in hda5. (2) So I killed hda2 and created hda2 for BSD and hda3 for debian with BSD-fdisk (see Fdisk2 below). I installed Debian with hda3 as / and hda5 as /usr and hda10 as swap. The kernel reported the following hd-structure: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda3 hda4 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 mount reported hda3 as / and hda5 as /usr. Starting redhat on hda9, linux2 still had its old (pre-Debian-inst) content! Starting debian, mount still reported hda3 as / and hda5 as /usr. Save could be mounted as hda8. (3) Did some work with Debian, I think. (4) I must have reinstalled Debian, it now runs with hda3 used as /, no other ext2-partitions, no swap. (5) After adding a BSD swap partition as a BSD partition to hda2 (reducing the / of BSD) and reinstalling FreeBSD 3.1, the kernel reports the following hd-structure: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda6 hda3 hda4 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13 hda2 keeps running, even after using Debian. But now, hda9 is killed. Save can be mounted now as hda9, I think. It seems to me, that some parts of the install process (dselect and fdisk, cfdisk see other post) don't see BSD partions and name linux2 hda5, giving this as parameter to some lower-level linux tools (mfs.ext2fs?), which see the BSD partitions as extended partitions and name them hda5 etc, so linux2 gets hda6 or hda7 (depending on the number of BSD partitions), but don't check for the partition type (!!!). (My personal opinion is, that naming extended partitions with increasing numbers is stupid. Whatever I do on the hd, it shoudn't change the name of the partition (except deleting it). Fdisk1 shows, that primary partitions seem to work that way. But that's something for the kernel developers.) BTW: Due to the size of hda8 and because it should have been written soon to CDs, I have no backup. Does someone know a hint, how to reconstruct the partition? Ben Fdisk1: (guessed) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1232 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *1 13 1043916 DOS 16-bit =32M (Boot) /dev/hda2 14 110 779152? a5 BSD/386 (FreeBSD) /dev/hda4 111 1232 90124655 Extended ... (same as Fdisk2) Fdisk2: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1232 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *1 13 1043916 DOS 16-bit =32M (Boot) /dev/hda2 14 75 498015 a5 BSD/386 (FreeBSD) /dev/hda3 76 110 281137+ 83 Linux native (Debian) /dev/hda4 111 1232 90124655 Extended /dev/hda5 366 625 2088418+ 83 Linux native (Linux 2) /dev/hda6 626 690 5220816 DOS 16-bit =32M (Data) /dev/hda7 691 950 2088418+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M (Save) /dev/hda8 951 1232 2265133+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M (Music) /dev/hda9 111 238 1028097 83 Linux native (Redhat) /dev/hda10 239 24772261 82 Linux swap /dev/hda11 248 365 947803+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M (Windows)
Shell scripts
Hi, I've written a rather elaborate shell script and was wondering... are there any script guru's out there with the time and the inclination to take a look at it, and possibly give me some suggestions/comments/pointers on how to improve it? Mike TIA !!! [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind. -- Rincewind (from _Eric_)
Re: [Email Converter] Eudora 3.06 (Windows) to Linux ...
I am using a Workstation on WfW 3.11 with my E-Mailer Eudora 3.06. Now I upgrade to a Debian 2.1 Workstation and I like to keep all E-Mails (around 300 MBytes) from my Windows Workstation. Disk space is no problem !!! What is with E-Mail clients which user compressed Mail-Folder ??? What's a user compressed Mail-folder ? If you want to compressyour mail folders transparently, I recommend you e2compr which is a kernel patch to allow compressing and uncompressing files on the fly. OK, curently I have no XFree86 or anything else (only the base installation) and I do not know, which E-Mail program I can/must use. Mutt !! It runs on the console and it's the best email client I've ever seen. It's very powerful and configurable. If you want a GUI-based email client, I recommend you Kmail. It's part of the KDE suite - You must download it separatly at ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian or add this line in your /etc/apt/source.list deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian slink kde kde contrib rkrusty deb-src ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian slink kde kde contrib rkrusty But I need a very good E-Mail client with the functionality of Eudora. I don't know what functionality has Eudora but I'm sure mutt is as powerful as Eudora. ( but not as intuitive) Note, that I like to install XFree86. But curently I get one million errors while installing !!! You get errors while installing a DEB ? Are u sure it's not dependency errors ? If it's the case, install the missing packages and all will be OK. I am looking for a Mail-Folder converter. Hmm. I think you can install Netscape communicator (windows version) on your Windows box. After that, you will be able to convert them into netscape mail folders by going in the menu file / import... or something similar. After that, you have just to convert the netscape mail folders into unix mailboxes, which is very simple because you have just to convert DOS text into UNIX text with the command fromdos for ex. in the package sysutils. -- |. ICQ : 25529539 || |\ | | | \ / AIM : linhax |___ | | \| |__| / \ IRC nick : linhax Sami Dalouche : [EMAIL PROTECTED]DHIS : pingoo.dhis.org
Re: Lost directories.
In the past three weeks I have lost three directories. Just disappeared. I lost /usr/local/bin and had to start recompiling years's of work. Sure, it's my own fault, but in the several years I Aie ! have been using Debian GNU/Linux, I have never had this happen. I can't believe I was doing anything even close to that directory. Do you trust all the users of your system ? Then I lost /root. In the middle of a session, meaning I had to reconstruct the .bashrc and .bash_profile files. Very strange. I am sure I wasn't doing anything with /root! hmm. Today, I lost a small subdirectory, a symlink to another directory, in my home directory. In the middle of an editing session, I had to reconstruct that directory, as a symlink, and save all files I was working on in emacs. If I'd shutdown, I shudder to think what would have happened. I am fallable. However, these kinds of errors have not happened to me in many years. Suddenly, there is a rash of events. Can someone advise me whether there is something I ought to be aware of? Is this possibly a precursor of greater things to come? Hardware failure? Hmm Firstly, I suggest you to make a backup of all your important Data because If you trust all the users and are sure you didn't make any mistake, it's a HD failure. Have you tried to run e2fsck ? Have you tried to run debugfs /dev/partition debugfs: lsdel debugfs: dump inode_which_seems_to_be_the_suppressed_file /tmp/dump.001 See the Ext2-Undeletion mini HOWTO to see more details about this. If you can recover the files with debugfs, it's certain that it's not an HD failure because the files are OK but in this case, you should verify if there isn't any trojan (no, I'm not parano :)) ) or any kind of virus on your computer. Verify your cron jobs, in the case you had put something that would delete certain files according to wildcards. I've a last question : Are you sure you haven't lost any oher file - try for ex. the program cruft to see of your system is complete. I think it's weird because you always lost directories and if it's a HD problem, I'm sure the HD isn't clever enough to delete the directories, deleting also more files :^). I am worried. Yes, for sure ! Good luck with your strange problem... -- |. ICQ : 25529539 || |\ | | | \ / AIM : linhax |___ | | \| |__| / \ IRC nick : linhax Sami Dalouche : [EMAIL PROTECTED]DHIS : pingoo.dhis.org
Emacs copyright was [Re: IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith) writes: How do you determine this? The Mule people said so. It is kept pretty low profile All the copyright statements I saw in 20.4 after a quick check were merely by the FSF, including such docs as etc/DISTRIB. I don't have 20.4 here. But this is the top of coding.c from 20.3 /* Coding system handler (conversion, detection, and etc). Copyright (C) 1995, 1997, 1998 Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN. Licensed to the Free Software Foundation. This file is part of GNU Emacs. That's quite fascinating if true. Amazing isn't it. I wonder what the story is behind this; RMS has never been willing to do this before, and for him to bend like this simply to integrate what is, quite frankly, not a very good implementation of i18n (IMO, of course) is interesting to say the least. If you believe Erik Naggum, it is because of pressure to compete with XEmacs. However I don't think so. I think that it is more the fact that he already had promised Kenichi Handa that he would merge in the changes (from what was then NEmacs) if would rewrite them to allow to not only one other language (Japanese) but multiple languages. In addition the Mule people do have funding to have people work full time on it (and to fly developers to Japan for conferences!). The funny thing is: hearsay Apparently he was offered a similar deal by Sun. Had a accepted that he would have not only have had a cleaner Mule implementation but the XEmacs redisplay engine too. /hearsay Jan
Developer in Houston, TX USA
Please pardon the dual post. I'm trying to locate a debian developer in or around Houston who would be willing to meet with me and sign my PGP key. Replies to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will reach me. Thanks, Steve Gore --
knfs success?
I was playing with knfs. I compiled the kernel 2.2.10. Then I installed the knfs package from the unstable. But looks like knfs cannot export a directory. I explicitly issue commands: exportfs /usr1 machine1(rw) then it prints Function not implemented. Then the basic function of NFS is not there. How useful can it be? Jinsong
howto raise priority(nice level) of lpd and filters
Hi all, I would like to give my lpd daemon and the magicfilter filters and its scripts higher priority when printing. If my cpu is being heavily used then my printer(HP 660C deskjet) is very slow. During one slow print session I tried giving the filter a nice level of -5 and the printer started zipping right along. So now I would like to give lpd, the filters, and the various scripts a nice level that will give it some priority. Can I just nice lpd and its children will inherit the nice level? The info pages for nice don't give very man details. Thanks, -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: non-us-ascii characters
What's up? How can I have, at least, a consistent output (I mean, every console app undestanding the keyboard the right way)? for bash (and all readline programs) create file ~/.inputrc with: (...) Well... I forgot to say that I already had a .inputrc... anyway, I added three of those escape sequences that you told me, but I still get the \350's and such when use those characters... ;-/ Any other comments/suggestions? First, normal double quotes have code \042 not \250. You my have keyboard badly remapped. I see \250 on my terminal as double quotes, but half size. All programs use only \042. Well... that's what I thought... and where do I change that? ;-) Second, your joe is configured for 7-bits characters, use it with option -asis or change /etc/Muttrc or ~/.muttrc. Thanks! I did that, and solved the problem with joe... only one thing: that's not .muttrc, but .joerc (and .jstarrc ;-) []'s Guiherme Zahn
dselect problem with Packages.cd
I am attempting to install Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1255 from a LinuxCentral official Debian CD distribution. When the installation starts dselect, it indicates it cannot find the 'Packages.cd' file for non-free, non-US, and local. I have specified the following: Non-free: /dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.cd Non-US: /dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.cd Local: /dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages.cd Am I specifying this correctly? Thank you in advance for the help.
Re: Shell scripts
Michael Merten wrote: Hi, I've written a rather elaborate shell script and was wondering... are there any script guru's out there with the time and the inclination to take a look at it, and possibly give me some suggestions/comments/pointers on how to improve it? I'm happy to look at it for you. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ...ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. John 16:24
XFree86 3.3.3.1 on Debian 2.1
I am attempting to install Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop computer with Neomagic video. I noticed a News and Announcements item from May 21 on www.debian.org/~branden http://www.debian.org/~branden , that indicates a XFree86 3.3.3.1 package that could be installed for Debian 2.1. Would I download xfree86-2_3.3.3.1.orig.tar.gz or xfree86-3_3.3.3.1.orig.tar.gz? Thank you for the help.
Cisco 605 Linux Driver for DSL?
Is there a Linux driver for the Cisco 605 modem for DSL subscribers? US West says that UNIX is not compatible with it (although the 675 router/modem is, with a NIC installed). Will the existing driver(s) for modems work with the 605? Art Lemasters BTW, it's good to be back on the Net, and hello to C.L.U.E. (Colorado Linux Users and Enthusiasts) again!
Re: Shell scripts
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 11:02:24AM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: I've written a rather elaborate shell script and was wondering... are there any script guru's out there with the time and the inclination to take a look at it, and possibly give me some suggestions/comments/pointers on how to improve it? I suggest that you post it here or (to be nice to those who pay per byte) post a URL for it here. If you put a lot of time into it, it's probably something useful, and we might be interested in it for our own selfish reasons, too. Anyway, I'd take a look. (Don't know if I'm a guru, though) -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
Re: Testing a new kernel
Yes, that will work. You should also look at installing kernel-package and using make-kpkg to compile your kernel. It will create a debian kernel-image package. When installed, this updates lilo for you and also renames the previous kernel so you have a fallback. Bob On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:23:16AM -0500, Stanley J. Benes wrote: Hi. I've just completed my 1st crack at compiling the 2.0.36 kernel to optimize my system. I've read through the HOWTO's and all the on-line documentation, and I think I understand (and successfully done) all the steps except for installation. But I have a bit if anxiety about trying out the new image (too many bad experiences left over from the MS Registry), and I'd like to verify that I understand what I'm doing. I checked the archives, but I don't see an answer... maybe I missed it. Anyway: I have a new bzImage and bzdisk created, but I'd like to test the new kernel without removing my old image or updating LILO (yet). From my understanding, if I reboot the machine with the bzdisk I created, then the new kernel should be loaded without effecting the old image on hda. If everything tests out OK, I can run make bzlilo to do the permanent install. If something is wrong, then I just remove the disk and reboot, which will load my old kernel image. Is that correct? Sorry to take up bandwidth with this question, but as a newbie, I wanted to make sure I learn the right way to do things. -- Stanley J. Benes Technology and Innovations Group Motorola, Inc. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: dselect problem with Packages.cd
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:27:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to install Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1255 from a LinuxCentral official Debian CD distribution. When the installation starts dselect, it indicates it cannot find the 'Packages.cd' file for non-free, non-US, and local. I have specified the following: Non-free: /dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.cd Non-US: /dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.cd Local: /dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages.cd Am I specifying this correctly? Thank you in advance for the help. ---end quoted text--- Non-free, non-US, and local packages are not included on official CDs. Non-free and non-US because of licensing and export laws, respectively. Local is your personal archives. Steve Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
Hi, On Sun, 08 Aug, 1999 à 05:35:46PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: I'm not sure whether it's the same model or not. But I used to install potato on one G7-450 with 12GB HD. On that machine, fdisk on debian can read only first 8GB. So I end up repartitioning so Debian can live withing the first 8 GB, the rest of the disk, NT can handle that. There is also a post about fdisk on slink can not handle hd 8Gb a bit ealier. *cfdisk* has troubles with more than 8 Gb but fdisk handles them without problem. On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 01:37:06AM -0500, Colin McMillen wrote: An acquaintance of mine has a new Gateway P3-450 computer with a 12 GB hard drive. She wants to use about half that space for Linux, and I recommended to her that she get slink, because I use it myself and am fairly familiar with it. However, when I tried to install from the slink CD's, I got an error about Could not find a valid disk to install to. It seems that slink (and also RedHat 5.2) can't detect her hard drive! I investigated further (it's not a partitioning problem, BTW.. fips worked fine, and i even tried downloading a windows program to make ext2 filesystems and rebooting again, with no luck..) I eventually found out that in her BIOS, under Primary Master, is listed [None]. I can change [None] to [Auto] but that doesn't help. The only device on there at all is Secondary master, which is her DVD-ROM drive (which debian can read perfectly fine.) SCSI harddrive ?? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/
Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 on Debian 2.1
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:36:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to install Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop computer with Neomagic video. I noticed a News and Announcements item from May 21 on www.debian.org/~branden http://www.debian.org/~branden , that indicates a XFree86 3.3.3.1 package that could be installed for Debian 2.1. Would I download xfree86-2_3.3.3.1.orig.tar.gz or xfree86-3_3.3.3.1.orig.tar.gz? Thank you for the help. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Wow..this question is coming up once a week now! Short answer: go to ftp.netgod.net/x and get the updated packages. The two .tar.gz files that you are referring to are source packages.. they contain the human-readable source code that can be compiled into executable programs. Don't grab them unless you know that you must, because building debs will take several hours. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 on Debian 2.1
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:36:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to install Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop computer with Neomagic video. I noticed a News and Announcements item from May 21 on www.debian.org/~branden http://www.debian.org/~branden , that indicates a XFree86 3.3.3.1 package that could be installed for Debian 2.1. Would I download xfree86-2_3.3.3.1.orig.tar.gz or xfree86-3_3.3.3.1.orig.tar.gz? Thank you for the help. ---end quoted text--- Neither. Debian binaries have a .deb extension, so unless you want to compile the binaries yourself, look for packages with that extension. Steve Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 on Debian 2.1
*- On 9 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about XFree86 3.3.3.1 on Debian 2.1 I am attempting to install Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop computer with Neomagic video. I noticed a News and Announcements item from May 21 on www.debian.org/~branden http://www.debian.org/~branden , that indicates a XFree86 3.3.3.1 package that could be installed for Debian 2.1. Would I download xfree86-2_3.3.3.1.orig.tar.gz or xfree86-3_3.3.3.1.orig.tar.gz? Thank you for the help. They are not there anymore. Branden is the Xfree86 developer for Debian and he periodically puts testing versions on his page. The 3.3.3.1 X package for Debian are currently made available by another Debian developer at http://netgod.net/x/. You will want to use the *.deb packages not the source files. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: knfs success?
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:14:22AM -0700, Jinsong Zhao wrote: I was playing with knfs. I compiled the kernel 2.2.10. Then I installed the knfs package from the unstable. But looks like knfs cannot export a directory. I explicitly issue commands: exportfs /usr1 machine1(rw) then it prints Function not implemented. Then the basic function of NFS is not there. How useful can it be? I'm assuming you are running the kernel that you just compiled (check with uname -a). Personally, I've always edited /etc/exports when using NFS. Here's what it looks like on one of my boxes: /home ender(rw) /mp3 ender(rw) The server is orwell..on the client, ender, I have entries like this in my fstab: orwell:/home/home nfs defaults0 0 orwell:/mp3 /mp3nfs defaults0 0 and 'mount -a' works perfectly. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
