Re: pentium Pros and what about the USB?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: I don't know about USB. Do you have any USB devices? I've never seen one. Compaq markets a USB camera. -- + Michael D. Harnois + If you want to follow Jesus, + + Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA + you better look good on wood. + + [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] + -- Daniel Berrigan+
Re: pentium Pros and what about the USB?
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, m* wrote: heya, i was digging about looking for support for the Intel 8244xFx PCI chipset that comes on Pentium Pro boards and found zip. this includes the .29 kernel source. are the Pentium Pro 200 chipsets supported yet? and what about the Universal Serial Bus? can we expect support for that any time soon? Someone on the kernel mailing list mentioned that they had started work usb support but I haven't heard anything more on it. I think that the kernel mailing lists are archived so it should be easy enough to find. Joe. === in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own business [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Berengis the Black http: www.earthlight.co.nz/users/joe| Court Mage to the Earls Caeline
Re: Another dumb newbie question.
At 12:42 3/28/97 -0800, you wrote: Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple I think you need both the line start-xdm and xdm-start-server in your /etc/X11/config file. Well, I'll give that a shot. Thanks. And it didn't work, still that old Password: prompt top still shows xdm running though. Jim ++ Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ Linux! Where I Really went today! ++
Re: Another dumb newbie question.
At 16:57 3/28/97 -0600, you wrote: Hey, 1. Don't worry about PEX/XIE messages; they're not important. Thanks. 2. /var/log/xdm-errors often has useful information in it about problems xdm is having; perhaps you already knew that, but it never hurts to mention it. I'll look there, truthfully I forgot and was trying to work too fast. Thanks. 3. I'm assuming you can start X with startx? I wouldn't try to get xdm working until I could startx. Benn running well with startx for seeral days now since I got X set up. Many thanks... Jim ++ Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ Linux! Where I Really went today! ++
Strange ppp message
Here is the latest entry from my /var/log/ppp.log file, only the last line was copied, but that's the one I'm questioning. Mar 28 22:07:29 jim pppd [414]: Cannot determine Ethernet address for proxy ARP Don't know what it means, but I remember something about ARP from the Kernel compilation. Jim -- Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/
IRC #Debian
Hello all, I hope this isn't out of line posting here but it is related to debian linux. :) About 2 months ago #Debian was setup on the UnderNet Irc Network for debian linux users (or any linux user). The channel is open for anyone to join and could be a great way for users to help others who frequent IRC. For any of you who have not been on the undernet servers before i'll include a list of servers that can be used (this is only a small list of servers). Hope to see you there! Some UnderNet Servers: US okc.ok.us.undernet.org lowell.ma.us.undernet.org portland.me.us.undernet.org dallas.tx.us.undernet.org phoenix.az.us.undernet.org vancouver.bc.ca.undernet.org Canada: montreal.qu.ca.undernet.org toronto.on.ca.undernet.org vancouver.bc.ca.undernet.org Europe: amsterdam.nl.eu.undernet.org diemen.nl.eu.undernet.org dublin.ie.eu.undernet.org caen.fr.eu.undernet.org london.uk.eu.undernet.org New Zealand: auckland.nz.undernet.org -Robert AKA Adrenolin on UnderNet Irc
debian on IBM ps/2's
Last week there was a question posted about installing debian on an IBM ps/2 with microchannel hard disksthere was also a response stating that debian did not support MCA(Micro-Channel Architecture...for all you newbies;)), there are people working on implementing linux on the MCA... more info can be gather at http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/ or even an IBM PS/2 boot disk at ftp.dcrl.nd.edu/pub/misc/linux just thought i'd share a lil knowledge...what lil i have... regards, jd? ++ | Jesus Duran ||_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| _/ _/_/| | www.iit.edu/~durajes|| _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/ | |hiphop,debian,programming,life || _/ _/ _/| | Mexica ||_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ | ++ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perl On Linux Where?
Hello, I am a newbie, but i would like to install perl on my debian system, can anyone tell me where it is located and how much space will it take. thanks allan i like to use the miami ftp site - Name: Allan W. Bart, Jr. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/29/97 Time: 5:57:23 AM This message was sent by Chameleon -
Re: Problems working with bash.
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Pete Harlan wrote: In bash it's ^R for reverse, and ^S for forward search, just like in emacs. Perhaps if you select vi rules for bash it will use whatever horror vi uses for searching. ^S only freezes my xterm and i have to press ^Q to make it work again. How come you can do ^S for forward searches without freezing your xterm? Customization is great, but if you learn unmodified bash then you can use other folk's systems more easily. Unless they customized it. The great advantage of bash is that it has resonably well thought out default settings making it very easy to work for beginners. The Korn shell ksh in turn is probably good for shell scripts but i hate to work with iit under HP-UX where it is the default. P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/
Re: Another dumb newbie question.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: At 12:42 3/28/97 -0800, you wrote: Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple I think you need both the line start-xdm and xdm-start-server in your /etc/X11/config file. Well, I'll give that a shot. Thanks. And it didn't work, still that old Password: prompt top still shows xdm running though. My config does not include the line xdm-server-start. However, you may want to check if an X server has been specified in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers something like :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X Cheers. Colin R. Telmer, Department of Economics, Dunning Hall Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 Phone: (613)545-2273 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCUAwUBMz09ZRhhzOJJktw1AQElCQP3V3lIbKkQP/hTefGekkcQK2LevrQSMjo5 RSTlV6pTanJEdTkxX8jjS+kqDP4tyw5EA12uKkbKwsbhb3R8uDd87zH6B+9akBWo /CkocJhmJMXVdgsabnCg/PCPz11oB7SBE4ieVdGpbCJ5YbJGC9Dii0Vrs99QVqg6 WgDqNujb+Q== =PAbe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Perl On Linux Where?
I am a newbie, but i would like to install perl on my debian system, can anyone tell me where it is located and how much space will it take. Try debian/bo/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.003.07-8.deb It will take about 5MB installed. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
lost old pgp key
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This may not be the most appropriate place to ask this question but since debian was the reason I started using pgp, I thought that someone here may have some suggestions. Stupidly when I first started using pgp, I made a key pair and uploaded it to the public pgp keyserver and then without thinking erased the keys. NOTE: this was before I began any interaction with debian and the key I have used with all debian communication is my current key (the one that is attached to this note). My problem is that I want to put my new key on the keyserver, but cannot remove the old one given I do not have the old key. I have searched through the pgp documentation and all I could come up with is something from the FAQ as follows: - - 7.4 How do I indicate that my key is invalid when I don't have the secret key anymore? This is a very tricky situation, and should be avoided at all costs. The easiest way is to prepare a key revocation certificate (See 7.3 for details on how to do this) before you need it, so you can always revoke the key, even without the secret key. Alternatively, you can use a binary editor to change one of the user IDs on your public key to read Key invalid; use key 0x12345678 or something to that effect. Keep in mind that the new user ID can't be longer than the old one, unless you know what you are doing. Then extract the key, and send it to the keyserver. It will think this is actually a new user ID, and add it to your key there. However, since anyone can do the above, many people will not trust unsigned user IDs with such statements. As explained in question 6.3, all user IDs on your key should be self-signed. So again, make a key revocation certificate in advance and use that when necessary. - - I don't really understand this - it seems to me that it is implying to alter a user ID on my _old_ key and then resubmit it. However, I don't have the old key. Any suggestions or am I just completely missing something? (BTW I have backed up my new key and made a revocation certificate in advance this time:)) Cheers, Colin. Colin R. Telmer, Department of Economics, Dunning Hall Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 Phone: (613)545-2273 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMz1IyhhhzOJJktw1AQF30QP/bauZxmQYtd+0dibuFku5C6hfuqgYgkvs 5eKodpcoASjQkq+33c749aYV+0B4BpY4Di+L4j3CUD48PqRmPmKl9qj2MBZhOmnQ 67ZKpZuYGTOZig+8j9DEP9iDcD43JOK0EWT+HLXxr4HmEGsnjm0cv1u7ZYLuM6XZ bmsgwrYpC8Q= =llt6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Setting up 10 486's with a server
Our department will be converting a pile of old 486/33 boxes to debian linux. They will have two (expected :) primary purpose: standalone to execute lyx for writing theses dissertations, and as x-terminals to our larger alpha workstations. There is really no budget fo this; we're using oure obsolete machines. And there will be at best minimal formal support. The campus also has workstations throughout, with a central afs file system. Project Vincent is based on MIT's Project Athena. From the list of machines and parts, we can apparently assemble 11 machines. Between them we have 5x210mb, and 11x80mb hard drives. There is a single set of 4x4mb simms, and a slew of 1mb simms. My currrent thinking is setting up one machine as a server, with 3x210 hard drives, and 20mb memory, and the rest with 8mb, and the hard disks distributed. Setting up the server shouldn't be a problem; i've done this before. The problem is how to manage the other 10 machines, most of which will be graduate computer rooms. My current thinking is to install everything in sight on the server, put it last on the local paths, and put common executables onto the individual machines. (WIth a pair of 80mb drives, these machines don't have enough room for full installation of the packages they need.) Will this work? Another concern is password control. It would be nice to have a single place to deal with passwords, rather than all 10 user machines. Even better would be to use kerberos to verify passwords through the current Project Vincent. Is this doable? The /home directories are another concern. I suppose that these could reside on the server, but that sounds like heavy traffic. Is it practical to create a login process that untars the directory from the server, then tars and deletes it at logout? And what about auto-remounting of the server? I have heard of problems requirng rebooting of all of the clients, but this doesn't make sense. It seems that they should be able to auto-remount. For that matter, can the 486/33 handle being an afs rather than nfs server? Come to think of it, we do have novell servers for the windows machines. Could these (without modificationor upgrade :) serve the linux boxes? Rick
Re: Setting up 10 486's with a server
place to deal with passwords, rather than all 10 user machines. Even better would be to use kerberos to verify passwords through the current Project Vincent. Is this doable? There should be debian versions of both Kerberos 4 and Kerberos 5 available on the non-US site within the next week or so. Some configuration (notably to XDM) to use Kerberos for local logins will still be necessary, but the Kerberos packages should get you most of the way there. Note however that using Kerberos for local login security can be problematic if you are not careful --- in particular, unless you have a local service key installed on each machine, you leave yourself vulnerable to spoofing the workstation by sending fake Kerberos reply packets. (The resulting tickets aren't useful for network authentication, but they're enough to trick the workstation into letting the intruder log in). Of course, if you're using the public workstation model used by Athena, this may not matter to you.
bash keybindings
On Mar 28, Pete Harlan wrote I also came from tcsh, therefore I put this in my ~/.inputrc and I'm happy ever since 8-) ,- | M-p: history-search-backward | M-n: history-search-forward `- [snip] Customization is great, but if you learn unmodified bash then you can use other folk's systems more easily. Unless they customized it. Agreed. Unfortunately, these two commands are not bound to anything by default in bash... which is why I end up swearing each time I use bash for interactive use. Anyone care to take this up with the upstream bash maintainers? Christian pgpyNhUbAup3H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Postgres95 - missing library
Hi there, I've recently downloaded the latest stable POSTGRES95 package and installed it (Debian 1.2; kernel - 2.0.27). Apparently I'm missing a package, as postmaster keeps on complaining: can't load library 'libbsd.so.1.0.0. I will appreciate advise as to the whereabouts of the above mentioned library. - Matiss Horodishtiano P.O.Box 1175, Kfar-Saba 44111, ISRAEL Phone: 972-9-7650177 Fax:972-9-7661463 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)
Hi all, I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me same error: umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy Does anyone have any idea as to what is causing this? Thanks, David p.s. From now on, I will upgrade only one package at a time than reboot to make sure nothing is broken.;-) and now shutdown -h now and umount will not umount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me same error: umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy Does anyone have any idea as to what is causing this?
bug package
Hi, I'm a happy debian user: I have a bo installation. I have noticed that rxvt and emacs don't run automatically update-menus after the installation. I think that these are bugs, and I have reported thes using bug. Bug has mailed the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I don't have received any answer. Is this a problem of bug? Is this a problem of the bug tracking System? Thanks for every answer. Ciao from Francesco Tapparo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TeX fonts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, When I use some of the not so common fonts in a TeX document, MakeTeX* of debian 1.2.7 cannot generate them automatically anymore. The *.tfm files are present and I think all paths in texmf.conf are correct. Is there a fix for that? These are the error messages: kpathsea: Running MakeTeXPK pplr8r 432 300 magstep\(2.0\) deskjet Running MakeTeXPK pplr8r 432 300 magstep(2.0) deskjet mv: pplr8r.432pk: No such file or directory /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK: Could not mv pplr8r.432pk /var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/ps2pk/pktmp.9223. mv: pktmp.9223: No such file or directory chmod: pplr8r.432pk: No such file or directory Regards Ralf _ Ralf Comtesse Tel: +49-30-28599230 Gipsstr. 15 Fax: +49-20-28599231 10119 Berlin e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBMz2KLg+XSzNOWOS5AQGjmQL+LqLdX2MVTNaKp2uzY0rQv7z9718mQAww NV3dJjj26vV35qzqEqk6rdHfLKCW8gP4DzrpWsuvA6/eYmuplVe2ZH8ATaPl7gSz 2M0k9yW7qTc4EyJMcU45PHzLrAZMfAAH =PxZK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
PGP signing in Exmh locks X
When I try to PGP-sign a message before sending it in Exmh, everything under X (exmh, fvwm2) completely locks up until I switch to another terminal and kill the xterm that's trying to run PGP. The xterm with PGP never actually gets displayed, and I can't do _anything_ in X. This is not a problem of PGP using all CPU. It looks as though my session locks when it tries to start the xterm with PGP, and PGP never actually gets started. Doing a ps in another terminal shows all of my processes under X in state S (idle more than 20 seconds). The PGP options when reading email (extract keys, verify signatures) work fine. Very handy. I haven't tried any of the options when sending except the PGP/MIME sign clear and application/pgp sign clear options. Both of those options produce the problem. How can I fix this? It seems strange that it would lock my whole X session. Any help would be appreciated. TIA. exmh 1.6.9-4 mh 6.8.4-10 pgp-i2.6.3-2 fvwm22.0.45-BETA-1 fvwm-common 2.0.45-BETA-1 xbase3.2-3 libc55.4.23-2
Re: PGP signing in Exmh locks X
Try typing your passphrase and hitting Enter. You may be experiencing a problem with the visibility of the dialog window (it may be off the edge of the screen).
