.gif rot
After X has run for awhile, I notice a substantial degradation in the quality of the .gif images that I display. There might also be a bit of decline iin the image quality of the .jpg images as well. I've decided to spring for the $20 that another Mb of Vidcard memory will set me back, but should I expect it to help, or is there some other path I might check out? TIA for any clue. -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: changing login message?
Tim == Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim You might also want to link /etc/issue with /etc/issue.net I found that it's not just that simple. I use a `figlet` logo in my issue files, and the /etc/issue has to have all '\' characters doubled up, while the /etc/issue.net does not. /etc/issue.net can also contain a few special characters as well, supported by telnetd. Tim Then the message that appears on the console login will also Tim appear when someone telnets into the machine. Here's what mine look like, in case anybody cares: (if you have XEmacs and VM-6.30, they'll be easy to extract.) issue Description: /etc/issue issue.net Description: /etc/issue.net -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133
Re: Newbie Debian + X Questions
Marco == Marco Verhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marco Excuse my ignorance if I missed something obvious but hey,
Marco I'm new to all this! [g]
Have you found the manuals yet? Hmmm... I guess once you get X
running, you'll have an easier time reading them. :-) Install tkman
when you can, it's really awsome. So is tkdesk! [1]
You need to add a line like this:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 tty5 -bpp 16
or
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 tty5
to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers so that xdm will start the server for
you. The arguments to X can be found with `man Xserver`. The -bpp 16
I have there is to start it with 16 bit color.
After that, you should see that there is a symlink for your X
runlevel in /etc/rc?.d/, like: /etc/rc4.d/S99xdm -- ../init.d/xdm
so that it will start at boot. You can start it without booting,
provided the tty you have it set to run on is free, by going:
# /etc/init.d/xdm start
You set the tty stuff up in /etc/inittab, restarting `init` with
`telinit q`. RTFM if you don't have a clue yet, `man inittab`, `man
init`, `ls -l /etc/rc4.d`, `ls -l /etc/init.d`.
Footnotes:
[1] You can add this as the top entry in the Appbar's Documentation
entry, and then clicking on it will open tkman with the manual in the
X selection. So you highlight a thing, and click the books, and up
comes `man thing` in tkman.
{{TkMan Remote of primary selection} {set sel [selection get];\
catch {send -async tkman \
wm deiconify .man; manShowMan $sel}}}
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Re: GIF for KDE
Rick Jones: Yes. I saw the posting to the kde list by Alan Cox, I believe it was. I wonder if you, or another Debianite, could tell me just how easy it would be to attach to a tcp port and send/recv commands to take advantage of that security hole? I know a programmer would have no trouble exploiting this. What about the common Joe? All it takes is one cracker who writes an exploit script for it. I have no idea how easy it is to do, though Alan gave the impression it was trival.. -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: adduser??
Ralph Winslow: Having used adduser to add me as a user to my system, when I try to login, I get the message: ksh: Cannot determine current working directory I do get a $ prompt, and when I cd /home/rjw; ls -l, I see my directory and it's content (largely stuff placed there by me as root). I've logged in to X and run netscape to send this message (netscape saw that /home/rjw/nsmail didn't exist, and asked if I'd like to create it; I said yes, and it did). I only tried to set myself up as a user when mail I sent to this list as root had a problem, BTW. Anyway, if anyone can help with what I need to do to solve this, I'd be grateful - I've already tried various protection modes for /home and /home/rjw, but perhaps I haven't hit the right combo. I might be completly off base here, but I think I saw someone report this once and it turned out they had bad permissions on / -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mac software
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: This is somewhat of a bizarre question for this group, but you can assimilate it. I've just encountered a gentleman from Beijing who has a mac program which he would like to run on a Intel PC platform. I've heard mention of a mac software emulator that runs under Unix. I wish I had more info, but I am just starting the hunt. The original source code may be in C, but it is graphics intensive. So ... is anyone aware of such an emulator, running under Wintel or Unix? The package you're thinking of is Executor. The (Japanese) home page appears to be http://www.alpha-city.co.jp/hideaki/Executor/ HTH! -- Steve McIntyre, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Unix world's best mod player a href=http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/mikmod/MikMod/a Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, +-- Tongue-tied twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I... |Finger for PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
re: mac software
Thanks to Steve McIntyre and Joey Hess for the info on Executor 2 Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Memory Gobbler
At 09:20 AM 4/21/97 +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: Yes I have read that too. However it does see the memory (when I put mem=128M on the boot line). I'm not sure that cache isn't the problem, though. It went so well for 3 weeks, then started to go downhill. This w/e it killed itself completely! I arrived yesterday afternoon to find the screen filled with messages out of memory for bash and other commands too. There was no response from any means, so I had to push the reset button and start againbummer! Well the answer to this has come in upgrading from 2.0.27 (as in rex) to 2.0.30 (as in hamm). I manually 'dpkg -i'ed the kernel source package from hamm and left the rest of the system as rex. So far no memory leaks (2 weeks that is...). Thanks for the interest anyway... 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: adduser??
Joey Hess wrote: Ralph Winslow: Having used adduser to add me as a user to my system, when I try to login, I get the message: ksh: Cannot determine current working directory snip I might be completly off base here, but I think I saw someone report this once and it turned out they had bad permissions on / No, you're right on the money, I did a chmod a+r / and all was well. I'd mistakenly thought that the x permissions on / were adequate. -- See shy Jo. -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: postgres95 / libbsd.so
I assume you tried building it from the debian sources? ie. postgres95 1.09? I have looked at your make-output, and am puzzled. I have build postgres95 version 1.08, 1.09 6.0 and 6.1beta several times on my system from the original sources, and never had any problems, certainly not like these. The only thing I consistently have to change is removing linking with -ltermcap in src/bin/psql/Makefile (Postgres thinks that all linux-systems have libtermcap...). I'll try... My guess is that the debian-sources are screwed up. Try grabbing a .tgz from ftp.postgresql.org Maarten ... And I was actually lookin on a Debian mirror for the source tree NOW: the same as on the CD where I had it already. So *THANKS A LOT* to you too, I'll take the source from ftp.postgresql.org. Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -pdmv /newtempmount I have used this under Dgux, Sunos, Solaris and Hpux, and it has always worked correctly (although under Sunos and Hpux the switches are slightly different). I have used it to move root /usr and Oracle database volumes under Solaris. Time stamps, owner, group, permissions and hard and symbolic links are preserved. Sparse, database files done grow either. I have done it so often I could do it in my sleep, and probably have. Ken Gaugler wrote: Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. This is a heartwrenching decision; It has taken a long time to get my system working like I want it; including up to 1.2 level. It seems really impractical to try to copy the data from one disk to another (correct me if I am wrong, please) because symlinks tend to get lost or messed up. Seems to me the most direct way to move the system is make new boot disks, install a base system from my old CD (1.1), upgrade in place to 1.2 using ftp, and then restore my favorite configuration files. Anyone have a better idea? Thanks! -- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: http://www.hybrid.com (personal: keng at wco dot com URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng) The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: nfs error
It could be a lot of traffic on the network or it could be a hardware problem. I have seen both cause that kind of response. --Brian Jesse Goldman wrote: Hi, One of the debian PC's in a cluster here is having some minor nfs problems which, while not catastrophic, tend to slow down the machine and occasionally hang it for ~2-3 minutes. When I look in the messages file, I see lots of things like: kernel: NFS server not responding, still trying kernel: NFS server OK. kernel: nfs_statfs: statfs error = 512 kernel: nfs_statfs: statfs error = 512 etc The version of netstd I'm using (2.13-1) is the same as all the other linux machines, none of which seem to have this particular problem. Is there a package anyone knows of that might conflict with this netstd? Could something else be the matter? Thanks... J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mouse problem
hello debians i have a new mouse here and can not get gpm to find it. the new mouse is called 'Mouse in a box' by Kensington. it is a 2 button serial / ps2 mouse. (it comes with a serial connector and a ps2 adapter). it runs fine in dos/windows3.11 with the Microsoft, or IBM PS/2 drivers. i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and i just get /dev/xxx no such device. does anyone out there have this mouse and/or know what device to use? TIA for any info -Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mouse problem
On Wed, 7 May 1997, System Account wrote: i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and i just get /dev/xxx no such device. try gpm -m /dev/psmouse -t ps2 __ _ David S. Jackson / / (_)__ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ * * * CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION * * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
kahnd
Hi there-- My latest excursion has been into the realm of Kahn, a variation on Kali. Of course, I'm having some problems, and the answer doesn't seem to be obvious to other Kahn users, so I'm guessing that it's a problem with my network. The setup is this: 1.1.1.1 is a linux machien running kahnd 1.1.1.2 is a win95 dialing into 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.3 is a win95 machine on the same lan as 1.1.1.1 Connect through mgetty/pppd just fine. 1.1.1.2 and 1.1.1.3 can both read the samba drives on 1.1.1.1. Now, both .2 and .3 can connect to the kahnd on 1.1.1.1, and can talk to each other, but .2 doesn't show on .3's list. In addition, when trying to play a game (any game!), I can see the network game, but when I attempt to join it, the attempt fails. I assume this means that either global or direct packets aren't making it. Any ideas would be helpful, or at least where to look. Thanks. --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mouse problem
David S. Jackson wrote: On Wed, 7 May 1997, System Account wrote: i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and i just get /dev/xxx no such device. try gpm -m /dev/psmouse -t ps2 And don't forget to include support for bus mice in your kernel. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Really good looking screen savers....
Anyone know of any really good looking screen-savers...something like xlock, but that looks more like something Microsoft will have in Windows 97? Thanks, Sam -- VA Research Linux Workstations Engineered like no other http://www.varesearch.com Sam Ockman - (415)934-3666, ext. 133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Backspace in rxvt
Hello, I use rxvt instead of xterm because I read it is smaller and is able to do all things I want it to do. Additionally it has colors by default (nice to have a colored mc :-)). But what to do to make BackSpace work as BackSpace and Del work as Delete??? In xterm this works as I want it to work, so the general keybindings seem to be OK. Thanks for any help Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem with svgalib
Hello, I installed the tmview_96.05-1.deb package which I got from bo/binary/tex some days ago. At home it works fine at home but in the university it produces only a very strange vertical pattern. There aren't any error messages. The demos of svgalib work well. Does anybody have a clue Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Really good looking screen savers....
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Sam Ockman wrote: Anyone know of any really good looking screen-savers...something like xlock, but that looks more like something Microsoft will have in Windows 97? Hmmm, screen-savers should be activated when there is no activity, in other words when no one is near the screen, hence there is no meaning for a screen-saver to be good looking. Imho a blank screen or even better a shut off monitor is the best screen-saver. In most xservers this is built in. I can see one reason to have a good looking screen saver in a lock program, that is if you are showing computers to a public audience which is allowed to walk around freely among the computers. I'm sorry but this doesn't really answer your question, but I so irritated of all cool cpu-time-eating screen-savers... Thanks, Sam /fax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Posting restrictions
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: When I first subscribed to debian-* lists, I was required to agree to a number of anti-spam restrictions before being allowed to post to the list. Violation of this agreement would result in being removed from the list of authorized posters, and perhaps other penalties. The debian mailing lists were moved and recreated sometime during February, and I volunteered to handle list management duties in early March. As a result of those transitions (and at the advice of Bruce Perens, who preceded me in my present role), there no longer exists a spam filter. I'd be willing to consider this if there is suitable request from the crowd. There was an obnoxious posting this morning from some creature offering guanteed credit, and I have seen a few similar messages from time to time, and there is the evangelist who posts a long sermon about once a month. Is the authorized posting list still being used since the list server was moved? If so, are these offenders being purged from the list? Was that on the -user list? I didn't catch it. I've been on and off of the user list, due to a 1.5 week vacation/training session and the job pressures that result. Now that life is settling back down, I'm planning on keeping up with -user regularly. If anyone is offended, bothered, or in any way disturbed by a post, please feel free to contact me. I'd be happy to handle the process of pestering the poster and the persons responsible for allowing the post to happen. I do purge obnoxious posters if they are on the list (I did so last week, after getting no response to a simple question). If there are other actions you'd like me to take as Minister of Information (aka mailing list manager), please contact me. Pete -- Pete Templin, Debian List Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
if you are getting hda errors. What kind of hardrive do you have. give
me your hardware specs. I can't help you if you don't give me any useful
information. Reply soon.
Paul
Ps. read your mail.
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
Would that include the SB16 software configureable card? What used to be
called PNP by some.
I have this card and just found after further checking that I am having
this error also. It isn't often it's only happened on 6 days in the past
3 months from what I can see by my logs. At any rate it isn't persistant
so it may be something like that.
PNP won't configure this card. Is anybody aware of a linux version the
DOS configure util's for SB16?
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Dima wrote:
You wrote:
On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote:
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
It could be just an incompatibility of some kind between your hard disk,
disk controller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there
should be a boot parameter to do that (see the BootPrompt-HOWTO).
Speaking of incompatibilities, I had an irq request error (DriveReady
SeekComplete ...) after I added a 3rd hard drive. The problem turned
out to be with my PnP sound card, and the fix was to use DMA 3 for
sound (not 0 or 1.)
So, if you have any PnP devices -- check their settings, too.
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Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
This is more rude then that nice 'find' usage, anyway I moved an old Slackaware from the partition where I originally installed it to another partition just doing this: tar -cSpf- . | (cd /mnt/.; tar -xvSpf-) Then I replaced two characters in /etc/fstab and everything was working absolutely fine, so I could LATER decide to remove it from the original place. (Actually, I had already splitted before that old Slackware to more then one partition, with symbolic links for dirs NOT needed BEFORE mounting takes place during boot, links to dirs in partitions that were not involved, by the way, so it was all right after the above command just copied the symbolic links.) Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- On Tue, 6 May 1997, Brian N. Borg wrote: find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -pdmv /newtempmount I have used this under Dgux, Sunos, Solaris and Hpux, and it has always worked correctly (although under Sunos and Hpux the switches are slightly different). I have used it to move root /usr and Oracle database volumes under Solaris. Time stamps, owner, group, permissions and hard and symbolic links are preserved. Sparse, database files done grow either. I have done it so often I could do it in my sleep, and probably have. Ken Gaugler wrote: Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. This is a heartwrenching decision; It has taken a long time to get my system working like I want it; including up to 1.2 level. It seems really impractical to try to copy the data from one disk to another (correct me if I am wrong, please) because symlinks tend to get lost or messed up. Seems to me the most direct way to move the system is make new boot disks, install a base system from my old CD (1.1), upgrade in place to 1.2 using ftp, and then restore my favorite configuration files. Anyone have a better idea? Thanks! -- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: http://www.hybrid.com (personal: keng at wco dot com URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng) The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Really good looking screen savers....
So far Windogs screesavers aren't but a pain when compared to the ones I see in Linux, to me. I don't hate CPU-time consuming screensavers, just I use blank if anything has keep running or simply when actuall I'm not here... But I *like* things like hyper or bouboule or simply laser... And mystique flames, forest... Or drawings recalling some nice theory... or just performing interesting mathematics. It's just a nice place to show those things, instead of looking (where and why) for a peculiar package... when maybe I didn't know before of that theory... No, definitely my *thanks* to people implementing those stimulating graphics. By the way, I will upgrade from xlockmore-3.11 via ftp to see if that rotor mode has been fixed from being that slow. Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- On Wed, 7 May 1997, Fredrik Ax wrote: On Wed, 7 May 1997, Sam Ockman wrote: Anyone know of any really good looking screen-savers...something like xlock, but that looks more like something Microsoft will have in Windows 97? Hmmm, screen-savers should be activated when there is no activity, in other words when no one is near the screen, hence there is no meaning for a screen-saver to be good looking. Imho a blank screen or even better a shut off monitor is the best screen-saver. In most xservers this is built in. I can see one reason to have a good looking screen saver in a lock program, that is if you are showing computers to a public audience which is allowed to walk around freely among the computers. I'm sorry but this doesn't really answer your question, but I so irritated of all cool cpu-time-eating screen-savers... Thanks, Sam /fax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
debian to debian
Hi, Could anyone give me some tips to copy (everything) a 1.2 gb of debian to another harddisk of 3.5 gb? I've used ftptool and it works, but it's not so elegant. thanks, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech, Incorported Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)433-3520 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http://www.lasaltech.com/andre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mouse problem
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: David S. Jackson wrote: On Wed, 7 May 1997, System Account wrote: i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and i just get /dev/xxx no such device. try gpm -m /dev/psmouse -t ps2 And don't forget to include support for bus mice in your kernel. Actually it should be ps2 support. This isn't the same as a bus mouse. ;-) Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: .gif rot
Ralph Winslow wrote: After X has run for awhile, I notice a substantial degradation in the quality of the .gif images that I display. There might also be a bit of decline iin the image quality of the .jpg images as well. I've decided to spring for the $20 that another Mb of Vidcard memory will set me back, but should I expect it to help, or is there some other path I might check out? TIA for any clue. -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig I can't give you a definitive answer because this isn't my area of expertise, but I'm pretty sure I know what this is. First, you must be running your X server at 8 bits-per-pixel. At this depth, you naturally can only display 256 colors on the screen at a time (although those colors can be pretty much anything). Viewers such as xv will try to allocate as many colors from the color map as possible in order to best display the image. Then later on the cells of the map don't get deallocate so when another image is going to be displayed there aren't colors left to use. The alternative is to have the program (this works for netscape and xv) use a private color map. Why don't they do this all the time by default? you ask? Well, for one it uses resources (and you don't need it with a 16-bit or higher color-depth because you can always display all colors). For two, it makes it so that when you switch windows you get this funny change in the colors of your windows since changing the color map actually reloads the palette in your video card suddenly color 0xc5 is no longer sea azure, now it's psycho magenta. Of course if you're trying to view a photo-derived GIF at least now you can see the picture. When the window loses focus the colors shift back. Now, maybe you already knew the above and perhaps you're already passing the '-install' parameter to Netscape and it *still* has image degradation over time. If this is the case then I guess Netscape must not be changing its own color map for each new picture but just allocating cells until they're gone and then using the closest colors available after that. If this is the case it's a bug in Netscape. I think all this is correct, however I make no warranties, express or implied, as to the usability of the above information or its fitness for a particular purpose... 8) -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kahnd
Mike Patterson wrote: Hi there-- My latest excursion has been into the realm of Kahn, a variation on Kali. Of course, I'm having some problems, and the answer doesn't seem to be obvious to other Kahn users, so I'm guessing that it's a problem with my network. The setup is this: 1.1.1.1 is a linux machien running kahnd 1.1.1.2 is a win95 dialing into 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.3 is a win95 machine on the same lan as 1.1.1.1 Connect through mgetty/pppd just fine. 1.1.1.2 and 1.1.1.3 can both read the samba drives on 1.1.1.1. Now, both .2 and .3 can connect to the kahnd on 1.1.1.1, and can talk to each other, but .2 doesn't show on .3's list. Which list is that? If you mean When I open 'Network Neighborhood' on 1.1.1.3 I can't see 1.1.1.2 then you've discovered one of the gross inadequacies of NetBIOS (and NetBT). You see, when LanManager was conceived (yes, this is what we now call Microsoft Networking) they wanted it to be *easy* to use, not like that confusing TCP/IP stuff. So, rather than have a distributed, managed name space a la DNS they decided that they would use a flat name space and let chaos rule. Machines sharing a network literally fight it out to decide who's going to be the Browse Master--the computer responsible for knowing who all is on the network. At any rate, in NetBT (read as using Microsoft Networking over TCP/IP) UDP broadcast is used to look up machines (to map machine name to IP address) and UDP broadcast packets are *not* routed which means if 1.1.1.3 is trying to find 1.1.1.2 by name, it won't find it. The solution to this is to set up a WINS server--sorta like a DNS server. You can do this in Linux, you just need SAMBA (which it seems like you already have. The program is nmbd and you need to create a file which maps host names to IP addresses (and which looks like an /etc/hosts file) and 'nmbd -H your-lm-hosts-file' will then run the server. Then on your Win95 client go into TCP/IP settings and set 1.1.1.1 as a WINS server. If you've got '-proxyarp' being passed to pppd on your Linux box, you should be there. In addition, when trying to play a game (any game!), I can see the network game, but when I attempt to join it, the attempt fails. I assume this means that either global or direct packets aren't making it. Any ideas would be helpful, or at least where to look. Thanks. I hope this helps. Your post was actually a little too vague to be able to tell what problem you're having. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian to debian
On Wed, 7 May 1997, A. M. Varon wrote: Hi, Could anyone give me some tips to copy (everything) a 1.2 gb of debian to another harddisk of 3.5 gb? I've used ftptool and it works, but it's not so elegant. This was just discussed on the list ;-) Mount the new disk on, say /mnt and: cp -a -x / /mnt If the final device of the new drive is going to be different than that of the original you will need to edit /etc/fstab to reflect the difference. That is, if the 1.2 Gig drive was /dev/hda and the new drive is going to be booted as /dev/hdb then change fstab to reflect this change. You will probably also want to build a boot floppy for the first boot and then run lilo after you boot from the floppy (assuming lilo is your boot loader) Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Backspace in rxvt
Andreas Tille wrote: Hello, I use rxvt instead of xterm because I read it is smaller and is able to do all things I want it to do. Additionally it has colors by default (nice to have a colored mc :-)). But what to do to make BackSpace work as BackSpace and Del work as Delete??? In xterm this works as I want it to work, so the general keybindings seem to be OK. If typing Backspace on the shell command line prints ^H rather than doing a backspace, type the command stty erase ^h (make sure you type ^ and h, not CTRL-h. Note that this only changes the current shell (terminal) so you'll probably want to put it in your .profile. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian to debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 7 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 7 May 1997, A. M. Varon wrote: Could anyone give me some tips to copy (everything) a 1.2 gb of debian to another harddisk of 3.5 gb? Mount the new disk on, say /mnt and: cp -a -x / /mnt If you really wish to copy everything and have spread the old installation over several partitions you need to repeat this for all partitions of course. Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM3CeYFptA0IhBm0NAQG8wAL9HNvCsZ1b6B3qte4MD8+yBJVemRSgJQUU w2L1bVy7l0M/xk6J+vF/RI5lER00B4Gr4g2d7l8Ywz1MvmgQX8KF4OmkDoEpR82V CMWzQY3k1guKLdhv42IPfHzLhyxBZHv3 =LS3y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
On Tue, 6 May 1997, you wrote: I agree with Rick M. on this one, although I would suggest adding the -x option. This way if there are any additional mounted file systems, like user, or home, then they will be left off the copy and can be mounted as before on the new system. cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from copying /proc, like the -prune option in find? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
I get the same error. The error is a hda error. So, yes I have a WD
1.2GB IDE on hda.
What am I looking for in my mail?
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:
if you are getting hda errors. What kind of hardrive do you have. give
me your hardware specs. I can't help you if you don't give me any useful
information. Reply soon.
Paul
Ps. read your mail.
Would that include the SB16 software configureable card? What used to be
called PNP by some.
I have this card and just found after further checking that I am having
this error also. It isn't often it's only happened on 6 days in the past
3 months from what I can see by my logs. At any rate it isn't persistant
so it may be something like that.
PNP won't configure this card. Is anybody aware of a linux version the
DOS configure util's for SB16?
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Dima wrote:
You wrote:
On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote:
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
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kernel: recognising 64Mb RAM
Hi, I'm terribly sorry as I understand this question has been answer just a few days before but I lost the mail. Thanks a million. -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C C2 15 55 EA 2D 42 FF 68 B4 50 __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: postgres95 / libbsd.so
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Maarten Boekhold wrote: I have looked at your make-output, and am puzzled. I have build postgres95 version 1.08, 1.09 6.0 and 6.1beta several times on my system from the original sources, and never had any problems, certainly not like these. The only thing I consistently have to change is removing linking with -ltermcap in src/bin/psql/Makefile (Postgres thinks that all linux-systems have libtermcap...). My guess is that the debian-sources are screwed up. Try grabbing a .tgz from ftp.postgresql.org DONE: 2197371 May 7 05:22 postgresql-v6.0.tar.gz Again, thanks to you all, thank you Maarten! NOW EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE QUITE * F I N E * both rebuilding and running it, no problems about any libbsd. I decided to leave the postgres95 destination directories as the default is (besides I plan to reinstall only the Debian _doc_ package later). What I simply did (type by hand, not from history, errors maybe in): - I had dselect purge the Debian packages (both packages: binaries and doc, and before also the two 1.09 packages mentioned below); this also removes postgres entries from files in /etc/: aliases, group, passwd, services. - ~/installing$ mkdir postgres95 cd postgres95 tar -zxvf ~/ftpdown/postgresql-v6.0.tar.gz cd .. patch -p0 postgres95-diff-v6.0 (- first attachment) cd postgres95/src make A ready to install message appears when everything is well done. as root: mkdir /usr/local/pgsql make install - I added to profile what is in the second attachment (and made sure that lines were active in the shell used afterwards); - as I wanted to have the original doc files too: cd /usr/local/pgsql mv ~/installing/postgres95/doc . cd doc/ cp ~/installing/postgres95/what else you want saved . - followed the first steps in the INSTALL text file in order to do startup and run an extensive test (which comes to take 20-30 megabytes on disk while running). There are some WARN: messages in the server log but I think they HAVE to be there after those tests as the output seems to be quite similar to what is expected, as you can see: ~/installing/dbase/postgres95/rebuild/postgres95/src/test/regress$ diff -b expected.out regress.out | less - before removing the tree ~/installing/postgres95, there seem to be a tutorial inside for postgres95 newbies, and I *AM*. - - - - About the debian source tree: I assume you tried building it from the debian sources? ie. postgres95 1.09? It was 1.01-1 and tonight I was (maybe blind at 4:30-5:30 a.m) not able to find via ftp but these two files (the first of which seems to override some postgres95 include files when installed): 21682 May 7 04:17 postgres95-dev_1.09-1.deb 128646 May 7 04:20 postgres95-doc_1.09-1.deb AND the same files I already have on the Debian 1.2.4 cdrom 356268 Aug 7 1996 postgres95-docs_1.01-1.deb 547906 Aug 7 1996 postgres95_1.01-1.deb I still get that source-code-level errors. Screwed up... maybe the Makefile's? Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- --- postgres95/src/bin/psql/Makefile.orig Wed May 7 12:28:42 1997 +++ postgres95/src/bin/psql/MakefileWed May 7 12:29:20 1997 @@ -29,17 +29,17 @@ ifeq ($(PORTNAME), ultrix4) LD_ADD+= -ltermcap else ifeq ($(PORTNAME), sparc) LD_ADD+= -ltermcap else ifeq ($(PORTNAME), linux) - LD_ADD+= -ltermcap +#LD_ADD+= -ltermcap else ifeq ($(PORTNAME), next) LD_ADD+= -ltermcap else ifeq ($(PORTNAME), bsdi) LD_ADD+= -ltermcap else ifeq ($(PORTNAME), BSD44_derived) --- postgres95/src/Makefile.global.orig Tue Jan 28 15:00:13 1997 +++ postgres95/src/Makefile.global Wed May 7 12:33:09 1997 @@ -61,17 +61,17 @@ # svr4 Intel x86 on Intel SVR4 # ultrix4DEC MIPS on Ultrix 4.4 # # Note that portname is defined here to be UNDEFINED to remind you # to change it in Makefile.custom. # # make sure that you have no whitespaces after the PORTNAME setting # or the makefiles can get confused -PORTNAME= UNDEFINED +PORTNAME=linux # Ignore LINUX_ELF if you're not using Linux. But if you are, and you're # compiling to a.out (which means you're using the dld dynamic loading # library), set LINUX_ELF to null in
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Re: kernel: recognising 64Mb RAM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 7 May 1997, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: I'm terribly sorry as I understand this question has been answer just a few days before but I lost the mail. give lilo the option (e.g. for 96MB) mem=96M when starting, or put append= mem=96M in /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and reboot Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM3CwN1ptA0IhBm0NAQENMgL/ThRivJ4us0IqTEgdzxWvF9XlN+qjV4Yc PGqkd/huDUZbSdZt2IvVeAiSZLqLhLaNwiajxWPsvwoFoTrPTmh4/MTrfOF6YoEw JHaBvJ/wPxIBsUpl4Ocp+gCy9t/2KcuL =ckme -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from copying /proc, like the -prune option in find? Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system? Doesn't that make x option (which prevents other mounted file systems from being copied) the solution to this problem? Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in something like. cp -ax / /mnt :( Seems that booting a rescue disk to do the actual copying is a solution. --David - LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights software patents make [EMAIL PROTECTED] | programing a dangerous business. Ask me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 7 May 1997, David B. Teague wrote: Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system? Doesn't that make x option (which prevents other mounted file systems from being copied) the solution to this problem? yes Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in something like. cp -ax / /mnt :( But as the originial poster wanted to copy all to another disk, /mnt is the mountpoint of the filesystem on the new disk and is therefore excluded by the 'x' option as well. Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM3Cx7FptA0IhBm0NAQE0YAMAhEHic3mf0LYOof+FDUNaMcZbgV6eixRu Ul/ktVqupObk/Ki08TSjNK/yE43VgQx+fIv1wezbX5Z4CfEDRvPEMqDSDIzjgMYz A6NBXOrT1xYTZuZ5VJOko6fdiTrEqkGc =EALG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in something like. cp -ax / /mnt :( So just do (cd / cp -ax `ls | grep -v mnt` mnt) or something similar. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mouse problem
If you have ps/2 mouse support compiled in the kernel it's /dev/psmouse joe | joseph robert palicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] |.|--| .| [_] [] \ / http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/palicke On Wed, 7 May 1997, System Account wrote: Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 00:46:40 -0400 (EDT) From: System Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users-List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: mouse problem Resent-Date: 7 May 1997 05:44:53 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown:;@cs.purdue.edu hello debians i have a new mouse here and can not get gpm to find it. the new mouse is called 'Mouse in a box' by Kensington. it is a 2 button serial / ps2 mouse. (it comes with a serial connector and a ps2 adapter). it runs fine in dos/windows3.11 with the Microsoft, or IBM PS/2 drivers. i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and i just get /dev/xxx no such device. does anyone out there have this mouse and/or know what device to use? TIA for any info -Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Matrox Millenium
Hi , Could someone please tell me the appropriate entries in XF86config for the matrix millenium graphics card ? Thank you George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: On Tue, 6 May 1997, you wrote: I agree with Rick M. on this one, although I would suggest adding the -x option. This way if there are any additional mounted file systems, like user, or home, then they will be left off the copy and can be mounted as before on the new system. cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from copying /proc, like the -prune option in find? Doesn't the x options do this? /proc is listed in fstab as a mounted file system, so the x option should keep it from copying. If it doesn't, just go into the copied partition afterward and delete everything but the mount point and it should work. Otherwize, I guess you could unmount /proc before you did the copy. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: .gif rot
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: After X has run for awhile, I notice a substantial degradation in the quality of the .gif images that I display. There might also be a bit of decline iin the image quality of the .jpg images as well. I've decided to spring for the $20 that another Mb of Vidcard memory will set me back, but should I expect it to help, or is there some other path I might check out? TIA for any clue. Well, as has been pointed out, you can run programs with an option to install a private colormap (e.g. '-install' for Netscape, '-colormap Private' for ImageMagick) and you won't see this effect, but your colors will do psychedelic changes when you switch between applications. I personally sprang for the extra Mb and run in 16bpp now. It's very nice, and .jpg images are more colorful, too. (GIFs only hold 8 bits of color information - JPGs hold a lot more, 24 bits or more. So if you can display more than 256 colors they often look noticeably better.) My video card (Diamond Stealth 64 Trio64) also got noticeably faster, though this wasn't an outrageous improvement. Sincerely, Ray Ingles(810) 377-7735[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anagrams of FANUC Robotics North America: bun of characteristic maroon omaha reconstruction fabric a cubic transformation chore cherub fractionation macros cube of anachronistic mortar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian to debian
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 7 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 7 May 1997, A. M. Varon wrote: Could anyone give me some tips to copy (everything) a 1.2 gb of debian to another harddisk of 3.5 gb? Mount the new disk on, say /mnt and: cp -a -x / /mnt If you really wish to copy everything and have spread the old installation over several partitions you need to repeat this for all partitions of course. Nope, just remove the -x option and all partitions will be copied to the mount point. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
gpm configuration
Hi, When I installed Debian, I made some errors while configuring options of gpm. Now, I know what to do, but I am unable to change the default configuration of gpm at boot time. How could I do this ? Thanks Franck -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
On Wed, 7 May 1997, David B. Teague wrote: On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from copying /proc, like the -prune option in find? Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system? Doesn't that make x option (which prevents other mounted file systems from being copied) the solution to this problem? Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in something like. cp -ax / /mnt :( Seems that booting a rescue disk to do the actual copying is a solution. Nope, and for the same reason you just pointed out for /proc. /mnt is a real mounted file system. Even so, if -x were left out, I don't think the copy would go recursive because the directory information is not complete for /mnt until the copy is complete (I could be wrong on this, but I think it should work) Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
Some time ago it was rumored that cp cannot copy files with holes, it just fills the holes :-( There's even a package to work around this, perforate. Is it still true that cp -a cannot preserve holes? Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Really good looking screen savers....
Sam Ockman: Anyone know of any really good looking screen-savers...something like xlock, but that looks more like something Microsoft will have in Windows 97? KDE has a screen saver setup program that is pretty much a clone of the MS screen savers I've seen -- a picture of the monitor, you can see the screen saver in it, dialog boxes to configure the screen saver, etc. It only has a couple of the screen savers from xlockmore in it, though. -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Matrox Millenium
On Wed, 7 May 1997 18:36:00 +0100 (BST), G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi , Could someone please tell me the appropriate entries in XF86config for the matrix millenium graphics card ? Make sure you are using at least XFree 3.2.this should all be set-up for you. -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Matrox Millenium
On Wed, 7 May 1997 18:36:00 +0100 (BST), G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi , Could someone please tell me the appropriate entries in XF86config for the matrix millenium graphics card ? Make sure you are using at least XFree 3.2.this should all be set-up for you. -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GIF for KDE
You wrote: Rick Jones: Yes. I saw the posting to the kde list by Alan Cox, I believe it was. I wonder if you, or another Debianite, could tell me just how easy it would be to attach to a tcp port and send/recv commands to take advantage of that security hole? I know a programmer would have no trouble exploiting this. What about the common Joe? All it takes is one cracker who writes an exploit script for it. I have no idea how easy it is to do, though Alan gave the impression it was trival.. It's in any book on unix network programming (in Stevens it's in chapter 6.) I'm not familiar with KDE but I suspect it'll crash if you simply stuff enough random bytes in the socket (see ch. 6.6 op. cit. for code.) You'd need to look at KDE sources if you wanted to do something nastier. However, as Rick says, all it takes is one cracker. -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Backspace in rxvt
Jens == Jens B Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens Andreas Tille wrote: Hello, I use rxvt instead of xterm because I read it is smaller and is able to do all things I want it to do. Additionally it has colors by default (nice to have a colored mc :-)). But what to do to make BackSpace work as BackSpace and Del work as Delete??? In xterm this works as I want it to work, so the general keybindings seem to be OK. Jens If typing Backspace on the shell command line prints ^H Jens rather than doing a backspace, type the command stty erase Jens ^h (make sure you type ^ and h, not CTRL-h. Note that Jens this only changes the current shell (terminal) so you'll Jens probably want to put it in your .profile. I have the same problem--- in an `rxvt`, -Backspace prints a '~', so I have to use C-h to backwards-delete-char. `stty` doesn't effect it at all, as far as I can tell. I think it's a bug in `rxvt`. -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
Roughly two months ago I did this exact same thing, three times! Without regard to the options I passed to cp, it *did* do a recursive copy of /mnt, hung on /dev, and I don't remember what happened to /proc. What *did* work for me what this (I think): in root directory, cp --archive /dir1 /dir2 /lastdir /mnt then I did mkdir /mnt/proc mkdir /mnt/mnt I can't remember what I did with /dev, but the above should do it. However, make sure it works (as always) before you zap the original. Jon Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gpm configuration
That would be in the /etc/gpm.conf which is read by /etc/init.d/gpm script at boot time. On Wed, 7 May 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: Hi, When I installed Debian, I made some errors while configuring options of gpm. Now, I know what to do, but I am unable to change the default configuration of gpm at boot time. How could I do this ? Thanks Franck -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
linux 2.0.31 (pre-patch-2.0.31.gz)
Hey I thought you might be interested in this message from David Miller. Apart from the link that is mentioned in the message, for European users it might be faster to download from ftp://oloon.student.utwente.nl/pub/linux/test-kernels/pre-patch-2.0.31.gz Good luck! // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 07:31:09 -0400 From: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Begin testing phase for 2.0.31, README I have released a first pre-patch set for 2.0.31, it is the first so it is bound to have some problems, this is why I ask people to begin testing now if they can do so. vger.rutgers.edu:/pub/linux/kernel/testing/pre-patch-2.0.31.gz In particular I know there are some things in this patch set which are not going to make it into 2.0.31 or are going to be rewritten in a cleaner manner (the Intel memory size changes are going to be removed, and the ext2 NO_ATIME support needs to be redone so it is clean like the 2.1.x version of those changes, also the swap cache diffs will be disappearing as well...) Just a brief rundown: 1) Updated networking drivers for Wavelan, and various drivers maintained by Donald Becker. Also an updated de4x5 driver from David C. Davies and Matthew Jacob. 2) GDT scsi array driver is now in the tree, this was _long_ overdue. 3) SO_BINDTODEVICE support has been added to the networking, also there is documentation on it under Documentation/networking Now the free DHCP server should compile out of the box. 4) Various networking bug fixes, too numerous to mention. The transparent proxying support is still up in the air but we'll be working to correct this. Please test this and report back to us so the real 2.0.31 can be as solid as humanly possible, thanks... Finally, don't view anything in this patch set as cast in stone in any way, if you see something bogus, make note of it to us, but don't lose your mind over it as if it really did go into the real 2.0.31 kernel. - Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s ethernet. Beat that! -__ o David S. Miller, [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ / // /_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
You wrote: Would that include the SB16 software configureable card? What used to be called PNP by some. Mine is a ESS, and Intel's pnptool won't configure it either, if that's what you mean. I run its config utility from dos and then use loadlin to boot linux. In my case the problem went away after I commented out the card's init program in config.sys. I knew I didn't have an irq/port conflict, even though the message was about irq timeout, so the only option left was changing the dma. It worked. :-) (check /proc/ioports, /proc/interrupts, /proc/pci etc. for ports, irqs etc used by your hardware -- disable SB first.) -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie Debian + X Questions
You wrote: ... But everytime I start X I'm stuck with the 1284 mode and I want to use the 1024*768 mode. 1. CTRL+ALT+Grey+ switches X to next videomode, CTRL+ALT+Grey- -- previous. 2. You can edit XF86Config by hand. Start X on one virtual console and 'ae /etc/X11/XF86Config' on another (ALT+F7 gives you default X console, CTRL+ALT+F[1-6] -- text consoles 1-6.) Run xvidtune, adjust the display and copy the numbers into appropriate Modelines in XF86Config. I'm sure you'll work out which numbers go where, if not -- ask. HTH -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Need XWindows screen display settings for Dell UltraScan
Anyone have the XF86Config monitor settings for the Dell UltraScan? Namely the Section Monitor Modeline settings for 1024x768. Thanks. It does not take many words to speak the truth - Chief Joseph -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mouse problem
On my laptop which has a PS/2 compatible pointing device, the device I use is /dev/psaux. I had to compile support into the kernel. HTH. Paul Rightley On 07-May-97 Klaus Hergerschiemer wrote: If you have ps/2 mouse support compiled in the kernel it's /dev/psmouse joe | joseph robert palicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] |.|--| .| [_] [] \ / http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/palicke On Wed, 7 May 1997, System Account wrote: Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 00:46:40 -0400 (EDT) From: System Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users-List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: mouse problem Resent-Date: 7 May 1997 05:44:53 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown:;@cs.purdue.edu hello debians i have a new mouse here and can not get gpm to find it. the new mouse is called 'Mouse in a box' by Kensington. it is a 2 button serial / ps2 mouse. (it comes with a serial connector and a ps2 adapter). it runs fine in dos/windows3.11 with the Microsoft, or IBM PS/2 drivers. i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and i just get /dev/xxx no such device. does anyone out there have this mouse and/or know what device to use? TIA for any info -Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GIF for KDE
... However, as Rick says, all it takes is one cracker. ^^ Oops, I think I mixed my sources -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Fwd: Re: Need XWindows screen display settings for Dell UltraScan]
John Ferguson wrote: Anyone have the XF86Config monitor settings for the Dell UltraScan? Namely the Section Monitor Modeline settings for 1024x768. Thanks. John, I use a Dell UltraScan 15ES at 1024X768 with a Number9 Trio64 card (2MB), and the following settings work just fine (mind you I cannot recall for the life of me where I got them from, so I cannot garantee that they are entirely optimal...): Section Monitor Identifier Primary Monitor VendorName Dell ModelName UltraScan 15ES HorizSync 31.5-64 VertRefresh 50-90 Modeline 1024x768 75.00 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync Modeline 800x60050.00 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync Modeline 640x48031.50 640 680 720 864 480 488 491 521 EndSection Hope this helps, Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Posting restrictions
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Pete Templin wrote: Was that on the -user list? I didn't catch it. I've been on and off of the user list, due to a 1.5 week vacation/training session and the job pressures that result. Now that life is settling back down, I'm planning on keeping up with -user regularly. Just for the record, I don't recall receiving such a message either. I'm a faithfull email junkie...lol. If anyone is offended, bothered, or in any way disturbed by a post, please feel free to contact me. I'd be happy to handle the process of pestering the poster and the persons responsible for allowing the post to happen. I do purge obnoxious posters if they are on the list (I did so last week, after getting no response to a simple question). It is nice to know someone is watching out for us... If there are other actions you'd like me to take as Minister of Information (aka mailing list manager), please contact me. Pete Just a sincere thank you for donating your time. Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kernel: recognising 64Mb RAM
Tan Wee Yeh wrote: Hi, I'm terribly sorry as I understand this question has been answer just a few days before but I lost the mail. Two option: 1. say you have 96M, put the following line in you lilo file mem=96M 2. download a kernel patch from http://www.linuxhq.com/ Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP Kernel Problems
Hello, I'm sort of new at this, so if this has already been discussed before i'm sorry. I've recently installed Debian (i've used RedHat before...) and i've been trying to set up a PPP connection to my ISP. I recompilied my kernel (2.0.27), making sure it included support for PPP. But, when I try to run pon or a custom script, it still says Sorry, this system has no PPP kernel support (or something like that). I've also made sure I have the new version of pppd (2.2.0f-19, according to dpkg -l). Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. Thomas O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP Kernel Problems
If you set it as a module in the config you have to do: make modules ; make modules_install. Also make sure you have the TCP/IP in the kernel. It's best to put these in the kernel instead of making them modules. On Wed, 7 May 1997, Regina O'Rear wrote: Hello, I'm sort of new at this, so if this has already been discussed before i'm sorry. I've recently installed Debian (i've used RedHat before...) and i've been trying to set up a PPP connection to my ISP. I recompilied my kernel (2.0.27), making sure it included support for PPP. But, when I try to run pon or a custom script, it still says Sorry, this system has no PPP kernel support (or something like that). I've also made sure I have the new version of pppd (2.2.0f-19, according to dpkg -l). Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. Thomas O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . TIA, --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mailing List
This is likely not the right address to be sending this to, but I'm not sure where else to send this to. My problem is pretty simple.. I need removed from the mailing list immediately. I tried to do this automatically from the website, but I received an error. I *MUST* cancel the mailing list from here because it's crashing my mail server due to the enormous amount of mail. I can pick this mailing list up on another server, however. So, for now, I'd really appreciate if I can be removed from the list, if possible? If this wasn't the correct address, could whoever gets this possibly send me back the address I should be mailing this to? Thanks a whole lot. I appreciate it. I am so very sorry for any inconvience this causes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gpm configuration
Franck -- You can run gpmconfig as root, and it will ask you all the relevant questions. -- Harmon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
