Re: backup
Hi, I'm running a Linux server that NFS mounts drives from a Digital Alpha machine. Can someone recommend what debian package I can use to backup the drives to tape ? I'm looking for something that can specifically backup NFS mounted directories to a tape drive on the server. afbackup --- Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wieder, keine Frage!!! Joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fat - ext2
Is there a way to retrieve the original filename when moving from a fat/dos filesystem to ext2? A script/command would be nice, if it exists. If not, is there an algorithm to extract this information? Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions
Gabor Kontur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recently reinstalled Debian 1.3 (on a system with a new disk) and found that after installing xbase and xserver-svga, xdm wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist. Can anyone help me sort out where I went wrong? Or is this a feature that I don't understand? What i simply did was copy the file /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist to /etc/init.d/xdm. Is that all there is to it ? Is this script complete as it is now? Yes, that should be enough to do. You might want to have a look at the links /etc/rc*.d/[SKsk]*xdm and at the /usr/X11/config (?) file. Where you might have to add a start-xdm or something like this. 3rd question: I did a silly thing, which is cat /proc/kcore ( but then they say you have to try everything once in life ). After a while all the characters on that tty became gibberish and i found no way of fixing the problem but i am sure the solution is simple even though unknown to me. (rebooting solved it but there must be a nicer way of doing it) Type enterresetenter while ignoring what you see. This should make it more readable. If you still got problems, you can switch to another console Alt-f*, log in there, ignoring the other terminal. 4th question: When i start ae in an xterm window i cannot use the arrow keys to scroll. They work fine with other programs though. I think this should be reported as a bug to ae and sure will be solved in the upcoming debian 2.0. 5th question: Does cdwrite or a similar program support drives with an ATAPI interface ? Newest versions do AFAIK. 6th question: Mouse support The file /etc/gpm.conf has the following entries: device=help responsiveness=help type=ps2 append= gpm is useful for Cut Waste on consoles. You should run gpmconfig and change the default values to whatever is appropriate. Running gpm might solve the responsiveness problem in X, if you use the redistribution option of gpm. HTH, Jens P.S.: I can´t give any help on the other (deleted) questions. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fat - ext2
Is there a way to retrieve the original filename when moving from a fat/dos filesystem to ext2? A script/command would be nice, if it exists. If not, is there an algorithm to extract this information? I'm a little confused about what you mean by `original filename'. The file on the fat partition has a filename, right? Isn't this the original filename and can't you copy it to the ext2 partition with the same name? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fat - ext2
I'm a little confused about what you mean by `original filename'. The file on the fat partition has a filename, right? Isn't this the original filename and can't you copy it to the ext2 partition with the same name? Sorry, I have a file that started out as say 'filename' that was transfered to a fat filesystem and was renamed by the system to 'filena~1'. Is there an algorithm or way to retreive the original filename? Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: telnet from linux to win95
Is rshd related to the r commands? If it allows me to log into the system and do some assembly compiles then that's all I was looking for. Where do I check it out (Ataman RSHD)? Thanks Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Timm Gleason wrote: I know that Hummingbird Software makes a package that includes a telnetd that runs on Win95. I have used it and had much success, until I found that I didn't really need it. Ataman software makes a RSHD for Win95, but no telnetd. Timm Gleason N2H2, Inc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fat - ext2
I'm a little confused about what you mean by `original filename'. The file on the fat partition has a filename, right? Isn't this the original filename and can't you copy it to the ext2 partition with the same name? Sorry, I have a file that started out as say 'filename' that was transfered to a fat filesystem and was renamed by the system to 'filena~1'. Is there an algorithm or way to retreive the original filename? Nope. Unless the `dos' partition is actually a `vfat' partition that isn't mounted as `vfat', then there is no way to recover these, because it is not stored anywhere in the filesystem. OTOH, sometimes (depending on Lose95 setup), Lose95 will store the *first* file that's too long (`longfilename1') as the ordinary, but truncated name (`longfile'), and only store additional files having the same prefix with ~X (`longfilename2' as `longfi~1'). You can recover two characters this way if you go on this assumption, but not more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man segmentation fault
Bujtar Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today my debian hamm started to fail when i want to see a man page Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is core dumped. Stracing the man the last message is Updating index cache for path.. Any ideas? Well, I don't have the hamm installed yet, but on my bo I onec got the same error. It was resolved by removing /var/catman/index.bt. (We suspect index corruption, man tried to allocate more than half a gig of RAM in the process without checking for the result...) regards, Ulli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 questions
Concerning your first question, you ought to look at the mirror package. It takes care of the cleanup task for you. --Bob Paul McDermott wrote: hello everybody thank you for all of your help. I am using wget to mirror the debian site or part of it anyways. My question is this: Is there a flag to delete files when wget downloads a newer version of the same package. I have to clear my ftp site once a week because i run out of space. I did read the documentation and could not find the answer, The second question is concerning html. I grabbed the quickcam window and saved the file as a gif. I have my connectic quickcam automatically take a picture every minute and it is put on my web page. I want to have my updated quickcam image overlayed onto the quickcam window image. My question is. Can I? and How do I do it in html. I've looked through the html help files in lynx and I can't seem to find the answer. I hope this is understable to you and you have some suggestions. Thanks for your help. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more or less Newbies?
Thank you Joost, for spelling out what I thought and felt. The one thing that remains for me to say is that I didn't want to object against less as the default pager. I just wanted to point out that more is a UNIX power tool, and that it does make sense to have more but not less on a system. However, it is not a bug that you can't scroll back in man pages with more. The reason is, that man feeds the formatted man page with a pipe (another power facility of the shell) in more, and pipe can't be seeked randomly but only in a sequence. To see the difference, one may try: $ more filename # right, you have random access and $ cat filename | more # suboptimal, you can only go forward Another point I want to stress is the importance of regular expressions, a concept that in the three operating systems mentioned by lucier is not even known. Learn regex's, and you have made a big step forward to a Linux Guru. Marcus PS: After learning awk and shell cripting, you get perl nearly for free. PPS: I removed ls from my system and have an alias ls - echo * ;) PPPS: I also have an alias emacs - cat -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anybody know how to tell for how long has ppp-if been up?
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, [iso-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: Cant help jumping in, is there an easy way to add/subtract times from the output of date??? Or do you mean that the time-stamp file would be null length and use its creation time? even then, how can you work out the time since creation? I'm thinking C... use time_t, and add and substract that. strftime is your friend here. From the shell, use date with some funky formating (something like date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S). You man add and substract that, and convert it to another format. And yes, for what I asked, it would be a null file, and use creation date for reference. I wrote a perl script that calculates ppp usage and breaks it down by user and also classifies it by prime/non-prime time usage. If you like, I can mail it to you. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i lost my willpower!!
Yo- OK...I am really wondering if I should wait until next month when Debian 2.0 is released or if I should upgrade now. I have wanted to upgrade several times before but was unsure just how stable HAMM was. Is it stable enough now? I really want to upgrade but I have an outstanding install of BO running right now and I didn't want to risk losing it if HAMM was too unstable still. What do you recommend? Should I wait or should I upgrade tonight? If I should upgrade, where would I find Craig's upgrade script and maybe a HOWTO? Thanks in advance! -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] H: 940.566.0461 Pgr: 817.901.0255 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp drops while in X
Hello, When I am using programs in X, my ppp connection drops with a SIGHUP every few minutes with no apparent reason. After a little experimentation, I discovered I could make it happen every time by surfing to the GNOME page (Netscape 4.04) and pressing Page Up, the Page Down and ... dropped connection. This happens everytime without fail. Other actions also seem to cause the drop, like closing down the LyX program. When I tried the scwm, just starting X, with startx, would cause the connection to drop. So I switched back to fvwm. When I use ppp from the console, the connection remains connected until I poff it. Although it has dropped now and again in console too, so it may not be an X problem -- only aggrevated by X somehow. This is really frustrating me. I am not sure when this all started, a few weeks ago I guess. I am running an up-to-date hamm system but hamm is not the problem because I installed 1.3.1 with the same results. Any advice or hints on how to diagnose the problem would be appreciated. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ultra ATA Hard Drives
I'm trying to install Debian on a friend's computer. She has a Gateway G6-233 with a Promise Ultra ATA harddrive controller card and a Western Digital Caviar UATA-IDE 4GB . The installer doesn't pick up the hard drive at all if it is connected to the Promise board. When connected to the motherboard, the drive won't boot into win95 and it fails linux's bad block scan when trying to create linux partitions. Is it possible to set up Linux on an Ultra ATA hard drive at this point? If so, can you point me to some details on how? I tried Deja News, but the messages seemed inconclusive. Thank you for your time, John Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man segmentation fault
Bujtar Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello ! Today my debian hamm started to fail when i want to see a man page Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is core dumped. Stracing the man the last message is Updating index cache for path.. Any ideas? As root, run 'mandb -c' - man occasionally gets its index file corrupted. This fixes it. Has anyone put this question in the FAQ-O-Matic yet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP DeskJet 722c - samba attached - no color
We replaced the HP LaserJet II on a Win95 box with an HP Deskjet 722c. Through samba from Linux, I can print text and greyscale PostScript (from Netscape) but when I try color from Netscape nothing prints. I see activity on the net (blinking lights on the hub) but nothing seems to happen at the Win95 end. I'm using dj550c-filter from magicfilter_1.2-10 (from bo) and gs-aladdin 5.03-0.99. The 722c turns out to be a Windows Only printer, according to the manuals, but since greyscale works I would think that color should too. Any ideas? ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Parallel ZIP drive (not Plus) and modules ??
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 08:56:49PM +, Andrew M.A.Cater [Andy] wrote: I'm having great problems getting my parallel Zip drive recognised under 2.0.33. The dmesg error says '0 scsi hosts detected ' - on other occasions I have device busy on parallel port. My motherboard allows me to configure auto compatible ECP EPP and to specify addresses for the parallel ports. Which should I use? I got the device busy messages until I set my parallel port to EPP only. No EPP+ECP, not ECP, just EPP. Then it worked. To use lp and ppa at the same time you need the new parport stuff -- I think this is in Linux 2.1 only. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3 9894 4788 Fax: +61 3 9894 3362 USA Toll Free: 1-888-667-7839 Internet: http://www.rising.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
initdb error while configuring postgresql 6.3-2
While installing postgresql 6.3-2 with dselect, the following error message appears during the config phase: Setting up postgresql (6.3-2) ... Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data su - postgres -c initdb -l /usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /var/postgres/data -u postgres -sh: initdb: command not found dpkg: error processing postgresql (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql I have made sure that /usr/lib/postgresql/bin in part of root's PATH. In fact, if I exit dselect and type initdb at the command line, the message about needing to specify some options to initdb is printed, so I know that it is finding initdb. What do I need to do to finish configuring postgresql? I am running the latest from hamm, and do not have the package secure-su installed. Is that package needed? Thanks for your help. James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AccelX on Debian
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:46:52AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi Jonas, I tried the Accelerated-X demo on my hamm system. It worked without a glitch, except for some monitor timings that I will have to convert from XF86Config style to XI style. I haven't tried the Accelerated-X server on any bo system. Sorry I couldn't be of any help. actually, the real thing doesn't work, the X server itself works, but accelx 4.1 comes with its own xinit and xdm, etc, which complain about unresolved symbols in some library (it doesn't say which). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programming hints.
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about CTRL + C. Is that a signal? Yes it is. I don't know what signal exactly it is. SIGINT ? SIGTERM ? If not, how can a do something before exiting from CTRL + C? What you want to do is catch the signal. Typically it will require the signal function (man signal), you have to rewrite a function to do what you want and then install that as the defacto signal handler ... There is (if my memory serves me right) an example in the book, the Joy of C (local lib) and I think some other ones in Plauger's book (I hope that is the spelling of his name). Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives
Yes, it is possible, but not without some work. If you want to use a stable kernel, you need to rebuild a 2.0.33 kernel with the promise_ide patch in order to recognize the promise ultra ide card. Patch can be found at http://www.huwig.de/linux/mama/20-newdriver.html. But even then, only DMA mode is supported. For built-in promise IDE and UDMA support, use a developmental kernel such as 2.1.90. On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, John Paul Lorenti wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on a friend's computer. She has a Gateway G6-233 with a Promise Ultra ATA harddrive controller card and a Western Digital Caviar UATA-IDE 4GB . The installer doesn't pick up the hard drive at all if it is connected to the Promise board. When connected to the motherboard, the drive won't boot into win95 and it fails linux's bad block scan when trying to create linux partitions. Is it possible to set up Linux on an Ultra ATA hard drive at this point? If so, can you point me to some details on how? I tried Deja News, but the messages seemed inconclusive. Thank you for your time, John Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sound
Has anyone had success getting sound to work with a Yamaha OPL3-SA on a laptop? The HowTo lists the Yamaha OPL3, but my lack of success has me wondering if the OPL3-SA is different somehow. I pretty consistently get the boot-time error message sb: Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - device disabled David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RealPlayer 5.0b3 problems
Has anyone had success with installing the rvplayer-installer package? I have no idea how to do it correctly. I put the rvplayer tarfile in /tmp, and even manually ran dpkg -i rvplayer.whatever, and it looked ok. However using rvplayer results in that same Error 71, your rvplayer is out of date message. Any thoughts? I think they're up to version 5.0b4 now, but that wasn't the problem then. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A. Kiyan Azarbar Ottawa, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sanyo CD drive prevents boot
I have here a Sanyo H94-A CD drive which I am havign trouble installing. If I turn on my computer with it plugged into the IDE bus, it won't boot (nothing on the screen, no boot noises). If I unplug it from the IDE bus but leave it connected to power, it insists it's busy 100% of the time and thus won't open. My inclination is that since the problem arises long before the OS comes into play, it is not a question of software at all. Maybe I just don't know how to wire it right. One other odd thing is that it has no master/slave switch; I have no idea if these could be connected. If anyone has any suggestions for me, I would appreciate them greatly. Thanks. Aaron Brick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AccelX on Debian
The Accel-X's xinit and xdm don't work on Debian? Did you try running ldd on them to see what libraries they are linked to, and then check to see if you actually have the libraries. If you have them, try running nm on the library to see if the function has actually been resolved or defined in the libraries. The offending symbols may or may not show up in the library, depending on whether or not the object files inside the library were linked incrementally. If you do find out what is causing Accel-X's xinit and xdm to not work, then please let me (us) know since I am considering purchasing Accelerated-X, too. Thanks. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i lost my willpower!!
I would vote for waiting. If nothing else until we developers can upload new versions of our packages and the orphaned/buggy packages can be fixed. At least wait a week or so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HAMM: Recomended for update?
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: I got through the initial part using the ftp method and had only one file missed (libc5). I downloaded that and re-ran the script and it went very smoothly. Dselect didn't report any missing dependencies, which looks promising. I'm now letting dselect grab a bunch of other stuff and will then reboot. It looks very good so far. The test will come when I reboot. The saga continues after several hours of downloading. I got all the updates selected by dselect, but had a bunch of errors. Repeating the installation process a few times got several other packages installed, but there were still some errors which didn't resolve: dpkg: regarding .../base/sysvinit_2.74-3.deb containing sysvinit: sysvinit conflicts with kbd ( 0.95-2) kbd (version 0.92-3.1) is installed. dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/sysvinit_2.74-3.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing sysvinit (Reading database ... 16678 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kbd 0.92-3.1 (using .../base/kbd_0.95-6.deb) ... Moving local data files for kbd from /usr/lib/kbd/ to /usr/local/share/ ... rmdir: /usr/lib/kbd: Directory not empty dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/kbd_0.95-6.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Unpacking lesstifg (from .../libs/lesstifg_0.83-2.deb) ... dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/lesstifg_0.83-2.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.0', which is also in package lesstif dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: considering removing libdb1-dev in favour of libc6-dev ... libdb1-dev is not properly installed - ignoring any dependencies on it. dpkg: yes, will remove libdb1-dev in favour of libc6-dev. dpkg: regarding .../libc6-dev_2.0.7pre1-4.deb containing libc6-dev: libc6-dev conflicts with libgdbm1-dev libgdbm1-dev (version 1.7.3-19) is broken due to postinst failure. dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libc6-dev_2.0.7pre1-4.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing libc6-dev dpkg: considering removing xlib6 in favour of xlib6g ... dpkg: yes, will remove xlib6 in favour of xlib6g. dpkg: regarding .../x11/xlib6g_3.3.1-2.deb containing xlib6g: xlib6g conflicts with xlib6-dev ( 3.3-5) xlib6-dev (version 3.3-4) is installed. dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.1-2.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing xlib6g Errors were encountered while processing: debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/sysvinit_2.74-3.deb debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/kbd_0.95-6.deb debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/lesstifg_0.83-2.deb debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libc6-dev_2.0.7pre1-4.deb debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.1-2.deb DPKG ERROR I then ran the [R]emove process in dselect, which removed a few of the conflicting packages, and ended up with only the kbd and sysvinit problems. I deleted /usr/lib/kbd and ran [I]nstall again. kbd installed but wouldn't configure because of dependency problems, while sysvinit still didn't install. Running [I]nstall once more installed sysvinit. I then ran [C]onfig, which configure kbd plus a whole lot more. At this point everything looked clean, except for several packages which are listed as Obsolete/Local. I assume that this is because they are packages which existed in bo, but not in hamm. The bottom line is that I was able to update successfully, but not quite painlessly. It will still be a while before hamm goes from frozen to stable and I expect that things will be made a bit easier during this period. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random Broken Pipe
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Reply to note from Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:20:29 -0600 (CST) default, or my bo was broken. In any case, less was an excellent idea for a default for manpage paging. Quite honestly I can't think of any DOS, Windows or OS/2 text file viewer program I've used over the last 10 years that didn't have the simple features of search and page up/down and backscroll. I couldn't believe my senses weren't playing tricks on me the first time I installed Debian Linux and found out the default file viewer didn't include page up/down! grin I could be wrong, but I think DOS's more command has no backscroll. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Don't force it, use a bigger hammer. --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound
i got it to work, but unfortunately i don't have the laptop right here. i'll try to get my friend to email me sound.conf file and i'll forward that to you as soon as i get it. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian PGP 5.5.3, importing keys question
Hello All, I recently got pgp 5.5.3 running on the NT (I know...gag!) side of my box. I want to use pgp with Debian, of course, and the most recent version I've found seems to be 5.0 for Linux. I created new keys, both RSA Diffie-Hellman keys under 5.5.3 and NT. If I get pgp installed in Debian, does anybody know if I can simply copy those keyrings from the NT side to the Debian side pgp, and if they will work? Pgp seems to be getting updated on an almost weekly basis, with all sorts of hacks popping up. If anybody has had any particular success with a certain version, I'd like to hear about it. BTW, I'm using Debian 1.3 (bo) from the boot disk with XFree86 Netscape 4.04. TIA! -- Steve == Steven Morrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] + L I Nn N U U X X ! PGP Key ID's: RSA 4096/F6695267+ L I N n N U UX! DH 1024/9B7DCA9D+ I N nN UuuU X X . == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: initdb error while configuring postgresql 6.3-2
James Dietrich wrote: While installing postgresql 6.3-2 with dselect, the following error message appears during the config phase: Setting up postgresql (6.3-2) ... Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data su - postgres -c initdb -l /usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /var/postgres/data -u postgres -sh: initdb: command not found dpkg: error processing postgresql (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql I have made sure that /usr/lib/postgresql/bin in part of root's PATH. In fa ct, if I exit dselect and type initdb at the command line, the message about needing to specify some options to initdb is printed, so I know that it is finding initdb. What do I need to do to finish configuring postgresql? I am running the latest from hamm, and do not have the package secure-su installed. Is that package needed? secure-su is the problem here; it does not run ~user/.profile even if you use `su - user -c ...', so the path is not getting set correctly. In the next postgresql release, the full path will be set explicitly in the su command. To get round your immediate problem, become the postgres user by logging in directly or by `su - postgres' (no -c command) and run initdb from there. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more or less Newbies?
** Reply to note from Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:37:00 -0500 (EST) On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wasn't about setting up servers...it was about setting up a USEABLE default install for NEWBIES. Most installations are NOT going to be set up as servers, regardless of whether or It's simple to do this. Point is it is not simple for a newbie to do this. Most newbies are going to use bash, right, rather than tcsh or ksh or something? So put eval $(lesspipe) alias more=less export PAGER=less That is similar to what I ended up doing...but finding out how to do it and what editor to use initially was not by any means simple. in /etc/profile and life is good. Then leave less and more where they are in the filesystem, and someone who NEEDS to run more (eg. when the /usr filesystem's broke) can do so by unaliasing more or just running it with a full path. Makes a lot of sense to me...leave the twiddling to the more experienced user who has a pretty good idea what's what...for rookie newbies, make things as straight forward as possible; having default access to the two pgup/pgdn keys that are on practically any i386 based system keyboard, fits that description, IMHO. I don't mean to be rude here, but quite honestly this sounds like something that may have applied years ago when running resource and hardware limited systems. I'll repeat my original Sure. But engineering with these anchient ideas in mind is largely what makes linux so stable and reliable. I'd really hate to think of adding these two keys (or the arrow scroll keys) to a utilitly such as more had the possibility of upsetting linux's stability. grin Besides which, when you're first setting up your system, it's quite possible that you might incorrectly configure some things that would make less unusable, like screen sizes and attributes. Hmmm...I never ran across anything that gave me the ability to change these parameters in the base install. page up/down and backscroll.If it takes a second floppy disk to round out a decent set of emergency programs then what's the big deal about that? In fact, IMHO, the benefits gained by You can only put one in the drive at a time, unfortunately. :) And can't take it out again to run another program on a second disk? This is LINUX we're talking about, right?? big grin while playing devils advocate Thanks for the comments Will:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programming hints.
C.J.LAWSON wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about CTRL + C. Is that a signal? Yes it is. I don't know what signal exactly it is. SIGINT ? SIGTERM ? Strictly speaking, ctrl-c can be made to generate SIGINT, and this is the default in Debian. However, this can be changed by the command stty. Many systems use DEL instead of ctrl-c If not, how can a do something before exiting from CTRL + C? What you want to do is catch the signal. Typically it will require the signal function (man signal), you have to rewrite a function to do what you want and then install that as the defacto signal handler ... There is (if my memory serves me right) an example in the book, the Joy of C (local lib) and I think some other ones in Plauger's book (I hope that is the spelling of his name). I missed the beginning of this thread, so this may be right off the point for the original poster: In shell script, use trap to catch a signal and do something before exit (or just ignore it completely). You can't catch signal 9 (SIGKILL) and one or two others. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP, I screwed up my system
Hello all: This past weekend I did a raw install of hamm. I have a few problems but I got it running and fairly stabilized. Because I am The master of disaster I thought I would fiddle around with the lilo.conf. I changed it such that it now contains append=mem=64m, then ran lilo. Now when it boots, linux tell me I have 0/0 megs of memory. and then stops. Can someone tell me how I can restore the old lilo/boot or do I have to do a complete re-install of hamm again ? NOTE: I only have the debian rescue floppy to boot from. Thanks in advance Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scrollbars II
Hi, all, OK, I figured out that the cause of my 'problem' is the Xaw3dg package required by gv. I've read all the documentation regarding scrollbars and even tried downloading the sources from ftp.x.org, but the directions given in /usr/doc/Xaw3dg/scrollbars didn't work for me. It said './debian.rules: no such file or directory'. I guess the only thing I would like to do is make it so that the scrollbar in xconsole has the same smooth, gray look it used to have. Is there any way to do this? I like gv and I guess I want to have my cake and eat it, too. :) TIA for any help, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AccelX on Debian
Jonas Bofjall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After the AccelX installation however, none of the previously installed X-programs works. Upon startup they give a `floating point exception' and then dies. Not even xdm works. I think the problem is related to X-lib, because running the programs without a valid $DISPLAY will *not* cause the error. Compiling programs from scratch does not work. I'm running AccelX 4.1 with debian 1.3.1. After some problems it works smoothly. 1. I had to install termcap-compat for the setup program that comes with the server. 2. I had to purge all of the Xfree stuff. Those libraries have higher version numbers than the libraries AccelX provides, thus they get linked automatically at boot to the generic names instead of the AccelX ones. Make sure there is nothing left on your system Xfree provides, and then reinstall AccelX. Example: libXext.so -- libXext.so.6.3 wrong! libXext.so -- libXext.so.6.1 correct! Nils Ackermann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 questions
At 09:19 AM 3/23/98 -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: a picture every minute and it is put on my web page. I want to have my updated quickcam image overlayed onto the quickcam window image. My question is. Can I? and How do I do it in html. I've looked through the html help files in lynx and I can't seem to find the answer. I hope this is understable to you and you have some suggestions. Thanks for your help. I could be wrong but... assuming you use the same name for the picture as you referenced in the img tag of the html file you should be able to use the meta refresh tag with a setting of 60. This will force most later browsers to refetch the contents of the page. (html and associated images) This would result in the new image of the same name to overwrite the old on the display and in the users cache. I'm sure there are more elegant solutions. (This one forces a complete reload of all text and images on the page, IIRC, not just reloading the picture.) It should do what you want though. My .02, A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install troubles
Howdy! I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 onto my no-name system. I wrote a CD with the standard distribution CD image, and wrote a Rescue disk to install with. When I boot my system with the Rescue disk, it runs the loader, loads and decompresses linux, and begins the boot process. However, at some point (I don't know where), it reboots my computer. This makes it awful tough to see where it's failing, or in what way, since the screen's gone in less than an eyeblink. My system is a EFA P5TVX motherboard with 40MB RAM. It's got several cards in it, but nothing too out-of-the-ordinary: a Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 board, a Televideo sound board, an internal modem (cheap off-brand), and a NE2000 clone network card. I realize that I'm using cheap components, so I can't expect them to work perfectly, but this business of rebooting during install is a little disconcerting. Anyone have any clue what I should look for? --- Wolf Lochland Logan Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation xue elo xonia eune - I come from the rock The fact is, there may be hope http://www.talamasca.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FTP slow in one direction across PPP link
I have a fairly recent hamm installation, and I connect up to my work using pppd 2.3.2 via a (Chase Iolan) communications server. I've set my domain name to be the same as the local domain at work, so my machine appears much like any remote node on my work subnet. I've been seeing some very bad FTP xfer rates recently, but only in one direction. For example, I transferred a 1756274 byte binary in 591 secs (2.9 Kbytes/sec) when xferring to work (i.e. put), but when I try to xfer data the other way (i.e. get), it slows to a crawl. The transfer is characterised by a few-second-long burst of activity every minute or so (with no PPP traffic between bursts), until the peer becomes bored and resets the connection. Questions: 1/. Is there anything about the hamm S/W that might contribute to this? 2/. Could my permissions/authorisations (or that of my work network) mean that xfers in one direction require more authentication than those that occur in the other? 3/. Where is the best place for me to start investigating this? Many thanks for your help, -- Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install troubles
Hay Wolf: What I would do in this case is remove the hardware that you don't need to perform an install. It could be an interrupt problem, or something like that. Once the system is up and running, you can put the hardware back in. Just get ride of the sound card and modem. Also; Make sure your bios settings are in default mode and you are not using the memory hole. You could also try booting another PC (if you have one). If the same thing happens, you may have a bad floppy. Peter -Original Message- From: Wolf Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 5:59 AM Subject: Install troubles Howdy! I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 onto my no-name system. I wrote a CD with the standard distribution CD image, and wrote a Rescue disk to install with. When I boot my system with the Rescue disk, it runs the loader, loads and decompresses linux, and begins the boot process. However, at some point (I don't know where), it reboots my computer. This makes it awful tough to see where it's failing, or in what way, since the screen's gone in less than an eyeblink. My system is a EFA P5TVX motherboard with 40MB RAM. It's got several cards in it, but nothing too out-of-the-ordinary: a Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 board, a Televideo sound board, an internal modem (cheap off-brand), and a NE2000 clone network card. I realize that I'm using cheap components, so I can't expect them to work perfectly, but this business of rebooting during install is a little disconcerting. Anyone have any clue what I should look for? --- Wolf Lochland Logan Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation xue elo xonia eune - I come from the rock The fact is, there may be hope http://www.talamasca.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more or less Newbies?
** Reply to note from Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:40:58 +0100 The one thing that remains for me to say is that I didn't want to object against less as the default pager. I just wanted to point out that more is a UNIX power tool, and that it does make sense to have more but not less on a system. And all I was trying to point out was that for newbies, IMHO, it makes more sense to have a utility that uses the two keys that are present on practically every keyboard in existence today, pgup/pgdn, rather them having to go to commandline and arguments to accomplish the same thing. At the time of my original message, noone was talking about power tools or power users. I have *no* problems with more being included in any release but to my mind it is far, far easier for a experienced unix/linux user to change their scripts etc than it is for a newbie just starting out exploring a new OS. :-) However, it is not a bug that you can't scroll back in man pages with more. The reason is, that man feeds the formatted man page with a pipe (another And as can be seen from this example, even experienced users are not always aware of the whys and wherefores. shrug Another point I want to stress is the importance of regular expressions, a concept that in the three operating systems mentioned by lucier is not even known. While I must admit, I am certainly not up on all the ins and outs of regular expressions, a quick check of Deja News or larger OS/2 file sites will show there are plenty of utilties, editors etc that support regular expressions; some of them have even been ported from Unix (which unless I am mistaken a lot of linux utilities are ported from; please feel free to correct me on this if I am mistaken). The Enhanced Editor (EPM) which is included with OS/2 has the following description in its INF file: 7. GREP - this is a Search option that lets you perform searches using regular expressions, a powerful feature that lets you search for patterns in addition to specific strings. 5. extended GREP (including subexpression replacement for Change command) - adds alternation, grouping, and macros (e.g., :o = optional whitespace) to the standard GREP search. Want to roll your own...OS/2 comes with its own scripting language REXX (Note: I do not claim to be an expert on REXX either but from what I have read and understand REXX can be made to do regular expression searches). FWIW, quite a few unix goodies have been ported to OS/2 (emacs, grep, less, bash, lesstif, tcsh, zsh,) to name some that I have on my BBS here but it is in no way a full listing of all the ports. Anyways, I do have a question for you (or anyone else)...when is the next stable release of Debian due? I am doing some beta testing for a new Java application that the author wishes to test out in the linux enviroment but I find that my installed edition of Debian seems to be out of date with respect to what is needed for running the current Java releases. Rather than go through a bunch of upgrading, I would rather just go with a fresh install of the new Debian release so it would be nice to have some kind of time frame on this matter. Any information on the above matter would be appreciated..:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more or less Newbies?
** Reply to note from Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:40:58 +0100 The one thing that remains for me to say is that I didn't want to object against less as the default pager. I just wanted to point out that more is a UNIX power tool, and that it does make sense to have more but not less on a system. And all I was trying to point out was that for newbies, IMHO, it makes more sense to have a utility that uses the two keys that are present on practically every keyboard in existence today, pgup/pgdn, rather them having to go to commandline and arguments to accomplish the same thing. At the time of my original message, noone was talking about power tools or power users. I have *no* problems with more being included in any release but to my mind it is far, far easier for a experienced unix/linux user to change their scripts etc than it is for a newbie just starting out exploring a new OS. :-) However, it is not a bug that you can't scroll back in man pages with more. The reason is, that man feeds the formatted man page with a pipe (another And as can be seen from this example, even experienced users are not always aware of the whys and wherefores. shrug Another point I want to stress is the importance of regular expressions, a concept that in the three operating systems mentioned by lucier is not even known. While I must admit, I am certainly not up on all the ins and outs of regular expressions, a quick check of Deja News or larger OS/2 file sites will show there are plenty of utilties, editors etc that support regular expressions; some of them have even been ported from Unix (which unless I am mistaken a lot of linux utilities are ported from; please feel free to correct me on this if I am mistaken). The Enhanced Editor (EPM) which is included with OS/2 has the following description in its INF file: 7. GREP - this is a Search option that lets you perform searches using regular expressions, a powerful feature that lets you search for patterns in addition to specific strings. 5. extended GREP (including subexpression replacement for Change command) - adds alternation, grouping, and macros (e.g., :o = optional whitespace) to the standard GREP search. Want to roll your own...OS/2 comes with its own scripting language REXX (Note: I do not claim to be an expert on REXX either but from what I have read and understand REXX can be made to do regular expression searches). FWIW, quite a few unix goodies have been ported to OS/2 (emacs, grep, less, bash, lesstif, tcsh, zsh,) to name some that I have on my BBS here but it is in no way a full listing of all the ports. Anyways, I do have a question for you (or anyone else)...when is the next stable release of Debian due? I am doing some beta testing for a new Java application that the author wishes to test out in the linux enviroment but I find that my installed edition of Debian seems to be out of date with respect to what is needed for running the current Java releases. Rather than go through a bunch of upgrading, I would rather just go with a fresh install of the new Debian release so it would be nice to have some kind of time frame on this matter. Any information on the above matter would be appreciated..:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AccelX on Debian
I use AccelX with last version of Debian without too much problems. But I use only the server, when I have tried to install all the package I get different strange problems (xdm, xinit does not work well), if I deinstall the Xfree package I get problem to run X programs (like library not found or core dump). The main product is the server, and with that I am quite happy. To install AccelX the best solution is: 1) Download the demo version on Web server of XI (www.xig.com) 2) Test it (free 10 minute demo) 3) Buy the complete package 4) Do a custom installation and then install just the AcceratedX package I hope this could help A.Aubord My address: e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Surface Mail: A.Aubord System Manager Chemin d'Ecogia 16 CH-1290 Versoix Switzerland. tel: 950 91 03 fax: 950 91 33 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running X11 over a network
Hi! Ben Pfaff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Try this, which is slightly different: * Give 192.168.1.1 to the laptop. * Give 192.168.1.2 to the desktop. * Install any X software you want, but no xserver package, on the laptop. * Install only xserver-* (whichever you need), xbase, xlib6g on the server. * On the laptop do `export DISPLAY=192.168.1.2:0' in bash. * Run `startx', then `xhost +192.168.1.1' on the 486. * Run your xclients from the laptop command line. How about running 'X -query 192.168.1.1' on the desktop? This should give you the XDM-login of your laptop. IIRC every host can connect to an XDM by default. Otherwise you need to add a line with a * to /etc/X11/Xaccess. Regards Rainer --- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scrollbars II
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Matt Thompson wrote: OK, I figured out that the cause of my 'problem' is the Xaw3dg package required by gv. I've read all the documentation regarding scrollbars and even tried downloading the sources from ftp.x.org, but the directions given in /usr/doc/Xaw3dg/scrollbars didn't work for me. It said './debian.rules: no such file or directory'. If you download sources from ftp.x.org you won't be able to use the easy Debian methods to compile them; you need the .dsc and .diff.gz files from a Debian mirror to do that. Presumably what you read in /usr/doc/... was information from a Debianised package. (It's debian/rules BTW in case it really gave that error message.) Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives
You could also look at the Ultra-DMA mini-HOWTO, it address the Promise card. http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA Brian On 23 Mar, Steve Hsieh wrote: Yes, it is possible, but not without some work. If you want to use a stable kernel, you need to rebuild a 2.0.33 kernel with the promise_ide patch in order to recognize the promise ultra ide card. Patch can be found at http://www.huwig.de/linux/mama/20-newdriver.html. But even then, only DMA mode is supported. For built-in promise IDE and UDMA support, use a developmental kernel such as 2.1.90. On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, John Paul Lorenti wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on a friend's computer. She has a Gateway G6-233 with a Promise Ultra ATA harddrive controller card and a Western Digital Caviar UATA-IDE 4GB . The installer doesn't pick up the hard drive at all if it is connected to the Promise board. When connected to the motherboard, the drive won't boot into win95 and it fails linux's bad block scan when trying to create linux partitions. Is it possible to set up Linux on an Ultra ATA hard drive at this point? If so, can you point me to some details on how? I tried Deja News, but the messages seemed inconclusive. Thank you for your time, John Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP, I screwed up my system
On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 04:13:40AM -0500, Peter Iannarelli wrote: [lilo messed up] Can someone tell me how I can restore the old lilo/boot or do I have to do a complete re-install of hamm again ? NOTE: I only have the debian rescue floppy to boot from. Use the rescue floppy. At the syslinux prompt, use linux root=/dev/hda1 (assuming your regular Linux partition is the first partition on the first IDE disk). Your system should come up regularly. Now edit the /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scrollbars II
Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, all, OK, I figured out that the cause of my 'problem' is the Xaw3dg package required by gv. I've read all the documentation regarding scrollbars and even tried downloading the sources from ftp.x.org, but the directions given in /usr/doc/Xaw3dg/scrollbars didn't work for me. It said './debian.rules: no such file or directory'. I guess the only thing I would like to do is make it so that the scrollbar in xconsole has the same smooth, gray look it used to have. Is there any way to do this? I like gv and I guess I want to have my cake and eat it, too. :) I have $ dpkg -l xaw* ii xaw-wrappers0.17 allow use of programs with xaw replace hi xaw3d 1.3-6.1Adds a cute 3d to X apps using the at ii xaw3dg 1.3-6.1Adds a cute 3d to X apps using the a pn xaw95 none (no description available) ii xaw95g 1.1-4.1Windows 95-like look for X apps using and it works just fine. Check /etc/ld.so.conf. It should have lines like /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/lib/libc5-compat/Xaw3d at the top. Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives
Yes, the Ultra-DMA mini how-to available at the address below in text format and at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~vibber/linux/Ultra-DMA.html in html seems to have all the information I will need. Thanks a lot. I'll post a success report when I get everything working. John Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could also look at the Ultra-DMA mini-HOWTO, it address the Promise card. http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA Brian On 23 Mar, Steve Hsieh wrote: Yes, it is possible, but not without some work. If you want to use a stable kernel, you need to rebuild a 2.0.33 kernel with the promise_ide patch in order to recognize the promise ultra ide card. Patch can be found at http://www.huwig.de/linux/mama/20-newdriver.html. But even then, only DMA mode is supported. For built-in promise IDE and UDMA support, use a developmental kernel such as 2.1.90. On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, John Paul Lorenti wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on a friend's computer. She has a Gateway G6-233 with a Promise Ultra ATA harddrive controller card and a Western Digital Caviar UATA-IDE 4GB . The installer doesn't pick up the hard drive at all if it is connected to the Promise board. When connected to the motherboard, the drive won't boot into win95 and it fails linux's bad block scan when trying to create linux partitions. Is it possible to set up Linux on an Ultra ATA hard drive at this point? If so, can you point me to some details on how? I tried Deja News, but the messages seemed inconclusive. Thank you for your time, John Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:01:18PM -0500, David B Wilson wrote: Has anyone had success getting sound to work with a Yamaha OPL3-SA on a laptop? The HowTo lists the Yamaha OPL3, but my lack of success has me wondering if the OPL3-SA is different somehow. I pretty consistently get the boot-time error message sb: Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - device disabled David Maybe a conflict? What is the output of $ cat /proc/interrupts Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more or less Newbies?
Please shorten your lines... On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 12:03:59AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Reply to note from Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:37:00 -0500 (EST) Makes a lot of sense to me...leave the twiddling to the more experienced user who has a pretty good idea what's what...for rookie newbies, make things as straight forward as possible; having default access to the two pgup/pgdn keys that are on practically any i386 based system keyboard, fits that description, IMHO. Well, the point is that Linux is not only for 102 keyboards, but for a lot of keyboards and terminals. Linux (and therefore Debian) is not only for i386 systems, buut also for Amiga, m68k, alpha, sparc, etc... so you can't make assumptions about the hardware. You have to rely on the termcap info if you need extended features. Maybe they are there (quite often there are), but if they are not there, less fails and more not. I don't mean to be rude here, but quite honestly this sounds like something that may have applied years ago when running resource and hardware limited systems. I'll repeat my original Sure. But engineering with these anchient ideas in mind is largely what makes linux so stable and reliable. I'd really hate to think of adding these two keys (or the arrow scroll keys) to a utilitly such as more had the possibility of upsetting linux's stability. grin We only try to be perfect ;) page up/down and backscroll.If it takes a second floppy disk to round out a decent set of emergency programs then what's the big deal about that? In fact, IMHO, the benefits gained by You can only put one in the drive at a time, unfortunately. :) And can't take it out again to run another program on a second disk? This is LINUX we're talking about, right?? big grin while playing devils advocate You can't, because the root file system is on the disk with all the libraries etc... (well, you can if you create a RAM drive and copy the root disk to the RAM drive and remount, but it is not trivial). This is LINUX we're talking about. PS: Debian 2.0 comes out in ca. four weeks. But you have missed the power of dpkg if you prefer a fresh install over an upgrade... -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Gabor Kontur wrote: Is there a way to influence the typematic delay of the keyboard? Characters start to duplicate themselves when i keep a key pressed longer than about one fifth of a second. #!/bin/sh # mS DELAY=500 # cps REPEAT=15 /sbin/kbdrate -r $REPEAT -d $DELAY exit 0 Put a file like that into /etc/rc.boot When i start ae in an xterm window i cannot use the arrow keys to scroll. Annoying, isn't it. Just use a VC instead. the script /etc/init.d/gpm produced the following message at startup: gpm -m help -t ps2 -r help/usr/sbin/gpm: help: No such file or directory My mouse is indeed PS2 and at startup i get this message as well: PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected. driver installed The mouse works fine with X so i simply scratched the useless call to /etc/init.d/gpm. Overcleaning. So, there was an error message. At best, if you make changes to these sorts of configuration files, you'll make a lot of work for yourself when you upgrade, because the upgrade scripts will detect these changes and think the files must be preserved. At worst, you could break the system. The question is: how do i adjust the responsiveness of the mouse which is rather slow at the moment ( meaning that the distances the mouse travels on my mouse pad are too large). My /etc/gpm.conf has (through gpmconfig) device=/dev/psaux responsiveness=30 type=ps2 append=-R The -R means, of course, that I have Section Pointer ProtocolMouseSystems Device /dev/gpmdata in /etc/X11/XF86Config So i reverted to using twm for a while but now i use fvwm2. With that i have one major problem: At the initial login (as root) it does not execute the profile scripts as for a login shell but rather another script (probably the one that ends with a rc). What gets called, and when, is quite complicated. I stick most stuff in .bachrc and call it from .bash_profile, others use links to achieve similar ends. When i start xterm (which is not started automatically) i can login just fine as another user but not as root. It says incorrect login or something to that effect. What might be the cause of this problem ? I'm not quite sure when you mean that you have to login, but two thoughts: does your root password contain any funny characters that might be misplaced because of your keyboard selection; I've yet to find how to correct typos when typing a password into su. I thought i´d mention though that i had a crash. Now if this was windows 95, i´d say that´s absolutely normal, but this really worries me. It started with one of my terminals freezing up ( it was displaying a manual page). If and when a VC freezes on me, I just switch to another VC and kill the first. init will respawn it. So i decided to shut down quickly but i wasn´t quick enough because the terminal i ran shutdown from froze up during shutdown . Well, it would, wouldn't it? I don't know the order in which shutdown works, but I assume things must stop working! Finally i had to press the reset button. The best way to shut down in an orderly fashion is Ctrl-Alt-Del. About the only thing you lose is updating .bash_history for logged-in sessions. I wasn´t really doing anything unusual, except maybe restarting xdm many times over (to figure out how it works) (with twm) . Well X can freeze things, particularly if it captures all your keystrokes etc. though some people use joystick tricks. I just log in through the network (or an old vt220 at home) and kill X. Very little actually stops linux. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mail and mailer questions
I currently use Netscape 4.04 to read my -mail and get it off of my ISPs mailserver. It works very well..sorts my mail (I never realized when I subscribed to both this list non-digest and the debian-devel list...I would get 241 e-mails in 1 day!..sorting is a must!!!) Anyway I read that 5.0 wil not have the mail client (being the free version... which is of course what I would prefer to use) In anticipation of that fact...I am interested in looking into a new mail setup and I am looking for some information and recomendations 1) mail reader I am looking for at least 1 good mail client. A nice X interface is strongly prefered but not required (sometimes its nice to have buttons since I am usually in X). Ideally I would like 2 clients, one for use in X and one for use on a charicter mode console. It woul dbe best if these could share the same mailbox folder (I know that most programs use a common format (same as netscapes?? I think) but usually have differnt default mail dir names...,.like they want thir own) I would prefer that this client would make for easy use of PGP (I don't have a key yet but...I am hopeing to eventually look into becomming a package maintaner for debian and I know that is a requirement) 2) I have had alot of troubles with configuring mail services under debian I use a dialup to an ISP, so my connection is not always up so I am not sure what the proper configuration is, I have more than once set it up wrong and had it send messages forever to elbonia (and since my recent re-format and redo after a major crash.. I havn't even tried) what are the recomendations for my needs? I would assume something like fetchmail and procmail (which I need to setup anyway for another project) any help is apreciated -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP, I screwed up my system
Hello all: Thanks to everyone who responded. Its alive. Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 7:51 AM Subject: Re: HELP, I screwed up my system On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 04:13:40AM -0500, Peter Iannarelli wrote: [lilo messed up] Can someone tell me how I can restore the old lilo/boot or do I have to do a complete re-install of hamm again ? NOTE: I only have the debian rescue floppy to boot from. Use the rescue floppy. At the syslinux prompt, use linux root=/dev/hda1 (assuming your regular Linux partition is the first partition on the first IDE disk). Your system should come up regularly. Now edit the /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some odd errors / compatibility questions.
I'm installing a new linux machine, and I chose Debian 1.3.1rev6 for various reasons I won't go into here. The install kernel is 2.0.29, and I immediately went forward to compile 2.0.30. While I'm sure this is several revisions backlevelled by now, bear with me. The system is a home-built; PCI IDE motherboard housing a Cyrix 6x86-233, 32Mb EDO RAM, Acer 24x CDROM and a modem. On the initial compile I started having problems with GCC dumping out on unexpected signals (11). From what I've read in the past, this is indicative of memory problems, particularly with non-parity SIMMS. So I pulled a second set of 2-16Mb EDO fast RAM SIMMs from a running system (*not* running Linux) and swapped them for mine. No dice. If anything, things are worse-- occasional messages indicating the kmem is freeing non-kmapped(?) memory. Once I work my way to a successful compilation of 2.0.30, the system fails to boot it (I'm back booting the 2.0.29 default kernel). Every so often something abends with a kernel unable to handle dereference of NULL pointer. Compilations still breaking on unexpected signals. Now, this all *still* sounds like bad memory to me, but I'm on my second set of sticks here from 2 different sources (one set in fact was pulled from a running system). I find it hard to swallow that *both* sets are worthless. What am I missing? Or should I return *both* set of sticks and give up? -- Cerebus [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some odd errors / compatibility questions.
On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 07:54:49AM -0600, Timothy J. Miller wrote: [sig 11 problem] On the initial compile I started having problems with GCC dumping out on unexpected signals (11). From what I've read in the past, this is indicative of memory problems, particularly with non-parity SIMMS. So I pulled a second set of 2-16Mb EDO fast RAM SIMMs from a running system (*not* running Linux) and swapped them for mine. No dice. If anything, things are worse What am I missing? Or should I return *both* set of sticks and give up? Sig 11 isn't only caused by bad memory, it can also be caused by other bad or misconfigured hardware. See http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ . HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RESC1440.BIN
I was attempting to install Debian from floppy but the RESC1440.BIN is too large to fit on a 1.44 disk. This seems to make installation impossible. Am I doing something wrong or what? I ended up installing from the hard drive. Other than that, the installation is very easy and straight forward. Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-source2.0.33
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, John Maheu wrote: I've had some trouble with mounting iso9660 and msdos type fs with kernel 2.0.33. The kernel complains that these fs types are not supported. However, they were built as modules and exist in /lib/modules/2.0.33/ This sounds like a problem with the necessary modules not loading. This happens to me if I use filesystem type auto without the modules preloaded. Could be a kerneld problem - Did you run depmod -a? I saw a bug report about needing to include NLS support in the kernel to solve this problem. So I put NLS in as a module, but this had no effect. Any ideas on how to fix this. Running stable with kernel-source-2.0.33_2.0.33-3_all.deb from bo-updates. Thanks John -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills* Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A.* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.networksplus.net/wpmills/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AudioWave 16 AISA sound card, and sound-card IDE in general
I'm buying an old 486 from a friend real cheap to use as a mail server. The IDE card in it can only handle two ide devices, the machine has two hard drives, an IDE cd-rom, and an IDE tape drive. THe latter two he's been running from the sound card ide interface ... is it possible to do this in Linux? I moved my cdrom on my other machine off my soundblaster and onto the main IDE controller, but that's not an option in this 486 because the IDE card is full. Also, the sound card is an Audiowave 16 AISP (made by sony). The audiowave web page (found via altavista) says that the newer version, the AudioWave PCI something-or-other, is SoundBlaster 16 compat. ... anyone tried using the Audiowave 16 AISP under linux? I don't really need it to do sound (although if it does, so much the better), but I'm going to need it for a while to do IDE stuff. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, Blame It On Me | -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail and mailer questions
Stephen Carpenter wrote: I currently use Netscape 4.04 to read my -mail and get it off of my ISPs mailserver. It works very well..sorts my mail (I never realized when I subscribed to both this list non-digest and the debian-devel list...I would get 241 e-mails in 1 day!..sorting is a must!!!) Is that all? Anyway I read that 5.0 wil not have the mail client (being the free version... which is of course what I would prefer to use) In anticipation of that fact...I am interested in looking into a new mail setup and I am looking for some information and recomendations 1) mail reader I am looking for at least 1 good mail client. A nice X interface is strongly prefered but not required (sometimes its nice to have buttons since I am usually in X). Ideally I would like 2 clients, one for use in X and one for use on a charicter mode console. It woul dbe best if these could share the same mailbox folder (I know that most programs use a common format (same as netscapes?? I think) but usually have differnt default mail dir names...,.like they want thir own) I would prefer that this client would make for easy use of PGP (I don't have a key yet but...I am hopeing to eventually look into becomming a package maintaner for debian and I know that is a requirement) 2) I have had alot of troubles with configuring mail services under debian I use a dialup to an ISP, so my connection is not always up so I am not sure what the proper configuration is, I have more than once set it up wrong and had it send messages forever to elbonia (and since my recent re-format and redo after a major crash.. I havn't even tried) what are the recomendations for my needs? I would assume something like fetchmail and procmail (which I need to setup anyway for another project) any help is apreciated You describe my own situation. I use diald with isdnutils ippp for contacting my ISP. Mail collection: fetchmail to download from my ISP and pass mail to sendmail Mail delivery: sendmail, calling procmail to distribute mail from my single ISP mail-box to multiple users on this system. I also use procmail in my own user account to put mail into separate MH folders before I even see it. Mail reader: exmh, which is a Tk/Tcl front end to MH; it includes PGP support and manages multiple folders, including nested folders. It also supports X-face pictures and can notify you of new mail with visual and audible signals. MH can be used in character windows or outside X. It has the further benefit (to my mind) that it makes each messge a separate file, so that it is easy to find and handle messages with non-mail commands. For example, if someone has mailed a patch: `patch -p1 ~/Mail/postgresql/hackers/28' If you would like to see any configuration files, just ask... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some odd errors / compatibility questions.
On 24 Mar 1998, Timothy J. Miller wrote: The system is a home-built; PCI IDE motherboard housing a Cyrix 6x86-233, 32Mb EDO RAM, Acer 24x CDROM and a modem. You name the brand of the cdrom, but the motherboard goes unnamed. I'd rather buy a quality motherboard than a cdrom. Remember, the quality of the motherboard is vital to all parts of your system. BTW, if you're running a Cyrix 233, be sure that cooling is absolutely superior (ie. spend the difference in price with an Intel/AMD on cooling.) Hot processors can also be a cause of memory problems. The cache on the board might be crappy too. Or just badly seated. On the initial compile I started having problems with GCC dumping out on unexpected signals (11). From what I've read in the past, this is indicative of memory problems, particularly with non-parity SIMMS. So I pulled a second set of 2-16Mb EDO fast RAM SIMMs from a running system (*not* running Linux) and swapped them for mine. Look at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ to read more about possible causes of the problems. No dice. If anything, things are worse-- occasional messages indicating the kmem is freeing non-kmapped(?) memory. Once I work my way to a successful compilation of 2.0.30, the system fails to boot it (I'm back booting the 2.0.29 default kernel). Every so often something abends with a kernel unable to handle dereference of NULL pointer. Compilations still breaking on unexpected signals. Now, this all *still* sounds like bad memory to me, but I'm on my second set of sticks here from 2 different sources (one set in fact was pulled from a running system). I find it hard to swallow that *both* sets are worthless. You might also want to try removing every card from the computer that you can spare from the system while keeping it running. Swap the vga card with a different, known-working one. Even try swapping the cpu. Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dselect Question
Last night I tried to install some files from the FTP site via dselect. I updated the package file and then when I tried to select the package, the program was not available. I used the / search and could not find the program name at all. The particular program I was looking for was Pine and Pico. I find them both no problem with a web browser, but when I try it with dselect, no go. Is there something I'm not doing right? Is there another way to install these programs? Thanks in advance. Mike Acklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie --(Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
Yo- The particular program I was looking for was Pine and Pico. I find them both no problem with a web browser, but when I try it with dselect, no go. Is there something I'm not doing right? Is there another way to install these programs? Download the .deb packages you want from the web (i.e. Pine and Pico) and type (as root): dpkg -i (your .deb file goes here) This should unpack and install any package you want. -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] H: 940.566.0461 Pgr: 817.901.0255 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Michael Acklin wrote: Last night I tried to install some files from the FTP site via dselect. I updated the package file and then when I tried to select the package, the program was not available. I used the / search and could not find the program name at all. The particular program I was looking for was Pine and Pico. I find them both no problem with a web browser, but when I try it with dselect, no go. Is there something I'm not doing right? Is there another way to install these programs? Do you have dselect set up to get the Packages files for non-free? They are both included there. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
At 10:20 AM 3/24/98 -0600, you wrote: Download the .deb packages you want from the web (i.e. Pine and Pico) and type (as root): dpkg -i (your .deb file goes here) This should unpack and install any package you want. -Ian Ian, Thanks for the info. Will try it tonight. Appreciate your quick reply ___ Mike Acklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie --(Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some odd errors / compatibility questions.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Miller) writes: What am I missing? Or should I return *both* set of sticks and give up? Okay-- here's an update: I hit the sig11 page I was pointed to and read it. I tried disabling the cache to no effect. I *did* discover when I went to downclock the CPU that the jumpers were set for a dual-voltage CPU instead of single-voltage; fixed that, no change. I haven't gotten to reclocking the CPU yet. Instead I ran the memory tester that was downloadable from the sig11 page. I found that any test above 10Mb failed with a segv. So I swapped the sticks. The memory test *still* failed at 11Mb. Reenabled the cache and it still fails at 11Mb. So now I'm running crippled booted with mem=10M, and everything seems stable. Right now I'm working on the hypothesis that there's an addressing problem, but since neither I nor any of my coworkers knows enough about the board or the Cyrix, we don't know if it's in the CPU or on the board. I'll try to get ahold of a replacement CPU ASAP. If the test fails at the same location after that, we'll know it's on the board. If *anyone* has alternative theories or otherwise thinks I'm barking up the wrong tree, *please* let me know. -- Cerebus [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
At 09:27 AM 3/24/98 -0700, you wrote: Do you have dselect set up to get the Packages files for non-free? They are both included there. Bob At 09:27 AM 3/24/98 -0700, you wrote: Do you have dselect set up to get the Packages files for non-free? They are both included there. Bob Bob, I tried to get the package list for non-free, but it kept giving me an error. I don't think I was in the right directory to update the non-free package list. I tried to FTP to the site, but could only find the bo -stable package list. Where would I set the dselect to point to the non-free package list. No problems with the stable package list. What I mean is what directory is the non-free list in. I know how to set up the Access on dselect, just didn't know which directory to point to. Thanks for the reply. ___ Mike Acklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie --(Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: man segmentation fault
Ulrich Jans posted a message about man segmentation fault. Since I first installed debian (1.31) I have always get a segmentation fault error any time I attempt to use man for anything that's not in the man page. There doesn't seem to be any problem (It's just man's cute way of saying 'I have no entry for that') or is that an indication that something is seriously wrong? -Chip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing file for X
I am unable to run Xwindows. I have debian 1.31. I believe I have messed something up in an attempt to upgrade the SVGA server. Ben Pfaff said I needed the latest version of the SVGA server to support my Matrox Millenium II, so I downloaded X332SVGA.tgz from an X site. I am not clear how the X files are organized in debian, but I believe debian organizes X files differently than what the X people consider the standard. In any event, I unpacked the file X332SVGA.tgz from /usr/X11R6/bin with the statement gzip -dc /dosfloppy/x332svga.tgz | tar xfB - Further attempts to run Xwindows (before I at least got a 320X200 screen) result in an error message -X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect : Can't connect : errno = 2 xinit: No such file or directory unable to connect to xserver So I assume a file is missing but what file? According to the X people the file /usr/X11R6/bin/X is suppose to be a symbolic link to the actual Xserver (for me XF86_SVGA) but even when I had it working at low resolution this was not the case. Am I suppose to manually make the symbolic link with ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA /usr/X11R6/bin/X or is there some upgrade script that I need to run? -Thank you for bearing with a debian newbie Chip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: atalkd error ???
If you see this twice, I sent it a second time because it bounced back the first time. I posted this to the Debian users list because path, etc are different than the standard package paths that are mentioned in the Linux Journal (January 1998). I thought that I might have done something wrong during the package installation. Has anyone installed netatalk? Could anyone point me in the right direction? I have read HOWTO, netatalk pages, and the LJ article and still can't find the clue. p. s. I have shadow passwords on. Greg Frye wrote: during system start up (netatalk), I get a message that says 'atalkdsocket: Invalid argument'. The only thing that I have changed from the default that deselect sets up is that I added 'eth0' to /etc/atalkd.conf. What do I need to add, change, ...? I'm new to Debian (some Slackware experience) and very new to netatalk. Thanks for the help Greg Frye -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Michael Acklin wrote: I tried to get the package list for non-free, but it kept giving me an error. I don't think I was in the right directory to update the non-free package list. I tried to FTP to the site, but could only find the bo -stable package list. Where would I set the dselect to point to the non-free package list. No problems with the stable package list. What I mean is what directory is the non-free list in. I know how to set up the Access on dselect, just didn't know which directory to point to. Relative to /debian, when asked Enter space seperated list of distributions to get, you should respond: stable non-free contrib HTH, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing file for X
It looks like I may have given you misleading advice, or advice that you have inadvertently misinterpreted. The Debian X Window System is set up slightly different from the standard XFree86 setup. The file /etc/X11/Xserver contains the full path to the X server as its first line; /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a symlink in this setup. The only file that you needed to replace from X332SVGA.tgz was /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. Make sure that this file actually did get updated and that nothing else got stomped on or overwritten. Alternatively, it sounds like 3.3.2 will be in Debian Real Soon Now, so you might just want to wait. Hope this helps, Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect Question
At 10:09 AM 3/24/98 -0700, you wrote: Relative to /debian, when asked Enter space seperated list of distributions to get, you should respond: stable non-free contrib HTH, Bob Bob, Thanks, that's the one's I needed. I kept trying to put the full path name and kept getting errors. I hadn't updated any other the non-stable lists since I had installed debian, this last weekend. So this will help me a lot. Thanks again for the info and reply. Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RESC1440.BIN
Well I just copied resc1440.bin to a floppy last night. Did you use?: dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 Mike Santner wrote: I was attempting to install Debian from floppy but the RESC1440.BIN is too large to fit on a 1.44 disk. This seems to make installation impossible. Am I doing something wrong or what? I ended up installing from the hard drive. Other than that, the installation is very easy and straight forward. Thanks, Mike -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some things right! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing file for X
I just did the exact same upgrade that you did for my Matrox Millenium II AGP. Here are some pointers that may help you: 0. DO NOT setup a link from the server to X. Debian uses the /etc/X11/Xserver file to determine what X server to run. IIRC, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a SUID wrapper so that X servers don't have to be set SUID. 1. Check that server entry /etc/X11/Xserver is correct, i.e. pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. It may be pointing to an incorrect server such as XF86_VGA16 (which is the one that XF86Setup uses by default). 2. If you are going to reconfigure, you may need to replace XF86Setup with the new one, too. (I think it is in X332set.tgz). The cards database has been updated in XF86 3.3.2. Also, you may need to replace XF86_VGA16 since the old one doesn't seem to work with the new XF86Setup. 3. If you do reconfigure, make sure that the XF86Config file is being stored as /etc/X11/XF86Config. XF86Config may be installed as /etc/XF86Config by the non-Debianized XF86Setup. 4. DO NOT try to configure [EMAIL PROTECTED] Millenium IIs do not support this resolution at 32bpp. I had all sorts of problems with this. 5. If you will be running at 24bpp, add the following option to your Device section: Option mga_24bpp_fix This option is supposed to correct color distortion problems at 24bpp. 6. Check that the server is detecting the right amount of video memory. At first, the server was detecting 16MB of video memory even though I only have 8MB! If you have the same problem, configure the amount of memory using XF86Setup or add the following to your Device section in the XF86Config file: VideoRam8192 --- change to whatever RAM you have --- (8MB = 8 * 1024K = 8192K) I can't think of anything else right now. It seems that this server is still a little quirky which the Millenium II support, especially at 24bpp. If you are going to need TrueColor visuals, you are probably better off with the 32bpp mode, at least with the current server. I hope all of this helps. Good luck. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RESC1440.BIN
Hi, Well I just copied resc1440.bin to a floppy last night. Did you use?: dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 Just out of curiosity, shouldn't there be a bs=126b in there somewhere. For example: dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=126b I seem to be remember the Debian install docs mentioning something about that. I could be wrong, though. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail and mailer questions
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am interested in looking into a new mail setup and I am looking for some information and recomendations My highest recommendation is Gnus. It's a fantastic mail program that runs inside emacs, and handles news, so most of what you learn for mail is applicable for news or for more general emacs editing purposes. It probably has more features than you could (would want to) ever use. Gnus easily handles threading your mail and news, and splitting your incoming mail into different groups (mailboxes) based on whatever criteria you like. You'd use fetchmail to download your mail to your machine and then Gnus to deal with it, and I'd recommend using the Gnus nnmail backend which stores each message as a separate file, and is faster than the other backends. There are of course other good mail programs. I used to use mh (and exmh) before I switched to Gnus. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smbclient interface
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Paul Miller wrote: : : Is there a smbclient interface that is something like mc's ftp interface? Nope, at least not that I'm aware of. Though I have some good news :) In one of the next releases of samba, it's very likely a tool called smb2www will be packaged with the samba package (upstream). smb2www consists of a few cgi-bin perl scripts, and shows your local Network Neighboorhood using your webserver. So browsing becomes possible ;) bye, Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-source2.0.33
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, W Paul Mills wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, John Maheu wrote: I've had some trouble with mounting iso9660 and msdos type fs with kernel 2.0.33. The kernel complains that these fs types are not supported. However, they were built as modules and exist in /lib/modules/2.0.33/ This sounds like a problem with the necessary modules not loading. This happens to me if I use filesystem type auto without the modules preloaded. Could be a kerneld problem - Did you run depmod -a? Yes, I think this was the problem. Everything is running fine now, including kerneld. It seems strange that in some cases module dependencies get calculated upon booting a new kernel and in some cases they don't. Is one always required to run depmod -a after installing a new kernel? John * John Maheu phone: 545-2289 Queen's University email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Economics Dunning Hall 347 Kingston ON Canada K7L 3N6 ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian(hamm) system compiles Netscape 5.0!!!
This might have been passed around on the developer list but one of the Debian developers(Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]) used Debian(hamm) to sucessfully compile a beta copy of the upcomming Netscape source release. Check out http://everybody.got.net/~che/my-day.html for a nice story about his day at Netscape I got link from Slashdot.org. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ncr 53cXXX, once again.
Can someone provide some info. I've found three types of ncr scsi cards (pci), the 810, 860, and 875. Only the 875 claims to have onboard bios. How does one find out whether the motherboard bios supports the other ncr cards? It seems that I have seen the disclaimer mentioned that you must make sure that your bios supports these cards. How do you go about that? thanks, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RESC1440.BIN
You are right in that it call for an option in the docs (though the option is 'bs=512'). However, I have pretty much always just specified the 'if', 'of' and they work. -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some things right! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keyborad Dead-keys
Hi all. I am a brazilian SysAdmin and, in order to make the accents of my language work, I tried to install Dead-keys on my Linux Box. All I did was change the (accent) - (dead_accent) in the us.map because my keyboard has International layout. Well, It didn't work... :( I am sending my /etc/init.d/boot for purposes of debugging, but... Thanks in advance Daniel. __ Daniel Doro Ferranteemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Manager http://www.cecm.usp.br/~danieldf CECM - Curso de Ciencias Moleculares - USP Course of Molecular Sciences - University of Sao Paulo #! /bin/sh # # boot boot-time system configuration. # # Version: @(#)boot 2.10 26-Apr-1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Debian Association, Inc. # Written by Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] # and Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # # This script desperately needs to parse a config file # (like /etc/default/boot) instead of having to edit it directly! # # Time files in /tmp are kept. TMPTIME=0 # Set to yes if you want sulogin to be spawned on bootup SULOGIN=0 # Set to no if you want to be able to login over telnet/rlogin # before system startup is complete (as soon as inetd is started) DELAYLOGIN=yes # Set GMT=-u if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT= if not. GMT=-u # Set VERBOSE to no if you would like a more quiet bootup. VERBOSE=yes # Set EDITMOTD to no if you don't want /etc/motd to be editted automatically EDITMOTD=yes PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin umask 022 export PATH VERBOSE if [ -x /sbin/unconfigured.sh ] then /sbin/unconfigured.sh fi # # Trap CTRL-C c only in this shell so we can interrupt subprocesses. # trap : INT QUIT TSTP # # Set pseudo-terminal access permissions and some # video settings. # #INITTY=/dev/tty[1-6] #for tty in $INITTY #do # echo -n -e \\033(K $tty #done #/usr/bin/setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1u-16.psf #/usr/bin/setvesablank on # # Load the keymaps *as soon as possible* # #if [ -r /etc/kbd/default.map ] #then # loadkeys /etc/kbd/default.map #fi # # Set SULOGIN to yes if you want a sulogin to be spawned from # this script *before anything else* with a timeout, like on SCO. # [ $SULOGIN = yes ] sulogin -t 30 $CONSOLE if [ $VERBOSE != no ] then echo echo Running /etc/init.d/boot... echo fi # # Activate the swap device(s) in /etc/fstab. This needs to be done # before fsck, since fsck can be quite memory-hungry. # if [ -x /sbin/swapon ] then [ $VERBOSE != no ] echo Activating swap... swapon -a 2/dev/null fi # # Ensure that bdflush (update) is running before any major I/O is # performed (the following fsck is a good example of such activity :). # [ -x /sbin/update ] update # # Check the root file system. # if [ -f /fastboot ] then echo Fast boot, no file system check else # # Ensure that root is quiescent and read-only before fsck'ing. # mount -n -o remount,ro / if [ $? = 0 ] then echo Checking root file system... fsck -a / # # If there was a failure, drop into single-user mode. # # NOTE: failure is defined as exiting with a return code of # 2 or larger. A return code of 1 indicates that file system # errors were corrected but that the boot may proceed. # if [ $? -gt 1 ] then # Surprise! Re-directing from a HERE document (as in # cat EOF) won't work, because the root is read-only. echo echo fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note echo that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To echo remount it read-write: echo echo# mount -n -o remount,rw / echo echo CONTROL-D will exit from this shell and REBOOT the system. echo # Start a single user shell on the console /sbin/sulogin $CONSOLE reboot -f fi else echo *** ERROR! Cannot fsck root fs because it is not mounted read-only! echo fi fi # # Remount rootfs rw (default), but do not try to change mtab because it # is on a ro fs until the remount succeeded. Then clean up old mtabs and # finally write the new mtab. # mount -n -o remount,rw / rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/nologin : /etc/mtab mount -o remount,rw / mount /proc # # Configure the isa plug and play boards before loading # modules. Need to do this before loading modules to get # a chance of configuring and starting PnP boards before # the drivers mess all this up. # if [ -x /etc/init.d/isapnp ] then /etc/init.d/isapnp start fi # # Load the appropriate modules. This needs to be done here in case fs modules # are needed for accessing or mounting local file systems. # if [ -x /etc/init.d/modutils ] then /etc/init.d/modutils
Re: ncr 53cXXX, once again.
Can someone provide some info. I've found three types of ncr scsi cards (pci), the 810, 860, and 875. Only the 875 claims to have onboard bios. How does one find out whether the motherboard bios supports the other ncr cards? It seems that I have seen the disclaimer mentioned that you must make sure that your bios supports these cards. How do you go about that? I am using a NCR SCSI controller that is builtin to my Digital DECpc 590. I use the ncr53c7xx driver in the linux kernel. I am not totally sure what you are asking, but my BIOS is not like a normal SCSI bios (Such as Adaptec's CTRL-A or BusLogic/Mylex's CTRL-B to enter the SCSI utils). It simply prompts me as to which to boot between SCSI or IDE. There are other more basic options in the system BIOS about SCSI that I cannot recall what they are. What is it that you are trying to do? Boot off of SCSI? Do you have a mixed IDE/SCSI system. Typically that would be the only reason why your system would require you to have some mention in the BIOS. If you are totally SCSI and your SCSI card has a BIOS to boot from, then simply disable your onboard IDE in the system BIOS. I have not had a problem with my NCR controller. --Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Create Special Boot Disks??
If the stock 1.3.1 Rescue disk will not boot up a system with an Adaptec SCSI controller, do I have any other options for getting this to work? Are there special rescue disks out there for this sort of thing? Thanks, --Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ncr 53cXXX, once again.
Indeed, you do need MB BIOS support for the cards mentioned. Usually this tidbit is given along with technical information for MBs. Here's an example. This is some brief technical information from the Mfr. of a MB I have (note the BIOS info explicity states that the BIOS is included): DX-9700 FEATURES CPUs SUPPORTED Intel 486 DX, DX2, DX4 Non-SL and SL Enhanced Microprocessors Cyrix/IBM/SGS/TI 486 DX, DX2, DX2-V80, DX4, DX4-GC, DX4-GP, DX4-GIC, DX4-GP4 5x86 100MHz/120MHz/133MHz SL Enhanced Microprocessors AMD 486 DX4, 5x86 SL Enhanced Microprocessors Supports 3.3V, 4V, and 5V CPUs with ZIF Sockets UMC Chipset MEMORY Up to 256MB Main Memory Four 72-pin SIMM slots for EDO and Fast Page Mode DRAM Modules CACHE 256KB Write-Back Cache SRAM Module BUS ARCHITECTURE Three 32-Bit PCI Slots One 32-Bit VLB Slot Four 16-Bit ISA Slots ONBOARD I/O Two PCI Enhanced IDE Ports Supports 4 Devices PIO 0-4 Two High Speed Serial Ports 16550 UART Compatible One Enhanced Parallel Port SPP, EPP, ECP capable One Floppy Drive Port Supports 2 Floppy Drives ENERGY SAVING FUNCTIONS SMM/SMI Power Management with APM Software Interface Monitor CPU I/O status with fully user configurable parameters in BIOS BIOS AMI WinBIOS Optional Flash PnP BIOS for easy upgrade NCR SCSI 810 BIOS built-in SIZE 8-5/8 X 9-7/8 22cm X 25 cm tony mollica wrote: Can someone provide some info. I've found three types of ncr scsi cards (pci), the 810, 860, and 875. Only the 875 claims to have onboard bios. How does one find out whether the motherboard bios supports the other ncr cards? It seems that I have seen the disclaimer mentioned that you must make sure that your bios supports these cards. How do you go about that? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
19980324 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: prospective-packages.html,v 1.7 1998/03/24 19:13:43 johnie Exp $ This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the regular Debian Developer documentation: [1]http://www.debian.org/developers_corner.html. This document provides the current list of packages which are either: * orphaned, * withdrawn from the unstable distribution, * maintained but its developer would like to find a new person, * currently being worked on to include in the distribution, and * good ideas -- they would be nice to have, but no one is yet working on them. New versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: * [2]http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html * [3]ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-pa ckages.txt * [4]ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-pa ckages.html Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Please mention which version of this document your comments refer. Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're talking about, it makes it easier for to sort out all Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages emails. A suggested subject line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on barpackage. Thanks. _ Recent Changes Since version 1998/03/17 The lzo, dfm, and nocol packages are uploaded. Packages needing a new maintainer * The ascd, ascdc, asmail, asmixer, netpbm, tkdesk and asmodem packages are now orphaned. Packages adopted * The iplogger package is adopted by Hugo Haas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The xmikmod and xpuzzles packages are adopted by Fredrik Hallenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The scm and slib packages are adopted by Jim Pick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), who is also working on gnome. * The mp3info package is adopted by Pawel Wiecek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Packages being created * The x11amp mp3 player is being packaged by Jens Ritter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * An xtartan package (Scottish X backgrounds) is being created by Anselm Lingnau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). _ Orphaned packages An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer. Please inform the WNPP maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) via e-mail: * when you find that you need to orphan a package, * when you believe that the following list is incomplete, or * when you would like to maintain one of these packages. The following packages are orphaned: By the Debian QA Group (debian-qa@lists.debian.org): * 9wm -- An emulation of the Plan 9 window manager 8-1/2 * bibindex -- fast lookup in BibTeX bibliography data bases * latex2rtf -- LaTeX text to RTF format translator * mcvert -- Tool to deal with specially encoded Macintosh files (non-free) * pari -- A package for number theorists (non-free) * paridoc -- The documentation and examples for the PARI system (non-free) * rc -- An implementation of the ATT Plan 9 shell. * sam -- A plan9 derived text editor * xabacus -- Implementation of the classic Chinese abacus * xbattle -- A concurrent multi-player battle strategy game * xmcpustate -- Displays CPU/Swap/Memory/Network load By David Engel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * ascd -- AfterStep CD player * ascdc -- AfterStep CD changer * asmail -- AfterStep mail monitor * asmixer -- AfterStep audio mixer By Herbert Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * netpbm -- graphics conversion tools By Clint Adams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * tkdesk -- Tk/tcl based X11 Desktop/File manager * asmodem -- AfterStep modem monitor By Dale Sheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * ucblogo -- Dialect of lisp using turtle graphics famous for teaching kids By Christoph Lameter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * wdb -- web to database language No upstream version since 1996 By James Troup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * zoo -- manipulate archives of files in compressed form (non-free) * regex -- GNU regular expression library By Andreas Jellinghaus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * giflib -- shared library for GIF images (non-free)
Re: Debian(hamm) system compiles Netscape 5.0!!
It is true. Dynamically linked against glibc. Thaths -- The truth is not out there The truth is not out there The truth us not -- Bart Simpson, The Sprintfield Files Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
I would try these: 1) man XF86Setup 2) Redirecting the stderr to a file when invoking XF86Setup. Hopefully, it will catch the error messages. 3) Killing XF86Setup with ctrl+alt+BS, or ctrl+c. Hopefully, it will save the trouble of logging in again. Hope this help. Hello I installed debian 1 months ago. I've benn trying to setup X-windows since that time. But any time I start XF86Setup after a few minutes it's frozen, and I have to login again. Sometimes it writes that some files are missing or incorrect, but does it so fast that I can't read which are those. If you have any tips or suggestions please write me. Thanks Havas Gergo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TRANSLATION Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Wesley Hart wrote: And Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella spake, saying: 2.B) he is lying To lie is a bad thing, but people do it. Things that make me Let's not forget how close we are to April 1st - I think we've been the victims of a (fairly sucessful) April Fools prank. Nope... it was me who first posted this to the list, and I was *not* trying to fool anybody; and puma (the howto author) posted this to the Brazilian linux list about a month ago, so nothing to do with april 1st. He is an active contributor to that list, and I seriously doubt he'd be joking, *but* he stated some people had trouble to do it, while some others had success. He also noted the codepage and country setup for Brazil prevented it to work for some people, who then took the info off config.sys/autoexec.bat and managed to make it work, while others simply had no luck. I'd like to point out that Winblows puts the video card in graphic mode and accesses it through third-party drivers. So, the video card can play a major role in this scenario. I bet this is so even with standard VGA drivers. Of course, you may think that I'm *really* trying to make you all look like fools ;-) , but that's not it, I just don't have first-hand experiences to share. And since I suspect that I wouldn't be able to make win95 TCP/IP work under linux, I didn't bother any longer (I need it around here for a couple of reasons). Has anybody tried safe mode? See ya, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's Internet! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running X11 over a network
Hi Rainer :-) In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rainer Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Ben Pfaff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Try this, which is slightly different: * Give 192.168.1.1 to the laptop. * Give 192.168.1.2 to the desktop. * Install any X software you want, but no xserver package, on the laptop. * Install only xserver-* (whichever you need), xbase, xlib6g on the server. * On the laptop do `export DISPLAY=192.168.1.2:0' in bash. * Run `startx', then `xhost +192.168.1.1' on the 486. * Run your xclients from the laptop command line. How about running 'X -query 192.168.1.1' on the desktop? This should give you the XDM-login of your laptop. IIRC every host can connect to an XDM by default. Otherwise you need to add a line with a * to /etc/X11/Xaccess. Just to clarify... So I skip the export, startx and xhost steps replacing them with X -q... on the desktop. Packages installed as above, uses window manager on the laptop? Does XDM require you to log in? If so, can I make it automatically send the info I used to log in to the console (both will have identical user details). BTW, does the laptop need xbase and xlib6g? Thanks Ian -- Ian Lynagh - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.sn.no/~balchen/igloo/ Oxymoron #12: Dry Wine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scrollbars II
Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess the only thing I would like to do is make it so that the scrollbar in xconsole has the same smooth, gray look it used to have. Is there any way to do this? Edit /etc/ld.so.conf and either remove the Xaw3d line or put it at the end. Be careful doing this. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ [UNIX] appears to have the inside track on being the replacement for CP/M on the largest microcomputers (e.g. those based on 68000...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect/ftp non-standard mirrors
Hi, Is there a way to use dselect/ftp with non-standart mirrors ? The mirror I want to use has no un/stable directory. binary-all, binary-i386, ... are in debian/ directly. Thanks in advance. Deniz Dogan --- Gunumuz toplumunda gonullu asker olarak yazilip kendinizi yaralanma ve olum tehlikesine atabilirsiniz ama bilimi ilerletmek ugruna tehlikeli deneylerde kobaylik yapamazsiniz. --Francis Crick, Sasirtan Varsayim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Create Special Boot Disks??
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: If the stock 1.3.1 Rescue disk will not boot up a system with an Adaptec SCSI controller, do I have any other options for getting this to work? Are there special rescue disks out there for this sort of thing? Jay I see this is your second request. Nobody has answered this, so I'll hazard a response. If I'm in error, I know someone will correct me ;) The boot (rescue) disks use syslinux to boot the kernel. The instructions on the disk say you can put any kernel on the disk and name it linux. Then you can use the disk to boot. I had trouble with the modules, so you should put all the modules you are going to need for install (in my case, I had to have SCSI CD rom support). Then ask on this list, they KNOW and WILL help. Please look at the rescue disk on an msdos machine and confirm this. I had to do this when I booted my system at home with AHA 1542, then later AHA 2840 SCSI controllers, but that was back in the Deb 0.93 and 1.1 days. Lots of luck. --David --- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [3456]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | Ask me how user interface copyrights software [EMAIL PROTECTED] | patents make programing a dangerous business. spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper National Security Council explosion Treasury terrorist Delta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail and mailer questions
I recently answered a similar question: -8-- On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:54:35 EST, Shaleh wrote: I am using a modem and ppp to login to my ISP. What is a good setup for e-mail??? Currently I use NS4's e-mail but it is a little buggy and crashes often. I would like to have a nice X front end. I currently recieve between 250 and 350 e-mails a day and am logged in via modem sporadically at best. exmh is popular, I like it, it has never crashed on me, it has lots of nice features, and it is packaged for both bo and hamm. exmh home page http://www.beedub.com/exmh/ exmh is a tcl/tk frontend to MH or nmh (so you'll need MH or nmh too), and I'd recommend running procmail to sort your mail, and fetchmail to get your mail, and smail to send mail, assuming dialup networking. If this sounds a little more involved than configuring netscape, it is, however I think you'll find the added functionality worthwhile in the long run. I configured fetchmail and promail mostly using the documentation available in the package (man, info, /usr/doc/*), however some online procmail resources were also helpful for fine tuning: http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue14/procmail.html http://www.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html http://www.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/links.html The primary obstacle to overcome with smail is rewriting headers and making them stick during smtp posts. I like Daniel Martin's solution, but there are both simpler and more complex methods: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html Coincidentally, I recommend you follow the recent advice regarding MH configuration: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9803/msg01287.html More good MH resources: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mh-faq/part1/f aq.html http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/ Exmh itself is pretty easy to configure, has a gui for most configuration, help menu (in 2.x version) which includes faq and mailing lists subscription. -8-- Additionally, you asked for was a text mode email client and mentioned mailbox styles, and there are at least several of each. Originally, my mail configuration was setup to work with mutt (my preferred text-mode email client) and exmh (preferred X-windows), however my mutt configuration is no longer. I believe my mutt was disavowed sometime amidst my hamm upgrade due to a long outstanding dependency. The original idea was that mutt and exmh both called on smail's post command Anyways, I just reinstalled mutt, and assigned my exmh inbox to be used, sent and received mail, and looked at my headers, and the Return-Path: field was correctly set, although the From: field apparently needs to be configured a little better because I used the example ~/.muttrc (properly modified) and html manual in /usr/doc, however sending to my isp account I get: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kotsya: David Stern) If anyone knows what causes this, please post list and/or me. Anyways, Mutt has a very advanced feature list, and if you want pgp integration, you'll have to get the non-us version from nonus.debian.org (that's what someone said last night, I haven't tried it). The one thing mutt uses by default that I'm not comfortable with (yet) is vi, but this can be configured to another editor (I chose pico) in ~/.muttrc or in the EDITOR environment variable. There was also an interesting thread re: vi last night. I intend to learn vi, ultimately. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-source2.0.33
Hi, There is a problem if you are re-installing a kernel with the same version number (and not using Flavours ;-). From the kernel-package README file: __ Now, there is a caveat: If you already have kernel 2.0.29 installed, and you have a freshly created custom 2.0.29 kernel, just installing the new 2.0.29 kernel shall install modules (as it should) in /lib/modules/2.0.29, which is where the old modules were! If you have added or removed modules relative to the old 2.0.29 kernel (very likely if your old kernel was the default gigantic generic kernel), then you shall have a mish-mash of modules in /lib/modules/2.0.29 ;-( Unfortunately, there is no reasonable solution; I suggest moving the old modules directory before installation, like so (need to be root): # mv /lib/modules/2.0.29 /lib/modules/2.0.29.save # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.0.29_custom.1.0_i386.deb and later get rid of the .save directory. People who want to have multiple flavours of the same kernel version around should look at the file /usr/doc/kernel-package/Flavours.gz for details (Note: This involves modifying the kernel sources top level Makefile; not recommended unless you are *sure* you need it). __ manoj -- It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it. Jake and Elwood Blues Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some odd errors / compatibility questions.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Miller) writes: So I swapped the sticks. The memory test *still* failed at 11Mb. Reenabled the cache and it still fails at 11Mb. *sigh* Failed at *17Mb*. Succeeded at *16Mb*. I *will* remember to calculate in HEX, I *will* remember to calculate in HEX, I *will* remember to calculate in HEX... This now points me toward a bad socket. All the pins look good, but that's not likely to mean anything anyway. Memory failures at SIMM boundaries make me suspicious... At any rate, mem=16M is certainly better than mem=8M-- at least until I can replace the board. -- Cerebus [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stupid Question.
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone tell me how to add another address to the loopback? In other words, I want 192.168.43.2 to actually be a loopback address in addition to 127.0.0.1 You should use the dummy interface for that. Either compile it into your kernel or load it as module (modprobe dummy or let kerneld do its work). Then issue the following command, and after it works, add it to /etc/init.d/network: ifconfig dummy0 192.168.43.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 route add 192.168.43.2 Torsten -- I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere. Fortune Cookie PGP Public key available -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Twain Driver
Dear Sir/Madam, I have recently bought the D-Cam Digital Camera. I would like to know if it is possible (when invoking the twain driver) [EMAIL PROTECTED] press the ACQUIRE button without pressing twice the PREVIEW button. According to the documentation, this is possible. However, I can´t find the way to do it. I would be very grateful if you could help me to solve this problem. Thank you in advance. Viviana Rodriguez. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Twain Driver
I think you must be mistaken as to the purpose of this list. TWAIN drivers are MS Windows-based, and thus have no relation to Linux. Helping with Linux (specifically Debian GNU/Linux) is the purpose of this list. You might try a comp.os.ms-windows.* newsgroup instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
