Re: Los cores
Ayer, Santiago Vila escribió: El mismo día, Enrique Zanardi tecleó: Antes de hoy, yo dije escribiendo: Por cierto que acabo de traducir bash(1), supongo que saldrá en la próxima versión de manpages-es (proyecto PAMELI). ¿Y por qué no en la próxima versión de bash? Oye, por mí no hay pobrema, digo poblema. Encantado. Pues posiblemente porque la FSF no cree en las páginas man. Si algunas ¿Eh? ¿Cómorl? ¿Que no cree? Pues le puedo pasar unas 523 páginas man a la FSF (¿Felisa Sánchez Fernández?) esa a ver si cree. Le aseguro que existen. Otra cosa es creer en los extraterrestres, postergays, fantasmas, o las noticias del Telediario de la 1, pero las páginas man existen y tengo pruebas. Se puede no creer en Dios, pero sí hay que creer en los curas: los curas existen. :-) incluso no se actualizan, dudo bastante que ahora vayan a incluir Ésta sí. El último cambio fue el 1 de abril (los .\ comentarios no los he traducido). .\ .\ MAN PAGE COMMENTS to .\ .\ Chet Ramey .\ Information Network Services .\ Case Western Reserve University .\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] .\ .\ Last Change: Wed Apr 1 12:16:09 EST 1998 .\ traducciones. Pues tampoco les costaría mucho. En fin. Así estaría disponible para todos los sistemas y no sólo para Linux. Es que el Info, sin duda, está muy bien, y es mucho mejor que el Man, pero la gente ve cualquier sistema Unix y para buscar algo lo primero que hace es man loquesea, y no se mete en el Info. Mucha gente ni siquiera sabe que existe. Los de GNU son algo curiosos. El procesador de textos de GNU iba a ser TeX, pero hicieron el gtroff. El editor iba a ser (evidentemente) Emacs, pero hicieron elvis. El sistema de información iba a ser Info pero también existen las páginas man. El núcleo iba a ser Hurd pero... Linux... :-) O sea, Enrique, resumiendo: que por mí que se meta donde quepa, digo donde sea; de momento va a PAMELI, cuyo coordinador es Juan Piernas, a quien mando copia de ésta. Un saludo a todos y una saluda a todas. -- Gerardo ... ya conocéis el resto --- El objetivo de la Informática es construir algo que dure al menos hasta que acabemos de construirlo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE Servidor de correo
Hola, he leido en la guia garl (capítulo 14) que smail puede enviar el correo de tres formas distintas: foreground - procesa inmediatamente los mensajes background - igual al anterior pero en segundo plano (procesos padre e hijos) queued -- encolado puestas en la variable delivery_mode del archivo config (imagino que /etc/smail/config). El correo siempre será encolado independientemente de la variable anterior si en el mismo archivo hay una variable llamada queue_only. Puede ser que el problema venga derivado de que yo no tengo esa/s variable/s. Pero según he leido tambien en la guia garl si smail no puede enviar un mensaje por la razón que sea entones lo pone en cola igualmente, teniendose que correr runq después. Lo que me confunde un poco pués aunque no tenga las variables arriba mencionadas me imagino que smail tendría que encolar los mensajes y no me lo hace. Un saludo, J. Parera P.D. como sabrás las variables que hay en el archivo /etc/smail/config algunas llevan delante de ella el signo - y otras pueden llevar el signo + (y algunas nada). Como debo implementar las variables arriba comentadas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Los cores
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 10:10:46AM +0200, Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia wrote: Pues posiblemente porque la FSF no cree en las páginas man. Si algunas ¿Eh? ¿Cómorl? ¿Que no cree? Pues le puedo pasar unas 523 páginas man a la FSF (¿Felisa Sánchez Fernández?) esa a ver si cree. Le aseguro que Es broma... cierto? ;-) FSF = Free Software Foundation Y no, no cree. O mejor dicho, no les gustan las paginas de man... ellos prefieren los info (si es para cosas como GNU libc, yo tambien prefiero los info; para LaTeX, prefiero los info; para ls prefiero man) o las noticias del Telediario de la 1 ah, de verdad? El editor iba a ser (evidentemente) Emacs, pero hicieron elvis. El sistema de información iba a ser Info pero también perdon, pero el editor *es* Emacs. GNU Emacs. (Si no, pregunta a RMS) existen las páginas man. El núcleo iba a ser Hurd pero... Linux... :-) el nucleo *es* Hurd. (Busca en www.fsf.org cual es la posicion oficial de FSF respecto a Linux, o Lignux o GNU/Linux) Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdda2wav
Hola, tengo un problemilla con cdda2wav y querria ver si a alguno mas le pasa. 1º el cdda2wav que tengo es el de bo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/music/BORRADOR2 $ dpkg -l|grep cdda2wav ii cdda2wav0.8-1 get WAV files from digital audio cd's y el problema son dos: 1º no funciona el swith -B, le dices que separe las pistas y no lo hace, lee todo el disco y ademas en la ultima pista da el error: Sorry, this driver and/or drive does not support cdda reading. cooked: Read cdda : I/O error lo da en los ultimos sectores siempre. -- Antonio Calvo Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: /usr/lib/syslinux
Hola, Y por supuesto, debes visitar /usr/doc/syslinux Josep (Josep = Jose), date un paseo por tu /usr/doc , te sorprenderá la cantidad de documentación que tienes ahí. ok, ya lo he hecho. Se trata de un cargador de linux para arrancar desde un disco con formato DOS. No he averiguado más sobre el porque no me interesaba para nada y lo he borrado (con dpkg -r paquete). En lo de visitar /usr/doc tienes razón, frecuentemente se me olvida mirar allí y eso que contiene mucha documentación, desgraciadamente en inglés. Un saludo, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X with a NeoMagic card
Ok.. I found the key, I tried that and I also hooked up an external monitor to see if I could see something and it turned of the monitor like Win95 does when in the wrong video mode. I am running a Dell Latitude CP M233XT with the NM2190 chipset. I am very frustrated. I would really like to use X on my laptop. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: getting RealPlayer 5 running
Hi Joey Hess; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I take it you're not using the rvplayer debian package? You should try it. It's only in debian 2.0pre, but it makes installing real player very easy (and it should work on older debian 1.3 systems as well). -- see shy jo Sorry to butt in here, but just a quick question: I am using realplayer5.0, installed with rvplayer package from hamm, on a hamm based system. It works, and it worked first time I installed it. However, I can not for the life of me play _two_ songs in a row, without reloading the entire web-page; for example I listen to Cdnow site, hear the first track of whatever album I want to, all is well and once it is done, I exit the real player, click on the next song, player comes up and starts, but only noise comes out, and my system resources get apparently eaten by realplayer, since my mouse works as in very slow-motion. If I back out of the page, reload it and listen to it a minute later all is well (until I want to hear the next song). any ideas? My realaudio setting in netscape (4.05): audio/x-pn-realaudio /usr/X11R6/bin/rvplayer %s and audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealVideo Player plugin TIA damir -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: getting RealPlayer 5 running
Damir J. Naden wrote: Sorry to butt in here, but just a quick question: I am using realplayer5.0, installed with rvplayer package from hamm, on a hamm based system. It works, and it worked first time I installed it. However, I can not for the life of me play _two_ songs in a row, without reloading the entire web-page; for example I listen to Cdnow site, hear the first track of whatever album I want to, all is well and once it is done, I exit the real player, click on the next song, player comes up and starts, but only noise comes out, and my system resources get apparently eaten by realplayer, since my mouse works as in very slow-motion. If I back out of the page, reload it and listen to it a minute later all is well (until I want to hear the next song). any ideas? It sounds like you have a crummy sound card like mine, and rvplayer is playing sounds in 16 bit mode maybe. I get this problem not with rvplayer, but with quake. Try forcing rvplayer to use 8 bit mode. -- see shy jo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
FHS-correct place for x root pics
I have some snazzy pictures that I have setup as default backgrounds for x (root window) on my system. I am curious, though, as to where I should store these for a FHS compliance. I'm guessing something like /usr/local/lib, but I'm not sure. Thanks for any suggestions! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: samba printing problems
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another way to test the source of the problem is to print to a file on Win3.1. Then send the print file directly to the printer by 'cat file.prn /dev/lpN' where N is probably 1 for 2.0.X kernels and 0 for 2.1.X kernels. This will eliminate samba and lpr. If that works then redefine the 'print command' in your smb.conf to something like the above 'print command = /bin/cat %s /dev/lpN'. If that works then it is lpr. Probably a filter. You should be passing the samba print data directly to the lp device. I.E. no 'if' in the printcap file for the printer used for samba. print command = /bin/cat %s /dev/lp1 in smb.conf just sends the print jobs into oblivion. At least now it's not wasting paper with the garbled printouts. :( cat file /dev/lp1 worked, but it's a pain to ftp the file to Linux, telnet in and run cat every time I want to print anything with graphics in it. Here's /etc/printcap and as you can see, there is no 'if' (I've also tried it without the df= and tf= lines, but it didn't help.) stylus|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/stylus:\ :df=/etc/filter.ps:\ :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :pl#66:\ :pw#80:\ :pc#150:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: The output of lpq is sure interesting! The junk below is all from ONE print job from ONE Win3.1 computer. Think this could be part of the problem? Note that I had to take the printer offline to get all the pieces to be in the queue together. server2# lpq -Pstylus stylus is ready and printing Rank Owner Job Files Total Size active compman254 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140884096 bytes 1stcompman255 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140882304 bytes 2ndcompman256 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140884096 bytes 3rdcompman257 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140882048 bytes 4thcompman258 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140883584 bytes 5thcompman259 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140884096 bytes 6thcompman260 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a14088256 bytes 7thcompman261 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140884096 bytes 8thcompman262 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140883328 bytes 9thcompman263 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140884096 bytes 10th compman264 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140882560 bytes 11th compman265 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140882560 bytes 12th compman266 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140882816 bytes 13th compman267 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a14088164 bytes Sorry to anyone who finds this a little long. Normally I wouldn't send such big chunks of files and screen output to the list like this, but I'm so confused at the moment that explaining anything would be difficult (and prone to error). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
sound problems
I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). I have a SB/WSS card on my motherboard, and got the IRQ and IO setting from Win95. I've read all the FAQs and howtos, but nothing seems to work. Can someone tell me things to try? The settings for my SB ar IRQ:5, IO:220, DMA:1,5 for WSS are IO:530,388, IRQ 12, DMA 3. Since it is PNP though, windows might be changing the IRQ values. Any suggestions? |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 | |-| | Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh (Careful it's not completed) | |-| | The past brings pain, the future depression, | | the present disappointment. The only thing that remains is the moment.| | Live for the moment, and enjoy life. You only have one chance. | |-| -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
emacs/xemacs conflict?
Why do the emacs and xemacs packages conflict under debian? I wanted to try xemacs, but had to dpkg -r emacs before I could dpkg -i xemacs Since I no longer have GNU emacs on my system, is it okay to make /usr/local/bin/emacs a symbollic link to /usr/bin/xemacs? Also, I got a few warning messages about removing emacs, but I didn't think to Shift-PageUp them and actually investigate. Should there be any concern for the warnings I got when I did the dpkg -r emacs (although I suppose this is a hard one to answer without actually showing what these messages were, perhaps somebody has done this before, though?). Any comments? Thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: good digital clock for x?
the lone gunman wrote: Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer one that does military time, and perhaps the date, too :) I'd recommend asclock, which comes with afterstep. If you don't want the whole afterstep package, you can go to afterstep homepage, d/l the asclock tar.gz file and build it yourself. Here is how my FvwmButtons looks like: attachment: FrontPanel.jpg -- Hong Huang
autoup.sh fails when upgrading bo - hamm
I am trying to upgrade from bo to hamm so I can run the new bash and try wine. I run autoup.sh and it ftp'ed the files needed for the upgrade. It failed to get me the file libstdc++2.8_*.deb This is what it wrote 250 CWD command successful. Local directory now /tmp/libs libstdc++2.8_*.deb: No such file or directory. 250 CWD command successful. I looked around the ftp.debian.org site in the hamm directories but didn't find a libstdc++2.8_*.deb Where can I find this file? And I thought autoup.sh would work without any problems after so many people have successfully done the bo - hamm upgrade. Just my luck to have it fail on me. The autoup.sh I have is v 0.27 1998/05/29. I got it from http://www.debian.org/2.0/autoup/ Is this too old a version to be using or what? Any help is appreciated. jmb -- Jones MB : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ziplink.net/~jonesmb/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian 1.3 libc6
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shaleh wrote: We have done all the work needed to support libc6 for you. Please do not make yourself go through more hassle than needed. apt has a upgrade feature which will update your system. We also have an autoup.sh script on the ftp site which will update for you as well. This stuff always seems odd to me. Has autoup stopped killing people's systems? Is Apt in stable? Some folks want to use Debian, not develop it. Those people (say, me) prefer to use only stuff in stable, because our goal is to *avoid* buggy software, not improve it. I do some beta testing, but I like to do it on purpose and only on packages I *know* I'm beta testing. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, who else is going to be at WorldCon? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
magicfilter does ps?
On my old Slackware system, I manually installed APSfilter, and had my printer setup correctly. I could print text files without the staircase effect, and simply type lp somefile.ps and postscript files would print out automatically. On Debian, now, I have magicfilter (not APSfilter) installed, and my text file printing is okay, but if I try to lp a postscript, I get the literal file printed, i.e. it does not come out looking as it does under ghostview. What do I need to do to ammend this situation? Thank you! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
My Date is always 3 hrs off
I am having some trouble getting my time correct on my Debian 1.3 system. I am in the Eastern time zone. I type: date 0722233098 To change the date to July 22 1998 11:30pm. It changes the date, until I reboot. If I check my cmos clock it is right. So I am assuming that it, meaning Linux, thinks I am in a different time zone or something. This is what I get when I display the time and date: Wed Apr 22 11:30:02 EDT 1998 But like I said it reverts back three hours slow after I reboot. Thanks, Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
elm signature file
I think I am having some trouble setting up a ~/.signature file in Elm. If this message has my name at the bottom than everything is working, if not I need help. I just want to put a signature on all my email. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: My Date is always 3 hrs off
Keith wrote: I am having some trouble getting my time correct on my Debian 1.3 system. I am in the Eastern time zone. I type: date 0722233098 [snip] This is what I get when I display the time and date: Wed Apr 22 11:30:02 EDT 1998 But like I said it reverts back three hours slow after I reboot. Reading from the computer's on-board clock is slow. For better performance, Linux reads the on-board clock on start up and uses its own time-keeping system to update it. The date command only modifies the clock kept by the kernel. Your goal here is to change the hardware clock. For bo (1.3) the command you want to use is clock, hamm (2.0) changed the command to hwclock. Read all about clock through its man page (man clock). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Off-Topic -- CGI_Lite
Sorry for the off topic here but has/is CGI_Lite module been included in any of the Debian perl packages? Its required for some of my cgi's and was in the hopes that maybe someone has included some of these often used modules in a package. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Will Hamm X work with Cirrus 7548 chip?
Hello, I have an old laptop (Samsung sens 810) with a Cirrus 7548 chip. It ran XFree I believe 3.2 fine on Red Hat 4.1. I recently upgraded to Hamm, and now I get the message _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to xserver xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error. I get this error with /etc/X11/Xserver pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA and using my old XF86Config, which worked fine under RH4.1/XF 3.2?. I also got this line with /etc/X11/Xserver pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 and a quickdirty low-level XF86Config generated by xf86config. I am not running gpm. XFree does not complain that there are no valid modes. Does anybody have any suggestions? Is it possible that support for the Cirrus 7548 is broken? I tried using the line Chipset clgd5428 or something like that that I used to use under XFree 3.1.x, in the days before the 7548 was supported. It didn't help. TIA, Matthew Ando -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Off-Topic -- CGI_Lite
Pure Energy wrote: Sorry for the off topic here but has/is CGI_Lite module been included in any of the Debian perl packages? Its required for some of my cgi's and was in the hopes that maybe someone has included some of these often used modules in a package. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null To my knowledge -- no. Go to www.debian.org and search the packages listed. There is a handy cgi page for this purpose. If it is not packaged and we can package it, let us know. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian 1.3 libc6
Apt is in slink, we can not put it in stable. Autoup.sh apparently still has a flake now and then. There is a howto in the hamm directory (I believe) which tells you step by step how and what to update by hand. This is how I and many others do it. Once you update the 5 or so needed packages, the rest can be handled by dselect. The Hamm CD's ship w/ the howto and the autoup.sh. I believe that apt is going to be there to. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: emacs (in color mode)
Yo Pete, It worked just great ... thanks a million!! Now to set about finding where to modify the default colours Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Pete Harlan wrote: I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \ tex Put (global-font-lock-mode t) in your .emacs file, prepare yourself for a lot of colour, and restart emacs. (Assuming you're running it in an X window. If there's a way to colour text on a console or in an xterm, I don't know it.) Good luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.artselect.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: emacs (in color mode)
Thanks Gary, Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 22 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used | before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \ tex | | Put (global-font-lock-mode t) in your .emacs file, prepare yourself | for a lot of colour, and restart emacs. (Assuming you're running it | in an X window. If there's a way to colour text on a console or in an | xterm, I don't know it.) As long as the terminal supports it, and the default xterm in Debian for example, XEmacs will display font-lock colors in a text-mode sessions, e.g. emacs -nw. It's not quite as good as XEmacs in it's own X-window but it works. Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: emacs (in color mode)
Thanks alot Matt regards Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, the lone gunman wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 12:32:54PM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Hi, I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \ tex screens. Please could someone in the know aquaint me with the proceedure for this or to where in the documentation I can find out about this. Thanks and regards When you run emacs under x, you can probably just get away with pressing the Esc key, then the x key, then typing font-lock-mode and hitting enter... I have the following two lines in my ~/.emacs file, so that font-lock-mode is always used, and emacs uses the most colors possible: (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t) (global-font-lock-mode t) If only there was a way to colorize stuff in the console... Good luck! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Beta Test and e2fsprogs
I can't seem to upgrade one of the base packages. My current setup is ii e2fslibsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system shared libs. ii e2fsprogsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system utilities. When I type dpkg --install e2fsprogs_1.10-17.deb, I get the following: dpkg: considering removing e2fslibsg in favour of e2fsprogs ... dpkg: yes, will remove e2fslibsg in favour of e2fsprogs. dpkg: regarding e2fsprogs_1.10-17.deb containing e2fsprogs: e2fsprogsg conflicts with e2fsprogs e2fsprogs (version 1.10-17) is to be installed. dpkg: error processing e2fsprogs_1.10-17.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing e2fsprogs Errors were encountered while processing: e2fsprogs_1.10-17.deb My usual procedure is to first try to upgrade the package that won't let itself be removed. I can't find any package marked e2fsprogsg. In cases like this, I next try to back the offending package out by first uninstalling everything that depends on it and then removing the package. This package is different because it is essential. I don't want to --force this, but I don't see any other way. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Paul Serice -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: elm signature file
- I think I am having some trouble setting up a ~/.signature file in - Elm. If this message has my name at the bottom than everything is - working, if not I need help. I just want to put a signature on all - my email. hmmm edit your ~/.elm/elmrc and define # local .signature file to append to appropriate messages... localsignature = .signature # remote .signature file to append to appropriate messages... remotesignature = .signature -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Debian 2.0 Release later today!
We are mere hours away from the largest IRC party Debian has ever thrown, as the release of 2.0 hamm will happen: in Austrailia: at 10:00 AM ACT on Friday Jul 24 in Europe: at 0:00 midnight UTC on Friday Jul 24 in America: at 8:00 PM EDT on Thursday Jul 23 5:00 PM PDT Debian's developers and users are already gathering on IRC channel #debian, irc.debian.org. Everyone is invited for the Great Event, which will begin 2 hours before and probably last well into the night -- or afternoon as the case may be. There's also a live countdown page at http://www.netgod.net/. For new users, the install floppies will be on all of Debian's mirrors at the moment of release. And since irc.debian.org is linked with the Linux Internet Support Cooperative (http://www.linpeople.org/), there will be experts on IRC to help with things like ppp, sound, and X setup. People with Debian releases older than this hamm can upgrade easily after installing the next-generation package manager, APT, which was just put on Freshmeat. (Its perhaps better known by its secret codename, deity.) To join us, point your favorite IRC client at a server that sounds close: irc.us.debian.org irc.eu.debian.org irc.au.openprojects.net irc.linux.org The long wait is over. :-) - PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C __ _Debian GNU Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] mm mm / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __netgod irc.debian.org mm mm / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / m m m / /__| | | | | |_| |Yes, I'm Linus, and I am your God. mm mm \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ -- Linus, keynote address, Expo 98 GO BLUE -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian 1.3 libc6
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shaleh wrote: We have done all the work needed to support libc6 for you. Please do This stuff always seems odd to me. Has autoup stopped killing people's systems? Yup, I've upgraded lots of systems with autoup - all production servers, in a remote location, _while running_ Is Apt in stable? Good question. Some folks want to use Debian, not develop it. Those people (say, me) prefer to use only stuff in stable, because our goal is to *avoid* buggy software, not improve it. I do some beta testing, but I like to do it on purpose and only on packages I *know* I'm beta testing. Debian 2.0 _is_ stable (and it will be officially so in just a few hours). Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot
Hi, Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have ANY probelms, please let me know. Otherwise I a day or so I will upload this to the main Debian archive. Got this, installed it - it's awsome! :) Keep up the good (and fast!) work! Seems to work well, but it took a bit of searching around to get all of the relevant packages. Also interesting fun working out which order they had to be installed in :) Thanks again, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, Dead -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Check deb-Paket?
Hallo, Wie ueberpruefe ich auf der Kommandozeile die Integritaet von .deb-Paketen? Die man-pages (uralt) sagen, dass es keine Checksumme gaebe... Dann frage ich mich aber, wie dselect nach ftp die heruntergeladenen Pakete prueft bzw. wie Maintainer ihren ftp-Mirror checken? Danke im Voraus, Michael Taeschner German Aerospace Center (DLR) Braunschweig Institute of Structural Mechanics Thermo-Resistant Structures: http://hyperg.kp.dlr.de/WB-SM/sm-thermo/homepage_eng -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: autoup.sh fails when upgrading bo - hamm
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, JonesMB wrote: I am trying to upgrade from bo to hamm so I can run the new bash and try wine. I run autoup.sh and it ftp'ed the files needed for the upgrade. It failed to get me the file libstdc++2.8_*.deb [...deleted...] autoup.sh is expecting to find it in libs/, but it's not there anymore. it has been moved to base/. it must have happened recently because i haven't had any other complaints about it yet. download it from base, install it with dpkg and then run autoup.sh again. The autoup.sh I have is v 0.27 1998/05/29. I got it from http://www.debian.org/2.0/autoup/ Is this too old a version to be using or what? nope. that's the latest version. i'll put out a new version soon which corrects this libstdc++ problem. if you want to be certain you have the latest version, check http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup or http://taz.net.au/autoup/ the vicnet site is preferred - and also contains a .tar.gz file containing all the files which autoup.sh needs. debian.vicnet.net.au is my workstation at work, and has a much better net connection than the taz site (which is my home network). craig -- craig sanders -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
autoup.sh v0.28 released
v0.28: 1998-07-23 (Craig Sanders) - libstdc++2.8 has moved from libs/ to base/ - libnet-perl has moved from interpreters/ to base/ as usual, it is available from http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ (primary site) ftp://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ and http://taz.net.au/autoup/ autoup.tar.gz on the primary site has also been updated with all the latest versions of stuff from hamm. it weighs in at 9.1MB and includes: -r--r--r-- root/root450820 1998-07-17 07:55 bash_2.01.1-3.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 13912 1997-05-08 00:00 data-dumper_2.07-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root166586 1998-06-23 20:41 dpkg-dev_1.4.0.23.2.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 13544 1998-04-28 09:46 dpkg-ftp_1.4.9.6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 21946 1998-05-12 11:04 dpkg-mountable_0.7.deb -r--r--r-- root/root341616 1998-06-23 20:41 dpkg_1.4.0.23.2.deb -r--r--r-- root/root181344 1998-05-22 08:56 ldso_1.9.9-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root284268 1998-06-12 12:21 libc5_5.4.38-1.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root580872 1998-07-17 08:26 libc6_2.0.7t-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root254826 1997-10-07 13:55 libg++272_2.7.2.8-0.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root235522 1998-06-08 10:42 libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 17296 1998-05-25 12:29 libgdbm1_1.7.3-25.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 17230 1998-05-25 12:29 libgdbmg1_1.7.3-25.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 65308 1997-04-28 00:00 libnet-perl_1.0502-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 69678 1998-07-17 07:55 libreadline2_2.1-10.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 75864 1998-07-17 07:55 libreadlineg2_2.1-10.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 94784 1998-07-02 08:10 libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-0.6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 1340204 1998-07-17 08:26 locales_2.0.7t-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root111006 1998-04-16 11:09 ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root124368 1998-07-17 09:51 ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-8.8.deb -r--r--r-- root/root350948 1998-07-17 07:56 netbase_3.11-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root611710 1998-07-05 22:07 netstd_3.07-2.deb -r--r--r-- root/root282680 1998-06-08 10:47 perl-base_5.004.04-6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 3125884 1998-06-08 10:47 perl_5.004.04-6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 84354 1998-07-02 12:19 slang0.99.34_0.99.38-6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 83902 1998-07-02 12:19 slang0.99.38_0.99.38-6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root261268 1998-07-17 08:26 timezones_2.0.7t-1.deb craig -- craig sanders -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: X with a NeoMagic card
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Ok.. I found the key, I tried that and I also hooked up an external monitor to see if I could see something and it turned of the monitor like Win95 does when in the wrong video mode. What's in your /etc/X11/XF86Config? -- Ian Lynagh - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.sol.no/~balchen/igloo/ A circuit protected by a fast acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: your or redhat?
Few days ago I had a chance to compare redhat against debian. I had installed Debian 1.3 from CD on tiny configuration: ROM=4M, HD=120M, Monochroom Hercules, Cyrix 486DX, 50Mh. A friend of mine tried to do the same job with RH5.1 but was unable to install due to the lack of disk space, ROM size ... However, the instalation of basic system of debian was done on another PC. Might be this was a reason of such story? Regards, Eugene On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: im concidering putting linux on my system at home (who am i kiding? i will be putting linux on my system) but im kind of lost between the outdated info in various sources on which dist is going to help me. this is what i need: 1 easy installation (i.e. auto recognition) 2 robust/easy to use graphical enviroment such as in os2 what i need to know from you is why should i get your product instead of Redhat 5.1? thanks for the help ken Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-344873 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: sound problems
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 08:04:33PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). You have to compile sound as a kernel module. Answer m, not y to the question. After installation add sound to /etc/modules, then it will be loaded at boot time. Debian start up scripts automatically care about the order of isapnp and sound module (they do the right thing). 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote: At 10:44 PM 7/19/1998 -0700, you wrote: It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try to use 0x300 (sound cards, primarily). Theres a sound card in the machine but its sitting on 0x330 Also you may want to try pinging the machine's own address on the ethernet. See what that produces. Aside from that I can't help you much. Works. Both machines can ping themselves but not each other. check that you don't have an irq conflict with the ethernet card. i've had enough irq conflicts with network cards for that to be the first thing i check when i get a system which can send but not receive packets. craig -- craig sanders -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: magicfilter does ps?
the lone gunman writes: On my old Slackware system, I manually installed APSfilter, and had my printer setup correctly. I could print text files without the staircase effect, and simply type lp somefile.ps and postscript files would print out automatically. On Debian, now, I have magicfilter (not APSfilter) installed, and my text file printing is okay, but if I try to lp a postscript, I get the literal file printed, i.e. it does not come out looking as it does under ghostview. What do I need to do to ammend this situation? Both magicfilter and apsfilter are included. Please check your /etc/printcap file. Maybe magicfilter hasn't installed itself as filter? Regards, Joey -- *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows], repartitioning Disk for Linux ... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: rvplayer 5.0 with deb pkg
Mark H. Mabry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed rvplayer-5.0 with the Debian package and it still does not seem to work correctly. (I have also tried it by hand and still no luck.) When I click on a link with RealAudio, I get a Save As dialog box rather than having the player launched. I have checked in the Netscape preferences that it associates the .ram files with rvplayer %s. And I can launch rvplayer successful from the command line. is the program entry entry selected in netscape? It´s not enough to have *.ram files associated, you really have to select starting the program. (Sorry if you already have that selected, but I have been hit by this more then once.) Give the full path name to rvplayer. HTH, Jens --- [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 [Usually] everthing works only as good, as it is expected to. --- Stephen Chu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: My Date is always 3 hrs off
Keith writes: I am having some trouble getting my time correct on my Debian 1.3 system. I am in the Eastern time zone. I type: date 0722233098 To change the date to July 22 1998 11:30pm. It changes the date, until I reboot. If I check my cmos clock it is right. So I am assuming that it, meaning Linux, thinks I am in a different time zone or something. grep for GMT in /etc/* I'm not sure which file it is but in one of them you define that the hardware clock is set to GMT or localtime. Also check timeconfig (exec it). Maybe your timezone is wrong. Regards, Joey -- *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows], repartitioning Disk for Linux ... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: where did cvs-pcl go?
Steve Hsieh writes: Anyone know why the cvs-pcl package went away? Will it be coming back soon? It should be around in slink. It may be removed from hamm due to showstop errors during its installation. Regards, Joey -- *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows], repartitioning Disk for Linux ... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mouse movement weirdness with latest X packages
FYI: I just upgraged to the rev 3.3.2.2-3 X11 packages and the mouse movement sluggishness and jerkiness seems to have gone away, and it seems that the random button pressing behavior has disappeared. I'm guessing this is what affected me, although I'm using xserver-s3, not the SVGA server (from /usr/doc/xbase/changelog.Debian.gz): * programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common_hw/xf86_PCI.c: reversed patch from XFree86, was causing problems for many users of SVGA X server (Fixes: #24040) * programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/scanpci.c: reversed patch from XFree86, was causing problems for many users of SVGA X server However, there is still one problem that persists, that has happened to me twice in the last 24 hours. In both cases I had been using less or zless in an xterm window, and when I attempted to move the cursor away from the xterm window, the cursor did move outside the window, but it remained a text cursor, the window did not lose focus, I could not move beyond the edges of my screen into other areas of my virtual desktop, and no other window manager functions would work outside the xterm window (i.e. I couldn't pop a menu or double-click to pop up an icon). All text operations continued to work inside the xterm window however. In both cases I was able to exit this mode by terminating (^d) the xterm. This behavior is random--I have tried to reproduce it several times but so far I haven't been successful. Anyone else see this type of behavior? --ken On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 11:51:43PM -0500, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Hello, I just recently updated the X11 packages on my Hamm system from rev 3.3.2.1-1 to 3.3.2.2-1 and then to 3.3.2.2-2. Ever since, simple X-Y mouse movements cause the window manager to act as if the mouse buttons are being randomly pressed. This of course causes all sorts of annoying things to happen, like menus popping up randomly, windows losing focus, and commands getting unintentionally executed. Also cursor movement is occasionally sluggish or jerky, as if some mouse events are lost, or maybe as if the system is under a momentary heavy load, although the xsysinfo meter shows no spike in activity. This behavior happens with both the 3.3.2.2-1 and 3.3.2.2-2 revisions. I had none of these problems with previous revisions. ... -- __ Ken Lauffenburger / /__ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / D e b i a n G N U \ \/ / / / __ __ __ \ / / / / / / _ \ / / / / / \ ...Look out Bill, / /___ / / / / ) // (_/ / / /\ \ here comes... (__)(_/ (_/ (_/ \/ (_/ \_) http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: sound problems
Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). I have a SB/WSS card on my motherboard, and got the IRQ and IO setting from Win95. I've read all the FAQs and howtos, but nothing seems to work. Can someone tell me things to try? The settings for my SB ar IRQ:5, IO:220, DMA:1,5 for WSS are IO:530,388, IRQ 12, DMA 3. Since it is PNP though, windows might be changing the IRQ values. Any suggestions? Have you got isapnptools installed and /etc/isapnp.conf edited? If you add sound to /etc/modules everything should work. In what way does your setup differ? Jens --- [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 Like the genre it is meant to satirize my article is a mélange of truths, half-truths, quarter-truths, falsehoods, non sequiturs, and syntactically correct sentences that have no meaning whatsoever. --- Alan D. Sokal on his article in Social Text -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: your or redhat?
Ken Gray wrote: 1 easy installation (i.e. auto recognition) No auto recognition for ISA in Linux yet... Linus haven't yet seen a good implementation of Prug'n'Pray. PCI works regardless of distribution. RedHat installation is more beautiful, Debian is more informative and flexible. 2 robust/easy to use graphical enviroment such as in os2 The graphical environment in Linux is split. The window manager is standard: the X System. It is far more capable than any other I've seen up to now, but it is certainly the nastier part of the system to install. This also does not depends on the distribution. The GUI is the window manager, of which there is a bewildering variety: AfterStep, fvwm, ICE, OpenWindows, etc. Also not dependent on distribution. Both Debian and RedHat will standardize on the GNOME desktop, bypassing the KDE which depends on proprietary, closed libraries. GNOME isn't yet finished, but it is not really necessary to a hacker or would-be hacker. That said, RedHat has nicer graphical configuration utilities, but Debian has a more robust, bullet-proof, comprehensive installation system (the Apt installer and the *.deb packages). As of now, both distributions are up-to-date: technically (kernel and libc -wise) Debian 2.0 and RedHat 5.1 are at the same level. -- Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra http://www.lge.com.br./ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.terravista.pt./Enseada/1989/ BRASIL _ Campanha da fita ASCII - contra correio HTML vcards X ASCII ribbon campaign - against HTML email vcards / \ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load
I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using one or more scripts, such as find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. The systems seem stable, otherwise. Only common hardware are ultra-SCSI disks and controllers (AHA-2940). Any ideas? Do you get any logs / errors ? You might want to try newer kernels which have newer drivers for the SCSI cards, if this seems disk io related. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: where did cvs-pcl go?
Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know why the cvs-pcl package went away? Will it be coming back soon? It has an important bug against it (see bug tracking system: #22577), because of which the install procedure for emacsen fail. It has been removed from hamm because it prevented release. The maintainer is working on a fix, but he is expecting to find a solution in time. If you need cvs-pcl urgently, please install the version from hamm. --- [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 [Usually] everthing works only as good, as it is expected to. --- Stephen Chu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Portuguese Keyboard
Ana Graca Silva wrote: Thanks all Debian useres for the answers to my question! I've solved my problem making a substituition of the file default.map in /usr/linb/kbd/keytables by pt.map ... It was so simple ... For further information, take a look at http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~casantos/Portuguese-HOWTO/ It may be overkill, but will be instructive. -- Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra http://www.lge.com.br./ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.terravista.pt./Enseada/1989/ BRASIL _ Campanha da fita ASCII - contra correio HTML vcards X ASCII ribbon campaign - against HTML email vcards / \ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Burning my own CD under Windows
Hello, I want to burn a cd with Debian 2.0 beta. I know you can download the images and use a linux program to make a cd. But I want to burn it under Windows. I just need to know the directory where every thing is just like it is on the cd. Thanks, Curt
Re: Check deb-Paket?
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 11:31:35AM +0200, Michael Taeschner wrote: Wie ueberpruefe ich auf der Kommandozeile die Integritaet von .deb-Paketen? Die man-pages (uralt) sagen, dass es keine Checksumme gaebe... That is correct: the packages themselves do not contain checksums. Dann frage ich mich aber, wie dselect nach ftp die heruntergeladenen Pakete prueft bzw. wie Maintainer ihren ftp-Mirror checken? Dselect uses the Packages(.gz) files that are found on the FTP mirrors; these files do contain MD5 checksums for the .deb files. So you can check .deb files manually by comparing the output of md5sum foo.deb to the md5sum in the Packages file. 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: XFree 86 on CL 7548?
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Matthew Ando wrote: Hello, I've upgraded to Hamm beta from Red Hat 4.1. I had X working with RH 3 and RH 4.1; 4.1's version of X is 3.2.x I have a laptop (Samsung sens 810) with a Cirrus Logic 7548 chip. After installing XFree 86 3.3 from Hamm, I get the famous lines See http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/index.html#xfree86_cirrus Old links but may be useful, - D /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /--/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote: At 10:44 PM 7/19/1998 -0700, you wrote: It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try to use 0x300 (sound cards, primarily). Theres a sound card in the machine but its sitting on 0x330 Also you may want to try pinging the machine's own address on the ethernet. See what that produces. Aside from that I can't help you much. Works. Both machines can ping themselves but not each other. check that you don't have an irq conflict with the ethernet card. i've had enough irq conflicts with network cards for that to be the first thing i check when i get a system which can send but not receive packets. Also, wasn't this a 509 card? (I've chucked the start of the thread.) It's worth checking that you've got the right connection setting if it's a combo. I've got several that won't autoselect the BNC, but have to be set to BNC specifically. This might have the same symptoms. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
XF86Config mode settings for Number 9 FX Motion 771
/dev/lp1 and printing sorted out! Now trouble is that I cannot get my combination of a number 9 FX Motion 771 card (it's an approved S3 card, fairly sure it has 4Mb RAM) to run X in 1024X768. I know it will do this as it ran NT at that resolution. I think I successfully (but not usably) ran it on 1280x1024 which is the maximum my monitor can do. Now all I'm getting is 800x600 and that's virtual as the autosynch monitor is resolutely sticking in 640*400 at 70MHz. Monitor is an Elonex rebadged Phillips Brilliance 17 I think. The pertinent modes it offers according to the manual are: M08 = 8514A 1024x768 H:35.5MHz V 87 M09 1024x768 H:48.4 V 60 M10 1024x768 H:56.0 V 70 I used XF86config to set up the configuration and have tried adapting it by hand with no joy at all. Then entry I have in /etc/X11/XF86Config for the card contains: VideoRam 4096 s3RefClk16 DACspeed 220 startx is reporting clocks of 24.93 28.32 0.00 and 0.00 which doesn't look very high, it's rejecting a number of modes as needing hsync frequencies that are not what it wants. I think the problem is that this indicates a programmable clock and it could be instructed to clock higher than this. The documentation on the card specifically says you shouldn't probe it so I can't take that line of action. Can someone tell me clock settings that I should be giving to /ect/X11/XF86Config? Ugh, Debian can have a pretty long learning curve can't it? TIA, Chris Chris Evans, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy, Locum Consultant to the Prudence Skynner Family Therapy Clinic, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London University [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://psyctc.sghms.ac.uk/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Now I've done it! [root re-partitioning mess]
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, a familiar story. So much for rescue by the rescue disk. Dig the shared lib(s) you're missing and copy them into /lib/ after you boot the rescue disk, then run restore. My bo machine shows: All those libs seemed to be located in my /lib/ (perhaps theres a version thing I don't have correct). I get an error about __bsd_signal. -Jeff ** |Jeff Schreiber | Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, | |aka - Spectre| why did they believe me? | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (Jack Handey) | ** -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Beta Test and e2fsprogs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Paul Serice wrote: I can't seem to upgrade one of the base packages. My current setup is ii e2fslibsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system shared libs. ii e2fsprogsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system utilities. [...] I don't want to --force this, but I don't see any other way. Any suggestions would be appreciated. You probably have to use --force this time. Neither of e2fslibsg or e2fsprogsg do exist now in hamm. e2fsprogs is now the only package you will need. Fortunately, upgrades from bo do not suffer from this little problem. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNbcuqiqK7IlOjMLFAQGjXAP/dZGBst3EhuDfxyN9COiS17cvL75Rmbi1 G78LSG5Dx8e/iBbU+6hEYQXKwO2Vo71LyJoLHa+yB3vBer4EAl2NAvyX2TJztuew nHuVMjrykI3mERYDObZ8fyCUNcg2EPN0fd8kgHNiBMEhkk5YjF2MSmXSrfVS3J7b yMKYrIBR8BY= =plpl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Debian Beta 2.0 CD listings
Hello, Can somebody with the Debain 2.0 beta CD do a dir on it and send me the listing. I need the root dir of the cd at least. A dir of the whole CD would be better. Curt
Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!
Yo- From the oceans of code emerges Debian 2.0! And it is good! Come forward my brothers (and sisters) and embrace this glorious gift. Take forth this gift and sow it's seed for it will reign eternal. Brother Ian. (p.s. Can you tell I'm excited?) __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: sound problems
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). I have a SB/WSS card on my motherboard, and got the IRQ and IO setting from Win95. I've read all the FAQs and howtos, but nothing seems to work. Can someone tell me things to try? The settings for my SB ar IRQ:5, IO:220, DMA:1,5 for WSS are IO:530,388, IRQ 12, DMA 3. Since it is PNP though, windows might be changing the IRQ values. Any suggestions? Try compiling sound as a module. This'll allow you to do insmod sound _after_ isapnp can do its thing. 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 | -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!
WaitIs this officalIs Debian 2.0 going to be released today??? I need to know before I start Downloading the beta CD Image Thanks, Curt -Original Message- From: Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 9:00 AM Subject: Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today! Yo- From the oceans of code emerges Debian 2.0! And it is good! Come forward my brothers (and sisters) and embrace this glorious gift. Take forth this gift and sow it's seed for it will reign eternal. Brother Ian. (p.s. Can you tell I'm excited?) __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Debian Std C++?
This maybe isn't the most perfect forum for these questions, but it's one I read... What is the state of Standard C++ (as adopted by ISO/ANSI) on GNU/Linux? I'm starting to use more true-blue C++ constructs at work, and it would be nice to have them at home as well. For instance, browsing my system I see that c++ is gcc version 2.7.2.3. It warns that namespaces are mostly broken. The standard library is not enclosed in the namespace std, and iostream.h looks old and is not iostream. How long before I can type in every example from Stroustrup's latest book, and have it compile on Debian GNU/Linux? -- SEGV Homepage: http://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/ Java Game Engine: http://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/YAGE/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Burning my own CD under Windows
Curt, you will not be able to burn a Debian CD under Windows (properly, anyway). Your only option will be to retrieve the Official D2 CD ISO images and then burn them directly to the CD from your Winbloze box. That, or use a Linux system to mirror the FTP site and build the CD from Linux from your mirror. (Not nearly as easy as it sounds.) By far your best option is to download the ISO images. Regards, Kevin Traas -Original Message- From: Curt E. Spann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 5:04 AM Subject: Burning my own CD under Windows Hello, I want to burn a cd with Debian 2.0 beta. I know you can download the images and use a linux program to make a cd. But I want to burn it under Windows. I just need to know the directory where every thing is just like it is on the cd. Thanks, Curt -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian Std C++?
Hi, g++ 2.7.2.3 is fairly out of date with respect to C++ standards. Use egcs C++ 1.x instead. Egcs is the Experimental GNU Compiler System. It is somewhat equivalent to gcc/g++ 2.9x.x, sort of :). Anyway, the egcs version of g++ conforms much more closely to the latest C++ standard. However, the current stable version of egcs doesn't yet support namespaces, except for namespace::std. If you can wait till August, when egcs 1.1 is supposed to be released then that version is supposed to support general namespaces. I'm not sure but it may also include the latest version of SGI's STL (3.1). Again, I am not sure about the latest version of SGI's STL. The new style C++ headers, iostream for example, are also supported in the current version of egcs. Are using bo? Debian 2.0 (hamm) uses egcs c++ and FORTRAN by default. The old gcc 2.7.2.3 is still being used in hamm since there are kernel compile issues with gcc 2.8.x and egcs 1.x. By the way, this is not local to Debian. Any distribution that uses g++ will have these problems. -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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian Std C++?
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 09:35:51AM -0400, SEGV wrote: What is the state of Standard C++ (as adopted by ISO/ANSI) on GNU/Linux? Debian 2.0 will ship with the egcs C++ compiler (http://egcs.cygnus.com/) version 1.0.3 . For instance, browsing my system I see that c++ is gcc version 2.7.2.3. It warns that namespaces are mostly broken. The standard library is not enclosed in the namespace std, and iostream.h looks old and is not iostream. egcs 1.0.3 still does not understand namespaces fully yet, but its C++ support is a big improvement over 2.7.2.3's . How long before I can type in every example from Stroustrup's latest book, and have it compile on Debian GNU/Linux? Impossible to say. Join egcs development if you want it to be sooner rather than later. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Debian 2.0 Release later today!
Yes, it's official alrighty ;) check http://www.netgod.net/ for more info. /Frock -Original Message- From: Curt E. Spann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23. juli 1998 15:33 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today! WaitIs this officalIs Debian 2.0 going to be released today??? I need to know before I start Downloading the beta CD Image Thanks, Curt -Original Message- From: Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 9:00 AM Subject: Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today! Yo- From the oceans of code emerges Debian 2.0! And it is good! Come forward my brothers (and sisters) and embrace this glorious gift. Take forth this gift and sow it's seed for it will reign eternal. Brother Ian. (p.s. Can you tell I'm excited?) __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: autoup.sh fails when upgrading bo - hamm
I got the same message when I tried to run autoup.sh. However, I was trying to run it on a hamm system instead of trying to do an upgrade from bo. This is because I'm a newbie and don't know what I'm doing yet. Nonetheless, thought I'd let everyone know I saw the error also. At 07:43 PM 7/23/1998 +1000, you wrote: On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, JonesMB wrote: I am trying to upgrade from bo to hamm so I can run the new bash and try wine. I run autoup.sh and it ftp'ed the files needed for the upgrade. It failed to get me the file libstdc++2.8_*.deb [...deleted...] autoup.sh is expecting to find it in libs/, but it's not there anymore. it has been moved to base/. it must have happened recently because i haven't had any other complaints about it yet. download it from base, install it with dpkg and then run autoup.sh again. The autoup.sh I have is v 0.27 1998/05/29. I got it from http://www.debian.org/2.0/autoup/ Is this too old a version to be using or what? nope. that's the latest version. i'll put out a new version soon which corrects this libstdc++ problem. if you want to be certain you have the latest version, check http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup or http://taz.net.au/autoup/ the vicnet site is preferred - and also contains a .tar.gz file containing all the files which autoup.sh needs. debian.vicnet.net.au is my workstation at work, and has a much better net connection than the taz site (which is my home network). craig -- craig sanders -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === Kent West | Technology Support/Customer Service | Abilene Christian University| Voice: 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 | ACU Station, Box 29005 | E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Abilene, TX 79699-9005 | Ham:KC5ENO, General | === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: samba printing problems
*-Patrick Olson (22 Jul) | | The output of lpq is sure interesting! | | The junk below is all from ONE print job from ONE Win3.1 computer. Think | this could be part of the problem? Note that I had to take the printer | offline to get all the pieces to be in the queue together. | | server2# lpq -Pstylus | stylus is ready and printing | Rank Owner Job Files Total Size | active compman254 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140884096 bytes | 1stcompman255 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140882304 bytes | 2ndcompman256 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140884096 bytes | 3rdcompman257 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140882048 bytes | 4thcompman258 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140883584 bytes | 5thcompman259 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140884096 bytes | 6thcompman260 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a14088256 bytes | 7thcompman261 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140884096 bytes | 8thcompman262 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140883328 bytes | 9thcompman263 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140884096 bytes | 10th compman264 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140882560 bytes | 11th compman265 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140882560 bytes | 12th compman266 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a140882816 bytes | 13th compman267 /tmp/HYUNDAIXXX.a14088164 bytes | Turn off print spooling on the Win machine. I forget exactly the proce dure for this on Win3.1, it has been to long. It thinks it is printing to a local printer and is sending the data in chunks to the printer, which is fine for a directly connected printer. The Win machine does not need to spool, that is what lpr is for. -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: Hi, Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have ANY probelms, please let me know. Otherwise I a day or so I will upload this to the main Debian archive. Got this, installed it - it's awsome! :) Keep up the good (and fast!) work! Seems to work well, but it took a bit of searching around to get all of the relevant packages. Also interesting fun working out which order they had to be installed in :) I'm getting errors on the e14 package. Seems like my imlib is broken Error message when I start E14 enlightenment: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libpng.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info. I should be asking shaleh 'bout this but what are the relevant packages that you have. I have all the .deb packages in shaleh's site but I don't have the *dev packages. Is this what you did? Get the *dev packages? Thanks again, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, Dead -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- From the oceans of code emerges Debian 2.0! And it is good! Come forward my brothers (and sisters) and embrace this glorious gift. Take forth this gift and sow it's seed for it will reign eternal. Ahhh... yes Brother! CD images! and hamm for everyone! m ham... you made me hungry. Brother Ian. (p.s. Can you tell I'm excited?) __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58 /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian Std C++?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | egcs 1.0.3 still does not understand namespaces fully yet, but its C++ | support is a big improvement over 2.7.2.3's . The original poster might want to try latest egcs snapshots from egcs.cygnus.com. They work better for me than 1.0.3 in general and they include better namespace support, better thread support, etc. Of course, they are development snapshots, so #include std. disclaimer //Hannu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
cd rom drives
newbie alert. since my 1.3 box, which i'm upgrading asap, doesn't have a cd-rom drive and has only a 14.4 modem, i was thinking of upgrading both before upgrading to 2.0. now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug and pray, is there any complication to installing a cd-rom drive and new modem? do i have to invoke prayers to any particular UNIX gods? or do i get to shove the new stuff into their proper bays and boot up? tia. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: your or redhat?
I tried to install Redhat on an older non-name-brand 486, but it wouldn't see one of my hard drives, so I tried Debian, and have stuck with it. The impression I've gotton from reading mail archives, etc, is that Redhat is easier to get up and running for the newbie, but only because it is more limited than Debian; this limitation also manifests itself later when you want to grow and find out that Redhat isn't as growable as Debian. However, let me remind you, this is not from first-hand experience; just my impression from what I've read. Here's something I found in the mail archives (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9801/msg00061.html) that you might find interesting. Here is my opinion on the different dist. of Linux that I have used over the years. Caldera Standard: Great if you never need technical support, modifiy your system, or want any documentation that is acurate. Since I do not know of anyone that can say that, I would not recomend it. Red Hat: Good distrubution. Installs easy, has good documentation, is really useable from the first reboot. It's update and packaging system is not very good. I have had a lot of trouble upgrading the system from version to version. Other then that, it works well. Slackware: Installs well, has very good doc's, and works well from the first reboot. It has no upgrade capability, and is difficult to get X to work just the way you want it. Debian: Installs well, has good doc's, and is very easy to modify. The upgrade system works very well with the utilities available. I have upgraded through mager versions with no problems. The only problem is when you get to the first reboot you hav quite a bit of configuration to do to get a really usable system. The upside of that is you have learned a lot from the configuration and will have no trouble in the future modifications. I hope this helps, I have been lucky in the fact that I have had the opertunity to run different dist. side by side for quite a while. That gave me a chance to compare them well. Of course, this is only my opinion. Brian Schramm On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: im concidering putting linux on my system at home (who am i kiding? i will be putting linux on my system) but im kind of lost between the outdated info in various sources on which dist is going to help me. this is what i need: 1 easy installation (i.e. auto recognition) 2 robust/easy to use graphical enviroment such as in os2 what i need to know from you is why should i get your product instead of Redhat 5.1? thanks for the help ken Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-344873 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === Kent West | Technology Support/Customer Service | Abilene Christian University| Voice: 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 | ACU Station, Box 29005 | E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Abilene, TX 79699-9005 | Ham:KC5ENO, General | === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Burning my own CD under Windows
*-Curt E. Spann (23 Jul) | Hello, | I want to burn a cd with Debian 2.0 beta. I know you can download the images and use a linux program to make a cd. But I want to burn it under Windows. I just need to know the directory where every thing is just like it is on the cd. | | | Thanks, | Curt (wrap your lines) Read ftp://ftp.debian.org/OfficialCD/1.3.1/CD_Writer_Instructions.txt for instruction for various cd writers(linux and dos/win). -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: Hi, Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have ANY probelms, please let me know. Otherwise I a day or so I will upload this to the main Debian archive. Got this, installed it - it's awsome! :) Keep up the good (and fast!) work! Seems to work well, but it took a bit of searching around to get all of the relevant packages. Also interesting fun working out which order they had to be installed in :) I'm getting errors on the e14 package. Seems like my imlib is broken Error message when I start E14 enlightenment: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libpng.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info. I had this error once too, just not with E, but with some QT apps. It's got to do with your libstdc++ being out of date I think. When I upgraded my libstdc++, things started working again. I don't remember if I upgraded libc too at that time, so you might want to try that also. Maarten _ | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems | | Department of Electrical Engineering| | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Now I've done it! [root re-partitioning mess]
Perhaps you do have those libs (in name, anyway). I know that much is trimmed from libc to make everything fit on the boot floppy. Jeff Schreiber wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, a familiar story. So much for rescue by the rescue disk. Dig the shared lib(s) you're missing and copy them into /lib/ after you boot the rescue disk, then run restore. My bo machine shows: All those libs seemed to be located in my /lib/ (perhaps theres a version thing I don't have correct). I get an error about __bsd_signal. -Jeff ** |Jeff Schreiber | Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, | |aka - Spectre| why did they believe me? | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (Jack Handey) | ** -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Graphical Linux Logo on boot
Hello, I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like to make one. Is it even possibly to make it? Will I have to modify the kernel or what? Curt
Re: cd rom drives
Hi, now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug and pray, is there any complication to installing a cd-rom drive and new modem? do i have to invoke prayers to any particular UNIX gods? or do i get to shove the new stuff into their proper bays and boot up? You should be able to use just about any drop-in replacement IDE ATAPI or SCSI (if you have SCSI) CD-ROM drive. Most modems should also work but stay away from Winmodems. -Ossama -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: cd rom drives
newbie alert. Greetings. now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug and pray, is there any complication to installing a cd-rom drive and new modem? do i have to invoke prayers to any particular UNIX gods? or do i get to shove the new stuff into their proper bays and boot up? Well, that depends entirely on which cd-rom drives and modems you'd like to install. If you haven't already been told this, avoid _everything_ labelled anything like Winmodem ... they just plain won't work. What do you plan to attach the CD drive to? IDE? SCSI? Soundcard? Will it attach in the same way as the one it's replacing? For modems, I'd get something that is hw-configurable (w/jumpers) if you don't have a pnp bios. My pnp soundcard and modem work fine with my pnp bios (I don't use pnptools or anything) but it sounds like your computer is older, and so likely isn't pnp-biosed. And a modem that speaks a good standard Hayes-AT command set is a good idea (don't know if you can get one that doesn't do this, these days). 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| -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Mirror after release
I keep a mirror of the frozen distribution (rooted at /debian/dists/frozen) of Debian and was wondering how the directory structure will change on ftp.debian.org after the release tonight. Do they just rename/relink frozen - stable? I just want to know how to adjust my mirror configuration file and the corresponding directories so I don't have to download the whole distribution. What I'm thinking I have to do is: In my mirror configuration file just change remote_dir=/debian/dists/frozen to remote_dir=/debian/dists/stable and do mv local root/debian/dists/frozen local root/debian/dists/stable Is this right? Thanks, Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Curt E. Spann wrote: I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like to make one. Is it even possibly to make it? Will I have to modify the kernel or what? The problem is mostly that linux doesn't do graphics in the kernel -- you'd have to start x or svgalib _while_ the kernel is booting to show a logo like that, which I don't think can be done (X and SVGlib both seem to depend on things that are done during the boot process). There is an ascii-linux-logo program floating around someplace (no clue where), or you could design an ascii-logo and just dump it to the screen at some point early in the boot scripts. 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| -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot
From: Curt E. Spann [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like to make one. Is it even possibly to make it? Will I have to modify the kernel or what? There has been plenty of discussion about this over on the linux kernel development lists. In general, it's easy to do for any specific hardware configuration, (Intel with VGA is all Win95 supports) but no way to do it across platforms. Maybe if/when the KGI/GGI stuff makes it into the kernel, this capability will be added. If this is important for your application, someone has probably written a kernel patch. - Marsh -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot
*-Curt E. Spann (23 Jul) | Hello, | I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like to make one. Is it even possibly to make it? Will I have to modify the kernel or what? | | Curt | | (wrap your lines) There are some unsupported kernel patches that draw a penguin on the screen while still showing the boot text. For 2.0.x series of kernels http://www.linuxhq.com/patch/20-p0555.html For 2.1.x series of kernels http://www.linuxhq.com/patch/21-p0803.html http://www.linuxhq.com/patch/21-p0661.html http://www.linuxhq.com/patch/21-p0651.html -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
System timer resolution
¡Hello friends! I need to know how I can improve the system timer resolution. I think that I have to change a system variable named HZ. That variable establishes the timer interrupt frequency (defined 100 Hz). I need to use timers with resolution less than miliseconds. What do I have to do? Thank. * Juan Pedro Lara Mendiola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: I'm getting errors on the e14 package. Seems like my imlib is broken Error message when I start E14 enlightenment: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libpng.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info. I had this error once too, just not with E, but with some QT apps. It's got to do with your libstdc++ being out of date I think. When I upgraded my libstdc++, things started working again. I don't remember if I upgraded libc too at that time, so you might want to try that also. Maarten Thanks I'll do that. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mirror after release
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 23 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: I keep a mirror of the frozen distribution (rooted at /debian/dists/frozen) of Debian and was wondering how the directory structure will change on ftp.debian.org after the release tonight. Do they just rename/relink frozen - stable? Yes, in the dists directory, the symlinks frozen and stable will be removed and a new symlink stable will be created pointing to hamm. I just want to know how to adjust my mirror configuration file and the corresponding directories so I don't have to download the whole distribution. Then you might better mirror the hamm directory and not dists/frozen! You may mirror also the dists directory excluding slink, or do create the dists directory by hand. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNbddsSqK7IlOjMLFAQHmbgP+IfxFqIefFuzRokC0xo5VEsFSINxwwH9v pUe8/Zi49Tl1f9MhC55hqPtasc4OQu56Fx/fo0xPpAAgJPxTzOnIiR2yEG15ieW7 AftnFy9lMIOanrFBAPxf/rZsNr82CYzeBUdSzbmM3vUEDHXnA4oS+idhNJ7DDCMH FY6k0j2Lsdk= =0ujZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Official 2.0 CD's available Friday??
I received an email from one of the CD vendors on the Debian distribution
network (www.netgod.net) that the Official 2.0 CD's will ship Friday, July
23rd.
Is this correct? Does this mean that Hamm (2.0) has gone from beta to full
release?
I've been folowing this list and the announce list and haven't seen anything
about the 2.0 moving from beta to full release ('0fficial 2.0').
Have I missed something?
Thank you,
Ed
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Subject: autoup.sh v0.28 released
v0.28: 1998-07-23 (Craig Sanders)
- libstdc++2.8 has moved from libs/ to base/
- libnet-perl has moved from interpreters/ to base/
as usual, it is available from
http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ (primary site)
ftp://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/
and
http://taz.net.au/autoup/
autoup.tar.gz on the primary site has also been updated with all the
latest versions of stuff from hamm. it weighs in at 9.1MB and includes:
-r--r--r-- root/root450820 1998-07-17 07:55 bash_2.01.1-3.1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 13912 1997-05-08 00:00 data-dumper_2.07-1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root166586 1998-06-23 20:41 dpkg-dev_1.4.0.23.2.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 13544 1998-04-28 09:46 dpkg-ftp_1.4.9.6.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 21946 1998-05-12 11:04 dpkg-mountable_0.7.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root341616 1998-06-23 20:41 dpkg_1.4.0.23.2.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root181344 1998-05-22 08:56 ldso_1.9.9-1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root284268 1998-06-12 12:21 libc5_5.4.38-1.1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root580872 1998-07-17 08:26 libc6_2.0.7t-1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root254826 1997-10-07 13:55 libg++272_2.7.2.8-0.1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root235522 1998-06-08 10:42 libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 17296 1998-05-25 12:29 libgdbm1_1.7.3-25.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 17230 1998-05-25 12:29 libgdbmg1_1.7.3-25.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 65308 1997-04-28 00:00 libnet-perl_1.0502-1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 69678 1998-07-17 07:55 libreadline2_2.1-10.1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 75864 1998-07-17 07:55 libreadlineg2_2.1-10.1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 94784 1998-07-02 08:10
libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-0.6.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 1340204 1998-07-17 08:26 locales_2.0.7t-1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root111006 1998-04-16 11:09 ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2.1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root124368 1998-07-17 09:51 ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-8.8.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root350948 1998-07-17 07:56 netbase_3.11-1.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root611710 1998-07-05 22:07 netstd_3.07-2.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root282680 1998-06-08 10:47 perl-base_5.004.04-6.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 3125884 1998-06-08 10:47 perl_5.004.04-6.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 84354 1998-07-02 12:19 slang0.99.34_0.99.38-6.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root 83902 1998-07-02 12:19 slang0.99.38_0.99.38-6.deb
-r--r--r-- root/root261268 1998-07-17 08:26 timezones_2.0.7t-1.deb
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Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot
Sheesh. I packaged this thing to AVOID this mess (-: E and all needed libs are now in Incoming on their way into slink. If you can wait three days or so, all should be cleaned up by dselect. You do *NOT* need the -dev files of any lib that is on your sytem to use E or any other app. The -dev packages are there solely for compiling. If you never compile anything, you never need the -dev packages. E is purely a C app. I am not aware of any C++ being needed. So how libstdc++ affects it is beyond me. More than likely you have an old libpng. Get the libs from slink. All of them. Thank you and enjoy your new window manager (-: -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
(fwd) New boot logo patch, testers wanted
-- forwarded message -- Path: news.uv.es!news.rediris.es!news-ge.switch.ch!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news.fh-hannover.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!not-for-mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: New boot logo patch, testers wanted Date: 20 Jul 1998 18:30:48 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Lines: 17 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NNTP-Posting-Host: vsyspc20.informatik.uni-hamburg.de User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971123 (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i586)) Xref: news.uv.es comp.os.linux.development.system:1728 Hello, I have played a little bit with the penguin boot logo patch for linux and added a few modifications. Please give it a try and let me know what you think: http://my.lava.de/~hanno/linux-bootlogo/ Note: This is a first beta version and might be unstable. -- Was heute noch wie ein Maerchen klingt, Hanno Mueller kann morgen Wirklichkeit sein. Hier ist http://my.lava.de/~hanno/ ein Maerchen von uebermorgen... [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- end of forwarded message -- -- - Computers are useless. They can only give answers.Pablo Picasso -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot
On 23-Jul-98 Will Lowe wrote:
There is an ascii-linux-logo program floating around someplace (no
clue where), or you could design an ascii-logo and just dump it to the
screen at some point early in the boot scripts.
I think it's floating around in a lot of places. Here's a copy of my copy,
if you'd like it (I've forgotten where I got it from).
---see below
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@##O#O##
## @@# #V#
## # ## VVV ##
## @@@ ### ###### # ## # ##
##@ @# ##### ## ##### ## ###
## @ @# ## ## ## ## ### ####
## @@# ## ## ## ## ###QQ# ##Q
## # @@### ## ## ## ## ## QQ# #QQ
## ## @@# # ## ## ### ##### ##QQQ# #QQQ
### ### # ## Q###Q
---see above
Cheers,
Ted.
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xterm-debian and pine problem
Hi, I just added the xterm-debian terminfo file in the appropriate Solaris 2.6 location on our Solaris machine, in accordance with what /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian says. When I start up an xterm on our Solaris machine remotely using SSH on our hamm system (Solaris xterm displayed on hamm system) and then run pine in that xterm I have problems with the colors. The colors look something along the lines of what dselect looks like in an xterm with a white background. However, the highlight bar that you would normally see when selecting an e-mail to read from the pine index is not at all visible. There is no change in the color of the text that is apparently below the highlight bar. I tryed reversing the video but the same problem of an invisible highlight bar occurs. If I do a set term=xterm in the very same xterm and then re-run pine the problem doesn't occur. Similarly, if I slogin into the Solaris machine and run pine I don't have the highlight problem, even though the terminal type is set to xterm-debian. The problem only seems to occur if I start up a Solaris xterm via remote from my hamm system. Any ideas as to what the problem might be? I imagine that the same thing will happen with other curses based applications that use highlight bars. Is this a bug in the xterm-debian terminfo file/entry? Incidentally, I am running Pine 4.02. Thanks, -Ossama -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Stupid unix
Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it would simplify working on some of my source at home on Linux. I use Windoesn't 4.0 at work which retains name case but doesn't use it. Thanks Jack -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: autoup.sh v0.28 released
Now you tell me about the autoup.sh v0.28 upgrade :-) Yesterday I did some more hunting and found the 2 packages that autoup.sh v0.27 expected to be in libs - I found them in base. I downloaded them and autoup'ed again. It installed everything but it still complained about some conflicts. After that I did dselect to complete the process. There were some more complaints along the way (fvwm compface) but dselect went thru all the way to the end. The system even came up after the reboot!! So far most apps seem to work. What failed to work is fvwm and netscape and StarOffice - 3 apps that I probably use the most. Not a good thing!! If I bring up fvwm via startx/.xinitrc it fails with a Seg fault. If it comes up thru xdm/.xsession it works ok. Wierd as my ~/.xsession is just a sym link to ~/.xinitrc I remember reading somewhere that there is a netsape that works with libc6. Guess it is time to do some web searching for it. What can I do about StarOffice? I had StarOffice 4 working before the upgrade. I also see the rvplayer which I guess will solve my previous problems. This bo-hamm upgrade is a less hairy process than the documentation implies. ok enough rambling. jmb v0.28: 1998-07-23 (Craig Sanders) - libstdc++2.8 has moved from libs/ to base/ - libnet-perl has moved from interpreters/ to base/ as usual, it is available from http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ (primary site) ftp://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ and http://taz.net.au/autoup/ autoup.tar.gz on the primary site has also been updated with all the latest versions of stuff from hamm. it weighs in at 9.1MB and includes: -r--r--r-- root/root450820 1998-07-17 07:55 bash_2.01.1-3.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 13912 1997-05-08 00:00 data-dumper_2.07-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root166586 1998-06-23 20:41 dpkg-dev_1.4.0.23.2.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 13544 1998-04-28 09:46 dpkg-ftp_1.4.9.6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 21946 1998-05-12 11:04 dpkg-mountable_0.7.deb -r--r--r-- root/root341616 1998-06-23 20:41 dpkg_1.4.0.23.2.deb -r--r--r-- root/root181344 1998-05-22 08:56 ldso_1.9.9-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root284268 1998-06-12 12:21 libc5_5.4.38-1.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root580872 1998-07-17 08:26 libc6_2.0.7t-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root254826 1997-10-07 13:55 libg++272_2.7.2.8-0.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root235522 1998-06-08 10:42 libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 17296 1998-05-25 12:29 libgdbm1_1.7.3-25.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 17230 1998-05-25 12:29 libgdbmg1_1.7.3-25.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 65308 1997-04-28 00:00 libnet-perl_1.0502-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 69678 1998-07-17 07:55 libreadline2_2.1-10.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 75864 1998-07-17 07:55 libreadlineg2_2.1-10.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 94784 1998-07-02 08:10 libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-0.6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 1340204 1998-07-17 08:26 locales_2.0.7t-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root111006 1998-04-16 11:09 ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2.1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root124368 1998-07-17 09:51 ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-8.8.deb -r--r--r-- root/root350948 1998-07-17 07:56 netbase_3.11-1.deb -r--r--r-- root/root611710 1998-07-05 22:07 netstd_3.07-2.deb -r--r--r-- root/root282680 1998-06-08 10:47 perl-base_5.004.04-6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 3125884 1998-06-08 10:47 perl_5.004.04-6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 84354 1998-07-02 12:19 slang0.99.34_0.99.38-6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root 83902 1998-07-02 12:19 slang0.99.38_0.99.38-6.deb -r--r--r-- root/root261268 1998-07-17 08:26 timezones_2.0.7t-1.deb craig -- craig sanders -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
UMSDOS on Debian
I would like to install Debian without partitioning a disk. Is it possible to install Debian on a UMSDOS filesystem? Has anybody some hints or can post any pointer regarding this issue? Thanks Salvador Bosque -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it would simplify working on some of my source at home on Linux. I use Windoesn't 4.0 at work which retains name case but doesn't use it. In csh/tcsh: foreach file (*.h *.cpp) mv $file `echo $file | tr A-Z a-z` end In sh/bash: for file in *.h *.cpp ; do mv $file `echo $file | tr A-Z a-z` done And please don't call UNIX stupid, OK? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Year 2000 compliance
Hi, I'm assuming with all the year 2000 compliance hype that there must be a document somewhere describing the year 2000 issues related to specific Debian releases of linux. Specifically, we have built an embedded system using Debian version 1.3. Being an embedded system, we've stripped out most of the utilities and standard packages. We now need to verify that our system is year 2000 compliant. Does anyone have any information on this? Rick Fadler NetLeaf, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 425-643-9610 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jack A Walker wrote:
Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple
way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would
like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be
lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it would
simplify working on some of my source at home on Linux. I use Windoesn't
4.0 at work which retains name case but doesn't use it.
I use the following macro command in zsh (it might be portable to other
shells, or maybe not) :
lower() { for i in $*; mv -f $i ${i:l} 2/dev/null }
usage is : lower filenames
ex. lower *
or lower *.C
etc...
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cd_autoup.sh and hamm upgrade problems.
Hi, I'm not subscribed to debian-user any more because of the volume, but please feel free to respond to me directly via e-mail if you have any questions, comments, etc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I helped a friend upgrade from bo to hamm yesterday over the phone. This is not easy in and of itself :^) But we had problems with the cd_autoup.sh script and with dselect as well. Upgrade details: 1.) 1.3.1 installed on a Pentium II 266 (Gateway machine), upgrading to hamm beta so we could get the latest XFree86 SVGA server to support his STB Velocity 128 video card. Originally installed from the Official Debian CD from CheapBytes last year, did *not* previously upgrade using the 1.3.1r6 CD from CheapBytes. 2.) Upgrading using the 2.0 beta CD-ROM from CheapBytes. 3.) Upgrading using the cd_autoup.sh script available from ftp.debian.org, the running dselect to upgrade all the packages to hamm. 4.) The original bo install might have been somewhat broken, because my friend did it without my help. This could explain some dselect problems. Also, perhaps there are problems with the CheapBytes CD? Here's what we had problems with: A.) The cd_autoup.sh script is slightly broken. We cd'ed to /cdrom/hamm before running the script because this seemed like the logical place to be to me. *No*place* on the CD corresponded the to definition of DM in the shell script. This meant we had to change the definition of the variable DM to: DM=./$ARCH B.) The definition of the variable PKGS_NET is incorrect. You need to replace the line: PKGS_NET=$( echo $PKGS_NET | sed -e $SEDSCRIPT ) with: PKGS_NETBASE=$( echo $PKGS_NETBASE | sed -e $SEDSCRIPT ) PKGS_NETSTD=$( echo $PKGS_NETSTD | sed -e $SEDSCRIPT ) C.) We had several packages fail to be removed by cd_autoup.sh because they were somehow on hold. We had to do: # dpkg --force-hold -r packagename by hand on these to fix this, then rerun and rerun cd_autoup.sh until it ran without errors. These packages being on hold may have been caused by an originally broken install of bo(?). D.) It's hard to talk somebody through running dselect over the phone because there's so much info on the screen that's vital. But even considering that, we had alot of problems. We had dependency conflicts that we couldn't easily resolve because several installed packages depended on another package, but this package wasn't offered for installation on the resolution screen. This seems strange to me, I've never seen dselect act like this before. Finally we found the needed packages by searching through the Select menu and got them installed. E.) Dselect just plain old decided for itself to install 9wm et al and uninstall fvwm and fvwm2. We didn't even check on these selections because we figured it was a no-brainer. We did catch the 9wm stuff before running Install, but fvwm and fvwm2 were uninstalled and we had to go back and reinstall them. F.) *Lots* of his packages were listed as Hold and I have no idea why. Maybe the original install was broken and caused the hold problems. Maybe the dpkg database got messed up somehow and caused the 9wm and fvwm installation/removal problems. Maybe the CheapBytes CD is somewhat broken. I'm not sure, I'm just documenting the problems we had with the upgrade. In the end we successfully upgraded to hamm and now he needs to take care of the held packages and install and configure the SVGA X server for his video card. I use and love Debian and plan to keep on using it. But this was a very exhausting and frustrating experience. Maybe alot of the problems are because I'm dumb. I hope so, and I hope other people's upgrade experiences go alot smoother than ours. Thanks for listening. Clemmitt Sigler Va. Tech Physics Dept. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: Sheesh. I packaged this thing to AVOID this mess (-: E and all needed libs are now in Incoming on their way into slink. If you can wait three days or so, all should be cleaned up by dselect. Thank you and enjoy your new window manager (-: It's zlib1g that's broken. Thanks for the help. Package E15 again! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot
Richard L. Alhama wrote: Thanks for the help. Package E15 again! E .15 rrrggg -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Stupid unix
On 23-Jul-98 Jack A Walker wrote: Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it would simplify working on some of my source at home on Linux. I use Windoesn't 4.0 at work which retains name case but doesn't use it. Not so lame, I think ... Try for i in *.cpp ; do j=`echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` ; mv $i $j; done for i in *.h ; do j=`echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` ; mv $i $j; done but I STRONGLY suggest you first try it out on a dummy directory which you have populated with a suitable variety of filenames, just to check that it really does what you want and nothing else. (Also to make sure you got it exactly right -- watch out for those quotes). Also, ABOVE ALL make sure that there are not two or more files in the same directory whose names differ only in the Case of some of the letters -- you'll end up zapping all but one of them if you use the above. Best of luck, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23-Jul-98 Time: 18:41:12 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
*-Jack A Walker (23 Jul) | Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple | way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would | like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be | lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it would | simplify working on some of my source at home on Linux. I use Windoesn't | 4.0 at work which retains name case but doesn't use it. | Among the other suggestions that you have received you could also install the mmv package. Great for mass renames, converstions, etc. From the man page: DESCRIPTION Mmv moves (or copies, appends, or links, as specified) each source file matching a from pattern to the target name specified by the to pattern. This multiple action is performed safely, i.e. without any unexpected deletion of files due to collisions of target names with existing filenames or with other target names. Furthermore, before doing anything, mmv attempts to detect any errors that would result from the entire set of actions specified and gives the user the choice of either proceeding by avoiding the offending parts or aborting. -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
