Amanda tape settings for HP DDS2 DAT tape

[David Welton]

Hi, the amanda lists listed on www.amanda.org seem to be not
available, so I'll ask here.

Basically, all the Amanda docs have to say about this particular tape
drive, as far as the proper settings are concerned are:

define tapetype HP-DAT {
comment "DAT tape drives"
length 1900 mbytes  # these numbers are not accurate
filemark 100 kbytes # but you get the idea
speed 500 kbytes
}

No, I don't get the idea - I'd prefer accurate numbers.  Anyone got
any ideas?

Thanks,
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Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Linux question, not specifically debian

[Gary L. Hennigan]

"David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Hi All:
|
| With VMS VAXen the virtual memory architecture is paging,
| with executables for a process always loaded at 0x200.
|
| I understand that Linux is also paged. Does Linux start
| executables at any particular virtual address? What does
| Linux do in this regard?
|
| The answer may have something to do with Linux's idea of
| process vs VMS's idea of a process.
|
| I realize I should go read the kernel source, but I
| hope someone can tell me off the top of the head. Or
| point me to a document or book somewhere.

Someone in debian-user might very well know this, but you've got a
better chance of getting an answer to this question on the kernel
mailing list. Just send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
single line in the message body

subscribe linux-kernel 

Good Luck!
Gary

Re: Printing to a windows shared printer

[Ian Lynagh]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish
Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

Hi Hamish!

>On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 09:02:11PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
>> I am having some problems with printing to a windows shared printer
>> over the network. It is a NEC SuperScript 860.
>> 
>> If I do "lpr -Pnec myfile.txt" then the green light goes
>> blink-blink...blink-blink...blink-blink...
>> which means "PCL data left in printer". Pressing the button on the front
>> makes the text print.
>
>This is because no form feed has been sent to the printer.
>
>Installing magicfilter would do the job nicely. It will handle adding
>formfeeds at the end of the last page, do CR-CR/LF translations where
>necessary to prevent the staircase effect, and also do transparent
>translation of postscript and other formats using appropriate filters
>(like ghostscript).

I think you have misunderstood my problem  :-(

I have magicfilter installed, and my local HP LJ 4L works fine with it.

However, my problem is with a printer shared by a Win'95 box.
echo translate sorts out the CRLF/LF translations for me, but
I don't see how I could use magicfilter, unless you are suggesting
something changing this:

(
echo translate
echo "print -"
cat
) | smbclient "//alpha/NEC" -N -P >> $logfile

to something like this:

(
echo "print -"
(cat | /etc/magicfilter/nec6p)
) | smbclient "//alpha/NEC" -N -P >> $logfile


Thanks in advance for any clues
Ian
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Linux question, not specifically debian

[David B. Teague]

Hi All:

With VMS VAXen the virtual memory architecture is paging,
with executables for a process always loaded at 0x200. 

I understand that Linux is also paged. Does Linux start 
executables at any particular virtual address? What does 
Linux do in this regard?

The answer may have something to do with Linux's idea of 
process vs VMS's idea of a process. 

I realize I should go read the kernel source, but I 
hope someone can tell me off the top of the head. Or
point me to a document or book somewhere.

--David  Teague

MS Windows: Like putting lipstick on a chicken.
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Trouble with SB ViBRA16X PnP

[Mike Touloumtzis]

Hi all,

I'm having a problem getting my on-the-motherboard sound to work with
16-bit samples.  8 bit works Ok, but 16 bit is silent, which suggests
a DMA conflict or problem.

The card is a SoundBlaster Vibra16 PnP (PnP string is "Creative ViBRA16X
PnP").  The preferred configuration from pnpdump is:

(CONFIGURE CTL00f0/-1 (LD 0
# ANSI string -->Audio<--

# Multiple choice time, choose one only !

# Start dependent functions: priority preferred
#   IRQ 5.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
 (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
#   First DMA channel 1.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed in compatible mode
 (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
#   Next DMA channel 3.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed in compatible mode
 (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 3))
... IO ports that look fine ...

The weird thing is that there are two 8-bit DMA channels listed here
(as opposed to an 8-bit and a 16-bit channel).  At first I thought this
was pnpdump acting up on me, and I tried to configure the 2nd channel on
DMA 5, 6, and 7 without success.  Then I ran into a mail on the Web from
someone who had this card and got it working (presumably on Win95) after
solving a DMA conflict over channel 3 with the BIOS setup of his lp port.
I had the same setting on my motherboard, but even with it disabled, I
got "bad or missing DMA channel" errors loading sound.o with the second
channel set to 3.

So it appears that I've got a broken chipset that identifies as a SB16 but
supports two 8 bit channels instead of the normal 8/16.  Has anyone got
this working right under Linux?  Does the SoundBlaster driver for 2.0.x
support it?  I don't want to start mucking around in the sound code
without asking a _lot_ of people first.

Please, no "get a real sound card" responses.  It's my work machine, so
either I have sound or I don't. :-)

thanks,
Mike Touloumtzis

Trouble with SB ViBRA16X

[Mike Touloumtzis]

Hi all,

I'm having a problem getting my on-the-motherboard sound to work with
16-bit samples.  8 bit works Ok, but 16 bit is silent, which suggests
a DMA conflict or problem.

The card is a SoundBlaster Vibra16 PnP (PnP string is "Creative ViBRA16X
PnP").  The preferred configuration from pnpdump is:

(CONFIGURE CTL00f0/-1 (LD 0
# ANSI string -->Audio<--

# Multiple choice time, choose one only !

# Start dependent functions: priority preferred
#   IRQ 5.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
 (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
#   First DMA channel 1.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed in compatible mode
 (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
#   Next DMA channel 3.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed in compatible mode
 (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 3))
... IO ports that look fine ...

The weird thing is that there are two 8-bit DMA channels listed here
(as opposed to an 8-bit and a 16-bit channel).  At first I thought this
was pnpdump acting up on me, and I tried to configure the 2nd channel on
DMA 5, 6, and 7 without success.  Then I ran into a mail on the Web from
someone who had this card and got it working (presumably on Win95) after
solving a DMA conflict over channel 3 with the BIOS setup of his lp port.
I had the same setting on my motherboard, but even with it disabled, I
got "bad or missing DMA channel" errors loading sound.o with the second
channel set to 3.

So it appears that I've got a broken chipset that identifies as a SB16 but
supports two 8 bit channels instead of the normal 8/16.  Has anyone got
this working right under Linux?  Does the SoundBlaster driver for 2.0.x
support it?  I don't want to start mucking around in the sound code
without asking a _lot_ of people first.

Please, no "get a real sound card" responses.  It's my work machine, so
either I have sound or I don't. :-)

thanks,
Mike Touloumtzis

Re: INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

[Nathan E Norman]

On 1 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

 : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 : Eric Jacoboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 : >I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter
 : >capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to
 : >have a Inn server with Perl filtering enable ? I'd like to have a pure 
 : >deb system so i'd prefer use a deb package. Is there such a thing ?
 : >source or i386 binaries.
 : 
 : Well actually I am waiting with a new release for inn 2.2 or so ..

Great!  I'm glad to hear this.  2.0 was frighteningly buggy, and I
haven't been bold enough to try 2.1

 : I don't want package 2.1 yet, because it still has bugs
 : and is not too fast (the overview implementation is a lot slower).
 : I've only tested the storage-enabled version sofar, I'm going to
 : run the normal version on one news server tomorrow. We'll see how that
 : goes.

You're speaking of CNFS here, right?  

 : Then I have to find out a migration path from 1.7.2 to 2.x, unfortunately
 : some configuration files have changed format and worse the history
 : file format is different too (dbz 6 instead of dbz 3). And the inn-dev
 : stuff (libs) have changed a lot too ..
 : 
 : Also I have to ask the perl maintainer to package the perl shared
 : library seperate, so that a perl upgrade won't hose your INN system
 : unexpectedly (and force me to release INN in sync with perl).

Is this also the case if I recompile INN 1.7.2 and enable perl support?

I'm interested in recompiling 1.7.2 for a few reasons, namely cleanfeed
and the insync patches.  How you managed to do such an excellent job
packaging INN in the forst place is beyond me - it's a complete cluster
from what I can see.

I'm not a developer and I don't have a good handle on the contents of
the ./debian directory, so it's pretty unclear to me how I will be able
to recompile this and end up with a deb (I'm pretty sure that won't
happen the way I have it now).  My main concern is actived (from the
insync patches) - I need to tell dpkg about that somewhere and add
install rules, right?

Having just read that last paragraph, I sound like an idiot :)  I guess
it's time to knuckel down and RTFM, perhaps install a helper package ...

If anyone else gets bold and beats me to an INN-1.7.2.insync package,
let me know :)

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plip and win95

[David Karlin]

Here is the email I recieved regarding plip-win95 connection:

>>James, if you could find that you would make me very happy.  Thanks
>>for the response.  --David

>Here is is:
>
>From: Adam Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: PLIP on Windows95
>
>I succeeded.  PLIP does work on Windows95.  You need to create an
>additional hardware profile with the LPT device disabled in Control
>Panels->System Properties.  Then you may need to boot into Linux because
>Windows95 screws up the hardware somehow and Linux somehow fixes it.  Then
>boot back onto Windows95 with plip.com, winpkt.com, and your new LPT-less
>hardware profile to use PLIP.

I have yet to finish doing this...it involves replacing the winsock.dll file
with the one from Trumpet Winsock.  The instructions with Crynwr's plip.exe
(http://www.crynwr.com) discuss the 16-bit version for dos/win3.1, which is
a 16-bit.  The one from win95 is (i believe) a 32-bit winsock.dll.

I don't know much about winsocks, but don't think I want to downgrade my
winsock to 16-bit...although I'm not exactly sure why...it just doesn't seem
like the right thing to do.  Any winsock gurus care to shed some light?

-David

Re: Auc Tex not working

[Johann Spies]

Thanks Noel.

That solved the problem.

Johann


On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Immanuel Yap wrote:

> Johann Spies wrote:
> > 
> > After upgrading Debian 2.0 (emacs20) Auc Tex is not working.
> > 
> > I have, as the auc tex info file indicated, included  the following in my
> > .emacs - file:
> > (setq TeX-auto-save t)
> > (setq TeX-parse-self t)
> > (setq-default TeX-master nil)
> > 
> > I have re-installed auctex but without success.
> > 
> > Does anybody knows where I can look for a solution?
> 
> You need to add (require 'tex-site) to your .emacs file.
> 
> Noel
> 

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Re: netscape

[servis]

*- Rick Knebel wrote about "netscape"
| Hi,
| Well i am getting a little frustrated now.
| I have tried downloading both netscape 4.05 and 4.06 and each time I 
installed 
| it still crashes on pages with java applets on it.
| I used the netscape script to install it via dselect.
| I would be happy to here any selections.
| 

This is just a shot in the dark.  I remember at one point Netscape was
crashing because of a problem with the libnullplugin.so file in the
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins directory.  Try moving that file out of the
plugins directory and restarting netscape.  I am running 4.06 without
any problems and the libnullplugin.so is in the plugins directory and
don't have any problems, h.


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-
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 because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." 
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Problem with dselect

[David Karlin]

Hello,
I ran deselect,
set flags to install packages,
checked dependencies,
and installed pkgs.

Dselect said "Installation Ok.  Hit RETURN"

then I chose 4[c]onfigure
after config, i quit deselect.

When I re-entered deselect and checked which packages were installed, the
ones
that I'd just (supposedly) installed, were flagged as not installed.

Why would dselect tell me installation was ok if the packages were not
actually installed?  Could this be because I have a small HDD and it ran out
of space?

On a related note, when I installed Deb 1.3.1, several man directories were
created and are empty.  additionally, that system does not recognize the
"man" command (as well as some others).

Can anyone (please) shed some light?

Thanks,
David

netscape

[Rick Knebel]

Hi,
Well i am getting a little frustrated now.
I have tried downloading both netscape 4.05 and 4.06 and each time I installed 
it still crashes on pages with java applets on it.
I used the netscape script to install it via dselect.
I would be happy to here any selections.

Thanks Alot

Rick

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Re: Beowulf cluster

[Greg Vence]

Here is one other HOWTO
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/research/beowulf/tutorial/

Enjoy -- Greg.

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Re: driver for 3com fast etherlink XL ?

[Ossama Othman]

> I need to find a driver for my net card in win nt is name is  driver for 
> 3com fast etherlink XL.

You want the driver for 3Com 3c90x cards which is supported in the 3c59x
driver/module.

-Ossama

FREE PROXY FOR DEBIAN AND WIN95!!!!

[Eliezer Figueroa]

I tried sambar (www.sambar.com) is a free proxy you can install in 
win 95 but it do not have page caching. 

Someone know about a FREE proxy that I can install in win95.

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driver for 3com fast etherlink XL ?

[Eliezer Figueroa]

I need to find a driver for my net card in win nt is name is  driver for 
3com fast etherlink XL.

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Re: Minimum hardware for Netscape

[Ervin D . Walter]

[Posted and mailed]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent West) writes:
> What's the real-world minimum hardware for running Netscape on top of X?
> I've got a 386-40 with 8MB that does okay for the command line stuff, but
> Netscape is horridly slow. I know the 386 is underpowered, but it's all
> I've got right now. I was just wondering if doubling my RAM would bring
> Netscape up to a useable speed, or if I'm just going to have to find a
> bigger machine (486-100, or Pentium, etc).

RAM is surely the bottleneck in your case.  X11+netscape takes a lot
of ram.  I used to have a 386 with 16MB of ram, and I think I could
get X11 and netscape (3.something) running without swapping but no
other programs could be run without starting to swap and I had
minimized daemons that I didn't need.

But back to your question.  I would bet that they would run better on
a 386 with 16MB vs a 486 with 8MB.  24Mb would be even better.  There
is a point somewhere between 16Mb and 32Mb where there is a drastic
change in performance due to not needing to swap for normal things.  I 
think this is somewhere near 24MB.  Right now I have 36Mb out of 64Mb
free and am running X and a couple xterms along with a sleq of
daemons.  That's 28MB in use, and it would be lower if I wasn't using
KDE (which uses tons of RAM).  

Basically, it doesn't matter if you have a Pentium II 400MHz if your
computer spends all it's time swapping to your harddrive.

Erv

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Re: INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric Jacoboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter
>capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to
>have a Inn server with Perl filtering enable ? I'd like to have a pure 
>deb system so i'd prefer use a deb package. Is there such a thing ?
>source or i386 binaries.

Well actually I am waiting with a new release for inn 2.2 or so ..

I don't want package 2.1 yet, because it still has bugs
and is not too fast (the overview implementation is a lot slower).
I've only tested the storage-enabled version sofar, I'm going to
run the normal version on one news server tomorrow. We'll see how that
goes.

Then I have to find out a migration path from 1.7.2 to 2.x, unfortunately
some configuration files have changed format and worse the history
file format is different too (dbz 6 instead of dbz 3). And the inn-dev
stuff (libs) have changed a lot too ..

Also I have to ask the perl maintainer to package the perl shared
library seperate, so that a perl upgrade won't hose your INN system
unexpectedly (and force me to release INN in sync with perl).

Mike.
-- 
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  -- a random number generator meets the big green mother from outer space

"X11 remains black (fwd)"

[Tomihisa \(Tom\) Welsh]

On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 03:49:32PM +0200, Jens Ritter forwarded:
[X fails with gcc 2.8.1 compiled 2.0.x kernel]

Linux 2.0.x kernels rely on knowledge of the compiler's method
optimisation
that is only valid for gcc 2.7.x, so you should use only a 2.7.x version
to
compile them; this is why Debian 2.0 ships with gcc 2.7.2.3 as the default
compiler for C code.

If you need a newer gcc version for compiling other code, use the "egcc"
package.

HTH,
Ray

-

The other alternative for fixing the X problem is to simply compile a
copy of "ioport.c" from a 2.1.x kernel in place of the one that comes with
2.0.34. This worked for me..

Re: Sendmail and virtualdomains

[Thomas O. Kruse]

Hi,

>today I tried to reconfigure mySendmail 8.8.8 (hamm distribution) to
set
>up some virtualdomains. I followed instructions I've seen at
>www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html
and added line
>FEATURE(virtusertable, `dbm /etc/virtusertable')dnl to my
>/etc/mail/sendmail.mc file (at the end of file, to preserve my
>configuration). Then I run sendmailconfig and Ooops ... 
>get error message "Class dbm not supported" or sth like
this.
Yes, I know the problem.

>Am I doing sth wrong ?
Not really...

>How can I set up virtualhosting properly ?
Just use "hash" instead of "dbm". You must use
"makemap hash" instead of "makemap dbm", too, of
course.
Good luck!


Thomas



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Re: Seyon and Xadmin... can't see but it's there....

[Kent West]

At 09:53 AM 9/1/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey,
>
>I am a newbie so here it goes. . . . 
>
>First off I installed linux by downloading everything of the net onto a
>DOS partition. Now I'm up and running, but of course I keep get this
>depends on that or suggest and recommends...that all good. The first
>question is when I use Xadmin it just froze...the LEDs on my computer
>just flicked and flicked...So I ran it from Xterm and got the error that
>:
>
>Xadmin could not locate the font. It seemed that /perl15/tk/widget.pm
>did not exist. 
>I then went to the directory it said and looked for the file...it was
>right there!!!  I also, have this problem with Seyon, It say the file
>phonelist is not there or in default directory, but I manually put it in
>both. Can someone tell me how  to make either or this two programs
>see!!!
>> Roderick P. Person
>> HealthAmerica
>> (412)577-5023
>> "..everything that can be said about anything, has already be
>> said"

I'm also a newbie, so my suggestion may be totally off the mark (plus it
doesn't matter if I hose my system; your system might matter, in which case
I'd take my suggestion with a large grain of salt). My suspicion is that
the files have different permissions that what you need to access them. Are
you logged in as root (or SU, etc)? If so, try logging in as a regular
user. If not, try logging in as root and see what happens (although
normally you don't want to log in as root except when absolutely
necessary). You can look at the permissions on the files with a command
similar to ls -a . The first column will have a bunch of Xs
and/or dashes, etc. Almost any tutorial on linux will explain what these
mean, or you can probably "man permissions" for more info.


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2.1.119 breaks X with Cirrus 544x video

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

I successfully installed a 2.1.119 kernel on my bosses dual P2 machine. 
 However, X now seems hopelessly broken.  It still works if we boot 
with the old 2.0.34 kernel.  

I can't even offer any error messages, because it doesn't yield any.  
I've tried a complete reconfig with XF86Setup, but it is unable to 
start the server.  Again, no messages (and no .Xsession-errors 
messages, either).

Is there something about this kernel & the Cirrus 544x video (on the 
gateway motherboard) that prevents them from working?

rick


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Re: XDM on 2.0

[Jules Bean]

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

> When I start X with XDM and log in the 'debian banner' stays in the
> background of my desktop.  I have to drag the xterm window around to
> erase it.  This did not happen in 1.3.1. (the banner was cleared
> before the window manager started).  It does not seem to matter which
> window manager I use (tried fwvm, fvwm2 and fvwm95).

The solution to this would be to run something like 'xsetroot' or 'xsetbg'
after login (see the respective man-pages).

This could be run, depending on your personal preferences, in
/etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_0 (which is normally run, if you're using xdm, after
you successfully login, whichever user you are), or alternatively in
~/.xsession (which is your personal set of start-up commands). 

In general, it is not appropriate to cross-post a question like that to
-devel.  -devel is intended for discussion of development issues, or
problems with the cutting-edge (slink) distribution.

Best wishes,

Jules

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INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

[Eric Jacoboni]

Hi,

Having a RH system, i've switched to Debian Hamm. So far, so good...

I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter
capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to
have a Inn server with Perl filtering enable ? I'd like to have a pure 
deb system so i'd prefer use a deb package. Is there such a thing ?
source or i386 binaries.

Thanks,
-- 
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le bizarre » (M. Audiard)
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XDM on 2.0

[Kenneth Scharf]

When I start X with XDM and log in the 'debian banner' stays in the
background of my desktop.  I have to drag the xterm window around to
erase it.  This did not happen in 1.3.1. (the banner was cleared
before the window manager started).  It does not seem to matter which
window manager I use (tried fwvm, fvwm2 and fvwm95).




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Re: Sound card question, mouse question

[Ed Cogburn]

To add to what stephen said:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> On 29 Aug, Christopher M. Wesneski wrote:
> > I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and
> > isapnp.
> >
> > pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings)
> > isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> > setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550
> >
> > Everything works great. My question is, pnpdump also listed my sound
> > card. When I edited isapnp.conf to select the correct settings and ran
> > isapnp everything looks ok but the card doesn't work. Is there something
> > similar to setserial that I have to do after I run isapnp?
> >
> > Also I went out and bought a three button mouse so I could middle-click
> > cut-n-paste in xterms but I can't seem to get it to work. I have gpm
> > running and it works while not in X (at the console). But when I am in X
> > the middle button does nothing. It is a $0.50 serial port mouse
> > (GoldenImage) and it has a little switch on the bottom (which I have no
> > clue what it does) with one side labeled MS AM (which is the only way it
> > will work in Windows) and the other PC AT. Any suggestions?
> 
> You might get a better response with better information in your
> question.  What model is your sound card?  Are the settings listed for
> it in /etc/isapnp.conf correct?  Do you get any error messages when
> trying to use the sound card or does it just fail silently?  I get a
> "Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - device disabled" when my sound card
> doesn't work, meaning that Plug-and-Pray has in fact introduced an
> interrupt conflict into the system.  Most importantly, does the kernel
> you're running have sound support?  (I always compile custom kernels,
> so I don't remember if the default Debian kernel has sound support or
> not.)  You may need to recompile your kernel with sound support on.


What is the output of 'cat /dev/sndstat' show?  Can you do 'insmod
sound' and if so, does 'cat /proc/modules' confirm the sound driver as
being installed?

 
> As for your mouse, the switch on the bottom changes which protocol the
> mouse uses; have you read the 3-Button-Mouse HOWTO? (It's in
> /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/, and may have the information you need to decide
> where that switch belongs.)  Also, you need to make sure that the
> information in your XF86Config matches your mouse hardware.  You should
> tell X that you have whatever kind of mouse you have set the switch to.


I use my mouse in PC (MouseSystems) mode.  Make sure your XF86Config
selects MouseSystem in the input section.


> --
> Stephen Ryan   Debian GNU/Linux
> Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
> 

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Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

[Ed Cogburn]

Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> 
> I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they
> seem pretty MS-Windows oriented.  I'm guessing many of you have had a
> similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the
> lists.)
> 
> Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the
> netscape web site after filling out forms giving your address, etc.
> Unfortunately it's linked with libc5; for various reasons I won't go
> into here this is unsatisfactory for us.
> 
> It is possible to get 4.06 linked with libc6 from the ftp site; however,
> this is the export version which only has 40-bit encryption, and which
> we'd prefer not to be stuck with.
> 
> Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with
> libc6?
> 


Get 4.06 from the 'development', not 'shipping', subtree (it will have
'glibc2' in its name) on ftp.netscape.com then goto
http://www.fortify.com and get the latest fortify.


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Re: rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35

[Christophe Broult]

Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there a version of the rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35?

I've found how I could version 2.0.35 after reading section ``8.3
Replacing the Kernel'' http://www.debian.org/2.0/install.html:-(

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Re: netscape

[Ed Cogburn]

A. M. Varon wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Rick Knebel wrote:
> 
> > I just installed Netscape 4.06 and it crashes on just about every page
> > with a Java applet on it.
> >
> > Is this what is happening to everyone.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using Netscape 4.06 (With or Without Java.) without any
> problems. In fact, It's much more stable than the Netscape versions in
> Nt/win95! Kudos to Brian White for a very good Debian wrapper/installer
> for the Netscape Browser!
> 
> Maybe you have installed Netscape 4.06 without the debian Netscape
> installer/wrapper?


No, I'm running 4.06, but I never used the installer to install it. 
4.06 is far more stable than 4.5 is.


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Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

[Ossama Othman]

Hi,

> > I believe that the latest development 2.1.x kernels can be compiled using
> > the new compilers.  I am not suggesting that you use the development
> > kernels, however.
> 
> Why not? :)
> I got 2.1.119 last night...man it is sweet :)
> My first development kernel :)

I didn't want to be responsible if something went wrong.  :)
I plan switching to the development kernels after I get my motherboard
back from ASUS.

-Ossama

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

[Stephen J. Carpenter]

On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:01:48AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian
> > 2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen
> > black, machine locked ? 
> >  When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that this
> > 2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2.. while the 2.0.34 with gcc 2.8.1. 
> 
> Don't use gcc 2.8.1 or egcs to compile the 2.0.x kernels.  This is a known
> issue.  Compiling the kernel with those compilers causes problems with X11
> starting up.  Use gcc 2.7.x to compile the kernel.  By the way, it is for
> this reason (at least one reason) that Debian 2.0's default C compiler is
> gcc 2.7.2.3.
> 
> I believe that the latest development 2.1.x kernels can be compiled using
> the new compilers.  I am not suggesting that you use the development
> kernels, however.

Why not? :)
I got 2.1.119 last night...man it is sweet :)
My first development kernel :)

Didn't quite compile "out of the box" (silly kernel coders :) put the variable
declaration in a function after its first use :) btw thats in nbd.c I think)

Other than thatit works great...it "feels" faster too esp under X
Maybe its just mebut it does apear faster :)

Also...in kernel hacking it has the "Magic" sysreq keyIlike the idea
of being able to try to force the kernel to sync and umount filesystems
if something locks up...

-Steve
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Pine 4.02

[C.J.LAWSON]

Hi,
   I have just gotten the latest (I think) version of pine and seemed to
have compiled it OK (with '000's of warning messages ... what did I do
wrong).. The matter is: I was under the impression that it automatically
highlighted html text within an email so one could follow the link .. I
have been unable to verify that ... Tell me, what else am I doing wrong?

Yours somewhat disillusioned

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Cranfield  University, 
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Re: Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

I don't know if it's any help at all, but after figuring out to type 

  linux floppy=thinkpad

at the prompt, I had no problems at all on a thinkpad 755c . . . save 
that I still don't have the battery working

rick

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How much shoud be in /var/log/messages

[Jay Barbee]

I don't typically remember /var/log/messages being as empty (mostly MARK 
entries).  I have the following entry in syslog.conf:

*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
auth,authpriv.none;\
cron,daemon.none;\
mail,news.none  -/var/log/messages

...that is the only play "messages" is defined.  My syslog is pretty lenghty, 
and 
I have several entries being printed to /dev/tty9:

daemon,mail.*;\
*.=notice;*.=warn   /dev/tty9

...This is probably a non issue, I just remember when my /var/log/messages 
was basically a data dump for everything.  Anything look abnormal?

--Jay Barbee

Re: kernel package

[David Wright]

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:

> Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> > 
> > When I installed debian 2.0 from CD I was asked what modules I wanted
> > configured into the kernel.  These modules are called out in
> > /etc/modules.  I have rebuilt the kernel using the kernel package
> > utility.  This created a debian kernel-image package which I
> > installed, thus upgrading my kernel.  (neat!)  It seems to have done
> > everything, except modify the /etc/modules file.  Is there a utility
> > that modifies this file to reflect the modules built with the new
> > kernel, or do I have to do this by hand?  (I added module support for
> > java, minux, etc).
> > 
>   'depmod -a' does this.  IIRC, the make-kpg should do this
> though...hmmm.

AIUI that takes care of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep and you
have to take care of /etc/modules yourself.

I always forget to prune /etc/modules when I change over from the
installation kernel to my first own-built one, so I get lots of
'not found' messages because I never forget to mv the old
/lib/modules tree. Strange...

But you can't automate writing /etc/modules. Only you know whether
you want to run kerneld (auto), whether certain modules should always
be loaded (3c509, sound), attempted (ppa) or loaded on demand (lp).
(Some of my choices.)

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Monitoring upsd

[Jay Barbee]

I just hooked my Linux box upto a UPS (APC SmartUPS 900) and I have the 
serial link hooked up.

When I run "/etc/init.d/ups start", it runs, but the following error is logged:

/sbin/upsd: log: UPS_ERROR

The daemon is still running, but I am not sure if I can determine what is going 
on with the UPS or if the serial connection is talking smoothly.

Any ideas?

--Jay

Re: how does libc5-compat work?

[jdassen]

On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 05:38:42PM +0200, Thomas Gebhardt wrote:
> obviously it is still possible to run (most) of the old libc5 binaries in
> hamm. Somehow ld knows when it is necessary to use the libs from the

ld.so, not ld.

> libc5-compat directory. How does this mechanism work?

ELF binaries contain a segment that specifies what libraries they were
linked against (objdump --all-headers thebinary), which ld.so uses in
determining which library to load the binary against.

> I have a program that segfaults; obviously it tries to use both
> libc5 *and* libc6:

That means ld.so only finds a libc6 version of a library for which the
binary needs a libc5 one.

> $ ldd secude
> /lib/nfslock.so.0 => /lib/nfslock.so.0 (0x4000c000)
> libsecude.so => /tmp/sec518c-linux/libsecude.so (0x4000e000)
> libgdbm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x4016a000)
> libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4017)
> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40173000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40231000)
> ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x402d6000) 
> 
> How can I manage to get it working?

Do objdump --all-headers secude and install the libc5 versions of all the
libraries it needs.

HTH,
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Re: Auc Tex not working

[Immanuel Yap]

Johann Spies wrote:
> 
> After upgrading Debian 2.0 (emacs20) Auc Tex is not working.
> 
> I have, as the auc tex info file indicated, included  the following in my
> .emacs - file:
> (setq TeX-auto-save t)
> (setq TeX-parse-self t)
> (setq-default TeX-master nil)
> 
> I have re-installed auctex but without success.
> 
> Does anybody knows where I can look for a solution?

You need to add (require 'tex-site) to your .emacs file.

Noel

Minimum hardware for Netscape

[Kent West]

What's the real-world minimum hardware for running Netscape on top of X?
I've got a 386-40 with 8MB that does okay for the command line stuff, but
Netscape is horridly slow. I know the 386 is underpowered, but it's all
I've got right now. I was just wondering if doubling my RAM would bring
Netscape up to a useable speed, or if I'm just going to have to find a
bigger machine (486-100, or Pentium, etc).

Or maybe there's some esoteric setting in Linux or Netscape that would
improve the response some?

Thanks.
Kent
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rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35

[Christophe Broult]

Hello,

Is there a version of the rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35?

Chris

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re: help with x

[Kent West]

>>At 06:48 PM 8/31/1998 -0400, Brian D Kellogg wrote:
>>>I set my default color depth to 32 bit and now nothing displays on my
>>>screen.  Is there a way to exit it back to the prompt so I can change 
>>the
>>>default back to 24 bit.
>>>
>>>thanx,
>>>
>>>Brian
>>>
>>>


>On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:58:20 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>writes:
>>I'd try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
>>


At 07:37 PM 8/31/1998 -0400, Brian D Kellogg wrote:
>I have kdm starting at bootup to provide a login screen. so crtl-alt
>backspace just restarts the unseen login screen.
>

I'm too new at Linux/Unix to know how to get around kdm, but I've seen
similar issues on this list. The fix involves starting in single-user mode
and then editting some files that disable kdm. Perhaps someone else can
give you the specifics, or you might search the mail list archives for the
past couple of months (it was recently that I saw the posts). Those
archives can be accessed from http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/. Go
into the debian-user archives for 1998, say around July or August and
search for kdm.

Also, before I got this sent, I noticed that ccg suggested using
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to a different virtual console. His suggestion sounds
like a better solution than the single-user option, but I'll go ahead and
send this just as a backup option.

Kent
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Re: X11 installation problems

[Kent West]

As Peter suggests below, you can run xf86config (as root) from outside of
dselect to create the XF86Config file. Alternatively, you can run XF86Setup
for a graphical routine to create the file. I've found that if one of these
doesn't produce a useable XF86Config file, sometimes the other routine will
(although the difference may only be in the choices I make in the
respective routines).

At 08:11 AM 9/1/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello Cristov:
>
>You should be running dselect from the root account.
>If you are ignore the above sentence. I personally have
>to run dselect several times when performing a raw
>install. This is because some of the dependencies must
>be satistied before other packages can be installed ( I think ).
>When running dselect for the first time ( raw system ) I
>do not select any packages, I just run dselect - install.
>Following successful execution I start selecting packages.
>
>>From the super user account try running xf86config to
>configure your Xserver. I the error persists, reply back.
>
>Peter
>
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Cristov Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
>Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 6:57 AM
>Subject: X11 installation problems
>
>
>>Second try - Just in case there is anyone who can help me with this
>>but might have missed it the first time.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>> I'm having trouble with the VGA16 server during the configuration
>>> portion of dselect.  It asks if I want it to create the configuration
>>> file and when I say yes I get a message saying that the file was not
>>> created.  It then repeats the question but at that point the display
>>> becomes skewed where the message starts a third of the way across the
>>> screen and the keyboard no longer responds to anything but ^C.  That
>>> gives an error and the configuration of the other files continues but
>>> the screen is still skewed and the only response I can give until the
>>> process is complete is ^C.
>>>
>>> I'm installing from a CheapBytes CD if that helps.  Do they offer any
>>> kind of support?  I bought the 4 disc version and the installation
>>> isn't very clear cut for us newbies.  I'm still not sure how to
>>> install contrib & non-free packages.  Do I need to run dselect 3
>>times?
>>>
>>> One more thing.  Recently someone asked about how to execute the basic
>>> configuration options that are given before running dselect the first
>>> time but I can't seem to find the message.  Could someone forward that
>>> to me as well?  TIA
>>>
>>> Cristov Russell
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>>
>>>
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how does libc5-compat work?

[Thomas Gebhardt]

Hi,

obviously it is still possible to run (most) of the old libc5
binaries in hamm. Somehow ld knows when it is necessary to use
the libs from the libc5-compat directory. How does this
mechanism work?

I have a program that segfaults; obviously it tries to use both
libc5 *and* libc6:

$ ldd secude
/lib/nfslock.so.0 => /lib/nfslock.so.0 (0x4000c000)
libsecude.so => /tmp/sec518c-linux/libsecude.so (0x4000e000)
libgdbm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x4016a000)
libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4017)
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40173000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40231000)
ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x402d6000) 

How can I manage to get it working?

Thanks, Thomas

Re: Modules

[Immanuel Yap]

Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> 
> |Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules.
> 
> |I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I
> |manually
> |give:
> |   insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0
> |   insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11
> |I get the message that the ne modules has been |successfully loaded.
> 
> |Now I want to ne.o module to be loaded at boot. |How/what/where?
> I know that if you list the modules to be loaded in the file
> /etc/modules (with arguments) they will be loaded at boot time.  (You
> dont have to list 8290.o, loading the ne.o module will load the
> 8290.o because it depends on the former, assuming you run depmod -a
> first, which the kernel init scripts do).  What I would like to know,
> is how to create the /etc/module file after building a new kernel, I
> think it has to be done by hand (yuck!).

I believe modconf is the command you're looking for.

Noel

Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

[James G. MacKinnon]

Re my earlier message about being unable to install Debian 2.0 on a
ThinkPad 600 that runs Red Hat 5.0 fine. We are still unable to create a
kernel that will allow the rescue disk to boot.

Steve Hsieh kindly pointed out that we should have read readme.txt on the
rescue disk and run rdev.sh after transferring the kernel to it. We have
now done this, using both a bzImage (as recommended in the readme file)
and a zImage (as recommended by Steve). In both cases, we get a kernel
panic at the same place:

  Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06.

This is right after a very verbose message about a FAT filesystem.

As far as we can tell, the kernel we created contains everything it is
supposed to contain: initrd, ramdisk, loop, msdos, fat, minix, elf,
ext2fs, and procfs. 

If anyone has any idea what we are doing wrong, I would be very grateful
for suggestions.

James G. MacKinnon   Department of Economics
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  Fax: 613 545-2257  Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
>>"Jens" == Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Jens>  When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that 
this
 Jens> 2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2.. while the 2.0.34 with
 Jens> gcc 2.8.1.

The gcc 2.8.1 is the culprit. kernel still needs gcc 2.7.2.

manoj
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Re: Installing and configuring Emacs20

[David Wright]

On 30 Aug 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote:

> I've installed the initial six diskettes from Debian 2.0 on my PC. After
> reboot I choose for a "home user" setup and via dselect I picked up all
> the files from ftp.cistron.nl, a Debian mirror site.
> 
> I am having problems with the emacs20 package. During configuration, I
> receive an error message in some kind of installation script in emacs20.
> Is this a known problem? I tried again after all packages were installed
> and configured, but the problem remains in emacs20.

Yes, I had that problem when I selected several profiles (or whatever)
to get lots of packages ftp'd to my jaz drive. It went away when I cut
back.

This is absolute hearsay, but I read here that tm might be the cause of the
problem. So try purging it, install emacs20, then reinstall tm (if you
need it). If it's not that, look at any packages that fiddle with lisp or 
emacs directories, e.g. /etc/emacs20/...

Cheers,

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Re: Linux console bug(s) (?)

[David Wright]

On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Zini Enrico wrote:

> [...]
> And, while I'm here, is it normal that scrolling back (pressing PageUp) in
> less is much slower than scrolling up? It even quite annoying...

I've only noticed that when you're displaying a binary file of
substantial size, and have assumed it's to do with computing
where the previous page should start in a file with enormous
line lengths.

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Re: Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

[Steve Hsieh]

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, James G. MacKinnon wrote:

> I have been trying to help a colleague install Debian 2.0 on his ThinkPad
> 600. Red Hat 5.0 previously installed fine. However, he has been unable to
> boot from either the standard Debian 2.0 rescue disk or the Tecra rescue
> disk. 


It's probably the common 'bzimage' problem.  You may want to contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for the steps by which he got things to work.  In a
nutshell, you need to replace the linux file on the rescue disk with a
kernel built with zimage and not bzimage, and then execute the rdev.sh
shell script.


>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep  1 10:39:34 1998
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 14:03:58 +0900
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: some success on the thinkpad 770 ed front
Resent-Date: 7 Aug 1998 05:16:52 -
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i now have a rescue disk that will boot for the thinkpad 770 ed :-)

thanks to: 

  Steve Hsieh
  George Bonser
  Greg Starkes
  Nathan Norman
  Brandon Mitchell

for your help and comments.  if i left anyone out, i apologize -- please
let me know. 

i haven't gone through the whole installation process yet, but to summarize
what was done so far:

  1) make a vanilla hamm rescue disk (i made mine from an image dated 
 1998-07-21)

  2) make a zImage that includes:

 -ramdisk
 -initrd (initial ramdisk -- this option appears once you've selected
  ramdisk -- at least via make menuconfig)
 -loop
 -msdos
 -fat
 -minix
 -elf
 -ext2fs
 -procfs

 (making a zImage involves 'make zImage' in the appropriate kernel
 sources directory -- note: if you stick too much in your kernel, it
 might not fit on your rescue floppy -- zImage ended up in
 /usr/src/linux-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/ for me, your mileage may vary.)

 note: it might be necessary to make sure you match the kernel version
 of your zImage w/ that of the rescue disk -- i don't know if this really
 matters -- any comments?

  3) copy the zImage to the rescue disk w/ the name 'linux' -- this overwrites
 the existing kernel image on the floppy. 

  4) w/ the rescue disk mounted, cd to the floppy's root (this will likely
 be /mnt or /floppy) and execute the rdev.sh shell script

note: these steps are outlined in the readme.txt file on the rescue disk
(as pointed out by Brandon Mitchell)

thanks again for all your help!

-sen

btw, as Greg Starkes pointed out, floppy=thinkpad does not seem to be
necessary.

Swapping problems

[Beernd Noordkamp]

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Hi debian-users

I've installed debian 1.3 only recently. I've got a 486DX33 with 16MB RAM
and 270MB hard disk: 100MB for DOS, 16MB linux swap, 40MB linux root and
the rest /usr. My problem is that as soon as linux starts swapping, things
go wrong. `Trying to free nonexisting swap page' and `weirdness...',
almost always resulting in `segmentation fault'. I haven't really got a
clue why all this happens. My machine hasn't been swapping much yet except
while running dselect, so perhaps that's the problem. Could anybody help,
please?

Thanks!

Beernd Noordkamp

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Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

[James G. MacKinnon]

I have been trying to help a colleague install Debian 2.0 on his ThinkPad
600. Red Hat 5.0 previously installed fine. However, he has been unable to
boot from either the standard Debian 2.0 rescue disk or the Tecra rescue
disk. 

Believing that this is a problem caused by all the extra drivers in the
standard distribution kernels, we have compiled a new kernel on another
machine and replaced the file "linux" on the rescue disk with it. This new
kernel works much better than the original one. The boot process proceeds
for quite some time. However, it eventually dies with the following
messages:

  VFS: mounted root (minix filesystem).
  Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06.

We suspect that we must have failed to include something essential in the
kernel we compiled, but we don't know what it is. We did include both
RAMdisk and Minix support.

If anyone can shed any light on what we are doing wrong, we would be very
grateful. 

James G. MacKinnon   Department of Economics
phone: 613 545-2293  Queen's University
  Fax: 613 545-2257  Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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From: "!Rider@VenomNET!" , Thanks for the reply!

[David B. Teague]

Hi 

Please excuse posting this to the list, but There were no return address
that my mailer likes in the message Rider posted to me. 

If Rider will email me with a usable return address in the body of the
message, I'll forward the information he requests.

--David


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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 06:27:15 -0300
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To: "David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Thanks for the reply!

Hi,

I am really grateful for your reply and for your offer to help me. 

[snip]

Please do send me the material you promised me in your e-mail. 

Only God knows how grateful I will be. 


Thank You.

Auc Tex not working

[Johann Spies]

After upgrading Debian 2.0 (emacs20) Auc Tex is not working.

I have, as the auc tex info file indicated, included  the following in my
.emacs - file:
(setq TeX-auto-save t)
(setq TeX-parse-self t)
(setq-default TeX-master nil)

I have re-installed auctex but without success. 

Does anybody knows where I can look for a solution?

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Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

[Ossama Othman]

Hi,

> using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian
> 2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen
> black, machine locked ? 
>  When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that this
> 2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2.. while the 2.0.34 with gcc 2.8.1. 

Don't use gcc 2.8.1 or egcs to compile the 2.0.x kernels.  This is a known
issue.  Compiling the kernel with those compilers causes problems with X11
starting up.  Use gcc 2.7.x to compile the kernel.  By the way, it is for
this reason (at least one reason) that Debian 2.0's default C compiler is
gcc 2.7.2.3.

I believe that the latest development 2.1.x kernels can be compiled using
the new compilers.  I am not suggesting that you use the development
kernels, however.

-Ossama

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

[jdassen]

On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 03:49:32PM +0200, Jens Ritter forwarded:
[X fails with gcc 2.8.1 compiled 2.0.x kernel]

Linux 2.0.x kernels rely on knowledge of the compiler's method optimisation
that is only valid for gcc 2.7.x, so you should use only a 2.7.x version to
compile them; this is why Debian 2.0 ships with gcc 2.7.2.3 as the default
compiler for C code.

If you need a newer gcc version for compiling other code, use the "egcc"
package.

HTH,
Ray
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Re: AGP Video Cards?

[Michael B. Taylor]

SuSE recently released a server for the G200.  This will probably make it 
into the next release of XFree86, but for now it is "beta".  My previous
experience with using SuSE servers with Debian (the then new nVidia server)
was favorable.  But unless you are pretty good at setting up X, I suggest
you stick with with the official XFree86 servers, all of which, I think,
are available in hamm.

An excellent source of Linux oriented hardware data (including video cards)
is Net Express's web site:  http://www.tdl.com/~netex/

Mike

On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 12:21:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to get a good AGP video card to work with Debian 2.0. Looking at 
> the list of supported cards in the xf86config utility I see the "matrox 
> Milenium II (AGP)." However this card seems hard to find now since it's been 
> replaced by the new one G200. Does anybody know if this new card is supported?
> 
> Any advice on any other AGP card?
>

Seyon and Xadmin... can't see but it's there....

[Person, Rod]

Hey,

I am a newbie so here it goes. . . . 

First off I installed linux by downloading everything of the net onto a
DOS partition. Now I'm up and running, but of course I keep get this
depends on that or suggest and recommends...that all good. The first
question is when I use Xadmin it just froze...the LEDs on my computer
just flicked and flicked...So I ran it from Xterm and got the error that
:

Xadmin could not locate the font. It seemed that /perl15/tk/widget.pm
did not exist. 
I then went to the directory it said and looked for the file...it was
right there!!!  I also, have this problem with Seyon, It say the file
phonelist is not there or in default directory, but I manually put it in
both. Can someone tell me how  to make either or this two programs
see!!!
> Roderick P. Person
> HealthAmerica
> (412)577-5023
> "..everything that can be said about anything, has already be
> said"
> 

X11 remains black (fwd)

[Jens Ritter]

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:33:48 +0200
From: Vankeerberghen Pieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Jens Ritter' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X11 remains black

The problem: Debian 1.1 upgraded to 1.3, and now to 2.0: Conversion to libc6
done a long time ago. Recompiled yesterday the kernel (2.0.34), to make a
initrd (allows booting from a PCMCIA SCSI drive). Now: the kernel works (not
using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian
2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen
black, machine locked ? 
 When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that this
2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2.. while the 2.0.34 with gcc 2.8.1. 

Help ?

With kind regards !
Pieter

Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

[Bob Nielsen]

Possibly you had an older version of Fortify.  They typically come out
with a new version each time Netscape changes (nothing for 4.50, however).

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Jens Ch. Lisner wrote:

> 
> Hmm, I tried fortify with netscape 4.05, but it says something about an
> unknown version or such a thing.
> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > You might be able to convert to 128-bit encryption using fortify.  See
> > www.fortify.net.  I haven't tried it on the libc6 version of netscape,
> > however it works fine on the libc5 version. 
> > 
> > On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> > 
> > > I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they
> > > seem pretty MS-Windows oriented.  I'm guessing many of you have had a
> > > similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the
> > > lists.)
> > > 
> > > Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the
> > > netscape web site after filling out forms giving your address, etc.
> > > Unfortunately it's linked with libc5; for various reasons I won't go
> > > into here this is unsatisfactory for us.
> > > 
> > > It is possible to get 4.06 linked with libc6 from the ftp site; however,
> > > this is the export version which only has 40-bit encryption, and which
> > > we'd prefer not to be stuck with.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with
> > > libc6?
> > > 
> > > 
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Re: Disabling virtual desktops in X

[David Wright]

On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote:

> > Yes you can. You just treat the size of your desktop like the colour
> > depth, and run an X server for each kind. (There's a package to allow
> > one to cut and paste between different server instances.)
> > 
> 
> Where can I get it to have a try?

The package is propsel. (I searched Packages for 'paste'.)

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Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

[Jens Ch. Lisner]

Hmm, I tried fortify with netscape 4.05, but it says something about an
unknown version or such a thing.

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> You might be able to convert to 128-bit encryption using fortify.  See
> www.fortify.net.  I haven't tried it on the libc6 version of netscape,
> however it works fine on the libc5 version. 
> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> 
> > I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they
> > seem pretty MS-Windows oriented.  I'm guessing many of you have had a
> > similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the
> > lists.)
> > 
> > Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the
> > netscape web site after filling out forms giving your address, etc.
> > Unfortunately it's linked with libc5; for various reasons I won't go
> > into here this is unsatisfactory for us.
> > 
> > It is possible to get 4.06 linked with libc6 from the ftp site; however,
> > this is the export version which only has 40-bit encryption, and which
> > we'd prefer not to be stuck with.
> > 
> > Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with
> > libc6?
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
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OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

[Kenneth Scharf]

---
I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they
seem pretty MS-Windows oriented.  I'm guessing many of you have had a
similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the
lists.)

Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the
netscape web site after filling out forms giving your address, etc.
Unfortunately it's linked with libc5; for various reasons I won't go
into here this is unsatisfactory for us.

It is possible to get 4.06 linked with libc6 from the ftp site; however,
this is the export version which only has 40-bit encryption, and which
we'd prefer not to be stuck with.

Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with
libc6?
--
What about the .rpm version that comes with RedHat 5.1?  This is a
lib6c program, is it 40 or 128 bit encryption?



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OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

[Kenneth Scharf]

---
I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they
seem pretty MS-Windows oriented.  I'm guessing many of you have had a
similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the
lists.)

Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the
netscape web site after filling out forms giving your address, etc.
Unfortunately it's linked with libc5; for various reasons I won't go
into here this is unsatisfactory for us.

It is possible to get 4.06 linked with libc6 from the ftp site; however,
this is the export version which only has 40-bit encryption, and which
we'd prefer not to be stuck with.

Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with
libc6?
--
What about the .rpm version that comes with RedHat 5.1?  This is a
lib6c program, is it 40 or 128 bit encryption?



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re: help with x

[Kenneth Scharf]

use   
this will get you a non-X login screen.  You can then log in as root
an fix the problem.


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Re: X11 installation problems

[Peter Iannarelli]

Hello Cristov:

You should be running dselect from the root account.
If you are ignore the above sentence. I personally have
to run dselect several times when performing a raw
install. This is because some of the dependencies must
be satistied before other packages can be installed ( I think ).
When running dselect for the first time ( raw system ) I
do not select any packages, I just run dselect - install.
Following successful execution I start selecting packages.

>From the super user account try running xf86config to
configure your Xserver. I the error persists, reply back.

Peter



-Original Message-
From: Cristov Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 6:57 AM
Subject: X11 installation problems


>Second try - Just in case there is anyone who can help me with this
>but might have missed it the first time.
>
>Thanks
>
>> I'm having trouble with the VGA16 server during the configuration
>> portion of dselect.  It asks if I want it to create the configuration
>> file and when I say yes I get a message saying that the file was not
>> created.  It then repeats the question but at that point the display
>> becomes skewed where the message starts a third of the way across the
>> screen and the keyboard no longer responds to anything but ^C.  That
>> gives an error and the configuration of the other files continues but
>> the screen is still skewed and the only response I can give until the
>> process is complete is ^C.
>>
>> I'm installing from a CheapBytes CD if that helps.  Do they offer any
>> kind of support?  I bought the 4 disc version and the installation
>> isn't very clear cut for us newbies.  I'm still not sure how to
>> install contrib & non-free packages.  Do I need to run dselect 3
>times?
>>
>> One more thing.  Recently someone asked about how to execute the basic
>> configuration options that are given before running dselect the first
>> time but I can't seem to find the message.  Could someone forward that
>> to me as well?  TIA
>>
>> Cristov Russell
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>>
>>
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Modules

[Kenneth Scharf]

|Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules.

|I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I
|manually
|give:
|   insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0
|   insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11
|I get the message that the ne modules has been |successfully loaded.

|Now I want to ne.o module to be loaded at boot. |How/what/where?
I know that if you list the modules to be loaded in the file
/etc/modules (with arguments) they will be loaded at boot time.  (You
dont have to list 8290.o, loading the ne.o module will load the 
8290.o because it depends on the former, assuming you run depmod -a
first, which the kernel init scripts do).  What I would like to know,
is how to create the /etc/module file after building a new kernel, I
think it has to be done by hand (yuck!).




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X11 installation problems

[Cristov Russell]

Second try - Just in case there is anyone who can help me with this
but might have missed it the first time.

Thanks

> I'm having trouble with the VGA16 server during the configuration
> portion of dselect.  It asks if I want it to create the configuration
> file and when I say yes I get a message saying that the file was not
> created.  It then repeats the question but at that point the display
> becomes skewed where the message starts a third of the way across the
> screen and the keyboard no longer responds to anything but ^C.  That
> gives an error and the configuration of the other files continues but
> the screen is still skewed and the only response I can give until the
> process is complete is ^C.  
> 
> I'm installing from a CheapBytes CD if that helps.  Do they offer any
> kind of support?  I bought the 4 disc version and the installation
> isn't very clear cut for us newbies.  I'm still not sure how to
> install contrib & non-free packages.  Do I need to run dselect 3
times?
> 
> One more thing.  Recently someone asked about how to execute the basic
> configuration options that are given before running dselect the first
> time but I can't seem to find the message.  Could someone forward that
> to me as well?  TIA
> 
> Cristov Russell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
>  
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Re: Printer

[Martin Schulze]

Mike Holliday wrote:
> Hi,
> All you need to do to correct this problem is go into "start" "setting" 
> "printers"
> remove the bad printer, then use add new printer, you should see your printer 
> there
> (Common Type), at this point it will ask you for win98, put in your CD, and 
> viola
> your printing again.
> 
> Mike.
> 
> Donna J. Miller wrote:
> 
> > Windows 98 wiped out my printer and it won't reload.  Says EPBIRLIB.DLL
> > file is missing.  How can I download that file.  The only printer driver
> > that Epson offers won't work.  I have it on a disk.  What is the correct
> > patch or command?  Thanks Donna
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Re: netscape

[A. M. Varon]

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Rick Knebel wrote:

> I just installed Netscape 4.06 and it crashes on just about every page
> with a Java applet on it. 
>
> Is this what is happening to everyone.

Hi,

I have been using Netscape 4.06 (With or Without Java.) without any
problems. In fact, It's much more stable than the Netscape versions in
Nt/win95! Kudos to Brian White for a very good Debian wrapper/installer
for the Netscape Browser! 

Maybe you have installed Netscape 4.06 without the debian Netscape
installer/wrapper?

regards,

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Re: network unreachable

[Remo Badii]

I had (maybe) the same problem yesterday:
edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and put IP-Address, Network, Gateway,
Broadcast addresses there (without " " quotes around).
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Re: bug in "make-kpkg modules_image"

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
>>"Richard" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Richard> It seems that "make-kpkg modules_image" runs the pcmcia
 Richard> config script, with a string of \n's to take the
 Richard> defaults--forcing the package defaults, rather than the
 Richard> current config.  I had to edit the Makefile to change the
 Richard> default to that it would use the source directory rather
 Richard> than the currently loaded kernel.

Nope. This is what the kernel-package does:
__
MODULE_LOC := /usr/src/modules
...
modules-image modules_image: configure
ifndef MODULES_ENABLED
@echo Modules not configured, so not making modules_image
else
-for module in $(MODULE_LOC)/* ; do \
(cd $$module; \
  ./debian/rules KVERS="$(version)" KSRC="$(SRCTOP)" \
 KMAINT="$(pgp)" kdist_image; ); \
done
endif
__


In other words, for all modules located in /usr/src/modules;
 change directory to each in turn, and run ./debian/rules in each
 directory, telling hte rules file the kernel version, the location of
 the current kernel source, and who the maintainer is supposed to be
 (the person trunning make-kpkg.)

No strings of \n's at all. Nothing to force the defaults. It
 even provides the location of the kernel sources.

 Richard> Is this a bug, or is there a way around that I didn't find
 Richard> in the doc's?  

If a bug, this is a problem with the modules debian/rules file
 -- but I do not know enough to know if indeed this is a bug.

manoj

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Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

[Bob Nielsen]

You might be able to convert to 128-bit encryption using fortify.  See
www.fortify.net.  I haven't tried it on the libc6 version of netscape,
however it works fine on the libc5 version. 

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Nick Cabatoff wrote:

> I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they
> seem pretty MS-Windows oriented.  I'm guessing many of you have had a
> similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the
> lists.)
> 
> Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the
> netscape web site after filling out forms giving your address, etc.
> Unfortunately it's linked with libc5; for various reasons I won't go
> into here this is unsatisfactory for us.
> 
> It is possible to get 4.06 linked with libc6 from the ftp site; however,
> this is the export version which only has 40-bit encryption, and which
> we'd prefer not to be stuck with.
> 
> Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with
> libc6?
> 
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Re: SyJet

[A. M. Varon]

On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I was just wondering if anyone had any expierence with using the Syjet
> (from Syqest) drive with Debian Linux. I am currently considering buying
> a Syjet 2 gig drive. I am just wondering how are/if possible to have it
> run on my linux system.  The drive would be the external parallel port
> model. I am running Debian 2.0 and Kernel 2.0.34

Hi,

I have a Syquest Sparq 1.0 Gb IDE parallel port version. It quite works
well with Debian Linux. 

Bit of a problem is that since the parallel port version is IDE based,
it's so CPU Intensive! I've heard that the SCSI parallel port drives is
faster and not as CPU intensive compared to the IDE parallel port drives.

Looking at www.torque.net/linux-pp.html, The Syjet is supported... albeit
the software is still in ALPHA version. 

So, your best bet is to either:

* Buy a Syquest Sparc now.   
* Buy a Syquest Syjet now. Wait for a few weeks/months for the software
  driver to be mature/stable.

regards,

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Re: Fetchmail don't work for me !

[john]

Randy Edwards writes:
> The kludge that I've worked out is to put an individual system crontab
> entry for each user.  The crontab points to a small script in the user's
> home directory which runs fetchmail as the individual user.

I run fetchmail as a user named 'postman', delivering all mail to postman.
Postman's .forward file then runs mailagent, which distributes the mail to
the users.
-- 
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

Re: cant't get ppp working.

[john]

Mohammad Haque writes:
> I get teh same message about the asyncmap butm ine goes an extra step
> further and reports something about link not 8 bit clean or 7 bit set 0 or
> something like that.

This usually means that pppd has started sending ppp packets before the
other end is ready.  It is expecting more login stuff, and echoes the
packets with bit 8 cleared.

Dial in with minicom and work through the login to see what they want.
When you start receiving garbage ppp has started on their end.
-- 
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

Re: cant't get ppp working.

[john]

Mark writes:
> any clues,, what is it looking for?

Try editing /etc/chatscript/provider and replacing the string '\d\c' with
"" .  Also try dialing in with minicom and working through the login to see 
what they want. 
-- 
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Dancing Horse Hill
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Re: Sound card question, mouse question

[stephen . p . ryan]

On 29 Aug, Christopher M. Wesneski wrote:
> I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and
> isapnp.
> 
> pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings)
> isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550
> 
> Everything works great. My question is, pnpdump also listed my sound
> card. When I edited isapnp.conf to select the correct settings and ran
> isapnp everything looks ok but the card doesn't work. Is there something
> similar to setserial that I have to do after I run isapnp?
> 
> Also I went out and bought a three button mouse so I could middle-click
> cut-n-paste in xterms but I can't seem to get it to work. I have gpm
> running and it works while not in X (at the console). But when I am in X
> the middle button does nothing. It is a $0.50 serial port mouse
> (GoldenImage) and it has a little switch on the bottom (which I have no
> clue what it does) with one side labeled MS AM (which is the only way it
> will work in Windows) and the other PC AT. Any suggestions?

You might get a better response with better information in your
question.  What model is your sound card?  Are the settings listed for
it in /etc/isapnp.conf correct?  Do you get any error messages when
trying to use the sound card or does it just fail silently?  I get a
"Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - device disabled" when my sound card
doesn't work, meaning that Plug-and-Pray has in fact introduced an
interrupt conflict into the system.  Most importantly, does the kernel
you're running have sound support?  (I always compile custom kernels,
so I don't remember if the default Debian kernel has sound support or
not.)  You may need to recompile your kernel with sound support on.

As for your mouse, the switch on the bottom changes which protocol the
mouse uses; have you read the 3-Button-Mouse HOWTO? (It's in
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/, and may have the information you need to decide
where that switch belongs.)  Also, you need to make sure that the
information in your XF86Config matches your mouse hardware.  You should
tell X that you have whatever kind of mouse you have set the switch to.
-- 
Stephen Ryan   Debian GNU/Linux
Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College

Re: New files from ftp?

[LUK ShunTim]

Remo Badii wrote:
> 
> After installing Debian 2.0 last week from CDs, I am now trying
> to install Netscape 4, pgplot, and tgif using dselect and ftp from
> the ftp.denian.org site.
> I also got the message "getting ... xfntpex_3.3.2.3 ...
> xserver-svga ...".
> Is this because there are new versions of these files?

Yes. Because the packages are being constantly updated. That's why
Debian is good.

> I only wanted the three I mentioned above and did not select anythign
> else. Should I stop the download process?

Because dselect selects these for you. You have to de-select them if you
don't
like to install these newer versions. I think there's a dselect tutorial
at the Debian site. 

Regards,
ST
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[Fwd: Sound card question, mouse question] Try Two

[Christopher M. Wesneski]

I'll try sending this again since I didn't get a response. I've been
having trouble with mail also but that is unrelated. If there was
responses I'm terribly sorry for wasting your time but if it's not too
much trouble can you forward them to my work address (
[EMAIL PROTECTED] )? I'm positive that one works, I hope P-)

Thanks in advance...
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pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings)
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550

Everything works great. My question is, pnpdump also listed my sound
card. When I edited isapnp.conf to select the correct settings and ran
isapnp everything looks ok but the card doesn't work. Is there something
similar to setserial that I have to do after I run isapnp?

Also I went out and bought a three button mouse so I could middle-click
cut-n-paste in xterms but I can't seem to get it to work. I have gpm
running and it works while not in X (at the console). But when I am in X
the middle button does nothing. It is a $0.50 serial port mouse
(GoldenImage) and it has a little switch on the bottom (which I have no
clue what it does) with one side labeled MS AM (which is the only way it
will work in Windows) and the other PC AT. Any suggestions?
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OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

[Nick Cabatoff]

I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they
seem pretty MS-Windows oriented.  I'm guessing many of you have had a
similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the
lists.)

Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the
netscape web site after filling out forms giving your address, etc.
Unfortunately it's linked with libc5; for various reasons I won't go
into here this is unsatisfactory for us.

It is possible to get 4.06 linked with libc6 from the ftp site; however,
this is the export version which only has 40-bit encryption, and which
we'd prefer not to be stuck with.

Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with
libc6?

Re: netscape

[John Maheu]

I've found this to be true for every version above 4.05. I suggest using 
4.05

John

John Maheuphone  (403) 492-2049
University of Alberta email  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Economics
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada, T6C 2H4


On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Rick Knebel wrote:

> Hi,
> I just installed netscape 4.06 and it crashes on just about every page with a 
> java applet on it.
> 
> Is this what is happening to everyone.
> 
> Thanks Alot
> Rick
> 
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netscape

[Rick Knebel]

Hi,
I just installed netscape 4.06 and it crashes on just about every page with a 
java applet on it.

Is this what is happening to everyone.

Thanks Alot
Rick

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re: help with x

[Chad Glendenin]

you can use ctrl-alt-F1 to switch to virtual console 1 from X.  this should
give you a console login prompt.  to get back to X, press alt-F7.

good luck,
ccg


On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Brian D Kellogg wrote:

> I have kdm starting at bootup to provide a login screen. so crtl-alt
> backspace just restarts the unseen login screen.
> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:58:20 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> >I'd try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
> >
> >At 06:48 PM 8/31/1998 -0400, Brian D Kellogg wrote:
> >>I set my default color depth to 32 bit and now nothing displays on my
> >>screen.  Is there a way to exit it back to the prompt so I can change 
> >the
> >>default back to 24 bit.
> >>
> >>thanx,
> >>
> >>Brian
> >>

aspfilter

[Rick Knebel]

Hi,
I have used apsfilter for my printer setup previously.
I cannot find this in the 2.0 disto. Is it there?
If not what else to use.
Also when I installed 2.0 it seemed to autimatically install
my parallel pont zip drive.
Will this prevent me from printing?
If so is there a way to disable it?

Thanks Alot
Rick

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Re: Printing to a windows shared printer

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 09:02:11PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> I am having some problems with printing to a windows shared printer
> over the network. It is a NEC SuperScript 860.
> 
> If I do "lpr -Pnec myfile.txt" then the green light goes
> blink-blink...blink-blink...blink-blink...
> which means "PCL data left in printer". Pressing the button on the front
> makes the text print.

This is because no form feed has been sent to the printer.

Installing magicfilter would do the job nicely. It will handle adding
formfeeds at the end of the last page, do CR-CR/LF translations where
necessary to prevent the staircase effect, and also do transparent
translation of postscript and other formats using appropriate filters
(like ghostscript).


Hamish
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Re: Modules

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 11:52:38AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 10:36:07PM +0200, Dennis Janssen wrote:
> > Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question about modules.
> > 
> > I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card properly. When I manually
> > give:
> >insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0
> >insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11
> > I get the message that the ne modules has been successfully loaded.
> > 
> > Now I want to ne.o module to be loaded at boot. How/what/where?
> 
> $ cat /etc/init.d/isapnp
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> # /etc/init.d/isapnp: configure Plug and Play boards
> 
> test -x /sbin/isapnp || exit 0
> 
> if [ -r /etc/isapnp.conf ]; then
> /sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> fi
> 
> # install the pnp devices
> 
> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/8390.o
> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne.o io=0x240

Wow; mass overkill. Just edit /etc/modules, and list every module
you want to be loaded. You can provide options for them in
/etc/conf.modules.


Hamish
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Re: Error backing up with tob

[Bob Nielsen]

Please ignore.  Rebooting fixed the problem.

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> When I try to back up using tob, I get the following error:
> 
> afio: "/dev/ftape": Invalid argument
> 
> This is using afio version 2.4.4-2 from slink.  Is this version not
> compatible?
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
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> 
> 


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Re: Printer

[Donna J. Miller]

Mike Holliday wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> All you need to do to correct this problem is go into "start" "setting" 
> "printers"
> remove the bad printer, then use add new printer, you should see your printer 
> there
> (Common Type), at this point it will ask you for win98, put in your CD, and 
> viola
> your printing again.
> 
> Mike.
> 
> Donna J. Miller wrote:
> 
> > Windows 98 wiped out my printer and it won't reload.  Says EPBIRLIB.DLL
> > file is missing.  How can I download that file.  The only printer driver
> > that Epson offers won't work.  I have it on a disk.  What is the correct
> > patch or command?  Thanks Donna
> >
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Thank you for taking time from your busy life to help me.  You were the
only one who responded with help and courteousy.  I deeply thank you. 
Donna

Errors with taper 6.9

[Bob Nielsen]

I just installed taper version 6.9.  It seems to backup several MB, then
seeks for a few minutes, followed by an error message:

Input/output error while writing to tape 

Retry immediately repeats the error message.  Aborting shows a seg fault.
I tried reformatting the tape and using a new tape, but get the same
error. 

System:  Pentium 150 running slink, kernel 2.0.35, ftape-3.04d, Ditto 3200
tape drive with Dash accelerator card.

I remember having problems with taper in bo as well (the rex version
worked fine).  I used tob for backups in bo and this also worked in hamm,
but I get an afio error with slink (see my previous message), so tried
using taper again.

Has anyone else had backup problems with slink?

Bob


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