Linux vs. CD-ROM PIONEER DR-A24X
Hola, Tengo un problema con mi lector CD-ROM PIONEER DR-A24X. Soy incapaz de montarlo en Linux. Es más, la instalación de varias distribuciones distintas de Linux desde el CD-ROM se quedaban colgadas una vez cargado el kernel y a la hora de comenzar la transferencia de archivos desde el CDROM. He probado de todo (cambiar canal IDE, ponerlo como esclavo, ...) y todo ha sido un verdadero fracaso. Desesperado, conseguí prestado otro lector CDROM (concretamente un TEAC), y comprobé al sustituírlo por el mío que todo funcionaba perfectamente, lo que implica que el problema es el lector CDROM. El caso es que el PIONEER funciona perfectamente en DOS y W95. Hago una llamada de auxilio por si alguien se ha encontrado con este problema, y si alguien lo ha solucionado sin cambiar el lector, le agradecería mucho que me dijese como, pues no me apetece tirarlo y comprarme otro. Muchas gracias y un saludo
Re: memorandum
Hola! Lo primero pedir disculpas, pues estos mensaje se sale de la temática (off-topic), y lo he reenviado a esta lista por error. De hecho iba para debian-l10n-spanish. - Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Ay, ay, ay! Quiero apuntar una cosa... los Latinoamericanos constituimos la fraccion mas grande de Hispanohablantes, y te garantizo que si comienzas a decir consola, fichero, raton, ordenador y no se que otro monton de cosas, no todos te va(n|mos) a entender... En eso consiste la localizacion! Es por eso que es es_ES y no es a secas. Eso mismo es lo que estaba intentando decirle a esa persona. Pero ni por esas :(. Yo soy de canarias, y aqui se habla un español ligeramente distinto al de la peninsula. El problema es que algunas personas no saben (desconocen) la amplitud del español y creen que o bien se habla igual en todas partes, o bien ellos son los que lo hablan correctamente por ser el centro del mundo y el resto no. Bueno, esa es mi impresion. Marcelo PS: Que esta haciendo esto en esta lista? ¡Mea culpa! Ya me he dado cuenta y no deberia estar. :( Es evidente que o tengo mal configurado el netscape o me he equivocado de lista. El caso es que iba para debian-l10-spanish. Es mas, algunos mensajes eran privados, y los he reenviado a esta lista, o algo asi. No se... tendre que revisar mis configuraciones. Mis disculpas nuevamente. Saludos, Jose
Insertar nueva tarjeta de RED despues de la instalacion
Despues de instalar una Hamm, tuve que añadirle una tarjeta de red, en concreto una ne2000 PCI. En otras ocasiones, con Bo, me iba a '/etc/modules' (si no recuerdo mal) y le ponia algo asi como: [...] ne irq=XX io=0x [...] Con esto, conseguia que me reconociera fisicamente una tarjeta ISA. Sin embargo, para la PCI, al añadir una linea equivalente en hamm, no me la reconoce: [...] ne2k-pci irq=XX io=0x [...] Tambien he probado con: [...] options ne2k-pci irq=XX io=0x [...] * Ahora las preguntas: ¿Es este el metodo adecuado...? ¿Me voy al LILO y hago que me la cargue desde alli...? Si quisiera cargarla a mano, ¿En que script del '/etc/init.d' deberia meterla...? COMENTARIO: Hago las preguntas de esta forma para intentar comprender mejor la 'filosofia' que hay detras de la forma de hacer las cosas en Debian. Hasta ahora, he personalizado en exceso la forma de hacer estas cosas, de manera que, si alguien se ha entretenido en hacer las cosas de una determinada manera, me gustaria saber 'los porques'... -- Salu2 del Correcaminos = == LUIS CABRERA SAUCO, miembro del Grupo GULIC == http://gulic.ml.org/ == http://gulic.eu.org/ Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, España =
Re: Linux vs. CD-ROM PIONEER DR-A24X
Anxo Gómez Cao wrote: Hola, Tengo un problema con mi lector CD-ROM PIONEER DR-A24X. Soy incapaz de montarlo en Linux. Es más, la instalación de varias distribuciones ... [...] Hago una llamada de auxilio por si alguien se ha encontrado con este problema, y si alguien lo ha solucionado sin cambiar el lector, le agradecería mucho que me dijese como, pues no me apetece tirarlo y comprarme otro. Muchas gracias y un saludo Por si a alguien mas le es de ayuda, sepan que los del Gulic hemos montado un buscador especifico de LiNUX en el que se pueden encontrar las respuestas a este tipo de preguntas. La direccion la tienen en la .signature -- Salu2 del Correcaminos = == LUIS CABRERA SAUCO, miembro del Grupo GULIC == http://gulic.ml.org/ == http://gulic.eu.org/ Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, España =
Encuentro cercano con Debian hamm
Acabo de medio instalar debian 2.0.? en mi maquina Pedi por internet los cd oficiales de debian 2.0.? creo el boot disk , entro al programa de instalacio ( dinstall ) El dinstall me parecio muy bueno solo tenia una pequena deficiencia le faltaba el boton cancel cuando te pregunta select media to install debian ( directly to hardisk , floopy ) El problema viene con dselect aunque es poderoso le falta mucho pero mucho por depurar !! No ofrece unos buenos menu, la falla mas grave es cuando ocurre un error al momento de unpack o configurar, dice algo asi Error 1 . Script Termited. presiona Return No ofrece opcion de reintentar o alguna opcion para analizar el fallo Termino de instalar el debian y me encuentro que el Xfree86 no trabaja Que es lo que pasa , como hago para solucionarlo, donde puedo conseguir la ultima version ) Donde averiguo la version exacta de mi cd 2.0.??? Como instalo los paquetes manualmente dpkg -i *.deb ? Hasta luego Lord of hell
Impresion con Netscape
Hola! Comento un problema que tengo tratando de imprimir con Netscape por si alguien tambien lo tiene y/o seria tan amable de ayudarme: Resulta que cuando quiero imprimir una pagina web lo que me sale por la impresora no es la pagina web en si sino el codigo fuente de la pagina web convertida a PostScript-Adobe-3.0 Al principio pensaba que podia ser por tener instalado el Netscape 3.0 (en el que algun que otro detalle, como el Find, tampoco funcionaba) pero acabo de instalar el Communicator 4.07 (en el que si funciona ya el Find) y me siguen saliendo las paginas web como código fuente PostScript. Saludos y gracias adelantadas a quien pueda ayudarme. Salvatore Sasegui. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ-UIN: 3435499
Re: memorandum
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:27:06PM +, Oscar González wrote: Hola. decir consola, fichero, raton, ordenador y no se que otro monton ¿Cómo llaman en latinoamérica a los ratones? 102% de las personas aquí dicen 'mouse', y estoy seguro que más de uno no te va a entender que te refieres al ladrillo ese cerca del teclado si dices 'ratón'. Mis primos en Chile también me hablan de 'mouse' pero allá 'ratón' si es más común. y, ¿Qué dicen en lugar de consola? Si me explicas a que le llamas consola entonces te digo. De la lista he entendido que es ó una terminal (terminal virtual o una terminal de X) ó el monitor ó el conjunto del monitor con el teclado ó la comp^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hel ordenador ;-) [De pasada, la consola *es* la pantalla junto con el teclado] Aquí dices 'consola' y nadie te entiende. Lo más común que yo he escuchado es 'terminal'... Y si tienen la impresión de que nuestros términos informáticos pecan de barbarismos, sí, están en lo correcto: computadora, teclado, monitor, 'floppy', tarjeta madre, 'mouse', 'scanner', 'pad', cursor y no sé que otra chorrera de cosas... y los mexicanos tienen términos diferentes a los suyos y a los nuestros... Marcelo
Infovía Plus. Tenle miedo, mucho miedo.
A partir del 1 de diciembre, Infovía Plus! (sic) estará `operativa' ;-) en España, con lo que aquellos a quienes nuestro proveedor nos lo permita desde ya tendremos que ir iniciando el `tinglado' de cambiar nuestra configuración para la conexión a internet. El cambio `gordo', aparte del número de teléfono del nodo local, consiste en que a partir de ahora las contraseñas de la conexión telefónica se envían encriptadas. ¿Sigue siendo PAP el protocolo de autentificación utilizado? en ese caso ¿cómo cambio el options de pppd para que envíe las contraseñas encriptadas? ¿o bien hay que pasarse a CHAP? Por otro lado ¿va a permitir conexiones a 56K? Personalmente, ya he probado (en güin95) la conexión a internet a mi mismo proveedor con Infovía Plus! (sic) y no he notado un mejoría significativa en las prestaciones. Sin embargo, he probado el proveedor de Retevisión Iddeo, vía Retenet, y la verdad es que no hay color. Yo creo que merece la pena, aunque hoy por hoy las llamadas haya que seguir haciéndolas por Telefónica (sic) :') ¿Alguien más ha hecho la prueba? ¿Cual es su opinión? -- Ismael Valladolid ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://personales.mundivia.es/iron/ 'I gotta tell you my tale, Of how I loved and how I failed I hope you understand, These feelings should not be in a man' R.Ashcroft
¿MRU? ¿MTU?
¿En qué afectan estos parámetros a la velocidad de la conexión a internet? ¿Cuáles son los valores apropiados para una conexión telefónica? Gracias y un saludo. -- Ismael Valladolid ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://personales.mundivia.es/iron/ 'I gotta tell you my tale, Of how I loved and how I failed I hope you understand, These feelings should not be in a man' R.Ashcroft
Off-topic: lista cplusplus
Hola a todos! Alguien me podria recomendar una lista de programacion de c++? A ser posible en castellano. Muchas gracias, Agustin === | Jose Agustin Lopez Bueno | | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | http://www.uv.es/~lopezj/ | | | | Tel: +34-6-3864310 | | Fax: +34-6-3864200 | | Servicio de Informatica | | Universidad de Valencia | ===
Re: Adaptec SCSI Controller?
Evan Van Dyke wrote: The 2.0.xx kernels won't support the 2940U2W by default, but if you patch in the newer version of the aic7xxx drivers then it will. I have a SCSI controller based on the AIC7890 chip(same as the 2940U2W) and it works fine. Alternatevly, if you install the latest 2.1.x kernel (2.1.128) the aic7xxx driver is already updated. --Evan Sounds great. I'm running 2.1.125 now, so a latest recompile when my new hardware arrives should do the trick then. I always get my kernels straight from the source. Some web research reveals the Quantum Viking II series to be a moderate performer, but a bargain at the price. So it's still my main choice. -- SEGVhttp://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/
Lilo.conf
Hello all. I am trying to write my lilo.conf file, since when I was installing Linux, I decided not to use Lilo, and just boot it from a floppy. Right now I need to make use of Lilo, so here is my problem: I got 2 IDE HD's , C and D, hda and hdb respectively C contains win95 D has a small 20M DOS partition, hdb1, and the rest, about 480M, is a linux partition, hdb2 and hdb4. I need to write lilo.conf so that I get a prompt of which OS I want to load, and make Linux a default one. I am currently going through all the documentation on the subject, but I still would like to get some help from those who have done it already. Any suggestions? TIA, Andrew
Re: Lilo.conf
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 06:23:56PM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: Hello all. I am trying to write my lilo.conf file, since when I was installing Linux, I decided not to use Lilo, and just boot it from a floppy. Right now I need to make use of Lilo, so here is my problem: I got 2 IDE HD's , C and D, hda and hdb respectively C contains win95 D has a small 20M DOS partition, hdb1, and the rest, about 480M, is a linux partition, hdb2 and hdb4. I need to write lilo.conf so that I get a prompt of which OS I want to load, and make Linux a default one. I am currently going through all the documentation on the subject, but I still would like to get some help from those who have done it already. Try this: boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hdb2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga = normal delay = 50 ramdisk = 0 read-only default=linux image = /boot/vmlinuz label = debian alias = linux image = /boot/vmlinuz.backup label = backup other = /dev/hda1 label = win table = /dev/hda This overwrites DOS's boot loader. The documentation (still) suggests to let DOS load lilo, but I've never had a bit of problem.
installation on older Toshiba laptop?
I am starting to look into installing Linux on an old Toshiba 4400C laptop. I have the InfoMagic CDs, but no CD rom on the laptop but I've got one on my desktop and can make floppies. So any particular things to keep in mind in attempting this? Is it possible to install linux on this at all? -- Web Home URL- http://www.peak.org/~djwilli/lsh.html Unsolicited email sent to this address construes acceptance of my proofreading service, and all fees charged for this service. He avenges the innocent, upholds justice and makes a unique fashion statement. -- Detroit Free Press Fashion columnist on Batman
Re: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/ failed
/usr/bin/X11 is a directory - no wonder it won't exec. doh. yeah, silly me. it didn't occur to me for some reason that the problem would be that simple. heh heh... I got this when upgrading too. Somewhere along the upgrade I was asked if I wanted to change the xserver to something, and said yes. It messed up somehow and set the default xserver to yep same here. You can probably fix it a lot faster by deinstalling your favourite xserver package and reinstalling it. Or even better - just change the default to the server you want to use. I don't know how to do that though. i tried that several times and it didn't seem to help... By the way, why do you want to change from s3v to svga? I use s3v without problems, is svga faster or do you have a stability problem? from recent talks here it seems that the s3v server stuff is being incorporated into the svga server and that the support is better. this all came to light when i tried to install star office 5 and my machine locked up. people using the same hardware as me said that it wasn't happening with the svga server. it appears that star office has a patch on their site to fix this problem (good for them) but unfornately the file it points to is currently missing (bad for them). so i'm still waiting to print out my word file :( thanks, adam.
Re: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/ failed
set it to '/usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3V' after you hav installed the server and it should work. that helps a lot thanks. one question it appears that the debian setup actually has a wrapper installed for security reasons so that you aren't supposed to run them directly. do you know, is the Xserver file what the wrapper uses to determine what to exec? or does this mean that i'm exec'ing the s3v server directly. thanks for the help, adam.
A new Debian user's initial questions
Hello, everyone. While I am not particualrly new to Linux in general (June '98 RH 5.0/1, SuSE 5.2/3), i am totally new to Debian. As such, I have a few questons. My frst question actually pertains more to System Commander than Debian itself, though it's involved ;-) Here it is: when I modify lilo.conf and run lilo, all goes smoothly: added: Linux * suse or its equivalent. However, when I reboot and select the root partition, it still boots directly into Deban, as if I hadn't changed the configuration. Here's my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 label=Linux read-only image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/hdd1 label = suse read-only It looks okay to me... Anyway, on with the questions. What's the easiest way to configure everything to use my HP DeskJet 520 printer properly? I saw some printcap and DeskJet tool packages whiz by, so I thought it might be okay. Well, when I tried to print somethng, all that happened was the carriage nailed itslef to the other end of the rail witha loud thwack. In fact, it continued to do that after every power-off, even in the pereviously-working SuSE until I unplugged the printer cable. Related? Possibly... Finaaly, a question of inclusion. I understand that Debian strictly adheres to the GPL, so I was wondering about the exclusion of the U. of Washington stuff (pine, pico, etc). I rilly love pine, and I use pico 'cuz I'm used to it for quick file reads. It's no bg deal, really. Ther are a ton of great mail readers and text editors (probably better than the previous), I was just curious. You can be certain that I will have more questons, but I will leave y'all alone for now. Thanks in advance! -Chris -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC/MC d- s+:+ a-- C++ US P L++ E W++ N- o? K? w O M- V- PS++ PE+ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D- G e+(++) h--- r++ z+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: A new Debian user's initial questions
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 09:57:42PM -0500, Chris Mayes wrote: I understand that Debian strictly adheres to the GPL, No. Debian adheres strictly to the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) [1], which allow other things than GPL, too. For example, X is not GPL but it is DFSG-free, so we include it. The DFSG is the basis of the Open Source definition and roughly equivalent with it. so I was wondering about the exclusion of the U. of Washington stuff (pine, pico, etc). They are available in the non-free section. They fail the DFSG, because they don't allow modified binaries (IIRC). Antti-Juhani [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** URL:http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.
Re: dselect (or apt) wish list
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Easy... as suggested, change the `apt-get clean ...` line from /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install to something thus - `true ...` OK - i know how to change it now, but nevertheless i think the default should be to ask the user when something is to be deleted. -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.
Re: A new Debian user's initial questions
Welcome Chris, On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 09:57:42PM -0500, Chris Mayes wrote: Hello, everyone. While I am not particualrly new to Linux in general (June '98 RH 5.0/1, SuSE 5.2/3), i am totally new to Debian. As such, I have a few questons. My frst question actually pertains more to System Commander than Debian itself, though it's involved ;-) Here it is: when I modify lilo.conf and run lilo, all goes smoothly: added: Linux * suse or its equivalent. However, when I reboot and select the root partition, it still boots directly into Deban, as if I hadn't changed the configuration. Here's my lilo.conf: What do you want it to do? The first image section will be the default image to load, unless you use the 'default' parameter. Prss the shift key when you see the boot: prompt, then press the tab key to see what images are available. boot=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 label=Linux read-only image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/hdd1 label = suse read-only It looks okay to me... Anyway, on with the questions. What's the easiest way to configure everything to use my HP DeskJet 520 printer properly? I saw some printcap and DeskJet tool packages whiz by, so I thought it might be okay. Well, when I tried to print somethng, all that happened was the carriage nailed itslef to the other end of the rail witha loud thwack. In fact, it continued to do that after every power-off, even in the pereviously-working SuSE until I unplugged the printer cable. Related? Possibly... Try the magicfilter package. Finaaly, a question of inclusion. I understand that Debian strictly adheres to the GPL, so I was wondering about the exclusion of the U. of Washington stuff (pine, pico, etc). I rilly love pine, and I use pico 'cuz I'm used to it for quick file reads. It's no bg deal, really. Ther are a ton of great mail readers and text editors (probably better than the previous), I was just curious. You can be certain that I will have more questons, but I will leave y'all alone for now. Thanks in advance! Pine is available as source code only. You can get the pine package and compile it yourself, it's quite simple. Then you just install the .deb's yourself with dpkg. -Chris -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC/MC d- s+:+ a-- C++ US P L++ E W++ N- o? K? w O M- V- PS++ PE+ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D- G e+(++) h--- r++ z+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg Packages.gz: not a plain file error?
I'm tracking slink and have a local mirror of it. However, when upgrading a machine on my local network with the latest apt, I get the following error message: Get ftp://ftp.golgotha.net slink/contrib Packages Error ftp://ftp.golgotha.net slink/contrib Packages 550 /pub/debian/debian-non-US/dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz: not a plain file. Well, I'd hate to disagree with apt ;-), but the Packages.gz file is a regular file and the filesize and permissions match exactly with what's on the ftp site. This happens on main, non-free, and contrib. To make things more interesting, if I run apt from the machine where the local mirror is, it has no problems at all. And I can use the FTP method fine -- just not apt. Anyone have a clue of what's going on? My entry in /etc/apt/sources.list for the above reads: deb ftp://ftp.golgotha.net/pub/debian slink main contrib non-free -- . | For those old-timers like me who remember Randy | with nostalgia the days of 4.77mhz 8088 PCs; ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | get that old time feeling back any time you http://www.golgotha.net | want -- just run Windows on your Pentium!
kernel 2.1.128 sound
Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this error message: [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au /dev/audio bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device tail of /var/log/kern.log shows: Nov 14 23:09:48 data kernel: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 Nov 14 23:09:48 data kernel: sb: dsp reset failed. lsmod shows: Module Size Used by uart401 5696 0 sound 58064 0 (autoclean) [uart401] soundcore 2120 3 (autoclean) [sound] I know that sb.o is not loaded. If I try to load it it say the the device or resource is busy. I took a look at the modules.def file and saw this: /lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/sb.o: /lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/soundcore.o /lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/uart401.o /lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/sound.o Can somone tell me what is going on. I would really appriciate any insight in to this particular problem. Paul
X and KDE
I got my server up and running with xserver-svga. Then I decided to add KDE as a X-Windows manager. Now I've got it all messed up. There were multiple problems in installing KDE, but I finally got it installed, but I can not find the startkde script on the system any place. Also, when I check my directory, there is no .xinitrc file either. Any one have an idea what went wrong? I installed the KDE files from the hamm dists, then went to KDE and installed the 980701 version. Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system hang on boot
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 12:14:43 +0800 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Sibuyas Bombay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-User-Info: 208.164.193.2 X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/25323 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Content-Type: text Content-Length: 879 hi all ! I 81Mb of RAM but had no idea that i was using only the 64Mb of it until that 81? that's 81*10^6 bytes or so, but only 80M post by Mark Phillips. Anyway, i added the 'append' line to my /etc/lilo.conf then run #lilo ... When i tried restarting my box it would completely halt/hang at the part where Linux does partition checks on hda 1, 2 3 ... Heres part of my lilo.conf. I'd really appreciate it if there's someone who can tell me what i did wrong here ... #Start Linux bootable partition image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/hda3 append = mem=81M #this is what i added put here 80M label = Linux read-only #End Linux bootable partition Sib OK
Re: Installtion of xserver for debian 2.0
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 10:52:14 -0800 (PST) Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Rakesh Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP: [209.195.85.10] X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/25362 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 4072 I have installed debian 2.0, but having problems installing X Window system. I have i740 vedio card, and it is VGA compatible. I think server for i740 chipset is still not avaible for Debian, so i selected Unsupported i740 bin only server is on www.redhat.com OK
lowmem install
Two general areas of puzzlement related to lowmem debian installation: After the keyboard config during the installation vi was called to amend fstab to add /dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0 . All went well and fstab looked properly modified but then I could not get out of vi and back to the shell prompt to go on with mkswap and swapon. :q and :wq could not be used esc did not seem to change modes of vi??? What is the proper sequence of vi commands to save the latest changes and return to the shell prompt?? Having failed at fixing the swap partition problem I went ahead and installed without a swap partition. Went all the way through the making of a boot disk and arrived at no mail and a # prompt. Various attempts at using vi to fix fstab and to call mkawap and swapon resulted in: bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory. # cat bash resulted in: :cat:error inloading shared libraries libc.so.6:failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory # /sbin/halt resulted in bash:fork:cannot allocate memory and then automatically called /sbin shutdown:error in loading shared libraries libc.so.6:cannot map zero-fill pages:cannot allocate memory. Has anyone been able to install the lowmem version of debian linux on a 386 with 4meg ram?? If so, what procedure was used. Is there no hope of adding a swap partition after installation?? How can I get the man pages before I have linux installed?? Guidance will be appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting out trouble
Hello Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED], The program xdm says it's loaded, but there is no gui visible, just the prompt. Perhaps I misunderstood what xdm is, at least I have a prompt. I You can have the computer start with either the text prompt or xdm even if you have both installed. This is set by changing the runlevel, but don't do it until you have X running from startx. tried startx and it said no such file or directory. Whatever, I'll eventually figure it out. Then some other bits of X are missing. startx should come with the xbase package (at least in hamm, ie Debian 2.0). You'll also need one of the xserver- packages (depending on what video card you have). Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with From , but no-one remembers why.
Re: A new Debian user's initial questions
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Chris Mayes wrote: Hello, everyone. While I am not particualrly new to Linux in general (June '98 RH 5.0/1, SuSE 5.2/3), i am totally new to Debian. As such, I have a few questons. My frst question actually pertains more to System Commander than Debian itself, though it's involved ;-) Here it is: when I modify lilo.conf and run lilo, all goes smoothly: added: Linux * suse or its equivalent. However, when I reboot and select the root partition, it still boots directly into Deban, as if I hadn't changed the configuration. Here's my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 label=Linux read-only image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/hdd1 label = suse read-only It looks okay to me... Anyway, on with the questions. I think you are trying to start suse with your debian kernel. what you should do, is mount the suse partition, and have 'image = /suse_root/vmlinuz' in the suse section. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Are the noises in my head bothering you? - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: No manual entry for lpc
Hi Vernon, Thanks for you hints. I've solved my problems now. I issued the command dpkg -C to check for broken packages. Yes, it is. There are a few incomplete installations. So I reinstalled the system and now all the man lpc, lpd, lpq, lpr and printcap pages works fine. Thank you. Alan Tam M.C. Vernon wrote: On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Alan Tam wrote: Hi all, I am trying to read the manual pages on printer concerned commands. I have installed man-db and lpr package from Debian distribution. Typing ls /usr/man /man1/lpc.1.gz as root the file is there, but when I type man lpc it responded with No manual entry for lpc. Why is it ? Any ideas ? Same as lpd, lpr, lpq etc... Something is broken. These should all be in section 8. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Can't start windowmaker
On: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:24:36 -0500 Mario Bertrand writes: Hi, I can't start windowmaker from login with startx command, it open a few seconds and then it crash. All other WM are ok. Is there something missing? You should start a plain X11 (e.g., with a single xterm in .xinitrc) and call wmaker manually. You will probably get an error message, please tell us this message including the output of ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker and dpkg -l wmaker. Torsten BTW: Current wmaker package is 0.20.2-1.
Re: SMP
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The motherboard is an AMI Titan 3 - w/ two 166MHz Pentums - 64MB RAM. Here's what I know: Linux version 2.1.123 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Fri Oct 16 10:22:12 EDT 1998 oSo I know I've got SMP support compiled in... Hmm, IIRC a friend of mine had an option in his Gigabyte BIOS to switch of SMP support in a way. Maybe this board has this, too? Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB pgpjZBt9aHxv6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/ failed
Hi, Adam! On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 05:23:22PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: one question it appears that the debian setup actually has a wrapper installed for security reasons so that you aren't supposed to run them directly. do you know, is the Xserver file what the wrapper uses to determine what to exec? or does this mean that i'm exec'ing the s3v server directly. I think what you search is /usr/doc/X11/README.Debain You can find there: * The X server to be used by default is not selected by changing a symlink. Instead a small wrapper program (/usr/X11R6/bin/X) reads a configuration file (/etc/X11/Xserver) to find out which server to run and who is allowed to run it. I hope this helps. Regards Mika -- Mika Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Communicator4.5
Hi, I want install the communicator 4.5 package(s) from the slink distribution. I found out that: communicator-base-45 |-depends on: netscape-base-45 |-depends on: netscape-base-4 So far so good, but I cannot find the netscape-base-4 package. Is the name mispselled or what I am doing wrong ? Please Help Marcus
More questions (hardware-related)
Hi, all. Okay, I am having serious troubles with my printer, now. The first time I ran Debian and it probed lp1, my printer proceeded to test itself by slamming the cartridge carriage against the far side of the track. After many tries, I finally got it behaving again by pulling the printer cable from the back of the printer. I printed a couple of things in SuSE just fine. When I rebooted into Debian again, the same thing happened. Now, however, no amount of fiddling seems to make a difference. I don't know what the probe did, but now each probe from any OS (SuSE, Debian, Win95) results in the same horrible crash and grinding noise as my printer punishes itself. It's an HP 520, BTW. I don't know if it's an unfortunate coincidence of a hardware failure at the same time of the installation of a new distro or something different in the wat Debian probes the lp1 port, but my printer is not operational ATM, which is bad. I'll go reply to the lilo post, now ;-) TIA! -Chris -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC/MC d- s+:+ a-- C++ US P L++ E W++ N- o? K? w O M- V- PS++ PE+ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D- G e+(++) h--- r++ z+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: A new Debian user's initial questions
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: I think you are trying to start suse with your debian kernel. what you should do, is mount the suse partition, and have 'image = /suse_root/vmlinuz' in the suse section. Ah, so I need to tell it which mount point on the Debian kerel contains the SuSE kernel? I thought that specifying the root partition (root = /dev/hdd1) would have been sufficient. I haven't actually (successfully) set up my own lilo.conf, I don't believe. The config programs have been babying me ;-) I'll give it a try when I get home. Thanks! -Chris -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC/MC d- s+:+ a-- C++ US P L++ E W++ N- o? K? w O M- V- PS++ PE+ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D- G e+(++) h--- r++ z+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
more X in slink stuff...
I'm using slink. When I run startx, I get the following errors: xauth: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xauth: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xinit: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Aside from the fact that X is broken in slink, is there any way around this? What deb file is the libXmu.so.6 library available? Zack
problems after upgrading libc6
hi debians i´ve got a problem after upgrading hamm-libc to 2.0.7u-4: i installed libc6_2.0.7u-4 manually which is required by staroffice 5 but after upgrading my apt (0.1.6) couldn´t install anything further it says: Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: apt: Depends:libc6 and apt-get -f install want´s to downgrade libc6 back to hamm´s version and with this so5 won´t run i´ve tried to install so5 on my notebook which is already upgraded to slink -- and there are no problems except memory problems (so5 is overkill on a little slight notebook especially with 16mb ram ,-) do i have to install slink´s version of apt (0.1.7) or did i miss any library? or - which isn´t common in the moment - upgrade my pc to slink, too? any hint is welcome;) until next mail ;) . ___ ---___ .--. ./ - /\ ___ ( DEBIAN `-|O O | | |; --.|| |___|: GNU/Linux _- |_) \. | __ eter| -/ | || | `. www.debian.org / ' .\. ||__| ` --- . ___ .. ' | ..| | | artosch | ...\. |___| / . ..| /,\ .__\ ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | o| | | |O(| / student of technical computer science \.. \\ / university of applied sciences krefeld (germany) \__/ \_/
How to make your kernel detect 64MB RAM
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 12:31:40PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, Hi Mark! My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, but when I run free under Debian it comes up with: # free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63384 61728 1656 25776 30420 16084 -/+ buffers/cache: 15224 48160 Swap:64508344 64164 My suggestion: Get a 2.0.36(pre)-Kernel! It has a patch to detect memory using a new BIOS-Call which support more than 64MB. cu Torsten pgp4JiRnmbePX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bad primary partition
Hi Richard, On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Richard Hall wrote: After doing a low-level format of the hard drive and running a verification check without complaint, I am unable to install Debain because when the installation program runs fdisk to set up the swap partition, it immediately chokes, saying FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition. I can't believe that the hard drive is bad, as it worked fine under NT before the formatting, and the SCSI disk utilities detect no problems. What can I do? Uhm, I had a similar problem with a new computer a few days before. I installed Linux over a Windows-System. After I was ready an rebooted the BIOS told me there are no bootable partition on hdd... - unable to boot. Genius! I had to toggle the bootable flag of the Linux partition. Perhaps your BIOS thinks the partition is bad because it is not flagged as bootable? Just an idea... Tell me if it works! cu Torsten pgpStc7dTMpMG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SMP
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 08:12:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy All!! Hi Chuck! From /proc/version: Linux version 2.1.123 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Fri Oct 16 10:22:12 EDT 1998 oSo I know I've got SMP support compiled in... Yet /proc/cpuinfo sure makes it look like I only have one CPU spinning...!? Uhm, would you mind posting the dmesg-Output (after a boot)? BTW: Is there a copy of the boot-messages saved by startup in Debian? I was just searching for something like that and did not find anything... cu Torsten pgpr5C68iLRAG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can't start windowmaker
On: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:24:36 -0500 Mario Bertrand writes: Hi, I can't start windowmaker from login with startx command, it open a few seconds and then it crash. All other WM are ok. Is there something missing? I've seen this behavior in some versions. In others it crashes only the first time it's called. Do you have a GNUstep dir in your home dir? (__)Sourcerer /()\ O|O|O|O||O||O Bred out of cheap elective surgery \../ |OO|||O|||O|O and the relentless Darwinism of || OO|||OO||O||O fashion.-- C0
Re: Need help with ppp conection.
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:06:00AM -0600, Lloyd Burris wrote: When ever I hook up to the internet from linux I seem to have trouble connecting to websights, ftp, and news servers. Can anyone tell me how to tune up Linux for a faster connection. When I am in windows my system flys but in linux I am lucky to get a webpage to come up. I need some more detail about how you set up your connection. Also please send me the log you get (with plog -f). If you have a noisy line you should reduce your MTU MRU values.
Re: Does Sound even work for Java-Linux?
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 10:24:12PM -0700, Chip Grandits wrote: P.S. Is ADPCM the super-evil microsoft format that no opensource enthusiast deigns to support? How come I can't find a single Linux app to play ADPCM WAV files?! I know of two linux applications which are able to play ADPCM compressed wavfiles: - the SDL library (Gpl'd) http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/ - xanim (non-free), available as a Debian package.
ide
Hello, my HD CHS=16838,255,63 is recognized by my computer : 2,34,56 or something like that, which is very different from the original. the BIOS recognize it in the good way, BUT the kernel doesn't. and M$ Windozs recognize it in the good way too. What could I do ? thanks Xavier __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with ppp conection.
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:06:00AM -0600, Lloyd Burris wrote: When ever I hook up to the internet from linux I seem to have trouble connecting to websights, ftp, and news servers. Can anyone tell me how to tune up Linux for a faster connection. When I am in windows my system flys but in linux I am lucky to get a webpage to come up. I need some more detail about how you set up your connection. Also please send me the log you get (with plog -f). If you have a noisy line you should reduce your MTU MRU values. and check your kernel configuration - i think that some options in tcp/ip networking can slow down connection /like filtering or accounting/ - i am not sure about it send your pppconfig or log - and i'll try to tell you what's wrong sorry if this message was not helpful Piotr Wachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ide
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Rx wrote: Hello, my HD CHS=16838,255,63 is recognized by my computer : 2,34,56 or something like that, which is very different from the original. the BIOS recognize it in the good way, BUT the kernel doesn't. and M$ Windozs recognize it in the good way too. What could I do ? Nothing, i think! :-) Don't worry about that linux show always with 255 cylinders and 64 sectors ... Best regards, Nuno
AMD K6-2 kernel compile ?
Hi group readers, I was wondering what CPU I should select for compiling the kernel. I have a AMD K6-2 300MHz. Should I compile for a regular pentium, or do the newer kernels have K6 as a selectable CPU ? Wowie, just a bit of time and my PC won't have any Intel, nor Microshit on it. ;-))) TIA, Marc van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trn trouble on slink
When I try to run trn, I get the following error: --- Warning: Couldn't open /etc/news/whoami to determine hostname! Caught an internal error--.newsrc restored --- Zack
Re: lowmem install
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:28:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been able to install the lowmem version of debian linux on a 386 with 4meg ram?? If so, what procedure was used. Is there no hope of adding a swap partition after installation?? The workaround is described at the URL in my sig. Look for Low Memory Intallation under Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 Luck, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux? http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/
Re: Adaptec SCSI Controller?
Nathan E Norman wrote: IMO, Quantum SCSI drives suck. I tolerate Adaptec and I really like IBM Ultrastar drives. I second that. I have an Adaptec 3940UW board (essentially two 2940UW cards in one) and two IBM Ultrastar 9ES 9.1 GB drives in the server. They're excellent performers.
Re: dselect (or apt) wish list
On 10 Nov 98 21:51:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zack Brown) wrote: [lots of ideas for dselect, which I snipped] Some good ideas there, Zack. A couple have already been done (the skipping of installed packages and the selections-from-file ones), but here's my wishlist for those that might care to listen. I'd also like the option to have downloaded debs automatically copied to a local mirror. It would take up a lot of space, but I'd like to be able to keep perhaps the last two versions of each package installed, so that a downgrade could be performed without having to download the previous version again (assuming that one can find it). Getting rid of that help screen when entering the select phase would be good, as an option. Hmm, how about an automatic method for downloading source packages, recompiling them and repackaging for use in the install phase? Useful if you want to specify compiler options other than the defaults, read from a config file. Oh, and they'd want to be stored in that local mirror first, of course! Perhaps two source and two binary directories is overdoing it somewhat... Whilst I'm here, could someone please clarify for me exactly what the Installed size field in dselect is measured in? I think that it's in kilobytes, but it would be strange to show it in a different format to the download size with no explanation. Rob Wilderspin -- But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep... --= (send replies to rob@)
Adaptect2940UW and Decchip21041 share the same interrupt
Hi, I have P1-MMX 200MHZ a Kingston network card based on 21041 and a scsi controller AHA2940UW. Both share the same irq (11). Both are PnP. Is this a problem. id So How can I fix it. -thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126
slink gives errors installing gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb
I've downloaded gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb three times, and each time it failed to install due to errors. At least the last two time, the download gave the same file, which leads me to believe it's not ftp corruption. Here's a couple samples: # dpkg -D1 -i gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb (Reading database ... 48701 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gimp-manual (from gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb) ... D01: process_archive oldversionstatus=not installed conflictor=none dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb # dpkg -D2 -i gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb D02: maintainer_script_new nonexistent preinst `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst' dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 D02: maintainer_script_new nonexistent postrm `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm' Errors were encountered while processing: gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb Zack
Re: kernel 2.1.128 sound
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this error message: [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au /dev/audio bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device tail of /var/log/kern.log shows: Nov 14 23:09:48 data kernel: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 Nov 14 23:09:48 data kernel: sb: dsp reset failed. lsmod shows: Module Size Used by uart401 5696 0 sound 58064 0 (autoclean) [uart401] soundcore 2120 3 (autoclean) [sound] I know that sb.o is not loaded. If I try to load it it say the the device or resource is busy. You need to specify the options to sb Here's what I use to get mine loaded (after running isapnp insmod soundcore insmod sound insmod opl3 insmod uart401 insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330 insmod adlib_card io=0x388 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more X in slink stuff...
Zack Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using slink. When I run startx, I get the following errors: xauth: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xauth: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xinit: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Aside from the fact that X is broken in slink, is there any way around this? What deb file is the libXmu.so.6 library available? I think this may be another case of the two xlib6g 3.3.2.3a-7 packages causing problems. The basic story (as I understand it) is that there was a broken xlib6g 3.3.2.3a-7 that got released accidentally - although it was very soon replaced with a working one, some people got bitten by the bad one. At least, I think that's what happened. I've also heard things to the effect that the problem is caused by a bad pre- or post-rm script in the -6 xlib6g. In any case, go get xlib6g_3.3.2.3a-7.deb again from your local mirror, make certain that it has md5sum 276d3782f9be91508241592902146e49. Reinstall it and this error should clear up. pgpDR278MBojZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
pcmcia cardmgr doing the right thing after resuming?
Hi- i have a laptop here that does not see the pcmcia cards after resuming. basically, suspending the machine goes fine, and after resuming, i can do most everything. however, the network is not there. bouncing the card manager with '/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart' gets things back to normal. what am i missing here? is there a script that gets run on a resume where i can do this? thanks...and be gentle; this is my first attempt at a laptop installation. =) -alan
Problem installing jdk1.1.6
I tried to install jdk1.1.6v4a-3.deb from the slink distribution to my hamm-system but some errors occured: mother# dpkg -i /home/gbauer/jdk1.1_1.1.6v4a-3.deb (Reading database ... 31523 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace jdk1.1 1.1.6v4a-3 (using .../gbauer/jdk1.1_1.1.6v4a-3.deb) ... Unpacking replacement jdk1.1 ... Setting up jdk1.1 (1.1.6v4a-3) ... Checking available versions of java, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.) update-alternatives: slave link name /usr/man/man1/java.1.gz duplicated dpkg: error processing jdk1.1 (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: jdk1.1 mother# Could anybody tell me WHAT went wrong? Thanx, Gernot -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Office) Makartplatz 3, 5020 Salzburg Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria/Europe Phone: ++43-662-8684-364 The answer is yes, me. Fax: ++43-662-8684-23
emacs problems
Dear all, Getting emacs19 and emacs20 to coexist is still proving impossible (and VM doesn't work with 20). I have emacs20 20-el and gnus installed, but when I try to install 19, I get the following: Cannot open load file: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/custom-init.el and then it fails. Sure enough this file doesn' exist :( What can I do, please? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
emacs -- (Not X) Hexl-mode C-M does not work
My info on emacs tells me after I do a M-x hexl-mode enter C-M-x should be the way to insert a character in hex. Does C-M-x mean Control m (or Control M) followed by an x ? Control-m or Control M gives me a Carriage Return, not a prefix to a further command. This is emacs from the cheapbytes four-disk set of debian; the emacs is version 19.34 Any suggestions will be appreciated. joeh
Re: emacs -- (Not X) Hexl-mode C-M does not work
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote: My info on emacs tells me after I do a M-x hexl-mode enter C-M-x should be the way to insert a character in hex. Does C-M-x mean Control m (or Control M) followed by an x ? Control-m or Control M gives me a Carriage Return, not a prefix to a further command. This is emacs from the cheapbytes four-disk set of debian; the emacs is version 19.34 The M-x is Meta-x or escape-x. In order to access the meta functions you type escape (alt might work too, IIRC) and x. There are a _ton_ of meta functions on emacs. I use M-x compile for my C++ stuff all the time. For a hoot, try M-x font-lock-mode. That will bring up syntax highlighting for whatever mode you might be in, assuming that mode supports syntax highlighting. Although emacs can usually guess what mode it should be in by the extension, sometimes you need to tell it specifically(i.e. .template is not detected as c++). To do this, type M-x whatever-mode. There's a tutorial in emacs that will walk you through many of the major keybindings, btw. I think it will appear automatically if you bring up emacs with no arguments... But I digress. M-x is escape-x. Thank you. -Chris Any suggestions will be appreciated. joeh -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC/MC d- s+:+ a-- C++ US P L++ E W++ N- o? K? w O M- V- PS++ PE+ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D- G e+(++) h--- r++ z+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: StarOffice 5 - S3 fix available
Those of you who have an S3V video card might like to know that while looking at the StarDivision web site yesterday I notice they have posted a fix .. http://www.stardivision.com Has anyone sucessfully gotten this patch? If you visit the website, click Support and then Download, you get a link for the patch to http://www.stardivision.com/download/support/patch1_01.tar.gz but following this link gives a 404 file not found error. Help! I need the fix ... 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| -- |And if you on tight to what you think is your thing | |you may find you're missing all the rest ...| |- Dave Matthews, Best of What's Around | --
Re: pcmcia cardmgr doing the right thing after resuming?
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Alan Su wrote: i have a laptop here that does not see the pcmcia cards after resuming. basically, suspending the machine goes fine, and after resuming, i can do most everything. however, the network is not there. bouncing the card manager with '/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart' gets things back to normal. what am i missing here? is there a script that gets run on a resume where i can do this? thanks...and be gentle; this is my first attempt at a laptop installation. =) Is your kernel configured with APM? Even if it is, your laptop may be nonstandard or doesn't implement the apm standard at all. Supposedly, the pcmcia package should work properly with apm. However, there are enough broken apm laptops that I notice that the pcmcia maintainers have added hooks to the latest release. These are scripts that get invoked on resume. Try downloading the latest debian pcmcia package and read the documentation. -- Jean Pierre
Re: emacs -- (Not X) Hexl-mode C-M does not work
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:19:11 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote: My info on emacs tells me after I do a M-x hexl-mode enter C-M-x should be the way to insert a character in hex. Does C-M-x mean Control m (or Control M) followed by an x ? Control-m or Control M gives me a Carriage Return, not a prefix to a further command. This is emacs from the cheapbytes four-disk set of debian; the emacs is version 19.34 The M-x is Meta-x or escape-x. In order to access the meta functions you type escape (alt might work too, IIRC) and x. There are a _ton_ of meta functions on emacs. I use M-x compile for my C++ stuff all the time. For a hoot, try M-x font-lock-mode. That will bring up syntax highlighting for whatever mode you might be in, assuming that mode supports syntax highlighting. Although emacs can usually guess what mode it should be in by the extension, sometimes you need to tell it specifically(i.e. .template is not detected as c++). To do this, type M-x whatever-mode. There's a tutorial in emacs that will walk you through many of the major keybindings, btw. I think it will appear automatically if you bring up emacs with no arguments... But I digress. M-x is escape-x. Thank you. -Chris Thank you for your discussion. I am familiar with the M-x meaning, but it is the C-m-x where I am stuck. As soon as I type C-m I get the same result as if i hit the enter key. Yet the info on hexl mode indicates the command to edit point with a hex value is C-m-x. thanks for your input. joeh Any suggestions will be appreciated. joeh -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC/MC d- s+:+ a-- C++ US P L++ E W++ N- o? K? w O M- V- PS++ PE+ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D- G e+(++) h--- r++ z+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
AMD K6-2 kernel
Hi group, Sorry if this appeared earlier, but I didn't see it within about 3 hours, so I just posted it again. --- I was wondering what CPU I should select for compiling the kernel. I have a AMD K6-2 300MHz. Should I compile for a regular pentium, or do the newer kernels have K6 as a selectable CPU ? Wowie, just a bit of time and my PC won't have any Intel, nor Microshit on it. ;-))) TIA, Marc van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chrony sets your clock from the net
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just uploaded chrony to unstable. chrony is an 'atomic clock' package similar to xntp3 but easier to install and administer and more suitable for use with intermittent dialup connections. If you have a dialup connection to the Net it should work out of the box with no configuration. Are there any advantages over using `netdate' (part of the netstd.deb)? Greetings, joachim
suggestion: transparent .deb files revealing logical structure
Here's an idea. Many packages have a logical structure in which certain parts of the structure change nearly independently from other parts. I suggest breaking these into independent .deb files, while having package managers like apt and dselect optionally only be aware of them as single packages. That way we don't have to be bombarded by lots of packages with virtually the same name (packa, packa-doc, and so on), but at the same time it would allow package maintainers to actually split their packages into even more little pieces, according to the logical structure of their package. This would allow apt and dselect to downloaded only the changed elements of a package. So it would be a double winner: (1) since only the changed parts are downloaded, the total download time is brought down. (2) Since apt (or dselect) would ignore the multitude of .deb files, and only list the logical packages by default, package listings would be a lot shorter and easier to follow. And of course, anyone who wanted to could just tell apt or dselect to show all .debs regardless of logical connection. They could even have their own internal dependencies, so we'd be able to choose which parts of a package we wanted to install, without fear of unknowingly breaking the package. Taking this a step further (although I haven't thought about this part of the idea until now), it might be possible to layer this idea, so that depending on an option given to apt (or dselect), more and more packages could be logically linked, shortening the visible list of packages and making it easier to choose what you want to install. At the most extreme, this would result in something like what happens right before the debian installation runs dselect: it asks if you want to choose an umbrella-type set-up, including a lot of logically related packages. So this idea would allow a finer grain control over that kind of thing. As a further detail, it could be possible to specify that in general you want to see a particular level of logical abstraction, but that for certain packages you want to see a different level of logical abstraction, or even the individual .deb files themselves. I see a lot of ups but no downs for this idea. Am I missing something? Zack
Screw it! (Printer recommendations)
Well, I've wrestled with the ol' HP 520 for the last time. The problem was that it would not see where it was supposed to stop, or so it would seem as it would slam itself against the stop whenever I would run a check on it. Anyway, I tried cleaning the little plastic strip as thoroughly as possible, stuck it back on, and *wham* Nothng changed. So, I've decided it's time to get a good(low-priced) laser printer. So, who has recommendations? I'd like to stay below 400, around 300 if possible. It should work well under Linux (obviously) and BeOS(if possible). Quality is important, but I am a poor college student begging my parents for a Chrstmas gift, remember ;-) So, any/all recommendations welcome. Thanks! -Chris -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC/MC d- s+:+ a-- C++ US P L++ E W++ N- o? K? w O M- V- PS++ PE+ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D- G e+(++) h--- r++ z+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: installation on older Toshiba laptop?
Hi, You may want to check Linux on Laptop page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ though you laptop is not listed explicitly, but there are close models. Sasha. I am starting to look into installing Linux on an old Toshiba 4400C laptop. I have the InfoMagic CDs, but no CD rom on the laptop but I've got one on my desktop and can make floppies. So any particular things to keep in mind in attempting this? Is it possible to install linux on this at all?
Re: Screw it! (Printer recommendations)
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Chris Mayes wrote: possible, stuck it back on, and *wham* Nothng changed. So, I've decided it's time to get a good(low-priced) laser printer. So, who has recommendations? I'd like to stay below 400, around 300 if possible. It should work well under Linux (obviously) and BeOS(if possible). Quality is important, but I am a poor college student begging my parents for a Chrstmas gift, remember ;-) So, any/all recommendations welcome. Thanks! I've been looking for a printer for about 3 months. Most of the posts suggest that the HP Laserjet 6L is a good solution. With that in mind, I've been pricing them for about 3 months as well. the 6L is $399. The only place I've seen it cheaper is at Sam's club a couple of months ago, for $385. Fortunately for me, I found one someone return to Best Buy, and it was knocked down to $340. It works great. Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
