Re: ENC: Estou preparando uma revista
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Adriano Freitas wrote: Em nenhum momento eu falei que a RedHat (conectiva) é boa ou ruim. O que eu não aguento mais escutar é a associação que a mídia está fazendo de Linux com RedHat. Antigamente, fazia-se a seguinte pergunta: Você usa Linux? ou então Você já instalou o Linux?. Hoje em dia a coisa é mais ou menos assim: Você usa RedHat (conectiva) ou então Você tem RedHat??. Sim, eu ja conversei ate com o proprio Arnaldo sobre isso, realmente e um problema, ver coisas como um livro entitulado Dominando o Linux 5.0 Quando o kernel ainda nem saiu do 2.0 (na epoca do livro). So por causa da versao da Red Hat. Mas eu entendo que isso e culpa da Midia, e nao da Red Hat ou da Conectiva, reporteres sao pessoas que sabem escrever em um espaco determinado. Sao obrigados a escrever sobre tudo, sem saber nada. Tudo bem que isso nao e justificativa para as confusoes estupidas que aparecem na midia e se propagam exponencialmente em numeros de leitores e novos usuarios, mas nao e culpa desta ou aquela distribuicao so porque ela e a mais famosa. Outra coisa que eu discordo nas distribuições RedHat é o fato da empresa ser comercial (www.redhat.COM). Pessoas são contratadas para desenvolverem os pacotes, os processos de instalação, etc, etc, etc... O Debian já não!! É todo um trabalho feito por voluntários espalhados pelo mundo todo, assim como o Linux surgiu e queremos que ele fica para sempre...LIVRE! Cara, se a conectiva me contratasse para desenvolver a distribuicao deles eu ia correndo! Quer coisa melhor do que receber para escrever Free Software? Esta na lista dos meus dream jobs, se eu resolver sair da Core, que foi a empresa que eu fundei para Ganhar dinheiro com Free Software o primeiro lugar em que iria bater na porta era na da Conectiva (tai Arnaldo, fica a dica pra voces... ;) Curiosamente eu sou um Debian Developer, dou suporte a Debian, dou cursos de Linux, atualmente usando o Linux da Conectiva. Eu acho o seguinte, converta o maior numero de usuarios para Linux, nao importa a distribuicao, se ele estiver contente com a que ele tem, ele estara feliz, se ele precisar de algo que a conectiva nao oferece , ele vai procurar outras. Debian serve melhor do que ninguem ao nicho dos servidores de Rede. O que eu acho errado e que a SUCESU que negou apoio para a gente em 93 para criar grupos de usuarios de Linux agora venha com um Linux World'99 brasil e cobre de R$350,00 a R$1200,00 de *ingresso* com tanta gente boa como o LinuxSP realizando eventos gratuitos para o publico e de qualidade superior. Eu acho que era muito melhor que cada pessoa destas que vai pagar R$350,00 por um evento da SUCESU desse metade desse dinheiro quando fosse a um evento organizado por usuarios. Links: http://www.ideti.com.br/linux http://www.linuxsp.org.br Mas mais uma vez, em principio, nao ha nada de errado em ganhar dinheiro com Linux, mesmo a SUCESU tem liberdade para isso, e viva a liberdade para todos sem distincao. Mas que eu nao vou incentivar ninguem a ir, isso eu nao vou. -- Eduardo Marcel MacanCore Technologies Informatica LTDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suporte e Desenvolvimento Unix/Linux. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer Visite-nos em http://thecore.com.br
Smooth, Fast Mouse Motion
I've been trying for several months now to get smooth, fast mouse pointer motion in X without luck. I've tried various 'xset m' settings, and I can either get smooth, slow mouse motion, or fast, jerky motion, but not fast, smooth motion. I do not like acceleration; I want smooth linear motion. Is there any way to achieve this in X? The same machine and the same mouse give me exactly what I want in Windows NT, but Windows NT is not what I'd rather run. -- Jerry Gardner | Bill Clinton has all the steely resolve resolve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | of a kamakaze pilot on his 37th mission.
Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?
Is there a good shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember all the operators? I ask because I must be doing something wrong. When I ungzip file.gz the system converts my .gz file to one file with no extension instead of unzipping the file and all of its contents. I know there are multiple files in the gzips that I look at because I can view all of the compressed files when I view the contents of the gzip file on my pc, just not with gzip on linux :( If you knoww why this happens and know what I need to do to work around it please let me know. Thanks! Andre' p.s. If the files are small enough when uncompressed I just uncompress them and then copy to a floppy before moving everything over to my debian/linux system. Seems there's gotta be a better way :( I'd use my modem in the debian pc but I'm only running a 486 there and it is terribly slow at downloading :( So I download with my pc and trasnfer via floppies.
Re: bad hostname (lpd complains)
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 01:54:43PM -0700, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I made my hostname 486 on my 486 desktop. Now lpd complains about a bad hostname. How do I fix this? I already changed this in /etc/hosts. Is there somewhere else I should change this? Thanks... You need to change /etc/hostname I don't know what to do if you need to change your domain name though, but it doesn't sound like you do. -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 04:56:30PM -0500, André Bell wrote: Is there a good shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember all the operators? I ask because I must be doing something wrong. When I ungzip file.gz the system converts my .gz file to one file with no extension instead of unzipping the file and all of its contents. I know there are multiple files in the gzips that I look at because I can view all of the compressed files when I view the contents of the gzip file on my pc, just not with gzip on linux :( Hi Andre gzip only compresses one file at a time, but those files are almost certainly tar archives. (They should end in .tar.gz, but your pc might have truncated the filenames.) You can extract them with tar -zvxf filename. You can also list the files in the archive with tar -ztf filename, t being the most obvious abbreviation for list :-) Matt -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with portmap
If you'd like to not get these messages you can just put a line at the top of your /etc/hosts.allow file: portmap: 134.58.X.Y : deny : severity local7.info You'll then need to edit your /etc/syslog.conf and add: local7.none;\ into the definition of messages which go to /var/log/messages. Then do a 'killall -HUP syslogd' and you should be set. Dietrich Beck wrote: Hi, we have small PC cluster running Debian 2.1. Since a few days to of those bother me with the following message: my_host portmap[6050]: connect from 134.58.X.Y to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host. In principle that is o.k., because 134.58.X.Y should have no access to our cluster. It is just, that this message appears once per minute and only at two out of seven boxes. I checked with tcpdump and it seems, that 134.58.X.Y sends a request to the address 134.58.255.255, which is then picked up by my_host (my_host has a different IP number, of course). Does anybody has an idea why only 2 out of 7 boxes have that behaviour? Since it is the same software it must be some setting, maybe in /etc. But where? How I can prevent the portmap from picking up the request? It simply annoys me. Greetings, Dietrich P.S. 134.58.X.X is a machine of a neighboring institute. It is not a hacker attack. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing Debian 2.0 r3
When you enter parameters you must also include the kernel name. such as linux (I cant remember if that is the name used on the install floppies) so: LILO boot: linux [parameters] On Tue, 11 May 1999, John wrote: I have a spare machine onto which I am trying to install 2.0 r3. The machine has a Pentium MMX166 processor, two hard drives (one 426Mb with DOS 6.2 and W3.11: the other 1.1Gb empty and available for Linux), 32Mb FPM physical RAM, 1.44 Floppy, 32x CD-ROM Drive, an S3 Virge/DX(PCI) Video Card and an SB compat Sound Card the Monitor is SVGA. The Motherboard is TX/1 and the BIOS Award which supports CD-ROM booting, both Hard Drives are on the Primary and the CD-ROM is Master on the Secondary. I have little computer experience (although now reasonably knowledgeable with W95), am new to DOS and a complete newbie with Linux - also I'm old. I've turned to Linux for interest and to avoid these persistent 'blue screens' on the main machine. I possess two sets of distributions acquired with Samms introductory book and WGS Encyclopadia and can install RedHat and SuSE, but not Debian which may well be the distribution best suited to me. Both the InfoMagic and Linux Mall discs are of the same version and each gives identical results. Booting direct from the CD-Rom Drive loads Root.bin and Linux, but whatever I do at the boot prompt puts me into a continual rebooting cycle. I've tried all the parameters referred and alluded to in the help files and books. A straight enter goes to reboot (after some uncompressing too rapid to read). Adding parameters results in 'can't find kernel'. I've created floppies from files downloaded from ftp.debian (RSC1440.bin, DRV1440.bin, Base-1.bin to Base-5.bin and Root.bin). Booting with RSC1440.bin in the floppy drive puts me into the same automatic rebooting cycle and no parameters work - the 'can't find' message is displayed. I getthe chance to use only one disk. Can anyone, kindly, explain what I'm failing to comprehend or what I'm doing wrong. I would appreciate help (otherwise I may be stuck with Mr Gate's water torture!). Incidentally, to check if some machine fault has developed, I've again booted SuSE from the CD-ROM Drive and I got direct to the installation program. John. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - yip yip yip yip yip yip yap yap yip *BANG* NO TERRIER - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?
We've got a number of machines here that we need to switch to centralized account maintenance, and I was trying to figure out what the best solution would be. It looks like the two main solutions would be NIS or ldap (via PAM), but I'm having a hard time finding out enough about the ldap solution to do a good comparison. Is there a good HOWTO or similar somewhere? Is there some other solution I've overlooked. (I thought about just using a cron job and a sync script to keep all the passwd/group files in sync, but that requires you to be able to atomically update the files, and I couldn't see a good way to do that...perhaps some trick with chpasswd/add/deluser... Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
Re: Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?
On 12-May-99 Matt Folwell wrote: Hi Andre gzip only compresses one file at a time, but those files are almost certainly tar archives. (They should end in .tar.gz, but your pc might have truncated the filenames.) You can extract them with tar -zvxf filename. You can also list the files in the archive with tar -ztf filename, t being the most obvious abbreviation for list :-) I thought Andre was looking for an alias, so he would not need to remember the switches. something like: alias tarx='tar -xvzf $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6' for his .bash_profile ? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: xosview
Subject: Re: xosview Date: Mon, May 10, 1999 at 09:05:19PM -0700 In reply to:Joey Hess Quoting Joey Hess([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Wayne Topa wrote: Think I read in the Debian Weekly News that the author had been told of the problem and was working on it. No, I never wrote that in DWN. I am filing a bug now though. -- see shy jo Well I did read it somewhere! Debian Weekly news has so much good info I 'thought' that it was there. Sorry Joey, BTW how come I can't get the DWN mailed to me? I have subscribed (via www.debian.org web page) twice now. Wayne -- Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user! ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printout being chopped off...
Subject: printout being chopped off... Date: Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:06:09AM -0700 In reply to:Sudhakar Chandrasekharan Quoting Sudhakar Chandrasekharan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter' paper. Here is what I tried: * Installed slink's lprng, gs (not gs-alladin), enscript, psutils and magicfilter. * Ran /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig and chose stylus800, stylus_color_360dpi and stylus_color_720dpi as filters. * When I print from Netscape Communicator using lpr -Pprinter_name, the output is fine. * When I try to use print from Netscape Communicator using 'psnup -c -Pletter -n 2 | lpr -Pprinter_name' I see that a little bit (about 2 characters) gets chopped off on the left hand side (when seen length-wise). It is not that the printed area bleeds off the end of the paper. There is a definite non-printable border. It is at the edge of the border and the printable area that the bleed occurs. * Tried printing from command line using 'enscript -2r -G -Mletter -Pprinter_name foo.txt'. Same problem. * Installed lprng, enscript and psutils from slink. Installed gs-aladdin and apsfilter from potato. * Configured apsfilter for uniprint driver for Epson Color Stylus 600. * Tried printing with psnup and enscript. Same problem as before. I guess I need to somehow change the printable area parameter for papersize letter. How do I do this in a system-wide way? Thanks. I had a similar problem with my Brother Laser Printer. I finally fixed it by using a2ps and changing the papersize in a2ps.cfg ie Medium: Letter 607 780. I just keep changing it until I got everything printing on the paper, correctly. HTH -- User n.: A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad hostname (lpd complains)
Subject: bad hostname (lpd complains) Date: Tue, May 11, 1999 at 01:54:43PM -0700 In reply to:Paul Nathan Puri Quoting Paul Nathan Puri([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I made my hostname 486 on my 486 desktop. Now lpd complains about a bad hostname. How do I fix this? I already changed this in /etc/hosts. Is there somewhere else I should change this? Thanks... Simple answer, grep/rgrep /etc for 486. Make decision if that requires changes or not. -- There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jayson Baird wrote: Anyone know of any trouble that when the kernel tries to load it causes a system reboot? Jayson S. Baird Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter -- Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Russian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I've seen this on a couple of boxes when starting from DOS/Windows using loadlin. Rebooting DOS/Windows and doing an F5 or F8/Safe Mode Command Prompt Only solved the issue. I've also seen weird behavior on a fresh install after downloading the files (root.bin, resc1440.bin, loadlin.exe, etc) using Netscape Communicator 4.x on a Windows box. Re-downloading the files using ftp instead of Netscape solved that problem. I doubt that either of these address your issue, but maybe -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! Life is an ongoing classroom. - Capt. James T. Kirk, Dreadnought
Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 07:59:56PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: We've got a number of machines here that we need to switch to centralized account maintenance, and I was trying to figure out what the best solution would be. It looks like the two main solutions would be NIS or ldap (via PAM), but I'm having a hard time finding out enough about the ldap solution to do a good comparison. Is there a good HOWTO or similar somewhere? Is there some other solution I've overlooked. (I thought about just using a cron job and a sync script to keep all the passwd/group files in sync, but that requires you to be able to atomically update the files, and I couldn't see a good way to do that...perhaps some trick with chpasswd/add/deluser... Our good admin is already in the midst of setting up an LDAP based account system. For info on what is being used for this please see www.openldap.com and www.padl.com for the OpenLDAP and nss_ldap/pam_ldap (all three of which are packaged in potato) programs. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --
imitializing imlib fails
Hi all whenever I try to start enlightenment, I get an error message telling me that it can not initialize imlib (and that this is quite unusual!). Also, no gtk based programs don't work. I'm not sure what to do :-( Every thing was working okay until I upgraded imlib to 1.9.3-3 a few weeks ago. But alas, no longer. I have tried reinstalling the imlib packages: imlib-base_1.9.4-3.deb imlib-progs_1.9.4-3.deb imlib-dev_1.9.4-3.deb imlib1_1.9.4-3.deb but this didn't help Suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated. thanks Richard
Error in kernel compile
I am using kpkg to compile (or trying to compile) kernel 2.2.5. I have used this before with success but I am currently having problems and am wondering if someone can help me figure out where to start on fixing this error. ../../gcc/haifa-sched.c:6749: Internal compiler error in function schedule_block cpp: output pipe has been closed make[3] *** [swapfile.o] Error 1 make[2] *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1] *** [_dir_mm] Error 2 make: *** [build] Error 2 I don't have a clue what all of this means! Hope this is enough information. I tried piping kpkg to a logfile and it worked up until the error then closed the logfile and printed the error to the screen. Lance
Wierd PPP Problems
I'm having some strange problems with ppp on my dial out server. Everything has been working fine for quite some time (over 51 days of uptime on 2.2.2), and then tonight I started having problems connecting. Does anyone know what is going on, and how to fix it? May 11 22:01:46 debian2 diald[138]: Running pppd (pid = 4673). May 11 22:01:46 debian2 diald[4673]: Running pppd: /usr/sbin/pppd -detach modem crtscts mtu 1500 mru 1500 netmask 255.255.255.0 noauth May 11 22:01:47 debian2 pppd[4673]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 May 11 22:01:47 debian2 pppd[4673]: Using interface ppp0 May 11 22:01:47 debian2 pppd[4673]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 May 11 22:02:17 debian2 pppd[4673]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests May 11 22:02:17 debian2 pppd[4673]: Connection terminated. May 11 22:02:17 debian2 pppd[4673]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: May 11 22:02:17 debian2 pppd[4673]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 May 11 22:02:18 debian2 pppd[4673]: Hangup (SIGHUP) May 11 22:02:18 debian2 pppd[4673]: Exit. May 11 22:02:20 debian2 modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 May 11 22:02:21 debian2 diald[138]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command '/sbin/route add 192.168.0.2 metric 1 dev sl0' May 11 22:02:21 debian2 diald[138]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command '/sbin/route add default metric 1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev s l0' May 11 22:02:26 debian2 modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 May 11 22:02:27 debian2 diald[138]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command '/sbin/route add 192.168.0.2 metric 1 dev sl0' May 11 22:02:28 debian2 diald[138]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command '/sbin/route add default metric 1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev s l0' May 11 22:02:29 debian2 diald[138]: Delaying 30 seconds before clear to dial. TIA, Chris -- E-Mail: Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-May-99 Time: 22:47:23 This message was sent by XFMail --
Off-topic: what is bogoMIPS?
I understand what MIPS is (Million Instructions per Second), but what does the bogo stand for? My 486-33 measures 4 bogoMIPS during Linux boot-up, so how is this calculated? -Hans
Partition Type A0 ??
My girlfriend just bought a laptop. On first booting it, it asked if we'd like to set up the hard disk for Windows95 or Win98. She'll need to dual-boot 95 and Linux, so we let it install Win95, which it proceeded to do _without_ asking for a Win95 cd. I booted it from the 2.1 CD, and ran cfdisk. It's a 4.something gig drive, which has 3 partitions: a 2gig one, another 2gig one, a 162.5 gig one, and 7 megs of free space. The 162.5 gig partition (which we'd like to delete) shows up as partition type A0 in cfdisk. Looks to me like the company (AST) copied the Win95 cd into that partition, and that's how it did that crazy install-with-no-disk thing. Does anybody know if that's possible? Or know what partition type A0 really is? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, Blame It On Me | --
Re: Off-topic: what is bogoMIPS?
*- On 12 May, Hans van den Boogert wrote about Off-topic: what is bogoMIPS? I understand what MIPS is (Million Instructions per Second), but what does the bogo stand for? My 486-33 measures 4 bogoMIPS during Linux boot-up, so how is this calculated? -Hans see /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/BogoMips.gz `MIPS is short for Millions of Instructions Per Second. It is a measure for the computation speed of a program. Like most such measures, it is more often abused than used propAD erly (it is very difficult to justly compare MIPS for difAD ferent kinds of computers). BogoMips are Linus's invention. The kernel (or was it a device driver?) needs a timing loop (the time is too short and/or needs to be too exact for a non-busy-loop method of waiting), which must be calibrated to the processor speed of the machine. Hence, the kernel measures at boot time how fast a certain kind of busy loop runs on a computer. Bogo comes from bogus, i.e, something which is a fake. Hence, the BogoMips value gives some indication of the processor speed, but it is way too unscientific to be called anything but BogoMips. The reasons (there are two) it is printed during bootup is that a) it is slightly useful for debugging and for checking that the computers caches and turbo button work, and b) Linus loves to chuckle when he sees confused people on the news.' -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Off-topic: what is bogoMIPS?
I understand what MIPS is (Million Instructions per Second), but what does the bogo stand for? My 486-33 measures 4 bogoMIPS during Linux boot-up, so how is this calculated? -Hans It means 'bogus MIPS', in that it's not the real MIPS value for your system, but a calculated one. I have no idea how it's calculated though. Rob.
wordperfect
I apologize if this has already been beaten to death, but this is my first post and first few minutes in this newsgroup. I was trying to run wordperfeft 8 on slink. I originally had a library problem which hours of research has fixed. I installed old libraries, libc5, xlib6, and xpm4.7. Wordperfect runs, but the pictures and banners and icons are all scrambled. When it is starting up the banner that is supposed to have a pen on it and say Wordperfect is just a scrambled mess of vertical lines. Once it starts, all of the icons loook the same way. And the window in the corner of screen that stays open to open new documents is scrambled as well. I'm rather new to linux and my friend is telling me to give up on debian and go to redhat. I'd rather hack out solutions. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Matt Kokidko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 network cards
On %M 0, Oz Dror wrote I have a similar problem, But instead of having 2 network cards I have one card using IP aliasing ( two subnets on the same card/network, one for DSL and the second local 192.168.0.x). as soon as I start ipmasq I cannot ping beyond the local subnet of each card, thus I cannot access the DNS server, thus I cannot ping or surf out side the to subnets. I tried to start ipmasq after after the two network are initialized, but as soon as ipmasq start I loose the DNS server and access beyond the local net. I have the latest potato system using kernel 2.2.7 I have the latest potato version of ipmask. Does any one have any idea how to solve/debug this problem? Is this problem occurring because ipmasq make the second non local net a firewall? If that is the case how can I have ipmasq apply only to the subnet 192.168.0.x and not to the DSL subnet.? how can I have ipmasq apply to eth0 ( 192.168.0.x) and not to the subnet of eth0:0 (DSL subnet) What does ipmasq do? I have a second linux computer running kernel 2.2.1 (hybrid system of sling hamm and potato). I do not use ipmasq. I have ipalias working correctly with masquerading (apply the firewall only to the local subnet). I use ipchain to apply the rules. Unless you need ip masquerading, you should uninstall ipmasq. Ipmasq checks which interface your default route points to, and sets up packet filter rules so that packets being forwarded via your default interface from your *other* interfaces are masqueraded as coming from the default interface. If you have a 'private' subnet on your second NIC and a 'public' connection via your default route this is likely to be useful, but if you don't then you won't be able to access machines connected via your second NIC from machines connected via your default NIC. If you need masquerading then ipmasq seems to be the best solution, if you can get it to meet your requirements. I haven't used the 'potato' version, but the 'slink' version has bugs when dealing with aliased interfaces: look in the bug tracking system for patches if you need masquerading and that is your problem. After you uninstall ipmasq you are likely to still have your existing packet filter rules in place; under kernel 2.0.x, you can remove them by going ipfwadm -I -p accept ipfwadm -I -f ipfwadm -O -p accept ipfwadm -O -f ipfwadm -F -p accept ipfwadm -F -f but you should be aware that /etc/init.d/netbase normally installs 'spoof protection' rules to drop bogus packets, so you may also want to do /etc/init.d/netbase start as well. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: transparent proxy with Squid?
On %M 0, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote Has anybody successfuly configured Linux and Squid to act as a transparent proxy? I have looked at the Squid FAQ and an interesting pointer provided by it (http://alderan.gurulink.com/transproxy-linux21-squid2.html) but have not succeded yet. All squid configuration options and and ipchains commands having been entred the www requests still go right past squid. It worked for me; I installed tproxyd, booted a kernel with transparent proxy support, and followed the advice in /usr/doc/tproxyd (from memory). I am using the latest Debian-potato snapshot with Squid-2.2 and kernel 2.2.7 on our masquerading firewall. Thanks in advance for any help. PS: are there well-known disadvantages in using transparent proxying? (vs. configuring each browser on our LAN) The only ones I am aware of are: - If squid is 'fooled' into treating a dynamic page as static, you may see the wrong page, just like with any proxy; - If a server provides non-HTTP services (e.g., SSL) on port 80 you won't be able to access them, as you are going via squid; - You don't get proxying for HTTP servers on unusual ports (81, 8080); - If squid stops/exercises a bug you can't just turn off or change your proxy from your workstation. I don't know how serious these are in the real world, but #4 is quite rare. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : On 10-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote: : I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I : expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect : any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward : as upgrading any other package? : If you upgrade a slink installation to libc6 2.1.1, you will probably have : some problems. I know I did, and I went back to libc6 2.07 : I suppose you could upgrade to potato and avoid the problems. : If you try it on a slink system, do not go back from the potato version of : ld.so to the slink version or you will break the system; I just kept the newer : ld.so when I went back to the older libc6. Do not upgrade only libc6. It will break your system if you do. If you want to upgrade to libc6, upgrade all the way to potato. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -La Rochefocauld, Maxims 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16
Re: Wierd PPP Problems
Chris Hoover writes: I'm having some strange problems with ppp on my dial out server. Everything has been working fine for quite some time (over 51 days of uptime on 2.2.2), and then tonight I started having problems connecting. Does anyone know what is going on, and how to fix it? At a guess, your ISP changed something. Does it fail every time, or intermittently? What sort of authentication are you using? What does your chat script look like? Dial in with minicom and see if anything has changed. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: Re[2]: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes) writes: :I had three problems. The first, JAVA, has now been resolved. : How was it solved? Is there a new jdk package which works? It hasn't. IIRC, The jdk maintainer can't get it to compiler. : A problem which is solved is octave which is now working. : wmaker has some problems, but works. qps dumps core. gif2png dumps : core. Looks like the maintainers hadn't recompiler them yet. : smail behaves strangely. Use exim, it is the default sendmail replacement, since slink. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -La Rochefocauld, Maxims 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16
Re: dhcpc breaks when I use kernel 2.2.7
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Hi, I'm finally switching from kernel 2.0.35 to the new 2.2.7 kernel : and I'm having problems with the dhcpc daemon. Namely, it doesn't : seem to work. : My ethernet card shows up at boot time with both kernels, all daemons : seem to start up properly with no errors. Has anyone seen anything : like this? : I'm using the following dhcpcd client: : dhcpcd 0.70-5 a DHCP client The networking model for Linux change drastically between 2.0.x and 2.2.x. DHCP completely breaks, do a search in dselect for dhcp, there is a version which works. If you don't see one, I know it's in potato. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -La Rochefocauld, Maxims 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
Do not upgrade only libc6. It will break your system if you do. If you want to upgrade to libc6, upgrade all the way to potato. Actually .. it won't. I can't remember exactly what I installed, but I know I installed the libc6 libs, headers, and gcc all from potato onto my hamm system, and it's since worked without so much as a whimper. Rob.
Re: Partition Type A0 ??
Will Lowe wrote: partition, and that's how it did that crazy install-with-no-disk thing. Does anybody know if that's possible? Or know what partition type A0 really is? I don't know about how AST makes it, but I have seen several Laptop's from Toshiba that uses an extra partition in the end that is used for power saving only. I don't have access to that machine anymore so I can't check the partition type. But I'm sure that you can place the Win95 cab-files, on the primary fat partionan and make it bootable from there. (As it was on my Dell mashine.) / Anders
Re: wordperfect
What I like to know is how to put a shortcut on the X desktop for Word Perfect. Can't figure out where to look. -- Hans
Stability
Hi all I will shortly be taking a two week vacation, and sadly, I have to leave my trusty box behind *schniff* .. It has to stay running, however, because a local user group relies on it for mail and web serving. There is no one else who will have access to the machine, so I need to ensure that it will stay up no matter what. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I should tweak the system to make sure it behaves? I have the obligatory UPS, and on the event of a kernel panic, it'll reboot itself after a ten second delay, but is there anything else? I'd be interested in hearing any ideas you may have. Regards, Rob.
Re: wordperfect
What I like to know is how to put a shortcut on the X desktop for Word Perfect. Can't figure out where to look. -- Hans It depends on the window manager you're using. In KDE, its as simple as right-clicking the desktop, and selecting 'New-Application'. GNOME has a similar feature, I beleive. Most 'traditional' window managers, however, don't have a 'desktop', but use some other mechanism for launching apps (eg menus, or the WindowMaker/AfterStep Dock/Wharf approach). re, Rob.
Re: 2 network cards
I fixed the problem by purging the ipmasq package and instead writing my own ipchain commands in a local file at /etc/init.d -Oz On %M 0, Oz Dror wrote I have a similar problem, But instead of having 2 network cards I have one card using IP aliasing ( two subnets on the same card/network, one for DSL and the second local 192.168.0.x). as soon as I start ipmasq I cannot ping beyond the local subnet of each card, thus I cannot access the DNS server, thus I cannot ping or surf out side the to subnets. I tried to start ipmasq after after the two network are initialized, but as soon as ipmasq start I loose the DNS server and access beyond the local net. I have the latest potato system using kernel 2.2.7 I have the latest potato version of ipmask. Does any one have any idea how to solve/debug this problem? Is this problem occurring because ipmasq make the second non local net a firewall? If that is the case how can I have ipmasq apply only to the subnet 192.168.0.x and not to the DSL subnet.? how can I have ipmasq apply to eth0 ( 192.168.0.x) and not to the subnet of eth0:0 (DSL subnet) What does ipmasq do? I have a second linux computer running kernel 2.2.1 (hybrid system of sling hamm and potato). I do not use ipmasq. I have ipalias working correctly with masquerading (apply the firewall only to the local subnet). I use ipchain to apply the rules. Unless you need ip masquerading, you should uninstall ipmasq. Ipmasq checks which interface your default route points to, and sets up packet filter rules so that packets being forwarded via your default interface from your *other* interfaces are masqueraded as coming from the default interface. If you have a 'private' subnet on your second NIC and a 'public' connection via your default route this is likely to be useful, but if you don't then you won't be able to access machines connected via your second NIC from machines connected via your default NIC. If you need masquerading then ipmasq seems to be the best solution, if you can get it to meet your requirements. I haven't used the 'potato' version, but the 'slink' version has bugs when dealing with aliased interfaces: look in the bug tracking system for patches if you need masquerading and that is your problem. After you uninstall ipmasq you are likely to still have your existing packet filter rules in place; under kernel 2.0.x, you can remove them by going ipfwadm -I -p accept ipfwadm -I -f ipfwadm -O -p accept ipfwadm -O -f ipfwadm -F -p accept ipfwadm -F -f but you should be aware that /etc/init.d/netbase normally installs 'spoof protection' rules to drop bogus packets, so you may also want to do /etc/init.d/netbase start as well. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126
Re: Stability
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I will shortly be taking a two week vacation, and sadly, I have to leave my trusty box behind *schniff* .. It has to stay running, however, because a local user group relies on it for mail and web serving. There is no one else who will have access to the machine, so I need to ensure that it will stay up no matter what. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I should tweak the system to make sure it behaves? I have the obligatory UPS, and on the event of a kernel panic, it'll reboot itself after a ten second delay, but is there anything else? I'd be interested in hearing any ideas you may have. Just make sure that your UPS daemon does the right thing during a powerdown... doesn't send a halt signal until you are sure that the UPS has received a cycle-power signal. I've seen power-strips that allow you to cycle-power from a touch tone phone, but that may be overkill in your case. Consider the following and take heart: [portal]$ uptime 1:50am up 205 days, 13:05, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.00 -Mitch
setting up a home lan
Hi, Can anyone tell me what are the procedures to set up two computers to talk to each other via ethernet. In particular, what kind of ip I can choose. Is there a HOWTO on this?? Also, is there any tools like fsck in linux which can repair the fat file system?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Beware apt
Yesterday I had to re-install a lot of packages as my system became 'unusable'. The problem began when I tried to fix Star Office after upgrading. I think my system was slink/potato but I couldn't tell the percentage of each system. Anyway I thought one way to ensure that the system works is to put a slink CD and update/upgrade libc6 and all hell broke loose. Not that apt did not warm me that it will be uninstalling a lot of packages. But I had faith that if I said update libc6 it will leave everything in its state and just update. It told me it was going to uninstall several applications. Well I thought that did not matter since it will install them again. - That how my system died. I finally had to rebuild it one app at the time. The good thing is that Star Office works. Learned my lesson though. /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /--/
Re: setting up a home lan
Hi Shao, On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:14:40PM +, Shao Zhang wrote: Can anyone tell me what are the procedures to set up two computers to talk to each other via ethernet. In particular, what kind of ip I can choose. Is there a HOWTO on this?? Check /usr/doc/HOWTO. There should be (if installed) an Enterhnet-HOWTO and a network-HOWTO; I'm not 100% sure about the names, just take a look into the directory. First you need to setup the hardware (network-cards, Twisted Pair or RG58-wire, if you will be using TP). If your netword-adaptors are Plug-and-Pray cards you will need to use isapnp (cf. man isapnp, man isapnp.conf) to initialize your cards. Next, you need to compile the networking support either into the kernel or compile and install the necessary modules. /etc/services and friends should be setup OK if you have not changed them. Depending on what you want to do, you may need to edit the /etc/hosts files on both computers or install a DNS server on one of them to achieve name resolution. Possible IP-addresses are (for example) everything starting with 192.168. This is a private network, which is not used anywhere on the internet, so you will not create any duplicate IP-addresses. So much for a road-map. The HOWTOs will know more about you specific setup. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Life is not fair. But the root password helps. ***
wmakerconf 1.99.4 seg faults
It gets to 93% - WorkSpaceBack and seg faults Im running Potato anyone have this working ???. Using wmaker prefs for now :) Cheers
Re: setting up a home lan
On %M 0, Shao Zhang wrote
Hi,
Can anyone tell me what are the procedures to set up two computers
to talk to each other via ethernet.
In particular, what kind of ip I can choose. Is there a HOWTO on this??
If you install the doc-linux-text or doc-linux-html packages, there is an
Ethernet HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO that should tell you what you need to know.
There are three ranges of IP numbers that are 'non-routable', and are
reserved by the IANA for use on private networks, set out in RFC1918
(install doc-rfc to swap 15Mb of disc space for all the RFCs you can eat).
They are:
10.0.0.0- 10.255.255.255 (1 Class A networks)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (16 Class B networks)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (256 Class C networks)
Most people use one or more of the class C networks in the third block.
Debian 2.1 puts information about your network configuration in
/etc/init.d/network; a typical such file:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=192.168.113.110
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.113.0
BROADCAST=192.168.113.255
#GATEWAY=192.168.113.106
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
Once you've installed your network card and cables, added the module for
your network card to /etc/modules and verified that the module loads
corectly, the software configuration should be just a question of 'filling
in the blanks' on your system and rebooting.
Also, is there any tools like fsck in linux which can repair the fat
file
system??
The dosfstools package includes dosfsck, a utility to maintain and repair FAT
filesystems; read /usr/doc/dosfstools/dosfsck.gz carefully before using it.
I'm not sure that the version supplied with slink supports vfat partitions.
John P.
--
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chmod
Hi! I have mounted a vfat partion (/dev/hda1 /win vfat defaults 0 2) But I can not change permissions under /win! Have I missed something in fstab or is it something else ? -- //thx Johan
sigset, sighold
Hi! I am trying to compile a simple program. I know it works under UNIX and now I will run it under linux. But it say :undefined reference to 'sigset', 'sighold' when I try to compile it! In which headerfile can I find them ? Or do I need something else ? -- //Johan
Re: Help with Alien
Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to install rpm's with alien? Thanks... The simplest way is: 'alien -i packagename.rpm' otherwise 'man alien' Kirk
Re: setting up a HP 880C/850C
Hi, On Tue, 11 May 1999, David Wright wrote: I have an 895c and use the hpdj driver in gs-aladdin, which uses a lot less ink than hp550c which I believe is the traditional deskjet driver. Gonna try that (have to update the notebook from hamm to slink...) Use the extra switch -M A4dj to tell a2ps leave an extra margin. I don't know how to integrate this into /etc/papersize, but then I always use a2ps through wrapper functions in .bashrc as there are far too many switches to remember my preferences. Thanks for the hint! I should have read the a2ps docs... Put in your ~/.a2psrc # Default medium Options: --medium=A4dj Or change it in /etc/a2ps.cfg (standard is A4) Ciao, Christian.
Re: chmod
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote: Hi! I have mounted a vfat partion (/dev/hda1 /win vfat defaults 0 2) But I can not change permissions under /win! Have I missed something in fstab or is it something else ? Is it set read/writable by everyone or just root? Are you trying to do that as root? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /--/
Re: chmod
change defaults with : rw,user,nosuid 0 0 for example (see man fstab) a+ On Wed, 12 May 1999, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Wed, 12 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote: Hi! I have mounted a vfat partion (/dev/hda1 /win vfat defaults 0 2) But I can not change permissions under /win! Have I missed something in fstab or is it something else ? Is it set read/writable by everyone or just root? Are you trying to do that as root? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /--/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Nicolas PROCHAZKA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://maxibus.info.unicaen.fr/~nicolas ICQ:#34113768
Re: sigset, sighold
-Johan Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I am trying to compile a simple program. I know it works under UNIX and now I will run it under linux. But it say :undefined reference to 'sigset', 'sighold' when I try to compile it! In which headerfile can I find them ? Or do I need something else ? sigset and sighold are not part of POSIX signal handling (they are from SVR3 and SVR4). You should rewrite the program to use sigaction and friends. If you check the manpages you may be able to figure out how. -- MS-DOS: Micro$oft Denial Of Service. The most popular denial of service attack. It is commonly disguised as an operating system. The easiest fix is to install a freenix.
HELP! mail does not work (exim+fetchmail)
Hi, After a long time, I finally decide to replace smail with exim. I have sucessfully set it up on one machine. But the other one stops working... After installing exim, my fetchmail does not work at more.. The error message is: fetchmail: 4 messages for shao at pop3.cia.com.au (7683 octets). fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK fetchmail: reading message 1 of 4 (1200 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused fetchmail: POP3 QUIT^M from exim is: 1999-05-12 21:18:55 10hX2N-7H-00 Completed 1999-05-12 21:23:00 Start queue run: pid=473 1999-05-12 21:23:00 10hWvm-6W-00 Message is frozen 1999-05-12 21:23:00 10hWio-5i-00 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown local-part shao in domain virge 1999-05-12 21:23:00 10hX6K-7g-00 = R=10hWio-5i-00 U=mail P=local S=1684 1999-05-12 21:23:00 10hWio-5i-00 Error message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-05-12 21:23:00 10hWio-5i-00 Completed 1999-05-12 21:23:00 End queue run: pid=473 strange thing is I don't even know where is this shao come from! The only user one that machine is s2193893. My exim.conf looks as follows: qualify_domain = cse.unsw.edu.au local_domains = virge : localhost and the rest seems fine. Thanks. (plz cc me to this address) Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: setting up a home lan
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:14:40PM +, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me what are the procedures to set up two computers to talk to each other via ethernet. In particular, what kind of ip I can choose. Is there a HOWTO on this?? You are free to use the 10.*.*.* and 192.168.*.* IP's. The appropriate HOWTO's are: /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.gz (for TCP/IP) /usr/doc/IPX-HOWTO.gz doc included with mars (for netware emulation) /usr/doc/SMB-HOWTO.gz doc for samba (for WFW/Win9x emulation) I have configured my home TCP/IP, Samba, mars/netware network using these sources of information, and everything works great. With IP-masquerading I managed to give all the local boxes the Internet access through one only modem and single ISP account!!! Also, is there any tools like fsck in linux which can repair the fat file system?? I don't know, but if you use DOS, then you should have the DOS repair tools, and if you don't use DOS, there is no need for usinf fat fs. Even if your machine works as the fileserver for DOS machines (with samba or mars), it is much more efficient to use e2fs for server volumes. -- Hope this helps Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org Linux - free OS for free people!
Re: printout being chopped off...
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: Hi, I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter' paper. Hi, I had similar problems with this printer and the bellow link led me to a very useful page with tons of info about Epson printers: http://www.eunuchs.org/linux Take a look. It's cool! []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Remove occurences of X from file
Hi all. I use Emacs/MULE and write the following document: Hall� KuryLowicz where (this is the important bit!) the L of this iso-latin-1 email is actually the Polish l (l with a bar through it). Then I save it in the encoding emacs-mule. According to less in an iso-latin-1 terminal the file looks like: Hall82� Kury82�owicz Question: Can anyone clue me how to write a small script to remove the 82 characters from the file? (The point is to then feed it to LaTeX and \inputencoding.) Many thanks in advance, Stefan pgpRRxIqethRu.pgp Description: PGP signature
pgp help -- 2.6.2 5.0
Problem: debain folks all use 2.6.2 and RSA I have other friends (in the windows world) who use 5.* and DH/DSS. I would like to be able to deal with both without too much trouble. This suggests that I use 5.0 and import an RSA keypair generated by 2.6.2. Great! Question: How the )%(# do I do that? Lots of places say it can be done - some are helpful enough to say 1) import the public 2) modify the trust 3) import the private This is mostly useless to me. It still thinks that I have someone elses key - just that I trust them a lot. I'm sure someone has dealt with this before - I just need a quick tutorial. How did you handle it? -Michael Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
Re: Life at 4 bogomips
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:50:30PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: I guess I won't be compiling any kernels on that box ... well, maybe ONE just to see how long it takes. :) If memory serves, my first linux box, a 386SX-16 with 4MB took about 5 hours to compile 1.0.9. ISTR that compiling kernel V0.11 took about 5 minutes on the old Northgate 4MB 386-20 I was using in 1992. Of course, the kernel's kind of grown since then. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
~ In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: ~ ~ : On 10-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote: ~ : I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I ~ : expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect ~ : any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward ~ : as upgrading any other package? ~ ~ : If you upgrade a slink installation to libc6 2.1.1, you will probably have ~ : some problems. I know I did, and I went back to libc6 2.07 ~ ~ : I suppose you could upgrade to potato and avoid the problems. ~ ~ : If you try it on a slink system, do not go back from the potato version of ~ : ld.so to the slink version or you will break the system; I just kept the newer ~ : ld.so when I went back to the older libc6. ~ ~ Do not upgrade only libc6. It will break your system if you do. If ~ you want to upgrade to libc6, upgrade all the way to potato. So, what's the list of what should be upgraded? I would imagine that the first thing to do is to compile and run a 2.2.x kernel, the entire potato base directory... what else? I've also seen on this thread someone saying about the need to upgrade the X system... to xfree 3.3.3? Horacio.
Sparc Ultra5 (170)
I posted this question to the Sparc list but didn't get a reply so I'm trying it here. I have an Ultra5 that I would like to install on. The installation pages make no mention of this, or any other machine being supported. I am curious because the RedHat installation manual specifically states that the Ultra5 is unsupported. I have also heard that this is a kernel problem and the kernels after 2.2.5 *do* support this machine. Can anybody clear this up? I have been using Debian on Intel for almost three years and I'd like to put Debian on this box if at all possible. TIA. -Ian __ Ian K. Setford PGP 2.6.3 1024/79D33BED 1999/05/10 Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 52 D2 8D ED B7 78 4F D8 A0 1F 8C 36 58 7C D4 AA
Re: kernel and modules compiling
~ I also install the kernel using a small shellprogram provided (you will ~ need to switch that to executable using chmod +x) ~ ~ The last thing I do is that I run lilo. ~ ~ make bzImage ~ make modules ~ # rm -rf /lib/modules/2.2.5 # Only if you are very sure about this! I wondered whether that could / should be done. The prob here is that you won't be able to run any other previous kernel, just the new compiled one. ~ make modules_install ~ depmod -a ~ cd arch/i386/boot ~ ./install.sh 2.2.5 bzImage ../../../System.map / that script is just to copy the image to /boot/vmlinux-x.x.x and System.map? or does it also add the lines to lilo.conf? ~ lilo Horacio
sorting this mail
hey all I don't suppose the list manager would consider putting somthing like [deb] in the subject line, would he (you)? Sure would help me sort this stuff... -t
Re: wordperfect
In a message dated 5/12/99 12:00:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wordperfect runs, but the pictures and banners and icons are all scrambled. When it is starting up the banner that is supposed to have a pen on it and say Wordperfect is just a scrambled mess of vertical lines. Once it starts, all of the icons loook the My guess is you're using a resolution of 24bpp - don't - WP (and Netscape for that matter) won't support it. -Jay
Re: Partition Type A0 ??
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 10:46:22PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: I booted it from the 2.1 CD, and ran cfdisk. It's a 4.something gig drive, which has 3 partitions: a 2gig one, another 2gig one, a 162.5 gig one, and 7 megs of free space. The 162.5 gig partition (which we'd like to delete) shows up as partition type A0 in cfdisk. On a recent installfest I ran into that with a Toshiba laptop. The owner didn't know what that partition was for, so we removed it (~40 MB) using linux's fdisk. We proceeded with the installation, rebooted, and surprise, surprise, the machine stopped booting! We disable power saving and all that stuff, and the machine wouldn't boot. We removed the hd from the BIOS, and the machine was able to boot from a floppy. We recreated the partition (same type, same place), and the machine worked again. After reading the manual, which essentially doesn't say a thing about this partition, I got the impression it's for the resume/suspend function of the laptop. I don't understand why the machine doesn't even boot without it, but I learned not to touch those. Ever. Marcelo
Re: Sparc Ultra5 (170)
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:42:09AM -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I posted this question to the Sparc list but didn't get a reply so I'm trying it here. I have an Ultra5 that I would like to install on. The installation pages make no mention of this, or any other machine being supported. I am curious because the RedHat installation manual specifically states that the Ultra5 is unsupported. I have also heard that this is a kernel problem and the kernels after 2.2.5 *do* support this machine. Can anybody clear this up? I have been using Debian on Intel for almost three years and I'd like to put Debian on this box if at all possible. We have users and developers running stock slink on Ultra1's Ultra30's and I believe an Ultra5. The boot disks to use are the 2.2.1-sun4u, I'm pretty sure you will have no problems.
Re: ICQ-Java not working after upgrade
BGR == Bruno Goncalves Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BGR I've updated my system to potato, but now Icq-java doesn't work BGR anymore. There is a fixed version of jdk1.1 in Incoming. Check the mirros file on www.debian.org where to find Incoming. Ciao, Martin
I'm in tears: SB 64 still not there.
I'm at wits end. For already two weeks I'm trying to get my Soundblaster AWE 64 working under Slink with a 2.0.36 kernel. I've done all the reading, poked at all places possible, but can't nail the problem down. Of course this is due to my inexperience with Linux, but give me a break and help me if you can, okay? (sniff) I'm using a Pentium 200MMX with AMIBIOS v2.4 with the following settings: PnP aware O/S: Yes; DMA channels: PnP, IRQ 5: ISA/PnP (IRQ 5 is the one used by SB AWE 64). I baked a new 2.0.36 kernel for use with the card, as described in the Soundblaster-AWE-HOWTO, but during bootup the message appears that SB AWE 32 has not been detected. I used isapnp to configure the card and there the problem seems to be. After I do a pnpdump > isapnp.conf, this file contains a lot of conflicts, all FATAL. I checked for IRQ, DMA and IO conflicts, but there don't seem to be any. Apart from the SB AWE 64, which is the only ISA card in my PC, I have a network card and SCSI card (both PCI). Under Win95 I can't find any conflicts either. Has anybody had this problem before, or can give me hints on what next steps to take now? As a last resort I thought about baking a 2.2.x kernel, which is supposed to have better PnP support. But that would also mess up my Debian 2.1 system and as I have been busy with Linux for only a month or so I don't want to do that. For good order, below find the raw output of the pnpdump.. --Hans # $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.16 1998/10/09 22:19:06 fox Exp $ # This is free software, see the sources for details. # This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK # # For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5) # # For latest information on isapnp and pnpdump see: # http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ # # Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DNEEDSETSCHEDULER # # Trying port address 0203 # Board 1 has serial identifier 0c 0b a6 bd 16 c3 00 8c 0e # (DEBUG) (READPORT 0x0203) (ISOLATE PRESERVE) (IDENTIFY *) (VERBOSITY 2) (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING # Card 1: (serial identifier 0c 0b a6 bd 16 c3 00 8c 0e) # Vendor Id CTL00c3, Serial Number 195476758, checksum 0x0C. # Version 1.0, Vendor version 1.0 # ANSI string -->Creative SB AWE64 PnP-- # Vendor defined tag: 73 02 45 00 # # Logical device id CTL0045 # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x39 # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3a # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3c # # Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required. # Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed if required # Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy (CONFIGURE CTL00c3/195476758 (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 5. # 16 bit DMA only # Logical device is not a bus master # DMA may not execute in count by byte mode # DMA may execute in count by word mode # DMA channel speed in compatible mode # (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0220 # Maximum IO base address 0x0220 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 16 # (IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0330 # Maximum IO base address 0x0330 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 2 # (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0388 # Maximum IO base address 0x0388 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 4 # (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388)) # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable # IRQ 5, 7, 9 or 10. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) # (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E))) # First DMA channel 0, 1 or 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 0 (CHANNEL 0)) # Next DMA channel 5, 6 or 7. # 16 bit DMA only # Logical device is not a bus master # DMA may not execute in count by byte mode # DMA may
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OK, I know that this is almost as bad as 'editor wars' but I have to ask. I want an email program that works in X and has the following capabilities: alias support for addresses grouping of addresses threading of email (for lists) some kind of sorting on reciept of a massage ( for news reports) easy to use reliable file transfer (for attached documents) find a message on a search of the header or body Let's here your favorite that can handle most of the above if not all. -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:10:15AM -0400, Dan Nguyen wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes) writes: :I had three problems. The first, JAVA, has now been resolved. : How was it solved? Is there a new jdk package which works? It hasn't. IIRC, The jdk maintainer can't get it to compiler. The new jdk deb is in incoming. I've been using it to run my research system (which seriously taxes the jdk) for several days. This is on many different potato and slink boxes. -Seth -- It is by will alone I set my mind in motion
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
- Original Message - From: Robert Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 12:19 AM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? Do not upgrade only libc6. It will break your system if you do. If you want to upgrade to libc6, upgrade all the way to potato. Actually .. it won't. I can't remember exactly what I installed, but I know I installed the libc6 libs, headers, and gcc all from potato onto my hamm system, and it's since worked without so much as a whimper. Rob. Rob, I'm curious-- did you upgrade the linker as well? when i upgraded that in slink, i think that is what broke my system somehow. it happened to me twice. that is why i ended up giving up and going all the way with potato... was sick of having to manually re-link 30 or 40 .so files. no problems now, i'm just curious. ciao. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: J Horacio MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 8:07 AM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? So, what's the list of what should be upgraded? I would imagine that the first thing to do is to compile and run a 2.2.x kernel, the entire potato base directory... what else? I've also seen on this thread someone saying about the need to upgrade the X system... to xfree 3.3.3? Horacio. here's my input...depends on how potato-ish you want to be... but if you want to run a 2.2.x (or even 2.3.0!) kernel you will most likely need to upgrade more than just libc6. check out the Changes file in any 2.2.x kernel and it will tell you what you need to change/ upgrade for THAT (very good listing, well done i might add, and easy to follow). the documentation is fantastic. it tells you everything that might go wrong and how to avoid it. most people have problems because they do not read the kernel docs. i am running potato now, and installed it as a base, but at one time i DID successfully upgrade from slink to potato and a 2.2.x kernel. i did it like this (i have endless free time smile): upgraded via apt everything the changes file said i needed for the new kernel (if you do that, incidentally, on my system anyhow i had to upgrade my libc anyway because other things were dependant on it -- don't know how it will work for you, but i couldn't upgrade my netbase or anything without also upgrading my libc. (the potato net packages will not work with kernel 2.0.36, to the best of my knowledge, or i couldnt get them to anyway, so if you care about interenet connectivity like i do be sure to have the new kernel handy on the system to make after) after that, i compiled and installed the kernel without rebooting inbetween. of course you can reboot, i just didn't want to bother with it... i heard someone say rebooting an ugraded system with a 2.0.36 kernel can make all hell break loose, but again i don't really know, so i didn't take any chances. good luck to you!
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
S == Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: S I'm now wondering if anyone has any comments on how stable the S unstable distribution is in general. Pretty OK, but there are some known problems with glibc2.1 Netscape gets unstable. Sometimes gives a bus error when closing a window - closing all of netscape. Basic authentication (the paswod boxes) have problems. For username and/or password longer than 8 characters, it is very likely, that netscape will give a bus error. Sometimes netscape hangs, and if I kill it, it will kill the X server. No genuine fix available (the joys of no available source...). I think I will try to install the libc5 netscapae. JDK1.1 It used some internal symbols in libc, not available any more. A fixed version is available in Incoming. Staroffice Problem like in JDK. There is a workaround, by preloading glibc2. I don't have the fix available, but it has been posted to this list. Xterm Currently, there is a problem with PAM and xterm, but that is just a normal error, not related to glibc2.1 These are the things I encountered. If you still want to give potato a try, use apt. Change sources.list to point to unstable. and do apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade For GNOME or gtk1.2, add the slink gnome staging area to sources.list deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main The verions there are a bit behind potato, but I am recompiling the potato versions for slink right now. Ciao, Martin
Re: Java crashes in recent Potato?
SB == Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java: error in loading SB shared libraries: SB /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined SB symbol: _dl_symbol_value SB Anyone else experienced this, or have a fix? This is because of glibc2.1 (or rather jdk accessing glibc2 internal symbols which are no longer available). There is a fixed jdk1.1 in Incoming. Ciao, Martin
Re: 8 Newbie Questions
Look at the Linux Documentation Project, in particular `The Linux Users' Guide' and `Installation and Getting Started Guide' (http://research.iphil.net/LDP/mirrors.html for a list of mirrors) 1) How do I move from one partitioned drive to another? How do I know the drive letters to use too? There are no letters. The partitions are `mounted' at various directory mount points configured in /etc/fstab 2) How do I copy files from my floppy drive to my partitioned debian drive? This would mount it under directory /mnt: $ su enter root passwd # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt You can also include it on /etc/fstab like so: /dev/fd0/A vfatuser,noauto and then any user can mount it. Not I used `vfat' here instead of type msdos, but that only works if compiled into the kernel. tried to access 'man man' to read the manual (but get an error can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config), Looks like it's not properly installed. Find the `man-db' package and install it (dpkg -i man-db*) Peter
Apt for bo
hi Is there still a bo package for apt ? Where ? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
KDE -- please help!
i sent this msg yesterday and got no replies, but i managed to fix the sound problem. it still crashes so i was wrong i guess i'm still getting that mysterious error message in my xsession-errors files: Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt does anyone know what that is??? please help. thanks. - Original Message - From: add|ct|on To: Debian-user Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 1:47 PM Subject: KDE's untimely death i am having a strange problem with kde... whenever it runs, and i try to open a program, it crashes, I.E. xdm (or kdm, to more precise) stops and x exits. i went through a lot of analysis and i came to the odd conclusion by trial and error that, if i log into it with users which don't have sound priveleges, it doesn't die. spotting this strangeness for what it was, i looked in my xsession errors files for the users with which kde stopped running - lo and behold, errors! and here it is:stretchPixmap 24x4 to 24x128Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt'kpanel: waiting for windowmanagerkaudioserver: Catching fatal X IO Error. Cleaning up. (ignorethis part, i fixed it) ok so, then i logged in as one of my users without sound priveleges again, and in the console as root i did a ps x... kaudioserver does not run. it used to run in the background if i'm not mistaken (if i am please correct me, but on my system anyhow it was running all the time during kde sessions). i'm new to kde and i have no clue as to a) what happened to my kaudioserver, b) what the heck is that "Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt'" nonsense??, or c) how to even begin to fix any of this without uninstalling it all and starting over again. if anyone can help, or even give me some clues as to what to look for and where, i'd be most appreciative. thanks. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null
Re: Partition Type A0 ??
you can touch it if you disable SUSPEND TO DISK or 0V SUPEND in BIOS! its a supend to disk or 0V(V as Voltage) partition (type a0) its normally allocated in the end of the diskarea and should be a little greater than your physically RAM size eg 64M ram = 70-80M 0V parttion the extra space is for cache+cpu state and so on :) sincerely rune On 12-May-99 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 10:46:22PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: I booted it from the 2.1 CD, and ran cfdisk. It's a 4.something gig drive, which has 3 paions: a 2gig one, another 2gig one, a 162.5 gig one, and 7 megs of free space. The 162.5 gig partition (which we'd like to delete) shows up as partition type A0 in cfdisk. On a recent installfest I ran into that with a Toshiba laptop. The owner didn't know what that partition was for, so we removed it (~40 MB) using linux's fdisk. We proceeded with the installation, rebooted, and surprise, surprise, the machine stopped booting! We disable power saving and all that stuff, and the machine wouldn't boot. We removed the hd from the BIOS, and the machine was able to boot from a floppy. We recreated the partition (same type, same place), and the machine worked again. After reading the manual, which essentially doesn't say a thing about this partition, I got the impression it's for the resume/suspend function of the laptop. I don't understand why the machine doesn't even boot without it, but I learned not to touch those. Ever. Marcelo -- E-Mail: Rune Linding Raun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-May-99 Time: 17:09:37 This message was sent by XFMail --
internet connection with ibm global net
I am helping a friend get Debin configured on his computer. The problem I am having concerns getting his internet access with IBM global net working. I would be interested in comparing notes with anyone who uses this service. Thanks. --- R. Wayne McCorkle - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.pcisys.net/~mccorkle Debian/GNU Linux - the maintainable operating system Check it out at www.debian.org
Re: Apt for bo
*- On 12 May, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote about Apt for bo hi Is there still a bo package for apt ? Where ? I think this will work. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/upgrade-older-i386/apt_0.1.10_i386-libc5.deb -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Apt for bo
Brian Servis wrote: I think this will work. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/upgrade-older-i386/apt_0.1.10_i386-libc5.deb thanks! -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
RE: Beware apt
On 12-May-99 Daniel Mashao wrote: Yesterday I had to re-install a lot of packages as my system became 'unusable'. The problem began when I tried to fix Star Office after upgrading. I think my system was slink/potato but I couldn't tell the percentage of each system. Anyway I thought one way to ensure that the system works is to put a slink CD and update/upgrade libc6 and all hell broke loose. Not that apt did not warm me that it will be uninstalling a lot of packages. But I had faith that if I said update libc6 it will leave everything in its state and just update. It told me it was going to uninstall several applications. Well I thought that did not matter since it will install them again. - That how my system died. I finally had to rebuild it one app at the time. Which commands did you use with apt-get? I used apt-get yesterday and the only problem I had was that it would not install the final package (there were 20). I had to download that package with my browser and install it manually. I did not use 'apt-get upgrade-dist' though. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Netscape icons not in color-WHY?
OK so I'm a perfectionist! I have Netscape communicator 4.51 installed on my debian linux box. It runs fine no problems at all. I have noticed the all the icons across the top are no longer in color as with previous versions.Anyone know why or if there is something missing or set up incorrectly. I have checked everything in preferences and see nothing wrong there.begin:vcard n:Foster;John x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.advance-computing.com org:AdVance-Computing Systems;WHQ version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Owner note:We Build Multi-Processor Computers adr;quoted-printable:;;Stonetrail Drive=0D=0ASuite A;Plano;Texas;75023-7223;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;22240 fn:John Foster end:vcard
RE: wordperfect
Hmm, I'm using 24 bbp with the s3 xserver and haven't had any problems with netscape or wp. --Dano -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: wordperfect In a message dated 5/12/99 12:00:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wordperfect runs, but the pictures and banners and icons are all scrambled. When it is starting up the banner that is supposed to have a pen on it and say Wordperfect is just a scrambled mess of vertical lines. Once it starts, all of the icons loook the My guess is you're using a resolution of 24bpp - don't - WP (and Netscape for that matter) won't support it. -Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I'm in tears: SB 64 still not there.
I suggest a few things. First would be to make a 2.2.x kernel. Sound is much easier under that system. I run 2.1 with 2.2.5 kernel with no problems. Biggest pain will be transferring your settings from your old kernel to the new one, but that's not too difficult. Just kick up two xconfigs (one for 2.2.x and other for 2.0.36) and match as much as you can. 2.2.x kernels have a lot more options. Secondly, you're going to need to find out what DMAs your sound card uses. Then, I'd uncomment the appropriate lines in your isapnp.conf and see what happens. The isapnp output for the fatal conflicts has a comment saying it could be a warning. I have a resource conflict when my pnp modem is detected that I still haven't figure out, put it works so it's on a low priority. I'd see what arrises when you uncomment out the right lines for your card in the isapnp.conf. Rob On Wed, 12 May 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: I'm at wits end. For already two weeks I'm trying to get my Soundblaster AWE 64 working under Slink with a 2.0.36 kernel. I've done all the reading, poked at all places possible, but can't nail the problem down. Of course this is due to my inexperience with Linux, but give me a break and help me if you can, okay? (sniff) I'm using a Pentium 200MMX with AMIBIOS v2.4 with the following settings: PnP aware O/S: Yes; DMA channels: PnP, IRQ 5: ISA/PnP (IRQ 5 is the one used by SB AWE 64). I baked a new 2.0.36 kernel for use with the card, as described in the Soundblaster-AWE-HOWTO, but during bootup the message appears that SB AWE 32 has not been detected. I used isapnp to configure the card and there the problem seems to be. After I do a pnpdump isapnp.conf, this file contains a lot of conflicts, all FATAL. I checked for IRQ, DMA and IO conflicts, but there don't seem to be any. Apart from the SB AWE 64, which is the only ISA card in my PC, I have a network card and SCSI card (both PCI). Under Win95 I can't find any conflicts either. Has anybody had this problem before, or can give me hints on what next steps to take now? As a last resort I thought about baking a 2.2.x kernel, which is supposed to have better PnP support. But that would also mess up my Debian 2.1 system and as I have been busy with Linux for only a month or so I don't want to do that. For good order, below find the raw output of the pnpdump.. --Hans fontfamilyparamCourier New/parambigger# $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.16 1998/10/09 22:19:06 fox Exp $ # This is free software, see the sources for details. # This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK # # For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5) # # For latest information on isapnp and pnpdump see: # http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ # # Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DNEEDSETSCHEDULER # # Trying port address 0203 # Board 1 has serial identifier 0c 0b a6 bd 16 c3 00 8c 0e # (DEBUG) (READPORT 0x0203) (ISOLATE PRESERVE) (IDENTIFY *) (VERBOSITY 2) (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING # Card 1: (serial identifier 0c 0b a6 bd 16 c3 00 8c 0e) # Vendor Id CTL00c3, Serial Number 195476758, checksum 0x0C. # Version 1.0, Vendor version 1.0 # ANSI string --Creative SB AWE64 PnP-- # Vendor defined tag: 73 02 45 00 # # Logical device id CTL0045 # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x39 # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3a # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3c # # Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required. # Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed if required # Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy (CONFIGURE CTL00c3/195476758 (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 5. # 16 bit DMA only # Logical device is not a bus master # DMA may not execute in count by byte mode # DMA may execute in count by word mode # DMA channel speed in compatible mode # (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0220 # Maximum IO base address 0x0220 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of
LPRng spooling and small HDDs
---BeginMessage--- Any clues? TIA Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar Communications Group Department of Electronic Engineering University of Sheffield UK ---End Message---
Re: KDE -- please help!
In a message dated 5/12/99 11:19:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'm still getting that mysterious error message in my xsession-errors files: Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt I know this isn't a solution - but I' ve been getting that message for what seems like ever, and it has never seemed to cause me any problems... I would be interested to know what causes it - and frankly, I haven't checked the message archives for it. -Jay
Re: Netscape icons not in color-WHY?
Are you running in 24bpp mode? Netscape and WP don't seem to support 24bpp - try 32 or 16. -Jay
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:07:32PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: ~ In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: ~ ~ : On 10-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote: ~ : I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I ~ : expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect ~ : any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward ~ : as upgrading any other package? ~ ~ : If you upgrade a slink installation to libc6 2.1.1, you will probably have ~ : some problems. I know I did, and I went back to libc6 2.07 ~ ~ : I suppose you could upgrade to potato and avoid the problems. ~ ~ : If you try it on a slink system, do not go back from the potato version of ~ : ld.so to the slink version or you will break the system; I just kept the newer ~ : ld.so when I went back to the older libc6. ~ ~ Do not upgrade only libc6. It will break your system if you do. If ~ you want to upgrade to libc6, upgrade all the way to potato. So, what's the list of what should be upgraded? I would imagine that the first thing to do is to compile and run a 2.2.x kernel, the entire potato base directory... what else? Yes, running 2.2.x kernel is very helpful. I know that things like Eterm, and ssh use the new pts/# terminals rather then ttyp#. The best way to upgrade from slink to potato, is to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file, which contains where you get packages via ftp or http. And change stable (or slink) to potato. Then do a apt-get update, apt-get upgrade-dist. This might be a problem however, since libc6-2.1 conflicts with the timezone package. This is because libc6 now provides timezones. It can be a very complicated mess. I've also seen on this thread someone saying about the need to upgrade the X system... to xfree 3.3.3? If your running the current xfree86 version in slink, the upgrade to 3.3.3.1 will be just fine. Amazingly they did a fairly good job on it. It will run fine, I did rerun XF86Setup. My card is better supported in 3.3.3.1, and I got my some problems fix doing so. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -La Rochefocauld, Maxims 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16
libNoVersion.so.1
Hi, I keep getting the message below now installing packages using delect. Where does this come from, and how do I get rid of it? ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Date: 12-May-99 Time: 11:41:59 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Things are more like they used to be than they are now.
Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?
But if you're not ready for potato then NIS will provide a ready-made solution. It's pretty straightforward. I'd be glad to offer assistance. As for a comparison, well, they're different. NIS has been around a long time, LDAP is newer. Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 07:59:56PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: We've got a number of machines here that we need to switch to centralized account maintenance, and I was trying to figure out what the best solution would be. It looks like the two main solutions would be NIS or ldap (via PAM), but I'm having a hard time finding out enough about the ldap solution to do a good comparison. Is there a good HOWTO or similar somewhere? Is there some other solution I've overlooked. (I thought about just using a cron job and a sync script to keep all the passwd/group files in sync, but that requires you to be able to atomically update the files, and I couldn't see a good way to do that...perhaps some trick with chpasswd/add/deluser... Our good admin is already in the midst of setting up an LDAP based account system. For info on what is being used for this please see www.openldap.com and www.padl.com for the OpenLDAP and nss_ldap/pam_ldap (all three of which are packaged in potato) programs. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape icons not in color-WHY?
On 12-May-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running in 24bpp mode? Netscape and WP don't seem to support 24bpp - try 32 or 16. This happens to me also if I try running X at greater than 16 colors. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
On 12-May-99 Dan Nguyen wrote: Yes, running 2.2.x kernel is very helpful. I know that things like Eterm, and ssh use the new pts/# terminals rather then ttyp#. The best way to upgrade from slink to potato, is to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file, which contains where you get packages via ftp or http. And change stable (or slink) to potato. Then do a apt-get update, apt-get upgrade-dist. This might be a problem however, since libc6-2.1 conflicts with the timezone package. This is because libc6 now provides timezones. It can be a very complicated mess. I am glad you mention this timezones problem, because that is exactly what happened to me and I believe it was the reason I went back to Slink. I was using a 2.0.x kernel and I did not upgrade my entire system, only ld.so, libc6, and gtk I believe. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: sorting this mail
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: hey all I don't suppose the list manager would consider putting somthing like [deb] in the subject line, would he (you)? Sure would help me sort this stuff... You can only sort on the Subject field? What type of program are you using to sort? Others on the list seem to have no trouble sorting the list traffic, and I find the [label] prepended to the subject line to be annoying. -Mitch
Re: sorting this mail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 May 1999 08:30:48 -0400, Mitch Blevins wrote: You can only sort on the Subject field? What type of program are you using to sort? Others on the list seem to have no trouble sorting the list traffic, and I find the [label] prepended to the subject line to be annoying. Most people don't hit upon the idea of sorting on to/cc for the list email address until a few months of emailing. Of course, people who love to BCC the list then get on our nerves[*]. [*] Sender, X-List, etc aren't standard enough catch all of the lists. to/cc are required fields, at least. :) - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNzmydXpf7K2LbpnFEQIoQgCfdJTL1Murn1EG/fMINPuX/8/zo/AAoIVN /pje3SRYXFY2KWc/KQwmpIq/ =OVxB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: printout being chopped off...
Mario Olimpio de Menezes proclaimed: I had similar problems with this printer and the bellow link led me to a very useful page with tons of info about Epson printers: http://www.eunuchs.org/linux Thanks. I took a look at the page. But the things suggested in that page did not fix my problems. I have partially fixed the problem I was having. I edited /etc/enscript.cfg and used the dimensions specified against letterdj for letter. Now enscripts prints fine. Thaths -- Son, this is the only time I'm ever going to say this. It is not OK to loose. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: printout being chopped off...
Wayne Topa proclaimed: I had a similar problem with my Brother Laser Printer. I finally fixed it by using a2ps and changing the papersize in a2ps.cfg ie Medium: Letter 607 780. I just keep changing it until I got everything printing on the paper, correctly. Could you give me more information? How does a2ps work with apsfilter and gs? Thaths -- Son, this is the only time I'm ever going to say this. It is not OK to loose. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: Sparc Ultra5 (170)
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:03:18AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 12 May 1999, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Can anybody clear this up? I have been using Debian on Intel for almost three years and I'd like to put Debian on this box if at all possible. Last I heard, Debian does not support the UltraSPARC processor yet. That is incorrect, slink supports UltraSPARC, and as does potato.
netdate - ntp - chrony ?
Hi, I want a simple task performed. ntp does it, but is not really made for a dial-up system like mine. chrony does it also, but what I wondered is: couldn't It use netdate for this? I have put the following script in my /etc/ip-up.d #!/bin/sh if [ -x /usr/sbin/netdate ] then /usr/sbin/netdate 165.91.52.110 /dev/null 21 fi exit 0 165.91.52.110 is a time server. In /etc/cron.daily I have this script: #! /bin/sh if [ -x /sbin/hwclock ] then hwclock --adjust hwclock --systohc --utc fi exit 0 This last script is there since I do not often reboot, and still want the hardware clock adjusted. These two scripts seems to keep my clock correct without having to install ntp or chrony, or have I as a newbie missed something here? I would really like to know the difference between netdate and ntp/chrony. And if you choose a time server to use with netdate, shouldn't it be just as accurate as if you used ntp? --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Date: 12-May-99 Time: 12:25:58 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Things are more like they used to be than they are now.
I'm trying to install debian distributions in a POWERDELL 6300
SORRY i've got a powerdell 6300, it's a multiprocessors (4 Intel Xeon) and it's got 2 SCSI drivers. I installed DEBIAN in other system but now i've problems and i can't install. The debian install kernel don't see my SCSI drivers and i can't go on with the installation. Can you help me. Thanks for all. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape icons not in color-WHY?
its a Xserver prob it scrambles 24bpp in some calls to the server On 12-May-99 Pollywog wrote: On 12-May-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running in 24bpp mode? Netscape and WP don't seem to support 24bpp - try 32 or 16. This happens to me also if I try running X at greater than 16 colors. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] -- E-Mail: Rune Linding Raun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-May-99 Time: 19:58:43 This message was sent by XFMail --
programming X
Hallo there, I recently purchased the O'Reilly Xlib Programming Manual with the aim of learning how to write X applications. My problem though is I can't get basicwin.c to compile up at all! I even downloaded the O'Reilly version and that didn't work. The O'Reilly version complains that it can't load Xlib.h although my compile line reads gcc -g -lX11 -o basicwin basicwin.c I tried it with a -DSYSV also but to no effect. My version has fits complaining about undeclared variables. I suspect I need to include Xfuncproto.h but I'm not certain. My main question though is, should the example work exactly as written in the book or do I need to generate a GNU/Linux version? If so how? If the book's example should work then what am I doing obviously wrong? I can post the compilation error messages once I've retyped the source, I got annoyed and blew it away. Are there any newgroups I should subscribe to for this sort of information? thanks
Re: wordperfect
Matt Kokidko hat gesagt: // Matt Kokidko wrote: I apologize if this has already been beaten to death, but this is my . first post and first few minutes in this newsgroup. I was trying to . run wordperfeft 8 on slink. I originally had a library problem which . hours of research has fixed. I installed old libraries, libc5, xlib6,. and xpm4.7 Wordperfect runs, but the pictures and banners and icons . are all scrambled. When it is starting up the banner that is supposed. to have a pen on it and say Wordperfect is just a scrambled mess of . vertical lines. Once it starts, all of the icons loook the same way. . And the window in the corner of screen that stays open to open new . documents is scrambled as well. I'm rather new to linux and my friend. is telling me to give up on debian and go to redhat. I'd rather hack . out solutions. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated . wp8 runs fine on my slink system. Maybe you need to install some more libc5-compat packages. Wp8 needs the following: $ ldd /usr/local/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000e000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4005) libXpm.so.4 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x400ee000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400fc000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40105000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x401c3000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x401cc000) These are found in the following packages: xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 libc5: /lib/libm.so.5 libc5: /lib/libc.so.5 xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 Tell us if it helped! Don't switch to Red-Hat! Bye, -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: programming X
On Wed, 12 May 1999, spoiler.freeserve.co.uk wrote: I even downloaded the O'Reilly version and that didn't work. The O'Reilly version complains that it can't load Xlib.h although my compile line reads gcc -g -lX11 -o basicwin basicwin.c I tried it with a -DSYSV also but to no effect. My version has fits complaining about undeclared variables. I suspect I need to include Xfuncproto.h but I'm not certain. I would doublecheck whether you have the X development package xlib6g-dev --prashanth
Re: libNoVersion.so.1
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Hi, I keep getting the message below now installing packages using delect. Where does this come from, and how do I get rid of it? ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping This is a symlink created somehow in recent potato upgrades. You should be able to safely remove /lib/libNoVersion.so.1, which will get rid of the ldconfig warning. I still haven't seen on this list any verification of which package is creating this link. -Mitch
Re: hosed debian system
Hi, I had this also some time ago. I just did (within dselect) an Update of the package lists, chose Install again and everything was fine. I guess dselect somehow lost some info. Thanks, Ardo Ben Cranston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: was trying to install package minicom and am now in a situation where dselect says: Broken Required packages in section base U** Req base libncurses4 4.2-3 4.2-3Shared libr... Broken Optional packages in section x11 U** Opt x11motifnls 2.1-2 2.1-4Files needed to... whatever I do, it says: internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 14. installation script returned error exit status 1. Any suggestions??? -- Charles B. (Ben) Cranston mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zben -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://www.tip.nl/users/ardo.van.rangelrooij PGP fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9
