Re: Tux Laptop Comment and Recommendation.
Great feedback - thanks for the comments!! John - Original Message - From: kmself@ix.netcom.com To: User Debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:44 PM Subject: Re: Tux Laptop Comment and Recommendation.
/usr/bin/man and /etc/man config on debian 2.2 potato stable
Hi all, I just installed potato 2.2 ( stable on my laptop and for some unknown reason /usr/bin/man and /etc/man.config where not installed. Can some one send me a reply witch the 2 files attached please. thx Greetz Kim
Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails
On Thursday 15 March 2001 08:03, Ilya Martynov wrote: Hi, I'm interested if there is exists some software which allows to implement virtual boxes under Linux (something that provide simular capabilities as FreeBSD's jails). The only thing I know about is user-mode linux kernel. Does anybody had experience with it? How stable is it? Is there any limitations? Is there any other alternatives that can run under Linux? Could chroot be the answer you're looking for? -- Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
Can't SSH. need help!
Hi! One of my boxes is running openssh_2.3.0 with only ssh2 enabled.. When i first installed Debian and ssh i could easily connect to that box.. Having reinstalled it yesterday, i can't make ssh connect, i get the following error: Bad packet length 1397966893 What did i do wrong during the install? When i enable protocol 1 on the remote box.. ssh works fine. Please help!
Re: printing pdf containing font not recognised by ps printer
I have a document that contains fonts that are unrecognisable to a postscript printer (hplj2100tn) Just in case anyone else has this problem, pdftops from the xpdf package seems to fix this (as apposed to pdf2ps from gs). Mark
Kernel 2.4.2 and kapm-idled
OK, I know it's just an idle daemon, but what do I need to adjust in my Woody setup so it's not included in the system load? I don't need to disable apm, do I? Probably a FAQ somewhere, right...? sigh -- Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. -- H. L. Mencken
Re: Help with printer
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote: Hey, just parallel port support isn't enough (that could apply to parallel IDE, etc). In the CHARACTER DEVICES section of the kernel config, there is an option PARALLEL PRINTER SUPPORT that you need to say yes to Hope that helps, Cameron Matheson This partaly help. Now printing jobs goes to nowere: debian:~# lpr test debian:~# lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson Stylus Color 440' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: job 'cfA416debian' removed at 22:05:04.955 Filter_status: waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Any recomendation at this point? Thanks.
IDE UDMA/xx Hard drive and Debian
Hi all, I am assembling a new computer at home. It has an Asus P5A motherboard (super socket 7) and a AMD6- 2/500 Mh processor. I want to install the lastest Debian 2.2r2 from CDs. What would be a suitable EIDE hard drive to use? I am worried that the Linux kernel on this release does not support the IDE UDMA/100 mode. I have read the Howto Doc on UDMA but I am afraid that it did not seem clear to me. Does it even matter if the kernel supports the UDMA/100? The ASUS manual says that the board supports IDE UDMA/33 standard. What are the issues here? Thanks for any help you can give me. George
something wrong with security.debian.org?
is something wrong with security.debian.org? I'm trying to apt-get update at the moment and its timing out... consistently for the last hour. is it just busy or does it need a kick or is something going badly wrong?
Re: spontaneous partitions type changes (GRUB)
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:42:42AM -0500, D-Man wrote: ... It recognized the partitions in the same way whether they were hidden or not. They showed up as E: and F:, but other than showing up in My Computer, they did nothing else. I think the properties listed it as 0 bytes or something. It wasn't quite correct, but it made sense because windows doesn't understand ext2. I fear you hit here upon a different problem. As I said I read up on partition types *after* being bugged by serious disk problems. For one, my father and I had spurious ghost drives in Windows98, and Windows insisted upon formatting them. I thought I knew what I was doing (there _was_ an unformatted Windows partition there too) but I didn't and ended up with a corrupted ext2 partition:( I think what bit me then is showing up here again, don't know, just guessing, or hoping, for pray god let win2k/winnt not try to make sense out of linux partitions! What bit me was the lousy support for bigdisks in Windows combined with using Linux fdisk to create the partition table (I had to as Windows fdisk didn't allow me to create more then one primary windows partition and I needed that to be able to install a kids-only Windows) I created an extended partition --an extended partition is an entry in a partition table pointing to another (nested) partition table-- of type 5 not knowing that now and again Windows will treat all info in there as if it sits on a 8Gig tops drive, meaning all cylinders are below the 1024 cylinder limit. That extended partition covered most of the disk well above the 1024 cylinder limit, but Windows prefered to interpreted it as if were all below that limit. So, horror horror, Windows thought that the sector containing the nested partition table was somewhere in the lower end of the disc, unfortunately at a place in use, so it found info there (that is that extended partition table wasn't zero-ed out:) and by shere bad luck found a description of a Windows partition, better call it a ghost partition, which ofcourse didn't excists in reality but was overlayed upon other partitions. Changing the extended partition-type to 85 (extended Linux) solved it as now, not knowing what kind of partition it is, Windows doesn't try to interpreted the location info of this extended partition anymore. Similar problems are reported on MS-sites, then related to partition types E and F. disclaimer: the above is me own thinking, likely to be flawed, but he, it worked for me:) Having read some more I now tent to think that it all bowls down to Linux fdisk not fully adhering to Windows expectations of partition table format, i.e. when a partition exceeds the 1024 cyl limit, both the starting and ending fields for head/cyl/sector in the partition table entry should be maxed out forcing Windows to use the start and length fields instead. -- groetjes, carel
Re: Tux Laptop Comment and Recommendation.
I have the model that was called the Obsidian when TuxTops sold it, and I believe the Emperor is essentially the same unit except it has updated graphics (like the Dell Inspiron 5000e). I got mine with 256 MB of RAM. I've been very happy with it. It's rugged, reliable, comfortable to use, and without any problems so far. The 15.1 screen is a pleasure, especially in 1400 x 1050. I got it with Debian preinstalled. They did a nice job with that, but I always like to do my own. So I kept the original install on there as a reference, but have shrunk down that partition and added my own Debian installation, plus Win98. I don't use a modem that often, but the Lucent winmodem works fine in Linux when I do use it. I'm using the Lucent ltmodem module which you can find some info on here: http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/ I also have the Linksys Etherfast 10/100 + 56k Modem PC Card. Tom hammack wrote: QLITechnology picked up Tux Laptops. Here's what I am thinking about: Emperor (also know as a Dell Insipiron 5000), 15.1, SXGA+ 1400X1050, 128MB, 20GB HD, CD-ROM, 1.44 FD, and Lucent soft modem with Debian factory installed. I know the soft-modem rases a red flag, but QLI says that they will include an open source (new) kernal module that works flawlessly. Supposedly it was written by Lucent Technology. Comment and Recommendations appreciated! thanks John
Re: IDE UDMA/xx Hard drive and Debian
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, George M. Butler wrote: Hi all, release does not support the IDE UDMA/100 mode. I have read the Howto Doc on UDMA but I am afraid that it did not seem clear to me. Does it even matter if the kernel supports the UDMA/100? The ASUS manual says that the board supports IDE UDMA/33 standard. What are the issues here? Thanks for any help you can give me. In your case, it won't matter. Hard drives are forward and backwards compatible, up to a point(had some problems with an old 340 megger on an HPT366, but the hpt366 has its own problems as it is grin) Your drive will quite happily clock down to the ultra/33 that your motherboard supports. _Worst_ case, is you'll need to download the hd manufacturer's utility to set ultra/33 if the onboard controller can't talk to the drive properly. mike
Re: Debian never powers off
I got following message. I assume this was for ML. So I answer here. On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:05:03PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: * Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Add append line with apm=on in lilo.conf and run lilo. My lilo.conf is like: append=hdc=ide-scsi apm=on mem=128M hdc=ide-scsi: scsiemulation for CD-RW apm=on: turn power off(Adujust BIOS too) mem=128M: get all memory working What if I got apm compiled as module? what kind of file should I write and place in /etc/modutils to get it to load apm.o at the startup? Looking into kernel source content, I should finf module name OOps there is none. You know, I do not think there is any module thing for apm. Apm is turned off by default in debian kernel. [] in menuconfig indicates this is Y/N only entry. Module entries are . There is no apm.o in 2.2 kernel. If ever exists apm.o, just put apm in /etc/modules. Osamu -- + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + http://www.aokiconsulting.com/pc/ Cupertino, CA USA +
Re: something wrong with security.debian.org?
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:30:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote:
is something wrong with security.debian.org?
I'm trying to apt-get update at the moment and its timing out...
consistently for the last hour.
is it just busy or does it need a kick or is something going badly wrong?
Ditto on my end...something between {us} and the server...My last
response is here
svgw.liacs.nl (132.229.44.254) 115.923 ms 118.064 ms 118.655 ms
after that drops.
Mark Hurley
Re: something wrong with security.debian.org?
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:30:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: is something wrong with security.debian.org? I'm trying to apt-get update at the moment and its timing out... consistently for the last hour. is it just busy or does it need a kick or is something going badly wrong? Did you use the two tools in every sysadmin's toolkit? Try ping and traceroute. To answer your questions for you, it appears to be down. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpxCcBjQzR3u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: something wrong with security.debian.org?
At 11:07 PM 3/15/2001 -0500, Mark Hurley wrote:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:30:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote:
is something wrong with security.debian.org?
I'm trying to apt-get update at the moment and its timing out...
consistently for the last hour.
is it just busy or does it need a kick or is something going badly wrong?
Ditto on my end...something between {us} and the server...My last
response is here
svgw.liacs.nl (132.229.44.254) 115.923 ms 118.064 ms 118.655 ms
after that drops.
Is it supposed to be sitting in Holland?
I also get
svgw.liacs.nl (132.229.44.254) 340.011 ms 341.555 ms 340.136 ms
as the last point of routeing.
John
Re: Seeking GUI for Postgresql
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I currently use MySQLMan to handle the MySQL databases on my system. I want to find a similarly capable tool to manage PostgreSQL databases. Any Suggestions?? BTW I already have WebMin but that does not allow the indepth table managemment that MySQLMan does. I haven't seen the program you speak of but there is a great web based tool called phpPgAdmin, it is a port of phpMyAdmin to PostgreSQL. http://www.greatbridge.org/project/phppgadmin/projdisplay.php http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/ -- Fraser Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Starnix Inc. Telephone: (905) 771-0017Thornhill, Ontario, Canada http://www.starnix.com/ Professional Linux Services Products
Re: spontaneous partitions type changes (GRUB)
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:31:26AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... below the 1024 cylinder limit. That extended partition covered most of the disk well above the 1024 cylinder limit, but Windows prefered to be more precise: it _started_ below the 1024 limit, but extended to the end of the disk, so well beyond the 1024 limit. -- groetjes, carel
Re: need help with dialup mail config
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:43:15PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: ... I checked some docs, and got lost. A book of mine suggests using diald, but that would mean dial on demand. I understand diald needs its own connection files wich seems a waste after finally setting up a working set of pon / poff :) you can use the info in the files used by pon/poff to set up diald, you even can use the /etc/chatscript/provider file. (sorry, not using it anymore, so I forgot howto precisely, if you really can't get it working try again, you might be lucky and find me having the old config files backup somewere) BTW the incoming mail should be processed by a Delivered-To field. Can fethcmail handle that, or do I need procmail? At the proper place in your fetchmailrc file put: envelope Delivered-to: -- groetjes, carel
Re: need help with dialup mail config
Carel Fellinger writes: you can use the info in the files used by pon/poff to set up diald, you even can use the /etc/chatscript/provider file. You can also run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', and select 'Demand'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
xf86 4.0.2
I just started using debian (I've been using Redhat for years), and I'm having trouble with my X-Window system. I installed the 4.0.2 packages from woody, but noticed that xserver-svga is still 3.3.6 and xserver-common is installed as both 4.0.2 and 3.3.6. When I run startx with the 3.3.6 XF86Config in place, the server works fine, but when I try it with the 4.0.2 config file in place I get error messages about the file's format. How can I get it to run X v4.0.2? thanks, Jason
Re: /usr/bin/man and /etc/man config on debian 2.2 potato stable
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:23:33AM +0100, Kim De Smaele wrote: Hi all, I just installed potato 2.2 ( stable on my laptop and for some unknown reason /usr/bin/man and /etc/man.config where not installed. Can some one send me a reply witch the 2 files attached please. apt-get install man-db if its already installed try apt-get --reinstall install man-db as something odd must have happened during the original install. (/usr/bin/man is taken care of by the postinst script as its a security wrapper) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpvc5dggGhui.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: grip cddb config
Lewis, James M. wrote: Thanks, but that doesn't seem to work for me.!? I'm at a loss as to why. more info: cddbcmd -h freedb.freedb.org:8880 -l 3 -d sites # works cddbcmd -h freedb.freedb.org:888 -l 3 -d sites # works cddbcmd -h freedb.freedb.org:8880 -l 4 -d sites # works cddbcmd -h freedb.freedb.org:888 -l 4 -d sites # works cddbcmd -h freedb.freedb.org:8880 -d sites # works cddbcmd -h freedb.freedb.org:888 -d sites # works If I use ca.freedb.org and -l 4, I get a protocol level error. I have tried freedb.freedb.org, freedb.freedb.org:8880, and freedb.freedb.org:888 and none of them seem to work in grip..?? Any ideas what I can try next? What, if any, errors do you encounter? Doesn't work is kinda broad, after all. :) FWIW I'm using 2.95-4 from sid and cddb was working just fine last time I used grip. systems are potato and woody/unstable, grip version 2.95-helix1 (potato) and 2.91-1 (woody/unstable). Uhh ... woody and unstable are no longer the same thing. woody is now testing, and sid is unstable. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgpZWHsCttmVw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Reboot only w/ mouse - SOLVED
on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:24:02PM -0500, Barry Mathieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: One of the responses concerning using a plam pilot to interface with my machine will need further investigation. Essentially, you need a laplink (null) serial cable, appropriate software for the palm (there's a VT100 emulation available from one of the Palm download sites), and to be running a getty on your serial port. With this, you can cable in the Palm as needed. If you want to use this method, you pretty much have to dedicate the port to the getty. I don't think you can do other stuff (serial devices, Palm synch) over it. That's the downside. Network is a preferred solution. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgp1LBPcO2I9b.pgp Description: PGP signature
Is there any movie player that could do mpeg-4 in debian?
I'm just curious if there's any software out there for linux that could read mpeg-4. If there's any, could you guys name them? Calyth
