Re: Installing lilo on second hard disk
This won't be a good answer, but I had a friends machine with an IDE drive on /dev/hda, and a SCSI drive on /dev/sda, and wanted to boot off the SCSI. I also got that LILO warning, and got around it by unplugging the IDE drive, booting, running lilo, then plugging it back in again and booting again. Everything worked fine. I'm positive theres a better answer, but if you can utilise this temporary measure it might work. Corey Popelier. On Mon, 21 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically I am trying to copy everything over to my second hard disk and then set up to make this the boot device. I know how to change the boot device in my bios. The problem seems to be getting lilo on the second hardisk. What I tried was this: Edited the /hd2/etc/lilo.conf and changed the following: boot=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 root=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part5 install=/hd2/boot/boot.b map=/hd2/boot/map Nb. bus1 is the second harddisk Then I tried running /sbin/lilo -C /hd2/etc/lilo.conf but it gives the following errors: Warning: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 is not on the first disk Added Linux * Skipping /vmlinuz.old Fatal: creat /boot/boot.1601: Read-only file system Note that I have my current /boot (first HD) mounted ro in case I stuff something. If I try booting from the second hard disk, it does nothing. It doesn't even come up with the mbr or lilo on the screen. So then I tried this: /sbin/lilo -C /hd2/etc/lilo.conf -i /hd2/boot/boot.b -s /hd2/boot/boot.1601 it gives the following output: Ignoring entry 'install' Warning: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 is not on the first disk Added Linux * Skipping /vmlinuz.old But still it won't boot from the second HD - no mbr or lilo messages when trying to boot. How do you install lilo on the second hard disk? Thanks for any suggestions Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update on 'unstable' left Gnome unusable
I think the issue might be this: tail ~/.xsession-errors OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 90600f, you have 90601f I recall someone else mentioning this somewhere? Cheers, Corey Popelier On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jeff Davis wrote: I have a thread I started up a little ways, so watch that series as well. It is called startx not working, but X does. try the following: 1) get a command line with no graphical login. kill any X process or xdm or gdm 2) do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ X ( it will start an X server. Hit ctl-alt-F1 to get back to the prompt ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ DISPLAY=:0 gnome-session I hope this helps you. I guess someone broke a package. Please tell me if you find a way to get it working. I am just gonna wait out for a new update from this point. Looks like they call it unstable for a reason. That's O.K., I would still rather use unstable for my desktop. Beats old software! Regards, Jeff Davis On Saturday 14 April 2001 19:23, Larry Elmore wrote: I'm running Unstable with kernel 2.4.2 and performed an update using apt-get yesterday. At first X was dead, but I was able to get it running (it never asked me whether or not to overwrite /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but certainly did so). Now, however, I can't get past the gdm login screen except by selecting Xsession instead of Debian or Gnome. It simply resets back to the login screen. I've tried everything I can think of, to no avail. Any suggestions? Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: startx not working, but X does
If you just did an upgrade today, then you aren't the only person with the problem. However, I suspect its' actually a KDE related problem that's breaking X. I've now reverted to a X/WindowMaker setup until I see some more KDE updates arrive, and X is running fine. As for the cause of the problem, well I'm not quite sure. Cheers, Corey Popelier On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jeff Davis wrote: I am running the unstable branch of debian and everything was great until I did an upgrade and then startx broke. I tried downgrading a bunch of packages that I thought were related (including xbase-clients, which created startx). To start X, I can do: $ X $ DISPLAY=:0 kde2 If I do that, than X starts and dies 3 times, then starts again and brings up the kde splash screen (but doesn't set the background around the splash screen to grey, which it did before). Once I am actually in, I can't tell the difference. The logfile didn't hint at an error, but ends with a message about the mouse ((II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Generic Mouse (type: MOUSE)). I appreciate any help. Jeff Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'w' info suddenly in 24hr time.
A day or two ago (I update/upgrade from sid daily) my 'w' output started giving me things in 24hr time. This is *really* annoying me. Where can I change it back to 12hr time? Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
X4.0.2 and fonts.
I have 2 boxes here, mine and a new one im configuring for a friend. Both running sid. I've set up X almost identically bar the video cards being different, and I just can't seem to get any font choices. I've apt-get reinstalled the fonts packages just in case, but still no go. What the hell have I missed? Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
X4 and fonts.
A slightly more detailed question, since I wrote the last one at 5am this morning after my mobile rang for some data call from the other side of the country woke me up (and I missed the call anyway)... :) I have a debian box with an Tseng Labs ET6100 card, running X4.0.2 using the VESA driver (the Tseng driver does horrid stuff). I have installed all the fonts packages and mimicked the fontpath lines that I have on my other box. I've also installed xfs, but at this stage I don't have a unix:7100 line in my fontpath. X loads fine, font paths seem to be Ok, but (I'm running KDE) the list of available fonts I have is like ... 3. My other box has hundreds, and appears to be setup exactly the same bar a different video card. Would it be wise to try the unix:7100 line as my fontpath to try and get xfs to show me more fonts instead? Or what could I have forgotten that means X will only give me 3 font choices? Will xfstt help? My font paths are: Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont EndSection Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
Re: hi all
I think I remember reading somewhere that because users have 16bit uid's by default, the maximum is 64k or so (65,536). But you can have 32bit uid's if you're brave I also believe. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Sathish C wrote: Hi All can anybody tell me tha maximum number of users that can be created on debian linux if there i sany such limit. Please don't say that as many users as in any other linux, because I don't know how many can be users created on other variants of linux also. Please tell me how I can find such details. I searched in the man pages( useradd) but I could not. Thanks in advance. Bye Kilaru
Re: Realplayer
I found the best idea for RealPlayer was to download the version 7 binary (www.real.com) and just execute that - worked like a charm. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: I did an apt-get install realplayer and was instructed to download rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm. I download said file and finished the install. I then ran /usr/X11R6/bin/realplayer and was presented with a registration screen. I entered my data and was promply informed that this UNIX version was expired and a segfault occured. I tried again and I get nothing but a message that this UNIX version was expired. Now what??? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packaging Policy.
As others pointed out this is quit acceptable. But there is a but:) Official packages are tested/screned, and at least uptill now I trust them. Now comes some one I don't no, telling me he has fixed some probs. Nice nice, but would I want to handover my system to this guy? No, I wouldn't. Installing a deb has to be done as root, and noway am I going to run a prog as root of someone I don't know. No doubt you're trustworthy, but I don't know for sure. But if you would provide the diffs, I could check for myself that you did you job and nothing more and would be able to compile it for myself. So please put the diffs up somewhere too so that apt-get source package would work. As posted just recently there has been an adoption of fetchmail with the blessing of the current fetchmail maintainer, so I won't be putting anything up anywhere :) I will probably assist the new maintainer tho if necessary, as I have already played with both 5.6.0 and 5.6.2, which are the two latest versions of fetchmail. At any rate, its been interesting gauging the responses of the debian community - I could take the line that says well ive got what I want and ignore the broader community, but these responses have been positive enough to lean my thinking the other way. Corey Popelier.
Packaging Policy.
On a side note as I send my lilo.conf thoughts, I had a rather nasty problem recently where fetchmail suddenly started cutting off all my inbound email partway through the messages. My mind boggled. It turned out that a compile and install of Fetchmail 5.6.0 (unstable currently has 5.5.3) solved the issue nicely. (There is a 5.6.2 now, but the gzip was corrupt last I checked). My issue is this, 5.5.3 is actually about 5 or 6 versions behind the times. It was from about Sept last year if I recall. Now I don't know what the status of the maintainer of this package is, but what are the Debian policy/ethical issues involved if I suddenly piped up and said I had [unofficial?] packages available for this? Would anyone hunt me down with a sizable knife if I ever [unofficially] packaged something that appeared to be a tad outdated? :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
Re: lilo.conf
Also have you considered using the new testing release? Testing has packages that have been unchanged in unstable for 2 weeks. Count on the fact that the lilo package will be changed more often than that until most people agree that it's good enough. This means that it won't be in testing until these issues are all resolved. This in my opinion highlights the necessity and brains behind the new system. Myself, like most people, have gotten lulled over the years that unstable really means stable but with new versions of software instead of archaic ones. I must admit I was taken slightly aback by the lack of warning given when conducting the lilo update. I've seen some much more blatant warnings in my time, and I thought something of this nature required a bit more notice than it gave, but, thats just my opinion. In the end I overwrote the new lilo.conf with my old one, which was the lilo.conf.old, but hey, that decision is mine to make. I guess I find things like the PHP4 packages in unstable having multiple syntax errors in postinst scripts over about 5 separate versions in a fortnight more troubling than [what i thought was] a lack of information during install about lilo. Admittedly I don't subscribe to debian-devel, but I don't feel that should be a requirement of running unstable. At the end of the day, good luck in your quests to improve lilo. And when put into perspective, lilo.conf is probably something that, if you are genuinely concerned about, should be backed up appropriately, thus eliminating the need for this argument in the first place. Cheers, Corey Popelier
Re: 2.4.0 and 3com 905c
http://linuxtoday.com In the notes for 2.4.0ac3 as just released by Alan Cox is reference to: o Add support for the newer 3c905 cards (Andrew Morton) Perhaps trying this patch might be worth your while. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... i've been using stock kernel 2.2.17 that came with potato. it recognized my 3com nic (as 3com 3c905c) and works wonderfully. i would like to ungrade to kernel 2.4.0 (now that it's stable). after rebooting a custom 2.4.0, i can't seem to get the nic recognized by the kernel. in the recompile, i specified 3com (and the 900 series). does anyone know how i can get the 3com nic (that 2.2.17 sees as 3c905c) to be recognized by 2.4.0? 2.4.0 has known problems with 3com PCI ethernet cards. I think there are patches available, but I don't know where. The 3c59x driver in 2.4.0-test11 works great through - maybe you could drop that in and see what you get. Beyond that your options are: * stick with 2.2.x * wait for 2.4.1 - -- - -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6V5NZ/ZTSZFDeHPwRAhsSAKChbAfgMoUPmYZ8SswNIeCPueAF3wCghE8f 4odr41bokeK3mAuktf40S7M= =3vTS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packaging Policy.
You are right about this. My point was that taking over a package and calling it official without the maintainer's knowledge is not very nice. Since Corey is probably not about to do this, it was probably not the best language to use. Correct, I'm sure as hell not about to do that :) But I was thinking along the lines of saying look, here's an unofficial .deb of fetchmail since it appears to be a tad outdated, and I've had considerable problems with the existing one which appear to be resolved in a later version. Note that, at this stage, I haven't tried contacting the current maintainer, nor have I done anything in regards to debbing unofficially any package. I am a programmer by profession though (admittedly on the other OS since that equals $$ and that pays my rent, but with experience in c/c++) so its not just an idle thought. What I was looking at was if I did follow through with my idea, if it was gonna create ill-will anywhere I'd let the thought slide. Corey Popelier.
Fetchmail
All of a sudden my mail is truncated mid sentence, meaning I only get the first 2.5k or so of each email, then nothing. Is this a known bug at all? I'm using fetchmail/sendmail combo (pop3). Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
Re: Window Maker
Hell I'm running the latest CVS of Window Maker (The one sent to Icewalk - www.icewalk.com) and apart from WPrefs segfaulting at the menu section, it's rock solid. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ken Weingold wrote: I noticed that the latest is 0.62.1, but the latest stable package is 0.61.1. Anyone have any problems in the 'unstable' 0.62.1 package? -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get libgnomeprint
I had this exact problem about 2 days ago when I installed task-helix-gnome. I cannot remember the exact order I did things in (the task metapackge is REALLY forked at the moment, does everything around the wrong way causing more breaks than I could count at the time) but I think the command dpkg --force-overwrite -i deb name gets around the libgnomeprint issues. Then use dpkg --configure -a to try and get the rest sorted. It will be fussy about which order you install the packages though, but it can work, you just might have to pay close attention to the errors (sometimes one package will say cant do this cause xxx, you just then install xxx and try again). Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Some Linux User wrote: i wrote previously about this. whenever i run apt-get i get stuck on this: Unpacking libgnomeprint-bin (from .../libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-0.1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/gnome-font-install', which is also in package libgnomeprint6 Unpacking libgnomeprint-data (from .../libgnomeprint-data_0.25-0.1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeprint-data_0.25-0.1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe/pagd8a.afm', which is also in package libgnomeprint6 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-0.1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeprint-data_0.25-0.1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) i have tried the dpkg --configure --pending followed by apt-get -f upgrade multiple times. i have tried to delete the packages. all with no luck. does anyone else have suggestion on how to either fix this problem, or to make apt-get ignore those packages since it is not letting me continue with either apt-get upgrade or apt-get install. thank you. -holland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 + NV_GLX
I don't mind most of the logic of this, but I must say the following: (1) I dont use NVdriver in X, I use nvidia instead of nv. (2) Removing the libGLcore.a causes the GLcore module to not load, and the only way to fix this is to reinstall xserver-xfree86. This does cause some undefined symbols in my X load, but not ones which stop the server from loading and functioning [seemingly] ok. (3) Removing all trace of MESA is causing fun, because packages depend on mesag3, and it seems that any update of these overwrites the NV-installed GLX. Am I off the beaten track? Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: Okay, if you've read any of my older postings, you'll realise that installing the GLX drivers is a snap (if you know what your doing). First, go to NVidia's web and download the GLX and NVidia Drivers. From the main screen, click on products, then drivers, then linux. That should get you to them. After you've downloaded them, put them both into your /usr/src directory. Then tar -xzvf NV(driver name) and then tar -xzvf NV(GLX). Go into the newly made NV(driver name) directory and type make. cd .. and then go into the GLX directory. Type make again. Okay, here's where things got a little bit tricky for me. First, type dexter and setup your config (if the nvidia driver isn't listed, just use the nv driver for now.) MAKE SURE YOU LOOK AT WHAT DEXTER WRITES THE CONFIG SCRIPT TO!!! I spent who knows how long debugging my box's X config file (/etc/X11/XF86Config) only to find out later that dexter had changed it to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I set it everything right. I was just using the wrong config file. Next, check out your /etc/modules.conf file. Make sure it says something in there about alias char-major-195 NVdriver or something like that. If it isn't there then go into the directory /lib/modules/your-kernel-version/video (or do a locate NVdriver to tell you where it is other than in the /usr/src/NVdriver directory.) After you get there mv NVdriver NVdriver.o. Then do a modconf. Go into video and select the NVdriver module. It should install just fine. After doing that (*gasp* *gasp* *breathe* . . . quick rest ... ok, I'm back) then edit whichever config file dexter wrote to. If you use vi, open in up and type /. Then type nv and press return. It should find you where in the script it sets which driver to use. (The nv should be in parentheses.) Replace nv with nvdriver. Now, if your not already in X, do a startx. If you are in X, reset it (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.) Hopefully it should run just fine. If it doesn't ... just tell me, I should be able to help. Play Quake. Have fun? Does it run slow? If it does, you still have some mesa drivers lying around. Do the following commands : rm /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a rm /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a rm /usr/lib/libGL.so rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so* rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLcore.so* Then, go back into /usr/src/NV(GLX) and type make. Reset X and it should work fine. Enjoy Quake :), Brandt Dusthimer - Original Message - From: Daniel Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 6:51 AM Subject: XFree86 + NV_GLX Hello, I've a TNT2-Ultra graphicscard and it works fine with the standard nv driver of the xfree 4 package, but is there a package where the accelerated driver is included (that means, mesalibs, xfree-driver, kernel-module)? thanks for any advice, Daniel Wagner -- @gpg: http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9925791/daniel_wagner.asc C63A 06F0 3E2A A039 E830 83A0 C1DA 3479 803F 078F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xfree86
And yes its been reported, and Branden has even upgraded it to grave status and no doubt it will be fixed within the next 24 hours. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Remco van de Meent wrote: Dominique Rousset wrote: last upgrade in woody seemed to break the postinst script and consequently the x server Is it a bug in the last update (4.0.1-6) ? Is is a bug in my configuration ? It's a bug in the 4.0.1-6 postinst script. Cheers, Remco. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Woody Libc5/6
Current list for me is: wmmon licq licq-plugin-qt2 xchat-gnome bluefish xvncviewer I'm endeavouring to file bug reports against all these ASAP. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Joey Hess wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Corey Popelier wrote: What's with the tendency all of a sudden for Woody packages to be dependent on Libc5? Only reason I noticed this was I've always avoided installing Libc5, but in the past few days more and more packages have become dependent on it, limiting my options somewhat :) The dpkg is woody has a known bug that makes it declare packages incorreclty dependant on libc5. People have been told about this but it seems we don't have a fix yet, and developers are continuing to build messed up packages. Oh yeah, please file bugs on all such packages you see. -- see shy jo
Woody Libc5/6
What's with the tendency all of a sudden for Woody packages to be dependent on Libc5? Only reason I noticed this was I've always avoided installing Libc5, but in the past few days more and more packages have become dependent on it, limiting my options somewhat :) Anyone know the reason for this? It's more curiosity than anything else I admit. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
Re: bookmarker/PHP/MySQL problem
Yes you need a line under Dynamic Extensions that says: extension=mysql.so Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, John Griffiths wrote: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_pconnect() in /var/www/bookmarker/lib/phplib/db_mysql.inc on line 73 I was going to ask about this very same error message myself, encountered using different code... php3, apache, mysql, php3-mysql all apt-get'ed and recently upgraded (ie i did a full apt-get upgrade last night) do we need to add a line in php.ini? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Okay, I give up. What do I put in apt-get's sources.list?
Erm there *may* be an issue there with the ~ character. I don't know if its still the case, but you don't use ~, you use %7E to generate the ~. So the apt line would be: deb http://www.sandalwood.net/%7Eterubou linux/deb/ Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Colin Watson wrote: Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want apt to be able to get to the goodies at: http://www.sandalwood.net/~terubou/linux/deb/ What do I put in sources.list? deb http://www.sandalwood.net/~terubou linux/deb/ ... seems to work. (The trailing slash is required if you want to specify an exact path rather than let apt construct the usual Debian archive organization. You also need to pick a point at which to divide the complete URL into URI and distribution - I've more or less arbitrarily chosen the point between ~terubou and linux to do this.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Compile error.
No, this driver will work with a 2.2.x kernel (I'm running it with 2.2.18pre21). As for the error, is this definately the 0.9.5 drivers from nvidia? And which TNT card have you got? Mine says rev 4 in /proc/pci. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doesnt this driver require kernel 2.4.x ? nate On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Adam Wilson wrote: adamw I am trying to compile the drivers from nVidia's site for the TNT. adamw I am running Debian Woody with kernel 2.2.17 and this is the error I adamw recieve when I compile the driver. Any hint to what may be the problem? adamw adamw rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux NVdriver adamw cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE adamw -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DUNIX -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -D_X86_=1 adamw -Di386=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES-I. adamw -I/usr/src/linux/include nv.c adamw cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE adamw -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DUNIX -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -D_X86_=1 adamw -Di386=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES-I. adamw -I/usr/src/linux/include os-interface.c adamw cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE adamw -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DUNIX -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -D_X86_=1 adamw -Di386=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES-I. adamw -I/usr/src/linux/include os-registry.c adamw ld -r -o Module-linux nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o adamw ld -r -o NVdriver Module-linux Module-nvkernel adamw size NVdriver adamw text data bss dec hex filename adamw 387607 26944 40 414591 6537f NVdriver adamw /lib/modules/2.2.17/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol tqueue_lock adamw /lib/modules/2.2.17/video/NVdriver: insmod adamw /lib/modules/2.2.17/video/NVdriver failed adamw /lib/modules/2.2.17/video/NVdriver: insmod NVdriver failed adamw adamw adamw -- adamw Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null adamw ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8:34pm up 62 days, 5:52, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: X color depth question
From what I recall, in X3.3.6 TNT cards could not run above 16bpp mode. Mine (TNT1) ran fine at 16bpp mode however, so that was good enough for me. Now with X4.0.1, i have running in 1200x960 in 24bpp (Xfree86 server) so I can't complain at all. Oh, and I'm running the nVidia kernel and GLX supplements too (avialable at www.nvidia.com) which are much better supported for X4.0.1 than X3.3.6. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Ray Percival wrote: When I start X I get console messages that it is going into 8bpp color depth but once it is up it does not look like 256. I have tried commenting out everything but the 24 bit lines but then I get errors. I think the problem is the x server. I am using the SVGA server with a Viper 770 (TNT2) is there a better server out there for it? Also has anyone had luck with the X 4.0.1 packages from Woody with a 2.2 system? Thanks for any feedback and help. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
X4.0.1 and ET6K
Anyone had any luck with X4.0.1 and an ET6000/6100 4MB card? I can get X to actually load, along with WindowMaker, but the fonts are still rather screwed. Got everything I need in there I'm sure, plus xfs running, but the fonts are cactus. Not to mention everytime I make a minor change, if for some reason it's not valid, it freezes the box entirely. Kinda hard to remotely work on someone's PC when thats happening :( I'm curious to see who's running one successfully if anyone, and what Config file they use. I've tried Dexter, I've hand edited and compared with my home box (different card I admit, but same syntax, font settings, etc), I just can't get all dice to roll properly, and like I say the freeze-on-very-minor-config-stuffup is not giving me much space to work in. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
Re: xlibs 4.0.1-4 version wont install
I've found that for most of the 4.0.1 upgrades, I've had to remove groff + man-db and install them again afterwards because of xlibs. Perhaps a force of some kind would work, I'm not overly concerned by bandwidth hence I do it this way. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Victor Torrico wrote: Hi all, Upgraded to the 4.0.1-4 upgrade of X today. xlibs will not install. X Still works OK with 4.0.1-3 version of xlibs and the 4.0.1-4 versions of the other X packages. Here is error message: # apt-get install xlibs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1101kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. (Reading database ... 67002 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-3 (using .../xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package groff dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Please help. Thanks - Victor -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: X 4.0.1 fixed font problem
I've found with my friends fresh X4 that still isnt working yet that startx will only run as root, and report this fixed font error as a user. I then assume that xhost +username will probably solve this, but until I can figure out a way to make fonts readable I'm just logging in as root. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Gregory T. Norris wrote: Do you have xutils installed? If not, you may need to install it and run mkfontdir manually in each font directory (or dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-100dpi ...). I just did a new woody install and tried installing X 4.0.1 on it. When I run startx, X starts up but then crashes with the message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I've installed xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts-pex, and xfonts-scalable. Any clues what I'm missing? Thanks, Gerry -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?
Well nVidia's drivers and kernel module work great for me. I endorse whatever works for me, regardless of the company :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Kristian Rink wrote: Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 03.11.00: I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the assorted cards and linux. I've narrowed it down to three but the real requirement is will they work with Debian 2.2 as is and not with either special drivers or wait until XF 4.0x. Voodoo 3 3000 AGP Works fine with 2.2, as for what I found until now, since the most packages needed (glide) already are included in standard stock of potato, and they work fine with XF3.3.6 Matrox Millenium 5400 32MB =G400? If yes, this one should do fine, as well, but You'll have to install utah-glx drivers (utah-glx.sourceforge.net) to get hardware-based glx support, but this is easy since the drivers are to be found as .deb files on the utah-glx site... The Voodoo and ATI cards were listed as generic in XF86Setup. Will that cause recognition problems? No problems, for what I know, for both cards. Any other experiences, anybody? :))) Any other sugestions appreciated. I left off the NVIDIA 5or close to it) crds because the GeForce2 seem to prefer XF 4.0x. Basically, nvidia`s chipsets (at least for TNT2 I tried) also are supported by XF 3.3.6 and utah-glx... Besides this, after trying out for several times, I don't at all recommend running nvidia-based cards in XF 4.x for the following reasons: (a) NVIDIAs drivers for those cards (even while being fast) are obviously still *very* unreliable, which (at least with my TNT2 board) caused several severe crashes of the x-server (especially while running gears or other of those problems with -root option set, and while trying to switch to the text console and back to X again). (b) besides that, those drivers are binary-only and they seem to have some problems with certain 2.4.0-testx kernels (don`t know if they fixed by now). Installation seems to be difficult sometimes due to unresolved conflicts with installed MESA-version while using those drivers on systems which are not RedHat-based (because nvidia only are offering .rpm - packages and `generic` archives as .tar.gz ...). (c) nvidia still is not very cooperative in providing the developers of `open` driver systems with information, that's why utah-glx is still very much slower than their native drivers because it`s not possible for those to use DMA on that card. This is why I am tending to ask people to please DO NOT SUPPORT companies like nvidia and their attempt of bringing proprietary drivers to Linux... Thank You! Regards, Kristian ___ 1.000.000 DM gewinnen - kostenlos tippen - http://millionenklick.web.de [EMAIL PROTECTED], 8MB Speicher, Verschluesselung - http://freemail.web.de -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Now that X4.0.1 Is Woody-Fied.
Most of you might have gotten bored to tears by my running efforts to get the X4.0.1 in woody functional, and probably know by now I have, so I thought I'd quickly and briefly say how: After the updates and mountains of installs/removes: Run XFree86 -configure This creates a /root/XF86Config.new file. Hack this file using the information I've given previously - notably the Mouse and Monitor issues, and the display modes. Move the new file to /etc/X11 (for Christ's sake preserve the old one :)) Then everything should be fine. It's apparent to me that GDM is *not* at fault - after all if startx won't work, GDM sure as hell won't either. I'm also most appreciative of the work Branden and Co. have done - for the problem to be only a matter of an individuals setup within a fairly easy to read XF86Config file is quite an effort in my opinion. I'm hoping xf86setup isn't completely dead tho! :) (It gets removed when xserver-xfree86 gets installed btw, hence why we've all had fun in consoles getting it working again). So I hope I've helped someone, and good job Branden and Co. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
Re: I messed up Xfree86
Claudette if I get either the beers or the strippers, you will have made a friend for life. In fact just the suggestion of them makes you a friend automatically :) I must thank whoever mentioned the XFree86 -configure command, that starting point was the catalyst to getting X working - the rest was just comparing 3.3.6 and the XFree86-generated 4.0.1 XF86Config files and hacking til it worked, then copying to /etc/X11 and hoping :) I'm still looking at the fonts bit - my fonts have certainly changed between 3 and 4, but they aren't bad so it's not urgent. Certainly I'm sure I don't have anywhere near as many as before. I've noticed there were a lot more font paths in my 3 config file than I have in my 4 file, I might play with them tomorrow (it's 2:45AM now and I've just got back from the pub). Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Claudette Woodgate wrote: Corey, Where shall I send the case of beers and the strippers? I finally have my Xfree86 4.0.1 up and running, at 1280x1024x16bpp. Thank You ! Now, I understand that Xfree86 4.0.1 has built-in True Type support. So that means I can do away with the xfstt? What lines do I need to add to my XF86Config? What I did to get my X server running at 1280x1024 : Copied and pasted the ModeLines and refresh rates from the Display section of my old XF86Config and pasted them in the new one. I added the default depth line (16 bpp) from my old config file to my new one, and in the 16bpp section, I added the default resolution of 1280x1024. I wish I had the exact details, but I ain't in front of my box right now. Thanks again ! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I messed up Xfree86
Ok, next step I can suggest is this: In the XF86Config.new file thats been created, under the InputDevice section change the Option protocol auto line to Option protocol IMPS/2. This has got my PS/2 mouse working. More news as the hacking of config files happens :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Joel Dinel wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:39:46PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: A simple apt-get upgrade today left me with Xfree86 4.0.1 and this little problem : OK, I found out that you don't use XF86Setup anymore. XFree86 -configure seems to detect my stuff OK. When I run XFree86 -xf86config /root/whatever.file I get a nice empty gray screen, and the mouse won't mouse. That's as far as it goes. xf86cfg brings up a gray screen with still no mouse movement. I disabled GPM, and I have an Logitech PS/2 mouse. Help ?! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I messed up Xfree86
Oh, and after doing that, copying the XF86Config.new file to /etc/X11 directory meant I could now run startx again, and resume to having X running with WindowMaker. Allbeit in a god awful resolution, so thats the next step. BTW, I *think* the ZAxisMapping for intelli-mice is now: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 I stuck that in as a guess and i could scroll an eterm with it. Cause it could just be working by default now too so who knows. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: Ok, next step I can suggest is this: In the XF86Config.new file thats been created, under the InputDevice section change the Option protocol auto line to Option protocol IMPS/2. This has got my PS/2 mouse working. More news as the hacking of config files happens :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Joel Dinel wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:39:46PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: A simple apt-get upgrade today left me with Xfree86 4.0.1 and this little problem : OK, I found out that you don't use XF86Setup anymore. XFree86 -configure seems to detect my stuff OK. When I run XFree86 -xf86config /root/whatever.file I get a nice empty gray screen, and the mouse won't mouse. That's as far as it goes. xf86cfg brings up a gray screen with still no mouse movement. I disabled GPM, and I have an Logitech PS/2 mouse. Help ?! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I messed up Xfree86
My next trick for those who are interested was to copy the DefaultColorDepth line from the Screen section of the X3.3.6 config file to the X4.0.1 config file. This now gives me the appropriate colour depths, but its still in 640x480 at this stage. For those who don't really want a running commentary of this, my apologies, but I hope this is useful to someone wanting to get X4 running and having the same issues I am. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: Oh, and after doing that, copying the XF86Config.new file to /etc/X11 directory meant I could now run startx again, and resume to having X running with WindowMaker. Allbeit in a god awful resolution, so thats the next step. BTW, I *think* the ZAxisMapping for intelli-mice is now: OptionZAxisMapping 4 5 I stuck that in as a guess and i could scroll an eterm with it. Cause it could just be working by default now too so who knows. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: Ok, next step I can suggest is this: In the XF86Config.new file thats been created, under the InputDevice section change the Option protocol auto line to Option protocol IMPS/2. This has got my PS/2 mouse working. More news as the hacking of config files happens :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Joel Dinel wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:39:46PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: A simple apt-get upgrade today left me with Xfree86 4.0.1 and this little problem : OK, I found out that you don't use XF86Setup anymore. XFree86 -configure seems to detect my stuff OK. When I run XFree86 -xf86config /root/whatever.file I get a nice empty gray screen, and the mouse won't mouse. That's as far as it goes. xf86cfg brings up a gray screen with still no mouse movement. I disabled GPM, and I have an Logitech PS/2 mouse. Help ?! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I messed up Xfree86 (fwd)
Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:08:46 +0800 (WST) From: Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I messed up Xfree86 Well good news is theres only one more from me. The final clue was the missing lines in the Section Monitor: HorizSync 31.5-68.7 VertRefresh 60-85 And then adding Modes 1152x864 to all the SubSection Display areas. I now have a functional X4, with GDM working fine. I don't think it's quite perfect yet, but having it running in a nice res certainly makes the other problems easier to deal with :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Casey Henderson wrote: Hello, I don't know about everyone else, but I for one appreciate your running commentary. I did a routine apt-get dist-upgrade and to my surprise it upgraded to X 4.0.1 (call me dumb, but I wasn't aware that version 4 had been uploaded to the archives). Anyway GDM won't start anymore. My initial thought was to wipe out version 4 and reinstall version 3.3.6 (which I was running fine up until tonight) but I thought I'd wait a few days and see if I can't get version 4 working. I was using the S3V server with the latest version of GDM and Helix Gnome 1.2. Anyway keep the updates coming!! Thanks. Casey -- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~hender97/ If the Lord wanted us to all be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.
Re: your mail
I know this is rather late, but I can't resist mentioning that Perth doesn't go ahead at all. We haven't had daylight savings for years :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:02:48PM +1000, W. J. Simson wrote Could you please tell me when daylight saving was reintroduced in Australia Regards Jeanette Simson The eastern states went 1 hour ahead at 2am today (Sunday Aug 27), presumably to maximise solar energy collections and sunblock sales during the Olympic Games. More sensible states (WA (Perth), SA (Adelaide)) resisted the urge, and go ahead in a month or two. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin support:technical services -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2
Heh, Mozilla (M16 iirc) is completely unusable for me too - doesn't segfault, but won't download anything because it completely screws up the reporting of the download (winds up with about a 30k rate, about 20Mb completed of a 2Mb file and about -300 minutes to go :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On 11 Aug 2000, John Hasler wrote: Andr? writes: Use the real deal, use Mozilla: I would, if it didn't always segfault. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*
You can use zmore filename iirc. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Stuart Krivis wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:07:19PM +1000, Russ Pitman wrote: Try using mc midnight commander . Just select the file and hit 'F3'. On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, S. Champ wrote: hi. i'm seeing a lot of README.*.gz in /usr/doc/* the question: what is the command to read these README documents, without having to first use a command to un-gzip the same? I believe that either dwww or dhelp allows access to these via a web browser. (It's been a while since I tried it.) The other suggestions for various file viewers are good too. I think I'd have to say that midnight commander is my choice. It is a very useful utility. -- Stuart Krivis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: XFree4 Debs
Yes, http://www.debian.org/~branden No, no debs yet. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Troy Telford wrote: Anybody know where I can check on the progress of debianizing of XFree86 4? Are there any .debs of it yet? Thanks, Troy ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: help with file timestamp
Check the file /etc/default/rcS There is a line in there that says Set UTC to yes or no. Make sure this is set to no. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I am having some problems here with timestamp. The system is hamm. # date Thu Jul 20 15:59:32 EST 2000 # date -u Thu Jul 20 05:59:34 UTC 2000 # touch /tmp/hello # ls -al /tmp/hello -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 20 05:59 /tmp/hello As you can see /tmp/hello's timestamp is using UTC rather than EST. How do I make it using EST? Addtitional Info: # cat /etc/timezone Australia/Sydney /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh is using GMT=--localhost. Well, I don't think it really matters, coz I got a potato where GMT=--UTC and the time stamps are still using EST. Thanks for any help in advance. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: waiter, potato to woody please, thank you
I did a straight replace of potato to woody in my sources.list for apt, then did an apt-get upgrade, followed by an apt-get install of all the packages remaining that weren't upgraded. And that worked perfectly fine for me. I believe the only possible issues in this is an Apache-SSL conflict between 2 different SSL packages, but I can't think of anything else. In terms of kernels I stayed with a 2.2 series kernel and will do so until 2.3/2.4 are more developed. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Nick wrote: hello list, how can i upgrade 2.2 (potato) to woody (2.3??) source list and any suggestions that would make the transition happy. thankx, have a good weekend! -nick0 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stopping screen blank out.
xset s 0 should do the trick. man xset for further info, or just typing xset will give you some info. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On 16 Jul 2000, Marshal Wong wrote: Sorry for the newbieness of this question, but how does one stop the screen blank out in Woody. The reason is that I want to watch some VCDs, except after 10 minutes or so, the screen blanks. When I go to wake it up, the X server locks (and crashes and burns horribly.) I have no screen savers running. I tried setterm -powersave off, but under X it doesn't do anything. I'm using X under gdm. Any suggestions? Marshal -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: apt-get can't find unstable non-us packages
The non-US line should read: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free Is this the case? Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Chris Majewski wrote: I've replaced stable with unstable in /etc/apt/*sources* but apt-get update won't buy it: 20:36:04/home/krzys# apt-get update Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Release Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Release Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_unstable_non-US_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. 20:36:17/home/krzys# It looks to me like apt should be looking in /debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/non-free/binary-i386 rather than /debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/bin ary-i386/ -chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: sound still not working
The zImage, bzImage issue is probably because zImage doesn't contain enough compression to fit the kernel into the required size properly - hence why bzImage was formed - bz compression is much more effective than z compression. The dmesg line is because the cat /proc/pci command has been replaced by something else which I can never remember, but still works for backwards compatibility - so don't worry about that message. To the main issue.. do you have in /etc/modules: soundcore es1370 In my /etc/modules I have soundcore and es1371 (because my card specifically said es1371). I'm not sure whether that is necessary, I'm just grasping at straws... It was a while ago I set mine up. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On 15 Jul 2000, Bob wrote: i did the cat /proc/pci step and it returned: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq AudioPCI (rev 0). Slow devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=12 i tried to compile in the es1371 driver with sound support into the kernel, but didn't detect my sound card irq. then i compiled in the es1370 driver, dmesg returned: es1370: version v0.31 time 21:10:51 Jul 15 2000 es1370: found adapter at io 0xfcc0 irq 10 ex1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0 but when i tried to check with cat /dev/sndstat it said cat:/dev/sndstat: no such device which according to the how-to means the sound driver isn't loaded or linked into the kernel. also theres a strange line at the end of dmesg that says cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface i wonder if that has anything to do with anything. does anyone know how to fix this. and oh im using the kernel-source2.1.15 package currently in the unstable branch of some debian mirror. there is another strange error that when i compile the kernel into a zImage it crashes during bootup when i choose a video mode but compiled into a bzImage the video mode selection works fine. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Xfree86 4.0.1
No debs yet - a few people report installing from the binaries quite happily, and I know a couple of people who compiled source and got it working too. Lazy me is waiting for the debs :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, geek. wrote: Are there .deb's out there for this? will this totaly break xfree86-common and all related 3.3.6 stuff? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: how do i get sound working?
Do a cat /proc/pci and look for the lines relating to your sound device. If you see things like: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 6) Or so forth, then what you need is to compile a kernel with the ES1371 driver from the sound section. Ensoniq ES1371 == Creative PCI64 in a lot of cases, including mine. If this is not the case, whatever is written in /proc/pci in regards to your sound device will at least give you a good starting point. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On 14 Jul 2000, Bob wrote: alright i've read the sound-how-to but it didn't help me. my sound card is a Creative Labs Audio PCI 64V. im not sure what sound driver i should be using or how to set the irq, I/o port, and DMA settings... running pnpdump does nothing. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Lastest sawfish debs?
Thats all good and well if you want to upgrade to helix gnome. What if you just want to run standard gnome, and use sawfish 0.30? Does the development of helix gnome now mean sawfish wont be packaged into woody as a standalone window manager now? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Marti Hooijmans wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Richard Black wrote: Hi all I was wondering when the latest sawfish (aka sawmill) debs are likely to arrive on the scene? The latest seems to be 0.26 (in woody) but the official release is 0.3. Hello Richard, If you add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list, you directly access the deb-archives of the helix-gnome project, and they have all the latest in gnome, sawmill (inc sawmill 0.30), etc.: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main Now you can access the latest gnome-helix packages using apt. They will end in -helix, signifing that they're not official debian packages but Helix packages, ex. : ii sawfish-gnome 0.30-helix1GNOME components for Sawfish I don't know if you're willing to count Helix Code as a part of the 'scene'. But they provide the debs. Greets, Marti Hooijmans -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: smbmount
smbfs is actually a package - apt-get install smbfs You also need SMB support compiled into the kernel for those commands to work. (I dont know if you can do it as a module, havent tried). Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i have installed samba-2.0.5a-1.deb and it does not contain either smbclient or smbmount. the debian search-contents feature on the debian home page has indicated that smbmount is in the otherosfs/smbfs which i presume is the module smbfs which i have installed under modconf/fs. but i cannot find it through updatedb/locate so how can i install smbclient/smbmount? Thanx Zane -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ethernet card
Do cat /proc/pci , and see exactly what it says about the type of ethernet card you have. Then goto a Ethernet-HOWTO or a hardware list in relation to Debian and you will get more of an idea as to what is required. Or install PCIUTILS, which will also give you further information on your PCI devices. http://www.ind.mh.se/linuxdoc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html is one such place with this sort of information. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Markus Fischer wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 09:09:56PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote : Hey guys. My apologies if this is really basic, but I'm having a problem getting Debian to detect my new Soho PCI ethernet card on boot. What's the proper module name that I need to configure for this card, or how can I find out? Honestly, I don't know. But have you tried ne ne2k-pci module; a generic module for pci ne200 compatible cards. Markus -- Markus Fischer, http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/ EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc PGP Fingerprint: D3B0 DD4F E12B F911 3CE1 C2B5 D674 B445 C227 2BD0 - Free Software For A Free World - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How to print? (Xerox DocuPrint C15)
Erm one thing I noticed reading that was the first half made reference to lp0, whereas the printcap referes to lp1. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Horacio MG wrote: Hi, (please, Cc: the answer to me as I'm not on the list) just got this new brand printer, and I'm trying to get something printed with it, but never configured a printer before now. The printer is recognized, as advertised by the relevant parts of dmesg: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. parport0: Printer, Xerox DocuPrint C15 lp0: using parport0 (polling). I had lpr installed, and have just installed several other programs (Aladdin Ghostscript). Then went to read the relevant howtos, but I can't see it clear enough. I've tried to print a postscript file from 'gv', and also tried a simpler 'man man | col -b | lpr', but all I get is those jobs in the spool: $ lpq waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1sthoracio2/home/horacio/tmp/phakic.ps 496596 bytes 2ndhoracio5(standard input) 23645 bytes and the status is: $ lpc status lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 2 entries in spool area waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Ok, so there must be something I haven't done... sure, I haven't set the environment variable in .profile. According to the howtos this should be set as: PRINTER=printer_name; export PRINTER Ah, but what's printer_name? Is it perhaps that I have to make a symlink in /dev/ to /dev/lp0 (say, /dev/xerox - /dev/lp0), and then: PRINTER=xerox; export PRINTER or? Also, I didn't apply any changes to /etc/printcap, so the only uncommented lines are: lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :df=/etc/filter.ps:\ :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :pl#66:\ :pw#80:\ :pc#150:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: should I then change Generic by xerox? And how about the dot-matrix stuff? My printer is a deskjet! In case it's of any importance, my /var/spool/lpd/lp/ dir looks: total 520 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 1024 jul 10 17:47 ./ 1 drwxrwxr-x 5 root lp 1024 jul 10 16:08 ../ 1 -rw-rx 1 root lp 4 jul 10 17:47 .seq 1 -rw-rw 1 daemon lp102 jul 10 17:15 cfA002AL6s9Ty 1 -rw-rw 1 daemon lp 72 jul 10 17:47 cfA005An49Sei 488 -rw-rw 1 horacio lp 496596 jul 10 17:15 dfA002AL6s9Ty 25 -rw-rw 1 horacio lp 23645 jul 10 17:47 dfA005An49Sei 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root4 jul 10 17:15 lock 1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 43 jul 10 17:15 status where the file lock is a number... meaning? *Please, send me a Cc: as I am not subscribed* TIA -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII A.U.C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPA?A Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6 -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII A.U.C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPA?A Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Cant find bzImage
When its done just run make bzlilo, and then if you want to be really careful run lilo. But make bzlilo should be enough to reboot with your new kernel. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: Hello all, I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the option I want, I type make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install then it starts to compile and when its done I cant find the bzImage. I looked in the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot but nothing. What am I missing here ? I installed bin86. Oh yeah Im running potato if that helps. Thanks guys -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Potato .deb pkg install of apache/php/mod_perl/postgresql or mysql
I have just completed an install based on MySQL, Apache and PHP3. This was all done using apt-get install (I'm using woody though, on a 2.2.15 kernel). If you pursue this direction, feel free to email me directly if you need some hints or tips. Only thing I can think of to say at the moment is get MySQL and Apache working, then do PHP last. This can all be done using apt-get install (mysql-server, mysql-client, apache, php3, php3-mysql) and whatever else it grabs :) There should then be an extension=mysql.so line in the php3.ini file, and a LoadModule line relating to mysql in the apache httpd.conf file. There isnt much more to this setup - assuming you've set up apache right in the first place. The config files for apache (httpd.conf, srm.conf) are pretty well documented. You could certainly do Apache first, get that working, then do MySQL and finally tie the two with PHPx without too much complexity. Mod_Perl i cant comment on. Oh, and this above detail should be pretty right with potato too. And I'd prolly recommend you stay away from PHP4 for now, from what ive heard its not quite there yet. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Gordon Pedersen wrote: I run potato, now about 4 weeks old. I want to install apache with php (3 or 4), mod_perl and either postgresql or mysql. It seems better in the long run to master an apt-get-based method of installing them *if* that is possible--that's what I don't know. I have looked in the debian-user archives and found some relevant posts but nothing that quite answered my question. Is it possible to do so using apt-get the right debian packages? If so, is there an order to events to make it all work? For instance, should one install postgres/mysql, then apache-perl, then php4-pgsql? Or does it only work to have source for apache and php and perhaps the database, too? Or do folks usually end up compiling their own? In that case, does anyone have a suggestion for which versions of each source to get that match well together? And is it reliable to use debian sources (via apt-get source) to get the programs working together (presuming I follow their directions ;-])? Or should one just head for the 'real' source? Thanks. -- Gordon Pedersen info systems design Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
GQL Library.
Tried to compile genSQL for Gnome (off the Gnome Recent software list) the configure script came back with can't locate gql-config from the GQL Library. Anyone know what GQL is and if there's a quick Debian solution for this? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GQL Library.
Ok I just answered my own question, its libgql in woody. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: Tried to compile genSQL for Gnome (off the Gnome Recent software list) the configure script came back with can't locate gql-config from the GQL Library. Anyone know what GQL is and if there's a quick Debian solution for this? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Xfree86 4.0.1
I see this is now debbed in woody, anyone done the upgrade from 3.3.6 yet? Any problems? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xfree86 4.0.1
Hrm. I jumped the gun, assuming the fact that my apt-get -s upgrade this morning wanted to do an X upgrade. It appears its just gone from 3.3.6-8 to 3.3.6-9. Excuse me whilst I pop out and shoot myself. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote: Corey Popelier wrote: I see this is now debbed in woody, anyone done the upgrade from 3.3.6 yet? Any problems? Where did you see this? I just did an apt-get update, and the X versions are still at 3.3.6 -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today? | As far from Redmond as possible! '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel Source Code [New User]
Umm, yes and no. Kernel 2.2.15-3 is patched against those vulnerabilities. 2.2.15-2 and previous are not. From what I've read, 2.2.16 was kinda rushed, and 2.2.17 (once out of Pre) will be considered the better way to go. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: On Jul 04 2000, ktb wrote: I'm guessing the source is on your disk but you can get kernels from -- http://www.kernel.org/ Don't use that site. Use ftp://ftp.xx.kernel.org/ instead (where xx is your country code) to let the community mirror it faster. In the same way, don't use ftp.debian.org. Use some mirror like ftp.xx.debian.org. if I remember right there are some security issues with 2.2.14 so you should get a more recent kernel than that. I think 2.2.16 is fixed. Actually, 2.2.15 also has the vulnerability. So 2.2.16 is indeed recommended. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/nectar/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?
The one thing I can't figure out is will there be a Gnome 1.2 as well? Or
is Helix Gnome 1.2 and Gnome will do something else? I know the libs and
stuff are 1.2 but the panel/etc is all still 1.0.55 (or so, im going from
memory). Will Gnome release a 1.2 with the same sort of Panel goodies that
exist in Helix Gnome? There doesn't seem to be any real indication as to
Gnome's future path ...
Cheers,
Corey Popelier
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:35:36PM -0400, Edwin Lau wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am using the unstable debian release. Having read the news
group for a while, I noticed that a lot of people like the Helix
Gnome stuff. My question is if I upgrade to Helix Gnome now
rather than to wait for the new Debian Gnome to come out, would
that introduce problems in upgrading later on? coz I saw that
the version number used by Helix is a bit different from Debian.
Would that be a problem for next upgrade?
Edwin Lau
So far, the dependency checking of the debs seems to do the right thing.
Beware, the task-helix-gnome want to give you everything and the kitchen
sink. The 100+ themes for gtk and sawfish can really eat up bandwidth
and harddrive space. All in all, it's a nice professional packaging of
GNOME goodies with a little candy that's not in the Debian packaging.
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Re: Which window manager
No, he means Sawfish. For you and the previous poster - Sawmill was renamed to Sawfish due to some issues regarding the use of the name Sawmill. It's all documented on the home page. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: On 03-Jul-2000 13:53:54 Sean wrote: Actually the latest Enlightenment (using the default configuration) uses about the same amount of resources as Window Maker. Personally I'd reccomend Sawfish as well though. You mean Sawmill? -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: which netscape? lynx set-up?
To answer the most simplest question (6) Username is anonymous and Password is your email address (although most people just type in anything in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it works and might save time). Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Philippe wrote: Hi, I'm running potato on a G3 iMac. It's going well, thanks to your help :) But... (1) I've downloaded Navigator 4.08 for linux 2.0; after installing, and trying to execute netscape, the shell says it's not an executable binary (it's a binary allright). Is it because I should get linux 2.0 glibc? what is glibc anyway? gnu library? (note, during mount of /dev/hda, I did keep linux 2.0 compatibility when asked) (2) Somehow I was able to download Navigator once using lynx. But it seems it's not doing well with large files. I failed to download Communicator or Navigator for linux 2.0 glibc. Maybe they're too big? lynx just freezes after download. Can lynx's memory be increased? (3) I must say I'm impressed with the download speeds I'm getting with lynx, consistently above 5 K/sec on a 56K modem. Switching to MAC OS, the speed, at about the same time today, was more like 1 K/sec. Same file. Is there a good reason for this? (4) some random piece of info that could be useful to others: to get X running, the mouse type is IMSP/2 for /dev/usbmouse (5) in Ethan's notes, the mkofboot command should read (the /target/ is missing, even though it's pretty obvious, it can be confusing for a newbie like me) mkofboot --boot /dev/hda2 -m /target/etc/ofboot.b --root .. (6) how does one do an anonymous ftp? what's the username and password? thanks again, Philip -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: apt-get sources.list error
You need a separate line in sources.list for non-US, usually of the format: mirror of choice/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Russ Pitman wrote: In /etc/apt/sources.list I have, deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free non-US Running apt-get update gives the following, --start here Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Packages Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Release Get:1 ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Packages Err ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Packages Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory ' Get:2 ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Release Ign ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Release Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory ' Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_non-US_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) --end here--- Tried local mirror and got similiar results. Could someone advise a correct URL line to access the non-US directories. Thanks, -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Eumongoid lastlog file
I have a sysklogd file in /etc/cron.* directories. I assume this is from the sysklogd package. My logs didn't start rotating until I installed this package. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: bash-2.03$ ls -l /var/log/lastlog -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 18523020 Jun 22 16:08 /var/log/lastlog What do I do with this enormous creature? And how did it get that way? Why isn't this thing rotated? How can I get it rotated? (I know that's a lot of questions but I'm kinda weirded out by this...g) -- Bob Bernstein http://www.ruptured-duck.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: how to install woody
The kernel doesn't, as far as I know. Goto http://www.kernel.org and you'll find a kernel 2.4.0-test2 there if you're game. You could just upgrade to woody and still use a 2.2.x kernel by changing apt to point to woody instead of potato, but that's nowhere near as much of a challenge :) Theres a 2.3.99-pre9 if your not quite 2.4 game too. I've heard conflicting reports on how well PPP works at this stage for 2.3 and 2.4, and if you use ipchains at all then thats gone too, and replaced by netfilter, with once again a completely different syntax :) But if you want a quick challenge, just point apt to woody and upgrade that, worked for me, after downloading and installing 70 odd packages... Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Nick wrote: hi, i have been playing with debian for quite some time now. I was recently in the neighborhood for a challenge and thought upgrading to woody, do to the recent positive response to 2.4, wood be a fun. GET IT, wood be fun. HAHA can anyone share a few links on how to install it and most important, the SOURCE FILES, binary-i386 does it come in a .deb form? thankx guys -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: apt-get upgrade
apt-get -s upgrade will tell you what it will do, without actually doing it. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: Hi all I have just run update upgrade and am right now dl / upgrading 5megs worth of stuff. What I would like to see though is that apt-get shows me which packages it'll upgrade. Just like apt-get shows me what will be downloaded when doing apt-get install package. -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken
Yes I have this problem also. I assume we shall await a fix. And use Mozilla in the meantime :) Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: I've just updated my system to the current frozen, and included in this update was the installation of netscape 4.73. When I now run netscape, it bombs out, complaining of: $ netscape /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `(c' /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: ` for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . | sort); do' Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone else know the fix? Thanks, Mark. P.S. Please cc a copy of any reply directly to me as I currently read the list only via the archives --- and I can't even do that now that netscape is not working. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: truss
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy, assuming your floppy drive is device fd0 of course. this allows you to copy files to the floppy that windows will read. i dont think the fact its NT makes a difference here. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, John Gosling (GOSLIJA @ GBNUHO) wrote: Date: 22-06-2000 11:11:35 AM Telephone: 680982 Subject: truss Hi, Thanks for info about strace. Here's another query. I need to transfer some text files via floppy from a linux box to Windows NT. Is there a utility under linux which will write a dos format file. Regards John -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Star Office 5.2
The Star Office 5.2 installation has options for Java runtime components - I have JDK1.1 installed (Woody - 2.2.15 kernel), but no go. Anyone else had experience with this and know a solution? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Soundblaster PCI64 and MIDI
I have a Soundblaster PCI64 card in my PC, running off the Ensoniq ES1371 driver - everything works beautifully, except no MIDI. /dev/sndstat shows no MIDI, and playmidi cannot find the MIDI device. Do I need to add another module in for this, or should the ES1371 driver run MIDI as well? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-2.2.16
No you're not wrong. The debian packages for 2.2.15-3 address the recently proclaimed kernel exploits in regards to the POSIX setuid issues. Kernels for 2.0.x are not effected, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x users are advised to update. Full information is on the Debian website, linked off the main page. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Dave Whiteley wrote: I read somewhere that the 2.2.15 kernel in the current potato distribution has already been patched with the security fixes. Am I wrong? Dave Umum Wijoyo wrote: I read in the Debian Security section, there's a serious bug in the Linux kernel, and we are advised to do an upgrade. snippety snip Yes, the 2.2.16 kernel has the security fix. -- E-Mail: Dave Whiteley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Jun-2000 Time: 09:28:59 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Hey
You have to be in the souce directory - usually /usr/src/linux. What do you have under /usr/src? Installing Linux does not always mean you'll have a kernel source installed - you might need to get one from www.kernel.org or another source provider. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Bill or Summer wrote: Can anyone help me with recompiling my kernel? I'm relatively new to Linux and am running the Corel V1.0 which is basically Debian. I've read all the man and HOWTO pages and none of the commands specified seem to work. I'm getting errors from make config, make xconfig, and menuconfig like: nothing to do, target not specified, and rules not found. What I want to do is reconfigure the kernel to just get rid of unneeded stuff (i.e. SCSI, RAID, etc) and add a NE2000 driver to get my network card working. Who wants to help? Please just give me the steps, at this point I don't care if I have to reinstall the system again. I also did a full install so point me to the right directories for source and whatnot. Thanks, Bill
Re: kernel build
Yeah it certainly looks like you need Perl 5.005 (note the .005 in the path below). I have both 5.004 and 5.005 installed. It's one of the strange things, Perl, as I installed from 2.1 floppy set, then upgraded to Potato, and Perl-Base got really mad at me so I had to forcefully remove it for it to re-install itself happily. It would help to know what dist you are using here - I'm not sure if 5.005 is in slink, its certainly in potato and woody. Footnote: Did you know apt-get remove has a confirmation step that says: If you really want to do this, type 'Yes, I understand that this may be bad'. I found that quite hilarious :) It was also the only way I could get Perl 5.004 and 5.005 to co-exist. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dave Bateman wrote: I'm trying to build a kernel, but I seem to have run into a snag: debian:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg clean Can't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .) at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 21. dpkg -l shows: ii perl-5.004 5.004.05-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ii perl-5.004-bas 5.004.05-6 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii perl-5.004-doc 5.004.05-6 Man pages and pod docs for Perl ii perl-5.005-bas 5.005.03-7.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii perl-base 5.004.05-1.1 Fake package assuring that one of the -base so do I need a different Perl package? TIA Dave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: kernel build
Ok, a more accurate answer: Long.pm exists in the perl-5.004, and the perl-5.005 packages. Note you have perl-5.004 installed, but not perl-5.005 (altho you do have the -base package - buts its not in the base part.). The make-kpkg is looking specifically for the 5.005 version of that file. I don't know if you can convince it to look at the 5.004 path, but you should be able to install perl-5.005 no problems, seeing you already have the 5.005-base there. Forgive my earlier rambling, it's early in the morning here. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dave Bateman wrote: I'm trying to build a kernel, but I seem to have run into a snag: debian:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg clean Can't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .) at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 21. dpkg -l shows: ii perl-5.004 5.004.05-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ii perl-5.004-bas 5.004.05-6 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii perl-5.004-doc 5.004.05-6 Man pages and pod docs for Perl ii perl-5.005-bas 5.005.03-7.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii perl-base 5.004.05-1.1 Fake package assuring that one of the -base so do I need a different Perl package? TIA Dave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Wheel mouse not working...oy.
Just a thought, but all this mouse wheel talk is centered around Netscape. Have you tested anything else that utilises the mouse wheel? For instance either Mozilla, or even the XMMS playlist should react to the mouse wheel. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Tim Jump wrote: First off, thanks to both of you for replying...and making me feel dumb. Even after reading all the documentation and all the config files and SEEING that the mouse wheel was represented as buttons 4 5, I never thought about changing the number of buttons in XF86Config to 5. Duh. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Here's the MODIFIED section of my XF86Config: Section Pointer ProtocolIMPS/2 Device /dev/psaux Resolution 200 Buttons 5 ZAxisMapping4 5 EndSection I *think* I've checked everything else. I copied pasted the Netscape entry from the aforementioned wheel mouse page into my .Xresources again just to be sure...no dice. I then tried copying THAT over to /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape to see if it would do anything...but it didn't. I even tried running imwheel again with it's default configuration to no avail. Suddenly I'm REALLY missing the days when I'd use console mode exclusively. I am again, in a word, stumped. Any further help would be greatly appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [] Bababooey Dragon [] -==UDIC==- The stupider it looks, the more important it probably is. -- J. R. Bob Dobbs -- Babylon Five Addict [] DEVOlved [] Dirty old man in training -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid Parameters
Umm, two aspects I can think of: (1) in kernel 2.2.x -net isn't required at all iirc, so route add 127.0.0.1 lo should be enough. (2) I would have thought the route should be 127.0.0.0 not 127.0.0.1 ... my /etc/init.d/network says 127.0.0.0 but don't take that for gospel. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Mark wrote: On boot up, when my system executes the network init script, it gives the error: SIOCADDRT: Invalid Parameters the network script contains: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.1 lo It's crashing on the route add bit. Shouldn't it be route add -host instead of -net? -- Mark Herrick - Liverpool - England mark at blacksky dot co dot uk Pick two: Good, Fast, Cheap __ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit- http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Compiling kernels
I've compiled umpteen kernels with 2.95, don't know what that fuss is about. As for the errors, I thought the make clean came after the make modules, make modules_install. I was under the impression that the order went: make menuconfig (or xconfig etc) make dep make modules make modules_install make clean make bzImage make bzlilo Funnily enough following this procedure gives me no problems whatsoever, except for the fact that it shows up as #2 even though ive done this process once :) What part of these 'makes' increments the rev. number I wonder. Anyway I suggest do a make clean again, clean is meant to remove the redundant stuff after a make modules, iirc. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Lee Elliott wrote: Hello list, I need to compile my own kernels to enable SMP and get SCSI support for my card so, after consulting the HOWTO and reading some recent postings about kernel compiling, what I've been doing is: 1. Rename/move my existing (/usr/src/) kernel-source-x.x.x, kernel-headers-x.x.x and linux directories, and kernel-source.x.x.x.tar.bz2 file. 2. Rename/move my existing /boot/bzImage and /boot/System.map 3. Install the kernel-source and kernel-headers packages (currently 2.2.15-2), creating a new /usr/src/kernel-headers-x.x.x directory and a kernel-source-x.x.x.tar.bz2 file 4. Unpack the kernel-source.x.x.x.tar.bz2 using bzcat kern*.bz2 | tar xvf - to create a new kernel-source-x.x.x directory. 5. Copy the new kernel-source-x.x.x directory to a new linux directory - /usr/src/linux 6. cd into /usr/src/linux 7. make clean 8. make xconfig 9. make dep 10. make bzImage 11. make modules 12. make modules_install 13. Copy /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot and the DOS partition where I use loadlin. 14. Copy /usr/src/linux/System.map to /boot/System.map This seems to work ok - SMP is enabled and the SCSI controller works - but during the load process, immediately after Calculating module dependencies I get a lot of insmod *** unresolved symbols in lib/modules/x.x.x/misc/abcde messages displayed. I haven't been able to find a log in /var/log/ that shows these messages and they go by pretty quick, but they all appear to refer to stuff that I didn't select when I went through the make xconfig step, like irda and floppy tape. Other than that, the kernel seems stable and works ok, but I'm obviously doing something wrong. Also, I've heard that gcc 2.95 shouldn't be used for compiling kernels - I've got both 2.95 and 2.7.2 installed - how do I specify that gcc 2.7.2 should be used instead of 2.95, which I assume is being used - I can't see any versions displayed when I run the makes so I'm not sure and the HOWTO didn't say anything (I think it was for older kernels anyway and probably out of date for 2.2) TIA LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk ...or something -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: IP-Chains, etc.
I've fixed it now Ron, turned out to be problems firstly with my DNS configuration on the Windows box, then the fact that I had ipchains rules floating about - needed to do a ipchains -F then the real rules and all is fine now. Thanks for the interest and the help. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 31 May 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: Did you do: 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward must be 1 if you want ip masquerading enabled! Ron PS. Check if you got the right things in your kernel, otherwise you'll have to recompile it. On Wed, 31 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: Ok I had forgotten the dns setting (Sigh). Now I get a lot of udp port domain unreachable messages in my tcpdump. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 31 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are you using a proxy, just go to your win network option, to the tcp/ip properties and set the gateway to the lin box, as well as the dns... Ron By the way, did you try adding that masq ipchains rule? On Wed, 31 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: Some additional information I can give, is that a ping from the Windows box behaves as follows: (win) ping 203.24.100.1 (tcpdump from linux box) 10.0.0.2 dialup-gw.aceonline.com.au: icmp: echo request (above line times 4). Now this would indicate to me that IP forwarding is occurring. But no reply is coming back (possibly due to ICMP Masq not compiled in kernel). Now I have told the Win box to use a gateway of 10.0.0.1 (Lin box). If I set the proxy to use to in IE to 10.0.0.1, a tcpdump says: 10.0.0.1. 10.0.0.2.1033...etcetc 10.0.0.2.1033 10.0.0.1.www ...etcetc arp who-has 10.0.0.2 tell 10.0.0.1 arp reply 10.0.0.2 is-at 0:a0:24:96:43:bc What I am trying to establish is if whether I am missing kernel options, or whether I've just got a configuration problem. Thanks Ron btw. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: I'm not a telepath, I can't see from here if you got the right things in your kernel ;) But you ipchains misses something, the masquerading, you should do: ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s you lan network/24 -d 0/0 I can tell you what you should have in your kernel: IP Masquerading, if you want to masquerade ping, you should also have ICMP Masqerading. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: Ok I now have my Debian and Windows boxes networked, and I tried to set up IP Chains as follows: ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT Now whenever I traceroute something from the Win box I get: 1 1ms10ms10ms (Linux box). 2* ** etc. Now I realise ICMP packets are handled by a different kernel option. Can I get this working without building a new kernel? Secondly, I have set the Win box with a gateway of the Lin box, and web pages still won't load. Now I've heard this is the case if the IP Masq stuff wasn't included in the kernel (2.2.15pre19-1 btw, and Win98), and the only hint I've seen in HOWTO's is to check for a file: /proc/net/ipfw_chains I get a file listed when I ls -al this (its 0 bytes tho). Now have I just simply missed kernel options and thus need to build a new one, and if so which, or what is going on that causes me to not be able to access the web from the Windows box, using the Linux box as the gateway? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
IP-Chains, etc.
Ok I now have my Debian and Windows boxes networked, and I tried to set up IP Chains as follows: ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT Now whenever I traceroute something from the Win box I get: 1 1ms10ms10ms (Linux box). 2* ** etc. Now I realise ICMP packets are handled by a different kernel option. Can I get this working without building a new kernel? Secondly, I have set the Win box with a gateway of the Lin box, and web pages still won't load. Now I've heard this is the case if the IP Masq stuff wasn't included in the kernel (2.2.15pre19-1 btw, and Win98), and the only hint I've seen in HOWTO's is to check for a file: /proc/net/ipfw_chains I get a file listed when I ls -al this (its 0 bytes tho). Now have I just simply missed kernel options and thus need to build a new one, and if so which, or what is going on that causes me to not be able to access the web from the Windows box, using the Linux box as the gateway? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP-Chains, etc.
Some additional information I can give, is that a ping from the Windows box behaves as follows: (win) ping 203.24.100.1 (tcpdump from linux box) 10.0.0.2 dialup-gw.aceonline.com.au: icmp: echo request (above line times 4). Now this would indicate to me that IP forwarding is occurring. But no reply is coming back (possibly due to ICMP Masq not compiled in kernel). Now I have told the Win box to use a gateway of 10.0.0.1 (Lin box). If I set the proxy to use to in IE to 10.0.0.1, a tcpdump says: 10.0.0.1. 10.0.0.2.1033...etcetc 10.0.0.2.1033 10.0.0.1.www ...etcetc arp who-has 10.0.0.2 tell 10.0.0.1 arp reply 10.0.0.2 is-at 0:a0:24:96:43:bc What I am trying to establish is if whether I am missing kernel options, or whether I've just got a configuration problem. Thanks Ron btw. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: I'm not a telepath, I can't see from here if you got the right things in your kernel ;) But you ipchains misses something, the masquerading, you should do: ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s you lan network/24 -d 0/0 I can tell you what you should have in your kernel: IP Masquerading, if you want to masquerade ping, you should also have ICMP Masqerading. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: Ok I now have my Debian and Windows boxes networked, and I tried to set up IP Chains as follows: ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT Now whenever I traceroute something from the Win box I get: 1 1ms10ms10ms (Linux box). 2* ** etc. Now I realise ICMP packets are handled by a different kernel option. Can I get this working without building a new kernel? Secondly, I have set the Win box with a gateway of the Lin box, and web pages still won't load. Now I've heard this is the case if the IP Masq stuff wasn't included in the kernel (2.2.15pre19-1 btw, and Win98), and the only hint I've seen in HOWTO's is to check for a file: /proc/net/ipfw_chains I get a file listed when I ls -al this (its 0 bytes tho). Now have I just simply missed kernel options and thus need to build a new one, and if so which, or what is going on that causes me to not be able to access the web from the Windows box, using the Linux box as the gateway? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: IP-Chains, etc.
Ok I had forgotten the dns setting (Sigh). Now I get a lot of udp port domain unreachable messages in my tcpdump. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 31 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are you using a proxy, just go to your win network option, to the tcp/ip properties and set the gateway to the lin box, as well as the dns... Ron By the way, did you try adding that masq ipchains rule? On Wed, 31 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: Some additional information I can give, is that a ping from the Windows box behaves as follows: (win) ping 203.24.100.1 (tcpdump from linux box) 10.0.0.2 dialup-gw.aceonline.com.au: icmp: echo request (above line times 4). Now this would indicate to me that IP forwarding is occurring. But no reply is coming back (possibly due to ICMP Masq not compiled in kernel). Now I have told the Win box to use a gateway of 10.0.0.1 (Lin box). If I set the proxy to use to in IE to 10.0.0.1, a tcpdump says: 10.0.0.1. 10.0.0.2.1033...etcetc 10.0.0.2.1033 10.0.0.1.www ...etcetc arp who-has 10.0.0.2 tell 10.0.0.1 arp reply 10.0.0.2 is-at 0:a0:24:96:43:bc What I am trying to establish is if whether I am missing kernel options, or whether I've just got a configuration problem. Thanks Ron btw. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: I'm not a telepath, I can't see from here if you got the right things in your kernel ;) But you ipchains misses something, the masquerading, you should do: ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s you lan network/24 -d 0/0 I can tell you what you should have in your kernel: IP Masquerading, if you want to masquerade ping, you should also have ICMP Masqerading. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: Ok I now have my Debian and Windows boxes networked, and I tried to set up IP Chains as follows: ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT Now whenever I traceroute something from the Win box I get: 1 1ms10ms10ms (Linux box). 2* ** etc. Now I realise ICMP packets are handled by a different kernel option. Can I get this working without building a new kernel? Secondly, I have set the Win box with a gateway of the Lin box, and web pages still won't load. Now I've heard this is the case if the IP Masq stuff wasn't included in the kernel (2.2.15pre19-1 btw, and Win98), and the only hint I've seen in HOWTO's is to check for a file: /proc/net/ipfw_chains I get a file listed when I ls -al this (its 0 bytes tho). Now have I just simply missed kernel options and thus need to build a new one, and if so which, or what is going on that causes me to not be able to access the web from the Windows box, using the Linux box as the gateway? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: X on a 486
Windowmaker runs fine on my 486DX2-66 with 12Mb RAM. :) Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Atila Nemet wrote: Hi! Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there window manager which is low on system resources so I could set up X on this 486? Attila -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: your mail
tzconfig is the application you are looking for. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 May 2000, Goeman Stefan wrote: Hello everbody, I have a problem concerning the time indication. Every time I log in to Debian Linux the clock indicates the wrong time. For example, the clock indicates 14.00 while it is actually 12.00. I remember that during the installation I have chosen GMT and this is probably causing the problem. I live in the time zone Europe/Brussels so, Is there a way to fix this permanently? changing the time with date doesn't solve the problem when a reboot. Greetings, Stefan Goeman -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Potato
Well, irrelevantly to Debian its a carbohydrate. Relevant to Debian it is the name of a character in the movie Toy Story. All Debian distributions have been named after characters in that movie. There is a URL with the complete story behind this, I'm sure someone else will post the URL shortly, it's escaped my mind for the moment. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 May 2000, Shel Johnson wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is a potato??... Shel __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: XF4.0 deb eta?
Whine, that would be great if the link didn't say Error 404 :) Damn nvidia... Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 27 May 2000, Didi Damian wrote: There is a driver available for xfree86-3.3.6 at nvidia.com. When you get to the driver download area, under Linux there is a section: Archive(1/16/00) Open-Source drivers for Xfree86 3.36 These are the drivers I'm using on my potato box. * Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [26-05-2000 09:39 PM -0600] Ok, Not trying to tick anyone off, but I need the NVIDIA driver for my new video card and it appears to require XF-4.0. I'd rather keep to .debs and not go source or converted .rpm, so I can keep my box clean... Anyone got an eta or a really cookbooks install/config for putting 4.0 on a woody system. -- Didi Damian +-+-+-+-+ +-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+ +-+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |U|N|I|X| |-| |L|i|v|e| |F|r|e|e| |O|r| |D|i|e| |!| www.debiandiary.f2s.com +-+-+-+-+ +-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+ +-+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Memoria reconocida por el sistema vs. memoria instalada
I think you would need: append=mem=0x800 I personally use: append=mem=128M Point is quotes and so forth are important :) Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 23 May 2000, Dominic Blythe wrote: translation - - Hola: Tenemos un servidor con Debian que es un PC clonico, tiene instaladas 128 Mb de memoria RAM y la BIOS cuando arranca cuenta las 128 Mb. Sin embargo cuando hacemos un free -kt lo que obtenemos es: on a pc with 128mb ram, this is the output from free -kt total used free sharedbufferscached Mem: 63528 62332 1196 49252 5736 34080 -/+ buffers/cache: 22516 41012 Swap: 66524 60 66364 Tota: 130052 6249267560 assuming that the Swap entry 66524 represents the swap partition, why can the pc only recognise 64MB of ram? Suponemos que la memoria de swap se refiere a la partici?n de swap, con lo que parece que el sistema solo est? reconociendo 64 Mb de las 128 Mb instaladas. En el libro The Debian Linux User's Guide en el Appendix 7 apartado Arguments le? lo siguiente (que reproduzco, con perd?n): [...] mem= Since the BIOS of most PCs can only report 64 Megabytes there are times when the kernel needs to be told that there is more memory than this. This argument should be used with great care, since, if you lie to the kernel and tell it that it has more address space than it actually has, the system will crash miserably as some time in the near future. Also make sure that your system does not use the highest memory for caching the bios code, as use of this memory by the kernel will ultimately crash the system as well. The value given after the equal sign should be the highest ram address available to the kernel, so a 96 Megabyte system would get an argument like mem=0x600. [...] having changed lilo.conf as directed with line mem=0x0800 (128MB as hex), i get Syntax error near line 7 in file /etc/lilo.conf line 7 is the mem=... line so how to get it to recognise 128MB ram? [i don't get the bit about the guitar - does he mean he doesn't want to flash his bios?] sorry this mail is so cacho Por lo que entend? estos parametros se podian poner en el lilo.conf y tomarian efecto despues de ejecutar liloconfig y rearrancar el sistema, pero cuando pongo en lilo.conf mem=0x800 (valor hexadecimal de 128 Mb) y ejecuto liloconfig me aparece el error: Syntax error near line 7 in file /etc/lilo.conf Que es la linea donde he puesto lo de mem=... ?Alguien sabe como puedo hacer que el sistema reconozca las 128 Mb?. Una posibilidad seria actualizar la BIOS del equipo pero me da miedo porque la placa es marca la guitarra y no se si la encontar? (si es que existe) asi que preferiria hacerlo con Debian (si se puede). Disculparme por este cacho mail. Espero vuestra ayuda. Saludos. -- Mecanizados, S. A. Inform?tica. Ximo Nadal. Avda. Ausias March, 122. E-46026 VALENCIA (SPAIN). Tel.: +34 96 373 63 62. Fax: +34 96 373 66 03. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Server powered by Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape spawn real player?
I downloaded the RealPlayer Beta 7 from the RealPlayer website and it installed fine and runs fine. There is a RealPlayer installer .deb but I recommend trying the Beta on their website. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 18 May 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote: Is there a debian package of RealPlayer? Simple docs on having RealPlayer autoplay? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Microso~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: POP3 or IMAP Daemon on Linux
fetchmail is one. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 14 May 2000, farnaz wrote: Dear All, hi I was wondering if one of you inform me of a POP3 or IMAP daemon on Linux system Thanks in advance --Farnaz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: small problem after installing 2.2.15 kernel
Yeah I do as well. I would imagine it means there is some other way now of getting the PCI information that cat /proc/pci provides. I haven't checked out what this might be. Doesn't seem to effect anything, other than producing that log line. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 14 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: I installed the 2.2.15 kernel and now I get this in my logs: May 14 06:07:08 lilypad kernel: cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface Does anyone else get this? -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: kernel build error
as86 is in the bin86 package. The bin86 package contains the 16-bit assembler and loader. Use apt-get install bin86 or whatever method you use to install it - its under /main/devel. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 14 May 2000, Owen G. Emry wrote: When building my 2.2.14 kernel I get: make[1]: as86: Command not found Where is as86 and what does it do? TIA, oge -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: gnomeConf.sh missing for configuring gnome stuff
Make sure you have libgnome-dev installed. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kenward Vaughan wrote: I'm trying to build some gnome apps off the gnome site, but have run into this roadblock when I run configure. AFAICT the major gnome stuff is installed. Anyone know what the goof is? TIA Kenward -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: installing kernel
Yep, everything I've read or heard suggests if your going to use 2.2, use 2.2.14+ kernels. I'm now running 2.2.15 (pre19-1) with no probs whatsoever. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 12 May 2000, Jens Guenther wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 12:22:17PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Hi, I've been using debian slink and the 2.0.36 kernel for a while now, and have just compiled the 2.2.4 kernel. I have my linux partition Hi, as far as I know there were some nasty problems in early 2.2.x kernels. I think it would be safer to use the current stable 2.2.15 kernel. cheers, Jens -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ?texinfo where?
texinfo is in the debiandoc-sgml package (ie apt-get install debiandoc-sgml). Dunno if its in any other packages, thats all I can see so far. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 12 May 2000, Martin Albert wrote: Hello, to everybody! Call me silly - i want to compile a source package that build-depends (pls. developers, add this line to more pkgs) on 'texinfo'. I can not find a (source-)package with that name? Where will i find it? Thanks to repliers ;-) all the busy developers, greetings, martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: gedit Crash: Segmentation fault
Hmm, I just did apt-get install gedit (version 0.5.4-1) and it works fine on my machine. Only thing I would suggest is perhaps purge any trace of gedit that you currently have, and install it again. The problem might be more critical than this (ie. might be more GTk related than gEdit related) but its something to try, since its only a 150k package. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 12 May 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: hi to everyone, gedit crashed and after reisntalling it continues with crashing at starting up it. fatal error (segmentation fault) Gtk-CRITICAL **; file gtkbox.c: line 332 (gtk_box_pack_start): assertion `child-parent == NULL' failed. any points on howto fix it ? thanks, jaume -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mozilla on Potato M14
I was running Mozilla M14, until a really freaky bug occurred. I run it, it loads up fine, it loads up my homepage fine, only, theres no window. Nothing. I have a completely invisible Mozilla M14. This is on 2.2.15 under X3.3.6 and Windowmaker/Gnome as per Potato packages. I've also NO idea why. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jaye == Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jaye Hello all, I used dselect to pull down Mozilla browser and Jaye EVERYTHING it recommend I get. The install was great and it Jaye runs fine on my KDE. I tried Mozilla too. However, I was unable to use it to view man2html pages. There seems to be a bug in Mozilla with interpretation of URLs with no hostnames, for example http:/cgi-bin/man2html if this URL is given as a link on a page served by localhost, it should be interpreted as http://localhost/cgi-bin/man2html but instead, Mozilla throws me into some horrible intensive advertising site like www.cgi-bin.com, which seems to have been created especially to trap the victims of this bug :-( -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Free MP3 players?
X11Amp, now known as xmms, the Linux version of WinAmp. apt-get install xmms should do the trick. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 10 May 2000, Dylan Paul Thurston wrote: Are there any free, graphical MP3 players out there? The only one I've found so far is mp3blaster, which runs in text mode. Most MP3 players seem to use the very non-free mpg123; why? Thanks, Dylan Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please CC: me on responses.) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: napster won't work after new 2.2.15 kernel
I had gnapster completely break on me as well (kept saying fatal error when connecting to server). I fixed it by completely purging all trace of it and installing it again. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 8 May 2000, jerry j jaskierny wrote: napster was working fine under my 2.2.14 kernel. but then i compiled the new 2.2.15 kernel with ip masq and firewalling capabilities, which i previously did not have. now, i can't download anything. can someone give me a hand? thanks. jer Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [OT] VBS Script Summary (I love you)
It is a VBS script (Visual Basic Script) which on most Windows 95-2000 based machines is executable via. the C:\Windows\wscript.exe program. The VBS extention is associated with this application. Users save the attachment then run it, or run the attachment, and the attachment modifies registry settings, deletes files, infects mIRC scripts and HTML extensions, so on and so forth. Nothing new really - like all viruses of this kind it is dependent on the person running the attachment. It does not execute just by opening the email. The code for the virus is now my desktop wallpaper at work. It's pretty shocking from most programming standards :) Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 5 May 2000, hingwah wrote: Nathan E Norman wrote: The attachment must be opened for infection to occur. On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:13:12AM +0800, hingwah wrote: How the virus work?It can infect immediately when opening the email but without open any attachment? Nathan E Norman wrote: Put together by Morgan Sarges, one of our engineers. Regards, -- Nathan Norman Eschew Obfuscation Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7 Name: love.txt love.txtType: Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: quoted-printable Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature What type of attachment?executable or script? is it only Microsoft Outlook (not outlook express) will be affected? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Passing an input file through mail.
It did fix the problem of the mail command line not working, the problem
of the unqualified host name error insendmail logs still exists, although
everything does work :)
Cheers,
Corey Popelier
http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jason Zdan wrote:
define('confDOMAIN_NAME',`$w.dingoblue.net.au')dnl
define('SMART_HOST',`mail.dingoblue.net.au')dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
I admit I don't know much about sendmail, but it seems to me that the
$w.dingoblue.net.au would add the pancreas to the front of your domain
name. Maybe try dingoblue.net.au instead?
My apologies if I'm dead wrong :)
J.
Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software
I take an extremely simplistic view. I'd use Windows more if it didn't crash 20 times a day. That's why I use Linux. Simple. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4 May 2000, Brian May wrote: Pat == Pat Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pat For me, Linux makes me think. For others, windows may make Pat them think. For still others, something else (not computer Pat related) may make them think. If linux makes you think, Pat good. If windows makes you think, good. If something else Pat makes you think, good. If nothing makes you think, then I you Pat truly have my sympathy. For me, the problem with Windows is you have to think when thinking should not be required. Take for instance, autoexec.bat. I know a Windows computer, that whenever it starts, it flashes up with the message Bad command or filename for a few seconds until it goes away. However, it doesn't give the important information: what command cannot be found? what line is it on? So, instead of going directly to the bad line (like you would for any Unix based interpreter), you have to do a lot of fiddling just to find out which line is bad. I have had similar problems for out of environment space errors (I never remember or can find how to change it, although it seems to be fixed now) and programs that automatically add lines like: PATH %PATH;c:\newprogram which fails when %PATH% contains a directory with spaces (trial and error suggests that correct quoting helps). Perhaps Windows 2000 won't require autoexec.bat, I will believe it when I see it. However, I encounter similar problems throughout Windows (especially device drivers). So, the way I see it, with Windows you always need to be thinking There is a bug in this program. It won't say why it is crashing. What is the best work around?. With Unix, you get more descriptive feedback of what the program is doing (eg look at the output of dpkg), and I have never had problems with a device driver suddenly going broken, requiring a complete re-installation of the OS. You don't have to try and second guess what the computer might be trying to do. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: where are wmakers config files?
I found that the menu file turned out to be /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2 May 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: Where are wmakers config files? I keep editing ~/GNUstep/Default/WMState but evertime I log in it reverts back. There must be another one someplace? TIA, Ron -- Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: http://www.farrer.net Bellingham Linux Users Group: http://www.blug.org Alpha Linux Orginization: http://www.alphalinux.org
Re: kernel upgrade
In my opinion kernel 2.2.14 is quite safe, and there has been little report of the problems that appear to have plagued the previous 2.2.x kernels. I upgraded straight to 2.2.14 and had no problems, and am now running 2.2.15pre19-1 with no problems either. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 3 May 2000, UMUM wrote: Is it safe for me to upgrade to Linux kernel 2.2.14 yet? I've just upgraded from slink/stable to potato/frozen, but kept my old 2.0.38 kernel. Thanks in advance. Urip Hudiono -- Bandung, Indonesia -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Passing an input file through mail.
Heres the deal - I dial into my ISP, and get allocated a random IP address, ie. I do not have a static IP, and cannot obtain one with my current ISP. What I would like to do, is on dialing in, pipe my ifconfig ppp0 to a file, and mail that to my work address as follows: ifconfig ppp0 ipaddy mail -s IP [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipaddy Doing this, according to my sendmail logs, generates a Data Format Error. Any way I can achieve this using the above approach, or is there a better alternative I am not aware of? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
