Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux
As I know, there are also bibg applications ported from DOS to linux (like doom), I thoughtm that would be easy - just start a cross compiler, then fix some issues, ready. But I believe, it is not that easy, I suppose, this is a lot lot lot work. And as far as I understood, code from DOS C is far from similar to Linux C. The opposite is in fact true: the C language with its core library is highly standardized and portable across all platforms. There probably is no "more portable" computer language in existence. Implementation-specific libraries, however, are usually not portable, hence applications using these libraries must be adapted to the target system. And that bit is not "some issues" -- it's the real work.
Re: No sound after bullseye install
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 09:52:12 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Yeah, that was it. I hadn't installed ALSA at all. I wasn't aware > > that pulseaudio sits on top of ALSA. > > Because PulseAudio "sits on top of" ALSA it also depends on it. Some > command-line tools for ALSA are not installed by default though (e.g. > the package alsa-tools). Right. And I needed alsactl from alsa-tools to find out that my speakers were muted.
No sound after bullseye install
Hi, after installing Debian bullseye I can't get sound to work. I'm using lightdm + dwm, and I have pulseaudio installed. "pavucontrol" ist stuck on the message "Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..." I don't understand zilch about how sound on Linux works, but my previous version of Debian on the same hardware worked. NB, this is a fresh install, not an upgrade from buster (?).
Can't get sound to work
Hi all,
this is my umptieth Debian installation I've done on various PCs over
the years, but this time the sound setup really has me stumped. I can't
hear anything unless I use aplay with -D hw:0,0 but setting that in the
configuration file doesn't help. No other sound-outputting program
works. Here's a shell excerpt:
bl@dotcom:~$ aplay test.wav # can't hear nothing
bl@dotcom:~$ aplay -D hw:0,0 test.wav # this plays sound
bl@dotcom:~$ cat .asoundrc
cat: .asoundrc: No such file or directory
bl@dotcom:~$ cat /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 0
}
bl@dotcom:~$ aplay -l
List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD1984 Analog [AD1984 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: AD1984 Alt Analog [AD1984 Alt
Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
bl@dotcom:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfe9dc000 irq 45
bl@dotcom:~$
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Re: What am I missing without mutt?
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I see what you are saying. Tell me, in mutt can I have several (5-6) compose messages open and switch between them and the main window that I'm copying / pasting from? No, at least not in a single instance. Also, will mutt remember that when I write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need the From address to be [EMAIL PROTECTED], and when I write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need the From address to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can set all that with those omnipotent hooks, but no, mutt won't remember it in the sense that it will automatically keep doing it after you've done it once. Those two features are necessary to my workwflow, and so far as I understand only GUI mail clients perform the former, while only Thunderbird (with an extension) can perform the latter. Have you looked at Claws? It's amazing, and a ton faster than TB. I find it neater all around. Carries no HTML baggage with it whatsoever. --D. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
How to set up a WLAN?
Hello, this message is all the more strange since I had wireless up and running with Debian once. But that system got hosed about a year ago for some reason or another, and now I've got it set up again and I'm completely stumped with the WLAN thingy. $ lsusb Bus 005 Device 003: ID 2001:3c00 D-Link Corp. [hex] DWL-G122 802.11g rev. B1 [ralink] OK, this is a Ralink RT2500 chipset. I've built the rt2500usb module and loaded it. ifconfig wlan0 up worked. I'd like to connect to the public network that's set up around the campus. What do I have to do to make it happen? Everybody else's Windoze and Mac laptop simply connects to whatever network it happens to find. There is a utility with the promising name iwspy, but that tells me: wlan1 Interface doesn't support wireless statistic collection Don't know what that means except that it doesn't work. There are two Debian packages for this chipset: rt2500-source and rt2x00-source. They provide different modules, but neither really seem to work. I do remember using some tools when I had this set up about a year ago that listed all networks in the vicinity, and dumped screen upon screen of network traffic. After an afternoon of playing with this stuff, straight from Debian stable packages. Now I've been trying this for three days and I'm not getting anywhere. Am I getting too old? Thanks, --D. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to set up a WLAN?
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:40:30AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote: I don't have any rt-2xxx or rt-25xx packages installed, so support must be compiled in the kernel(?). Those are just the modules. Can you do a lsmod | grep rt to see which one you've actually loaded? wifi-radar doesn't work either. It's always Interface doesn't allow scanning. --D. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
exim question
Hello, Due a to an error in my /etc/exim4/passwd.client, quite a bit of mail was refused by the remote SMTP relay host. I now fixed it but can't find the messages any more. Does exim dump them? I still have them in my sent-mail folder and can bounce them, but I thought there maybe was some queue seomwhere. Thanks, --D. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
How to do SMTP AUTH with exim?
Hello, I'm trying to send out email using exim. As I'm behind a firewall I can't just connect to any arbitary SMTP server out there but have to relay through my institution's SMTP server which requires authentification. Unfortunately I haven't found any information on how to make exim authentificate on OUTGOING SMTP connections. Thanks, --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resurrecting ancient IOMEGA ZIP drive
Hello folks, for one last time I wanted to set in motion my old, parallel-port IOMEGA Zip Drive to back up my stack of disks before I retire (read: dump in the trash) the whole shebang for good. I think the proper driver is ppa. I connected everything but nothing happens. Happens in the sense that anything gets added in the /dev/disks/ directory tree when I insert a disk in the drive. I tried rmmoding all parallel port-related modules and modprobing only ppa, but no change. The module loaded without error though. All this is sooo long ago, I really can't remember how it worked back in the days of the 1.xx.yy kernel which is probably the last time I used this thing. I know there were two versions of the parallel-port ZIP, and my drive is the older one. Here's some modprobe output, if it is of any interest: kir:/dev# modprobe -v ppa insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-k7/kernel/drivers/parport/parport.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-k7/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.ko ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x) pnp: Device 00:0a activated. parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA] kir:/dev# Thanks, --D. pgpBouCS4GVu8.pgp Description: PGP signature
less or man clear-screen issue
Hello, when viewing man pages (or any kind of file, really) with less, what bugs me is that less restores the screen content before its execution on exit. Which means that I always need to switch between two terminals (or use screen) when I need to keep an eye on the manpage while trying to compose a difficult command line. I'd prefer to be able to quit less (and man) at the point of interest and just get my propmt back, with the remains of the manpage still on screen. more does this, but I prefer less. Is there an option to turn this behavior off? I haven't found any in the less manpage. --D. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
After Sarge-Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.
Hello, After I did a sarge-etch update on the weekend the machine frequenty hangs during bootup with the message: waiting for root filesystem. All I can do is type reboot at the (initramfs) prompt, then it reboots and usually gets beyond that point. But of course now I'm in my office, and my wife called: Computer doesn't boot. She rebooted it no less than four times (including turning it off and on again), and it always hangs with that message. She needs to work from home, and my computer is the print server. Now we're both unhappy. What can have happened there? --Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DVD ROM Drive mounting confusion
Hello, in my box I have a DVD-ROM drive and a DVD burner. I ide-scsi'd both of them (because I occasionally use multi-session DVDs which, when using the ATAPI driver, are not mountable any more if the last session is beyond a certain position). This sould make the drives appear as /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1. However, regardless of whether I mount /dev/scd0 or /dev/scd1, I always get the disk in the DVD burner (hda) mounted and never the one in the DVD ROM (hdb). Hints, anyone? Attached below is the output of dmesg and cdrecord -scanbus, all of which looks fine to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep hd Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdc3 ro hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi ide_setup: hda=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: TOSHIBA ODD-DVD SD-M1802, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: SAMSUNG SV1604N, ATA DISK drive hdc: attached ide-disk driver. hdc: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: attached ide-scsi driver. hdb: attached ide-scsi driver. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdrecord -scanbus Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) '_NEC' 'DVD_RW ND-3500AG' '2.18' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'TOSHIBA ' 'ODD-DVD SD-M1802' '1034' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get those nice console fonts?
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I don't know much about this, but you seem to have 2 vga= options above. that could be part of the problem. Look, wise guy. There's a good reason why there are 2 such options given. In case you haven't figured it out youself, I'll tell you: I A M F U C K I N G S T U P I D ...that is to say, errr, thanks a lot for pointing it out! Sheesh! How embarassing. Problem solved. --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get those nice console fonts?
Hello, I'd like to have my console (non-X) fonts small and neat like Knoppix's. I tried the various vga=xxx kernel options but all of them produced bigger and uglier fonts. How is it done? --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get those nice console fonts?
Florian Kulzer wrote: I use vga=0x303 and that looks exactly like Knoppix's fonts on my terminals. However, I think this also depends on the kernel configuration options related to the console fonts. Here is what I have: $ grep -i font /boot/config-$(uname -r) # CONFIG_FONTS is not set CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y (I use a self-compiled kernel, therefore I do not know how the stock Debian kernels are set up in that respect.) My stock kernel (2.4.27-3-k7) gives the same settings, but doesn't let me change anything. In fact it seems to ignore any of the vga= options, including vga=ask. Here's what I see in dmesg's output: Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=4 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi vga=791 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 2104.783 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x30 This is sad because it's a non-X system and I'd like to see some more info on the console screen. Thanks for any hints, --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get those nice console fonts?
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: I use vga=791 however it depends on your video card to support it. Which video card is it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci | grep VGA :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get those nice console fonts?
Florian Kulzer wrote: I use vga=0x303 and that looks exactly like Knoppix's fonts on my terminals. However, I think this also depends on the kernel configuration options related to the console fonts. Here is what I have: $ grep -i font /boot/config-$(uname -r) # CONFIG_FONTS is not set CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y (I use a self-compiled kernel, therefore I do not know how the stock Debian kernels are set up in that respect.) My stock kernel (2.4.27-3-k7) gives the same settings, but doesn't let me change anything. In fact it seems to ignore any of the vga= options, including vga=ask. Here's what I see in dmesg's output: Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=4 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi vga=791 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 2104.783 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x30 This is sad because it's a non-X system and I'd like to see some more info on the console screen. Thanks for any hints, --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....
Jakub Narojczyk wrote: Hi gdm and kdm are both resource consumeing so i recomend using xdm or just startx command on an old machine. Especially when You're short on RAM. Yes they are. gdm a lot more so than kdm (I chucked gdm because I thought it was even too slow on my 3GHz Athlon). After running the window manager the ?dm's don't do nothing more than stay in the memory till You finish Your xsession. Actually they will be swapped out, so after the actual X session starts, they won't consume any valuable RAM. Anyway, I agree with your advice: Use xdm, or no desktop manager at all. --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DVD ROM Drive confusion
Hello, in my box I have a DVD-ROM drive and a DVD burner. I ide-scsi'd both of them (because I occasionally use multi-session DVDs which, when using the ATAPI driver, are not mountable any more if the last session is beyond a certain position). This sould make the drives appear as /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1. However, regardless of whether I mount /dev/scd0 or /dev/scd1, I always get the disk in the DVD burner (hda) mounted and never the one in the DVD ROM (hdb). Hints, anyone? Attached below is the output of dmesg and cdrecord -scanbus, all of which looks fine to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep hd Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdc3 ro hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi ide_setup: hda=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: TOSHIBA ODD-DVD SD-M1802, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: SAMSUNG SV1604N, ATA DISK drive hdc: attached ide-disk driver. hdc: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: attached ide-scsi driver. hdb: attached ide-scsi driver. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdrecord -scanbus Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) '_NEC' 'DVD_RW ND-3500AG' '2.18' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'TOSHIBA ' 'ODD-DVD SD-M1802' '1034' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Fonts
First off - I can't believe I'm the only person having this trouble, but I couldn't find any useable information about this on the Net. Well, I'm trying to install a collection of TTF fonts on my Debian system. The strange thing is that I've managed it once but can't reproduce the way I did it. I added an appropriately named subdirectory under /usr/share/fonts/truetype in which I placed the fonts. Then, after failing to get my head around a single font-related manpage I ran a few of the scripts and programs I found mentioned and all of a sudden I could use the fonts. Then I tried it a again, about one hour later. After an hour's worth of failing completely, I gave up. Of all the font-related manpages, I found defoma-user's the most enlightening. It consists of a single line that says: I have no idea what defoma-user does just yet. I'm working on it.. Can anybody point me to some intelligeble information on this subject? The way I think this /should/ work is: 1. Place new fonts into some specific directory or a subdirectory thereof 2. Run some script that scans the fonts directory tree to build some database/cache (actually, fc-cache seems to do just that. But I can't see any useful result.) 3. Possibly restart X 4. Use the fonts The fact that there seems to be no mechanism that works just like that indicates that font management under X is infintely more complicated than I can begin to fathom. Why is that? Thanks, --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reliability of deborphan?
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:07:24 +0100, Rob Bochan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you what's safe to delete. In one instance, the Opera browser has (had?) motif dependencies. However, because Opera is not a Debian package, and doesn't actually fail to install without the libmotif package, deborphan will happily tell you that that the libmotif package is on its orphaned (no dependencies on it) list. Just for information - Opera is being distributed as a .deb since at least version 6, and at least the current version I'm running (9) doesn't have any motif dependencies. It probably hasn't for some time because I've been using it since 6 and can't recall having thrown out motif. --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why root fs read-only on shutdown?
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:29:02 +0100, Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my S40unmountfs: echo -n Unmounting local filesystems... umount -tnoproc,noprocfs,nodevfs,nosysfs,nousbfs,nousbdevfs,nodevpts -d -a -r echo done. # This is superfluous. mount -n -o remount,ro / The umount -r means that in case unmounting fails, remount ro, which therefore makes the mount -o remount,ro superfluous. If you disable both attempts to remount ro and either power off or fsck, you risk corruption. Ah, I missed the -r subtlety. All this makes sense. Thanks. --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why root fs read-only on shutdown?
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:47:14 +0100, Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before power off, the filesystem has to be unmounted or it risks corruption. Since its being used (is busy) by the very scripts trying to unmount, it can't. The answer is for it to be remounted ro. Makes perfect sense. I'm just wondering where this remounting occurs if it was disabled in umountfs.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why root fs read-only on shutdown?
Hello, every day I turn my computer off when I leave work. Consequently, I have to turn I back on when I get back. About twice a week, of course, one of my 6 harddisk partitions is ready for its routine check on startup which costs me precious worktime. In an attempt to gain maybe 2 hours cumulative over my entire work life, I came up with the following brilliant idea: To my custom shutdown script (which backs up my day's work and does some cleanup) I added the line: touch /forcefsck and placed this symbolic link in rc0.d: S41checkfs.sh - ../init.d/checkfs.sh (right after S40umountfs - ../init.d/umountfs). The idea being that I don't care how long the machine works before powerdown as by that time I'm well on my way home. It didn't take me long to discover that init.d/umountfs remounts / read-only, preventing checkfs.sh to wipeout the /forcefsck flag, but as the remount line was commented as superfluous in init.d/umountfs I took the liberty to comment it out. Anyway, checkfs.sh still can't delete the flag because rm still says that the root fs is read-only. This of course results in *every* partition being force-checked on *every* startup, which is the exact opposite of what I had been trying to accomplish. A grep on remount in init.d, however, revealed that there are no other scripts that remount / as read-only. So how come that / is read-only by the time I get to my ingenious rc0.d/S41 hack? Needless to say that the quest for the answer has by now cost me much more time than I had hoped to save. But my curiosity is tickled. Thanks for any insight: --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why root fs read-only on shutdown?
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:27:12 +0100, Bill Marcum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you try to fsck / while it is mounted read-write, you will be warned that this is a very bad idea. Note that I don't try to check / on shutdown, and / also isn't checked by checkfs.sh. I'm wondering what makes / read-only on shutdown. It isn't umountfs, because I've commented out the relevan remount line. make a copy of the checkfs script and modify it to do fsck -f. Don't have to if /forcefsck is there. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with apt-move
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 06:00:11 +0100,
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
try these and see if you can interpret these results better.
dpkg -l|awk '{print $1}'|sort|uniq -c
grep Status /var/lib/dpkg/status|sort |uniq -c
Hi Kevin,
thanks, but the numbers don't change: 850+ packages installed, but only
about 200 downloaded by apt-move.
Still trying...
--Daniel
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How can I make a local package repository available to apt?
Hi folks, I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not organized in any way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make apt recognize this repository? I tried adding deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/ to the apt-sources file, but of course apt balks at this as it is malformed because it doesn't have the sections listed after the directory. The .debs come from all sorts of sections of the official debian distro. How can I make this work? Thanks, --Daniel __ Extra-Konto: 2,50 %* Zinsen p. a. ab dem ersten Euro! Nur hier mit 25 Euro-Tankgutschein ExtraPrämie! https://extrakonto.web.de/?mc=021110 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I make a local package repository available to apt?
Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 25.02.04 11:09:28: You need to run dpkg-scanpackages. Read the Debian Repository HOWTO http://www.isotton.com/debian/docs/repository-howto/repository-howto.html. Simple enough, as I expected. I just didn't know where to look. Thanks also to the other posters who replied equally helpfully. --Daniel __ Extra-Konto: 2,50 %* Zinsen p. a. ab dem ersten Euro! Nur hier mit 25 Euro-Tankgutschein ExtraPrämie! https://extrakonto.web.de/?mc=021110 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BUG
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Kent West wrote: smoothly as it should have (for whatever reason). Although this next idea is a child of the Windows mentality, you might want to redo the install from the beginning. A more experienced person would fix the problem rather than reinstall, but a newbie from the Microsoft world might find a reinstall both educational and helpful. You don't need to come from the Microsoft world to find this useful. I've been a long-time user of a small (non-X) Slackware system and switched to Debian a short while ago. I've now installed the system three times over, but I now got it down and think that Debian is a great system. The reason for this is that the Debian package management is quite non- intuitive, but it works great once you've got it figured out. During the package selecting/configuring phase of my first install, I missed the significance of many package settings or interrelationships between packages and didn't understand what dselect tried to tell me about it. So I ended up with a buggy, non-working installation. Much of my trouble, however, was in my case also owed to a definitely faulty hardware. I now know what it means if they tell you: Debian is NOT for the beginner, but also an experienced Linux user will have minor troubles. After a few frustrating days and a few re-installs, however, you are an experienced Debian user with an extremely well-built system where everything is to be found in the right place. Something you can't say after the first SuSE install which most likely runs quite smoothly. Nothing against SuSE, btw. It's just that it doesn't _force_ you to get acquainted with it, so if you run into trouble later, it's more difficult to get out again. --Daniel
How to force reconfiguring of a package?
Hi folks, I have two questions related to Debian package management. 1) My apache server doesn't start up. When I manually try to start it, it complains that it can't figure out the hostname of the local system. Weird, because hostname returns the correct name. Anyway, I suspect that something went wrong during the post-installation configuration, so I'd like to re-run that script. dpkg --configure package.deb, however, doesn't want to do anything on the grounds that the package is already properly set up. Un-installing and re-installing seems a bit like overkill, and dselect of course bitches a lot about the stuff that depends on a web server and wants to uninstall it, too (I know I can force dselect to keep those things, but it's easy to fuck up anyway). So my question actually comes down to a special and a general one: 1a) Why dosn't apache know the name of its host, and where does it try to get it from? 1b) How to re-configure an already installed and configured package? 2) Since I also have plenty of non-debian related trouble with this computer, I have installed Debian for the third time now. Is it possible to save the entire setup of the system in such a way (preferably on a floppy disk) that for a re-installation all I would have to do is pop in the distribution disk and the saved installation, go and drink coffee, and come back to the ready-installed system an hour later? This would also be interesting if one wanted to set up a lot of computers in a row. BTW, on my first two installation the apache server started up without trouble. I don't know what I did differently. **Daniel
Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in over two months. I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried adjtimex --adjust resulting in the system clock losing more than five minutes in a day. Then I tried adjtimex -u --adjust, resulting in the system clock losing 20 minutes a day. I just want the system clock to match the hardware clock. Please help. All I can offer in this matter is that, despite of many hours of trying and reading manuals, I have never ever managed to figure out the system / hardware clock interrelationships with Linux. I have an old computer whose hw clock loses several minutes a day, and with hwclock and friends this should be fixable (since the deviation is known, the real time can be computed from the faulty BIOS clock on power up). I never got it to work and I now live with the fact that I'm days behind. My new computer's hw clock is set to GMT and runs fine. My timezone is set one hour off GMT (Central European), but date shows a time that's five hours late. I just stopped caring. --Daniel
Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jack wrote: It crashes Netscape (Navigator) on my machine. There's nothing to protect. Everybody knows netscape sucks for now. However, fact is fact. Haven't had netscape trouble under Linux yet (I don't use it much), but on an IRIX 6.4 system it dumps core the instant I click on a mailto: link. Of course it started this habit only half a year ago without appearent reason. If I open the Mail server configuration window and close it again without changing anything, everything works afterwards. --Daniel
Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: ljfour and 2400 even though I specified that it should use a 2400dpi printer that I found in modes.mf , supre to be exact. Anyclues would be this only concern metafont to produce a dvi. dvips relies on ghostscript (either gs or gs-alladin) to do the conversion. What does dvips need ghostscript for? --Daniel
How to shut up dselect?
Hi, I have a question related to installing non-debian programs: When I first installed Debian 2.1, I noticed that it came with teTeX 0.9. I un-installed that and installed teTeX-1.0 from the CTAN archive. Of course, the debian package manager doesn't know about this, so whenever I use dselect, it comes up with this old some package needs teTeX line. I once even didn't notice and let dselect have its way, so all of a sudden it started installing teTeX 0.9. I hit Ctrl-C to stop that (I know, bad idea), and now teTeX 0.9 is so fucked up that dselect won't even un-install whatever fragments it managed to put on the disk. It tells me to install it first and then un-install it. In this case, this is not a big problem because I have teTeX entirely under its own tree in /usr/local/teTeX, so messing around with another version will not do any damage. But if I had installed teTeX-1.0 in the same place as 0.9, it would now certainly be broken. Is there a way to tell dselect: I installed sucha-and-such myself, it's there, so stop bitching (and remember next time)? I know that this is somewhat against the whole idea of packet management. Is making a .tar.gz into a .deb package the only clean way? What if I don't want to make the .tar.gzipped source tree the packege, but the make installed result (with all its files scattered in various places of the system)? Enough questions for today. --Daniel
Re: System crashes using 2.2.1 kernel with ATI Rage Fury
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Adam Wojnicki wrote: I experience problems using my ATI Rage Fury (ATI Rage 128) video card with 2.2.x kernel. With 2.0.36 kernel I use a XRage128 server from SUSE and everything works fine. I use the same card and X server and I upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.12 without a hitch. Seems to be the only problem I *don't* have. Try 2.2.12 and see what heppens. Good luck! --Daniel
