Re: DVD on Linux?
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 02:16 -0500, Kent West wrote: Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 12:30:39AM -0700, Ramiel G. wrote: Does anyone know if there are any DVD players out there for Linux? Due to restrictions on the decoding algorithms and (I presume) the specs for chips used in hardware decoders there aren't any. Oh Man! This means I've talked my sister into a Linux box for nothing; playing DVDs was an important issue for her. At least we're still in the planning stage. I guess it's back to her original plan of getting a blue-box G3 (at three times the cost). At least I'll be able to put LinuxPPC on it The problem with that of course is that a lot of DVD films with DVD-ROM content (stuff like scripts, web-links etc) you can only access the DVD-ROM extras via windows (since it's the _only_ OS anyone ever uses. Isn't it? :) Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: Which server to use??
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 09:03 -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Hi all, I've got a problem i can't get out. when i install X i also must install a server. only which server do i need to use? I've got a 17-inch screen, and a monsterfusion videocart with 16 MB memory onboard. I like to use a resolution of 1024 x 768 x 24 bpp or 1280 x 1024 24 bpp. I hope anyone knows the answer. Thanx in advance. Arjen. You can use SVGA for starters, because it's compatible with just about any video card, and then find your specific server (I think you would need to get the 3.3.3.1 version of X) Andrew Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Monster Fusion is a Banshee based card is it not? In that case install the X stuff as normal, then go to your nearest xfree86 mirror and grab the SVGA server from 3.3.4. Unpack it, and replace the SVGA server that should already be installed. HTH. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: vim syntax files
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 21:04 +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I have (well, had) a set of customised vim syntax command in the /usr/share/vim/vim54/syntax/synload.vim file. I just upgraded to vim[-rt] 5.4.21 and lost all my syntax settings. Is the file likely to be backed up anywhere or anything? Anyway, I guess this is probably my fault for doing things wrong, but where else can I put these syntax settings? I'm sure I didn't concede to overwriting these files on install, and I don't want to lose the settings next time I upgrade. Where else should they go? I simply copied the syntax file to my home dir, and put the line source ~/.vim_syntax in my .vimrc (thanks to whoever it was who suggested that to me). Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: Bleeding edge video (Matrox G400)
I just got a Voodoo3 card which is also only supported in 3.3.4. What I did was simply boogie over to the nearest xfree mirror and pick down the SVGA server binary and simply replace the old 3.3.2 binary. Works a treat. Cheers Dave On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 10:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the market for a new computer and I've been looking at Advanced System Laboratories (www.aslab.com) as a possible source. They include the Matrox G400 card in all of their systems (along with AcceleratedX). Xfree86 supports the G400 card in version 3.3.4. but it appears that potato is only up to 3.3.3. If I get this machine and if (actually when) I load it with Debian I'll need to resolve all of this. Does anyone have experience with the following? 1. Running AcceleratedX with Debian. 2. Running Xfree86 3.3.4 with Debian. 3. Having them both available on one machine. I would like to run Xfree86 and volunteer for testing but I would also like a bit of stability. -- Mark Zimmerman -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Autoloading scsi driver
I have finally got my scsi card hooked up to my scanner, but I have one question: How do I make sure the three modules needed are loaded automatically by the kernel? When accessing the scanner the sg.o and scsi_mod.o modules are autoloaded. The advansys.o module I still have to insert by hand. What line do I put in /etc/modutils/aliases? And is there any way to cut down the amount of time the driver hogs the bus while loading? Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: Video Card
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:26 -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Raymond A. Ingles wrote: ...from what I've gathered 2D support is a little immature, and it's really hard to render into a window... Actually, the Voodoo3 drivers have been incorporated into Xfree86 3.3.4... atleast, that's what the Xfree86 FAQ says. Okay, cool. I'll remember that. Still, I remember reading that rendering 3D into a window isn't the Voodoo's stong suit. But for full-speed hardware rendering in Linux, they're (for now) the only game in town. If you have an AMD CPU or a not particularly high spec CPU Voodoo3 is by all accounts the best choice, since it isn't as dependent on the host CPU. According to Darryll Strauss (the developer of the linux version of Glide and the X sever) voodoo3 has probably the best 2d performance on the market (well, he would say that, wouldn't he ;) Hopefully the V3 2k card I ordered yesterday should arrive any day now, and with a bit of luck it should be overclockable so that it runs at the same speed as the 3k model. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Soundcard volume problems
I've had an annoying problem with the volume on my soundcard for some time now, and it is really annoying me now. Since I use headphones I don't want the volume to be set very high, so I use aumix to set the volume when I log in. However, a number of programs insist on setting it to a much higher level when they start, which tends to be very painful if I forget to take the headphones off before I start the program. Is there any cure for this problem? Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: Freeserve CD workaround?
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 18:38 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 05:38:40PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: DoeS aNyBody have the method for installing freeserve without using the CD handy, please? or a URL? Go to the website using some existing network connection and fill in the form there (it was quite promenantly listed last time I checked). It will spit out sufficient technical details to set up. I believe it's http://signup.freeserve.net You probably need to use Netscape. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
SCSI cable question
I just bought a 2nd hand SCSI scanner (it should work with linux), but since I've never used SCSI devices in my life I'm not quite sure what I need. The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. One cause of confusion is that the manual doesn't actually say what the 25 pin port on the scanner is for, it only shows the cable being plugged into the 50 pin port. Is it safe to assume that the 25 pin port is also for SCSI? Would it be enough to buy a 50-pin centronics - 25-pin d-plug adapter? Or would I have to buy a 50 pin - 50 pin cable? Also, the the scanner came with a 50 pin terminator. Does this go into whatever device is at the end of the chain? Can I also attach internal devices at the same time? I'd be grateful if some kind soul could take pity on this SCSI-clueless user... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: SCSI cable question
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Robert Rati wrote: The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. Most likely, the 25 pin plug is also SCSI. 25-pin and 50-pin Cent were both out about the same time I believe. Would it be enough to buy a 50-pin centronics - 25-pin d-plug adapter? Or would I have to buy a 50 pin - 50 pin cable? Most likely, that's all you'll need. The manual should specify what the 25-pin port is somewhere. You would have thought so, wouldn't you? But no... Also, the the scanner came with a 50 pin terminator. Does this go into whatever device is at the end of the chain? Can I also attach internal devices at the same time? The terminator goes on the last device in the external chain. You can attach internal devices at the same time, just make sure each device (internal or external) has a different SCSI ID. The internal chain will have to be terminated also. Thanks for the info... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: SCSI cable question
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:42 -0500, Ares wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: One cause of confusion is that the manual doesn't actually say what the 25 pin port on the scanner is for, it only shows the cable being plugged into the 50 pin port. Is it safe to assume that the 25 pin port is also for SCSI? Would it be enough to buy a 50-pin centronics - 25-pin d-plug adapter? Or would I have to buy a 50 pin - 50 pin cable? Was this scanner originally intended to be used with a Mac by any chance? Although I've never seen a SCSI device with different types of SCSI ports, it would make sense as the Mac had a 25-pin D-port for their SCSI (as to Zip 100 SCSI drives). I'd buy an adapter were I you. Presumably you've got a 50 or 68-pin high-density D connector for the SCSI out of your machine? If so, then buy the appropriate connected cable and a 50-to-25 pin converter. You could also get a 25-to-50 pin cable and put it in the logical other way. This is how I've got my Zip connected to my machine at work. Then, put the terminator on the 50-pin Centronics. It it is indeed a mac-scanner. It is the Mac version of the microtek E3 scanner. The card I'm buying has apparantly got a 50 pin connector. Also, the the scanner came with a 50 pin terminator. Does this go into whatever device is at the end of the chain? Can I also attach internal devices at the same time? I'd be grateful if some kind soul could take pity on this SCSI-clueless user... See the quote at the bottom of my sig for some SCSI advice. :) SCSI sounds fun :) Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the other end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 06:33 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: On 2 Aug, Hartmut Figge wrote: Christian Dysthe wrote: Opera will be ready for Linux soon. But Opera is not free. I work for ^^ could you be a bit more precisely? Ummm...don't quote me on this, but I would be surprised if the Linux beta is not out three months from now (We released a BeOS version this weekend btw). By which time of course mozilla should be in a useable state (IMHO it's already more stable than communicator 4.61). *Sigh* Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Possible culprit for netscape glibc crashes
For what I've been able to work out the xlib6g package is responsible for the netscape bug where closing a window crashes the whole thing with a bus error. I downgraded from xlib6g_3.3.3.1-10 to xlib6g_3.3.2.3a and netscape seems a lot happier now (touch wood). YMMV. Cheers Dave PS Should I file a bug report? If so against which package? -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: Exim filters instead of procmail?
I believe you will find all the documentation you need for this is in /usr/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz. HTH. Cheers Dave On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 16:22 +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: I am now successfully using exim instead of sendmail. I use fetchmail and procmail for fetching my mail from my IP's POP server and sorting it into folders. I understand exim has its own mechanism for sorting incoming mail - can fetchmail pass mail onto exim and get exim to sort it? Can anyone point me to an appropriate document, FAQ, whatever which would explain what I would have to do to set it all up? Many thanks. -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux (Potato) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation AOL users please put AOL SUCKS in subject of reply to avoid /dev/null ---
Re: netscape menubar blackwhite
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:37 -0500, Judith Elaine Bush wrote: *- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about netscape menubar blackwhite Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode. Netscape has a known problem with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp. Other than the icons being in bw (and i like the reduced visual clutter) is there any other reason you shouldn't run Netscape under 24bpp? I might be incorrect about this, but I recall reading somewhere that running the xserver at 32 bpp is faster than running it at 24 bpp, as it can then take advanatage of the fact that image data is nicely aligned along word boundaries (I presume the data is padded with an extra 8 bits in 24 bpp mode, which would slow things down). Not so much a reason for not running Netscape at 24 bpp, but rather a general reason for running X at either 16 or 32 bpp... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Sound cards that support a3d
Does anyone know if any of the a3d capable soundcards out there have got drivers available under linux (I would go for a SB Live, but since the drivers are bin only it's out of the question)? The linux drivers don't have to support a3d (I'm one of those people who dual-boots to winders just to play games). Any info will be much appreciated. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: VIM questions
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 21:06 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:15:05PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I invoked from mutt it waits for me to press a key. Very annoying. How do I get rid of that behaviour? I'd love to know how to shut that thing off as well. Completely unneeded and annoying as all hell. Just figured it out: the culprit is the ruler option. Turn it off and the evil goes away...Bummer, really, as the ruler is slightly useful... 2) How do I make use the dark background syntax settings? Set them up in a local directory and have the local directory override the global syntax directory. OK, I feel a bit dumb, but how do I do that? 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or is there some other key that is used for that purpose? Here's from my .vimrc set tabstop=2 set expandtab expandtab is the one that will automatically set tabs to spaces. Great! Just what I was looking for... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
VIM questions
I have a few questions regarding VIM that have been nagging at me for a while, and I'm hoping someone can help me out... 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I invoked from mutt it waits for me to press a key. Very annoying. How do I get rid of that behaviour? 2) How do I make use the dark background syntax settings? I've set background to dark, but it makes no difference - it still inists on using such groovy combinations as dark blue on black. In the past I have edited /usr/syntax/vim directly, commenting out the dark settings, and changing the colours in the light scheme more to my liking. However, it tends to get hosed every time I upgrade vim, which is a PITA. How do I set up vim to use my personal colour settings? (FWIW I think the doc system on vim is awful - the one thing I really don't like about it) 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or is there some other key that is used for that purpose? Any illumination will be much appreciated Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: ALI V
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 15:40 -0300, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: Hello, I have a super 7 mother board with ALI V chipset. This chipset is not directly supported by kernel 2.2, but there is a patch to support (and some others) at: http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ If I understand well these are the official ide developers for the linux kernel. So I am considering to give it a try. Anyone out there that got udma on ALI V working with this patch? Yup, works fine with my 2.2.3 kernel and Asus P5A mobo. Mind you, I had a problem with IRQ timeouts, so that DMA couldn't be set, but it was fixed when I got proper PC100 memory for some reason. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: DMA on MVP3 ChipSet? (was: ALI V)
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 11:54 -0400, Chris Mayes wrote: Well, I aw this thread and realized that my problam may be with the motherboard rather than anything else. I have just bought an EPoX MVP3G-M motherboard (along with a bunch of other stuff), and both Debian and BeOS (which is OT, I know) have trouble getting DMA out of it. The board uses the Apollo MVP-3 chipset, which doesn't mean anything to me, but might help in the diagnostics :-) I have a WD Caviar AC38400 8.4 GB hard drive. It's pulled from my old system, which seemed to do DMA just fine on it. Anyway, the problem in Linux shows up when it tries to activate DMA on the hard drive. It just times out and goes to whatever the default is. (In Be, it locks up at boot time unless I disable it, but that's another story ;-)) So, I was wondering if there is a patch similar to the Aladdin patch above for the Apollo MVP3. If not, is anyone familiar enough with the setup to suggest BIOS or other changes? I'd be much obliged. As I mentioned in a previous post I had problems with one of my drives, which I couldn't set DMA on. Then when I changed memory (the supposedly PC100 compatible memory I had been sent couldn't cope with 100MHz bus) the problem disappeared. I have no idea why, it's just a bit bizarre. Voodoo magic probably :) Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
System time is broken
Ever since we went over to summer time here in the UK my system has been broken. It started with the extra hour not being added after the change. I then tried to correct it using the date command, and have then tried the hwclock command (which worked). My problem is that whenever I use standby on my machine the kernel time isn't updated, which it used to (it was a standard hamm setup). I would really appreciate it if someone could help me get out of this mess. Any help much appreciated. Btw, I read the clock mini-HOWTO, but it only works as long as I don't standby the system. Also, I seem to recall there was a thread here about how to set clocks, but I couldn't find anything in the mailing list archives, so any pointers would be useful. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: K-Rad Debian?
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 09:50 -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: hi 3) Is there an easy way to build ALL the packages in slink from source? i've heard about such idea(s) before. The real question is - do you need to rebuild ALL packages? I doubt rebuilding ls and such will do any difference. The only visible difference might be if you rebuild FEW critical packages/libs. Try to rebuild/reinstall K6 optimized: - kernel - glibc - X11 - netbase/netstd? after that i would be very grateful to hear about any speedup you discovered. Somehow I get the sneaking feeling it wouldn't really be worth all the hassle: By the time everything compiles cleanly computer power will have dropped suffciently in power to render the exercise futile ;) Seriously though, I agree that recompiling the above bits would probably take the distro up to the edge of diminishing returns. But, hey, if someone has the time, I'm all for it. BTW, does pcgc use 3dnow yet? Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Video Card - Creative
There are two ways of getting X running with it: using the fb server (which I understand is slow), or getting the binary only server from http://glide.xxedgexx.com. You'll also find glide drivers there (but if you're running a 2.2.x kernel you'll want the 3dfx device from http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/3dfx/). I haven't got a Banshee card, so i can't comment on stability or performance. Cheers Dave On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 15:34 -0800, mike shupp wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Jolyon Ansuz wrote: I'm trying to find the correct drivers for a Creative Labs 16Mb Voodoo2 Banshee 2d/3d PCI card for Linux/XWin running Debian 2.0 (I suspect.) Could anybody point me to the right direction please? Doable, if memory serves. You might want to look at the XFree86 docs with the distribution, or go to the website (www.xfree86.org). Or check the Linux Hardware Compatabililty HowTo-- the most recent I've seen on the net was dated last November, but maybe there's been an update since then. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Shupp California State University, Northridge Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology http://www.csun.edu/~ms44278/index.htm -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: I can't believe this
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 00:22 -0500, Brian Clark wrote: If you're trying Linux for the first time, Red Hat is the best choice. If I had to choose for the first time again, there is no doubt in my mind that I would go with Debian. Period. As horrible as it sounds I think I would have to agree that RedHat is probably better for the first time linux user. The reason? Well, in Hamm the installation process was an utter mess. The lilo setup was _bad_, and the options were far from obvious. X windows installation didn't work first time round, so I had to reinstall completely to a base system. It was in fact as bad as the very OS we are trying to get users away from. That said once it's up and running Debian is far better than RH. The fact that there are strict guidelines where packages should place stuff makes life so much easier it's just not funny. The documentation is way better, and the community spirit is very strong. Hopefully the dreadful installation process has been sorted out for Slink, and that recommendation can be changed to Debian. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Hamm -- Slink now no color ....
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 06:00 -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: I have recently upgraded to slink and now the following apps only display in monochrome: lynx 2.8.1rel.2 mutt 0.95.3i slrn 0.9.5.3 I don't get any error mesages and the config files are set to use color. (minicom is still in color) You need to install the xbase package (well, that is what fixed the same problem for me). Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Using Procmail
Try searching yahoo for the mail filtering faq, as it has all the info you need. Note though that if you are running exim as your MTA you need to use a different .forward. I use this: # Exim filter pipe /usr/bin/procmail -f- Cheers Dave On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 20:41 +0530, XRDLAB wrote: Hi, Currently I am using fetchmail and pine to get the mail from my isp account and to read/send the messages respectively. As the number of messages I am getting has increased, I am feeling the need to use procmail to sort the mail into different folders. How do I go about putting the messages in different folders (should be readable by pine)? Much of the documentation talks about MH folders. Are they same? TIA, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Linux CDROM problems
It could also be that time of the CD-ROM's life when it has to go and meet it's maker...It's a good possibility as you say it also occurs in NT. I think the likelyhood of the BIOS settings screwing it up are minimal (I've found linux to be very robust when it comes to using CD-ROM drives). Cheers Dave On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 22:19 -, Sarah Iain wrote: I am running Debian 2.0 and am expriencing problems with my CDROM. Previously all was going well and I could add packages via the 2.0 CD, however recently my CD player has been giving problems (when I power up the active light is flashing constantly and never stops). When I boot into debian the kernel finds that the device is not ready with error (I've appended the dmesg report below) hdb: no response (status = 0x90) Is there any way in which I can manually reset the CD drive from the prompt, because dselect tells me that hdb is not a valid block device. I have a Samsung CDROM which is normally on /dev/hdb - the active light flashes from the moment I power on - could this be a problem with the BIOS settings? I unfortunately lost (i.e. wasn't clever enough to write down) the BIOS settings I had when the CD was working. I believe this may be the case since I am now having similar problems under Windows NT. Many thanks, Dr Iain Scott, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Netscape buttons lacking color
Now I could be wrong, but I recall reading that there was an issue regarding some cards running in 24bpp. The solution is to either run in 16bpp, or 32 bpp (which as I understand it is faster than 24bpp anyway, as it can shift pixels on the word boundary). So, try it at 32bpp. Cheers Dave On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:29 -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hello Debian-user, I am running Debian 2.0, XFCE/2 desktop and Netscape 4.5 (glibc) with a Matrox MDA 200 card. Everything is running (suprisingly) smoothly even though I am a Linux newbie. My problem is that the Netscape buttons turn black and white (and ugly!) when I run 24 bpp resolution. Anyone know how to solve with this (The obvious is to reduce the resolution to 16 bit, but I like having 24 bit running gimp). //Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe If everything is coming your way, you are probably in the wrong lane -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: cd_doEject[CDROMEJECT]: Device or resource busy
You're not by any chance running a CD player? Some of them have a habit of hogging the eject function. Just a thought... Cheers Dave On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 00:32 +0100, Björn Elwhagen wrote: Hi! I have a strange problem. Even tho my cdrom is unmounted i can't get it to eject the CD. I'm currently using the IDE-SCSI emulation but the same problem occured when i used the ATAPI-driver. The only message i get is: cd_doEject[CDROMEJECT]: Device or resource busy Has anyone seen or heard of this problem before? Can anyone perhaps give me a hint to where i can look up locked/used devices and such? I've checked around a bit in /proc but haven't been able to spot anything that i can relate to this. Anything that might be useful would be greatly appreciated. Regards // Marwin -- | Björn Elwhagen aka Marwin Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Student at Wexio University for PGP public key. (broken) | | SwedenICQ: 356095 | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
[OT] DMA timeout problem]
I just recently bought an Asus P5A motherboard, and as it has UDMA support,
I thought I'd try enabling it using a patch which is available for the
2.2.2 kernel. Now I know that at least two other people have successfully
used this patch (doogie and aklein on #debian). The problem is that a) one
of my drives (hdb) performance drops to less than 2 or 3 meg/s, and if I try to
enable DMA using hdparm on hdb I get the following messages:
Mar 2 16:13:59 recursive kernel: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
Mar 2 16:13:59 recursive kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 {
DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
Mar 2 16:13:59 recursive kernel: hda: DMA disabled
Mar 2 16:13:59 recursive kernel: hdb: DMA disabled
Mar 2 16:13:59 recursive kernel: ide0: reset: success
I noticed that if I try to set the kernel to get PCI info from the BIOS the
system won't boot with an out of memory error. Also, could the fact that
two of my serial ports have the same IRQ (one is my int. modem and the
other is a normal serial port) have any bearing on the matter?
Any pointers as to what might be wrong or where I can look for more help
will be much appreciated.
Cheers
Dave
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Re: [OT] DMA timeout problem]
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 15:13 -0500, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: I just recently bought an Asus P5A motherboard, and as it has UDMA support, I thought I'd try enabling it using a patch which is available for the 2.2.2 kernel. Now I know that at least two other people have successfully used this patch (doogie and aklein on #debian). The problem is that a) one of my drives (hdb) performance drops to less than 2 or 3 meg/s, and if I try to enable DMA using hdparm on hdb I get the following messages: I think you may need the latest hdparm to use that patch... As nice as a simple solution like that would be, it isn't the case with this - the timout occurs during booting, at drive detection time, well before hdparm is run AFAIK. Thanks for the idea tho :) Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Fw: Mitsumi FX001D CD-ROM drv. Need help...
problems re: mitsumi cd-rom snipped I'm no expert, and this might be of no use at all, but you might want to use lilo to pass the parameters. The only thing I can suggest is take a look at the lilo and lilo.conf man pages (sorry to be so vague :) Cheers Dave the Less Than Helpful -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: compiling debian source
I upgraded vim on a hamm system no problem, apart from taking a little while to realise it had been split up into a number of packages (don't understand why tho). Cheers Dave On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 17:39 -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: Specifically, I want to recompile VIM to use the X version, but I don't want to upgrade to Slink and have to do the job all over again. There must be a safe 'Debian' way? I had a look at dpkg-source but that didn't help much. This might not answer your question..but: What's wrong with VIM as it is? On my system, gvim brings up an X version of VIM. Like the man said, (well, implied,) it doesn't work with hamm. Not on this computer, anyway. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: fetchmail problem
In debian you are supposed to put scripts which you want run when connecting in '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d'. Also, make sure the permssions are correct (-rwxr-xr-x) And (just to ask the obvious) is the command actually pointing to fetchmail (debian places it in /usr/bin/). Apart from this I can't think of any reason why it won't work, as it works just fine for me. This is what my .fetchmailrc looks like (owned by root): -- poll pop.prestel.co.uk with proto pop3 user user there has password password is dave here postconnect /usr/bin/runq -- And the relevant lines from the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/local script look like this: --- #!/bin/sh fetchmail# -Just to make sure the mail is fetched immediatly on fetchmail -d 180 # later connects. --- HTH. Cheers Dave On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 03:06 -, Pollywog wrote: I am having a problem with Fetchmail. I can get mail if I connect to the Internet and then use the command 'fetchmail', but when I was using OpenLinux, I just put: /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 600 in my /etc/ppp/ip-up and I could get my mail whenever I went online with diald. I am unable to do that now and need to enter the command manually. Is there a way to do in Debian what I did in OpenLinux? thanks -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Video for Linux
From what I remember I simply used 'mknod' with the relevant major and minor device numbers, which I found in amongst the docs for the linux kernel (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt to be precise). So the command would be mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0, and then you might have to make /dev/video a symbolic link. HTH. Cheers Dave On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 04:28 -0600, steven walsh wrote: I'm trying to get v4l working on my system. I compiled it into the kernel and dmesg seems to say I find it: i2c: initialized Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv0: Brooktree Bt848 (rev 18) bus: 0, devfn: 48, irq: 11, memory: 0xe7eff000. bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found. bttv0: model: BT848(Miro) but when I install XawTV I get: This is xawtv-2.37, running on Linux/i586 (2.2.1) can't open /dev/video: No such file or directory v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway Warning: Cannot convert string false to type ResizeMode x11: 1280x1024, 16 bit/pixel, 2560 byte/scanline, DGA, VidMode open /dev/video: No such file or directory open /dev/video: No such file or directory no video grabber device available and trying to make /dev/video or /dev/video_capture results in MAKEDEV simply saying it doesn't know how to do such a thing. Any ideas, folks? See you on the flip side - Steve Walsh (EfNet:#Babylon5:KnaraKat) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card
I have one of these (Genius I think) and I use the ne2k-pci module... Cheers Dave On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:56 -0600, David Webster wrote: Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not directly supported? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: CD-ROM problems
One thought - have you got a cd player on your desktop? Some of them grab the eject function. If so you have to use the cd players eject function. Just a thought... Cheers Dave On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 15:42 +, Nathan Dena Blair wrote: Hi all, I am experiencing problems with my CD-ROM drive under Linux. The drive is a Memorex CD-322E (aka Dysan) IDE that is on /dev/hdc. The problem is I can't eject the drive once it's been mounted. I can supposedly umount it ok (no error messages show up or anything), but if I press the eject button, nothing happens. If I try to open it using the 'eject' command, here is what I get: eject: CDROMEJECT ioctl failed for `/dev/hdc': Input/output error I am able to re-mount the drive after umounting it and read from it. dmesg contains the following lines that apply to my CD drives: hdc: CD-ROM 32X/AKU, ATAPI CDROM drive [ few lines deleted ] hdc: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52 hdd: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM DVD-RAM CD-R drive, 512kB Cache [ few lines deleted ] ATAPI device hdc: Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02) Medium removal prevented -- (asc=0x53, ascq=0x02) The failed Start Stop Unit packet command was: 1b 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 I can mount/umount/eject /dev/hdd with no problems. It's a mitsumi 8x/2x recorder. I am running a mostly-stock hamm system with kernel 2.2.0. I also had this problem with the stock hamm kernel (2.0.34 (?)). The drivers are being loaded as modules. I don't really have any problems with it in Windows other than the fact I can't do any CDDA with it. Any ideas? Please let me know if you need more details. Thanks! Nate -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: question about xawtv
Had one running a few months back (with a 2.1.125 kernel). I just followed the docs and it worked fine (with a VCR that is - didn't have an aerial to try it with). Read the docs in usr/src/linux/Documentation. You will probably have to set up the proper device (which is also in the docs somewhere). Good luck. Cheers Dave On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 10:49 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I just install a Hauppage (sp?) tv card. I compiled 2.2.1 to enable video4linux, and for this card. I also installed xawtv. Does anyone have this stuff working? If so please relay some war stories. Thanks -- NatePuri Certified Law Student GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com Receive my PGP Public Key from http://www.pgp.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: WordPerfect: suddenly ending storing
Am I the only one who after exiting WP has a process called wpexc ruuning? I have to manually kill off the darn thing... dave On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 02:11 -0500, Alec Smith wrote: I've been running WordPerfect on Slink for awhile now... Works great. I didn't have any problems with installation, or running afterwards. My one complaint about WP? The extra dialog for closing the program, setting preferences, etc. They ought to be rolled together like the Winblows version -- With Exit on the File menu, etc. Alec At 03:57 PM 2/11/99 +0100, Ingo Hohmann wrote: Just to add some noise to the various WordPerfect threads, these are the error messages, I get when I try to install it. ./install.wp: line 11: 764 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/wpinstg color grey /dev/null 2/dev/null ./install.wp: line 13: 765 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu $Values $bgcolor btw, I use a normal Hamm-system, and have xpm4.7, libc5 and xlib6 installed from the oldlibs (just for Wordperfect, so I don't know if they would work in general) An xwp file is created, but it gets a Segmentation fault, too. Any ideas what's going wrong? thanks in advance Ingo -- Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong. -- (Terry Pratchett, Soul Music) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: help Leafnode again
I had a similiar problem (which wasn't helped by my upstream news-server going down and since fetch doesn't give any progress indication I sat there for 1 1/2 hours before realsing the damn thing was down and gave in for the night :). It seemed more or less random about when it decided to get the active file down. One thing I did do before it got it down which I don't know if it had any bearing or not was change the permissions on /var/spool/news and the directories underneath to those recomended in the docs (rwxrwsrw- I think - can't check since I've gotten rid of leafnode as getting the news down takes too much time: metered phone bills *sigh*). Btw, when you upgraded did you check hosts.allow to make sure it hadn't changed it back to localhost (just a thought)? Hope you figure it out. Cheers Dave On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 14:46 -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote: Thanks to Frank and Dave for setting me straight on the /etc/host.allow entries, I thought I had Leafnode working properly. I was using leafnode version 1.4-10 and have now upgraded to version 1.6.2-2. I can access leafnode from netscape on the workstation, but it can't find the group information file. I ran fetch -v and it went out to the upstream server and requested the active list but it did nothing with it as far as I could tell. Per the system log it is looking for /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo which wasn't there so I did a touch as user news to create it, still with no joy at getting the active groups. Fetch and leafnode can't open /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo and netscape still indicates that the group information file doesn't exist. Suggestions please. TIA John C. Ellingboe Content-Description: Card for John Ellingboe -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Netscape version?
The difference between them is that the supported one uses libc5 (which basically only is around on Debian 2.0 for backwards compatability), while the unsupported one is built on glibc. I use the glibc version and it works fine(ish). Crashes once in a while, occasionally brings down X, but nothing serious ;) If you decide the get the supported version you have to make sure you have the old-libs installed. As for the first part of your question you can usually assume that if it works for Redhat it will work for Debian (If it comes as a .rpm package you might want to use 'alien' to convert it to a .deb package). Cheers Dave On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 02:15 -0500, Gregory Fedoruk wrote: Hello, I am in the process of learning about Unix/Linux and the Debian version. Finally, something similar to my trusty Amiga on a PC platform. I want to set up the OS and of course experiment with internet access. I would like to download Netscape. Could someone please enlighten me as to which version I download? I am assuming that because it's based on Linux, that this is the version I would acquire. Debian, specifically, is not listed as one of the Unix OS at Netscape's WEB Page. Part 2...Linux is listed twice. Once under supported Unix and once under unsupported. Which one is right for me? Part 3...Thanks to whomever replies as, I don't want to assume anything. Cheers! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: what's 32 bpp?
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 18:26 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:06:30PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: What happens in 32bpp?? I do not believe that video dac's are available wider than 8 bits. If they are, are 3 10 bit dac's used, with the extra 2 bits thrown away? Or is a 12 bit dac used for the green Or is this only a maping thing, 24 bits are used, and a whole byte is thrown away, but using 32bits per pixel cleans up the dma access some how? As far as I know, the latter is the case. Kind of a shame. I wish the last 8 bits could be used for an alpha channel. I seem to recall reading somewhere (I think it was in the xfree86 docs for the matrox driver) that using 32bpp was faster than using 24bpp, probably because it can blit stuff along a longword boundary...But what do I know? Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: X based developer
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 16:01 -0800, Brant Wells wrote: Howdy All... Is there an X-based programming environment like Visual Basic, or Visual C++??? Any help woule be appreciated. Look! There goes the neighbourhood! (Sorry, couldn't resist it ;) I believe there is a project to create a visualwhatever for the gtk+ toolkit called, umm, glade, I think (take a look at the software map at www.gnome.org, and also www.gtk.org). I believe there is also something similiar for tcl/tk. You might find something at yahoo! Sorry to be so vague... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: workman and sound
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:16 +, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Hall wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to make /dev/audio available to me and various processes I start like workman without making it world writable and without having to do group calisthenics. The proper thing to do is to add any user that wants sound to the audio group. You stated sound worked, so I assumed it was not a permission problem. It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you are using shadow passwords just adding a user to /etc/group manually is not enough, you have to use adduser or some other method to set it in /etc/group-. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Need help with Leafnode/Netscape
You could try going into /etc/hosts.allow and changing the hostnames for leafnode so that they use numeric values instead (ie change 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1'). HTH Cheers Dave On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 04:03 -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote: I am unable to connect to my Leafnode server from my workstation running Netscape. I an running a server system with Debian hamm and some slink packages advised by security advisories and a workstation with hamm and some slink packages including Netscape 4.06. I have installed and configured Leafnode version 1.4 on my server system. When I try to connect to it from my workstation system I get the following message from Netscape. An error occurred with the News server. If you are unable to connect again, contact the administrator for this server. I find Leafnode itself running on the server by using ps ax | grep leaf* which gives 3120 1 TWN 0.02 (leafnode). Fetch is working since I have a file /var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo full of the group names and there are syslog entries. There is an appropriate entry in /etc/inetd.conf, nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode, and also entries in /etc/hosts.allow that was added by the leafnode install. Any help/suggestions are appreciated. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.net Content-Description: Card for John Ellingboe -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: wine question
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 13:40 +0100, Lars Steinke wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:48:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I have no idea how wine works, and I would like to have a try. But my windoze is running nt4, and the file system is NTFS, will wine support this?? Wine is a Windoze emulator for 16bit applications and I do not think you can use you Win NT installation as a basis for the emulator but I might be mistaken... Check out www.wineHQ.com for information. I hevn't actually tried wine yet myself (not until my new employer pays for an ISDN connection ;), but it does run 32-bit apps (including games such as unreal and even more amazing the n64 emu at 8% faster than win95 does). But going to winhq.com is the best bet. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Junkbuster weirdness
I'm having a few problems with junkbuster, and wondered if anyone else was having them before I report them as bugs: 1) Changing either the blocklist or config file crashes netscape (4.06) 2) The tinygif option does bugger all - all I can get is the junkbuster GIF. The version I'm running is 2.0-4 Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Notebook manufacturer recomendation
With a bit of luck I'll be starting work in a few weeks (crossing fingers til they pop off and fly accross the room), and I was told I'd be bought a notebook. So I was hoping I could get some pointers to which notebook manufacturers tend to allow for easy debian installation. I believe the companys semi-official provider is Compaq - any thoughts? Also, is the palm pilot worthwhile or just a fun gadget (thought I might ask for one when I start ;)? Any info much appreciated. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Adding foreign keys
I will have to start writing the occasional document in swedish in the near future (with a bit of luck), but since I have a UK keyboard I don't really want to switch to a swedish layout. I would prefer to use Alt Gr or somesuch to assign the extra 6 chars needed to the current layout. Does anyone know how to do this for both X and VCs? Any info would be much appreciated. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Switching between X and Text mode terminals
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 16:59 -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: Alfie Costa wrote: Question: Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch between text terminals and X, and vice-versa? That is, before running X, I can press 'Alt-F1' to get the first text terminal, 'Alt-F2' to get the second, and so on. Once I'm in X, this doesn't work. It seems as if one has to quit X to return to one of those other text terminals. Sure you can. In X, type ctrl-altF1, F2... to get to that console. You won't able to do anything at the console you started X on, so you'll have to login on anohter console. When you're ready to go back to X type alt-F7. This works, but if I set the VC graphics mode to anything but the default the graphics card throws a wobbly and just displays garbage on the screen, so that when I shut down I have to close down X and shut down blind. I would love to be able to set the VC to a higher res and still be able to switch between VCs and X. Ho-hum, one can always dream... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Mutt vim
I have a couple of questions regarding the configuration of mutt and vim: 1) How do I go about assigning different settings for vim, ie having textwidth when composing mail with mutt, but not when coding? 2) Where do I change the syntax-highlighting colours in such a way that they won't be affected by the next upgrade to vim (the default colours for some apps is a bit dodgy - dark blue on black for instance)? Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: Need some apps.
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 07:27 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of trying to ditch window$ for Linux. There are some apps I need for school, however, and I was wondering if you all could help me figure out what they are. I need PSpice, Matlab (I assume Octave is as close as it gets), LogicWorks, and Maple V. The PSpice has to be graphic. If there isn't one, then I need a command-line PSpice and a graphic package to draw the schematics. Thanks for the help. I believe you could do worse than use WINE/dosemu for those apps which aren't covered by corresponding linux apps. WINE is coming along in leaps and bounds, and since I doubt any of the apps you mentioned make any tricky low-level calls to hardware dosemu should be able to cope any DOS apps... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: WP 8 problem
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 16:46 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: Dave it seems you are really a funny guy! Not funny, just weird :) Don't you aunderstand the problem? Ok, the problem is as follows: -Corel claims they release a fully fuctional release of WP. Then, after installing what is meant to be a word processor, you discover that you cannot insert graphics and equations. Do you think this is still a usefull wordprocessor? Since I never use equations, and you can insert graphics (try loading a jpeg or a GIF), I find it very good. It processes words very well, has a good spellchecker, allows full layout control (though I haven't figured out how to do margin notes - I like those in my CV) and has more functions than you can shake a stick at. As somebody pointed out, Corel were strictly speaking correct, as the equation editor and graphics editor are separate apps (but I think it was wrong of them to not mention this). So yes, I think it is a very useful wordprocessor - I understand your complaint, but I don't agree with it. All I know is that this version of WP would have done an excellent job of my 3rd year dissertation. So let's leave it at that - I'm happy, you're not. -Stardivision made the same a long time ago, and you really get a fully functional office suite. Now take your conclusions. That WP is perfect for my needs, and isn't slow and bloaty like SO? ;) A turd is a turd even if it is big, steaming and delivered in wrapping paper. I still have to meet anyone who used all the functions of word 2.0, let alone word97... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: WP 8 problem
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 22:53 +, Charles Collicutt wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find it rather amazing that people complain about something they paid nothing for. Paid nothing for?! We have per minute phone bills here - downloading something that big which turns out not to be fully functional at all is in fact a waste of money. Downloading large files over a pretty slow connection with per minute phone bills is not my idea of fun - at least I get some compensation if the program is worth it... It's not so much the fact that I don't like WP - in fact I think it is a good quality product - it's that it wasn't obvious that it would not be fully functional and I decided to spend my time online downloading it as I believed I'd be getting a good, truly fully functional package (which, incidentally, I do get from StarOffice). Yes, I unfortunatly have to pay the extortionate p/m costs too, but even so I found the ~4 quid I paid for WP well worth it. OK, so it's lacking a couple of non-vital features. As I said in my previous post it is a tad crap that they didn't mention the lacking features. And, notice who your money went to: Not to Corel, but to BT. I think your complaints would be far better directed at those greedy, stingy, incompetent nincompoops (good word that :) After all, it does exactly what it says it says on the box - it processes words, and damn well too as far as I can tell. And to say it isn't fully functional is an exaggeration and over-dramatisation of epic proportions (no doubt caused by irritation at BTs excellent, ahem, service ;) Remember also that as free editors go it kicks the living shit out of Notepad on winders. Oh, and it doesn't crash anywhere near as often as StarOffice. But then if equations are that important to you it must be worth using a buggy, bloaty piece of MS-wannabee software *shrug* Personally I'd use LaTeX for that sort of thing anyway... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: WP 8 problem
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:21 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: I think there is a very big difference between StarDivision, who released a real Fully Functional version of StarOffice, and Corel, who simply made us lost our time to download a useless SW. What do you mean useless? If you want a fully functional word processor with all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find it rather amazing that people complain about something they paid nothing for. Granted they might have made it clearer that those functions are only available in the paid-for version. So don't be so bloody ungrateful and cheap - go and buy the full version (which doesn't cost an extortionate amount of money) if you want those features. Useless my arse... Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
fetchmail + procmail setup
Well, since there seems to be a fair a number of people who can't figure this out, I thought it might be helpful if I mailed my own setup. First of all read the mail filtering FAQ (search yahoo for it). This describes more in detail the system that I use. Anyway, this is how I do it. In /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ a have a script called 'mail' which looks as follows: -- #!/bin/sh fetchmail -d 180 -- Then in /root I have the following .fetchmailrc (it's very simple, as this is a single user machine): -- poll pop.prestel.co.uk with proto pop3 user username there has password password is dave here postconnect /usr/bin/runq -- In my home dir I have the following .forward : -- |IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #dave -- The /home/dave/.procmailrc looks like this: -- VERBOSE=off MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # Change to whichever dir mail is to be put in PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists # Add more recipe-files here if needed -- In /home/dave/.procmail/rc.maillists -- :0: * ^TOOPENGL-GAMEDEV-L IN.opengl :0: * ^TODebian-user debian-user :0: * ^TODebian-devel debian-devel :0: * ^TOdebian-private debian-private :0: * ^TOdebian-mentor debian-mentor :0: * ^TOdebian debian-misc -- These recipes are not very advanced, but they work for me. debian-misc is simply any debian stuff which doesn't go anywhere else. All that is needed after this is to point your mailreader to ~/mail/debian-user or whatever. Disclaimer: it is fully possible that the way I've done it is a horrendous security hole, and that the world will implode if somebody looks at the setup in the wrong way. I don't know, and it's not my fault :) Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation
Re: X11 and Voodoo Banshee
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 11:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what server to use with a Creative labs 3D Blaster Banshee (Voodoo Banshee)? Also, does anyone have any experiance with it in linux. Go to freshmeat.net and search for banshee. HTH Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation
Re: Creative 3d blaster (2d/3d w 3dfx banshee)
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 22:04 -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote: Found the subject card at a good price (after rebate), but couldn't find any info on the 2d portion of the card... anyone know what I need for xf86 (or if it isn't supported)? AFAIK you will have to get a 2.1 kernel and use the FBcon X-server(which is unaccelerated). Take a look at the 3fdx.glide.linux newsgroup, and if I remember correctly there was a posting on Freshmeat about a site that dealt specifically with banshee under linux a few days ago. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] .plan: To find a job working with Linux
Re: recommendations for an X news client?
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 08:27 +, Peter Bartosch wrote: }- I'm looking for something better than knews and netscape's news client -- }- any suggestions? slrn? if you've used mutt slrn won't be a problem ;-) You could try news-peruser. I believe the latest version has switched to gtk+. As for slrn I'd use it if it had an option to just download the headers and mark interesting articles for later retrieval. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] .plan: To find a job working with Linux
Re: Recommendations for Email client?
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 13:52 -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: Jon Burchmore wrote: [stuff deleted] 1. IMAP support 2. PGP integration 3. X (preferably gtk) based UI 4. The ability to support multiple mail servers/accounts. I would like to suggest that you split the retrieval/sorting/filtering duties from the Email client (MUA). You can use fetchmail to download all your email from multiple accounts. Then you use smail/procmail or exim to sort and deliver it locally. Then, all your MUA has to do is be able to read from different folders. And if you must have an X-based MUA, then I would suggest mutt... (in an xterm) ;) I agree with Mitch - the smail/procmail/mutt combo is probably the best option (configurable to an utterly ridiulous degree). By making X a prerequisite you are limiting your options very much (and inviting trouble). It was only a couple of weeks ago when somebody posted a message saying that they had mutt sorting a mailfolder with 20k+ messages without any problem (if memory serves me correctly). Cheers Dave (ex-Pine user, now addicted to mutt) -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] .plan: To find a job working with Linux
Netscape cache weirdness
I don't know if I'm missing anything obvious, but I'm having problems with netscrape's cacheing. I discovered last night after a few hours intensive browsing that the reason why X had slowed down to a heavily disc-chewing crawl was that netscrape was using 60+ megs of memory. On further investigation I found that ~/.netscape/cache was 58+ megs. Clearing the disc cache from within the program only deleted 5 meg. And all this despite the cache settings being a mere 5 megs. Does anyone know if there is any reason why netscrape would ignore the cache-settings? If it helps this is communicator v 4.06. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] .plan: To find a job working with Linux
Re: xplaycd probs
The version of mctools-lite I am using is the default one in hamm (v970129-5). The problems I encounter as follows: 1) When ejecting the tray pops out and then immediatly pops in again. 2) When switching to another desktop (I'm using icewm) xplaycd simply stops playing after a while. 3) Selecting random play works, but it will only play from track 1, no matter where in the playlist it happens to be. (This is an old problem, and also happened under my old RH installation) 4) Sometimes when it reaches the end of a CD it will continue playing a previous track. Equipment is a standard ATAPI drive, with the problems appearing under both 2.0.34/35 and 2.1.125. As I have never filed a bug (I'm too well aware that odds are that it's not a bug, just me being stupid, or not having read the correct FM :) I'm wary of wasting developers time with false bug reports. Is mc-tools actively being developed, or is it merely treading water? As an aside it would be nice if it had support for getting info from a cddb host. Cheers Dave the meek bug-reporter -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] .plan: To find a job working with Linux
xplaycd probs
Since it seems that xplaycd is so bug-ridden (at least it has anumber of problems on my system) I was hoping someone might recommend a good cd-player, preferably one that doesn't use YABL (yet another bloody library ;) ie lesstif or gtk1.1, and that has as nice and clean a frontend as xplaycd... Also, should I file bug-reports against xplaycd (or rather mctools-lite)? Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] .plan: To find a job working with Linux (fat chance...)
mutt vim
I'm currently using pico as the composer for mutt, but would like to switch to vim. Problem is that I have vim setup for programming in .vimrc, and need different settings for mail composition. So how do I go about telling vim to use a different vimrc when called from mutt? Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] .plan: To find a job working with Linux
Re: LateX - CV
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 12:36 +0100, Groumpheux wrote: Hi, Is there a package with LateX to make Curriculum Vitaes ? I looked in /usr/doc/textx-* and /usr/doc/texmf, I could not found anything. Try searching at CTAN for resume rather than CV. I found a couple of packages this way. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. (A. Bierce)
Re: AMD K6-2 kernel compile ?
On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 17:03 +0100, Marc van der Vossen wrote: Wowie, just a bit of time and my PC won't have any Intel, nor Microshit on it. ;-))) Didn't you hear? Intel is now one of the good guys :) Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. (A. Bierce)
Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 21:08 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 05:10:08PM +, Dave Swegen wrote: /usr/doc/dosemu/README.Dosemu (where this problem is documented). In the Dosemu package I have there is no README.Dosemu. I think you meant README.Debian. Doh! Silly me. Temporary malfunction. Please ignore :) Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. (A. Bierce)
Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime
This is a problem that had me stumped for ages. Turns out that the reason dosemu out of the box doesn't allow lredir is because the version of FreeDOS shipped with it doesn't support lredir. It is highly confusing as the dosemu docs merrily state that all you have to do is bung in an lredir command in the autoexec.bat and you're off. I think it probably would be a good idea to put an echo command in the autoexec.bat telling people lredir doesn't work with the provided hdimage.first and to read /usr/doc/dosemu/README.Dosemu (where this problem is documented). Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. (A. Bierce)
Creating fake packages
Is there any way of creating fake packages just to fulfill dependencies? The reason I ask is because I have some old programs and libs which I don't have the sources for any more, and some debs depend on their equivalent packages. It just seems daft spending time and money DLing sources or packages when I've got them already on my system. Any hints much appreciated. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. (A. Bierce)
Stopping apache at boot
How do I stop apache from starting at bootup? I have installed it for learning purposes (another item to put in my CV :) but I don't need it running all the time. Somehow I have a feeling the answer is going to be very simple... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. (A. Bierce)
Re: SB32PNP
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 23:23 -0600, Cristov Russell wrote: According to the SB AWE how-to, since I have a PNP card I must load support as a module. Does this mean I do not have to recompile the kernel; I only have to build a module for sound or in order to use the module I will need to build I must recompile the kernel. BTW - I'm a little intimidated about recompiling at this point. I've read several references on how to do it but it still seems daunting. I too have a SB32PNP, and found that I did not need to compile the driver as a module, but could bung it straight into the kernel. I believe this is because my BIOS is one of them fancy PnP supporting ones. It is a lot easier than messing about with modules and isapnpconfig etc etc. It might or might not work for you. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. (A. Bierce)
IDE message
Since switching to 2.1 I have been getting the following message at bootup: PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio What does it mean, and is it affecting performance in any way? On a related note I had problems with my cdrom drive when I enabled DMA in the kernel (error messages and being able to open the drive whilst mounted), so I disabled it. Would it be a good idea to enable DMA on the two HDDs (I assume I use hdparm for that)? What options should I look at to increase performance? Where do I place the hdparm command to run at bootup? Cheers Dave
Re: Star Office
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 10:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So star office 4/5 can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use? well thats very nice of them, but how many people are going to be prepared to wait through a 50Mb download? Has anybody broken it up into 1MB pieces that can be downloaded gradually, or has anybody got it on CD that they can lend me? (UK address) One alternative is to use ncftp's forced continuation function. Start dowloading huge file, press CTRL-C when you want to stop, and whenever you want to continue the download just use 'get -C filename'. Just make sure you don't delete the semi-downloaded file. Cheers Dave
Re: ls-120 drives
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Stuff deleted havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120 Umm, wouldn't a simple '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc' do the trick (works for floppies under /dev/fd0 as I recall)? Or does that just assume it's a 120M disc? Oh, I don't know... Cheers Dave
Re: Quake2/3dfx
I don't know if it would be of any help in this case, but there is a quake for linux FAQ floating about on the net (sorry, don't know the URL - search for quake, linux and FAQ at dejanews). As for playing as normal user: have you tried setting the suid bit (as root: chmod u+s filename)? Now, if I could only get my SB working under 2.1.124... Cheers Dave
Re: kernel and modules compiling
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:20 +0800, zhaoway wrote: My question again: why not documented? I know this surely's been documented somewhere since it's very important. But I'd like to see it in the modules.txt or modules.Debian.txt 'cause that's why I will look for the answer when compiling kernel and modules and encountering problems. I do not think I should read all of the man pages and info pages before I could say that I do not want that 700k kernel and want a 300k one. At least a link, like in the README says when do modules, read modules.txt, right? It's clear, hence easy, but not enough. Well done, you have passed the secret test :) Seriously though, it is a very valid point - I found out purely by accident what to do. These sort of blatant omissions are not good... Cheers Dave
Installation thoughts
When I installed deb 2.0 a few weeks ago it was a pain in the arse process, so I was wondering whether there is anywhere I can write with comments on how I think it could be improved - I notice that people are still having some of the problems I encountered... Cheers Dave
Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:38 -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:46:58PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have succeeded in getting apt to connect to a distant ftp site but I've been unable to get it to access my cdrom drive, which currently has the Cheapbytes version of debian. I've tried every combination of deb file:/cdrom I can think of but I keep getting malformed line in sources.list. Is it possible to do this? If so, how? First, mount the cd Then add the line: deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main (assuming you have the cd mounted under /cdrom and it is the stable/main cd) As a follow-up question to this: Is it possible to make apt aware of multiple CDs? I bought one of the cheapbytes sets, and thus have 3 CDs with different parts on them (main, contrib and non-free). Setting up the main CD so apt is aware of it is no problem, but the other two? Seems daft to have to use an ftp mirror when I have exactly the same stuff locally... Cheers Dave
