Re: PCI modem
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: [snip] there are several PCI modems usable under linux, i believe. Find below how to do it ***INSTALLATION OF V90 PCI LUCENT VENUS BASED MODEM*** [snip] I am delighted to have this information. Would you please name other PCI modems that can be made usable under Linux? I have been told that only Multitech has a PCI modem that is not a WinModem, (i.e., a modem where the details of critical functionality are kept propriatary.) --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Douglas Federman wrote: I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a clicking noise, several weeks later read errors appeared and now completely dead. WD replaced the first drive without question. Before I replace the second, could Linux be causing this? The machine is a Gateway P-II 350. I had a 1.6 GB Caviar drive to die with that horrible clicking prior to its death.The computer was at 1992 vintage 486-33. The WD Caviar 1.6 GB drives are reputed to be flakey. It was a design flaw of some kind. They apparently rectivied the problem. I bought a 2GB WD drive to replace it prior to submitting it to WD for repair/replacement. WD replaced the 1.6 Gig drive without question. The 2 GB drive is still running. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: c++ docs
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Brad wrote: Where are the docs for the c++ libraries? More specifically, i have a copy of C++ How To Program second edition here. It claims that #include sstream will allow strings to be manipulated as streams. sstream: No such file or directory g++ tells me. Ok then, i'll just check the docs i think to myself. Tried the manpages. Tried info. Tried looking in /usr/doc. i couldn't even find anything about the c++ string class (which i know i have), much less using them as streams! Hmmm... did i miss a -doc somewhere?. Fired up dselect, and couldn't find any c++ docs at all, installed or uninstalled... So, does anyone know where the docs are? Or at least how to use something like what the book is talking about? Unfortunately, there is very little distributed with egcs nor in the way of actual documentation for either the compiler or the libraries. For STL there is a considerable array of texts. Depending on how good you are with C++, you could use Glass and Schuchert, The STL PRIMER published by Prentice Hall. This was writted by them for a two or three days of 8 hour classes. If you already have the STL details in hand, this is very a good encapsulation of the STL. PJ Plauger has several books on STL and on the libraries. He directed the C++ library part of the standards committee. Most of his books are published by Prentice Hall. Go to the PH web page and search for Plauger. A book I like, but is old, that I still use extensively is Teale, C++ IOStreams Library,m the trout book from Addison Wesley. That book is dated, but if you try all the stuff he suggests, you will find it a gold mine. If you are a C++ beginner, you should use book like Savitch, Problem Solving in C++, Addison Wesley, which I had the pleasure of doing the revision under Prof Savitch's careful guidance. It deals with the language and some of the libraries. Next a beginner in the STL might go to Budd, Data Structrues in C++, aslos Addison Wesley. IF you are reasonably gooa at C++ programming, and intereseted in the Intel architecture in a micro soft environmnet, use Nelson's C++ Programmer's Guide form IDG books. If you are an advanced C++ programmer, then for STL you could use STL Tutorial and Reference Guide, Musser and Saini, Addison Wesley. As has been mentioned, Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language 3rd, and LIppman and Lajoie, C++ Primer, contain a vast amount of information. These are Addison Wesley books. Last but not least is the array of places on the WWW where you can find vast arrays of documenation and tutorials. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. Hope this qualifies.
Re: PPP
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Marina Gandelsman wrote: (please Cc: all replies) I've installed Debian on a previously slackware machine. Most things seems to be working fine but pppd stubbornly refuses to do anything useful. pon dials up and logs in successfully but it won't start up ppp (nothing shows up in route or ifconfig). From reading some of the archived emails it might possibly be /etc/init.d/network, there's no mention of ppp there, just ethernet (I answered that I have ethernet when setting the machine up, but it uses both). What should be in that file? Any other suggestions? (running 2.2.9 kernel, BTW) Marina You seem to have your ISP login name and password set. Do you have ppp enabled in your kernel? Nothing works until you have ppp enabled in the kernel. You have to know what command your ISP requires to start a ppp connection. I only recall that my ISP requires 'p' to start a ppp connection, in response to prompt Options: Until I got that line in my /etc/chatscrips/provider right, I never got ppp running either. I have inserted my (appropriately expurgated) /etc/chatscript/providers file at the end of this message. If you can log into your ISP with a terminal emulator such as Kermit or Minicom, you can see what your ISP says to you, and perhaps determine what you have to send to start a ppp connection. If you login.defs is set up like mine, you might try the command $pon; tail -f ppp.log to see some of what is happening with your ppp session. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.) EXPURGATED /etc/chatscript/provider ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ECHO OFF ATDT2930900 CONNECT '' ogin YourISP_loginName word \qYourISP_password ption: p The \q prevents the ISP_Password from appearing in log files.
Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: zgv but it uses svgalib someone writes: ::That's a problem? Two possible problems : - first : your graphic card must be supported or you'll be limited to standard VGA modes (i.e. 320x240 to get 256 colors...) - second : I think it has to be suid root to be useable by user other than root but you should verify this point as I'm not sure. I will confirm that your card must be supported or you will be limited to VGA. However, you will find that your card may be supported and you will still have to use VGA, because the support doesn't work. You do not have to be root to run zgv. I do it every day with my 2.0 system here at home. I use the default zgv and libvga installations, save only setting the libvga.config by hand for vga :(. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: Floppy drive problem.
On Sat, 29 May 1999, N. Raghavendra wrote: I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives. There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy drive. In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and the other floppy drive as B:. But Linux seems to reverse this order: it sees the 1.2 MB drive as the first floppy drive (/dev/fd0) and the 1.44 MB one as the second floppy drive (/dev/fd1). One consequence of this is that at the end of installing Debian (hamm), I was unable to make a custom boot disk for my system, because when the installation program asked me to insert a blank floppy, I put a 1.44 MB floppy in the drive, and it said something like Making boot floppy failed. Check that the floppy isn't write-protected and is in the correct drive. The same thing happened when I tried the mkboot command later on. Is there a way of making Linux see my 1.44 MB drive as /dev/fd0 and the other one as /dev/fd1? I apologize in case this is an old question, already answered. Raghavendra During bootup and reading the boot sector, it is the BIOS that has control. Once booted, Linux sees the only hardware, not the BIOS settings. It appears that the first drive on your floppy cable is the 1.2 MB drive. If this is the case, the only fix I see is to open your box and switch the connectors on the two drives. If this isn't the case, I haven't a clue. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Dan Smith wrote: Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that? Please send replies to me directly, rather than to the list. Thanx Dan zgv displays jpeg and gif files, perhpas other formats. zgv is available in potato as .../dists/potato/main/binary-i386/graphics/zgv_3.1-1.deb and in slink as .../dists/slink/main/binary-i386/graphics/zgv_3.0-4.deb zgv requires svgalib. You have to set values for your monitor in /etc/vga/libvga.config. I had to set the config to force vga, inspite the the allegation that that my chip (tvga 9400) is supported. Please read the documentation. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
Re: Newbie Story (was) Re: Boot probblem with xdm
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: Do you use your WinModem with Linux, or did you download under Windows/Wine? I am hoping to install Linux on a friend's laptop, which has a WinModem, and I haven't found any information on Linux support for WinModems. -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] shadowze [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/27 6:32 AM as well because my current installation is much cleaner. I discovered how to download with my 56K windmodem to harddisk and install using dselect so speeding it up keeps me from getting so lost now in the packs. I took a Hi Mark The FAQ is: WinModems do NOT work under Linux. WinModems off-load some of the functionality to the CPU and keep the necessary information to write drivers propriatary. Practically all PCI modems are WinModems, so is is almost true that PCI modems do not work under Linux. There are a couple of exceptions, I think MultiTech has a PCI modem that isn't a WinModem. I hate negativity, but I HATE M$ worse. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: Re: about Linux Books questions ?
On Tuesday 25 May, David B.Teague wrote: [snip] Running Linux just has commands. Useful to remind you about command syntax. No structure of Debian, little detail. On Wed, 26 May 1999, Graham Ashton wrote: I think you're confused. Linux in a nutshell is basically commands and a terse explanation of a few other things - handy as a quick reference. Running Linux is a quite different kettle of fish. I don't have it, but I would have it if I didn't think that I already know much of it's Graham: You are right, I have both books on my desk. I looked at the wrong one while typing the response. Both nutshell and the teaching flavor books from O'Reilly are excellent for the purpose intended. Many thanks for the correction. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I goofed this time!)
Re: HELP please !
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Wolfgang Fink wrote: everybody told me how easy to unsubscribe from this list. I got very much mails with different instructions to unsubscribe from this list and I try'd it all, but nothing works. [snip] Wolfgang If you have sent an email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line consiting of the single word unsubscribe and an empty message body, the list software should unsubscribe you. If this fails (perhaps because you are not subscribed as the user you are mailing from) then should use the account on the machine you subscribed from to unsubscribe. There is syntax for unsubscribing from another account than the one you used to subscribe, but I can't find it here. You may be able to use the web site, www.debian.org. Look for support, then the mailinglist subscription. There you will find the opportunity to unsubscribe. You may wish to contact a human listmaster. Direct your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two machines in case one is off line. This person may help you. Wishing you luck is ... David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
Re: (Fwd) Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: (Fwd) Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port In reply to:jeb Quoting jeb([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there anyway I can check what IRQ or address space the module thinks it is supposed to be using? Why use(waste) an IRQ on the printer. I use polling and saved and saved the IRQ for my sound board. Wayne Please tell me what you did to set up polling to to save that IRQ. Polling for printers takes very little resoruces, I just don't know how to do it. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: how to make modem silent?
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Karen Hu wrote: Is there a way will make pon dial my modem silently? I'm still using Hamm (version 2.0). (Note: I'm not on debian-user@, so plz include this address in your msg). Karen, I am pleased try to help you. You will find that the folk on this list are more than willing to help you. This help, in addition to the technological excellence are reasons why I am an adherent to Debian Distribution. Recently, on this list, this question was asked and answered. I have added a little to the speaker volume answer. This mailing list is archived at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ Please read it for it is a gold-mine! There is even a search engine, so you don't have to read a 1000 messages to find an answer. To send these commands to your modem, use a terminal program such as minicom or Kermit and connect to the modem. To set speaker to always off, issue the command atm0 I would place this command in the chatscript: Bilbo:/etc/chatscripts# cat provider ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ATm0 # silence modem ATDTXXX# xxx is your isp phone no. ogin albertw# your isp login id word \qmye_passswordd # your password for you isp ption: W # what you tell your isp..; CAVEAT: I have NOT TESTED THIS, since I am not at a machine where I can dial my ISP to confirm that this is correct. I have confidene that this will work. However, you must test this. I have appended a message describing how to get more of the commands your modem provides. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.) From my (limited) archive: What command tells a modem to turn the sound off? CAVEAT: These are for my USR modem, and may not be exactly right for another Hayes compatible modem. See the commands listed below to get the full list of commands for your modem if these don't work as I advertise. atm0 speaker always off atm1 speaker on until CD is asserted atm2 speaker always on atm3 off during dialing, and on until carrier atl0 speaker volume lowest at1l speaker volume low volume atl2 speaker volume medium atl3 speaker volume loud Where is there a list of the hayes/at modem commands? Your modem has this info built into it. Open up a terminal program, such as minicom, that is configured to use your modem device and enter the folloowing AT commands. list all commands at$ list all commands at$ list all dial commands atd$ list all S register commands ats$
Re: about Linux Books questions ?
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Anderson wrote: about Debian Books questions ? Q1. O'reilly Corp have a book Running Linux, 2/e Can teach and help us know Debia/Linux structure and detail information ? Q2. GUN have make Debian system book plan ? All publisher not better than your organization acknowledge. Linux Press offers Debian Linux 2nd edition by Dale Scheetz (a Debian Developer) for Debian 2.x, it comes with 2.1 CDs and 30 days of email tech support for about $38. + shipping and any applicable tax. URL: www.linuxpress.com I have no connection to Dale nor Linux Press. I am a satisfied reader. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: HELP please !
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Wolfgang Fink wrote: Hi everybody, so please, can anybody help me to unsubscribe from this mailing-list ? I have tryed almost everything with my Netscape 4.5 - Browser und Mailtool. Wolfgang --- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null This line, typed in exactly, will get you unsubscribed from the list. Canned Explanation: The bit of geek speak that ends all messages from the debian user list: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null says how to unsubscribe. This means: To unsubscribe you must send mail with subject line conataining only the word: unsubscribe to the address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^ with empty message body ( /dev/null ). The one non-obvious thing is the request part of the name for changes. Sorry about that. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: Re: about Linux Books questions ?
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Anderson wrote: about Debian Books questions ? Q1. O'reilly Corp have a book Running Linux, 2/e Can teach and help us know Debia/Linux structure and detail information ? Running Linux just has commands. Useful to remind you about command syntax. No structure of Debian, little detail. Q2. GUN have make Debian system book plan ? All publisher not better than your organization acknowledge. Earlier I mentioned that Linux Press offers Debian Linux 2nd edition by Dale Scheetz, URL: www.linuxpress.com I did NOT say but should have: Dale's book is available for free download as a .html file from Linux Press, perhaps as a .deb from somewhere. Anybody know where? --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: EMERGENCY 'umount /'
On Mon, 24 May 1999, per_adua32 wrote: [snip] After booting with linux-init=/bin/sh I was dropped into bash. I then tried to unmount the root filesystem so that I could mount it again as read/write. However, when I entered the command umount / I got some message like can't open mtab: file doesn't exist or something like this. Can someone please. I would to solve this without having to re-install the whole system. In /etc/init.d, I find the lines: # Ensure that root is quiescent and read-only before fsck'ing. # mount -n -o remount,ro / This command should remount an rw root file system read only. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
Re: TRouble
On Sat, 22 May 1999, [iso-8859-1] Søren Nielsen wrote: How do I save my MBR in a file ? dd if=disk device of=filename bs=512 This works for floppies. I think the MBR is the same size for other disks. David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (hope this qualifies)
Re: TRouble
On Sun, 23 May 1999, John Pearson wrote: On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:46:02PM -0400, David B.Teague wrote On Sat, 22 May 1999, [iso-8859-1] Søren Nielsen wrote: How do I save my MBR in a file ? dd if=disk device of=filename bs=512 I think that should really be dd if=disk device of=filename bs=512 count=1 Dang! I knew that. This is clearly stated in /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz: - make a backup copy of your MBR on a floppy disk, e.g. dd if=/dev/hda of=/fd/MBR bs=512 count=1 ^^^ This comes from depending on memory, instead of looking it up before pressing send. My error could _cause_ trouble. Thanks for the correction. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (looks like I goofed.)
Re: Staroffice 5.1 under slink
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I don't understand why they don't split the one big tar into pieces. With the daily use of the telephone, it is nearly impossible for me to download the whole thing. Is there any programs similar to Go Right in linux? Look for a command like 'reget'. Many ftp clients provide a reget command restarts a get at the point where the download left off. Some clients have this as the default for the get command. DT David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
Hughs DirecPC PCI download card drivers
All: I have recently ordered an essentially free Hughs DirecPC PCI download card (400Kbits/sec). Uploads are via phone modem. (There is no access here to cable modem nor ASDL, and ISDN is prohibitively expensive.) Clearly, for Linux, driver support will be necessary. Are there Linux drivers for this card? I have been assured it works with Unix, but no specifics. With guidance, I'd attempt writing this driver. I'm also willing to test code that someone else writes. Comment and recommendations requested. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (This time I really need some support. ;)
Re: repairing the harddisk
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: I would like to know: if a hard disk died with a couple of bad sectors, what is the best way to repair it?? I use badblocks, mkfs and fsck. Are there any other methods?? Also, when I mount this dead harddisk, the kernel sometimes will pop up some messages like: hda: irq request timeout. Error code 0x5f hda: ide reset ok. There are heaps of them. I cannot remember them all. Is this hard disk still usable?? Shao There is lowlevel IDE drive formatting software available from the drive manufacturers. This may offer some hope. That said, my experience with fixing ide drives has not been good. As I understand it, the on-drive controller spares out some tracks and automatically uses them when it finds a (potentially) bad block. By the time you have visible bad blocks, your drive is in a bad way. You should (quickly) retrieve any data you need, and throw the drive away. With fairly fast 10Gig drives available for a cost less than $200, I don't think it is economical to spend much time with that drive. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
Re: diald problem
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: I had to reinstall Linux, and I did not have everything I needed on my backup floppies. I thought I had backed up all my config files, so I believe I accidentally deleted stuff. Anyhow, when my ISP drops me during long downloads, I am allowed to come right back, and diald took care of this for me until now, because I lost the diald.options file I was using. There is an option (I have checked the man pages but cannot find it) that I had set to four seconds so that if I get disconnected, I come back in 4 seconds, not 30. Anyone know what that option is? I have redial-timeout, but that does not seem to be it. I am doing lots of this stuff by trial and error. Pollywog Did you get an answer to this? I do not use diald, but there are option under ppp that may help you, so on the off chance that this will do you some good, I'm sending it on. My system reconnects if the line is dropped for a couple of minutes. I looked in my /etc/ppp/peers/provider and found the last command is persist. Here are items from the pppd man page, and from /etc/ppp/options. Can these be used to detect disconnect and after 4 seconds effect reconnect? From the man 8 pppd page: lcp-echo-failure n If this option is given, pppd will presume the peer to be dead if n LCP echo-requests are sent without receiving a valid LCP echo-reply. If this happens, pppd will terminate the connection. Use of this option requires a non-zero value for the lcp-echo- interval parameter. This option can be used to enable pppd to terminate after the physical connec- tion has been broken (e.g., the modem has hung up) in situations where no hardware modem control lines are available. lcp-echo-interval n If this option is given, pppd will send an LCP echo-request frame to the peer every n seconds. Normally the peer should respond to the echo- request by sending an echo-reply. This option can be used with the lcp-echo-failure option to detect that the peer is no longer connected. I find these settings in the /etc/ppp/options file: # If this option is given, pppd will send an LCP echo-request frame to # the peer every n seconds. Under Linux, the echo-request is sent when # no packets have been received from the peer for n seconds. # Normally the peer should respond to the echo-request by sending an # echo-reply. This option can be used with the lcp-echo-failure # option to detect that the peer is no longer connected. lcp-echo-interval 30 # If this option is given, pppd will presume the peer to be dead if n # LCP echo-requests are sent without receiving a valid LCP echo-reply. # If this happens, pppd will terminate the connection. Use of this # option requires a non-zero value for the lcp-echo-interval parameter. # This option can be used to enable pppd to terminate after the physical # connection has been broken (e.g., the modem has hung up) in # situations where no hardware modem control lines are available. lcp-echo-failure 4 --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hoping this is useful!)
Re: making linux look bad
Hi guys! ABSOLUTELY, you are right, Whence you are down loading is to be preferred. I should have read that post aloud before sending. I appreciate the correction. Too few are concerned with correct English (so abused by most speakers and writers.) --David On Mon, 17 May 1999, John Pearson wrote: On %M 0, David B.Teague wrote On Mon, 17 May 1999, Michael Beattie wrote: On Sat, 15 May 1999, David B.Teague wrote: perhaps from whence you are down loading) ^^ Sorry about the excess bandwidth killer, but is it whence or whom? Hi Michael Never say bandwidth killer about an English language issue. It is With an invite like that, and as you posted to debian-user, how could I resist butting in... from whence or from where, as whom refers to a person. I think from whence may be a little stilted, but I tend to that sometimes. from whence is indeed stilted, and needlessly and unnecessarily redundant. Whence alone is to be preferred. Thanks! You're welcome! John P.
Re: Separate list for newbies
Hi: I have one question: While The Fine Manuals in man *, info *, /usr/doc/*/README* and /usr/doc/HOWTO* are gold mines, if there IS a FAQ for newbies, I have not seen it. Please enlighten me. And a remark: I agree with the folk who say not to segregate debian-user by degree of knowledge and ability. One of the wonderful things about THIS list is that you get better, faster, and more useful support than is available from any paid support line. It ISN'T just newbies who have questions, none of us know every bright corner of Debian, let alone the dark ones. ;) --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: Protecting root security
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Tommy Malloy wrote: Doesn't the fact that I can go to any Linux box with an install disk or cd and gain root access mean that the all Linux systems are fundamentally insecure? Absolutely. Any system to which physical access is allowed, then the system is vulnerable to a sufficient knowedgable cracker. Perhaps the install process could be changed so that root password, or some other verification system is required, before a reinstall is permitted. A physical lock is better for security. An effort such as this is now made: when the system crashes requiring a manual fsck, the root password is required for system maintenance. It isn't much, and I find this irritating on my test machine. In the situation you envision, security IS important. It is true that compromising a system this way requires unfettered access to the box. However as Linux is used more and more in commercial environments this issue will need to be addressed. I have used machines that have a 'firmmware' password, PCs provide this, as do many machines. If you allow physical access, one can disconnect the battery from the CMOS, and eliminate the password. There seems to me to be nothing you can do to provide security against entry if you allow physical access. Someone on this list said, approximately: A secure system is turned off and sealed in concrete. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: ppp frame errors
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Corey Ralph wrote: Sorry, I'm sure everyone's sick of ppp problems on the list, but this one has me stumped :) I have just set up a 486 running slink to be a dial-up server (ip masq, 2.3.3 kernel) for a couple win 98 boxes. It is getting many frame errors, seen when I run 'ifconfig ppp0'. The connection seems pretty unstable and inconsistent, i.e. icq works most of the time but sometimes sits and waits for a minute or so, pings miss about 1 out of 5 attempts, www is slow etc. I am using a Banksia 33k modem, also have a 56k V90 available but it seems to do worse! It is dialing into a US Robotics Total Control rack. Maybe the UART on the 486 is inadequate? The phone line? Something at the ISP? Any suggestions appreciated. By no means is anyone sick of problems. That's what this list is all about. I gather these external modems? Predecated on that assumption, you need high speed serial ports, using a 16550A serial port chip, or functional equivalent. See if these lines appear in your boot up message (you can see it without rebooting using the command, dmesg | less) Serial driver version 4.26 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 My old 486 boots with this message, it doesn't support high speed modems. The machine I'm on right now indicates the faster 16550A: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A This machine supports a 115,200 connection to my 56K modem. It buffers and talks at something greater than 33K. If this isn't your problem, I'm stumped, but someone else will know. The best of luck to you! --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies :)
Re: Separate list for newbies
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: I was thinking about a solution about this and found that it could be a good thing to add in the mailing list all 200 messages an official message in the list that explan what is the archive list, the LDP , the FAQ and some usefull information. (and of course where to find them) this mail must be send in the first subscription and automaticaly added all 200 messages. Hi Khalid, Sean, and Jean-Yves: Perhaps all of the references should not be automatically inserted into all messages. I think certainly ALL this should be in the subscription confirmation, but put just a pointer to the various places information can be found should be appended, perhaps like the unsubscribe line that is already appended. Unfortunately the unsubscribe line doesn't work for folk who don't know the shell, which means most newbies, particularly those likely to wish to unsubscribe. Referring to the FAQ: I pointed out /usr/doc/*, the READMEs from packages, the man and info pages. I asked about the FAQ you and others mention. jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] (thanks JYB) kindly referred me to the mailing list archives, which most certainly is valuable and should be included in sources of information. However, I still don't know where a Debian FAQ may be found! Can one of you provide a pointer or a URL? David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Debian FAQ (was Re: Separate list for newbies)
On Wed, 19 May 1999 David B.Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I still don't know where a Debian FAQ may be found! Can one of you provide a pointer or a URL? Answering my own question, and noting How to feel incredibly stupid == Ask a question that is answered directly on the Debian web site. www.debian.org/doc/ contains: [Debian Logo] Debian GNU/Linux Home About Debian News Distribution Support Developers Corner Search User Documentation Frequently Asked Questions If you have a question that you can't figure out on your own, it is most likely that others had the same question in the past. [snip] * The Debian FAQ * The Linux FAQ --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: What is SCI UNIX?
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: What does SCO stand for and might the driver be compatible with Linux? Hans SCO == Santa Cruze Operation, a Xenix distributor, and if I recall correctly, the current owner of the System V Unix sources. The *name*, Unix, is owned by a consortium that runs a test on your operating system and awards the permission to call your OS Unix to those that pass, at considerable some expense, I suspect. Compatibility of SCO Unix drivers drivers with Linux is doubtful. I don't see how name and address compatibility (necessary for linking the driver to the kernel) is possible. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (hope this qualifies.)
Re: PPP woes
On Mon, 17 May 1999, R.Feenstra wrote: Sorry for jumping right in but you seem eager to help :) Where exactly can i find the option for turning ppp on in the kernel using make menuconfig ? I've looked till my head hurts but am not able to find it ! I'm using kernel-source-2.2.1 is that the problem ? Any help would be greatly apreciated ... Rene Perhaps too eager. Do feel free to ask, but sometimes I speak too soon ;) I copy to the list so any foolish things I say can be corrected by some of the good folk out there. This time I have just compiled my own kernel for a newly installed 2.0 system and for my 2.1 sytem, these run so _perhaps_ I can talk a little about kernel compiling. You enable ppp in the kernel in the configuration. Of course you must have tcp/ip enabled as well, and your ppp packages installed as well. To compile a kernel, I recommend that you do it the Debian way, with the kernel package. There many things are automated. From the README file that appears on my system as /usr/doc/kernel-package/README For the Brave and the impatient: [to compile the kernel] 1% cd kernel source tree 2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig and configure 3% make-kpkg clean 4% make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image 5% dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_arch.deb 6% shutdown -r now # If and only if LILO worked or you have a means of # booting the new kernel. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! In the variant of make config that you use, you set the various options (CPU, file systems supported, CDROM, SCSI, low level drivers for boards, ppp, tcp/ip, and so on.) You need to get and install the .deb kernel-package, and the kernel source package for kernel 2.0.36, as well as bin86. I will say that the command in 4% did not work for me. I did this instead: 4% make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image The reason for the custom.1.0 is so you can identify just compiled kernel .deb. You will, of course need to read the README and all the doc files BEFORE trying things. If you are running slink (2.1) or earlier, 2.0.36 is a good solid kernel. If you are running something later, and you are a beginner, don't, slink (2.1) is the latest stable version of Debian. You don't want to run unstable versions. Heck! I DON'T want to urn unstable versions. If I can help you further, feel free to ask. Only, understand that while I know some things, and am willing to share, there are many things I'll have to ask about on the mailing list, even as we discuss your problems. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies:)
Re: making linux look bad
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Michael Beattie wrote: On Sat, 15 May 1999, David B.Teague wrote: perhaps from whence you are down loading) ^^ Sorry about the excess bandwidth killer, but is it whence or whom? Hi Michael Never say bandwidth killer about an English language issue. It is from whence or from where, as whom refers to a person. I think from whence may be a little stilted, but I tend to that sometimes. Thanks! David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: telepath modem with x2 (making me crazy)
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I've tried everything to make this modem work. I have two modems to use one is a Boca logic 33.6, it uses a Rockwell chip. The other is a USR Sportster clone with x2. I also have a NE2000 clone NIC card. I'm trying to make the modem work first. When the kernel boots is reports two devices 1. tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 2. tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 I've tried configuring /etc/isapnp.conf for the modem to be irq 3, 5, 9. With varying degrees of success in making isapnp to recognize the cards, wvdialconf nor pppconfig ever sees the modem. I'm told I must 'jumper' the modem; I don't know how to do this nor do I have documentation as to how. What can I do? Nate If you need board documentation, try the manufacturers' web sites. That has provided me with significant information on several boards. (motherboard, sound card, video boards, etc) RE: NE2000 clones: We have had little luck getting NE2000 clones to work here with Linux and recent machines. I don't understand it. Our solution was to buy 3Com cards. Sorry about the negativity: I trust others will provide more specific, _positive_ help. The best of luck to you! --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
Re: RPM packages
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Eber de Castro Diniz wrote: Hi guys... Hope you could help me... I've downloaded some RPM files and I'd like to install it... I've heard that's pretty possible to convert .rpm files to .deb... but how? Is it really possible? If so, it will cause any damage to my system? Hi Eber Indeed this is possible, just install the 'alien' package. Then man alien will answer your questions. Here are a few line from that man page: alien(1L) alien(1L) NAME alien - Convert or install an alien binary package SYNOPSIS alien [--to-deb] [--patch=file] [options] file [...] alien --to-rpm [options] file [...] alien --to-tgz [options] file [...] alien --to-slp [options] file [...] DESCRIPTION To build Debian packages, alien is simply called with a parameter giving the name of the alien package to be con- verted. [snip] Caveat: I have been warned that .rpm packages are not reviewed as carefully as .deb packages, so you run a risk to your system by installing them. Apparently the risk, though real, is not great. Would someone else please respond to this issue? The Best of Luck to you! --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
Re: A file's permission controler
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: Do someone know if there is a programme that is able to controle : - the permision right of all or part file installed in a debian machin including the directory's right. - the presence of the more importante or used file, directorys (/dev/audio, /dev/cdrom, ) - and create them if root says to do it if not, I am interesting to create one, with your help of course. Khalid Could you be asking about chmod? That file utility sets permissions for the file owner, file group, and others, and devices as well. An extract from the man page is: CHMOD(1) CHMOD(1) NAME chmod - change the access permissions of files SYNOPSIS chmod [-Rcfv] [--recursive] [--changes] [--silent] [--quiet] [--verbose] [--help] [--version] mode file... DESCRIPTION The format of a symbolic mode is `[ugoa...][[+-=][rwxXs- tugo...]...][,...]'. Multiple symbolic operations can be given, separated by commas. A combination of the letters `ugoa' controls which users' access to the file will be changed: the user who owns it (u), other users in the file's group (g), other users not in the file's group (o), or all users (a). If none of these are given, the effect is as if `a' were given, but bits that are set in the umask are not affected. The operator `+' causes the permissions selected to be added to the existing permissions of each file; `-' causes them to be removed; and `=' causes them to be the only permissions that the file has. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
Re: running scripts (manual and auto)
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Kent (ktb) wrote on behalf of Horacio: Horacio: but how can I make it ran as a normal command (without ./). Kent: I place my Perl scripts in /usr/local/bin. I would think that would work for you. I can't help you with the next one:( hth, kent Horacio: If you put the script in /usr/local/bin and that directory is in your path, as Kent says, you will be able to run the scripts there by typeing the command name. That directory is in my default directory, and should be in yours. If you want to run a script that resides in your home directory, you probably should just type ./script_name to run it, since there is no . (refers to current, i.e. working, directory) in the default path. This has to do with safety from executing trojan horses. If you insist on running stuff from your current directory, without the ./, then add . to your path by placing this line in your .profile, or .bash_profile export PATH=$PATH:. If you run tcsh or other shell, someone else will have to help. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
Re: Thanks: Installing on a SCSI HD
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Davide Anchisi wrote: Subject: Thanks: Installing on a SCSI HD Hi David, I hope your exams went well. Hi Davide My students' exams went well, thanks for asking. Mine was not as good as I want, but in playing double bass, I am my own worst enemy. I expect perfection and seldom get it. ; If you will tell me what your system requires, then after my exams are over, i.e. after May 15, I will compile a kernel and make the kernel available for down load. This is my sistem: 486 processor 16 Mb RAM Math coprocessor Floppy disk IDE HD (with windows95: VFAT) IDE/ATAPI CDROM (ISO9660) SCSI host adapter: Adaptec AHA-1510 SCSI HD Serial mouse (3 buttons) Sound card: SoundBlaster Pro2 Italian keyboard (and language) Modem Is this enough? Probably enough for me to compile a kernel. What about the compiled kernel? Have I to put it in a rescue-disk? and, if so, how? Or have I to install debian 2.1 after booting from the floppy with the new kernel? and, if so, how to put it on a boot floppy and how to install debian? Once you have a kernel compiled with AHA 1510 support, you follow the instructions on the floppy. The boot floppy is an MS-DOS disk with syslinux installed on it. I thought the README on the boot floppy was more useful to me as a newbie than the syslinux usage instructions and manual, syslinux.doc. With regard to how to replace the kernel on the floppy: From DOS (a DOS window in WIN 95 is sufficient) do a dir with your Linux boot floppy in the drive. The floppy has a file called linux on it. This file is the kernel. You replace this file with your new kernel. There is README that talks about this. There are some other things, but you need to get a kernel that will boot and see your SCSI controller first. Once you have the floppy boot the system, you have a small Debian linux 2.1 system running. You follow the menu to install the 7 base floppies, then reboot and run dselect, choosing the apt access method. This is important, as apt will avoid the frustrations of rerunning configure 4 or 5 times. I suggest you not worry about sound for now, so I won't build in sound with the first kernel. I will try to create modules for your sound card. We can ask on the mailing list if you have trouble configuring your sound card, as I have limited experience with sould cards. Meanwhile I'll compile a kernel and figure out where to put for your access. I'll get back to you in a day or two. Good Luck to you! --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies!)
Re: unzip
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Is there a version of unzip which supports encryption? Shao You should find zip-crypt and unzip-crypt in non-US. On my system, I find: $/var/local/debian/debian-non-US/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386[1]$ls*zip* bzip_0.21-3.1.debunzip-crypt_5.32-1.deb zip-crypt_2.20-1.deb Hope this helps. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies on all these accounts;)
Re: What happened to the list?
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Matthew Wade Roberts wrote: I was getting list mail for about a week and then it abruptly stopped. Did something happen? Please respond to me since a response to the list will obviously not get through! Matt Did something happen to make your system reject mail for a period of time (bounce, what have you)? The mailing list will unsubscribe you automatically if that happens. This happens to me occasionally when my system hangs. To resubscribe, visit www.debian.org, or use the command line incantation: mail -s subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!) --
Re: PPP woes
On Fri, 14 May 1999, William R Pentney wrote: A couple of questions. 1) I have not yet recompiled my Debian kernel. (no lectures, please ...) Is PPP built into the default kernel? 2) I am having problems getting chat to speak to my modem. It simply isn't recognizing it. Is there some configuration I must perform before chat will work? Any ideas? Bill ppp has not been in default kernels I use. You will need to recompile a kernel to get ppp either as a module or built into the kernel. I recommend building it in, but many do not agree. No big thing, I think. I seem to recall that nothing about ppp works until you have kernel support. Try that then see if things will work for you. I got mine working with difficutly in 0.93 and 1.1, but 2.0 was much easier. It won't be difficult for you. Ping the list back if you continue to have problems once you recompile the kernel. I will try to help you, as many have helped me. BTW -- You will find the kernel package easier than bare-handed kernel recompile. Besides, I am under the impression that there are some things in the kernel how-to that aren't quite correct. Will someone else please remark on kernel compiles? --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies:)
Re: making linux look bad
On Sat, 15 May 1999, tf wrote: Hey everybody I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost 2 years and have never had it running well enough to use. So. can someone give me a strategy to follow? I'm obviously going about this the wrong way. I think it would help if I got ppp working-both pon and wvdail dial out, but leave the line open and not connected to anything. right now, my only internet connection is via windows. RTFM would be warrented, probably, but I already know that one! -t Hi t Yes, RTFM, but these guys will try to help you if you make that effort. BUT to help you, there is a strong need for you to carefully describe your hardware and software: motherboard, CPU, RAM, disk interface, amount of disk, video card, video card memory size, modem, Debian distribution version, where you are getting your distribution, (if a CD, who the vendor is, or if from a web site, perhaps from whence you are down loading) As important as the hardware information, you should be quite specific about the problems you are experiencing. Error messages would be a big help. You will find this list to be thick with really good experts who are willing to help, given the needed information! Lots of luck, --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies:)
Re: CRC ERROR
On Thu, 13 May 1999, abarron wrote: Do u kno how to fix the crc error?? To help you, you must provide some context where the crc error occurs. Please tell what you are doing when the error occurs, and the devices or software that you are using. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hoping that this qualifies.)
Re: zip and unzip not installed
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: [snip] What command can I use to get the zip, unzip, and rpm tools including alien from a folder called /cdrom/debian/stable/i386? Patrick Are you sure these are really zip'ed? To answer your specific question: you have to look in Contents or perhaps a gzipped version of Contents to find where a file is. On my machine, I find zip and unzip, and look for zip and unzip in this manner. $cd /var/local/debian/dists/slink/ $zgrep usr/bin/unzip Contents-i386.gz usr/bin/unzip non-free/utils/unzip usr/bin/unzipsfx non-free/utils/unzip $ $zgrep usr/bin/zip Contents-i386.gz usr/bin/zip non-free/utils/zip usr/bin/zipgrep non-free/utils/unzip usr/bin/zipinfo non-free/utils/unzip usr/bin/zipnote non-free/utils/zip usr/bin/zipsplit non-free/utils/zip $ Hope this helps David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies;)
Re: What is the good tool to debug for segmentation error
On Thu, 6 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried several utils to debug one C program ( hoc from Software Tools ) which gives me segmentation error but got no clue from them. And any better tool than gccchecker? Bruce Perens wrote the electric fence. It helps with arrays, and i available as a .deb package. I don't know that this is better than gccchecker, but it is another tool. Hope this helps. David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (With hope that this qualifies!)
zgv (fwd)
Hi I posted this to the Debian Users Mailing List around May 1, but to date, I have received no reply. If someone would help me configure vgalib and zgv, I'd appreciate it. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. Hi I run a 486-DX2/66, 16 MB Ram, two 1Gig SCSI disks and a CD ROM on an Adaptec 2840 controller. I have a trident 9400 1MB video card, and a KFC 15 inch monitor. This system was running Debian 1.1 before my crash, zgv worked, out of the box, no configuration necessary. After the crash, I reinstalled Debian 2.0, from Cheapbytes CD released in November, 1998. I installed zgv_2.8-4.deb. She wanted svgalib, so I installed what it asked for. That dpkg set up to its apparent satisfaction as well. dpkg -i seems happy, but zgv does not work. The sympton is that the screen rolls with pink raster lines, no picture when I attempt to display a jpeg file. The following svga libraries appear when I issue the command locate libvga /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1.2.13 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvgagl.so.1 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvgagl.so.1.2.13 I put my monitor's timings from the XF86Config file (that did work under 1.1) and information about my video card in the libvga.config file. Would someone help me? Or ask questions about needed information I have failed to provide. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because reboots are for hardware and kernel updates. Software should be expected to be stable.
Re: Installing on a SCSI HD
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Davide Anchisi wrote: How can install Debian2.1 on a SCSI HD? SCSI controller: Adaptec AHA-1510. I cannot choose the SCSI HD during installation just booting from the rescue floppy. Linux cannot see the SCSI controller, I believe. What can I do? I have a 486 with an IDE HD with windows95 and, on another partition, debian 2.0 (with not the SCSI controller drive yet) already mounted. (I want to remove 2.0 after installing 2.1 on the SCSI HD). Hi Davide You must have SCSI enabled in the kernel, and drivers for your contoller. This means you probably will have to find a kernel to put on your boot floppy. If you will tell me what your system requires, then after my exams are over, i.e. after May 15, I will compile a kernel and make the kernel available for down load. I hope someone else will fill in more of the details. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I hope this is all of the above.)
Re: swapfile and more ram
On Sat, 1 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote: my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks! Hi I refer you to Oliver Elphick's response about disk repartitioning for more swap. If you *need* more swap space, you can create a swap file. It will be slower than a swap partition (you are running things through the file system) but it works. It got me out of the woods. Actually, man mkwap will tell you all you need to know. Write me back if you need to. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)
Re: Looking for a good book...
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Matthew Roberts wrote: I'm a Debian Newbie (just installed my first system yesterday). I'm looking for a good Linux book, preferably something specifically for Debian. I would like the purchase to benefit Debian. I saw the Debian User's Guide at debian.org. Is that basically all there is? If I buy it does any of the proceeds go to Debian? Matt, Debian specific books were recently discussed on this list. Please check the archives in the last two weeks for suggestions beyond those I offer here. Linux Press (www.linuxpress.com) has several books that are Debian specific: One I have first hand knowledge of is the Debian Linux User's Guide by Dale Scheetz. It comes with 4 Debian 2.1 CDs. It costs about $40. I have a copy of the 1.3 version that has proved useful with all versions of Debian since I bought it. It comes with 30 days of email support from the author. You will find that the many, many contributors to this list will help you as well. BTW: There is an html version that can be downloaded and used. Some one creating a .deb package of the book as well. There are some non-Debian specific books from O'Reilly: Mat Welch's Running Linux, Linux in a Nut Shell (brief command syntax) I seem to recall having heard about a Linux Administration, and there is Sobel's Hands On Linux, that deals with Caldera's version. I have several of these, use and like them. Dale has another book with Linux Press. Go to the web page and look at books. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
zgv
Hi I run a 486-DX2/66, 16 MB Ram, two 1Gig SCSI disks and a CD ROM on an Adaptec 2840 controller. I have a trident 9400 1MB video card, and a KFC 15 inch monitor. This system WAS BEFORE a CRASH, running 1.1, wonderfully. zgv worked, out of the box. NOW, running Debian 2.0, installed from Cheapbytes CD released in November. I installed zgv_2.8-4.deb. At least dpkg -i seems happy. She wanted svgalib, so I installed what it asked for. That dpkg set up to its apparent satisfaction as well. But zgv does not work. The problem is that the screen rolls with no display when I attempt to display a jpeg file. The following svga libraries appear when I issue the command locate libvga /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1.2.13 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvgagl.so.1 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvgagl.so.1.2.13 I put my monitor's timings from the XF86Config file (that did work under 1.1) and information about my video card in the libvga.config file. Would someone help me? --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because reboots are for hardware and kernel updates. Software should be expected to be stable.
Re: What are the Bogomips for a P166?
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Colin Tree wrote: Hi, I have a P166 sitting right behind me and it comes up with 66.00 BogoMips. but in front of me is a K6-11-350 which peaks out at 696.00 BogoMips. Sooo does that mean I can do more than 10 times as much work on the K6 ?? What a sales gimick !! Hi Colin There is a formula for bogomips for most chips, the documetnation witht he bogomips package will give that. For the K6 series is is approximately 2*clock speed. My K6-2-350 give s a bogomips of about 700. The Pentium gives a muchslower number, about = the clock rate. At least that is true for the Pentium 266 I'm on right now. Bogomips = 267. Probably means the s... hot risc inside the K6 loops real fast compared to the cisc Pentium. Believe it or not: The Pentium is a risc processor so far as the small instructions. The internal architecture is exactly RISC. The multicycle instructions are, as you suggest, CISC. There is an array of hidden registers in the chip that are used in exactlty the same way a RISC programmer uses registers. I do not know how the K6 is constructed. I must find out. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote: *snip* Having said all that, I'm absolutely useless at keeping backups, so I'm probably heading for a complete loss of data. Rich I'm that way as well, and I'm sorry you are. I quite sympathize! I have a W95 OS on my disk, the warranty requires it. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Cliff Draper wrote: I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? thanks, -Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cliff, Linux press has a book that does a lot of what you are asking. It is written by Dale Scheetz, who is a Debian developer. It comes with 4 Debian 2.1 CDs It is much more than just an installation book, it deals with issues that anyone using Linux should be familiar with. The best part: you can down load an electronic copy for free, at www.linuxpress.com. If buy the hard copy, you get 30 days of email support. The price is about $40, but you can get it for about $32 on Cheapbytes web site. I have the 1.3 version. I like it a lot, as it is still useful, though this version is a little dated. Disclaimer: I have no connection with Dale Scheetz nor Linux press other than being a satisfied with this book and the distribution on these CDs. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious about virii and Linux... Am I wrong to assume that Linux is not immune to virii (I don't even know if virii is a word - but it just sounds cool :) ? Jay, Linux is immune to most viruii :) that affect LOSE 95/8 because most virii are specific to a particular kind of executable and operating system, and depend on the total anarchy of the environment. However, if the virus infects a LOSE 95/8 OS that is resident on the same system where Linux is resident, and eats the partition table and boot sector, Linux cannot see the disk anymore, since Linux depends on the boot sector to boot. Linux depends on the partion table to know where to look on the disk for the data. Obviously the security features of Linux can prevent some virii from affecting certain files on your system... but what about the boot sector? And what if you happen to be su'd or logged in as root when you get (and heaven forbid) execute an infected program? Yes, Linux also provides disk, file, and memory protections that Lose 95 does not (I understand that OS/2 does provide these protections, and I really don't know about NT.) Programs can only affect files and other programs that have a specific set of permissions. I guess if the virus got in during boot, and functioned with root permission, it could play heck with your system. Is there a need for a virus scannner for Linux? I don't really know but I suspect not. Is there a need for virus scanning software on Linux? My guess is Linux isn't a targe right now because of it's lack of market share - but as more users realize that Linux is better than Windows (imho), I would imagine that virus software will start appearing in our beloved OS as well. I sure as heck hope this doesn't happen. -- David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: Installation
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Kent West wrote: At 11:14 PM 4/26/1999 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but unfortunately it did not work. The error message was something like can not mount cdrom /dev/scd0 is not a block device. What is a block device anyway [snip] answers, but you might try, as root, a command like: mount -t iso9660 /dev/sdc /cdrom where -t is09660 means that this is a cdrom file system, and /cdrom is an existing directory on your linux box that serves as a mount point for mounting the cdrom drive. The /dev/sdc assumes that the drive is the third device on the SCSI chain (I think), so if it's not the 3rd device, modify the c part accordingly. I'm pretty sure you do NOT want /dev/scd0, because the 0 would (I would think) mean the 0th partition. Hope I'm not just spewing bad info left and right That is reasonable, but I'm sorry it is wrong. Almost everything else is OK. The right device for a first scsi cdrom is /dev/scd0. The syntax for mounting a scsi cdrom is mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom The -r is really immaterial, since the cd ReadOnlyMemory is by its nature read only. The mount command will mount readonly, no matter whether you use -r. Mounting will fail if you don't have a directory /cdrom :). You also must have kernel support enabled for the iso file system, support for general scsi, and specifically, support for scsi cdroms. This command will also fail if you don't have a cd in the drive, or have a bad drive. If you don't have these supported in your kernel, then you will have to recompile a kernel. Many people can help with that better than I, but if you ask, I will gladly tell you what I did to produce a usable kernel. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I hope this is all of the above.)
Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Ray wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Is there software like MaxBlast or EZBios that comes with the disk? Debian 2.0 is working well for me with a disk with EZBios on it. [snip] It's much better to try to get a bios update for your motherboard or a controller that has a bios built in. For Linux you can specify the geometry directly if you must. For Windows, you may need an update from MS to get it to deal with large drives (depending on what revision of Windows is being used) even with a bios upgrade. I've a machine with a very recent bios, that has a 10.2 Gig IDE Hd, and Linux and Win 98 both knew about the full drive capacity. I think Keith and other who recommend updating the bios by a flash download or by getting a new motherboard are probably right. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because the software support is be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hoping this is all of the above.)
Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?
Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Debian with a 2.0.36 kernel. I want to upgrade my system to the following: 12..18Gb HD DAT Tape Backup system SCSI card for connecting both. Witch SCSI card is best supported, and whitch DAT type is best supported? Where can I find the doc's on witch HF is supported under Debian? Ries, Adaptec cards are everywhere, and are supported by everybody. My problem with Adaptec cards is that they are very sensitive to cable troubles. I have replaced cables more times than I would like to admit. If you do use an Adaptec card, use the very best cables money can buy. Or you can use Mylex (aka Bus Logic) cards which are reputed not to be so sensitive to cabling. Linux does support them. I think Windows 9x also supports them, but someone else will have to confirm that. -- David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hoping that this is all of the above) On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Ries van Twisk wrote: -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: your mail
HI Investigación On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, [iso-8859-1] Investigación y Desarrollo wrote: subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null To subscribe you have to send mail containing the subject line only the word subscribe to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^ with empty message body. IF you want to unsubscribe later, the same process with subjet line unsubscribe works. David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: linux
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Avril Dieno wrote: Hi, My name is Leland Dieno and I am looking for a program like linux for my older 286. I really don't know much about computers so if you can help me that would be great! Avril, Linux does not and cannot run on a 286. You have only a few choices to the best of my knowledge. You can run some free DOS with the UN*X like tools that run on the 8088, hence on the 286, or you can try ELKS which is (as I recall) for embedded systems, but has some of the things that make Linux nice in its tool set. The 286 doesn't support paging, nor much of the memory management that the 386 and successors do. The 286 was not a great chip, though I ran one with Microport's UNIX System V.2 for several years. If worst comes to worst, you can join the Minix folk. Minix is very Unix like and has versions that run on everything from the 8088 up. I hope someone has a better answer. --David Teague David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!) please e-mail me at thank you -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?
Sebastian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Yesterday I downloaded the new SVGA_Server in order to let work my Diamond Viper V550. I burned the File on my RW. Who can help me how to copying the file in the corresponding directory? Thanks a lot Hi Sebastian: You have two choices. One is use mtools, the other is to mount the drive, and use Linux. If you have mtools installed, and configured (mine was configured out of the box): mcopy C:/filename . This is a bit for bit copy, meaning, this is for binary files. If your file is cr-lf delimited text, you need to use mcopy -t C:/filename . which will convert the cr-lf to CR. Conversely, you can mount the file system. On my system, Windows is on /dev/sda1. As root, mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt If you don't have vfat (long file names) on your Windows system, then use msdos instead of vfat for the file system. Your Windows system's files will appear under /mnt. (NB There is no lf to cr-lf conversion here.) One thing: your message had a very long line, it will help those of us who use text mailers (PINE, etc) for you to press return every 70 characters or so. Some mail composers generate local cr but don't insert them into the file. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I hope this is all of the above.)
Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?
Sebastian: I hoped my first answer was useful and friendly. Friendly, perhaps, but the first answer wasn't too helpful. Sorry. I answered this for Windows / MS DOS file systems, not for RW (I assume CD-RW). The spirit of the answer is the same, but the details are somewhat different. I assume that your RW is a read-write CD, that the file system on the CD is iso9660, and that you have iso9660 supported by your kernel. If these things are true, then you can read the CD by mounting it first: mount -r -t iso9660 /mnt/hdxx /cdrom where hdxx is device for your ide cd rw. If your CD-RW is SCSI, I don't know. My scsi CD ROM is /dev/scd0, I would try that device, unless it is the second CD device, where it should be scd1. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hoping that this is all of the above. Everybody else's help is certainly all of the above.)
Re: Current kernel configuration?
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: Subject: Re: Current kernel configuration? On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 Wayne Topa wrote: [...] to get a SoundBlaster working 'with-out' compiling it into the kernel is to purchase the OSS commercial Sound package for $20. [...] How about possibly just using someone else's .o files? Robbie I have had trouble with modules compiled other than at the exact time I compiled the kernel. Someone suggested the kernel can be compiled without version information, and that this will allow 'generic' modules. Is this true? And if my kernel is so compiled, I could insmod your modules? (It is true that the kernel version and patches the same, is it not?) I guess kernel compiling is not going away. David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because the support is free, correct, useful, and quick. Thanks, Debian People.
Solved: Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: Subject: Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs More to the point, you must set Enable Native Language Support to Y. Nathan You put your finger on it. I just did not believe it. (Lack of understanding.) It was nevertheless quite stupid not to go try this immediately. Thanks and apologies to everyone who responded. Summary: No matter WHAT devices, no matter what other things your configure, if you do not answer the questions Enable Natural language Support with 'y' you dont see ios9660 filesystem. Now: Please, someone explain why code pages are needed for the iso9660 file system. This was not true for kernels 2.0.27, and was added by kernel 2.0.34. David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux: Because the support is fast, accurate, useful. Software should be stable. Reboots are for kernel and hardware upgrades.
HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs
All: This is a Second Request. I really need an answer. I have the following kernel related packages installed, according to dpkg -l ii kernel-headers- 2.0.32-5 Linux kernel headers. ii kernel-image-2. custon.1.0 Linux kernel binary image. ii kernel-package 4.11 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts. ii kernel-source-2 2.0.34-4 Linux kernel source. It appears that if I configure all SCSI, then make config doesn't offer me an iso9660 file system. I should be able to configure all SCSI and still have iso9660 fs. How do I force cause the kernel's make config to offer me an iso9660 file system? Or how do I hack the .config to get that fs? What else do you need to offer help? Other details are in the original message. below. --David Hi Debian Folk, Carl and Jason: My system is a 486-66, 16 MB RAM, SCSI only 1Gig HD, SCSI CD ROM, SCSI tape. It DID run Debian 1.1, but I crashed the 1.1 system Good Friday. I HAD to have it back up quickly, so I installed from the most recent CDs I have, 2.0 CDs, since I only had slow phone connection o the outside world. I rebuilt the kernel to enable ppp. That worked well. I did not notice until the system refused access to my CD ROM drive that I did not have CD ROM access. I triedto reconfigure to get iso9660 file system support. Neither make config, and make menuconfig offers an iso9660 filesystem. It appears iso9660 support for SCSI disks is not an option. I am ceratin this pessimisitic attitude is not correct. I have the following kernel related packages installed, according to dpkg -l ii kernel-headers- 2.0.32-5 Linux kernel headers. ii kernel-image-2. custon.1.0 Linux kernel binary image. ii kernel-package 4.11 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts. ii kernel-source-2 2.0.34-4 Linux kernel source. HELP! Please! I need to get to the CD ROM other that through the MS DOS Side of the system. I have several more packages I'd like to install, and I would like to upgrade to 2.1, once my CDs arrive. David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Tony Crawford wrote: David B.Teague wrote (on 13 Apr 99, at 21:58): ... how do I hack the .config to get [the iso9660] fs? If you wanna go that last route, open /usr/src/linux/.config and find: # # Filesystems # CONFIG_QUOTA=y CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y [snip] CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m That last one should begin with no hash mark, and end with =y or =m. Thanks, Tony, I was beginning to think I wasn't going to get an answer. I just looked, these lines are present # # Filesystems # CONFIG_QUOTA=y CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y # CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y # CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set CONFIG_NLS=m But there is NO line containing CONFIG_ISO9660_FS in my config file. I thought that strange. The obious thing to do now is to add that line in the position, then compile the kernel. I'll try that, and many thanks for this suggestion. I didn't know the syntax for the iso9669 file system line. (But perhaps that syntax should have been obvious? ;) Again many thanks. --David David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because the support is fast, useful, and free. Because software stability should be the norm. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 --
Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, ktb wrote: How do I force cause the kernel's make config to offer me an iso9660 file system? Or how do I hack the .config to get that fs? If your looking for iso9660 I think you enable that under File systems. At least in 'make xconfig' if I remember correctly. Hi kent Thanks for the reply. I did indeed look at file systems, and was offered minix, ext2, but NOT iso9660. I ran make config and make menuconfig, neither of which offer iso9660. The code is in the kernel, I found and looked at it. Can you help the problem? David
Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Kent West wrote: From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED], Subject: Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, David B.Teague wrote: I've just looked through my configuration on a 2.2.1 system and I couldn't get the ISO 9660 option to go away. I tried turning on every SCSI thing I could think of and a few other things as well. What version are you compiling? You are looking under Filesystems for ISO 9660 CDROM file system support? Under the Filesystems option, there's Quota support, then Kernel automounter support, then Amiga..., Apple Mac..., DOS FAT..., MSDOS..., UMSDOS, VFAT, then ISO 9660 CDROM n Kent, I checked with dpkg, and the kernel related stuff is this ii kernel-package 4.11 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts. ii kernel-source-2 2.0.34-4 Linux kernel source. I have not had a chance to check the version of this here at work, but I will do so before going home. I did and 2.0.34 DOES NOT OFFER ME ISO9660 FILE SYSTEM AS A CHOICE. I'm going back to see if by chance the guy who suggested Native Language support might be right, in spite of the fact that this does not make sense to me. * * Filesystems * Quota support (CONFIG_QUOTA) [N/y/?] Minix fs support (CONFIG_MINIX_FS) [Y/m/n/?] Extended fs support (CONFIG_EXT_FS) [N/y/m/?] Second extended fs support (CONFIG_EXT2_FS) [Y/m/n/?] xiafs filesystem support (CONFIG_XIA_FS) [N/y/m/?] Native language support (Unicode, codepages) (CONFIG_NLS) [N/y/m/?] (NEW) /proc filesystem support (CONFIG_PROC_FS) [Y/n/?] NFS filesystem support (CONFIG_NFS_FS) [Y/m/n/?] Root file system on NFS (CONFIG_ROOT_NFS) [N/y/?] SMB filesystem support (to mount WfW shares etc..) (CONFIG_SMB_FS) [N/y/m/?] OS/2 HPFS filesystem support (read only) (CONFIG_HPFS_FS) [N/y/m/?] System V and Coherent filesystem support (CONFIG_SYSV_FS) [N/y/m/?] UFS filesystem support (read only) (CONFIG_UFS_FS) [N/y/m/?] * * Character devices * Standard/generic serial support (CONFIG_SERIAL) [Y/m/n/?] --David TEague [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kern pkg 2.0.34 doesn't offer is09660 fs
Hi Debian Folk, Carl and Jason: My system is a 486-66, 16 MB RAM, SCSI only 1Gig HD, SCSI CD ROM, SCSI tape. Runs Debian 1.1 I crashed this 1.1 system Good Friday. I HAD to have it back up quickly, so I installed from 2.0 CDs I have, since I only had slow phone connection to the outside world. To get ppp, I rebuilt the kernel. That worked well. However I did not notice until the system refused access to my CD ROM drive that I did not have CD ROM access. In fact, I tried to reconfigure to get iso9660 file system support. I am NEVER offered an iso9660 filesystem by the kernel package's make config nor make menuconfig. It appears iso9660 support for SCSI disks is not an option. I am ceratin this pessimisitic attitude is not correct. I have the following kernel related packages installed, according to dpkg -l ii kernel-headers- 2.0.32-5 Linux kernel headers. ii kernel-image-2. custon.1.0 Linux kernel binary image. ii kernel-package 4.11 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts. ii kernel-source-2 2.0.34-4 Linux kernel source. HELP! Please! I need to get to the CD ROM other that through the MS DOS Side of the system. I have several more packages I'd like to install, and I would like to upgrade to 2.1, once my CDs arrive. David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote in response to Steve Lamb, on 6 Apr 1999: Subject: Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it? Steve, you do not want to get rid of xauth ... exactly what problem are you having? I have a slightly different problem: The presence of Xauth prevents me from starting X (via startx) the SECOND time. I just rm it after each X session. There Has To Be A Better Solution applies here as well as to a ubiquitous PC operating system we love to hate. How do I fix this? David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software stability should be expected. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Subject says all. Trying to get apps to display on remote machines. I can do it fine to my Winbox, but that is because it isn't using Xauth. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNwr57Xpf7K2LbpnFEQLcMgCgtRnThlRuwhmdKcU4LSA/CItp40EAoILo exIASDQGEGB0av4ZpF1Ftx28 =Vsyj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null George Bonser Support The THING -- http://shorelink.com/~grep/THING.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What do I do with tarballs?
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Stefan Langerman wrote: Subject: What do I do with tarballs? dselect is great, but what do I do when there is no deb package for the soft I want? I know of course how to install somethng from a tarball, my question is just: where do I do it? Where do I put the package etc. and make sure I am not messing up dpkg? Are there any conventions for that? Is there any doc that explains that? I have thought about using alien to create a .deb and then used dpkg to install it. IF the tarball puts things in the right places, it seems to me that this should work find. It has the added advantage of my being able to un-install. I'd like some feed back about this, as I suspect there is some danger involved, since there does not appear to be much in the way of controls. -David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software should be free and stable. Reboots are for hardware and kernel upgrades. The support is free, fast, useful and correct.
Re: SCSI problem
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Holtz, Mike IS wrote: Subject: SCSI problem Trying to install Debian 2.02 and the rescue disk boot system is having problems with the aha2940 scsi adapter. Basically it sees it ok, but at the point where it goes to scan for devices it gets the following error: Parity error during phase Message-In. It then goes into an infinite loop of first trying to reset the SCSI bus timing out. Mike I have a 2840 SCSI controller, which, as I understand, has the same chip set and driver. I find that to get the boot floppy up, I have to have a kernel that knows about only the 2940 controller, not all the vast panoply of SCSI and other controllers. At least I could not get the kernel on the stock boot floppy to boot successfully. I replaced the kernel on the boot floppy with my old kernel, which worked fine. I'll recompile a new, later kernel later, but that worked enough to get me up. Maybe someone can tell me the right way to do this. David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software should be free and stable. Mike H. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Good notation program for linux
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Marcus Claren wrote: Subject: Good notation program for linux Does anybody know of a good music writing program for linux, preferrably deb - packaged? Hi Marcus: I too need a program that will notate music as well as something that will take files from that notation and create MIDI files, and play them. As I look I see that there are many Linux music programs available, but I have no experience with them. I took the opportunity to look. I looked in the the Packages.gz files from the Debian Potato distribution. There many programs that refer to music. Some of these in .../dists/potato/contrib/... are musiclyr pmx In .../dists/potato/main/... some are lillypond abc2ps abcmidi rosegarden In .../dists/potato/non-free/... some are abc2mtex musixtex opustex You can look in the Packages files to see the description of the package. I hope this helps, and if you decide to use one of these I'd like to know which one, and how well it does the job. --David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux: Because the bugs are acknowledged and repaired quickly. Because the support is free, fast, and useful. Besides, it is free: Would you drive a car with the hood welded shut? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86
Hi I have an SiS 6326 up and running X, thanks to Carl Mummert. He down loaded the Xfree server for 3.3.3.1 XVGA16 and XVGA servers. He copied them over the 3.3.2 servers then edited the XF86Config file. We could not get the setup to run until we got that right, you likely will have to work in the dark. You can look in the mailing list archives for Carl's message regarding this. Or mail me back, I'll send you my XF86config file, and once I get my mail reconstructed from my crash of the mailer, I'll send his message to you. --David Teague: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux: Because the support is free and cheerfully given, not to mention almost _always_ correct and useful. On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Antonio Ullan wrote: Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 12:10:32 +0200 From: Antonio Ullan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86 Resent-Date: 5 Apr 1999 09:47:17 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Paul Lowe wrote: Antonio Ullán wrote: Hello: My PC is running slink. I just have installed a SiS6326 AGP video card and I don't know how can I to configure X-Window. I have intented with XF86_SVGA server but only I get 320x200 resolution and Ctrl-Alt-+, Ctrl-Alt-- dont't work. Can somebody help me?. Thanks. Best regards. Edit /usr/X11/lib/X11/XF86Config Paul Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Paul: I have intented that my video-car work editing XF86Config file but I haven't get it. I think that XFree86 3.3.2 ( currently installed in slink) don't support SiS6326 chip or not in the usual way (editing XF86Config, run XF86Setup,...). I'd like to know if somebody have this video chip runing in slink and It is working fine. In this case, how can I do it ?. Thanks Antonio -- Antonio Ullán de Celis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
