Re: OpenGL Segfaulting...
After tonight's update to woody, I'm still having all OpenGL apps (including xlock) segf when they try to draw things. xlock goes so far as to terminate X and drop me back to xdm. Other things such as q3demo/ut just die with a segf after trying to draw to the screen. I've tried rebooting a few times, tried several known-working kernel versions/etc and still no luck. Does anyone have any ideas? Is anyone else experiancing this? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: OpenGL Segfaulting...
Colin Watson wrote:
Evan Van Dyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, here's a little more info: I just downloaded the newest glide,
recompiled and reinstalled that. Regressed back to the -test6 kernel
which I know it worked on. When trying to run q3demo, it blanks the
screen and switches the resolution... but as soon as it starts to play
the opening movie it dies. the ldd on my libraries and executables
all point to the appropriate versions. glxinfo runs correctly,
doesn't say it's rendering by MesaIndirect or anything. My _guess_
is that it's something in the libc, libm, libdl, or libpthread
as I've replaced all the others with known working versions, or
recompiles of known working code. Anyone have any suggestions?
Try strace? 'strace q3demo', say, and see where it dies. If it forks,
you may have to do something like 'strace -fF q3demo'. The end of the
output will be the interesting bit.
Here's the strace output:
VM file ui compiled to 902363 bytes of code
4 arenas parsed
6 bots parsed
trFMV::play(), playing idlogo.RoQ
Received signal 11, exiting...
[WIFEXITED(s) WEXITSTATUS(s) == 1], 0, NULL) = 23413
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD TTOU], [CHLD], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [CHLD], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
wait4(-1, 0xb018, WNOHANG, NULL)= -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x806aae8, [], 0x400}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD TTOU], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
read(255, exit $?\n, 168) = 8
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
_exit(1)= ?
miranda:~$
--Evan
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Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe
I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the
screen.
--Dilbert to Management
new kdm not reading kdmrc??
Ok, this seems silly but does anyone know why since one or two upgrades ago on kdm it would have stopped reading my /etc/kde2/kdmrc file? the session-types box has dropped down to just kde and failsafe... --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
OpenGL Segfaulting...
Agh! Not sure how far back it goes but after one of the recent woody upgrades, any OpenGL application I try to use segfaults! glxinfo works fine, but q3demo, ut, gears, the GL screensavers, etc all segf on me. I've had X4.x up and working for a while... and tried reinstalling my local compilation but that didn't seem to help. Not sure what's going on, but does anyone have any gusses? system: Voodoo3/3000 X4.x PII/400 --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: OpenGL Segfaulting...
Evan Van Dyke wrote: Agh! Not sure how far back it goes but after one of the recent woody upgrades, any OpenGL application I try to use segfaults! glxinfo works fine, but q3demo, ut, gears, the GL screensavers, etc all segf on me. I've had X4.x up and working for a while... and tried reinstalling my local compilation but that didn't seem to help. Not sure what's going on, but does anyone have any gusses? system: Voodoo3/3000 X4.x PII/400 Ok, here's a little more info: I just downloaded the newest glide, recompiled and reinstalled that. Regressed back to the -test6 kernel which I know it worked on. When trying to run q3demo, it blanks the screen and switches the resolution... but as soon as it starts to play the opening movie it dies. the ldd on my libraries and executables all point to the appropriate versions. glxinfo runs correctly, doesn't say it's rendering by MesaIndirect or anything. My _guess_ is that it's something in the libc, libm, libdl, or libpthread as I've replaced all the others with known working versions, or recompiles of known working code. Anyone have any suggestions? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: HELP - voodoo 3 trouble
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: dear all, when i try to run test3Dfx on my dual celery550 (debian 2.2, kernel 2.4.0-test9), it reports: 1) run it as root, does it work? If so, then it's a module problem. 2) I had some problems with the debian distro of the glide libs and ended up compileing and installing my own from CVS(glide.sourceforge.net) 3) My 3dfx module didn't work with the 2.4.0-test* series, so you might be stuck as running as root for now. 4) Try Xfree4.0CVS and Glide3xCVS for accelerated OpenGL(although no Glide) X4.0 is _soo_ much faster than 3.3.* --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Weird boot problem
Ok, I'm sure if this is lilo, or what but the last few times I have had to reboot(not often, admitedly) Lilo has been rendered unusable and I have to boot from a CD and re-run lilo. I havn't been changing kernels or anything. Usually it'll go LIL- and freeze, but just recently it tried to boot the kernel but then said it was 'unable to load kernelX' for whichever of the kernels I tried. I'm hoping that this is something software and not a HD that is slowly dying on me... Does anyone have ideas? Im running Woody with the latest updates if that makes a difference. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Lilo V22dev0-1
My LILO was recently upgraded with a standard potato run. I didn't notice anything wrong at the time, as I didn't reboot the computer. However, I did so today, to find that I am unable to boot any 2.2.x or 2.3.x kernel. I am currently running off of a 2.2.12 kernel on floppy (which works ok) but even after checking my lilo.conf, rerunning LILO, and reinstalling the zImage(the same one that boots fine from floppy... I made the floppy from the image lilo is pointed at) My computer still halts while trying to uncompress the kernel. I get something like: Loading Linux. Uncompressing ... crc error something I don't remember But this should be the relevant info. Has anyone else run into this before? Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks in advance. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: two monitors
Seth R Arnold wrote: Ok guys -- I have a second monitor, and wouldn't mind buying a second video card if it would allow me to use two monitors at the same time. I don't know where to start looking for information on this. My current video card is an AGP ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am running XFree86 Mach64 3.3.5-1. Do you guys have any suggestions for a second video card (I think it would need to be PCI... :) Or, should I just buy a new video card that can handle two video outputs? Do such things exist? (Can I afford them? :) Any hints you have would be appreciated. :) Thanks Xfree86 V4.0 is supposed to introduce multi-headed support... until then I don't think you can. Although one of the commercial servers might do it. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: change the ip address without rebooting
Shao Zhang wrote: hi, How do I change the ip address of my machine without rebooting? I did an ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xx netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255 But it does not seem to be enough. After the above command, I cannot telnet to anywhere unless I do a reboot... Can someone please help me?? Did you change the routing tables? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: [Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)
Jean-Philippe Guérard wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 01:43:57PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Today I have found a 3Dfx graphic card in my miracle sack Currently I am using the 'miroCrystal 40 sv' which works very good, but the 3Dfx und mor then 2 years younger and it will have more Power. You will still have to rely on your graphic card for 2D graphics. The 3Dfx card will give you fast 3D graphic display for some specific applications. This may not be true if it's a newer 3Dfx card... some of them do both 2D and 3D... but w/out knowing the card I can't say for sure. Annd which VGA server must I use with Debian/DLD ??? AFAIK, you cannot use the 3Dfx with X. You must still use your video card. Voodoo3 is now supported by Xfree86 3.3.4. Voodoo2/else has been supported for a while. On Linux, you will only be able to use the 3Dfx 3D accelaration with the applications specially designed to use it (Quake 2 is the only one I know of) from a VGA console. Or have an accelerated Server... don't know how accelerated Xfree's is tho. --Evan
Re: [Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Evan Van Dyke wrote:
Jean-Philippe Guirard wrote:
On Linux, you will only be able to use the 3Dfx 3D accelaration with
the applications specially designed to use it (Quake 2 is the only one
I know of) from a VGA console.
Or have an accelerated Server... don't know how accelerated Xfree's
is tho.
Butwait... Doesn't Mesa have 3dfx acceleration that can be compiled in? Or
did
I just order a handful of machines with Voodoo3s for nothing? :-{
Check the MESA docs?
--Evna
Re: Logitech Mouseman / X
Fraser Campbell wrote: Tried that and everything else I could find. Someone suggested I try MouseManPlusPS/2 but this had the same effect ... mouse jitters around the screen and ends in top left corner. As an experiment I plugged on a Microsoft PS/2 mouse and this does the same as the logitech ... left corner. Do you have gpm and X running at the same time? That's known to cause problems... you might try disabling gpm --Evan
Re: DVD on Linux?
Kent West wrote: 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 If playing DVDs is a big issues then, yes, Linux is not a good idea at the moment. However, this may change shortly... there are several LInux-DVD projects out there that are working on a solution linuxdvd.corepower.com is the home page for one of them. the folks at LinuxTV(www.linuxtv.org) have also developed a DVD hardware decoder/driver, and are looking for a company to market it. Within the next 6 months to a year DVDs on Linux should be a (small) reality, although only a small subset of the current hardware will probably be supported. --Evan
Re: debian installation
Julian Taylor wrote: Debian, admittedly, is one of the most primitive Linux installations I've ever used. Among the problems are the fact that no matter what you tell it during installation about your intended configuration, it sets everything up not to work. You'll find the same problem with ppp which is most likely set up to deny all access and printing which is most likely not set up at all. I would have to disagree with this. Yes, the installation is texed based but the install menu is well layed out, understandable, and it works if you take the time to work your way through it. I have had PPP up and running with no more than a 'pppconfig' and adding myself to the dialout group so that I didn't have to su myself to run pon/poff. Printing sets up well and easilly with magicfilter and lprng... assuming you installed the kernel paralell drivers. I have installed Debian with Ethernernet networking with similar ease. You have to read each of the HOWTO's and manually configure each thing. This can sometimes be difficult because different flavors of Linux make subtle changes to the base so some of the HOWTO's don't apply any more (Caldera and yp fer instance). Since I still haven't managed to fully configure my Debian system, all I know is that the HOWTO isn't always enough. I grabbed my XF86Config from Slackware Linux and it worked OK. I'll be glad to send you a copy of it as a start. While for many custom configurations reading the HOWTOs are a must, I have yet to install a debian package and not have it up and running with atleast a base configuration right 'out of the box,' so to speak. Some things(eg. SAMBA) need an edit of the .conf file to tell it what services you want to serve, but these are nicely documented by the pre/post installation scripts. And while, yes, the file structures are different, a simple 'find' or 'locate' can easily find the files. As to X... X is definately the most complex thing to install on ANY linux system... I have had several instances where XF86Setup would not work, but xf86config set X up just fine without any problems. Admittedly you need to know quite a bit more about your Graphics Card and Monitor than you do under other OSes, but it is definately possible. Also, unless you have _identical_ hardware configurations, sharing XR86Config files is a bad idea... the XFree86 FAQ has tales of several BadThings(tm) that can happen by doing this... as the XF86Config file is specific to each videocard/ monitor combination. If this becomes too frustrating, install Slackware or Caldera Linux. They have some problems too, but after installation, they're configured to work. So is Debian. : --Evan
Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from unstable?
Joe Emenaker wrote: For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without having to wait for the next official release of Debian. Well, it seems that bug fixed versions are placed in stable as well, so I don't need unstable for that. However, I still would like to get to all of the new packages there. Is there anyway to use unstable *only* for the packages that *don't* exist in stable? Security updates for stable are posted on security.debian.org and should be availiable about the same time that unstable's holes are fixed. Potato is based on glibc2.1. Slink is glibc2.0... so from what I've read on many other posts here, it's a BadIdea(tm) to try and mix these due to the different glibc dependencies. --Evan
Re: Video Card
Dave Swegen wrote: 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. By the way, does anyone know if the TV tuner in the Voodoo3-3500 is the same as STB's original TV tuner chipset? eg... will it work with the bt848 driver? And/or is it supported under some other driver? --Evan
Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager
Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post this but anyway... I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen pops back. When I start X by typing startx from a text console everything works fine. I noticed this problem on a few PC's that have been upgraded to potato so I think it's a bug and not a misconfiguration. what does your ~/.xsession-errors file say after gdm does this? It should give us an idea of what's happening so we can help solve the problem... the symptom you list just means that, for some reason, X is unable to load its WM, or has some other error that ends the session. It could be a number of things. --Evan
Re: Video Card
Raymond A. Ingles wrote: Voodoo card support is the most mature for Mesa... but it's binary-only, no source, and so you have to run a program as root that you don't have the source for. So, you can run Quake without any major problems, but from what I've gathered 2D support is a little immature, and it's really hard to render into a window. The Voodoo chips really only work well rendering 3D to a full screen. Actually, the Voodoo3 drivers have been incorporated into Xfree86 3.3.4... atleast, that's what the Xfree86 FAQ says. --Evan
Re: hard disk size
Brian J. McHugh wrote: Hi, I have a IBM PS/2 77-OUA 486SX with a 212 MB HD (I accept condolences). It appears that cfdisk only detects 200 MB of the 212 MB. Is this normal? Thanks, Brian This may be your standard Manufacturer Calling 1,000,000 bytes a MB when it's really 1048576 bytes so they can call their disks bigger than they actually are. I don't have a calculator on me so I can't tell, but it's certianly something to check. --Evan
Re: A doubt...
Mahendra D. Khandkar SBO wrote: I have installed Debian Linux 2.0 on a Pentium 90 Mhz machine. I am trying to configure so many things as I can . The major problem I am facing is about the network. After configuring the network, machine can connect to other machines on the network but it is not allowing other machines to connect to itself. The error on other machines is Connection refused . I tried a lot by playing with the files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. It is not working. Will you please sort out the problem for me ? Look at your /var/log/system.log file... does it say why the connection is being refused? there are two possibilities that I can see: the servers aren't running, or an /etc/hosts* problem. if you want, you can TEMPORARIALLY put: ALL: ALL as the first line in your /etc/hosts.allow file to make sure that it's not blocking anything. If this fixes the problem, then You just need to find out which rule is causing the problem... comment them out one at a time until it is fixed. then fix the broken rule. By the way , one more thing. Can I configure various utilities (e.g. network) after system is installed once ? Or everytime I have to for boot/root (installation ) floppies ? of course. most of the configuration files are sored in the /etc heirarchy... some programs(like sendmail) have configure utilities (eg. sendmailconf). check out /usr/doc/package and the manfiles for information about specific packages. --Evan
Re: Sparc IPX mouse issue
Mike Lieberman wrote: We are having problems getting Debian to see/find/use the Sun mouse connected to our type 5 keyboard. gpmcongif wants to find /dev/mouse which doesn't exist. Xwindows won't run for the same reason. We know the mouse is working as we have Solaris on this box and the mouse was just fine. Anyone using a Sparc IPX have any ideas? Well, I am not using a Sparc, but: /dev/mouse is usually a symlink to wherever the mouse is actually installed /dev/ttyS0 for a COM1 mouse, /dev/psaux for a PS/2 style mouse, etc. THis is so that apps can look for the mouse in a central location without having to worry about differences between different comps. I suggest that you try configuring gpmconfig to look at /dev/psaux first since it's a PS/2 style mouse. if you can't change gpmconfig, just ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse as root. --Evan
Re: FW: Sparc IPX mouse issue
Mike Lieberman wrote: I'm an idiot. :-) A close reading of the dev shows... /dev/sunmouse ! See my previous message, but I would still stuggest ln -s /dev/sunmouse /dev/mouse and let the programs continue to use /dev/mouse... you'll probably hit fewer problems along the way. --Evan
Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off
Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: Hi, I have : Kernel2.2.10-1 + potato + ATX_box All packages are the last. When i do a : shutdown -h now or halt my system is rebooted, but not power off. Wheras I set this option in the kernel. do someone have the same probleme are the solution ? Have you compiled the kernel with APM: Poweroff on shutdown enabled? Linux doesn't do this unless you tell the kernel to do so in the config before you compile it. --Evan
Re: Sparc IPX mouse issue
Mike Lieberman wrote: Well, I am not using a Sparc, but: /dev/mouse is usually a symlink to wherever the mouse is actually installed /dev/ttyS0 for a COM1 mouse, /dev/psaux for a PS/2 style mouse, etc. THis is so that apps can look for the mouse in a central location without having to worry about differences between different comps. I suggest that you try configuring gpmconfig to look at /dev/psaux first since it's a PS/2 style mouse. if you can't change gpmconfig, just ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse as root. --Evan Evan, there is no symkink from /dev/sunmouse to /dev/mouse in this box, that's why the problem started. It doesn't work. That's anyway. Right. that's why you should create one. Most of the distributions I have seen do not create /dev/mouse. you have to link it yourself. in your case, su yourself to root, then type: ln -s /dev/sunmouse /dev/mouse --Evan
Re: SB64 PCI + CD audio Problem
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: Could you tell me what are the 'recording' settings ? I don't know how to set them. Thanks. I don't know about the mixer that you use, but I usually use xfmix. just click the button that turns red on the CD channel. and make sure that the CD channel isn't muted while you're there. --Evan
Re: SCSI Cd-rom device name?
Robert Rati wrote: I got a SCSI DVD drive for my computer to use as my CD-rom drive and expand to DVD in the future. Well,it gets detected just find but it's device name is /dev/sr0 (it's the first device on the chain). Shouldn't it be /dev/scd0 since it's basically a cd-rom drive? When I mount /dev/sr0 I can't use a file system format. I can mount it alright, but not using a filesystem to mount it has me a little worried since it's not an ext2 filesystem. In fact, it fails the first time I try and mount it and resets the SCSI bus. My guess was because the drive was sinning up or something. Can anyone tell me why the drive is /sev/sr0, why I don't need a filesystem to mount the drive, or why I'm having that oddity the first time I try and mount the drive? TIA. Well.. I can't tell you why it is coming up as /dev/sr... however... since it is a CD, it won't have multiple partitions... so you should be accessing it as /dev/sr not /dev/sr0. As to the filesystems... try: mount -t iso9660 /dev/whatever mountpoint since iso9660 is the cd filesystem type. atleast, if I remember it correctly Anyone else? --Evan
Re: 3Com 509B Ethernet card working in Windows but not in Linux
Fredrik Jonsson wrote: Hi, According to the Hardware-HOWTO Linux should support the 3Com 509B Ethernet card. When I try to install the driver I get an error and during booting a line appear: eth0 unknown interface /* something like that */ In Windows 95 the card funktion and I can ping it from my Mac via the local network. I's a Pentium 133 MHz system i'm installing on. Any tips? What are you doing to get the driver set up? have you: 1) insmoded the 3c509.o module -OR- compiled it hard into the kernel? 2) if so, what does it say when the module is loaded/on boot up? After you get the hardware driver working, eth0 should exist, and you should then be able to set up the ifconfig and routeing tables. --Evan
Re: SB64 PCI + CD audio Problem
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: Thanks a lot. In fact, I chose the ES1370 and all the .wav files play. On the contrary, I have a problem with the audio CDs: workman (or XPlayCD) seems to play them, but I have no sound from the card. TkMixer has no influence on it. Have an idea ? Well, it's the obvious... but is the CD audio cable connected between your CD and the sound card? --Evan
Re: SB64 PCI + CD audio Problem
Notingher Petru wrote: Of course the cable is connected. Moreover, it works wonderfully with Bill's stuff. Have you tried playing with the 'recording' settings? with my SB 64PCI board, for some odd reason if I don't have the channel selected for recording I don't get anything. Sounds strange I know... but true nevertheless. --Evan
Re: ADSL
Sera Hill wrote: I'm a Linux newbie! I'm also a subscriber to the debian-users list and I noticed that some of you have an ADSL link. I've been trying to get it to work on Debian, but to no avail. I've used winipcfg to find out the information I need, but Linux is still having problems resolving webSite addresses, especially when I run dselect. Some of the information that the network config file asks from me I also find confusing. Like the gateway question and the Broadcast one, as well as the DNS Server. I'm signed onto Sympatico and they're not helping with Linux config. Is there any way you could give me some kind of step-by-step as to how you did it? Or to help me out somehow? If you need any more information, let me know. -Sera Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] THere should be an ADSL HOWTO in any of the multiple HOWTO locations www.linux.org is probably the easiest to find... however basic answers to your questions: 1) the Gateway: the gateway is a computer that forwards all external internet traffic(external traffic is anything w/out the same first three IP numbers(a subnet). if your IP number is 1.2.3.78, then any trafic to an IP that is not 1.2.3.XXX goes through the gateway). You can find the propper gateway under the TCP/IP settings in the Network applet of WIndows's control panel(scroll down to the TCP/IP protocol, and open it). 2) broadcast address: don't worry about what this is... it should be first-three-digits of your IP.255eg, if you are 1.2.3.78, the broadcast address is 1.2.3.255 3) DNS: DNS stands for Domain Name Server... is takes the text-based name of a computer(www.3com.com) and translates it into the IP address which the computer needs to make the connection. you can find the appropriate DNS settings under TCP/IP properties, as you found the gateway. these will be IP numbers, not server names, as without a DNS, you computer can not figure out any IPs. a lot of this is described in the net-3-HOWTO(or the networking HOWTO). Basically with how xDSL words, you have a local network from the splitter to your computer, and most likely a normal ethernet card installed in your comp. Does that help? --Evan
Re: fan speed, temp monitoring etc.
Ali Onur UYAR wrote: Most of the new motherboards features such as: CPU, mainboard temprature CPU, power supply fan speed Voltage level monitoring. Guess it must be quite difficult to obtain a general purpose monitoring software as the hardware implementation of such features seem to be motherboard brand specific. Just wondered if there is some piece of existing linux software for ASUS motherboards. Though I am quite new to Linux ( 1.5 years ), I have some programming experience and I am considering to start a project for mainboard monitoring software. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null check out 'lm-sensors' depending on which sensors you have on your M-board(it is in the manual, and/or the online specs). --Evan
Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?
Jonathan Guthrie wrote: *SNIP* However, I expect I'm the only one who thinks that's the proper approach so, how's this for a solution: Give the /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux directories up as lost causes. Instead, define new directories. Say /usr/include/kernel-asm and /usr/include/kernel-linux. Make THEM symlinks to the appropriate directories in the kernel source tree. I would do this on my own computer, but I don't really get any benefit from it unless everyone else, particularly those who develop modules and whatnot, decides to use the same convention. Therefore, we then attempt to convince people to actually use those directories instead of /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux for the good reasons that we've discussed. If you havn't read the letter by Linux Torvalds that was referred to under this thread within the last few days, I suggest that you do so. In a quick summary: Yes, /usr/include/linux;/usr/include/asm should include kernel- independant information for a variety of reasons that he spells out. Eventually, the other distributions should do the same thing, as it is a glibc thing. Debian was just the first to jump on the bandwagon. Programs that need to be kernel specific should find the kernel headers elsewhere. The obvious choice seems to be /usr/src/linux/include/linux and /usr/src/linux/include/asmas that is where most people store their kernel source. Why clutter up /usr/include more with kernel-specific headers? The entire point is that the /usr/include/* headers should be kernel-independant after all. --Evan
Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname?
mp3info seems to be just what I need, now all I need is a way for the computer to automatically recognise when someone has typed the artist wrong in the header info :-) Is it Bryan Adams or Brian Adams? :-) Debian has two wrapper-scripts that get CDDB info off the web, pull tracks from a CD, and then create .mp3 files replete with headers you might want to check them out. They are: cdda2wav, and cdgrab. Of the two I prefer cdgrab myself. --Evan
Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?
Also, how did the headers there get up to 2.2.9? I haven't done anything fancy to copy headers into those directories, and I've been downloading kernel patches from www.linuxhq.com etc, not the Debian packages. Does the normal kernel build usually install these? I wonder why it didn't for 2.2.10? This seems strange. How did you upgrade your kernel to 2.2.9? I believe the headers are in the libc6-dev package in potato... they're certianly in one of the libc6-* packages. you can always: dpkg -S /usr/include/linux/someFile to find out for sure. --Evan
Re: oops.... I screwed up wmnet and want it back
Aaron Solochek wrote: I was messing around trying to get wmnet to load with x, so I put it in .xinitrc. First of all, is this the place to put things like this? Even if its not, thats where it went, but instead of of gicing me the outline for manual placement like it did when loaded manually, and then jumping to the lower lefthand corner where I like it, it was in in the upper right hand corner ontop of the windowmaker clip. And also, when it was loading from .xinitrc it had a title bar, and an application icon. I turned those off with the attributes, and click some of the other options in there, I don't remember which, but now it loads, and I can't find it at all. I've tried showall and arrange icons but neither reveal it. How can I get this thing back? And also, how can I get it to do what I originally wanted: to autoload to the bottom left corner? if you're using WindowMaker, put it in your: ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart make sure it's chmoded +x. Your problem is that the stuff in .xinitrc loads BEFORE your windowmanager... so it can't stick itself into WIndowMaker's toolbar, because the toolbar doesn't exist yet. --Evan
Re: What is xpm.h?
Mark Wright wrote: I'm trying to compile some WindowMaker applets and they all complain that they are unable to find X11/xpm.h. Obviously, I'm missing some .deb - which one? --- Mark Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null try libxpm-dev or something like that. --Evan
Re: PPP where for out thou?
Andy Bottman wrote: When I execute 'insmod ppp' I recieve the errors: '/lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol slhc_init' '/lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol slhc_free' '/lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol slhc_uncompress' '/lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol slhc_toss' '/lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol slhc_remember' '/lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol slhc_compress' What does this mean? I beleive that I compiled the kernel with PPP support, if I didn't how do I specify that? You have some unresolved dependencies. try: modprobe ppp which will load other modules that ppp depends on. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: loggin 'su'
Pere Camps wrote: Hi! Is there any way to log with syslog all attepts (good bad) to user 'su' ? TIA! -- p. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null You might want to disable su and have users use sudo. that logs to syslog. if they really need su they can do: sudo sh to get a root shell. then can su to another user from there. This has the advantage that you need to individually allow each account to use sudo, so no one that you don't specifically let use it can. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: No screens found
Jens Vogel wrote: Hi all! Recently I've installed Debian Linux on my system (i.e. UNIX is a new world for me) to get rid of the virus called Windows :-) Everything was fine and easy and I've learned a lot about the prompt. But I haven't been able to configure the X-Server yet (sorry if this is pretty old for you). When starting X with 'startx' I get the following error message: *** None of the configured devices were detected *** Fatal server error: no screens found _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to the X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error *SNIP* Judging from your message, you certianly seem to have read all the documentation and such... but I thought I'd set this out there: Have you tried running 'XF86Setup' or 'xf86config'? These two programs are used to reconfigure your XF86Config file for whatever setup you use. everything from the _X11TransSocetUnixConnect.. on I have seen before when my Xserver died due to not being able to find the 'fixed' font or something. so I wonder if your XF86Config file has been set for your video card/monitor/etc? Unfortunately, this doesn't even have the semi-works plugplay of windows graphics... You'll need to choose the correct server for your card, set Xfree86 up to use that server, configure for your monitor, etc... all of which XF86Setup and xf86config do. If you knew this, then my apologies. If you didn't, try XF86Setup first, as it is GUI-based and a little easier for first-timers. xf86config can be confusing till you've used it several times. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
WHO Glibc2.1...
Hrrm, ever since I've upgraded to potato(and glibc2.1 thereby) my 'who' command has been semi-broken... it will run, but consistantly displays that no one is logged into the system. Anyone know what is going on? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
ddd and glibc2.1
Ever since upgrading to glibc2.1 my ddd has been segfaulting upon startup... anyone know how this is doing in the 'fix' line? I see that it's been reported to the buglist, but no recent info... --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
potato, sendmail, and newaliases...
Well, I've had a fun night. it appears that the new potato packages do something to break sendmail... apparently in the code which makes up a new aliases.db. when I run newaliases by itself I get errors saying that it can't find/open aliases/aliases.db I would paste in the errors, but I'd have to reinstall sendmail which would break my mailing again which I can't do. In any case, I'm not sure if the problem is with glibc2.1, the database routines, or just sendmail. I was getting similar errors with smail. The only package which seems to work is zmailer... so it's staying around for a while. Anyone know what is going on? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
smartlist and attatchments...
I've recently had a small problem with smartlist... most of the messages that I send with attatchments are not send... instead they sit around in a file called 'request.' Does anyone know why this is happening and/or how to fix it?? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVEElder ResCon at Northwestern GCS/S d+(-) s:+ a--- C UH+I++LS++V P+ L+++ E W++ N++ w-- O- M-- !V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+++ X+ R+ tv+ b+++ DI D+ g e h !r y- Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: XFree86 problems
Tom Anzalone wrote: After I setup Xfree using the configurator I saved the config file and the machine rebooted. When the machine gets to the login prompt after the reboot, the Monitor starts to blink and I can't log in. It looks like X windows is trying to start as I see a line before the login saying that xdm is starting. I can't log in to change the settings in Xfree. Is there a way to bypass startup items as they load? Or is there a way to start another command line so I can at least login? Thanks in advance! The problem is that XDM is trying to start, but your x-config isn't right... what you need to do is this: at the LILO: prompt hold down the Ctrl key. this should let you type in the name of the image/OS you want to start. type: linux single if your normal kernel image isn't 'linux' then just type: name-of-your-image single the tab key will list the image options you have. In any case, this will reboot your computer into single-user-mode. Type in the root passwd when it asks, then do: chmod a-x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm This will keep xdm from trying to start. reboot into normal mode and you'll be at a normal console login. From there you can log in and work on your X-configuration --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Elder ResCon at Northwestern Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: Slink, xbase-common and xdm...
At the Lilo: prompt, type: linux single or whatever your linux image is named if it's not linux. that'll put you in single-user mode and won' start xdm. then do: chmod a-x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm so that xdm won't start at all. reboot and you'll be in normal mode without xdm running so that you can fix it. --Evan Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: Interesting problem - I've upgraded to slink as part of kernel 2.2.1 on two different PC's, and I think I goofed on one. When the new X stuff went in and asked if I should use my current config files, the PC at work was told No - leave mine alone; the PC at home was told Yes - overwrite with new ones. PC at work is fine, but PC at home now immediately boots into xdm and refuses to let me log in... Won't take root, me, nothing. Tried booting from the boot disk I made - slowly boots, then starts xdm :-(...Anyone know how to kill this? Even Ctl-Alt-Backspace just restarts it... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Elder ResCon at Northwestern Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
xfonts-75dpi
After installing the Xfonts-75dpi and the xfonts-100dpi packages, I've been getting errors on running mkfontdir. The tail end of running mkfontdir in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi is at the end of the message... does anyone have an idea how to get mkfontdir to process these fonts? --Evan Van Dyke mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr08.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr18.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr12.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr24.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr10.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr14.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi08.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi18.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi14.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi12.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi24.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi10.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb12.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb24.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./term14.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb10.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb14.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb08.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb18.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr12.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr24.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr10.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr14.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr08.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr18.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb08.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb18.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb24.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb12.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb10.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb14.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni14.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni12.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni24.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni10.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni08.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni18.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb12.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb24.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb10.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb14.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb08.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb18.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr08.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr18.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr12.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr24.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr10.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr14.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi14.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi12.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi24.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi10.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi08.pcf, skipping mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi18.pcf, skipping dogbert:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi# -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Elder ResCon at Northwestern Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Gnome-Panel
I've had the following problem for quite a while when trying to use gnome... the gnome panel clears an area at the botom of my screen, and greys it out presumably in preparation for putting the bar there... however, it sits forever and doesn't actually draw the bar... instead, it crunches my disk and eats up 10-15% of my CPU power indefinately. Anyone know what's going wrong or how to fix it? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Elder ResCon at Northwestern Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
XDM on 1 vt...
After reading through the X documention that I've seen, I get the impression that it is possible to have X running on two virtual terminals concurrently, with XDM up and running on both... however I havn't be able to tweak the settings to have it happen. Is there anyone out there has has succeeded at this and can give me a hand? Thanks. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Appicon for wp8 under WindowMaker and Listserv Question....
Well, two questions here: First: How do I dock the appicon that wp8 shows under WindowMaker? Just dragging it to the Docked section doesn't work. : Second: Is there an easy way to get a mailing list set up? I've done it using aliases, under sendmail but if you do it that way, replying to the message goes to the sender, not the list. Or is there a way to fix that? Thanks in advance. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
[Fwd: Smartlist Setup... Service Unavaliable]
Evan Van Dyke wrote: Well, I've installed SmartList, but when I send it a test message, Sendmail dies with the following errors: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - |/var/list/.bin/flist apollo-teamB-request (expanded from: apollo-teamB-request) - Transcript of session follows - sh: flist not available for sendmail programs 554 |/var/list/.bin/flist apollo-teamB-request... Service unavailable I'm sure it's just a problem of permissions, but I don't knw where... anyone know the rpoblem? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Gnome Panel.
I just downloaded and installed the new Gnome debs from slink, and tried to run gnome-session, but the Gnome Panel applet loads, but doesn't finish drawing itself. it eats up however much processor time is availiable, but even after sitting for 15+ minutes hasn't done more than paint the area of the screen it uses grey. This happens when I run the panel applet directly as well. Does anyone have an idea what's going on and how to fix it? thanks. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: Problems with Intel 740 Chipset
JAM wrote: hi, can anybody tell me how can i to setup my new display board?, actually i use Debian 2.0, my display board is an AGP with chipset I740, exactly a DFI 7410 with 8 Mb of SDRAM, but i only can run X with 16 colors and 640x480, because of actually i am using the 2 option VGA 16 colors with no acceleration... I have an i740 board myself, just download redhat's binary-only Xserver for it and you're all set. there's a link off of the XFree86 FAQ. Just search for 'i740' in the faq and you'll find it. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
new libc6 problem?
Hrrm, I just ran update from w/in dselect, and the new version of libc6 conflicts with dpkg... and hence pulls out lots of needed utils including dpkg... anyone know what's up? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
new libc6 problem?
Hrrm, I just ran update from w/in dselect, and the new version of libc6 conflicts with dpkg... and hence pulls out lots of needed utils including dpkg... anyone know what's up? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
xanim problem...
I just installed the xanim .deb, but it is unable to play any audio files... Or, atleast is unable to produce any actual sound. I do know that the sound driver is compiled into the kernel and it works, so I'm guessing that the problem is in xanim. Does anyone have an idea what I might do to fix this? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!
rich wrote: well, when i had 96 meg of ram, my bios was counting the extra to. so when i added the 98 that the bios showed me, i ran into a boot error which completly halts the system, this was on 1.3 btw :P Umm... NOTE HERE: 1KB == 2^10 bytes. that's 1,024. NOT 1,000. 1MB == 2^10 Kbytes. that's 1,024^2 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes Not 1,000,000 bytes Therefore 96 MB = 96*1,048,576 or 98,304 KiloBytes, or 100,663,296 Bytes. So your bios told you correctly that you had 96 MegaBytes. : It's just that your definition of a MegaByte was off. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: Adaptec SCSI Controller?
SEGV wrote: I'm currently deciding which Adaptec SCSI controller to get: AHA-2940UW (Ultra Wide, 40MB/s) AHA-2940U2W (Ultra 2 80MB/s) Will Debian Linux 2.0 take full advantage of the U2W? Will I get the full transfer rate (ie, as fast as 98/NT would allow)? The 2.0.xx kernels won't support the 2940U2W by default, but if you patch in the newer version of the aic7xxx drivers then it will. I have a SCSI controller based on the AIC7890 chip(same as the 2940U2W) and it works fine. Alternatevly, if you install the latest 2.1.x kernel (2.1.128) the aic7xxx driver is already updated. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Electric Eyes..
Hrrm, I just installed ee from slink, and have the following problem... when I load ee things seem fine, but when I attempt to open a file, the open dialog flashes on the screen for an instant, then ee dies. if I've invoked ee from an xterm, I get the following error: Gdk-Message: ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught any ideas? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
[Fwd: Font problems...]
Evan Van Dyke wrote: Hrrm, I've been having an error about the 'helvetica' font for a while, but as it didn't incapactitate anything I've been letting it slide... but today it kept me from opening emacs... here's the error. Anyone know how to deal with it? Font `-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*--*' is not defined --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Ssh(2) setup...
I just downloaded and installed ssh2, but am unable to ssh to my comp... I keep getting the following errors when I ssh in verbose mode: dove: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config dove: ssh_connect: getuid 5443 geteuid 0 anon 0 dove: Connecting to dogbert.res-hall.nwu.edu [199.74.95.152] port 22. dove: Allocated local port 1023. dove: Connection established. dove: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version 2.0.9 dove: Waiting for server public key. Connection closed by remote host. And that's from the remote computer, of course. : How do I get ssh to allow me to connect? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: Install question
Jamie Hart wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 1998 1:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Install question Hello! I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT and Linux. In which order must he do the process? I suppose that Win98 will try to own the whole computer when installing, and I don't know what kind of partitioning is the best. He will use System Commande r to select the OS to boot. Win 95/98 needs to be installed on the primary boot partition on drive 1. your freind would be best off partitioning the drive into three 2gig partitions, installing Win98 on the first, NT on the second and then repartition the third for Linux main/swap. He hasn't decided which distribution will use. If he gets a quick response from Debian people Don't know if I count as a Debian person, I've just started looking at it in the last couple of weeks after years of suffering with DOS/95/98/NT. I think that Microsoft suggests that you isntall '98 and then NT. That way windows 9x is automatically installed in NT's boot loader. If you f-disk your hard drive before the '98 isntall, you should be able to set aside a nce 2GB partition for it and install there... and it shoudln't make you reparition the rest of your drive. Even if it does, it'll be an empty partition that you can @Nuke. Then install NT, 2nd 2GB partition. Finally Linux in the 3rd partation. : You can resize the partitions to taste, of course. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: Why can't I execute a script??
Peter S Galbraith wrote: If some user is capable of putting a fake `ls' in a random directory where you might trip on it, that user is far more likely to put it in your ~/bin directory! (Same privileges are required) Just a thought. Just make the . directory the _last_ part of your path, that way it will search /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin and all the rest of your path first. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
kdm window manager selection...
Does anyone know how I can get the window-manager selection combo box on the kdm screen functioning? It does allow me to choose window managers... only the selection has no effect on which one shows up. if I didn't have startkde in my .xsession, it'd default to fvwm2... Not fun. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Sendmail misconfigured?
I'm having the following somewhat annoying problem with sendmail... In my xconsole window I'm getting the following error message(s) a few times an hour... it it weren't cluttering up the window so that I couldn't see any messages wanted to see I wouldn't worry about it. Obviously, Id love to know how to fix the problem. : Oct 17 23:39:00 dogbert sendmail[4063]: unable to qualify my own domain name (dogbert) -- using short name Oct 17 23:39:01 dogbert sendmail[4063]: XAA04063: from=root, size=267, class=0, pri=30267, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oct 17 23:39:01 dogbert icmplog: destination unreachable from localhost Oct 17 23:39:01 dogbert sendmail[4063]: XAA04063: to=mail, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
Re: kernel 2.1.xx
At 08:26 PM 10/17/98 +0200, Marco Machmer wrote: ### these are the last 2 lines from the compiler, while he tried to link the vmlinux fs/filesystems.a(proc.o)(__ksymtab+0x0): undefined reference to `proc_sys_root' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 My guess is that you didn't include /proc support, but asked it to report info(from a SCSI adapter for example) to /proc somewhere else. --Evan
How to change Timezone...
WOuld someone knowledgable about linux tell me how to change the timezone info? The computer was set up in EST5EDT, but is now in CST6CDT. I have chanted /etc/timezone to referance the new zone, but 'date' still shows EDT even after reboot... Im sure this is a simple little fix, but it would be very helpful to have! --Evan
giflib23 compiling ktop...
Hrrm, an interesting puzzle: When I try to compile ktop or other kde programs I get the error in the ./configure program that 'giflib23' is not insatlled and that Ishould install the KDE support package. however, Not only do I have the KDE support package installed, but it appears that I have a version of giflib on my system... giflib30 in fact... anyone have any idea what is going wrong and how to fix it? --Evan
Re: segmentation fault on Debian 2.0
Jinsong Zhao wrote: This problem may have been reported. The netscape (4.05) used to work on my Debian 1.3, but it simply says segmentation fault and quit. Seems to me Netscape only delivers libc5 version. Please advise! Thanks. Jinsong -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Sure, you need to have netscape use the libc5 compats. : I set up a small script on my box to clear the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and then call netscape... so it only effects the netscape call and not the rest of the system. --Evan
Kde Problem...
I just upgraded Kde to the 1.0 stable release, and among other things have found that I can not run many of my programs... For example, when I try to run a terminal, nothing happens same with Netscape, and several others... in fact, the only programs that seem to open w/out a hitch are kfm a few other KDE apps... How can I once again run even something as simple as bash, or Netscape?? I installed all the KDE packages, even the lib/support-dev ones, so I'm thinking that I'm not missing files... --Evan --- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen --Dilbert to Management
Re: Kde Problem...
At 11:17 AM 10/15/98 -0400, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Make sure that kfm is running (kfm has no graphical interface, it is essentially a daemon that spawns the programs that you want to run. The graphical file manager is kfmclient). Also try starting your programs from an xterm, and see if you get any error messages. (start the xterm in your .xsession, if you can't get kde to start one for you.). Hrrm, ok now this is interesting... kfm _is_ running. xterm runs(via Ctrl-F2 and running it) but kvt does not. I got netscape up(had to write a script that killed the /usr/X11R6/lib from the LD_LIBRARY_PATH since it uses libc5 stuff) However, kvt still does not run... when I run it from w/in an xterm it says that it can't find libkdeutil.so.1 although it A) exists and B) is pointed to in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This is, obviously, a problem. : Any suggestions? --Evan
Re: 3com905B cyclone not working
Umm, this is a rather simple thing to check, but it caused the ff:ff. ethernet adress on my own box: Are you sharing IRQ9 with any other cards? Including things built in to your motherboard? If you check IRQs in the Device Manager of Win9x, the _ONLY_ other thing listed as IRQ9 should be IRQ holder for PCI steering. if anything else is also listed, that is your problem. Otherwise, I have my card up and running just fine on the 2.0.35 kernel w/out the updated driver patch. --Evan
Re: Supra 56K PNP Modem Not Working
Are you logged in as root? pon/poff do require that, i seem to remember. --Evan
3c905 driver installed, but not in ifconfig??
I have a 3com 3c905 Ethernet card that I can't quite get to work. I have turned _OFF_ the PNP OS option in my bios btw. : I recompiled the 2.0.35 kernel including Network support, and the 3c59x driver as a module. When I boot in Linux, the driver loads fine, says it detects the card at IRQ5(which is correct), and the rest of the info looks fine. However, when I log in and type 'ifconfig' the only device listed is the Local Loop Back, and I can't ping an IP... it says Network Unreachable With the eth0 interface not in ifconfig I don't find this surprising... Any ideas on what I can try to get it up and running? Thanks. --Evan Van Dyke --- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen --Dilbert to Management
Can't load default font 'fixed'
I'm trying to get Xfree up and running... and can't run XF86Setup, so I ran XF86Config. I've set it for the VGA-16 server, just to make sure I can get something running, but I get the error message: Can't load default font 'fixed' or something very close to that when I run 'startx'. As root, of course. Any ideas? And thanks to the response to the Network question from before. --Evan Van Dyke --- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen --Dilbert to Management
Re: Installing to a Harddrive other than C:
At 10:06 PM 7/24/98 -0400, DMDP wrote: I have been reading your installation information and I cannot find anything that tells me how to install Debian to an E:\ drive for example and use a DOS bootup menu to access it. How should I go about setting this up? The installation guide recommends installing on C:, but I REALLY don't want to do that. Well, is E a physically seperate drive, or a logical partition? If it's a logical partition, you can't install to it unless you install using the UMSDOS file system. Id suggest wiping out a partition and creating an Exf2 file system for Linux. As to how to boot up, the easiest thing to do is to set up LILO, but if you're running linux under UMSDOS, then you should be able to add a loadln.exe line to your DOS bootup menu. --Evan --- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen --Dilbert to Management -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: installing without a floppy?
Hi- i'm kicking windows off my disk, and i'd like to put hamm in it's place. currently, i'm dual booting between windows and bo, but i'd like to keep it available, just so i can compare and fiddle with both of them. My question is: what's the best way to do this? i've considered: - somehow installing hamm off one of the existing ext2 partitions - somehow installing hamm from a vfat partition ^^ This one makes the most sense. Download the hamm install to your vfat partition and run 'install.bat'. It'll isntall. When you're ready to run apt/dselect just remember to mount your vfat partition so you can get the rest of the packages. --EVan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
what is the minimal size for a linux /boot partition and what files must it contain? # the details: I am a win95 user and want to add debian 2.0 to my pc. on my 3.2 GB SCSI hard disk, I want to end up with the following approximate space distribution: - 1 GB for win95 (OS and applications) - 1 GB for linux - 1 GB for my documents which should be accessible for linux and win95 after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: Not necessarially... I'm having LILO boot Liinux 2GB into my drive. If your BIOS supports LBA then you shouldn't have any problems whatever. Also, if you use teh 2.0.34 kernel, you can access fat32 partitions... so go ahead and format your win95 as fat32. else snipped --EVan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: [M.Bisko@sh.cvut.cz: missing some packages]
Hi, last week I've installed 2.0 version of debian (I hope that it was version 2.0, because I've installed packages like kde, libc6 etc., that are not included in version 1.3.x). Source directory of this version was dists/stable/. Today I tried to install version 2.0 to another computer and I'm confused from it. The first thing I don't understand is what directory in dists/ represents version 2.0 distribution. The second thing I don't understand is that I'm missing some packages like lilo, make, xmix. In my first instalation I have these packages installed and now I'm not able to find them and dselect says: make Installed version = 3.76.1-8 Available version = none what is wrong??? Debain 2.0 is currently in beta. Thus, it directories are: dists/frozen/foo --Evan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: repartioning
From: Ivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 5:23 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: repartioning Hello, How do I repartition my Linux partion without disturbing the existing installation ? Thank you. If you have Partition Magic, _AND_ a good bit of luck that's how... but backup anything you don't want killed. There's always a chance. --Evan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: SyQuest
From: Robert Henry Rati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 11:19 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: SyQuest Will the release of Debian 2.0 support SyQuest removable drives in any way? I know there is a way to make the Iomega parallel port version of the zip drive work in Linux, but not the SyQuest EZFlyer. Is there going to be any support for the SyQuest parallel port drives and/or any other SyQuest removable drives? The SyQuest (E)IDE/SCSI drives should all be supported without any hassles. just mount /dev/hd/sa-g[1-9]. As for the Paralell versions, I don't know. --Evan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Repeated messages?
Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *.ext /s msg before... ---And the Gateway message... and others... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: dual boot?? win98???
From: S K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 9:29 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: dual boot?? win98??? I'm trying to install Debian linux, but not entirely ready to throw away my windows 98. is it possible to use both on a single machine, perhaps through dual boot? (if so, how?) does win98's fat32 cause any trouble for this? thanks in advance I'm running a dual boot system. Make sure you have enough free space for a new partition and install Linux on it. Then just add the Windows partition to the lilo.conf file, and run 'lilo'. As to reading fat32 partitions, the 2.0.34 kernel(if not earlier ones) can read them with no problem... just mount them. --Evan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: dual boot?? win98???
From: Len Cumbow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 12:19 PM To: S K; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dual boot?? win98??? Look into System Commander. It's a boot manager with specific support for Linux as well as the various flavors of Windows, DOS, OS/2 and other Unixes. You can get it at any retail computer store for under $50. Works great. Why not use LILO which comes Free with Linux and works fine for Linux/Windows/Dos booting? If you're using OS/2 or NT, they come with bootloaders that can access Linux. WHy spend money for what you can get free? --Evan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
FW: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!
-Original Message- From: Evan Van Dyke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 4:15 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues! Well, I am overclocking my P233 to 266, and have been doing so since March or so. I took off the case cover and the cpu wasn't even hot, I could grab the sides of the fan-heatsink. I will keep an eye on this and see I can find a pattern of some sort. Just because overclocking your CPU hasn't caused problems before doesn't mean that that's not the reason now. Try turning it down. I know a few people who didn't have a problem for months... but it was the overclocking that was the cuse. --Evan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: More Can't Copy 161MB
At 05:26 PM 7/3/98 -0700, you wrote: I did in fact forget to put a destination in my cp command. After deleting the '/root/core' file, freeing up some space, I tried to: 'cp -a /usr/* /mnt/linuxfiles/' But I got a whole bunch of operation not permitted errors, so I aborted the process. Apparently, the dos side won't save my symlink files, etc.. Now my problem is to get rid of the remaining files I copied on to the D: drive. Windows won't recognize a lot of them. So to delete all of them from the linux side requires many, many 'rm *', 'cd ..', 'rmdir *' commands. This would be better handled with a script that did all these commands. Is there a script or a command somewhere I could use to accomplish these nested deletes. I still haven't solved the original problem of how to repartition the 'hda6' partition. Are my only options to install ftape and back up the files or to just reinstall from scratch? rm -fr dirname is what you're looking for. It's the Linux equivalent of DOS's deltree. Just be careful you don't kill something you want to keep. It doesn't ask for confirmation. --Evan --- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen --Dilbert to Management -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
X11 problems on a new install...
I've just installed Debian 2.0, using the 2.0.34 Kernel... Dselected all the X11 stuff, installed it, etc. When I try to run fvwm95(actually, I'd like to use ksh, but fvwm95 was already there, being in the hamm install) I get libXpm.so.4 not found. I tried wm2, and one or two other window managers and get similar lib*.so.* not found errors... Im assuming that I've a bad path statement somewhere, but as this is my first Debian system Im not sure where to look. Any help would be grately appreicated! --Evan --- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen --Dilbert to Management -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
X11 fonts not installed??
After installing all of the X11 packages(through dselect) on Debian 2.0, I've run into problems. when I try to run XF86Setup, It says that it can't find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/6x13.pc* So I ran xf86config... then when I ran startx, it can't find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed when I ls the directory, I find that, in fact, there are no fonts in it... but according to dselect all of the X11 stuff in installed... as well as all of the files they depend on? What's going on here? --Evan --- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen --Dilbert to Management -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
More Info on the AIC-7890 problem
The SCSI Controler I refered to in my post is the built-in AIC-7890 Ultra2 Wide SCSI controler on the ASUS P2B-DS motherboard(and the P2B-S/P2B-LS). When I boot up on the rescue disk I get the error: Unable to initialize WD-7000 SCSI controler. and then about 10 lines later: scsi: no controlers found If anyone can help with this I would be _most_ grateful. --Evan --- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen --Dilbert to Management -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Syquest
Hello, I am new to this list and to Debian. I have a computer with a Syquest SparQ drive on it. Each cartridge holds 1GB. I was wondering if any one could tell or point me to detail instructions on how to install Debian onto this disk. Thanks Erik If It's the Parallel-port version, you can't, since I remember reading somewhere that Debian doesn't support Parallel-port SCSI HBAs(and that is how SyQuest runs their drives from the Parallel-port, although now that I think about it the SparQ might be different). If it's internal IDE(EIDE), than I believe that you can just target /dev/hdX1 where X is the IDE port(a==master on IDE1, b==slave on IDE1, c==master on IDE2, d==slave on IDE2). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Syquest
If it is a SCSI disk, on a SCSI controller, you treat is like any scsi disk... /dev/sd* I have a smaller SyQuest, works that away. Someone else addressed the parallel port and IDE cases. Luck to you, Eric. Actually, SyQuest hasn't released the SparQ in SCSI. Just Parallel and Internal EIDE. --Evan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Atapted AIC-7890 controller
Does anyone know how to get Debian(the hamm version) to recognize the Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I need to install Debian to a SCSI drive connected to the 7890(built in to my motherboard), but when Debian boots up, it says 'no scsi controlers found.' Obviously, this is a problem. : Getting the Rescue-disk bootup kernel to recognize the 7890 would be a great help. Thanks much. --Evan --- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen --Dilbert to Management -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
