Re: anyone using xosview?
Neither did xosview come up in my mixed slink-potato environment, but now that I have upgraded to pure potato, it is working again. Géza Györgyi Eötvös University, Budapest, Pf. 32, 1518 HUNGARY, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh1-ssh2
In potato I would like to have ssh2 with ssh1 compatibility. I installed ssh-nonfree for ssh1, also installed ssh2, and set in /etc/ssh2_config the option Ssh1AgentCompatibility to traditional.Both daemons were fired up by the installer, and they are now running simultaneously. Is this right? The situation now is that two potato PC-s having both ssh1 and 2 refuse to link up by ssh2, the error msg being Incorrect protocol version However, they accept ssh1 connection from each other. If anyone has an idea how to revive ssh2, please let me know. Geza Gyorgyi Eotvos University, Budapest, Pf. 32, 1518 HUNGARY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fvwm features vanished on upgrade
After I upgraded slink to the present potato, the buttons and the pager of fvwm2 vanished from the desk at login. They were specified in /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc. Most of the fvwm modules in the menu do not work either. I know that some configuration changed in the newest fvwm2, as described in /usr/doc/fvwm/README.Debian_upgrading, but I cannot explain what happened, based on that document. Has fvwm2rc sytax changed?I have switched to enlightenment, but still would be grateful for any leads. Geza Gyorgyi Eotvos University, Budapest, Pf. 32, 1518 HUNGARY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian2.2: routing by ppp/netscape insert,spell
PPP/ With kernel 2.2.14 I am unable to set up the office PC as router by ppp, version 2.3.11-1.4. I have proxyarp as an option for the office PC, which has a 1 in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward, the home PC has defaultroute as ppp option, I give both PC-s the right netmask 255.255.255.128 for our subnet, and /etc/resolv.conf is in order. However, when ppp comes up, it has the wrong netmask (ending by 255) and NOARP on both PC-s. Ifconfig outputs for the server-to-be: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:157.181.170.36 P-t-P:157.181.170.7 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:552 Metric:1 RX packets:34 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2 TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 and for the client: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:157.181.170.7 P-t-P:157.181.170.36 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:552 Metric:1 RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 Can anyone kindly give an idea about why the netmask keeps to be incorrect and the office PC unwilling to do the routing? With kernel 2.0.34 the ppp worked properly. Netscape/ (a) Is there a menu item for inserting a text file into the main text in the composer? I can sometimes paste a file by mouse from another X window, but not always. This is because if something was cut in the netscape editor recently then a copy by the mouse in another X window may or may not supersede it. (b) The spellchecker vanished when dselect automagically upgraded netscape from version 4.72 to 4.73. Is there a way to recover it? Would be grateful even for hints, Geza Gyorgyi Eotvos University, Budapest, Pf. 32, 1518 HUNGARY, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debconf
Once I chose accidentally html as dialog format for configuring debian packages, and now cannot change it back to a simpler format.I presume the debconf package has a configuration file that needs to be modified, but could not find it. Would be grateful for any help, Geza Gyorgyi Eotvos University Budapest, Pf. 32, 1518 HUNGARY E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCSI devices not detected
The Debian 2.0 rescue disk does, the 2.1 disk does not boot on a 1998 PC with on board aic7880 scsi adapter, one scsi hdd, and two cd drives. In v2.1 the controller and the hdd are detected but the boot process locks when it would come to detecting the cd-s. I compiled a few kernels with aic7xxx driver, from the range 2.0.38 to 2.2.13, the result is the same. There was a similar sounding scsi detection problem discussed in December, subject AHA-1520B/1522B SCSI controller. The advice was add append=x,x,x,x to your /etc/lilo.conf file to force detection at boot. I could not find out from kernel source/drivers/scsi/* files what the numbers to be appended should be. I have been getting an error message about illegal cable configuration, only two cables may be connected But this is there also for the kernel 3.0.34, which does boot, and I have seen the same message on a PC with a Symbios scsi controller, again booting perfectly. My hdd is UWII, the cd-s (one is a cd writer) have older scsi sockets, therefore I use two cables. Comments would be greatly appreciated. Please reply also to personal e-address for I am not a subscriber to the mailing list. Geza Gyorgyi Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mpeg player
Mpeg_play does not play The 'mpeg_play' command from the Debian 1.3 package ucbmpeg complains about missing libm.so.4 and does not start. The package required xcompat, I installed it, but this contained libm.so.3. The libm.so.5 resides on the system by default. Where can one find version 4? Is there an error in dependency accounting? Grateful for any clues, Geza Gyorgyi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Modes in X
I am trying to get my X running 1152x862 at 16 bpp - Vertical scan = 60Hz, Horizontal Scan = 56Hz. The only hastle is that there is no modeline for this in my XF86Config, and I don't know how to write one. Possible answer: You are probably using an XF86 server that does not provide 1152x862 resolution, AFAIK such is XF86_SVGA. The first line in /etc/X11/Xserver indicates the server on duty. If you have a card that can cooperate with another XFree86 server then try to reconfigure XF86 to work with the card-specific server. For example, I have an S3 Virge video card, which can be used with both XF86_SVGA and XF86_S3V, but the latter provides more modes. An XF86 question: I purged, then reloaded, X-related debian packages once and now XF86Setup appears to be missing. What package should I download to have it back? Geza Gyorgyi % Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University % Budapest, Puskin u. 5-7, 1088, Hungary % e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % phone/fax: (int'l access code + 36 1) 266-7924/266-0612 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emacs initialization
Would you please tell me where emacs-19.34 expects site-start.el to be in the debian 1.3.r6 distribution? Thank you for your help, Geza Gyorgyi % Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University % Budapest, Puskin u. 5-7, 1088, Hungary % e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % phone/fax: (int'l access code + 36 1) 266-7924/266-0612 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xdvi doesn't scale!
Hi, the size of xdvi doesn't scale. I can call it up with -geometry axb but that only controls the window size. The layout of the controls are too large and I can't get the lower part of the controls on my 800x600 resolution screen without running a virtual desktop. Any suggestions? I cannot answer the question how controls can be rescaled. However, you do not need them, because the controls have their shortkeys. For instance, n stands for next or M s for shrinking by the integer scale M, the manual tells you all. You can toggle the display of controls by typing x. In order to eliminate controls at startup, call xdvi with the option -expert or the resource xdvi.expert: true. % Geza Gyorgyi % Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University % Budapest, Puskin u. 5-7, 1088, Hungary % e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % phone/fax: (int'l access code + 36 1) 266-7924/266-0612 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:Xwindows
BTY in the rc*.d directories there is the K99xdm and S99xdm files to bring up Xwindows at boot time but they do the same thing as xdm does from the command line, apparently nothing. The console messages appear to me like the Xclient isn't coming up for the server to connect to. John C. Ellingboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/ /var/log/xdm-errors can contain information about your problem. 2/ If No. 1 does not help, launch xdm from command line with say the -debug 10 option, and hope that an error message will tell you where the problem is. 3/ If No. 2 does not help, check the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file, it should contain a line like 0: local /usr/X11R6/bin/X 4/ If none of the above helps but you can resolve the problem later, please let me know the successful recipe. Regards, Geza Gyorgyi % Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University % Budapest, Puskin u. 5-7, 1088, Hungary % e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % phone/fax: (int'l access code + 36 1) 266-7924/266-0612 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hanging on boot; NFS problem in 2.0
% To Philip Jensen, the Maintainers of the Debian installation software % During the install when asked if I want to boot off the hard drive, and I respond [Yes] it asks which drive (/dev/hda) which is correct, then wants to boot /dev/hda2, not /dev/hda7 which is where the Linux partition is. I can't seem to change this, or run LILO myself. LiLo seems to configure itself incorrectly at installation. The problem equally occurs with versions 1.3 and 2.0. I surmise from several trials that LiLo would not write into the master boot record if / is not a primary partition but a logical one! Additionally, booting message off floppy is Loading linux... then stops. You may type at the boot prompt linux root=/dev/hda7 . If the system comes up, edit /etc/lilo.conf to get boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 label=linux read-only then run lilo and reboot. %%% To the Maintainers %%% The 2.0 rescue disk (both the February and the March versions) may have an incorrect mount, neither I nor the local Linux guru could install the base system by NFS. Furthermore, it can be useful to have the FTP option for installing the base system, like RedHat has. With appreciation, Geza Gyorgyi % Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University % Budapest, Puskin u. 5-7, 1088, Hungary % e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % phone/fax: (int'l access code + 36 1) 266-7924/266-0612 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk partition problem
The problem is with partitioning my hard disk. I DO NOT want to wipe it out (like using fdisk), so instead I tried FIPS (found on the Linux CD). First I scanned and defragged my disk, then I tried to run fips. Then it told me there was a file(s) at the end of my hard disk. So I checked the documentation on fips and it listed a two files that might be at the last sector, but it wasn't true on my machine. And that's where I'm stuck. Please help me or tell me where I can get help so I can free myself from the tyranny of Windows!! If your comment but it wasn't true on my machine means that you do not see any files near the end of the HD after defrag had run, I am equally mystified. Else please read the following. Defrag will not touch 'immovable' files. Such are hidden DOS system files like io.sys or some files used by doublespace, 'dir /a' will list those as well. Study the schematic picture of your HD while defrag is working, if files marked by X are left near the end then you will have to manually displace them. The operation is not without danger, but you should weigh that against the benefits of a successful repartitioning. % Geza Gyorgyi % Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University % Budapest, Puskin u. 5-7, 1088, Hungary % e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % phone/fax: (int'l access code + 36 1) 266-7924/266-0612 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List split suggestion
I'd like to suggest the list to be split in debian-users and debian-beta or debian-testers. All questions related to unstable, untested or merely not-yet-reliable SW would be sent to the second list. That's because I can't keep up with this mail volume anymore... Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistente de Informática http://www.lge.com.br./ LG Electronics da Amazônia Ltda fone +55 11 820 25 99 r 151 R do Rocio, 430 - 1º andar - Vila Olímpia fax +55 11 829 54 57 04552-906 - São Paulo, SP Soli Deo Gloria! BRASIL Well spoken! Further possibility is to set up a separate debian-hardware for those who wish to focus on uncooperative hardware. % Geza Gyorgyi % Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University % Budapest, Puskin u. 5-7, 1088, Hungary % e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % phone/fax: (int'l access code + 36 1) 266-7924/266-0612 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
