Re: Latex / TeTex Local Guide
Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/base/usrguide.dvi /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/general/guide.dvi /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/general/guide.ps Odd. /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/general doesn't exist on my box: ls /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/ custbib/ foiltex/ komascr/ natbib/ ntgclass/ seminar/ textmerg/ tools/ What package am I missing? I -thought- I had all the texdocs installed. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : DOS: n., A small annoying boot virus that causes random : spontaneous system crashes, usually just before saving a massive : project. Easily cured by UNIX. -- David Vicker
printing/lpr
Is there a way to set up the print stuff so that when I go lpr some_text_file it adds margins and stuff? It's ugly as is. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose). : -- Larry Wall
ppa zip drive
I've got a know-to-be-working parallel port Zip drive that's not behaving with Debian (it used to work with my old RedHat setup). If I try to mount the partition I get the usual not recognized as a block device and if I modprobe ppa manually I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# modprobe ppa ppa: Version 1.42 ppa: Probing port 03bc ppa: Probing port 0278 scsi : 0 hosts. /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy I have the SCSI and Iomega bits compiled as modules, as is the parralel printer support. Interestingly, the printer -passthrough- works fine, with the printer plugged into the out of the zip drive. Any ideas? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The new Linux anthem will be 'He's an idiot, but he's OK', as : performed by Monthy Python. You'd better start practicing. : -- Linus Torvalds (announcing another kernel patch)
Re: ppa zip drive
Brant Wells ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... Check in your bios settings or your IO Board (Mouse/Printer, etc) to make sure that the LPT1 is set to address 378. It is. BTW--What version of Debian are you running? (2.0R1 has the ZipDrive Support built in)... I've got apt pointed at 'unstable', whatever that currently is. I'm rolling my own kernel from the 2.0.36 kernel sources, with all the scsi/iomega and printer stuff built as modules, and the kernel daemon stuff compiled in so I don't need to load/unload things by hand. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/
/usr/dict/words
My system, with wenglish installed, contains the EMPTY directory /usr/dict and has the dictionary in /usr/share/dict/words This makes some of my programs choke, as they're expecting /usr/dict/words as standard. I guess the /usr/share/dict is the fsstnd? That's OK, but putting a softlink in would be nice I think ... bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but : God. -- Matt Welsh
Sound systems: OSS/ALSA/?
I've been looking at OSS, OSS/Lite and ALSA and have become thoroughly confused. Question One: General knowledge question - where do these things fit into the Linux system? Are they patches to the kernel source, or what? Daemons? Has Debian packaged them and if so where? I have an SB16 sound card, and it's currently working OK - I compiled kernel support in and so on. But I want to see if I can get it to take two input channels and give one priority over another. ie like this: Input one - generic mp3s being played. Inpet two - festival. IF input 2 is active, then input one can either be paused, muted or stopped or something until it's finished. Am I making sense? If so, are these sound thingies something relavent, or not? Would they help? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Conspiracies abound: If everyone's against you, the reason can't : *possibly* be that you're a fuckhead. : -- 'Usenet Guide to Power Posting'
Two IPs for one adapter?
Is there a 'cannonical' way to get my server to bind two addresses to the one network card? I know how with ifconfig, but I was wondering if it should go into the deb config thingies somewhere? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of : two.
Festival/mpg123?
I have both Festival (for speech synth) and mpg123 (to play .mp3s) running on this box. At the moment, if Festival tries to say something while an mp3 is playing, it dies with an error. Is there any way to set things so that festival has precedence, and somehow makes the mp3 'pause' while it says its bit, then the mp3 to resume? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. -- Stephan Zielinski
Building a custom install
I want to burn a CD which is -basically- debian, but has two or three extra packages present and marked as necessary, and also runs a script which changes which packages are and aren't selected (depending on things such as the partition sizes) before it runs dselect. (It's for a volunteer project to install linux on old computers and donate them to people who wouldn't otherwise have a computer) I probably also want to use a custom kernel, and pre-answer some of the questions in the install script (eg: there'll never be any pcmcia or scsi devices, or a lot of the other weird stuff, so not to ever ask about it). Can I put extra 'info' screens into the install scripts too? Where do I find instructions about doing this type of stuff? I've looked in the FAQ and 16.3 says it's -possible- but not how or where to look for further info!! bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the : small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The : extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, : creatively and without self-delusion - in the long run those are : the only people who count. -- Heinlein, 'Time Enough For Love'
Re: Newsgroups and this mailing list
Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... Hi. I'm about to get a new machine and put Debian on it, and was wondering Congratulations!! Please don't take the following as criticism, it's meant more as correcting some mis-knowledge you have. Share And Enjoy, and all that. Feel free to respond :) if someone could explain the relation between the Debian mailing lists and the comp.os.linux hierarchy in newgroups. My immediate practical question is which source I should use for help. Use the debian sources for debian-specific help like Why doesn't this .deb install properly? and the *linux* newsgroups for more general help. My more general question is why this apparent split exists (if I'm correct that it does). So that the Debian-specific questions can be answered in a quieter forum with less noise. Newsgroups tend to have much more off-topic junk and spam than mailing lists. Those newsgroups are also for -all- flavours of Linux, not just Debian. Many of the Debian people who help here probably don't have the time or inclination to wander through newsgroups full of questions that have nothing to do with Debian. First, why not use the newsgroups mechanism? Are there people without access to them, or is it just an historical holdover? I believe it is 1. More noise, less 'signal' in the newsgroups. 2. More stuff not related to Debian. 3. News propogation isn't great, people will only get some of the articles. It depends on -all- of the machines being up and well-behaved, where mailing lists just depend on debian.org and the recipient machine. 4. News is slower to propogate. 5. To start up a new newsgroup is a long and involved process, where if Debian needs a new mailing list they can just start it. possible to gateway between a mailing list and a newsgroup, so that posts to one come out in both forms. Gatewaying tends to be buggy and cause dupes. It also means that the spam and junk that tends to get posted to newsgroups will end up in the mailing list as well - Newsgroups would allow searching and archiving via Deja News (among others), would be more visible to others, The archives are available to anybody on the Debian website. And there's plenty of advertising that they exist. and wouldn't fill up my disk so much :) :) True. But you -could- always read them from the website archives! Of course, Debian could use newgroups but keep them separate from the comp.os.linux groups. Is there any reason to do so? It seems to me doing so somewhat defeats the purpose of open software. It also makes Debian Why so? If the discussions weren't available to anybody then probably it would defeat the purpose of open -support-, but the mailing lists are open and the archives are on the web ... appear somewhat rare, if one judges by traffic in the newsgroups. Is this a problem? Advertising isn't our game, and Debian has lots of users. Taking over the world, or even the Linux world, isn't their aim. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It is the business of the future to be dangerous. -- Hawkwind
Re: How are routine tasks run , if not from cron?
Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... How does the Debian install process run routine taks, if not from cron? I asked to have innd run routinely on install, and indeed it does seem to be runing, but there is no crontab entry for root. You mean, on bootup? Take a look at /etc/rc?.d/ (the numbers correspond with runlevels) and /etc/init.d/. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Going from DOS to Linux is like trading a glider for an F117. : -- Lawrence Foard
Freetype/ImageMagick
What's the difference between freetype1 and freetype2? ImageMagick seems to depend on the former and it seems a waste to have both installed. ... bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose. -- Larry Wall
cron/syslog
My cron daemon likes to identify itself in the syslog as /USR/SBIN/CRON uppercase no less. Why not plain 'cron'? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : In case you haven't heard, the Internet is not a superhighway. : -- Bill Washburn, Internet World
tracking idletime
Not quite on-topic but I can't think where else to ask! I want to put together a daemon to track idletime, the sort of thing that tells you to get up and stretch every half hour of worktime. Trouble is, there's no way I can figure out to track Last keypress in any virtual terminal (I don't and can't use X) and finger is reporting invalid idletimes :(. I'm using zsh for shell and if I run a shellscript that calls other programs, the idletime for that VT gets reset every time the secondary program is activated. It also seems to like to report Mutt as un-idle even when it is. Any ideas? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in : patchlevels. -- Gerd Knorr
Gimp file formats?
The save as option on my Gimp only offers its internal (.xcf) format instead of stuff like .gif. What'm I missing here? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I : simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it : wouldn't need an interpreter. : -- N Petreley, Sept '96 issue of Inforworld
ncftp visual mode
I'm -sure- I remember ncftp having a visual mode, where there was a line for the command input at the bottom and a status line and the rest of the screen for output ... but it doesn't exist in the Debian version I have (3.0.0). Am I going nuts? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Most Non-Unix managers conclude that VI is either : extraterrestrial in origin or was devised by the original Unix : developers as part of a secret communication s code to reach : another dimension. -- Communications Week
automatic login?
I'm SURE this is a faq, but I can't find the answer ... can I set up things so all the virtual consoles I have set up are automatically logged into a certain username? I'm aware of the security risks but live by myself so physical access to the console isn't as issue (anyway, I have a dvorak keyboard layout, security through obscurity ;)). bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them : the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, : and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin
xfstt obsoleted?
xfstt has suddenly started showing up in my dselect list as Obselete! What replaces it? I like truetype fonts in X. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 : seconds. -- Linus Torvalds (about the superiority of Linux)
Re: More dselect wishes
Leandro Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... Bottom line: suggestions can do no harm, and they may help. I agree. It's just that people keep asking for things every time, and do not even give a try at implementation... some people know they could contribute, but others think this is just like Microsoft, where you ask and perhaps someone will fulfill your wish. So it will be no harm remembering people they can always do something themselves. Perhaps youc ould have phrased it a bit better the first time :) It -did- feel a bit like an attack. I don't know about the others, but my suggestions were meant to be taken more in the sense of If you're working on this area and wondering what people are wanting I know as a developer (and I've worked on bunches of open-source projects it's often hard to know what the lusers want because once I've been developing I know the program so well it's oozing out my ears! Also, perhaps it would be better to forward such suggestions to debian-devel or another list like that... It might well be, and if somebody who's a deb developer had suggested it then I would have, but nobody did. Is there a suggestion box anywhere? Should there be? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Programming today is a race between software engineers striving : to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the : Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, : the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook
More dselect wishes
- A switch or config file to turn off the annoying help screens that pop up unasked when I enter select mode. - Ability to sort by marked-for status. So I can get all the selected-for-install packges at the top and look at them. - A way to enter the [I]nstall section that's automated. So I can make lotsa selections then press enter and go away. It takes a few minutes to get itself sorted out and THEN waits for me to press enter twice more (download files? make selections?). I want those last to to just default. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, : I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. :-) -- Larry Wall
Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?
Edward Ing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... Are the boot scripts different? In different locations? Somewhat, yes. Redhat has everything in /etc/rc.d/ and Debian puts them directly in /etc. eg RH's /etc/rc.d/init.d/ is Deb's /etc/init.d/. And Debian has no equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. One of the VERY few things in which I vastly prefer Redhat. IT's neater and easier to use. Are directories in different places and named differently? Some of them. Of course the /home, /usr, /lib et. al are the same, but other stuff like some of /etc (RH's /etc/httpd/conf/ becomes Deb's /etc/apache/ for example) and logfile locations differ. Are people working on a standard linux. Sorta. The main stuff's specified in the FSSTND (sp?) and both follow it, but little things like those above are different. If they were all the same, there'd be no reason to use one of the other. As a previous RH user (swapped a few months ago) I generally prefer debian, with the exception of the /etc/rc.d/ stuff mentioned above and a few other niggles. BUt RH's setup is easier, IMHO, so I wouldn't give it to a novice. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I want to see people using Perl to glue things together : creatively, not just technically but also socially. : -- Larry Wall
Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.
Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... (Hey, I know you :)) On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 11:55:24PM -0500, Edward Ing wrote: It didn't work of course. But anybody got and idea about how much work it would take to get whole ports structure paralleled for Debian or Redhat? All the code is open, I believe. There's not really much need, as I see it. A FreeBSD port consists off some control info and a patch; the makefile grabs the source off the net, applies the patch, and compiles and installs the software. Debian source packages also consist of the upstream source and a patch. However, we provide precompiled binaries for all the packages where FreeBSD do not. It would be -very- nice if you provided sorta patches though - since we have binaries I guess a patch would consist of all the files in a particular .deb that have changed since the last release. I suspect this would be a fair bit less that all the files in a lot of casess. You could get apt/dselect to do this automatically if it found both a patch and the previous installed ver. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : All you have to do to work on ZigZag is fully unscrew your head : and put it down in a safe place where it can be sure to watch : you. -- Ted Nelson
Netscape confusion
I'm trying to install Netscape from the new don't-need-to-do-separate-downloads trendy thing but I'm thoroughly confused :(. I've installed netscape-base-4 and netscape-base-45 and netscape-java-45 but none of them seem to contain the binary. Nor does the explanations say what other package they need to complete it. NOR do theydepend on anything else. What'd I miss? I -just- want the browser, not the news and mail and composer stuff so I don't want to install the whole communicator shebaang. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but : God. -- Matt Welsh
Re: procmail ........ (again)
Robert V. MacQuarrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: Phillip Neumann wrote: Hello, Ok, i still cannot use procmail. .forward |exec /usr/bin/procmail `` I use this line in my .forward file. NOTE this is all 1 line: |IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #your-user-name Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as you have a .procmailrc file in your homedir. Debian uses is as a user-agent. Phil: Where have you got elm looking? From your .procmailrc, most of the mail is going to end up in you original mbox in something like /var/spool/mail/yourusername. Check there? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Perl is the language of choice for net abuse. No, I'm not going : to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to : know anyway... -- Larry Wall
X troubles
After upgrading my X packages a few days ago, I'm suddenly getting this: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/ failed _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I upgraded again, to a8, but it hasn't fixed the problem. I can't see what's wrong, seems to be somewhere in startx which is a binary :(. Help!! bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I'll say it again for the logic impaired. -- Larry Wall
speech recognition
Having looked around, I'm pretty sure there's no decent speech recognition for Linux around. Please please correct me if I'm wrong! But am I also right in thinking that running one of the windoze speech rec packages under Wine wouldn't work? What I -really- want is to be able to work in my virtual consoles, using the speech rec to feed keystrokes - so just having it pretend to be the keyboard. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak : at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating : system. -- Linus Torvalds
Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... 3) At the end of the install phase, dselect asks if it should delete installed packages. I suggest that either the default be changed to 'no', or else it be made possible to change the default via a config file. I really hate having a single keypress be able to wipe out days of downloading. [...] Bottom line: this is a very small and easy-to-grant wish, but for those who want it, it's a big, hard-to-get-around problem. i.e. it prevents me from using apt, since apt deletes installed packages automatically; and with dselect, I have to be *extremely* careful I don't press the enter key at the wrong time, when it asks to delete the packages. I think that the point is that most (99%?) of the people using both tools DON'T want to keep files, so having it default to keeping them would mean that a lot of newbies - who just select defaults without necessarily understanding - would fill up their hard drives with un-needed files. Perhaps a command-line switch --dont-delete-packages or something like that would be a good addition, that way people who want to keep them can easily do so (and can set up an alias so they don't have to type it each time), and those that don't want to keep packages just keep going as usual. If I didn't already have Way Too Many projects going, I'd make a patch but I'm wy overrun! bekj PS I grok your concept of wanting to keep things. When I'm fiddling with a new distribution I usually do a scratch install then fiddle and poke until I understand it ... then start again and re-install. That way breaking things isn't a problem. -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Computers are very sophisticated idiots. : -- The Doctor, 'Doctor Who'
Apache errors
Every time somebody views a page off my webserver I get a line like this in the error log: [Fri Nov 13 08:22:26 1998] [warn] handler server-parsed not found, using default handler for: /home/gossamer/public_html/vim/index.html And, not surprisingly, it's not processing inline CGI stuff. I've prodded the config files and I can't even spot where the server parsing is being requested! I've been babying webservers for years and I feel rather stupid so be nice :) bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The Zen-approach to system admin: don't bother to read the : manuals, start with commands that look like they are supposed to : do the thing you want, and when that doesn't work try Perl/TCL. : -- Richard Letts
dselect problems
I've got dselect using the 'apt' method, if it's relavent. A few days ago dselect had trouble when I was updating the package list, I -think- the download managed to die is such a fasion that they were truncated to zero. Since then it thinks all the packages that aren't installed are new, even after further updates. Also, there are a few files that show up in the package list under the Up to date section like this: *** Req base base-files 2.0.3 2.0.3 Debian Base System Miscel Why does it want to update the file (the *'s, I assume mean that) when I have the latest one installed? Last bit: Do the version numbers tell us when packages really need to be updated. For example there's plenty in the dselect list like this: *== Req base kbd 0.96a-6 0.96a-7 Linux console font and k where just the -7 has changed. IS it really worth updating that? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but : God. -- Matt Welsh
Re: Some Questions - Cont'd
George Bonser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Jimmy wrote: Now, the million dollar question is how do I see the files on the drive? And if I want to use dpkg or dselect to install something what is the path to the drive? I'm beginning to think fondly of DOS here...so help...please. From the looks of it, the zip drive is /dev/sda If the disk is a single partition, it would be /dev/sda1 For MY Zip drive at least, it's /dev/sda4. I have NO idea why it isn't 1 like it should be, but if sda1 doesn't work for you, try 4! bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Conspiracies abound: If everyone's against you, the reason can't : *possibly* be that you're a fuckhead. : -- 'Usenet Guide to Power Posting'
Re: Some Questions
Jimmy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... 1. Will a Zip Drive work with Debian Linux? When I attach it now the PC refuses to do anything. No memory count, nothing. This may be a hardware problem, but if you know something please let me know. It should work, yes. If your PC's crashing -that- bad it's definately a hardware problem. Major-time. Get your local hardware guru and/or puter shop to check it out. HTH, bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I find that anthropomorphism really doesn't help me deal with : hardware all that much, because it lends a certain attitude of : disdain to what would otherwise be a mere malfunction. : -- Carl Jacobs
Microphone always on!
I'm perplexed. My microphone seems to have grown a direct connection to the speakers, even though I'm not running (AFAIK) any mic-using apps! It's great for impromptu kareoke but really ... It's a SB16 card, I have the usual kernel drivers and I'm running Festival for speech synth. bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to : write, it should be hard to understand.
suck + multiple hosts?
I've had suck working beautifully for one host, but now I want to grab news from two. Is there a way to do this with the get-news.conf system, or will I have to do it by hand? bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to : mug someone with it. -- M Devine, Computer Science 340
xfstt + xset
I've just installed xfstt and a bunch of truetype fonts. When I run 'xfstt --sync' it works fine, and startind the daemon from the /etc/init.d/xfstt script works. But I can't get the server to talk to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cs3/ai ps aux | grep xfstt root 227 7.4 1.3 1332 520 ? S12:53 0:50 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cs3/ai xset fp+ unix:/7101 xset: bad font path element (#38), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax Any ideas? bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server service, : which failed to start because of the following error: The : operation completed successfully. -- Windows NT Server v3.51
Re: xfstt font database should be in /var
About not being able to write to the right directory, do you all realize that the font directories can be INSIDE the cache directory? I keep my fonts on a CD, and just put symlinks thus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/doc/xfstt# ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype total 89 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Nov 3 12:33 fixed - /mnt/cdrom/truetype/fixed/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov 3 12:33 sans - /mnt/cdrom/truetype/sans/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 3 12:33 script - /mnt/cdrom/truetype/script/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Nov 3 12:33 serif - /mnt/cdrom/truetype/serif/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root18556 Nov 3 12:55 ttinfo.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root root69353 Nov 3 12:55 ttname.dir I'd prefer that we stuck with the filesystem standard and left the directory in /usr/share, personally. bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I love recursion, because it breaks most people's brains! : -- Thorfinn
Re: Netscape
Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... Thiago, you grabbed the libc5 version of netscape. Around Monday a full netscape debian package will arrive -- no more downloading from Netscape's ftp. I would recommend that you use that. Oh, yay! How'd the Debian peoplemanage to be allowed to do that?? bekj impressed -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to : write, it should be hard to understand.
Contributing?
I was just looking at URLview and the url_handler.sh ... it references mutt, netscape, lynx and ncftp directly - shouldn't we be calling the /etc/alternatives/whatever files? I must confess to not quite grokking /etc/alternatives :(. Can I just update the file and submit it as a patch to whoever does URLview? Or is there another way? bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to : write, it should be hard to understand.
Festival+MBROLA
I'd like to install the voice_rab_mbrola voice to Festival but there doesn't seem to be a package for it, even in non-free. The blurb is this: voice_rab_mbrola The Roger diphone set using the same front end as voice_rab_diphone but uses the MBROLA diphone synthesizer for waveform synthesis. The MBROLA synthesizer and Roger diphone database (called en1) is not distributed by CSTR but is available for non-commercial use for free from `http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html'. We do however provide the Festival part of the voice in `festvox_en1.tar.gz'. Some people consider this the best sounding voice in Festival. bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Perl is horrible for most things. The only reason which keeps : people with Perl is those random glances at the alternatives. : -- Ilya Zakharevich, comp.lang.perl.misc
X and keymaps
I've got my system set up to use a personalized keymap via 'loadkeys' but when I start up X, inside X only recognizes the qwerty keys. I thought the latest X installations generally pulled the keymaps directly from whatever loadkeys had put there - is there a specific reason Debian's different? And how do I fix it? Gossamer -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, : the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is : drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law : within me. -- Immanuel Kant
Suck/get-news problem
My Debian install's -almost- making sense now! Just a few tiny things ... when I run get-news to download Usenet via suck, I get this: [snip] Total articles to download: 929 1836135 Bytes received in 62 mins 54.05 secs, BPS = 486.5 Closed connection to news.mel.aone.net.au Building INN Batch File Downloaded Articles You can hang up the modem now Nothing sent -- leaving batchfile alone. Local posting error ... and none of the articles appear in the local spool. Local posting error isn't very informative! I've checked /etc/suck/get-news.conf and it looks right. I'm not an innd guru though, is there anything there I have to alter to let suck post my news locally? Gossamer -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, : the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is : drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law : within me. -- Immanuel Kant
Perl/CPAN.pm/Zlib
This new Debian install's broken something ... when I run the CPAN shell I get this: cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.40) ReadLine support enabled cpan i /imap/ Going to read /usr/local/src/CPAN/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz perl: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined symbol: zlibVersion [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp# Has somebody built things with the wrong Zlib version? All my Perl and Zlib is straight from the Hamm distrib ... Gossamer -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, : the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is : drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law : within me. -- Immanuel Kant
