Re: Can't subscribe to debian-mentors list
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Matthew Twomey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there anything special you need to do to subscribe to this particular list? I send the email get the initial confirmation, reply to that - then nothing. Have I missed something simple? (I subscribe to various other Debian lists and has never seen this problem) We fixed a problem with this yesterday. Please try again. -- And if the messenger would shoot first? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: regarding duplicate messages
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, dman wrote: Regarding duplicate messages on debian-user, here is the relevant portion of the headers from a recent one : Received: from murphy.debian.org ([216.234.231.6]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with SMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ORCPT rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:25:34 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 6608 invoked by uid 38); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:13:00 + Received: (qmail 6118 invoked from network); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:12:51 + Received: from unknown (HELO imail.imaginet.co.za) (196.15.145.6) by murphy.debian.org with SMTP; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:12:51 + Received: from murphy.debian.org ([216.234.231.6]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with SMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ORCPT rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:57:10 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 6608 invoked by uid 38); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:13:00 + Received: (qmail 6118 invoked from network); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:12:51 + Received: from unknown (HELO imail.imaginet.co.za) (196.15.145.6) by murphy.debian.org with SMTP; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:12:51 + Everything is identical up to the point that murphy.d.o transfers the message to my school's MX handler. It seems that murphy is the one causing the duplicates. Too bad qmail doesn't provide more information. All the information is there. In smtp, duplicates are possible, if other end cuts the connection early without confirming the transfer. Usually this happens with hosts behind slow connections. -- And if the messenger would shoot first?
[root@natas.g0thead.com: Qt and kde]
Reminder, posts from root or daemons do not get to the lists. - Forwarded message from root [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 11820 invoked by uid 38); 7 Dec 2001 09:40:59 - Received: (qmail 11796 invoked by uid 38); 7 Dec 2001 09:40:59 - Date: 7 Dec 2001 09:40:59 - X-From_:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 7 03:40:59 2001 X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 11607 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 09:40:57 - Received: from cs6669107-234.satx.rr.com (HELO natas.g0thead.com) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by murphy.debian.org with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 09:40:57 - Received: from root by natas.g0thead.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16CBty-0004jQ-00 for debian-user@lists.debian.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2001 04:42:18 +0100 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Qt and kde Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 04:42:19 +0100 X-Diagnostic: Mail coming from a daemon, ignored X-Envelope-To: debian-user Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have been having problems getting kde* ,base,libs,network,etc.. to get passed the configure on my box because of the Qt libraries.. The problem is I compile and install the Qt libraries fine... I even went as far as compiling them on another box and just transfering all files over to thier correct locations... I compiled the version qt-x11-2.3.2.tar.gz from troll's website or whatever... anyone have any ideas? umm environment variables are all set properly as well as /etc/ld.so.conf and multiple runs of ldconfig were don... cc me please.. I'm not subscribed to this list. thanks, xbud - End forwarded message - -- And if the messenger would shoot first?
Re: mail2.secnoc.de spewing yesterdays mail back to list
On Fri, 07 Dec 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: Mail is being spewed back onto d-user from [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Several hundred so far ... I don't see any evidence of that and there are no subscriptions from that domain. You are the only one reporting this. When reporting issues like this, please always forward example mail of the problem with _full headers_ included. -- And if the messenger would shoot first?
Re: autoreply on debian-user-french
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001, Benoit Friry wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has an autoreply to debian-user-french. The message is : --CUT-- Hi, As of 1 july 2001, I am not longer working for Tiscali. Please send your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For personal matters please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Youri Albinovanus --CUT-- He automatically reply to himself each 30 seconds. Could you please unsubscribe him? He's not on the list. Does the problem still exist? In future, please forward mails _with full headers_. Thanks. -- And if the messenger would shoot first?
Re: nfs re-export issues
Shane Liebling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all, I am working on getting a diskless cluster working and everything seems to be fine except for one thing, but first let me give you a breakdown of the suspects: client - app server - file server The client mounts /export/home as /export/home off the app server, and the app server mounts /export/home as /export/home off the file server. The client and the app server are running 2.2.19 kernels and testing, the file server is a 2.2.18 kernel and redhat 6.0. Upgrade kernel and nfsutils on the server. So rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd are both being run with the --re-export option (which is the only way I can get the client to mount them w/o permission denied errors). My problem is that anytime I try to read or write to /export/home on the client, I get Stale NFS File Handle errors. Funny, I cannot find the --re-export from any manpages. shameless plug Have you considered SFS ? It can handle re-exports from nfsmounts just fine. For more information, see www.fs.net. Packages were just installed to non-us/unstable. /plug I can read/write just fine on the app server, as long as I am the correct user. All 3 machines have the same /etc/passwd, shadow, group except the two servers have all user accounts /bin/false for shell, but the client has /bin/bash. I have tried rebooting all the machines, start-stopping nfs on the servers, tried different kernals on the app server (one w/ knfsd one w/o). What nfs server are you running on the app-server? nfs-kernel-server or nfs-server ? If you had nfs-server package installed you were running userspace nfs server even if you had the support in kernel. 2.2.19 and nfs-kernel-server with recent nfsutils are known good combination. Anything before has bugs more than enough. -j
Re: slink server crashing
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 03:55:57PM +1000, Ed Breen wrote: Hi, We are running a slink debian distribution with kernel 2.0.36 on a celeron 333 as our file server. Our SCSI adapter is an Adaptec 2940UW PCI card, with this configuration: 2940UW Adapter | Seagate Barracuda 9.1gig UW | Quantum Viking II 9.1gig UW | Sony AIT Tape Drive -TERMINATION. The Adaptec configuration program correctly recognises all the devices, and the system runs fine 99% of the time. However, when the system is under heavy disk usage, it sometimes suddenly cold reboots, eg: today while gunzipping a large .gz archive on the Barracuda drive the system rebooted. similar examples include copying large files from Windows/Samba clients to the server, and copying 3-4 gigabytes of files from the Barracuda to the Viking, using the unix 'cp' command. We have checked all the termination, and log files. Physical termination all appears to be correct, and there are no clues in the log files...the system simply cold reboots without leaving any error messages. Has anybody ever experienced these symptoms? Could it be due to a bug in the 2.0.36 kernel, or is it more likely an undetected hardware issue? Bad termination should not be able to make the system reboot. You might want to try the 2.0.37 kernel and put newer aic7xxx drivers for the Adaptec card. You can find the drivers from the url's mentioned in the readme file which is in the kernel sources. Long shot: lots of disk i/o - lots of vibrations - makes the processor loose one of it's contacts for a second - boom!. Note: debian-user is better forum for this, so let's move this there. --j
Re: Update ... Re: Ethernet newbee failure
First I want to thank everyone who sent me a reply, both private and on the list. I now know 3 different way to create working routing tables. With regret, this has not resolved the problem. It was John Hasler who actually resolved things for me. I now have the following routing tables on both machines: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 01 lo 10.0.0.0* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 eth0 I get better results now than ever before, but still can't complete a ping. Here are the facts: 1. Each machine can ping itself successfully. 2. A ping to the other machine returns 0 packets to the kernel. 3. The PKT light on the hub blinks while a failed ping is in progress. The NICs are EtherLink III cards connected through a hub using twisted pair cable. Suppositions: Fact 1 is not useful, as the kernel, seeing the information in the routing table, has no reason to go to the card to resolve the ping. In this circumstance the kernel is talking to itself and the ping program, not the card. Fact 3 indicates that the ping is getting out of the kernel, into the card, and onto the cable. When properly configured the card in machine one gets a reply from the card in machine two, but fails to get that message to the kernel. (fact 2) At this point, it is my supposition that the card is responding on another interrupt from the one it was commanded to use by isapnp, and the driver. The kernel, the driver, and the isapnp program, all think the card has been configured for base address 0300, and irq 10, yet no traffic makes it out of the card into the kernel, suggesting that it is using another interrupt. Isapnp? Turn off the pnp and try settings manually. As painful as it seemed at this point, I was ready to try loading the driver commanding each interrupt that the card might use, hoping to stumble on it by a careful search. Although the documentation seems to indicate that the only parameter that I can send to the driver is the irq, modconf says that the io base address can also be entered. Worse than that, if you try to specify another interrupt for the driver install, it hangs forever. I was able to do an insmod including the parrameter, but the results were not what I expected: dwarf# insmod 3c509 irq=12 eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a de c8 16, IRQ 10. 3c509.c:1.16 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that the driver still declares irq 10 rather than the irq 12 that I requested. Is my syntax faulty? You propably have machines with ps/2 mouse and keyboards. The irq 12 is sort of reserved for these. If 10 is free, why not use it. One thing you might try is fiddling with the irq and settings with the dos based 3c5x9cfg.exe program, that comes with the normal driver package from 3com (you can download this from www.3com.com). Ben Pfaff indicated that his card requires a special option before the kernel can hear it. I can find no such indication for the EtherLink III card, but his experience seems similar to mine. Can anyone clue me in? This is from Donald Becker's site (http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/3c509.html) : No received packets If a 3c509, 3c562 or 3c589 can successfully transmit packets, but never receives packets (as reported by /proc/net/dev or 'ifconfig') you likely have an interrupt line problem. Check /proc/interrupts to verify that the card is actually generating interrupts. If the interrupt count is not increasing you likely have a physical conflict with two devices trying to use the same ISA IRQ line. The common conflict is with a sound card on IRQ10 or IRQ5. The easiest solution is to move the 3c509 to a different interrupt line. And let's move this to -user, as it's the proper forum. --j
Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Note: at work I see at least 2 boxes per day that can be fixed only by reinstalling 95/98/NT. It's mildly put SICK. As a tech support person for a university, I say AMEN! Goodness knows if it is possible to transfer your NT installation to another disk though. Buy a new root disk - reinstall? It would appear so. Or use DriveImage from Powerquest or Ghost from GhostSoftware. Several our clients use a 95 or NT disk image that takes 10 minutes to drop from network if one needs a reinstall or installing on clean box. They keep all user files on network drives. Once we get enough network drive space, we'll probably move to this model (unless by that time we've wisened up as a campus and have moved to Linux on the desktop). But as I've played with it, this still doesn't solve the problem, because unless you're REAL careful setting up the box originally (and even then you'll miss something), user files won't all get stored on the network. For example, Netscape bookmarks and WP preferences and stuff they've downloaded from the web and etc, etc don't look to the personal/home directory when determining where to save files. Just a feature of Windows I suppose. It's actually a lack of feature (symlinks..). This method works, if you have lots of similar hardware and applications that are used in most workstations. For example display drivers are better left to standard vga etc.. --j
Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 07:38:16PM +0200, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Actually my NT installation from February is still working fine, as is my 95 installation (but that's because all I use it for is Total Annihilation. :-) Note: at work I see at least 2 boxes per day that can be fixed only by reinstalling 95/98/NT. It's mildly put SICK. It's shocking. Fortunately I don't deal with any Windows boxes but my own on a daily basis. I did do some consulting on Windows and did a lot of reinstalls. When I was running 95 on my desktop I was usually reinstalling about every six months; NT seems a lot better actually. Or use DriveImage from Powerquest or Ghost from GhostSoftware. You would have to use Partition Magic after that to make the partition bigger, right? At least DriveImage can resize FAT partitions as large as free space, iirc NTFS partitions too, when installing the image. Only thing is that the free space must be equal or larger than the partition you made the image from, even if you only used 1 meg from that partition. --j
Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:
Actually my NT installation from February is still working fine, as is my 95 installation (but that's because all I use it for is Total Annihilation. :-) Note: at work I see at least 2 boxes per day that can be fixed only by reinstalling 95/98/NT. It's mildly put SICK. Goodness knows if it is possible to transfer your NT installation to another disk though. Buy a new root disk - reinstall? It would appear so. Or use DriveImage from Powerquest or Ghost from GhostSoftware. Several our clients use a 95 or NT disk image that takes 10 minutes to drop from network if one needs a reinstall or installing on clean box. They keep all user files on network drives. Of cource this same thing can be used on Linux workstations :) --j
Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels
BTW, I have configured it down to one single error message that I can't
seem to shake:
hdc: write_intr: status=0xff { Busy }
ide: reset: success
This is what is leading me to believe that the driver is either attempting
a transaction before an earlier one completed ( is the drive attempting an
internal prefetch? ) or it timed out waiting for the previous command to
complete.
Something like that. I had today the same problem with Intel SE440BX
motherboard and a Fujitsu 2gig udma drive. I changed the drive to a
Quantum 3,2 gig one and it went away.
Seems to be a problem with the harddisk.
--j
Re: Dialup ISDN performance
I am using a Bitsurfer Pro on a linux box and a win 95 box. Download rates from my provider's site seem not all that exciting. With my x2 modem I can download at the rate of about 4-5 Kb/KB, with ISDN using both channels its around 6-8 KB at best. I get that with one channel, and very good ping times (about 30ms to ftp.funet.fi) This is with Teles S0 16.3 card. --j
Re: Suddenly can't send mail...
All of a sudden I can't send out mail, if I try to force exim with -qf I get 1998-10-16 19:01:26 0zUDEj-FQ-00 TCP service smtp not found (using Exim version 1.92 #1 built 13-May-1998 10:01:52) fetchmail delivers incoming mail without any trouble... Is this something on my end or is it more likely to be my ISP? (sending this throough my school account...) Check that you have a line in /etc/inet.d like : smtpstream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs and make sure it is not commented out etc. Note that if you make any changes, you'll have to restart inetd for changes to affect. --j
Re: ISDN: HOW TO start?
Dear Debs, I have a new Debian 2.0 distribution running well. I have recompiled the kernel with PCMCIA and ISDN support, bought an AVM Fritz! PCMCIA card, and ordered the ISDN installation by the Telecom. On tuesday, I'll be ready for a first try. Unfortunately, by reading the documentation in /usr/doc/isdn (all files and those in the subdirectories) I found no straightforward description of what is to be done to configure the files (which ones? there are quite a few and also different connection strategies: syncPPP or not, ...) and to start a connection. Can anybody post a detailed list of the actions he/she took to get an ISDN connection done starting from scratch? Can you get the kernel to see the isdn card ? I suppose you have installed the isdnutils package and run the isdnconfig script ? You can dial with : 'isdnctrl dial ippp0' and hangup with 'isdnctrl hangup ippp0' --j
Re: How do I get exim to work?
Isn't there a howto on how to set up a single pc with a dialup connection to an ISP using exim, fetchmail and procmail? I know I do not need procmail if I use exim, but then I have to understand how exim works and I cannot get it working for a basic system. I have fetchmail feeding straight to procmail like: mda formail -s /usr/bin/procmail procmail then sorts and delivers it to to my homedir. Sorry if I sound a bit grumpy, but I am a bit frustrated. No wonder - you seem to be taking the hard road on this, I remember your mails about this ages a go. The reason why I wanted to try out exim was because I get problems with a Sender field when I use smail. Some mail servers reject my mail as the following message illustrates (irrelevant lines removed): Hrmm. I use the following in my exim.conf: qualify_domain = lonesom.pp.fi local_domains = lonesom.pp.fi:lonesom.pp.fi local_domains_include_host = true local_domains_include_host_literals = true that get's the host part right for me. --j
Re: *sigh* source for pcmcia modem cables?
*DOH* the day after jens found a solution to let me ppp, I managed to put down my laptop sideways, crunching the connector on the cable--it now features a 90 degree bend :) and the connectors are broken. This is one of those two flat prongs inline.does anyone know a likely source? The connector/cable to a pcmcia modem / netcard ? Most manufacturers have them available as spare parts (this is pretty common)... be prepared to pay up to 1/4 of what a new card costs (!). --j
Re: 386SX-33 for pop3 server and proxy server
I have a 386sx-33 with: 4mb ram 100 mb hard disk 10mbit ethernet card Would this be enough for pop3 server and proxy server for a 25 node network= with one dial up connection ? A router and a firewall yes.. but for proxy and mail that box has too little memory and hdd. (something like 486 with 16mb and 200+ megs is needed for squid and pop3 to operate). --j
Re: PCI problems
Hey, I have a 3COM 3c905TX network card and a Real3D StarFighter video card. = When I boot my machine, the PCI probe gives both of the cards the same = IRQ number. However, the network card is on bus 0 and the video card is = on bus 1. Are the different bus numbers because the network card is PCI = and the video card is AGP? Would this setup cause an IRQ conflict under = Linux? The network card currently appears to be complaining about an = IRQ conflict. Is there any way to force the two cards to have a = different IRQ? I tried setting the IRQ they're usually given to be = non-PCI and they still ended up with the same IRQ, just a different = number. You mean they're side by side ? The AGP slot and first PCI slot do share an irq afaik, so move the nic one or more slot away from the videocard. --j
Re: IPPORTFW IPFWADM
Whenever I type an ipportfw command, I always get an error back: ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available. What does this mean? And how do I resolve this? I have the current kernal, installed IPchains successfully, but need to get this piece of the puzzle going :) 2.1 kernel ? Have you compiled the firewall and ipfwadm/ipchains support in the kernel ? Maybe you have them as modules, and they're not loaded. --j
Re: ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
Has anyone ever seen the Subject: line's message before? I just compiled 2.0.34 to get ip masqing going, and I appear in the process thereof to have trashed something really basic. Ecch! I get this whether I ping a local host, a remote host, or the machine itself. The system's ifconfig and routing tables look ok. It will dial up my ISP and get an IP assigned which duly appears in both those tables. But it then acts as if there's no DNS available, which there is, as I can verify by connecting with another machine to the same ISP. You have your ISP's dns adresses in /etc/resolv.conf on the masq box ? -j
Re: [Debian] keyboard stops working on Compaq EP
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 (can't use 2.0 for development reasons) on a new Compaq EP 6350. The Compaq has a ps2 style mouse and keyboard. Unfortunately about one time out of three when I boot the PC it hangs for a very short time after installing the PS/2 driver afterwards the keyboard and mouse are totaly unusable (Capslock doesn't even work). I can login remotely however and reboot the machine but it's not a very workable situation. Is there anybody who experienced the same problem and maybe has a solution for it? I've seen this happen a lot with different machines (which incidentally have NT installed). The BIOS simply does not initialize ps/2 ports at boot. You might just want to check the cables and if the manufacturer does have BIOS updates. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load
I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using one or more scripts, such as find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. The systems seem stable, otherwise. Only common hardware are ultra-SCSI disks and controllers (AHA-2940). Any ideas? Do you get any logs / errors ? You might want to try newer kernels which have newer drivers for the SCSI cards, if this seems disk io related. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?
On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 02:07:04PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
E is where you were told to find it. It will appear in slink within the
next week or so. There are some Redhat'isms to clean up. Apparently it
writes to your .xinit files and some such. Also the new Imlib (1.7) has
problems, so Imlib 1.6 was re-released by me.
Shaleh, just a quick question:
Do I need to do some special to get the keys working?
Neither Alt+{left, right, up, down} is working, nor F12, for example.
I didn't have those with the default theme, but they are working fine
now with the HOG theme.
--j
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Re: fetchmail error
Hello all, I have problems with fetchmail. Everytime I execute fetchmail -a -F to download emails from my ISP server POP3 protocol, it justs hang there. But if I use netscape mail to download email using POP3 protocal, there is no problem. Can someone tell me what's wrong? Could you enable the verbose mode (-v) and tell what it says. I had a similar problem, that when I had VJ compression enabled with ipppd fetchmail and leafnodes fetch would start, but slowly grind to a stop. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Portuguese Keyboard
Hello Debian Community! I was wondering if someone could save me some time on finding information about how to configure Debian to map portuguese keys and use the portuguese keyboard layout. Take a look at kbd - package and kbdconfig util it includes. This worked at least with the finnish keyb settings for me. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: installation problem
Problem is that nothing I am doing is getting me an XF86Config file anywhere. Use the textbased xf86config instead of XF86Setup. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: hdparm
Hi... Umm: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 1.61 seconds =39.75 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 6.87 seconds = 4.66 MB/sec Buffer-cache reads? Uh... explain that to me please, this particular UDMA can't go past 33 MB/s. But I do believe I heard of a UDMA/66 or something like that. I'm not using that here, though, so... I'm getting over 50MB /s and this ain't even UDMA grin. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: netscape-help!!
I've recently hit a snag with netscape: I can't get it to download pop mail. Netscape in WIn95 works, and so does fetchmail, but not netsape in linux. I tried a complete reinstall, and even erased my user-specific netscape directories. What could be causing this? User permissions for a tmp directory? (Have erased /tmp remade it, and set permissions on it) Something in /var maybe? I tried upgrading to the glibc2 version of 4.5 pre 1. I'm almost certain I'm over looking something that netscape uses: file or resource. I haven't tried outgoing mail since the prob. Oh yes, I'm not using the netscape package. I installed it with NS-install, and set MOZILLA_HOME in /etc/profile bu hand. What sort of errors are you getting ? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: hdparm
I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). The drives are older: Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800, SerialNo=15672304 Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3840A, FwRev=A6B.1T00, SerialNo=39662361 Model=ST32140A, FwRev=08.08.01, SerialNo=JBF24417 Model=ST32140A, FwRev=08.08.01, SerialNo=JB770285 Can anyone suggest more aggressive (yet safe!) options for hdparm to make things run more quickly; alternatively is there a repository of known good settings. hdparm -c1 -A1 -a8 -m16 -X34 -d1 -u1 -S0 /dev/hda These have worked for me fine in every machine I've used that has ide disks (about dozen). Please do read the hdparm options and manpage for what those are before trying. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libc6 Netscape form problems
I am running the libc6 version of Netscape 4.05 and am experiencing some strang problems when entering text into text fields. Something keeps appending random binary bits to the end of the strings and it really screws things up. Sometimes it isn't even apparent in the field and other times it is. This is really fun when trying to order things on the web!! As an example I tried placing an order for 2 items and it somehow converted it to 21!!! Yikes! Or as another example I entered free source into yahoo's search field and it said that I had entered, free source=FC^=BE=A4-?=FC^=BE=A4-?h=3D5. What gives. I suppose I coul= d re-install the libc5 version of Netscape but if Netscape is not the problem I don't want to download the 11+M over my 31.2k dialup. This is a ns bug. Really funny, when you are paying bills through a www-service. Or entering passwords/uids/urls... --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: You have new mail
Hi! When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have mail', when in fact they have new mail. Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In debian they don't. I think in /etc/profile, you have to include export MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/$USER You meant /var/spool. IIRC /usr/spool was abandoned some time a go. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Packages of FTP Client (GUI)
I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? FileRunner is a great ftpclient and filemanager. You can find it from section: net. IIRC this was in contrib or non-free before, but the license changet month or two a go allowing it go to main. So if you're running bo, you might want to check contrib non- free too. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Web transaction security.
Jaakko Niemi wrote: snip This is a ns bug. Really funny, when you are paying bills through a www-service. Or entering passwords/uids/urls... snip --j There was a big discusion in one of the slashdot.org poles awhile back, I believe the pole was something like would you use (or do you trust) online shopping?. The consensus of the discussion was that it's actually SAFER to give your credit card # over the web. For the million different reasons, I suggest you look up this pole on the slashdot page and read it. I never trusted online commerce before, but now I use it often. I did read that one. I'm using a www interface to bank to pay the bills etc from home. Really handy, and remember to fortify your NS. BTW. NS 4.5 beta 1 does not do that bug anymore. BTW2. Bruce Perenses feature on /. blew the top off any scale (over 200 replies in an hour). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] Intel Etherexpress Pro 82557
Howdy, can anybody tell me how to get the Intel Etherexpress Pro (82557 chipset) running. I tried the Intel Etherexpress Pro driver (which resorts under ISA?) but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using an Intel Redwood motherboard with on-board 10/100TX ethernet controller. Use the Intel EtherExpress /Pro 100B driver (eepro100.c). --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: hda1 problem
1. xdm won't let me log in as anything but root 2. hda1 partition now shows 0 MB available and 100 percent usage. du shows the same amount of space being used in /usr and the copied partition. Every ext2 partition has some extra space reserved for root. So, if nobody but root can login, that usually meens the partition really _is_ full, except for that little (5% usually, configurable) bit of space reserved for root. And if you manage to fill the partition as root ? Boot-disk time, out of luck and disk-space :) --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: recompiled kernel now I get crc error on bootup
I recompiled my kernel on one of my linux machines but now I get a crc error when I try to load the kernel. I tried to recompile twice and get the same thing. If I copy the kernel to a floppy it loads fine. I don't mind booting off of a floppy but I am very concerned about this error. I have never received it before and have compiled kernels many times. Am I slipping in my old age and forgot a step or is my harddrive failing me? You're not by any chance using 2.1 series kernel? I remember that there was a problem that sounded like that with one of the recent developement releases (.104 or 105..). Other thing is that you might have a bad sector where the kernel is. Did you copy the kernel from where it ended up after compiling or from /usr/src/linux/something ?? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Hamm size?
Hi! Does anybody have any estimates, how many lines of code there will be in hamm (main)? And how much more there is than in bo ? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Super disk drive
Has anyone successfully integrated the 120MB Super Disk drive (by Digital Research) in their Debian system? Is it recognized by the linux floppy driver? The linux/drivers/block/README.fd (and driver software) in linux-2.0.32 does not have any information about this drive. There is a floppy drive type 5 and 6 listed as a 3 1/2 ED. Could this be used for the 120MB mode? If this is a 'LS-120' drive, then it is a IDE floppy, and uses the ATAPI-Floppy driver of kernel. This is in from 2.0.31and later. You might want to look inside you computer, if you can't get the information otherwise. If the drive is on a similar cable as hard- drive (40-wire), then it is a IDE drive. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Xconsole vs security
I forgot to say that I'm using a ISDN card and my script use ippd ! So the passwordis on /etc/ppp/isdn-auth ! Do you have the option +pwlog enabled in /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 ? Disabling this makes the passwords to _not_ be logged. Unfortunally, I don't have isdn directory ! :( How could I create it !? Is there any package which do it !? Check out my script, on attachment ! Should I put some more option on ippd !? Do you have isdnutils package installed ? It comes with pretty good scripts. Hmm. ipppd comes from isdnutils, so have you something other installed or have you compiled your own ? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Problem with modules_install
You could use make-kpkg, I've found that it works great. What is everyone's aversion to using the kernel-package anyway? There are so many problems with people trying to install custom kernels without it. Old habits, I guess. How does it work with 2.1 series, anybody ? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: high end SCSI card recommendation
Hi: I am working out problems using an onboard Adaptec aic7888 SCSI controller. The machine takes 12,000,000 web hits per month and growing, and has lots of disk space as well as 4 11.5GB IDE drives in it. Its locking up now after I turned on verbose error reporting with timeout messages for SCSI drives. Anyway, if this is a controller issue, whats the best controller for busy web servers running Debian LInux 1.3, kernel 2.0.33 and apache? I can just get one and be done with it, recompile and that particular one, and ... thanks. You might want to consider external RAID controller for that sort of business. These hook up to scsi-controller and show to the system as very large disks. As for controllers Symbios/NCR 53C875/6 based cards and Mylex/ Buslogic cards are best supported. Also check the scsi drivers with the kernel. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Advice on a new system
Hello everyone, I am going to help one of the engineers at my company to build a personal system. He has expressed interest in learning about linux and would like to have a system that will dual boot in both windows 98 and linux. I have read several messages on this list talking about problems with windoze messing with linux partitions. We are planning to assemble the PC from parts so we can purchase specific items if needed. The current plans are for a K6-II 300MHz system with fast wide SCSI disks. I am thinking of installing two drives (one for linux and the other for windoze). I would like to make this system very easy for the engineer to boot into either OS. Why don't you for example take two disks and split the half and half. With Linux you get a noticeable increase in performance if your system is spread on different disks. For example take two 4 gig drives and split them 2gig and 2gig for both systems. Root and else on first drive and /usr on the second. I'd recommend IBM drives, for example DDRS series 4,5 gigs are fast and relatively inexpensive. My questions are: 1. What procedure and order should I follow in installing the two OS'es. 2. Recommendations on FW SCSI adapters? Go with UW. I don't think you can find FW adapters anymore these days. Buslogic/Mylex or some NCR/Symbios 53C875 based cards are most supported (and for example Asus SC-875 UW adapter cost one third that Adaptec 2940UW costs). 3. We are going to want to add a CD-R drive to this system. Should we look for a SCSI device or use the on-board IDE interface? Does the operation of IDE devices compromise the access speed of SCSI devices? SCSI devices generally burn more reliably. The IDE device can affect the function of SCSI devices, if it hogs all the cpu, which ain't that incommon. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Xconsole vs security
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an account to can call up xconsole and thereby see your ISP password, which would be a bad thing. That's right ! Ok, to begin with you can make it so that chat doesn't log your password by putting a \q in front of it. In my chatscript (/etc/ppp.chatscript on a Debian 1.3.1 machine) I have: I forgot to say that I'm using a ISDN card and my script use ippd ! So the passwordis on /etc/ppp/isdn-auth ! Do you have the option +pwlog enabled in /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 ? Disabling this makes the passwords to _not_ be logged. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???
[snip] I'm new to Linux and wavering between going with Red Hat and Debian. Could anyone comment on the strengths/weaknesses of the Debian package manager vs RH's RPM system? Also does Debian provide some kind of Uninstall-type manager? The package management system is largest reason, why I use Debian. and its the largest reason why I use RedHat. As for installing / uninstalling dpkg -i package.deb installs it and dpkg -r package.deb removes it. Works like charm. And I'm one of those, who like things easy and neat. rpm -i installs and rpm -e removes. No difference there. apt-get update apt-get upgrade and you have up-to date system. (Ok, grap a few from incoming ..) grin --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Help with Debian GNU/Linux (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:53:38 PDT From: Chris Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Help with Debian GNU/Linux I just downloaded Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and am using bash as the shell. I am completely new to the Linux/Unix world, so forgive me if any of these questions seem foolish. Whenever I try to use the manual for a command by typing man, bash tells me it can't find the command man. Could someone please tell me what directory man is in so I can put it in my path? Could this be a problem with Debian, and if it is what distribution of Linux is a good one to get? 'man' is in /usr/bin . And check that you have installed the 'manpages' package (dpkg -s manpages). AFAIK man should be in your path in standard installation, but if you just downloaded the seven base disks you might not have the package installed. Use dselect to install more packages from ftp site, if you have internet connection from that machine, so that you'll get also the packages something might depend on. Also, I'm thinking of buying Running Linux by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman. Is this a good book to get if I know almost nothing now and want to become a fairly advanced user? If not, what books would be good for those goals? And are there any books that I really should get in addition to Running Linux? Last question, I'm interested in learning to program Linux drivers, and maybe even debuging the kernal. What language are these thing coded in, or what language would I have to learn if I want to do these things? Thanks a lot. That should be a good basic book. Generally all O'Reillys books are good (they also have one about kernel driver developement IIRC). There is also the Debian Users Guide by Dale Scheetz available from www.linuxpress.com. There is an online version or you can order the book. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: http mirror list?
Hi, I've searched on a lot of places, but I couldn't find any: is there a list of debian mirrors which are accessible through http? and which have frozen and unstable? (this is for use with apt, and I prefer a mirror somewhere in europe, but not france, they have very slow links...) You might want to try ftp.funet.fi or sunsite.auc.dk . --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: mke2fs - bad blocks
I suspect the drive is toast, but thought I would check first. Does anyone know if a low level format or something else can save this, or is it just garbage ? Generally one bad block will come many, sooner or later. It is a defect on the surface of the disk. However modern harddisks have some part of their capacity hidden and it is used to map the bad blocks away. If the beginning of the disk has many bad blocks, then you most propably are out of luck. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Needed: NEC CDrom drive info
G'day -- I am happily running a 24x NEC CD-Rom drive 464 (as reported in my /var/log/messages) alongside two SCSI-2 HDs on a NCR53c815 based card. Now I am trying to use a souncard (FWIW, Ensoniq soundscape, *non* PnP one...) and am confused as to which audio cables to use between the CD and the soundcard: souncard gives me three diff options: matsushita, mitsumi or sony, but I can not find any inf anywhere on the net, including NEC site, that would reveal which audio cable works with 464 drive. Does anyone out there have any clue about this? Any and all info greatly appreciated... While this has nothing to do with Debian There are three or four wires in a audio cable : left, righ and one or two grounds. Just check that those match and that you hear sound when playing cd's. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: AWE Kernel Patch Troubles
I have an AWE64 and I've been using the kernel patch for it ever since I've had Linux. However, with my upgrade to hamm and the 2.0.34 kernel, I had to repatch and recompile my kernel. Along with that upgrade, I got the newest version of the AWE patch, 0.4.2d. I followed the directions in INSTALL.awe but I just can't get it to work. I tried many variations, and played around, but I'm no kernel hacker and I haven't been successful. Everytime I attempt to patch my kernel source tree I get errors like those in the following typescript. I thought that it was probably just a minor malfunction and that specifying the files without the .old extension would make it work, but to no avail. I don't get any errors when actually compiling the kernel, but everytime I boot my newly compiled kernel (and modules) I get these messages: I couldn't get the latest (.2d) working (same problem) so I just used .2c version. The changes between c and d versions are very small AFAIK. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Can't Copy 161 MB
What I need to do is change one of my Debian (version 1.3) partitions into 2
separate partitions. There is presently 161 MB of files in hda6 (the
partition I want to subdivide) and on my Windows half of the computer in
Drive D: (hda5) I have 190MB of free space.
First, I don't think you can copy large amounts of data from ext2 partitions
to FAT/VFAT/FAT32 partitions just like that (they screw filenames and
symlinks etc.). You might want to dump the contents of partition into a
tarfile and then extract from there later.
I figured the thing to do is copy all the files on hda6 into hda5(my D:
drive), repartition hda6 into hda6 + hda7 (I should use the rescue disk for
this?), and then copy back my files from 'D:' on to 'hda6', leaving hda7
empty for future use. (I thought I read in one of the previous mailings
that there is software that makes these steps unnecessary. Is this true?)
Anyway, when I tried to do this:
'mount hda5 /mnt'
go to 'D:/Debfiles' directory
'cp -a /usr/*' (hda6)
I got the error message 'no more space left on device'.
You're out of disk space (or have some quotas working).
Use df and du to find out which directories are eating
space and make your moves after that.
Furthermore, now when I boot up, my hda2 partition (where my /root is) shows
0 space available. When I halt or reboot I get the message:
'error can't write to etc mtab.tmp, no space left on device'
Looking around I found 1 file '/proc/kcore' which had 16 MB and everything
elso in '/proc' had 0 bytes. To fix the first problem, of all my space gone
in hda2, I am tempted to just delete the 'proc/kcore' file. Is this the
wrong thing to do?
Yes. Everything under /proc is virtual and does not take any space
from hard disk (apart from what it takes to store directory information).
/proc/kcore is an image of memory.
The second problem is to copy the 161 MB in hda6 to D:. I went back to D:
and deleted and moved some stuff around and now have 240MB free, which
should be plenty of room. But when I try again am I going to have the same
problem? Is my limiting factor the size of hda2 (my root partition) or does
the 'etc/mtab.tmp' file have a maximum capacity? Since I only have ~20MB
free on hda2, is that the limit of what I can copy between partitions?
*
I have another problem, which I believe is a separate issue. When I first
booted up the computer, (BEFORE trying to copy the 161MB) I noticed a huge
file ('root/core' 21MB) that wasn't there yesterday. The last thing I've
done is install the CoffeeShop Java IDE (from SFS Software) in my
'/home/dixon' directory. (The instructions appeared to say that this was the
proper place for it.) I also noticed a 339KB file '/etc/core'. Are these
files necessary? Should they be there?
These are 'core' files, that happen when a program segfaults and dumps
the memory it is using to that file (dumps core). If you don't need them
for debugging you can just delete them.
--j
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Re: strange lock up problem
Hello, just started with this list so hope this msg gets there. I ahve a pII/266 system with 256MB RAM, 4 IDE hard disks, and 1 4.3GB SCSI and 1 23GB SCSI disk, onboard AIC7888 SCSI controller, 3c905 card, floppy drive, (can't remember which chipset we are using on this board). Running low loads 0.2 or so, using httpd 1.2.6 apache (not a package). Randomly it will print AIEE: scheduling in interrupt multiple times on the screen and lock up to the point where power down/ power up is required. Any thoughts are welcome. If this is a motherboard issue, I'd be more than appreciative for recommended board for this speed CPU. Check that you don't have something else using the same irq that the scsi adapter uses. Also this might be a kernel bug, which version are you running ? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!
Johann Spies wrote: I have also received the beanie-bag spam. I received the followin message last week and just want to know whether some of you did also receive it: I received a message with similar text which I forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] They said they were dealing with it. They dealt with it: Thank you for reporting the e-mail you received from [EMAIL PROTECTED] The matter has been referred to the FBI for further investigation. This was a mass mailing and it was not sent to you PERSONALLY. Thousands of people got it, and the intention was to harass the individual at the phone number on the e-mail. Thanks for writing, Aimee Palmer Postmaster America Online, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] My thumb up to AOL to keep up with good work (on this matter). --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???
This from the Linux-newbies list: From: Mike Ricketts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donald Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chris Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu Subject Re: Which distribution is the best? GENERALLY? (fwd) On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Donald Thompson wrote: Chris Fischer wrote: [snip] The debian package manager has to be the biggest worthless piece of junk I've ever been stupid enough to use. Very true. [snip] I'm new to Linux and wavering between going with Red Hat and Debian. Could anyone comment on the strengths/weaknesses of the Debian package manager vs RH's RPM system? Also does Debian provide some kind of Uninstall-type manager? The package management system is largest reason, why I use Debian. As for installing / uninstalling dpkg -i package.deb installs it and dpkg -r package.deb removes it. Works like charm. And I'm one of those, who like things easy and neat. Don't believe everything you read. -j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: IDE stopped working
settings. What is the chipset used with that mb ? TX? Do you have any pnp cards ? Kernel settings? I'll have a look at it since I compile my own kernel. You may have hit on something with the chipset - Intel 430TX PCIset with PCI Bus Master IDE controller. I do have PNP cards on the PCI bus, but all of them are recognized and initialized properly. If I upgrade the kernel to 2.0.34, do you think that might fix this situation? Check that you did include support for IDE/ATAPI cd-roms and enchanced IDE/MMF/RLL support. Also check that did you include support for SCSI- emulation. One thing could be that some card goes to irq 15 in boot and messes things up. If those do not help, try .34. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: xfstt
I have xfstt font server thing installed and functioning. I was just wondering if I can have that load on boot. If so which file do I edit. Check that you have '/etc/init.d/xfstt' and appropriate links pointing in /etc/rc*.d . For example 'etc/rc2.d/S20xfstt' where xfstt is started at runlevel 2. The number is a priority, for getting things started in right order, for example netbase with 18 means it will be started before exim with 20. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Using 2.1.108 kernel
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0063_01BDA7E0.D6CCC9A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all: Yesterday I tried to get the 2.1.108 kernel up and running. I did get it running however I hand one problem, may ethernet card (3Com 3C905 vortex) stopped. I am currently running Debian's latest released kernel 2.0.34 and all is find. With the 2.1.108 kernel, ifconfig reports the NIC is up and running. Additionally I can ping the network interface from the machine that is running the 108 kernel, but I can't access anything on the network. One note, the kernel seems to add a route and the /etc/init.d/network file adds a route for that network interface. Check that you have recent enough net utils etc. www.linuxhq.com should have them listed. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Can't connect to slashdot.org
HAHAHAHAHA Ok, now that that is said. slashdot.org's founder Rob Malda is in the process of moving. And as we all know once you do not have time to work on something -- it breaks. the DNS server has had problems the last few days. It is functional now, but will more than likely be coming up and down. And ummm, like, it is just a web site. This is not funny. My hand start shaking and I get cold swet, if I'm without my daily doze of /. . I think I'm slashdicted. --j ;) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: IDE stopped working
Jaakko Niemi writes: Jaakko Niemi writes: All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How can I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary IDE bus? Does the BIOS find your CD ? Yes, The BIOS does properly identify the CDrom Drive. Funny thing , now that I think about it, is that Win95 could not see the secondary IDE bus or the CDROM drive until I loaded a driver under Win95 (supplied by the MB manufacturer). Perhaps the registers for the secondary IDE bus are sufficiently different from the norm that a special driver is needed. That's a reeaally old 95 'buglet' that it did not recognize the secondary IDE channel on Intel chipsets and at worst disabled it entarily. If you do a cat /proc/interrupts , do you see int. 15 allocated to ide1 there? NO, only IDE0 is present. A stand-alone PCI bus probe program would come in handy right about now 8-) Hmm. if the cd works fine in 95, you might want to check the relevant kernel settings. What is the chipset used with that mb ? TX? Do you have any pnp cards ? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: SCSI Disk Farm
I want to experiment with 'raidtools' to set up my disk farm (100-200GB) and it requires a kernel version 2.1.62. I haven't worked with experimental kernels before - where is a good place to get them and how would I pick one that is not TOO experimental, i.e. doesn't break too easily... Had almost a month with .101 and currently second week going with .106+ ac4 patches. As for _large_ raid, I'd say DPT or Mylex and external boxes. Means the boxes connect to SCSI controller and they are seen as very large disks. These also do not need any drivers beside the SCSI-controller. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: IDE stopped working
Jaakko Niemi writes: All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How can I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary IDE bus? Does the BIOS find your CD ? Yes, The BIOS does properly identify the CDrom Drive. Funny thing , now that I think about it, is that Win95 could not see the secondary IDE bus or the CDROM drive until I loaded a driver under Win95 (supplied by the MB manufacturer). Perhaps the registers for the secondary IDE bus are sufficiently different from the norm that a special driver is needed. That's a reeaally old 95 'buglet' that it did not recognize the secondary IDE channel on Intel chipsets and at worst disabled it entarily. If you do a cat /proc/interrupts , do you see int. 15 allocated to ide1 there? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: VCD Player and SB 16 PnP
On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: (2) My Soundcard was Soundblaster 16 PnP, do I need the isapnptools? If need, how to do it? (My systems is Hamm) Yes, you do need the isapnptools, unless you plan on using loadlin from windows or something wierd like that.. The sound howto will tell you all about how to make it work. You won't need isapnptools if you've got a pnp bios -- it'll take care of the pnp end of things for you. The pnp bios does not help with for example AWE 64. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Bulletin Board SOftware
Hi , I am working to develop a Intranet for my company and one of the suggestions is to use Debian. One of the features needed is a bulletin board. Is there any software available to implement it(esp. in Debian).. A local news-server and discussion areas. Or www-server with some bulleting- board scripts, and user interface through browsers. These come into mind first. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: IDE stopped working
All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How can I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary IDE bus? Does the BIOS find your CD ? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: 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. You'll need newer drivers or kernel. IIRC 2.0.34 should have support for this chip. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Playing CD's
I'm having a problem playing CD's using both workbone and xmcd. I can run 'saytime' and get somthing out of the speakers I can also start workbone and xmcd and see progress (lights on the CD and info on xmcd) but I don't get anything out of the speakers. What can be wrong. The sound card is a Audio Excel PNP and I've obtained the info to put in /etc/isapnp.conf from win95. There is on thing though - win95 reports that WSS uses IRQ 12 but dmesg says MSS: Bad IRQ 12 If you have a system with PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, the IRQ is most propably a shared. (12 is almost standard for PS/2 mouseport). Try dumping pnp configs with 'pnpdump' (it's in isapnptools package) and move the irq to 10 or 11 for example. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re:
--=_899193828==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks to everyone. I got pppd to connect to my isp. Under plog I see where a serial connection is established and it shows a link between ppp0 and ttyS2. But shortly after the link is created, it hangs up. I have enclosed a excerpt from /var/logs/ppp.log ***cut Thanks for any help ahead of time Jun 29 19:27:17 skywalker pppd[494]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 Jun 29 19:27:20 skywalker pppd[494]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Jun 29 19:27:20 skywalker pppd[494]: Modem hangup Jun 29 19:27:20 skywalker pppd[494]: Connection terminated. Try adding 'debug' option to ppp settings. This does not tell why the modem was hung up. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Matrox Millenium G200
Hi all, Does anyone know if the Martox Millenium G200 is compatiable with XFree? Its a new AGP card, and I amd asking if it compatiable before I go out and buy it. If not does anyone know where I could go and find out if it is? Not yet. Xi Graphics do have an X server, but it will cost money. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I get exim to work?
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: As root exim -bp shows the queue. I re-installed exim (I think for the last time now). I can see the queue. All the messages are reported to be frozen. Eximon does show some messages. This is because you are running as user, and you do not have permissions to /var/log/exim. As the files are owned mail.mail add yourself to group mail and you should be able to run eximon right. I did that and at least eximon showed something, but nothing that made me more wise about what is going on. Thank you for all your trouble. Earlier in this list I queried the correctness of somebody's mentioning of an upgrade to smail. I had a lot of responses and some of the responses convinced me to try once again. I have now, over the last weeks removed smail, installed exim , removed exim , reinstalled smail about 6 times. I have had no success so far. Maybe I will try once (only once ) again when I have Debian 2.0. I do not have time to waste like this. I want to convince my friends to use Linux. I will keep them away from programs like exim until it can be installed to work the first time. If you can get smail to work, use it. I used to use smail, when I had a bo system. When I upgraded to hamm some seven months ago (last december), I half-accidentally installed exim instead of smail, and have since used it and installed it several times without trouble. I think there has been a lot of changes between bo and hamm versions of exim. Last night I watched a person (who had never even seen Linux) to install hamm (and exim) without any troubles. The only information I gave her was where to find the relevant documentation. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACK! file ownership screwup!
--envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok now I pulled a Good One. My hard dirve died 2 days ago...it was at 3 am...so I went to bed=20 The next day I boguht a new drive on my way home from work (just slightly larger one) My thought was to restore form my month old backups and be done with it... to my surprize the old drive worked again!. After the failure last night (system that had been up for a while had IRQ timeouts and failed to read th= e=20 drive..then it wouldn't boot again afterwards on cold boot) I tried to backup to tape, but it failed again. SO I rebooted again This time I did a cp -rf to the NEW drive...then I tape backuped from there (so I could repartition and restore the new drive) You may see my error...cp -rf by root...and EVERY FILE becomes owned BY ROO= T! If you can make another attempt to copy, then you might want to use the -p option of cp. Meaning to preserve the files ownerships etc. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I get exim to work?
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Which version ? Hamm or bo ? 1.3.1 Do you have a permanent connection or a dial-up ? dial-up. How does exim.conf look ? I re-installed exim to get exim.conf again. I made some progress. I do not know what I did differently, but Pine would accept a message sent locally, put it in the mailq, but eximon wouldn't see it, neither would pine. As root exim -bp shows the queue. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED](28)$ eximon [1] 821 [EMAIL PROTECTED](29)$ Exim Monitor version 1.23 (compiled 4-Mar-1997 15:28:01) initializing *** eximon warning: can't open log file This is because you are running as user, and you do not have permissions to /var/log/exim. As the files are owned mail.mail add yourself to group mail and you should be able to run eximon right. Exim Monitor running Here is my exim.conf (I removed the commented lines): - qualify_domain = alpha.futurenet.co.za local_domains = alpha.futurenet.co.za I have otherwise identical configuration, but this line: local_domains = lonesom.pp.fi:lonesom.pp.fi Besides Pine, have you tries any other MUAs, mail for ex. ? --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Raid controlers
What raid controlers are supported in linux? Is the adaptec AAA-130 series? I'm looking into buying one, so is there a reccomened choice? Adaptec has very recently opened up their policy, and we might see drivers for these cards in the future, but not yet. DPT is supported for sure, and I think Mylex is also. Any 'external' adapters, that present themselves as large disk to the system are supported (don't need any special drivers). If you have one or two spare scsi-cards and disks, you might want to try the software raid first. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I get exim to work?
-- Forwarded message -- On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: popclient: POP3 +OK 5698 octets reading message 1 (5698 bytes) popclient: SMTP connect to (null) failed Smells like exim is not running, nor inetd is starting it. Do you have something like the following in your inetd.conf: #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. smtp stream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs Thank you for replying and no, my inetd.conf did not have that line for exim. That line looked like this: # smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd (will be restored by smail postinst) This is commented out line, and methinks there was a bug conserning this looong time ago. That line means that when an smtp connection attempt is approved, inetd shall start that mailer. and there was no exim-line. The exim installation script seems to be buggy. Which version ? Hamm or bo ? Anyhow, I did put the line you supplied above in inetd.conf and rebooted the computer because I do not know how to get inetd to read that file otherwise (later I discovered inetd-update and used it to enable smtp, but without any positive results). I then sent a test message to myself locally using mailto. No error messages appeared, and the file was in /var/spool/exim/input. I tried to send an test message using Pine but the message was again: [Error sending: 421 SMTP connection went away!] Do you have a permanent connection or a dial-up ? How does exim.conf look ? To send this message, I had to remove exim again and reinstall smail. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.I John 2:15 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?
i have the same problem,my cdrom is no more accessible (though it's not a indrance for now),i have a pioneer ATAPI CD drive,a regular ide card and the drive is properly configured as slave (my Hard Drive is master),i did not have the problem before when i was having Ontrack Disk Manager but i have removed it knowing linux can work with big drive,but since then,the CD drive stopped working,here's my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda2 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only do you know if adding the linear parameter would help ??? I don't think it does have anything to do with CDROMs. The CD in your case is /dev/hdb, and in my system /dev/cdrom is symlink to the appropriate device. Can you mount it? (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom) Does the kernel find the CDROM in boot ? --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I get exim to work?
popclient: POP3 +OK 5698 octets reading message 1 (5698 bytes) popclient: SMTP connect to (null) failed Smells like exim is not running, nor inetd is starting it. Do you have something like the following in your inetd.conf: #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. smtpstream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs ? --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Voodoo2 under Hamm
I also have just become the proud owner of a Voodoo II card, an Orchid Richous 3D. Is anybody doing any development for this board, it is sooo cool, I would love to make use of it inside Debian. First you need the Glide library, and I don't think the 2.51 version has been yet packaged, so get it from: http://www-hmw.caribel.pisa.it/fxmesa/index.shtml;. Next you have to get Mesa (OpenGL clone) sources (the debianized version is not linked with Glide) and compile them with something like make linux-386-glide , or linux-386-quake-glide, for Quake. --j Paul Reavis wrote: Anyone tried to get a Voodoo2 card working under Hamm? I'd like to swap info - I've just started trying to accumulate the libraries etc; apparently only the most bleeding edge glide libs for linux do Voodoo2. I've got a shiny new Canopus Pure3D II and a desire to use it outside of MS land. -- Paul Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Design Lead Partner Software, Inc.http://www.partnersoft.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISDN w/Debian
matthew tebbens wrote: Is anyone running Debian - Internet via ISDN ?? Please mail me, I'd like to ask a few questions about the setup. I'm running Debian with a Teles 16.3 internal card connected to my ISP in the Netherlands. It was working fine with bo, but I seem to have broken somthing during upgrading to hamm, so that's why I'm replying from Windoze. I have the same card, and couldn't get it working with bo, but upgraded to hamm and it started working :) The documentation under /usr/doc/isdnutils seems to be pretty good, but setting everything up takes a while. The most important thing is to make sure the kernel supports your card. I found kernel versions 2.0.32 and above worked fine. I usually get better throughput under Linux than under Windoze, so its worth trying to set it up. 7k anytime with one channel from ftp.funet.fi. A little less overseas, but rarely 4k/s. hamm seems to directly have support for isdn, but I'm still having problems. Probably somthing to do with my setup, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask anyway ;-) Works fine here, even with the devel kernels. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: quake2 freezes(crashes) machine
Hi gamers, I have installed the hamm quake2 package on my hamm system. When I run it it runs for a little while and then locks my machine up hard. No three finger salute, no telneting in, nothing. This happens under both X and svgalib. I end up having to do a cold reset!! Not what I like to do. Has anybody else experienced this? I have a P-266MMX, 48M, Diamond Stealth 2000(s3) with 2M(old one). This happens sometimes, and sound keeps looping. With 2.1 kernel series I can get away without rebooting with magic-sysrq keys, so it is not that hard lock. What version of Mesa and Quake are you using ? Hmm. is 3.15 packaged yet ? --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mesa
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:35:43PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Does anyone have any idea how long until Mesa3.0 libraries will be debianized? (Appararently it is req'd by the latest version of Blender. :(. ). When they are out of beta, I guess. It's pretty easy to compile them yourself though, just put them in /usr/local/lib and put a LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib before executing Blender. /etc/ld.so.conf should include /usr/local/lib by default anyway I think, so you don't need the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If it isn't in there you can certainly add it and run ldconfig. I have 2.6 debs installed for other purposes and have to use LD... stuff to get for example Quake working with ref_gl and Mesa 3 betas compiled with glide support. I did few scripts to start apps with right options (have to write deacent wrappers some day). Hmm. Has anybody thought of mesa-glide.x.y debs ? --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please clarify...
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:15:07AM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Yes, but *there is no need for a re-install*! Debian has a great and superior upgrading mechanism, and your system will update cleanly through every version, even major version changes. I was told that there was a way to auto-upgrade. That is, my debian system would mirror or sense an update on the net somehow, and then download all appropriate packages and install them. Is this a myth, work in progress, or reality? This is reality, often tested and works on many systems. The script is called autoup.sh, and is available from Craig Sanders, but also via Debian. I don't have an adress handy, please look at the website/ftpsite/in the mailing list archives. If you don't find it, anybody else knows? The autoup.sh is ment to be used in bo-hamm upgrade, AFAIK. Normal updates are easy, just point dselect/apt to a mirror, get updates and let it install. Just fire up and tap enter a few times. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mesa
Does anyone have any idea how long until Mesa3.0 libraries will be debianized? (Appararently it is req'd by the latest version of Blender. :(. ). When they are out of beta, I guess. It's pretty easy to compile them yourself though, just put them in /usr/local/lib and put a LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib before executing Blender. About Blender: it has far too many buttons widgets and needs some serious studying, I find C much easier to lear ;) --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ debian-user-request ] libXpm and wine
I am looking for libXpm in order to compile the source version od wine (its newer then the one in the debian package) is there a debian package of libXpm? because i couldn't find one. id not, does anyone know where i can find a binary version and how to install it? (i think there is one under sunsite but i don't know how to find it there) i have a source version but it wont compile. i run imake and it exits almost imediatly (dosn't write anything yet) with the message can't find imake.tmpl. Thanx for any help :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S libXpm xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4.10 xpm4g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.10 xpm4g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 and dpkg -s xpm4g tells that it is in section: x11. This is for hamm, bo version is something like xpm4 without the g. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cd writer support under linux
Does Linux support the HP SureStore 2X6 CD-Writer 7200? The internal model uses the IDE interface and the external model uses a ECP or EPP parallel port. Has anyone used either of these drives (on any OS)? Any comments? According to kernel documentation (2.1.101, paride.txt), the support for ide cdr cdrw's that connect to parallel port is in design-phase, so not yet here. You could say RSN :) --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Zip and CD-rom (part two)
--- 1. As i mentioned I have an IDE zip-drive, it is recognized as a IDE floppy drive, but it looks like a driver is missing or something, because it does not want to read it. It says it doesn't have a msdos-file format, which it does. 2. Same message on HDA3, where some linux packages are located. Here's my partitioning on the 3,2 GB HD HDA1: Boot 120 MB HDA2: Root 1 GB HDA3: msdos-type (for now) with mail, packages and stuff like that. Is the problem that HDA3 starts after 540 (or something around that) MB ? (woh, problem just solved (needed HDA5 for that partition) I still cannot mount CD-rom and zip though Just plug in a zip-disk and check with fdisk that it can be read (at least the partition table on the disk). How are you trying to mount them ? The exact commands ? --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD-rom and Zip-drive
MV I have a problem with my secondary IDE channel. I have a CD-rom as MV slave ans MV a Zip-drive as Master on that controller. When I insert my Debian-CD, MV install goes OK. Then, after reboot, dselect starts and I say; load from MV CD-rom. That's the place it does not work. I tried installing a mitsumi MV driver with the following settingns, MV mcd=0x376,15 No, this line is used for the running the a mitsumi cdrom attached to a soundcard (IIRC). You don't need any driver for atapi devices. A ha, that's clear. You said it does not work, but what message do you get? It said something like CD-rom not found or something like that When you choose dselect's cdrom method, it will ask you about a block device. master at the 2nd IDE controller is /dev/hdc slave at the 2nd IDE controller is /dev/hdd Try this when dselect asks you. Works, just got to figure out how this CD was made. It says it hasn't a good structure and asks me to enter the paths. Just a few more q's: 1. As i mentioned I have an IDE zip-drive, it is recognized as a IDE floppy drive, but it looks like a driver is missing or something, because it does not want to read it. It says it doesn't have a msdos-file format, which it does. Try checking the partition number with fdisk or cfdisk. It usually is something like /dev/hdd4 , instead of /dev/hdd. Anybody know, why fdisk and cfdisk tells me that I have bootable fat16 partition on a zip-disk, that I partitioned again and formatted as ext2. I can mount it as ext2 ok, but this seems a bit weird. A kernel-bug ? (I'm using 2.1.101) --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quake Segfaults
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: After my fun experience upgrading to hamm, everything has been goin well, but I have had one problem. After upgrading svgalib, squake seg faults when started. (so does quake2) Is there a problem with svgalib? svgalib-bin 1.2.13-3.2 svgalibg11.2.13-3.2 svgalib1 1.2.13-3.2 quake2 3.14a-2 squake 1.06-5 quake-lib-stub 1.3 I had the same thing. It just segfaulted at the start. In my todo list is to find out against which to file a bug, either svgalib or quake. Haven't yet find out which does take the blame. Hmmf. about time to do something about this. BTW. This happened with gl and svga, not with x rendering. Seems to be related to mouse / keyb handling, but not sure. I solved this by compiling svgalib from the sources. I was told a fix for this was an ldconfig . It worked for me, and everything is fine now... except.. (who knew that was coming?) Didn't work for me. But it is now working with the latest hamm svgalib and 3.15, don't know which one fixed it. BTW. I have only svgalibg1 installed, and no libc5-version. I am still having trouble with sound in squake and quake2. I dont know where the problem is, but it is as if some sounds are played on /dev/audio and some on /dev/dsp , and most of them die.. the best way to explain it is when you try to cat a wav file to /dev/audio. Generally it is all static. that is what it is like in the game. What souncard do you have, and what kernel-version ? I'm using 2.1.101 and AWE, which works well. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quake Segfaults
After my fun experience upgrading to hamm, everything has been goin well, but I have had one problem. After upgrading svgalib, squake seg faults when started. (so does quake2) Is there a problem with svgalib? svgalib-bin 1.2.13-3.2 svgalibg11.2.13-3.2 svgalib1 1.2.13-3.2 quake2 3.14a-2 squake 1.06-5 quake-lib-stub 1.3 I had the same thing. It just segfaulted at the start. In my todo list is to find out against which to file a bug, either svgalib or quake. Haven't yet find out which does take the blame. Hmmf. about time to do something about this. BTW. This happened with gl and svga, not with x rendering. Seems to be related to mouse / keyb handling, but not sure. I solved this by compiling svgalib from the sources. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Q: Second Ethernet Card
I am planing on purchasing a 256k DSL to my Linux server. I currently have one Ehternet card that is connected to my home PC with a crossover cable. I will need to purchase an additional Ethernet card for my Server to connect to the DSL connection. Should I purchase the cable and then completely rebuild the server from the ground up with the two Ethernet cards, or just place the second one in and go from there? If I just place the second one in, what will have to be done to get it online? Just put the second card and configure it. It has couple pitholes, but is not that hard. If the DSL line endst to a RJ45 connector, the ger a Intel EtherExpress card and be happy. There are a few HOWTOS in you know where :) BTW - As I get ready to place my server on the net with DSL, I was planning to setup Sendmail for email, Apache as my Web Server and TIC as my Firewall (to protect my home PC on the other Ethernet card). Does this look OK? or is there something else I should do? In my experience Exim is easier and more secure and . etc. I've been using it for some 5-6 months now, without problems. The hamm version is pretty good. Apache sounds good, but I have now experience, same with firewalls. Just about the time to learn :) --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP problem
I also don't have device driver for Sound Blaster. I tried using MAKEDEV, but I don't have any docs. Can someone who got his/her SB to work tell me what to do? Thx in advance :) You'll need to have the sound drivers enabled, either as modules (the stock kernels come with there, right, anybody?) or compiled in the kernel. You have these, right ? After these you can start worrying about the devices. At worst case you'll need isapnptools (if it is a pnp card) to initialize the card at boot and compile the kernel to match your hardware. Don't worry, it's not that hard, but there are a couple pitholes. Please read all the sound documentation from /usr/doc/HOWTO and from kernel sources, (/usr/src/[path to the kernel sources]/Documentation or /usr/src... /sound/..) --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1 SCSI 1 IDE hdd w/LILO
Yo- I just added a SCSI drive to my computer. I now have a 4.3g SCSI and a 2.1g IDE. I have moved Debian to /dev/sda1 and I have installed Winblows on the IDE (/dev/hda1) so I can play StarCraft and Unreal. I have had no luck with LILO. It will boot to Debian no problem but I can't get Windows to start. When I see the LILO: prompt and hit tab I get both choices but when I type Win95 it just blinks and shows the LILO: prompt again. Any ideas? Humm ho! You might just have one of those motherboards that cannot boot from the ide drive, if there is scsi drive installed. Check your bios settings (most not so old clone/standard/whatever mb's have options to boot from scsi/ide/etc.). What mb / machine do you have ? Then if your mb supports to boot from ide instead of scsi, I think you can install lilo into the ide drive's mbr and boot Linux and 95 from there. Here is my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/sda1 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux append=mem=96M read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=Win95 table=/dev/hda I think this is correct. --j, wondering when his IBM DVGS drive will arrive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LINUX Newbie
I have never used LINUX. What do I need to download/purchase to get started on my learning journey? Read some install documentation, until you know something about what you are planning to do. For Debian you can find them at least from www.debian.org. If you have fast net connection (ISDN or better), you might want to think about downloading the base floppies and installing the base system from those and everything else from the net. If you are using modem, then order a cd for few bucks from ex. cheapbytes or LSL. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No E 14 yet
--huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 09:28:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am at Linux Expo and there is STILL no E 14 yet. So the wait= =20 continues. what is E 14? :) A total rewrite of Enlightenment. Only a point bump .. .13 to 14 for a rewrite. Can't wait for the one dot something.. ;) --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X installation for ATI Page II+
Hi! i'm pretty new to linux, and still struggling. i've installed bo 2 months ago. I've AMD K6, 32M RAM, ATI Page II+ with 4M. i can't startx. i wanted to ask whether anybody encountered special problems with ATI Page II+, because my debian reacts only to ctrl+alt+del EVEN after I select the generic VGA adapter and standard VGA as monitors. But the setup, working on that default selection itself, works fine! You'll most propably need XFree version 3.3.2 for the Rage II chips to work correctly. And that most propably means an upgrade to hamm. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quake
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: On Wed, 27 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: -sndbits 8 gave me a promising result, just a bit of clicking occasionally, I could live with it.. but.. Is there any other cure, or if not, where can I put the parameter as a default so I dont need to type it every time? I'm afraid you'll have to type it every time. You caqn set up a shell script or alias. Okay.. thanks. I've since worked out it is svgalib causing the problems... other svaglib games have the same problem. Are there any settings to do with sound in svgalib? I also could not get Q2 to work with svgalib in either gl or svga modes, under X it worked fine. Then I compiled svgalib from the sources and it worked fine. I guess I'll have to file a bugreport. It is definately a release-critical bug, if quake doesn't work ;) --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?
Hallo, Why do you call that an upgrade? I have tried out exim several times without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works with a lot less problems than exim. I couldn't get smail to work and went to exim, which worked almost out-of- the box. :) --but that was my stupidity and lazyness -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system does not recognize 64 MB RAM
I know this is not a debian problem but maybe someone has an idea: Today I replaced the 32 MB SDRAM chip in my computer with a 64 MB SDRAM chip but the system - starting with the BIOS! - only recognizes 32 MB. I tried all of the three DIMM banks, had a look at the BIOS options but all without success. I also checked for BIOS updates that might be known to fix this but nothing. The board is an Elitegroup P5TX-A with Intel TX chipset. The 64 MB RAM chip works well in another computer. Any ideas how to get things working? If the BIOS will not find it, there is nothing you can do - you have a 'broken' motherboard that will not support DIMMs with more than 1 row / DIMM and that 64mb one does have 2 rows. Get a second 32mb DIMM or change that 64mb one to a single row one. I'd suggest getting a second 32mb, because they are cheaper and your not going to put more than 64mb on that mb anyways. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Redwood(?) motherboard
Hi, I need to buy a couple PCs featuring an Intel Redwood (I'm not sure this is the correct name) motherboard with onboard 100MB Ethernet and fast SCSI-2. However I need to be absolutely sure Linux will run on it. Does anybody have any experience with this motherboard? To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! The ethernet chip onboard it is fine (same as Eexpress 100B series), but the scsi-chip is pretty new adaptec piece and I think it is supported in 2.0.34-pre patches (and 2.1 series for sure). Beware that there is only one wide-scsi connector onboard and no narrow connectors. So for narrow devices I'd suggest some cheap ncr/symbios based pci card (at worse one wide to narrow converter can cost just as much). Are you thinking about the 'RC440LX' kits or machines built from parts ? --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SB16 install configure
How do I enable my SB16 card? I did not see a option during the base install. I have seen AWE32 stuff, but I don't think that is the same thing. Where how do I setup my card? Umm, it's pretty similar to AWE, but you just leave out the AWE spesific stuff. To put it short: you'll have to compile kernel again and include the sound options in. If it is pnp card, you'll have to install and configure the isapnptools package. There are few documents that are good to read before starting: Sound-HOWTO and Soundblaster-16 mini-HOWTO that you can find under /usr/doc/HOWTO if you have installed the HOWTO-documents package. --j BTW, are there sound modules in the standard kernel package, anybody ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV
On Sat, 23 May 1998 16:25:46 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The other data in Debian's case is stuff like dependency information, installation and removal scripts, and the maintainer's contact address. Proprietary to Debian... ^ That's a pretty flamboyant choice of word around here. Maybe you ment spesific to Debian ? ;) --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp, PII/P90, ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is down(100)
May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x6 compress VJ 0f 00 addr 195.64.64.1] May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: sent [IPCP ConfRej id=0x6 addr 195.64.64.1] May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x7 addrs 195.64.64.1 195.64.69.173 compress VJ 0f 00] May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: sent [IPCP ConfRej id=0x7 addrs 195.64.64.1 195.64.69.173] May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x8 compress VJ 0f 00] Your machine does not like the other ends idea of ip addresses. See the ConfRejs. Are you using static or dynamic ips ? Check out the noipdefault option for ppp. --j May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x8 compress VJ 0f 00] May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is down(100) May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: sent [IPCP TermReq id=0x2 Interface configuration failed] May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: rcvd [IPCP TermAck id=0x9] May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 No network protocols running] May 21 13:15:08 muso pppd[1020]: Hangup (SIGHUP) May 21 13:15:08 muso pppd[1020]: Modem hangup May 21 13:15:08 muso pppd[1020]: Connection terminated. May 21 13:15:09 muso pppd[1020]: Exit. The log for the P90 (stelo) is identical, untill the end: Mar 19 12:09:02 stelo pppd[587]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x8 compress VJ 0f 00] Mar 19 12:09:02 stelo pppd[587]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x8 compress VJ 0f 00] Mar 19 12:09:02 stelo pppd[587]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Mar 19 12:09:02 stelo pppd[587]: local IP address 195.64.69.201 Mar 19 12:09:02 stelo pppd[587]: remote IP address 195.64.68.16 Mar 19 12:09:11 stelo pppd[587]: Terminating on signal 15. Mar 19 12:09:11 stelo pppd[587]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 User request] Mar 19 12:09:11 stelo pppd[587]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x3] Thanks! (Please, also copies to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I'm not any more subscribed to this list). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
