Re: problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine
I finally got my sound working. I followed some advice from here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/alsa-1-2-5-upgrade-errors-4175695921/page3.html which was a similar problem to mine, and not sure what did it, but I got a flash pop up on my screen about alsa, and tested all things working now. Man, what a frustration. Otherwise, the bullseye upgrade has been flawless for me so far. On 8/25/21 2:30 PM, James D Freels wrote: Thanks for responding Georgi, I had already tried "alsactl init" earlier based on other advise found on the WWW. However, I did not pay close enough attention because of error messages I get as shown below: alsa-lib main.c:1014:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use case configuration -2 Found hardware: "CMI8786" "CMI8786" "CS4245 CMI8786" "0x1043" "0x8467" Hardware is initialized using a generic method alsa-lib main.c:1014:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:1 use case configuration -2 Found hardware: "USB-Audio" "USB Mixer" "USB046d:082c" "" "" Hardware is initialized using a generic method alsa-lib parser.c:260:(error_node) UCM is not supported for this HDA model (HDA NVidia at 0xfe9fc000 irq 49) alsa-lib main.c:1014:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:2 use case configuration -6 Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Nvidia GPU 51 HDMI/DP" "HDA:10de0051,38422724,00100100" "0x3842" "0x2724" Hardware is initialized using a generic method I cannot find much about this message, nor how to correct it. The alsamixer seems to work fine as expected and indicates I have the sound card active and should hear sound. But, it only provides actual sound if I am root. On 8/25/21 1:28 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Hi James, try to run: # alsactl init as root, reboot and adjust all channels with alsamixer or similar with your (non-root) user. Kind regards Georgi On 8/25/21 20:02, James D Freels wrote: I have not received a response yet, but I am hoping. What I know: -sound works as root, not as user -snd_oxygen module (required driver for my card) is loaded, but I can't verify what is loading it. no messages in dmesg show it being loaded -since snd_oxygen is loaded, it makes sense that aplay works as root -pulse does not show the sound card, but does show the hdmi audio on my nvidia card, and the microphone on my web cam. Both are muted in pavucontrol -big question: why doesn't sound card get loaded by pulseaudio ? How can I force that -I am now going over every occurrence of a pulseaudio configuration file on my system for a clue Any help appreciated. Is there a good troubleshoot procedure for debian/11/bullseye sound problems ? On 8/24/21 3:05 PM, James D Freels wrote: Hello, I am a long-time debian user, and just recently upgraded my buster amd64 machine to bullseye. Essentially everything works as expected so far. However, one very nagging problem I currently have is that my sound does not work unless I am rooted. For example, if I issue the command aplay bark.au where bark.au is a snippet sound file of a dog barking, it fails. However, if I issue the command sudo aplay bark.au it works fine. Similar sound playing occurs with any sound-playing app. For example mpg123, vlc, etc., all require a sudo or be logged in as root to work. I have looked all around the WWW to try to find a solution to this problem. The most common solution is to make sure that user ids are in the audio group in the /etc/group configuration file. Of course, I have that, and have confirmed it. This is not a brand new installation after all, but an upgrade. Other common remedies I have tried are to fiddle with the pavucontrol and alsamixer settings. My sound card does not show up in the pavucontrol (pulse doesn't find my sound card), but DOES show up in the alsamixer. I have also looked at the debian sound wiki, and other sources to try to fix this problem. Then, I remembered that I often used this form to learn about debian way back in the days when I first started using debian about 1994 or so. Perhaps I can get some expert help. Maybe a source I can go down a list of troubleshoot to nail this one down. It is obviously a permissions issue (I also looked at device permissions, etc.). Just a bit puzzled and frustrated. P.S. BTW, my sound card is a C-Media, Xonor DG with chip set CMI8788 and uses the oxygen HD audio driver. lspci -v output corresponding: 05:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. CMI8786 (Xonar DG) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22, NUMA node 0 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: snd_oxygen Kernel modules:
Re: problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine
Thanks for responding Georgi, I had already tried "alsactl init" earlier based on other advise found on the WWW. However, I did not pay close enough attention because of error messages I get as shown below: alsa-lib main.c:1014:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use case configuration -2 Found hardware: "CMI8786" "CMI8786" "CS4245 CMI8786" "0x1043" "0x8467" Hardware is initialized using a generic method alsa-lib main.c:1014:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:1 use case configuration -2 Found hardware: "USB-Audio" "USB Mixer" "USB046d:082c" "" "" Hardware is initialized using a generic method alsa-lib parser.c:260:(error_node) UCM is not supported for this HDA model (HDA NVidia at 0xfe9fc000 irq 49) alsa-lib main.c:1014:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:2 use case configuration -6 Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Nvidia GPU 51 HDMI/DP" "HDA:10de0051,38422724,00100100" "0x3842" "0x2724" Hardware is initialized using a generic method I cannot find much about this message, nor how to correct it. The alsamixer seems to work fine as expected and indicates I have the sound card active and should hear sound. But, it only provides actual sound if I am root. On 8/25/21 1:28 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Hi James, try to run: # alsactl init as root, reboot and adjust all channels with alsamixer or similar with your (non-root) user. Kind regards Georgi On 8/25/21 20:02, James D Freels wrote: I have not received a response yet, but I am hoping. What I know: -sound works as root, not as user -snd_oxygen module (required driver for my card) is loaded, but I can't verify what is loading it. no messages in dmesg show it being loaded -since snd_oxygen is loaded, it makes sense that aplay works as root -pulse does not show the sound card, but does show the hdmi audio on my nvidia card, and the microphone on my web cam. Both are muted in pavucontrol -big question: why doesn't sound card get loaded by pulseaudio ? How can I force that -I am now going over every occurrence of a pulseaudio configuration file on my system for a clue Any help appreciated. Is there a good troubleshoot procedure for debian/11/bullseye sound problems ? On 8/24/21 3:05 PM, James D Freels wrote: Hello, I am a long-time debian user, and just recently upgraded my buster amd64 machine to bullseye. Essentially everything works as expected so far. However, one very nagging problem I currently have is that my sound does not work unless I am rooted. For example, if I issue the command aplay bark.au where bark.au is a snippet sound file of a dog barking, it fails. However, if I issue the command sudo aplay bark.au it works fine. Similar sound playing occurs with any sound-playing app. For example mpg123, vlc, etc., all require a sudo or be logged in as root to work. I have looked all around the WWW to try to find a solution to this problem. The most common solution is to make sure that user ids are in the audio group in the /etc/group configuration file. Of course, I have that, and have confirmed it. This is not a brand new installation after all, but an upgrade. Other common remedies I have tried are to fiddle with the pavucontrol and alsamixer settings. My sound card does not show up in the pavucontrol (pulse doesn't find my sound card), but DOES show up in the alsamixer. I have also looked at the debian sound wiki, and other sources to try to fix this problem. Then, I remembered that I often used this form to learn about debian way back in the days when I first started using debian about 1994 or so. Perhaps I can get some expert help. Maybe a source I can go down a list of troubleshoot to nail this one down. It is obviously a permissions issue (I also looked at device permissions, etc.). Just a bit puzzled and frustrated. P.S. BTW, my sound card is a C-Media, Xonor DG with chip set CMI8788 and uses the oxygen HD audio driver. lspci -v output corresponding: 05:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. CMI8786 (Xonar DG) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22, NUMA node 0 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: snd_oxygen Kernel modules: snd_oxygen Nothing has changed with the hardware, and I know the setup works. This seems to be a permissions/software issue. -- Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine. Luke 22:42 NLT James D. Freels, Ph.D., P.E. freel...@gmail.com 865-457-6742 (landline) 865-919-0320 (cell)
Re: problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine
I have not received a response yet, but I am hoping. What I know: -sound works as root, not as user -snd_oxygen module (required driver for my card) is loaded, but I can't verify what is loading it. no messages in dmesg show it being loaded -since snd_oxygen is loaded, it makes sense that aplay works as root -pulse does not show the sound card, but does show the hdmi audio on my nvidia card, and the microphone on my web cam. Both are muted in pavucontrol -big question: why doesn't sound card get loaded by pulseaudio ? How can I force that -I am now going over every occurrence of a pulseaudio configuration file on my system for a clue Any help appreciated. Is there a good troubleshoot procedure for debian/11/bullseye sound problems ? On 8/24/21 3:05 PM, James D Freels wrote: Hello, I am a long-time debian user, and just recently upgraded my buster amd64 machine to bullseye. Essentially everything works as expected so far. However, one very nagging problem I currently have is that my sound does not work unless I am rooted. For example, if I issue the command aplay bark.au where bark.au is a snippet sound file of a dog barking, it fails. However, if I issue the command sudo aplay bark.au it works fine. Similar sound playing occurs with any sound-playing app. For example mpg123, vlc, etc., all require a sudo or be logged in as root to work. I have looked all around the WWW to try to find a solution to this problem. The most common solution is to make sure that user ids are in the audio group in the /etc/group configuration file. Of course, I have that, and have confirmed it. This is not a brand new installation after all, but an upgrade. Other common remedies I have tried are to fiddle with the pavucontrol and alsamixer settings. My sound card does not show up in the pavucontrol (pulse doesn't find my sound card), but DOES show up in the alsamixer. I have also looked at the debian sound wiki, and other sources to try to fix this problem. Then, I remembered that I often used this form to learn about debian way back in the days when I first started using debian about 1994 or so. Perhaps I can get some expert help. Maybe a source I can go down a list of troubleshoot to nail this one down. It is obviously a permissions issue (I also looked at device permissions, etc.). Just a bit puzzled and frustrated. P.S. BTW, my sound card is a C-Media, Xonor DG with chip set CMI8788 and uses the oxygen HD audio driver. lspci -v output corresponding: 05:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. CMI8786 (Xonar DG) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22, NUMA node 0 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: snd_oxygen Kernel modules: snd_oxygen Nothing has changed with the hardware, and I know the setup works. This seems to be a permissions/software issue. -- Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine. Luke 22:42 NLT James D. Freels, Ph.D., P.E. freel...@gmail.com 865-457-6742 (landline) 865-919-0320 (cell)
problem with sound for bullseye upgrade on amd64: must be root for sound to work on my machine
Hello, I am a long-time debian user, and just recently upgraded my buster amd64 machine to bullseye. Essentially everything works as expected so far. However, one very nagging problem I currently have is that my sound does not work unless I am rooted. For example, if I issue the command aplay bark.au where bark.au is a snippet sound file of a dog barking, it fails. However, if I issue the command sudo aplay bark.au it works fine. Similar sound playing occurs with any sound-playing app. For example mpg123, vlc, etc., all require a sudo or be logged in as root to work. I have looked all around the WWW to try to find a solution to this problem. The most common solution is to make sure that user ids are in the audio group in the /etc/group configuration file. Of course, I have that, and have confirmed it. This is not a brand new installation after all, but an upgrade. Other common remedies I have tried are to fiddle with the pavucontrol and alsamixer settings. My sound card does not show up in the pavucontrol (pulse doesn't find my sound card), but DOES show up in the alsamixer. I have also looked at the debian sound wiki, and other sources to try to fix this problem. Then, I remembered that I often used this form to learn about debian way back in the days when I first started using debian about 1994 or so. Perhaps I can get some expert help. Maybe a source I can go down a list of troubleshoot to nail this one down. It is obviously a permissions issue (I also looked at device permissions, etc.). Just a bit puzzled and frustrated. P.S. BTW, my sound card is a C-Media, Xonor DG with chip set CMI8788 and uses the oxygen HD audio driver. lspci -v output corresponding: 05:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. CMI8786 (Xonar DG) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22, NUMA node 0 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: snd_oxygen Kernel modules: snd_oxygen Nothing has changed with the hardware, and I know the setup works. This seems to be a permissions/software issue. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D., P.E. freel...@gmail.com 865-457-6742 (landline) 865-919-0320 (cell)
Debian/Etch/4.0 upgrade experience
Essentially flawless ! I have upgraded two i386 and one amd64 machines from sarge to etch. Except for configuration files that I changed myself, it was clean and straight forward. I am VERY impressed. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windmills can't even produce enough energy to manufacture a windmill. -Ann Coulter, 03/01/07. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[Fwd: [connector] comments/questions on evolution, evolution-exchange 2.0.2 (Debian/Sid)]
Forwarded Message From: James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [connector] comments/questions on evolution, evolution-exchange 2.0.2 (Debian/Sid) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:37:06 -0400 I removed my hold on evolution-1.4.6 once evolution-exchange was released into Debian/Sid from experimental. I have the following comments/questions: 1) I was able to interface with the exchange server here and send/receive e-mail. The main change after the upgrade was to change the e-mail user name from uid to domain\uid. 2) secure password did not seem to work. Only the plain-text password worked. Is this a server or client issue ? 3) the exchange-server calendar seemed to work fine as expected 4) the exchange-server global-address-list does NOT seem to work. Does this imply that the openldap-ntlm.diff patch is still required in order for global-address-list to function ? Any chance that this patch will/could get enabled into the Debian packages so that it will work ? 5) The attachment of files during the composer of a new e-mail is very slow. It seems as if the machine is creating an index of the entire hard drive each time a new file is attached ? 6) I don't seem to have the memory-leak problems posted as bug reports in the Debian bug reporting system. That is it for now. I am posting this first before submitting bug reports. ___ Connector mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/connector -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strange error in mozilla-firefox under Debian/Sid
My i386 system running Debian/Sid is using the current mozilla-firefox at version 0.9.3-2. Everything works except at the bottom of the firefox window is a large rectangle covering the entire width of the window. Contained in the lower left of this box (gray background) are the characters: class=t ^ I have disabled about every option (plugins, etc.) and still this shows up. Also every web page including a blank page this shows up. It is such a nuisance, I cannot use it. Anyone else seen this before I file a bug report ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with X-4.3 + flat panels using dvi cables and nvidia graphics card
-in extension XINERAMA (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR (II) Initializing extension GLX (II) Keyboard Digital RT6856T handled by legacy driver (**) Option Protocol ImPS/2 (**) Logitech Trackman Wheel: Protocol: ImPS/2 (**) Option CorePointer (**) Logitech Trackman Wheel: Core Pointer (**) Option Device /dev/mouse (**) Logitech Trackman Wheel: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 (**) Logitech Trackman Wheel: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Logitech Trackman Wheel: Buttons: 5 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Logitech Trackman Wheel (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device NVIDIA Event Handler (type: Other) (II) Logitech Trackman Wheel: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Warning: font renderer for .pcf already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .pcf.Z already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .pcf.gz already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .snf already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .snf.Z already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .snf.gz already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .bdf already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .bdf.Z already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .bdf.gz already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .pmf already registered at priority 0 (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode 1600x1200 SetClientVersion: 0 7 (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode 1600x1200 (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing extension GLX (II) Logitech Trackman Wheel: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded SetClientVersion: 0 7 (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode 1600x1200 (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing extension GLX (II) Logitech Trackman Wheel: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded SetClientVersion: 0 7 (II) 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 162000 GetModeLine - hdsp: 1600 hbeg: 1664 hend: 1856 httl: 2160 vdsp: 1200 vbeg: 1201 vend: 1204 vttl: 1250 flags: 5 GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 162000 GetModeLine - hdsp: 1600 hbeg: 1664 hend: 1856 httl: 2160 vdsp: 1200 vbeg: 1201 vend: 1204 vttl: 1250 flags: 5 GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 162000 GetModeLine - hdsp: 1600 hbeg: 1664 hend: 1856 httl: 2160 vdsp: 1200 vbeg: 1201 vend: 1204 vttl: 1250 flags: 5 SetClientVersion: 0 7 SetGrabKeysState - disabled (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode 1600x1200 SetGrabKeysState - enabled -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IA32 5336 NV driver and SMP Debian/Woody system: unresolved reference to smp_num_cpus
This problem was fixed by disabling the MODVERSIONS option in the kernel configuration and rebuilding the kernel. On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 16:11, James D. Freels wrote: I have a Debian/Woody/Stable system with a NVIDIA XFX FX-5200 card installed in the AGP slot. I am running 2.4.25 in smp mode compiled from source in the /usr/src/linux-2.4.25 directory. A backported top program and other ways reveals that the system is running fine in hyperthreaded mode (simulating 4 processors). I have tried to install the 5336-pkg1 both with the nvidia-installer and with the make install from source. Both ways will not allow the driver to run due to an unresolved reference to smp_num_cpus. I have already tried all the options available to for the installer to recognize the correct source directory. Indeed, the driver compiles correctly, but will not link to the reference (or it is not found on the compile step). Please help fix this problem. Attached is the /var/log/nvidia-installer.log nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Tue Apr 6 15:39:51 2004 option status: license pre-accepted : false update : false force update : false expert : true uninstall : false driver info : false no precompiled interface: false no ncurses color : false query latest driver ver : false OpenGL header files : false no questions : false silent : false XFree86 install prefix : /usr/X11R6 OpenGL install prefix : /usr Installer install prefix: /usr kernel source path : (not specified) kernel install path : (not specified) proc mount point : /proc ui : (not specified) tmpdir : /tmp ftp site : ftp://download.nvidia.com chdir(./) Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface - Searching for system utilities: - found `insmod` : `/sbin/insmod` - found `modprobe` : `/sbin/modprobe` - found `rmmod` : `/sbin/rmmod` - found `lsmod` : `/sbin/lsmod` - found `depmod` : `/sbin/depmod` - found `ldconfig` : `/sbin/ldconfig` - found `ld` : `/usr/bin/ld` - found `objcopy` : `/usr/bin/objcopy` - License accepted. - Kernel module installation path (Answer: '/lib/modules/2.4.25/kernel/drivers/video ') - Kernel module installation path: /lib/modules/2.4.25/kernel/drivers/video - No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: No) - No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface. - Kernel source path (Answer: '/usr/src/linux-2.4.25/ ') - Kernel source path: '/usr/src/linux-2.4.25/' - Performing cc_version_check with CC=cc. - Cleaning kernel module build directory. executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make clean'... rm -f nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o nv-linux.o nv_compiler.h * .d NVdriver nvidia.o - Building kernel module: executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make module SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux-2.4.25/'... echo \#define NV_COMPILER \`cc -v 21 | tail -n 1`\ nv_compiler.h cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wp arentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMO DULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KE RNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=5 336 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -DREMAP_PAGE_ RANGE_4 -I. -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.25//include -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error nv.c In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.25/include/linux/vmalloc.h:8, from nv-linux.h:62, from nv.c:14: /usr/src/linux-2.4.25/include/linux/highmem.h: In function `bh_kmap': /usr/src/linux-2.4.25/include/linux/highmem.h:20: warning: pointer of type ` void *' used in arithmetic cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wp arentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMO DULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KE RNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=5 336 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -DREMAP_PAGE_ RANGE_4 -I. -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.25//include -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error os-a gp.c In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.25/include/linux/vmalloc.h:8, from nv-linux.h:62, from os-agp.c:24: /usr/src/linux-2.4.25/include/linux/highmem.h: In function `bh_kmap': /usr/src/linux-2.4.25/include/linux/highmem.h:20: warning: pointer of type ` void *' used in arithmetic cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wp arentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMO DULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KE RNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=5 336 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86
Re: NVIDIA-installer for 5336 incompatible with Debian/Woody and 2.4.25 kernel
It is turned ON for both kernels. /usr/src/linux-2.4.25# grep APIC .config CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y /usr/src/linux-2.4.25# cd ../linux-2.6.5 /usr/src/linux-2.6.5# grep APIC .config CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:13, Luke Reeves wrote: Do you have local APIC turned on or off in your kernel configuration? Luke Reeves http://www.neuro-tech.net/ James D. Freels wrote: I have a Debian/Woody distribution installed on a new dual-Xeon 4GB system. Works great. Under kernel 2.4.25 (self compiled), SMP-mode, the nvidia-installer fails on unresolved references to smp_num_cpus Under kernel 2.4.25 (self compiled), single-processor mode, the nvidia installer works correctly. Under kernel 2.6.5 (self compiled), SMP-mode, the nvidia installer works correctly. I think there is an incompatibility with the first configuration. Anyone else agree ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVIDIA-installer for 5336 incompatible with Debian/Woody and 2.4.25 kernel
I did not include all details of the bug, but the modules never executes because it can never link due to an unresolved reference to smp_num_cpus from the 2.4.25 kernel. I don't see how the recommendations (shown below) from the NVIDIA docs have anything to do with this problem. I don't have stability problems, I simply cannot event start it up since it won't load at all !! o I/O APIC (SMP) If you are experiencing stability problems with a Linux SMP machine and seeing I/O APIC warning messages from the Linux kernel, system reliability may be greatly improved by setting the noapic kernel parameter. o Local APIC (UP) On some systems, setting the Local APIC Support on Uniprocessors kernel configuration option can have adverse effects on system stability and performance. If you are experiencing lockups with a Linux UP machine and have this option set, try disabling local APIC support. On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 22:06, Luke Reeves wrote: I'd guess that's the problem.. According to the NVidia documents APIC should be disabled since it can cause instability. Luke James D. Freels wrote: It is turned ON for both kernels. /usr/src/linux-2.4.25# grep APIC .config CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y /usr/src/linux-2.4.25# cd ../linux-2.6.5 /usr/src/linux-2.6.5# grep APIC .config CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:13, Luke Reeves wrote: Do you have local APIC turned on or off in your kernel configuration? Luke Reeves http://www.neuro-tech.net/ James D. Freels wrote: I have a Debian/Woody distribution installed on a new dual-Xeon 4GB system. Works great. Under kernel 2.4.25 (self compiled), SMP-mode, the nvidia-installer fails on unresolved references to smp_num_cpus Under kernel 2.4.25 (self compiled), single-processor mode, the nvidia installer works correctly. Under kernel 2.6.5 (self compiled), SMP-mode, the nvidia installer works correctly. I think there is an incompatibility with the first configuration. Anyone else agree ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NVIDIA-installer for 5336 incompatible with Debian/Woody and 2.4.25 kernel
I have a Debian/Woody distribution installed on a new dual-Xeon 4GB system. Works great. Under kernel 2.4.25 (self compiled), SMP-mode, the nvidia-installer fails on unresolved references to smp_num_cpus Under kernel 2.4.25 (self compiled), single-processor mode, the nvidia installer works correctly. Under kernel 2.6.5 (self compiled), SMP-mode, the nvidia installer works correctly. I think there is an incompatibility with the first configuration. Anyone else agree ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble with finding the keyboard
This problem has been somewhat resolved. I have a similar machine with 4GB of memory that required to use the 64GB memory option in the kernel in order to access all 4GB of memory (the 4GB option only accessed 3.2GB of the memory). This new machine also has 4GB of memory. However, the Tyan MB/bios only recognizes 3.4 GB of the memory (the root of the problem IMHO). If I use the 4GB option of the kernel, it recognizes 3.2GB of memory and does not have a keyboard problem. If I use the 64GB option, it recognizes all 4GB of the memory (even though the bios only recognizes 3.4GB), however, the keyboard is not recognized. This is a weird problem that I think is rooted in a buggy bios. I am not going to see if Tyan has a firmware update for this bios. On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 11:34, James D. Freels wrote: Hello Debian Users ! I have a new system that I cannot seem to compile a kernel for and find the keyboard. I know that the keyboard is working because I can use it when operating the bios functions before Linux boots. However, when the kernel (which I have compiled from scratch, see .config attached below) boots, it issues the following messages: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed) keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4) pc_keyb: controller jammed (0x1D) this occurs whether I compile the kernel 2.4.25 with or without SMP enabled. Here is my .config # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # CONFIG_X86=y # CONFIG_SBUS is not set CONFIG_UID16=y # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y # # Processor type and features # # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set # CONFIG_M586MMX is not set # CONFIG_M686 is not set # CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y # CONFIG_MK6 is not set # CONFIG_MK7 is not set # CONFIG_MK8 is not set # CONFIG_MELAN is not set # CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set # CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set # CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y # CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK is not set CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7 CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_PGE=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK=y # CONFIG_X86_MCE is not set # CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set # CONFIG_I8K is not set # CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set # CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set # CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set # CONFIG_EDD is not set # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y CONFIG_X86_PAE=y CONFIG_HIGHIO=y # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_MTRR=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set # CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set # CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set # CONFIG_X86_TSC_DISABLE is not set CONFIG_X86_TSC=y # # General setup # CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_ISA=y CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y # CONFIG_EISA is not set # CONFIG_MCA is not set # CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA is not set # CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set # CONFIG_SYSCTL is not set CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y # CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT is not set CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y # CONFIG_OOM_KILLER is not set # CONFIG_PM is not set # CONFIG_APM is not set # # ACPI Support # # CONFIG_ACPI is not set # # Memory Technology Devices (MTD) # # CONFIG_MTD is not set # # Parallel port support # CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_IP22 is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_1284 is not set # # Plug and Play configuration # CONFIG_PNP=y # CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set # # Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set # CONFIG_PARIDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set # CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE is not set # CONFIG_CISS_MONITOR_THREAD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_STATS is not set # # Multi-device support (RAID and LVM
Re: trouble with finding the keyboard
I interpreted this option as only for USB devices. Is this not so ? On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 11:17, Sayan wrote: James D. Freels wrote: I have a new system that I cannot seem to compile a kernel for and find the keyboard. I know that the keyboard is working because I can use it when operating the bios functions before Linux boots. However, when the kernel (which I have compiled from scratch, see .config attached below) boots, it issues the following messages: # # Input core support # # CONFIG_INPUT is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT is not set maybe you need to enable keyboard in input core -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IA32 5336 NV driver and SMP Debian/Woody system: unresolved reference to smp_num_cpus
/linux-2.4.25/include/linux/highmem.h:20: warning: pointer of type ` void *' used in arithmetic cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wp arentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMO DULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KE RNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=5 336 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -DREMAP_PAGE_ RANGE_4 -I. -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.25//include -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error os-r egistry.c In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.25/include/linux/vmalloc.h:8, from nv-linux.h:62, from os-registry.c:14: /usr/src/linux-2.4.25/include/linux/highmem.h: In function `bh_kmap': /usr/src/linux-2.4.25/include/linux/highmem.h:20: warning: pointer of type ` void *' used in arithmetic ld -r -o nv-linux.o nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o ld -r -o nvidia.o nv-linux.o nv-kernel.o - done. - Kernel module compilation complete. executing: '/sbin/insmod ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o silence_nvidia_output=1'... ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol smp_call_function ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol smp_num_cpus ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license and it has unresolved symbols. Contact the module supplier for assistance, only they can help you. ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.o'. This is most likely because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' commandline option. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trouble with finding the keyboard
# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set # CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS is not set # CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS is not set # CONFIG_QNX4FS_RW is not set # CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y # CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set CONFIG_UDF_FS=y # CONFIG_UDF_RW is not set # CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set # CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA is not set # CONFIG_XFS_RT is not set # CONFIG_XFS_TRACE is not set # CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is not set # # Network File Systems # # CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set # CONFIG_INTERMEZZO_FS is not set CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_V3=y # CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO is not set # CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is not set CONFIG_NFSD=y CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y # CONFIG_NFSD_TCP is not set CONFIG_SUNRPC=y CONFIG_LOCKD=y CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y CONFIG_SMB_FS=y CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT=y CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE=cp437 CONFIG_SMB_UNIX=y # CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set # CONFIG_NCPFS_PACKET_SIGNING is not set # CONFIG_NCPFS_IOCTL_LOCKING is not set # CONFIG_NCPFS_STRONG is not set # CONFIG_NCPFS_NFS_NS is not set # CONFIG_NCPFS_OS2_NS is not set # CONFIG_NCPFS_SMALLDOS is not set # CONFIG_NCPFS_NLS is not set # CONFIG_NCPFS_EXTRAS is not set CONFIG_ZISOFS_FS=y # # Partition Types # # CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED is not set CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y CONFIG_SMB_NLS=y CONFIG_NLS=y # # Native Language Support # CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT=cp437 CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1250 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1251 is not set CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_13 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set # CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U is not set # CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 is not set # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT is not set # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set # # Frame-buffer support # # CONFIG_FB is not set # # Sound # # CONFIG_SOUND is not set # # USB support # # CONFIG_USB is not set # # Support for USB gadgets # # CONFIG_USB_GADGET is not set # # Bluetooth support # # CONFIG_BLUEZ is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not set CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=0 # # Cryptographic options # # CONFIG_CRYPTO is not set # # Library routines # # CONFIG_CRC32 is not set CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y # CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE is not set -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble with finding the keyboard
It is a PS/2 keyboard. On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:02, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, James D. Freels wrote: Hello Debian Users ! I have a new system that I cannot seem to compile a kernel for and find the keyboard. I know that the keyboard is working because I can use it when operating the bios functions before Linux boots. However, when the kernel (which I have compiled from scratch, see .config attached below) boots, it issues the following messages: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed) keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4) pc_keyb: controller jammed (0x1D) this occurs whether I compile the kernel 2.4.25 with or without SMP enabled. Here is my .config snip first, what kind of keyboard is it? AT, PS/2 or USB? Greetz, Sebas -- English written by Dutch people is easily recognized by the improper use of 'In principle ...' The software box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux. Als Pacman in de jaren '80 de kinderen zo had be?nvloed zouden nu veel jongeren rondrennen in donkere zalen terwijl ze pillen eten en luisteren naar monotone electronische muziek. (Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, 1989) -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble with finding the keyboard
I have a previously-compiled SMP kernel that indeed does find the keyboard. However, I modified the .config file to include the additional memory and other features not present in the previous kernel and now this new kernel cannot find the keyboard. I do not have the .config file from this previously-compiled kernel. --frustrating... On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:33, James D. Freels wrote: It is a PS/2 keyboard. On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:02, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, James D. Freels wrote: Hello Debian Users ! I have a new system that I cannot seem to compile a kernel for and find the keyboard. I know that the keyboard is working because I can use it when operating the bios functions before Linux boots. However, when the kernel (which I have compiled from scratch, see .config attached below) boots, it issues the following messages: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed) keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4) pc_keyb: controller jammed (0x1D) this occurs whether I compile the kernel 2.4.25 with or without SMP enabled. Here is my .config snip first, what kind of keyboard is it? AT, PS/2 or USB? Greetz, Sebas -- English written by Dutch people is easily recognized by the improper use of 'In principle ...' The software box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux. Als Pacman in de jaren '80 de kinderen zo had be?nvloed zouden nu veel jongeren rondrennen in donkere zalen terwijl ze pillen eten en luisteren naar monotone electronische muziek. (Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, 1989) -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble with finding the keyboard
New information. I downgraded to the previous config file at version 2.4.24 of the kernel, then started from scratch adding one feature at a time. Then I enabled the 64GB high mem feature of the kernel, a viola !, the keyboard quites working. All 4GB of memory is recognized from Linux. Going back to the BIOS, only 3GB of the 4GB of memory is recognized by the bios. Still debugging... On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 14:03, James D. Freels wrote: I have a previously-compiled SMP kernel that indeed does find the keyboard. However, I modified the .config file to include the additional memory and other features not present in the previous kernel and now this new kernel cannot find the keyboard. I do not have the .config file from this previously-compiled kernel. --frustrating... On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:33, James D. Freels wrote: It is a PS/2 keyboard. On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:02, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, James D. Freels wrote: Hello Debian Users ! I have a new system that I cannot seem to compile a kernel for and find the keyboard. I know that the keyboard is working because I can use it when operating the bios functions before Linux boots. However, when the kernel (which I have compiled from scratch, see .config attached below) boots, it issues the following messages: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed) keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4) pc_keyb: controller jammed (0x1D) this occurs whether I compile the kernel 2.4.25 with or without SMP enabled. Here is my .config snip first, what kind of keyboard is it? AT, PS/2 or USB? Greetz, Sebas -- English written by Dutch people is easily recognized by the improper use of 'In principle ...' The software box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux. Als Pacman in de jaren '80 de kinderen zo had be?nvloed zouden nu veel jongeren rondrennen in donkere zalen terwijl ze pillen eten en luisteren naar monotone electronische muziek. (Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, 1989) -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mozilla-firebird bookmarks import: howto ?
I have an html file containing collected bookmarks from opera. I want to import them into mozilla-firebird. I use manage bookmarks-import-opera6.html. However, they do not appear and are not saved. I can view the opera6.html file just fine within the browser. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strange behavior with keys and virtual windows
I am cross-posting this to debian-kde because it appears to be a kde problem, but I am not sure. From a konsole window, when I hit the up arrow to retrieve the previous bash command, then hit return, it takes me to another virtual window from the one I am working in. When I go back to the virtual window containing the prior konsole session, everything worked as it should following the return. If I issue new commands and do not use the up arrow, then hit return, it works as it should...staying in the same virtual window. Has anyone had similar problem ? How does one fix such a thing ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?
Does this not require installing some additional software other than what normally is installed with WindowsXP, Linux w/KDE, or Linux w/Gnome ? On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 10:00, Wetherington Jr, G. Randall wrote: Here are some links, some of which have tools for generating directory tree prints from Windows. RW -Original Message- From: Lindsley, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:56 AM To: Freels, James D.; ORNL Linux Users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Victor R. Cain Subject: RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ? The following article looks promising for windows. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;272623; There seem to be lots of other options based on this google search: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclientie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=prin t+directory+listing+from+windows+explorer Maybe a similar search for a specific linux desktop might give you good results. See ya', Chris -Original Message- From: Freels, James D. Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:08 PM To: ORNL Linux Users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Victor R. Cain Subject: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ? Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? The only way I could find was to save a bit map to the clipboard, then paste the clipboard contents into another application, then print. Any other ideas ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?
Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? The only way I could find was to save a bit map to the clipboard, then paste the clipboard contents into another application, then print. Any other ideas ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?
I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have copied these files (found by ldd on wordperfect executable) form a working Woody system, but libc comes first in the library search. If I place all the files in /usr/local/lib, then export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib, it picks up all but libc. Here is the present ldd fea::/home/fea/tmp/: ldd /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4001e000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4006f000) libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40136000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40145000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4014e000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4020b000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40214000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4022b000) libdl.so.2 = /usr/local/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40359000) ld-linux.so.2 = /usr/local/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4035c000) /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol '_rtld_global' I would like to set up a wrapper script that sets up these variables temporarily just to run wordperfect. How do I do that ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
evolution import kmail files ?
I am experimenting with evolution. Previously, I have exclusively used kmail. Is there a way to import existing kmail folders into evolution ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ximian dropping Debian ?
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:52:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 Cc: Victor Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: RO X-Status: Q X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: X-KMail-MDN-Sent: I was talking with an Ximian sales person about how to purchase Ximian Connector 1.4. I need this product at my work place in order to interface with the corporate e-mail/calendar server M$ Outlook Exchange. I also had need Evolution 1.4 in order to use the companion Connector product. Both of these products are available for download from Ximian, but not in Debian packages. This sales person stated something to the effect that starting with v1.4, Ximian would no longer support Debian. Further, their products would no longer run on Debian systems no matter how I hacked them with alien, etc. He also tried to explain this new policy as something to do with corporate America, etc. Can anyone confirm this ? This makes no sense to me. First, why would Ximian cut off Debian ? Debian is a strong supporter of gnome which Ximian depends on. Second, how could the product not work anyway provided all the supporting Linux libraries were also loaded ? Do they have some type of check to see if I am running RedHat before Connector will run ? Confused... -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] mplayer -cache 100 http://wdvx.microcerv.net/wdvx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian/Sid system no longer able to execute WordPerfect
I have a current Debian/Sid system. Included in this system is an installation of Corel-WordPerfect-8.0f for Linux. When I attempt to run this application at present, I instally receive the error message: fea::/home/fea/: wp /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' A check with ldd reveals the following to confirm the error message: ldd /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp libXt.so.6 = not found libX11.so.6 = not found libXpm.so.4 = not found libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4001e000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40027000) /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'objectClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'wmShellWidgetClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'constraintWidgetClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol '_XtInheritTranslations' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'rectObjClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'widgetClassRec' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'XtShellStrings' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'overrideShellWidgetClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'overrideShellClassRec' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'transientShellClassRec' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'objectClassRec' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'constraintClassRec' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'applicationShellClassRec' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'topLevelShellWidgetClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'applicationShellWidgetClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'coreWidgetClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'widgetClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'wmShellClassRec' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'transientShellWidgetClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'compositeWidgetClass' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'XtStrings' /commercial/wordperfect8.0/wpbin/xwp: can't resolve symbol 'rectObjClassRec' /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 is installed from the xlibs package which is presently at 4.3.0-0ds4. Does anyone else have this problem and have you fixed it ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
need help on using acpi for power management
Hello All ! I have been fortunate enough for my employer to have acquired me a new machine on which I naturally am running Debian/Sid. All goes quite well, but I do not have the acpi features of the motherboard working. The motherboard is an Intel SE7500CW2 housing dual Xeon 2.4Ghz processors. Yes, it is a fine machine indeed. I have the kernel 2.4.20 compiled with ACPI. According to the motherboard docs, acpi is always present. However, the bios has very little option with respect to power (there is a power button enable/disabled switch). I want Linux to be able to: 1) on complete shutdown, power down the machine 2) enable standby or shutdown mode of various components (monitor, drives, etc.) 3) generally experiment with ACPI Where can I go to get help on this ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help on using acpi for power management
Never mind here. I discovered my newly compiled kernel was not getting liloed correctly. All is well now! On Thursday 13 February 2003 14:38, James D. Freels wrote: Hello All ! I have been fortunate enough for my employer to have acquired me a new machine on which I naturally am running Debian/Sid. All goes quite well, but I do not have the acpi features of the motherboard working. The motherboard is an Intel SE7500CW2 housing dual Xeon 2.4Ghz processors. Yes, it is a fine machine indeed. I have the kernel 2.4.20 compiled with ACPI. According to the motherboard docs, acpi is always present. However, the bios has very little option with respect to power (there is a power button enable/disabled switch). I want Linux to be able to: 1) on complete shutdown, power down the machine 2) enable standby or shutdown mode of various components (monitor, drives, etc.) 3) generally experiment with ACPI Where can I go to get help on this ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new trouble printing from current Debian/Sid system
This may be related to recent upgrades on the Sid packages. As recently as Tuesday, 01/28/03, this machine was printing just fine. Now however, I cannot even get a wake up from the printer. The printer is a usb interface, Lexmark z23 hanging off /dev/usb/lp0. I use lprng and have a current debian/sid system. The print queue shows a single job active in the queue, but nothing is coming out. A typical queue output looks like Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 13:53:50.639 Status: subserver pid 1605 starting at 13:53:50.643 Status: accounting at start at 13:53:50.643 Status: opening device '/dev/usb/lp0' at 13:53:50.643 Status: cannot open '/dev/usb/lp0' - 'Device or resource busy', attempt 1, sleeping 10 at 13:53:50.644 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time active root@pcp483125pcs+603A 603 /root/y.txt 2335 3:53:50 I have tried clearing the queue, start and stop lprng, rebooting, turning off the printer, etc. I suspect some type of recent security fix prevents use of the port. Or something in the new libraries has caused the port to appear busy when it is really not busy at all. I also should mention another message related to this problem. I am not sure what process is submitting this message, but it appears to be from the lexmarkz23 filter/driver called by lprng to process the job: Jan 31 13:54:00 pcp483125pcs (Server)[1604]: lexmarkz33: Update_status: no identifier for 'hfA603' Need help.. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
log file size due to unwanted messages
Hello, I am seeking help due to the subject matter. Specifically, I get a message in /var/log/auth.log for each minute tick when cron runs. I also get an entry in /var/log/daemon.log for each hit off the ypbind network protocol that I do not even use (we have a busy network with lots of protocols). In addition, I get no-never-mind messages in my samba log files even though debug level = 0 is set. All these combined are causing large files in my /var/log directory. I would like to reduce these sizes and rid myself of so many unnecessary messages. I have seen tools for looking at large log files, but I just want to not have them in the first place. Please respond via e-mail. Any help appreciated... -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
open URL link to Mozilla from Kmail ?
By default, the Debian-KDE packages open konqueror when a kmail message containing a URL is clicked with the mouse. How can I change this default so that Mozilla is opened instead ? Better yet, how can I just use the existing Mozilla window for that ? Currently I copy the link to clipboard, then change to the Mozilla window and manually insert the URL and open. This is not convenient ! Please respond by e-mail if possible. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] mpg123 http://scastsrv2.shoutcast.com:8048/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
samba messages: what do they mean ?
Have have the messages below sent to my /var/log/samba.log file quite frequently. I do not understand what they mean. I was hoping to find a way to eliminate this and/or correct any configuration problems I have. thanks... [2002/05/20 07:35:10, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(500) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer [2002/05/20 08:09:33, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(500) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer [2002/05/20 08:44:42, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(500) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer [2002/05/20 09:20:17, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(500) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer [2002/05/20 09:54:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(500) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer [2002/05/20 10:31:20, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(500) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer [2002/05/20 12:23:30, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(500) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: middle mouse button = double click ?
--- Forwarded message (begin) Subject: middle mouse button = double click ? From: James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:31:27 -0500 Is it possible to do this in KDE ? -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home Secret source code can be an essential facility the equal of putting a combination lock on every bolt in a car, and then declaring the combination to be a trade secret. -Hans Reiser, January 30, 2002
strange font problem in kde-2.2.2: can't change fixed-width fonts
I am using a current Debian/Sid. With or without anti-aliasing fonts enabled, I cannot change fixed-width fonts from the control center. When I click choose in that category of the control center-look and feel-fonts, the screen garbles up, and will not allow me to do anything from the console (no crtl-alt-backspace, no crtl-alt-f1, etc.). I must ssh in from another machine and reboot with the shutdown -r command; then I get the same configuration back. I can change the variable-width fonts just fine. I can also change to anti-aliasing fonts if I have an eligible font chosen beforehand. How can I clear up my fixed-width option ?
NO ANSWER, trying again...annoying console message: lp0: compatibility mode
I got no response. Anyone know about this one ? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: annoying console message: lp0: compatibility mode Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:30:41 -0500 From: James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org The present kernel (2.4.17) prints an annoying message to the console each time my parallel port printer is used: lp0: compatibility mode I have found where it is printed in drivers/char/lp.c and I suppose I could comment it out. Isn't there a better way ? ---
annoying console message: lp0: compatibility mode
The present kernel (2.4.17) prints an annoying message to the console each time my parallel port printer is used: lp0: compatibility mode I have found where it is printed in drivers/char/lp.c and I suppose I could comment it out. Isn't there a better way ?
Netscape6.2/Mozilla0.9.5 broken for Debian/Sid
I also utilize the KDE 2.2.1 windowing environment which may have contributed to this problem. After an upgrade in Sid today (11/16/01), both packages fail X-windows/KDE hard and I receive back the linux console. I have attached the X-windows output for both failures (NS and mozilla). I suspect java-related issues, but I am certainly not sure. Both packages are slow on my system anyway. Netscape 4.79 was announced today, so I installed this (and remembered how much faster it should be). -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: xx August 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Fri Nov 16 09:59:34 2001 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout Default Layout (**) |--Screen fea (0) (**) | |--Monitor NEC MultiSync 6FGp (**) | |--Device SIIG Aurora AGP32-GeForece2 MX (**) |--Input Device Digital RT6856T (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) XKB: model: pc104 (**) XKB: layout: us (**) |--Input Device Logitech Trackman Marble (**) FontPath set to unix/:7101,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/winders/,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/winders/Corel/,/usr/share/fonts/wprequired/,/usr/share/fonts/userfonts/ (==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) using VT number 7 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) NVidia GeForce2 MX rev 161, Mem @ 0xd100/24, 0xf000/27 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.1541 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libpex5.a (II) Module pex5: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.13.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a (II) Module xie: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.1.9 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a (II) Module speedo: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a (II) Module vbe: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation
Netscape 6.2/Mozille 0.9.5 now fails in Debian/Sid
I have a current Debian/Sid system with KDE 2.2.1 installed. An update today caused both Netscape 6.2 and Mozilla 0.9.5 to fail. The failure i causes X-windows to come to a complete halt and revert back to the Linux console. I noticed Netscape 4.79 was released today, so I installed this and am no longer using Mozilla until such time as the problem is corrected. I am attaching the errors printed to the console when this happened. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: xx August 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Fri Nov 16 09:59:34 2001 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout Default Layout (**) |--Screen fea (0) (**) | |--Monitor NEC MultiSync 6FGp (**) | |--Device SIIG Aurora AGP32-GeForece2 MX (**) |--Input Device Digital RT6856T (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) XKB: model: pc104 (**) XKB: layout: us (**) |--Input Device Logitech Trackman Marble (**) FontPath set to unix/:7101,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/winders/,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/winders/Corel/,/usr/share/fonts/wprequired/,/usr/share/fonts/userfonts/ (==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) using VT number 7 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) NVidia GeForce2 MX rev 161, Mem @ 0xd100/24, 0xf000/27 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.1541 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libpex5.a (II) Module pex5: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.13.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a (II) Module xie: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.1.9 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a (II) Module speedo: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a (II) Module vbe: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.1541 (II) Loading
Re: Wordperfect 8 now is broken for current Debian/Sid
Dear Kevin: Thank you very much. This fixed the problem. It is because of folks like you that make Linux such a pleasure to use! It seems a bug report for xlib6 is on order. Has one been submitted. I would be happy to do so it need be. On Wednesday 14 November 2001 04:07 am, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: I just saw your email and realized that I had the same problem. After some playing with strace, here is a fix that doesn't involve downgrading! The problem is due to the new version (3.3.6-39) of xlib6. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
Wordperfect 8 now is broken for current Debian/Sid
A recent upgrade (yesterday, 11/12/01) caused Wordperfect 8 (Linux native version, commercial license), to break on my system. The symptom is simply segmentation fault. I have tried to correct with a clean install of Wordperfect 8 from the CD and no luck. Anyone else with a similar problem? Any fixes ? -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?
Mariusz: Thanks, this corrected the problem. Now it seems that a bug-report should be filed. But which package is at fault? xfonts-base was not a package that got upgraded. So, an update from one of yesterday's changes caused the fonts directories to get wiped. an update-fonts-alias (as suggested by Nick) perhaps needs to be called from one of the other package updates... On Monday 12 November 2001 01:41 pm, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:35, fea wrote: I currently use Debian/Sid/Unstable primarily in order to use KDE 2.2.x (yes I know I deserve this, but it is so hard to resist). Most of the time things are stable. However, an upgrade today broke X for me. I have seen a couple of other folks with a similar problem, but no solutions posted; hence, this attempt. The error message near the tail of /var/log/XFree86.0.log: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Any help appreciated. Ty reinstall xfont-base package. It helped in my case (I noticed the same error exactly) but I have no idead why. Mariusz -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
v2.4.14 kernel compile problem
I have just tried to compile a clean source (without any patches) of v2.4.14. I did a straight make oldconfig of a working v2.4.13 .config. I get the following error message at that last part of the make bzImage when it is creating the final kernel image: ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --start-group \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \ drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/char/agp/agp.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o \ net/network.o \ /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \ --end-group \ -o vmlinux drivers/block/block.o: In function `lo_send': drivers/block/block.o(.text+0x894f): undefined reference to `deactivate_page' drivers/block/block.o(.text+0x8999): undefined reference to `deactivate_page' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 I suspect others will have the same problem. Any idea of a fix? Please respond by email to either [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
need help! dpkg corrupted!
I have a major problem with my Debian/Testing/Alpha system. In the process of updating my system today via apt-get, apparently dpkg segfaulted. Apparently due to this segfault, my dpkg-dependent files are corrupt. For example, if I issue dpkg -l, I get an empty response. If I issue a manual dpkg command on an individual package, I get a response such as fea6:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i zip_2.30-3_alpha.deb (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking zip (from zip_2.30-3_alpha.deb) ... dpkg: error processing zip_2.30-3_alpha.deb (--install): unable to create updated files list file for package zip: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: zip_2.30-3_alpha.deb fea6:/var/cache/apt/archives# This is a major problem that I do not know how to fix. How do I fix this? Help is appreciated! -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
my dpkg problem fixed!
Well, I fixed the problem. I don't know why, but it is fixed. I found v1.6.15 of dpkg for the alpha. I manually extracted this file using dpkg-deb -X. I then used the executable from this package to fix the corrupted system using ./dpkg -i for the remaining packages from my update. I also updated dpkg to v1.9.17. Things seem fine now. Wow! Was that scary! I have a major problem with my Debian/Testing/Alpha system. In the process of updating my system today via apt-get, apparently dpkg segfaulted. Apparently due to this segfault, my dpkg-dependent files are corrupt. For example, if I issue dpkg -l, I get an empty response. If I issue a manual dpkg command on an individual package, I get a response such as fea6:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i zip_2.30-3_alpha.deb (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking zip (from zip_2.30-3_alpha.deb) ... dpkg: error processing zip_2.30-3_alpha.deb (--install): unable to create updated files list file for package zip: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: zip_2.30-3_alpha.deb fea6:/var/cache/apt/archives# This is a major problem that I do not know how to fix. How do I fix this? Help is appreciated! -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
Re: [Alsa-user] Re: trouble with Quake3+ALSA+debian: try #2
I got some help on this problem. It was fixed by downgrading to 0.5.11 of the drivers and 0.510 of the libs utils. Therefore, the 0.9beta has a bug for the via686a drivers. On Friday 17 August 2001 01:21 pm, James D. Freels wrote: -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
Re: trouble with Quake3+ALSA+debian: try #2
Try this again. I have also added some additional information to the end. On Thursday 16 August 2001 01:20 pm, James D. Freels wrote: We have a fairly stock Debian/testing system. Layered over this is the 0.9.0beta6 ALSA packages (driver,lib,utils) and Quake3 Arena. We also have a via686a sound card built on an Aopen-63k-pro motherboard. The sound for all applications (xmms, kscd, realplay, etc.) works as expected except for Quake3. I have read about the problems with Quake in this newsgroup, but I would like to ask again for current knowledge. We receive the message that it cannot find the /dev/dsp device. This is strange because all the required modules are loaded and seem to be working as they should. Does anyone know what can be done to correct this problem? I have attached the relevant configuration files. Also, is 0.9.0beta6 more current than 0.5.11 ? # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a #, and everything on the line after them are ignored. NVdriver # for alsa-sound soundcore snd-card-via686a snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss # /etc/modutils/sound: entry in /etc/modules.conf # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a options snd-card-interwave snd_index-0 snd_id=82C686A # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Output from lsmod showing modules loaded, but not playing Quake3 sound: lsmod Module Size Used by snd-seq-midi4624 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26880 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3296 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq46752 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss47024 0 snd-mixer-oss 11216 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-via686a7632 0 snd-pcm58688 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-card-via686a] snd-timer 11472 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 3744 0 [snd-card-via686a] snd-rawmidi14304 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4592 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 24176 0 [snd-card-via686a] snd34464 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-card-via686a snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 4080 6 [snd] NVdriver 655424 0 Output of cat /proc/asound/sndstat Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.0beta6 emulation code) Kernel: Linux jackal 2.4.8 #8 Tue Aug 14 23:18:54 EDT 2001 i686 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation Card config: VIA 82C686A/B at 0xdc00, irq 5 Audio devices: 0: VIA 82C686A (DUPLEX) Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: 0: MPU-401 (UART) Timers: 7: system timer Mixers: 0: mixer00 -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
trouble with Quake3+ALSA+debian
We have a fairly stock Debian/testing system. Layered over this is the 0.9.0beta6 ALSA packages (driver,lib,utils) and Quake3 Arena. We also have a via686a sound card built on an Aopen-63k-pro motherboard. The sound for all applications (xmms, kscd, realplay, etc.) works as expected except for Quake3. I have read about the problems with Quake in this newsgroup, but I would like to ask again for current knowledge. We receive the message that it cannot find the /dev/dsp device. This is strange because all the required modules are loaded and seem to be working as they should. Does anyone know what can be done to correct this problem? I have attached the relevant configuration files. Also, is 0.9.0beta6 more current than 0.5.11 ? # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a #, and everything on the line after them are ignored. NVdriver # for alsa-sound soundcore snd-card-via686a snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss # /etc/modutils/sound: entry in /etc/modules.conf # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a options snd-card-interwave snd_index-0 snd_id=82C686A # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
bug #102226 regarding Samba: some good news !!
Dear Eloy Paris: First of all, thank you for maintaining Samba for all of us on Debian. Second, I filed the subject bug report and I am happy to report that the problem has been resolved, but not how we might want. Basically, with the newest version out of unstable, it compiled this time under Alpha/Potato (prior version in unstable would not compile). I have installed the resulting .debs, and everything is working fine. Indeed, I think I will compile this package from unstable for my Intel/Potato machines. For those Potato users who have never done this, it is simple as follows (as root) 1) add the following entry into /etc/apt/sources.list deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free 2) issue apt-get update to enable this new entry 3) issue apt-get -b source samba to download and compile the samba packages (go take a break or do something else for a few minutes...it will be a while) 4) issue dpkg -i *.deb making sure no other .deb are in the local area. You will have installed 2.2.0.final.a-1 (at this point in time) packages for samba, samba-common, samba-doc, smbclient, smbfs, and swat from this compile. That is it! P.S. My recommendation to resolve the bug: Don't bother to fix it, just install the newer version into Potato! -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
beowulf ? Fwd: before bug report: perhaps I can get help here
debian-beowulf appears to have very little activity. Perhaps I can get some help here? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: before bug report: perhaps I can get help here Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:19:42 -0400 From: James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-beowulf@lists.debian.org I have a set of 4 debian machines: 2 are intel, 2 are alpha. One of the intels (which would be the master machine) runs the unstable (woody) version, the other three run stable (potato) version. All machines have the 6.3.2 version of lam2, lam2-dev, and lam-runtime installed. The stable machines are at -3, while the unstable are at -11. lamboot runs fine and verifies all 4 machines to be running the lamd deamon and ready to execute. I have tried two simple test problems, both of which have the same problem. The first is the standard hello.f modified to use mpi to return the hello message from the remote machines. This program (hello) has run successfully on a production parallel environment so I have confidence it is not the problem. The second problem is the trivial.f program included in the lam2-dev examples tree. Both hello and trivial have the same problem, so I seek help here in this mailing list. When compiled, I get the following warning messages: make /usr/lib/lam/bin/hf77 -O -o trivialf trivial.f /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/libg2c.a(open.o): In function `f_open': open.o(.text+0x647): the use of `tempnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' However, it does produce an executable. So, when executed, I get the following error message: mpirun trivialf mpirun: cannot parse: Exec format error Since the only thing these programs do is write a message to the screen, I suspect an incompatibility between the lam packages and the current gcc compiler under woody. However, I hesitate to file a bug report until I get feedback from here. Thanks for help.. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home --- -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
problem with remote stty and remote login
When I perform a remote login using rsh or ssh to some of my Debian/Linux machines (but not all), I get the following error message to the console: stty: standard input: Invalid argument How can I fix the machine configuration so that it does not have this problem and the error message will not occur ? -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
Debian/Sid no longer breaks my StarOffice 5.2
I have no idea what fixed the problem. Of course, there have been a number of package updates since 04/11/01 when I originally posted a problem with StarOffice 5.2 on my system. Nevertheless, the problem seems to be fixed now. I can modify my existing StartOffice documents without a problem under the present unstable release of Debian. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
Debian/Woody broke StarOffice 5.2
It is the only application, commercial or otherwise, that I have found that does not work for me under Debian/Woody. I suspect it needs an older library that got overridden. Does anyone have, or know where to get, a dependency listing for StarOffice 5.2. I also tried installing a recent snapshot binary of openoffice and it also failed. I supose I could build openoffice from source at last resort, but I am trying to avoid. The main thing I need StarOffice for is to read M$-Word .doc files. Abiword can do some of them, but not all, nor as well, as StarOffice. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
Re: on upgrading to testing
The main reason I am considering going with the unstable version is to get the AA fonts in KDE 2.1. I did a apt-get -d install kde-base after enabling the unstable tree and hitting an apt-get update. What I found was most of the development packages as I expected like libc, gcc, etc. However, there also was the perl packages which have been reported as very buggy. I can't deal with that. What is the status of these packages now. Like you , my system must be functional at work. I don't use anything else. There have been some issues. Bugs crop up. I can't remember the last bug which actually caused me grief. I think it must have been the libfreetype6 one for AA fonts in KDE. But I have been running non-AA KDE for months now. I am currently having a problem with xlibs not getting installed, but it isn't hosing my system. I think (hope?) that the days of broken bash, and no more /dev are over. I will only use Debian unstable from now on. Any other Debian becomes more and more unmaintained as time passes. I can't deal with that. This is my work laptop, and even though it _must_ work all the time, I am quite fine with testing/unstable. rob -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
on upgrading to testing
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I am not currently subscribing to the list(s). I am looking for an honest opinion. I currently am a Debian 2.2.r2 (with several extensions) user. Because of several circumstances among which are: 1) I manually installed Xfree86-4.0.2 over the stable version to get access to the 3D capabilities--running fine 2) I installed KDE2.1 from Ivan via his potato archives at kde.tdyc.com--running fine 3) kde.tdyc.com is now gone so Ivan has no where to upgrade that tree for us stable users--Ivan has gone far and beyond what most people would have put up with this. I could live with, but for a desire to keep kde 2.1 bug-fixes current via apt-get. 4) I just found out over the web how to use anti-aliasing fonts under kde 2.1 and I would very much like to do that--neat stuff!! 5) I have everything I need to use the anti-aliasing features except the potato version of kde2.1 is not compiled to handle it.-- :-( I understand though! So, to get what I want, I can either 1) bite the bullet and upgrade to 'testing' and install the kde 2.1 packages that have anti-aliasing capability compiled in, or 2) try to build the kde 2.1 packages from source like some have done I really would rather go with option 1. My only concern is the stability, etc. What has been the experience of those who are now running 'testing' ?? And I will listen. Please e-mail responses directly if possible. Thanks... P.S. do I need 'testing' or 'unstable' ? If 'unstable', I will hold. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
problems upgrading to 2.2r1
Most packages have upgraded fine. However, because modutils will not upgrade correctly, a few packages are not upgrading. Has anyone else had problems upgrading modutils? Please find the error messages shown below. Ny idea how to fix? I am running kernel 2.2.17 and do not use kerneld demon. # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/modutils_2.3.11-11_i386.deb (Reading database ... 107566 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace modutils 2.3.11-10 (using .../modutils_2.3.11-11_i386.deb) ... Saving KDOPT setting from /etc/init.d/kerneld .. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/modutils_2.3.11-11_i386.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/modutils_2.3.11-11_i386.deb -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
netatalk printing problem: need help!
I have installed the netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1.3-6 from Debian/Linux 2.2 (frozen). I am almost there getting a HP LaserJet IV PS+ to print over appletalk network on my Linux bos, but am still having some problems. The papstatus shows that the printer is found and working OK. I get the following error message(s) when trying to print over appletalk: Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7151]: child 7364 for J. D. Freels HP LaserJet IV from 5224.41 Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7364]: lp_init: lock: No such file or directory Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7364]: lp_open failed Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7151]: child 7364 done How do I fix this problem. The printer works find over local, tcp/ip, and samba as a PS printer. Do I need to specify a .ppd file at this machine? I thought that that was taken care of at the Apple machine? Help... -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!
In the recent potato update of the X packages from 3.3.6-7 to 3.3.6-8, it caused it to quit working. I will file a bug report if not fixed right away. The error messages on startup are: X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. This occurs on both Intel and Alpha, and on 3 different graphics cards. I suspect a file protection problem since most of the changes appeared to be security related. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!! a work-around fix
The fix as recommended by several folks is to rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix I trust this information is being passed on to the developers without a formal bug report. Thanks to all for responding!! -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
new legacy Yamaha PCI module in 2.2.16 kernel won't link??
I have recently upgraded my kernel to the new stable version 2.2.16. I noticed the new kernel has new support for legacy Yamaha PCI sound, so I thought I would give it a try. There is very little documentation (only the comments in the driver code). I enable the driver in the configuration, and disabled my sound blaster support. I have a flacky SB16pro card and an on-board Yamaha 740 chip in the Intel 440bx mother board. So the goal is to switch to the onboard chip without having to purchase the OSS drivers outside the open source of the kernel. When I try an build the kernel, all goes well until the end when an undefined reference is found with the error message below. The ymf_sb.c modules compiles fine and is loaded in the sound.a library. So why won't it link? drivers/sound/sound.a(sound_core.o): In function `soundcore_init': sound_core.o(.text+0x3e5): undefined reference to `init_ymf7xxsb_module' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
Re: new legacy Yamaha PCI module in 2.2.16 kernel won't link??
Alan Cox sent a message that it needed to be compiled as a module. This did correct the problem. Now I need the modules parameters to define the resources. What are they for this card? Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 14:07:27 -0400 From: Jonathan Paul Cowherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i undefined reference is found with the error message below. The ymf_sb.c modules compiles fine and is loaded in the sound.a library. So why won't it link? drivers/sound/sound.a(sound_core.o): In function `soundcore_init': sound_core.o(.text+0x3e5): undefined reference to `init_ymf7xxsb_module' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Oops. Thats a bug. Build it modular I'll squash that in .17 What would cause a undefined reference to a function during linking that wouldn't show up during compile time? Is it a make issue? Is it a linker issue? -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
help on editors for a user: same as edit on Sun/Solaris
Hello Debian Colleagues: I have a user on one of my Debian systems who would very much like to use an editor identical (or similar) to edit on a Sun/Solaris or other unixes under the c-shell. He does not like vi and would rather use edit. Which Debian package is the nearest to this editor? P.S. No flames please. My favorite editor is emacs... -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha
I have posted a bug report unique to the current Alpha version of the xlib6g package in potato: _ Package: xlib6g Version: 3.3.6-6 current update of Debian 2.2 potato prerelease As far as I can tell, this bug is unique to Alpha systems. This bug does not happen on Intel systems. I cannot comment on other hardware systems. I get the following error message when I start x-windows of two separate Alpha systems with two different graphics cards: xinit: error in loading shared libraries: libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Since the /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmuso.6 dynamic library is included in the xlib6g package, I have submitted the bug report as an xlib6g bug. The error occurs under either kernel versions 2.2.14 or 2.2.15. I keep both of these Alpha systems (as well as 3 Intel systems) current with the potato changes on a daily basis. I believe this error cropped up on the suite of package upgrades to the Alpha architecture about 5/3/00 (about 30 packages were upgraded). Output from the 'ls -l /lib/libc.so.6.1' - /lib/libc-2.1.3.so I believe that covers all that is required. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
Re: potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha
David, Thanks this makes sense. However, I had already tried reinstalling ldso before I reported the bug. I see now that the latest version on the servers I normally use (http.us.debian.org, ftp.us.debian.org) show the current version is ldso_1.9.11-8.deb. Where can I get the -8.deb file? Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 11:19:05 -0400 From: David Huggins-Daines [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have posted a bug report unique to the current Alpha version of the xlib6g package in potato: Not a bug in xlib6g. A bug in ldso (/etc/ld.so.cache was busted, so the dynamic linker couldn't find libraries outside the system search path ... /usr/X11R6/lib is outside the system search path). ldso_1.9.11-9.deb fixes it. Cheers. -- David Huggins-Daines, Senior GNU/Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc. 613.562.1239 desk, 613.223.0225 mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
Re: potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha
Wow! Now that is service! Thank you very much!!! Oh, also I've put it at http://www.debian.org/~dhd/ for the time being (until the mirorrs are resynced). Cheers -- David Huggins-Daines, Senior GNU/Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc. 613.562.1239 desk, 613.223.0225 mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
X-windows problem: why did I have to reboot?
At last resort, I rebooted my machine and it cleared up my X-windows. I am keeping current with potato changes and am using the XF86_3DLabs x-server. I thought at first something was wrong with my graphics card. But no, I just needed to reboot. I guess it was time, I had only upgraded many, many packages as potato updates come in. But I would like to know if there was a memory leak? -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
better print output filter ?
We use a Debian 2.2 (potato) box as a print/file/web server. For our print services we use the LPRng package in combination with the ifhp input/output filters. We include a banner page to separate and distinguish user print jobs. This all works fine. However, it would be desirable to utilize more than the simple default banner page (boring and not sufficiently labled). The ifhp package comes with a psbanner.ps example banner page, but not instructions on how to use it are included. I am looking for other banner page designs with instructions on how to use it. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
Compaq Netscape problem on Debian 2.1 Alpha system
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.windows.x.kde as well. I have a problem getting the new Compaq-donated netscape package to work correctly on my Debian 2.1 (slink) Alpha machine. Here are the facts: (1) stock Debian 2.1 (stable slink) for Alpha with the kde 1.1.2 .deb packages for Alpha additionally added (2) downloaded the netscape-4.7.rpm file (3) used alien to create a companion .dev file (4) installed the package (which did not actually install left me with a .tar.gz and an install script) (5) hacked the install script so that it would install (6) runs netscape under root and kde fine (7) running as a general user, netscape under kde works fine, but only the *FIRST TIME* it is executed and then exited. (8) the second and any subsequent time I run netscape as a general user under kde, the X11 system hangs and I have to cntrl-alt-backspace to get out X11 (9) the only error message I can find that occurs during the X11 hang is (and this does not occur under root) kaudioserver Catching fatal X IO Error. Cleaning Up. (10) I have tried sever things including changing permissions, ownerships, etc. of files, devices, etc. but nothing seems to fix the problem except to run as root. Any help on fixing this problem would be appreciated.
Netscape 4.7 install in Debian 2.1 Alpha fixed!
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.windows.x.kde as well. Thanks to all who sent in help. The fix to the problem was to delete the character string ,yp from the file /etc/svc.conf that was installed by the Compaq package. The program had the appearance of hanging X11, but it was just searching the net for something it would never find. The probem was totally unrelated to kde. The error messages I was getting from a kde package was just a message printed in abruptly exiting kde with cntrl-alt-backspace. Netscape is really nice on an Alpha! Thanks be to Compaq and Netscape!
fixed sound problem at the 2.2.12 kernel level: bug??
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.sources.kernel as well. Dear Linux developers: I am not normally a kernel or c-code developer, but I wanted to relay this to the community to correct a sound problem I have had. My sound quit working (SB16 PnP) upon installation of a new kernel (not sure which new kernel this happened). I now have installed the latest stable kernel 2.2.12 (this error may have occured earlier 2.2.11 or less?). I got the following error message when the sound.o module is initialized: Sep 7 16:29:59 fea insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol isa_dma_bridge_buggy Sep 7 16:29:59 fea insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol isa_dma_bridge_buggy I also get a similar error message upon the depmod -a command (sound is the only module): fea# depmod -a /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol(s) I dug into this problem and discovered that the variable isa_dma_bridge_buggy is normally initialized in asm/dma.h. Therefore, I got my sound to work by adding the following line to ./linux/drivers/sound/dmabuf.c: #include asm/dma.h Perhaps this change should be added to kernel.
confused about NFS-server in kernel versus nfsd package
I would like to take advantage of the apparent better performance of NFS-server capability of the new kernel. I have built my kernel 2.2.12 with nfs-server capability. I cannot find any documentation on this capability (howto, etc.) The help message from the kernel configuration is attached below. The referenced NFS-HOWTO is dated 11-3-97 and was apparently written before this feature was added to the kernel? How do I do this? _ CONFIG_NFSD: If you want your Linux box to act as a NFS *server*, so that other computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you should say N here, or you can say Y and use this new experimental kernel based NFS server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is faster; it might not be completely stable yet, though. In either case, you will need support software; the respective locations are given in the file Documentation/Changes in the NFS section. Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available via FTP (user: anonymous) from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO. The NFS server is also available as a module ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). The module is called nfsd.o. If you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt. If unsure, say N. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
on Compaq FORTRAN: help to put pressure
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.os.linux.alpha as well. Below is a response I received from the Compaq code developers at University of New Hampshire who are working on the port of the FORTRAN/C compilers to Linux Alpha. For my particular applications, I will need to be able to utilize the floating point compiler options. Otherwise, pprobably man-years of effort would be required to code around the floating-point overflows, etc., built-in to the very-large application. Although this is the best option, I do not have the time and/or money to do that now. I would imagine there are lots of Linux Alpha folks with similar issues. Speed is nice to have, but for porting large, legacy FORTRAN code, you also need these floating point options. Note other Unix compilers, such as AIX xlf, IRIX f77, etc., also have floating-point options such as these. Also, note that g77 on the Intel platform allows for these floating-point occurances by default. Also, the -mieee option with g77 on the Alpha allows for *SOME*, but not all, of these options, but greatly reduces the efficiency of the Alpha chip in doing so. According to the response below, the problem is within Linux, and not their compilers. Could some of the Linux Alpha developers possibly get involved and help? Are these developers the best that can be obtained to solve this problem? It is certainly out of my league! ___ Hello, Thanks for the question. To answer your question, compaq is still looking into the problem of handling floating point exception. It is because linux does not have a robust floating point exception handler compared to UNIX. Compaq is as of now in no position to promise any other support than -fpe0 and -fpe3 options. The README file that is installed also says th same. Anshul Chadda University of New HampshireA -- Name = James D. Freels Email = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brief Problem Description = nonsupported Architecture = all Operating System = Linux Compiler Information = fort Libraries Used = n/a Other Information = It is this restriction that really causes the problems: Please note that CFAL does not contain certain features that are available in DIGITAL Fortran 90 on Tru64 UNIX Alpha: ~ floating-point exception handling levels 1, 2, and 4 and -check underflow are not supported Problem Category = Compiler Installation Detailed Description = I have a FORTRAN application used under DEC-Unix 4.0B that I currently run. It requires the FORTRAN -fpe1 option (and similar options or by default on other computer / OSs ). Without this capability, I cannot even start to beta test the new compiler (for what I need!) When will this capability be offered? --
howto: booting from CD
I am running GNU/Linux Debian 2.1 with an Adaptec 2940 narrow PCI scsi card. Everything is working fine. I have three hard drives set at scsi ID 0, 1, and 2 and booting off of ID=0. I also have a Yamaha CRW 6940 rewritable cdrom drive on scsi ID=3 that is also working fine. I would like to create a bootable CD that would serve as a backup drive for the essential parts of my root partition. As a test, I have created a bootable CD that contains the Linux kernel as the bootable image as per the instructions of the README.eltorito and man file with the mkisofs package. I have also configured the Adaptec BIOS to allow a bootable CD. However, the scsi ID of the bootable image remains at ID=0 (the hard drive). I have an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard with the boot options listed to first check the floppy, then removable hard drives which I think basically looks at the scsi chain for bootable devices after the floppy fails to boot. Currently, the system does not recognize the bootable CD when starting up. It just boots directly from the hard drive. How can I configure the system to boot from the CD? I would prefer to be able to do the following sequence: (1) boot from floppy if a bootable floppy is in the floppy drive (2) boot from cdrom if a bootable cdrom is in the cdrom drive (3) boot from harddrive as the final option if (1) or (2) is not available. Anyh help is appreciated -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
unexplained shutdown/restart: 2.2.9 kernel
I am getting unexplained system shutdowns at arbitrary times. Also the system clock is being changed when this unexplained shutdown / restart occurs. This is best demonstrated by the following entries in my /var/log/messages file (Debian 2.1) Jun 9 06:55:21 fea -- MARK -- Jun 9 06:58:01 fea exiting on signal 15 Jun 9 05:01:33 fea syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart. The clock is set correctly when xntp3 is loaded. If I manually set the clock with the BIOS, I notice it is incorrect after this unexplained restart. I have recently installed a new motherboard, memory, processor. All the other components are the same. The kernel has been rebuilt to reflect the new processor (400 Mhx PII). The motherboard is a modern Intel (I cannot recall the model number by memory). I suspect a setting on the BIOS with power management? Otherwise, I haven't a clue. All other aspects of the system are performing perfectly. Does anyone have any idea what to look for here? Any help is greatly appreciated. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
Re: unexplained shutdown/restart: 2.2.9 kernel
From: Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 18:10:33 +0100 Reply-To: Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Priority: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 First, no reason to worry! On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:17:10 -0400 (EDT), James D. Freels wrote: I am getting unexplained system shutdowns at arbitrary times. Also No shutdowns! Or have you actually observed them yourself? I mean have you been sitting at the console watching the machine go down? I am not so sure about what you say. True, I have not actually physically observed a shutdown. But, I have seen the console screen at the start of a work day that normally would be the screensaver running. Also, why is the clock on the bios wrong? the system clock is being changed when this unexplained shutdown / restart occurs. This is best demonstrated by the following entries in my /var/log/messages file (Debian 2.1) Jun 9 06:55:21 fea -- MARK -- This is just a still-alive message from syslogd. You can safely ignore it (or stop it by specifying mark.none for /var/log/messages). Well, I knew that, but, thanks I did not know how to turn it off. Jun 9 06:58:01 fea exiting on signal 15 Jun 9 05:01:33 fea syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart. This is just produced by a daily script that trims the logs. To do this you have to stop syslogd/klogd, trim the logs, then restart both. If you trimmed the logs while the two daemons are still running they wouldn't be able to create/append to the logs anymore. Again: I don't think there is a reason to be alarmed. No. I won't be changing the daily log stuff. I hope you are right. However, another thing I have observed that I did not mention. I use an APC UPS. It also shut the system down one day for no apparent reason. Other machines with and without UPSs: no problems reported. When observing the upsstat.log file, I see the ups went from an average of 22% to nearly 50% when I got the new motherboard (old processor was a 166 Mhz PI). It also seems to fluctuate (+- 2-3%). I am not sure whether the battery may be going bad or if the UPS is not large enough. It doesn't make sense being a 600 watter. I will swap with another one to test this theory. Thanks for you help... -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
Re: unexplained shutdown/restart: 2.2.9 kernel
Also, the /var/log/messages contain kernel reboot output after the syslogd restart. So yes, it is rebooting! -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
cannot compile v 2.2.4 of kernel with standard Debian 2.1
Today, I patched my v 2.2.3 source (which compiled fine) with the new v 2.2.4 kernel source. However, it compiled with error as shown below. I issued make mrproper make oldconfig (no changes were present) make menuconfig (just to confirm) make dep make clean make bzImage Has anyone else experienced this? If so, how can this problem be corrected? This is the first time in a very long while I have seen a kernel not compile. __ acct.c: In function `sys_acct': acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close' acct.c:203: too few arguments to function `filp_close' make[2]: *** [acct.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.4/kernel' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.4/kernel' make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2 -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
sling (Debian 2.1) lprng work around
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. After differencing the /etc/lpd.conf and /etc/lpd.perms between the old and new versions, I discovered that the bug in the new version can be corrected by commenting out the following line in the new version of /etc/lpd.perms #REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER I don't have time to figure out what I did, but it works now. This should be a bug report, but I don't have time for that either! P.S. Thanks for the hint Richard. BTW, Vic bought a DEC-Alpha.
lprng from slink (Debian 2.1) so secure can't use it!!!
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I just upgraded from hamm to slink. I have found one problem with the upgrade in the lprng package. I downgraded to the hamm version until such time as it gets fixed. Basically after installing the new version, I could not print due to some time of permissions error. I have the standard lpd.conf and lpd.perms files as defined by Debian.
help with password and xlock
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I use the xlock feature and kde wm to screen save and lock the monitor/keyboard. Everything was working fine until I recently *had* to change my password. I *have* to use a local password server software for security reasons. My login password has been changed but my screen save password has not. How do I update the screen save password and why is it different from my login password?
installing/using an old IBM tape drive
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I have an old IBM Model 7207-001 scsi tape drive that I have obtained from some old IBM RS/6K equipment we are no longer using. I would like to use the tape drive as a backup device even though it is rather ancient. I connected the tape drive into my scsi chain and rebooted the Debian 2.0 system still running 2.0.36 of the kernel. Both the bios and linux recognize the drive as a Tandberg MOdel tdc3600 drive. I have found some information on the drive on the Tandberg home page. I have some old 150 Mb tapes that I can use, but I think that the drive may also be able to use 250 Mb tape cartridges as well. The problem is that even though the kernel recognizes the drive, I am having trouble using it. I cannot find a HOWTO such as how to connect an external scsi tape drive or something to that effect. In Running Linux, Welsh Kaufman, 1995, on page pp of chapter 1 it does list the Tandberg 3600 as a verfied scsi tape drive for Linux. For example, if I issue the command mt -f /dev/st0 rewoffl I get the following error message mt: /dev/st0: Input/output error It is possible that the drive is bad, but I think it works fine on the original installation of the RS/6K. Where can I get some help on connecting and configuring this drive? Thanks
can't compile 2.1.121 under Debian Hamm 2.0
Using a typical installation of Debian Hamm 2.0, I am having trouble compiling the current development kernel. Can anyone give me a clue on the following error message: _ make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/arch/i386/lib' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/arch/i386/lib' ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \ fs/filesystems.a \ net/network.a \ drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/misc/misc.a drivers/net/net.a drivers/scsi/scsi.a drivers/cdrom/cdrom.a drivers/sound/sound.a drivers/pci/pci.a drivers/pnp/pnp.a drivers/video/video.a \ /usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/lib/lib.a /usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \ -o vmlinux fs/fs.o: In function `change_root': fs/fs.o(.text+0x5a17): undefined reference to `initmem_freed' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 ___ -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
Debian-2.0-beta upgrade: my experience (after the 1st time)
I now have a total of 4 Linux machines running Debian-2.0-beta (including one DEC-Alpha running the current hamm tree). Except for the DEC-Alpha, all of these machines were upgraded from 1.3.1r6. After my bad experience with the first upgrade, I wanted to state how my subsequent upgrades have been. Recall that my first upgrade was a disaster (see previous post). The libc5-2-libc6 mini howto went well and the system was stable at that point. However, the wholesale upgrade of packages via dselect did not work and crashed my system. I eventually was able to recover, but this should not have happened. I recommend to the developers (if they have not already done so) to try an upgrade like this and get it to work. I tried a different route with the subsequent upgrades that proved successful. After I performed the libc5-to-libc6 via the mini-howto (incidently I had to add several more package upgrades during the l5-2-l6 upgrade guided by the Debian package dependency messages), I performed upgrades of individual packages by hand via dpkg. Basically, I would have a window open running dselect that would show me a batch of packages that needed upgrading during the select point of dselect. I would either print this screen out or flip screens back and forth to decide which packages to upgrade. In another window I would be running dpkg. I would cd to the directory containing the packages (usually a batch of about 10 or less from the same category) and only needed to type in the first few characters of the package name followed by the tab key. I would typically install a batch of 10 or less at a time (with a single dpkg command). For example, I started with the required packages in the base subdirectory. There may be an even simpler way to do this with dpkg, but this was sufficient for me and it worked! This process took a couple of hours to about 8 hours depending on the number of packages and complexity of the machine installation. I now have a nice stable system. This method may not have been necessary on these subsequent machines, but after the disaster of the first machine, I was not willing to take chances. There were a few minor configuration glitches, but the system is largely quite clean to upgrade in this manner. I would now feel comfortable to upgrade subsequent packages via dselect if needed. However, it is usually quicker for smaller numbers of packages to install directly via dpkg. In fact, I have found that I only use dselect for finding packages to install on the Alpha (and now the i386). -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
major problems for me upgrading to Debian 2.0
I started with the libc5-2-libc6 howto. That went OK. Then I proceeded to install packages via dselect. Thank went OK. I might point out that there were a large number of new packages. Very impressive! However, I did not add anything new at this stage; just upgrading at this point. All the packages installed. Then, it went to the configuration stage. I didn't notice, but there could have been error messages prior to the failure. The machine hung big time! The last message in the screen was configuring psmisc Then the machine would not boot. I went to the emergency diskettes. Eventually, I figured out that it was trying to execute /etc/init.d/boot, which was no longer there from the new sysvinit package. So, there is a disconnect there. I copied /etc/init.d/boot.OLD to /etc/init.d/boot, then the machine would at least boot again (after e2fsck all the hard drives, which had lots of errors from this failure!) Where I am now: * lots of packages will not configure because /usr/sbin/install-info is needing a dir.lock file not to be there. (from dselect configure all packages needing it) * dpkg --list seems to hang so I can't even see the list of packages and what the status is * the sysklogd package fails to install correctly because the /etc/init.d/sysklogd file is not installed (the file that is there is not executable and looks like an entry in the Packages file for sysklogd!) * I'm not sure whether I need to keep /etc/init.d/boot there or not (afraid to delete it, haven't seen the console messages for a good boot without it, don't understand why it was necessary to change this scheme!). Summary: worst upgrade I have ever had with Debian. I am very disappointed seeing as how I have deliberately waited until I thought it was ready. I would call this pre-beta or maybe alpha! I am glad I experimented with my print server first and did not try this on this machine (my desktop). I hope you folks can help me through this one! Remember, what sold alot of us on Debian in the first place was the upgrade path. I think I would have been better off from scratch, in which case, why Debian? I think you should test the upgrade on a representative machine! -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to debian developers: workaround installation problem with Debian-2.0 beta
debian developers: My problem with installing the beta version of Debian 2.0 seems to be centered around the /usr/sbin/install-info script. This script is included in the dpkg package. It seems that every time this script is called from a pre or post installation or removal script of a package (which is not always depending on the package), an error occurs with respect to the the /usr/info/dir.lock file. This file being present causes errors in the install-info script and the remaining installation of the package. My workaround was to create a dummy install-info script that simply does nothing. I will not get info files installed, but I don't need them on this print-server machine. This is not ideal, but I don't know enough about the error to report it as a bug (how this problem came up in the first place?). -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Samba: password for mapping network drives
Brian: I had similar problems for a long time and was able to fix the problem by specifying on the smbclient line user name, password, and workgroup from which the password server is serving. For example, to mount W95 drives onto the Linux machine I give smbclient machine_id\\service -U uid%passwd -W workgroup On the W95 side, to mount a Linux drive onto the W95 machine you must issue the mount command (see DOS or W95 docs if you can find any). The entry is controlled by the settings in the /etc/smb.conf file on the Linux machine. Below is a modified (for security) version of my /etc/smb.conf file (comments welcomed from other samba users as smb.conf is tricky) [global] announce as = Win95 client code page = 437 domain logons = no hide dot files = no local master = no security = USER wins server = iii.kkk.lll.mmm wins proxy = no wins support = no printing = bsd printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes guest account = nobody invalid users = root hosts allow = iii.kkk.lll localhost hosts equiv = /etc/hosts.equiv log file = /dev/null max log size = 10 debuglevel = 0 workgroup = workgroup preferred master = no os level = 0 server string = Samba %v running Linux on %h browseable = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/%u public = no writable = yes create mode = 0700 [cdrom] comment = NEC Multispon 4X cd-rom path = /mnt/cdrom public = yes writable = no create mode = 0700 [printers] comment = all printers path = /tmp print command = lpr -h -r -P%p %s postscript = no printable = yes public = yes -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new kernel-2.0.34 missing filesystems?
Fellow Linux users: I have downloaded both the patch and then the complete source for the newly released 2.0.34 kernel. It appears that at least the following filesystems are no longer supported in the kernel: FAT, msdos, vfat, iso9660. Could this be true? If so, why? I realize that this is not a debian-specific topic, but we all are Linux users. Surely there is a mistake somewhere (my part I hope)! PS: I am also using 2.1.103 on another machine which does contain the support for these filesystems. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Debian, currently.
This is coming from an end-user of Debian: I wish I had the ability and time to contribute more directly to Debian. However, I can contribute this response to some of the concerns I have seen on this mailing list. Debian by far is the most rock solid Linux distribution I have used (used several Slackware, RedHat, etc.). I have been using Linux for a long time now. This new stable version of Debian has obviously been more difficult than the last major hurdle in going from a.out to elf. In my mind several factors stand out about Debian: (1) The stable version is stable (really runs for days, months, years, etc.). The MTBF becomes tied to hardware failures (hard drives being the most vulnerable) not software. (2) The process of upgrade is painless and takes care of dependencies (not just partly as in RedHat). (3) It is trully free in the sense that the system is open and I can get help whenever needed much quicker and better quality than any commercial version of any operating system I have used. Just ask for the help in this forum. (4) You can always take the plunge and get the latest versions of a package and usually install (although not always) and use it from the unstable tree. It has been amazing to see how the number of fine packages have become available. (5) Debian is becoming available for platforms other than Intel. I intend very shortly to convert my vendor-delivered RedHat-Alpha-Linux machine to Debian. I haven't seen the how-to on this!? (6) Linux and Debian popularity is growing. As long as all these good things are still in place, I intend to keep with a great distribution, Debian. People change, and organizations change. It is just the way life is. Cheers... -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with StarOffice-4.0
I have installed the new StarOffice-4.0 onto my stable (bo) distribution of Debian/GNU Linux (1.3.1.r6). When I startup via the soffice script, I get the following messages followed by a Segmentation Fault error. Any idea what is the matter? Environment $XENVIRONMENT $DISPLAY:0.0 $SAL_VISUAL $SAL_FONTPATH /home/StarOffice-4.0/fonts/type1:/home/StarOffice-4.0/fonts/75dpi $SAL_NOSEGV $SAL_IGNOREXERRORS $SAL_PROPERTIES $SAL_WM $SAL_SYNCHRONIZE $XPPATH /home/StarOffice-4.0/xp3 Client Hostfea Display Host:0.0 Vendor (Release)The XFree86 Project, Inc (3310) shift ctrl alt Shift_L (0xFFE1) Control_L (0xFFE3) Alt_L (0xFFE9) XMaxRequestSize 262140 4194300 [bytes] Properties 0x2FEB Windowmanager 8 Screen Resolution/Size 75*75 1280*1024 21.8 BlackWhite 0 65535 RGB 0xf800 0x7e0 0x1f Visual 16-bit TrueColor ID=0x20 Images (Shared) 0x8000 (8000) Segmentation fault ___ P.S. The installation appeared to go flawlessly. Kind of a no-brainer (nothing to do). -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
debian-user-digest ?
what has happened to debian-user-digest? My subscription has stopped. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PS/2 mouse question on Debian-i386
Debian mouse experts: I have a new Logitech marble trackball with PS/2 connector. I would like to replace my serial port mouse on my Debian Linux machine. I have a PS/2-6 pin - 2 - serial-9 pin mouse adapter from a local computer store. However, simply plugging that in with the PS/2 mouse did not work. Do I need to compile in PS/2 mouse in the kernel? What, then use the serial port? I'm not sure about this. Anyone else tried this? I couldn't find this topic in the HOWTOs. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
question on network security
This is probably not the right forum for this question, but I am running on a Debian/GNU machine. If there is a better mailing list or news group for the question, please let me know. I am trying to setup my machine as a 'less open' in my corporate environment. I have started by having the entry 'ALL: ALL' in my hosts.deny file. Then I add individual entries in the hosts.allow file to gain access to my machine. This all works as planned. However, what I have found is a tremendous number of attempts to gain access to my machine that I was unaware of. Some of them are what I was trying to prevent (in less than a day, about 10 www attempts when I'm not even set up as an httpd server for example). But, the large majority of the attempts I don't know much about. Attempts at access via daemons ypserv, mountd, 34, and 300214 with most trying ypserv. These appear to be from SGIs and SUNs which are themselves running some type of network protocol which periodically probes the network. I would like to eliminate these problems, but don't know where to start. I can add back the problem machines to my hosts.allow file to remove the error messages from my log file. This confirms that they are the problems, but doesn't fix the problem. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MPEG doesn't work from any gr browser; Netscape probs.
On the recommendation of a colleague, I fixed the netscape-plugin problem by directly editing the netscape executable using emacs [just search for the error message]. This eliminates the need to use bash 2.01 which I could not install consistently (did fix the plugin problem but created new problems). -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
question: /usr/doc and minimal system
I have a couple of GNU/Debian machines I use strictly as print servers. It would be best with these machines to preserve as much disk space in order to maximize spool area. They are already configured with minimal packages and work fine. I am now investigating ways to minimize disk space even more. What I realized just now is that I don't need about 10Mb of /usr/doc files (I can always examine /usr/doc on another machine). Is there a way to cleanly not install a packages' /usr/doc files? I could just 'rm -rf /usr/doc/*', but when I update or remove a package, I'm sure I would get a postinst error and may not be successful. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
on bo-updates and Debian incorporation whinnies
--- Start of forwarded message --- First, there is an easy way with the current stable version of dselect to determine what effect the packages in bo-updates will have on the typical system. When dselect asks for a local directory of packages, simply give it the directory where your bo-updates files are. Then dselect needs a Packages file which is not there. Again, the option is there to type in 'scan' and dselect will create a Packages list for you. Then when you select packages, you can see all the new packages that you may want to update or not. Second, I am a very satisfied Debian user. Further, I am very grateful for all the work that has gone into Debian and have every confidence that it will continue to get better each day. In my opinion, it is the superior system for Linux and we all know how superior the Linux OS is to the alternatives! As a user, I have no complaints whatsoever with the non-profit incorporation. I have also been affiliated with a non-profit and I think this fits Debian perfectly. The move to a tax-deductible non-profit is also a good move, but will require more effort on the part of the officers of the corporation (mostly in bookkeeping, etc.). Still, it is a great move because it gives a little break for some folks who deserve it. On the revision numbers, we've gone through changes bigger than this in the past. My recommendation is to ignore the complainers. I know it is hard to do so. It was very hard to resist writing this e-mail. Unless you've been there, it is hard to understand. And if people start using profanity, knock 'em off. Finally, Debian is a success. When you are successful, you grow. Just look at the number of hits on this list if you don't think so. And it will get better and bigger. If you want to stay small, maybe Debian is not for you. Debian is at 1000+ packages now and really becoming a viable system. Everything from games like quake to serious stuff like LAPACK libraries and g77. I can't wait to see what unfolds in the future as more people catch on. - -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ --- End of forwarded message --- - -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xautolock not working for me
I just discovered that xautolock is no longer working for me. I immediately get an segmentation fault when executed. I suspect this started to occur when I upgraded to 1.3.1 from 1.3.0 using the newer version of Xfree86_3.3. Can anyone else confirm this before I file a bug report? I also tried compiling from source and received the same segmentation error from the locally compiled version. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
the bash 2.01 fix for Netscape 4.02 plugins: a mistake for me
I took the recommendations from several readers of this list to try the bash_2.01 upgrade from the unstable tree to fix the problems I was having with Netscape 4.0x not being able to use the plugins for various files (.pdf, .ram, etc.). I quickly realized I was not so brave as to simply install the binary from the unstable tree as their were way to many dependency changes that I did not want to make. So, I did try to compile the 2.01 bash source with my present system. I found that this worked! Further all the pluging features of Netscape 4.0x worked as well. I thought all was well until... I needed to reboot my system this morning, and it would not. I was able to figure out it was failing in /etc/init.d/boot, which happened to be the first utilization of /bin/sh which is linked to the new /bin/bash. It took me a while to figure this out, but I basically put back the old bash 2.00, and my system rebooted fine. So, in my case, I will wait for the next stable release of Debian, and I can do without Netscape 4.0x and use 3.01. In my personal opinion, the 4.0x version is a memory hog, is much slower in many respects, and generally not worth it at this point. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape plugins don't work
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I haven't seen it yet in this news group. It seems that starting with v 4 of Netscape, the plugins no longer work. For example, when clicking a .pdf file, the script will no load up acroread, or a .ram will not load up realaudio. I must fall back to version 3.01 in order for this to work. I am currently using the v 4.02b7. A dialog box appears with an error message sh: -c: line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token ';' sh: -c: line 1: '((acroread file.pdf);rm file.pdf)' I suspect the wrong shell is loaded, but I haven't a clue how to correct the problem. Anyone else fixed this problem? -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: why kernel 2.0.29 in Debian 1.3.1?
I commend the Debian development team for choosing the 2.0.29 kernel rather than the 2.0.30 kernel in the v 1.3.1 release. My experience with the 2.0.30 kernel is that it caused the latest stable release of the Ibcs2 emulator software (970513) to fail. This was important to me in order to run the vendor's (APC) software for smart-ups based on SCO emulation. Perhaps there are other stories of Ibcs2 or other 2.0.30 failures the Debian users would like to share? -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update
I was notified this morning about the recent CIAC security announcment on ld.so. I went to my Debian mirror and found that the fix was already available under bo-updates directory. I *thought* that since my system was up to date [i.e., v 1.3.1 + ] that I probably already had the fix incorporated. But alas, I did not. In fact, I found that there were about 20 .deb files in bo-update that do not show up automatically with dselect. Apparently, bo-updates is not intended to be in the dselect tree unless the user incorporates it by hand? -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
