Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format
Hi, On 27 Jul 2001, Mario Vukelic wrote: On 26 Jul 2001 17:40:21 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: Hi All, I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I try to untar it I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I also tried to just gunzip it but I'm having no luck there either: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gunzip ae_962.orig.tar.gz gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format Did you download it with mozilla? There was a time around 0.9.1 (I believe it's supposed to be fixed in 0.9.2, but IIRC my 0.9.2 did too) when moz due to a bug in the linux version ungzipped the file but left the extension or something like that that explains much... I think I already saw that happen too on 0.9.2. Anyway, use file ae_962.orig.tar.gz to get a definite answer on what filetype it is. bis bald, Rolf
Re: Gnome's popt.h ?
Hi Josh, you'd have to install the popt package for your include to work. It seems like the gnome-popt you used does basically the same otherwise it wouldn't have compiled ;) bis bald, Rolf On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Josh Berdine wrote: Hi all, Should #include popt.h work in potato? I had to replace it with #include libgnome/gnome-popt.h to get a program to compile from (non-Debian) source. I'm just wondering if this is a bug in my installation, potato, or the upstream source before I tell the upstream author about it. Cheers, Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache doubt
Hi, it depends on what you are trying to do. This message normally means that the directory you wanna access (if you just do http://localhost/ it is the DocumentRoot in httpd.conf) doesn`t have a index.html or whatever type is configured in DirectoryIndexes in httpd.conf and additionally the Option Indexes directive is not set for that directory. If this is set for the dir in question apache will return a directory listing. hth, Rolf On Sat, 19 May 2001, V.Suresh wrote: Just wanted to try apache. Installed it. When I try to access my server thru lynx localhost, it says you dont have permissions to access the file in this server. How do I enable permissions? Note that I have no experience in running servers. Just experimenting. -V.Suresh. Sureshvatusersdotsourceforgedotnet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered by Debian Potato--- 5:09pm up 1:19, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 0.97 -Created with Mutt, Sent by Exim - No Microsoft Products Used- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SiS 630 nighmare (Gericom Webboy)
Hi, anyone of you can supply any success reports on getting a SiS 630 to work apart from Framebuffer? I tried everything I could find out on the web to no avail. I even patched a X 4.0 with the SiS driver. Best I can get is a bit of twm output in the lower 3rd of the screen. Furthermore I now totally destroyed my XF86Config. The screen stays black when I start xdm altough there are no errors in the X logs :( any help appreciating, Rolf
Re: DVD movie hardware requirements
Hi, you could have chances to get dvds working ok if you use a different software. I currently have PIII-450 w/256Mb and xine is ready to play dvds just perfect since quite some time. My gfx card is a G400 with 32Mb video ram tho. Anyway checkout xine.sourceforgge.net and xine.cjb.net. Installation is quite painless and it works *very* good. Important performance factors are the X version (X4 here) and Xv too. Also using raw devices gives some performance gain. All that tuning measures are provided on those websites and you can use the Wiki Wiki Web on www.linuxvideo.org as well for some tuning tips. After applying all these tuning steps my CPU is now at ~ 60% load while playing dvds seamlessly. hth, Rolf On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Thomas Halahan wrote: dear deb-user i recently purchased a dvd player and tried to play a dvd movie using videolan. whilst the dvd did play the results were juddery, which i assume comes down to insufficient hardware to decode the dvd in real time. during play my cpu and ram were flat out. after reading the dvd howto i still didn't get a feel for what hardware i would need to get perfect replay. if anyone knows the minimum requirements (if this is definable) i would be very interested. currently i have 2.2.17, 4MB video card, 128MB RAM and 400MHz K6-2. regards tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hosts for rdate?
that is one thing. The other is that every nfs server can be used too. bis bald, Rolf On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, tjm wrote: Look here: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html Bruno Boettcher wrote: hello, i am searching for some hosts for time updating of my hosts where can i find the listings of hosts offering this service? i am in France BTW, so any host network-near Strasbourg would be fine... -- ciao bboett -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unresolved Symbol?
Are you running on IDE? IF yes: SHUTDOWN AND PRAY immediately :) Maybe the information hasnt so wide spread yet but test2 is bound to corrupt your filesystems. take care, Rolf On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Thorsten Clever wrote: Heyja! I just build a 2.4.0-test2 kernel by doing the usual make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install, then i copied the image and the System.map file to /boot an reran lilo. While rebooting with the new kernel i got a lot of 'unresolved symbol' error on pretty much all modules. depmod -a gives me the same errors. I'm unsing debian/woody on a Athlon It would be cool if someone could help me with this. :) thanks, Thorsten -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: truss
Hi John, the mount mtools thing is good to copy but if you are trying to copy some ascii file and get into trouble with the different line break schemes on unix/dos there is a tool out there called dos2unix and unix2dox respectively. You can do that with tr as well but I dunno the syntax out of my mind. bis bald, Rolf On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, John Gosling (GOSLIJA @ GBNUHO) wrote: Date: 22-06-2000 11:11:35 AM Telephone: 680982 Subject: truss Hi, Thanks for info about strace. Here's another query. I need to transfer some text files via floppy from a linux box to Windows NT. Is there a utility under linux which will write a dos format file. Regards John -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: lp.o module will not load
Hi, you seem to not have compiled the parport module. You can find it under General Setup in menuconfig. hth, Rolf On Tue, 23 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: I recompiled my 2.2.15 kernel with printer support as a module and this is what I get when I insmod the module. What could be wrong, and is it a problem with this kernel? #insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_claim_or_block_R7098ea8a /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev_Rc8dc8350 /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_R00173fa6 /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_unregister_device_Rf190b30a /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol interruptible_sleep_on_timeout_R25a057d5 /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up_R7a24c808 /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_register_device_Rc0a47fb4 /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_release_R4941ccbd /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_ieee1284_nibble_mode_ok_R6b2e03ae /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_wait_peripheral_R444ff5e9 -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
Hi Andrew, the etc. etc. is the interesting part ;) bis bald, Rolf On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: hi when I run XF86Setup and then test my settings I get the following error: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 etc. etc. any ideas? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
alt-gr key not working in woody
Hi, I recently did a dist-upgrade potato-woody. Since then I am not able to use my alt-gr(right alt) key anymore. I checked with xkeycaps read docs and all. My alt-gr now produces: state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), but on my german keyboard I cannot get any of @| and so on. I had to switch to U.S. Anyone knows of a cure? tia, Rolf
Re: Screen full of ?'s
Hi, could it be that you did 'cat' or 'more' a file with strange control chars? Maybe a binary? If that is the case you simply type 'reset' on that console. That should fix that problem. hth, Rolf On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Abyss wrote: One of the Debian 2.1 console windows has lost it's normal font and is displaying characters as black on white question marks and other assorted graphical characters. This does not change if one logs out then back in again. It does not change if X is started. It does not change if setfont is used. The only solution so far is to reboot Linux. It only happens occasionally and I would prefer not rebooting when it happens. Anyone encountered this before? Thanks in advance. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?
Hi, if you suspect the mem to be faulty try compiling a kernel. This is a very memory intensive process and if the memory is faulty chances are you get the dreaded sig11. hth, Rolf On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: Aka... why is my system so well hung? :) Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer. Currently, I'm having this problem with one. Just... out of the blue, it will hang dead in its tracks. The keyboard doesn't even wake the screen so I can see if there are any kernel panic messages or anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't do anything. I have to hit the rest button. It doesn't seem to matter what's running becuase I've tried turning almost all of the daemons (except cron and a couple of others) off, and it still hung. It's happening more and more frequently, too. It used to be able to go for a week or two. Now, it barely makes it more than 4 hours or so. Now, I'm pretty certain that it's some hardware problem. But, I'd like to avoid moving the whole system to a brand-new machine, find that the problem has gone away, and conclude that there's just *something* bad about the old server and that I need to chuck the whole thing. So, I'd like to isolate the problem, if I could. With that in mind, does anyone have any personal experience concerning what the problem usually is in these cases? Motherboard? RAM? Has it ever helped anyone to *under*clock the CPU? I'm anxious for any ideas - Joe -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: perl dbi problems
Hi, you don't wanna look for a debian package when you are missing a *.pm (perl module). Simply goto cpan.org insted. That is the perl package repository. hth, Rolf On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote: i have tried running a script out of the Perl DBI book (O'Riely) and it keeps failing. It is barfing and giving the message: install_driver(Proxy) failed: Can't locate RPC/PlClient.pm in @ INC ... so I did a search for PlClient.pm and it doesn't exist, and there doesn't seem to be a deb package for PlClient. Any ideas? Thanks very much Evan Moore -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Memory (RAM) problems?
I think this is totally normal. Thats why linux is fast. And if you need more memory for applications it gets freed from cache or buffers. No need to worry. hth, Rolf On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Carlos Bustamante G. wrote: Hi, I'm a litlle worry about the memory (RAM) used by my machine. I'm using slink ( recompiled kernel 2.0.36) and recently I realized that I have my memory full very frecuently, even when running only a few programs. Actually, the buffer and the cache use a lot of memory. I have 256 Mb, and a typical (not the most terrible) output of 'cat /proc/meminfo ' looks like : total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 263127040 221241344 41885696 47808512 95961088 79933440 Swap: 133885952 286720 133599232 MemTotal:256960 kB MemFree: 40904 kB MemShared:46688 kB Buffers: 93712 kB Cached: 78060 kB SwapTotal: 130748 kB SwapFree:130468 kB Sometimes, there are a release of memory (e.g. when I run a heavy process) , but the cache an buffer slowly increase their memory usage. Is it normal, or I have a serious problem? Maybe a not well tuned kernel? Is there a way to release the memory used by the buffer and/or cache? thanks carlosb -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: e-commerce solution needed
Have a look at www.minivend.com and see if it could fit your needs. If it does you get a good software :) bis bald, Rolf On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: Hi, It's there any decent e-commerce package that runs on debian?? I don't care if it is commercial. I know intershop runs on Suse but never succeded to install it under debian. any pointer would be great. Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Ql/Linux http://www.qlsoft.cl __ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Bar Code Scanner in Linux
Hi, It depends on what bar code scanner you are trying to use. There are barcode scanners that get inserted beetween the keyboard and the computer. You can configure these type of scanners usually through reading in config instructions in form of barcode supplied by the manufacturer. They then simply send the barcode translated to characters to the computer just as if you had entered it with the keyboard. So if you use such scanners you are not going to have any troubles. bis bald, Rolf On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, anyone knows how to get a bar code scanner to work in Linux? Thanks -- Abra?os, PH Linux Solutions - Renovando Conceitos - http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br OLinux - O maior e melhor site de Linux do Brasil - http://www.olinux.com.br Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ISDN
Hi Michael, the question is what cards are supported by the kernel. Check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn I must say I had to do with all sorts of AVM cards except the B1 and they are supported well nowadays. I didnt have any problems. hth, rolf On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Michael Meskes wrote: Since I want to get myself an ISDN connection I wonder which cards do work with Linux. Is there a list available? Also I wonder if external equipment works. They usually refer to CAPI 2.0 or something like that, but does Linux know how to address this? Michael P.S.: Please CC me. -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: Michael@Fam-Meskes.De | Use PostgreSQL! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ALSA problems
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying the current ALSA packages in Potato with kernel 2.2.13 and a Trident/Jaton 4DWAVE card. Compile seemed to go ok once I symlinked the usr/local/src with the kernel files to the usr/src directory that ALSA package seems to expect. Compile and dpkg install seems fine but insmod snd-trident gives a long string of unresolved symbols beginning with snd. Help appreciated!! Why are you using insmod. Try a depmod -a to recalculate the module dependencies and then a modprobe snd-trident. Then you can be sure that all modules you need will be loaded. regard, Rolf
Re: File permissions
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: While checking some files with ls -l, I have found some permission settings such as: drwx--S--- drwxr-sr-x I have not seen anywhere documentation on settings other than r,w,x. Can you tell where I can find their meaning? Would be great if in the little docs we could see everything possible at once. For a non-UNIX former user this is hard. Thanks, Antonio. this is the suid bit. For a good description see: http://www.nic.com/~dave/SecurityAdminGuide/SecurityAdminGuide-8.html regards, Rolf
Re: Problems mounting CD-ROM
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote: I am trying to mount my internal CD-ROM. When I use dmesg I get the following: hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5702B, ATAPI CDROM drive when I do a mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/hdc, and /cdrom is an empty directory, I get the following: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems You have to check that you got the appropriate filesystem modules loaded. Or compiled the filesystem support into the kernel. I don`t know what cd you are trying to mount but perhaps it is one from the microsoft world where you could be needing vfat/joliet support. Check out the available filesytem types in the kernel config. regards, rolf
Re: Network Internet Access
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Neil D. Roberts wrote: Hi Everyone. . . I think it's best to start off with the right question. I have a network of about 25 computers, all on the same class C (192.168.1.*). I have a Linux box, which is 192.168.1.1, and this Linux box is going to be the default gateway of every other machine in this network. So, this Linux box, has to give access from inside to outside, as in web, ftp or mail requests, and the linux box has to reply them. I don't know what software I am supposed to use for this. Someone recommended me IPMasq, but I think I have a completely wrong concept of ipmasq. UmmmHelp? You want to use a software that can do NetworkAdressTranslation Port forwarding. That basically meansAll traffic coming from your lan goes to your linux gateway. There the ip-adress is rewritten as beeing 192.168.1.1 and the datagrams are sent out to the net. Say the packets then go to a web server, the webserver in return sends some packets to your internet gateway. Now comes the tricky part. Your gateway must know to what ip on your local net the packets must go. It does this based on the ports the request from your client in the lan came from. ipmasq was in older kernels the software that did this. Now it is called ipchains. There is some quite good documentation out there now including various howtos and tutorials on that topic. Cheers, Rolf
