Galeon opens multiple frames recursively, endlessly
On a sid box, not really up to date (in the middle of a 350MB upgrade over a dialup connection) galeon is recursively opening up windows when started up. I cannot use galeon. Tried under all users on this system: it's a system wide problem. I have reinstalled galeon, with no change. This has happened before, but worked itself out when I reinstalled galeon from scratch and dist-upgraded the system. Thanks for any advice. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-322-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. -- Albert Einstein As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
flash, shockwave, and quicktime; and web browser incompatibilities
As a science teacher, I built a four machine GNU/Linux network. The biggest headache from the getgo (through all years, in fact of using GNU/Linux exclusively) has been incompatibilities with web sites. It seems to me an immorality for scientists to build web sites on proprietary formats; but that's what's happening. I seek advice on dealing with the formats mentioned, as well as others. I teach Advanced Placement (AP) Biology. I cannot tell my students, anymore, to forego such websites. For all the progress that's been made in the Free Software world, this one lags along behind. Science content CD's also use proprietary formats. We are also planning to join a microscope facility for a telepresence microscope project. I'd like to be able to join without putting the guy through changes. Can someone direct me to some websites and discussion groups dealing with these issues? On SEUL/Edu I am over my head. Thanks for ANY comments. Alan Davis Marianas High School Saipan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-322-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. -- Albert Einstein As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sane and HP 4100C usb scanner
This scanner was working until recently. An upgrade to sane and some kernel recompiles have taken place in the interim. I am seeking advice about the sane upgrade, whether it may have broken for me. I had a bit of trouble to set this scanner up on a sid box, quite some time ago. Perhaps over six months ago. It all worked pretty ok---with some glitches, but ok. It took some tweaking of /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and /etc/sane.d/hp.conf. In hp.conf, it was trial and error, and all the previous posts etc. I read didn't give a clue. I had to add a line to hp.conf after poring over email, lists, docs. Then it worked. |#scsi HP |#/dev/scanner |# uncomment this if you're using a usb scanner | /dev/usbscanner0 | option connect-device -- added this line | ^ Now it's stopped. Perhaps coincident with the recent sane upgrade. Perhaps something else? Also, in the meanwhile, I added preliminary usb dev file system support. Is this a possible source of trouble? Also, I installed, or tried to install, a lexmark z23 printer on the same usb bus. Now, sane-find-scanner works. | # Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected | # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal | # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners | # that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that | # is connected to a parallel or proprietary port. | | # You may want to run this program as super-user to find all devices. | # Once you found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access | # permissions as necessary. | | sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x03f0, product = 0x0101) at device |/dev/usbscanner | sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x03f0, product = 0x0101) at device |/dev/usbscanner0 But scanimage -L fails to find a scanner. I recompiled the kernel with usb-ohci.o and scanner.o hardwired into the kernel. No change. I have tried the unplug/replug, and replug the usb cable. No help. the hp_scan utility works ok. This looks a WHOLE lot like the earlier problems, some capriciousness in the config files. I didn't allow new config files to be written at upgrade, but recently have tweaked them a bit. I undid the usb dev fliesystem, but the situation isn't better. Thanks for any advice. It was sure great to have a scanner! Alan Davis Marianas High School -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-322-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. -- Albert Einstein As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update please on compiler status?
I am sticking my neck out on this, but it would be a great service to the Debian community to have an occasional update on compiler/library status? I am half-assedly installing new libraries, etc., as they appear on the ftp site in slink, and upgrading with apt (works really well, but everything has to be set up perfectly for it to do it's thing). I haven't been able to compile the newest xtide2 version. This is strange. I wonder whether my c++ compiler and libraries are out of sync. What is the recommended compiler / library combination to use? I'd like to see a complete run-down... it's very confusing to have several C compilers, C++ compilers, two C++ libraries, etc. This information should all be in a document somewhere. (I can't find faqomatic on the home page), and if it is, I apologize. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Install lilo on new disk/new partition
Thank you for several answers to my request for information about copying an entire filesystem. After this all, I found a HOWTO on the subject, as well. I think I have succeeded in copying the filesystems off my old disk to my new one. The system boots ok off a floppy prepared as describe in the HOWTO. For various reasons, however, I changed the filesystem structure on the disk. Now I have to install lilo on the new disk. When I formatted the partition, I had not set the bootable flag. Now after the fact, the copying, and everything, I discover this, and I ran fdisk, changing this flag. However, lilo fails still, with a message, First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature I found this message in the lilo manual, but I cannot see how to fix it. I ran liloconfig, which I hope was not a mistake. I toggled the flag again. No change to this message. I am uncertain whether I have to run mbr now, or what. Perhaps this is the problem. Or what? Can I ask for a clue, again? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Copy entire filesystem
I have gotten a new, larger harddisk, and wish to use it to expand my existing linux box. I would like to copy the filesystems off the old hard disk, and replace it with this one. So far I haven't succeeded. I haven't been able to confine tar's action to a single filesystem (so that directories linked to directories on other filesystems, on the other system drive, will not be copied. Included is the linux boot filesystem, /dev/hda2. I basically want the current drive duplicated to the new drive, with larger partitions, and another partition. When I thought I had it right, and edited /etc/fstab using a rescue disk, the disk failed somehow. My questions are, again, how to copy a filesystem but not it's linked directories from other drives, and, second, how to do this whole job successfully. I don't want to reinstall debian, since there is so much software on the system that I would have to reinstall. Is there a clean way to do that whole job, though? Thanks again. (By the way, we now have slackware 3.4 running on the gateway 2K 486 machine that was donated to our department. I plan to get this going right, now, and start working on the department LAN. Thanks to list members, six of whom showed strong support within hours of my earlier posting.) Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Hamm installation --- failure (base14-1 fails crc check)
Installing Hamm from images I have FTPed from one of the debian mirrors. Trying to install on a 486DX/33 Gateway 200 (donated to our Science Department by a local engineering firm). This machine is destined, with luck and whatever else, to be the Internet gateway machine for our Science Department LAN. I FTPed the disks a second time and made the images on fresh disks. Still getting the same error: Base14-1 is failing a crc check. Through a convoluted series of efforts, I was able to partition the 200MB HDD, and installed the kernel and modules, but base-1 failed twice, with an identical error. Amazingly, I am getting the same thing with a Slackware 3.5 install on the same machine. The kernel boots, but the root filesystem disk fails a crc check. A scrungy old disk with older Slackware images gets through the boot and root steps ok! The newer set of disks I have just made give this error. With the Debian disks, the crc error ended the install... The Slackware install ended with a kernel panic. I'm going to try older setups. Is there any reason that an older machine would be less compatible with newer install disks? Thank you for having been there, almost always. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
rescue disk fails boot, 486 motherboard
My project to build a gargabe can linux computer is stalled once again. A used 486 motherboard cannot boot the Debian rescue disks, and fails as soon as the slackware root disk is read. W/ debian disks, the kernel fails usually right after a message during kernel boot: Skipping ... PCI HBA ... (something like that). Once it got a bit beyond that on a cold boot. This is not a PCI motherboard. I'm not sure where to begin to identify what boot parameters might be used. Is there a guide somewhere? Does this limited information mean anything to anyone? What is HBA? I get a picture is has something to do with DMA. There is an IDE disk drive on board. Might this be a sign the drive is no good? ALan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
School Proof-of-concept network
It is a vision of mine that linux will be used more in schools, making more computing resources available, without encumbrances of commercial software. Especially, perhaps, out here in some isolation, the Macintosh is widely advocated and used in schools. Networks are now planned, and while linux is the obvious choice (to me, at least), there is talk of commercial operating systems, even Macs as servers, and perhaps a distrust of anything that is free. In my department there is at least one phone line, perhaps two. In one classroom is a pair of macs, each with a modem, swapping use of the phone line in that room for short connects to the WWW. When I saw this, I saw an immediate need---a linux dialin gateway machine/router! Classrooms of our department are all close to each other. Physical distance would permit stringing of cable. There are a small number of macs in our department, perhaps less than six, though I'm not sure. There aren't more than ten, as we have ten instructors in our department. I am planning a 486 linux garbage can computer (in part to show what can be done). I am asking for assistance in evaluating the potential to make a small network using a linux 386 or 486 box as a gateway. I am going to write a grant proposal. It seems to me it can be done for less than 1,000.00. I've been using Linux for about 4 years on standalone machines, never networks. I use ppp, but I'm not knowledgeble. I need to evaluate this concept before I jump off the deep end with the proposal---it has to work. Almost everything I have tried on Linux has worked, or showed promise. I expect that macs will predominate, so they will be connected by appletalk to the linux gateway. I would like to request some pointers to help plan this proposed network. I need something on paper within days. What is the cheapest way, what is the best way? And, more to the point, on this list, AM I OVER-ESTIMATING MY ABILITY? (How much potential is there to fail?). I think this is a fairlyi simple network. I don't have any networking experience. Alan Davis -- Alan E. DavisMarianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Netscape (plugin or library probs?)
Currently I am running a mostly hamm system, with netscape4.X installed by the debian installer. With this, as well as previous versions of netscape I have had a problem with frequent crashes. I have no clue, but have been living with it. It's all gotten a bit worse with the newer netscape. I now have two possible clues. I have now stumbled across a Linux-Netscape Help page at http://members.ping.at/theofilu/netscape.html At this location are detailed instructions for dealing with a netscape library problem. I haven't followed these instructions (by the way, it's unlikely I will in the NEAR future, as my svga monitor up and died two days ago, however this is all still of interest). I don't know if this library problem is what is bugging my netscape. However, I have also been trying to install realplayer5.0 as a plugin. It is here than I ran into an interesting problem with plugins. It seems that debian's installer installs plugger2.2, but I see no documentation to the effect that I need to install the various packages to which plugger refers. This could be the bug. I'd appreciate suggestions. Also, the plugins, are they dealt with by dselect? Another case in which debian has fallen behind in documentation? I apologize in advance in case this is taken as too harsh. I am happy with debian, with a few pointed exceptions. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: 2.0.33 is no good for lic6-dev
On statistical anomalies. Add to that the fact that few programs really need the more volatile elements of the header files (that is, things that really change from kernel version to kernel version), [before you reject this, consider: programs compiled on one kernel version usually work on other kernels]. For the few that do need specific kernel headers, ^ !!! use -I/usr/src/kernel-headers-version or some thing for a specific kernel version, or -I/usr/src/linux/include for the latest set of ^ headers installed.. ^^^ No thank you. Most programs, even if they include linux/something.h, do ^ not really depend on the version of the kernel, as long as the kernel versions are not too far off, they will work. And the headers provided in libc5-dev (and libc6-dev) are just that. The solution is to separate out the two sets of header files: I, for one, applaud Bruce Perens's efforts to standardize various issues. This is one that has continually been a sore point for me, standing in the way, between me and peaceful computing. You are making some assumptions here. You are telling me that this is, after all, not really a standardizable solution, but that Debian will work most of the time, but not all the time, except for hackers who are alert enough to catch this and remember the required kludges. Congratulations on an ingeniously intricate, illusory and superfluous solution to what appears (at least to others who must compile the kernels)to be a trivial problem, or not a problem. In held and in trepidation, for over a year. Save this kludge, the nightmarish dselect, now the fact that apt WON'T EVEN RUN if any of the required packages are self-installed (except for a proxy package setup that won't work), Debian GNU/Linux has been a most pleasing system to use for the past 2-3 years. Say what you will. GNU packages, even emacs20, compile out of the box, and self install. If there were a way (without debianizing or other patch-ification) to have these packages, installed by make, register themselves and completely uninstall themselves, a significant part of the need for self-logging installations (and note the extensive checking done in the ./configure step!) would be met. Imagine a dpkg that would check if a compatible library actually existed on the system! That having been said, it sure is nice to install smail, and have a working mail system. And many programs I couldn't compile myself have been compiled by others and made available. I thank the developers. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sgml authoring --- SGML Web Page
The SGML Web Page is at http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html where you can probably find out the answer to your questions, and more. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xterm ALT key
Please excuse my unfamiliarity with the nomenclature of the keyboard. I think this is an FAQ, but I haven't grokked the previous threads. I am posting to ask why xterm persists in crummy handling of ALT so that bash readline is a pain, or at least, not equivalent with bash on a terminal. This is the case in jed, for example. On a term, I can type \M-x using the ALT key, but in and Xterm it's not so, I have to hit ESC then x. The shell readline keys are also not working right with ALT. Rxvt has gone through evolutions over the post two years in handling of ALT. These past few months it's been ok, but over the past two years, this behavior has come and gone. What will I have to do to get xterm to do the right thing? Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mh isn't sending (exim is mta)
When I try to send a message now, using the comp/send programs in mh, I am getting this message for a valid user: What now? send -watch user at domain: loses; [USER] 550 relaying to user at domain prohibited by administrator post: 1 addressee undeliverable send: message not delivered to anyone Can someone give me a clue how to set this up? I think I have had trouble with mh under sendmail as well? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compilers Paranoia
I am afeared to install the (rather contorted) mosaic of C and C++ compilers and libs, after reading comments on the list. Wanting to install Deity, however, I find that the new C++ libs are required. Is it safe (and how safe) to install this mosaic? Alan -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unidentified subject!
I do mail through an ISP. Messages are cached on my machine until I connect via ppp to my ISP. Incoming mail is snarfed off a POP server, until recently by fetchmail. About a month and a half ago, I upgraded smail and fetchmail simultaneously. Since that time, I have consistently not been able to use fetchmail. Fetchmail gives me the following error: reading message 1 of 5 (1595 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error -1 fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.netpci.com: Unknown error -1 Fetchpop works ok. Thinking I wanted to see if the sendmail package now has a better install script, I have now uninstalled smail, and installed sendmail. I think I am over my heard. The main problem I had finally solved with smail has returned: the failure to deliver messages off my machine to any email address that is on the same mail server (my isp domain name). The mail transport software doesn't find the user on my machine so returns the message as undeliverable. Thanks to a number of people on this list, I had solved this problem using smail. I now seek advice concerning this (these) current plight(s), as it hasn't wanted to go away, no matter how many times I upgrade either fetchmail or smail, nor even when I install sendmail---which has led to a number of other problems. Alan Davis -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.1.XX kernel compile still not going well---ppp
For well over a year, I have experienced some kind of problem compiling the 2.1.X kernels. The kernel boots well, but ppp support isn't working properly. I've been around and aruond with the lists on this. This has happened on two different machines, through libc5 and libc6 libraries. Both modular and non-modular configurations of ppp fail to work. I'd still welcome any suggestion. I compile alot of things ok. Mainly flawlessly. Perhaps it's something I am not turning on in the configuration? No, I don't use Debian kernel headers. When I do, the same thing essentially happens. Alan -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fvwm2: icons not visible as user, ok as root.
For quite a while, I have not been able to see most icons in fvwm2 (or other windows managers, except afterstep, which keeps icons in a certain directory). As far as I can recall, icons were visible for a brief time when I first installed Debian on this machine in July 1997. I posted about this problem once before. Alan Davis -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sysvinit and kbd
Trying to avoid a problem discussed on the developers' list, I snarfed the latest sysvinit and kbd off Incoming of a mirror this morning, and installed over what was probably the offending pair. The new packages are: kbd_0.95-6_i386.deb and sysvinit_2.74-2_i386.deb Unhappily, at the end of the simultaneous install, dpkg reported that /etc/rcS.d/S05keymaps.sh was now not a link to the correct file. This meant that I had to intervene. I didn't know what to do. I make the indicated symlink, but fear to turn off my machine unitl I am sure that I did the right thing. This is as I have linked it: S05keymaps.sh - ../init/keymaps.sh I seek confirmation as to whether my machine is now ok. Alan Davis -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sysvinit and kbd questions (continued)
The message I am getting comes from /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, which is called by
the kbd.postinst script.
if (($linkdst ne ../init.d/$bn) ($linkdst ne ../init.d/$bn)) {
print STDERR update-rc.d: warning: $fn is not a link to
../init.d/$bn\n;
return 0;
I got this message again when I tried to reinstall over the first
installation (with the links I had installed (
/etc/rcS.d/S05keymaps.sh - ../init/keymaps.sh).
I still don't get it.
Alan Davis
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sysvinit and kbd SOLVED.
I have replaced the link and all is now well. Oh, but that's wrong. You're linking to ../init/.., NOT ../init.d/.. (note init vs init.d) Mike. Sorry for wasting bandwidth. Alan Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Icons in windows managers
For a long time, since two days after I first installed a pre 1.3 debian system, most of the icons in fvwm2 menus stopped working. Until the latest afterstep, only root could get all the icons in afterstep, but the latest afterstep improves this at least to some extent. Is this a permissions issue? I have waited for over half a year to bring this issue up, hoping that some package upgrade would solve it, but no luck until this afterstep upgrade (maybe). I tried tweaking permissions on the icon files and their directories, with no effect. Can someone shed a clue? Alan Davis -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
TIND?
What happened to TIND? It was a favorite tool, until about two months ago, it stopped working---perhaps due to conflict with some new library? Just wondering how such a useful tool just up and disappeared. Alan -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
APC UPS
I have a small APC BackUPS Pro working with debian linux. The genpower debian package is really easy to get working for that unit. Alan Davis -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
two monitors
I am trying to get an old mda (hercules compatible?) card going together with a Matrox Millenium on an ASUS P55T4P2 motherboard. On my quest, I have found two ways to do this, one of which almost works---a multimon kernel patch that has compiled cleanly on 2.0.33. A second approach is called mda and is a module. Neither of them works for me yet. Multimon seems to show the most promise, and apparently is the more flexible approach in all, anyway. I suspect the mono card may not be good: the linux kernel boots with both monitors established by the kernel during the boot process, but I can't get a boot from the mono card, even if I remove the svga card---the bios won't even write the change of monitor type to cmos. I set gettys up on tty9 and tty11 for the mono monitor: when I switch to those vc's, the cursor disappears from the svga monitor; but it never shows up on the mono monitor---that monitor never does a single thing ever. Any suggestions would be appreciated. My experiments are encouraging, at least, so I wanted to mention them with respect to the current thread. The URLs are: multimon for 2.0.32: http://trap.mountain-view.ca.us/~tom/projects mda: http://www.pandh.demon.co.uk A GGI project was mentioned in the mda readme as developing multimonitor configurations: http://synergy.caltech.edu/~ggi The multimon patches look to be compatible with CGA, as well as mono monitors. Alan Davis -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
New gs-aladdin package (5.10)---is it broken?
I have a perl script that balks on the new hamm gs-aladdin. Realizing this is a non-free package, is this something familiar? I downgraded to the old 5.03, and it works fine. Alan Davis -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #141
This should probably be a bug. It was either the emacs or the gpm maintainer who thinks that this file is not needed, and his handiwork managed to clobber the version I had on my machine, that was working before. When I contacted him by email, he hadn't a clue. I also want to find a new copy. Alan Davis Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:27:20 -0800 (PST) From: B. Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: gpm and emacs Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII according to the gpm info file, I need the file t-mouse.el to be able to use my mouse in emacs while on the console. where can I find t-mouse.el??? -brad -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
where is t-mouse.el?
I have checked my mail; it was the maintainer of gpm who had set up the install of an earlier package to strip out t-mouse.el from the system---it worked fine until then. It might still be available in the upstream source for gpm. Yes, the package was working ok until it got stripped out. I've been living with it, since I don't use the console so much anymore. Alan -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Gimp doesn't accept text input
I also had this problem. I went to the trouble of compiling from sources, and had the same problem when using the newer gtk+ package. I then recompiled, using the release of gtk+ previous to 971201 (I think 971109), and this feature now works ok. Alan -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share it[EMAIL PROTECTED] with other people who like it Marianas High School AAA196, Box 10001 ---Richard StallmanSaipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands GMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
The GIMP problems
I can't draw anything in the gimp. Lines don't show up, using the pencil, brush, or other drawing tools. The spline tool does lines, but when I switch over to pencil or brush, etc., the lines disappear. I get some messages, including ** WARNING **: XGetWindowProperty failed This message I got the first time I tried to start up gimp on this session. Subsequent attempts got these messages (and so on): parsing /home/lex/.gimp/gtkrc parsing /usr/share/gimp/0.99.14/gimprc parsing /home/lex/.gimp/gimprc parsing /home/lex/.gimp/pluginrc Starting extensions: Not enough colors to satisfy requested color cube. Reduced color cube shades from [6 of Red, 6 of Green, 4 of Blue, 24 of Gray] == [5 of Red, 5 of Green, 4 of Bl ue, 24 of Gray] /usr/bin/X11/gimp warning: No brushes available for use with this tool. /usr/bin/X11/gimp warning: No brushes available for use with this tool. /usr/bin/X11/gimp warning: No brushes available for use with this tool. /usr/bin/X11/gimp warning: No brushes available for use with this tool. /usr/bin/X11/gimp warning: No brushes available for use with this tool. /usr/bin/X11/gimp warning: No brushes available for use with this tool. /usr/bin/X11/gimp warning: No brushes available for use with this tool. directory is ok ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught I wasn't running Netscape. I had started emacs between the two invocations of the Gimp. I reinstalled gimp 0.99.14-1 and the gimp-data-extra, gimp-data-min, and gimp-non-free packages of this version. I also installed the up-to-date libgtk1. I am using x11 3.3.1 with a matrox millenium. I have been having some freaky problems with the SVGA server, streaks and lines dancing on the screen. I am now wondering if there is a problem with my X11 installation. Alot of the x11 problems seemed to happen after the first time I started up uxing xdm. The character of the screen is way different (not just colors) when I start up with xdm. Thought these might be related? I am sending to the users list, even thought I am using a pretty nearly completely hamm system. Alan Davis -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share it[EMAIL PROTECTED] with other people who like it Marianas High School AAA196, Box 10001 ---Richard StallmanSaipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands GMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
upgrading ncurses packages
I have finally flipped a breaker, and spent the day on up upgrade to glibc/libc6. This was forced by my own confusion, as well as that, apparently, of my machine, as to which libraries were to be linked into xtide2.0. After the upgrade the package compiled ok. Most of the package updates went ok, following the suggestions in the mini-HOWTO of Mr. Ellis, on the list. The only serious problem I encountered was with ncurses. I wasn't certain whether I had to update ncurses-base, but I tried, and both that package and ncurses-term refused to upgrade. Finally, I had to unpack the control files and have a look at the preinstall script: moving two directories out of the way seemed to solve the problem: /usr/lib/tabset and /usr/lib/terminfo. Another think irritated me: I haven't rebooted in a day or two, and have a healthy desktop built up, when the scripts of the glib6 package told me to reboot. Couldn't a warning or at least more information have been given in advance. I don't know how many times I have watched a package unpack, completly, onto the system, and then tell me that due to some conflict, it was unable to configure. I guess some of these can't be easily forseen, but it still leaves the files all over the system. In fact, in some cases of libraries, if I'm not wrong, they were still used by the system even though not configured. Alan Davis -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share it[EMAIL PROTECTED] with other people who like it Marianas High School AAA196, Box 10001 ---Richard StallmanSaipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands GMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
gimp can't load any file.
I ftp'd the debian gimp package from the maintainer's site. I had to install a detailed list of upgrades to be sure it would work. I THINK I installed them all right(!?!). But, while The GIMP runs, it won't load any file. I didn't install any new gimp-data package. I liked the non-free gimp far more than the less recent one in hamm; I am upgrading in hopes of the return of functionality lost due to the changes in widget sets. By the way, I just compiled emacs 20.2 right out of the box, and it runs fine. Using the old libc5 development libraries. Alan Davis -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share itMarianas High School with other people who like it AAA196, Box 10001 Saipan, MP 96950 ---Richard StallmanNorthern Mariana Islands GMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
GRASS and libcurses.so.1
Perhaps this is offtopic. Perhaps not. I am trying to get GRASS running on a debian system. My problem isn't unique, but I want to find out if anyone running debian has solved it. The problem I am getting with existing precompiled binaries, is failure to load the curses library libcurses.so.1. A solution has been proposed, of FTPing the libcurses.so.1 file on the GRASS ftp site and installing it. I would like to ask whether this would cause any problem, or what other solutions have been found, short of recompiling. (I would like to compile grass, but my system is, as usually the case when trying to keep up to date with debian, in limbo. This brings up another question---is it safe to begin compiling with libc6? When will it be? Does the dual library compilation route work? Ahhh sh ). Alan Davis -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share itMarianas High School with other people who like it AAA196, Box 10001 Saipan, MP 96950 ---Richard StallmanNorthern Mariana Islands GMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.
Monthly, or more often, since installing Bo 1.3 on new system, I have had to re-install man-db, after getting segmentation faults whenever executing man. I don't believe this is related to libc6, as has been reported. It happens at almost random times. Perhaps certain package upgrades have caused this? Or is it bit rot? I have found that when man seg faults, I only have to run /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst, and everything as fine again. Alan Davis -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share itMarianas High School with other people who like it AAA196, Box 10001 Saipan, MP 96950 ---Richard StallmanNorthern Mariana Islands GMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Forwarded msg: [lorenzo@ccda.utovrm.it: Re: Compose key? (Can a windoze keyboard be configured to...)]
[[Lorenzo Catucci asked me to forward this private message to the list.]] [[ --- Alan Davis]] On 5 Oct 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Can a windoze keyboard be configured, so those three extra keys can do something interesting? Like act as a compose key? a meta key? Definitely, yes. There are two ways of doing it: xmodmap, and XKB. The latter is the preferred choice with X11R6.3, the former works for me since some 12 mounths. The only problem is in getting the right xmodmap, which is by now unavailable, since the computer I put it on for public ftp acces has been stolen from the lab. It will be back soon, and you could try ftp://argon.roma2.infn.it/linux/Xmodmap105.it. The keyboard is italian, but you could look and see what is needed for composition, and extract those lines. The quickest solution is for you to instal Jaime Zawinsky's xkeycaps, which I see is debianized. If you download a version with the minor release greater than .37, you'll get a version which knows about 105 keys keyboards (my own patches, I know they work!), and could do a good job at making the keyboard act the way it should. There is a keyboard effort going on for debian, but I'm not aware of any progress, since my subsibed mailing lists went to the now stolen system. Maybe someone could help you more on that effort, which I understand was based on XKB. Hope this helps. lorenzo. Please note: my address will change back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as we'll get the new computer. -End of forwarded message- -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share itMarianas High School with other people who like it AAA196, Box 10001 Saipan, MP 96950 ---Richard StallmanNorthern Mariana Islands GMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Real Video Coverage of Individual Network Convention
A note of irony: I have realaudio 3.0 and wanted to listen to the conference, which I think starts in a few hours. It is offered in video, not audio; linux binaries are unavailable for the needed realplayer version. At least as far as I can tell. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fdisk vs cfdisk to partition 3.1G drive
Hello. This is a query more out of curiosity than a need. I just received a 3.1GB Western Digital Caviar EIDE drive. I slapped it on as Master of the second IDE channel of my motherboard, and after a bit of messing around with the BIOS (leaving the configuration in automatic mode, but specifying LBA), Linux recognized it ok. Fdisk didn't want to partition this disk according to my wishes. Repeatably, fdisk wanted to allocate only 1024 cylinders to a partition. However cfdisk did it just as I wanted it, and graphically. Is this a bug in fdisk? A feature? Now I have /home on a very large separate primary partition, and /usr/local on another fairly large partition. However, I linked /usr/src to the directory (in a logical partition mounted as /usr2) /usr2/src. Is there something special I can do so this is transparent to the ls and dir commands? When I type dir /usr/src I get a nice listing of the link, but when I type dir /usr/src/ a listing is printed. This seems lit must be an FAQ, and I apologize, but I haven't run across it. Another possible FAQ: How many logical partitions can I have? Is it better to have logical partitions than to do the link thing? Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School AAA196, Box 10001 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Video Card and SVGA and dosemu
I bought a Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM. This is the safe route, I think, as there are some 2MB boards with a slower RAMDAC chip. I guess SVGAlib doesn't support this card, and this is certainly a problem What I am wondering about though is dosemu. I was able to get dosemu (the debian package) installed and running, I guess, but I get a message when trying to run the shareware program skyglobe in an xdos dos window: I'm sorry there's insufficient memory for a color display Then I get a garbled screen with all kinds of colored upper ascii characters. Is all this because of the fact that SVGAlib does not support this graphics card? Can anyone point to known solution? Another ridiculous question from Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marianas High School AAA196, Box 10001 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Emacs core dump SOLVED by downgrading to xlib6-3.3-4 in BO.
Emacs booted up after I downgraded xlib6-3.3-5 (in hamm) to xlib6-3.3-3 (in bo). I didn't have to touch xlib6g. I am unfamiliar with the use of strace, but when I tried it, the core dump occured as a SIGSEGV, right after getting the PID. Apparently emacs_19 has to be recompiled for the new libs. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Emacs dumps core after some major upgrades on system
Emacs dumps core, repeatedly. I just replaced the xlib6, installing both xlib6 and xlib6g in hamm. Is this possibly the problem? I have just installed new slang0.99 libraries from hamm, and the newest svgalib1 in hamm. Also, a number of applicatoins that were, mainly dependent upon earlier slang0 libs. I also had to reinstall dosemu today, and I installed, then removed wine. Out of these, can someone see something that might have interacted w/ emacs? Since I lean heavily on emacs, I'll have to back out of a lot of these upgrades, hope-fully. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SVGA w/ Matrox Millenium ?
Tried DOSEMU debian package. Saw it on the menu of a windows manager (nice feature) and was highly surprized when it booted up. But when I tried to run a small graphics program, I got an out of memory message. Also, it is apparent that the failure of this video card w/ SVGA lib is affecting DOSEMU. I am pretty sure that there is no solution to this, but I am posting this in the slightest hope that there is one. ? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Forking debian-user?
Certainly as a longstanding kibitzer on this list, it is none of my business. However, I would like nevertheless to point out the following, relevent to recent suggestions that the list splinter into two or more offspring: Over approximately a 12 hour period today, I received debian-user digests containing approximately the following balance of postings: Discussion of debian administrative matters, etc.: 60 posts. Help requests, and responses: 44 posts. The discussions have been lively and interesting, by the way. Flames were (needlessly) thrown. Parenthetically, I am still confused by the fact that Debian has it's own way with kernel sources and headers, as well as sources for packaged modules. I still use Debian; and I still want a system upon which I can install unix programs of many kinds. I do appreciate, and have come to rely upon the ease of installing Debian packages; I would appreciate help learning how to become less dependent. [Meaning not that I might want personal advice, but rather that I would appreciate the availability of documentation and a system conforming to some global standards (isn't that pretty much what *nix is about?)]. The Debian watchword has been from early on, a system that can be painlessly upgraded. At least twice, this watchword has failed---when a.out moved over to ELF, and when libc5 moved over to libc6. In between these big changes, have been an endless stream of smaller changes. The friday snapshot is a good idea. It's all none of my business. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
re: printing to an HP Deskjet 870
It works well to configure using magicfilter, as a laserjet 4. And for color, you can configure another printer as a Deskjet 550c, though it's not convincing---it does work though. There exists a driver for dj 850, though I was unable to get it to compile (incompetence on my part). Does Ghostscript 5.03 deal any better with this printer? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ide error : {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
I get a similar message, but each time it's just a nuisance---the reset succeeds and the disk goes on reading. I happens in X or on the console, and only once every couple of days, usually during a long disk access. I have ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard 32 MB Micron 50ns EDO (in 2 16MB simms) W Dig Caviar 1.6G HDD, master on ide0 (first ide channel) My cdrom is an ATAPI Toshiba 4X, and it is somehow configured as /dev/hdc. Dunno why. Luckily I haven't had to reboot. I'd like to know what's up though. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 11, Will Lowe wrote I've been getting this error a lot. When it happens, generally: 1) I'm in X, launching an app (such as Netscape or Pine) that isn't cached and needs an immediate read from the drive. 2) The system has been on for 12 hrs (I leave it on most of the time) and often it's been idle for a while. 3) I get an error on ide0 (drive not ready for command), it says (reset Sucessfull), and then does it over again until I hit reset. The Status code returned is 0x58. Don't have a clue what it means. I'm using a standard Seagate 2.1 Gig ide drive in LBA mode jumpered as master on the first IDE controller on my pentium motherboard, it's accordingly accessed as /dev/hda. There's also a Creative Labs ide CD-ROM on /dev/hdb (slave on the same ide channel). Someone suggested that I use the ide0=noautotune kernel option in lilo.conf, which I've done, and I'm still getting the error. It's bugging me 'cuase it corrupts data by forcing me to reboot without syncing the disks, etc. Should I seek out the linux kernel list and ask them? Does anyone here know enough about the ide drivers to help me? Thanks. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: magicfilter Espon Stylus Color II
There is a lengthy discussion of the Epson Color Stylus II in
/usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz. I'm sure it's over my head, but it does seem
there has been more support paid to the newer Epsons than to my HP.
Alan Davis
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On Aug 9, Paul Wade wrote
I got it to work in color on a friend's redhat system. I forget what it is
supposed to be compatible with (IBM, LQ, or deskjet), but I printed a
webpage in color from netscape with it. I have a IIs that I primarily use
for printing email, but I have a color cartridge for it. If you don't get
it going soon, I will see if I can get this one running here with
magicfilter and let you know what is needed.
On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Bob Billson wrote:
Has anyone already gotten magicfilter to work with the Espon Stylus Color
II (ink jet) printer? Is is compatiable with one of the other Espon ink
printers? I don't want to write my own configuration file if it has
already been done.
Thanks.
Bob
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Success installing Debian from CDROM
I was able to successfully install Linux from a bootable CDROM, without a serious hitch. The system is Debian 1.3.0, installed from a two CD set from Paul Wade. I did not have to install MSDOG at all. The installation went almost flawlessly. Debian's installation frontend has been cleaned up in the over a year since I installed my last system. There was some confusion over the device name of the CDROM drive during different parts of the installation script, that made it problematical to even try dselect. I therefore used dpkg, installing by hand. I have found few problems other than that involving the CDROm Drive: The (ATAPI) CDROM drive was on eide channel two, as a single drive on that channel. It became /dev/hdc, for better or worse. That is, /dev/hdc is the name I now use to mount the CDROM drive (note no number used---it won't work with a number, 1 or 2). During installation, it was identified as two different numbers at different points during the install script: either /hdc1 or /hdc2, I'm not sure actually whether it was known as hdb2 at one point. This is somewhat problematical, but it now works. It should probably be fixed, if it is a general problem, not my system only. The system is a homebuilt, using an ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard, 32MB 50ns EDO RAM (for future experiments), an AMD K5PR120, WD Caviar 1.6GB Hard Disk. I owe a great debt to the many programmers who have devoted themselves to producing free software, as well as to the many Debian maintainers who have made this an even tighter system than in the past. -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods, but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye, the utility of the article, including gratification which the user derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more --Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ALT key doesn't work in X, affecting emacs especially.
The ALT key in X11 isn't working right. I have just installed XFree86, the SVGA server for the Matrox Millenium (4MB WRAM), and I am not sure what I did or didn't do, or could have done to make this key work right. Is it the Keyboard setup in the installation of the Debian system? Is it xterm? Is it the server? Is it the way I set things up? I uncommented a line in /etc/X11/XF86Config making Left ALT a meta key---i made no difference. Can someone lend a clue? Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
APC/apcd
I am posting regarding the recent thread about APC interface software, in particular apcd. Does your package deal with the APC Back-UPS Pro? I recently purchased one of these, and my explorations have brought to light that this system uses a different language than the APC Back-UPS to talk back and forth with the PC. I wanted to mention that the developer of the package apcuscd has made an effort to include code that works with the Back-UPS Pro, in the package apcupsd-2.5. He has forwarded a copy, but I haven't yet been able to test it. Soon, if all goes well. The cable with the APC Back-UPS Pro 280 is black. I would appreciate any further information about whatever software is available. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
LaTeX to SGML?
I am working on a project for which final output is expected in PageMaker format. I don't have PageMaker, but I am familiar with LaTeX. I saw a reference to an SGML to Lyx package---is there a LaTeX to SGML utility, or, alternately, a way to do this. RTF may be an option, I think. I have not had good results converting between LaTeX to RTF. Is there a recommended method to do this? Many thanks, to many people who for a couple of years have kept on answering my questions. Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG
I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a new system. I can probably get a copy of MSDOG, but I'd like to avoid this. Eventually it will perhaps be necessary to install Windows 95 or Windows NT and MSDOG, but to begin with, I will install Linux. I expect to be able to create the installation disks for Debian on my long faithful machine electra. Can I reasonably expect to pull this off without installing DOS at all? Can I format the disks from the install disks? Can I partition them, all that? Another question, out of curiosity: will it be feasible to install Windows95 later on? Will it stomp on the linux system? What about DOG---can I reasonably expect to install that AFTER linux, without a problem? Better still, can I run DOSEMU without having MSDOG installed ever at all? I have a few programs like skyglobe and another astronomy sky disply program, HYPERSKY, that I would like to run, as well as several other programs. I guess I would really need Windows 3.1 to run that on DOSEMU? Thanks in advance, Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods, but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye, the utility of the article, including gratification which the user derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more --Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian CD
Where can I find a list of Debian CDs and sources? Does someone on this list have Debian CD's including hamm? I want to order by COD US Mail, but noone wants to believe we have a US post office here? Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Digitizing tablets
Are digitizing tablets supported? Does linux allow the use of a digitizing tablet as a surrogate mouse? What drawing programs make good use of tablets? Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mutt Segmentation Fault at certain messages?
I am using Mutt 0.61, mostly happily. I don't understand why very infrequently, mutt stops loading with a segmentation fault error. In a number of cases, I noted this happens near a message that is a notification or warning of undeliverable mail. Can anyone shed a clue? Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods, but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye, the utility of the article, including gratification which the user derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more --Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printing gif via ghostscript
I need to be able to print gif files, unfortunately. This can be done through ghostscript or the PCL version in an HP870C. Can I ask advice as to what would be the most straightforward way to do this, and economical in terms of system space. There's not much disk space left on this machine. This is probably an off topic question, but I have been trying to make sense of the various graphics packages, all in vain, since I don't have space to experiment with them. Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods, but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye, the utility of the article, including gratification which the user derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more --Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DEITY: packages unpacked but not configured
One thing that could be more than an annoyance with dpkg/dselect is that dpkg does not check before unpacking files, and seemingly only after unpacking the files notices the dependencies, etc. Wouldn't it be more intelligent altogether to check first, before unpacking? Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods, but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye, the utility of the article, including gratification which the user derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more --Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
What gives? --- [vonhagen@les01.supelec.fr: Re: exp(x**2)*erfc(x) not correctly plotted]
I did try the procedure mentioned below in gnuplot. An apparent error does happen to me, something similar to what is mentioned in the below. Is this indeed an error in linux? If so, traceable to what? Alan Davis -Forwarded message from info-gnuplot mailing list. I'm using gnuplot pre3.6 patch 328 under linux I tried: set xrange [0:40] plot exp(x**2)*erfc(x) I expect an asymthotic curve towards 0. For x = 10 and x = 25 I get a jump. Is there a possibility to force gnuplot to plot correctly? I tried the same on Solaris 2.5/Sparc with gnuplot beta 330 I get the asymthotic curve you would like to have so I suggest this is a problem for/of Linux. Otherwise the curve stops at about 27, that's where the exp function overflows.. Alan Davis -End of forwarded message- -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands in any community where conspicuous consumption is an element of the scheme of life, an increase in an individual's ability to pay is likely to take the form of an expenditure for some accredited line of conspicuous consumption there is no class of the community that spends a larger proportion of its substance in conspicuous waste than (the scholarly classes). if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods, but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye, the utility of the article, including gratification which the user derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more --Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #145
I have been using magicfilter for a while, and have had several good experiences with it. I remembered last night why I had not used apsfilter. I tried to install apsfilter last night, because there is no magicfilter on bo. I got a new printer, and am trying to get it working right, while preserving the setup for other printers. The apsfilter setup program put my system in a hammerlock, two or three times in a row, gobbling up all available swap space. I suspect either bash 2 or (more likely) the fact I am using the Aladdin ghostscript from non-free (happily, except it doesn't have drivers for the HP870). The apsfilter install script does interact, I think, with ghostscript. It froze up at the point where it was going to display a tabular of deskjet printer drivers. Why isn't there a magicfilter for bo? It works. Jaldhar wrote: Then out of frustration I deinstalled apsfilter and tried magicfilter and suddenly everything worked. Apparently there is some kind of bug in apsfilter or Debians version of it. I would have filed a bug report except I don't have the slightest clue what went wrong. -- Jaldhar Neither do I Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands in any community where conspicuous consumption is an element of the scheme of life, an increase in an individual's ability to pay is likely to take the form of an expenditure for some accredited line of conspicuous consumption --Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
my debian blunders v.97
Now I've gone and done it. I deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status. So now I can't manipulate anything? Is this a feature? (What can I do?) This hard disk has a manuscript on it that I cannot afford to lose, using LaTeX, and the TeX system is set up just right. I don't have a cdrom or a drive I am thinking of starting an FTP marathon, and installing everything. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands in any community where conspicuous consumption is an element of the scheme of life, an increase in an individual's ability to pay is likely to take the form of an expenditure for some accredited line of conspicuous consumption there is no class of the community that spends a larger proportion of its substance in conspicuous waste than (the scholarly classes). if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods, but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye, the utility of the article, including gratification which the user derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more --Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DEITY TEAM -- A suggestion or request
My needs might be better served if there were an easy way to instruct dpkg to install the binaries on a different filesystem, like a zip disk. There is probably a way to do this easily, but I haven't figured it out. Have to do links by hand? THe config files, and so on, should go in the regulary places. Maybe more experience with system admin will suggest a way to do this. For example, on my tiny machine, any package of a megabyte would put me in a pinch, but I might want to use slrn or yorick intermittently. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands
Children's software for Linux
Is that an oxymoron? Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one nonexistent.-- Lord Raleigh
dftp without dselect?
Is it possible to install packages via dftp without using dselect? Alternately, what is needed to mount an NFS? Thank you. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one nonexistent.-- Lord Raleigh
pnelson@nyx.net
I had a problem with this too, in another way. I had tried to install the latest kernel, as there is a patch for both a printer and ZIP drive to share one parallel port. I needed genksyms from a newer package, since kernel 2.1.29 expects a genksysms with a -k switch, which earlier (modules) versions don't have. This came up when I typed depmod, especially since I typed y to the question about module version checking. Well, to make a long story short, I compiled modutils, and installed them over modules. This didn't work: my kernel 2.1.14's modules wouldn't work. My ZIP drive, printer, PCMCIA modem and so on are module-ified, so I was stuck. I had made another mistake. I had installed the new kernel headers from 2.1.29. I have consistently fought against the debian method of handling headers, but until this problem, that hasn't been a problem. I still will continue to install the headers from the kernel I am trying to install, after I sort out this problem. Anyway, the modutils (newer version of modules) wouldn't work with 2.1.14. It seems that there was a 'temporary' module format in some kernels from about 2.1.8 to about 2.1.(less than 20?). But the newer modutils package would work TO SOME EXTENT with an old 2.0.0 kernel I had kept around. (Some modules would not work). I managed to FTP a copy of the debian libc5-dev package in bo, on a friend's Windows 95 machine. The copy was somehow corrupted, and wouldn't install. I was able to read the file into emacs, gunzip the internal archive, and then untar the gunzipped archive, working around (somehow) the corrupt bytes, and get a copy of modules.h from the older kernel headers. After I installed this file in /usr/include/linux, I was able to compile the older modules-2.1.13 package, and have been able to use my 2.1.14 kernel. All for want of a new genksyms. I still am not ready to try another compile. There are some loopholes in all this. I am advised that if I need modules during the changeover, I may need to go back to 2.0.29. This is the only serious problem I have ever had in compiling a number of kernels, and experimenting with modules on many. Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one nonexistent.-- Lord Raleigh
parport patches.
I would like to find out how to get the ZIP drive drivers running that will enable sharing of the parallel port. I have tried to download the parport patches for 2.1.29 from http://www.cyberelk.demon.ac.uk, but cannot get them to patch the kernel sources (original) cleanly. I would be interested in hearing success stories. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one nonexistent.-- Lord Raleigh
Problem compiling gnuplot pre-3.6, pl.325,328
I have not been able to cleanly compile recent gnuplot beta releases. Mainly, the autoconfigure script ./configure, does not see -lvga. Now I assume that the svga library is present, since I have installed svgalib1-bin 1.2.10-3 svgalib1-dev 1.2.10-3 svgalib1 1.2.10-3 My system is mainly debian, and I have tried to keep the libraries reasonably up to date. There are a number of complications, beyond my knowledge. Is there something I have to do to make the autoconfigure script see -lvga? One other problem, incidentally, possibly a Debian specific, is that the gnuplot command set locale ... causes a core dump. Thank you for any help on this. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one nonexistent.-- Lord Raleigh
