Re: Small footprint window manager
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: when all I use X for is to hold a dozen xterms, and then use them to hold non-X programs (ftp in one, mutt in another, links, vim, and a few other programs). Why not just use more than the standard 6 virtual consoles? That would be _much_ more memory efficient than X 4.1.0. Somebody may have already mentioned this, but if you need a lot of terminals, there's nothing like the screen program. It essentially allows you have to have many (concurrently running) terminals in one actual xterm/console/VT (i.e. it doesn't need X). It's simple to use: you type screen and hit return. Then you're console looks otherwise normal. Except now you can type C-a c and be presented with a new console window that is layered (opaquely) on top of your old one. Now you you can go back to the original with C-a p. I don't know how many total screens you can have, but it's more than I've ever needed :) Help is always available with C-a ?. Did anyone ever use DESQview for DOS? It's very similar to that. Oh, and another cool feature is this: say you're at home working on something, in a screen session. Now you have to do to work. So you do a C-a d to detatch the screen. So you're at work, but you'd rather be working on your project at home. You login to your home computer, then do a screen -r (reattach) and wallah! You're screen session is *exactly* as you left it. Don't wait another second! apt-get install screen now :) Hoping somebody finds this useful, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IDE cd burner acting flakey w/cdrecord
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:55:37AM -0500, Robert wrote: First the most commonly asked for info: Second, the real problem is that for a long while now, I've not been able to burn CDs. I can't give examples of the exact error at the moment (not at home ATM), but sometimes (rarely) I can get it to do a dummy run. Most of the time, it never starts writing, but instead just gives ... checksum? ... errors and fails out. Non-dummy runs work out the same, sometimes giving me coasters, sometmes not... I used to have similar problems with my Plextor PlexWriter 4x12 internal SCSI CDR. Out of nowhere about half of my cd writes started to fail. What fixed my problem (at least for a short while) was setting the cdrecord process to a very high priority (as root). I had a few lines like this in root's ~/.bashrc: alias makedatacd=nice --adjustment=-19 cdrecord -v -dev=0,3,0 \ -eject speed=16 cdimage I believe -19 is the second highest priority setting on Linux. I upgraded to a new CD burner (a Yamaha 16x SCSI CDR) shortly after taking this route. But I haven't had even a single bad burn since getting the new writer. It's something to try, anyway, if you haven't already. Good luck! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pppd ignoring idle option
I'm trying to use pppd instead of diald for dial-on-demand functionality. I've got the dialing and connecting part working. However, pppd seems to ignore the idle x option I'm specifying in /etc/ppp/options. In fact, I even specified the timeout period on the commandline: pppd idle 45 call provider According to the docs, this should cause pppd to timeout and hangup after 45 seconds. However, it never hangs up. I even did a tcpdump -i ppp0 and waited for well over 45 seconds, no traffic was shown. I also tried using idle 2 and pppd STILL doesn't hangup. If anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate it! Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diald extreme slowness
I'm running Debian potato as my firewall/lan gateway/diald server. The box is running diald 0.99.1-1. Diald works almost as expected (connects to the Internet, hangs up after timeout). Diald dials and gets PPP up and running rather quickly. However, the connection that triggered diald has to timeout and retry before it does anything useful. Here's a concrete example: diald runs on septictank, my workstation is sewage. On sewage, I try to do a google search. Immediately the modem dials, and after a few seconds, the PPP connection is up and running---I can use any Internet protocol except http. I have to wait for the browser to timeout trying to reach google, then retry the search. But during that waiting period, I could do a fetchmail. The diald FAQ addresses this and says to try the option buffer-packets on. I've tried with this option both on and off, and the problem persists both ways. Another suggestion I found on the 'net was to set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr to 1. I did this on septictank, and it also had no effect. Does anyone have a fix for this or any suggestions? Are there any alternatives to diald for Linux? I used to use OpenBSD for septictank, and it's dial-on-demand program didn't suffer this problem. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dri causing hard lockups?
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:30:42AM +, Simon Hepburn wrote: Try going back to using mga_drv.o that ships with X4.1. Leave mga_drv_hal.o in place. Remove mga_dri.so. I'm sure it's not meant to be there. See how you get on. I did that, and it seems stable so far (one night and one day of xscreensaver). Of course, as soon as I post this, it will lock up. However, the mga_drv_hal.o file comes from the Matrox drivers package. X won't even start if I use the XFree86 mga_drv.o with mga_drv_hal.o. So I just tell X not to load the HAL thing. According to Matrox's documentation, I really don't even need the HAL library for what I'm doing. shrug Thanks for the feedback! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dri causing hard lockups?
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:10:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:46:31PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Trying to use the DRI stuff is causing X to lockup. In fact, the ... I have experienced this, but only while playing 3D-accelerated games. The system in question is an Athlon-750 with a G400. It slows down ... Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any solution beyond if it freezes when you play that game, then don't play it. Yup, I've actually had this problem in the past, but ultimately came to the same solution. Fortunately, I'm not a gamer, and don't really have any actual NEED for the 3d. Some of those screensavers are really cool though, xmms plugins and whatnot... :) Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dri causing hard lockups?
Trying to use the DRI stuff is causing X to lockup. In fact, the whole system is almost locked up---the keyboard and mouse are impotent, and the monitor doesn't show anything. Fortunately, I can do a remote login, but the only way to make the system useable is to do a reboot (killing all X processes doesn't help). Anyway, I was hoping that maybe someone on this list has had a similar problem. My setup is as follows: - Abit KT7 (via kt133) mobo - Matrox Millenium g450 32 MB RAM agp video card - Promise ATA/100 pci ide controller (one ide drive attached) - Tekram dc390u2w SCSI controller (attached are two scsi disks, one cd burner, one dvd rom) - SB Live! - Intel etherexpress 100 pci ethernet card I'm running Debian potato, but I'm using the XFree86 4.1.0 binaries at people.debian.org/~cpbotha/. After installing those unofficial debs, I downloaded and installed the Matrox g400 series drivers from matrox's website (the filename is mgadrivers-2.0.tar.gz). This installed the following files: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o (replacing the default) /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv_hal.o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/mga_dri.so I'm not sure if that last one is in the right location. I'm using a custom-compiled 2.4.18 kernel with agpgart and mga drivers compiled as modules. If I start X without loading those modules, I get this line in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (==) MGA(0): Direct rendering disabled ...but X appears to be stable (i.e. hasn't locked up on me). If I modprobe those two modules before starting X, everthing appears okay... until something comes along and locks up X. Once this just happened---I was in the middle of doing some work and X locked up. The other time was today when I got home from work, the computer was locked up (so I don't know what caused it. My guess is one of the 3d modules in my self-compiled xscreensaver). Some of the pertinant lines from my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 are as follows: # ... Load glx Load dri # ... Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection # ... Section Device Identifier matrox Driver mga Option AGPMode 2 Option DPMS EndSection # ... Well, if anyone has been down this road before, I'd be happy to hear your experiences! Thanks Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:27:20PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: I can't think of a reason why you *wouldn't* want to use cdparanoia. I have even been able to extract good (not perfect but good) audio from CD's that my regular CD-player wouldn't play. Similar story here: my roommate had a CD that skipped and stuttered pretty badly on a few tracks (the cd had some awful scratches). I made a copy of the cd for him using cdparanoia. The copy wasn't perfect, but there were no skips or stutters, only a few subtle static-like sounds in places where the original cd was most damaged. As someone already said, the only real downside to cdparanoia is that it takes longer due to the analysis it performs on data. If you have a fast machine, you probably won't notice too much. Good luck, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
can't boot; was: Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:46:34AM +, Simon Hepburn wrote: Matt Garman wrote: The new problem, though, is now my SCSI CD-ROMs don't work. The hard drives work fine. The SCSI device driver *is* recognizing the SCSI CD-ROMs. However, I can't mount any /dev/scdx device. Do you have scsi-cdrom support in your kernel ? If you compiled it as a module, is it loading ? I originally had SCSI cdrom support in my kernel (in my 2.4.17 kernel, that is). I copied the 2.4.17 config file to the 2.4.19-pre3 source directory and did a make oldconfig. Apparantly, the SCSI cdrom support got lost somehow... shrug Anyway, from the new system (on the new IDE drive), I recompiled the kernel WITH scsi cdrom support. I rebooted, and Kernel panic. I'm going in circles here. I'm once again stuck. In my kernel config, I said yes to the boot offboard controllers first (or something to that effect). This is the option whose help says that you might need to pass the append=ide=reverse parameter to the kernel. Check. I have the following line in my /etc/lilo.conf: append=ide=reverse Another interesting line from /etc/lilo.conf is this: root=/dev/hda2 This is correct---my root partition is /dev/hda2. Now, when this kernel boots, it IS recognizing my ata/133 attached drive as /dev/hda (i.e. it is seeing the append=ide=reverse option): hda: [PTBL] [14593/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 Everything looks like it's rolling along as planned... but then it says something to the effect of can't find /sbin/modprobe... check root= kernel option Finally I get the kernel panic, and it says can't mount root on device 3:02. If I understand correctly, device 3:02 IS the second partition of my first IDE drive. I'm using the SAME kernel on my old SCSI system. I can mount /dev/hdx without any problem. I don't understand what has gone wrong. I WAS able to boot from that 2.4.19-pre3 kernel; all I did was go in and add SCSI cdrom support. Blew it all away. I even tried rebuilding the kernel from a clean 2.4.19-pre3 source. I triple checked that both the boot offboard controllers fist and promise ata/133 options are turned on in the kernel. I'm about at wit's end here... definately losing my mind... help! Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:46:28PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: Just a shot in the dark here since you didn't mention which SCSI controller you are using, BUT you should have a SCSI setup to configure its BIOS somewhere. It is NOT the one you have been using in the KT7's BIOS setup program, although some MBs have an integrated SCSI and its SCSI setup can be accessed from there. Anyhoo, get into the SCSI controller's BIOS setup program and look for a boot setting and turn it off. Yeah, I was so frustrated that I forgot to mention some relevant details. Anyway, it's a Tekram dc-390u2w SCSI controller. Strangely enough, it doesn't have a bootable option. But I did notice that when I manually disabled the SCSI hard drives that the SCSI controller would say no bootable devices found---SCSI BIOS not installed. So what I did was go into the SCSI BIOS setup and tell it not to scan the SCSI IDs where my hard drives are. So now I'm booting off of the new system! The new problem, though, is now my SCSI CD-ROMs don't work. The hard drives work fine. The SCSI device driver *is* recognizing the SCSI CD-ROMs. However, I can't mount any /dev/scdx device. Any thoughts there? Thanks! Matt
booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI
Okay---at this point I've rebooted my computer probably 50 times over the last three days. I'm trying to install a new IDE hard drive and have it run off of an IDE PCI controller. Everything that could go wrong has, short of data loss (so I'm fuming, not crying :) Anyway, sparing you my long story of frustration, here's my current problem: I've got my old system running off of my SCSI disks. It works fine. However, I just bought a Promise ATA/133 PCI IDE card and a new IDE hard drive. I got my new system installed on the new drive. The problem is, my system still boots from SCSI. I have a Abit KT7 motherboard. It's bios options allow specifying of three boot devices. I have Floppy, CDROM and IDE-0 (in that order). SCSI (among others) is one of the boot options, but I *don't* have it selected (verified this many a time, trust me :). Still, the system boots from SCSI Arg, why? I have verified that the new installation works: I powered down, unplugged the SCSI cable and power cord on my SCSI drives, then booted up. The new system comes up as expected. I used fdisk to remove the bootable flag on my SCSI disk---that didn't do anything. The only other thing I could think of is using my rescue disk to do a rescue root=/dev/hda2 but this Promise ATA/133 controller needs a patched kernel or a 2.4.19-pre3 (or newer) kernel to be supported. I don't have such a rescue disk. I tried the mkboot command from the new system; when I booted with *that* disk, it just froze when it said Loading Linux. Maybe it's a bad floppy. My rescue floppy actually died on me in the middle of this (fortunately I have two). I have the Debian install CDs, but I can't my system to boot from a SCSI CD-ROM (but it LOVES to boot from SCSI disk). I already put my IDE CDROM back in the other computer... okay I'm starting to vent. Any help? Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:24:32AM -0500, Chris Jenks wrote: Forgetting all of the rest of your email, if you were an alien, would you want to contact this planet, just based off your first paragraph? Chris ps I'm not looking for a flame war, just pointing out that the signals that we are sending out there are not worth replying to. Well, if the aliens managed to perservere despite a significantly lower lower quality of life than ours, then they might certainly be interested in our media. It seems possible that an alien civilization could be completely barbaric (constantly warring, anarchy) and yet be technologically advanced (enough to send/receive galactic messages). Those aliens might look at us and say, wow, that planet gets by with only 75% barbarianism! Disclaimer: I do love to read sci-fi :) Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
OT: getting the family in on Linux. was: Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:28:02PM -0800, nate wrote: I personally do not let anyone in my family touch my computers, its the unspoken law. Don't go near them. i setup my ultra 1 so people can use it for stuff, but my firewalls and real servers are off limits. I have a somewhat similar situation here at my house. This made me think some folks on this group might be interesting in learning how I setup the family computers to allow my parents to ease into Linux. The concept here isn't particularly deep or anything, but it was quite a while before the idea dawned on me. Basically, I had talked up Linux so much to my dad that he was legitimately interested in giving it a try. But I didn't really want to do the work to backup all his Windows data, repartition, install Linux, and get the whole dual-boot thing going. Even then my dad might not use it simply because he'd have to reboot when going between systems. The solution: vnc. I have two computers, my workstation and my server. The server's role is diald, firewall and gateway. So most of the time it just sits working on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally a simple idea came to me: I could make an account for my dad on the server machine and have vncserver running on it. I also installed KDE for him, as well as StarOffice and Mozilla. I also have samba going, and shared his home directory to the network neighborhood. That allowed him to map his Linux account directory on his NT box as a network drive (i.e. seamless sharing of files between his Windows pc and his Linux home directory). Thus far it's worked out really well for him. When we get some more time, I plan to go over some of the intricacies with him, maybe ease him into some sysadmin type stuff. Anyway---I don't want to insult anyone's intelligence---I had the capability of doing this long before I got the idea, so my goal was to help out anyone on whom this hadn't yet dawned :) It's an easy way to let someone slowly wade into Linux without having to do the whole partition and dual-boot rigamarole. -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
OT: scsi vs ide: some data
that doesn't involve buying stuff :) Hope somebody finds this interesting! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:43:50PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: I also like vlc. Some files will play better in one program while others work in another. I keep vlc, mplayer, xanim and xine around. On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:36:38PM -0500, Sean wrote: As many others have mentioned, mplayer is what I like the best by far. I would suggest grabbing the latest CVS, I've never had a problem with it not building. With mplayer you also get mencoder if you want to rip DVDs to avi, or whatever. Oh, and it's also skinnable. I like the neutron skin the best at the moment. I just noticed this thread, so if this point has been made I apologize! I use xine for most of my multimedia needs. I works with mpeg and avi and asf files if you have the win32 libs. It's still somewhat beta, though, and does tend to lock up from time to time (nothing killall -9 xine won't fix). I've got a Matrox Millenium g450 card, and I'm running XFree 4.x with the XV stuff. This makes for really good performance with xine. For camparison, I used to use XMMS with the smpeg plugin. Viewing an mpeg in xmms really taxed my CPU (according to gkrellm). With xine+XV, however, viewing mpegs uses almost no CPU (again, whatching gkrellm). Good luck. Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:18:03PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: I am planning on building a firewall here. There is a lot of hype about Freebsd being great for firewalls, and books regarding Linux firewalls. I love Linux, but I believe in finding the best solution for a problem. My question is not which OS is better for a firewall, but which one you would use (or do use). I previously used OpenBSD as my firewall, cablemodem gateway, NAT box, then later as a diald server, etc. It worked pretty well, and was relatively easy to setup and configure. OpenBSD has a good reputation for being secure and all that (perhaps it's just hype :), and I also wanted another free Unix to play with. After a while, though, I got to thinking: security is only as good as its configuration. So, even though OpenBSD might be more secure out of the box than Debian out of the box, my Debian firewall is probably more secure than my OpenBSD firewall simply because I know the Debian system better. One thing I learned from playing with OpenBSD for a while is that familiarity with one Unix (e.g. Debian Linux) does not a general Unix admin make (due to subtle difference between Unices). So... hopefully this hobbyist's experience will help you make your decision. In general, I would say the following: if you're a full-time Unix admin, and you both enjoy and have the time to learn and understand a new Unix, go with a BSD. If you don't have the time, or don't want to fill your mind with the subtleties of two Unices, stick with Debian. (I'm sure most would agree that a properly configured Linux firewall is as safe as any other free Unix's firewall.) Good luck! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
Re: mozilla and vnc
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:27:26AM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:13:09PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: However, mozilla is a bit strange: it will load, and the window will be created, but the content of the window is entirely black! xrefresh doesn't do anything. The mouse will appear over the blackness. It appears as though mozilla is actually working---I did a bunch of random clicking with the mouse, and got mozilla's half pointer/half stopwatch to appear. Furthermore, this problem exists with both the linux xvncviewer client and the windows nt vncviewer program. I'm guessing this has something to do with mozilla... but I don't know what that would be. I just setup mozilla and vnc and they're working together fine for me... So it's not neccessarily an endemic problem... What bit-depth are you running your vnc server at? I'm running it at a bit-depth of 32. Although I just tried it at a bit depth of 24 and now mozilla works. I guess it works now :) Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
mozilla and vnc
Has anyone used mozilla through vnc and had it work? I've got vnc server running on one of my computers. I set this up so that my dad can easily play with Linux and get comfortable with it without having to partition/dual boot his NT box. Because of this, I'm trying to get the vnc server box to be as user friendly as possible. So I put KDE and StarOffice on there. They both work admirably through VNC. However, mozilla is a bit strange: it will load, and the window will be created, but the content of the window is entirely black! xrefresh doesn't do anything. The mouse will appear over the blackness. It appears as though mozilla is actually working---I did a bunch of random clicking with the mouse, and got mozilla's half pointer/half stopwatch to appear. Furthermore, this problem exists with both the linux xvncviewer client and the windows nt vncviewer program. I'm guessing this has something to do with mozilla... but I don't know what that would be. Anyone seen this? Any ideas? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
ssh'ing within LAN triggers diald
I have a three-computer internal LAN: two Debian (potato) boxes and a Windows NT machine. For now, we won't worry about the NT computer. Both Linuxes have identical /etc/hosts files: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 septictank 192.168.0.2 sewage septictank is my diald server/gateway/firewall machine for the rest of the LAN (and sewage is my workstation). Both machines are using OpenSSH-3.0.2p1 that I self-compiled and installed (with the same configure options). Here's the strange part: Ssh'ing from septictank to sewage can be done using either of the following commands: ssh sewage ssh 192.168.0.2 and the behavior is as expected (i.e. diald is not triggered). However, if I try to ssh from sewage to septictank, I have to use the following command: ssh 192.168.0.1 else diald is triggered (in other words, ssh 192.168.0.1 from sewage will login to septictank immediately. Using ssh septictank will cause diald to bring up a ppp connection, and ssh will wait until ppp is up and running). Two files I thought might be of interest are /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/host.conf. On both systems, however, these files are the same (Debian's default). Finally, one more interesting point that may or may not be related: I have not configured the Windows NT box to recognize the symbolic hostnames sewage and septictank. So when I connect to the Linux boxes from the NT boxes I always use their numerical IP addresses. Anyway, I use a program called putty for ssh on NT. When I ssh from NT to 192.168.0.1 (septictank) the connection is established immediately. However, if I ssh from NT to 192.168.0.2 (sewage), the connection will go through, but takes forever---the modem might be dialing, but I'm not sure (forgot to check that before sending this email). Anyway, thanks for any thoughs or suggestions! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
fullscreen video playback
Hello: Is there any way that I can play video on my Linux system in *fullscreen* mode? By fullscreen, I mean that the images are scaled to the size of my entire screen. I have smpeg (plaympeg) version 0.4.0 and SDL version 1.1.5 as well as mtvp (MpegTV) version 1.1.0.7 on my system. They both advertise fullscreen but the result is not what I described above. Rather than scaling the movie, the video is played back at the original size, but with a giant black border. So my screen is wholly covered in black, but only about 1/10 of the screen is actually video. Is there another software package I need to install? Or is this a limitation of my video hardware? I have a Matrox Millenium I (the lowliest of the Milleniums I guess) with 4mb of (video) RAM. My computer is a Pentium II 266 with 96mb of RAM. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I may make you feel, but I can't make you think. -- Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick
Re: fullscreen video playback
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:42:03PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: without proper video acceleration in X this is not possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see Well, if you define a videomode closer to the resolution of the video you're playing, SDL fullscreen mode should switch the Xserver to that mode, I think. This is obviously not even close to a good hardware-based scale-and-dirther solution, but at least the movies will not be played in a small rectangle with huge black borders anymore :-) On a local newsgroup, someone said I need the dbe module loaded in order to let SDL to video mode switching. What package provides the dbe module? I'm running Debian 2.2, with the xfree 3.3.6 package. I can't find any relevant dbe files on my system. In fact, I don't even have the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/modules on my computer. Thanks again! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I may make you feel, but I can't make you think. -- Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick
quake-svga
Hello: I installed the quake-svga package and quake-lib-stub (because I already have the libraries). When I switch to a console and type quake-svga the screen just goes blank, and my monitor goes into powersave mode within a couple of seconds. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Does it happen to have anything to do with the fact that I'm running kernel-level frame buffer (i.e. vga mode text console)? Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
installing on an old 486
I'm trying to install Debian on an old 486 sx. From DOS, I put the Debian CD in the drive, then did a d:\install\boot and it loaded up the dbootstrap program as expected. The installation procedure works fine until I get to the Install OS Kernel and Modules. When it asks for a install media, I choose CD-ROM. I selected /dev/hdc and it says mount failed. I actually went through all choices (all /dev/hdx) and the mount always failed. Could the problem be the CD-ROM is some strange proprietary interface that the installer can't talk to? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
dhcp-client not working with att @home cable modem
I'm trying to get ATT @home cable modem service working on my system. From what I have gathered, it seems as though it should be as easy as installing a dhcp client package, and let dhcp get everything working for me. I installed Debian's dhcp-client package. It runs, looks as though it's trying to get an IP address but fails. Also, I have the IP I've been assigned, so I don't think I really *need* dhcp, but I forgot to ask the tech the address of the nameserver(s). Anyway, here is the output of dhcp-client; eth0 is the card that is plugged into the cable modem: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:60:08:15:9d:e2 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:60:08:15:9d:e2 Listening on LPF/lo/null Sending on LPF/lo/null Listening on LPF/eth1/00:a0:cc:5b:dd:f8 Sending on LPF/eth1/00:a0:cc:5b:dd:f8 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: dhcp-client not working with att @home cable modem
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:02:55AM -0600, matt garman wrote: I'm trying to get ATT @home cable modem service working on my system. From what I have gathered, it seems as though it should be as easy as installing a dhcp client package, and let dhcp get everything working for me. ... Sorry, I was a bit hasty on the mailing list. I overlooked information on my paperwork. I'm on line. Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: ipmasq and howto
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:02:15PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: ...and you should see (policy ACCEPT) for the three 'chains'. If that's okay, do: ipchains -M -L ...and see if the MASQ entry is still present -- dunno why yet, but we're experiencing that entry's disappearance from time to time; 'diald' or somebody is deleting it, I think, when being taken down, and not putting it back up again. I executed ipchains -P forward ACCEPT for the three default chains (forward, output, intput), so that I could in fact have (policy ACCEPT) for all three chains. But when I do the ipchains -M -L I have no entries, even after executing the following line: ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0/0 -j MASQ I even went through and did a ipchains -F chain for all chains (output, input, forward). The I re-did the line above, so my output of ipchains -L looks like the following: Chain input (policy ACCEPT): Chain forward (policy ACCEPT): target prot opt sourcedestination ports MASQ all -- home/24 anywhere n/a Chain output (policy ACCEPT): But still when I do ipchains -M -L I don't get anything. Any ideas? Thanks as always, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: ipmasq and howto
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:14:52PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I executed ipchains -P forward ACCEPT for the three default chains (forward, output, intput), so that I could in fact have (policy ACCEPT) for all three chains. ... Problem solved, all of my roommates and I are connected! Thank you very much all of you that helped me out! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: ipmasq and howto
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:52:01AM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: The answer seems to be, Yes...sort of. :-) See if this helps: ... Thanks for all the help! But unfortunately it's not working. I double checked the IP-Masquerading howto to make sure I have all the necessary kernel components compiled in. I also installed the ipmasq package and rebooted. When I establish a PPP connection, however, I cannot see the external network (i.e. the internet) from my roommate's computer (e.g. cannot ping outside of 192.168.*, cannot load web pages). By the way, I do have my roommate's computer recognizing mine and mine seeing his (I've got samba working to share files between the two computers also). I also tried following your steps, still no luck. I've got a network traffic monitor utility called wmnet running on both my modem and ethernet card. I had my roommate watch these programs for activity while I tried pinging, telnetting and httping from his computer. He said he saw activity on both monitors, but still I couldn't get productive results on his computer. He's running Windows 98. Anyone have any ideas? Are there any config files I could post that would be useful in diagnosing the problem, or output of any particular program? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: cable modem and LAN
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:01:05PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: You may install other services as you see fit. On my proxy I run a DHCP server for my internal LAN, and I run a caching only named. Great, thanks for the info. I'm a bit time-constrained (i.e. lazy), so could anyone send me their /etc/dhcpd.conf file for a small home LAN, such as mine? Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: cable modem and LAN
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:01:05PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: I don't know of one on the net (i hate that term), but here goes: 1) Build a PC with two ethernet cards 2) Install Debian. 3) Install kernel-package and kernel-source packages 4) Compile new kernel; make sure IP masq is enabled. 5) Make sure second ethernet card is enabled and configured 6) Install ipmasq package 7) reboot It's that easy :) I did the above steps, but... I'm trying to setup a home LAN for cable modem sharing. I want my Linux box to act as the server/firewall, and have my roommates connect one Linux and two Windows boxes to my computer. There seems to be many small details that need attending to, and I'm not too sure what I'm doing. (The cablemodem hasn't actually been installed yet; I'm trying to get our home network running before that.) I tried reading the home network mini howto, but it was aimed at Redhat users, and I'm running Debian. I've got two ethernet cards installed in my computer; Linux detects them and installs the drivers for them correctly. I also recompiled my kernel with ip-masquerading and firewalling options. I installed Debian's ipmasq and dhcp packages. I did some hacking on the /etc/dhcp.conf file to assign the 192.168.* addresses to dhcp clients. When I start my computer and type ifconfig with no options, only the loopback device is shown. So I executed the following line: ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1 up and then did a /etc/init.d/dhcp restart and the dhcp server appears to start okay (i.e. no error messages). I configured one of my roommates' Windows box to automatically receive an IP address. I restarted his computer, and watched the output of tail -f /var/log/messages on my Linux box to see if dhcpd assigned an IP address: dhcp made no entry in /var/log/messages (also no entry in /var/log/syslog for that matter). I then used my serial modem to establish a ppp connection to my school and tried surfing the net from my roommate's computer -- which didn't work. I'm guessing there may be an error in my /etc/dhcp.conf file, but I mostly copied the sample dhcp.conf from the home network mini howto. My other guess is that I've missed some other minor detail. Does anyone have any hints on getting my LAN running? I'd really like a step-by-step guide to setting such a thing up (aimed at the Debian distribution). Thanks for any help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: cable modem and LAN
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:33:13PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: why are you trying to use dhcp for a small private lan? just enter static ip addresses into all the machines that are behind the linux firewall. use the 192.168.0.* range. dhcp is more trouble then its worth for just a couple machines... I originally thought that using dhcp would be simpler. Anyway, I went ahead and entered 192.168.0.2 as my roommate's IP address and rebooted his computer. But I still can't even ping my linux box (ping 198.168.0.1) from my roommate's windows box (the ping times out). So I'm guessing that I don't have my interface setup correctly. Here's what ifconfig reports for my NIC that goes into the switch: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:5B:DD:F8 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xf800 ...and the output of route: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface jakarta.gw.uiuc * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 default jakarta.gw.uiuc 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: cable modem and LAN
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:19:38AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: 2) Here's the other box (olddebian) which shares the internet connection: To bring the interface up: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 route add default gw 192.168.1.1 (OR: route add default gw newdebian) What is the equivalent of these for a Windows 98 box? I've done as you described for my computer, and for my roommate's Win98 box, I configured his IP to 198.168.0.2, his net mask to 255.255.255.0 and his gateway to 198.168.0.1. Our two computers still cannot talk (ping either way times out). By the way, I've got a network load monitor (wmnet) running on all of my interfaces: ppp, eth0 and eth1. Shouldn't I see some network activity on eth1 when I try to ping my roommate's computer (i.e. outgoing traffic)? eth1 is the NIC that connects to the switch. Thanks much, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: cable modem and LAN
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:19:38AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: 1) Here's the contents of my files on newdebian.home (connected to internet) /etc/hostname: newdebian ... After doing these things, I noticed something else: the output of ifconfig for eth1: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:5B:DD:F8 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:495 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:990 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xf800 This is after trying to ping my roommate's computer many times. Shouldn't the number of TX packets (above) be greater than 0? Only errors are accounted for above (495, which is about how many ping requests I did on my roomate's computer). MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
which driver for Netgear FA310TX
Hello: I've been having some problems setting up my home network, and I was wondering if my card is not working correctly. I have a Netgear FA-310TX, revision D2. Which driver is best for this card: the linux/tulip.c driver that comes on the FA-310tx's drivers disk, or the new tulip driver as supplied by linux kernel 2.2.14 or the old tulip driver (also in linux kernel source)? Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
ipmasq and howto
I read the IP-Masquerading howto and I am confused as to how it relates to Debian. For example, it says I need to get the ipchains and ipfwadm packages. I couldn't find these via a search in dselect. But I have the ipchains and ipfwadm binaries on my system. I presume they were installed by the ipmasq Debian package (which I installed). Also, the IP-Masquerading howto talks about making the rc.firewall script. Do I still need to do this, or is that functionality already provided by me having the ipmasq package installed? In short, what do I need to do as instructed by the howto, and what does the ipmasq package take care of automatically? -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: ipmasq and howto
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:15:38PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: I read the IP-Masquerading howto and I am confused as to how it relates to Debian. For example, it says I need to get the ipchains and ipfwadm packages. I couldn't find these via a search in dselect. But I have the ipchains and ipfwadm binaries on my system. I presume they were installed by the ipmasq Debian package (which I installed). ipchains is in the netbase package (This is how you find out: ... Ah, yes... But in my question what I meant was, In all the steps outlined in the IP-Masquerading howto, where does Debian leave off, and where do I need to pick up? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: ipmasq and howto
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:24:54PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: Well, once you know it is package, you can look in /usr/doc/package for documentation that ought to explain this. If it's not there, complain to the maintainer (package@packages.debian.org), because that sort of thing ought to Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. I just want to get IP Masquerading working on my Linux box. So I read the IP Masquerading howto. But I believe some steps outlined in the howto would be redundant given the packages I have installed on my computer. In other words, having installed ipmasq and other related Debian packages, do I still need to follow all the steps in the howto? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
cable modem and LAN
Hello: I'm getting a cable modem installation this weekend (ATT @home). In order to not pay for multiple IPs, my three roommates and I are setting up a home network. I plan to run the cablemodem into my Linux box to use it as the server. I have two ethernet cards that are correctly recognized by Linux. Now I'm not sure what else I need to do to get IP sharing working. I know I need to recompile my kernel with the IP masquerading and some other options, but beyond that I'm not sure what software I need to setup (which config files to edit, etc). I got the home network mini howto, but it's assumes a redhat distribution, which apparently does configuration of these things a bit differently. Does anyone know of a step-by-step guide for setting up my network for Debian? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
fetchmail not working
Recently I can no longer download my email with fetchmail. When I run fetchmail -v I get the following: fetchmail: 5.2.3 querying ews.uiuc.edu (protocol IMAP) at Fri, 14 Jan \ 2000 11:07:01 -0600 (CST) fetchmail: socket error while fetching from ews.uiuc.edu fetchmail: Query status=2 fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 And here is my ~/.fetchmailrc poll ews.uiuc.edu proto IMAP user my username pass my password fetchall flush And this has worked perfectly for months, i.e. I haven't changed anything and it's suddently broken. It almost looks to me as if it's an error on the machine where I download my email just because fetchmail doesn't get very far, but that's only a guess. Any ideas? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 09:47:44PM -0600, ktb wrote: I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if there is more than 64 MB of RAM added. On the other hand I've read that I don't think that's necessarily true. That is, I don't see why a small cache on a system with more than 64 mb of ram is any different that a system with less physical memory. this isn't a problem for PII processors and above, even if the cache is smaller than 512 kb. I've searched the archives and looked around on the net and can't nail this one down. Can I use more than 64 MB with this processor/L2 cache combination? You certainly can use a Celeron with 64 MB or more physical memory. The Celeron and Pentium II are the same chip, except for the L2 cache size (the Pentium II has a 512kb L2 cache and the Celeron a 128kb L2 cache). Very fast memory systems (e.g. cache memory) is very expensive, and I'm pretty sure this is what accounts for the price difference between the Celeron and Pentium II. For two systems that differ only in their processors, one with a P-II and one with a Celeron (both chips with the same clock), the P-II would probably be the better performer. But if you're basing your decision on price/performance ratio, rather than just performance, the Celeron is usually the winner. For what you'll save on buying a Celeron over the Pentium II, you can probably afford a higher clock or more physical ram. If you can afford it, you might consider the AMD Athlon, arguably the best PC chip available at this time, and reasonably priced. Hope this helps, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: SVGATextMode Chip ?
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:37:59AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I have a SR9 Number 9 video card. I am trying to setup SVGATextMode for this new card. Anyone have this card and know what Chipset I should uncomment in TextConfig to get the card working? When I use S3Virge I get You might want to look into the linux kernel's framebuffer options. The framebuffer makes SVGATextMode more or less obsolete. Try this on for size: http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk/programming/Framebuffer-HOWTO-1.1.html It's pretty easy to setup and use, too. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
make-kpkg and /vmlinuz
I was getting a bit of a headache trying to get my new kernel to work, until I realized the following: I had image=/vmlinuz on one line of my /etc/lilo.conf, but /vmlinuz is a symlink into /boot, which hadn't been updated to point to the new kernel. I thought when I built a kernel with make-kpkg and installed the resulting .deb with dpkg, that either /etc/lilo.conf was updated to see the new kernel, or the /vmlinuz symlink was updated. Or am I mistaken? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
kernel compiling error
Hello: I'm trying to recompile Linux kernel 2.2.13 to remove the stuff I don't need and include frame buffer support (it's a waste to use 80x24 on a big monitor!). Anyway, I untar'ed the archive in /usr/src, did my configuration, then from /usr/src/linux did make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.1 kernel_image and the compilation dies with the following: drivers/video/video.a(vga16fb.o): In function vga16fb_set_disp': vga16fb.o(.text+0x1ed): undefined reference to fbcon_vga_planes' vga16fb.o(.text+0x1fa): undefined reference to fbcon_ega_planes' Any ideas on this? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
alt key in jed under X
Hello: I use jed with emacs keybindings as my editor. Often, I need to use the Alt key, but it doesn't take when I'm in X. I know I can use the Esc key to get the same functionality, but I'd rather not (then I might as well use vi if I have to reach for the Esc key all the time :). The Alt key works as expected on the console. Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
/bin/sh and ash, bash
I noticed that Debian makes /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash by default. I'd rather have /bin/sh link to /bin/ash. I tried this quite a while ago, and it seems as though some Debian-specific scripts rely on /bin/sh actually being bash. In other words, last time I linked /bin/sh to /bin/ash, a few things got broken. I was just curious if anyone knew whether or not it's safe to link /bin/sh to /bin/ash? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
su and chsh authentication/password failures
I'm running a freshly installed potato system, and can't get su or chsh to work. After typing in my password, I get the following messages from su and chsh, respectively: su: Authentication failure Sorry. Incorrect password for garman. I can log in from the console with either the root account or my account (garman) without any problem. I am using the root password with su and my user password for chsh. I've tried both many times over, making sure to type these passwords slowly and correctly, but for some peculiar reason, they aren't working. Anyone have any ideas on this? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
su and chsh never work
Hello: I just installed potato via the floppy+ftp method. For some odd reason, I cannot su to root as a normal user, it always says I have the wrong password. But I can switch to a different virtual terminal and login as root with the same password, no problem. Also, as a user I tried to change my shell with chsh and when it behaves the same as su, i.e. it always says wrong password for my username. I can login with this password just fine, though. I tried both commands several times slowly, so I cannot be typing two different passwords incorrectly. Any hints? Thanks, Matt
correct apt sources.list line for non-us?
What is the correct line to use in /etc/apt/sources.list for the unstable non-us files? I tried the following: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US but I always get a 404 not found error. What I am I doing wrong? Thanks, Matt
Re: su and chsh never work
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:52:17PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: I just reinstalled a potato system 3 days ago using the 2.2.3 potato boot floppies and the base system was installed with massively wrong permissions: ... now hopefully this is not what happened to you and you can check to see if /etc/pam.d/ has the right files for chsh and chfn and su... Yup, what you described is exactly what happened on my system. Gives new meaning to unstable, eh? So is there an easier fix for this? Seems as though it would take just as long to re-install as it would to fix every little broken piece. I'm running on a fresh install now, so if I had to throw it all away, it wouldn't be a problem. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: su and chsh never work
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:52:17PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: I just reinstalled a potato system 3 days ago using the 2.2.3 potato boot floppies and the base system was installed with massively wrong permissions: Would it be a bad idea to just do a tar xzvpf base2_2.tgz from my root directory? I assume all the files will be put in the correct places, but will this throw off or otherwise interfere with dpkg's accounting in anyway? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: Burning CDs in Linux
Rob Rati wrote: I just got the new Yamaha 6x4x16x CD-RW and can't seem to burn a CD. It always error out with what looks like a buffer problem. My machine is all SCSI, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I do a CD to CD burn or make an image and burn that from the HD. It always errors out. I believe the author of cdrecord is using a Yamaha as one of his test drives. At any rate, I have a Plextor drive, but really had to struggle with it to get it to work for me. First, both the Yamaha and the Plextor have a block size jumper that is supposed to be set for use in Unix environments. I had mine working without that jumper set, but maybe the Yamaha is more sensitive to that. It can't hurt anyway. Also, the first thing everyone reccommends when you have SCSI trouble is to check termination. If you have only internal devices, the physical ends of your chain must be terminated. Also check cabling, high-speed scsi peripherals can be very sensitive to crummy cables. Also try using one of the newer alpha versions of cdrecord, perhaps 1.8a30 or better. Another thing that I had to do is to get the linux kernel source, and apply the scsi generic (sg) patch written by the author of cdrecord. You can get it from the cdrecord homepage (sorry, don't have it handy). Make sure you compile in scsi generic and scsi cdrom support in your kernel. For a while I thought my burner was getting too hot. I don't know how sensitive they are to heat, but just to be sure, I re-mounted mine in my case so that there is a gap between it and any other drive. I also installed an extra case fan in my computer to get some more moving air in the case. I don't think all that was necessary, but it certainly doesn't hurt. Good luck, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
zsh and tab completions
I have zsh version 3.1.6.pws13-1 installed on my potato system. For some reason, it's not doing *any* completions when I hit the tab key. By default, it behaves similar to bash with respect to completions, I believe, but this deb packaged zsh doesn't seem to do so. I tried just using the default zsh config files provided by the installation via dpkg and also the config files I was using when I had a roll-my-own zsh installed in /usr/local. No completions, either way. Do I need to explicitly turn on completions somewhere? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: zsh and tab completions
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 10:27:43PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I have zsh version 3.1.6.pws13-1 installed on my potato system. For some reason, it's not doing *any* completions when I hit the tab key. By default, it behaves similar to bash with respect to completions, I believe, but this deb packaged zsh doesn't seem to do so. Do I need to explicitly turn on completions somewhere? Sorry, should have checked the archives *first*. Anyway, if anyone else has this problem, do autoload -U compinstall ; compinstall and it's fixed. -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: MTA and debian default mta
Just out of curiosity, why did Debian choose exim as its default MTA? I remember Debian's default MTA used to be smail. Why did they move away from smail? And why did they choose exim over others (such as postfix)? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 05:46:12PM -0500, Marcin Kurc wrote: pages Opera is just barely 2nd to IE and NS. Also in the development of the Linux version they developed a console version which can actually render pages with frames/tables intelligently. Something that Lynx, after years of development, *still* fails at. Try links. links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser And there's another text-mode web browser called w3m, which somewhat supports frames and tables. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 01:56:31AM +, Mark Brown wrote: I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there and choose some more packages to install, then tell it to install, it gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit dselect, umount /cdrom, then re-enter dselect, select install and off she goes... Yes. The dpkg methods that know how to mount media expect to do that for themselves. If they find that something is already mounted where they want to work they will give up rather than interfere. The solution is not to mount CDs or whatever unless you're actually using them - giving them the noauto method in fstab will stop this happening automatically when you start up. Also, if you want to have your cd mounted, you can change your access method in dselect to mounted, and just point it to your cdrom mount point. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
debian install and multiple partitions
Hello: It's been quite a while since I've installed Debian. Last time I did an install, it was by putting the whole system on one partition. Now I want to split up Linux into many partitions, i.e. put /usr/ on one partition, /home/ on another, etc. I want to do this for ease of backups and some security benefits. My question is: how does this affect the installation process? Are there any gotchas I should look out for, having my disc split up as such? I'll be doing the floppy+ftp method of installing potato. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
/dev/fd0: Input/output error (making base disks)
Hello: I'm trying to make the base disks to do a potato install. When I do a dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0, I get the following: dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error 1113+0 records in 1112+0 records out And again with cmp root.bin /dev/fd0: cmp: /dev/fd0: Input/output error This is using a standard 1.44 floppy drive that came with my system. It has worked fine for as long as I've had the machine. By the way, I also tried several different disks, all with the same results as above. Any thoughts? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
plextor cd-r trouble
at 0xff00, mapped to 0xc6c06000, size 4096k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x32, linelength=4096, pages=0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:7ba0
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0
fb1: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6002B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: ATAPI 16X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
(scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter found at PCI 15/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 413 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4
Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter
scsi : 1 host.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W Rev: 0484
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
(scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R412C Rev: 1.07
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8496884 [4148 MB] [4.1 GB]
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker \
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xff00, 00:60:08:15:9d:e2, IRQ 10
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 56220k swap-space (priority -1)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
isapnp: Card 'OPL3-SA3 Snd System '
isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE32 PnP'
isapnp: 2 Plug Play cards detected total
registered device ppp0
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
/proc/scsi/scsi:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W Rev: 0484
Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R412C Rev: 1.07
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
/proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0:
Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.1.20/3.2.4
Compile Options:
TCQ Enabled By Default : Disabled
AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Disabled
AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY: 10
Adapter Configuration:
SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter
Ultra Wide Controller
PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xffbeb000
Adapter SEEPROM Config: SEEPROM found and used.
Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled
IRQ: 9
SCBs: Active 1, Max Active 2,
Allocated 15, HW 16, Page 255
Interrupts: 30104
BIOS Control Word: 0x18b6
Adapter Control Word: 0x005e
Extended Translation: Enabled
Disconnect Enable Flags: 0x
Ultra Enable Flags: 0x0001
Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x
Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x
Default Tag Queue Depth: 8
Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0:
{255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255}
Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0:
{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1}
Statistics:
(scsi0:0:0:0)
Device using Wide/Sync transfers at 40.0 MByte/sec, offset 8
Transinfo settings: current(12/8/1/0), goal(12/8/1/0), user(12/15/1/0)
Total transfers 26122 (23328 reads and 2794 writes)
(scsi0:0:4:0)
Device using Narrow/Sync transfers at 10.0 MByte/sec, offset 8
Transinfo settings: current(25/8/0/0), goal(12/15/0/0), user(12/15/1/0)
Total transfers 3770 (3770 reads and 0 writes)
--
Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning.
--Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: MTA
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:42:27PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not connected to a network (not in Debian, though, haven't tried sendmail in Debian), so I wonder what the best setup is for outgoing mail when it is only to send mail when I connect to the ISP (and directly when I do that, preferrably without manual intervention). I've found postfix to be my favorite mta thus far. It's configuration is very easy. There is now a debian package of postfix. I did a /usr/local install, though, because I was previously unaware of the Deb package. I have postfix setup to defer messages until I explicitly flush the outgoing mail queue. I have a simple script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that flushes the queue automatically whenever I make a ppp connection. I never liked smail or exim, and sendmail seems like overkill for a small site. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: plextor cd-r trouble
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:11:29AM -0600, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: From this description and your dmesg output below, I take it you have no external devices? If you did, it would be a factor, since it lengthens one of the SCSI chains. At least with a BusLogic BT-958. Nope, I don't have any external devices. On a similar note, I wonder if your two internal SCSI cables together form a single logical chain. That would also impose length limitations, and possibly change your termination configuration. Well, the dual cable setup was not my original setup. I used to have the cd-r and harddrive on the same ribbon, and used a 68-to-50 pin adapter for the burner. That setup was also unsuccessful. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
when a build fails with debian source
If I'm building a package from the Debian package source, and the build fails half way through, how do I pick up where I left off when I retry, rather than starting from scratch? For example, I'm building xfree 3.3.5 from the Debian source. Compiling xfree86 takes a tremendous amount of time. The build failed half-way through because it couldn't find a header file. I remedied the header file situation, then again executed ./debian/rules binary and the build appears to be starting from the beginning! That means I lost hours of compile time already. Was there something I should have done to make it start where it left off, rather than start fresh? I assumed debian/rules worked like make, i.e. it doesn't bother with things that don't need to be changed. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
pentium-optimized debian?
Is there any type of project that maintains a pentium optimized Debian distribution? Or is there an FTP site that maintains a collection of Debian packages built with an optimizing compiler (i.e. pgcc)? Is anyone interested in working on something like this? I think it would be nice to have a Debian equivalent of the Stampede, Enoch, and Mandrake distributions, which are compiled for Pentium or better systems. Just an idea. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
compiling from debian source package
Hello: I want to recompile several Debian source packages with pgcc. What do I edit within the debian source tree to change which compiler the build uses, and also which CFLAGS it uses? Is this something that is package specific? For starters, I am recompiling the xfree86 package. How do I make sure it uses the compiler and compiler flags I want it to when it builds? I probed around some random files within the source tree, but can't find out where it sets the compiler and compiler flags. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: unstable distribution on CD
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 11:48:18PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: MKIs there any way to obtain a snapshot of the unstable Debian MKdistribution (potato at this time, I believe) on CD-ROM? Yes, at http://www.lob.de/ from Monday 12/20/1999 ;-)) MKI'd also like all the source packages on CD so that I can recompile MKpackages with pgcc (pentium optimization). Again, same problem, I can't MKafford to download all the source packages I want over a slow modem. I think, they will be 5 or 6 CD's incl. source codes Is there an English translation to that site? I'm not entirely sure what some of those packages actually contain! MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
unstable distribution on CD
Hello: Is there any way to obtain a snapshot of the unstable Debian distribution (potato at this time, I believe) on CD-ROM? I want to install a Linux with glibc2.1 and the latest xfree, and I'd like to stick with Debian, but my I don't have a network connection that's fast enough for downloading the whole distribution. I'd also like all the source packages on CD so that I can recompile packages with pgcc (pentium optimization). Again, same problem, I can't afford to download all the source packages I want over a slow modem. Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: How to get stats on modem?
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 07:24:21PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: I like WMppp in WindowMaker. Another WindowMaker dock application that may be of interest: wmnet. It works for ppp/modem connections, but also for ethernet connections. -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
offtopic: reading Usenet via email?
Hello: Is there any type of service where I can subscribe to particular newsgroups via email? For example, I frequent the newsgroup alt.guitar.amps, and I think it would be nice to have all of the alt.guitar.amps traffic forwarded to me via email, and I could read it as a mailing list (as I do with the debian-user list, for example). The only real reason I'd like this is to have one piece of software for reading news and email (e.g. gnus, which I didn't like too much). Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: setting up a news server
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 06:41:42PM -0400, Sean wrote: I like slrn. It was simple for me to configure (which means it must be _real_ easy), and runs great. Slrn is just an agent, isn't it? I already use slrn, but online. In other words, I currently point slrn to my news server and read while the modem is connected. I want to have the articles downloaded automatically (say, in the middle of the night) so I can read them at my leasure, offline. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: fetchmail problems
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 09:10:03AM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: Make sure you have a line like this in your /etc/exim.conf: local_domains = localhost Yup, I have that in my /etc/exim.conf And one like this in your /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost Mine actually looks like the following: 127.0.0.1 loopback localhost ...but that shouldn't make a difference, right? Also, I read through the fetchmail FAQ, and searched the debian-user list archives. This problem seems to come up often, but all the standard tricks for fixing it do not work for me. :( Thanks again! MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
setting up a news server
Hello: I want to set up a NNTP server for reading Usenet news offline. I was reading in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO about some possible solutions, CNews+NewsX or CNews+suck or Leafnode... I see Debian has these all packaged. My question is: which setup is typically the easiest to setup and get running? I don't need anything too fancy except the ability to read from more than one server (e.g. my ISP's news server and my school's news server). Also, my school's server needs to be sent a login and password before I can access it. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: apt-get and two cds
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 10:51:50PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: You need to use dselect and set the installation method to dpkg-multicd (need to get this package) or use the astill-in-beta apt-cdrom package. Well, I did some more snooping on my CDs. On the first binary CD, the Packages file is plain text (human readable), and I can even read the output of less Packages.gz. However, on my second CD, the Packages file is binary data (i.e. not human readable); also I tried less Packages.gz and that also gives me raw data. Is the Packages on the second Official binary CD supposed to be binary, or is my CD corrupt? It seems fishy that both my Packages and Packages.gz files would *both* be corrupted. Anyone have their Official binary discs handy to check up on this? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
apt-get and two cds
I downloaded and burned my own official Debian Slink 2.1 cds. There are two binary cds. I downloaded these while at school while I had an ultra-fast connection so that I can use apt-get on the cdrom, rather over the much slower (and costly) modem. My question -- I have been successful installing packages that reside on the first CD, but this does not work for packages on the second CD. For example, the package cnews is stored on the second CD, but if I try to do a apt-get install cnews, I get the following error: E: Package cnews has no installation candidate This is with cd 2 in the drive and mounted. So I figured that maybe I have to run apt-get update with the second CD in the drive and mounted (previously, I had ran apt-get update only on the first CD). But when I run apt-get update on the second disc, I get this error: E: Line 2 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/cdrom_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages has no :. E: Package file /var/state/apt/lists/cdrom_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages line 2 does not start a package Any ideas? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
fetchmail problems
Hello:
I've had fetchmail working beautifully for a while now. Out of
nowhwere, having done nothing to my system, fetchmail suddenly is
broken! Here is my ~/.fetchmailrc
poll students.uiuc.edu
proto imap
user username
pass password
no flush
fetchall
smtp localhost
And when I try to execute fetchmail -v, I get the following output:
crh3019:~% fetchmail -v
fetchmail: 4.6.4 querying students.uiuc.edu (protocol IMAP) at Wed May 19
20:33:28 1999
fetchmail: IMAP * OK ux8.cso.uiuc.edu IMAP4rev1 v10.218 server ready
fetchmail: IMAP A0001 CAPABILITY
fetchmail: IMAP * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4REV1 NAMESPACE SCAN SORT X-NETSCAPE
THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
fetchmail: IMAP A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0002 LOGIN username *
fetchmail: IMAP A0002 OK LOGIN completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0003 SELECT INBOX
fetchmail: IMAP * 3 EXISTS
fetchmail: IMAP * OK [UIDVALIDITY 896242110] UID validity status
fetchmail: IMAP * OK [UIDNEXT 19315] Predicted next UID
fetchmail: IMAP * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
fetchmail: IMAP * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft
\Seen)] Permanent flags
fetchmail: IMAP * OK [UNSEEN 1] 1 is first unseen message in
/homeb/g/ga/gar/garman/mail/../.INBOX
fetchmail: IMAP * 0 RECENT
fetchmail: IMAP A0003 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0004 FETCH 1:3 RFC822.SIZE
fetchmail: IMAP * 1 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 2818)
fetchmail: IMAP * 2 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 3224)
fetchmail: IMAP * 3 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 2618)
fetchmail: IMAP A0004 OK FETCH completed
3 messages for username at students.uiuc.edu (8660 octets).
fetchmail: IMAP A0005 FETCH 1 FLAGS
fetchmail: IMAP * 1 FETCH (FLAGS ())
fetchmail: IMAP A0005 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0006 FETCH 1 RFC822.HEADER
fetchmail: IMAP * 1 FETCH (RFC822.HEADER {1348}
reading message 1 of 3 (1348 header octets)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused
fetchmail: IMAP A0007 LOGOUT
fetchmail: IMAP )
fetchmail: IMAP A0006 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: IMAP * BYE datasrv2.cso.uiuc.edu IMAP4rev1 server terminating
connection
fetchmail: IMAP A0007 OK LOGOUT completed
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from students.uiuc.edu
fetchmail: Query status=10
fetchmail: normal termination, status 10
Also -- I'm running Exim, and have been for quite a while. I did a
little snooping on DejaNews, and folks usually say that sendmail needs
to be running... I don't have a sendmail process, but does exim
create one anyway?
Thanks for any help!
Matt
--
Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And though the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning.
--Pink Floyd, Echoes
postfix
Is anyone out there using Postfix for their MTA? Is it easy to install and use with Debian? I'm running Slink, but I noticed that the only Deb package for postfix is in the unstable group. Anyway, it looks like a nice little program for a simple setup (such as mine). Just curious. Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: [Q] How to compile a deb source pacjage
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 03:15:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A short question: Does anyone know how to compile a debian source package into a binary? If you have the source package, which usually consists of three files, the *.dsc, the *.orig.tar.gz, and the *.diff.gz, you need only do the following to unpack the source: dpkg-source -x *.dsc That will create a directory having the same name as the package. Change to that directory, and run the following command: debian/rules binary That will run the rules script in the debian directory, with the binary argument which says just create the *.deb binary package. That should be sufficient in most cases (except for XFree86 :) MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: wav mp3
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:19:11PM -0400, Alexander Gutfraind wrote:
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I'm pretty sure this Happy99.exe thing is a virus. I don't think it
is malicious, but a pain nonethless. In short, don't run it
(shouldn't affect Linux-only users, though :)
MG
--
Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And though the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning.
--Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: wav mp3
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:22:27PM -0400, Alexander Gutfraind wrote: Can anybody point to a software for converting .wav to mp3, or at least converting anything to mp3 compression? I don't know if there is a Debian packge for it, but look for the program called bladeenc, it's free and considered one of the better mp3 encoders. Another decent encoder is 8hz-mp3, at www.8hz.com. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: Exim + Procmail + Mutt
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 02:11:49AM +0200, J Horacio M G wrote: I lost some incoming mail as I tried to use Exim with the same .forward and .procmailrc scripts I had with Debian 2.0, it sent mails to /var/spool/exim/input/ and /var/spool/exim/msglog/. I believe Exim complained about |exec and IFS (I tried both with .forward). This is what I had in my ~/.forward: |exec /usr/bin/procmail Exim is kind of like a MTA+MDA in one; to a degree, it does what smail+procmail does. That in mind, you can uninstall procmail, and have exim do all of your mail sorting. (You'll need take your procmail recipies, convert them to exim's language, and stick them in your ~/.forward.) For example, here is what I have in my ~/.forward to filter this mailing lists' posts: # Exim filter # take care of mailing list debian-user if $header_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-user@lists.debian.org then save my_mail_directory/debian-user finish endif # enf of debian-user filter This works, although I think I liked smail+procmail better, personally. shrug MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: Mutt and signature
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 04:27:08PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reply-To: What is the variable that will cause mutt to automatically ad a .signature file? It seems this is the only thing I am having a hard time with upon my transition to Mutt In my ~/.muttrc, I have the following line: set signature=~/.sig And that appends the spiffy file ~/.sig to the end of every message I send with mutt, as seen below :) MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: HOWTOs to txt..
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 02:46:36PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 4 May, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote about HOWTOs to txt.. Just wondering if anyone has printed off howto pages? Is there any quick way to convert a full howto (ie.. all the pages) to a single file and print it off? I've printed them in the past but simply saved each page to text with netscape and printed them. This is a pain :) Thanx got any suggestions. The HOWTO's are all converted to postscript which are nicely formated and ready for printing. The mini-HOWTO's are not available as ps though. Some are available in SGML which can be converted to ps(I have not done it but it is possible some how) And don't forget the program mpage (there is a Debian package for it). You can print multiple pages (of text or postscript) on one physical page. Obviously the text comes out smaller, but it saves paper on lengthy stuff. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces --Pink Floyd
acroread can't load library libXt.so.6
Hello: I installed the acroread package. I've installed and removed it before, in the past, with no trouble, but this time, I get the following error: /usr/lib/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: can't load \ library 'libXt.so.6' (and that's all on one line). I did a locate libXt.so and here's what shows up: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 And these paths are pointed to in my /etc/ld.so.conf: crh3019:~% less /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat /usr/local/lib And I also tried running ldconfig as root before running the program, no dice. Any ideas? thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: acroread can't load library libXt.so.6
I fixed the libXt.so problem -- but now acroread seg faults. Does anyone know anything about this? BTW, I fixed the libXt.so.6 problem by explicitly setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable and exporting it (and it has the same values as the entries in my /etc/ld.so.conf file, I don't see why the environment variable should make a difference.) Thanks again! On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 09:58:25PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I installed the acroread package. I've installed and removed it before, in the past, with no trouble, but this time, I get the following error: /usr/lib/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: can't load \ library 'libXt.so.6' (and that's all on one line). I did a locate libXt.so and here's what shows up: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 And these paths are pointed to in my /etc/ld.so.conf: crh3019:~% less /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat /usr/local/lib And I also tried running ldconfig as root before running the program, no dice. -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Exim allowing external mail...
How do I configure exim to allow mail from non-local hosts? It seems as though my current (mostly default) exim setup will not allow me to receive mail from anywhere other than my domain, uiuc.edu. I currently have all my mail sent to my University email account, then fetchmail from there. But I've been trying to subscribe to the WindowMaker mailing list, and their list server is really picky about where mail comes from -- I subscribe to my school's email address, but the mail comes from my machine, so it doesn't allow my mail. So I tried to subscribe with my machine name, but I'm not getting the confirmation notice because (I think) Exim is disallowing mail outside of the uiuc.edu domain. I've had this come up on other occations, i.e. not receiving mail sent specifically to my machine from outside of my domain. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
making source and non-free CDs
I downloaded and made an official Debian 2.1 cd. I'd also like to make a _source_ CD because I've been recompiling things like made lately, having just installed pgcc. What is the best way do do this? Is it appropriate to just mirror the source directory of a close mirror that has the source, or is there a preferred method? Also, same goes for the non-free and non-US stuff that I'd also like to have on CD. (I'm in my University dorm with an ethernet link to T3s and the like; I want to take advantage of my bandwith before the end of the academic year ;) Thanks! MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
building glibc from dpkg source
I'm trying to recompile the glibc2 Debian package with pgcc, hopefully to squeeze out a bit more performance. I downloaded the *.orig.tar.gz, *.dsc, and *.diff.gz files needed, then did a dpkg-sourc -x glibc*.dsc and everything unpacked okay. Before I modified anything at all, I tried to do a debian/rules binary (as root), but I get the following error: ... Applying glibc-2.0.7-with-headers patch... :make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.0.36/include/linux/version.h', needed by `/home/garman/glibc-2.0.7.19981211/build-i386/config.status'. Stop. I don't know why it's looking for the 2.0.36 kernel headers. I'm running kernel 2.2.5. Also, I also tried a debian/rules clean and then tried to build the binary again, but the same error still comes up. Thanks for any help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: MP3 encoder?
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 12:30:11AM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: DOes anyone know of mp3 encoder for Linux? If yes, where would I be able to find one? TIA, Andrew I don't think there are Deb packages for these, but you can definately install them in /usr/local. 8hz-mp3, www.8hz.com bladeenc, http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625 Bladeenc is supposedly faster. Hope that helps, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
cd-to-cd burning
What is the best way to do CD-to-CD copying under Linux? Specifically, I have a copy of the official debian 2.1 (slink) CD of which I want to burn an identical copy. Is it necessary to make an ISO9660 image from the current CD and then burn? Surely there is an easier way to get around this. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
pgcc Debian package?
First question: I've noticed there are several replacement gcc compilers, and I'm not sure what the differences are (if any). egcc, egcs, pgcc, perhaps more. I've seen that there is a egcc Debian package, but not a pgcc one. What are the differences between these compilers; is there or will there be a pgcc Deb package? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: What do I do with tarballs?
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Stefan Langerman wrote: Subject: What do I do with tarballs? dselect is great, but what do I do when there is no deb package for the soft I want? I know of course how to install somethng from a tarball, my question is just: where do I do it? Where do I put the package etc. and make sure I am not messing up dpkg? Are there any conventions for that? Is there any doc that explains that? For software that isn't Debianized... I use epkg: http://www-wsg.cso.uiuc.edu/encap/ It is very similar to GNU's stow, but in my opinion, better. Basically, stuff you do for your whole system that is not done by dpkg (i.e. installing new software) should go in the /usr/local/ hierarchy. When you compile software from source and want to install it in /usr/local, you can put the made files in their appropriate directories relative to /usr/local, e.g., executables go in bin/ and man pages in man/, etc... Once the files are set up appropriately, you can use epkg to create symlinks in the actual /usr/local hierarchy, for easy installing and uninstalling. I believe there is a distribution or two that actually uses this method for package management. email me if you want more info, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
graphic df type of util for Linux?
Until I can afford a new hard drive, I find myself typing df often to see how much free space I have on each partition. I think it would be nice to have a little utility that displays graphs of free space per partition, and updates regularly (a graphic output of df, if you will). I'm visualizing bar graphs, here, but I suppose any type of graph would work. Something that could be swallowed in some sort of desktop module would be especially nice (FvwmButtons, Wharf, ...). So maybe I could have three little bar graphs showing the free space for three partitions I specify. Does anyone know if anything of this sort exists? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 12:49:27PM -, Ted Harding wrote: However, can I ask people what they would use for music composition, accounting and personal finance? I'm aware of good programs for creating musical scores which can also generate MIDI output, but I'd hardly call them top-flight composition tools; and it does seem that the accounting/finance area is thinly served. For the music composition thing... This is more along the lines of recording, but if you're recording, then you've probably composed... SLab is a very powerful multi track recording tool. A bit buggy, but still maturing, and really cool. Also, Impulse Tracker is being ported to Linux, for .mod (.it actually) composition. You can definately do composing with Impulse Tracker. There are s many apps for Linux, although some are hard to find or a bit obscure. A lot of reporters probably don't take the time to actually find out what *IS* available for Linux. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: compiling xfree86
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 02:00:38PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Could anyone offer any advice or pointers as for how to custom compile xfree86 as a debian package? I want to compile using egcc and only include support for the video driver that I need (trying to make it a bit leaner). Also, I want the libraries to be thread-safe because apparently the default Debian xlibs are not compiled to be thread safe. If I dpkg-source -x *.dsc for the xfree86 source package, then (as root) just go into the source directory and do a debian/rules binary the build fails with the following error: (cd debian ; gcc -O2 -o xserver-wrapper -g xserver-wrapper.c) touch build set -e; for i in debian/create-compat-* ; do echo $i; $i ; done; set +e debian/create-compat-xlib6 /bin/sh: debian/create-compat-xlib6: Permission denied make: *** [binary-compat] Error 1 And then it just stops. Any hints? -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
which package provides ldd
Which package has the ldd program in it? I could swear this utility used to be on my computer, now it's not (I had that dselect removal disaster mentioned in an earlier post). Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
still no luck with apt-get
I still can't get apt-get update do do anything useful. Anyone have a clue? Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free And the errors: Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to ftp1.us.debian.org' 0]http: Bad header line Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org stable/main Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to ftp1.us.debian.org (206.187.92.15)' 0] [Cmp:Packag gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file 0% [Packages `Waiting for file' 0]http: Bad header line Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to ftp1.us.debian.org (206.187.92.15)' 0] [Cmp:Packag gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file http: Bad header line gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file ERROR http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: still no luck with apt-get
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 04:56:23PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I still can't get apt-get update do do anything useful. Anyone have a clue? Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free Which apt version are you using? Which distro? (hamm, slink, potato) I'm using apt version 0.1.9 in the slink distribution. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: still no luck with apt-get
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:17:39PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: Matt Garman wrote: Which apt version are you using? Which distro? (hamm, slink, potato) I'm using apt version 0.1.9 in the slink distribution. I am trying to update from that mirror without much luck. Try changing the line to be deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free It appears to be my system :( Same errors: Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages 0% [Packages `Waiting for file' 0]http: Bad header line Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to http.us.debian.org (208.146.80.105)' 0] [Cmp:Packa gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file 0% [Packages `Waiting for file' 0]http: Bad header line Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to http.us.debian.org (208.146.80.105)' 0] [Cmp:Packa gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file 0% [Packages `Waiting for file' 0]http: Bad header line gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
apt-get update help
When I try to do an apt-get update, I get the following errors: Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to http.us.debian.org' 0]http: Bad header line Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file 0% [Packages `Connecting to http.us.debian.org (206.187.92.15)' 0] [Cmp:Packagh ttp: Bad header line Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to http.us.debian.org (206.187.92.15)' 0] [Cmp:Packag gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file http: Bad header line gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages .gz Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/Package s.gz Bad return code from subprocess Any help? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: apt-get update help
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 08:57:58AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: When I try to do an apt-get update, I get the following errors: Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to http.us.debian.org' 0]http: Bad header line Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file 0% [Packages `Connecting to http.us.debian.org (206.187.92.15)' 0] [Cmp:Packagh ttp: Bad header line Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to http.us.debian.org (206.187.92.15)' 0] [Cmp:Packag gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file http: Bad header line gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages .gz Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/Package s.gz Bad return code from subprocess I thought maybe it was a problem with my /etc/sources.list file. I tried changing to a different site, but that didn't help. Here is my /etc/sources.list file, and following that, my apt-get update errors. # begin /etc/sources.list # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian main contrib non-free # end of /etc/sources.list Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org main/contrib Packages 0% [Packages `Waiting for file' 0]http: Bad header line Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org main/non-free Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to ftp1.us.debian.org (208.146.80.105)' 0] [Cmp:Packa gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file 0% [Packages `Waiting for file' 0]http: Bad header line gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file ERROR http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/main/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.g z Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/main/non-free/binary-i386/Packages. gz Bad return code from subprocess Doh! -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
compiling xfree86
Could anyone offer any advice or pointers as for how to custom compile xfree86 as a debian package? I want to compile using egcc and only include support for the video driver that I need (trying to make it a bit leaner). Also, I want the libraries to be thread-safe because apparently the default Debian xlibs are not compiled to be thread safe. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
