Bruce Perens in Paris for Bastille Day
Hi, Please excuse me for the late notice, and for not being able to write this in French. I am coming to Paris on Sunday, and will attend the World Wide Web Consortium Patent Policy Board meeting Monday through Wednesday. I'm there to represent SPI and Debian, and will of course be lobbying to keep W3C standards free of royalty-bearing and discriminatory patent licensing, so that they can continue to be implemented in Free Software. I'd like to take part in some of the Bastille Day festivities on the day that I arrive, and am wondering if one or more of you would like to get together in the afternoon on Sunday for conversation and to help a non-French-speaker celebrate. I will have slept on the plane, and should be reasonably alert. Please reply within the next 24 hours, I'll have wireless email until they close the plane. Airline and hotel information is below. Thanks Bruce Perens United Airlines Flight 960 Jul 13 18:25 depart SFO Jul 14 13:55 arrive CDG * Hotel Information * Holiday Inn Par St Germain Des Pres / 92 RUE DE VAUGIRARD / *Telephone:* 33-1-49-54-87-00 *Fax Phone:* 33-1-49-54-87-01 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CANCEL: Bruce Perens in Paris for Bastille Day
I have had something come up, and it looks as if I won't be able to go to Paris. I will attend the important portions of the W3C meeting via speakerphone. Thanks Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UN-CANCEL! Bruce Perens IS coming to Paris for Bastille Day
I have cleared the problem that came up, and will be able to get on the plane to Paris after all. Sorry for being such a flake :-) So, is anyone able to meet? Thanks Bruce On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:56:45AM +, bruce wrote: Hi, Please excuse me for the late notice, and for not being able to write this in French. I am coming to Paris on Sunday, and will attend the World Wide Web Consortium Patent Policy Board meeting Monday through Wednesday. I'm there to represent SPI and Debian, and will of course be lobbying to keep W3C standards free of royalty-bearing and discriminatory patent licensing, so that they can continue to be implemented in Free Software. I'd like to take part in some of the Bastille Day festivities on the day that I arrive, and am wondering if one or more of you would like to get together in the afternoon on Sunday for conversation and to help a non-French-speaker celebrate. I will have slept on the plane, and should be reasonably alert. Please reply within the next 24 hours, I'll have wireless email until they close the plane. Airline and hotel information is below. Thanks Bruce Perens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bruce in Paris
Fabien, Thank you for volunteering your home in the Bastile as the meeting place. I suggest that everyone else coordinate with Fabien. I will get from the airport to my hotel for a shower, call you on the phone, (or please leave a message for me if you aren't available at that time) and then I'll meet up with you at the time that you designate. I'll print out your map for the taxi. My hotel Telephone: 33-1-49-54-87-00 Fax Phone: 33-1-49-54-87-01 Thanks Bruce From: Fabien Penso [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm living at Bastille, in Paris (hehe) and I would be really interested to meet you. Depending of how many people we are, we can meet at my home, the map is on my personal page (see the sig). I'll come back from LSM tonight, around 23.15 (but I might change it to come back sooner). Please keep me informed. Just in case: 06 07 37 89 98 is my phone number. =2D-=20 Fabien Penso [EMAIL PROTECTED] | LinuxFr a toujours besoin de : http://perso.LinuxFr.org/penso/ | http://linuxFr.org/dons/ Note sp=E9ciale: Je serai aux LSM du 10 au 13 inclus: http://lsm.abul.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Executive decision on usenet gateway
Chris, Please arrange for _every_ posting to carry X-No-Archive: yes, or arrange for the X-No-Archive headers to be preserved. I'm sure you can hack that much in. If you can't, please stop distributing the bugs list until this is fixed. There is no reason for anyone to go nonlinear about this. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: read-only root and usr partitions
It's best for now to mount root for write and /usr read-only. Under normal operations I think the files in /etc are only written at system start-up and shut-down (and during backups) and it might be possible to have root read-only at other times. The _dates_ in /dev are changed but the actual files are not except for the case of named pipes or unix-domain sockets that are created there by some daemons (lpd?). I think that stuff belongs in /tmp, not /dev. I think it's desirable to be able to run with a read-only root, especially since we are so close to being able to do it now, but it's not my highest priority. I'd be interested in seeing others work on it. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions
There are some dos-compatibility switches in the expert menu of fdisk. I think you type x to get there. You should BACK UP EVERYTHING (from Linux, since DOS can't read the partitions) before doing this. Write down all of the details of your partitions - their start address, length, etc. Turn on the dos-compatibility switches and re-write the disk label. See if DOS can read the partitions. If not, re-create the partitions using DOS FDISK, and see if DOS can read them after that. You will have to add the Linux partitions using Linux later on. I think DOS cares which partition is the extended one. I think it wants it to be partition 4, but I'm not sure I remember that correctly. You run a good chance of clobbering the disk, so be real sure of your backups first. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is Project.tmpl
I think it's in the xdevel package. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT/DPKG Problems with Apache 1.1.3-6
The pre-install script in that package is failing - it says returning status 1, and it should return 0. You can use dpkg to extract the package archive, and then try to run DEBIAN/preinst by hand. That should let you figure out what is wrong with the script. Sometimes it is something simple like the interpreter does not exist (the file mentioned after the #! on the first line) or there's no exit statement at the end of the script. Sometimes the script runs another program that fails or doesn't exist. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't boot 1.2 or 1.3 rescue floppy.
Tell us what kind of machine it is, and what peripherals it has. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 06032921167-0001@T-Online.De
Me too. Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Templin). By the way, only a broken mail system would bounce the message to you. There's stuff in the RFCs about using the envelope from for errors that this mail delivery agent must be ignoring. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with serial port?
The other possibility would be that the interrupt vector for the com port isn't configured correctly in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: graphics accelarator cards ?
My problem is that the best Open GL cards don't seem to run on Linux. Has anyone had good experience with one? Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with serial port?
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Re: Debian print server
So, if you telnet localhost 515 on your system, does it get a connection? That's what I was using to see if anything answered on the port. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: linux and windoz
Willows TWIN emulation works well for 16-bit programs, doesn't work at all for 32. If you have the source for the MS windows program, even a 32-bit one, you can re-compile the application on Linux with a Willows library so that it is a native X program, that works a lot better than emulation. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian print server
As far as I can tell, the lpd on my system isn't listening on TCP socket 515, which is what I would expect it to listen to from looking at /etc/services. It's only listening to /dev/printer, if you give it the -l 515 argumnent when it starts, it'll listen. Someone more familiar with the program will have to say if this is a bug or not. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: how many account?
At least 30,000 accounts can be supported. I've never heard of anyone actually having that many. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Download
Can you use a CD drive, if so, you would do much better to start with one of the $4 Debian CD sets. See our web page for information on how to get CDs. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?
Because they confuse Mr. Grunloh. Be nice to the user, please. I wish they'd just used the Official CD images, or at least the program that generates the Official CD images. They'd have a bootable CD in that case, and you would not need any floppies at all. You should be able to install this with _one_ floppy, but without seeing the CD, I can't give you good instructions on how to do so. Try writing resq1440.bin to floppy, boot that, and see if you can get it to read the rest from the CD. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: how many account?
From: Jack Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] At least 30,000 accounts can be supported. I've never heard of anyone actually having that many. Well, Suns (under Solaris) support 32-bit uids, so the limit there could be much higher. Bruce's answer seems to imply that Debian uses 16-bit uids. Can someone tell me if that's true or not? Just curious. They are unsigned 16-bit for now. That means 65K maximum. I think the data-type is specified by POSIX, so you'd need an alternate interface to use 32-bit ones. I said 30,000 because I don't know if all tools treat them as unsigned. I don't know if LIBC 6 addresses 32-bit UIDs and GIDs. When you get to 80K users, one would hope you have a hashed password file rather than the flat file we currently use. All of this is fix-able, without too much trouble, if someone is motivated. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dselect failure
Did you tell it your distributions were dists_unstable_main? That should be a space, not an underbar. Just guessing. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dselect failure
Never mind my previous answer. Tell dselect: Enter Debian Directory: /pub/debian/dists/unstable Distributions to get: main contrib non-free By the way, why are you installing unstable? That's for developers only. If you don't really know what you are doing, it's bound to mess up your system. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dselect failure
You probably saw the messages about this already: Use debian as the Debian directory, and these distributions: dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/contrib dists/unstable/non-free This is a bug. Developers are conversing about why it is happening. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [DEBIAN] Hey! Problems with understanding Linux...
From: OS2LinuxGuide [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could we have every Debian list message's subject include the [DEBIAN] tag? No :-) Please look into procmail and mailagent, both of which are Debian packages. 1. I am having problems with my ppp dialer. I have it call through to my ISP's server, it makes the usual noises, and then goes quit and disconnects. I think this is because of my ISP's need for me to use PAP authentication. God I hate that. Well, my question is how would I go by setting up PAP on my Debian system. I have looked at every amount of info on the net I could find, and even printed alot of it. Nothing helped. I also want the solution to be automatic, something I can put in the options file or ppp-chatscript file. (As compared with the command line way) I think your PAP stuff goes in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 (change S0 to your interface name for your modem), and /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. I e-mailed you the pppd man page. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
laptop resume and apmd
I had a problem with laptop resume. I'm running a Toshiba 440CDT laptop, with 16M ram and a 800x600 24-bit deep display. I have it set up to suspend when the cover is closed and resume when it is opened. When I am running apmd, I am subject to resume failures - you have to cold-boot the OS and check the filesystems. I removed apmd and the problem cleared up. My hypothesis is that apmd is swapped out when the user-suspend signal comes in (because there is so little RAM). It takes too long to run, and thus the laptop doesn't suspend properly. I also notice that it is logging resume, but not suspend. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks Bruce Perens -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/rc ?? ( where filesystems are mounted )
I'd suggest you place your script in /etc/rc.boot/ . This will get run at boot time after local disks have been mounted. See the man page for run-parts, this will tell you how the scripts in that directory are run. Run-parts itself is invoked in /etc/init.d/boot . Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Although I don't have a 4GB one, I have had good luck with the smaller Quantum Fireball IDE drives. My Western Digital drives have had squeaky bearings right out of the box. Although some have reported problems with them, my Conner SCSI drive has been OK, and I think I have a Conner IDE that's OK too. My new 2.1GB laptop drive is a Seagate, and that works fine so far. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
list server was down
The list server was down for most of the weekend. The kernel did not crash but for some reason it wasn't responding to the network. Sorry. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: list server was down
I'm told it was not the list server that was down (after all, it's a Debian system), but the hub it was connected to that had a problem after a power hit. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian project leader speaks in Concord, California, October 17-19
Dear Debian Developers and Users, I'll not be speaking about Debian, but about something else I care about, ham radio. The Pacificon ARRL convention at the Concord (California) Hilton will be held on October 17-19. Any Debian folks who want to stop by and say hello (I think admission is $3) can find me at the No-Code International table during most of the show. My talks are: Sunday 0900, Marconi Room: Spread Spectrum radio communications. It's wireless, and faster than ISDN! How it works, and how to get involved. Sunday 1100, Marconi Room: NO Code. Replacing Morse code tests for ham licenses with something more relevant. Sunday 1200, Morse Room: License Restructuring. I analyze the ARRL's license restructuring plan and some alternative plans. You can get a sample of what this is all about at http://www.nocode.org/ . Pacificon information is at http://www.mdarc.org/ . Thanks! Bruce Perens K6BP -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Strange smail core file..
Use the source, luke! Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg slackware?
Try unpacking the package, tarring up the result, and moving it to the slackware system that way. If it doesn't work, you might have to run autoconfig and build it from source under slackware. Be sure the /var/lib/dpkg directory gets bootstrapped with something sensible. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CDR drive replacement.
The HP CDR drive was designed and manufactured by Philips. It has slightly different firmware. I'd suggest the Yamaha. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: scroll-back buffer
Excuse my naivete, but won't printing a bunch of blank lines clear it? Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Toshiba laptop --- resume mode
First, let me assure you that you can get it to work. It works great on my Toshiba 440CDT. Install the kernel-source package. As root, make menuconfig in the /usr/src/linux directory. Enable APM (it's under character devices). Enable the option for APM to blank the screen. This will work fine for both text screens and X windows, and will turn off the backlight. APM is not enabled in our generic kernel because some machines crash with it enabled. Remove device drivers that aren't used on your system. Build the kernel with make zLilo, and the modules with make modules;make modules_install. Do not install the apmd package. apmd is not reacting fast enough and it breaks resume on my system. The system resumes fine without it. Boot with the setup disk that came with the system, and set the APM parameters like screen blank time, etc. I am able to change the screen brightness with the function key with the water-faucet icon on it. Push Fn and that key. I think this is changing between the three APM options you see in the set-up disk, but I'm not sure. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Toshiba laptop --- resume mode
By the way, my Toshiba system runs the disk about 20% faster when I use hdparm to turn on 32-bit mode. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Toshiba laptop --- resume mode
Note that in order to actually get a spindown, you'll have to increase the time interval of `update' to something like half an hour I run /dev on a ram disk, and disable cron when undocked. That seems to be enough to get the disk to spin down, regardless of the time period of update. I think the system spent a lot of time updating the dates of tty files in /dev. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: S.A.N.E.
Is that SANE the scanner tool in GNOME? Or another SANE? Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: S.A.N.E.
We want to package all of the GNOME tools. For now, they should go in experimental because the libraries are changing on a day-to-day basis, and they have their own version of GTK at the moment that breaks the GIMP. There are enough GNOME tools and libraries that lots of people can get involved. Riku Volpio and Jim Pick are both packaging libraries at the moment, and I think other people probably have to wait for them. If you want to pick up a GNOME package, please coordinate with [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR
I can't interpret that SCSI error, but you can write to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and there are people on that list who can help. Could it be a data underrun? I would suggest burning CDs in single-user mode until you are sure about that. My Pentium 90 can burn CDs in multi-user, my 486 never could and had to go single-user to burn a CD. To avoid CD waste, test writing in dummy mode. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR
I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netware/novell emulator
Is it that you don't want win95 to prompt for the username and password, or you want it to do so? I am using Samba and in the Windows 95 control panel I set the login to be the network login. Then it prompts for the username and password when logging in the user, and does not prompt again. Note also that you can configure Samba to allow any user, and avoid the prompts that way. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Year 2000 Debian
I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two digits. Richard Stallman and FSF have been testing this, too. The biggest problem that may happen has to do with the motherboard BIOS and the PC clock chip on some systems storing the century as two digits. The Linux program that reads the hardware clock into the software clock can make up for that. An update of this program was just released and will be well-deployed before it is needed. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Year 2000 Debian
There is some dispute over whether it's 2038 or later. In any case, one only need define time_t to be 64 bits and it will last until the heat-death of the universe. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Year 2000 Debian
Before 100 people jump to correct me, yes, time_t overflows after Tuesday, January 19, 03:14:07 2038. Fixing this requires that time_t by typedefed as a 64-bit quantity and then programs using it must be recompiled. One would hope that the world can find something better than POSIX, C, and Unix by 2038. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DMA with IDE on Triton II
I think you have to re-build the kernel with Triton IDE DMA support enabled. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 1.3 or 1.3.1 kernel
is there some document somewhere describe how to build a debian kernel and make it a *.deb package? The kernel-package package produces packaged kernels. Say that three times fast. Then install kernel-package and read its man page. Lastly, how to build the loadable module in debian? I generally decide what stuff goes in the kernel and what goes in a module using make menuconfig in /usr/src/linux. Then I make zLilo to install the kernel and make modules;make modules_install to install the modules. It'll take a few tries before you figure out the minimum number of drivers and filesystems your system needs to boot. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: KDE Questions and Approval ...
You should be aware that we have a little problem with KDE. It uses Qt, which isn't free software by Debian's definition. For this reason, we are looking very hard at several upcoming replacements for KDE, and will probably designate one as our preferred graphical desktop when it is ready. If I had to guess which one that would be today, I'd say GNOME, which you can read about at http://www.gnome.org/ . Other Linux distributions that care about free software will be making similar decisions. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism
I dont understand why the Debian Alpha maintainers want to act as if Alpha users dont exist. We are constantly ignored when asking for installation instructions and constantly ignored when making FAQ suggestions. They seem to want to talk over our head. This is unreleased development software, maybe they just aren't ready for you yet. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism
On second thought, perhaps I should be asking you to write the installation instructions and the FAQ. Since you describe yourself as a user, you must have figured it out :-) Thanks Bruce I dont understand why the Debian Alpha maintainers want to act as if Alpha users dont exist. We are constantly ignored when asking for installation instructions and constantly ignored when making FAQ suggestions. They seem to want to talk over our head. This is unreleased development software, maybe they just aren't ready for you yet. -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Redhat - Debian PCI problems
From: Daniel J. Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am so ashamed of myself Don't be. If I had a buck for every stupid mistake I'd made, the mortgage would be paid off. Just hang out on the list and help the next guy. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: new debian user questions
From: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] When there is a standard admin tool, then the packages that do have a config script shall doubtless do so ;-) I expect to be able to announce a tool pretty soon. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
About Dave Cinege's postings
My perception is that Dave does sincerely care about Debian, even if he expresses it poorly. I placed him on digest mode on the mailing lists a while back, because several developers requested that I take some action about his noisy and non-constructive messages. Digest mode means that postings from a particular person are collected into a digest and posted as one message, to reduce the volume of postings without censoring the message. Debian-devel is the list read by the Debian developers, and I chose that list for the posting of digests because all of the decision-makers for the project should be reading it. Dave operates the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, where his postings are always welcome. Of course, Dave can circumvent the digest mode on the official Debian lists by changing his posting address, and he has recently done so. Do not fear that I will be unduly effected by his messages. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
I'm staying with the project, don't worry!
I would like to thank all of the people who have been mailing me unsolicited messages of support. Unfortunately, because of the demands of project leadership, I don't have time to answer them. I do read every one. I am not upset by critical postings, especially when they are obviously not the voice of the majority. Sometimes I learn something from them, other times they contain little sense. I want to assure everyone who might be concerned that I am not thinking about leaving the Debian project, and I am comfortable in my role as project leader. In December the developers will hold a project leader election. I am running against Ian Jackson, another long-time Debian developer and someone worthy of your respect. Ian might make an excellent project leader at some future date. This will not deter me from kicking his butt in this election and continuing as project leader in 1998 :-) I won't make promises for 1999, as by that time I could be well on my way to becoming a father. Many Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
on term limits
Richard thinks I'm a putz? I am struck to the heart! Oh, cruel fate! :-) Term limits are fine, but the biggest problem so far has been finding serious candidates for the job. I greatly appreciate Ian's running, as until now there never has been a contested election, and I could not seriously say that the process was democratic because of that. I don't have a problem with term limits, however they should be limits upon the maximum number of _consecutive_ terms, not on the number of terms one can serve in a lifetime. Let's get the FSF to accept term limits. Then RMS and I can trade jobs :-) Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Win95 connected to my Debian box
Samba, the standard set of net servers, and perhaps a POP server are all you need. File and printer sharing work excellently in both directions. Telnet works from the Windows machine to Debian, POP mail works (Valerie uses and old Eudora at home, but I think I've seen it work with Exchange, too). SMBFS doesn't work as well as SMBCLIENT for sharing files from the 95 system on the Debian machine. At times, it's wedged on me and I have had to remove and re-load its module to get it going again. However, it has worked just fine to back up the 95 system using the tape drive on the Debian system, which is my major application for it. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
term limits
From: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just don't see the point in making the process of succession so competitive. It depends if you want the project leader choice to be democratic or not. If it's going to be democratic, there _has_ to be competition. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IMPORTANT Correction: The real Debian.org
From: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, the first test case has already been won, and I doubt there will be a second The first test case was not sufficiently general. There must be more of them to overturn the law. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian dual boot system
From: kevin havener [EMAIL PROTECTED] When rebooting into W95 from Linux, I have to power cycle the machine to get it to recognize my 3C509 ethernet card. Try adding reboot=h to the boot command line. If that works, edit your lilo config to put it in there permanently. The reboot options are: w: warm - no power-on self-test. c: cold - performs POST. b: bios - reboot by jumping through the BIOS. h: hard - reset the CPU to reboot. Please get back to us and tell us if that works. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: FYI (Infomagic's debian outdated.)
Infomagic did not recieve _any_ master disk from Debian. They made one on their own. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian dual boot system
No, you need to type linux reboot=h, so that when you halt Linux it will reset the computer. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *
Leave Dave alone, he's already abandoned this argument. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Thanks and a question
From: Howard S. Ostrowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] It turns out that my problem was due to the fact that I had LD_PRELOAD set to libgnumalloc.so.5, which is apparently no longer needed with libc6. But my question is this: I had added this environment variable long ago because it was needed by some program (I can't recall which one!). But I have no idea what LD_PRELOAD is really for. This was a hack to switch to using a different memory allocator because Netscape had some buffer overrun problems. LD_PRELOAD caused libgnumalloc.so.5 to be loaded before the C library. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to maintain a network of workstations via dselect?
There are flags to dpkg to make it export the list of selected packages and then re-import it. Try dpkg --get-selections selection_list, and then dpkg --set-selections selection_list on another workstation. This will do your package selection, but will _not_ install the packages or answer install-time questions. We have a plan of action for dealing with that aspect of the problem, but I can't give you a completion date at this time. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problems with Jaz partitioning
Jaz seems to work well here using the Adaptec AIC7850 chip on my motherboard, and the aic7xxx driver. No partitioning problems like you describe. Try changing the termination settings from auto to manual-on or manual-off. If you are terminating the SCSI bus use an active terminator. I have had trouble with SCSI in general that I actually traced down to the cable, and that cable that comes with the Jaz drive looks rather thin compared to the Belkin space shuttle cable I usually use. The Belkin cable costs $$$ but seems to be worth it. Jaz also works, but with several problems, on my SGI. It's mostly kernel problems in IRIX 6.2 that keep it from working perfectly. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?
More to the point, has anyone seen Ultra DMA work on Linux yet? Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Year 2000
There is a year-2000 problem we know of that is connected to your PC's BIOS and clock chip. The BIOS and clock chip of many systems store a two-digit year. This is a separate issue from the Linux kernel clock, which is all software. Linux uses a program to read the hardware clock into the software one at boot time, and then does not refer to the hardware clock again except to set it or to measure its drift over time and correct for that. A patch to the hardware clock reader is necessary to achieve year-2000 compliance even if your BIOS and clock chip think it's 1900. We expect to be distributing this with Debian 2.0 . Since we publish all source code, anyone can fix it sooner if necessary. Unix and Linux store time as a count of seconds since New Year's day 1970 in a signed 32-bit integer. This was chosen to make the system time-zone-independent. This form of time storage does not have a year-2000 problem, but it will overflow in the year 2036. By that time we expect to have converted to a 64-bit variable, which will not overflow for around 274877906944 years. Hopefully, by that time something better than Unix will have come along. Several other year-2000 issues have already been found and repaired. We've run our systems with the clock set to various future dates to test them. We can't guarantee there are not any problems left, but we are sure they would be minor ones, and rapidly repaired. Because we publish all source code, you are guaranteed that you can get any problems fixed quickly. Thanks Bruce Perens -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?
From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.4GB Ultra/DMA that claims to be backward compatable with E-IDE Right, they are backward compatible. As far as I can tell Linux will run them without Ultra DMA for now. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: init
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I boot up linux, it says INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel and stops. What can I do? Is this your initial set-up of the system? Where did you get the CD or what are you using to install? When you type linux single at the boot: prompt, do you get to the shell prompt? Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is Compaq QVision chipset supported by X?
If it's an SVGA card, try the SVGA server. That works with most modern display cards. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smartmail/exim question
I bet SmartList didn't make that header. How are you invoking the MDA? Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smartmail/exim question
See if you can not use choplist at all. It's a bit easier on the MDA. We are currently delivering the Debian lists with qmail, although I think we will eventually switch to something else since qmail's license is so strange. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hard drive crash
Jessica, Most Internet mailing lists frown on please do my homework requests. We'd like to keep this list for the single purpose of supporting the Debian Linux Distribution. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian distribution in the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine.
If your motherboard is set up to boot from CD and the Boot CD is still in the drive, it might give out that message. Pop the CD out and see what happens. If you determine your boot block really is clobbered, we can tell you how to replace it. I doubt, at this point, that a virus is to blame. Thanks Bruce From: ESV Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed Debian from the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine. The computer is a Pentium 200 with 4Gb partitioned into a Win95 half and Linux partitions. Everything went well until I installed Loadlin to boot Linux from Win95 Boot prompt (following the instructions in Loadlin+Win95 mini-HOWTO. The setup let me boot into Linux the first time, but when I rebooted the machine I started getting invalid system disk - replace the disk message and could not boot the machine (both Win95 and Linux). I asked Hans Lermen (developer of Loadlin) and here is his reply change the disk. Now I can boot the machine only with a floppy. Could running loadlin have corrupted the boot sector? No, Loadlin does _not_ write to the disk on normal boot. Only if you told it to generate a debug output (-d option), then it would write that file using normal DOS file access functions (no tricks). But this won't lead to overwriting the boot sector. I once got a similar question from a loadlin user and it turned out that the DOS-system (and loadlin) was infected by a virus (don't ask me which). Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now I am concerned. Does the loadlin.exe included in the CD-ROM contain a virus? Thank you, E. S. Venkatraman -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: best Linux video card
S3 has signed the Open Hardware certification for the Virge. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using source code for debian; compiling debian
Several hundred of the Debian packages will compile automaticaly. A number of them will not, and require a bit of hand tweaking. You can't install _all_ debian packages, as many of them conflict with each other. For example we distribute at least 4 web servers, and you'd only want one. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using source code for debian; compiling debian
From: Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this is a major shortcoming of the debian package system. Why wouldn't I want to run two different web servers? Two packages that provide the same functionality don't need to be mutually exclusive. Likewise, I'd very much like to see support for multiple concurrent package instances. This is key for migration in a production environment. It goes without saying that its a must for a development environment. It would require rethinking quite a few things though. The purpose of the package system is to make things install automaticaly. Obviously, having two dissimilar web servers is something you would want to tweak manually, for example you would probably change their spool directories and IP ports, and you would not run both postinst scripts. That's why we give you the source. There is one area where this _is_ within the scope of the package system, and that is libraries. Yes, we can think this over, but I'd hardly call it a priority. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] CD-RW
Note that CDRECORD (still in beta-test) works with a lot of drives not supported by CDWRITE. Send subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED], they know all about both programs on that list. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape and deep displays
My display is running in 24 or 32-bit mode. My XF86Config is attached. Netscape 4's Icons are 1-bit deep. Everything else is fine. Is there something I can tell X to fix this? Thanks Bruce# XF86Config auto-generated by XF86Setup # # Copyright (c) 1996 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the # XFree86 Project. # # See 'man XF86Config' for info on the format of this file Section Files RgbPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Keyboard ProtocolStandard XkbRulesxfree86 XkbModelpc101 XkbLayout us EndSection Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/mouse Emulate3Timeout 50 Emulate3Buttons EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Laptop Screen VendorName Toshiba ModelName DD-STN HorizSync 31.5-48.5 VertRefresh 40-75 # VESA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Non-Interlaced mode Horizontal Sync = 37.9kHz Modeline 800x60040.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync EndSection Section Device Identifier Chips Technologies CT65550 VendorName Chips Technologies BoardName CT65550 # Option power_saver EndSection Section Screen Driver SVGA Device Chips Technologies CT65550 Monitor Laptop Screen # BlankTime 0 # SuspendTime 1 # OffTime 0 DefaultColorDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth8 Modes800x600 ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth16 Modes800x600 ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth24 Modes800x600 ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth32 Modes800x600 ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection EndSection
Re: Netscape and deep displays
Bogus! I switched to 16-bit mode and netscape runs properly. Of course I want 24-bit mode for looking at images for work (we made Toy Story here). Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems installing Linux from floppy
Mount the floppy manually with mount -r -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt. Cd to /mnt and see if you can find install.sh, if not, you arre writing the floppy wrong, see the instructions. If it is there, try running this: cd /mnt;sh ./install.sh / . I think the trailing slash is important. That should install the kernel. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: a c++ version of efence
Yes, g++ operator new and operator delete and their vector variants call malloc() and free(), and will work with Efence out of the box. This is not true for some other compilers and operating systems. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELLO
4) And be sure to tell all your friends to not get ripped off on winmodems the way you did. They won't run Linux either. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
We need an attorney who really hates spam. Someone who is willing to work pro-bono to collect an advertising fee from our spammers. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question: I2O, and how Linux is dealing
The i20 group left their specification on their anonymous FTP server and we all have a copy now. They then took it back off the server. Go figure. We have no problem with them now, there is no possible non-disclosure case and when the hardware comes out we will write drivers for it. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] half-duplex mode with EEPRO100
I think full-duplex mode is valid only for a point-to-point connection with a special cable. But I could be wrong. I suggest you look at the driver source code. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: space, time, matter
Brendan, Many people find discussion groups like ours by searching for keywords on the web, and then they post questions to those groups without really understanding what the groups are for. This is the conventional theory. My theory is that people like you don't really exist. You are simply a figment of my imagination. You have no existence independent of me. If I stop thinking about you, it will be as if you never were. I will now add your name to my e-mail kill file, and will consciously perform an act of forgetting. Shortly after you receive this message, you will disappear into thin air. Bruce Perens -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: apology to list
It's OK. Some messages are _so_ dumb that they almost _require_ a snappy answer. Of course no user questions fall into this category. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Writing CD images (not under Linux)
This is from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/distributions/debian/OfficialCD/1.3.1/CD_Writer_Instructions.txt . The list of drives is probably out-of-date, check their web site. Bruce Golden Hawk file2cd There is a freeware track-at-once CD-writer program for DOS systems called file2cd. You can find it at http://www.mainstream.net/goldenhawk/cdrom/freeware.html . It runs on Creative CDR4210, Grundig CDR100IPW, HP 4020i and 6020i, JVC XR-W2001/2010, Kodak PCD-600 and PCD225, Olympus CDS615E and CDS620E, Panasonic CW7501, Philips 521, CDD2000, CDD2600, Pinnacle RCD-1000/5020/5040, Pioneer DW-S114X, Plasmon CDR4240, Plasmon RF4100, Ricoh MP6200S, RO-1420C, RS-1060C, Sony CDU-920S, CDU-940S, Teac CD-R50S, Yamaha CDR100, CDR102, CDR200, and CDR400. It is very simple to use. To write the Debian binary CD using file2cd, run: file2cd binary.iso /postgap The program is smart enough to find the CD-R drive and use it if there is only one choice. Reported by: Brett Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: COM 5? Extra I/O Card?
Can I somehow use this card and assign irq 5 to the new com port and move the sound card to say 7? Edit /etc/rc.boot/0setserial . That will get the serial card going. You might have to re-build the kernel to move the sound card IRQ. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is there something wrong ?
I had to stop and start the qmail on master about three times. At the moment it is doing 3-4 deliveries per second. There was a boring but voluminous debate on debian-devel that might have put an unusual load on the queue. Qmail had been running uninterrupted for 25 days when it started having problems. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 1.3.1 Setup with ULTRA DMA disk
Turn off plug-and-play if you can. If not, copy the kernel from the rescue disk to your hard disk, and re-run LILO. You might have to build a kernel with plug-and-play enabled - I don't know why you have a different kernel on the rescue disk and on your hard disk if you have not already done that. Debian runs fine with one disk on each IDE interface. The second disk would be hdc, not hdb, in this case. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux
I guess you don't get to the menu? The message would not be fatal in itself. Is that the last statement the system prints, and does it hang after that? If your BIOS lets you disable plug-and-play and set fixed interrupts for your devices, do that. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux
It's possible this device is in the development kernel. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Proposal on PPP
All that is necessary is for the xisp package to install a file in /usr/lib/menu, that will hook it into the menu system of the Debian menu package. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cannot find qt1g in unstable
look in non-free. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
list server healthy again
I removed maximum-child-process limits from the list server and raised the number of inodes and file descriptors in the kernel. It seems to be working much better. Thanks to Phil Troin for info on what to write in /proc/sys/kernel . Also, thanks to Manoj Srivasta for calling me at home to tell me about the problem last night. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hello?
The list doesn't mind if you subscribe more than once using the same address - it'll only send one message to each address. That's the best thing to do when it gets quiet. The server will unsubscribe you when it gets too many bounces from your system. This happens when your disk quota runs out, etc. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation SONY CD-ROM
configuration and LILO. At the linux boot prompt, press the ALT key and add the following line after the boot name (you can let the kernel boot, it will tell you the default boot name while booting): cdu31a=base address,interrupt[,PAS] The base address needs to have 0x in front of it, since it is in hex. For instance, to configure a drive at address 320 on interrupt 5, use the following: cdu31a=0x320,5 I use the following boot line: cdu31a=0x1f88,0,PAS because I have a PAS-16 which does not support interrupt for the CDU31A interface. Adding this as an append line at the beginning of the /etc/lilo.conf file will set it for lilo configurations. I have the following as the first line in my lilo.conf file: append=cdu31a=0x1f88,0 I'm not sure how to set up Bootlin (I have never used it), if someone would like to fill in this section please do. Configuring as a Module --- The driver supports loading as a module. However, you must specify the boot address and interrupt on the boot line to insmod. You can't use modprobe to load it, since modprobe doesn't support setting variables. Anyway, I use the following line to load my driver as a module /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/cdu31a.o cdu31a_port=0x1f88 You can set the following variables in the driver: cdu31a_port=I/O address - sets the base I/O. If hex, put 0x in front of it. This must be specified. cdu31a_irq=interrupt - Sets the interrupt number. Leaving this off will turn interrupts off. Driver Special Features --- This section describes features beyond the normal audio and CD-ROM functions of the drive. 2048 byte buffer mode If a disk is mounted with -o block=2048, data is copied straight from the drive data port to the buffer. Otherwise, the readahead buffer must be involved to hold the other 1K of data when a 1K block operation is done. Note that with 2048 byte blocks you cannot execute files from the CD. XA compatibility The driver should support XA disks for both the CDU31A and CDU33A. It does this transparently, the using program doesn't need to set it. Multi-Session A multi-session disk looks just like a normal disk to the user. Just mount one normally, and all the data should be there. A special thanks to Koen for help with this! Raw sector I/O Using the CDROMREADAUDIO it is possible to read raw audio and data tracks. Both operations return 2352 bytes per sector. On the data tracks, the first 12 bytes is not returned by the drive and the value of that data is indeterminate. -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
