Can anyone tell me what the major/minor device numbers for a PS/2 mouse
are? Currently gpm et al want to use /dev/ttyS0 but that is definately
not working.
Thanks
Stephen
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I pulled all the tricks I could, trying to install Debian 1.3 as on
ftp.debian.org with bo/disks-i386/current/* dated June 4.
I created 7 install diskettes both at work and at home, but both sets
produced the same problem on my home computer (which has run Debian
1.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eloy A. Paris) writes:
Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: Current error sr0b:00: sense key Medium Error
Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: Additional sense indicates L-ec uncorrectable
error
Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 660128
What's happening
It is stated very clearly in documentation all over that you should
run as root as little as possible... Besides, it is common sense.
When I first taught myself Unix, this was impressed on me very
clearly. The Linux NAG and SAG mention it, I'm sure, as do some
various HOWTOs.
BG Lim [EMAIL
Did you enable quota support in the kernel on both the client *AND*
the NFS server?
I work with a Debian machine with just such a setup, and there are no
real problems there
Felix Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anybody know how I can configure my network in order to let the
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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits,
and 32 under 16 (1mb vram). But it seems to insist that the higher
density modes don't exist. It's startup messages (the ones that
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This looks like something similar to what I experienced with XF86Setup.
It goes like this: running XF86Setup, the program determines the modes
with the best refresh rates for my monitor/video card combination.
Seems OK, but it does so
Yes, that is true. This is precisely why this is not such a big deal
for us, although it may be for people running Windows...
Jim Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 19 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
Let's not over-react, please. This bug *only* allows people to see
files that the user
SZ == Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SZ Can anyone tell me what the major/minor device numbers for a
SZ PS/2 mouse are? Currently gpm et al want to use /dev/ttyS0
SZ but that is definately not working.
I have /dev/mouse soft linked to /dev/psmouse, whic is in turn soft
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On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
I do not have this file on my 2.1.42 linux kernel
I do have this file with my 2.1.2 kernel.
The old extfs and xiafs file systems were officially discontinued and
removed in the 2.1.x series kernels as obsolete.
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
what i did that finally worked was to choose the monitor can do
1280x1024 @60hz option; this worked where entering my own specifics
failed.
I'll try this sometime today. Maybe after doing that I should tweak the
config file by hand to give it the real
On 20 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
easiest way is to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. Mine looks like:
Better: edit XF86Config and specify a default color depth.
I prefer to edit the Xservers file. That way I can have both a 16 bit
and an 8 bit per pixel display, and changing the depth is
there is a bug in the tulip driver version 0.76 which won't let other
cards in the system be recognized. the following unofficial patch was
posted on the linux-tulip-bug mailing list:
--- tulip.c-076 Mon May 19 22:12:25 1997
+++ tulip.c-076aMon May 26 11:47:17 1997
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@
From: Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My /etc/passwd is group owned by one of my users.
Does the group owner of this file change when a user changes his password?
No. Change it back to group root. If you find that one of our programs
is changing the group of this file, please tell us right
And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have
to worry about it any more.
And exactly how is the release of Communitcator going to fix the systems
running 3.01?
George Bonser
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3. Starting install from scratch, I used a single rescue diskette and
***my mirror of Debian 1.3*** on a second scsi hard disk. This
approach worked swiftly, thanks to the Debian community. However,
while /vmlinuz uncompressed well from the floppy, each attempted
install hung after the
Thanks to all. But at present time 20:35 EDT www.debian.org still not
updated. Mark Evans, haven't seen your site before. An easy decision
to add it to my bookmarks.
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Hello all,
I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I
leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up
itself which I do not really want. Can somebody point out to me how to
turn off this feature?
Thanks for help in advance !
Anthony
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On 20 Jun 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Ah hah!
You have to re-build your kernel, unfortunately, The Deskpro series
have been known to be really sneaky about where they hide their BIOS
information.
My 1985 Compaq DeskPro 8086 had problems caused by a weird BIOS. It looks
like they haven't
Details:
v--- was not root.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root xxx 1681 Jun 17 00:57 /etc/passwd
ii adduser 2.13 Utilities to add users and groups to the sys
I only have 5 users on my system and I keep a very close watch on the
system and users. I
The curretn smail beta has these features and a release of a new smail
with much better security is near. There is a bit of an argument on some
of the smail mailing lists now about how the default setup should be. As
currently proposed, the default configuration would be very strict and
likely
Could this be an adduser problem ?
I tried adduser and it did not change /etc/passwd's group.
I'll have to ask the user a few questions and try to find out if it could
have been due to adduser OR passwd (he changed his password right after
I created the account)
Try also chfn and chsh. I
George Bonser wrote:
And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have
to worry about it any more.
And exactly how is the release of Communitcator going to fix the systems
running 3.01?
Getting out of Netscape Employee Suite
From what I understand of this bug, it is not
Thanks to all. But at present time 20:35 EDT www.debian.org still not
updated. Mark Evans, haven't seen your site before. An easy decision
to add it to my bookmarks.
I got ahold of the maintainer of www.debian.org and he promised that
the mirror would be updated at it's usual mirror time
I upgraded a box from 1.2 to 1.3, and now my NIS doesn't work. A yppasswd
reports the user as unknown, and a ypwhich results in a segfault. A ypcat
reports that there is no server bound to the NIS domain. The yp server is a
debian box still running 1.2. I tried upgrading a separate debian box
Ping you host once in a while.
ping -i 500 xyz.com /dev/null
see ping man page.
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote:
Hello all,
I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I
leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up
itself
In response to a question from Rick Macdonald, dpk (Dennis) said
I have checked the manpage of fsck to find what produces it. I had an
unclean reboot the other day so when the system came up it fsck'ed the
disks and printed output of the % contiguous. I don't suggest clicking
the reset
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Scott Barker wrote:
I upgraded a box from 1.2 to 1.3, and now my NIS doesn't work. A yppasswd
reports the user as unknown, and a ypwhich results in a segfault. A ypcat
reports that there is no server bound to the NIS domain. The yp server is a
debian box still running
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have
to worry about it any more.
And exactly how is the release of Communitcator going to fix the systems
running 3.01?
There's this thing called an Upgrade, you know
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Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote:
Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it
any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below;
Yes I've noticed this problem as well.
Two solutions. You can allow
Edit your /etc/rc.boot/0setserial file.
Al Youngwerth
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To: Debian Users List debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Is it possible to force the serial port IRQ's?
Date: Friday, June 20, 1997 4:15 PM
Hello All:
I have a
Thank you, Christian. Yes, man-db's unspecified dependency on perl
appears to be the problem. And so it seems, as BG Lim pointed out
(thank you), that this is a small packaging bug. Thanks, folks.
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If I found a defective sectors on my /dev/hda2 using e2fsck -c and I try
to fix the problem, how can I know the names of the damaged fixed files
as I can do using dos scandisk?
I think knowing the names should be very useful, because replacing these
files should be more safe.
Andrea Arcangeli
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I know this has to be something simple...
I finally got Debian 1.3 installed, and have X up and running with XDM.
Everything comes up good, the at the login prompt, I enter my login name
and password which I _know_ are good. XDM tells me it's an invalid login.
Any idea what I've done (or not
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:36:17 -0700 , Stephen Zander wrote:
Is there some way to pass an alternate name from /System.map (or
/boot/System.map) to the kernel at boot? I'm mucking with a
custom kernel but want to leave the 2.0.30 image safely intact.
I've setup lilo.confto recognise
On Sat, Jun 21, 1997 at 03:52:57AM -0500, Tim O'Brien wrote:
I know this has to be something simple...
I finally got Debian 1.3 installed, and have X up and running with XDM.
Everything comes up good, the at the login prompt, I enter my login name
and password which I _know_ are good. XDM
Anyone got this thing to play an audio cd ?
I can read and write cd-roms, but as far as playing audio cds, I've
got SCSI errors and SCSI bus resets...
Is this thing SCSI-II compliant ?
Phil.
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I have just installed the X11 graphical windows program, at the same time
as upgrading from debian 1.2 - 1.3. It all worked fine at the time, and
I selected to have X11 coming up automatically on start-up. However, I
have just rebooted my machine, and after the usual linux start-up
messages, it
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes:
3) the file /etc/xdm.dpkg-dist exists, but xdm isn't launching.
However, xdm from a root window successfully launches.
If you get answer for this one, please, let me know :) ...
change /etc/X11/config so that it contains
I had big problems installing the TeTex-Package. Thats how I solved it
(thanx again for all the hints from this list...)
I manually purged all (!) TeTex-packages and unset my
XDVIFONTS-variable (I think that was the clue).
Then manually installed all 3 packages again (tetex-bin, -base and
I finally had the need to add some users to my brand new 1.3.0 server.
Using adduser everything copied from /etc/skel to /home/[user] gets
hacked down to one line.
I checked my other machine that was 1.2.6 based and the same thing happened.
.bash_profile:
--
# ~/.bash_profile: executed by
Hi,
I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I seem
to have some problems.
Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it
any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below;
# xhost
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by
Now that i have downloaded the base linux system, i need to run dselect to
load any packages. Heres my question, where are all the packages that are
shown in dselect located? Are they on the base floppies, or do i have to
download them from the net? I would like to download them all into my dos
On Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 12:12:14PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
On that linux-raid list I told you about, someone was discussing IDE
performance. Seems that with their testing, which may or may not have
been very accurate, that putting IDE disks on the same or seperate
controllers seemed to
Having recently seen XF86Setup mentioned on debian-user, I decided to
give it a try. Upon startup it complains that
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/symb10.pc* is missing and aborts. I've
tried to deselect several font packages, but that hasn't helped. How can
I find out which package will supply
Hi,
I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I seem
to have some problems.
Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it
any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below;
# xhost
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused
Hello everyone.
First thing I apologize right away if I am posting this in the wrong
areas.
Reading the latest version of the PPP How To, I discovered that PPP
has something called MS CHAP. Apparentely if you have a WinNT
server, this is what is required to connect Linux to
Hello all,
I am trying to install a Debian 1.3 system on my friend's computer.
However, I encountered a serious problem which I do not know how to solve.
There is no problem of installation. I setup ppp correctly and able to
dail in to ISP. But when I try to upgrade the system using ftp of
Hi all,
I would like to know what is going wrong with my setup for the Xterm:
I put the following lines in my Xresources-file (in /etc/X11)
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: -color
#endif
but nothing happened, when I start an xterm, it is still b/w.
I am using Debian 1.2.4 from the Cheapbytes CD
MS == Marc Saric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MS I would like to know what is going wrong with my setup for the
MS Xterm: I put the following lines in my Xresources-file (in
MS /etc/X11)
MS #ifdef COLOR
MS *customization: -color
MS #endif
MS but nothing happened, when I start an xterm, it is
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: -color
#endif
Does it do the same thing without the #ifdef and #endif lines?
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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Rob MacWilliams wrote:
My question has to do with the PCMCIA cards that are available now. I will
need to run a
modem and an ethernet card at the same time, and I was worried about cable
interference and
thinking of the future (the
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I have recently installed Debian for the first time and tried installing
the apsfilter package as apsfilter worked well on my previous
Slackware Linux system. However, I am unable to get the new
installation to work. I am able to print fine if I force it to ascii
mode using the -Pascii option.
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote:
Net::FTP.Bad peer address at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405
I think thats because ftp.debian.org is down (I am guessing thats who your
using). Try a mirror site. :)
Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.
,, /
(
Your ISP is probably the one that is doing this, not Linux.
A.D.Y. Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello all,
I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I
leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up
itself which I do not really want.
This is a known problem, I believe. Check the info under the
disks-i386 directory -- I think there is a file in there that mentions
this.
FYI, you should try this, as root on the console:
shadowconfig off
shadowconfig on
Richard Harran. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have just installed the
Many ISPs have policy against such a thing, so be careful before you
do it.
Udjat -Whoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ping you host once in a while.
ping -i 500 xyz.com /dev/null
see ping man page.
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote:
Hello all,
I am running PPP connecting
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Richard Harran. wrote:
I have just installed the X11 graphical windows program, at the same time
as upgrading from debian 1.2 - 1.3. It all worked fine at the time, and
I selected to have X11 coming up automatically on start-up. However, I
have just rebooted my machine,
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
I finally had the need to add some users to my brand new 1.3.0 server.
Using adduser everything copied from /etc/skel to /home/[user] gets
hacked down to one line.
I checked my other machine that was 1.2.6 based and the same thing happened.
I
On Jun 21, Dave Cinege wrote
I finally had the need to add some users to my brand new 1.3.0 server.
Using adduser everything copied from /etc/skel to /home/[user] gets
hacked down to one line.
I checked my other machine that was 1.2.6 based and the same thing happened.
Hi,
upgrade to
On Jun 21, Gernot Bauer wrote
Hi,
I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I seem
to have some problems.
Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it
any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below;
# xhost
On Jun 21, Ralph Winslow wrote
give it a try. Upon startup it complains that
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/symb10.pc* is missing and aborts. I've
Hi,
I suppose it's the xfnt75 package which is missing in your setup.
Greetings,
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now that i have downloaded the base linux system, i need to run dselect to
load any packages. Heres my question, where are all the packages that are
shown in dselect located? Are they on the base floppies, or do i have to
download them from the
stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits,
and 32 under 16 (1mb vram).
^^^
Do you mean you have 1 Mb VRAM on the card? Then it can't do
better then 800x600x16 bpp (800x600x2 / 1024^2 = 0.92 Mb.)
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On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:
Having recently seen XF86Setup mentioned on debian-user, I decided to
give it a try. Upon startup it complains that
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/symb10.pc* is missing and aborts. I've
tried to deselect several font packages, but that hasn't helped.
You can always type Ctl-Alt-F1 to get to a regular console. I don't know,
however, if that will fix your problems.
Ben
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I have just installed the X11 graphical windows program, at the same time
as upgrading from debian 1.2 - 1.3. It all worked fine at the time, and
I
At 10:32 AM 6/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
Having recently seen XF86Setup mentioned on debian-user, I decided to
give it a try. Upon startup it complains that
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/symb10.pc* is missing and aborts. I've
I just finished setting up X and had the same problem. I fixed it by
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The last entry is the first reference to this piece of mail in my
logs! Is it possible for someone to use their compuserve account to
send mail to my daemon that instructs it to run the bulk mailout?
Yes. It is very easy to use a standard mailhost as a
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes:
Hi all,
I would like to know what is going wrong with my setup for the Xterm:
I put the following lines in my Xresources-file (in /etc/X11)
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: -color
#endif
but nothing happened, when I start an xterm, it is
Christian Hudon wrote:
On Jun 21, Gernot Bauer wrote
Hi,
I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I
seem
to have some problems.
Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps
on it
any attempt to run an app by another user is
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