On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 22:28 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 30. 06. 2010 20:51:08 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a):
Or did some key combo I pressed somehow disable it?
You betcha. Most notebooks have such key combos (or even dedicated
keys), and HPs are no exception. So it looks like you'll
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 07:28 +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote:
Brian C. Wells wrote:
Hi. I have an HP G60-249WM laptop, and am currently using squeeze for
better wireless support. (The latest kernel from backports might also
work; but after trying that, I can say it doesn't play well
Hi. I have an HP G60-249WM laptop, and am currently using squeeze for
better wireless support. (The latest kernel from backports might also
work; but after trying that, I can say it doesn't play well with the
non-free nvidia driver, which I also need.)
After upgrading to squeeze, and updating my
Adrian Zaugg wrote on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:09:30 -0800
PS: If you see the error:
relocation error: /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3: symbol krb5_hmac, version
k5crypto_3_MIT not defined in file libk5crypto.so.3 with link time reference
you were hit by the above mentioned bug. To solve, do the
The OP sounded like they just didn't know which of the 31 CD images were
necessary to get Debian going. I agree with the poster who suggested a
Debian Live CD.
If you have a 32-bit processor, try:
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 21:05 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:47:55PM -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote:
Vacuuming brought the idle temperature down by 5C. sauerbraten now runs
great at about 80C, but glchess/gnuchess still gets up to 95C or more!
You might look to see where
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 19:30 -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote:
[...]
I also want to apologize for taking 4 days to respond. I thought it
would be best to wait until I had tried using the vacuum, but still
haven't gotten around to it. I don't have carpeted floors where I live,
so I don't have easy
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 00:34 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
Well, the script is quite simple, it only works in Gnome (a
more system-wide script would have to be run as superuser and I just
couldn't be bothered to type in my root password every time I wanted to
change CPU governor):
script to
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 07:49 +, marc wrote:
Brian C. Wells wrote:
Hi. My HP G60-249WM Notebook's CPU is overheating, to the point that it
shuts itself off, whenever I use any CPU-intensive game such as glchess
(in the gnome-games package) or the non-free game sauerbraten. I also
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 22:19 -0700, Raquel wrote:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:40:01 -0700
Brian C. Wells blue_guy_...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I don't -think- it's a fan problem. It seems to be blowing plenty
of hot air out, and I can't see or blow out any obvious clogs [...]
I have a G70
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 10:35 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 24. 10. 2009 05:40:01 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a):
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
evidence that the CPU's temperature is increasing to dangerous
levels
(95 deg. Celsius). As soon as I start a game
Hi. My HP G60-249WM Notebook's CPU is overheating, to the point that it
shuts itself off, whenever I use any CPU-intensive game such as glchess
(in the gnome-games package) or the non-free game sauerbraten. I also
use the non-free nvidia-glx for accelerated graphics, and have the
laptop software
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
evidence that the CPU's temperature is increasing to dangerous levels
(95 deg. Celsius). As soon as I start a game, it rises, and as soon as
I stop it it falls.
Sounds like a hardware problem; most likely a fan problem: either it's
Hi,
I must be missing something. The standard Sarge 2.6.8.2 kernel with
initrd boots fine on this ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard with a single
500GB IDE Hard drive as /dev/hda, but the config I made for 2.6.17.3
kernel panics at the point where it is looking for the hard disk (which
it cannot
Hi,
This is a kernel-related question to which I cannot find a
definitive answer.
If I am not going to use an initrd image, and I want to
boot Debian from an SATA drive (in a system with no PATA
drives and all SATA drives) using a 2.6 kernel, then is it
necessary to compile-in the specific
Hi,
I describe a partial solution and the next problem below.
David Kirchner wrote:
On 12/16/05, Brian C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile
but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect
to create the lockfile it wants
Hi,
You may recall that I destroyed my /var partition earlier this month
trying to learn how to use dd to clone a hard drive. See:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg00612.html
I have, surprisingly, managed to mostly recover from backups. However, I
did not have a full /var
Hi,
/dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions.
/dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions.
/dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it to
the new drive, remove the old drive, move new drive to /dev/hda (primary
master) and then run from the
Warning to archive readers. I believe a typo in one of the commands
below will destroy your data. Read on...
Alvin Oga wrote:
[snip]
- if you want to leave bad data behind
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new-disk
HERE IT COMES
tar cvfp old-disk-paritions /mnt/new-disk
DON'T TYPE THE
Hi,
I have a single machine running BIND and Apache. I've never used either
before. I've just upgraded this box from stable to testing. I have never
been able to get the web site to show up using its domain name. I can type
my static IP address into a web browser and it will show up, and I
Hi,
Here's what I'd like to do. I've been fumbling with it for months and just
can't seem to find resources out there that are easy enough to understand:
1. Configure BIND on a woody box so that it is the nameserver for a domain
name I've registered. The domain is just parked with the
Hi,
I'm trying to read the DNS HOWTO at:
http://langfeldt.net/DNS-HOWTO/BIND-9/
and am running into some confusion because Debian (woody) seems to name some
of the files differently than the HOWTO.
For instance, the HOWTO suggests the following in its example named.conf:
zone . {
type
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because
it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with
Woody. I've successfully upgraded XFree86 to unstable but X still barfs
when I try to start it. (mga_hal module doesn't exist, etc.) Anyway,
that's
Hi,
Just built a new box I'll use as a server at home. On that reboot during
the installation process of Woody, I had to boot from floppy.
I don't think it's a BIOS issue. I had CD, Floppy, HD0 as the boot
order, and even tried HD0, HD1, HD2 and it still wouldn't boot from the
HD. (I have 1
I was downloading bo from frozen on master. It should have taken about 4 - 5
hours. I reduced my terminal and did other things. about 18 pkgs were
recv'd when, evidently, the entire Debian directory tree disappeared.
I just checked...
master:8 - ~/Debian/frozen/binary find . -type f | wc
I just checked again. It's not there. I get all the other directories but
nothing under Debian.
I just got a msg from Christian saying it may be an ftpd error.
What did you use to check this?
I logged on to master directly and checked.
Brian
A previous version of at started its at-jobs with a nice of 2 and its
batch-jobs with a nice of 4. The latest doesn't nice at-jobs at all and
only has a nice of 1 on batch-jobs. I quite liked having these jobs
put somewhat in the background. Could this be reinstated?
Also, batch jobs are now
The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
it tries to use tests that lynx can recognize internally without forking
an external process.
Where is 2.12 available. I can only find 2.11 on my nearest Debian
mirror.
It was stuck in incoming until this morning. As
Has wine been pkged for deb? If so where can I find it?
Have a good one.
You can find a really old version of wine in project/experimental.
I have a newer version compiled on my machine and will be uploading
a new package before the release of 1.3.
Since Wine isn't really useful as a tool,
The odds that Mr Iannarelli is starting this thread just to
concentrate the flammage, flak and junk into one thread which he can
easilly killfile is astronomical =) This is especially probable given his
insistence on exact spelling in the subject...
Excuse me, but this is completely uncalled
Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start?
It takes forever because they both read the entire file and run every
single test condition they encounter.
The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
it tries to use tests that lynx can recognize internally
Those are all points that have been brought up before and will be addressed.
Thanks for the input!
Brian
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the difference
It is my pleasure to announce the formation of the dselect replacement project,
code-named deity. The project will be made up of the following 7 people:
Project Leader: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- General organization, dispute resolution, final say on capabilities
Chief
As part of the facelift for Debian 2.0, I'd like to offer an improved
interface as an alternative for dselect.
To this end, I'm going to be putting together a team of people to produce
such a product.
If you would like to work on this, please let me know and tell me what
resources you have
Here's mine...
:0
* (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian
* !^TObcwhite
{
:0:
* (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)(board|debian-board)
Filtered/debian-board
:0:
* (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian.*-announce
$DEFAULT
:0:
*
is Bo frozen already? When Rex got frozen I received a message from
Debian-Announce saying so. I also read in www.debian.org that Rex
was frozen. I think I have heard that Bo is frozen but I have not
checked the FTP sites yet.
Yes, it is. It was announced to debian-user, but not
I'm not sure if this was announced before, so...
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
Bo has now been officially frozen! If you'd like to start upgrading
to the packages in that distribution, please do. We can use all the
testing we can get. People who
I don't understand you fuc**ng ppl!
Okay, let's all just take it easy. Yes, the original mail was a little
overbearing but this doesn't help calm the situation.
It's really easy to take what is said in email more seriously, more
condesending, and more rudely than the author intended (with
I looked on my CD for a netscape...deb file, but didn't find one, so
just downloaded a copy of netscape from netscape and loaded it.
You can find the netscape installer packages in the contrib section.
Brian
( [EMAIL
I am a newbie, but i would like to install perl on my
debian system, can anyone tell me where it is located
and how much space will it take.
Try debian/bo/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.003.07-8.deb
It will take about 5MB installed.
Brian
Has anyone used Zyxel(?) it is in the unstable directory and looks a lot like
mgetty (v,and the fax stuff). Has anyone used vgetty and had it work
*with out problems*. I asked earlier about using my linux box as an aswering
machine and got tons of messages telling me to use vgetty and now
It seems the tifftopnm and pnmtotiff programs are missing from
the latest netpbm. What happened to them?
Brian
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I Loaded something like
netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
I got the exec-ready-to-use file
I ran it .. and it said: Floating point exception (core dumped).
Haa. It was too simple to work so easily ! What is wrong ?
Is there a better release without any problem for linux
I upgraded to fvwm2 today and ran into a few problems. Some of these may be
worthy of bug reports, but I thought I'd mention them here first.
- The postinst of fvwm2 fails if you ask it to convert fvwm1 rc files to the
new format and gawk is not present. fvwm2 should either depend on gawk
Yep, it's 2056. In fact I set plug-gw up on www.debian.org and assigned
it a new IP address so it could be canonical, only to find that the
protocol is changing to an undocumented UDP-based system for no good
reason. See http://zero.genx.net.
Anyone have ideas about what how to handle
I get the following message when I install packages
like xanim, imagemagic, etc:
Error: '/etc/mailcap' is not in required format
What is wrong?
In order for mime-support to work, it requires a specific format of
the mailcap file. I suggest you re-install mime-support and make sure
the
Also, NetScape takes about 5 minutes to start if you have
mime-support installed. It seems to run /bin/sh for every entry
in /etc/mailcap and it doesn't like what it finds in there at all.
Eventually after spewing a bunch of error messages, it settles down and
runs. I've had to temporarily
From: John T. Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Harvey Mudd should be producing somewhere between 3 and 4 M kps by
tomarrow. Right now, most of us are running under [EMAIL PROTECTED],
but we can change that if Bruce still disagrees with our possition.
I asked the people at Zero to lump our
I think it would score a lot of PR points for Debian to place, or win.
Debian is a Linux distribution. Our win is Linux's win. Our win is the
FSF's win. Our win is even, to some degree, RedHat's and Slackware's win,
because they serve a similar market with a similar product. Microsoft
My new installation (1.2.1) no longer compiles via gcc. The system error
message is:
'gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': No such file or directory'
Any clues/hints?
Try running the gcc command line with -v. This should tell you what
program it cannot find.
I now have my printer (Canon BJC-4100) working under Debian. It was
really easy; only one tricky part.
We're running an HP-850C as a network printer using the cdj550
driver of ghostscript. Works great!
Brian
( [EMAIL
I'm just coming into this conversation, so please forgive me while I
get up to speed on this...
As I understand it, Bruce proposed...
- Debian would have an specific ultra-stable CD image that anybody
could use.
- Debian would have an Official logo which it would let people put
on their
I just installed Netscape 3.01 for Linux, and it looks not bad. The
problem is screen sizes. I'm running XFree86 3.2 in 800x600 mode with the
fvwm95 manager, but whenever I open the mail window, it won't fit on the
screen. Not to mention that I can't figure out how to get past 256 colors.
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
Please, PLEASE, correct this! Either set all the ttys to use BS (^H)
as the rubout character or fix xterm to send DEL (^?) when the backspace
key is pressed.
For what it's worth, I used to have problems with backspace and delete
until I
I think this a simple enough question, but even my Unix teacher can't
answer it. I just installed Debian on my 586 Windoze machine, with a 200mb
partition. The first time I installed it on 100 megs but I ran out of
room. My question is how can I check how much space is left on my Linux
less does not do backspace and delete correct, when having the
variable TERM=xterm set.
While using the search command backspace sends delete and delete sends
ESC[3~. With TERM=linux it's ok.
Backspace and delete are doing the right thing in the command line.
Actually, backspace is not
it seems that netscape has problems when the environment variable LANG
is set to de_DE. The postscript file produced by netscape isn't
correct in this case
e.g. With LANG variable set:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] translate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] scale
and without
Perhaps we can obtain the Tip of the Day database from Micro$oft Word. We
all know there's tons of useful information in that databank.
Like the Never run with scissors. one?
Brian
Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for me
whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place.
It works fine if you install it using the Debian installer package for
netscape. It's in contrib.
Note: You DEselect what you want to remove. When I first used dselect, I
unselected everything and then selected the packages I wanted to remove.
You can guess the rest...
That probably should be clarified:
You select for removal or purging those packages you don't want.
You select
Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs,
TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I
fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen
with Exit highlighted. Is this normal?
Yes, because you
: Anyone have any comments on the stability of Netscape 3.01? In
: particular, I'm curious if it runs o.k. with the lastest libc, or do I
: need to continue loading Netscape with the older malloc etc.
:
:If you install it with the Debian package (in contrib), then it works
:just fine.
Secondly, how much faster can I see between the 28.8 modem, ISDN,
T1, T2 , etc. I'd also want to know what should I need from the
ISP in order to setup the connection between my Debian/Linux box
to the ISP. All the ISPs seem to support only WFW3.11/95/Mac/NT
and not Linux.
Anyone have any comments on the stability of Netscape 3.01? In
particular, I'm curious if it runs o.k. with the lastest libc, or do I
need to continue loading Netscape with the older malloc etc.
If you install it with the Debian package (in contrib), then it works
just fine.
Mainly breaking it up a little more into categories would have let
me build the system I want better. Like, I could go into a Utilities menu
and choose editors and then choose vi and pico, but not emacs. Then go back
and under networking go to mail and get pine, then back up and go
Is there any Linux / Debian support for the APC UPS PRO series ??
If so, what package/program should I be looking for ?
I just uploaded genpower into unstable in December. I've been using
it on my APC Backups-Pro 420 for several months. It works great!
Included in the docs is a specification
Instructions for turning on recognition of the color change escape
sequences is in the xterm man page.
Yes indeed. And that means you need this resource line:
XTerm*customization: -color
in your /etc/X11/Xresources file or your user Xresource file
if you don't want it for
I am currently considering the purchase of a colour inkjet printer,
for text and graphics printing (including images from Photo-CD). I
would be interested in experiences people have had in using them with
Debian - the models I am currently interested in are the Epson Stylus
500 and Stylus Pro
Has anybody used GNU cfengine? I don't really know what it's capable of, but
it's
a free part of Debian. I was considering using it myself, but I haven't had
time
to investigate it properly.
We use it here to maintain about a half-dozen Debian machines. It
works great for managing
Anyway, the main trouble seems to be that the Debian-1.2 /etc/mailcap has
grown to a rather ridiculous size as compared to the version provided with
Debian-1.1.xx:
cut-here
[root]/root v /etc/mailcap*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
None of these are technically supposed to depend on mime-support. They
should only test for its availability before calling the install-mime
program. This is documented in the install-mime man page.
Well, I can only speak to the needs of the pine package. /etc/mailcap is
provided by
Is there a debian package of wine? Seems like I saw this question a
month or so ago I thought I saved the response, but I can't put my
finger on it at the moment.
Yes. You can find it under project/experimental. It isn't really
useful yet and so isn't kept scrictly
The International Version of PGP is a slightly modified algorithm with
fewer bits. Currently, it is illegal under the Data Encryption and
Privacy Act (modified) of 1995 to export encryption programs which use
56+ bits outside the United States.
The international version
I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a
nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a
specific cursor color, either for each window or globally?
You can get all this from the xterm man page, I believe, but here
are the lines I put in my
As the package simply installs the program downloaded from Netscape, you
can also install the program yourself in the /usr/local/ tree.
It also makes a few changes so it can find the proper system files.
With the discusion of Wine, I was wondering if a Wine package was in the
works?
There has been a Debian package of Wine for many months. It can be
found in project/experimental. I don't update it very often because
I haven't found it to be in a useful state as of yet. The latest
one seems to
Thanks all for suggestions on trying to get the MS Word Viewer to run
under wine. I've finally given up! :(
WINE segfaults under wordview.exe now. (At least it starts to execute it..
before I got the share errors)...
Wine is still very-alpha. In addition, if you installed the wine package
I know that the directory tree on ftp.debian.org is in a state of change
with the upcoming release of v1.2, but I have spent two hours looking
for the 'netscape-v301' package. Could somone point me to the
correct location? I'll be fine from that point on (I think 8-).
It's in contrib.
I've thought about this for many hours, and I'm afraid I agree with Ian.
If we release with XFree86 3.1, that will be the last Debian release ever,
because we will have blown our credibility. We just can't afford to do it.
So, I'm afraid I really must accept the resignation you offered
This thread seems to have appeared in the debian-user lists a little
like a bolt from the blue. I am a very keen Debian user and
proselytiser and I'm sure that many of us are very concerned about the
future of Debian re. what we have read.
I don't want debian-user to become a war zone or a
what is happening to the debian distribution? is it folding?
Absolutely not. Debian is strong and growing. This entire mess
was actually a bit of a growing pain with different people having
different ideas about what would make Debian the strongest.
There is no cause for concern regarding the
box. I would like to be able to browse the ftp site and
find out how big a package is going to be once it is installed
*before* having to download it.
Just download the Packages file for each distribution. The installed
size is the 'Size' field. The size of the .deb you can get from
Thank you for your suggestion, it seems a very good one. I will try it
in the evening (at home).
Netscape is unable to allocate colors for its display. Try doing
netscape -ncols 64 and see if the unable to obtain erros go
away. If not, try numbers smaller than 64 or close some
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
Hi.
I want to install Netscape in my Debian-Linux 486DX2 (66Mhz).
$ netscape
unable to obtain ... (I do not remenber exactly something about colors)
unable to obtain ...
bus error
$
Can you help me?
Netscape is unable to allocate colors for its
I tried to connect and then choose ftp from the dselect access menu but
I couldn't get the pppd to connect right. as far as I can see everything
is exactly the same (Except lots of stuff that should be in /usr/bin and
/usr/sbin is in /bin and /sbin instead.. pppd and chat are in
One of my default system users (www-data to be exact) can't log in.
My other users can.
Make sure that the shell specified for that user in /etc/passwd is
listed in the file /etc/shells.
I don't see anywhere that this user is not allowed to log in to FTP.
What must I do to allow that user
Problems: some packages need hand editing of some config files in
/etc. This could be handled by cfengine, which can be run by the same
cron job after dftp. Another problem is that I *think* dftp can only
do ftp. This is a nuisance when your upgrade center doesn't have
anonymous ftp. If this
Hold on there. When was Debian 1.2 released? Inquiring minds want to
know..
With a little luck, it _will_ be released this Wednesday. It has been
frozen since early November.
Brian
I wan't to install debian now via etherlink.
Which programs do I need for that ? [ dselect , dk??-ftp , ... ]
And were are they ?
You can also use the dftp package that is available under rex
and bo.
Brian
I have been looking for the netscape package under rex but can't find
it. Where is it?
The 3.0 version is in contrib. The 3.01 version still hasn't made it out
of Incoming (to my knowledge).
Brian
Prior to the freezing of rex, unstable (rex) contained all of the
physical files of the distribution.
Now, unstable is bo, and it has many links back to rex.
At what point will bo loose the links to rex and be self-contained
again?
The plan is to leave symlinks from bo to rex until the
Why didn't you use the available netscape and jdk packages? Just
pick up jdk-static, jdk-common, and netscape from non-free and try
again. That's what I did and it works beautifully!
Netscape is actually in contrib. If you're using the new libc5 and
want to use Java, you'll have to wait for
This is a reply from Mark Burgess (esteemed author of cfengine) regarding
your question on cfengine...
Brian White wrote:
This message was posted to the debian-user list. I thought you would be
interested.
I must admit, I've been a little lax in keeping the version of cfengine
that is
I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on
Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is
delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a
significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will
keep the GNU
why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex?
Rex has been frozen so only bug fixes are going there. It should be released
as stable in a couple weeks. Bo is the new unstable tree.
Brian
Qt forbids anybody from modifying their source code. So what
if they changed their license when they've gained enough momentum?
As far as I understand it, you can release code with a new licence, but
you cannot change the licence on released code. Thus, if they changed
their licence we would
Also, I missed the instructions on how to get Netscape working. I'm using
3.01, and its crapping out whenever it hits any Java. Can someone repost?
Use the Debian package for Netscape 3.01. I beleive it's still in Incoming
at the moment.
For 3 or 4 days, I've had CGI-modules marked for upgrade in dselect:
*** Opt net CGI-modules 2.75-4 2.75-5 modules for perl5, for
us
And yet dpkg-ftp doesn't even try to upgrade it:
Is this a bug in dpkg-ftp? Or is this a case problem? The file on the
ftp site is
The new version of efax (08a-1) no longer accepts the -l flag for
the 'view' and 'print' commands. If I try to do anything with the
faxes I have (all received by the older 07a version) everything gets
compressed onto the top of the page.
Is there any way I can fix this, or is it a bug?
does anyone know how i can set the default window size for netscape?
I start netscape like this:
netscape -geometry 1137x990+3840+1024 -ncols 64
Every new window it starts has those dimensions. The large offsets
cause it to come up in a different virtual desktop since the above
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