On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:16:59AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
I put this following into ~/.bash_profile:
=20
# to get rid of blanking of console:
setterm -blank 0
=20
but I was never able to find out were in /etc to put it for a global
effect rather than just in account
You have to update the local cache with what is available on the remote
site...
apt-get update
apt-get install sudo
Should really do:
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
First and foremost...!
OK, I removed the references to cdrom in my /etc/apt/sources.list, and
things run more
Greg,
Your information of great help, but only leads to more questions.
1. Where does one read about such specifics as the need to have a
security source to do an upgrade? What I've seen on apt says
relatively little.
3. The address didn't work, and I also tried a couple others. When I
and have not paid yet ;-). The driver's name is
nvidia.
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Thanks you Haines. I have downloaded all the required stuff and
only need to know where to put it to install. I hope no one says it
dosent matter. That isnt the question. Where do I put the header
files? Where to put the driver files?
Sincere Thanks for your help;
Hoyt
It _really_
without the -, I carry over user's
environment, and so root acquires a display.
I wonder what might have gone wrong to cause display to be missing for
root in the first place. That is, was it the effect of a faulty new
installation of debian 3.0r1 from cdrom disks, or is this a known bug?
Haines
Please don't CC me. (If somehow my sig isn't clear enough, please let
me know how I can make it so.)
My apologies. The current auto CC: is something I did not have before,
and so I'm not used to removing that line. I was aware I had forgotten
to do that as soon as I had sent the message to
Why not just use 'su' (with no parameters) or 'su - -p'?
-m, -p, --preserve-environment
do not reset environment variables, and keep the same shell
That will preserve things like X display dettings. Just an idea.
Perhaps it is a philosophical issue, but my instinct
each user has a session and a session key. this key is used to
authenticate yourself to the Xserver. Root as a key and each user
does.
Yes, that makes sense.
so when you login as user and then switch to root, it tried to use your
root key to access the user session-- no go.
? When I login
No, I think if you had actually started X as root then you certainly
would have an appropriate $DISPLAY. The issue is not really rootness,
it's that $DISPLAY is set in the environment of the X session which is
run as the user who started X, and .Xauthority is in the home directory
of the user
with an
installation.
Thanks!
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I don't think anything is broken in your setup. I do seem to
recollect that, when I used RH, su- was able to use Xwindows, so it
may be that some distros execute this differently.
Yes, Richard, apparently I had work habits based on the RedHat setup,
and didn't realize that under debian I'd
) is
nvidia.
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, where would the
xset command be put? Do you think I could put them into
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc ? Doing it this way seems a lot
cleaner than plugging in enormous numbers of minutes for each of the
ServerFlags options in XF86Config.
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I echo Colin's thought. Forget about su and use sudo. It takes an
extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it just works, and in my opinion
is better than forgetting you're root and doing something you don't want
to do.
apt-get install sudo
visudo, add yourself a line similar to what's
hb $ xhost +local
hb non-network local connection being added to access control list
hb $ su
hb Password:
hb #
Well this doesn't prove anything: you have to run an X application as
root before you can know whether it worked or not.
This is still a bad idea, though,
is deeper than
that. Could it be the missing DISPLAY?
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I think this may be is a debian question because user can start the
FileRunner file manager, but not root. When root tries, it gets the
error:
Application can't initialize because it lacks display name and no
$DISPLAY environment variable.
You're probably using 'su -' to get
I tried: set DISPLAY teufel:0.0; export DISPLAY /root/.profile, but
it. My sytax probably wrong. Can I substitute localhost here for
teufel?
If you're logged in as a normal user, what does
env | grep DISPLAY
show you?
Monique, it displays as it should: :0.0. My problem only
At present, my X server starts, but all I get is a blank blue
screen. I try to start icewm (it seems to be ready to run) by
adding an exec into /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and in ~/.Xinitrc, but
nothing happens.
This should be ~/.xinitrc (all lowercase). Actually, I always put it
in
Get rid of everything: what a good idea!
I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That
didn't work. So I replaced the command with exec xterm. That did
work--sort of.
When I start x with the xterm execution, what I get is a black
rectangle in upper left 2/3 of screen with a
Jaume,
You missed one of my points, which was that the command prompt of the
xterm disappeared as soon as there was keyboard input. Even the
Ctl-Alt-Backspace to close the X server causes bash to terminate. I'm
not sure bash quite made it in the first place, for the white
insertion rectangle
You missed one of my points, which was that the command prompt of the
xterm disappeared as soon as there was keyboard input. Even the
Ctl-Alt-Backspace to close the X server causes bash to terminate. I'm
not sure bash quite made it in the first place, for the white
insertion rectangle
4.- You can reconfigure the xserver at any time with
$ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
Sorry, I didn't realize that I'd complete this so quickly. Creating
a very elemental XF86Config did the trick, and icewm loads. Now I can
play with the configruation to see where I went wrong.
Thanks.
Thanks for the input. I was able to get x running by rebuilding the
configuration file. Somehow, I had managed to gum things up. Tomorrow
I figure out what I did wrong, but meanwhile at least I get my window
manager to display. My mouse is working and I can input keyboard into
the xterm, so I'm
extension if the header is
actually installed.
I suspect that I'm making a simple (i.e., stupid) little mistake
somewhere.
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:52:02 -0500 (EST)
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I find that my /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 directory only
holds a .config file and an include directory. I assume that what I
should see here is a file with an .h extension if the header
if this redirection occurred before my message was
distributed to the list, or as a result of that distribution. I'd
appreciate knowing if anyone saw my message arrive. I don't recall the
exact subject line, but it had to do with aptitude installation of
kernel-headers.
Haines Brown
Thanks for letting me know my message got through. I'm only at the
point of setting up the X windows system in my debian installation, so
can't yet cruise cyberspace to check the archives. At present, my X
server starts, but all I get is a blank blue screen. I try to start
icewm (it seems to be
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 19:57, Haines Brown wrote:
1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1= in
/etc/profile, but that only affects user, not root.
2. I had placed the command setterm -blank 0 in RedHat's
/etc/rc.d/rc.local to block screen blanking while
Thanks, Wayne. I had previously done the basic configurations globally
rather than in ~/.bashrc, but your suggestion to do it for each user
has a backup advantage.
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As for setting up basic bash configuration, a little experimentation
shows that this is what I've got (debian 3.0r1).
Root has both .bashrc and .profile, and the configuations (custom bash
prompt and setterm) can go in either place. User has a .bashrc and
.bash_profile (there's no .profile), and
one of the 'freedoms' of debian is that runlevel 2 to 5 are the same. 2 is
the default runlevel. RH and others have seperate runlevels. Its something
that confused me and there are some people out there like me who like the
RH runlevel scheme but havent changed prevailing minds. Oh well!
Kev,
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 09:08:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
Of course, you could always deinstall xdm :
# apt-get --purge remove xdm
apt-get remove --purge xdm
Yes, on second thought, removal might be best, since I'll never use
xdm, and with a new install, this is a good time to clean
Which is generated by the adduser routine by copying the skeleton
files from /etc/skel. You can add other files in this directory if
you want them to be added to new users' home directories.
Interesting--the plot thickens! So, if one wants to set a global
configuration for bash, such as a
with the # postalias /etc/aliases
rather than # newaliases command. However, since my aliases don't
work, I'm not sure.
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prompt and setterm) can go in either place. User has a .bashrc and
.bash_profile (there's no .profile), and the configuration must go
into the latter. It does not work for me if put into .bashrc.
Do you have
source .bashrc
that builds is not being used when I send messages.
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edited the symlink to the
xdm program, renaming S99xdm -... to K99xdm - But in
debian I get a beep when I try. Am I imagining I once edited the
name of a symlink? Can't one do it in debian?
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, straightforward configuration, and spam blocking are my
principle concerns. The problem is that these parameters generally
seem marginal to the choice of MTA, and so I'm left wondering which
way to turn.
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I get the impression that support for UTF-8 (unicode) is introduced at
at certain kernel level. Is that so? If so, which kernel supports it?
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held?
I thought that the command lsattrib would display all this
information, but apparently no such command or utility exists. Is
there something that will display all the information about a file,
going beyond the ls -l command?
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Is there any other attribute information stored or potentially stored
in the file? Applications apparently can detect a document's file
type, so that information must be held somewhere. Is information about
the document's MIME type and charset also held?
No. Applications that detect the
seem assume you are
doing the cross-installation of debian into a partition on the
current (booted) HD, not a secondary (unbooted) HD.
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In X, is it possible to switch between two programs being one in
full screen?
Yes but it depends on the windows manager. I'm running gnome2 with
metacity right now and I can do that easily with Alt-Tab. I think that
might also work with wmaker and icewm, but I'm not sure at all.
With
in the
document.
Sorry for an OT question: Is it possible to FAX if you have a
broadband internet connection? I suspect one has to buy a modem just
for faxing.
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executable:
#! /bin/bash
# Name this rc.time and put it into /etc/rc.d/
rdate -s time-b.nist.gov
clock -w
Then I put a symlink from /etc/cron.daily to this executable.
The problem with this is that I don't know how to check up on it to
ensure it is working ;-(
Haines Brown
Dave,
A program that is simple in that you can show a directory of images
full screen either as a slide show of by keyboard flip is
qcview. Nothing fancy, but it's a light-weight easy way to view a
graphic file or directory of such files files.
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The IBM clicky keyboards (Model M) comes in several versions. They are
readily available on eBay for under $10, including shipping.
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using Word at all. There's plenty
of alternatives, including doing without a word processor
altogether. The most beautiful printed result may come from using
LyX, which is perhaps not a word processor. I suspect there's a
Windows version.
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Firstly Haines, please Do Not encourage anyone to send HTML mail to
any maillist. Many list members will simply ignore and/or discard
html unread, It's considered bad form.
Russ, I quite agree, and that was my intended point. Didn't realize I
was sending my reply to the list, and so was more
:
xset s off
xset -dpms
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On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:06:08AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
...
If you do have a running system, then simply have root visit grub's
working directory and copy the two stage files over to an unmounted
floppy:
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
# dd if=stage2
Carel,
Now I'm really getting worried, and trying to recall were I picked up
the suggestion to create a grub floppy (it wasn't my own idea). I was
from Linux Journal, but I can't seem to pin down the issue.
I also find a reference to doing so in the clone-HOWTO, section
5.3. Also
In connection with this thread, is there a web site that keeps track
of various internet radio and TV resources that can be used by xmms or
xine? I find that the information that accompanies xine is inaccurate.
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http://www.shoutcast.com/ is a good place for mp3 streams.
http://www.webradio.com lists radio stations and has links to streams
but no mp3 streams.
Pamela,
Thanks. Although www.webradio.com seems to have come down, I was able
to use your information to do a little search on line and pulled
.
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Joris,
Thanks for the lead. It's always nice to have some hardware
detection. Does it build a database so that when new hardware is
installed, it opens a dialog for you to configure it during the boot
process?
The discover is a frontend for hardware detection tools, and you
mentioned one for the
Haines Brown wrote:
I installed a woody base system and then install the xserver-svga
required by my nVidia GeForce3 card and a window manager. Then
from a root command line I ran startx. However, all I got as a
result was a black screen with speckles (not x's grey screen),
with a set
Follow the instructions in the NVIDIA readmes EXACTLY. (When they
refer to a fully configured kernel source tree, they mean one in
which you've done make ?config and make dep.)
While I was planning to recompile the kernel first and then install
the driver as you suggest, is that order
My current configuration has a vertRefresh of 48-120 Hz, but the
debian file ends up with 50-85Hz.
Just fix it in the file.
Thanks. Good to know that the information in XF86Config reflects
actual monitor capability rather than impose a restriction on it.
Should I expect the debian
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