Re: colores en ls y 2000
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, M.G. wrote: No existe /etc/profile, ni tampoco /home, puede que sea debido a no haber creado usuario. Ni os molestéis en contestar, fue un lapsus, lo siento. Aprovecharé para ver si puedo aclarar unas dudas no estrictamente relacionadas con Debian GNU/Linux, aunque sí algo: es sobre el efecto del año 2000 en los ordenadores, oí hace tiempo que éste no afectaría al SO Linux... bueno, que no lo haría en esa fecha, aunque sí posteriormente (2054, aproximadamente). Si esto es cierto, no lo entiendo, ya que el problema parece estar no sólo en los SOs, sino también en el código de los procesadores y BIOS (había algo así como que reescribir todo este código conllevaría un enorme trabajo)... a no ser que el hecho de que Linux utilice la BIOS tan sólo para arrancar y luego la sobrepase tenga algo que ver (just guessing). Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: colores en ls y 2000
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, M.G. wrote: On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, M.G. wrote: No existe /etc/profile, ni tampoco /home, puede que sea debido a no haber creado usuario. Ni os molestéis en contestar, fue un lapsus, lo siento. Aprovecharé para ver si puedo aclarar unas dudas no estrictamente relacionadas con Debian GNU/Linux, aunque sí algo: es sobre el efecto del año 2000 en los ordenadores, oí hace tiempo que éste no afectaría al SO Linux... bueno, que no lo haría en esa fecha, aunque sí posteriormente (2054, aproximadamente). Si esto es cierto, no lo entiendo, ya que el problema parece estar no sólo en los SOs, sino también en el código de los procesadores y BIOS (había algo así como que reescribir todo este código conllevaría un enorme trabajo)... a no ser que el hecho de que Linux utilice la BIOS tan sólo para arrancar y luego la sobrepase tenga algo que ver (just guessing). La cifra no es 2054 sino 2038 puedes probar ahacer un par de touchs. $ touch -t 010101012038 kk0kk $ touch -t 010101012039 kk0kk touch: formato de fecha inválido `010101012039' La cifra de 2038 se debe a que en muchas funciones se usa como tiempo el número de segundos transcurridos desde el 1-Enero-1970. Veamos unos calculos. $bc 2^32 # Cantidad maxima codificable e 32 bits 4294967296 4294967296/(60*60*24*365)# Pasamos de segundos a años 136 136/2 68 1970+68 2038 La división de 136/2 es porque se maneja un entero de 32 bits con signo. La bios está escrita para 32 bits. Linux está pensado para 64 bits o mejor dicho depende de la arquitectura de la máquina. Linux no usa la BIOS casi para nada que yo sepa. -values.h--- #define MINSHORT((short)(1 (SHORTBITS - 1))) #define MININT (1 (INTBITS - 1)) #define MINLONG (1L (LONGBITS - 1)) #define MAXSHORT((short)~MINSHORT) #define MAXINT (~MININT) #define MAXLONG (~MINLONG) --- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Para BORRARSE, enviar un mensaje a [EMAIL PROTECTED] que diga unsubscribe en el Subject. En caso de problema, escribir a [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- En caso de contestar a la lista mandame copia personal. /\ /\ No confies en un sistema operativo que se base en el \\W// secreto de sus fuentes. La NASA esta utilizando Linux. _|0 0|_Si Linux es bueno para la NASA, tambien lo será para ti. +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher |Se me olvidaba. Linux | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro.[EMAIL PROTECTED] |además es gratuito. +()()()--()()()--+ (*) Faq de Slug en http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro/slugfaq/slugfaq.htm (*) Top Ten Linux Comercial en http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro/topten.htm
Re: Correction of Clock for summer time
On 4 Sep 98 10:37:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock). Try man -k clock to get a list of all commands that have clock in their man description. The command apropos is an alias of this. Rob Wilderspin -- But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep... --= (send replies to rob@)
Re: chatscript permissions
On 4 Sep 98 02:59:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Dyer) wrote: Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it back? It sounds like a group permissions problem. What you need to do is add non-root users to the groups dip and dialup, and that should do the trick. Rob Wilderspin -- But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep... --= (send replies to rob@)
Re: Correction of Clock for summer time
Robert Wilderspin wrote: On 4 Sep 98 10:37:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock). Try man -k clock to get a list of all commands that have clock in their man description. The command apropos is an alias of this. Rob, Thanks, missed that. Dave
Re: Debian Netscape Installer and glibc2 Communicator 4.06
Either get the glibc version of Netscape in /pub/communicator/4.06/development/english/unix/linux20_glibc2 or install the necessary libc5 packages. On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Jianbo Zhang wrote: Hi Debians, When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0.12.deb, I got some error message: it says that some libc5 and motif related files could not be found. So I installed Communicator 4.06 in my fresh Debian (2.0) Linux box with nsinstall. So far I did not find any problem, but I still do not know why Debian netscape installer does not work for me. Help is highly appreciated. Jianbo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Problem running Debian 2.0 on an ATT Globalyst S10 server
Hello, Sorry for the slightly off-topic question, but I am not sure to what extent it can be Debian 2.0-related... I have managed to install Debian 2.0 on an older ATT Globalyst S10 server, which ran NetWare 3.12 for a couple of years. The first strange thing was that I had to use the tecra resce disk, because the standard one failed to terminate the boot process. Then, after I got the system up and running, I compiled a custom 2.0.34 kernel with support for the built-in Adaptec 7870 (BIOS v.1.11, dated 1994), and that's when I started observing the following two problems: - Random reboots at boot time (just after the Loading Linux.). That didn't happen with the kernel used for the installation. - The internal Wang DAT Model 3200 tape is never recognized by Linux, even if it shows up in the initial devices list shown by the Adaptec BIOS. The system currently has 4 SCSI devices in it: - one 1GB Conner HDD (ID #0) - one Quantum Fireball SE 4.6GB (ID #1) - a TEAC CD-ROM drive (ID #2) - a Wang 3200 DAT tape drive (ID #3) The Adaptec controller is at ID #6. The SCSI chain is terminated at the CD-ROM drive. I have browsed DejaNews looking for definitive answers, but without much success... Am I definitely out of luck with this particular setting? Could the Adaptec BIOS be too old? What else could I try? Thanks for any help! Cleto
Re: Debian Netscape Installer and glibc2 Communicator 4.06
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 04:55:44PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: Either get the glibc version of Netscape in /pub/communicator/4.06/development/english/unix/linux20_glibc2 or install the necessary libc5 packages. On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Jianbo Zhang wrote: When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0.12.deb, I got some error message: it says that some libc5 and motif related files could not be found. So I installed Communicator 4.06 in my fresh Debian (2.0) Linux box with nsinstall. So far I did not find any problem, but I still do not know why Debian netscape installer does not work for me. Help is highly appreciated. I think what he is saying is that the NETSCAPE INSTALLER requires libc5. I have the version of Netscape you speak of, but for the Debian installer package and wrapper, you must have libc5 installed.
How to install via nfs, ftp?
I have on one partition (1G) Win95, Fat32. I would like to install Debian on the rest part of hard disk (2G) but the problem is that I do not have CD-ROM with the distribution and AFIK there is no way to install debian from Win95 FAT32 partition so I need to install debian via internet (ftp, fns). How it is possible? I used rawrite2 to prepare two 1440 floppies: resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin (from Linux/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/). I booted compter from floppy resc1440.bin and then installed modules and drivers from floppy drv1440.bin then configured modules and drivers (installed support for nfs, eth0, network card) then configured network( host name, domain name computer's IP address,...). After that I chose to install *the base system* via nfs but did not know how to type the name of nfs server. e.g. I tried to type 'debian.org/dist but it did not work. Could someone please explain to me how to install debian via nfs or ftp ? I mean which floppies should I prepare and how to type the name of the nfs server ? Of course I have other possibility to install the base system from 5 floppies but what then ? The file basecont.txt shows that the 5 floppies do not contain e.g. ftp. For now the only way I see to install debian on my computer is to buy distribution on CD-ROM but it would be faster(earlier) to install via ftp. Thanks in advance Jan Krupa
How to install via nfs, ftp?
I have on one partition (1G) Win95, Fat32. I would like to install Debian on the rest part of hard disk (2G) but the problem is that I do not have CD-ROM with the distribution and AFIK there is no way to install debian from Win95 FAT32 partition so I need to install debian via internet (ftp, fns). How it is possible? I used rawrite2 to prepare two 1440 floppies: resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin (from Linux/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/). I booted compter from floppy resc1440.bin and then installed modules and drivers from floppy drv1440.bin then configured modules and drivers (installed support for nfs, eth0, network card) then configured network( host name, domain name computer's IP address,...). After that I chose to install *the base system* via nfs but did not know how to type the name of nfs server. e.g. I tried to type 'debian.org/dist but it did not work. Could someone please explain to me how to install debian via nfs or ftp ? I mean which floppies should I prepare and how to type the name of the nfs server ? Of course I have other possibility to install the base system from 5 floppies but what then ? The file basecont.txt shows that the 5 floppies do not contain e.g. ftp. For now the only way I see to install debian on my computer is to buy distribution on CD-ROM but it would be faster(earlier) to install via ftp. Thanks in advance Jan Krupa
Re: Help: cannot use alien
htyj wrote: I used alien like the following: alien -d .rpm but an error msg was printed out: sh: cpio command not found. I've installed rpm, debmake, gcc, make,etc. Is there any other packages needed? If not, how to deal with this problem? You need to install cpio. But, this is interesting, I didn't think rpm used cpio anymore. Please send me the output of rpm --version -- see shy jo, alien maintainer
Re: Mail via PPP
I would like my return address on all outgoing mail to be my address at my ISP. I believe this is done by modifying the headers on outgoing mail? In smail, you use the visible domain name for this. It will use this for the part of the address after @. -- Thomas Behrndt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chatscript permissions
Kenneth Scharf writes: Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it back? The users must also have execute permission on /etc/chatscript. This a known bug in the ppp package. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Kernel compile fails on Cyrix...
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: [snip] Same. Cyrix make cheaper alternatives to Intel chips. The catch is a higher power consumption.. therefore HEAT! (Oh.. and not as good an FPU) Try the 'set6x86' package.. good for enabling the HALT feature.. from the README file: The 6x86 has a set of configuration registers that allows one to do a lot of things, like specifying non-cacheable memory areas (important for e.g. graphics cards), I/O delays, cache write policy (WB/WT), and also to enable an automatic standby mode where a CPU halt instruction cuts down power by a factor of 70 (from 5.8 Amps to 83 milli-Amps for the P133+). Better yet, install a better cooler. If you are compiling a kernel or if you are participating in something like distributed.net's RC5 cracking, the processor won't spend much time on the HLT instruction, so it will still get hot. True.. :) BTW Michael, your system clock seems to be set to Mon, 1 Jan 1996. Damned thing.. starts doing that when larger household appliances get turned on... (washing machine, dishwasher... etc.) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Barney is my hero! BOOM! @#%*! NO CARRIER - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Inferno
Hi, Im wondering if someone is running ``Inferno'' somewhere Its a network OS from Bell... If yes, what are the advantages ??? thanks, -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / ___/_/
X windows...
hey, I recently got a new system, and decided that maybe this time my video card(now an STB nVidia, Riva 128 chipset, with 8 megs of vram)...anyway, I get it setup with XF86Setup and do startx, it starts, but in 320x240 resolution, I tried doing alt+ctrl+ +or- but that wouldn't work...after that I tried to set up the resolutions in XF86Config, but it still ends up small, any explanation for why? --this is with debian 1.31
Re: [Debian] ISDN - Worldwide support
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 05:09:51PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: does anybody know of an ISDN-adaptor that can be used in the whole world (especially Japan and Europe) and is supported by Debian? The hardware isn't the problem. This is an area where ISDN is the same all over the world (correct me someone if I'm wrong here) The problem is the D-channel protocol which is different everywhere. There is DSSS1 in Europe (with a few subtle differences between the countries), NI-1 and another one in the US and about Japan I don't know. And in Europe there are the national ones too, like 1TR6 in Germany. I don't know of a software that operates everywhere. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpCg2sBs6j0G.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X windows...
Taylen wrote: hey, I recently got a new system, and decided that maybe this time my video card(now an STB nVidia, Riva 128 chipset, with 8 megs of vram)...anyway, I get it setup with XF86Setup and do startx, it starts, but in 320x240 resolution, I tried doing alt+ctrl+ +or- but that wouldn't work...after that I tried to set up the resolutions in XF86Config, but it still ends up small, any explanation for why? --this is with debian 1.31 Taylen, I am also very new indeed to Linux. But I have just got a STB Velocity 128 to work. I suggest you look in the man pages for startx. You should see that the default X server to start is X. On my system that was starting the wrong server so I changed X to be a symbolic link to XF86_SVGA. You can see if this solution will work by running XF86_SVGA directly (I think you need to be root). It wonlt give you a menu or anything but it should show the resolution that you will get if you do change the X symbolic link. Regards Dave
deb for StarOffice 4
I have downloaded StarOffice 4. I have not seen a package to install this (there is one for StarOffice 3.1). a) Is there a package somewhere that will install so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz b) If there is not how easy is it to create on like the one for StarOffice 3.1 (or Netscape 4)? I am interested not just for StarOffice but for apps we write and need to install/uninstll on our own LAN. Thanks Dave
running root X programs
I know this has been addressed before, I've tried searching the archives for it, but without success. How do you run an X program as root whilst still in a user X session? Andrew Tarr We were so close to heaven --- Peter came out and gave us badges, proclaiming us `The Nicest of the Damned' -- They Might Be Giants ___| (http://multinet.co.nz/personalhomepages/locusmeus/antechamber.html) ~~~|
Unidentified subject!
Hello all, I apologize for this slightly off-topic message. This message is sent to announce the creation of a new list about Linux. This new list has been born with the following objectives: 1) It's dedicated only to technical questions about Linux. The idea is that the list could be an useful tool for giving solutions without the unnecessary burden of other aspects. 2) The language of the list will be Spanish. It would be interesting to create a multi-lingual list. For that purpose people that can translate the messages from other languages are needed. 3) The list will be moderated in order to avoid traffic not devoted to the objective of the list 4) A web page will be created where the solutions provided in the list by the users will be made available for any Linux user. Anybody interested in this new list could send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to join it. greetings -- Nicolás García - Pedrajas Department of Computing and Numerical Analysis University of Córdoba e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tlf. (Fax): 034 57 21 83 49 (83 16) A chance meeting, as we say in middle earth Get out of the new road if you can't lend your hand
mutt error
when I try to run mutt I get: Need to be running setgid 0 to lock mailbox! What do I do about this? It works fine when run as root (naturally), but not as a user. Andrew Tarr We were so close to heaven --- Peter came out and gave us badges, proclaiming us `The Nicest of the Damned' -- They Might Be Giants
PPPD
Hi I ahve been trying to make it so a few of my friends can dial in to my high speed line and get PPP access.. I read the howto and have done everything there and still they get a Cannot establish connection check your password ( you know standard windows error) well we can all dial in normally to the Debian box but if you try to use anything but just logging in as a termminal it errors you out! Any ideas will be appreciated greatly Rick Smith
Re: PPPD
Hello Rick Provide a trace of a dialin attempt and I'm certain someone can tell you what is wrong. Peter -Original Message- From: Rick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 7:27 AM Subject: PPPD Hi I ahve been trying to make it so a few of my friends can dial in to my high speed line and get PPP access.. I read the howto and have done everything there and still they get a Cannot establish connection check your password ( you know standard windows error) well we can all dial in normally to the Debian box but if you try to use anything but just logging in as a termminal it errors you out! Any ideas will be appreciated greatly Rick Smith -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Iannarelli;Peter FN:Peter Iannarelli ORG:GenX Internet Laboratories TITLE:Engineer TEL;WORK;VOICE:1+ 416-929-1885 TEL;WORK;FAX:1+416-929-1056 ADR;WORK:;Madison;20 Madison Ave.;Toronto;Ontario;;Canada LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Madison=0D=0A20 Madison Ave.=0D=0AToronto, Ontario=0D=0ACanada URL: URL:http://www.genxl.com EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:19980905T113223Z END:VCARD
Re: running root X programs
*-Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I know this has been addressed before, I've tried searching the archives | for it, but without success. | | How do you run an X program as root whilst still in a user X session? If you're not on a network: 'xhost +localhost' (as user) -- .elOle.
Re: running root X programs
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Andrew wrote: I know this has been addressed before, I've tried searching the archives for it, but without success. How do you run an X program as root whilst still in a user X session? Many ways... 1) su in an xterm.. no worries. 2) As root on a VC: # xauth -f /home/[user]/.Xauthority extract - :0 | xauth merge - # export DISPLAY=:0 # [prog] ... no worries. 3) the list goes on.. thats all I can think of at the mo. Anyone else? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - It works fine except when I am in Windows. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
RE: chatscript permissions (fixed)
Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it back? The users must also have execute permission on /etc/chatscript. This a known bug in the ppp package. -- That's it, just had to give execute to /etc/chatscripts. Thanks. -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. Mark Twain, Following the Equator __
X App Launcher?
Hi, I am using XFree86 (the suse one that supports Permedia 2 cards). I am currently using icewm as my window manager. I am looking for an application launcher that will sit on my desktop and provide direct access to applications. I guess I could change the menu but I would prefer to lick on icons. I would prefer something that does not tie me into a single window manager but it would also be nice if I could specify which virtual window items load in. It would be nice if it had a .deb package and was quick to setup. What are your suggestions? Thanks Dave
X Background
I am using XFree86 with icewm. The desktop background is a distracting pattern. So far I clear this (which has sort of difraction patterns at high res) by using the fishtank application. I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear it to a single colour. Thanks Dave
Debian and Reh Hat Questions
Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: Couple of questions concerning Debian Linux: 1. How can I install .deb packages in RehHat? Not likely. There is a prog called alien that can install a rpm package on Debian, but it doesn't work all the time. I don't know if there is an equivalent for this in RH. In general, this isn't a good idea, as there are significant differences between the 2 distributions. --- I have used alien to install the netscape-communicator package (.rpm) from the redhat5.5 cd. Since debian does not come with a netscape package, I used the one from redhat (infact that's about the only reason I orderd the redhat cd!) And its a lib6c version as well. It works fine thank you. Alien can also create RPM's but I'm not sure what is required on the input. I think you can de-package a .dep and then re-package it into an .rpm, but you might have to edit some of the install scripts to make RH happy. Get the book 'Maximum RPM' if you want to try this. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Asking for recomendations of AGP-motherboards
You might try http://www.tomshardware.com. This site specializes in
various hardware reviews, including motherboards. They currently have
several articles about AGP. They even have recommendations - but do not
in my experience mention Linux so be carefull!
Ken
Phillip Neumann wrote:
Hi,
I want to chage my video card to the matrox millenium g200 8 mb. I
understand it is APG, so i need to change my motherboard and cpu too. (i
have a 200mmx).
The problem is that i dont know very much about computing, and dont know
what motherboard to get. I need:
1) compatibility with my computer things (*), stability.
2) good APG support for my new video card
3) good performance (Bus 100mhz??)
4) some factures like overclocking, `wake up on ring', suspend to disk
etc... (not so important..)
I heared, mother has a chipset inside and it could be different types
and models. I just need a good one..
So can you recommend me a mother board??
I have here about AOpen AX, what about it??
Ahh and ``little'' note: mother board cannot be than around 150$
( motherboard + video should be between 200 and
300 US$ )
(*) my computer perihapts:
. mouse ps2
. keyboard
. SB16 isa
. modem isa
. HD
. floppy
. cdrom
. 4 x 16= 64 ram, 72pines [simms?]
Thanks for information,
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Re: X Background
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote: I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear [the X background] to a single colour. xsetroot -solid name of your colour Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpgtBMCUhAvJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
setting lib path
I think you might have to add /usr/local/lib to your shell path variable. I just installed a program that has a dynamically linked library. I placed the lib in /usr/local/lib and added /usr/local/lib/ to /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig as root. However, the lib wasn't found, but putting the lib in /lib works fine. What more should I do to get /usr/local/lib s _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
X windows
As X usually starts in the HIGHEST supported resolution, it appears that your config is broken for anything better than 320x240. This usually happens when the server thinks that it does not have access to enough video memory, or the proper clock rates. Run superprobe and see what it finds. You may have to set the memory and clock rates by hand in XF86Config if the probing fails. Make sure that your monitor is proper for the desired dot freqs (ie scan rates fast enough), and configure your monitor properly in XF86Config. Have you used XF86Setup to create your config file. This was the easiest way for me to get mine going. -- hey, I recently got a new system, and decided that maybe this time my video card(now an STB nVidia, Riva 128 chipset, with 8 megs of vram)...anyway, I get it setup with XF86Setup and do startx, it starts, but in 320x240 resolution, I tried doing alt+ctrl+ +or- but that wouldn't work...after that I tried to set up the resolutions in XF86Config, but it still ends up small, any explanation for why? --this is with debian 1.31 _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
I can not make a bootable CD for Debian 2.0
Hello everyone: I have downloaded the whole Debian 2.0 distribution in order to make installation CDs for me and people working in our laboratory. When I did so for the release 1.3.1 I had no problems at all but this time I can not make the official CD bootable. The steps were the following: 1 - Installation via ftp of a working system running Debian 2.0 -> OK 2 - Mirroring of the entire distribution using the nearest mirror -> OK 3 - Building of a CD image using the debian-cd package and saved in a FAT partition 4 - Burning of the CD under Windows NT using the HP CD-Writer Plus 7.200 and the Adaptec Easy CD-Creator When I did similar steps for the burning of the Debian 1.3.1 CD, it worked at the very first time. What is up in this case then? Can anyone suggest an explanation. Any comment is welcome PD: The image "resc1440.bin" in the /boot directory of the CD when put in a disket make it bootable. Regards -- Ramiro Alba Laboratori de Termotecnia i Energetica Departament de Maquines i Motors Termics ETS d'Enginyers Industrials de Terrassa C/Colom 11 Tf: 34 - 93 739 82 43 Fax: 34 - 93 739 81 01 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quick/Easy 2.0 Question: Installed permissions for /dev/dsp, /dev/audio are ...?
Late at night after a hard day fiddling with getting my Debian 2.0 installation working I was working on RealAudio and got so frustrated with problems accessing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio that I changed their permissions with chmod 622 /dev/dsp chmod 622 /dev/audio thus allowing everyone (my normal uid included) to write to them. And RealAudio worked so I was happy and went to bed. In the cold light of morning I realized (after reading some more) that what I really should have done was adduser krw audio Now I have done this (adduser ...) and I would like to change the permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/audio back to what they were. Can someone take a quick look at their Debian 2.0 installation and tell me what the permissions are after installation? Thanks. Ken
Re: Debian Netscape Installer and glibc2 Communicator 4.06
Jianbo Zhang wrote: Hi Debians, When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0.12.deb, I got some error message: it says that some libc5 and motif related files could not be found. So I installed Communicator 4.06 in my fresh Debian (2.0) Linux box with nsinstall. So far I did not find any problem, but I still do not know why Debian netscape installer does not work for me. Help is highly appreciated. Jianbo The v4 installer assumes it is installing the libc5 version of NS, thus it has dependancies on the libc5 package. We now have libc6 versions of NS, but there hasn't yet been an update to these Deb installers. So you did what you had to do (install NS without the Deb installer). I did the same thing. -- Ed C.
Re: StarOffice
Subject: deb for StarOffice 4 Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 10:40:04 + From: David Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org> I have downloaded StarOffice 4. I have not seen a package to install this (there is one for StarOffice 3.1). a) Is there a package somewhere that will install so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz b) If there is not how easy is it to create on like the one for StarOffice 3.1 (or Netscape 4)? I am interested not just for StarOffice but for apps we write and need to install/uninstll on our own LAN. Thanks Dave To my knowledge, there is no deb package for installing StarOffice. What you have to do is to make a directory for it, link to the old libs it requires, and then run the StarOffice installer after editing the paths in the install script. Here is what I did: mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice/lib ln -s libc.so.5 libXpm.so.4 ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.4.38 libc.so.5 ./Setup My Setup file looks like this: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/StarOffice/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH cd /mnt/StarOffice/Office40 ./setup /net Hope that this helps. It has worked for me. It works great on Debian 2.0.
Re: I'm totally confuzed!!
Nathan Einwechter wrote: Help! I just installed Debian on my laptop and don't know where to go from here. I can't add any programs because I can't figure out how to dial into my server. Some out there! PLEASE HELP! Did pppconfig work for you? Please be a little more specific; what exactly doesn't work. Let's see the error message(s). -- Ed C.
Re: X windows...
Taylen wrote: hey, I recently got a new system, and decided that maybe this time my video card(now an STB nVidia, Riva 128 chipset, with 8 megs of vram)...anyway, I get it setup with XF86Setup and do startx, it starts, but in 320x240 resolution, I tried doing alt+ctrl+ +or- but that wouldn't work...after that I tried to set up the resolutions in XF86Config, but it still ends up small, any explanation for why? --this is with debian 1.31 Post your XF86Config so we can see. Have you tried 'xf86config', it might work better than XF86Setup. What xserver are you using (the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver)? -- Ed C.
Re: Quick/Easy 2.0 Question: Installed permissions for /dev/dsp, /dev/audio are ...?
*-Ken Westerback [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Late at night after a hard day fiddling with getting my Debian 2.0 | installation working I was working on RealAudio and got so frustrated | with problems accessing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio that I changed their | permissions with | | chmod 622 /dev/dsp | chmod 622 /dev/audio | | thus allowing everyone (my normal uid included) to write to them. And | RealAudio worked so I was happy and went to bed. | | In the cold light of morning I realized (after reading some more) that | what I really should have done was | | adduser krw audio | | Now I have done this (adduser ...) and I would like to change the | permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/audio back to what they were. | | Can someone take a quick look at their Debian 2.0 installation and tell | me what the permissions are after installation? Thanks. They are both crw-rw Hint: '/dev/MAKEDEV audio' would fix it... -- .elOle.
wmaker 0.19
Hello, Today I have dowloaded and isntaled wmaker 0.19 from slik (unstable) using apt. The instalation was OK, but I can not start wmaker now. I get the following error message: $ wmaker /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale I first though that it could be some change in xbase and upgraded it too. But I still am in trouble. Does anymone know if I should install some other package or how to solve this? Thanks Paulo PS: I dont know if this can help, bu typing locale in my terminal I get: $ locale LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=en_US LC_NUMERIC=en_US LC_TIME=en_US LC_COLLATE=en_US LC_MONETARY=en_US LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_ALL=
using debian passwords in NT.
Hi! Simple question: Does anybody know of a way of making winNT use the usernames and the passwords of a debian machine? If so, please tell me! Thanks! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/
Megahertz combo card
Hi - I've had this problem with Redhat (before I scrapped it) but now I have debian so I thought I'd ask here - I've a megahertz combo card (10baseT/28.8). Unfortunately, both cannot work at the same time! In winblows I had to create two hardware profiles to disable respective portions of the card...cardmgr recognizes (I think) the card and does eth0 init and THEN setserial - which blows away eth0...I thought I've gotten rid of all mentions of setserial - but it still doesn't work, the lights on the card blink during initialization and then go out, after I try to ping somewhere, dmesg claims link beat lost...switching to 10base2 I would appreciate any suggestions... --- At least they're EXPERIENCED incompetents D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key
Re: Help! finding superblocks on hosed partition table
Some time around Wed, 02 Sep 1998 07:52:25 CDT, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Oh, dear. Just as i decided to store the whole file system, reinit the hd, and reinstall, it beat me to it by one boot. I had been getting error messaes from fdisk, and it wouldn't create my new partition 3. (the resource busy, reboot to save message) The last act was to use mtools to copy from a dosimage to the floppy. The new files didn't show up on the floppy, and now there's no partition table. And I don't recall the sizes :( What I do know is that hda1 was a small (30mb?) partition for /boot. I forget what was on hda2, but it was small enough that hda3 could start in the first 1024 cylinders. and hda4 was an extended partition. You can create a partition table from scratch if you knew the exact geometry using linux fdisk. I am not sure if you can do this without knowing it at all. A couple of weeks ago, i read about a program to scan the disks for superblocks to try to solve these problems. Does anyone recall what/where it is? The superblocks are usually located every 8k on the filesystem. The first one is at block 1, second is at 8193 and so on... You can tell e2fsck (and other ext2 utils such as tune2fs, dumpe2fs) the location of the superblock by using the -b option. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #913
Some time around Wed, 02 Sep 1998 11:15:31 EDT, Person, Rod wrote: I can't figure this out. I have been installing Debian for about 2 weeks of and on. I'm downloading from the net to a DOS partition. Every so often my Linux partition gives me a 'can not allocate memory error.' I run df and sure enough 100% of my partition is in used. Then I run dselect again or re-boot and I get the correct reading of 62% of the partition used! The last time this happened was last night. The night before I was using linux, but made no modification. I didn't add any files or remove any. I did touch and of the configuration file (the one that I know are anyway). I was in X using dfm to explore the structure I try to figure out the other problems I have. Maybe it has something to do with the way I logoff, that's all I can figure out. Can someone clue me in? Something must be opening a huge temporary file (or not that huge, how big is your linux partition?), and of course, after you reboot, the file disappears. Look for interesting things in /tmp and try to track down when exactly the hd usage goes up to a 100 (i.e. which program uses all that space). Your problem is you try to figure out everything, and I can't figure nothing out! -my wife. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /de v/null -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Your friends...... whatever.
Some time around Thu, 03 Sep 1998 14:37:55 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: Isnt that a valid reason to filter out @hotmail.com, @lycos.com etc? I am the debian anti-spam person, and I don't like to blanketly filter on from: addresses. Hotmail or lycos do not have anything to do with spammers. Most of the time the spammers set their from address to an invalid hotmail address just because that's the service they know. However, there are more than a few people who use such email services legitimately. I would rather block the real providers of the spammers (those that give them access and/or relay for them) rather than block on the from: address which does not mean much with spammers. Having said that there is one exception to this rule ;-) and that is aol.com . It has been established that 99.9% of the mail with @aol.com from field has nothing to do with any topics relevant to debian lists. Right now, all aol.com posts come to me, and I forward them to the list if necessary (I haven't had to do any of that lately). I dont know about anyone else... But that sort of [EMAIL PROTECTED] really bugs me. Unfortunately, my spam filter wont catch stuff sent to the list.. :( I am trying my best to make sure debian lists do not get spam. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Commandline FTP
The latest version of ncftp beta (not sure if it's in a deb tree yet) has two additional programs, ncftpget and ncftpput, for doing exactly that, get and put ftp operations from a script. Available here: http://www.probe.net/~mgleason/ On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 02:54:46PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: Does anyone know of a program/script that will SEND files to an FTP site? I know that 'ftp' can be used to RETRIEVE. I want to upload files via a makefile. = * http://benham.net/index.html * * * -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- ---* *Darren Benham * Version: 3.1 * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++ P+++$ L++* * * E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(--) O M-- V- PS-- * * Debian Developer * PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b DI+++ D++ * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * G++G+++ e h+ r* y+* * * --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- ---* = -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
debian 2.0, keyboard conflict with PCMCIA
I've successfully installed debian 2.0 on my thinkpad 560e, but I'm still getting frequent crashes. It boots and loads fine, and is network accessible, but seconds after I start typing on the keyboard it unloads the pcmcia card and reloads it. This behavior ONLY happens if I type on the machine's keyboard, I can telnet in from elsewhere and type all I like. I've tried this with two different cards, a 3com 3c589 and a motorola mariner, each exhibits the same behavior, and both work on a similar laptop in slackware (and on the failing laptop in windows). My log/messages file gets a whole series of these: Aug 30 19:57:49 ankle kernel: loading device 'eth0'... Aug 30 19:57:49 ankle kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c589, port 0x300, irq 3, Auto port, hw_addr 00:60:97:41:81:78 Aug 30 19:57:49 ankle kernel: eth0: switched to 10baseT port And eventually it crashes the machine. Spread out in the log is also a random sampling of other errors, very inconsistent: Aug 30 15:01:31 ankle kernel: eth0: 91c92 hardware Tx buffer allocation failed, status 0xff. Aug 30 15:02:03 ankle kernel: eth0: SMC91c92 transmit timed out, Tx_status ff status . Aug 30 15:02:03 ankle kernel: eth0: 91c92 hardware Tx buffer allocation failed, status 0xff. Aug 30 15:02:12 ankle kernel: smc91c92_cs: Unable to find hardware address. Aug 30 15:02:15 ankle kernel: smc91c92_cs: using 8-bit IO window. Aug 30 15:02:15 ankle kernel: smc91c92_cs: Yikes! Bad chip signature! Aug 30 15:02:15 ankle kernel: smc91c92_cs: Yikes! Bad chip signature! Aug 30 15:02:15 ankle kernel: eth0: 91c92 hardware Tx buffer allocation failed, status 0xff. Aug 30 15:02:45 ankle last message repeated 4 times Aug 30 15:03:00 ankle last message repeated 3 times Aug 30 16:05:34 ankle kernel: memory_cs: mem0: anonymous: unknown size But in spite of these ominous looking errors, the ethernet stays up fine (I was able to install debian via FTP!) as long as I don't type on the keyboard. The errors above are pretty rare, mostly it just cycles through the unloading/loading messages without any errors. I've tried excluding the IRQ/port, but that had no effect. /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports look okay anyway: # cat /proc/interrupts 0:3960057 timer 1: 4 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 3: 3119 3c589_cs 11: 1 i82365 12: 44 PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 math error 14: 210238 + ide0 # cat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0300-030f : 3c589_cs 03c0-03df : vga+ 03e0-03e1 : i82365 03f0-03f5 : floppy 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR 03f8-03ff : serial(set) (for completeness) # uname -a Linux ankle 2.0.34 #13 Sun Aug 30 21:17:55 PDT 1998 i586 unknown # lsmod Module PagesUsed by psaux 11 (autoclean) 3c589_cs 21 ds 2[3c589_cs] 3 i82365 42 pcmcia_core8[3c589_cs ds i82365]4 I've read everything I can find, and the only person I found with the same error gave up on his machine. Does anyone have any ideas?
Re: How to install via nfs, ftp?
Jan Krupa wrote: I used rawrite2 to prepare two 1440 floppies: resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin (from Linux/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/). I booted compter from floppy resc1440.bin and then installed modules and drivers from floppy drv1440.bin then configured modules and drivers (installed support for nfs, eth0, network card) then configured network( host name, domain name computer's IP address,...). After that I chose to install *the base system* via nfs but did not know how to type the name of nfs server. e.g. I tried to type 'debian.org/dist but it did not work. Could someone please explain to me how to install debian via nfs or ftp ? I mean which floppies should I prepare and how to type the name of the nfs server ? Of course I have other possibility to install the base system from 5 floppies but what then ? The file basecont.txt shows that the 5 floppies do not contain e.g. ftp. For now the only way I see to install debian on my computer is to buy distribution on CD-ROM but it would be faster(earlier) to install via ftp. Well, I have now Debian Linx installed via ftp, and I have no distribution CD - so I can assure you that it is possible... I had done following: I had Windows NT running on my computer (and it runs now as well, as second OS). First of all, I very attentively studied Debian Linux Instalation Guide on Debian web site (most important was infornation about how to use dselect - I started installation only after I was pretty sure that installation by ftp was possible, and that I understand all steps necessary for this). Using Windows browser, I downloaded all disk images from Debian web site (resc1440, drv1440, and five base14-*), prepared seven disks (using rawrite.exe), and just installed base system, following quite simple instructions of installation program (why do they complain that installing Linux is a complicated task?). I did not try to install something from ftp when installation started dselect as it's last step, I just exited from dselect. After installation was finished, I make sure that I can boot my computer into NT as before, and into Linux from floppy (I did not install LILO during installation, and did create a boot floppy - I have a (usefull) habit of creating all boot/resque/... floppies whenever installations of various OSes suggest this ;) (And as a side note, I _strongly_ suggest to anybody who is installing Linux, to make all possible precautions to be sure that he/she will be able to boot up previous OS if something goes wrong - for my case, I had refreshed set of NT rescue disks, and did not try to install LILO into MBR of first drive. So I was sure I could search Internet for answers to problems, or read documentation directories on the distribution CD, if I had one) Well, at this point I had a working Linux configuration. Next step was to configure ppp connection to my ISP. I do not remember how exactly I have done this - this was one month ago, and at that time I was trying to install three different versions of Linux (RedHat from CD from a book I purchased at local bookstore, then SuSE from their ftp site, and finally Debian), and I remember that for one installation I had gone manually through all steps as was described in PPP-HOWTO, for other I used pppconfig script, but I don't remember for which installation. I think, that base debian system that is installed from floppies already have pppconfig, so you can use it to configure ppp. (and anyway, if you are not a serial-line communications expert, reading of PPP-HOWTO is a good thing.) So, i typed 'pon' on command line and waited for lights on my modem to show me that internet connection was up. Then, I started 'dselect' from command line, and configured 'Access method' to use ftp. I used the default ftp site and directories - the ones dselect suggested itself, so I just hit Enter to each question. Then, dselect conected to this ftp site and downloaded list of packages, and from this everything was reasonable straightforward (if you can adopt ugly dselect's keyboard interface, and do not panic when it waits between some operations for long time with blank screen). One of first things I downloaded was Midnight Commander ;) Since then, I installed via ftp X11, Netscape, KDE, even new Debian installer 'apt' from unstable directories - and it works much more pleasant then dpkg - it shows progress of download, for example, which is quite important for good health of your soul, if you have internal modem without those joyfully blinking lights... Rrecently I've got XEmacs and now I'm learning it... So, it is quite possible to have Linux been installed directly from Internet. Well, reading again your message, it seams to me that possible your problem was not to have up internet connection - as far as I understend, you tryed to use nfs access when installation started dselect as final step? (By the way, I'm not sure that it is possible at all have nfs
Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Dip is for an old package called 'dip'. It was sort of line 'pon' I think. Since the package has long since gone away I find it annoying we're still stuck with the group. On the contrary, dip is still available in slink. I use it to dial up my ISP since it's the only package that does SLIP. Noel ~ $ dpkg --status dip Package: dip Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: net Installed-Size: 202 Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 3.3.7p-2 Replaces: netstd (= 2.14) Depends: libc6, liblockdev0g Conffiles: /etc/diphosts 7cbf2c9d02415cd75fafac56a6c62dc8 /etc/slip.dip 0907d6a1717749ea2827498f5bfa4ec5 /etc/ppp.dip 4fbc6b28e998e7fa098d08e0ab1efae4 Description: Tool for handling SLIP/PPP dialup IP connections This program handles the connections needed for dialup IP links, like SLIP or PPP. It can handle both incoming and outgoing connections, using password security for incoming connections.
Re: X windows...
David Warnock wrote: I suggest you look in the man pages for startx. You should see that the default X server to start is X. On my system that was starting the wrong server so I changed X to be a symbolic link to XF86_SVGA. On a Debian system, /usr/bin/X11/X is not a symlink at all but actually a wrapper program that checks the file /etc/X11/Xserver for the proper X server to call. You'll want the first line in that file to read /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA. See /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for more information. Noel
Re: running root X programs
From the xhost manpages, ``xhost +local:'' should work better than +localhost, if you are on a network; this only allows clients on the local machine to display X clients. Chandran If you're not on a network: 'xhost +localhost' (as user) Andrew wrote on Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 10:53:01PM +1200.. I know this has been addressed before, I've tried searching the archives for it, but without success. How do you run an X program as root whilst still in a user X session? Why search list archives when the info is on your system? $ man -k x xhost (1)- server access control program for X
can't mount floppy
I rebuilt my kernel (Hamm) for firewalling, and included the floppy support option. However, since then I can't mount the floppy drive. I see it recognized (fd0) at boot up, but when I mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy I'm told that fs type msdos is not supported by the kernel. When I try vfat the same. When I try ext2, I'm told it is not a valid block device. Any ideas appreciated. This did work before the kernel rebuild, from install. Thanks, Hank
Re: can't mount floppy
You need msdos fs support in the kernel, as the error message says. Add this support as a module so you won't have to reboot to enable it. Chandran Hank Fay wrote on Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 03:37:27PM -0400.. I rebuilt my kernel (Hamm) for firewalling, and included the floppy support option. However, since then I can't mount the floppy drive. I see it recognized (fd0) at boot up I'm told that fs type msdos is not supported by the kernel. When I try vfat the same. When I try ext2, I'm told it is not a valid block device. Hank
Re: Inferno
On: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 02:16:39 + Phillip Neumann writes: Hi, Im wondering if someone is running ``Inferno'' somewhere Its a network OS from Bell... If yes, what are the advantages ??? Take a look into the comp.os.inferno newsgroup. Maybe there are FAQs or something similiar posted. Torsten
HP Kayak and Debian linux
Hi, I am trying to put Debian linux on an HP Kayak machine. I've put Debian on a bunch of other machines before, but this one is giving me problems unlike any I've seen. The system has a Symbios 53C875 SCSI controller with one disk, an IDE interface connected to the CDROM, an integrated ethernet network interface of some HP flavor, and a graphics card based on a Cirrus Logic chip. I'm loading the system from a Debian 2.0 distribution CD. I've got the base system loaded, but getting the network interface configured is a problem. There are no IRQ conflicts but Windows 95 cheerfully reports a conflict that the ethernet interace, the SCSI controller, and the PCI-PCI bridge are all sharing an area in memory and in IO space. Windows doesn't seem to have a problem with this, but whenever I try to ifconfig the ethernet device it is reported as busy. Does anyone have any clues on this? Turning PnP on or off in the CMOS setup doesn't seem to have any effect on this. Thanks, -- Eric Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X Windows
First of all, HUGE THANKS to everyone who has answered my questions over the past few weeks. Just to let you know, I actually have X running now. Now my ??? 1. Is there a different way to install packages while in X or should I still be using dselect?? 2. What/How/Where/Who/When do I install to access a Winblow$ 95 filesystem. The W95 filesystem is the first partition on my drive. 3. I want to install WINEare there any steps that I need to take first??? 4. Everytime I reinstall(because I did something stupid) I get a dependency error that says something like can't install auctext(sp??) dependency problems and then it says something like involves emacs20. Everything seems to work fine. Any ideas??? 5. How do I get rid of my ppp connection when i'm done? 6. Can I set ppp to start automatically when I need it?? that should do it for now THANKS TO EVERYONE
Re: wmaker
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: (Before somebody asks: I *am* uploading -- or trying to -- 0.19.1-1 right now) Has this happen yet? Regards, Michael
PON As Normal User
If there anyway to have a normal user access PON? If not, is there a way to enable dial up access to an ISP for a normal user using some other utility? Thanks, Denis
Re: ppp connection with Demon
Perhaps I can help you a bit: 1) PPP HOWTO and /usr/doc/ppp/* help a lot. 2) You might did it already, but one thing to do when trying to test the connection is to log in as root. This way you can eliminate problems that can rise because of unsatisfactory permitions untill after you know you can establish the connection. I have never used linux before, so I'm groping around a bit. I am trying to connect to Demon Internet using a chatscript. The server = is able to use either PAP or text-based login, but I got furthest with = text-based. I set ppp up with pppconfig and I have checked the = /etc/ppp/peers/Demon it created and the chatscript it refers to. I have a static IP address but when pon gets to the IP entry in = peers/Demon it says my IP address command not recognised or = something like that. I have tried making the connection with minicom, which happens really = slowly (I don't know how fast it should go). I got the connection speed = back (56K) and the server's address then: login: password: protocol: (I entered ppp) host: (my username) IP: (my IP, which is static) ppp begun at (something) mail maintenance completed. routing problems = with (something or other) fixed. finger (an address) for info. L and it stops there. If ppp was being set up, I would have seen some = garbage wouldn't I? Since it tells me my address anyway, I removed the IP address from = peers/Demon and tried pon again. This time it got through the login = sequence, including the protocol bit, then (plog) said serial connection = established. ifconfig only showed loopback. After a while plog said that = LCP timeout sending config requests. At no point could I use anything = that needed a ppp connection. 3) It seems to me that you can't establish a ppp connection because /etc/ppp/options or /etc/ppp/peers/Demon does not contain the correct switches. Perhaps you can try to read pppd man page and /etc/options to learn what flags are needed for your connection. I'm confused and I'd be very grateful for any help. 4) Try to enable debugging info and learn from that what is wrong. Maybe debugging info + trying different pppd switches can help you solve your problem. 5) Sending debugging info to the list can help others to isolate the problem.
Re: wmaker
It showed up in slink earlier today. On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Michael Montz wrote: Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: (Before somebody asks: I *am* uploading -- or trying to -- 0.19.1-1 right now) Has this happen yet? Regards, Michael -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- Bob NielsenInternet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: PON As Normal User
Add the user to the group dip. On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote: If there anyway to have a normal user access PON? If not, is there a way to enable dial up access to an ISP for a normal user using some other utility? Thanks, Denis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- Bob NielsenInternet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: X Windows
1. ... don't know (I'm still using dselect, haven't tried apt) 2. Make sure you have fat/vfat msdos support compiled in your kernel and then mount (manually or via some entry in fstab) your Win9x partition with the command 'mount -t msdos /dev/hdxx /mnt' where hdxx is replaced by you partition id, and /mnt replaced with your desired mount point. There is another set of tools (mtools?) that may offer another method. 3. ... haven't played with it 4. You may be having the same problem I had (and found the solution for on this mailing list) - the 'tm' package. Run dselect and 'purge' that package. When I did that emacs installed fine. 5. If you are using pon to start it up, then poff will end it. 6. ... Still working on this myself Ken spOOL wrote: First of all, HUGE THANKS to everyone who has answered my questions over the past few weeks. Just to let you know, I actually have X running now. Now my ??? 1. Is there a different way to install packages while in X or should I still be using dselect?? 2. What/How/Where/Who/When do I install to access a Winblow$ 95 filesystem. The W95 filesystem is the first partition on my drive. 3. I want to install WINEare there any steps that I need to take first??? 4. Everytime I reinstall(because I did something stupid) I get a dependency error that says something like can't install auctext(sp??) dependency problems and then it says something like involves emacs20. Everything seems to work fine. Any ideas??? 5. How do I get rid of my ppp connection when i'm done? 6. Can I set ppp to start automatically when I need it?? that should do it for now THANKS TO EVERYONE -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: X Background
Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote: I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear [the X background] to a single colour. Nils, Great thanks, just what I wanted. Dave
