Re: Soporte para sonido
El Mon, Jul 19, 1999, Marcelo Ramos... Tengo una duda: como se hace para tener sonido en Linux. Tengo Debian 2.0 (Hamm). Instalé un paquete llamado cdtool que sirve para reproducir CDs de música y funciona perfectamente. O sea que si se reproduce un CD de música está usando la tarjeta de sonido. Pero por otro lado todos los juegos que tienen sonido me reportan que no hay soporte para sonido. El kernel debe estar compilado con soporte para tu targeta de sonido, y normalmente el kernel que se instala inicialmente no lo lleva. Deberás leer el Sonido-COMO, Kernel-COMO, además de instalar el paquete `isapnptools'. Si no tienes claro que és el kernel, cuando te pases por la web de LuCAS para conseguir los HOWTO traducidos sobre el tema también puedes bajarte algún documento sobre generalidades de Linux, que te aclararían estas cosas. La URL en mi firma. Saludos. -- Cosme = -=-=- A través de Debian GNU/Linux -=-=- -=-=- Software Libre -=-=- http://www.linux.org/ S.O. Multi-[plataforma, tarea, usuario] http://www.gnu.org/ Free Software Foundation http://lucas.hispalinux.es/ Documentación en Castellano http://www.openresources.com/es/ Revista Open Resources http://www.es.linuxfocus.org/Castellano/ LinuxFocus = pgpNyD2KOafIc.pgp Description: PGP signature
apt frustration
Folks, I run a little home office network. Most of it is stable, slink at the moment, but I like to keep some stuff really leading edge (Java, DocBook/Jade, egcs c). A simple way to do this would SEEM to be to use apt/deity. It'd be great to be able to say: keep everything stable according to my CDs and the ftp site, but keep the following packages (and anything they depend on) up-to-date according to the unstable FTP site. apt/deity doesn't seem to be able to do this. A simple alternative would be to have a local directory that contains just the .deb files I'd like to be unstable, and to include this in '/etc/apt/sources.list'. That doesn't work either! I have to add a bunch of support files (the 'Packages' file, and now some other file). It seems that there isn't a simple way to fulfill my simple, common need. Can someone make a suggestion? Simon Read Formal ASICs, Ltd. Suite 215 222 Main Street Annapolis MD 21401-2005 Telephone: 1 410 280 0228 Data/Fax: 1 410 280 2099 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.formasic.com
Re: majordomo documentation
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 02:08:32PM -0700, Nate wrote: Where can I get Howtos on setting up a majordomo list? Install majordomo and follow your nose: $ ls /usr/doc/majordomo/ FAQ.gzREADME.sequencer firewalls-digest.vol FUTURE.gz changelog.Debian.gz list-owner-info.gz INSTALL.gzchangelog.gz majordomo-faq.html NEWLIST.gzcopyright majordomo-faq.txt.gz NEWS digest.aliasesmajordomo.lisa6.ps.gz README.Debian firewalls-digest.cf majordomo.ora.gz README.Docfirewalls-digest.header man README.digest.gz firewalls-digest.num quick-digest-setup README.gz firewalls-digest.trailer sample.cf.gz Cheers, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux?L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
bus error
hi does somebody knows what does bus error means and how can i get out of this? it appears when i try to run netscape 4,61 on a 2.2.1 kernel and 3.3.4 xfree86 thanks
Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?
*- On 31 Jul, Daniel Barclay wrote about Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable? From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_ out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a state-of-the-art system with all the bugs inherent in the bleeding edge. But why not build the latest-and-greatest version of add-on packages against BOTH the stable and the latest-and-greatest unstable distribution? Because this all takes time and resources to provide. Remember that Debian is a purely volenteer project, this includes both human time and computer resources. Many Debian developers do not have the resources to provide versions for both stable and unstable, recall, to build a stable and unstable binary you have to have a stable and unstable system to build it against. Those that are providing the archives are also doing so on a volenteer basis and if they are developers themselves then they must have the resources to build the versions for stable as well as have an unstable system to build the new packages for the current unstable. If you want something that is only available in the unstable tree you can always build the source archive against your current setup, it is fairly straight forward with the Debian source archives. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation
Eric G. Miller wrote: gnome-session will remember your window manager, and other programs you have running. The thing is, according to the Debian page at gnome.org, gnome-session will sometimes lose all your customizations. I actually tried gnome-session once and it worked okay, but that warning makes me nervous. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net
Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
I finally installed Debian 2.1 after much effort. My Matrox Millennium G200 video card was not recognized by the version of XF86 that comes with Debian 2.1 but I was able to upgrade to the XFree83 3.3.3.1-2 from the unstable packages. Also, my mouse (Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2) was not working at all, got that fixed by symlinking /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux. Debian 2.1 rocks! I am very impressed with the window manager menu system, I think that is so cool!! I am using WindowMaker 0.20. Also, I was amazed at how easy it was to configure PPP using the pppconfigure program. Very impressive! However, I still have quite a few questions that I am hoping to get answered : (1) For console logins, how can I get the console screen to be cleared after a user logs out ? RedHat 5.2 seems to do it by default (ie without playing with any config files). (2) If I download a bunch of .deb files myself to a dir on my HD, how can I install them using a combination of dselect/apt ? (3) I noticed that when I was running apt-get from a virtual console (to upgrade to XF86-3.3.3.1), during the download the other virtual consoles were 'locked' out. I couldn't switch over to any of the other remaining 5 VCs. Is there a reason for this ? Can this be fixed ? The moment that apt-get returned me to the shell prompt I was able to switch to other VCs. (4) Using the boot disk created during the install process, Debian takes a very long time to reboot (about 4 minutes on my system). However, when I created another boot disk (on another floppy) using : mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 Debian this time booted in around 10-15 seconds using this boot disk created with mkboot. What gives ? What is the difference b/w the two methods and which is recommended for making a boot disk ? (5) Initially, I tried to get the .debs for XFree86-3.3.3.1-2 from the following site : ftp.netgod.net. Upon instructions from another Debian user, who has been kind enough to offer email support during my installation nightmare (Hi Kris!), I added the following line to the end of /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian x/ Then, once I was connected via PPP, I typed the following on the command line : apt-get update this worked fine. Then I tried, apt-get install xserver-svga It attempted to download the .debs for the new 3.3.3.1-2 xserver, but then a lot of messages were displayed saying that the .debs weren't found (404: not found) and I wasn't able to get these XFree86-3.3.3.1-2 .debs from the netgod site. Has anyone else had this problem ? I was able to find these .debs when I connected to the site using Netscape (in Windows) and tried to download these .debs individually from the netgod ftp site. Can someone explain why this happened, and how to download those .debs from netgod's site (ftp.netgod.net) ? I will be reinstalling Debian 2.1 soon and I don't want to switch to glibc2.1 and some of the other unstable packages to get my video card to be recognized properly. (6) Because of (5) I removed the line deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian x/ and instead added the line deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free to /etc/apt/soureces.list and then I tried to get the xsever-svga-3.3.3.1-2 and ended up upgrading to glibc-2.1 and a whole bunch of other newer packages. Is there anyway to backup these .debs which were downloaded to my HD so that if I reinstall Debian 2.1, I don't have to download all these .debs all over again (which BTW took over 2 1/2 hours over my 56k modem connection) ? I have a couple of old 540Mb HDs which I use for backing up downloaded files prior to OS reinstallations. (7) How can I get my SoundBlaster PCI128 sound card configured ? Do I have to recompile the kernel for that ? Also, how do I setup/install the ALSA drivers for this card (I had to use ALSA to get this sound card to work with RedHat 5.2). (8) During installation, I noticed a whole number of Linux Gazette issues were being installed along with other docs. How do I read these docs ? I thought they would have shown up on the menu system! (9) I'd like to to upgrade to WindowMaker-0.60. What is the best/ recommended way of doing that ? (10) It seems that I am booting up in 8bit color mode because the icons in WindowMaker look quite bad. How do I change this so that I start up in 16bit or 32bit mode ? BTW, my system config is : Celeron 300A (at 300MHz) ABIT BH6 MotherBoard 128 MB RAM Quantum 10.2Gb HD Matrox Millennium G200 8Mb Video Card SoundBlaster PCI 128 Sound Card ACER 56k Internal ISA Modem (jumpered to COM2/IRQ3) Creative 36X CD-ROM Drive ADI MicroScan 6P 19 monitor I would appreciate any help on the above mentioned items. Thanks for reading the whole post (if you made it this far!). I apologize if any of these questions are FAQs but after having spent the past few hours getting Debian 2.1 up and running and am kinda anxious to get these few issues out of the way. Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
Re: apt frustration
*- On 31 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about apt frustration Folks, I run a little home office network. Most of it is stable, slink at the moment, but I like to keep some stuff really leading edge (Java, DocBook/Jade, egcs c). A simple way to do this would SEEM to be to use apt/deity. It'd be great to be able to say: keep everything stable according to my CDs and the ftp site, but keep the following packages (and anything they depend on) up-to-date according to the unstable FTP site. apt/deity doesn't seem to be able to do this. A simple alternative would be to have a local directory that contains just the .deb files I'd like to be unstable, and to include this in '/etc/apt/sources.list'. That doesn't work either! I have to add a bunch of support files (the 'Packages' file, and now some other file). It seems that there isn't a simple way to fulfill my simple, common need. Can someone make a suggestion? Probably the best way is to use the 'hold' feature of dselect. Get your system set up as you want with stable then use dselect to put the packages you want to keep the same on 'hold' with the '=' key. Then modify your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the unstable branch. Then only update packages using dselect select method. I'm not sure what happens if a package you want to upgrade depends on a later version of a package you have on hold. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
ldconfig confusions
Folks, I'm trying to get Blackdown's JDK 1.2 port to work on my Debian box. The port is very sensitive to the version of glibc that's installed. They suggest glibc2.1 (which is not in slink). I tried to update to that library using .debs from the unstable. Now, I seem to have a confusing mess in my /lib directory. When I run ldconfig -D (to try and find out what's installed), I geta whole bunch of messages that look somehting like the following: ldconfig: warning: /lib/ld-2.1.1.so has inconsistent soname (ld-linux.so.2) ldconfig: warning: /lib/libc-2.1.1.so has inconsistent soname (libc.so.6) ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so has inconsistent soname (libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2) ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.0-1-2.9.0.so has inconsistent soname (libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2) Can someone tell me how to find out if these are a problem, how to fix them c? There seem to be some serious naming problems here (given 'normal' Unix conventions), but I understand that this might be necessary. I'd RTFM if I know which FM to RT. Thanks, Simon Read Formal ASICs, Ltd. Suite 215 222 Main Street Annapolis MD 21401-2005 Telephone: 1 410 280 0228 Data/Fax: 1 410 280 2099 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.formasic.com
bashrc for xdm
What is the best way to set up variables when using xdm/wdm. I tried to execute my .bashrc from .xsession or to set the variables in the .xsession, but the X-session refused to start even if an empty ~/.xsession file exist. Marc
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
Salman Ahmed wrote: (5) Initially, I tried to get the .debs for XFree86-3.3.3.1-2 from the following site : ftp.netgod.net. Upon instructions from another Debian user, who has been kind enough to offer email support during my installation nightmare (Hi Kris!), I added the following line to the end of /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian x/ I think the correct line for the slink debs is: deb http://www.netgod.net x/ or deb ftp://ftp.netgod.net x/ (notice no '/debian')^ HTH dyer
wmcdplay and tray-locking
As much as I like the wmcdplay-programm, the locking of the drivetray sometimes is a real nightmare. IMO it makes no sense to lock the tray even when the drive is empty or a data CD is insert. Is there a patch available to remove this missbehavior? Regards Marc
Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation
On 31 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: | Eric G. Miller wrote: | | gnome-session will remember your window manager, and other programs you | have running. | | The thing is, according to the Debian page at gnome.org, gnome-session | will sometimes lose all your customizations. I actually tried | gnome-session once and it worked okay, but that warning makes me | nervous. The problem you describe sounds like the panel. I've been using the gnome-session for better than a month and this has never occured. However, the panel has forgotten it's settings. It seems, everytime I upgrade gnome stuff, some gnome-apps forget their former settings. I don't know why. The only problem I've noticed with gnome-session is that sometimes it will open applications you closed just before logging out. Seems it doesn't necessarily do a final check, but rather does them at timed intervals. But, I've made it a point to always use the panel to log out since I discovered this problem, and everything seems to be okay. One thing that certainly doesn't work is to have gnome-session manage a kde desktop. Boy, talk about the mess that creates! -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
Phil Dyer wrote: I think the correct line for the slink debs is: deb http://www.netgod.net x/ or deb ftp://ftp.netgod.net x/ (notice no '/debian')^ I think it's: deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ I'm curious about the answer to Salman Ahmed's first question too. -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
Mark Wagnon wrote: [snip] I'm curious about the answer to Salman Ahmed's first question too. I suggested using 'mingetty' as it by default will clear the screen at logout. Its also smaller than the default getty (I'm pretty sure). -- Ed C.
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
*- On 31 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!) Mark Wagnon wrote: [snip] I'm curious about the answer to Salman Ahmed's first question too. I suggested using 'mingetty' as it by default will clear the screen at logout. Its also smaller than the default getty (I'm pretty sure). Yep! # ls -l /sbin/getty /sbin/mingetty 14 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root13228 Jun 24 20:27 /sbin/getty* 9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8232 Nov 22 1997 /sbin/mingetty* You could also add a vt escape code to the top of the /etc/issue if mingetty is not an option. clear /tmp/clear.txt # clear is in ncurses-bin cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue /etc/issue.clear mv /etc/issue /etc/issue.noclear mv /etc/issue.clear /etc/issue -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
At 09:25 PM 7/31/99 , you wrote: *- On 31 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!) I suggested using 'mingetty' as it by default will clear the screen at logout. Its also smaller than the default getty (I'm pretty sure). Yep! # ls -l /sbin/getty /sbin/mingetty 14 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root13228 Jun 24 20:27 /sbin/getty* 9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8232 Nov 22 1997 /sbin/mingetty* You could also add a vt escape code to the top of the /etc/issue if mingetty is not an option. clear /tmp/clear.txt # clear is in ncurses-bin cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue /etc/issue.clear mv /etc/issue /etc/issue.noclear mv /etc/issue.clear /etc/issue Ok. Just curious, but what's the proper/canonical way to do this ? I am using tcsh, so what file(s) would I have to modify ? Why is this not the default behaviour ? In some multi-user environments this type of behaviour (ie the screen not getting cleared after a user has logged out) could almost be considered a security risk seeing as how another user could see what the last user had been doing. Granted this is not that big of a deal but I am surprised to see this as default behaviour in Debian when other distros like RH already do this by default. I am just curious, not wanting to start a flame war!!
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 10:34:09PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: At 09:25 PM 7/31/99 , you wrote: *- On 31 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!) I suggested using 'mingetty' as it by default will clear the screen at logout. Its also smaller than the default getty (I'm pretty sure). Yep! # ls -l /sbin/getty /sbin/mingetty 14 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root13228 Jun 24 20:27 /sbin/getty* 9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8232 Nov 22 1997 /sbin/mingetty* You could also add a vt escape code to the top of the /etc/issue if mingetty is not an option. clear /tmp/clear.txt # clear is in ncurses-bin cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue /etc/issue.clear mv /etc/issue /etc/issue.noclear mv /etc/issue.clear /etc/issue Ok. Just curious, but what's the proper/canonical way to do this ? I am using tcsh, so what file(s) would I have to modify ? Why is this not the default behaviour ? In some multi-user environments this type of behaviour (ie the screen not getting cleared after a user has logged out) could almost be considered a security risk seeing as how another user could see what the last user had been doing. Granted this is not that big of a deal but I am surprised to see this as default behaviour in Debian when other distros like RH already do this by default. I am just curious, not wanting to start a flame war!! One way this could be done is to install the linuxlogo package and configure it to display at the login prompt. It displays the new Debian logo (the potato version does, anyway) along with some system information, effectively clearing the screen when you log out. Also, if you are using the bash shell, you could create a ~/.bash_logout file and include a 'clear' command. Check the manpage or texinfo page for your shell to see if it supports something like this. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance --Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Debian 2.%$#@*!
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:42:16 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris-- There's an ftp on my system, and I can connect with ftp debian.org or ftp sunsite.unc.edu or other sites as well, but entering ftp netscape.com results in Connection refused, while ftp ftp3.netscape.com gets hostname lookup failure. Thanks. -- Max You probably do not have reverse DNS configured properly. Many sites will not allow you to connect if the in-addr.arpa PTR record is not in place for your system. Can you connect to ftp.uu.net ??? **[No sir. Entering ftp uu.net gives me No address associated with name.]** If not, what IP address are you using? **[ I don't know. My own IP is dynamically assigned at connection. My localhost is 127.0.0.1, and my DNS is 206.40.134.33 (primary) and 206.40.134.34 (secondary)]** Try using an external nameserver **[what's that?]** and doing an nslookup of that IP address, if it does not return a hostname, that is probably your problem. **[nslookup uu.net gives me: Server: ns1.premier1.net. Address: 206.40.134.33 ns1.premier1.net cannot find uu.net. Non-existent host/domain]** **[nslookup netscape.com gives: Non-authoritive answer Name: Netscape.com Address: 207.200.75.200 ]** But it still refuses connection. How come some sites require reverse lookup and others don't? Thanks. -- Max ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_ out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a state-of-the-art system with all the bugs inherent in the bleeding edge. But why not build the latest-and-greatest version of add-on packages against BOTH the stable and the latest-and-greatest unstable distribution? Then later versions of software (even if they're not long-tested and stable) could be run on the stable distribution. Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a stable distribution? If you want the latest, go with unstable, that's what it's there for (and don't forget to submit any bugs you find! That's also what it's there for). Or if you want to mix and match, feel free to grab the debian sources and build the packages yourself. If you don't know how, check the archives; instructions have been posted many times before. Note that that's what various other sites (Gnome, someone's KDE site, etc.) provide--recent individual software that doesn't require the more recent, unstable distribution. That's their perrogative.
Re: apt frustration
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 31 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about apt frustration Folks, I run a little home office network. Most of it is stable, slink at the moment, but I like to keep some stuff really leading edge (Java, DocBook/Jade, egcs c). A simple way to do this would SEEM to be to use apt/deity. It'd be great to be able to say: keep everything stable according to my CDs and the ftp site, but keep the following packages (and anything they depend on) up-to-date according to the unstable FTP site. apt/deity doesn't seem to be able to do this. A simple alternative would be to have a local directory that contains just the .deb files I'd like to be unstable, and to include this in '/etc/apt/sources.list'. That doesn't work either! I have to add a bunch of support files (the 'Packages' file, and now some other file). It seems that there isn't a simple way to fulfill my simple, common need. Can someone make a suggestion? Install the latest apt (with support for deb-src lines) and use these to compile the potato packages from source for your slink. Once you've done this, steal the Release file from somewhere (change if you'd like), dump all the debs in a directory, touch the override file, and use dpkg-scanpackages [from the dpkg-dev package]. # pwd /usr/local/debs # touch override # dpkg-scanpackages . override Packages Then, add a line line the following to sources.list: deb file:/usr/local/debs / Probably the best way is to use the 'hold' feature of dselect. Get your system set up as you want with stable then use dselect to put the packages you want to keep the same on 'hold' with the '=' key. Then modify your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the unstable branch. Then only update packages using dselect select method. Wouldn't this cause problems with the glibc version difference between slink and potato? For example, wouldn't you need to upgrade to glibc 2.1 for one of those potato packages, which would then require several other packages to be updated (i.e. bash). I'm not sure what happens if a package you want to upgrade depends on a later version of a package you have on hold. I'm not sure... in the case of the Perl changes in potato, package X depended on perl-5.005 which conflicted with perl-5.004 (which provided perl which dpkg depended on, problem!) so even though perl-5.004 was on hold it was marked for removal. But i don't know what happens if it's a dependancy that would upgrade the held package.
Re: Debian 2.%$#@*!
Wait! Hold the phone. I tried entering nslookup ftp.uu.net and got an address, so I entered ftp ftp.uu.net and connected! ftp ftp.netscape.com also connects. Cripes. Something so simple! Entering ftp.netscape.com from the ftp prompt gets invalid command. You have to clear the prompt and type in the first ftp. Anyway, I went to /pub and found a large communicator file. Any chance this may be the holy grail? -- Max On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:42:16 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You probably do not have reverse DNS configured properly. Many sites will not allow you to connect if the in-addr.arpa PTR record is not in place for your system. Can you connect to ftp.uu.net ??? If not, what IP address are you using? Try using an external nameserver and doing an nslookup of that IP address, if it does not return a hostname, that is probably your problem. ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: Debian 2.%$#@*!
*- On 1 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Debian [EMAIL PROTECTED]! Wait! Hold the phone. I tried entering nslookup ftp.uu.net and got an address, so I entered ftp ftp.uu.net and connected! ftp ftp.netscape.com also connects. Cripes. Something so simple! Entering ftp.netscape.com from the ftp prompt gets invalid command. You have to clear the prompt and type in the first ftp. Once your are in the ftp program you connect to hosts with 'open', ie. ftp open ftp.netscape.com enter 'help' to see more opions for the ftp prompt. If you at your shell prompt then you can immediately start ftp connected to a host like you did with # ftp ftp.netscape.com Anyway, I went to /pub and found a large communicator file. Any chance this may be the holy grail? -- Max /pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install/communicator-v461-export.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Xlib, or I'm an idiot...again
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [ list changed to debian-user since this definitely belongs there ] Dale, You need to read the xauth man page. You probably tried to start the programs in question after su'ing to an id which was not the id used to enter your X session. Right? Regards, Jorel The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best. On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: I upgraded my system to potato a week or so ago, and since then mozilla will not load. I just built the newest version of xcircuit, and it refuses to load for the same reasons given by mozilla. Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorised to connect to server Error: Can't open display :0.0 I also can't seem to ftp into this machine any more (and I did it all the time before the upgrade), are all these issues related? What do I do to fix this? Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- See www.linuxpress.com for more details _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN6OfhfrE9j2ZpWNBAQFphgP+KJi5KFKd/zL5Ltysb6mepCXWmRCd63v3 ZS36Wt/qwPMJLCjk8dhPXuBwal4iX1tN+ZFljU8lecruxkAcsVW9qTltFjPA9IB5 KvRPBDLWwhFeA+X/udsjehB557r/xuUbn3MMtNsSpc7XOFMzdpxYM3OVBOWwmFJm d0AIMBfaKfo= =O5/K -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: (2) If I download a bunch of .deb files myself to a dir on my HD, how can I install them using a combination of dselect/apt ? 1. You'll need the dpkg-dev package. 2. Create an override file. man dpkg-scanpackages for more info. 3. Steal a Release file from somewhere. Modify it if you'd like. 4. dpkg-scanpackages . override.filename Packages in the dir with the debs. 5. Add a line to your sources.list something like this: deb file:/usr/local/debs / (assuming the deb files were in /usr/local/debs) (3) I noticed that when I was running apt-get from a virtual console (to upgrade to XF86-3.3.3.1), during the download the other virtual consoles were 'locked' out. I couldn't switch over to any of the other remaining 5 VCs. Is there a reason for this ? Can this be fixed ? The moment that apt-get returned me to the shell prompt I was able to switch to other VCs. i've never encountered this before... i have no trouble changing VCs when apt-get is running. (6) Because of (5) I removed the line deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian x/ and instead added the line deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free to /etc/apt/soureces.list and then I tried to get the xsever-svga-3.3.3.1-2 and ended up upgrading to glibc-2.1 and a whole bunch of other newer packages. That's because you were hitting the potato sources. Is there anyway to backup these .debs which were downloaded to my HD so that if I reinstall Debian 2.1, I don't have to download all these .debs all over again (which BTW took over 2 1/2 hours over my 56k modem connection) ? I have a couple of old 540Mb HDs which I use for backing up downloaded files prior to OS reinstallations. If they're still in /var/cache/apt/archives/, just back them up as usual. Otherwise, you're out of luck. (7) How can I get my SoundBlaster PCI128 sound card configured ? Do I have to recompile the kernel for that ? Also, how do I setup/install the ALSA drivers for this card (I had to use ALSA to get this sound card to work with RedHat 5.2). Yes, you have to recompils the kernel. Read the information in the Documentation directory of the kernel sources for any relavent information. IIRC, there's an alsa package available. In the package selection screen of dselect, type /alsa to search. Use \ to find further matches. (9) I'd like to to upgrade to WindowMaker-0.60. What is the best/ recommended way of doing that ? Well, you could upgrade to potato (if you haven't already undone so from (6)). Or, you could compile from sources for your slink system. The easiest way to compile from source is to get a recent version (0.3.11 would be good), then add a deb-src line you your sources.list. Make sure you have the dpkg-dev package, as well as any necessary -dev packages for required libraries. Then, apt-get --compile source wmaker (10) It seems that I am booting up in 8bit color mode because the icons in WindowMaker look quite bad. How do I change this so that I start up in 16bit or 32bit mode ? Somewhere in xf86config/XF86Setup there's an option to select the preferred color depth. Otherwise, in the Section Screen for your current video driver, add a DefaultColorDepth ## line, where ## is the depth you want by default. Or, IIRC, you can just rearrande the SubSection Displays so the one you want is first.
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
Brian Servis wrote: You could also add a vt escape code to the top of the /etc/issue if mingetty is not an option. clear /tmp/clear.txt # clear is in ncurses-bin cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue /etc/issue.clear mv /etc/issue /etc/issue.noclear mv /etc/issue.clear /etc/issue That's pretty sweet! Works like a charm. Now I'll take a look and mingetty. thanks! -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org
Re: Debian 2.%$#@*!
Actually, there is another variant. You can install netscape right from debian using apt. Instead of choosing installer, choose the packages netscape-base-x.xx, communicator-smotif-x.xx, and other additions (where x.xx is the version you want). I do it this way and works ok. Sergey. On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait! Hold the phone. I tried entering nslookup ftp.uu.net and got an address, so I entered ftp ftp.uu.net and connected! ftp ftp.netscape.com also connects. Cripes. Something so simple! Entering ftp.netscape.com from the ftp prompt gets invalid command. You have to clear the prompt and type in the first ftp. Anyway, I went to /pub and found a large communicator file. Any chance this may be the holy grail? -- Max On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:42:16 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You probably do not have reverse DNS configured properly. Many sites will not allow you to connect if the in-addr.arpa PTR record is not in place for your system. Can you connect to ftp.uu.net ??? If not, what IP address are you using? Try using an external nameserver and doing an nslookup of that IP address, if it does not return a hostname, that is probably your problem. ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?
Hello, Actually its http://www.operasoftware.com or http://opera.nta.no and the project for opera for linux is under project magic Mark Wagnon wrote: Phillip Deackes wrote: What I cannot understand is why we have only Netscape as a *viable* graphical web browser. I am no programmer so maybe someone could point out why there aren't several to choose from. I am aware of old ports of Mosaic and the 'test-bed' Amayana? (sorry, can't remember the exact name). I am also aware of Mozilla. is that usable yet? Thinking about it, there are not that many choices available for Windows either - I was investigating some for use by my students and it appeared most 'alternatives' were based on IE and just provided a different front end. Yeah I know what you mean. Have you looked into opera? I haven't taken a look recently, but there was a windows version and they were working on versions for Linux and others. I think their homepage is http://www.opera.com Check them out. I'm gonna head over their right now... -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
smail doesn't read ~/.forward file
Hi, I am using smail on my debian slink box with 2.2.10 kernel. I set up my ~/.forward file in order to sort my mail through procmail (|/usr/bin/procmail) but it didn't work. Trying various .forward files, I figured out that this file is not read at all. My /etc/smail/config includes a line corresponding to the directors file (director_file=directors) and /etc/smail/directors contains dotforward: driver=forwardfile, owner=$user, nobody, sender_okay; file=~/.forward, checkowner, owners=root, modemask=002, caution=0-10:uucp:daemon, unsecure=0-99:~ftp:~uucp:/tmp:/var/tmp, My ~/.forward file is chmoded 600 and owned by me (melyan) and my group (melyan). I tried commenting line 'caution=0-10...' due to the UID procmail runs with (root) but it didn't work also. What could be wrong with my configuration ? I would be grateful for your help. Pawel Mazur (Melyan) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #8096952
Re: Debian 2.%$#@*!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait! Hold the phone. I tried entering nslookup ftp.uu.net and got an address, so I entered ftp ftp.uu.net and connected! ftp ftp.netscape.com also connects. Cripes. Something so simple! Entering ftp.netscape.com from the ftp prompt gets invalid command. You have to clear the prompt and type in the first ftp. Anyway, I went to /pub and found a large communicator file. Any chance this may be the holy grail? -- Max _ No, just a dim flicker of light in a long dark tunnel. You need this file /pub/communicator/4.6/english/unix/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install/communicator-v46-export.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz and use the netscape 4 installer from debian. Place the downloaded file in the /tmp directory and when you use dselect to install the netscape4 installer, it will automatically install and set up netscape communicator. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
libXext.so.6
hi i can run xfree86 as root, but when i try to run it as a common user, i get the following message when i type startx: libXext.so.6 cannot open shared object file, no such file or directory libXaw.so.6 cannot open shared object file, no such file or directory i have copied the .bashrc and .profile from de /root subdirectory to the /home/user subdirectory, but the problem remains how the user can not load the same libraries that the root can? any idea how to fix the problem? thanks a lot
re: dhcpcd (0.70) under Debian - some problems...
You should be able to put your mac address, ifconfig should list it as HWaddr, into the configuration file. This way it will give you an ip address based on your ethernet cards mac address. It should be the same in both operating systems. -Kirt Runolfson Northwest Advantage
Re: apt frustration
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably the best way is to use the 'hold' feature of dselect. Get your system set up as you want with stable then use dselect to put the packages you want to keep the same on 'hold' with the '=' key. Then modify your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the unstable branch. Then only update packages using dselect select method. I'm not sure what happens if a package you want to upgrade depends on a later version of a package you have on hold. I have found that if a package is on 'hold' then it will not be upgraded by art either. A member of this list sent me a small script which will put a package on hold without needing to start dselect (which I avoid like the plague). I found this useful when the latest version of Exim wouldn't work on my system. I held it back for a while and was able to regularly upgrade Potato on my machine without fear of losing the mail facility. As soon as I worked out what the problem was I manually upgraded the package and it was then not held back. start #! /bin/bash # dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held. # # by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the # public domain. # # BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good. if [ -z $* ] ; then echo Usage: echo dpkg-hold package... exit 1 fi for i in $@ ; do echo $ihold done | dpkg --set-selections end AFAIK apt will not attempt to upgrade packages dependent on the package held back. Perhaps someone else can verify this? -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato)
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Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 07:41:19PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: However, I still have quite a few questions that I am hoping to get answered : (1) For console logins, how can I get the console screen to be cleared after a user logs out ? RedHat 5.2 seems to do it by default (ie without playing with any config files). that is done by create a file in the homedir called .bash_logout if you put in there the line: clear the screen will be cleared by logout... an advise: put that file in /etc/skel to if you want the feature enabled for future user-accounts you make. (2) If I download a bunch of .deb files myself to a dir on my HD, how can I install them using a combination of dselect/apt ? dpkg -i debfile will do also (that's what apt and dselect do...) (5) Initially, I tried to get the .debs for XFree86-3.3.3.1-2 from the following site : ftp.netgod.net. Upon instructions from another Debian user, who has been kind enough to offer email support during my installation nightmare (Hi Kris!), I added the following line to the end of /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian x/ try: deb ftp://ftp.netgod.net x/ but that has been said many times now... Is there anyway to backup these .debs which were downloaded to my HD so that if I reinstall Debian 2.1, I don't have to download all these .debs all over again (which BTW took over 2 1/2 hours over my 56k modem connection) ? I have a couple of old 540Mb HDs which I use for backing up downloaded files prior to OS reinstallations. after using apt, if it has downloaded packages, it asks you if you want to remove the downloaded .deb files, answer no. Then you can find them in /var/cache/apt/archives (7) How can I get my SoundBlaster PCI128 sound card configured ? Do I have to recompile the kernel for that ? Also, how do I setup/install the ALSA drivers for this card (I had to use ALSA to get this sound card to work with RedHat 5.2). No id, I want to know that too. (8) During installation, I noticed a whole number of Linux Gazette issues were being installed along with other docs. How do I read these docs ? I thought they would have shown up on the menu system! (9) I'd like to to upgrade to WindowMaker-0.60. What is the best/ recommended way of doing that ? One way is to upgrade to potato ( but only if you feel ready for, it is quite stable now, I must say.) (10) It seems that I am booting up in 8bit color mode because the icons in WindowMaker look quite bad. How do I change this so that I start up in 16bit or 32bit mode ? startx -- -bpp 16 you can make an alias for that in your .bash_profile or /etc/profile (system wide) Good Luck Paul ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, P. van Tilburg wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 07:41:19PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: However, I still have quite a few questions that I am hoping to get answered : (1) For console logins, how can I get the console screen to be cleared after a user logs out ? RedHat 5.2 seems to do it by default (ie without playing with any config files). that is done by create a file in the homedir called .bash_logout if you put in there the line: clear the screen will be cleared by logout... an advise: put that file in /etc/skel to if you want the feature enabled for future user-accounts you make. You can also use the trap command. trap exit /usr/bin/clear , this is described in the Tips-HOWTO document. You should place this line in some file that is not shell specific, perhaps /etc/profile (7) How can I get my SoundBlaster PCI128 sound card configured ? Do I have to recompile the kernel for that ? Also, how do I setup/install the ALSA drivers for this card (I had to use ALSA to get this sound card to work with RedHat 5.2). No id, I want to know that too. Grab the latest potato alsa-source,drivers, config and any thing else with alsa in it in deb format of cource. install every package with dpkg -i *.deb, insstall any additional package thaat alsa needs. Insall the make-kpg package may be called debian-make dont know really, go to /usr/src/linux and configure the kernel, remeber if you have a kernel 2.2 and up you must add support for sound in the kernel but not choose any card. when you are throug exit the confrig and write make-kpkg --revision 1 kernel-image (it is bet you check the man page first as always) then when is finnshed write make-kpkg --revision 1 modules, thsese two commands makes two .deb files in the /usr/src directory, install them with dpkg -i *.deb . then run alsaconfig and configure yoursoundcard, reboot and ta-ta your soundcard works. Good luck! /nisse
Star office 5 fonts and speed
Hello! Sorry for this "non-debian" question, but maybe anyone knows how to solve my problem. I'm using StarOffice 5.1 on a slink(Kernel 2.2.9) system, and whenever I want to use a X11 xfstt font, I have to type itsfull name into the font selection listbox because these fonts don't appear in the list box. Thanks for any solutions to this problem. By the way, Star Office isawfully slow (about 1:30min startup on a P133). I use it because I don't know how to use X11 fonts in Corel WP and because of better compatibility to WORD. But the speed of it as well as the amount of disk space it uses (for what???) is terrible. I'm quite disappointed of it. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger
Re: Anyone using an S3 Trio3D/2X graphic card ?
Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I think that at one time (6 weeks ago?) I tried to get this card working for a friend, but I read the docs for the current (at the time) X versions, and that card was not supported. We swapped it with a Banshee 16MB, which worked fine. Well I'll need to wait till have support for my graphic card. Actually, XFree86 project says they are still developing support for such graphic card and the only available X server it's XF86_VGA16 . As you could imagine I'm using that. Using 640x480 resolution with 16 colors makes me remember the old days of my 386sx at 16MHz. :-) Thanks for your help. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 10:58:46AM +0200, P. van Tilburg wrote: (1) For console logins, how can I get the console screen to be cleared after a user logs out ? RedHat 5.2 seems to do it by default (ie without playing with any config files). that is done by create a file in the homedir called .bash_logout if you put in there the line: clear the screen will be cleared by logout... an advise: put that file in /etc/skel to if you want the feature enabled for future user-accounts you make. Is it just me or does this not work for the root account? it doesn't worry me much since i have an alias in .bashrc which says alias cl='clear;exit' but i tryed it this way and while it worked for normal users it did not for root. Probably the most imprtant user to not have people looking at.. though maybe not. thanks, tim -- Tim Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 15869961 http://www.albatross.co.nz/~tubby Let the frantic Goddess and delerious drunk cry together in shadow for the puppys sad stare, the forest and the death of the moon.
Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA
Hi, On Sat, 31 Jul, 1999 à 09:25:02AM -0600, John Galt wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:25:25PM -0600, John Galt wrote: This would be more of an arguement for a MTA being a priority:required rather than a Depends: on an Extra package. The other question that this There are a selection of MTAs. No given one of them is required, it's just that you ought to have one installed. Yeah, you ought to have one installed, so why add a redundant dependency to a MUA? Because a you OUGHT to have a MTA with your MUA as well--not need, ought: I'm beating a dead horse, but we've only discovered one MUA that is completely useless without a MTA, mutt (and as far as I'm concerned, it's just about as useless WITH a MTA) What's your point ? You seemed to be concerned by mutt but you now tell it's useless : so, don't install it and you'll not be bothered by its dependancies. Policy also requires that a package be made universally useless without another package before it can be said to depend on it, and I've said it more times than I care to count: A MUA CAN WORK IN AT LEAST ONE CASE WITHOUT A LOCAL MTA--that of being used as a POP/IMAP client for a remote SMTP server, and that's all that's necessary to go from Depends: to Recommends: PERIOD. How could you *send* mail with mutt *without* a MTA ? MTA is essential, but I'm doubting that it can be said to be a dependency of a MUA, more like a recommends: For MUAs which send mail by calling sendmail, it is pretty much a dependancy. What if I'm using smail, qmail, or postfix--those are all valid MTAs for the dependency--but they won't get called when a fork goes out to sendmail (except smail, I believe it aliases sendmail to itself in installation), or are you going far afield and postulating a MUA that strictly depends on sendmail? If you're doing that, credibility is so strained at that point that we could use /bin/false to send mail--there's so many competing MTAs that your hypothetical MUA would be defined as broken at the plate. What about the solution used in debian : $ ls *mail -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Nov 11 1998 rmail - exim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Nov 11 1998 sendmail - exim I suppose that qmail, postfix and other use a similar trick. -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/
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Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?
** Brad == Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: But why not build the latest-and-greatest version of add-on packages against BOTH the stable and the latest-and-greatest unstable distribution? Then later versions of software (even if they're not long-tested and stable) could be run on the stable distribution. Brad Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a stable distribution? If Brad you want the latest, go with unstable, that's what it's there Brad for (and don't forget to submit any bugs you find! That's also Brad what it's there for). Not always. It is nice to have the latest X packages (simply because much in hardware support has been added since the slink release) or GNOME (slink ships with 0.30), without the trouble of moving completely to unstable (glibc and perl comes to mind). And there are developers, who have the time, resources and will to do recompiles. I spoke to Wichert about this matter, and he says it is more a matter of a missing stable release management. There is a need for someone with enough knowledge and dedication to handle this. Such updates could then be handled by a seperate section in the archives update packs or such (and the infrastructure like dinstall has to be extended). Brad Or if you want to mix and match, feel free to grab the debian Brad sources and build the packages yourself. Sure. Although it is sometimes not that easy without source dependancies. One has to be able to interpret the errors, sometimes more packages from unstable are needed (autoconf, automake comes to mind), which themself might pull more packages and so on. Ciao, Martin
Re: How can I change the host name?
On 31 Jul, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 31 Jul, Tadas wrote about How can I change the host name? Edit /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname, I also have a file /etc/mailname but I don't recall what that is used for. If you have that edit it as well. Do you have to reboot to have these changes take effect? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- -- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- Clones are people two
Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?
On 31 Jul, Phillip Deackes wrote: I have been following the threads about the instability of Netscape with great interest. I too suffer the same symptoms - the ones where Netscape disappears when a certain page is requested, or where it closes/crashes when one window of two/several is closed. What I cannot understand is why we have only Netscape as a *viable* graphical web browser. I am no programmer so maybe someone could point out why there aren't several to choose from. I am aware of old ports of Mosaic and the 'test-bed' Amayana? (sorry, can't remember the exact name). I am also aware of Mozilla. is that usable yet? Thinking about it, there are not that many choices available for Windows either - I was investigating some for use by my students and it appeared most 'alternatives' were based on IE and just provided a different front end. -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Opera will be ready for Linux soon. But Opera is not free. I work for Opera Software and seen that the Linux version will be just as stable and lightweight under Linux as it is under Windows. You don't get all the bells a whistles you do from Netscape, but you will get a lightning fast, rock solid, browser. And you will have to pay...sorry! :) -- -- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- Clones are people two
monitoring advertising on this list
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Re: Init takes long time and what is lspci?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Jonas, 'lspci' is not needed and will not work on the 2.0.x kernels. They need a file in the /proc heirarchy which was introduced in the 2.2.x kernels. Cant answer your INIT question. Regards, Jor-el Human cardiac catheterization was introduced by Werner Forssman in 1929. Ignoring his department chief, and tying his assistant to an operating table to prevent her interference, he placed a ureteral catheter into a vein in his arm, advanced it to the right atrium [of his heart], and walked upstairs to the x-ray department where he took the confirmatory x-ray film. In 1956, Dr. Forssman was awarded the Nobel Prize. On 1 Aug 1999, Jonas Steverud wrote: Debian Potato. Last queation first: what's lspci? I get the message that lspci is not found so no PCI conflicts are calculated when I boot. I presume it's in pciutils but who do I know if I need it or not? I bought the computer in november '96 and I really don't know/remember what's in it. (I gave up keeping track of all new standards when SVGA meant better then 640x480x16 and the i486 came.) When I boot, init prints out INIT 2.74 (?) and then it stops for 10-20 seconds and then continues with NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. which takes another 5-10 seconds. Anyone who knows why this happens? Is it trying to get some information from somewhere or what? Before I changed to the 2.2.10-kernel (see other thread) this did not happen. Or is it perfectly normal? -- ( Jonas Steverud @ www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d4jonas/ !Wei Wu Wei) ( U2MoL, Roleplaying, LaTeX, Emacs/Gnus, SCWM, etc. ! To Do Without Do ) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN6RPxvrE9j2ZpWNBAQFsbwQAwo8kz62RAhgvBSQ3SptxOlVtXGhWCusR 0opRaAqUaybZEAHXhuYE3K6+d4RRzvP9esmcmvDINXLAq0OntKjE15N9ckVBe8xY TmihHYrbS6QI/+zgofe8Xw+s6Ti0VHbItE1+HIGgp5u9MCv0iy2yWLtfuRMJvROJ nhXbdvmC19Q= =Mijy -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: How can I change the host name?
Christian Dysthe wrote: On 31 Jul, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 31 Jul, Tadas wrote about How can I change the host name? Edit /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname, I also have a file /etc/mailname but I don't recall what that is used for. If you have that edit it as well. Do you have to reboot to have these changes take effect? No. But you will have to call hostname your_new_hostname as root. See man 1 hostname for details. Normally this is not required since the init-scripts do that for you at boot time (in /etc/init.d/hostname.sh) by calling hostname --file /etc/hostname Bernhard Rieder -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ ___ // )___---. \ |,( /`-- `.Bernhard Rieder \/ o\ ( _.-. ,'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ /`. \ , / | | \ ' .'`.; | | \.__ _-'.'| |--..,,,\_\ ''' _-'.' ___- ) ''''''---~
Curriculum Vitae in LaTeX
Hi all, anyone knows where to find a curriculum vitae model in LaTeX? Thanks, Paulo Henrique
Re: Init takes long time and what is lspci?
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 02:31:15PM +0200, Jonas Steverud wrote: When I boot, init prints out INIT 2.74 (?) and then it stops for 10-20 seconds and then continues with NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. which takes another 5-10 seconds. Anyone who knows why this happens? Is it trying to get some information from somewhere or what? Before I changed to the 2.2.10-kernel (see other thread) this did not happen. Or is it perfectly normal? I had this problem, too, after a partial upgrade to potato. After upgrading a few more packages, it worked again. I can't remember which packages exactly, but I think sysvinit was among them. -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem getting EtherLink card to work
I just installed a new 3com EtherLink III card and I am unable to ping another machine. First, a quick overview: I am trying to connect my linux box (with the new card) to a mac with a null cable. I've never used the ethernet on the mac before so I can't be certain it works. Also, the null cable is untested so far -- I am going to run it into the office and try it out there on two linux boxes on which networking works. I ran the DOS setup utility to disable PnP and set the IRQ/port to 5/0x300. The kernel module detects the card: eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 50 04 21 f9 af, IRQ 5. 3c509.c:1.16 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses. I don't know what the 'Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses' comment means. Is it OK? I get no response from a ping on the other machine. The problem could be anywhere at this point put I am wondering about the implications of one thing I noticed. After pinging it with 21 packets, i do a cat /proc/net/dev and get: Inter-| Receive | Transmit face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier lo: 600006000 00 eth0: 000004000 00 sl0: 000000000 00 Note that there are only 4 transmitted packets on eth0. Could this be an IRQ or IO port conflict? Also, is there a command for listing the IRQs and ports in use? I think I've seen such a thing but I can't remember what it is. I know this is not much information yet but any insights would be appreciated. -- Mark Zimmerman
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 07:41:19PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: However, I still have quite a few questions that I am hoping to get answered : First let me compliment you on your detailed and well organized request for help. I'll pick off one of your questions that is easy for me and let others do the same. Keep in mind there is always More Than One Way To Do It. I'm giving you a simple, brute force solutions that has worked for me. (2) If I download a bunch of .deb files myself to a dir on my HD, how can I install them using a combination of dselect/apt ? I keep these in a separate directory. For example, the X packages from netgod are in /usr/local/netgod/ and the latest KDE packages are in /usr/local/kde/. Then I just do the following: # dpkg -i /usr/local/netgod/*.deb # dpkg -i /usr/local/kde/*.deb This simple and effective. Keeping the files togther and installing them with a single dpkg command means dependencies shouldn't be a problem. If you do come up with a dependency issue, just add the necessary package(s) to the appropriate directory. Luck, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux?L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
2clogin1
hallo when i try to run efix i get: 2clogin1, command not found and it is certainly not in my hd any idea where i can find this file? thanks
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 10:34:09PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: In some multi-user environments this type of behaviour (ie the screen not getting cleared after a user has logged out) could almost be considered a security risk seeing as how another user could see what the last user had been doing. Granted this is not that big of a deal but I am surprised to see this as default behaviour in Debian when other distros like RH already do this by default. I am just curious, not wanting to start a flame war!! You just answered your own question: In some multi-user environments .. On my system at home (where I'm the only user) I don't want anything scrolling (or being cleared) off the screen just because I've logged out. At work, it's a different story. And somebody had to choose the default and leave it for we who don't care for it to change our own environment. Cheers, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux?L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?
KDE has an integrated file manager and browser that is excellent...once you try it you'll wonder why anyone uses Netscape. I just wish the GNOME crew had the same approach because while I prefer GNOME, Konqueror is THE best free browser. Patrick
installing new kernel crashed X - Help
I tried to compile an install kernel 2.2.10 on a 486dx2. It compiled correctly, but when I tried to install it it wouldn't start (halted with a message that it was trying to open some module and couldn't find it, and then that it couldn't mount root file system on 03:01.) I rebooted with the old kernel (a localy compile 2.2.5). I then tried to recompile 2.2.10, reinstalled it, but it still didn't work(same error). When i went back to the old kernel again and login into x, when i tried to log as a normal user, the screen would go blank and then throw me back to the login prompt (kdm). It did let me login as root. On the text consoles (not x11) i can log in as a normal user. What did I kill? All i changed was the kernels and lilo (at list as far as i know). If it helps, the compilation over filled my hard disk (it showed 0 space before starting the compilation) The second, the one that crashed the system, I didn't clean the kernel source before rebooting. Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ascii - tiff
hi where can i get a converter, that takes ascii (text written in vi) and gives tiff (for sending as fax)? i have tried the efix, but it gives me a bug (last mail) thanks
What process is sending these UPD packets?
I have a slink server which runs samba (smbd, nmdb), named, and xntpd as well as an IP masquerade for a bunch of internal windoz machines. A few weeks ago I started getting bursts of UDP packets every 30 seconds or so which are rejected by the standard firewall and clog up my /var/log/messages file to the tune of several MB daily. Here's what they look like from 'dmesg': IP fw-in deny eth1 UDP 192.168.0.1:1033 255.255.255.255:1478 L=329 S=0x00 I=64386 F=0x T=128 (repeated many times) Here they are from /var/log/messages: Aug 1 11:27:37 myhostname kernel: IP fw-in deny eth1 UDP 192.168.0.1:1033 255.255.255.255:1478 L=329 S=0x00 I=51847 F=0x T=128 (repeated many times) Using 'tcpdump -i eth1 udp' I see: 11:33:01.485932 myexternalhostalias.ucook.com.1033 255.255.255.255.1478: udp 301 (repeated 12 more times in each burst) 'lsof' doesn't help me find out what started sending these, at least I can't figure it out. Does anyone know what sends these? Or know how to find out? Or how to get it to stop? Or just how to not clog the log?? Thanks, ml
apologizes
hi really sorry for having asked quiestions that had been previously answered in the man tool not to repeat thanks a lot
Re: Xlib, or I'm an idiot...again
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Jor-el wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [ list changed to debian-user since this definitely belongs there ] Dale, You need to read the xauth man page. You probably tried to start the programs in question after su'ing to an id which was not the id used to enter your X session. Right? Right on the nose! I had su'd to root to install the new mozilla package to try it, and hadn't dropped back. I don't think I've had this experience before with root. What happened to my super user capabilities? Now the newly compiled xcircuit can be run from the prompt, and mozilla comes up to the splash screen before it reports a segfault ;-( Neither of the new programs will run from the menu. Is menu broken, or has it just changed and my package and mozilla haven't caught up? Thanks for the pointers, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- See www.linuxpress.com for more details _-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
At 12:07 PM 8/1/99 , you wrote: You just answered your own question: In some multi-user environments .. On my system at home (where I'm the only user) I don't want anything scrolling (or being cleared) off the screen just because I've logged out. At work, it's a different story. And somebody had to choose the default and leave it for we who don't care for it to change our own environment. Cheers, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux?L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ It isn't an issue for me either. At home I am the only user, and besides I always use X/Xdm for logging in. Very rarely do I login through a console. Of course, if I were using Debian it work then it would definitely matter. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
ssh with RSA-key login problem
Hi, I have setup sshd on my Debina system, genrated keys for root and user1 with ssh-keygen and put the public key in the file .ssh/authorized_keys. I have moved the private keys to my Mac where I run a ssh client (niftytelnet-1.1-ssh-r3). root login works without a problem but when I try to login as user1 my ssh client complains that Server does not allow RSA authentication, or the public key for user user1 was not accepted. Reverting to password authentication. What is wrong? Debian:/home/user1/.ssh# ls -la total 6 drwxr-sr-x 2 user1 user1 1024 Aug 1 15:33 . drwxrwsr-x 10 user1 user1 1024 Aug 1 15:31 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 327 Aug 1 15:33 authorized_keys -rw--- 1 user1 user1 523 Aug 1 15:32 identity -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 327 Aug 1 15:32 identity.pub -rw--- 1 user1 user1 512 Aug 1 15:31 random_seed Regards, Fredrik Jonsson -- A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it's not open. Phone: (Int. +46) 063-12 54 61/070-628 71 20 Address: Box 31, S-831 21 Östersund, Sweden Web site: http://www.combonet.se/
Re: Anyone using an S3 Trio3D/2X graphic card ?
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 01:19:59PM +0100, sdf wrote: Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I think that at one time (6 weeks ago?) I tried to get this card working for a friend, but I read the docs for the current (at the time) X versions, and that card was not supported. We swapped it with a Banshee 16MB, which worked fine. Well I'll need to wait till have support for my graphic card. Actually, XFree86 project says they are still developing support for such graphic card and the only available X server it's XF86_VGA16 . As you could imagine I'm using that. Using 640x480 resolution with 16 colors makes me remember the old days of my 386sx at 16MHz. :-) Just take a look at very new XFree86 3.3.4 - as I remember it has support for S3 Trio3D. Just take server (SVGA or S3 or S3V?) from address: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.4/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers/ and give it a chance. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) Don't fix it if it isn't broken
monitor whining
Just got x windows running but I hear a whine coming from monitor. Is that a sign that I need to reconfig x? Dean
Re: monitor whining
Just got x windows running but I hear a whine coming from monitor. Is that a sign that I need to reconfig x? Dean Run xvidtune and check whether you are running the monitor over the specs (Don't do that. Seriously). You should have some idea about the hsync/vsync rates of it. Also try turning down the resolution/bpp. Andrew
GIMP perl
How come that the debianized gimp 1.1.7 doesn't have the perl scripts? Or does it have them but I miss something in my installation and they don't come out? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: [Kernel 2.2.10] Mount complains about msdos-drive
Jonas Steverud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just upgraded to the 2.2.10-kernel (using the kernel-image-package), I used 2.0.33 before and it worked without any problem. root% mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /msdos -o noexec,ro,nosuid,blocksize=1024,auto mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems I've read the man-page for mount but couldn't find anything regarding options. The superblock is most likely intact and I only have /proc and / mounted. Jonas, this is just a w.a.g., but is either /dev/hda2 or /msdos mentioned in your /etc/fstab? If so, try to comment it out and try again. cheerio Jerry -- And now for something completly different...
Re: Installing X
Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do not have a Matrox Millenium, but I believe that card uses the SVGA xserver. I believe the XFree web page has a list of cards that work with SVGA. I'm pretty sure the G200 is one of them, as my friend had one and that's what we used to get it to work. I have one, and there is a problem with it XFree 3.3.3.1. I could not start the SVGA-Server when I tried to set it up with XF86Setup. I had it working with my SuSE system, so I copied the XF86Config (created with SAX) from the backup to /etc/X11 and everything is working fine since then. cheerio Jerry -- And now for something completly different...
Re: potato NIS
Marcin Kurc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have upgraded to potato with NIS 3.4-1. Everything worked fine with slink NIS package but now I cannot connect to NIS master. For example, ypcat passwd output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc]# ypcat passwd yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Internal NIS error Does anybody know whats wrong? i had the same problem. this is because ypserv dies every time a client tries to access the master. i got around this by recompiling the package on my system. didn't feel like investigating too much why ypserv in the maintainer's package dies. hope this helps. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
Re: installing new kernel crashed X - Help
- Original Message - From: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user Debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 6:34 PM Subject: installing new kernel crashed X - Help I tried to compile an install kernel 2.2.10 on a 486dx2. It compiled correctly, but when I tried to install it it wouldn't start (halted with a message that it was trying to open some module and couldn't find it, and then that it couldn't mount root file system on 03:01.) I rebooted with the old kernel (a localy compile 2.2.5). I then tried to recompile 2.2.10, reinstalled it, but it still didn't work(same error). When i went back to the old kernel again and login into x, when i tried to log as a normal user, the screen would go blank and then throw me back to the login prompt (kdm). It did let me login as root. On the text consoles (not x11) i can log in as a normal user. What did I kill? All i changed was the kernels and lilo (at list as far as i know). If it helps, the compilation over filled my hard disk (it showed 0 space before starting the compilation) The second, the one that crashed the system, I didn't clean the kernel source before rebooting. Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Dear Micha Feigin, I've had the X11 Problem, too. Possibly, you forgot to include some network drivers/ protocols needed by X11 (TCP/IP etc. I think) in the kernel. I just tried different protocols until it ran. If it can't mount the root fs, you forgot to include a driver for that fs in the kernel, I suppose. By the way, why are you willing to switch to 2.2.10??? You should clean up your hard disk-did it cause any errors when compiling the kernel? Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger.
Re: apt frustration
[This message has also been posted.] On 31 Jul 99 23:24:02 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It'd be great to be able to say: keep everything stable according to my CDs and the ftp site, but keep the following packages (and anything they depend on) up-to-date according to the unstable FTP site. apt/deity doesn't seem to be able to do this. Gee, I just complained about this a few days ago. (I was wrong.) Problem: the files in potato depend on major infrastructural changes (glibc 2.1) and won't work on a slink system. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net
Re: Debian 2.%$#@*!
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Brian Servis wrote: [ snip ] : Anyway, I went to /pub and found a large communicator file. Any : chance this may be the holy grail? -- Max : : : /pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install/communicator-v461-export.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz Make life easier with `sudo apt-get install wget' (or run the command as root if you haven't installed sudo (and why haven't you??)). Then just type wget and the URL above (or any other URL) and wget will fetch the file. It can be backgrounded so you can do other fun things while you're waiting ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: ssh with RSA-key login problem
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Fredrik Jonsson wrote: : Hi, : : I have setup sshd on my Debina system, genrated keys for root and user1 : with ssh-keygen and put the public key in the file .ssh/authorized_keys. : I have moved the private keys to my Mac where I run a ssh client : (niftytelnet-1.1-ssh-r3). : : root login works without a problem but when I try to login as user1 my : ssh client complains that Server does not allow RSA authentication, or : the public key for user user1 was not accepted. Reverting to password : authentication. : : What is wrong? : : Debian:/home/user1/.ssh# ls -la : total 6 : drwxr-sr-x 2 user1 user1 1024 Aug 1 15:33 . : drwxrwsr-x 10 user1 user1 1024 Aug 1 15:31 .. : -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 327 Aug 1 15:33 authorized_keys : -rw--- 1 user1 user1 523 Aug 1 15:32 identity : -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 327 Aug 1 15:32 identity.pub : -rw--- 1 user1 user1 512 Aug 1 15:31 random_seed .ssh/authorized_keys is group writable, and that tends to freak out SSH. `cd; chmod -R g-w .ssh/*' should help. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: [Kernel 2.2.10] Figuring out module-parameters
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonas Steverud) writes: I've just built a 2.2.10 kernel on my own (banging my own chest like Tarzan[1]) and compiled fat-fs-support as a module (and nls_cp437, vfat, hpfs, msdos, ...) but modprobe (or whatever reads /etc/conf.modules) complains when I boot. I have this in /etc/modutils/filesystems: #! /bin/sh echo \# Filesystems: if [ x`uname -r`x = x2.0.35x ] ; then echo \# No filesystems from /etc/modutils/filesystems else echo options fat echo options msdos echo options nls_cp437 fi echo \# Filesystems - end Hmm, I don't even seem to have a file by that name. (And I can read my dos partition just fine.) And it seems to me that this script doesn't do anything useful - it only contains 'echo's. The problem is that it complains on options fat about missing parameters.^^^ What is it? How and where do I find out of which options fat (and others too for that matter) expects? I've never had to provide any. If, when you configured the kernel, you said yes to automatic loading of modules (and you should've - it makes life a lot easier), and you have you're (module)dependencies calculated (unless depmod -a is missing from your startup-scripts you have), you should be able to 'mount -t [msdos,vfat] ...' and not worry about the rest. (Or just edit your /etc/fstab to include that partition) /Patrik
maxalbert: How big IS it?
On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 02:06:12 -0500 John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait! Hold the phone. I tried entering nslookup ftp.uu.net and got an address, so I entered ftp ftp.uu.net and connected! ftp ftp.netscape.com also connects. Cripes. Something so simple! Entering ftp.netscape.com from the ftp prompt gets invalid command. You have to clear the prompt and type in the first ftp. Anyway, I went to /pub and found a large communicator file. Any chance this may be the holy grail? -- Max _ No, just a dim flicker of light in a long dark tunnel. You need this file /pub/communicator/4.6/english/unix/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install/communicator-v46-export.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz and use the netscape 4 installer from debian. Place the downloaded file in the /tmp directory and when you use dselect to install the netscape4 installer, it will automatically install and set up netscap communicator. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173 ___ John-- On Brian's advice, I went last night to /pub/communicator/4.6 /english/unix/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install. First, I downloaded the README checked it out. Then, as root, I started downloading communicator-v46-export.x86-unknown-linuxlibc.2.0.tar.gz into /tmp. For 3 hours it happily strung #'s across the screen, until, suddenly, it stopped. On another console I checked my connection. Terminated. I went to /tmp, and the found file there (or at least part of it). Just to see what would happen, I tried to unzip it. The message read: No space left on device. Sheesh. My root partition is 40 megs. Am I using the wrong /tmp? How big is this file, anyway? It says 15M. -- Max P.S. Does netscape require X11? ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: installing new kernel crashed X - Solved
Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote: - Original Message - From: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user Debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 6:34 PM Subject: installing new kernel crashed X - Help I tried to compile an install kernel 2.2.10 on a 486dx2. It compiled correctly, but when I tried to install it it wouldn't start (halted with a message that it was trying to open some module and couldn't find it, and then that it couldn't mount root file system on 03:01.) I rebooted with the old kernel (a localy compile 2.2.5). I then tried to recompile 2.2.10, reinstalled it, but it still didn't work(same error). When i went back to the old kernel again and login into x, when i tried to log as a normal user, the screen would go blank and then throw me back to the login prompt (kdm). It did let me login as root. On the text consoles (not x11) i can log in as a normal user. What did I kill? All i changed was the kernels and lilo (at list as far as i know). If it helps, the compilation over filled my hard disk (it showed 0 space before starting the compilation) The second, the one that crashed the system, I didn't clean the kernel source before rebooting. Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Dear Micha Feigin, I've had the X11 Problem, too. Possibly, you forgot to include some network drivers/ protocols needed by X11 (TCP/IP etc. I think) in the kernel. I just tried different protocols until it ran. If it can't mount the root fs, you forgot to include a driver for that fs in the kernel, I suppose. By the way, why are you willing to switch to 2.2.10??? You should clean up your hard disk-did it cause any errors when compiling the kernel? Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger. Well, If anyone interested the problem was solved: Don't reboot with an over full disk (over 100% probably swaped?) It drives the comp crazy. It also spoiled my configurations (only personal ones, and selectivly). Also, for old Computers running only two ide disks on a controler, the kernel needs the ide 2 disk module (Don't remember the name) and compiled into the kernel, not as a module. And the new kernel (2.2.10) for some reson, on my computer (Its a 486dx2), maybe because it's old the newer kernels seem to be more stable.
enlightenment and background
When I change background on one session of enlightenment. on the next session of enlightenment I get the default background not the new background any Ideas why? I have the latest potato versions -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126
backspace character does not exists in xterm,
On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character the backspace character defaults to the delete character how can I change this default. Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126
Re: maxalbert: How big IS it?
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 05:21:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 02:06:12 -0500 John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait! Hold the phone. I tried entering nslookup ftp.uu.net and got an address, so I entered ftp ftp.uu.net and connected! ftp ftp.netscape.com also connects. Cripes. Something so simple! Entering ftp.netscape.com from the ftp prompt gets invalid command. You have to clear the prompt and type in the first ftp. Anyway, I went to /pub and found a large communicator file. Any chance this may be the holy grail? -- Max _ No, just a dim flicker of light in a long dark tunnel. You need this file /pub/communicator/4.6/english/unix/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install/communicator-v46-export.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz and use the netscape 4 installer from debian. Place the downloaded file in the /tmp directory and when you use dselect to install the netscape4 installer, it will automatically install and set up netscap communicator. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173 ___ John-- On Brian's advice, I went last night to /pub/communicator/4.6 /english/unix/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install. First, I downloaded the README checked it out. Then, as root, I started downloading communicator-v46-export.x86-unknown-linuxlibc.2.0.tar.gz into /tmp. For 3 hours it happily strung #'s across the screen, until, suddenly, it stopped. On another console I checked my connection. Terminated. I went to /tmp, and the found file there (or at least part of it). Just to see what would happen, I tried to unzip it. The message read: No space left on device. Sheesh. My root partition is 40 megs. Am I using the wrong /tmp? How big is this file, anyway? It says 15M. -- Max If the tar.gz is 15 MB and has 50% compression, the untarred archive would be 30 MB. 15 + 30 = 45; 45 40 If you have a lot of space on some other partition, create a directory there, mv the archive to that directory, rm -rf /tmp, and symlink it to the larger space. P.S. Does netscape require X11? Yes Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Debian 2.%$#@*!
Wait! Hold the phone. I tried entering nslookup ftp.uu.net and got an address, so I entered ftp ftp.uu.net and connected! ftp ftp.netscape.com also connects. Cripes. Something so simple! Entering ftp.netscape.com from the ftp prompt gets invalid command. You have to clear the prompt and type in the first ftp. from the ftp prompt you can also do open ftp.foo.com. from the ftp prompt you can also do help. from the $ prompt you can do man ftp. -- === David Karlin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funk48.home.travelin.com Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 ===
