Re: Diamond MX-300
Hola a todos!!! Aquí vuelvo desde Uruguay después de una pausa de varios meses por los estudios. Les deseo a todos muy feliz año 2000 On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:29:36AM -0300, Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo wrote: Alguien sabe de algun parche para el kernel para que me soporte la placa de sonido diamond MX-300 con chipset Aureal Vortex 2. O donde se puede buscar. En el último Hardware HOWTO en la sección 13.3 (Tarjetas de sonido no soportadas) nombra una tarjeta ``Diamond Monster Sound MX300''. Será la tuya? Saludos y VIVA DEBIAN !! Marcelo. -- __ __ _ Marcelo Ramos | \/ __| Debian 2.1 (Slink) | |_// Linux registered user #118109 |\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|_|\/|_|\_\ __
Return Message
The included message could not be delivered to the following invalid mail names. Please verify these names and try them again. Bad name: jcarlosh ---BeginMessage--- Hola a todos!!! Aquí vuelvo desde Uruguay después de una pausa de varios meses por los estudios. Les deseo a todos muy feliz año 2000 On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:29:36AM -0300, Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo wrote: Alguien sabe de algun parche para el kernel para que me soporte la placa de sonido diamond MX-300 con chipset Aureal Vortex 2. O donde se puede buscar. En el último Hardware HOWTO en la sección 13.3 (Tarjetas de sonido no soportadas) nombra una tarjeta ``Diamond Monster Sound MX300''. Será la tuya? Saludos y VIVA DEBIAN !! Marcelo. -- __ __ _ Marcelo Ramos | \/ __| Debian 2.1 (Slink) | |_// Linux registered user #118109 |\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|_|\/|_|\_\ __ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ---End Message---
Re: [YA SE LO QUE PASA...] Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas
El domingo 09 de enero de 2000 a la(s) 21:09:32 +0100, Manel Marin contaba: Me lo he estado pensando y con opciones tan peligrosas como Umount, Boot, Reboot no me parece apropiado que todo principante utilice la tecla MAGIC... aunque a mi me parece GENIAL!!! También la opción kIll es peligrosa para ordenatas donde accedan varias personas y se utilicen programas como vlock para bloquear las consolas. Tal combinación mataría al vlock. MOTIVO2: La combinación ALT + SysRq + Tecla es incomoda (prueba a hacer un cierre ordenado con ALT(izq) + SysRq + E, I, S, U, O) Pues yo lo veo muy bien, así no pasa nada por equivocación. -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano In love with TuX - Linux 2.2.14Linux Registered User #87069
Especificación de partición vfat
Hola a todos. Al fin he conseguido actualizar mi kernel de 2.0.36 a 2.2.4 pero no tenía ni idea de que hubiese tantas opciones para configurar y en la mayoría he dejado lo que venía por defecto. Se puede volver a recompilar si es necesario, ¿no? Bueno, lo que a mí principalmente me interesaba era poder leer los nombres largos de los ficheros de la partición de msdos y sí que seleccione esas opciones en el Filesystem del nuevo kernel, pero creo que además es necesario indicar en el fstab que la partición de msdos es vfat (porque he arrancado con el nuevo kernel y siguen sin aparecer los nombres completos) y esto sí que no sé cómo se hace. Mi fstab es: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 proc/proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdromiso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows msdos defaults 0 2 He mirado el 'man fstab' pero no he visto nada sobre vfat. Yo supongo que será en type pero no estoy seguro y tampoco sé si bastará con escribir ahí vfat y borrar msdos y ya está. Por favor, ¿me podríais ayudar? Muchas gracias. Emilio.
Re: [saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas
El domingo 09 de enero de 2000 a la(s) 22:13:33 +0100, Manel Marin contaba: (Nadie ha sabido decirme que comando usar para reiniciar el modo grafico VGA) El paquete svgatextmode tiene buena pinta. 'man stm': -o Force all standard VGA registers to a known textmode state. This is quite useful when some VGA- aware program (X-server, svgalib, ...) crashes or gets killed and leaves the screen in graphics mode. Habría que asociar el comando 'stm -o' a alguna tecla, a base de Xmodmap o gpm... [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano In love with TuX - Linux 2.2.14Linux Registered User #87069
Re: Especificación de partición vfat
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:41:49AM +0100, Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: que será en type pero no estoy seguro y tampoco sé si bastará con escribir ahí vfat y borrar msdos y ya está. Por favor, ¿me podríais ayudar? Muchas gracias. Te basta con eso, si. Jordi Así como lo tienes ahora, prueba a desmontar /dev/hda1 y a volverlo a montar con mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /windows. Verás que funciona como debe :)
Re: Starx, xdm y manpages-es
Hola a todos, On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 09:58:38PM -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: 1) ¿Por qué cuando ejecuto 'startx' como usuario normal me sale el siguiente mensaje de error:? Fatal server error: Eso es porque sólo le has dado permiso al root para ejecutarlo. En la segunda linea del ficher /etc/X11/Xserver pon la 'Console' y debería funcionar. 2)Intentando entrar directamente con xdm, no me reconoce a ningún usuario después de mostrar el login. ¿Por qué? Creo que es por lo anterior, prueba después del cambio. Hasta otra. -- _ _ |/ \/ |\ | |_ |_ Eduardo Borja Ramírez Ronco |\ / | \| |_ _| Debian 2.2 y Kernel 2.2.13 Usuario de linux #156307 Maquina #68965 Y Dios creo Dune para probar a los hombres pgpZhPTMNI14g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CD completo
Es solo una idea pero nos pico un pelin y queremos intentarlo... y prefiero saber si es posible antes de descubrir que es imposible y haberme tiradotropecientos años y medio intentándolo... Puedes hacerlo de la misma forma que todas las distribuciones lo hacen, copian un kernel en alguna parte del cd y luego (creo) con el ElTorito (no es coña) le dices que fichero es el que arranca y ya esta. Hasta otra. -- _ _ |/ \/ |\ | |_ |_ Eduardo Borja Ramírez Ronco |\ / | \| |_ _| Debian 2.2 y Kernel 2.2.13 Usuario de linux #156307 Maquina #68965 Es facil ser humorista cuando tienes a todo el gobierno trabajando para ti - Will Rodgers pgpeGbZ2QzQLx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CD completo
At 02:23 AM 2000-01-10 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Es solo una idea pero nos pico un pelin y queremos intentarlo... y prefiero saber si es posible antes de descubrir que es imposible y haberme tiradotropecientos años y medio intentándolo... Puedes hacerlo de la misma forma que todas las distribuciones lo hacen, copian un kernel en alguna parte del cd y luego (creo) con el ElTorito (no es coña) le dices que fichero es el que arranca y ya esta. _Creo_ que usan la imagen de un disquette para que el cd arranque... Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] A proud Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 User.
Re: Diamond MX-300
Si la placa de sonido es esa. Gracias. Marcelo Ramos wrote: Hola a todos!!! Aquí vuelvo desde Uruguay después de una pausa de varios meses por los estudios. Les deseo a todos muy feliz año 2000 On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:29:36AM -0300, Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo wrote: Alguien sabe de algun parche para el kernel para que me soporte la placa de sonido diamond MX-300 con chipset Aureal Vortex 2. O donde se puede buscar. En el último Hardware HOWTO en la sección 13.3 (Tarjetas de sonido no soportadas) nombra una tarjeta ``Diamond Monster Sound MX300''. Será la tuya? Saludos y VIVA DEBIAN !! Marcelo. -- __ __ _ Marcelo Ramos | \/ __| Debian 2.1 (Slink) | |_// Linux registered user #118109 |\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|_|\/|_|\_\ __ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: CD completo
-Mensaje original- De: Raul Gonzalez [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: sábado 8 de enero de 2000 18:51 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: CD completo Acabo de comprarme el grabador de CD, y hablando con un amigo se nos ocurrió la idea de poner el kernel en un cd para poder arrancar más rapidillo que desde diskette (paso de lilo que si no papi se queja...) Y comentando más la cosa llegamos a cuestionarnos si era factible (aunque sea solo teóricamente) crear un cd con kernel y filesystem. De manera que podamos llevarnos nuestro linux a cualquier pc y arrancarlo (en plan suse y tal pero más casero y chapuza). Es solo una idea pero nos pico un pelin y queremos intentarlo... y prefiero saber si es posible antes de descubrir que es imposible y haberme tiradotropecientos años y medio intentándolo... Como ya te han dicho, sí que es perfectamente posible. Las particiones de escritura tendrás que montarlas en un disco ram o algo así (o en una partición linux, si existe) y las de lectura (kernel, librerías, programas y demás), las montas en el CD. El sistema empleado para hacer CDs autoarrancables es El Torito, que consiste en tener un CD con dos sesiones (o con CD-XA): en la primera (de 1.44MB) hay una imagen de un diskette y en la segunda está el resto de cosas que quieres meter en el CD. Cuando la máquina va a arrancar, mira en el CD como si fuese un diskette, encuentra la imagen de un diskette y arranca de ahí. Evidentemente, si quieres acceder al CD, en ese diskette tiene que estar el driver del CD para poder leerlo. Que yo sepa el Easy CD Creator de Win permite El Torito, pero ignoro cómo se hace eso en linux :-m (no estoy muy puesto en grabadoras en lin, pero mira el cdroast, xcdroast y demás). Respecto a lo que tienes que meter en la imagen del diskette, léete el bootdisk howto, ahí lo explica todo todito. Ah, y yo que tú las pruebas las haría con un regrabable ;D (pero grabándolo como si fuera un CDR normal y corriente). Gracias. Antonio Tejada Lacaci [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depto. Análisis y Programación Banca March S.A.
Re: CD completo
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Raul Gonzalez wrote: Acabo de comprarme el grabador de CD, y hablando con un amigo se nos ocurrió la idea de poner el kernel en un cd para poder arrancar más rapidillo que desde diskette (paso de lilo que si no papi se queja...) Y comentando más la cosa llegamos a cuestionarnos si era factible (aunque sea solo teóricamente) crear un cd con kernel y filesystem. De manera que podamos llevarnos nuestro linux a cualquier pc y arrancarlo (en plan suse y tal pero más casero y chapuza). Es solo una idea pero nos pico un pelin y queremos intentarlo... y prefiero saber si es posible antes de descubrir que es imposible y haberme tiradotropecientos años y medio intentándolo... Existe una versión comercial de eso. Concretamente de SuSE así que la respuesta es que si es posible. Estaría muy bien es que Debian tuviera algo así. Gracias. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ /\ /\ Ciberdroide Informatica (tienda linux) \\W// http://www.ciberdroide.com _|0 0|_ +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher | | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +()()()--()()()--+ +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ (((Donde Linux)))http://www.ciberdroide.com/misc/donde/dondelinux.html +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
Re: Recomendación proxy
Guenas On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 11:53:40AM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: ¿Tiene squid, estando offline, la posibilidad de marcar para bajar paginas de internet y bajarlas en una conexión determinada (y en otras no)? En lo que lo he usado, no. Me explico: mi PC ATX se enciende solito de madrugada se conecta solito a internet y me baja todas las paginas http (y en teoria archivos ftp, pero aun no lo he probado) que tiene mi wwwoffle marcadas... Si me conecto a otras horas mi PC solo me baja el correo, y wwwoffle cachea las paginas por las que paso, sin perder las paginas previamente marcadas De madrugada las paginas bajan hechando leches y ahorro una pasta en telefono y reintentos de conexión... ;-) Buena tactica :-)) Bueno hay que acostumbrarse porque los enlaces que pinchas en las paginas nuevas marchan mas paginas que no estan y bajaran al dia siguiente, pero para las paginas que me bajo a piñon fijo (por ejemplo http://www.barrapunto.com) va de muerte... Pues no creo que Squid te valga para eso. Ademas, para ti solo, y trabajando basicamente offline, el wwwoffle es lo mejor, desde luego. Lo que si estoy de acuerdo es que wwwoffle para uso personal medio bien, cuando asumes lo que no le funciona, pero para empresa (una intranet) NO. Yo lo tuve andando en intranet (aun lo tengo en una) y parecia ir bien, hasta que puse Squid y descubrimos el significado de la palabra bien ;-) De todas formas, en casa sigue wwwoffle :-))) Saludines -- -- POWERED BY Debian 2.1 - Kernel 2.2.14| Andres Herrera User Reg. N.66054 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grupo LIMA http://iaeste.cie.uma.es/lima --- pgphsB3cicQv7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Problema con SGML
No me funciona bien la conversión de un fuente a RTF. Con sgml2rtf uso las opciones -c latin y -l es; no da mensajes de error en el proceso, pero cuando quiero abrir el archivo resultante, no aparacen los caracteres españoles: ni tildes ni eñes. En su lugar [ntilde] o [aacute]... ¿Me podríais ayudar a resolver eso? Gracias y un saludo: Manuel -- Usuario de Debian GNU/Linux, Slink, kernel 2.2.13 Registro nº 90705 en http://counter.li.org
Re: Consulta (1? parte)
1º En la web de Debian puedes BUSCAR PAQUETES por NOMBRE. Esto es lo que he encontrado sobre less, espero que te sirva de ayuda. Package: less 332-4.1 A file pager program, similar to more(1) Less is a program similar to more (1), but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement. Also, less does not have to read the entire input file before starting, so with large input files it starts up faster than text editors like vi (1). Less uses termcap (or terminfo on some systems), so it can run on a variety of terminals. There is even limited support for hardcopy terminals. Other packages related to less: libc6 (= 2.0.7u) GNU C Library: shared libraries libncurses4 Shared libraries for terminal handling debianutils (= 1.8) Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian. 2º Para lo de los discos duros, depende como quieras distribuir la instalación. Por ejemplo monta en el disco duro grande todo lo que venga bajo /usr y el resto en el otro, eso ya depende de lo que tú quieras :) 3º Sobre las X, ¿qué manejador de ventanas (como yo lo llamo) usa? ¿KDE, E, icewm, Blackbox? Yo he visto correr las X en un P75 con WindowMaker en Debian y va de maravilla hasta con tres escritorios. En cualquier caso depende de la carga que tengas en el equipo, demonios, procesos en background, etc.. yo antes de aventurarme a comparar a simple vista haría una comparación exhaustiva de que tiene cargado una máquina con la otra, opinar a simpla vista y de si esto es más bonito o menos es muy fácil, más aun en el tema Windows y Linux de siempre, en fin, para que te voy a contar :) Un saludote espero haberte servidor de ayuda. Daniel debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org con fecha 10/01/2000 13:16:07 Destinatarios: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org CC: (cci: Daniel Ferradal Marquez/INFO/URQUIJO) Asunto: Consulta (1ª parte) Muy buenas (y muchas gracias a todos los que me respondisteis a mis dudas con dselect). He instalado los paquetes básicos, y cuando hago un less fichero, me dice que no encuentra less. Lo he buscado con dpkg --search less y me salen un montón de referencias pero no veo ninguna al programa less en concreto. Si tengo este problema con less, ¿que me depararán las X, Gnome, ? Me he recogido un disco duro de 250Mb que voy a instalar junto a uno de 300Mb así podré reinstalar debian eligiendo una selección de paquetes (tipo Workstation, ...), pero ¿como reparto los paquetes entre ambos discos duros? ¿cual es la solución, monto el de 250Mb como /, y el de 300Mb como /usr? La última (por hoy), he visto funcionar las X en un P133 con 96Mb de Ram, con RedHat 5.2 y con StarOffice y aunque me pese, veo que no tira (al menos visualmente) como Windows, las respuestas a las pulsaciones de botones y movimientos de ventanas son bastantes mas lentas que las del W95, ¿se debe esto a una mal configuración, o es que es necesario al final para Linux un Pc potente, y a los que tenemos 486 o P100 nos dan por ...Microsoft? Un saludo y muchas gracias. --PACIENCIA CON LOS NOVATOS-- Miguel A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Consulta (1ª parte)
Guenas On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:19:39PM +0100, Miguel Angel Ordoñez Moya wrote: Me he recogido un disco duro de 250Mb que voy a instalar junto a uno de 300Mb así podré reinstalar debian eligiendo una selección de paquetes (tipo Workstation, ...), pero ¿como reparto los paquetes entre ambos discos duros? ¿cual es la solución, monto el de 250Mb como /, y el de 300Mb como /usr? Pues es una buena solucion :-) La última (por hoy), he visto funcionar las X en un P133 con 96Mb de Ram, con RedHat 5.2 y con StarOffice y aunque me pese, veo que no tira (al menos visualmente) como Windows, las respuestas a las pulsaciones de botones y movimientos de ventanas son bastantes mas lentas que las del W95, ¿se debe esto a una mal configuración, o es que es necesario al final para Linux un Pc potente, y a los que tenemos 486 o P100 nos dan por ...Microsoft? StarOffice chupa mucha memoria, y necesita tambien micro para moverse. Si despejas bastante el equipo (quita los demonios que no uses, utiliza un windowmanager ligerito, etc...) mejorara, pero no es maquina para trabajar con tamaño monstruo. Saludines -- -- POWERED BY Debian 2.1 - Kernel 2.2.14| Andres Herrera User Reg. N.66054 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grupo LIMA http://iaeste.cie.uma.es/lima --- pgpvNr0x4H3dI.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: CD completo
At 08:33 AM 2000-01-10 +0100, Tejada Lacaci, Antonio wrote: [...] Respecto a lo que tienes que meter en la imagen del diskette, léete el bootdisk howto, ahí lo explica todo todito. O echarle una miradita a los boot-floppies de Debian. Los de potato ya están casi listos (por lo menos se puede decir que están en beta). Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] A proud Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 User.
Re: CD completo
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 10:51:28AM +0100, Antonio Castro wrote: Existe una versi?n comercial de eso. Concretamente de SuSE as? que la respuesta es que si es posible. Estar?a muy bien es que Debian tuviera algo as?. Ummm... no estoy seguro, pero por ahí han comentado que Corel Linux tiene un 'live filesystem' en el CD ¿es esto cierto? Javi
Re: SGML A RTF
Bien... he perdido el mail original con la pregunta sobre los problemas de converion de SGML a RTF... A ver con esto: los codigos (segun el abiword) en RTF para eñes y acentuadas serian para: ñ á é í ó ú Ñ Á É Í Ó Ú \'f1 \'e1 \'e9 \'ed \'f3 \'fa \'d1 \'c1 \'c9 \'cd \'d3 \'da En el peor de los casos me pasan una lista con lo que devuelve para cada uno de esos caracteres el sgml2rtf y armo un programita que los reemplaze (para no meter dedo en el codigo original... mejor eso dejarselo al autor). Saludos zaikxtox Free science and free software are just two aspects of the same complex reality: long-term human survival. Support humankind, use Linux. - The following invitation to get a free e-mail account is not from me. If you want a web mail try to find another, cuz this need javascript. if it's possible try it with Lynx or Links browsers. Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
apt-get with proxy username and password
G'day all, I am having some problems with the new network setup at work. The powers that be have passed on internet costs to individual sections anin order tinforce this have added a password/username authentication to the web proxy. My problem is how do I get apt-get to use my usend password with the proxy? I havtried to use a line like this in the apt.conf http::username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port but nothing seemed to happen. Is there anything else I can do? ---Gareth
Re: apt-get with proxy username and password
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Gareth wrote: I havtried to use a line like this in the apt.conf http::username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port but nothing seemed to happen. You used the wrong syntax.. acquire::http::proxy http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port; Jason
Re: Adding a superuser
Why on Earth would u want to??? unless u have a really, really good reason to, don't bother and just have the one superuser. the more superusers u have the more of a security risk you create since it makes available more priveleged accounts for malicious users to hack and do whatever they please with your system. This may mean nothing to you, but it's still good policy to be at least a little concerned about security. if you need someone else with root priveleges, and you trust them to use them correctly, give them the root password. if the other person only needs access to a few things look into using the super package. if all you're trying to do is add a user to group root (which doesn't make them a superuser i might add) just edit /etc/group by hand and append the usernames separated by commas. from da Bobstopper Original Message-- I need to add a second superuser. useradd -G root name fails as does every permutation I can think of. Would someone mind just dropping me a line with the correct useradd or adduser or usermod syntax? Thanks! Patrick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - End of forwarded message from Patrick Kirk -
Re: Adding a superuser
Robert Marlow (2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why on Earth would u want to??? Well, I have two superuser accounts on my system: root with default shell bash, and toor with default shell sh. This is very common usage on BSD systems -- if bash becomes corrupted or inaccessible, you can login with toor and do your thing. IIRC, bash is almost always dynamically linked, while sh is statically linked. It's a good measure to have a fall-back superuser account for emergencies, IMHO. The way to add a superuser is to create another user account with a userid 0. ,[ For example ] | tea:~# useradd -u 0 -o -g root -d /root -s /bin/sh toor ` Don't forget to do a passwd toor after that. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
Re: Computer won't start
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: however unlikely did you try setting the date back before the year2000 ? one of my friend's computers had a similar problem(although not as severe) and when he set the clock back it was ok, i have a 486DX4-100(rather new ~1995) and sofar it hasnt experienced any problems. The computer I'm having this problem on is a newer oone (about 2 years old?) with a 233 processor so I wouldn't think Y2K affected it. And if Y2K would do that, then why would it happen one and a half week after it hit Jan 1st? have you done anything odd to your computer before this happened? besides changing the date only thing i can think of is keep swapping things till it works..not more more anyone can do then that:) Nope, haven't done anything to it. I can't change the date because nothing on the screen shows up. No memory count, no Energy Star compliat logo, no 'Press DEL to run setup' or anything like that. I'm trying to save some time here because I need to use the 28.8 connection through pine (REALLY slow) so I'll answer something from a different message. No, the floppy drive isn't being checked for at all. It doesn't reach that stage where it's supposed to check the floppy/harddrive/cdrom drives. Stops before then. I really think it could be the BIOS. Can anyone confirm and offer some advice/URLs I can try? (I'm sorry, I need to leave the rest of this message here because it would take forever for me to delete it) nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: barts Hi, barts barts I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, barts so I'm not sure which one could be causing this (probably barts Windows?), but when I turn on my computer right now, it barts doesn't start. I get absolutely nothing on my screen except barts the default thing that shows up on the monitor if the computer barts is turned off and on the older monitor I tried it with it's barts just a blank blank space. I hear a little ticking like it's barts doing something, but that doesn't last long because when I barts put a boot disk in it doesn't go far enough to be trying to barts boot of the harddrive/floppy/cdrom. I've tried replacing the barts graphics card with a different one so it doesn't look like that's barts the problem. My guess is that this is a BIOS problem. Any ideas? barts Could a (Windows?) virus have caused this? Is the bios (I have barts an AMIBIOS in that computer) replacable? Easily? Inexpenssively? barts I'd appreciate some help with this. I'm using a very old computer barts right now with a 486 that can barely handle this telnet prompt barts in Win95 (I install Debian off the harddrive and don't have barts anything downloaded for it in this computer for me to be able to barts set it up easily), BTW. I'd appreciate some advice (in private barts since this might not be specific to Debian?). barts barts - Bart barts barts barts -- barts Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null barts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/
ftp daemon update requires potato
Hello: I'm new to Debian but really like the idea of the distribution and am trying hard to make things work. One thing I find especially troublesome is that the wuftpd that can be installed to slink is a version with a DOS vulnerability that has been published for almost a year. I found a current wuftpd deb and installed, but had to install numerous dependant packages. When all was done, I now had the 'potato' version. All I really need is an ftp server (I like wu for various reasons) on a stable system. Why is it that simply upgrading the ftpd would throw my setup into an 'unstable' version? Is this likely to be a problem whenever I install recently released software? Is Slink a bit behind when it comes to c libraries, etc? My impression is that many people use potato and it's 'plenty stable' but I've read a few notes on the list regarding weird anomalies with potato. I don't really want to be told to use potato because it's okay and then suffer any odd consequences (as I'm running a server that I expect to be operational all the time). TIA for any advice, comments, etc. Mike
Re: dependency questions
john smith wrote: Hello!, I wanted to install sawmill with slink.when I checked their website, it instructed me that it needs librep, rep-gtk,gtk and imlib so I downloaded some of those and then when I tried to install the first one rep-gtk , it said that it depended on libglib1.2.6 but libglib1.2.6 is not in the stable distribution but is instead in the unstable. Can I use those packages in unstable dists to slink? Furthermore, when i checked libglib1.2.6, it too depends on other packages as well, and it seems like it's never ending. can somebody please give me a link on where I can get more information on how to do this properly? Not sure if it will solve _all_ your dependecy problems, but you may want to check www.debian.org/~vincent there are updates for gnome (gtk, imlib, glib) that are apt-able. Worth a shot.
Re: Adding a superuser
Arcady Genkin writes: Well, I have two superuser accounts on my system: root with default shell bash, and toor with default shell sh. ... IIRC, bash is almost always dynamically linked, while sh is statically linked. lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Nov 6 19:39 /bin/sh - bash Make 'sash' toor's shell. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: Computer won't start
It sounds like a strange ATX problem to me. I had similar things happen before. For whatever reason the switch on my computer doesn't work to power it up. My switch does seem to be working. The power stays on and everything, but it's just that the computer doesn't seem to be doing what the BIOS is supposed to tell it to do, including boot from floppy/harddrive/cdrom. I tried putting a floppy in since that would be the easiest way to check if it was starting to boot from the floppy/harddrive/cdrom, but it didn't touch the floppy drive. No activity there. It just does some clicking like it usually does when the computer is turned on and then stops with the power still being turned on. Like I said, I've tried two monitors with two different video cards to now avail. - Bart (BTW, I have Outlook Express here now. It's still slow, but a lot easier to delete blocks of text)
Re: Adding a superuser
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Nov 6 19:39 /bin/sh - bash Geez! Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea. I wonder what would be the rationale for not including a standard sh in a distro... 8-/ Make 'sash' toor's shell. Done. Thanks for the tip. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
Re: Adding a superuser
Brian Servis writes: If sh - ash and 'things break' then those 'things' should call bash or whatever shell explicitly, and a bug report should be filed against that 'thing' . Yes, of course. However, the gentleman's goal appears to be improved robustness, not Debian debugging. I have had sh - ash for several months now and have not had any problems. Excellent. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: Soft ejects
On 10/1/2000 Brian May wrote: However, I see you are now correct. Now data is written to the disk almost immediately (1 second delay) after it is dirty. This means the developers have put the safety of the disk ahead of performance issues... this is not necessarily the case, from my tests sometimes its flushed very quickly sometimes its not flushed till much later, it depends on what the system is doing i think. idle system - quick updates busy system - later updates. just a guess anyway. I don't know about the error message that forces you to remount the disk - I never got that myself. it all depends on the error condition settings, ie if the disk is mounted to remount readonly on errors you will have to remount it again to get it read-write, if you set it to panic then you have to reboot to use it again as the kernel will panic. (on ext2 anyway, I never use DOS unless I have to share the disk with a broken OS) -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
Re: Adding a superuser
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: I need to add a second superuser. No you don't. If you want someone else to have root access, then just give them the root password. If you want someone else to be able to do some root tasks but not really be root, you have two choices. 1) Make the program setuid root. 2) Use sudo. Neither of these options is especially secure, but they're better than nothing. If you put another user with UID 0 in /etc/passwd then that login will also be root, it will just have another name. This will confuse some things and accomplish nothing as it will provide no security benefit. Just give them the root password. If you are trying to get around some various restriction on root (for example, the prohibition on logging in via telnet) then you can add as many superusers as you like, the restrictions will apply to them all. If you really want to get around them, then you should configure the program in question to stop enforcing those restrictions.
Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 09:47:44PM -0600, ktb wrote: I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if there is more than 64 MB of RAM added. On the other hand I've read that I don't think that's necessarily true. That is, I don't see why a small cache on a system with more than 64 mb of ram is any different that a system with less physical memory. this isn't a problem for PII processors and above, even if the cache is smaller than 512 kb. I've searched the archives and looked around on the net and can't nail this one down. Can I use more than 64 MB with this processor/L2 cache combination? You certainly can use a Celeron with 64 MB or more physical memory. The Celeron and Pentium II are the same chip, except for the L2 cache size (the Pentium II has a 512kb L2 cache and the Celeron a 128kb L2 cache). Very fast memory systems (e.g. cache memory) is very expensive, and I'm pretty sure this is what accounts for the price difference between the Celeron and Pentium II. For two systems that differ only in their processors, one with a P-II and one with a Celeron (both chips with the same clock), the P-II would probably be the better performer. But if you're basing your decision on price/performance ratio, rather than just performance, the Celeron is usually the winner. For what you'll save on buying a Celeron over the Pentium II, you can probably afford a higher clock or more physical ram. If you can afford it, you might consider the AMD Athlon, arguably the best PC chip available at this time, and reasonably priced. Hope this helps, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: www.debian.org very slow indeed?
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, George Bonser wrote: There is no policy for ensuring that the Packages file on 63.209.15.252 matches the files on 207.69.194.216 so failures are frequent. To avoid the Actually 63.209.15.252 recently had some sort of mirroring problem, it should be fixed now. Otherwise the top level mirrors at least stay quite well in sync. Jason
Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?
k == ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: k I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron k processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that k an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if k there is more than 64 MB of RAM added. On the other hand I've read that k this isn't a problem for PII processors and above, even if the cache is k smaller than 512 kb. I've searched the archives and looked around on k the net and can't nail this one down. Can I use more than 64 MB with k this processor/L2 cache combination? Yes. The problem you mention was a problem with the external L2 caches on some motherboards. All socket-7 type if I recall correctly. It is not a problem with any P2/P3 derived processor. -- More Important Drivel from: Scott Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\/\/\ http://reality.sgi.com/scotth/
identd -- do I need it?
What is utility of identd daemon? Also, is it normail that it restarts once every five minutes or more often? ,[ flom logs ] | [ ... ] | Jan 9 23:09:28 tea identd[14851]: started | Jan 9 23:14:36 tea identd[14938]: started | Jan 9 23:19:44 tea identd[14965]: started | Jan 9 23:24:52 tea identd[14997]: started | Jan 9 23:30:00 tea identd[15019]: started | [ ... ] ` Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
Re: Install help, ne module does not reload on reboot (potato)
Isn't the 8390 module needed as well? Try to insmod it before the ne module. I am trying to install the latest potato I have an ISA NE2000 clone. it worked fine when i booted from the rescue disc. Ieben installed the base system over NFS. It's IO is at 0x280, and it's IRQ is 5. Howeer this module fails to install when booting from the hard disk :-( I even find the following in /etc/modutils/modconf: options ne io=0x0280 irq=5 Trying to do in insmod ne results in messages about unresolved symbols. They are: ei_open, ethdev_init, ei_interupt, NS8390_init, and ei_close. Can some kind soul please tell me how to fix this, so I can proced with the install? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, ktb wrote: processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if there is more than 64 MB of RAM added. On the other hand Ancient problem. Only afflicts Pentiums under about 200 MHz, and AMD chips with cheap motherboards. There are a variety of problems regarding the 64MB barrier and cache. Most notably, old Pentium motherboards couldn't cache memory about 64MB at all, and Linux wouldn't work if you had less than 512K of cache and more than 64MB of RAM. Not a problem on modern chips.
Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if there is more than 64 MB of RAM added. An old wives tale from the days of the Pentium, so to speak. My computer (with a Celeron 300 128k L2 cache) actually sped up going from 64MB to 128MB of RAM. On the other hand I've read that this isn't a problem for PII processors and above, even if the cache is smaller than 512 kb. For 686 generation processors (PPro, PII, Celeron, etc) it's not an issue. With Pentiums it was. I've searched the archives and looked around on the net and can't nail this one down. Can I use more than 64 MB with this processor/L2 cache combination? Certainly. I do. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
Re: www.debian.org very slow indeed?
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Carl Fink wrote: : Has anyone else noticed that the main (US) Debian servers have been : remarkably slow lately? Both trying to use the web site, and : ftp.debian.org for apt. The web site is on a different server altogether as far as I know. : I've switched apt to a mirror, but the mirrors of the web site are : also so slow as to be nearly unusable? Did you try http.us.debian.org? That's a round-robin DNS record dor several servers; there's a package whose name escapes me that will allow you to find the best one. Feel free to check out debian.midco.net; if it's fast for you use it :) We're a primary-push mirror. : Has Debian gotten too popular for its infrastructure? Possibly - it's hard to maintain fast net-access across the Internet as a whole. The infrastructure of the Internet itself grows in complexity every day as well ... : I may actually be able to offer some mirror space in the near term, : but not right now. There's a debian-mirrors list in addition to the mirror info on the web page. -- 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: www.debian.org very slow indeed?
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, George Bonser wrote: : On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Carl Fink wrote: : : Has anyone else noticed that the main (US) Debian servers have been : remarkably slow lately? Both trying to use the web site, and : ftp.debian.org for apt. : : I've switched apt to a mirror, but the mirrors of the web site are : also so slow as to be nearly unusable? All this sounds like a problem with the provider ... traceroutes may be in order. : One problem is the mirrors themselves. There is no standard method for : mirroring or any policy. Uh, no - this isn't true for http.us.debian.org [ snip ] : There is no policy for ensuring that the Packages file on 63.209.15.252 : matches the files on 207.69.194.216 so failures are frequent. To avoid the : whole problem many just use ftp.debian.org and are done with it. I really : do not care if things are not the most current, I do care that it is : consistant and predictable. Actually there is - all mirrors which comprise http.us.debian.org are (supposed) to be primary-push mirrors. They are updated regularly every day at the same time. The primary ftp server inititates the update. : Hate to bitch without offering a suggestion so one way of doing this is: : : 1. round-robin mirrors grab all the new packages : 2. they notify the central server that the update is complete : 3. Once all servers have notified the central server that they have all :packages, the new Packages files are pushed to them and old packages :that have been replaced (files that no longer exists on the master ) :are deleted. : 4. If a server has not notified the central master by a certain drop :dead time, it is removed from round-robin DNS and the Packages files :are pushed to the others. Once it reports in, its Packages file is sent :and it is added to the round-robin DNS. Hmm, good ideas ... let's see code :) You might want to float the idea on debian-mirrors also. Thanks, -- 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: ftp daemon update requires potato
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 05:17:36PM -0800, Mike Z. wrote: All I really need is an ftp server (I like wu for various reasons) on a stable system. Why is it that simply upgrading the ftpd would throw my setup into an 'unstable' version? Is this likely to be a problem whenever I install recently released software? Is Slink a bit behind when it comes to c libraries, etc? Yes, it is. Without doing any actual checking, I would bet that the wu fix didn't happen until after the conversion to glibc2.1 and just hasn't been backported to slink. My impression is that many people use potato and it's 'plenty stable' but I've read a few notes on the list regarding weird anomalies with potato. I don't really want to be told to use potato because it's okay and then suffer any odd consequences (as I'm running a server that I expect to be operational all the time). I haven't had any problems: 00:52 ~ $ ud -d - Uptime for peon - Now : 14:12:45 running Linux 2.2.14 One : 45 day(s), 11:51:13 running Linux 2.2.13, ended Sun Jan 9 01:18:49 2000 Two : 32 day(s), 11:10:43 running Linux 2.2.9, ended Thu Sep 23 09:12:45 1999 Three: 31 day(s), 19:24:26 running Linux 2.2.9, ended Wed Sep 22 17:26:27 1999 I rebooted last night to try the new kernel; was going to play with the framebuffer but couldn't get it to work with my sorry excuse for video hardware. I probably will have the machine up until I move in May. If you're worried about potato packages being unstable, then don't get them unless you're already having trouble with them. If you do decide to upgrade, check bugs.debian.org/package and this list for heinous bugs first. Rob -- You will experience a strong urge to do good; but it will pass.
Re: /etc/limits
At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote: OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I [snip] I look in my /etc/limits and see a way to restrict just about all those [snip] Where can I find more info on /etc/limits ? Regards, Onno
Re: /etc/limits
Should be in your limits man page. If you're running potato then you'd probably want to use PAM and /etc/security/limits.conf instead. Look at the files themselves to see how they are set up. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Onno Ebbinge wrote: At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote: OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I [snip] I look in my /etc/limits and see a way to restrict just about all those [snip] Where can I find more info on /etc/limits ? Regards, Onno
Re: exports(5) manpage
in slink its in nfs-server .. if you need it you could prob grab it from there .. nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Joseph Heenan wrote: joseph None of my systems (all running unstable) have a man page for joseph /etc/exports - am I missing a package somewhere, or is this a bug? I joseph expected it to be in nfs-server or nfs-common, both of which I have joseph installed, and there's no sign of it in either. joseph joseph bfn, joseph joseph Joseph joseph joseph -- joseph Joseph Heenan, Coventry, UK http://www.ping.demon.co.uk/ joseph joseph joseph -- joseph Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null joseph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:25pm up 143 days, 10:25, 2 users, load average: 1.91, 1.76, 1.62
Re: Computer won't start
oh, thought u said u were on a 486 ..thats why i suggested that :) nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: barts barts barts On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: barts barts however unlikely did you try setting the date back before the year2000 barts ? one of my friend's computers had a similar problem(although not as barts severe) and when he set the clock back it was ok, i have a barts 486DX4-100(rather new ~1995) and sofar it hasnt experienced any problems. barts The computer I'm having this problem on is a newer oone (about 2 years barts old?) with a 233 processor so I wouldn't think Y2K affected it. And if Y2K barts would do that, then why would it happen one and a half week after it hit barts Jan 1st? barts barts have you done anything odd to your computer before this happened? besides barts changing the date only thing i can think of is keep swapping things till barts it works..not more more anyone can do then that:) barts Nope, haven't done anything to it. I can't change the date because nothing barts on the screen shows up. No memory count, no Energy Star compliat logo, barts no 'Press DEL to run setup' or anything like that. barts barts I'm trying to save some time here because I need to use the 28.8 barts connection through pine (REALLY slow) so I'll answer something from a barts different message. No, the floppy drive isn't being checked for at all. It barts doesn't reach that stage where it's supposed to check the barts floppy/harddrive/cdrom drives. Stops before then. I really think it could barts be the BIOS. Can anyone confirm and offer some advice/URLs I can try? barts barts (I'm sorry, I need to leave the rest of this message here because it would barts take forever for me to delete it) barts barts nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: barts Hi, barts barts barts barts I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, barts barts so I'm not sure which one could be causing this (probably barts barts Windows?), but when I turn on my computer right now, it barts barts doesn't start. I get absolutely nothing on my screen except barts barts the default thing that shows up on the monitor if the computer barts barts is turned off and on the older monitor I tried it with it's barts barts just a blank blank space. I hear a little ticking like it's barts barts doing something, but that doesn't last long because when I barts barts put a boot disk in it doesn't go far enough to be trying to barts barts boot of the harddrive/floppy/cdrom. I've tried replacing the barts barts graphics card with a different one so it doesn't look like that's barts barts the problem. My guess is that this is a BIOS problem. Any ideas? barts barts Could a (Windows?) virus have caused this? Is the bios (I have barts barts an AMIBIOS in that computer) replacable? Easily? Inexpenssively? barts barts I'd appreciate some help with this. I'm using a very old computer barts barts right now with a 486 that can barely handle this telnet prompt barts barts in Win95 (I install Debian off the harddrive and don't have barts barts anything downloaded for it in this computer for me to be able to barts barts set it up easily), BTW. I'd appreciate some advice (in private barts barts since this might not be specific to Debian?). barts barts barts barts - Bart barts barts barts barts barts barts -- barts barts Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null barts barts barts barts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- barts Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ bartsFiretrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ barts Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ barts Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ barts Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ barts barts barts barts -- barts Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null barts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:25pm up 143 days, 10:25, 2 users, load average: 1.91, 1.76, 1.62
Ethernet question
Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to happen on boot. I have the appropriate lines in conf.modules, but I have a feeling there is some setting somewhere in the init/rc hierarchy that I need to make to have it automatically load. In addition, it appears that the NIC card is not associating with a real IP address, only 0.0.0.0. Any idea how to fix this as well? Paul M. Foster
Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?
you should have no problems, i cant imagine where you read that.. i am running 466 celerons with 256MB ram, and its _quite_ fast. it may be true that not all of the memory is cached(i can't say wether it is or not). On older i430TX boards(i have one) they could not cache memory beyond 64MB, i ran(and still run) 128MB on it and it runs quite fast, some people panic and think the system will slow to a crawl, when infact most systems will benefit far more from the additional memory then having less memory that is cached. chipset is also important, i have a i440BX chipset. nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, ktb wrote: xyf I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron xyf processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that xyf an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if xyf there is more than 64 MB of RAM added. On the other hand I've read that xyf this isn't a problem for PII processors and above, even if the cache is xyf smaller than 512 kb. I've searched the archives and looked around on xyf the net and can't nail this one down. Can I use more than 64 MB with xyf this processor/L2 cache combination? xyf Thanks, xyf kent xyf xyf xyf -- xyf Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null xyf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:25pm up 143 days, 10:25, 2 users, load average: 1.91, 1.76, 1.62
GPM question
Okay, my mouse (a Logitech 3 button mouse, new) seems to work fine in X, and I know that it is connected to /dev/ttyS0. However, when I issue a gpm command, I get gpm: freopen(stderr) failed I've run the gpm config program many times, and the gpm config file appears to be built properly. In any case, the mouse appears to not work at all at the console under gpm. No cursor shows up, and according to ps ax, gpm does not continue after the above error. Paul M. Foster
Ignore this test...
I'm very sorry but I have to do this test. One of my email filter failed and I have to see if they work properly now. I hope you understand... Regards, Onno
Re: Ethernet question
You can put: ifconfig eth0 ip netmask netmask into /etc/init.d/network . You will probably also have to add your route line in there as well. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote: Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to happen on boot. I have the appropriate lines in conf.modules, but I have a feeling there is some setting somewhere in the init/rc hierarchy that I need to make to have it automatically load. In addition, it appears that the NIC card is not associating with a real IP address, only 0.0.0.0. Any idea how to fix this as well? Paul M. Foster
Ignore this test...
I'm very sorry but I have to do this test. One of my email filter failed and I have to see if they work properly now. I hope you understand... Regards, Onno
Re: identd -- do I need it?
it returns the userid of the process, really the only thing that is popular and needs identd is if you use IRC. identd can also be used in combonation with tcp_wrappers to allow/deny certain users, although it is not that secure, ident can easily be spoofed. nate On 9 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: a.genk What is utility of identd daemon? a.genk a.genk Also, is it normail that it restarts once every five minutes or more a.genk often? a.genk a.genk ,[ flom logs ] a.genk | [ ... ] a.genk | Jan 9 23:09:28 tea identd[14851]: started a.genk | Jan 9 23:14:36 tea identd[14938]: started a.genk | Jan 9 23:19:44 tea identd[14965]: started a.genk | Jan 9 23:24:52 tea identd[14997]: started a.genk | Jan 9 23:30:00 tea identd[15019]: started a.genk | [ ... ] a.genk ` a.genk a.genk Thanks! a.genk -- a.genk Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com a.genk 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who a.genk loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) a.genk a.genk a.genk -- a.genk Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null a.genk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:25pm up 143 days, 10:25, 2 users, load average: 1.91, 1.76, 1.62
[Off Topic] DVD Playback under Debian...
Hello: I know this is not Debian specific, but I was hoping some kind person would help me... I just put together a new AMD Athlon based system. Here's my configuration: 600 Mhz Athlon, MSI mother board, 128M ECC memory, 3dFx Voodoo3 3000 AGP video, Toshiba ATAPI DVD drive, Symbios 895 SCSI w/Quantum 10,000 U160 9.1G HD. I've been out to http://www.opendvd.org, and I followed their DVD on Linux HOWTO. The only DVD I have is South Park, Bigger Longer Uncut. I can get the player to play the first 10-15 seconds (the screen is mostly scrambled, but I can see enough of the video to see that it's South Park). However, the tstdvd commands all indicate that the disk and title keys were successfully obtained. Also, I don't seem to get any sound. Has anyone gotten the DVD stuff for Linux working any better than this??? Does anyone have any pointers?? Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet question
when i want to change network settings to take effect everytime it boots i edit /etc/init.d/network hope you enjoy debian, ive played with a few rh boxes and they about drove me mad. nate On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote: paulf paulf Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked paulf fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an paulf paulf ifconfig eth0 paulf paulf command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to happen on boot. I have the paulf appropriate lines in conf.modules, but I have a feeling there is some paulf setting somewhere in the init/rc hierarchy that I need to make to have it paulf automatically load. In addition, it appears that the NIC card is not paulf associating with a real IP address, only 0.0.0.0. Any idea how to fix this paulf as well? paulf paulf Paul M. Foster paulf paulf paulf paulf paulf -- paulf Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null paulf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:25pm up 143 days, 10:25, 2 users, load average: 1.91, 1.76, 1.62
AOpen video card question
I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In almost all cases, X windows worked fine, but when I came out of X windows to a console, the text on the console was scrambled and stayed that way. I had to type blind in order to shut down the machine as the console wouldn't echo properly, and that was the only way the console would fix. Only if I showed it as a generic VGA with under the VGA_16 server would it sorta work. It appears as though if the system finds out what kind of card this really is, the card thrashes video memory. Only if I run it at its lowest capability does it mostly work (in this case, the X screen bulges outward at the sides. This is a fairly common card. I finally replaced it with an older Diamond Stealth 3D 2000. But surely someone has had success setting it up? Paul M. Foster
Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)
I'm having problems booting into a fresh installation of potato in my second harddrive. The installation is on /dev/hdc with root in /dev/hdc1. Lilo displays LI and dies there. I tried adding linear to lilo.conf (that helped me once on another computer), but that didn't help. My setup looks sane to me... I really need some fresh ideas as to what is wrong. I use a third-party multibooter from /dev/hda's MBR. It picks up linux installation in /dev/hdc1, and starts lilo... then lilo stops at LI. I also have a working slink installation in /dev/hda4, so I tried to use its lilo to boot my potato installation. I added , | other = /dev/hdc1 | label = potato ` and got *exactly* the same results as with the multibooter (LI and nothing else). This makes me think that the problem is with lilo config in my potato installation. I need help!!! ;^) Can't boot my custom kernel. I would also appreciate any workaround recipes, such as booting my current kernel from a floppy or booting it from my functional slink installation in /dev/hda4. ,[ lilo.conf ] | boot=/dev/hdc1 | root=/dev/hdc1 | install=/boot/boot.b | map=/boot/map | delay=200 | vga=normal | verbose=5 | | image=/vmlinuz | label=default | read-only | | image = /zImage | label = linux | read-only ` Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
XFree86 fixed font
What is the default fixed font used with X? james
Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)
You did run /sbin/lilo after making *any* edits to your lilo.conf right? Also, how had you booted when you were making those edits? If /dev/hdc1 was not your root partition at the time (for example, if you had booted off a floppy), I wonder if the wrong lilo.conf was read to write your boot sector. If this is the case, try it again but specify the lilo.conf with the -C parameter: lilo -C /mnt/disk2/etc/lilo.conf for example. Not sure how much help this will really be, but here's some stuff from /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.tar.gz: LILO start message - - - - - - - - - When LILO loads itself, it displays the word LILO. Each letter is printed before or after performing some specific action. If LILO fails at some point, the letters printed so far can be used to identify the problem. This is described in more detail in the technical overview. Note that some hex digits may be inserted after the first L if a transient disk problem occurs. Unless LILO stops at that point, generating an endless stream of error codes, such hex digits do not indicate a severe problem. (nothing) No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active. L error ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section Disk error codes.) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see section Disk geometry). LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. LIL The second stage boot loader has been started, but it can't load the descriptor table from the map file. This is typically caused by a media failure or by a geometry mismatch. LIL? The second stage boot loader has been loaded at an incorrect address. This is typically caused by a subtle geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map installer. LILO All parts of LILO have been successfully loaded. On 9 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: I'm having problems booting into a fresh installation of potato in my second harddrive. The installation is on /dev/hdc with root in /dev/hdc1. Lilo displays LI and dies there. I tried adding linear to lilo.conf (that helped me once on another computer), but that didn't help. My setup looks sane to me... I really need some fresh ideas as to what is wrong. I use a third-party multibooter from /dev/hda's MBR. It picks up linux installation in /dev/hdc1, and starts lilo... then lilo stops at LI. I also have a working slink installation in /dev/hda4, so I tried to use its lilo to boot my potato installation. I added , | other = /dev/hdc1 | label = potato ` and got *exactly* the same results as with the multibooter (LI and nothing else). This makes me think that the problem is with lilo config in my potato installation. I need help!!! ;^) Can't boot my custom kernel. I would also appreciate any workaround recipes, such as booting my current kernel from a floppy or booting it from my functional slink installation in /dev/hda4. ,[ lilo.conf ] | boot=/dev/hdc1 | root=/dev/hdc1 | install=/boot/boot.b | map=/boot/map | delay=200 | vga=normal | verbose=5 | | image=/vmlinuz | label=default | read-only | | image = /zImage | label = linux | read-only ` Thanks for any input!
Re: [Off Topic] DVD Playback under Debian...
from what i've read DVD on linux requires hardware playback to work, i read in a mailing list that some people were starting to get the G400 cards working. see: http://linuxvideo.org/ the linux video and dvd project .. nate On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ryan Losh wrote: rklosh Hello: rklosh I know this is not Debian specific, but I was hoping some kind rklosh person would help me... rklosh rklosh I just put together a new AMD Athlon based system. Here's my rklosh configuration: 600 Mhz Athlon, MSI mother board, 128M ECC memory, rklosh 3dFx Voodoo3 3000 AGP video, Toshiba ATAPI DVD drive, Symbios 895 SCSI rklosh w/Quantum 10,000 U160 9.1G HD. rklosh rklosh I've been out to http://www.opendvd.org, and I followed their rklosh DVD on Linux HOWTO. The only DVD I have is South Park, Bigger Longer rklosh Uncut. I can get the player to play the first 10-15 seconds (the screen rklosh is mostly scrambled, but I can see enough of the video to see that it's rklosh South Park). However, the tstdvd commands all indicate that the rklosh disk and title keys were successfully obtained. Also, I don't seem to rklosh get any sound. rklosh rklosh Has anyone gotten the DVD stuff for Linux working any better rklosh than this??? Does anyone have any pointers?? rklosh rklosh rklosh Ryan rklosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rklosh rklosh rklosh -- rklosh Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null rklosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 11:19pm up 143 days, 11:18, 2 users, load average: 1.57, 1.56, 1.58
Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)
Jim B [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You did run /sbin/lilo after making *any* edits to your lilo.conf right? Yes, I did. Also, how had you booted when you were making those edits? If /dev/hdc1 was not your root partition at the time (for example, if you had booted off a floppy), I wonder if the wrong lilo.conf was read to write your boot sector. If this is the case, try it again but specify the lilo.conf with the -C parameter: lilo -C /mnt/disk2/etc/lilo.conf I tried all kinds of things, including manually specifying config file. I do boot off floppy (takes about 7 minutes to boot), but the root file system is /dev/hdc1. I tried increasing verbosity level of lilo to 5, and then run lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf. It printed all kinds of stuff, but no warnings or error messages (apart from the warnning that /dev/hdc is not the first harddrive). lilo -q also doesn't yield in anything interesting (as far as I can tell). Would there be any use in me posting those outputs (they are lengthy)? LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. Yeah, I skimmed thru the whole manual. This explanation is not very helpful to me, unfortunately. Could anyone interpret what it means in simpler terms? What are possible causes of this? p.s. I just attempted to boot kernel from /dev/hda4, but specify /dev/hdc1 as root partition (lilo works in my slink installation) by modifying slink's lilo.conf thusly: , | boot=/dev/hda4 | root=/dev/hda4 | install=/boot/boot.b | map=/boot/map | delay=200 | | image = /zImage | label = linux | read-only | | image = /zImage | label = potato | root = /dev/hdc1 ` Guess what! Lilo stopped working from /dev/hda4 too!!! It won't give me a boot prompt (hangs at LI just like when running off /dev/hdc1). What gives? It used to work perfectly w/o the second boot option. Thanks again! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
X broken after fonts/fontserver update
Anyone else is experiencing this problem? Here are the messages that X gives me at startup _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc-il2/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-il2/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-il2/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Xg/,/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/,/usr/share/fonts/texmf/,/usr/local/staroffice51/fonts/75dpi,/usr/local/staroffice51/fonts/type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/:unscaled,unix/:7101' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. I've tried to activate the xfs-xtt fontserver on unix/:7100, I can see that the unix pipe has been created in /tmp but I can't get the X server to connect to it. Also a few days ago (X running without any problems) some applications loaded some strange fonts from the freefonts collection instead of the fixed one. Now X refuses to start. Ah, yes, I know that in the above error messages there is 7101 and not 7100, that is xfstt. xfs is now disabled in XF86Config Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.35 #1 Wed Dec 29 16:09:39 CET 1999 i686 unknown
Re: X broken after fonts/fontserver update
When I was playing with xfs, I never could get local unix sockets to work vis-a-vis /unix:7100. However, it worked using tcp as tcp/localhost:7100. xfs slows down the system though, so I went back to direct path specification (don't use true type fonts). -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 03:01:32PM +0100, Fam. Engelen wrote: After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on boot: --- /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root filesystem is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: mount -n -o remount,rw / If you get messages of specific files that are corrupted write down their names. Then you will have an idea which packages need to be reinstalled or why you get problems rebooting (if any).
iprofd: urgent!
When starting iprofd I get the message: Version of kernel modem-profile (5) does NOT match version of iprofd (4)! Make sure, you are using the correct version. (Try recompiling iprofd). I'm using a 2.2.13 kernel on Debian 2.1 I guess iprofd in in the isdnutils package, I'm using version 3.0beta2 What version should I use?? Or: How can I solve this problem. Ron
Re: /etc/limits
On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote: If you're running potato then you'd probably want to use PAM and /etc/security/limits.conf instead. Look at the files themselves to see how they are set up. I have figured out how to set these limits up well enough, but I have a related question, how can i set reasonable limits? what I mean is how can i set reasonable limits for a user that they will never even notice are there unless 1) they are intentionally trying to crash the machine or 2) unintentionally have a process go out of control. sort of analogous to the 5% limit on ext2fs reserved for root. -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
xterm: The icon insists it has a fixed point on the screen.
Package: xterm Version: 3.3.5-2 Package: fvwm Version: 2.2.4-1 Does anybody else have instances in which the xterm icon insists to place itself in a point that is already taken by some other icon? Perhaps it is Netscape or exmh icons fault? I am using Fvwm for WM. - -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.2.13 #1 Sat Nov 20 12:44:19 EST 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libncurses44.2-5 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii ncurses-base 4.2-3.4Descriptions of common terminal types ii xlib6g 3.3.5-2shared libraries required by X clients Versions of the packages fvwm depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libncurses44.2-5 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libreadlineg2 2.1-17 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-4 The GNU stdc++ library ii xlib6g 3.3.5-2shared libraries required by X clients ii xpm4g 3.4k-5 the X PixMap library ^^^ (Provides virtual package libxpm4)
iprofd: urgent!
I think this mail didn't arrive when I send it last time, so here it is again: When starting iprofd I get the message: Version of kernel modem-profile (5) does NOT match version of iprofd (4)! Make sure, you are using the correct version. (Try recompiling iprofd). I'm using a 2.2.13 kernel on Debian 2.1 I guess iprofd in in the isdnutils package, I'm using version 3.0beta2 What version should I use?? Or: How can I solve this problem. Ron
iprofd: need help quick!
I think this mail didn't arrive when I send it last time, so here it is again: When starting iprofd I get the message: Version of kernel modem-profile (5) does NOT match version of iprofd (4)! Make sure, you are using the correct version. (Try recompiling iprofd). I'm using a 2.2.13 kernel on Debian 2.1 I guess iprofd in in the isdnutils package, I'm using version 3.0beta2 What version should I use?? Or: How can I solve this problem. Ron
Re: /etc/limits
Subject: Re: /etc/limits Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:19AM +0100 In reply to:Onno Ebbinge Quoting Onno Ebbinge([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote: | OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I | [snip] | I look in my /etc/limits and see a way to restrict just about all those | [snip] | | Where can I find more info on /etc/limits ? | apropos limits ? -- Nobody said computers were going to be polite. ___
Re: Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??
See the list of packages on the Debian packages page, searching for perl. There is a fake package that allows you to upgrade; I believe you will have upgrade problems if you do not install the fake perl package first. I believe it is called perl-base. It is called perl_5.004.05-2.deb Stef
Perl fake packages
I installed the two fake packages perl-base_5.004.05-1.1.deb and perl_5.004.05-2.deb. But still wehn I want to install perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb I get the following error: # dpkg -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb dpkg: regarding perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb containing perl-5.005-base: perl-5.005-base conflicts with perl perl (version 5.004.05-2) is installed. dpkg: error processing perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing perl-5.005-base Errors were encountered while processing: perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb Stef
Re: Ethernet question
Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 This is typically done in the script /etc/init.d/network That script is generated at install when you answer the questions about your network setup. If you take a look at it and edit it, you should see all of the various network parameters (IP address, subnet mask, etc.) to set up your ethernet card. If not, just reply back for some more info. -- Regards,| Debian GNU/ __ o http://www.debian.org . |/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.golgotha.net | because lockups should only be for convicts.
ISDN won't work...
ISDN won't work, I get the following messages in syslog, kern.log, isdn.log, ppp.log, dmesg. HiSax: debugging flags card 1 set to 4 isdn: Verbose-Level is 3 isdn: Global Mode running isdn: Verbose-Level is 2 ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: ippp_ccp: allocating reset data structure isdn_net: call from 522443655,1,0 - 713416089 isdn_net: Service-Indicator not 7, ignored isdn_tty: call from 522443655 - 713416089 ignored HiSax: debugging flags card 1 set to 4 isdn: Verbose-Level is 3 isdn: Global Mode running isdn: Verbose-Level is 2 ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: ippp_ccp: allocating reset data structure HiSax: debugging flags card 1 set to 4 isdn: Verbose-Level is 3 isdn: Global Mode running isdn: Verbose-Level is 2 ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: ippp_ccp: allocating reset data structure ippp0: dialing 1 7001234... isdn_net: ippp0 connected isdn_net: chargetime of ippp0 now 1001732 isdn: Hisax,ch0 cause: E0010 ippp0: remote hangup ippp0: Chargesum is 0 ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: ippp_ccp: allocating reset data structure Jan 4 14:50:17 2000|+31713419271|| 57| 5628| 946993817| -1|O| 16| 0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 4 14:51:57 2000|+31713419271|| 11| 1041| 946993917| -1|O| 16| 0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 4 14:52:58 2000|+31713419271|| 68| 6834| 946993978| -1|O| 16| 0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 4 15:13:38 2000|+31713419271|| 67| 6729| 946995218| -1|O| 16| 0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 4 15:14:52 2000|+31713419271|| 69| 6851| 946995292| -1|O| 16| 0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 4 15:21:29 2000|+31713419271|| 72| 7151| 946995689| -1|O| 16| 0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 10 09:53:33 2000|+31713419271|| 38| 3837| 947494413| -1|O| 16| 0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 10 09:54:29 2000|+31713419271||2| 229| 947494469| -1|O| 16| 0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 10 10:18:18 2000||+31713416089| 28| 2762| 947495898| -1|I| 16| 0| 0|3.1|1|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 10 11:19:46 2000|+31522443655|+31713416089| 59| 5876| 947499586| -1|I| 16| 0| 0|3.1|1|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 10 12:36:43 2000|+31713419271|| 90| 9080| 947504203| -1|O| 16| 0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.08|NLG|0|-01| Jan 10 12:35:15 Free_Technics kernel: ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: Jan 10 12:35:15 Free_Technics kernel: ippp_ccp: allocating reset data structure Jan 10 12:36:40 Free_Technics kernel: ippp0: dialing 1 7001234... Jan 10 12:36:43 Free_Technics kernel: isdn_net: ippp0 connected Jan 10 12:36:43 Free_Technics kernel: isdn_net: chargetime of ippp0 now 1001732 Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics kernel: isdn: Hisax,ch0 cause: E0010 Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics kernel: ippp0: remote hangup Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics kernel: ippp0: Chargesum is 0 Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics kernel: ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics kernel: ippp_ccp: allocating reset data structure Jan 10 11:05:43 Free_Technics ipppd[1100]: init_unit: 0 Jan 10 11:05:43 Free_Technics ipppd[1100]: Connect[0]: /dev/ippp0, fd: 7 Jan 10 12:20:29 Free_Technics ipppd[1594]: Found 1 device: /dev/ippp0 Jan 10 12:20:29 Free_Technics ipppd[1594]: ipppd i2.2.10 (isdn4linux version of pppd by MH) started Jan 10 12:20:29 Free_Technics ipppd[1594]: init_unit: 0 Jan 10 12:20:29 Free_Technics ipppd[1594]: Connect[0]: /dev/ippp0, fd: 7 Jan 10 12:35:15 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: Found 1 device: /dev/ippp0 Jan 10 12:35:15 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: ipppd i2.2.10 (isdn4linux version of pppd by MH) started Jan 10 12:35:15 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: init_unit: 0 Jan 10 12:35:15 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: Connect[0]: /dev/ippp0, fd: 7 Jan 10 12:36:43 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: Local number: Remote number: 7001234, Type: outgoing Jan 10 12:36:43 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: PHASE_WAIT - PHASE_ESTABLISHED, ifunit: 0, linkunit: 0, fd: 7 Jan 10 12:36:43 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: lcp layer is UP Jan 10 12:37:13 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: No response to PAP authenticate-requests Jan 10 12:37:43 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: ipcp_input: illegal ipcp_unit for linkunit 0 Jan 10 12:38:11 Free_Technics last message repeated 7 times Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: Modem hangup Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: Connection terminated. Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: taking down PHASE_DEAD link 0, linkunit: 0 Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: closing fd 7 from unit 0 Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]: link 0 closed , linkunit: 0 Jan 10 12:38:14 Free_Technics ipppd[2082]:
Re: Ethernet question
You might want to check /usr/doc/sysvinit/examples/network (from the sysvinit package). Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to happen on boot. I have the appropriate lines in conf.modules, but I have a feeling there is some setting somewhere in the init/rc hierarchy that I need to make to have it automatically load. In addition, it appears that the NIC card is not associating with a real IP address, only 0.0.0.0. Any idea how to fix this as well? Paul M. Foster -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Ethernet question
heya, paul have a look in /etc/init.d/network from da bobstopper -Original Message Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to happen on boot. I have the appropriate lines in conf.modules, but I have a feeling there is some setting somewhere in the init/rc hierarchy that I need to make to have it automatically load. In addition, it appears that the NIC card is not associating with a real IP address, only 0.0.0.0. Any idea how to fix this as well? Paul M. Foster -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - End of forwarded message from Paul M. Foster -
Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive
On 08-Jan-2000, Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS looks to boot your system. change your boot line to look like: boot=/dev/hda This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda. LILO can *boot* things pretty much anywhere in your system (like /dev/hdc1) but it must be located where the BIOS looks (generally the boot sector of your first floopy drive, or the MBR of your first Hard disk. I am not sure about that, here is my setup for lilo at home, where the NT bootmanager is in charge, and all it needs to now is how to boot from the start of the partition. boot=/dev/hda5 root=/dev/hda5 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 append=mem=20M image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.new label=new read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=old read-only Pete
Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)
Attached is my /etc/lilo.conf. I hope it will help. [14:46:02 /tmp]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf # /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal prompt timeout=50 other=/dev/hda1 label=MS table=/dev/hda image=/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/dev/hdb1 read-only image=/vmlinuz label=single append=single root=/dev/hdb1 read-only [14:48:32 /tmp]$ I'm having problems booting into a fresh installation of potato in my second harddrive. The installation is on /dev/hdc with root in /dev/hdc1. Lilo displays LI and dies there. I tried adding linear to lilo.conf (that helped me once on another computer), but that didn't help. My setup looks sane to me... I really need some fresh ideas as to what is wrong. I use a third-party multibooter from /dev/hda's MBR. It picks up linux installation in /dev/hdc1, and starts lilo... then lilo stops at LI. I also have a working slink installation in /dev/hda4, so I tried to use its lilo to boot my potato installation. I added , | other = /dev/hdc1 | label = potato ` and got *exactly* the same results as with the multibooter (LI and nothing else). This makes me think that the problem is with lilo config in my potato installation. I need help!!! ;^) Can't boot my custom kernel. I would also appreciate any workaround recipes, such as booting my current kernel from a floppy or booting it from my functional slink installation in /dev/hda4. ,[ lilo.conf ] | boot=/dev/hdc1 | root=/dev/hdc1 | install=/boot/boot.b | map=/boot/map | delay=200 | vga=normal | verbose=5 | | image=/vmlinuz | label=default | read-only | | image = /zImage | label = linux | read-only ` Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: AOpen video card question
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In almost all cases, X windows worked fine, but when I came out of X windows to a console, the text on the console was scrambled and stayed that way. I had to type blind in order to shut down the machine as the console wouldn't echo properly, and that was the only way the console would fix. Only if I showed it as a generic VGA with under the VGA_16 server would it sorta work. It appears as though if the system finds out what kind of card this really is, the card thrashes video memory. Only if I run it at its lowest capability does it mostly work (in this case, the X screen bulges outward at the sides. This is a fairly common card. I finally replaced it with an older Diamond Stealth 3D 2000. But surely someone has had success setting it up? There is nothing wrong with what you're doing with that video card; I have have two myself, and have the same problem. I haven't found a workaround. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
nisplus package?
is ther a debian package for nisplus out already? i haven't seen it so far an want to try it out... gerhard
Re: Standard way to change IP?
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 09:17:05PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: I find that sometimes I cannot use that interface after the network is changed I get something like network unreachable when I try to ping some hosts on that network. The NIC is fine after a reboot. Most of the time I was using slink with kernel 2.2.13. Are there any other things that I need to do? Or was it driver dependent? sounds like a missing route, route -n will show you the actual routing table, which should be something like Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 193.154.142.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 116 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 04 lo 0.0.0.0 193.154.142.1 0.0.0.0 UG1 0 46 eth0 the kernel needs to know which ip-address of its default-gateway and over which interface that can be reached. /etc/init.d/network should add the appropriate routes when invoked via /etc/rcS.d/S40network. if that doesn´t help, do a ping -v to see where the unreachables come from, could be your host or some router on the way... But the routes are there. At least the routes for the local network are there. (2.2 kernels add them automatically, don't they?) I even tried to manually bring down all ethX, remove all routes and start them up again. Still doesn't work until I reboot in frustration. Can't even ping other hosts in the same network. Perhaps I overlooked something To Lindsay: I tried manually using ifconfig already :(
What is this????
I found this file somewhere: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. Ron
DPT SmartRaid V cards
Hi, I have been playing with a DPT smartRaid V card for some days, using the driver from their homepage. (the kernel drivers don't seem to work for SmartRaid V?) However, for some reason the Raid V drive doesn't seem to perform very well. It often just stops during disk writes without doing anything (no sound from the harddisks) I have a 1554U2 with 5 IBM SCSI harddisks. If anyone has used it before... was it an expected problem? I was using the driver for kernel 2.2.5 patched to 2.2.13. Or shall I play with 2.2.5 instead?
Re: AOpen video card question
* Phil Brutsche said: capability does it mostly work (in this case, the X screen bulges outward at the sides. This is a fairly common card. I finally replaced it with an older Diamond Stealth 3D 2000. But surely someone has had success setting it up? There is nothing wrong with what you're doing with that video card; I have have two myself, and have the same problem. I haven't found a workaround. I had a similar problem with the much older card - ALI2301. The screen was scrambled as well, but calling SVGATextMode restored the screen. It seems that with some cards X-Window don't restore the registers correctly on exit. marek pgpSyPt2wSniR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: UMAX Scanner
Quoting William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection? Yes. (Wow, wasn't that a waste of bandwidth) My UMAX Astra 1200S uses a DB25. But the DB25 is functionally the same as 50-pin SCSI, and conversion between the two is straightforward, unlike with the more-pin SCSI versions. Except all the earths (grounds) are connected together, which can cause problems. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
memories
I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin with---the 96MB was detected in BIOS and by the kernel; I had much less disk-thrashing in long Netscape sessions and so on. But If I leave the machine up overnight (as has been my habit) with nobody logged on and only cron jobs running, when I log on again in the morning, `top' tells me that almost all of the memory is in use, and when I try to work, I get constant segmentation faults (especially in resource-heavy applications like emacs, TeX, X ...) and sometimes a kernel-panic. Rebooting `fixes' the problem. The hardware: Pentium 2 (233 with 512K cache), an Asus P2L97 AGP Motherboard, Quantum 4.3GB SCSI Hard Drive. Are there tools available that would help me diagnose the problem and hopefully solve it? Thanks in advance for any advice, Jim McCloskey
Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive
LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions (max 4) and located in the first hard drive that usually is /dev/hda . Bye bye. -- Memo - Header --- To: Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10/01/2000 12.35.04 GMT 10/01/2000 15.49.36 Subject: Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive - Memo - Message -- On 08-Jan-2000, Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS looks to boot your system. change your boot line to look like: boot=/dev/hda This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda. LILO can *boot* things pretty much anywhere in your system (like /dev/hdc1) but it must be located where the BIOS looks (generally the boot sector of your first floopy drive, or the MBR of your first Hard disk. I am not sure about that, here is my setup for lilo at home, where the NT bootmanager is in charge, and all it needs to now is how to boot from the start of the partition. boot=/dev/hda5 root=/dev/hda5 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 append=mem=20M image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.new label=new read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=old read-only Pete -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What is this????
On 10/1/2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. the c means its a character special device file (as opposed to say a block special device file like /dev/hda*) such a file should be in /dev (where most device files are) the strangest thing i see is those wacked permissions... I cannot find such a file on my system... -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
Re: What is this????
Ron Rademaker wrote: I found this file somewhere: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. Ron From the http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.html/ch-advanced.html#s-advanced-files page: 16.2.2 Types of files One detail we've been concealing up to now is that the Linux kernel considers nearly everything to be a file. That includes directories and devices: they're just special kinds of files. As you may remember, the first character of an ls -l display represents the type of the file. For an ordinary file, this will be simply -. Other possibilities are: d (directory) l (symbolic link) b (block device) c (character device) p (named pipe) s (socket) hth give you a start in answering your question, kent
Re: What is this????
*- On 10 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about What is this I found this file somewhere: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. Besides the fact that it has insane uid, gid and dates it is a character device file. Similiar to a serial port or the like. # ls -l /dev/ttyS0 0 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Jun 10 1999 /dev/ttyS0 Acccording to the devices.txt file in the kernel Documentation a character device with major number of 49 is reserved for a 'SDL RISCom serial card'. Where is this file? You didn't list its path. If it is /usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts then I would just delete it and try re-installing xlib6g-dev. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: What is this????
I found this file somewhere: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? The c means that it is a character device, e.g. like /dev/tty or /dev/psmouse. However, since the group and user owners of the file seem unknown to your system (the numbers 8224 and 10280), it looks more like a file with screwed up attributes. You could try to run an fsck on the disk to see if it gets corrected, or try to remove it (maybe after a chattr command to change the attributes). This could be a symptom of a dying disk, but then again, maybe it isn't. When this type of problem occurs people also often start talking about scary things like file system debuggers. Could someone more knowledgeable jump in on this? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. Maybe it used to be a directory before it got screwed up? HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
Re: umount - URGENT
A better instruction would be to umount /dev/cdrom, since this will almost always be a symlink pointing to your cdrom device. Far more systems use /dev/cdrom for their cdrom devices than use /dev/hdd, because this includes nearly everybody with /dev/hdd, /dev/sdd, /dev/hdsomeotherletter and /dev/sdsomeotherletter as the cdrom device. that's great, but what if the problematic cd happens to be the second cd device? /dev/cdrom won't help if that's the case, so using /dev/thedevice is a better choice, IMHO, if you know the device you want to umount. -- dave wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TI5300 sound card
hello thanks for reading this mail which sound controller must i choose in the kernel configuration for making work the following notebook ? Texas Instruments 5300 which has a: Media Vision Pro Audio De Luxe/ProSonic/Jazz 16 sound card i pressume that the sound controller is embedded in the motherboard on the other side, when i run pnpdump, i get no cards found thanks a lot erasmo
Re: memories
*- On 10 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about memories I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin with---the 96MB was detected in BIOS and by the kernel; I had much less disk-thrashing in long Netscape sessions and so on. But If I leave the machine up overnight (as has been my habit) with nobody logged on and only cron jobs running, when I log on again in the morning, `top' tells me that almost all of the memory is in use, and when I try to work, I get constant segmentation faults (especially in resource-heavy applications like emacs, TeX, X ...) and sometimes a kernel-panic. Rebooting `fixes' the problem. The hardware: Pentium 2 (233 with 512K cache), an Asus P2L97 AGP Motherboard, Quantum 4.3GB SCSI Hard Drive. Are there tools available that would help me diagnose the problem and hopefully solve it? Thanks in advance for any advice, Which netscape are you using? Netscape 4.7 is much tighter on its memory leaks than previous versions. I have also found that X seems to have a memory leak somewhere. My solution to this is to restart the window manager, not logging out of X but just restarting the window manager. It is amazing but I can reclaim 128M/256M of swap by doing this sometimes. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: memories
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin with---the 96MB was detected in BIOS and by the kernel; I had much less disk-thrashing in long Netscape sessions and so on. But If I leave the machine up overnight (as has been my habit) with nobody logged on and only cron jobs running, when I log on again in the morning, `top' tells me that almost all of the memory is in use This would necessarily indicate a problem. Linux uses any memory that isn't currently being used as disk cache. Overnight I believe the updatedb command is run which accesses all of you hard drive and thus it's likely Linux allocates all your free memory to disk cache. When an application requests memory Linux will kindly reduce the amount of memory being used for cache. , and when I try to work, I get constant segmentation faults (especially in resource-heavy applications like emacs, TeX, X ...) and sometimes a kernel-panic. Rebooting `fixes' the problem. The hardware: Pentium 2 (233 with 512K cache), an Asus P2L97 AGP Motherboard, Quantum 4.3GB SCSI Hard Drive. Are there tools available that would help me diagnose the problem and hopefully solve it? Did these symptoms you're seeing only begin after you installed the new memory? If so then that might indicate a bad memory chip. There's a little utility called memtest in the sysutils package that might be able to detect it. There's an even more thorough test in the hwtools package (memtest86) that you actually boot into, via floppy. I haven't used these in a LONG time so maybe someone else can give you more details on them. Don't rely on your BIOS memory test. It isn't very thorough. Gary
Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions (max 4) and located in the first hard drive that usually is /dev/hda . Bye bye. This is not correct as stated. Here is an informative item : http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/12/166/ I quote a relevant section : If the MBR was created by a boot manager which can start operating systems from an extended partition (a partition which has been divided into logical drives) or from a logical drive, it may make sense to install Lilo in the boot sector of an extended partition or a logical drive. Lilo itself is such a boot manager - an MBR Lilo has no problems with starting another Lilo in the boot sector of a logical drive. Cheers, -- Howard Mann Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO http://www.newbielinux.comhttp://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html
Training
What kind of training does Debian offer and at what cost? Thanks, JoHanna
Re: Re: ps/2
Thank you,
Succeded. And with xf86config also
inserted mouse default as
/dev/psaux
after that - it works perfectly :-)
At 2000.01.09 14:32:00, you wrote:
|{.f|. wrote:
Can't configure my 2 buttons PS/2
mouse for X windows.
In XF96Config file pointer
is set to PS/2.
Tried with XF86Setup, but
mouse doesn't react to
clicking at all.
Cursor exists.
Do you have a symlink between /dev/mouse and /dev/psaux ?
/dev$symlinks -v /dev
absolute: /dev/mouse - /dev/psaux
If not, create one, and it should work.
Cheers,
--
Howard Mann Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO
http://www.newbielinux.comhttp://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html
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Re: Computer won't start
Go into your cpu and check all the ribbon cable connections. Push each one in to insure it is tight. Just one loose connection can keep your system from taking its first breath. On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: Hi, I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, so I'm not sure which one could be causing this (probably Windows?), but when I turn on my computer right now, it doesn't start. I get absolutely nothing on my screen except the default thing that shows up on the monitor if the computer is turned off and on the older monitor I tried it with it's just a blank blank space. I hear a little ticking like it's doing something, but that doesn't last long because when I put a boot disk in it doesn't go far enough to be trying to boot of the harddrive/floppy/cdrom. I've tried replacing the graphics card with a different one so it doesn't look like that's the problem. My guess is that this is a BIOS problem. Any ideas? Could a (Windows?) virus have caused this? Is the bios (I have an AMIBIOS in that computer) replacable? Easily? Inexpenssively? I'd appreciate some help with this. I'm using a very old computer right now with a 486 that can barely handle this telnet prompt in Win95 (I install Debian off the harddrive and don't have anything downloaded for it in this computer for me to be able to set it up easily), BTW. I'd appreciate some advice (in private since this might not be specific to Debian?). - Bart -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: /etc/limits
I asked myself the same question, so I logged into my shell account at a local ISP and took a look at what they use on their FreeBSD machine with 512 MB of RAM: core file size (blocks) unlimited data seg size (kbytes) 22528 file size (blocks) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes) 10240 max memory size (kbytes)30720 open files 64 pipe size (512 bytes) 1 stack size (kbytes) 8192 cpu time (seconds) unlimited max user processes 64 virtual memory (kbytes) 30720 On my machine (96 MB) I am using something between the optional default in /etc/limits, and what I found from the aforementioned machine. The defaults in /etc/limits are: #* L2 D6144 R2048 S2048 U32 N32 F16384 T5 C0 However I set the max CPU time to 60 minutes (T60) and max open files to 64 (N64). I figured that any process spawned by a shell that burned up 60 mins of CPU time (note that CPU time does not accumulate while a process is idle) might be up to no good, but that's on my machine where I only have a few remote users, and an occasional console user, playing around with things. On a true full-time multi-user machine you may want to increase this slightly. I also set (in /etc/profile): ulimit -v 32768 which is apparently more than enough to run X and Netscape (4.6). I originally had tried about 16 MB and X started but Netscape would segfault. Then (in /etc/limits) I set no limits on my own accounts: user - As I only started experimenting with this yesterday, don't take any of my setup without some judgment. :) I'm probably making some unreasonable choices which I will have to fine-tune over time. But they seem to have been decent preliminary defaults. Also: I still don't know of any way to set the Virtual Mem usage of a shell without using ulimit (bash) or limit (csh)! Note that it does not appear to be an option in /etc/limits or in pam's limits.conf. Anyone know how to do it? There must be a way. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: I have figured out how to set these limits up well enough, but I have a related question, how can i set reasonable limits? what I mean is how can i set reasonable limits for a user that they will never even notice are there unless 1) they are intentionally trying to crash the machine or 2) unintentionally have a process go out of control. sort of analogous to the 5% limit on ext2fs reserved for root. -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
