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Hi to all ! can someone tell me what and where a goo d ICQ for my Deb box
would be :-) Thankyou
That depends what you want to get. Many ICQ clones are at
http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq/
Andrew
/
* Windows? What Windows?*
* I may have
Dear all,
I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly,
it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities:
1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to
install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then install LILO onto that hdd, and have it
JUst post the isapnp.conf you have to the list, we'll take a look at it.
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* Windows? What Windows?*
* I may have missed it... *
* It can't be a latest Linux*
* version, can it? *
Actually, I haven't edited mine at all, so unless the kernel
compilation does something to it, there's no sound stuff in it.
Kernel compilation does nothing to isapnp.conf
You have to do pnpdump (if you havent done do yet), and configure the card
manually.
Andrew
Ok, this is what I had to do when I needed to free one of my disks for
Windows.:
1. reinstate the mbr on that disk, if it has been changed.
2. cfdisk/fdisk to partition to fat16
After this it SHOULD work, however, when I was doing it, I actually had to
reformat the disk.
Now, to the bootable disk.
I want to set up the OS and of course experiment with internet access.
I would like to download Netscape. Could someone please enlighten me as
to which version I download?
Hrm. That depends on your machine. If you are using glibc6, download
glib6 one from netcape ftp. If you are using libc5,
Buying OSS could be a way, yes...
But what would you need sound for the very first minute you install Linux
for anyway? I think that you'd have more things to do than listen to
music.
Andrew
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Thanks, my mistake.
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Next get into the /usr/src/linux dir and type make xconfig.
Then do each of these:
click on Sound
click y for Sound card support
click y for Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support
scroll down a little ways
click y for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support
click y for MIDI interface
Yeah, that should be no problem. You can install it and use LILO to get
in, or boot from a floppy.
Andrew
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Afternoon all.
Is there any circuit design software for Linux?
I need to find a replacement for the program that my prof. wants me to
useand I would hate to go back to windows every time I wnt to work on
it, since wine will not do the sim.
I am trying to build a dedicated Windows machine, but
Well, basicly, it's all been said how to get the card working.
I hope you succeed at that. I was never able to get my card working,
though. What you can do is this:
WHenever setting up the sound options in kernel, do the loadable module
support. As I was explained before, kernel will initialize
I had no luck with it, but just couple of days ago I ran across an old
SB16 card. One that comes with 2xCDROM, that has an IDE interface on the
card itself. That card worked perfectly with kernel compiled to SB
support.
Dunno where you can get one of those antiques, though. I got it from a
DX2
Ok, I figured I'd upgrade to potato from hamm.
What packages/libraries will need to be upgraded, except downloading the
kernel?
TIA,
Andrew
devices in Linux are named as follows:
/dev/hda for master on primary IDE
/dev/hdb for slave on prim. IDE
/dev/hdc for master on sec. IDE
/dev/hdd for slave on sec. IDE
Now, just you need to know where your cdrom is.
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Have you done any upgrades to your system lately hardware-wise?
I've had a problem with system locking down for 30 sec-1 minute whenever
ppp was working. Solved with a kernel recompile and a little bit of time.
(It was a time when I put in a new motherboard and didnt recompile the
kernel for it.)
I was able to get the font and keyboard support (didnt go into locales,
since I still live in US) for koi8 by installing the fonts from cronyx and
a keyboard switcher called xrus.
Works very good for me, Netscape/xterm/emacs are now russified.
You can get the exact procedure from A. Chernov's page
So,
How do I setup lilo or loadlin to boot hdb? Which is better??
AFAIK, loadlin is used to boot to linux from Dos/Windows.
I use LILO myself. Kinda gives me flexibility of being exposed to windows
only whenever I have to be.
But to setup LILO:
chances are you already have it. If you don't ,
Ok, I've recently got my hands on one more modem, and I have this
question:
On the box of my original modem, SupraExpress 33.6, there was somehting
about if I had 2 modems, I could set them up so that they work
simultaneously, thus increasing the speed.
Anyone done that in Windows, and did it
I'm a Brand Spankin' Shinning Newbe with a Brand Spankin Shinning New
Debian install using floppies, all seven of them D/Led from Debian.org,
so now what? The man pages don't work. Nothing will install because of
dependency errors except for joe (works great but there must be
something
Also, as to not mounting any local fs's:
The message appears at the boot when system reads your
/etc/fstab file, where partitions and directories to mount onto them are
located. Check it out, seems like your /etc/fstab is blank, although in
that case / and /usr would not mount either, so you
How can I make setserial changes permanent. I'm using com 7 which is
0x3E8
and irq 5. Irq 5 instead of irq 4 is a permanent change as far as my system
goes but setserial reverts back to irq 4 at each reboot.
man setserial, the file you need to edit is
/etc/rc.boot/0setserial
Andrew
Unless it's a PnP modem, in which case pon will not connect. So if it's
pnp, get isapnp pzackage first and configure the modem.
Andrew
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If 2 drives are swaped, /etc/fstab will also need to be changed to
reflect
changes in system.
Andrew
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Hi,
How do I set up my modem in Debian? I have installed the base system and a
bunch of other things including Minicom and when I opened Minicom the system
froze while itializing the modem.
Thanks.
What kind of modem is it?
Anyway, that freezing sounds like it could be an IRQ
I recently installed debian 3.0 My questions are:
I think thats 2.0
Anyway, to answer one question:
1. How do i configure my sound card in debian. I have opti.
Get the exact data on your card from Windows's Device Manager. Then
recompile the kernel (you need the kernel source package for
I have XF86 up and running to a point, I might add, as in root I startx ,
and it brings up the screen with the ICON's at the bottom...Clock, Load,
Xterm, Files, Editor,Xcalc, Xview, Qview, Netscape, Kill, and Desktop...
Now the only ones that work are Xcalc, Xterm and Clock, if I remember
I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted
/var/log/ppp.log
SInce then none of the plog messages appear. I know that plog gets the
data from ppp.log, but whenever ppp is working, it no longer seems to
write to ppp.log (doesnt create it/write to it when its created). Syslog
2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by
itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has
demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down when
I tell it.
Thats probably your ISP kicking you off. Mine has a 2 hour limit.
I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted
/var/log/ppp.log
SInce then none of the plog messages appear.
I don't know the correct solution to your problem, but you could try this:
Do touch ppp.log to create the file, then use chown and chmod so
that the file has
Thats probably your ISP kicking you off. Mine has a 2 hour limit.
Try pppupd to get around no-traffic limits. For pure time limits... ?
pppupd doesnt do what I need, since my ISP has dynamic IP allocation.
I use a shell script I wrote instead.
The source is availible on my homepage (it's a
Man pages package is under Documentation section in stable on
www.debian.org, and is called
manpages
Andrew
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As far as I can understand, you are wondering about the sound card
configuration of MAD?
Well, I don't have that card, but on the basic level that works for
soundcards that are pnp:
1. Go into windows and get settings from there, such as COM port, IO base,
IRQ.
2. Read documentation on sound
You see those messages whenever you are logged on to your ISP.
There is nothing wrong with that.
Andrew
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Hi I am new to Linux, and am learning fairly quick. But I am having
problems getting my Xserver to work at a higher color depth then 8. If
I try and remove that particular setting in the XF86Config file then it
tells me that it cannot find the 8 bpp color setting and there for am
unable
Evening all.
I don't seem to be able to make screen/window shots with Afterstep 1.4.5
I get the XGRBSCForm window, but unless I (or 'find') can not find a
screenshot file, I'm probably doing something wrong. I've tried changing
the waiting times to 0, that doesnt help. Any idea where those files
My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the
time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...?
Try top and see what is the process that eats up all the CPU.
Naturally you should not see CPU working a lot, unless you are, for
example, starting Netscape. For
Installed Debian 2.0 from CD and everything worked. Decided to add
space on hard disk but then several reinstalls all led to same browser
problems.Browsers arena and gzilla, which worked before, now give
error messages. Chimera2 still seems to work, but when used to
download netscape
Hi,
Hi.
I just got myself an old 270 MB hard disk...to supplement the 120Mb I have
on my current disk. I've got debian Linux installed on it..Anyone knows how
I should go about it.
Ok, one thing to do if you are running out of space is partition the new
disk and make it your /usr
For that
First, try to get it to work with SVGA server. It might work better. (S3v
doesnt work for me, I have S3 ViRGE/DX card).
As to your problem: it just doesnt find any valid modes to run in.
I've got the little walk-through on my homepage, (URL underneath), but
basic idea is to change the order of
You need to download the base package instead so that you can install the
base system. Base package is a located at
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/install.html
(Thats the installation guide, which includes the links to necessary
files)
Andrew
Can anyone help me/
I downloaded the files as suggested to Drive C, made the Rescue disk,
and can go through install to the point where it asks me to -
CHOOSE DEBIAN ARCHIVE PATH
If I remember correctly, this is asking you where all the base files are
stored on the disk. Now, C disk for
I have a procedure to make Deb bootable described on my homepage, under
LILO section.
URL is below,
Andrew
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Just get the new drive ready for Linux (partition and make fs)
Make a new directory on the drive,
and then just copy the /usr files into it.
Then edit /etc/fstab to indicate the new mount point.
Reboot to make sure it's all fine, and you are set.
Andrew
Ok, concerning 'make menuconfig'
It's a command to start configuration for your own kernel. For that you
have to have the kernel source package installed, it should be in
/usr/src/kernel-*/
Go there, and do either
'make xconfig' or 'make menuconfig' I like the first one, because it's
a GUI so
Ok, I'm writing a small script to do backups for me, and thinking which
dirs I need to back up.
So far:
/boot
/etc (full directory, with subdirs)
/dev
/root
some of the users (I have one only, but just in case).
Any other suggestions?
I'd backup some of the config files from other packages, but in
Did the compilation end without errors?
Did you 'make zImage' or 'make bzImage'?
Try 'find / zImage | grep zImage' to find it, also.
Andrew
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I have two questions:
1. Is there a way to make xterm default to the large or huge font
sizes? Right now I have to press control and right click on the xterm
window to switch. As I'm legally blind, the default size is too small for
my use.
One way to do that would be editing your window
Hi,
I am going to compile the kernel again as the first attempt
apparently didn't suceed. My users manual describes
the steps as follows. Is this correct?
1. change to directory /usr/src/linux
2. make config
Or, if under X, make xconfig.
Which is a GUI, lets you jump from one section
I have tried and tried to compile a Kernel, for sound... I just can't seem
to do it.
What you mean you cant seem to do it?
Do you get errors when compiling, do you not know how to do it at all, or
what is the problem?
Does anyone know where I can find a kernel Image with sound compiled in.
Xdm works fine ( when you have the X configured correctly) in hamm as
well. Just install xdm, and it will work.
If you ever want to get rid of it, edit the
/etc/X11/config file and comment the line that says
'start-xdm'
Same, to get it to work again,
uncomment that line.
Andrew
AFAIK, everything in Linux is case-sensitive.
Reason behind not being able to make user Mario is that user names do not
generally contain upper case letters. You can --force it, though.
Andrew
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Because /home/username/ includes dot files.
Like, .bashrc, etc.
To see them do la -la
To delete directory which is full, just use
rm -R dirname
Andrew
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Well...it's basicly asking you where in the system CDrom is.
Like, primary IDE master drive is /dev/hda
Primary slave is /dev/hdb
Secondary master is /dev/hdc
Secondary slave is /dev/hdd
Just figure out which one is yours, and enter it there.
Andrew
That depends who you are logged in as. If you are root, then it don't
matter. If you are a user...well, then you can not do much of maintenance
work, have to be root for that.
Your system is not read-only. If it were, you'd not be able to save
anything. Nor would the system itself (log files,
I have installed Debian-Linux, after I boot, and the system asks for the
login, I log in as root. the problem is I'm at a $prompt, I don't know
Do 'whoami' and see who you are really logged on as. Why do you need to
change /dev/modX anyway? /dev/ttySX is a COM port. But if you really need
to,
It is a 1gig partition. I have two others on this same machine.
Ok, make your partitions ready for linux (ext2 fs, etc).
What can I do to move stuff to these other partitions so that my 1st
partition will not be so loaded down. I would like to install more
software there?
Then what you
I used to have that card. It's PnP. Enough said.
Well, not really. I played around with it. I got as far as having the FM
synthesiser detected, but that is as far as it went.
The trick here is again, use isapnp to initialize card at boot, and then
insmod for the sound (which means you compile
What are you putting in that kernel?
I have my 2.0.34 compiled with vfat/dos/iso9660 support, SB16, some other
options, and it's 360K only, in the bzImage format.
GO through the kernel and unmark all the stuff you don't need.
I think the kernel size limitation is in the docs. If my memory serves
What Linux version of ICQ? Do you mean the java version from Mirabilis or one
of the find ICQ clones? I use Licq, but kicq and kxicq are also good ICQ
clones for UNIX and Linux.
Java version of ICQ is extremely buggy and extremely slow. Clones, on the
other hand, are much better. I use
Ok, one way to do this would be to change the IRQ of NIC. First, do 'cat
/proc/interrupts' to find which IRQs are unused. Then, since your NIC is
on the COM port, you can setserial a different IRQ to it. That can be
done by setserial /dev/ttyS# irq X Where # is the COm port where your NIC
is,
Evening all.
I've been trying to get hdparm to work, but it seems ( I can not verify)
unsuccessfully.
I got
Scorpio:/home/ryn# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=WDC AC11000H, FwRev=12.07H12, SerialNo=WD-WT364
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR5Mbs FmtGapReq
}
Make sure you don't have a win modem, works only with windows. See
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html
and
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Hope that helps,
Kent
This has nothing to do with winmodem. Winmodem is not recognised by the
system, and not being
I've tried adding:
leafenode:127.0.0.1 192.168.1.*
Try
leafnode: 127.0.0.1 192.168.1
Hope this works,
Andrew
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Ok, basicly you just go through the isapnp.conf and uncomment relevant
lines, which will give you certain parameters on the card.
Dont worry about clock chip. Isapnp doesnt deal with clocks. All it does
is configure the card.
Below is what you could use for isapnp.conf. I've cut all the parts
Just leave it at 530, and try compiling with that IO base.
See if it works.
Andrew
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Yeah. That solution is well-known, but the trick here is to get the sound
working WITHOUT having to pay.
As far as I am concerned, that OSS alone would cost me twice of what I had
to pay for hamm cds. With delivery. Also, OSS can cause some problems. At
least on my machine the demo was very
I may be wrong, but from my experience with OSS you don't have to use
isapnp at all.
Thats the reason OSS is out on the market: It replaces isapnp, in a more
efficient way. You still need to compile kernel, though. Just read the
README file that comes with OSS. I think they describe it all there.
isapnp is availible on debian site.
Its in the Admin directory of stable.
Andrew
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Kernel setup is that you go into windows and get the parameters of your
soundcard, such as IRQ, DMA, IO.
Then you recompile kernel, but enable the sound support and put in the
information you have for that specific card. If your card is PnP, you
compile sound as module and use isapnp. Otherwise,
You are not supposed to (and can not) run netscape as root. Thats a
built-in security
measure. The message about this shows up in xconsole.
Andrew
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In tere anyway to compile your kernel without have to use modules to
enable sound
If you have a non-pnp card, yes. For example, I've played with the same
card as Doug for a while, and just gave up after a while. Found a
different sound card, SB16. It wasnt pnp, and after a quick kernel
Chances are, you are running X at 8bpp.
Thats the installation default. To run it with a different depth use
startx -- -bpp 16 or 24 or 32
I think 32 would correspond to millions of colors.
Andrew
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Evening all.
I've found this entry in netstat output:
tcp 57 1 Mizzou-AS7-21.mis:10802 pavlov.midco.net:ftp LAST_ACK
Thing is, I don't remember connecting to pavlov.midco.net
There are no entries in syslog with name pavlov, or xferlog, for that
matter. Any ideas where else I can look
Midco is one of the primary ftp mirrors for Debian.
*slaps himself* Doh. I should have thought of that.
Thanks a lot.
Andrew
Weird noises you hear is modem, I believe.
And it's perfectly normal.
Anyway, once you can dial out to your ISP (do plog just to make sure that
you are connected), you can use apt or dselect to ftp files over to your
machine. No mail program though. And, before you can get Netscape, you
need to
Ok, just go to www.debian.org and follow the instructions on how to
install. In that html file ( I recommend you read hte whole thing, since
you are not familiar with Linux ), in chapter 5, there is a list of base
files you need. Just follow instructions and you should be fine.
This is all a bit
Wild guess, but check your lost+found directory || fsck the system.
It could be that your drive is dying.
Andrew
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Hi,
I have a question regarding security issue with Debian and Linux in
general. By now everyone has probably heard about the new Mellissa
virus. I know that this doesn't affect Linux because it is related to
M$ products only. However, I just wondered if anything of this sort
Are you using exactly the same setup as before?
Also, make sure that lilo actually runs without any warnings/errors.
ANdrew
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Why don't you just increase the resolution?
640x480 is awfully small. I'm able to get 1024x768 out of my monitor (My
S3 DX/Virge can do better, but monitor is stopping me), and I am already
out of space on one screen. But switching between virtual portions of a
desktop could be not very
Why dont you post error messages to the list?
Chances are, it will say that no valid modes are found (at least there
are ways that can work to go around that. I have a more/less readable
file on my page, about how to setup video modes. Try that too), but just
to be sure, post them here, and we'll
I have one windows machine at home among many which I'm trying to
transition to Debian but it has one card that I don't think will
work with Debian. It's my Hauppauge WinTV card
it's a TV/Radio tuner which works under all the winblows versions
Just because it works with Windows doesnt
I have written script like that, and it's on my homepage (URL below).
Basicly keeps pppd alive and emails you IPs.
Andrew
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As a wild guess, how do you enter the path where your linux kernel image
is? Hope it's not C:\Debian or whatever like that.
You have to use block devices, such as /dev/hda(b,c,d)
You can get information on partitioning from fdisk. For example, if C is
/dev/hda1, then your C:\Debian becomes
I got S3 DX/Virge with 4Mb memory. Works very well with hamm, never had
problems with setting up X on it (SVGA server.) Costs $30-50, depending
upon the vendor.
Andrew
I have recently installed debian on a older pc at work with only a 500 meg
hard drive and no cdrom. There was no room for both downloaded deb files
and the uncompressed system on the hard drive if I installed all the options
I wanted, therefore, I installed the standard system. Now, I want
doesn't look like that has been done. Also, is there some kind of utility
on Debian that I could use to check my hard drive space? I know about the
utilities to check my RAM but haven't been able to find anything about hard
drive. Thanks for any help.
Shawn
man df
Andrew
To finalize my debian installation, I've installed KDE and the newest
version of XFree-SVGA, but now I need to get sound setup, my CD-ROM
recognized, and my modem setup. I'm new to linux and alot of the sites I've
Ok, lets take it one thing at a time:
1. CD-rom: For CD support you need to
I can see from http://www.xfree86.org that for the ELSA Gloria Synergy
monitor, they've recommended the use of the X3DL server. I was able to
download this. However, I am still stuck getting my xf86Config file set up.
Can anyone give me some information about this? I am using Debian
Morning all.
Is it possible to connect linux box and winbox through a nullmodem?
THanks,
Andrew
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DOes anyone know of mp3 encoder for Linux? If yes, where would I be able
to find one?
TIA,
Andrew
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Hi, folks --
I have spent the past several days struggling to get my X-windows
configured. I am noticing that the XF86Config program runs just fine,
so I've got to believe that running X is possible. Any attempt to make
X-windows more specific to my configuration has ended in failure at
Hello,
I'm just getting started using Linux. Actually, I'm expecting my Slink CD's
to arrive any day now. I'm upgrading an old PC I have to install Debian on.
I'm on a real tight budget, but I don't want to spend my money on hardware
that won't be appropriate.
I've found a 1.2 G hard
Well I finally got X windows to come up. Kind of stark and doesn't
do much :) I guess I must install other packages to make it actually
interesting.. But I digress. The question is this: after finally getting to
run the right server and XF86Setup and xf86config and all that jazz I am
i
Can I install Windows on one disk and linux on another disk that is free,
without formating it?
Would be great if you could help me!
In order to install Linux you need to have an ext2 file system partition.
If you have a blank HD , you can fdisk it, create several partitions, and
then put
Mailed and posted
Hi all:
Is the Cyrillic-HOWTO still relevant? It was written more than 2 years
ago?
Well, mostly. I used it and CHernov's page to instal cyrillics, it went
pretty well.
For one, it says that using xkb is not recommended. Is it still so? Why?
I have no ideaI
I partitioned my HD also in a new way: smaller /dev/hda1 (/ 256Mb), larger
/dev/hda2 (/usr ab. 5Gb) and a swap /dev/hda3 (100mb). After installing and
apt-getting all the packages, I noticed that I was little short-sighted:
/dev/hda1 might run out of space pretty quickly.
Having that much
Problem #1, I have a modem on Com1. I know I do because Bill Gates tells me
I do when I run His OS. Try as I might I can't seem to convince Linux that
it is there. I assume that I should be using wvdial and when it ran the
configuration utility it said that it didn't detect any modem. So I
Hi!
I have done everything but I can not get my OPTi 925 work under linux.
The OPTi 925 is listed on hardware-HOWTO. It say you should use MSS and
isapnp! I have compiled my kernel xx times but no sound :( Please can
anyone help me or tell me were to find a OPTi 925-HOWTO ?
Basically,
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