Latex stops working (TeX Live installation/Sid)
Last night there were three or four power outages on this island, in the middle of a storm. Afterward, latex doesn't work. I have recently upgraded by apt-get dist-upgrade, and wonder whether the problem is due to an upgraded library. The error messages given by LaTeX are as follows (with apologies for mangled linebreaks or long lines): I am clueless. May I request assistance from some TeX guru w/ Debian? I use TeX Live rather then tetex. TeX Live is derived from tetex, and it has worked flawlessly for three years, through three incarnations. This installation is an up to date TeX Live. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/PROJ/SCHOOL/BIOLOGY$ latex pretest.tex kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit kpsewhich: error while loading shared libraries: kpsewhich: undefined symbol: atexit fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. tex: error while loading shared libraries: tex: undefined symbol: atexit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/PROJ/SCHOOL/BIOLOGY$ fmtutil and fmtutil.cnf are there, but without kpsewhich, they are not seen? Is that it? Thank you, Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Re: Latex stops working (TeX Live installation/Sid): FOUNDIT
Ok, I see a posting about the texit problem. I am now upgrading. Sorry. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
X11 stopped working on my machine
Some time after apt-get dist-upgrading my sid machine yesterday, suddenly X11 stopped working, right in the middle of some work. I haven't been able to get X11 since. The machine has a Matrox G450, single head. This problem exists with or without matrox's own drivers. I have reinstalled, purged, xserver-xfree86 and a couple of other core files, with no effect. One or two times, after running xf86cfg, running XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config-4.new as instructed, the server loaded in low res mode. I rebuilt XF86Config-4 several times, with no good effect. Attached below are the logfile and XF86Config-4 that recently was re- generated. Here is the log file: --BEGIN log XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 2 June 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.6 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Mon Jul 16 06:36:42 2001 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout Default Layout (**) |--Screen Default Screen (0) (**) | |--Monitor Generic Monitor (**) | |--Device Generic Video Card (**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc104 (**) XKB: model: pc104 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |--Input Device Configured Mouse (**) FontPath set to unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi (==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) using VT number 7 (WW) Cannot open APM (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.4 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.2 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.2 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 10b9,1541 card 10b9,1541 rev 04 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 10b9,5243 card , rev 04 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:03:0: chip 10b9,7101 card 10b9,7101 rev 00 class 06,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 10b9,1533 card , rev c3 class 06,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:09:0: chip 9005,0010 card 9005,a180 rev 00 class 01,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0b:0: chip 1102,0002 card 1102,8027 rev 06 class 04,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0b:1: chip 1102,7002 card 1102,0020 rev 06 class 09,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0f:0: chip 10b9,5229 card , rev c1 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 102b,0525 card 102b,0641 rev 82 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: scanpci (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) UnloadModule: scanpci (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 00x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 00x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 00x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 1 I/O range: (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 00xdf00 - 0xdfff (0x100) MX[B] (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 00xe5f0 - 0xe7ff (0x210) MX[B] (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,0), BCTRL: 0x08
various selection/clipboard mechanisms in X
Greetings to everyone. May I ask where I may find a tutorial or explanation about the use of the mouse under X? I am puzzled by the variations. Some programs can cut and paste into others, while others cannot. Reading mail in Sylpheed, I just noticed, I was able to just highlight a URL (left button drag) and then just click with middle button in Netscape Location slot. Then, in another instance when the url was highlighted by Sylpheed this didn't work. Presumeably this is because the URL did not have http://; prefixed to it in the first instance. This is not a problem isolated to Sylpheed, however. There are three different selection buffer/clipboard programs, not one of which can do exactly what I need: xclipboard, xpaste, and xcutsel. I haven't yet figured out the difference. I think xclipboard is the best; but I cannot print without again copying into one of the others! (Why can't I just highlight a paragraph in Netscape and print the highlighted region? Emacs rules!) Emacs has it's own way of working with the mouse, and interoperability isn't assured, but it seems to be getting better recently. Is there some setup to get all these things talking? Alan Davis Marianas High School, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Problem dialing in via mgetty.
I am putting together a four machine (Debian) GNU/Linux network in my HS classroom. It's substantially working, and, I might add, much to the credit of the Debian team and the excellent install setup. I am running 2.2, pretty much out of the box. Tonight I dialed in to my home machine, a Sid system. It was a piece of cake to enable dialing in using mgetty and a simple tweak to /etc/inittab. Deceptively easy I think. The first time around, it worked fine, and I logged in and out, no problem. A while later I decided to try to xmodem (or whatever) a file, when the system didn't cooperate: In typing in my login name, each character was echoed twice. Surely this is easy to fix? Can someone provide a clue? It is much easier to install a network now. I now fear to have to learn the nuts and bolts, in order to be able to administer the system(s). The system is being built on a grant, as a proof of concept effort. I hope to demonstrate as much scientific computer use as I can. So far, so good! The naysayers are many. Thanks everyone. Again. Alan Davis, Marianas High School and Northern Marianas College -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Parallel ports nonexistent
I am setting up two essentially identical machines using a three CD Debian 2.2 set from Linux Central, about two months old. Parallel printing won't work on either machine. Today I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel with lp and parport (three different settings) all compiled in (not modules). One other parport module was mysteriously installed. The kernel gives a message at boot time, that an interrupt 7 was detected, suggesting that I write to procfs to set up the port. This has never before happaned on any of the several Debian boxen I have set up. Printing has been trivial, with the exception that the kernel configuration is easy to overlook. On the other machine, I am still in the same boat. The printer is never detected at boot (no printer murmurs as there usually are on boot.) More particulars: HP DJ 870 ASUS B5A motherboard Is my hardware hosed? I changed cables, with no change in behavior. Thanks for any suggestions. Alan Davis Marianas High School and N. Marianas College, Saipan, N. Mariana Islands -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
libungif version (unstable)
Trying to compile a package flounder I have encountered a message that libungif (on a more or less up to date sid machine) is an old version, needing to be upgraded. This is my output from dpkg: synapse:/usr/local/incoming/flounder# dpkg -l libungif* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii libungif-bin 4.1-6 programs to convert GIF images ii libungif3g 3.0-2.4shared library for GIF images (runtime lib) ii libungif3g-dev 3.0-2.4shared library for GIF images (development f ii libungif4g 4.1-6 shared library for GIF images (runtime lib) Is there no libungif4g-dev? Thanks Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
New hardware---PCI modem, G450; Adaptec 19160, etc.
I have been granted the parts to build four machines for a GNU/linux network in my classroom at Marianas High School. One of the machine is built up from rather up-to-date parts, and I'm having/anticipating some trouble getting it all to work together. I am installing Debian stable for now. This list has been helpful in the past, so I am trying here first. I posted when I was planning this network, at least two years ago. It is now an actuality. 3Com/USR 2977 PCI modem. I would like to hear from anyone who has one of these running under Debian. On the Inet is found a page describing installation on Mandrake/RedHat boxes. Precious little is found in a google or altavista search on setting this modem up on a GNU/Linux system. Matrox G450 === Will this card even run XFree86 3.X (Debian 2.2 on the CD)? I need to get it together, then upgrade. So far, the screen locks up. Where can I find good reading on this? Is the Matrox driver the way to go? Adaptec 19160 SCSI adapter == Is there something I should know? I can install Debian, but cannot boot the system from the SCSI drive. Are there some parameters for this? Thanks for any help Alan Davis Marianas High School Science Department -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
apsfilter prints multiple copies
How can I prevent apsfilter from printing multiple copies of everything? I like this filter alot. Magicfilter doesn't even come close, in being easy to use. My HP870 has been a problem I lived with for years; now I am able to get decent color printing with little pain. I never had such a problem as this. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, NMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Gimp1.1 and xsane*
When upgrading to Gimp1.1 1.1.32-1 (Woody), apt-get removes xsane-gimp1.1. However, xsane is also removed. Is there any way to get them to coexist? Right now I am alternatively installing whichever program I am using. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, NMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Re: Scanners in Debian
I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's all I had to do and this scanner was running. Oh, there were a couple of rough spots. First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support. THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX. (Why weren't they there?) Then I ran scanimage --list-devices After that, the device has been identified and detected. Almost magical, if you ask me. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
Re: Scanners in Debian
I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's all I had to do and this scanner was running. Oh, there were a couple of rough spots. First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support. THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX. (Why weren't they there?) Then I ran scanimage --list-devices After that, the device has been identified and detected. Almost magical, if you ask me. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
Re: postscript printing through magicfilter fails
I had a similar problem. I ended up compiling gs6.0 and gv (unstable system), and editing the magic filter for the postscript lines. I'm not sure I did the right thing, but with the changes I did, it worked. I tried this: change the filter in /etc/magicfilter/(whatever) for the postscript lines, with the explicit name of the printer instead of this @cdj550.upp (I used -Plp and I might have deleted quit from the end of the line. # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs @cdj550.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -s OutputFile=- - -c quit 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs @cdj550.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -s OutputFile=- - -c quit # PDF 0 %PDFfpipe /usr/bin/gs @cdj550.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -s OutputFile=- $FILE -c quit My solution may not work for you, but it worked for me. It may be completely wrong, for which I apologize for your time. (After spending my weekend working on this). Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
libc6 upgrade fails on unstable: devpts.sh error
the file /etc/init.d/devpts.sh in the new libc6 on unstable has a
syntax error that halts installation. I changed an unbalanced left
{ near the top of the file to } and the installation proceeded
fine.
make_devpts()
{
[ -d /dev/pts ] || mkdir --mode=755 /dev/pts
{
^
This bracket should be a right bracket }.
Alan Davis
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gs-aladdin 6.0 debs? rpms?
If there are no debs for the newly released gs-aladdin 6.0, would the rpms install cleanly with the help of alien? TIA Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.
finn : in kernel config did u enable support for scsi cdrom *and* vendor specific finn : extensions for scsi cdrom (99% of the scsi cdroms need this for whatever finn : reason) its in the scsi menu in kernel config. I have compiled 2.2.14 with vendor specific extensions, and all is working well. I cannot verify that this was the problem for the other two kernels. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
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SCSI detection problem
Suddenly, when I am adding hardware to the system, the SCSI CDROM is giving problems. Of late, when the kernel boots, at the point where it is detecting my SCSI CDROM, this is the message sequence I see: Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter found at PCI 9/0 Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 385 instructions downloaded Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.21/3.2.4 Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel:Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: scsi : 1 host. Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 16. Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009 Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: scsi : detected total. However, the following is what happened previously: Dec 28 09:56:39 synapse kernel: Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009 Dec 28 09:56:39 synapse kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Dec 28 09:56:39 synapse kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Dec 28 09:56:39 synapse kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom total. Can someone lend a clue? Thank you Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.
I have three kernels in my lilo configuration. The original debian 2.2.13 kernel seems to deal with this ok. The other two kernels are 2.2.13 and 2.3.35, both without sound devices, but with sound turned on, so I can install the creative sound blaster live module.The two kernels I compiled both give this strange behavior. I tried all kinds of devices, even /dev/sg0, etc. Here's the /proc/scsi/scsi information: bash-2.03$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 bash-2.03$ Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.
Recently, I shuffled some hardware on my working new Potato system; mainly, I installed an SB Live sound card (compiled Creative's source with both 2.3.35 and 2.2.13, and both worked, _nominally_). Now I am having some trouble with the SCSI CD. The kernel reports the SCSI adapter and the CD during boot up messages. But when I try mount -tios9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom or to use a cd player, nothing---this is not known to the kernel as a block device synapse:/home/adavis# mount -tiso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) synapse:/home/adavis# This is not a module. SCSI support is compiled into the kernel itself. Where can I find out the device associated with the recognized drive? What else can explain that the kernel reports the device, but it is not available to be used? Thank you for any, even the slightest, clue. I hope this is not off-topic. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
Re: mail ?
From the uuencode manpage: The following example packages up a source tree, com presses it, uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another system. When uudecode is run on the target system, the file ``src_tree.tar.Z'' will be created which may then be uncompressed and extracted into the original tree. tar cf - src_tree | compress | uuencode src_tree.tar.Z | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan Davis On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, luis wrote: how can i send by mail a file, in only one line ? mail -s ip_add [EMAIL PROTECTED] the_file Oki
Keyboard on console; and base files
On my machine the keyboard on the console is seriously deranged, so that typing an a gets a q on the screen, and so on. X11 is fine. In trying to upgrade, I am running into the base files message about /etc/inputrc, but I have deleted the messages and cannot get onto the archive since the mirrors haven't been updated. What do I have to do? I deleted /etc/inputrc---no dice, dpkg just still believes it is there. I removed the libreadlineg2 package, but when I ran apt-get upgrade again, it installed it first, leaving the same error. I also have to disable xdm. Can I do this temporarily somehow, with a config file? Thanks again for help, many times... Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son)nn.
Re: arithmetic
Have you tried teapot? It's rudimentary; outputs ok latex, not sure about ps. I'm not sure where to get it. I had problems compiling it on debian systems over the last year and a half, but my older binaries are still ok. If you cannot find the source, I may be able to get a URL for you. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son)nn.
More details: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?
One of the main problems I have with acroread is that fonts are not displaying correctly. That's the best I can make of it---two words are overlaid on each other; a whole line may only be an inch or two wide, but in letters 14 or 18 points high. I am now trying xpdf and gv also. Thanks for the several replies; the problems persist. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son)nn.
Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?
The problem seems to be with a compressed or encrypted PDF format, which xpdf and gv have failed to read. I believe there was a plugin type of package that would enable reading encrypted pdf in one of the above, but it wouldn't work for me. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?
Has anyone gotten Acrobat to work on Potato? I have often if not
always gotten a message that Acrobat on this system of mine (Potato)
cannot grok\footnote{understand} the file, because it's a
compressed(?) format .pdf.
Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood
by commonly available PDF readers? I run TeXLive, up to date, so My
Milage May VaryTM). I cannot get anywhere. I have waited for a
library chance (I have noticed with Debian over the past four years
(+) that if I wait long enough, some bugs disappear with a package
update).
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slow down blues, on the Album, _Joe Satriani_, he rocks.
acroread broken? (potato)
Having just received a very amazing CD, enjoying it on a Mac and a Windoze machine, I thought acroread would probably work with it. I get messages about compressed pdf from other pdf readers. There is some problem with graphics rendering on the potato system, and when I try to follow links, I get either a segmentation fault or some other error. When I run ldd the following happens: $ ldd /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread libreadcore.so = not found libAGM.so = not found libCoolType.so = not found libICC.so = not found libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000c000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x4004f000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4005a000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400fa000) libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40103000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40106000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x401c4000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x401cd000) $ Apparently those libaries that are not found ARE in the distribution, in acroread's directories. Can I reasonably get this thing to work right, or am I stuck until Adobe chooses to release a binary compatible with my libaries? Or what? Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
Data Aquisition Cards?
A shot in the dark. What are people using with temperature sensors, oxygen probes, etc., on linux systems? Where can I find an IEEE488 card, cheap? I have been thinking about these things for years, and I have a couple hundred bucks to buy some hardware to enhance my science classroom, but haven't a clue where to start. Apple was using the 1eee488 years ago. Why can't I find a simple, cheap PCI ieee488 card? I apologize, if (as it probably is) this is off-topic... Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
xpdf doesn't work for me---fonts
xpdf. The dpkg blurb says that xpdf uses X fonts. But xpdf needs t1lib0, which is a type 1 font rasterizer. When I installed xpdf, I can't see anything, so perhaps the type2 fonts are not working? (I have had trouble too with xtide giving empty windows. I don't understand this.) The files I want to view are from TeX. Using metafont fonts. What can I do? Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A non-viscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
runq messages
I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows: runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied I tried changing the permissions on paniclog and its directory, with no avail. I found nothing on the recent mailing list archives about paniclog. I was running runq as root. I have just now installed exim instead of smail. Does this look familiar? Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A non-viscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
gnome without sound?
I haven't got a sound card working right. Is it possible to start up gnome panel without sound, and it works? Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A non-viscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
Printing restart (lpr)
My printer is an HP DJ870. I use lpr, have not made the change to lprng. When I have a long queue, as well as perhaps for other reasons, the output stream goes garbage, perhaps skips some bytes. I have tried turning off the printer, deleting jobs, but cannot get back normal output from the printer. A single postscript file will output a stream of one or half, or less, of one line at the top of each page, like postscript has been aliased to garbage. Nothing I can do seems to make it right, unless I reboot. Is there any sequence of steps that will enable me to cleanly recover to a known state between printer and spooler? I'd rather not lose a job. Debian rocks. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A non-viscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
Mail isn't working
For me this is deja vu, all over again: I had similar problems two years ago, getting mail up. Smail doesn't seem to want to work. This system has just been brought up, using a hamm CD, and upgrading twice by apt, first to slink, then to potato. Hope that provides a clue. This is the kind of messages I am getting that are boring me to death: runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied Do these say something to any kind fellow user? I tried changing permission to the log directory, with no avail. Twice. Thanks, Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A non-viscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
Deleted menu in Wmaker
While trying out the spiffy wm configurator, I seem to have eliminated all the debian menus. How can I get back the menus? Meanwhile I have just inserted my own menu entries for the few programs I use all the time. By the way, since this little flub none of the newly installed packages has been visible as menu entries either. What did I do? Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A non-viscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
Re: Deleted menu in Wmaker
Alan == Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alan While trying out the spiffy wm configurator, I seem to have Alan eliminated all the debian menus. How can I get back the menus? right-click and insert debian menu. Beware there's a bug : when you restart wmakerconf, the debian will have disappeared, so you'll to insert it each time you edit your menus. (I've reported the bug). Alan Meanwhile I have just inserted my own menu entries for the few Alan programs I use all the time. Alan By the way, since this little flub none of the newly installed Alan packages has been visible as menu entries either. What did I Alan do? You may have to do `update-menu` as non root if you have imported the debian menu. This is because the menu is duplicated in your $HOME, and the update-menu that is run when install new packages is ran as root and only update menus in /etc. Thank you very much for your timely response to my query! However, I'm afraid something has escaped me: right-click what? I tried to right-click on the root window; nothing! Right-clicked on an xterm: nothing. Right-clicked on the configurator: nothing. Good evening, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A non-viscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
Saytime stops saying the time.
Using Potato, keeping up to date. Saytime now says, the time is and nothing more. I reinstalled, but no changes. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
PPP speeds; nice-ness
Whenever apt-get is scarfing files by ftp, it seems to take much of the bandwidth of my 33.6 modem. Fetchmail is often running very slowly, while apt may run at 2K or even 3K, according to it's own reports. This prompts me to ask, is there a concept of niceness for TCP/IP connections? How does apt arrange to have a priority, as apparently it does, and arrange to have good speeds when other processes don't? Is this all the rumblings of my imagination? Alan
US Robotics/3 Com Upgrade to v90?
I purchased a USR Sportster 33.6 about two years ago, at what now looks like a premium. I have tried several times to upgrade to v90, with results leaving a bad after taste. As I informed 3Com, at my salary, I have wasted over 2X the *considerable* cost of the modem trying to flash upgrade. I will leave out the details, but I'll just say that a credit card is required (only visa or mc, too---I don't have a credit card) and that Windoze is apparently required to run the wizard, but this may be untrue. I have now received a message from 3Com after sending email to a tech (it took three or four tries through an extremely irritating loop on their web page to find an email address), saying that as of June 1999, these flash upgrades have been discontinued. I told this guy I will never buy a 3Com product again. Has anyone worked out how to do this? (3 Com is said to now support Linux---yeah, *right*!) Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Lost directories.
In the past three weeks I have lost three directories. Just disappeared. I lost /usr/local/bin and had to start recompiling years's of work. Sure, it's my own fault, but in the several years I have been using Debian GNU/Linux, I have never had this happen. I can't believe I was doing anything even close to that directory. Then I lost /root. In the middle of a session, meaning I had to reconstruct the .bashrc and .bash_profile files. Very strange. I am sure I wasn't doing anything with /root! Today, I lost a small subdirectory, a symlink to another directory, in my home directory. In the middle of an editing session, I had to reconstruct that directory, as a symlink, and save all files I was working on in emacs. If I'd shutdown, I shudder to think what would have happened. I am fallable. However, these kinds of errors have not happened to me in many years. Suddenly, there is a rash of events. Can someone advise me whether there is something I ought to be aware of? Is this possibly a precursor of greater things to come? Hardware failure? I am worried. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
printing fails after upgrading to new potato libraries.
After upgrading to potato's new libc62.1.2 -pre libraries, printing isn't working properly. Although lpq sees nothing in the queue, the printer continues to psew out pages like broken postscript. There have been a few other minor glitches with printing, using lpr. Is this library problem? ALan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Netscape 4.6, receiving message: Your browser sent a message this server can't understand.
Is there any way I can find out which server didn't understand? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
How to find and install Gnome .debs?
I had Gnome working pretty nicely (installed using apt). I have been using apt-get to upgrade my system regularly; one upgrade broke Gnome, and I couldn't figure out which. So I have purged all Gnome packages. Are step my step instructions available somewhere for getting and installing Gnome .debs? I have these lines in /etc/apt/sources.list. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt ./ deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian potato rkrusty deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main I now note that the last line says slink; however this problem came along long before that. Is the slink gnome incompatible with potato? Thanks. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
GNOME not working anymore
I have lost gnome. It was really working well, and I like it alot. I have been upgrading weekly with apt-get, and somewhere a couple of weeks ago, gnome started losing it. FIrst, I am getting messages, /bin/sh: esd: command not found Then, soon after the panel comes up, when I try to start an application, like netscape, a bunch of messages flash past, and gnome dies: Gdk-ERROR **: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) serial 239207 error_code 3 request_code 15 minor_code 0 aborting... Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x280003a unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x2800029 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-ERROR **: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) serial 4356 error_code 3 request_code 10 minor_code 0 aborting... Any suggestions? Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Lock file and .seq problems after apt-get upgrade
I have now been unable to run apt-get update as (su) root. I receive these messages: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory /var/lib/dpkg/, are you root? - Open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) Also, I have not been able to print as a normal user, getting this message: lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/hpdj/.seq Can anyone tell me what is going on? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Re.: Lock file and .seq problems after apt-get upgrade SOLVED
This was my own problem, now solved. I found that apt-get had not finished the installations. Once I got through that, printing is also normal. I am sorry to bother anyone who tried to solve my problems. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Re: new mail not visible in mail readers
I am using smail. This behavior has not been noticed until the past few months. Even now it is not consistent. Thanks then; at least I know the general nature of the problem. Alan Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 02:50:26AM -0500, Curt Daugaard wrote: I use exim, fetchmail, and mutt, and had a similar problem. Try adding the line 'smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0' (no quotes) in the MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS section of your exim.conf file. (This solution courtesy of another reader on this list.) HTH On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:26:01PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I have been having a problem that when I fetch my mail using fetchmail, the new messages do not always appear, at least immediately. Sometimes, I have to run fetchmail a second time, then a few messages appear, and as I delete messages, new messages begin showing at the tail end of the buffer. I use mutt, but with af the mail isn't visible either. Any ideas? Could a lagging system clock cause such a problem? Alan Davsi -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please remove .NOSPAM from the above when responding) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
new mail not visible in mail readers
I have been having a problem that when I fetch my mail using fetchmail, the new messages do not always appear, at least immediately. Sometimes, I have to run fetchmail a second time, then a few messages appear, and as I delete messages, new messages begin showing at the tail end of the buffer. I use mutt, but with af the mail isn't visible either. Any ideas? Could a lagging system clock cause such a problem? Alan Davsi -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Freaky keyboard.
My keyboard started doing somthing wierd. Maybe hardware? I dunno. I am using emacs, keyboard macros with searches and moves. Suddenly, the keyboard starts acting up, trashing the file. Moved to the console, and get combinations of characters for each keypress: for l I get lo; for k ki, etc. Totally freaky. Then when I reboot, things are ok. Last night I had this problem. Then again today, after rebooting. Sorry to ask, but is this a hardware thing? Is there something in software that could do this? Alan Davis
Re: HP DeskJets
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:16:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also look at installing the gs-aladdin package from the non-free part of Debian. It has a special HP Deskjet driver compiled into it. You can specify lots of features such as print quality, color mode, paper type, etc. See the gs-hpdj man page once it is installed. You then will have to modify your print filter(use magicfilter as others have suggested) to specify the options you want. Which non-free? I know there is a gs-aladdin in /debian/project/experimental that does have the hp850 driver compiled in. I used magicfilter, but had to kludge: took a second copy of the dj550c filter and rewrote the Postscript lines with the parameters mentioned in the readme about that driver in the mentioned gs-aladdin package. The results with this filter have been far better in the past than just the dj550c filter. Contact me for a filter. I wrote separate filters (hence defined separate printers were defined) for various parameters---such as papertype. I haven't gotten to the end of it, and I certainly don't understand it all, but it works ok. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
X11 upgrade---error using xdm, Xsession?
After upgrading to potato X11, as root I can startx. But when I run xdm, and log in as a user, I get this: electra:/etc/X11# less /home/lex/.xsession-errors :16: invalid preprocessing directive name :33: invalid preprocessing directive name /etc/X11/Xsession: [: sh: binary operator expected And when I try startx as a user, also I get the same message: :16: invalid preprocessing directive name :33: invalid preprocessing directive name /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: [: sh: binary operator expected I already fixed an error in the Xsession file, having to add ;; on a line. Now what is this? Windowmaker is broken. Afterstep has been broken for a couple of weeks: a difference in config files? (I'd done some tweaks). Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
[marwin@localbar.com: Re: X woes (potato)]
This is the same message I got. I fixed this by using a former version of /etc/X11/Xsession - Forwarded message from Björn Elwhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - /etc/X11/Xsession: [: sh: binary operator expected What is wrong? That's what I want to know. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Netscape 4.5 mail server messages
This message may better be posted to another list, but I don't know what list. Anyway, I am using netscape 4.5, installed via the installer that came with the tarball.Im pretty sure this is the glibc version. I keep getting annoying messages about the mailserver, telling me to set a user name. It's not clear to me, but the default for mail server is: Outgoing mail (SMTP) server = localhost My user name is Outgoing mail server username = myname. Should the mail server be set as the ISP mailserver? Thank you, Alan Davis
XF86Setup doesn't run (windowmaker?), with error opening terminal
Having upgraded xfree to new packages on Potato, I have tried to run XF86Setup from the virtual console, xterm and rxvt. In each case, I get the message. To wit: electra:/usr/doc/xf86setup# XF86Setup Error opening terminal: linux. Error opening terminal: linux. Error opening terminal: linux. Error opening terminal: linux. or, with xterm Error opening terminal: xterm-debian or, with rxvt Error opening terminal: rxvt I see this in ~/.xsession-errors (as root): /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker fatal error: got signal 11 (Segmentation fault) /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker fatal error: a fatal error has occured, probably due to a bug. Please fill the included BUGFORM and report it. /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker warning: trying to start alternative window manager... /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker fatal error: got signal 11 (Segmentation fault) /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker fatal error: crashed while trying to do some post-crash cleanup. Aborting immediatelly. (END)
libstdc++2.9: include files not seen
My system has been updated from hamm to slink, then partly to potato. Trying to compile xtide some files, including the following, are not being seen by imake: stream.h iostream.h iomanip.h I am now going to try to upgrade totally to potato, using apt-get. What's wrong with my c++ setup? Alan Davis
mutt trashes mail
I am afraid to try mutt again. After a long hiattus, I tried mutt again after some version changes. I lost a large slug of mail. Just gone. I have just been leaving mail in the mail spoon. Mutt has a habit of trashing that file. Can anybody corroborate this behavior? Has this kind of problem been solved? I am now using af. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Re: DeskJet 870
I am writing this off the top of my head, without digging up any more specific information. If you want more information, please contact me and I will dig around in the next day or two, and perhaps even go to the trouble of getting the set up right. In the ftp archive, in project/experimental is a gs-aladdin 5.10 with a deskjet 850 driver. The deskjet 850 driver is not part of the official ghostscript distribution, but has been around awhile. I set up at one time several different virtual printers based on this filter, with various parameters such as gamma, quality, etc.. The following is from the readme with that gs-aladdin package: The driver _must_ be invoked with the following switches: gs -r600 -dBitsPerPixel=32 (see the provided cmd-files as examples) Furthermore, the driver supports the following switches: -dPapertype= 0 plain paper [default] 1 bond paper 2 special paper 3 glossy film 4 transparency film -dQuality= -1 draftno recommended 0 normal no recommended 1 presentation [dfault] -dRetStatus= 0 C-RET of 1 C-RET on[default] -dMasterGamma= 3. [deault = 1.0] __Note__: To take advantage of th calibrated color-transfer functions, be sure not to have an Gamma-Statements left! If you need to (i.e. overhed sheets), you still can use th gamma-functions, butthey will override the built-i calibration. To use gamma in the traditional way, setMasterGamma to any value greater 1.0 and less 10.0. T adjust individual gamma-vales, you have to additionlly set MasterGamma to a value greater 1.0 and less10.0 With the next release, gamma functions will be dropped. When using the driver, be aware that printing in 600dpi involves processing of large amounts of data ( 188MB !). Therefore, the driver is not what you would expect to be a fast driver ;-) It was only necessary to modify a magicfilter filter, such as one of the ones that was mentioned. Only the line with ghostscript needed to be modified; the readme files with this version of ghostscript explain all this pretty well. There is also a web page about this driver. http://bonk.ethz.ch The driver was developed by Uli Wortmann. I managed to get into contact with an HP engineer at one point. He stated that since M$ owns the code, even HP engineers using workstations do not have utilities for this printer, that they ran windows if they wanted to align the jets, clean them, or whatever. I am diappointed. It's a great printer. Separately, I think it is going to be necessary to tweak the TeX setup for metafont to get the (excellent) black and white printing worked out. I haven't had time in the year and a half I've been using the printer. Perhaps soon. The printer does black text ok, and tolerable color, using the cdj550 filter of ghostscript, but not at the printer's limits. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
af uses nvi as a viewer?
How can I change or disable the frequent startup of nvi by af, perhaps as a viewer? I am using af 2.0-4. This behavior is irritating, as I must quit vi in order to continue reading mail. This only happens on certain messages. May mailbox has many messages about files (the files displayed by nvi, I think) that I had purportedly been editing with nvi. I don't use vi/nvi. Here is the header of one such message (names have been changed...): Date:Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:01:21 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Whatever Return-Path: .. X-Sender: ... X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Length: 493 X-Af-Status: OR I removed the editor to nvi in /etc/alternatives, but no change in this behavior---it may have changed behavior while composing messages, I'm not sure. Thanks for any clue. Alan Davis
Apt rocks; Gnome rocks.
The following is a copy of email I have sent to a friend who has been working with Debian. I have expressed doubts to him many times concerning the problems I had been having with my own Debian system. I had been having trouble compiling 2.1.X kernels, and in other ways too the system was broken. I didn't have time to update/upgrade, and apt wouldn't deal with the kludged up system. Finally I have reinstalled from a 2.0 LSL CD, upgraded to up-to-date Hamm, and then straight up to Slink via apt-get dist-upgrade. Now I am selectively upgrading to some potato packages. The following is my take on the amazingly clean Debian distribution and its amazing tools. As a user of Debian for well over three years, I have been plagued by doubts. Today, I want to express my gratitude to the many Debian developers who have contributed to this system, not to mention to all of the thousands of programmers who have contributed to the extant free software base. (I over heard a local computer shop owner saying that Windows 98 upgrades are causing all kinds of problems; perhaps he was seeding his clientele with FUD, but all the same, it makes me laugh.) Thanks. (I have taken the liberty of mailing copies to debian-user and debian-devel). Alan Davis ---BEGIN MAIL TO MY FRIEND ABOUT DEBIAN-- I've been having fun with Debian since my upgrade. Apt is a FANTASTIC piece of work. Please try it. After I reinstalled from the older CD, I ran apt-get update; apt-get upgrade to bring the installation up-to-date. It took a few hours. Apt goes out over the internet to Debian's main server, and ftps the files necessary to bring the system up to date, then installs. It works well. Only a few glitches. Solvable---right now X11 is a bit fragile if you update to slink, but to update Hamm is really cool. That is the CD was Hamm, and I told apt to update Hamm to the up to date files on the FTP site, since there have been a few fixes, etc. The update went well. Then I pointed apt to the slink area on the FTP site and told it to update the distribution to slink: apt-get update-dist. 100MB of files were required. There are currently some glitches, since slink is not yet stable, so I used the -d (download only, do not install) switch to apt-get. There is discussion on the mailing list about problems with the upgrade, but I couldn't get any answers (the list is much larger, the subscriber base has apparently grown beyond imagination, and what was once one-to-one help in virtually every case is not apparently happening. Maybe people are tired of my requests too.) I finally decided, the next day (after the 100MB of files had been FTPd automatically) to give the install a try. It took a bit over an hour, I guess. X was broken. A couple packages were broken. There were some glitches with apt downloading packages I hadn't requested, and apt not following the list of wanted upgrades and holds I had carefully tried to do with dselect---it's possible that I don't yet understand how to use it all. Dselect was always out of my control. Apt is amazing though. It updates to slink, finds no inconsistencies. I had to manually get the x11 files. The problem is that there is no one-to-one mapping of hamm to slink in some packages. One hamm package is found in four or more slink files. (More of the rampant fractionalization I have detected in Debian before.) It took a couple hours to get it fixed. By the way, outside of mainstream hours, suddenly there is a radical improvement in PCI. I was getting consistent 3.3 kb/s ftp speeds. Thus the 100MB took only a relatively few hours! Once I had slink going, I pointed to potato, the newer distribution that isn't yet even frozen, so all ongoing new compiles have been going in there since October. I have used apt to upgrade specific packages from potato, such as the packages needed to compile the newest kernels. AND THEY COMPILE OK! And there is new video code in the newest kernels, including multiple matrox support. Including a whole new way of abstracting the video hardware. It works well, I think. This is pre 2.2.0 code. 2.2 will be the next stable releases, it's been way over a year and a half that 2.1 has been in limbo. I started tweaking with apt, installing some specific packages, and decided to try to install some x11 files that I saw on the FTP site, in potato. I used apt-get install packagename. Well, some package couldn't be installed, cause of unmet dependencies on some libraries. Apt get told me, and suggested I try to reinstall with the -f switch to apt-get. It worked, installed all needed packages to meet the unmet dependencies. So I tried gnome. That's the subject of this message. Gnome ROCKS. There is a Gnome application called electric eyes for browsing directories of graphics---wow. Of course the GIMP is also more than compatible, since Gnome also depends on the GNU gtk+ libraries, etc. Mc was written by the guy who I
man doesn't work (slink)---blank pages
After upgrading to slink (using apt-get dist-upgrade from hamm) man displays empty pages. Is there a font problem? Any clue? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
SOLVED: man doesn't work (slink)---blank pages]
This was caused by a broken installation of X11. Now, amazingly, at least the obvious things all work. Alan Davis After upgrading to slink (using apt-get dist-upgrade from hamm) man displays empty pages. Is there a font problem? -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Is there a hamm to slink HOWTO?
I have at last found time to reinstall hamm, and mounting the same /usr/local filesystems with few problems. My system has been out of sync for quite some time. Now I am able to compile C++ ok (wasn't able to for a while). I want to upgrade the packages necessary to compile newer kernels---can I install them from slink with no problem, or do I need to upgrade the distribution completely? Hope springs eternal... ! Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Problem installing packages that use install-info
I am having trouble installing packages that use install-info in their installation scripts. Now I have some cruft building up on my system due to the impossibility of purging or removing certain packages including now shellutils_1.26-6.3.deb. I have not been able to cleanly remove lg* packages from my system for months, and get errors involving install-info. Any suggestions? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
reinstallation of system with full complement ...
My system is pretty richly endowed with installed software, but is in need of some rejuvenation---a reinstall from scratch. Two or three possibilities have occurred to me. 1. Install a new debian right over the old one, letting the chips fall where they may. 2. Moving / into /root-old then installing 3. Installing to a partition in the upper end of a 4.2 GB drive, where I have a GB to spare, then reorganizing. The system was originally a pre-hamm system, I think, that has been upgraded quite frequently. Now, I have not had time to keep up, and a couple of apt-get upgrades seem to have left some things in inconsistent states. Ever since I built this machine, and even before, on a notebook, I have been unable (with one bizaare exception) to compile a 2.1 kernel and get a working ppp. 2.0 kernels compile perfectly. I wonder if a total upgrade will solve this. I would appreciate any suggestions on upgrading. I don't want to lose software I've compiled myself, but I want to install debian from scratch. What's the best tradeoff? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Mutt and exmh not talking?
I am losing mail. I have the following installed. ii mh 6.8.4-25 Rand mail handling system. ii mutt0.93.2-1 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME and th ii exmh2.0.2-2An X user interface for MH mail. Recently I have been losing mail. It's there in mutt. Many messages, I suspect messages I have replied to(?) are then not there in exmh. Normally, I read mail in Mutt as it comes in, then after deleting the excess, I inc into exmh. I recently upgraded mutt, but I also recently upgraded exmh, and there are some other problems with composing mail there. Are these known bugs? Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
mutt trashes mail
I upgraded mutt to v 0.93.2-1. Now all mail that has been read is deleted from my inbox. Is there a configuration issue? alan davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Termcap vs. Terminfo---Redhat vs. Debian
I found an old friend on a Red Hat CD---ephem, predecessor and sibling to xephem. It was time to try alien. Interesting. Installed the package. The binary doesn't work---termcap libraries are missing. Can I overcome this problem? (I like xephem LOTS better. My machine at school is running a monochrome VGA though.) Thanks for many answers. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
modutils --- why m68k files ?
I have been getting streams of messages as follows: Sep 26 18:40:01 mwariker modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 Sep 26 18:40:12 mwariker last message repeated 38 times The only mention of char-major-14 I have found with grep is in /etc/modutils/conf.m68k.atari I cannot find any 68k package of modutils having been installed; however, the package modutils_2.1.85-16.deb (I FTPed this file on Aug 19). Have i missed something? I cannot find that /etc/modutils/conf.i386 belongs to any deb package. Alan Davis
X is hosed
I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs in, the session crashes. Root can log in ok. Root can use startx, but a user cannot. Looks like permissions. Permissions of WHAT? I now downgraded back to the X11 packages in hamm, but the same problem persists. I still don't understand what wmaker did. I upgraded the libraries, and installed wmaker libs too. That's one of the last things I did before this happened. Thank you for any help. Alan Davis
installing current disks---old machine
I have tested the current resc1440-fast.bin rescue disk on a 386 motherboard with no hard drive.(Another garbage can PC for my classroom.)There isn't any hard drive yet in the system, but I thought I'd try to boot the rescue disk. After loading the linux kernel and uncompressing, the disk says it will now boot the kernel; however, it just tried to reboot, and goes back to square one. Is this due to lack of a hard disk, or some other problem? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #637
How is it that digest v98 #637, dated 9 July is a digest of messages from 27 June? I don't know to whom attention should be called. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~ad avis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
MCA support?
Does the upcoming distribution support Micro Channel installations? On the MCA Linux page, at http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/ is made the statement that the next debian should include MCA support. Is it? Alan Davis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
synchronizing console, xterm and rxvt using bash.
A recent blow up with new xtide version not working as I expected led to the revelation (should I have known?) that rxvt is not sourcing /etc/profile. This led to one of the environment variables being set not as usually, and the program acted like it was broken, when it wasn't (a tribute to Dave Flater: it hardly ever acts broken...). This leads me to believe that the flakiness of the x consoles I use---rxvt and xterm---and have lived with is not tolerable, in two ways: in the matter of not sourcing /etc/profile, and in the variable behavior with bash keystrokes. Ever since when, I have been bothered by that xterms and other X11 shells etc. don't really act like bash on the console. Now as ever. Although rxvt does the keys basically right, and under the right circumstances (TM) can do readline, in some debian package releases. Recently there seems to have been another change, but now I guess it's working. Xterm I cannot get to act normally in this way... Bash readline, etc., doesn't work at all. Xterm is better in some other respects. The bottom line is that these two windows, the best of the bunch as far as I last determined (some time ago), don't work the same as a console. WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO GET THESE TOOLS IN SYNC? Where is rxvt getting its variables, and what needs to be done to assure the rxvt sources /etc/profile? Alan - -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which C compiler?
I remember a few months ago, a certain compiler and C++ libraries were recommended. Since then there have been some changes. Confusingly, there sre at least two compilers and more than one C++ library in the hamm distribution. Which ones are recommended? Alan Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System.map
I accidentally ran across this one when compiling the kernel: make install This isn't documented, AFAIK. It installs the system map, and offers to run lilo or make a disk. Why isn't this documented? Did anyone anwer the question what is the system map for? I'd also like to know the answer to this question. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #344
Look at the linux laptop web site. You may be able to find it through http://www.linux.org, or you may be able to use an altavista type search. I ran two laptops---you wouldn't believe it, the T1800 and the T1850C. Both worked well, with the exception that X wasn't much use. I eventually cleansed the T1850C of Windoze, partially by an error, but never regretted it much. You shouldn't have to order a preconfigured laptop. Alan. -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
STARTING UP EMACS
If you contact me I will send some more information. I have me .emacs stuff all byte compiled. When I edit .emacs.el, the compiled file is .emacs.elc. There are two ways to have this loaded. I used to just link .emacs to .emacs.elc. That doesn't sit well with some things that emacs20 does (can't remember what) or possibly with packages that may install some lines to .emacs when installed. Now I have .emacs load .emacs.elc. There are some lines of code to place in .emacs.el so that it is automatically byte compiled whenever it is saved. I'll send it upon request. Oh, and yes there is a considerable speed up of starting up emacs. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MCA Debian questions
This is not a question of the mainstream debian distribution, but it involves a MCA debian boot disk, so perhaps this is the best place to go. It's a good one, anyway. I have just tested a debian boot disk off the MCA linux web site. It works on this machine---an IBM MOdel 65SX donated to our school by a local company, that has a scsi drive and an IBM SCSI controller. I had to use the boot parameter: linux ibmmcascsi=7 Now I am trying to install, and suddenly I realize that this isn't going to work: this disk is about a year and a half old. So my questions: -Can I just use hamm install disks now? -Is MCA now supported anyway in the mainstream new release disks? -What do I have to do, if neither one of these works. I'm pretty upbeat about this. If this works, it'll go far to lending some credibility to the concept of using linux on our Campus for serious work. Ie., networking. Coming soon: PLIP between this machine and my pentium type machine. Thank you. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape and Mozilla both choke on bookmark operations
I have a large netscape bookmark file of several hundred bookmarks. Manipulating these has become a pain. Whenever I edit bookmarks---in either Netscape 4.03 or a Mozilla package from a couple weeks ago---and try to change to sort by last access, Netscape goes berzerk. The graphics on the netscape window fail to refresh within some minutes, and both netscape and mozilla in these cases become totally unuseable. Where would one report such a bug? I'd like to find a way to manipulate bookmarks in netscape/mozilla. It is really important to me to have a large list of bookmarks and be able to readily manipulate them. Maybe I'll edit them by hand. I'd like to hear from others who have learned to deal with them. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
exim 1.90-2: eximconfig doesn't work.
I had to back out of exim 1.90-2 because the eximconfig script bombed. I don't know why, but when I installed 1.89.1-1, the script ran perfectly. This is by leaps and bounds the easiest mail transport agent I have yet to install. I don't know yet whether it works: I'm encouraged. Eximon requires some gymnastics I guess, unless one runs X as root. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
exim for intermittent ppp connection? Also fetchmail bombs out.
I'm wondering if exim can solve my problem with mail. I am having some trouble with fetchmail. I posted to this list previously, But am uncertain that my message got through. I installed sendmail, and am uncertain I have it right. Smail worked will for quite a long time. After a recent upgrade I saw some traffic on this list about needing to reconfigure smail: that was a nightmare, having taken months when I finally did get it going. Now do it again? I'm not sure I ever understood---wrong, I'm sure I never did. Sendmail is apparently working, but I'm not in command here either. Someone on the list warned that smail has been going strange places, which prompted my change: I thought it might solve my problem with fetchmail. Wrong. Fetchmail's problem --- crashing during the middle of the first message retrieval, every time, with an SMTP error because of failure to connect---still continues. I looked at exim. Can exim do queues? That is, can mail be queued and send out (like runq) at the time of ppp connection? That's critical. Exim seems to be saying it's best at managing systems that are connected full time. Leaving all those aside for a moment? Is it true about smail? Alan Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetchmail doesn't work for me either
I upgraded fetchmail, smail, and some other packages at once, and immediately begin having trouble with fetchmail. The problem is exactly as discussed by A. D. Y. Chang. I'm at a loss, with all the discussion of smail on this list. Fetchpop works ok, and with fetchpop -ar, I get a running list of the messages being scarfed off the server, which is nice. Still, I too would like to find out what's wrong w/ fetchmail. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Fvwm95 new version---is it a bug?
Is it a bug? I spent a couple of hours the other day learning how to edit the config files for fvwm95, and got some nice features working, when... Lo and behold, I found a NEW version of fvwm95 in hamm... When I installed it, it stomped on my newly edited config files. It didn't ask. The script just printed a message it was installing a new version of the config file. Is this a bug? It's AT LEAST a nit. Alan Davis -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share itMarianas High School with other people who like it AAA196, Box 10001 So that I can continue to use computersSaipan, MP 96950 without dishonor, I have decided to put Northern Mariana Islands together a sufficient body of free software GMT+10 so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free GNU ... is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it. ---Richard Stallman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Compose key? (Can a windoze keyboard be configured to...)
Can a windoze keyboard be configured, so those three extra keys can do something interesting? Like act as a compose key? a meta key? Alan Davis -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share itMarianas High School with other people who like it AAA196, Box 10001 So that I can continue to use computersSaipan, MP 96950 without dishonor, I have decided to put Northern Mariana Islands together a sufficient body of free software GMT+10 so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free GNU ... is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it. ---Richard Stallman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
umount: /cdrom: devide is busy.
This happens to me quite often: a floppy or a cd isn't being accessed, but I cannot unmount it: umount gives the error I have indicated. Is there any way to find out what process or which xterm might be accessing or sitting on a certain device? Thank you to all who have made my computing journey smoother. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School AAA196, Box 10001 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands [EMAIL PROTECTED] So that I can continue to use computers without dishonor, I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free. ---Richard Stallman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re.: Re: umount: /cdrom: devide is busy.
Thank you for the response. Perhaps I should clarify. I am using X. I have several xterms/rxvts open, and I am running several emacs frames. None of these, as far as I can tell, is connected in any way with /cdrom, neither sitting on it, nor accessing any file on the cd. I need to fing a way to find out which processes or xterms is/are causing this association to be made? This happens once in a while, that I am NOT in that directory, but I get this message, so something is going on that is not seen by me. Alan Dan Hugo writes: This will always happen if, for example, pwd /cdrom/* In other words, if you are IN the directory in question, it is busy. Happens to me all the time as well. Same with any mounts, or if you try to rmdir a directory you are in. cd /;umount /cdrom should work -dh Alan Eugene Davis wrote: This happens to me quite often: a floppy or a cd isn't being accessed, but I cannot unmount it: umount gives the error I have indicated. Is there any way to find out what process or which xterm might be accessing or sitting on a certain device? Thank you to all who have made my computing journey smoother. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School AAA196, Box 10001 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands [EMAIL PROTECTED] So that I can continue to use computers without dishonor, I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free. ---Richard Stallman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X Fonts and Emacs
Does emacs know about all the fonts available on the system? Are there other fonts around? there's a gulf of difference bwe excuse me... there's a gulf of difference between 9x15 and 10x20, but I don't see any fonts in between them. Just wondering. I apologize, as this is undoubtedly not a question for this list. If I don't get an answer, maybe I'll try a newsgroup. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DONE: Re.: Re: Emacs dumps core after some major upgrades on system
Once more. I actually did the change you indicated (to /usr/bin/emacs), in the midst of debugging this situation. It turned out, I think, that the weird messages were from an editing error I made in editing the config file, tex-site.el, for auctex, which I had been running for only one day. Now maybe it'll be ok... I'll go ahead and upgrade those libs. However, I suspect that with the new ldso, it's ok anyway. Alan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re.: RE: uuencode/uudecode?
Thanks for the pointer. Looks like I overlooked at least one package. Also, thanks for the lesson in shell syntax. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
uuencode/uudecode?
I am disappointed at the state of uuencode in recent Debian distributions. The man page for uuencode was extremely helpful in former packages---showing an explicit command line for mailing any file in uuencoded format. Where can I find that package? Or how would I do it now? The command I am trying to use is: cat FILE | tar -c - | gzip -c | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
MPEG doesn't work from any gr browser; Netscape probs.
I have installed both the ucbmpeg player and mtv player, and set up netscape for each. I have consistently not been able to view mpegs. Each time an mpeg file comes over the line, this message is displayed in a dialog box, from Netscape as well as from Mosaic: Using private color-map Bad MPEG? Giving up. Try mpeg_stat -verify to see if the stream is valid. I cannot find a command mpeg_stat. I was able to run mpeg_play from an xterm on an FTPed test mpeg. What is a private color-map? I have had other netscape proglems, such as the intermittent death by bus error and a creeping and increasing slowness over hours of time, in the responsiveness of only the netscape window to mouseclicks. A problem I had earlier has persisted, but is only an irritation: often netscape won't boot up. If I try again to start it from an xterm, it might or might not boot on a second try. In this case, a message is recieved about a lock file, but that while netscape might run, cache will not be able to be used, etc. if the lock file isn't removed. Then if I just say, ok, netscape, once again, might not, or might start. I tried 24bpp, 32bpp, 16bpp, with no difference. (Did not affect the mpeg player either). Sometimes I can get netscape to start with the -iconic switch. It's more or less random, as far as I can tell. Sometimes it will start on the third try. Once, amazingly, a netscape process was running, but wasn't showing up, when I quit X. For a split second the outline of the netscape window appeared! Another thing: when I try to access a site with a live midi background feed, netscape dies with the mysterious bus error. I haven't been able to get my Yamaha Asound (OPL3-2A) sound card configured yet for midi, but this happened before I installed a sound card at all. Sorry to ramble on so long. I think these problems are related? I would appreciate any advice. And I do appreciate the excellent advice I have received many times over this mailing list. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AUC TeX: is it safe?
There was a posting that the AUC TeX in the debian package crashes emacs. Is it now safe to install the AUC TeX on the FTP sites? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Star Office segmentation faults, and other failures
I was able to install Star Office. I was able to print a WinWord 2 document, and happily it looked much as it would originally. However, when trying the Thesaurus, and worse, when trying to convert the Winword file to any other format, a segmentation fault was experienced. There has been some discussion, somewhere, of a library problem. Does this account for these failures? There was an elaborate prescription for a cure, but I let it get by me, as the lib numbers of my mutt system may not be exactly the same as discussed. Has anyone solved these problems? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Can you give a clue how to get this realaudio for linux?
I have not seen this real audio for linux. Where and how can this be found? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Icons disappeared on fvwm2 menu, netscape doesn't display.
I recently posted that netscape 3.01 doesn't display, and I will take the advice to upgrade. Meanwhile, it occurs to me that this problem may be concurrent with a problem with fvwm2: the icons diappeared from the menu. Does this will suggest something? Meanwhile, thanks again for the advice I have been receiving regularly. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian-Lite : The Project
Possibly the need for Debian Lite would be lessened with completion of a friendly dselect or replacement for dselect, that would present some reasonable options. My biggest worry is the multiplication of packages. Perhaps it is an inevitable situation with the kind of distribution that Debian is, but I am beginning to be intimidated by the fragmentation of packages into this and that spin-off. Like *-altdev, for example. I still use dpkg, cause I don't seem to jibe with the dselect mentality---I live in fear of completely trashing my system, irrevocably, using dselect, and any other software that makes those kinds of global decisions for me. I'm never sure when I have everything turned off. I also think that it may be useful to incorporate new fields into the info file for each package, indicating more information about relationships to other packages than only conflicts and requires. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Some teTeX PrOblEms
I don't understand why latex of teTeX can't see any files I have placed into /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. Also, there seems to be no provision for placing new files in /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. If this is true, this is a major weakness. Also I am having a similar problem as with NTeX, though it might be an emacs problem: when running latex from latex-mode in emacs 19.34, if latex is restarted, core is dumped. This is something new with emacs 19.34, I think, and a nuisance. How can I get rid of this? Another teTeX problem that many people have possibly given the wrong answer for: there are no page numbers in the article style, as far as I can tell! This isn't an xdvi problem. So far, I don't see the significant benefits from using teTeX, and there have been a lot of users' complaints. TeTeX is not comprehensive, but pretty complete. I have had to add in plenty of .sty files, but that's understandable. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
sourcing /etc/profile for xterm shells?
How can I go about having the defaults from /etc/profile, or even the user's bash config file, sourced when an xterm is brought up? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
netscape wont show up on X window
Netscape 3.01 won't start. It ran fine for a week or so, then it started balking. The disk lights up for a few seconds, but the window never opens. The PID is still there, and a second effort results in a message window informing the user that there is a lock file in ~/.netscape. Previously, when this first started to happen, I could get it to work with netscape -iconic, and then click on the icon. Now, the icon doesn't even show up. I reinstalled the package, but no changes. I imagine I might have walked over some libraries. Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic
Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not show on the X screen. If I start netscape a second time, I get a message that it is already running. If I start it as netscape -iconic it establishes an icon, and I can now open. Does this ring any bells? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Saipan, CNMI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re.: Re: Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic
Thank you for your response. It is this: Netscape 3.01/export, 20-Oct-96; (c) 1995,1996 Netscape Communications Corp. Alan Brian White writes: Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not show on the X screen. If I start netscape a second time, I get a message that it is already running. If I start it as netscape -iconic it establishes an icon, and I can now open. Does this ring any bells? What version of netscape are you running? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Debian GNU/Linux! Search it at http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/simple -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
