FVWM warning eats 90% of CPU power
Hi, I have fvwm 2.2.4-2 installed on potato system. One user have a strange process FvwmCommandS running all the time and consuming all of CPU power. In the ps axf output it's process number 1833 Why is that? 1745 ?S 0:00 \_ -:0 1795 ?S 0:00 \_ sh /home/username/.xsession 1828 ?S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/ssh-agent /home/username/.xsession 1831 ?S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/X11/fvwm 1832 ?S 0:00 \_/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/2.2.4/FvwmButtons 8 5 /etc/X11/fvwm/main-menu.hook 0 8 DebianFv 1833 ?R219:32 \_/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/2.2.4/FvwmCommandS 11 8/etc/X11/fvwm/system.warnings 0 8 1836 ?S 0:00 \_/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/2.2.4/FvwmPager 11 4 /etc/X11/fvwm/post.hook 0 8 0 0 1899 ?S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/X11/xterm -ls -sb -sk -fg seagreen1 -bg grey20 -cr yellow -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] -e Thank you, Sasha.
[Solved] PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes
Hi, Just want to share my experience. Loading Linux 2.0.36 from windows (loadlin) worked for me. No crashes on hard loads (8 hours of continuous kernel copilation + gzip/gunzip of 0.5Gb file + data transfer over the net). I'm quite certain that the problem is in initialization of VIA chipset, especially it's IDE part. I read quite a few mails where people had troubles with FIC or more generally VIA chipset, it looks like there is some trick in initialization of IDE, which VIA kindly keeps in secret, and provides only in win98 patch. Just for reference things that I tried and they FAILED. BUT I must say that they helped quite a few people to solve there hardware problems. BIOS (award): Turning off CPU - PCI cache Disabling UDMA mode Forcing PIO mode0 Kernel: 2.2.13 + PCI quirks 2.2.13 + recent IDE patch (includes big routine for VIA chipset) hdparm: turning off DMA (makes Linux lifetime longer, but it would still fail) hdparm -X34 -d1 (Linux fails right away) IBM disk ATA33 utility (make disk report UDMA33 - rather than UDMA66) Hi, Noah! Thanks for your comment. I went to the closet and took old VGA card out. Unfortunately it did not help. Swapping cables, moving cards around does not help either. I can reproduce the problem if I try to move 1Gb of data from one place into another. Windoze does it, but Linux gets stuck somewhere in the beginning. Strange thing that I found a couple of messages blaming PA-2013, and people switch to Tyan, and it seemed to help, despite the fact that both motherboards carry exactly the same VIA chipset. It smells like bad motherboard. Thanks again, Sasha. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: MB: FIC PA-2013 (revision 2.0) CPU : K6-2-450 with huge fan on top of it. HD: IBM 15 Gb CD: CD-DVD Toshiba Sound : SB live (value) Video : AGP Diamond V770 TNT2 Modem : Actiontech PCI Linux : Debian Slink installation I've got many of these same components...PA2013 board, K6-II 450. The notable difference is the video board (mine is a 3dfx voodoo3). All this hardware is supported fine by Linux, with only possible exceptions being the modem (PCI modems are usually not compatible) and the video board (I'm just saying that as a disclaimer, since I don't know anything at all about it.) I am inclined to believe that you are in fact facing some kind of hardware problem that windows is able to ignore for some reason. Nothing on your hardware list should be crashing Linux if it's working properly. I would try swapping some stuff out with different, similar hardware. Try different HD cables, a different disk, a different video board. It might even be the motherboard.
Re: PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes
Hi, Noah! Thanks for your comment. I went to the closet and took old VGA card out. Unfortunately it did not help. Swapping cables, moving cards around does not help either. I can reproduce the problem if I try to move 1Gb of data from one place into another. Windoze does it, but Linux gets stuck somewhere in the beginning. Strange thing that I found a couple of messages blaming PA-2013, and people switch to Tyan, and it seemed to help, despite the fact that both motherboards carry exactly the same VIA chipset. It smells like bad motherboard. Thanks again, Sasha. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: MB: FIC PA-2013 (revision 2.0) CPU : K6-2-450 with huge fan on top of it. HD: IBM 15 Gb CD: CD-DVD Toshiba Sound : SB live (value) Video : AGP Diamond V770 TNT2 Modem : Actiontech PCI Linux : Debian Slink installation I've got many of these same components...PA2013 board, K6-II 450. The notable difference is the video board (mine is a 3dfx voodoo3). All this hardware is supported fine by Linux, with only possible exceptions being the modem (PCI modems are usually not compatible) and the video board (I'm just saying that as a disclaimer, since I don't know anything at all about it.) I am inclined to believe that you are in fact facing some kind of hardware problem that windows is able to ignore for some reason. Nothing on your hardware list should be crashing Linux if it's working properly. I would try swapping some stuff out with different, similar hardware. Try different HD cables, a different disk, a different video board. It might even be the motherboard. You might also want to try running your hard drive on your secondary IDE controller, and disabling the primary controller in the BIOS. It could be that one of the controllers is bad but the other is OK. I had to RMA my PA2013 after experiencing some strange crashes in Linux. Disk IO would stop working completely. If i left procmeter running, I could try to run a program and watch the system load increment by one with each new process I tried to start. The only way out of this state was to reboot. I still don't know what caused it, but replacing the motherboard fixed the problem... Hope this helps you. noah PGP Public Key available at http://www.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOFVZQIdCcpBjGWoFAQHL1wP/XLAX4G35bYLZ5ffr9hUBL1EDdLTQx2Ni Mt+gTeZgxBOCvCBYB8DE9qt9DRr33y3usNKUsdHyFmEeCJSL3DVh0kroQS6UWWwt T9+DPsxaclCLZCBQEDjG788fGm4rgOcrG1AtL0/55EBGNsP2FUNzziSxnfmE6TvH dehk6BeIrQ4= =c6kU -END PGP SIGNATURE-
PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes
Hi, I have trouble making Linux run smoothly on my new computer, components are: MB: FIC PA-2013 (revision 2.0) CPU : K6-2-450 with huge fan on top of it. HD: IBM 15 Gb CD: CD-DVD Toshiba Sound : SB live (value) Video : AGP Diamond V770 TNT2 Modem : Actiontech PCI Linux : Debian Slink installation I installed both Linux and Win98 on it. I hate to admit it, but Linux crashes and Win98 runs flawlessly for hours and hours (till kids stop chasing monsters and go to bed ...), which make me think that hardware is OK, though I'm not sure how good Windoze argument is. With Linux I'm getting in all sorts of troubles. System locks usually few minutes after the reboot, and usually in IDE I/O operation. Actually it freezes very often when you run fsck or in the middle of dselect or at boot time when it checks local partitions. Things that I tried: memory test - ran many times OK kernel compilation - no problem Turn in BIOS IDE into PIO mode 0 - does not help No CPU to PCI bursts (in BIOS) - does not help new kernel 2.2.13- does not help No DMA in 2.2.13 (using hdparm) - does not help IDE VIA patch to 2.2.13 - does not help I pretty much ran out of ideas, so if someone have close configuration and can comment on that I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you, Sasha.
Re: dselect still not working
Hi, I have similar problem. Fixed by manual installation of debconf. Worked fine after that. Hope that helps, Sasha. UGH! dselect still is messing up. I don't see any packages that are suspect, it gives basically no other information. Configuring packages ... /tmp/fileiCcdVa: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
SQL database editor?
Hi, I have MySQL database and sometimes need to modify few entries there. So far I was doing it using SQL language, which is not very convenient in this situation. Is there simple SQL database editor to do that? Thank you, Sasha.
270Mb xdm.log file and keeps growing :(
Hi, Just noticed that my xdm.log file is filled with lines like: X internal error: trying to rotate odd-sized pixmap. and the file is already about 270 Mb and it's keep growing :( This problem was mentioned on this list (may 1999): http://debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9905/msg00162.html Unfortunately it seems there were no solution mentioned. Any ideas? Sasha.
lossless repartition of NTFS
Hi, There is an NT computer with 3Gb NTFS single partition. We want to chop out of it a piece for Linux partition. Is there a tool/procedure (fips cn not do that) that will manage to do that? NTFS disk is only 0.5 Gb full. Thanks, Sasha.
Re: tetex-nonfree -- Potato -- foils.cls is gone?
Hi, Thanks for you comment, I reported a bug. Sasha. Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I used to prepare transparencies with foils.cls. Apparently it's gone from potato release of tetex-nonfree. It worked fine on my slink computer. Should I report a bug or am I missing something? I can╢t find anything in the changelog in /usr/doc/tetex-nonfree. Maybe you should ask at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or report a bug. Jens P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ (Sorry Europeans only) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
tetex-nonfree -- Potato -- foils.cls is gone?
Hi, I used to prepare transparencies with foils.cls. Apparently it's gone from potato release of tetex-nonfree. It worked fine on my slink computer. Should I report a bug or am I missing something? Thanks, Sasha.
Solved: Where did my disk space go?
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 02:31:56AM +, kpanic wrote: Hi, You are absoultely right, file was ~/.gimp/gimpswap.455 Thank you Sasha. hi alexander, I got a strange problem. I was running gimp processing quite big image, at some point I got impatient and killed the program. To manipulate with image GIMP has quite big buffers allocated on hard drive and now all that space is gone. I have experienced similar problems. For me it was a 'gimp swap file' located in ~/.gimp dir that was filling up 50 megs of disk space. I think that swap file is where gimp stores all changes to the images and it's size varies accordingly to the undo level you've set. sorry for my poor english, hope it helps. -- The software said it required Windows 3.1 or better, so I installed Linux.
Where did my disk space go?
Hi, I got a strange problem. I was running gimp processing quite big image, at some point I got impatient and killed the program. To manipulate with image GIMP has quite big buffers allocated on hard drive and now all that space is gone. Effectively du reports that my home area occupies 150 Mb of space, but if I sum up different files I can find only 20Mb of space. So 130 Mb are assigned to something which I can not find. Running e2fsck -f does not help. Any ideas? Thank you, Sasha. == How does it look like: kushnir cd ~ kushnir du -sk . 151081 . kushnir du -sk * | sort -nr | head 11447 charm 4774speakerphone 1811pascal 703 Mail 334 hehe 292 request.xcf 290 passport 96 request1.ps.gz 76 request.ps.save 76 request.ps
Totally OFFTOPIC: tournament scheduler program
Hi, Sorry to bug you with this, it is totally off topic. I'm looking for Linux program to build a basketball tournament schedule, several rounds, so that teams would have same number of back-to-back games, with different opponents in different rounds etc. With number of teams greater than 10 it's getting really hard to trace all possible conflicts. Sasha.
environment variables when X starts
Hi, I bet this question was answered many times, sorry to bug you again... Usual situation when I start program using fvwm2 menu or some button, then not all environment variables are set ($PRINTER in particular). I usually define environment for all users in /etc/profile and for xterm fix the situation using: XTerm*VT100.loginShell: true Well it fixes situation for xterm but not for netscape or xwp In Xsession I read that /etc/environment is sourced once X is launched. Well this file is missing in standard Debian installation :( Question: 1. How common to all users environment variables are supposed to be set in X? 2. Is ln -s /etc/profile /etc/environment a good idea to solve this problem? Thank you, Sasha.
Re: OPL3SAx sound card
Hi Has anyone been able to get this card to work? I've tried every combination in the kernel and the best I've gotten is a series of four tones, each at a higher frequency than the last. If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. TIA Jim Starr Hi, I have such card with 2.0.34, made it work only using loadlin - first I initialize it in DOS, after that boot linux. Sasha.
Plextor PX-412C ? (was: what cd-writer ?)
Hi, We are also looking for a good SCSI CDR to buy for our university group. We plan to redistribute experimental data on CDs, so we may burn few CDs a day occasionally. After reading net we decided to go with something like: Plextor PX-412C, or Sony 948S, or Yamaha CRW 4260 Are they good? Would you prefer one to another? Will Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card be enough for them? External vs Internal? Some people say that overheating is a problem and external is a better choice. Thanks, Sasha.
Re: nVidia TNT help!!
Hi, Ian! I don't really have any good advice for you, other than keep trying. You may try download different Xserver binary from ftp.suse.com (unless they are all gone after X3.3.3 release). Try to make your card work in normal VGA 640x480 mode. Of course it's not usable but it'll give you some relief. I still have xnvidia-980118.tgz from earlier days and I made Viper 330 work with it. Would you be interested in this file? I can put it on the Web for you. Do you have Diamond Viper 550? I think you have to succeed then, but I never installed this card by myself. Or is it just some card with Nvidia chipset? Then read documentation coming with Xserver, your card may not be supported :( Recently I tried to install some video card (one of those cards in white box without any indication which company actually produced it), which had Nvidia chipset in it, did not work for me. I have tried and tried to get this Riva TNT video card up but I cannot. what I've done: 1) D/L'ed the binary XF86_SVGA server version 3.3.3 and put it in /usr/bin/X11/. (I was using this server with the S3V card earlier today.) That a right location. 2) Configured my xf86config (3.3.2) for the Riva128 (Diamond Viper330 although mine is a 550) because the thread in -user earlier said to do this. I did not select a RAMDAC or use a clocks line. I think you are right about RAMDAC and clock line. When I run startx the screen goes blank, as if the server is running but not displaying anything. If I do a Ctrl-Alt-Bksp the server dies and I get my console back. There may be some error message when you run startx, look for it it can give you a clue. Sasha.
Re: Loadlin is my only way out!!!
Hi, Nathan! Am I right that you would like to install Debian on your harddrive using loadlin? Details of that are in chapter installing from hard disk Debian Installation manual. Worked for me all the time. I even prefer it to diskette installation. Greets, I have given up installing Debian with the installation program because for some reason it doesn't think I have a hard drive. Hm-m-m once I made a real dumb mistake, forgot to include ext2 support in my kernel, and surprise-surprise could no longer boot my computer. Well it should not be the case if you use kernel from installation diskettes. Just a thought. Anyway, I've gotten it to run the Linux kernal with the program loadlin but I don't have a root file system binary to use with it... except the installation root.bin but as I stated above I can't get it to install by means of the installation program. So does anyone know where I could get the basic root file system binaries? Thanks in advance! Sasha.
Re: Installation
Hi, Sam! I believe one of 3 CD's you got is Debian Installtion disk. Put it in drive, make your computer bootable from CD first and reboot. Computer should reboot and nice line like Linux should show up. After that there will be menu's with build in help (have installation manual handy) and other goodies. You should be able to get though. BUT try to understand what you are doing, as you already have WIN95 installed. Don't remove it accidently (Not a big loss in my mind though ;). I would actually physically unplug Win95 Hard drive and then you have ONLY empty 1.2 Gb disk to play with. If you do wrong something you can always start over. Yes, and you should know something about Linux (Unix). Good luck, Sasha. I bought the second edition of The Debian Linux Users Guide. There are 3 CDs included. I have a FIC VA503+ with Win95 b installed on the first partition of an 8 gig drive. I have a second 1.2 gig drive I setup with a 1 gig Linux partition and a 100K swap partition with Partition Magic. Reading the Debian manual is confusing. It talks about a lot of floppy disks. It sounds like the days of when windows came on 28 floppys. Isn't there something that says like Put CD in drive. Type setup and follow instructions. Most all of the messages on the list have very cryptic commands in them that look like Greek to me, so I am afraid I won't know what to type when the CD starts processing. Where does one find what all the commands mean? There is no Glossary in the manual. HELP! TIA SAM -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
day planner/scheduler program
Hi, I'm looking for a simple program (like plan) that would send me reminders about meetings and things like that (paying apartment rent in time turns out to be quite challenging for me). I was using plan, but it's daemon can spontaneously stop working without no apparent reason. So I'm about to give up on it. Another nice feature would be ability to handle computer shutdowns, so that program figures some message was not send because of the shutdown and sends it later once rebooted. Any recommendations? Thanks, Sasha.
Re: day planner/scheduler program
Hi, Noah! Thanks for the comments! I was using plan, but it's daemon can spontaneously stop working without no apparent reason. So I'm about to give up on it. I use plan occasionally, and haven't ever noticed the daemon stop working. Are you talking about the system wide netplan daemon, or the single user pland? In either case, you could very easily write script to run from cron that does a ps -x, greps the output for the string pland (or netplan), and starts the daemon if it is not running. I run plan in sigle-user environment. It happens usually in the following way: I login, start plan, before going home start xlock, next day plan may or may not work. It's still running I can see it with ps, but no messages pops-up on my screen. I did not find any particular pattern in that phenomena. It can stop working in the same day without interference with xlock. Sasha.
Re: resolv.conf problems
Hi, Daniel! It's indeed is a strange problem. You may try a few things: 1. One you boot, can you ping computer on the same local network, just using it's numerical IP address? 2. Can you ping computer outside of your local network using it's numerical IP address? 3. Can you ping DNS server using it's numerical IP address? This way you can check that your network card is initialized and your gateways and local network are configured right. My thought here (likely to be wrong) is that it could be the case that somehow your /etc/inet.d/network is called before your network hardware is actually initialized. Have a look in boot messages. Sasha. I mistyped my DNS ip address when setting up networking here. I fixed resolv.conf to reflect the actual ip. Here's the problem: after a boot, names don't resolve. If I su to root and take down the network and restart it (via /etc/inet.d/network down, then /etc/inet.d/network up) then it works. Does someone know how to fix this? I do not want to do the poor mickey mouse solution of adding those 2 commands to some startup script; I'd rather understand what's going on in my system. Thanks
Re: Lyx with typein
This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, it does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite limited also.But more importantly thing that worries me is that there seems to be very little support behind LyX, project looks dying to me. Please, please tell me that I am wrong, after all I would love good interface around TeX. dying It's very close to releasing 1.0, and the volume on the developer's list is at the highest level in the three years or so that I've been following it. The current release is 1.0pre6. Point well taken. I based my opinions on LyX 0.12, (which was in hamm and slink). I'm glad to hear that there is a lot of progress there, hope to see them propagating to debian eventually. Sasha. Sasha.
Re: Disk maintenance
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:49:11PM +, Christian Lavoie wrote: I've got a single ext2fs partition, so it is the root partition. That's the one I need to defrag/scan, so even having it mounted as read only won't help. (At least for the defrag) So as far as I can tell I need either: - A win95/dos based tool to defragment a linux partition (yeah right) - A floppy (or CD-ROM) based dist that won't access my HD at all. (And has the adequate tools) - Another computer with linux installed. (Forget it) - A way to boot without any root partition. But then, how does UNIX administrator were dealing with such issues? How can one scan and/or defrag a ext2fs? If you have fat16 partition (DOS) and loadlin, then you can boot linux on RAM disk (like you boot it while installing Linux 1-st time on your computer). fat16 disk will be seen, so you can put there all necessary utilities. Sasha.
Re: Learning more/Linux programming books
Hi, Kent! read? What computer languages do I need to learn? In general if someone could point the direction. You've heard quite a few recommendations about C. And I agree with that. But I think Pascal is somewhat easier language to start with. It's based on my teaching experience of people who had absolutely no programming experience. IMHO taking C next will be less painful. You know, you can almost read Pascal program like a sentences from the book (well to a certain extent of course), it's less likely with C. Turbo Pascal is very good programming environment, especially build-in help. (I still use Turbo Pascal 6 for DOS). Free Pascal is a Linux version which is very close to Turbo Pascal as a compiler. http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus/fpc/ And don't write window manager. Write some fun games where bad guys are chasing you on the screen. You'll learn a lot. Sasha.
Re: hosts.allow - words of wisdom?
Hi, Carey! Thanks for your detailed answers, [snip] DNS names and DNS servers being down, so, for example, I have a line: ALL : 127.0.0.1 192.168.117. : ALLOW Good point, I switched to them. [snip] I'm actually using the IP firewall code in Linux 2.2.0-pre5 to provide most of the protection to my system. My ipchains rules are as follows (actually saved in /etc/ipchains.save and read by ipchains-restore in /etc/init.d/network). Interesting, that's quite a new thought to me. I'm not a security expert at all of course. Do you have any web references or other relevant documents telling pro and cons of this technique, as opposed to TCP wrapper? [snip] Thanks, Sasha.
Re: Getting a list of attached devices
All : I am trying to determine the name assigned to my CDROM drive so that I can mount it. Anyone have a suggestion ? BRGDS Mike Rae How about /cdrom? I think it comes as an official place for it in Debian. So this directory should actually exist on your Debian box. Sasha.
Re: Lyx with typein
Okay, everybody says lyx is great, but for the darnest, I can't get it to work with latex's \typein. Hi, This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, it does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite limited also.But more importantly thing that worries me is that there seems to be very little support behind LyX, project looks dying to me. Please, please tell me that I am wrong, after all I would love good interface around TeX. I use Xemacs AucTeX Sasha.
Re: version control systems
Hi, Summary: can anyone recommend a good multi-user version control system with Windows and Unix support, that runs in an acceptable time on a WAN, which supports binary files? cvs almost fits the bill, but I need to store Delphi source files in it, I use CVS at work to manage several projects. It *is* capable of storing binary files--use the -kb option to cvs add. My only gripe with it is that it doesn't restore timestamps correctly. I think doesn't restore timestamps correctly is a little bit too strong, but I agree that timestamps are painful. Just my 2 cents: Tag your code (cvs tag tag_name) reasonably often (for example once you code is working - tag it). We maintain about 200k lines code with about 20 developers and this technique proved to be quite helpful. I also find time stamps much less convenient than tags. (You have to scratch your head trying to remember when was the last time your code was actually running). Good luck, Sasha.
Re: Search and Replace
Hi,
Yes there are quite a few ways to do that, another example:
GLOBAL REPLACE in the files:
awk '{gsub(call, mall, $0); print FILENAME}' *.kumac
change call to mall in all *.kumac files
Word of CAUTION: If you process really big files you may run into trouble,
that only part of your file will be processed. Above procedure has a limit
about 32K lines, rest of your file will be lost! (that was my IRIX gawk
experience) I think sed is better, but it may have limit too. Better check.
Sasha.
sed was made for that. there are lots of other tools
that are more programming-oriented (awk, perl, python...);
sed is simple and a bit cryptic but good to get to know.
John Greer wrote:
I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a
shot anyway. I need to search a series of files for a text string
(grep I know) and then I need to replace that string with another. Is
there a command or string of commands that I can do this in? If
this is possible it will make my life much easier!! Thanks
John
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Re: XDM
Hi, My last question/issue/problem is I didn't answer yes to making XDM the default logon prompt, therefore one must sign onto the box in text mode, then type XDM then sign on again. The first signon must be root. Is there anyway of changing this as to make the box ALWAYS come up with XDM as the default logon ? Go to /etc/X11/config and uncomment the last line that says #start-xdm Assuming that you have hamm installed. It's not the case in slink. Sasha.
Re: how to reinstall all? Alias: how to dup. an installation ?
Hi, Paolo! Q. Is it possible to copy an installation from a PC to another? A. Yes (of course :-) Q. HOW ??? A. ... Here what we do to synchronise 4 Linux boxes: 1. Pick one to be your master. 2. set all lovely products that you want on it 3. Run dpkg --get-selections packages.list on that mode 4. Redistribute this file packages.list on all other nodes 5. Run cat packages.list | dpkg --set-selections on each node 6. On each node run dselect and hit Install All steps except 6 could be done in some smart script. Use ONLY SSH for copying and remote commands. (There are quite a few hot heads on the Internet these days). Unfortunately dselect requires that you answer certain questions, so the last step I repeat on each node. Perhaps there is a way to automate even that, but I don't know how. Ciao, I want to format my HD and reinstall all the system, but I don't want to forget the list of installed packages (or reinstall them by hand...). Well, I'll give you an answer on somewhat different question, but perhaps it could be of some use. A friend of mind just lost his slink system to crackers and wanted to reinstall slink starting from hamm CDROM. Here are steps that I would recommend. -1. SAVE ALL /etc /home and other importand directories. 0. Prepare your old list of packages: dpkg --get-selections packages.list 1. Install BASIC (25 Mb) installation from HAMM from CDROM 2. You want APT. Manually install packages in the following order: dpkg -i libc6_2.0.7u-4.deb dpkg -i libstdc++2.9_2.91.57-5.deb dpkg -i apt_0.1.7.deb You can get them (actually later versions now from slink) 3. Set new /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian slink main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/linux/debian-non-US unstable non-US 4. Run dselect, update install to update your Base system 5. Take packages.list from your original setup 6. Run cat packages.list | dpkg --set-selections 7. Run dselect and hit Install (you can glance thru select as well) Hope that helps, Sasha.
Solved: [Offtopic] SSH X problems.
Hi, Hamish! You are actually right. It turned out that that particular user filled all his disk quota and .Xauthority was not created right. Well, all kinds of strange errors happens when you out of quota :) Sasha. On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:20:33PM -0600, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, One user on our computer can not start X windows one's she uses SSH to login. Message is like: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication at Mon Jan 4 14:10:40 1999. a Rejected connection at Mon Jan 4 14:10:40 1999: X11 connection from pc781b.fnal.gov port 1171 X connection to pc781b:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Other users are running happily. Any ideas what should one check? Maybe you could try deleting the .Xauthority file while the user is not logged in. I don't know what the problem is though so this is all I can suggest. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: talk problems
Hi, Zoro! I'm not sure, but you may want to check: 1. Do you have lines in /etc/inetd.conf like: talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.talkd ntalk dgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd 2. /etc/services talk517/udp ntalk 518/udp 3. /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny may be you have suppressed those services? Sasha. Hi everyone, I just noticed that talk does not work and gives the following error Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99). Any ideas what happened and how to fix it? Thanks in advance, ZORO Take these broken wings and learn to fly... ///|\\\ 0 0 ( . )http://pages.nyu.edu/~rqf6512 - | | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mailing list archive search
Hi, I think you are right. Here what happens IMHO. There is a 25 messages limitation. If you search (for example notebook) you'll get ONLY messages for October (about 18 messages). In total there are about 33 notebook messages from October to December. One may expect 7 Notebook messages from November to to add to 25, but it does not happen. Quick solution: Set limit to 100 messages Good solution: Please let the responsible person know. Sasha. Hello, Did you ever notice when doing a mailing list archive search from the Debian web site, that when you select to search from Oct to Dec 1998, all the matches come up from Oct , skipping, apparently Nov and Dec completely? Or is it just me? -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL/IM: jim foltz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
hosts.allow - words of wisdom?
Hi, We try to set mostly closed system for Debian slink boxes that operate primarily as X-terminals. So it has in hosts.deny ALL:ALL Here what I set in hosts.allow: # ALL : localhost in.telnetd : .our.network : allow sshd: .our.network : allow in.ftpd : .our.network : allow in.smtpd: ALL : user mail.mail : allow portmap : .our.network : allow # # everything else is denied in /etc/hosts.deny Questions: 1. Does it have some striking errors? I bet I forgot some service... 2. We run xntp3 to set time, but we don't want to be an NTP server. Do one need to allow some ntp service (NTP protocol is quite sophisticated :( Thanks, Sasha.
Re: hosts.allow - words of wisdom?
Hi, Thanks for the comments, But would wrapping Apache do any good? AFAIK wrapping works only when daemon starts and Apache is sort of always on? Sasha. On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:39:30PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: Questions: 1. Does it have some striking errors? I bet I forgot some service... Looks sane. Be aware that hosts.allow only covers inetd started daemons. So if you run apache as a stand alone daemon you have to config it separately. That's not necessarily true. A lot of standalone daemons are, or can be, compiled with libwrap so as to have this functionality built-in. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation
Re: X 3.3.3 (which files to use)
On 07-Jan-99 David Welton wrote: As there is no official .deb of 3.3.3, and the recommendation is to replace the files, I'd like to know what exactly to replace, so as to create the least amount of confusion on my system (after all, I run Debian so as not to have to futz with stuff like this...:-). I have a matrox g100, which ought to use the SVGA server, if I'm not mistaken. All you NEED is the actual xserver-svga. Place it in /usr/local or overwrite the Debian version and then add it to /etc/Xserver. Second here. I actually took XFCom_Matrox.tar.gz from ftp.suse.com ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/XSuSE/xmatrox/xmatrox.tgz It contains only binary + little readme. Then I placed binary XFCom_Matrox in /usr/bin/X11/XFCom_Matrox and modified /etc/X11/Xserver. You may have backspace problem Then create a symbolic link: ln -s /var/lib/kbd/ /var/X11R6/xkb/compiled Sasha. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Background(color)
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:16:05AM +0100, CUNO wrote: Hello, Can I change the background(color) of the xdm login screen. I think you can pretty much do whatever the hell you want to xdm. Swiped from #e on efnet: marjaana Info on configuring xdm - http://torment.ntr.net/xdm/ marjaana http://torment.ntr.net/xdm/gallery There is a little problem (at least for me) our DNS server does not recognise torment.ntr.net Does this page moved somewhere else? Sasha.
Re: Toshiba Kernel Compile
Hi, Mike! You may need to compile zImage, rather than bzImage. It's one of options in 'make-kpkg'. Check email from Manoj: http://debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9812/msg00364.html Does anybody know where I can get the .config for the toshiba kernel that is on the debian 2.0 cd? I need to know what options to compile in to keep this toshiba 220cds from going into a kernel reboot cycle. --- Mike Deal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.zonenet.net / www.northwestextreme.com The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: supported hardware
Dear sir, I just bought two distributions of Linux ( SuSe and Redhat) they bought don't support my hardware. I would like to check if debian can help me out. If so I will be happy to download the distribution or buy it from a reseller. Distribution is somewhat irrelevant in this question. Though I certainly would recommend Debian. VideoCard is a Diamon Fire GL 1000 PRO ( permedia 2 chipset) on agp Mouse is a intellimouse ( on PS/2) CD-rom is atapi HD is a WDC caviar on extended IDE ALL of your hardware is perfectly compatible with Linux and also with X. First make it all work in vt100-like mode (no X just ascii terminal). I like basic installation (about 25Mb) in Debian 2.0. After that start to setup X. Your X server is relatively new ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.3/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers/X3DL. tgz thanks Frits Bonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: supported hardware
Hi, Frits! Dear sir, I just bought two distributions of Linux ( SuSe and Redhat) they bought don't support my hardware. I would like to check if debian can help me out. If so I will be happy to download the distribution or buy it from a reseller. Distribution is somewhat irrelevant in this question. Though I certainly would recommend Debian. VideoCard is a Diamon Fire GL 1000 PRO ( permedia 2 chipset) on agp Mouse is a intellimouse ( on PS/2) CD-rom is atapi HD is a WDC caviar on extended IDE ALL of your hardware is perfectly compatible with Linux and also with X. First make it all work in vt100-like mode (no X just ascii terminal). I like basic installation (about 25Mb) in Debian 2.0. After that start to setup X. Your X server is relatively new: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.3/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers/X3DL. tgz If you are serious about Debian I would recommend Slink (debian 2.1) thanks Frits Bonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have fun, Sasha.
[Offtopic] SSH X problems.
Hi, One user on our computer can not start X windows one's she uses SSH to login. Message is like: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication at Mon Jan 4 14:10:40 1999. a Rejected connection at Mon Jan 4 14:10:40 1999: X11 connection from pc781b.fnal.gov port 1171 X connection to pc781b:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Other users are running happily. Any ideas what should one check? Thanks, Sasha.
Re: xbase XFree86 bug 24985 ?
Hi, Michael! I am having problems with xbase. Would you help? When it tried to /usr/sbin/xbase-configure (XFree86 config file), it said to press Enter to switch to graphics mode. I did. The screen came You may want to try xf86config to set XF86Config. This is ascii mode program it'll ask you about relevant hardware (video, monitor, mouse), so be prepared to answer them. Hope that helps, Sasha.
Re: upgrade to slink
Hi, Ralph! I'm sorry for such a long delay in answering, Holidays really took over me. Briefly I don't know what your problem is. I tried your /etc/apt/sources.list, it works for me just fine. E: Line 8974 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp1.us.debian.org_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages May be it's worth trying to remove that file (or better moving it to some safe place), and start over. It won't do any harm for your system, I just tried it on my computer, after Update it'll get another file for you from official site. It looks like it's structure is corrupted /var/state/apt/lists/ftp1.us.debian.org_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Pac kages Well, that's the only bright idea that I got. Sasha. This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --82107DDBF4FA925F2C251110 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, Ralph! Could you please specify more details: when it happens? Immediately after Updating package file cache message Did you succeed in installation of APT? I've been using the apt method of dselect for Hamm for months. Which version of APT are you running? Not sure - apt-get --version says E: Unknown option --version Did you select it in you access method? Yes Could you please include your /etc/apt/sources.list file? OK. Thanks, Sasha. Thank you, Sasha deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US When I try this I get: E: Line 8974 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp1.us.debian.org_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages is too long. Whay's up with that? -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members. --82107DDBF4FA925F2C251110 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=sources.list Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename=sources.list deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US --82107DDBF4FA925F2C251110--
Re: can't run editor when su... why?
Hi, Jesse! Unless you really want to use xauth, you may want to use slogin instead, which is more secure and will do the job. Example: slogin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mycomputer# xemacs Will work just fine. Sasha. Hi, folks Thanks for the info... so far, the method (for root) described below from TA seems to be the simplest. Now, is there a way to automate this? I tried adding the follwing lines to root's .bashrc: XAUTHORITY=./.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0.0 export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY
Re: Matrox Xserver on Debian
Hi, Installing RPM package sometimes is not working quite well. (Different libc library warnings, whatever...) You can get directly XFCom_Matrox.tar.gz from ftp.suse.com (NOTE not from Web page, they don't have links there). After that you just extract 1 binary XFCom_Matrox and you are all set. BTW. If you take server from suse, you'll need to create sym link: ln -s /var/lib/kbd/ /var/X11R6/xkb/compiled to make your keyboard work right (backspace). That's what I did for Matrox Millenium G200. Sasha. On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Sean M Hollingsworth wrote: I am (hopefully) putting a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP in my linux box next month. I know that S.u.S.E has an Xserver for this card, but I can only find tarballs and RPMs for it. I now have two questions: 1) Is there a deb of the Matrox Xserver? I think no 2) In the event I can't find a deb, would installing the xserver from a tarball or an RPM cause any problems with compatibility? Say with updates, other libs, etc... I have installed it from .rpm through alie, I neede to save the configutration file XF86Config in root's home and then move it to its default location. Also I made X to be a simbolic link to Matrx server. It is working fine for me (on 3 machines). If I don't fail there will be supported for Millennium G200 in svga server in Xfree86 3.3.3 It may be an option for you to wait until then. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: upgrade to slink
Hi, Brian! APT is quite useful for package installation. I would recommend to install it by hand. Get apt, libc6, libstdc++2.9 from slink for example. Install them with dpkg -i (first libc6, after that libstdc++ after that apt). Now you have apt. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to select slink. Choose APT in dselect. You are all set for massive upgrade. Good luck. lines in /etc/apt/sources.list you may want to include deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US Sasha. I'm currently running debian 2.0.34 (hamm) and would like to upgrade to slink. How do I do this? I have seen the apt files in the /dists/slink/main/upgrade-i386 section, but am not sure what to do with them. Can someone help? Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Moving partition
Hi, just a comment On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:49:46AM +0100, root wrote: I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr. In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new one while ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ? Symbolic links are just names of files. If the path of the destination stays the same (/usr is still /usr, even though the mount table is different) you shouldn't have problems just using cp. But I haven't done this before in truth. I'm not sure about that. If I got it right plain cp will copy the file, it will not create a symobolic link. So your symbolic link structure will be ruined. tar on the other hand preserves it. Sasha.
Re: upgrade to slink
Hi, Ralph! Could you please specify more details: when it happens? Did you succeed in installation of APT? Which version of APT are you running? Did you select it in you access method? Could you please include your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Thanks, Sasha. deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US When I try this I get: E: Line 8974 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp1.us.debian.org_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages is too long. Whay's up with that?
Re: afbackup: comments and problems.
Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WHAT DOES NOT WORK: Centralised process, no clashes, but afbackup = afclient = Does not work. Briefly it's a specail type of installation (remote client) of afbackup-client that is missing in slink. Please correct me if I'm wrong here. You talk about the /usr/lib/afbackup/rexec directory? According to this entry in the HOWTO... file: ... This starts an incremental backup on the supplied host. Each program on the remote host lying in the directory configured as Program-Directory in the configuration file of the serverside installation part of the remote host (default: $BASEDIR/server/rexec) can be started, but no other. The entries may be symlinks, but they must have the same filename like the programs, they point to. ... I would assume that these files should be part of afbackup (server part). But there are bundled in the afbackup-client package. Do you report this as a bug or should I? Hm-m-m... I think it's not a bug. The program in $BASEDIR/server/rexec are full_backup and incr_backup. You want them to be in client, as you run them as client. Server start them remotely, but it start it on client. The issue here is that this third type of installation, may indeed need special afbackup-remote-client.deb package. For example you need then line for afbackupd in /etc/inetd in your afbackup-client package to be set (Server will knock in the door of client to ask permission to run full_backup) and a bunch of executables. BTW Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] (author of the original program) confirmed my thoughts about this installation. Perhaps debian maintainer decided to implement one version of afbackup, which seems most natural to him. That's OK, after all deb packages are working perfectly, in the configuration when each client is running full_backup. Anyway it's a minor problem I think. After all afbackup is an excellent program and deb package. Sasha.
Printing on network printer with my own banner.
Hi, I know how to print on remote network printer using remote host and so on. One annoying thing there is that the banner page that remote host is providing is printed with very little fonts. There are like 40 people who use that network printer, and you have to search though sometimes quite large pile of paper looking for your name printed in very little letters somewhere in the corner of page, also sometimes someone will accidently grab your output... QUESTION. Can I setup /etc/printcap or something else so that my printouts would have distinguished banner page with BIG BIG LETTERS on it, that will replace official banner (I don't want 2 banners too...)? Or I just stuck with what printer host is providing. Thanks, Sasha.
Re: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery ?
Hi, Shaul! I don't seem to have /etc/nmh/maildelivery. Should I be concerned about it ? I don't think so. I don't have it eather. But everything works fine. The reason I am even thinking about it is that the presort Inc method of my exmh sometimes get stucked. To be more specific, It seems that there are some messages, which I can't fully characterize, that cause Inc to terminate its action. Where this termination does not seem to be normal since some of the email is getting copied to the desired directories, but not removed from my mail box (/var/spool/mail/shaul). When I am trying to invoke mail afterwards to see what is going on and delete the messages that were copied, it seems that someone, probably the Inc method, also left out /var/spool/mail/shaul.lock. Now all of this could be caused by my .maildelivery file because I am far from understanding what exactly is written in it. Which led me to trying to read the slocal man page, which led me to /etc/nmh/maildelivery. There are quite a few people who saw EXACTLY this problem (including myself). I saw a few emails on EXMH mailing list too. I think it's some corrupted email you get. Lock file is set by EXMH, once inc is done, it's supposed to be removed. You can incorporate email by running nmh inc from xterminal (not from EXMH). It'll work, but there will be no filtering, everything will end up in inbox. It happended to me in libc6 problems period in slink, did not see that again. So far I did not see reasonable explanation for that phenomena, on EXMH list too. Sasha.
afbackup: comments and problems.
Hi, In my search for backup software I settle down on afbackup. I would say it's an excellent piece of software with GUI interface for configuration + build-in help. It's powerful, flexible and simple enough for small clusters of Linux boxes and single Linux box. Unfortunately setting it up was not trivial, primarily because I did not quite realize how the basic installation should look like. I decided to summarise it for non-experienced users like me. PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: We want to backup 6 Debian (slink) Linux boxes. WHAT WORKS: 1. Install afbackup-client on all computers that you want to backup. 2. Install afbackup on one computer that is supposed to be server. It's likely to have afbackup-client installed on it,as you want to bakup it too. 3. configure them. Configuration programs have GUI, they are terrific and very understandable. Read /usr/doc/afbackup-client/CONFIG. First select small directory to backup. Read /usr/doc/afbackup/HOWTO.FAQ.DO-DONT if you want to backup on disk 4. Run full_backup as root on one of clients 5. Check on you server that backup is made, check your email for notification. 6. Come back to client and restore backup using afrestore -a -C /tmp Your backup will be restored in /tmp. Now you can run diff -r to see that indeed everything was succesfully recovered. 7. Now you can automate and enhance it. Create cron jobs for full_backup and incr_backup. Add more directoies for backup. WHAT DOES NOT WORK: After reading documentation, man pages, mail archive I thought that the program I should run is afbackup, it seemed natural as that's the name of the package after all. My idea was to run periodically following programs on server: afbackup -h linux_box_1 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey afbackup -h linux_box_2 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey afbackup -h linux_box_3 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey afbackup -h linux_box_4 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey Centralised process, no clashes, but afbackup = afclient = Does not work. Briefly it's a specail type of installation (remote client) of afbackup-client that is missing in slink. Please correct me if I'm wrong here. You can make it work if you install on all computers both afbackup and afbackup-client packages. Actually you need just few files from afbackup to be added to your afbackup-client. Again: It's not original afbackup code fault, just this configuration is missing in Debian. This configuration is assumed in the code. CRITICISM: Document that helped me a lot is called PROGRAMS in original afbackup distribution. It is missing in Debian distribution. Hope that may help other people to setup their backup. Sasha.
Re: xanim package?
Hi, Richard! Sure. And guess the name - xanim! ii xanim 2.70.7.0-3 Plays Multimedia files Sasha. Is there a Debian package for xanim? I have the source code already, I'm just being lazy. Richard Hall Network Services University of Tennessee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev /null
Backup recommendations
Hi, After quite a few disks died on me I start to realize that backup may be worth the effort :) There are several backup programs in Debian, so could someone recommend one for our case: 4 computers serving like X-terminals with no users (yellow pages + /home area is mounted from another computer), we would like to backup only /etc, /root and some other configuration files. We would like to transfer those files to another big computer on a special disk which is backed up daily. Any suggestions? Thank you Sasha.
Re: Installing Debian???
Hi, Sunil! I am very, very new to linux and attempting to install Debian on my PC. I am having 3 independent problems that I hope someone can help me with. 1) I have a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, but when I try to install the drivers for it during the install drivers phase of installation, I keep getting the message installation failed. It seems like the drive is supported (there are options for a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive and an Mitsumi extended drive). I am not sure if it is failing because I am giving it the wrong command line options (specifying IRQ and IO, which admittedly I am unsure about) or what. Hm-m-m. I'm guessing here. You have Mitsumi CD-ROM which you plug into Sound Card, right? So it's not so called ATAPI IDE CD-ROM. If that's true you can have problems with that because of sound card. I had SONY cdu31a CDROM which was plugged in some SB-16 compatible card (real junky). The problem is that you HAVE TO initialize the card, so it'll set IRQ and IO addresses. It's likely to be quite complicated under Linux, as vendors do not open there driver codes. The only solution I found was to start DOS first, it'll initialize card, after that you use loadlin to boot linux. Then cdu31a.o module was picked up and everything worked. 2) I have an SMC 1211TX network card, and I am trying to use the rtl8139 driver for it, but I keep receiving an installation failed message as well. I know that someone else has successfully used this driver with this card, but he was not using Debian. To get it to work, he ended up hacking the drivers a little and compiling it into the kernel. My question is: after only the base install, is it possible to compile the kernel? My original plan was to configure my network card, and then download packages through ftp, but I may need to compile code before I can configure my network card. Sounds like a good plan. I never worked with this card, sorry. You may compile kernel on a different Linux computer, that's fine. But to compile it on your computer you need quite a few things to be installed, without network it'll be extremely painful. Would you consider borrowing card from another computer just to get started? See also comment later. 3) During the base install, I keep getting a message that says There was a problem extracting the base system from /target/base2_0.tgz after I have entered all 5 floppy disks with the base system on them (without receiving any disk errors). I used rawrite2 under a DOS shell in win95 to write to the disks (I no longer have Win95 on my computer), so what could the problem be? That sounds bad. Try floppiless installation if you have DOS FAT-16 partition. If you are going to experiment with your linux this partition may be quite handy, especially once you can no longer boot your Linux. You can also download many *.deb pacages on that partition (you network is not working under Linux, but perhaps is working under DOS), boot Linux, mount FAT16 partition and install those packages. Rescue diskette is a good thing to have too :) Good luck! Sasha.
Re: /deb/audio and Plug and Play
Shaleh wrote: On 16-Dec-98 Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, Just about finished totally installing Linux. Need some help with my sound card. I compiled a new kernel with sound support. When the kernel boots up it says Sound Initialized. But when I try to run a program that uses sound it says /dev/audio device not configured. What do I do? And one other thing. How do I enable Plug and Pray support? TIA! If it is an isa card, you need isapnptools. If your motherboard is a recent one, check the BIOS. It may support PnP initialization at boot-up by the BIOS. It will save you a lot of trouble. Another here. In my BIOS it's called OS recognize PNP, set it to No Sasha.
Re: mailbox not deleted on inc!!!
Hi, Mark! I had EXACTLY the same problem, ended up with tons of duplicated mails. I solved the problem by running inc from nmh in Xterm window (not from exmh). It put everything in my inbox without filtering :(. After that everyting worked fine. Still don't know what it was. I suspect some corrupted mail. Sasha. Hi, My mail is behaving strangely. I would incorporate my mail in exmh, and then do it again and the same messages would be incorporated a second time. I had a look at /var/spool/mail/mark and discovered that it wasn't being emptied when incorporated. Indeed, this is what the directory looked like: # ls -laF /var/spool/mail/ -rw-r--r-- 1 mark 1000 294367 Dec 17 10:39 mark -rw--- 1 mark mail0 Dec 17 10:58 mark.lock -rw-rw 1 paul mail 1799 May 4 1997 paul Now what is that mark.lock file all about? I deleted the lock file, tried incorporating again and same thing happened - and the lock file reappeared. Also, the group and file permissions seem strange. I decided to delete the mark and mark.lock files and that seems to have solved the problem, but I would like to know how the problem ever arose! What was going on, and how did it get that way? Cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?
Hi, You may want to check: http://www.xemacs.org/faq/xemacs-faq.html Sasha. It looks nicer. The XEmacs maintainers are generally more receptive to suggestions than the GNU Emacs maintainers. Many more bundled packages than GNU Emacs Binaries are available for many common operating systems. Face support on TTY's. A built-in toolbar. Better Motif compliance. Some internationalization support (including full MULE support, if compiled with it.) Variable-width fonts. Variable-height lines. Marginal annotations. ToolTalk support. XEmacs can be used as an Xt widget, and can be embedded within another application. Horizontal and vertical scrollbars (using real toolkit scrollbars). Better APIs (and performance) for attaching fonts, colors, and other properties to text. The ability to embed arbitrary graphics in a buffer. Completely compatible (at the C level) with the Xt-based toolkits. First production Web Browser supporting Style Sheets. Hi, A while ago you wrote to debian-user saying: Wow, why such complexities? Try VM under Emacs or (better) XEmacs. You get the best of all worlds. When you're in X you get clickable URLs and HTML rendering (and toolbars and inline image attachment viewing and all the other stuff you see in graphical clients), and when you're at the console you get a regular textual client a la pine. What advantages does XEmacs have over Emacs (and are there any the other way around)? I am using emacs at the moment. Is it worth me changing? And what is VM? Is it an mh based mailer? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice, terminal Apache, broken partitions...
Hi, Peter! I had a whole spectra of freezes, crashes, etc. I thought that's because of Cyrix processor. Took me a while to realize that I had a bad memory chip. Try memtest86. Sasha. Hi all, quick questions: 1) Can anyone think of a reason why running the setup of StarOffice 5 would cause a complete (and I mean complete) freeze and hang of a computer?
Mail on computer with no users.
Hi, We have 4 boxes working like Xterminals. There are no users, except for root of course. Any user login through NIS and his /home area is mounted from another computer (SGI). Questions: 1. How should I redirect user's mails: For example I want mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because there are actually no user on linuxbox.domainname 2. I would like to redirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] email specifically to my account on another computer. Any suggestions? Thanks, Sasha.
Thanks: Mail on computer with no users.
Hi, Joe! Thanks for your help. Both problems are happily resolved :) Questions: 1. How should I redirect user's mails: For example I want mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because there are actually no user on linuxbox.domainname Put: smartuser: driver=smartuser; new_user=[EMAIL PROTECTED] in your /etc/smail/directors file. In fact, you're in luck. You are right! Once I sorted out problems you mentioned in next paragraph, then mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] went to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps because of visible_name. The current smailconfig that comes with the smail package does this (and only this) automatically if you choose option 1 - A machine connected to the internet Yes, that's what what I chosen. (This used to set the machine up as a bona fide mail server, they seem to have taken that out and replaced it with a setup that does nothing but shuffle all incoming messages to some other machine who's idea was THAT?!?!?!). Anyway... it *sounds* like you're having a problem with users sending mail from your xterms cluster and their return address indicating that actual machine. If that's the problem you're trying to deal with, you're better off nipping it in the bud. I know that there's a way to customize the hostname that appears in the return address. It might be the visible_name parameter in the /etc/smail/config file, but I doubt it. I think it's /etc/mailname. However, if anyone uses pine or something, pine might have stored this value in the user's .pinerc file... so changing /etc/mailname wouldn't change the address that appears in their outgoing mail. Right, that was exactly the problem. I set both files to have domainname.com in them Experiment. Good luck. 2. I would like to redirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] email specifically to my account on another computer. put something like aliases: driver=aliasfile, owner=postmaster, sender_okay; file=/etc/aliases, proto=lsearch, modemask=002, owners=root:mail:daemon, owngroups=root:mail:daemon Was glad to see that it's actually organised this way. A least in slink. in your directors file BEFORE the entries that say user: and realuser: (if they're even there). Then, make an alias for root in your /etc/aliases file. Yes I did that, and mail happily arrive on my account on different computer. Alternatively, you can put dotforward: driver=forwardfile, owner=postmaster, nobody, sender_okay; file=~/.forward, checkowner, modemask=022, owners=root, unsecure=0-99:~ftp:~uucp:/tmp:/var/tmp, in the directors file before any user: or realuser: entry and then just make a .forward file in root's home dir. Did not try that. But will keep in mind. Thanks again, Sasha.
Re: Cyrillics and FORM handling
Hi, Andrew! I tried to make it work but failed miserably. Here is what I put in .Xresources: (from http://metalab.unc.edu/sergei/Software/Software.html) ! ! Netscape russification ! Netscape*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r Netscape*XmTextField.fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r Netscape*XmText.fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r Netscape*XmList*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r Netscape*menuBar*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r Netscape*topArea*XmTextField.fontList:\ -*-times-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r Netscape*XmLGrid*fontList:\ -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r,\ -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r=BOLD,\ -*-helvetica-medium-o-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r=ITALIC Does not solve the problem... Well, lets see. I have xruskb installed. And I've been playing with Netscape.ad file for a while now, and Xresources Nothing seems to work. Here is what I did: 1. Got Cronyx fonts. Installed them, xset +fp'ed them. 2. From this point I can read russian homepages, providing that I change Fonts/Encoding. 3. Installed xruskb. Pretty much what I did. Maybe Xmodmap is messed up? Nah I see that upper 128 characters show up. In XEmacs it also works perfectly. Well, so far looks like a dead end to me. Sasha.
Re: How to test RAM?
Hi, Ed! Just want to share my experience with memtest86. I had a bad memory module, as I found out later. There are 2 ways of memtest running: as a boot process and from inside Linux. Installation of memtest86 as an independent boot process (you can have memtest in your LILO - Linux, Dos and MemTest for example) DID NOT catch the bad memory module - it reported that everyting was fine. On the other hand running memtest from Linux (then you have to guess your free memory right and give it as an argument) indeed reported the problem. So I would recommend running memtest in both modes to catch the bad memory module. Well, in my case I started to beleive that memory was OK only when X stopped to crash spontaneously on me :) Sasha. Not a debian package but I use memtest86. I have the tar.gz file if you can't fina it. Thanks, but FYI: another respondant said memtest86 is part of the hwtools deb package that I'm downloading now.
Re: graphic card again
Hi, One more here. I also have Matrox Millenium G200, works great. Take XFCom_Matrox from ftp.suse.com, I also needed to fix backspace problem ln -s /var/lib/kbd/ /var/X11R6/xkb/compiled Sasha. On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:32:52PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: I gave my Hercules card back and got a Matrox Millenium G200 instead. Good choice. Does anyone run a machine with this card to give me some info or configuartions?
rvplayer and 2.0.34
Hi, I ran into strange problems with rvplayer. 2 computers are running Linux 2.0.34 Debian slink. On one of those rvplayer is working on another one - does not. I'm testing it on welcome.rm file, which comes with the package. On broken rvplayer computer there is just rvplayer window , but not sound or picture. Kernels for both computers were compiled in slightly different times (Nov 6 and Dec 10). I tried to move kernel from working rvplayer computer to broken rvplayer computer - does not help. If I move kernel from broken rvplayer computer on working rvplayer computer - rvplayer stop working. It looks like it has to do something with kernel and some libraries perhaps. Does anyone know how to cure the situation? Thanks, Sasha.
Re: exmh presort fails
Hm-m-m-m That's indeed strange. Am I right that you use presort in ways to inc (Top 10 menu)? You know what, I saw something similar... It was about 1 month ago, my exmh kept incorporating same mails again and again. It looked like I had a corrupted mail in my mailbox. And indeed presort inc... was getting stuck. I cured the situation by running inc from nmh (in ordinary xterm window). It put all the mails in inbox (it does not do any sorting). After I restarted EXMH and from that moment on everything start to work. Till now I don't know what exactly was the problem. Sasha. On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: I think you need rcvstore. Here is my .maildelivery (Debian slink) cc debian-user@lists.debian.org | ? /usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +debian/user to debian-user@lists.debian.org | ? /usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +debian/user default -| ? /usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +inbox I tried changing my .maildelivery as you suggest, but still the same problems. When I press inc, it comes up with a green message saying presort inc ... and pauses for quite some time before finishing, after which time the message ends up in the MyIncErrors folder. It sounds like something more fundamental is going wrong?? Cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject.
Re: Can't start fetchmail in ip-up.d
Hi, You may want to look in the file: pccmu1 more /usr/doc/fetchmail/fetchmail-up #!/bin/sh test -r /etc/fetchmailrc \ fetchmail --syslog --invisible --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc It's an example you may use. Important thing is location of rc file. Works for me. That directory contains other useful info Sasha. In my ip-up, I have a line run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d So I put a file called fetchmail with a single line fetchmail. I also made it executable. But when my link is up, nothing happened. I tried to ps ax the process. It is not there. I also checked /var/log/fetchmail, and nothing is written there... I'm no expert, but I have a thought which may or may not help. When ip-up is run, which user actually runs it? Is it root, or is it daemon or something? If it is not root, then it might not use the .fetchmailrc in the root home directory? Could that be your problem? And while I'm here, can I ask a question? With your setup, is the idea that fetchmail will only run once, every time the ppp link goes up? What if new mail arrives while the ppp link is still up? Cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
XFCom_Matrox and Backspace
Hi, I got Matrox Millenium G200 Card and installed XFCom_Matrox from SUSE. For some reason Backspace is not working (there is a little beeping sound). If I run svga xserver from slink then keyboard works fine, but of course working on 320x200 display is no fun :( Ctrl-H seems to work as backspace in xterm. Any suggestions how to fix that? I use XKEYBOARD extensions # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. #XkbDisable Thanks, Sasha.
running dselect on 4 computers.
Hi, I heard that it's now possible to do installation of packages on several nodes simultaneously. In our case we have 4 linux boxes and would like to have same packages on all of them, yesterday I spend a night jumping between 4 running dselect programs, and start to think that there should be an easier solution for that problem :) Could you recommend how to do it right? Thanks, Sasha.
Can not find Xserver for Millenium G200.
Hi, I'm looking for Xserver for Millenium G200, it used to be on SUSE, but with the release of new version .tar.gz file is gone. There is a bunch of RPM packages, but I did not succeed in installing them. Any recommendations? Thanks, Sasha.
Re: Sony CDU33A
Hi, I had combination CDU33A + Promultimedia Sound Card. It was quite painful to make it work. The only successful pass was to use loadlin from DOS, so that DOS initializes Sound Card + CDU33A interface (SONY) and after that you boot linux (again with loadlin). In DOS there was driver which printed out everyting about IRQ, ports and so on. I was not able to make it work without DOS, because of bad sound card I beleive, you may make it work with soundbleaster, if it is really soundblaster from creative labs. Good luck, Sasha. I just installed Debian on an old 486, which has a old sony cdu33a cdrom connected to a soundblaster 16. The problem is that the soundcard only has jumper settings for the cdroms irq, not for the base adress, and stupid as I am, I didn't have those written down somewhere since I haven't used this comp for some 2-3 years. After having tried all possible irq and base adresses combination with the sony cdu31a module (which I have a vauge memory of working when I first installed linux on this computer), I was wondering if there is any nice way to determine irq base adress and therefore being able to use it. Or if there is any other nice method to get it to work I don't know of ;) //Anders a.k.a Caine -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: 512MB RAM, 860MB swap and out of memory ?
Hi, Jan! I was running Mathematica 3.0 on Pentium II 233MHz + 64Mb + 128Mb swap. I did not do any really complicated calculations with Mathematica, but they kept my computer busy for 5-15 minutes. Honestly I don't have good experience with mathematica, mathematica kernel was crashinig quite often, I have to restart it. Sometimes kernel got stuck, and produced garbage as a result, and I restarted whole mathematcia to cure the situation. I blame Mathematica for that, not Linux kernel or memory or hardware. Button restart kernel inside Mathematica always made me suspicious about this program, but on the other hand Mathematica is well established program, on which many people rely. Well, perhaps it's just Mathematica for Linux that behaves badly. I would recommend to run your program on some non-Linux machine, (like university cluster), just to see what happends. Sasha. Unfortunately when the mathematica3.0 is running, after using (consuming) all RAM memory it can only use up to 460Mb of swap and then it prints message: 'out of memory' and exits the calculations (stop running the calculation) but it does not crush, the front end of it and its kernel can be used further. It is normal ? How can be the total swap amount (860Mb) used? Does anybody have some idea, where could be reason for such behaviour of Mathematica, Linux and swap? (fault in kernel, my configurations of Linux, in Mathematica, in my hard disk swap?) Here are some additional information $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:515772 57200 458572 32108 2444 32272 -/+ buffers/cache: 22484 493288 Swap: 860052 1300 858752 fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hdc1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda3 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda5 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda6 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda7 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda8 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda9 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda10 noneswapsw 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 I have tried to use kernel 2.1.126 but although I could compile it I cannot get it working. I mean: Lilo cannot start, appears: LIL- and I have to reset and use rescue disk. However its configurations was the same as for the kernel 2.0.36 which was compiled and is working successfully but the out of memory problem remains. ps aux prints: USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND daemon 111 0.0 0.0 792 0 ? SW 11:42 0:00 (portmap) daemon 134 0.0 0.0 84820 ? S11:42 0:00 (atd) krupa 148 0.0 0.2 1964 1268 3 S11:42 0:00 -bash krupa 251 0.1 0.7 6100 3964 3 S12:19 0:00 emacs swap1 math 146 0.0 0.1 1936 712 1 S11:42 0:00 -bash math 258 0.0 0.1 916 536 1 R12:29 0:00 ps aux root 1 0.1 0.0 76896 ? S11:42 0:03 init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 11:42 0:00 (kflushd) root 3 0.4 0.0 0 0 ? SW 11:42 0:12 (kswapd) root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 11:42 0:00 (nfsiod) root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 11:42 0:00 (nfsiod) root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 11:42 0:00 (nfsiod) root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 11:42 0:00 (nfsiod) root16 0.0 0.0 73228 ? S11:42 0:00 update root98 0.0 0.0 900 200 ? S11:42 0:00 /sbin/syslogd root 100 0.0 0.0 91272 ? S11:42 0:00 (klogd) root 107 0.0 0.0 75264 ? S11:42 0:00 /sbin/kerneld root 113 0.0 0.0 86816 ? S11:42 0:00 (inetd) root 117 0.0 0.0 760 132 ? S11:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /devroot 122 0.0 0.0 91224 ? S 11:42 0:00 (lpd) root 137 0.0 0.0 860 172 ? S11:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron root 147 0.0 0.2 1948 1248 2 S11:42 0:00 -bash root 149 0.0 0.0 84444 4 S11:42 0:00 (getty) root 150 0.0 0.0 844 8 5 S11:42 0:00 (getty) root 151 0.0 0.0 84412 6 S11:42 0:00 (getty) I have read the following articel: http://www.linuxhq.com/doc20/memory-tuning.txt I had the following # cat /proc/sys/vm/freepages 104815722096 I put # echo 4192 8384 16764 /proc/sys/vm/freepages and now have: # cat /proc/sys/vm/freepages 4192838416764 but it haven't helped. Still after consuming almost all RAM and
NFS mounted /home area from SGI computer, good idea?
Hi, We would like setup 4-5 Debian boxes to be X-terminals. We plan to have 20-30 users on them. Having quite limited system management resources we don't want to backup user areas on those boxes. So we plan to NFS mount /home area from another cluster (it's a big SCSI backed up disk from large SGI IRIX5 computer), so when user login into Debian box, he will see his usual /home area from a larger computer, with his mails, code and so on. So far it seems to me like a nice idea, I think I know how to organize it, but I don't know how good this idea actually is? SGI disk on Linux computer... Are there any traps in doing that? Thank you, Sasha.
Thanks: Pascal for Linux?
Hi, Thanks for the info. I just tried both. IMHO Free Pascal is better, it knows Borland procedures from CRT unit for example, GNU does not (well that was not their goal, as they say). Compatibility with Borland Turbo Pascal is imprortant to me, so I would prefer Free Pascal. Free Pascal has RPM, but no DEB package I think we may want to have it... Sasha. Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Just wondering is there Pascal compiler for Linux? preferable free? close to Turbo Pascal 6? There are a couple of compilers out there... GNU has one, but I think this is a little better... (it's syntactically compatible with turbo pascal 7). http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus/fpc/ I don't know if there is a deb package for this or not... I haven't looked. Happy hacking, Nate
Re: FAQ-O-MATIC (was Re: Linux Tips Tricks)
Hi! I totally agree with Mark on this subject. The whole idea of FAQ-O-MATIC is great, and once it showed up I thought it would quickly develop. In my PERSONAL opinion it did not quite reach it's goals. 1. I agree with Mike - put it on the main page. 2. It's quite complicated. I tried once to start a thread there, followed enormous number of steps (username, confirming e-mail) ... and still failed. It's certainly because I'm dumb. 3. Still mailing archive in my mind is the best place for a tip. Why? It's very easy to use, perfect organisation, great search engine. And unlike FAQ-O-MATIC anyone can easily contribute to the list. On the other hand we don't want another copy of mailing list Don't understand me wrong: I love the idea of FAQ-O-MATIC, I just think that the project diverted from it's original goal. One of the best FAQ's I saw was at CERN, about PAW (Physics analisys workstation) It's a plain list sorted by number of requests. Question that I was interested in was right on top. (http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asdcgi/listpawfaqs.pl) I've had a look at the tips and tricks page and it is a good effort. The only query is about whether we are reinventing the wheel. We have the FAQ-O-MATIC on the debian web site: http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html It would be good if all sorts of tips and tricks went into here. There are already quite a number, but adding more would be great. Also, the FAQ-O-MATIC doesn't seem to have a link from the main page. This might be a good idea.
Re: C.L.P.M. crashes Netscape 4.05 under Debian
Hi, I'm not sure if I have similar problem to your, but anyway. Here how my Netscape gets stuck: 1. Goto Debian.org -- Mailing list archives -- debian-devel (october) or actually to any big archive for this matter. It starts to read messages and at about 86% gets stuck. No response, have to use kill -9. Sometimes it happends when you click on some message and after that click Back button. I just tried it 2 times. Got stuck in both cases :) I have slink+netscape 4.5, but it happended to all previous versions of netscape as well. Sasha. Hi y'all: I have been having a strange problem for the past month or so: I've been using Netscape 4.05 under Debian with Kernel 2.0.34 (if it matters) as my Newsreader for a long time, with no problems. But whenever I try to read the group comp.lang.perl.misc, it starts updating the messages and then crashes Netscape -- right back to a blue screen. Only this one group has this effect, and only in the past month or so. I have NO idea where to begin looking for a solution. Has anybody got any ideas? T.I.A. Howard S. Ostrowsky -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Pascal for Linux?
Hi, Just wondering is there Pascal compiler for Linux? preferable free? close to Turbo Pascal 6? Thanks, Sasha.
Re: X troubles
Hi, Check file /etc/X11/Xserver, it should have server name in it, like: pccmu1 more /etc/X11/Xserver /usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3V Console The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server. The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server: RootOnly Console (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console) Anybody Sasha. After upgrading my X packages a few days ago, I'm suddenly getting this: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/ failed _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I upgraded again, to a8, but it hasn't fixed the problem. I can't see what's wrong, seems to be somewhere in startx which is a binary :(. Help!! bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I'll say it again for the logic impaired. -- Larry Wall -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Compressed epsfigures (LaTeX)
Hi,
Hello everyone,
I would like to store postscript images (ps,eps) in compressed
form and have them decompressed for use during my LaTeX run. I have to
date been unable to figure out if this can be done and if so, how to do
it.
Yes you can download and unzip compressed *.ps.gz or *.eps.gz files in LaTeX.
Here is example to include partid/partid.ps.gz file in TeX. You don't need
anything special in your TeX installation.
...
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth, bb=20 143 575 698]{partid/partid}
\label{fig:partid}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Hope that helps,
Sasha.
PS Just as an accademic question, can the same thing be done with the
LaTeX (.tex) files also?
I think yes, but I'm not sure. In all fairness gzipping *.tex files does not
gain you a lot of free disk space.
Re: Advice on Hardware
Hi, Paul! General comment - ask your supplier to provide specs :) * The supplier wasn't 100% clear on the exact video card spec - it's a Jetway make, using S3 ViRGE chipset. Is this likely to be OK? Yes, it should be OK. * The video card is an AGP model. All I can find in the HOWTO and the XFree86 notes is that some AGP cards work. Will this one??!? Sorry, no experience here. * The sound card is a Creative Labs PCI 64 card. Is that likely to work? It's a plug and pray card - does that cause me problems? It looks like Sound Blaster from Creative Labs. Should work perfectly. The rest of the spec seems unlikely to be a problem - Pentium II 333MHz, BX 100MHz motherboard, 64M RAM, 4.3G EIDE UDMA disk, 32x CD ROM (IDE). Looks just fine. Does anybody know of any issues or relevant questions I should ask? Some companies have smart guys who can directly answer Linux compatibility questions. Thanks in advance, Paul Moore. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: installation on older Toshiba laptop?
Hi, You may want to check Linux on Laptop page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ though you laptop is not listed explicitly, but there are close models. Sasha. I am starting to look into installing Linux on an old Toshiba 4400C laptop. I have the InfoMagic CDs, but no CD rom on the laptop but I've got one on my desktop and can make floppies. So any particular things to keep in mind in attempting this? Is it possible to install linux on this at all?
Re: Microphone always on!
Hi, My microphone seems to have grown a direct connection to the speakers, even though I'm not running (AFAIK) any mic-using apps! It's great for impromptu kareoke but really ... Same here. I think it's a feature Sasha.
Diamond Viper 330 AGP card.
Hi, Is X running on Diamond Viper 330 AGP card? Could someone comment is it a good card? Thanks, Sasha.
/etc/X11/config analog in slink?
Hi, What is the analog of /etc/X11/config in slink? I'm missing it... And /etc/init.d/xdm no longer refer to it to define whether to to start XDM or not... Am I missing something? Thank you, Sasha.
OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?
Hi, It's a little bit off-topic. We have a set of Debian computers, which are not quite the same. It would be useful to synchronize certain files on all nodes like /etc/profile or /etc/X11/Xresources, or /etc/menu and so on. But of course not all the files. Reflection of this problem is synchronization of user's .dot-files on different nodes. Would CVS be an appropriate tool for that purpose? Or is there better one tool? Thanks, Sasha.
There is one. (Was: SpeakerPhone software?)
Hi, Just FYI. There indeed is Linux SpeakerPhone Software which works fine on my Debian Hamm system. Program is now maintained by Christopher Lansdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ftp://screech.alfred.edu/pub/spk/interim/spk-march.19.1998.tar.gz http://www.cs.alfred.edu/~spk/ You need to compile it and install. It's not yet polished, but speakerphone part works for me. You'll hear better thru headset, but speakers are quite clear too, and you have an opportunity to drink coffee (or take care of your babies), while listening what people are talking about on the meeting on the other side of the phone line. Hopefully program will grow and prosper, keep working Christopher! Sasha. Hi, Is it possible to put my phone on speakers? So that when other person talk to me by phone, I'll hear him on my speakers... I have SoundBlaster compatilbe Sound Card, and Zoltrix 33.6 Interenal Modem with speakerphone (if it is of any use for this purpose).
SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?
Hi, Disregard my previous message. I already learned how to do it. Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. Sasha.
Re: SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?
Hi, Jeff! Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. How? It's actually described in details in file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers . # Example: # :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt9 -bpp 16 # :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt10 -bpp 8 Just uncomment those 2 lines. I found it reading in /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian (They turn out to be quite useful for most of configuration problems). Sasha. Thanks for the enlightenment, Jeff
Nescape 4.5 for SWim Motif 2.1?
Hi, Is there a package of Netscape 4.5 compiled for SWiM Motif 2.1 ? Thanks, Sasha.
2 XServers on 1 terminal?
Hi, Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. Thanks, Sasha.
Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?
Hi, John! Thanks for reminding me about that. Part of the reason I forgot is that there is no direct link to it from main Web page. Perhaps FAQ-O-Matic deserved it's place on Main page. Sasha. kushni kushniIf there were some Debian oriented database, where one could kushniadd his experience about installation of Debian on some kushniunusual hardware, I would add mine about ThinkPad 380XD. THERE IS ! FAQ-O-MATIC ! (Excuse my yelling, I just wanted to advertise ;) ) Why don't you put an entry in this nice, underutilized tool. And reward Mr. Grobman for his effort.
Re: web databases?
Hi, Steve! Does anyone know of a decent database with a simple web interface? Linux would be fine, but a generic one with a chance of running on FreeBSD would be better. I use combination of MySQL (database) + PHP/FI web interface. MySQL is very fast and very simple. PHP/FI is a C-Perl-like very intuitive language. Both are free, both have debian packages. You may check my basketball page as an example (I have more serious pages, but they are not as much fun :) http://fn781a.fnal.gov/~kushnir/basketball/basketball.phtml Sasha.
Re: Midnight Commander
Hi, Where can one find the Midnight Commander (GNOME version) 4.1.35 .deb files? The package is called gmc ii gmc 4.1.35-4 Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager I took it from slink and installed by hand (I mean dpkg -i ...) It may be in GNOME Debain pakages, but I'm not s sure: deb ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/debian dists/released (if you use apt add it to your /etc/apt/sources.list Sasha.
Re: Network problems
Hi, Vincent! I have 3C905-TX Netowrk card. Module that one shoud is is called 3c59x It's listed when you run modconf. Hope that help, Sasha. Hi, I'm just starting with Linux. I just installed it yesterday but I can't seem to get it to recognize the network. It keeps saying 'No network found.' I have a 3C905B-TX NIC connected to a 10 base-T network. When I tried installing network drivers in the install program none of the 3COM ones would install so I had to install the generic one after those which did install succesfully. I'd really like to get it to get going on the network, since that's why I wanted linux in the first place. I know it's not the NIC because I'm using the same computer right now but with Win 98. TIA. --Vince
Re: [Debian] Installing debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT
Hi, Nico! I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT. unfortunately the machine keeps rebooting after Linux... I tried creating a Tecra rescue disk (resc1440tecra.bin) but that doesn't help. I believe you already solved the problem, but anyway here is my solution: I installed linux on Thinkpad 380xd, the only appropriate way was to use loadlin, and boot disk from Win95 running in Dos mode. As disk was fat16, there was actually no problem. Booting form diskette or LILO failed in the same way you discribed. Sasha.
Re: Laptop Installation problem
Hi, I was able to install linux on IBM ThinkPad 380XD, thru loadlin. Install.bat worked fine. (Booting from diskette or LILO was hopeless.) But important thing is that you have FAT16, not FAT32. You may prepare a little FAT16 partition (using FIPS for example), format it for FAT16 and put installation files there. Sasha. I have just spent a day trying to install debian on my NEC versa laptop, which has a pentium 133, 24 meg of ram and a 1gig hard drive. I have tried to install off my HD using the procedure in the document Installing Debain Linux 2.0 for x86. Once the install.bat file is executed, the expected cryptic information about hardware is displayed. However during the process, it freezes and displays: VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02 kernel panic: VFH: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 I then tried installing via the recue disk. It managed to get to the boot prompt ok, but whilst it was uncompressing it stoped and displayed a boot error. I then attempted to use the resc1440tecra.bin rescue disk for laptops, which failed to get to the prompt displaying a boot failure. I then tried the other rescue disk, which then did the same thing as the laptop recue. I would really appreciate some help!
Debian on ThinkPad 380XD
Hi, We've got ThinkPad 380XD with EtherJet PCMCIA network card. Does anyone have experience with installing Debian 2.0 on it? Comments? Thanks, Sasha.
HELP!!!: Debian on ThinkPad 380XD
Hi, We are trying to install debian 2.0 from floppies on ThinkPad, we used 2 floppies resc1440tecra.bin resc1440.bin. Here is what's going on: 1. We boot from floppy see long message with boot: at the end 2. type boot: linux floppy=thinkpad 3. It prints Loading root.bin. Loading linux... And keeps rebooting? What shall we do? Does anyone have good kernel for it? Thanks, Sasha.
