Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe
Use a USB thumb disk. I got a brand new 1GB stick from Best Buy for fairly cheap. Install all necessary programs on it -- Putty, Firefox, Emacs/Vim, GIMP, etc. The more the better. If you have room, install Cygwin (I'd suggest getting a 2GB stick for that, though). It is almost certain that an Internet cafe will let you plug in a USB disk, and then you have a nice set of programs to work with. Cheers! -- Leonid Grinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unix-ify File Names
Or, in Perl (might as well):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
opendir(DIR, system('pwd'));
my @files = readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
my $new_name;
foreach (@files)
{
$new_name = lc($_);
$new_name =~ s/\ /\-/g;
system('mv -i $_ $new_name');
}
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Re: Unix-ify File Names
opendir(DIR, system('pwd'));
Sorry, that should be:
opendir(DIR, `pwd`);
` returns output. system() does not.
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Strange Exim errors
Hello, I recently set up a mail server in my home network as an experiment. We have a dynamic IP given to us by Comcast, but I registered with DynDNS for a DNS name, and told my router to update it when the IP changed. The idea was that one could send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and it would get there (where username is my username and dyndns_address is my DynDNS URL). The setup was successful, and I can both send and receive emails. However, I am starting to get strange emails that say something like this: Message [CENSOR] has been frozen. The sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following address(es) have yet to be delivered: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Connection timed out [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lowest numbered MX record points to local host I did not send any of these emails. The three emails that were not delivered have the username all the same. The sitestream one is different. I assume that this is somehow using my machine as a relay, though I have absolutely no idea. I am very much of a n00b when it comes to mail. -- Leonid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange Exim errors
I am using Exim. The addresses do appear in /var/log/exim4/mainlog. Using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, I made blank the fields regarding mail relaying, but the problem happens anyways. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange Exim errors
OK, here: $ tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog 2007-02-24 12:06:31 1HKgol-Tw-CA ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address 2007-02-24 12:06:33 1HKgol-Tw-CA ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host ariel.fayettevillepublishing.com [24.172.26.90]: 550 Host 71.233.224.241 is listed in list.dsbl.org. 2007-02-24 12:06:34 1HKgol-Tw-CA ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mta-gw.infomaniak.ch [84.16.68.126]: 550 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Blacklisted IP 71.233.224.241 -- see http://rbl.infomaniak.ch/index.php?ip=71.233.224.241 for more details 2007-02-24 12:06:35 1HKgol-Tw-CA = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=mx1.balanced.swarthy.mail.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.57] X=TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 DN=C=US,ST=CA,L=Los Angeles,O=DreamHost Web Hosting,OU=DreamHost Security,CN=mail.dreamhost.com,[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-02-24 12:06:36 1HKgol-Tw-CA ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host fernandorincon.com [69.93.79.50]: 550-Verification failed for [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n550-unrouteable mail domain ondsl.gr\n550 Sender verify failed 2007-02-24 12:06:36 1HKgol-Tw-CA ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mailin.webmailer.de [192.67.198.32]: 550 5.0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Dial-Up IP address rejected 2007-02-24 12:06:38 1HKgol-Tw-CA = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=mail.forstnerphotography.com [212.227.91.13] X=TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 DN=C=US,ST=Virginia,L=Herndon,O=SWsoft\, Inc.,OU=Plesk,CN=plesk,[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-02-24 12:06:39 1HKeA3-0007sT-EJ = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup_relay_to_domains T=remote_smtp H=mx10.priorweb.be [213.193.229.211] 2007-02-24 12:06:40 1HKgol-Tw-CA = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=mail.geekdeveloper.ca [64.246.46.7] 2007-02-24 12:06:40 1HKeA3-0007sT-EJ ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup_relay_to_domains T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mail01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.51]: 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [EMAIL PROTECTED] None of these are mine or were sent by me. $ grep relay /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf dc_relay_domains='' dc_relay_nets='' As you can see, nothing is configured to be relayed (note that those are single quotes) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Introduction
Hi all, I know that I am entering this discussion somewhat late, but I wanted to provide my two cents. In my house there is currently: -4 Debian Etch servers -An Ubuntu Dapper desktop -An Ubuntu Edgy laptop -A Windows desktop -An MS-DOS web server (yes, you read that right!) We can ignore the last two, since they are non-Linux. As for the Linux ones: I started off with Debian. It was a great system, but it had some problems, especially on laptops. The two biggest problems I found were lack of ACPI (no hibernation or sleep) and lack of wireless support. After installing Ubuntu, both of these problems were fixed. Ubuntu also seems to be easier to use because it has more GUI frontends to programs. In general, I think that for people who either do not know how or do not want to deal with configuring (often non-standard) hardware, Ubuntu is a better choice. However, for sysadmins, especially on servers, Debian has always proven to me that it is *much* better. Again, just my two cents. -- Leonid Grinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SOLVED] - The Lost Sheep and Networking
Hello all, I am very happy to say that after many hours of IRC chat and many emails, I have finally fixed the problem I was having. The program 3c5x9cfg.exe did it, and after reconfiguring the card, all worked. The server (which I have named newman (after the Seinfeld character, since the computer is a mail server and Newman is a mailman)) is working beautifully. Thank you, debian-user. Thank you, also, #debian on irc.debian.org. Both of you reminded me of the greatest thing about GNU/Linux - its community. Thank you especially to Jasper and Rick Reynolds, who sent me various programs dealing with the NIC. -- Leonid Grinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Lost Sheep and Networking
Hello, I recently acquired a fairly old computer. It has a 20GB hard disk, 256MB of RAM and a Pentium MMX 200MhZ processor. It also has a 3Com Etherlink III card rev. B, which means that it is supposed to use the 3c509B module. I tried installing Debian etch from a netinstall CD, but I failed, because I could not get networking to work, which meant that I could not set up an archive mirror to use, which meant that I could not install the base system. After hours of pain, I tried installing FreeBSD, which did work. However, after trying to use it for a while, I realized that I severely hate it. There were several things which annoyed me, not the least of which was that I hated the support on it. In any case, I decided to try Debian again, but I cannot figure out what's wrong with the network card. When installing, debian-installer cannot recognize my card, and gives me a list of modules. In it is ``3c509'', but without a letter. However, it does say ``3Com Etherlink III'', so I select it. DHCP fails, despite the fact that my router has DHCP enabled, and many other computers in my house are using it. Setting up static IP does not work either. However, the corresponding light on my router does light up, and, what's more, when I run ``dhclient eth0'', my router claims that the computer connected to it, and got the IP 192.168.1.102 (I can tell by the MAC address that it is my computer). However, the computer itself is simply saying that it got no DHCPOFFERS. I am at a total loss here. It is clear that the card is working, because, at the very least, the MAC Address is being transferred. However, I cannot connect anywhere, including to 192.168.1.1. Any ideas? -- Leonid Grinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Lost Sheep and Networking
if you believe in voodoo, move the nic to a different pci slot. Oh, right, that's the other thing I forgot to mention. I do not think that this is a PCI card. I remember someone telling me on a Debian IRC channel that it is AT, and, also, lspci is not reporting it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Lost Sheep and Networking
Does anyone have that utility. I could not find it. All I found out was that it is called 3c5x9cfg.exe. I found out that the card has an IRQ of 5 (as printed at startup). However, it says nothing about IO. The IRQ is shared by no other (PCI, there are no other ISA devices) device. However, I read somewhere that in order to get the card to work, it has not have PnP disabled, which I can't do without the utility. So, does anyone have it..? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Lost Sheep and Networking
Well, another person was nice enough to send me 3c5x9cfg.exe off-list, but I'd love the source code for the set up program as well. At this point, the more resources I have for the damn thing, the better! So, yes, 3c5x9setup.c would be much appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl Programming within Debian
OK, several things: Perl does NOT encourage bad behavior. It simply makes it easier to code poorly. Perl is not as difficult to learn as people say it is. The best place to start would be Google. That is how I learned it. The package ``perl'' will have the interpreter. The package perl-doc will have the command ``perldoc'' (yes, the package has a dash - the program does not). perldoc has lots of nice documentation. I suggest getting ``Learning Perl'' and ``The Perl Cookbook'' if you can. Also, sign up for the mailing list beginners@perl.org where many nice people will help you use the language. Any extension works, but .pl is conventional for command line. Sometimes, people give it no extension at all. For web servers, either .cgi or .pl are usually used. Good luck! Feel free to email me if you have any questions! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote Install
I remember reading somewhere that there is a way to set up a configuration file which Debian-Installer can read (so, essentially, you pre-select all of your answers). I have never done this myself, so I cannot tell you anything else. I think I read it on debian.org, if that helps. I am not sure that Sarge has support for it. I am 99% sure that Etch does. I actually suggest that you install Etch (or wait a month for it to become stable). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smooth upgrades
I assume that you mean that upgrades do not break your system. Testing is always better at this than Unstable. Etch is a particular example, because it will become stable soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Urgent, but not debian-specific): Firefox has very strange behaviour
Hi, I encountered a very strange problem in Firefox today. I use firefox 2.0, Mozilla package (not the repository one). Firefox, when loading my site (lgrinberg.org) is displaying an old version of the site. Now, when I say old version, I mean an *old* version, one that I cannot imagine to exist in Cache (from months before Firefox 2.0 was out) I tried creating a second profile, and the problem went away. I then copied all of my extensions (cp -r [old profile directory]/extensions* [new profile directory]), and bookmarks (cp -r [old profile directory]/bookmarks.html [new profile directory]), and hand copied my configuration (preferences and extension preferences, as well as toolbars. Each step of the way, I reloaded my site (bypassing cache), and all was fine. After setting everything up, I tried logging into Gmail (ticking the box that allows Gmail to keep me logged on), and BAM!, old version. I tried loading the site in w3m, Opera and even Firefox 2.0 on another computer, and all seems fine. What's more is that it appears that the *entire* site is reverted to the old version (dated 2006-07-31). My site loads a Perl file, which, when passed a keyword loads pages from files. Loading the file directly (bypassing the Perl file), still shows the old version. I would guess that this is an error on the server, but I do not think so, after the Gmail episode. Also, I am confused why it reverted to that particular date. My guess is that it may have been a backup, but who knows? When loading the main page, the date last revised (displayed at the bottom) should be today's (2006-11-18). It is displaying (2006-07-31). Any ideas? -- Leonid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Urgent, but not debian-specific): Firefox has very strange behaviour
Also, it does not appear that any other sites are affected (those I have checked seem fine), but it appears that it is an isolated incident to my site. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Urgent, but not debian-specific): Firefox has very strange behaviour
So, when I wrote the email I was at MIT. I am currently at my house, and it appears to be fine now. Perhaps it was something with their network... Anyways, if it happens again, I will post. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A Strange Networking Setup
Do you also leave your front door open (not just unlocked), so that someone can come take a piss in your bathroom and maybe read your mail and take your TV while you're at work? See, it does not really hurt me if they use my network, other than bandwidth. That is why I want to be able to monitor what they are using -- to make sure that they are not *ab*using it. But you know what? Screw it, this is stupid. I am just going to secure the thing and get it over with! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A Strange Networking Setup
Hello all, I am currently running a Linksys WRT54G server with the factory firmware. I have set it up to use wireless. I have purposefully not encrypted or protected the WAP because i want others to be able to use it if they want to (doing my part for society and all that). I do, however, look at the DHCP client logs and almost all the time, I see some computer called ussvoyager, which is not mine. I would like to be able to see what this computer is sending (just in case). I figure that if I am going to run a non-secure AP, I may as well do that, anyways. The problem is that I want something better than what comes on the router in terms of port sniffing. Ideally, I would love for the router to redirect all traffic to my Debian server (Etch), so that I can analyze it using Wireshark. What would be the best way of going about doing this? Thanks in advance! -- Leonid Grinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange networking woes
Hi all, I am trying to install Debian Etch on a Pentium III machine. It is connected to a switch which is connected to a router. Both switch and router are confirmed to be working perfectly. Debian, however, is acting strangely with the network. The machine sees the network hardware. That is, lspci returns the ethernet controller, and plugging the ethernet cord in and out returns a message indicating that it was detected. However, pinging anyone inside the network (including 192.168.1.1 -- the router) returns in Destination Host Unreachable errors. Ideally, I'd like the machine to use a static IP address (192.168.1.154), like my other Etch server, but I would be content with DHCP if need be. Currently, /etc/network/interfaces says: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Running dhclient eth0 does not work (although ifconfig does show it, it does not have either inet addr nor inet6 addr in it). Does anyone have any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange networking woes
Thank you for your support, everyone! After some experimentation, I realized that the problem was that the computer was not realizing that it was on a switch. Connecting it directly to the router fixed the problem. However, I would still like it better on the switch. The problem I think is that it needs a different gateway than the 192.168.1.1 of the router. Does anyone know how I would tell it to use the switch? -- Leonid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange networking woes
[sorry Ron, forwarding to list] Huh? Switches don't have IP addresses. (Well, ok, managed switches do, but that's only for managing them...) OK, that's what I thought. My LAN is configured like you want yours to be: PCs plug into switch, and the switch plugs into the router. What might be the problem is that you are using the uplink port (on the switch) when you shouldn't, or are using a cross-over cable when you shouldn't. Actually, that fixed it (the uplink port)! My mistake. Thanks a lot! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions
My first question is, will Debian 4.0 come with soundcore compiled, or will I need to recompile? I run Debian Etch. Although it is the testing distribution now, it will be the next stable, version 4.0. $ /sbin/modinfo soundcore filename: /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko description:Core sound module author: Alan Cox license:GPL alias: char-major-14-* vermagic: 2.6.15-1-686 686 gcc-4.0 depends: So, yeah, you should be fine there. My second question is about the dealer I am leaning towards: SW Technology at http://www.swt.com Can anyone provide feedback about them? I have never used or even heard of that particular dealer. As someone else mentioned, it may be better to set up your own box. It will be cheaper, more fun, and, in many cases better suited to your particular needs. Of course, you actually have to set it up, and you won't get any tech support. Also, let me just add that unless you are running a server (and so 100% stability is crucial), or you do not want to deal with any problems at all, I suggest that you use Testing as opposed to Stable. Stable gets old very quickly, but is, like its name implies, very stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on i486
Hello, I have obtained the proper module for the 2.4 kernel and my ethernet card (3c509), but modprobing it results in insmod: Unresolved symbol isapnp_find_dev_Rdae0a386 Google does not find any pages with that symbol. Any ideas? -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on i486
After some work, I have discovered at least one reason for the failure: The ethernet card is actually 3c509 and not 3c59x. The Debian floppy does not have 3c509 with it. The version of Linux on the harddrive has the 3c509 module, but it used the 2.2 kernel. Will it work? The only thing that I can possibly think of is to copy that file to a floppy, boot into Debian, then move that file from the floppy to /lib/modules/KERNEL VERSION/net/ and modprobe it. Will this work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on i486
I downloaded a CD image of SmartBoot Manager, but upon loading it, the only options are: Reboot BIOS Harddrive Floppy No CD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on i486
Yes, I did mean floppy image. Sorry. If you could send me one, that would be great! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on i486
I have tried installing Debian and ran into some problems. The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot off of it, let alone USB. That leaves only floppies. I burned boot.img root.img net-drivers.img and cd-drivers.img to four floppies, and booted debian-installer. The problem is that the machine is unable to recognize the ethernet card, and I can't get much further than that (the next step is to download stuff from the Internet). The machine already runs some old distro of Linux, unfortunately, I know not which one. However, networking works fine with it, using the 3c590 module. This is in the list of available modules that come on the floppy, but I cannot use it (it says that it returns errors, and doing it from the command-line with modprobe 3c59x returns an error saying something about enabling something in the kernel. The machine has a 100MhZ processor and ~25MB or RAM. It also has an 893 MB hard drive. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian on i486
Hello, I am hopefully going to recieve an old i486 machine, and for kicks, I thought that it would be nice to install Debian. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this, as well as how much success I should expect to get? Obviously, Debian no longer supports i486, but perhaps there is a way? I would prefer to run Testing, but considering the cirumstances, I may have to settle for something else. I would just like to get some advice about the project. Thanks in advance! -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3D Acceleration
Hi all, I am running Debian Testing on a relatively old Dell machine. I did not buy the machine and have none of the manuals for it. Although I gave it a hard drive, keyboard, mouse, speakers and monitor, many things, including some sort of video card are there. Running lspci produced: :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03) :00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) :00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02) :00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) :00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE (rev 02) :00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB (rev 02) :00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801AA SMBus (rev 02) :01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 09) :01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10) I am wondering how to configure the video card for 3D acceleration, and, in general, faster rendering. I know very little about video cards (as is probably seen by this email). Can anybody help me? -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendations for Low Resource System
Several things: 1) Do not use a desktop environment (e.g GNOME, KDE). Use just a window manager. I personally suggest Sawfish. 2) If Abiword will work, use it. It's nice and usable. I use Emacs and LaTeX myself, but if you want a WYSIWYG processor, Abiword is fine. -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?
I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a script or program. What I usually use is # /etc/init.d/DISPLAY-MANAGER restart. I use GDM, so I use # /etc/init.d/gdm restart. -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
perldoc messed up curses
Hi everyone, I am using Debian Testing on a IBM Thinkpad A21e. After installing the package perl-doc, I find that many curses applications seem to behave very strangely some times. For exmaple, emacs (I use emacs -nw which is text-based curses mode), nano, less, w3m, and countless others. I have removed perl-doc after I noticed this. Now, whenever I enter a password in the terminal (generally after SSH), launching the program, causes strange things to happen, with input causing the program to print messages and scroll, and, in general, misbehave. This happens on all terminals which were created after the SSH (I use gnome-terminal, not the virtual terminal). The old ones work fine. Any ideas? -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
Re: Urgent X Problem
I was sure, but it starts up now. Instead, it says that there is an error in the configuration of the login manager, and that it will use the ``default command''. Is this /etc/gdm/gdm.conf? Should I post its contents here? -- Leonid
Re: Urgent X Problem
If your friend is using Gnome in Etch (testing), my previous post may help: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg04086.html Although GNOME is the display environment being used, it is not the one that's crashing. It's definitely X.
Urgent X Problem
Hello, I have a friend, who, after upgrading via dist-upgrade had his X display broken. Now, there is a blue screen that says that it cannot load the X server. This happened to me before, and I remembered that # modprobe agpgart seemed to help. He appears to have an Intel vhip, but nothing is working. I do not have any way to provide you with the X log file. Does anyone have any ideas based off of this pathetic information? -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
Re: Urgent X Problem
I don't know what distro you upgrade, but until sarge, you could use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to solve this kind of problems. This person is using Testing, and the error happened after an upgrade. We tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, mostly to change video drivers, but it is not working. -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
Re: Urgent X Problem
Oh, I'm sorry. No, the person is using xorg, and the command we ran was dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I accidentally typed xfree86. -- Leonid
Re: what is the easist way to transfering files on Ethernet?
I have just set up a network of 2 PCs using Ethernet connection, both running Linux. How to transfer files between them? Wait, these are going through a router, right? I suggest using either SSH with SCP (man [ssh|scp] you will need sshd (package)) or FTP (you will need ftp-server. You can also make one a server, and have the other SSH to the other one and just work there...
Re: Offensive e-mail received
Mr. Bird is right, but there is another thing you need to understand. There are really no TOS that debian-user has, because people can send to it without agreeing to anything. If you got an offensive email: (a) All of us did too (b) They broke no TOS (c) Just ignore it. If you can't set up a decent spam filter, than I suggest switching to Gmail. If you want, I'll even get you started by giving you an invitation. Cheers! -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
Re: browser woes
Are you using the Debian packages or the Mozilla-provided ones (I assume the former, since you mentioned that you do all of the updates every morning)? Yes, try moving the .mozilla directory to a temporary directory to ignore it (or create a new user and try it with that account). Did you install many extensions? I had random combinations of extensions do the most bizarre thing to my browser. Especially when these extensions were not from the official website. Just some ideas. -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
Re: Zero-content responses to ignored threads
Why do people do this? If they're so upset about topic drift or thread length, why do they insist on making it longer by being a loudmouth baby about it? Seems counterproductive... It is basic psychology, and if you look at it from the point of view of one person, you will see. Every person who is annoyed at people posting off-topic messages and wants to put a stop to it, thinks that if he writes a message asking people to stop, then they will stop. What he doesn't realize is that there will be someone who will argue against him, and there will eventually be a flame war. If he were to remain passive, then the message would have most likely be ignored, and there would be no more conversation on the matter. But at the time that it happened, remaining passive seemed impossible, because you were annoyed.
Re: gnome - window manager
This sounds stupid, but still... make sure that Metacity is actually installed and in the correct place relative the entry in gconf-editor (probably /usr/bin/metacity).
Re: deb src
Добрый день! Подскажите где можно найти diff.gz для сборки gcc 4.0.1, glibc 2.3.5, MySQL 5.0.12 ?Существует такой ресурс где хранятся все diff.gz для всех версий исходников? I am not actually sure for myself, but perhaps someone else is. Here is a translation of what was written: Good day! Can someone please say where one could find diff.gz for gcc 4.0.1, glibc 2.3.5, MySQL 5.0.12? Is there a place where all diff.gz's are held for all versions or sources?
Re: middle click paste in emacs acting weird
Yes, if Emacs has anything saved in the killring, it will take precedence over the middle click. There are several ways to fix this. One is just to use text-based emacs (emacs -nw). It is nicer, in my opinion, and if you are using, say gnome-terminal, you can middle click and C-y seperately. If you want to use graphical emacs, there is a line that you can put into your .emacs file that says to talk to X about the clipboard. Unfortunately, I forgot what it is. (x-select-enable-clipboard, I think). Does anyone else know? -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
Re: How do you grow brocolli?
Ok, I said it before and I will say it again: This is incredible! I know so many immature people, that I am strongly considering writing a book called The Height of Immaturity. This will have a chapter to itself. The one about addressing people was just an uneducated person (uneducated in the workings of this list, that is). Fine, whatever, it was a mistake. The person who wrote about the melons made a joke. Fine, it was appreciated (by some). The person wrote wrote about the pineapples was immature (or maybe pineapples was first, I don't remember). This is just stupid. I mean, it is poorly written, clearly parodying the first three, and frankly, I like (I think) many others on this list have had *enough*!!! Please, stop this maddness. I have been on forums and lists for a long time, and I have never seen a true flame war. I am afraid that this is the making of one, and I ask you to stop.
Re: [bhstcc] LinuxWorld Conference/Expo
People: PLEASE, The Expo is in 4 days. Please, it's not very difficult... just write, yes, I am coming on $day or no, I cannot come on any day. That's it! We will figure out the rest. At the moment we have: Jonathan - Tuesday Leonid (me) - Tuesday Sergei - Tuesday Vassilly - Can't go Osho - Probably won't go Wills? Alexes? PLEASE!!!
Re: [bhstcc] LinuxWorld Conference/Expo
Sorry, please disregard that message...
Re: How do you grow brocolli?
With respect Leonid, what I find incredible is that anyone would humour
any of these {kiddiwinkies|misplaced comedians|abject morons} with any
kind of response, let alone submit four paragraphs of carefully
considered reply.
Just to tell you, it was an outburst, and not a carefull considered reply.
Having said that, my response was also somewhat of an open letter to
the members of this list. I can guess that there are only a handful of
people who would continue this crap, and my letter was meant to
convince not only them that it was foolish, but also others. Also, I
am sure that the moderators will notice this soon.
Re: How do you grow a pineapple in non tropical areas?
My interest is piqued on just how much bandwidth has been used on these threads! Doing a quick tally of the respecive threads: How do you grow a pineapple in non tropical areas?: 17kb (not including this message) how to pick fresh fruit: 63kb Total: 80kb Time to download these threads on a 56kbit modem (assuming full bandwidth connection): 80kb/5kb-per-sec (roughly) = 16 seconds. Time wasted reading all threads on debian-users: hours. hours/16seconds = 1/450th of time taken to read all threads 80kb downloaded on a 256kb DSL connection: 4 seconds, corresponding fraction: 1/1800th Moving on to 1.5Mb or higher connection makes the download time pretty minute. So unless the connection that is available to you to download the messages is less than 56kb, the amount of bandwidth and corresponding amount of time required by you to is pretty small, considering the amount of traffic on debian-users, the amount of data downloaded and what I assume is an adequate 'net connection at your end. Except that's the point, one *byte* of this bloody rubbish is more than enough. The person who wrote the original message was (I hope) merely uninformed. We had an argument about whether or not we should help him. But it was just an argument, and no one got too upset, because it was only a mistake (we assume). The second guy was just immature (melons). He started somewhat of a flamewar. But still, a joke is a joke and it's appreciated every once in a while. But this is overkill. *WE GET IT ALREADY!!!* Enough! RTFM STFW Just stop, OK?
Re: how to address people
it has been discussed that the is a list for debian user and has discussed many, many OT things. We like to talk about stuff once in a while. This is not allow on strictly techincal lists. Sure, but I still think that such random questions are not appropriate here. I mean, if we can allow that, why not, say, what are the best gardening tools? As for Google, She is in China and well Google.com != Google.cn. What? I do not believe Google was mentioned anywhere in the thread.
Re: how to address people
but are we configuring X for debian? what about X in general? what if i have a question about firewalls. this is not a debian specific question, but a general computer question. the point is, what should be posted and should not be posted is a grey and fuzzy line. Sure, but still, at least configuring X has a lot more to do with Debian than English. Also, if this was Debian-specific, there would be very few posts here. d-u should not be so black and white about what should and should not be posted without looking at the rationale for posting the off-topic question. That's true, and I apologize. a person whose primary language is not english *may* have a hard time navigating google to find the correct info regarding addressing english speaking individuals. this list is full of english speaking people. seems like it may be a reasonable question to ask. Good point, I hadn't thought of that.
Re: ssh and X forwarding
I am not sure if you did this, but it needs to be enabled on both client and server for it to work. Is it? On 3/28/06, H S Rai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today at 7:37am - Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: The sshd_config file (probably under /etc/ssh/sshd_config or somewhere similar) has AllowX11Forwarding no Change that to yes and restart sshd It did not solve my problem. I made changes and restarted ssh (There is no sshd). The part of file now is as: = # Site-wide defaults for various options # Host * # ForwardAgent no ForwardX11 yes # ForwardX11Trusted yes # RhostsRSAAuthentication no What went wrong? -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Xorg depend on XFree86
does Xorg have any depends to XFree86? Nope. X is now mainly run by X.org, and all the code that is in XFree86 that it would depend on is in it, at least as I understand it. already downloaded Xorg from their site, and compiled it, but seem to be having problems Why don't you just install the Debian package? Cheers! -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
Re: adding other window managers
Hi all I have been using slackware based distros and on that distro I know my way around. The help I need is in how to add another window manager to the, what I presume is gdm in debian sarge. In slackware its almost as simple as editing one file. It doesnt seem that simple in debain. Wait, I am confused... you want to use another window manager than the one you are currently using, yes? I do not think you do this with gdm, but with GNOME. If you mean GNOME, then do the following: 1) Install window manager via apt-get 2) Find path of window manager (probably /usr/bin/window_manager) 3) Open gconf-editor 4) Go to Desktop - Gnome - Applications - window_manager 5) Edit the values 6) Restart X (log out and in again, or run /etc/init.d gdm restart as root). Cheers, Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i want spam
You are conflating things, I do believe. I said nothing about this list being open or closed. I said nothing about how much spam I get a day, week, or month. I said that this list provides me with more spam than all the rest I subscribe to. Do you dispute this? Or what? No, no, you're right, sorry. I just assumed too much information, I believe...
How unstable is Unstable?
Hello, I must say that I love Debian. It is an amazing system that has never failed me, and, although we had our ups and downs, continues to serve me loyally and fully. But there is one thing that annoys me about it, and that is how long a package needs to be tested for, before it gets verified as not dangerous. I use Testing, myself, and am annoyed by a few things. I used to hate the Debian Firefox package, because it took so long to get updated. Eventually, I removed it, and I now use the Mozilla-supplied program, something that I highly recommend. But what really bugs me is GNOME. Debian finally supplied GNOME 2.12 in Testing about a month before GNOME 2.14 came out. And it is harder to replace, because in order to use the code from gnome.org, one needs to recompile it and then set it up by hand, something that I feel I am not qualified to do. Unstable, I know, does not have this problem. So I am wondering, how unstable is it? I might be getting a new computer within a few months, and am considering installing Debian Unstable on it. But what should I expect? Will it crash a few times a month, or a day? How much work is it? Thank you very much! -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Hello and thanks for all of the replies! From what people have posted so far, I must say that Unstable seems pretty nice... I do not mind messing around with my system, but I do not want that to be the norm, like it is in Gentoo. Thanks again! -- Leonid
Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.
This has happened to me as well... It is really quite similar to someone setting a vacation autoresponse. If their email provider doesn't realize that it is a list, anytime anyone sends an email, they will get the autoresponse. Banning someone from this list may be a little harsh... perhaps the server can be configured to not send that email..? -- Leonid Grinberg
Re: Strange GNOME Problem
just a thought... maybe the Computer icon is automatically created, much like the CD icon for a freshly inserted CD. The WM has to place them somewhere and arbitrarily chooses a location based on the default grid? Just a hunch as I dumped gnome for IceWM a while back and don't really remember. I see... this is quite possible... Another question: is there any way I can delete that icon, or cause it to not be created?
Strange GNOME Problem
Hello, I have a rather stange and, frankly, silly problem with GNOME. You see, I have around 20 icons on my desktop. They are all arranged in different places, with Firefox in the top right corner, the Wastebasket in the lower right corner, along with two other folder icons. On the left side of the screen, I have around 15 icons all arranged in columns. Now, I have Arrange to Grid turned off. And everything seems to be going fine, but for some reason, the Computer icon, seems to be arranging itself to the nearest location that would be aligned to the grid. This makes it either have part of it be cut off, or overlap the nearest icon. Any ideas? I have an IBM A21e, with GNOME 2.12.2, and Debian Testing. Thanks in advance! -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching between keyboard layouts in gnome 2.6
It is a Gnome Panel widget... I myself use USA and Russian Phonetic. Just create a Keyboard Indicator widget, right click, add whatever keyset, you want, and then change the key. I know for a fact that you can use Alt and Shift (although on one of my computers, it is a little faulty and refuses to aknowledge the left Shift and Alt. I usually use Scroll Lock, myself. -- Leonid
Asus rt2500 wireless card
Hello, Following the advice I got in the thread Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad), I got myself an Asus wireless LAN card. It uses the rt2500 driver, which I installed (I downloaded the neccecary Debian packages, did everything I was supposed to, and now have the rt2500 module loaded). The laptop is running Debian Testing with kernel 2.6. I am trying to connect over wireless to a Lynksis wireless router. I cannot do it. I have tried adding auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp wireless_essid MY_ESSID to /etc/network/interfaces, but it is not working (I am doing ifdown eth0, ifup eth0). Please help! -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ACPI
Hello, I have Debian testing with kernel 2.6.12-1-386 on an IBM Thinkpad. For some reason, ACPI is not enabled in the kernel by default. This is unfortunate, because I cannot monitor the battery without ACPI. How exactly do I go about configuring the kernel to enable ACPI? I am sorry for the newbie question, but I have never compiled/configured the kernel before? Thanks in advance for your replies and patience. -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI
Yes, I do have acpid installed. Here are the commands you asked for: $ grep -i acpi /boot/config-2.6.12-1-386 # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_ACPI_AC=m CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=m CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m$ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by ipv6 236736 6 pcmcia 25224 2 af_packet 21128 2 usbmouse5248 0 usbhid 33376 0 3c59x 40232 0 mii 5376 1 3c59x snd_intel8x0 31424 1 snd_ac97_codec 73592 1 snd_intel8x0 i2c_piix4 8592 0 snd_pcm_oss49568 0 snd_mixer_oss 16768 1 snd_pcm_oss i2c_core 20752 1 i2c_piix4 uhci_hcd 29968 0 usbcore 109948 4 usbmouse,usbhid,uhci_hcd yenta_socket 21384 2 rsrc_nonstatic 12288 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core47252 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic snd_pcm83464 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 22660 1 snd_pcm joydev 9536 0 evdev 9216 0 snd50180 8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9312 1 snd snd_page_alloc 9476 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm mousedev 11296 1 psmouse27012 0 ide_cd 39044 0 cdrom 36640 1 ide_cd serio_raw 6788 0 pcspkr 3524 0 floppy 56532 0 rtc11832 0 parport_pc 34116 0 parport33352 1 parport_pc ext3 124808 1 jbd51224 1 ext3 ide_disk 16768 3 ide_generic 1408 0 [permanent] via82cxxx 13468 0 [permanent] trm290 4100 0 [permanent] triflex 3712 0 [permanent] slc90e665504 0 [permanent] sis551315624 0 [permanent] siimage11392 0 [permanent] serverworks 8456 0 [permanent] sc1200 6912 0 [permanent] rz1000 2560 0 [permanent] piix9860 0 [permanent] pdc202xx_old 10368 0 [permanent] opti621 4100 0 [permanent] ns87415 4296 0 [permanent] hpt366 18048 0 [permanent] hpt34x 4992 0 [permanent] generic 3968 0 [permanent] cy82c6934484 0 [permanent] cs5530 5120 0 [permanent] cs5520 4608 0 [permanent] cmd64x 11292 0 [permanent] atiixp 5776 0 [permanent] amd74xx14108 0 [permanent] alim15x3 11532 0 [permanent] aec62xx 6912 0 [permanent] pdc202xx_new8576 0 [permanent] ide_core 118036 28 ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,via82cxxx,trm290,triflex,slc90e66,sis5513,siimage,serverworks,sc1200,rz1000,piix,pdc202xx_old,opti621,ns87415,hpt366,hpt34x,generic,cy82c693,cs5530,cs5520,cmd64x,atiixp,amd74xx,alim15x3,aec62xx,pdc202xx_new unix 26032 513 fbcon 37120 0 tileblit2432 1 fbcon font8320 1 fbcon bitblit 5632 1 fbcon vesafb 8088 0 cfbcopyarea 3840 1 vesafb cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb cfbfillrect 4224 1 vesafb softcursor 2304 1 vesafb capability 4744 0 commoncap 6784 1 capability CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS=m CONFIG_ACPI_IBM=m CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA=m CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=2001 # CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER=m CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=m CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K7_ACPI=y CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8_ACPI=y CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI=y # CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ_PROC_INTF is not set CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI=m CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI_IBM=m CONFIG_PNPACPI=y # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_ACPI is not set
Re: ACPI
Sorry about that they got messed up... $ grep -i acpi /boot/config-2.6.12-1-386 # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_ACPI_AC=m CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=m CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS=m CONFIG_ACPI_IBM=m CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA=m CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=2001 # CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER=m CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=m CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K7_ACPI=y CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8_ACPI=y CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI=y # CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ_PROC_INTF is not set CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI=m CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI_IBM=m CONFIG_PNPACPI=y # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_ACPI is not set $ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by ipv6 236736 6 pcmcia 25224 2 af_packet 21128 2 usbmouse5248 0 usbhid 33376 0 3c59x 40232 0 mii 5376 1 3c59x snd_intel8x0 31424 1 snd_ac97_codec 73592 1 snd_intel8x0 i2c_piix4 8592 0 snd_pcm_oss49568 0 snd_mixer_oss 16768 1 snd_pcm_oss i2c_core 20752 1 i2c_piix4 uhci_hcd 29968 0 usbcore 109948 4 usbmouse,usbhid,uhci_hcd yenta_socket 21384 2 rsrc_nonstatic 12288 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core47252 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic snd_pcm83464 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 22660 1 snd_pcm joydev 9536 0 evdev 9216 0 snd50180 8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9312 1 snd snd_page_alloc 9476 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm mousedev 11296 1 psmouse27012 0 ide_cd 39044 0 cdrom 36640 1 ide_cd serio_raw 6788 0 pcspkr 3524 0 floppy 56532 0 rtc11832 0 parport_pc 34116 0 parport33352 1 parport_pc ext3 124808 1 jbd51224 1 ext3 ide_disk 16768 3 ide_generic 1408 0 [permanent] via82cxxx 13468 0 [permanent] trm290 4100 0 [permanent] triflex 3712 0 [permanent] slc90e665504 0 [permanent] sis551315624 0 [permanent] siimage11392 0 [permanent] serverworks 8456 0 [permanent] sc1200 6912 0 [permanent] rz1000 2560 0 [permanent] piix9860 0 [permanent] pdc202xx_old 10368 0 [permanent] opti621 4100 0 [permanent] ns87415 4296 0 [permanent] hpt366 18048 0 [permanent] hpt34x 4992 0 [permanent] generic 3968 0 [permanent] cy82c6934484 0 [permanent] cs5530 5120 0 [permanent] cs5520 4608 0 [permanent] cmd64x 11292 0 [permanent] atiixp 5776 0 [permanent] amd74xx14108 0 [permanent] alim15x3 11532 0 [permanent] aec62xx 6912 0 [permanent] pdc202xx_new8576 0 [permanent] ide_core 118036 28 ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,via82cxxx,trm290,triflex,slc90e66,sis5513,siimage,serverworks,sc1200,rz1000,piix,pdc202xx_old,opti621,ns87415,hpt366,hpt34x,generic,cy82c693,cs5530,cs5520,cmd64x,atiixp,amd74xx,alim15x3,aec62xx,pdc202xx_new unix 26032 513 fbcon 37120 0 tileblit2432 1 fbcon font8320 1 fbcon bitblit 5632 1 fbcon vesafb 8088 0 cfbcopyarea 3840 1 vesafb cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb cfbfillrect 4224 1 vesafb softcursor 2304 1 vesafb capability 4744 0 commoncap 6784 1 capability
PCMCIA on a IBM Thinkpad
Hello, I recently bought an IBM Thinkpad. It has 2 PCMCIA slots and comes with a PCMCIA Lan Card (3COM Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBUS Model 3CXFE575CT). The computer came with Windows 2000, and the card worked fine, so I know the card is not faulty. As I tried to install Debian Testing, I installed the base system, but I cannot get networking to work. ifconfig returns only the loopback interface, and /etc/network/interfaces only has the loopback interface. I added one for eth0, but it still does not work. Someone on Usenet (http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/860e77cb06d2e51d/a43656903237dbda%23a43656903237dbda?sa=Xoi=groupsrstart=1num=2) seems to have a very similar problem. He got a reply saying that he needs to change some configuration values. I have never configured the kernel before, but from what I understand, I need to have the sources for it. Unfortunately, debian-installer does not come with the sources. What should I do? Thank you in advance for your help. -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to enable X port forwarding with ssh
Yeah, you need to enable it in /etc/ssh/sshd_config Then, use ssh -X host.domain -l username (note: it has to be enabled on both sides, and you actually have to have X on both sides.) On 1/23/06, Edward Shornock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:49:52AM +0100, Juraj Fedel wrote: While using ssh on local network (actualy qemu virtual machine) I have hard time starting X application on virtual machine and let it show window on host X window. Starting ssh -X does not help, nor does following content of ~/.ssh/config on local computer make any difference: Host * ForwardX11 yes In both cases I can see this message when passing -v option debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. and when I try to start xclock I get error: Error: Can't open display: So how do I enable X port forwarding? Have you added X11Forwarding yes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config, then restart the ssh service? That works for me...
Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad
Hello, I just ordered an IBM Thinkpad A21e. It has a (wired) LAN card, and 2 PCMCI slots, but no wireless card. It also comes with Windows 2000 (a bug which will soon be squashed). Anyways, as I am going to be using this laptop with Wi-Fi, I decided to just buy a wireless card seperately. I have my eyes set on a Belkin card. However, I want to know some things about wireless with Debian: First of all, does anybody have any experience with Belkin? Any problems? I expect that I will have to use ndiswrapper and use Windows drivers. Will this mean I have to hold on deleting Windows, install the card and save the drivers to a CD or something similar? When the laptop can use both wired and wireless connections, how can I tell it something like: check the wired connection and if that fails, try wireless? How do I switch when it is on (I expect it is something like ifdown WIRED ifup WIRELESS)? Also, how do I configure the wireless card to go to a certain hot spot? For example, if it needs a password. My school has a free Wi-Fi service without a password, but at home, my router is secure. Thanks in advance! -- Leonid Grinberg
Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad
Thank you for your reply. I do not quite understand. First of all, am I right in saying that the auto eth0 line means that eth0 (wired, I presume) is the one that the laptop tries to log on to first? Also, what exactly is the generic syntax for the other wireless ones? Thirdly, is there a program that tells which networks are in range from which you can log onto one, supplying a password, if necessary? An example is the Windows XP program. Is there a GNU/Linxu equivalent? -- Leonid
Re: No nautilus window pops up when media inserted
Hello, This is not my area of expertise, but just in case: A) Are you sure the disk is being mounted? Try the command 'mount' (no quotes) to make sure. B) Check /etc/fstab and make sure you have permissions to read the disk as a normal user. Just some ideas! -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange Printer Problem
Hello, This happened two weeks ago, and I ccan't seem to figure out why: I was trying to print a document from my printer, and it printed fine. Everything worked perfectly, and the paper came out great. Next, I opened another document that needed printing, but this time it wouldn't print! When I went to the Gnome printer administration tool, I saw that the printer was paused with the job still in the list. Trying to print some more, kept making jobs appear. At the moment, there are 16 jobs in the list! The printer is an HP Deskjet 6540. It is connected via USB to my Debian machine, kernel 2.6. The status message shown is: Paused: Unable to open USB device usb://6540?serial=serial number here: No such device Does anybody have any ideas? -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible Firefox Bug?
Hello, Please provide more information: -What version of Firefox is this? -What kind of package (original website, Debian package, etc.)? -What extensions do you have? (less important, probably, but...) -Can you provide some standard system specs. (what version of Debian, type of machine, etc.) Thanks! -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
Keeping a Window Maximized
Hello, I usually keep my Firefox window maximized fully when browsing and all other windows non-maximized (xterm, emacs, etc). However, recently, I have noticed that if I open a new tab in Firefox, it unmaximizes the window. If I maximize it again it seems to work for a little while but not for long. Also, if I log out or even lock the screen, the problem returns? Any ideas? Leonid
Re: [Fwd: Re: Keeping a Window Maximized]
Sorry for not providing this information (I wrote this message a while back but nobody replied and I forgot to include the information this time around) I am using GNOME on Debian Testing, with window manager Metacity (I had used Sawfish for a while but I ended up preferring Metacity). I obtained Firefox from the Debian package, version 1.0.7
Re: cant start game
Hello, What do you mean i load char. What is char? What exactly are you trying to accomplish? You mentioned that you want to start a game in the subject line. What game is this? How are you loading it? What are the specifications of the computer that you are using? Please provide more information! Leonid
Window keeps getting unmaximized
Hello, I am running Metacity/GNOME on a Debian testing machine. I usually keep my Firefox window maximized and the rest of the windows unmaximized (gnome-terminal, emacs, etc.) Recently, however, whenever I open a new tab, the Firefox window keeps getting unmaximized. Also, if I maximize it again, it stops getting unmaximized for a while. This while is usualy before I log out or lock my screen. Please help, as it is getting rather annoying! Leonid
X on a USB Disk under Windows
Hello, I have a somewhat unique situation. You see, I have a fairly large USB Disk (512 MB), on which I placed PuTTY. Then when I am at school (which uses crappy Windows XP), I simply plug in the USB drive, fire up PuTTY and SSH into my Debian Testing server at home. This is all well, except for just recently, I learned of the wonders of X11 Forwarding. I set it up within my home Debian network and it works fine, but I would like to know how to set up X11 Forwarding between Windows and Debian. This in itself is not unique because all I would normally have to do is install something like Cygwin/X, and I would be all set. But in this case, I cannot do that because we are not allowed to install anything on the school computers. If I keep it on my USB disk, I am fine. And that brings me to my question. Is it possible to install something like Cigwin/X on a USB Disk and then use it for X11 Forwarding under PuTTY? I would very much love to do this because then I could pretty much do anything without being constrained by obnoxious web blockers, and filters (the school blocks nearly everything on port 80 that it doesn't know what it is). Thanks for any help, Leonid
Re: X on a USB Disk under Windows
Are you allowed to boot the computer off your usb disk? If yes, you could try installing something like FeatherLinux (http://featherlinux.berlios.de) on your usb drive and boot the computer off it. It would have ssh and X for you, along with a few other Linux programs. Probably yes, but that would be decided by some high administration official. The librarians would have a heart attack if they saw an xterm window and they wouldn't even bother arguing about it with me. Is their another way?
Re: Weird PS/2 mouse behaviour
Hello, Am I correct in saying that you are plugging in the mouse, it acts in the strange manner that you described, you unplug it, plug it back in and all is fine? I have no idea as to why this would happen, but, out of curiosity, are you plugging in the mouse while the machine (or at least X) is on? Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
Re: /dev/dsp missing gnome applet volume control complaining
This problem has been happening a lot lately. In any case, it has happened on most computers that I have installed Debian on recently. I remember being told that the reason is that Alsa is not stable enough so that it does not get installed by default (or something to that effect). Not much help, I know. Sorry. Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org
Re: Debian Wireless Networks
Am I then right to conclude that Debian probably does not have the drivers/modules packaged?
Re: Debian Wireless Networks
I will try those packages. Thank you!
Re: Debian Wireless Networks
I am sorry for being such a newbie (I have barely worked with Linux with anything in regard to hardware), but... would apt-get (or aptitude) install ndiswrapper-module ndiswrapper-utils wpasupplicant suffice? I imagine I would need to do something else like # modprobe module coming with one or more of above packages and # echo module coming with one or more of above packages /etc/modules Is there anything else? Leonid
Re: Debian Wireless Networks
Sorry about the lateness of the reply... Finally, here is the output of lspci on my friend's laptop: :00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03) :00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 :00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25) :00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller :00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] :00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) :00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) :00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) :00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) :00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller :00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) :00:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02) :00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) :00:18.0 host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Optteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration :00:18.1 host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Optteron] Address Map :00:18.2 host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Optteron] DRAM Controller :00:18.3 host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Optteron] Miscellaneous Control :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter Leonid
Re: modprobe for module at boot time?
If you want modules to be loaded at boot time, enter in their names in /etc/modules (you will need root permissions for this.)
Debian Wireless Networks
Hello, A few hours ago, I have installed Debian Testing on a friend's laptop. The laptop came with Windows XP, and we agreed to make a dual boot of both. Most things work in Debian. There are a few problems, but by far the biggest and most important is the fact that it does not work at *all* with wireless networks. Unfortunately, neither I nor him know almost anything about the computer. We know that it has an AMD processor, and that's about it. The wireless network is crucial. He uses the laptop both at home and at school. At home, it is difficult for him to use a wired network because of router positions, etc. At his school there is a free Wi-fi connection which students can use, but he needs wireless to be working for that as well. I know that it is really difficult to help not knowing even what wireless card he has, but could someone at least point me in the right direction? I suspect that a driver and/or kernel module is not installed or is not being started. Thank you, Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Wireless Networks
Ok, thank you. Judging from the commands that you just told me, I take it you are trying to find the wireless card type. Am I right? In general, do you think that it is a package that Debian has that is not installed, a module that is not loaded (in /etc/modules), or a module not installed? Leonid
Re: apt-get update errors
I think that this is probably a problem with the mirror of the Debian repository that you are using (i.e. something on their end). In any case, I am not getting any errors (I too use Debian Testing with repository debian.lcs.mit.edu).
System Log Daemon on Bootup
I have just moved which means I did not have any Internet access for a few days. When I moved, however, my computer was working but did not have a connection which lead me to notice two things (at bootup): First of all, the DHCPDISCOVER messages took a really long time not finding anything (which, of course, is to be expected) and the Starting System Log Daemon message took an obnoxious time to load (around 10 minutes). I am not sure what syslogd is, so I suspected that it might be due to lack of Internet access, but now I have Internet access and the syslogd message is still as obnoxious as ever. After doing man syslogd, I discovered that it uses a configuration file, /etc/syslog.conf. I decided to try something out, and commented all the lines out, but the ones that were not commented, I commented with ## as opposed to # so I can remember them later. After rebooting I found that the syslogd message goes by a lot quicker which means that it is getting stuck somewhere in the file. The file is uncommented at present but can anybody tell me why it is getting stuck and what I can do about it? Is it OK to comment it out like I did? Thank you, Leonid Grinberg
Re: Programming in C with debian
I agree, using a powerful text editor as opposed to a full-featured IDE is probably better. If you really want and IDE, I recommend using Anjuta (for GNOME) and (I guess) KDevelop for KDE (I use GNOME, myself, but then again, I also use Emacs)
Debian and wireless network cards
Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). Thanks, Leonid Grinberg
Re: Changing mouse (newbie question)
Debian Sarge, kernel 2.4.27-2-686 I also suggest you update your kernel to 2.6.8 Just install kernel-image-version number-architecture X configuration tool = dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Do this as root. Cheers, Leonid Grinberg
Re: On using Mozilla instead of Firefox (was: Re: Disappearing text in Mozilla)
First of all, I apologize for calling Mozilla 'old Mozilla', it is just that many people refer to Firefox as just Mozilla and I didn't want to cause confusion. The Debian version of Firefox is modified slightly. But that can't be the reason for such a dramatic difference in speed (yes, I do agree with you). As a matter of fact, I think the main reason is actually hardware. Windows is a very bloated piece of software (if it can even be called that), and therefore, most computers with it installed are reasonably fast. Debian, on the other hand, (and most other Unixes/Linuxes for that matter) can run on much slower machines. For example, I have a friend that has 3 computers in his room, Windows ME, Windows XP, and Debian. Windows XP is a state of the art computer suitable for gaming, the Windows XP is usable if not fast, but the Debian is slow. This is not because he does not like Debian (he does) but because Debian can easily run on slow machines. Therefore, when someone installs a pretty big piece of software (Firefox), it runs pretty slowly. In any case, I apoligize for sounding so inconsiderate of a high quality piece of software that now has a successor Leonid Grinberg
Re: Cursor acting strangely
I meant to send this to the list. Sorry: I do not believe I am using gpm, in any case, I could not find gpm.conf (/etc/gpm.conf is nonexistent). The following is the mouse section of XF86Config-4 Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Buttons 5 I have almost the same problem but it stops after once clicking the mouse. Do you mean if it goes wild, you click and it stops, or if it goes wild, you stop and it does not ever do that again for the duration of the session? Thank you, Leonid
Re: Disappearing text in Mozilla
I do not have this problem. In any case, I suggest you use Firefox as opposed to the old mozilla. On 7/18/05, Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that... On 7/18/05, Jeff Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leonid Grinberg wrote: I do not have this problem. In any case, I suggest you use Firefox as opposed to the old mozilla. Oops... wrong recipient, Leonid. Always better to reply to the list. -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Dictator of the Great Realms of Peter Make something foolproof and they come up with a new and improved fool -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice Dictator of the Great Realms of Peter Make something foolproof and they come up with a new and improved fool
Cursor acting strangely
Hello, A small problem I have with my mouse is that every once in a while the cursor suddenly flies across the screen. This usually happens when I am moving the mouse around and suddenly the cursor gets out of control and flies (usually the opposite way) across the screen. In a few seconds it begins obeying me again. I used to have an old trackball which I threw away due to terrible precision. I bought a brand new Logitech optical mouse. This started happening after I got a new monitor and did dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 as root. I did not end up changing anything but my mouse's scroll wheel suddenly lost its functionality to, well, scroll. After a day or so, I figured out that I need to change the port from PS/2 to ImPS/2. Ever since then the above mentioned problem (about the cursor) has begun. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix it and what is happening? Thanks, Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wmaker Nautilus (in only one window)?
What you want is nautilus --no-desktop --browser This will make it just a file browser. Cheers, Leonid
Re: New to debian
Do you have a fully working system but with command line only? If so, try to press Cntrl-Alt-F7 Tell us what happened!
