can't seem to get internalmodem running
Hey there everyone, I am a bit new to the linux thing, and I seem to be having some trouble locating my modem. It is an internal 33.6 cardinal voice modem, and it uses com3 on my win95 setup. Being an internal com port, I don't think it was configured when I added the serial ports to the kernel on installation, and the /dev system on unic/linux is taking some getting used to. If any of you have any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated, as copying .deb files to floppy in win95 then installing them in linux really sucks, but until I can find my modem, I can't grab anything while in linux. Also, I have the minicom program ( I think that is what it is called, so until I get the net tools and the ppp going, this should do. So basically I just need to find which of the dev choices is my modem, and if it is even on that list. Thanks in advance, Rob Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help: error opening terminal con80x25 during install
Wybo Dekker says: Hi, After having installed debian for the first time and logging in as root I got the opportunity to install packages with dselect. However, when dselect started, it gave the message: error opening terminal con80x25 and quit, leaving me with an almost empty system. The TERM variable was indeed con80x25. Changing it to console did'nt help. Does anybody know what I did wrong? This didn't happen to me, so I don't know what's wrong. Did you just set=TERM or did you also export it? Outside X my TERM echoes linux not console. Anyway, just to get started, you could also cd in the dirctory where you've the .deb files and say dpkg -i pack; this isn't comfortable, but does get you started. HTH ciccio
Re: need help: error opening terminal con80x25 during install
For now, if you are using the Bourne shell, use TERM=linux export TERM or for the C-shell, use setenv TERM linux This is where my memory gets foggy. Some security package called lshell or something similar messes up the shell environment. The fix is to deinstall the package or to edit /etc/shells to allow the normal shells (without the lshells prefix) and change your login shell in /etc/passwd back to the non-lshells one. Someone no doubt will make this a bit sharper for me. I am moving my home and have not had my Linux system booted since Wednesday. Thanks Bruce
Unidentified subject!
I just just installed Debian from the August 96 release of Infomagic's 6 CD set and I would like to know how to access (using dselect) the local and non-free packages. Are they in the CD set? Fernando
Anyone got a microcom working with diald?
Hi I have been using a 14400 modem with debian for some time now using the diald system. Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte 28.8S to speed things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I find it dials the number and then refuses to talk to the computer on the other side. I think it has something to do with the serial line settings, but setting these in pppd seems to do nothing. If I use seyon and set the baud to 115200 then it connects fine. I can then exit seyon and use pppd. I would like to simplify this, though. If anyone has any ideas that might be of assistance, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. Regards Mark
Re: ftp.debian.org
We recently decided to keep the master copy of the _entire_ WWW site on master.debian.org, rather than just a portion of it as previously. This meant that it would become very much larger. Rather than grow the mirror sites 300 MB, we moved it to its own separate directory. If you wish to mirror that directory, or a portion of it (which is probably more appropriate), you should be able to do so. Thanks Bruce
Re: mime? nslookup?
Are there mime and nslookup packages for debian? MIME is a transmission standard for email. What MIME package are you looking for? I maintain 'mime-support' which is basically /etc/mime.types and /etc/mailcap with a support program for installing new types into mailcap. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Re: [Q] file format?
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Le Tran wrote: Hello, I just downloaded the boot, root, and base disks. I wrote them out to floppies using rawrite2. My question: when I download other packages, what program do I use to write them out to floppies? rawrite2 or copy Once you have the base system installed you should not need to write the rest of the packages to a floppy. If you use DOS to download them, you only need mount the dos partition and install them directly from there. or tar? Another related quesion. The file extension of debian binary files is .deb, how were they generated? The .deb files are package files created by the dpkg collection of tools. After you install the dpkg package take a look at the documentation in /usr/doc/dpkg policy.html and programmer.html for instructions on how to use these tools. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
debian startup scripts dedicated ppp
I have a dedicated ppp script, and it doesn't seem that debian's startup scripts make any provisions for this. I've modified the init.d/ppp script to start up ppp, and made it be run on boot and shutdown. There's a filesystem I always nfs mount over ppp (it's in fstab), and when I'm booting up, init.d/boot mounts all the nfs filesystems after it's run init.d/network, but before my ppp gets started. So I have to wait there until the mount times out, and manually mount the filesystem after the system is done booting. I have a similar problem on shutdown, my ppp is killed when the scripts in /etc/rc6.d are run, but the nfs filesystem is still mounted. Then init.d/reboot comes along and tries to unmount filesystems, anf gets hung up on the nfs filesystem, and I have to wait for that to time out before my system reboots. So is there a better way to set up a dedicated ppp link than what I'm using? And is there any provision to unmount filesystems before the network is brought down? I see that red hat uses a nfsfs script that's responsible for starting/stopping nfs services at the appropriate time. Unless I'm just totally missing something with my problems as I described them above, I propose that a similar script be added to debian. -- true - do nothing, successfully - - true (1)
Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running
Hi Rob --
If your modem is on COM3, then it is referred to as /dev/cua2 during boot-up
and as /dev/ttyS2 for most operations thereafter. If you are trying to get
it to work at high speed, then I think what you need to do is to change
a line in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial. I suspect you have a line which
looks like this:
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
If so, you need to change it to this:
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} spd_vhi
Or you could be more brute-force about it and simply do this:
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 irq 4 skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} spd_vhi
HTH,
Susan Kleinmann
Re: debian startup scripts dedicated ppp
The simple solution to your problem is to put the 'noauto' option on your nfs directory entry in /etc/fstab, and then put an explicit mount command (and corresponding umount command) in the init.d/ppp script. You could also setup amd, but that could be overkill for your situation. -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 3 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail. ] [ Unsolicited commercial and junk e-mail will be proof-read for US$100 ] There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. - Fred Hoyle
adobe acrobat viewer in debian?
I found Adobe's beta3 of their Acrobat viewer, but they claim it is only for the yggdrasiL (sp?) distribution... Has anyone got this setup under Debain (packaged or not) and can explain how to do it? Thanks...
adobe acrobat viewer in debian?
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:55:46 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew D Moss) said: I found Adobe's beta3 of their Acrobat viewer, but they claim it is only for the yggdrasiL (sp?) distribution... Has anyone got this setup under Debain (packaged or not) and can explain how to do it? I suspect that this thing about only supporting Yggdrasil is no more than an expression of paranoia on Adobe's part. I downloaded it and installed per the instructions that came with the thing, and it works fine. There is no plugin for Netscape under Linux, but the application runs and hasn't caused any problems. Just put a link to the application (acroread) in some directory in your search path, like /usr/local/bin. -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGES OF ANY KIND. I CONSIDER SUCH MESSAGES PERSONAL HARRASSMENT AND A GROSS INVASION OF MY PRIVACY. By sending unsolicited commercial advertising/solicitations (or otherwise on or as part of a mailing list) to me via e-mail you will be indicating your consent to paying John R. (Randy) Gobbel $1,000.00 U.S.D./hour for a minimum of 1 hour for my time spent dealing with it. Payment due in 30 days upon receipt of an invoice (e-mail or regular mail) from me or my authorized representative.
Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald?
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Mark Warburton wrote: Hi I have been using a 14400 modem with debian for some time now using the diald system. Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte 28.8S to speed things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I find it dials the number and then refuses to talk to the computer on the other side. I I had the same problem (using a USR sportster modem). The fix was to change the initialization string of the modem. I changed things too many times to be sure of the exact problem, but I'm now initializing with ATZ after writing to NVRAM (ATF1K0W0sent from minicom). diald didn't like the string ATF1 in the chat command line. I don't know how similar your modem is.
Am I the Only One Waiting??
Hello I've been dying to read this list in the archive version for the month of July. I know it is probably huge and I can wait, I just wanted to know about when it will be accessible via www.debian.org! I was trying to keep up with the list back then, but I was working for complete idiots and had quite the crisis mid July no thanks to them (my now former employer). Anyway I noticed the month of June was posted by mid August and I really could use the info that was being thrown around in July. If it isn't posted soon I'll ask a bunch of stupid questions that could have been answered by the July archive and then I'll go back to Slackware!! Not really! Paul
server sides in apache.
Hi, ive solved all my web server related problems since i changed from NCSA to apache - accept this one... All my server side includes are now failing with an error message [an error occured trying to process this directive] .. is there something ive missed? This is how i call serversides in my html... !--#exec cgi=/cgi-bin/cook.pl -- My srm is configured coreectly (well, its no different in thsi particular area than the old NCSA srm.conf) thanks Pachi, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net.au/ (not mine) \ / . On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait and waiting died. -G.W Cecil/Adlai Stevenson.
in.telnetd?
Hmmm, how come teknetd doesnt come with the base 1.1 set? Also, where can i get it from? Pachi, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net.au/ (not mine) \ / . On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait and waiting died. -G.W Cecil/Adlai Stevenson.
Re: Am I the Only One Waiting??
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul T. McNally wrote: I've been dying to read this list in the archive version for the month of July. I know it is probably huge and I can wait, I just wanted to know about when it will be accessible via www.debian.org! Until the issue with www.debian.org is cleared up, the archives are (and will continue to be) available at any ftp mirror in /debian/debian-lists. Guy
How do I use longtable in LaTeX
I want to compare three documents in paralel columns in a report. The comparison will stretch over about 20 pages. I believe LaTeX have the possibility to do that. So far I could not find any documentation on how to use longtable that, according to one of the LaTeX-newsletters can do it. Can somebody help please! Johann Spies
Re: debian startup scripts dedicated ppp
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote: I have a dedicated ppp script, and it doesn't seem that debian's startup scripts make any provisions for this. I've modified the init.d/ppp script to start up ppp, and made it be run on boot and shutdown. There's a filesystem I always nfs mount over ppp (it's in fstab), and when I'm booting up, init.d/boot mounts all the nfs filesystems after it's run init.d/network, but before my ppp gets started. So I have to wait there until the mount times out, and manually mount the filesystem after the system is done booting. You should propagate the PPP startup script before the NFS mounts occur. This is a site specific configuration that probably isn't that common. Never the less, I think Debian 1.2 will probably deal with this better (I think). In the mean time, you can customize the init.d/network script to call your ppp startup script instead of running it out of rcX.d (where X is the run level). I don't have a Debian system in front of me right now (mine's floating in the Pacific at the moment :-)), so this is the best I can do. This should get your ppp up prior to going to the mount phase. A better solution may be to use the noauto option for NFS mounts and include a separate NFS mount script in init.d and link it to something later than the PPP script in the rc directory. That would save you from modifying init.d/network. It would also enable you to configure runlevels that do not use ppp, or NFS mounts, etc. Again I don't have a Debian system in from of me right now, so I don't know how this is handled in 1.1 out of the box for sure. I have a similar problem on shutdown, my ppp is killed when the scripts in /etc/rc6.d are run, but the nfs filesystem is still mounted. Then init.d/reboot comes along and tries to unmount filesystems, anf gets hung up on the nfs filesystem, and I have to wait for that to time out before my system reboots. This seems to be a very popular problem. Debian, RedHat, Slackware, SunOS, Solaris, Irix all kill all processes prior to unmounting filesystems. The theory behind this is that if a filehandle is open on a filesystem, it can't be unmounted. The problem is when the process killed is ypbind or pppd and you can't resolve the hostname of the NFS server. I think Solaris 2.5+ has a functional fuser command that could be used to kill all processes (close all open filehandles) on a mount point. The shutdown procedure could then kill processes on NFS mounted filesystems first, unmount NFS filesystems, then do its normal routine of killing all processes and umounting all filesystems. Anybody know if Debian's fuser command supports this? Anybody got any other ideas here? So is there a better way to set up a dedicated ppp link than what I'm using? And is there any provision to unmount filesystems before the network is brought down? I see that red hat uses a nfsfs script that's responsible for starting/stopping nfs services at the appropriate time. Unless I'm just totally missing something with my problems as I described them above, I propose that a similar script be added to debian. How does this script handle the open filehandles issue on NFS mounts? Do you have a copy of the script? Thanks Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7810 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. ***
Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522).
Christopher R. Hertel wrote: This is with two flavors of Slacware and with Debian. It seems to be a problem that my SCSI adapter has with Linux in general. On Sep 22, 6:34pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Subject: Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522). : Problem: The system hangs when the SCSI bus is reset. : Config: Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller :Two different motherboards :Three different versions of Linux : : More specifically, I cannot perform a soft reboot from Linux. Could you give the actual failure message? We had a client with a similar problem with one of our cards. Turns out that his sound card wasn't fully honoring the bus reset, and was grabbing the IRQ out from under the Cyclades card. From a power-on start, the system worked fine, but after a three finger salute, or even pushing the reset button, the card didn't work. Something like this would hang your system if the SCSI card suddenly found itself without the IRQ it was set for... and sound cards LOVE to grab IRQ 11. It works with DOS does not mean that there is not a hardware conflict. The DOS drivers probably initialize the hardware differently. Standard procedure is to pull out everything except the minimum necessary to boot (plus the offending card, if not a required card). Add cards until the problem resurfaces. -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
Re: dosemu 0.60.3-1 won't run
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to report that I got dosemu 0.60.3-1 to work (or whichever the version is in the Debian 1.1 stable tree is) when booting from the hdimage instead of booting from the floppy. I must also admit that I got the message ERROR: can't get floppy parameter of /dev/fd0 (Interrupted system call) when trying to boot from the floppy, and then kicked off. I got dosemu to work as advertised once I installed the (I believe) xcompat package. This should be a requirement for the package. Now, how do I go about submitting a bug report for dosemu? -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
Re: Unidentified subject!
Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt wrote: I just just installed Debian from the August 96 release of Infomagic's 6 CD set and I would like to know how to access (using dselect) the local and non-free packages. Are they in the CD set? No, they are not. The 'local' set is just that; ones that you made locally for use on your machine. Say you have a network of machines with the same cards in them (not unusual in a commercial network), and you built a package with the 2.0.20 kernel with all the drivers you need. You make this package available in your 'local' set. Or, you want to keep an older version of a program around. (You get the idea.) I have no idea why the 'non-free' set is not included on the CD set, other than for space reasons, as most of the programs in that set are included in the other distributions. -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running
Rob Hanson wrote: I am a bit new to the linux thing, and I seem to be having some trouble locating my modem. It is an internal 33.6 cardinal voice modem, and it uses com3 on my win95 setup. You need to use the 'setserial' command to tell the system about your modem. You should be able to convince Windoze to tell you the IRQ and base address of the card; you'll need this for setserial. If any of you have any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated, as copying .deb files to floppy in win95 then installing them in linux really sucks, but until I can find my modem, I can't grab anything while in linux. Assuming that you don't swap hard drives, you should be able to simply mount the Windoze partition under Linux, and forget about floppies. -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald?
Mark Warburton wrote: I have been using a 14400 modem with debian for some time now using the diald system. Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte 28.8S to speed things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I find it dials the number and then refuses to talk to the computer on the other side. If I use seyon and set the baud to 115200 then it connects fine. I can then exit seyon and use pppd. To use 115200, you need to use setserial on the port with the spd_vhi flag, and tell diald/pppd to use 38400. However, since it connects under minicom, that's telling me that you aren't using the proper setup string. Try using the same init string under diald as you use under minicom. -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
Re: LaTeX
A format file is a binary version of a TeX-macro collection. First of all you should get the macros themself: Hookup to the net and then type ncftp ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/base.tar.gz This works because those FTP-servers pack and compress directory trees. Maybe you'll also want ncftp ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/packages.tar.gz Unpack the base and check out the install instructions for your installation. Normally it should just consist in running initex on unpack.ins and then on latex.ltx (or at least something real similar). You'll have to move the some system files to a place where TeX can find them. Just read the instruction. You can do it like this but it isn't recommend. All of this is taken care of by debian packages. Unfortunately there have been some buggy packages but the most recent (check ??-fixed or unstable) should do the job quite well. Erick
LaTeX and 8bit input
How can I get LaTeX to accept 8bit input and display the full isolatin1 character set. Currently, it (seems as it) simply discards the extensions, displaying a word such as t.st as tst (substitute your favorite non-ascii 8bit isolatin1 character for the dot abov). Here at departement, we have a style called `isolatin1' that enables the display of these extended characters. In a previous version of debian (believe it was 1.1 beta), it worked to include the style `t1enc', but doing this under 1.1-fixed, tries to generate some fonts such as dcr1000m, but this process fails rather quickly. I have also tried using the `inputencoding' style giving the `latin1' option, but with no visible effect. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Anyone got a microcom working with diald?
Mark == Mark Warburton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte 28.8S to speed Mark things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I have such a modem working just fine, though I do not use diald currently. But I have used diald back with 0.93R6 with no problems. I can mail you my pppd setup if it can help. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Script to produce bug reports?
Hi, I was planning to write a script to make the bug reporting process semiautomatic. With a standard form, and leaving place for an Additional comments field would be IMO a step forward for the project: Std form+Script - FastEasy to report - - Easier to read/bounce duplicates/fix === Better system However I had no time in the last weeks to produce something usable and I forgot what I have done and what I haven't. Has any one tried this idea before? Lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- P.S. I found myself many times accepting bugs just to avoid writing a bug report. My excuses are 1) I don't have an Internet connection at home where I run Debian/Linux. 2) I still have problems to make my Debian/Linux on a portable HD network/mail aware at work. That makes bug reporting not an easy task for me.
Trashed disk
Folks, I've just noticed that I've been getting the following messages for the last couple of weeks. Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 2, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 10 00 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: Current error sr08:11: sns = f0 3 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: ASC=10 ASCQ= 0 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x06 0xc0 0xe9 0x28 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x10 0x00 0x00 0x80 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:11, sector 442568 My first reaction is to toss the disk, but I thought I'd see if anyone on this list would offer that it is salvageable (and if so, what precautions would be necessary). It's an old Fujitsu that I bought used 2.5 years ago and it's been running non-stop since.
Re: adobe acrobat viewer in debian?
Hi Matthew, You wrote: I found Adobe's beta3 of their Acrobat viewer, but they claim it is only for the yggdrasiL (sp?) distribution... Has anyone got this setup under Debain (packaged or not) and can explain how to do it? Thanks... It works under Debian. I don't know if it is able as *.deb yet, but I bet some one will in no time at all. I would but I'm still learning and got ways to go yet. See ya, -David
Re[2]: Filename case - the simple solution ...
somebody wrote (Sorry, I don't get always the original poster address ): Resolving the case problem can also be solved VeRy simply by typing the one magical word... case - NEXT TIME - when you do your FTP'ing don't forget to use the case statement. It may not be that simple as that. There maybe other reasons for the uppercases in filenames. I found out that some tarred files using DOS PDTAR under DOS, render uppercase filenames when untarred on Unix systems. So the other solutions posted still apply and may be handy. lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: special boot disks
It is true. only a brief description is given. but you may want to read the config files with which the special kernels were created. They are in the same directory as the special-kernel packages. I also remember reading some (brief) info in the FAQ (not too much) lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Reply Separator _ Subject: special boot disks Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:23.09.96 19:12 In preparing for debian 1.1 installation I find that the standard installation boot disk does not support the hardware I have. I have found a variety of special boot disks in /buzz/special-kernels, but no description of the hardware configurations each supports. Where on the debian ftp site will I find such descriptions? Thanks for any help. Richard
Re: Problem with GIMP
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:09:37 +0200 Thomas Schiex ([EMAIL PROTECTED] a.fr) wrote: Package: contrib/binary/gimp-smotif_0.54.1-3.deb Very often, when I use the so-called intelligent scissors in GIMP (with a bulb lamp icon), on a complex image, the process catch a SIGSEGV after 4 or 5 points have been selected. The package maintainer has not any idea of the source of the problem. Did anybody out there meet this problem ? and a solution ? I have the same problem here. I'm afraid it's a GIMP bug. Phil.
386 Dx-40
Hi folks, A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. Jonathan
Re[2]: Am I the Only One Waiting??
Guy Maor writes: Date:24.09.96 08:31 On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul T. McNally wrote: I've been dying to read this list in the archive version for the month of July. I know it is probably huge and I can wait, I just wanted to know about when it will be accessible via www.debian.org! Until the issue with www.debian.org is cleared up, the archives are (and will continue to be) available at any ftp mirror in /debian/debian-lists. Guy I remember a posting of the maintainer of the debian-users list archives saying he had problems to fix things up before the end of September due to lack of time. Therefore the newest postings archived on the server and mirrors are those of June 96. Don't hold your breath :-) lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help: error opening terminal con80x25 during instal
change console to linux. As you can check that is the entry in the terminfo database. I think the change occurred in the 1.3.x development stage of Linux. lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Reply Separator _ Subject: need help: error opening terminal con80x25 during install Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:23.09.96 20:58 Hi, I asked this question earlier but got no answer. Would very much like to try debian but can't run dselect. Please take a quick look... it can't be a difficult one: After having installed debian for the first time and logging in as root I got the opportunity to install packages with dselect. However, when dselect started, it gave the message: error opening terminal con80x25 and quit, leaving me with an almost empty system. The TERM variable was indeed con80x25. Changing it to console did'nt help. Does anybody know what I did wrong? Thanks for helping! ===Servalys Analytical Chemistry Services= Wybo H. Dekker| Deilsedijk 60 | tel (31)345-652164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 4158 CH Deil, The Netherlands | fax (31)345-652383
Re: Unidentified subject!
I have no idea why the 'non-free' set is not included on the [Infomagic] CD set, other than for space reasons, as most of the programs in that set are included in the other distributions. Probably because we are considerate :-( In Debian, all packages that cannot be freely redistributed (e.g. that may not (always) be put on CD, or exported from the USA) are separated from the main distribution in the 'non-free' section, whereas other distribution don't make that distinction. CD manufacturers could put parts of non-free on CD, but they'd have to take the effort to check it per package. As each package includes copyright information, this is not too hard to do. Joel, please consider making that effort for the next Infomagic release. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: STB Powegraph graphics card problem (was:HELP: Probs configuring X)
Justin My hardware: STB Powergraph 64 Video(S3 Trio64V+ Chipset) MAG DX17F Justin Monitor(30-64kHz Horizontal, 50-100Hz Vertical) I still get a 2mm brighter line on the left, so that's where I put Goodstuff buttons and Icons, and put Emacs safely on the right. The solution is to upgrade to one of the late 3.1.2 betas; lots of bugs related to the 64V+ chipset were fixed. I have a noname Trio64V+ card, I used to get the bright border, but not any more. 3.1.2G is the latest; none of the betas are available as Debian packages (by policy of the maintainer), but you should be able to extract the binaries over the top of the existing 3.1.2 ones and dpkg/dselect shouldn't know the difference. (Or at least, I guess it won't; haven't tried doing anything with it since upgrading). hamish
hint on handling mail volume: sortmail
To deal with the high volume of mail on this list I set up filter to move the debian-related mail to an elm folder. Unfortunately, filter, or at least my configuration, seemed very buggy; not all the debian mail was noticed and moved to the special folder, and forwarded messages (for debian or not) were stuffed completely. Unfortunately procmail is not available on this system (which is the university's main computer science student machine, running Solaris) and I couldn't find the source on the net in a quick browse. So looking through the comp.sources.unix archives I found, in volume 28, sortmail, which does the job beautifully. My .sortmailrc is pretty short; # .rc file for sortmail, which files mail in the right places # mail goes in to the incoming if unrecognised, # or to the debian folder if appropriate set mailbox='/var/mail/moffatt' set folder='Mail' /debian/t:+debian Much less confusing than filter. The provided Makefile is set for Solaris 2.x, but I wouldn't think it'd be too hard to get it running on Linux. If I get inspired I might look in to doing a package. Hope this helps somebody. (Oh, and the binary is only 25k (on Solaris at least), which is pretty good if you're on a quota). hamish
Re: samba problems
About 90% of my /var/log/smb* log files are the line: Added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 It seems that smbd prints this as it starts up. I just don't Possible temporary workaround: run smbd/nmbd as daemons, not from inetd. This means it'll only start up once, and also it should respond slightly quicker in theory, especially since you seem to be using samba pretty heavily. hamish
Re: LaTeX and 8bit input
In a previous version of debian (believe it was 1.1 beta), it worked to include the style `t1enc', but doing this under 1.1-fixed, tries to generate some fonts such as dcr1000m, but this process fails rather quickly. And that is the thing where it goes wrong. You need to install the proper fonts which are packaged in the mfdcfnt package which is because of copyright restrictions in the non-free part of the distribution (probably not on a cd). Erick
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyway and : not to other users of the system as well! So i don't see the point in : this! The last time I used teTeX it was necessary to allow ordinary users to re-build the database so new pk-files were found. -Winfried
Re: adobe acrobat viewer in debian?
Matthew D Moss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I found Adobe's beta3 of their Acrobat viewer, but they claim it is only : for the yggdrasiL (sp?) distribution... From the reports in linux.dev.kernel (awful it's used for this) it's likely the Reader will work under all distributions. A drawback: it only works on the console, not on X-Terminals ... -Winfried
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Re: server sides in apache.
At 14:56 24-09-96 +1000, Fundamental wrote: Hi, ive solved all my web server related problems since i changed from NCSA to apache - accept this one... All my server side includes are now failing with an error message [an error occured trying to process this directive] .. is there something ive missed? This is how i call serversides in my html... !--#exec cgi=/cgi-bin/cook.pl -- My srm is configured coreectly (well, its no different in thsi particular area than the old NCSA srm.conf) But did you also include the exec_cgi-module during compile-time? (I dunno if the standard debian-apache has). Something else: will there be an /info and /status, besides logging of HTTP_REFERER and HTTP_USER_AGENT, in the new distribution (with apache-1.1.1) ?? // Remco van de Meent (nParago on IRC) // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://cal052012.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks.
csh logout - shutdown (solved)
Many thanks to Syrus Nemat-Nasser and all who provided the solution to this problem. Joe
/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemons
On startup and shutdown I have been receiving messages which read as follows: /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd S10netbaseS12kerneldetc:/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: no such file or directory. Being relatively new to Debian, I do not understand the meaning of these messages. It could be that they are not relative to my particular setup. I run Debian on a laptop machine and in general the system runs perfectly. I would appreciate any information you could provide. Many thanks: Joe
