scsi errors
Thanks again to all who have replied. Apparently the problems I was seeing were from the kernel version I was running. When I upgraded to 2.0.15 all the errors went away. Although the reported errors went away, almost none of the data I've put on the drive comes back off like it's supposed to... Is there any way of testing a block device in linux? Mike
package PCB
Who's maintaining pcb? I looked on the orphaned list and it wasn't there but it's 3 revisions behind the latest. Mike
mounting an external drive
Hi, ive attached a removable syquest drive to my debian machine, can debian be forced to detect it? or must i mount it manually? if i have to mount it, can someone tell me how (or point me to a resource that could)? 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.
Apache ELF 1.1.1
hi, i grabbed the binary of APache 1.1.1 (ELF) from apache.org and when i tried to run it i got the message cant find libgdbm.so so i grabbed the libgdbm (dev) package from debain.org but this didnt have this file either. What am i mising here? 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: Apache ELF 1.1.1
Hi Michael -- zless buzz-fixed/Contents.gz yields: usr/lib/libgdbm.so libgdbm1-dev usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 libgdbm1 usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1.7.3 libgdbm1 If you got libgdbm, may got the wrong package. Susan Kleinmann
Re: Apache ELF 1.1.1
hi, i grabbed the binary of APache 1.1.1 (ELF) from apache.org and when i tried to run it i got the message cant find libgdbm.so so i grabbed the libgdbm (dev) package from debain.org but this didnt have this file either. What am i mising here? It shouldn't look for libgdbm.so but for libgdbm.so.* instead. BTW, you should get the Debian Apache 1.1.1 package from unstable. The latest package is 1.1.1-4. Yves.
Re[2]: Scsi errors
At 07:55 PM 9/25/96 -0500, you wrote: Are there any kernels that are known to work _for_sure_ with an AHA-1542CF?? Maybe that's my problem... Mike My 0.0001$ contribution: I've also been running Linux 1.0.9, 1.2.13 and now 2.0.6 with the AHA1542CF and only had problems when forgetting to terminate the CD-ROM at the end of the chain [is has not internal resistors :-( ]. I never had problems with the HDs at the end of the chain as they are internally terminated. In my case, the total length of the SCSI bus is slightly below 2 m. I usually have two SCSI HD disks and the CD-ROM on it. I remember several postings last year and the SCSI FAQ comp.?.hardware.scsi mentioning how sensible to termination problems the Adaptec cards were. __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: Scsi errors Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:26.09.96 14:54 At 07:55 PM 9/25/96 -0500, you wrote: Are there any kernels that are known to work _for_sure_ with an AHA-1542CF?? Maybe that's my problem... Mike I've been running a AHA-1542CF since the 1.x kernel series with no trouble at all. I know have two systems with them in there running 2.0.15 and 1.2.10. I did have a problem before with the scsi cable which I posted to here - basically what it kept doing was writing to the hard drive in wrong places, corrupting things when accessing the cdrom I have connected. Turned out that it was the cable and I've never had any trouble since then. Perhaps it could be the hard drive, but then again, I wouldn't know about that - both my scsi disks are SCSI-2 and yours is a SCSI-3, perhaps it doesn't like them for some reason? Regards ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au/
Which option gets ide-cd into my kernel?
Just tried installing linux from Infomagics LDR 6CD set it reconises my Creative Labs CD-ROM on boot but there appears to be no driver for it - presumably dselect wants hd1 for the CD-ROM, but in the /dev directory there is no ide-cd which it presumably needs. All advice will be appreciated - am tearing my hair out at the moment. Cheers Zeb. _ Zebedee Mason, Thermo Fluid Mechanics Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QT, United Kingdom. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache ELF 1.1.1
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Fundamental wrote: hi, i grabbed the binary of APache 1.1.1 (ELF) from apache.org and when i tried to run it i got the message cant find libgdbm.so so i grabbed the libgdbm (dev) package from debain.org but this didnt have this file either. What am i mising here? Why deb? You need the libgdbm packag itself. Vadik. ++_ Vadik V. (_`[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.arbornet.org/~vadik/ Vygonets (_.lf For PGP public key, email me with sibject get pgpkey Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels.
Re: 386 Dx-40
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: [snip] It has 8mb RAM, and runs pretty well. I wouldn't recommend compiling a 2.0.x kernel on it, though. With 1.2.13 and early 1.3.x kernels you could compile the whole kernel in 60-90 minutes on a 386-40/8, but with 2.0.x you can't even get through the dependencies in 60. So I would recommend compiling the kernels on another machine (I compile mine on my own workstation, an AMD 5x86-133, 32mb RAM). hamish I, too, have a 386/40 and a P133. Compiling 2.0.x takes me 10 minutes on the P133 and 3 hours 30 on the 386. What problems would there be in an NFS mount of the 386 /usr to the newer machine and doing a sort of cross compile? Are all the links relative? What about System.map and psdatabase? I do have one problem exclusive to the 386, which has 8 Mb ram. If I zless /debian/rex/Contents.gz and then search for ryry I get steadily increasing disk activity, the swap file grows to 9 Mb and I never get to the end. Can anyone reproduce this behaviour? Lindsay
Re: scsi errors
Hi Mike -- You asked: Is there any way of testing a block device in linux? The test program is fsck. Every time you boot, fsck is run if there's a problem with the file system. So this may be some help, but not consolation. Cheers? Susan Kleinmann
Little help with Slip. Please!!
Hiya All, I have just spent the last hour or so read all the docs etc I could find on setting up Slip, but I still not having any luck with setting up Slip. It would be appreciated if someone could help point me in the right direction or even tell me where I can find some additional information. Thanks for any help, its greatly appreciated. Regards, Andrew =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= andrew stephenPost Office Box 299 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]Gosnells, 6110 Web: http://byteline.com.au Western Australia =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.25 1996/09/27 13:13:26 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1.Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ ( ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/FAQ/debian-faq.html ). 1.2.Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3.Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 2. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here. David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o binutils o gcc o gdb o libc5, libc6 (potentially a lot of work) o libg++ o libc4, aout-binutils, aout-gcc (stone-age compatibility packages) Andrew D. Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acs DJ Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o biff o cdtool o workbone o xwpe Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o aout-svgalib o svgalib1 o svgalib1-bin o svgalib1-dev Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o tgif o xarchie Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adjtimex o fdutils o hkgerman o html2latex o metamail o modules o xautolock Dale Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lclint o mailx Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acm o aout-librl (this package might be unnecessary now) o pmake Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sokoban Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xtron o tcsh o mandelspawn Alvar Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o groff o man 3. Packages that someone is working on Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian packages, but someone is working on providing a package. If you would like to work on one of these packages please contact the responsible person listed below. Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dome (http://www.netaxs.com/ cjf/jpegs.html) o and probably : xli, Tix, povray [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : o FreeLIP - large integer package o GroupKit - development library for building realtime groupware apps o LEE - Latent Energy Environments artificial life simulator o rsaref - installer scripts for the RSAREF crypto library o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool o premail - e-mail privacy package Richard Kaszeta [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xmotd Mike Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mule Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbill o LPRng Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] o sxpc (Simple Xwindows Protocol Compresser) o qfax (multi-user e-mail extension to efax). [EMAIL PROTECTED]: o tkHTML Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftool o canna o lx-gdb Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glimpsehttpd Warwick Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mercury (a purely declarative logic programming language with strong modes, strong types, and strong determinism) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) ( http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/osf_dce/RFC/rfc86.0.txt ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o CLISP David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dbackup - A Debian-specific backup program. o lockstep - A program to keep various directory trees in sync. o uucpconfig - A configuration program which will become part of my uucp package. o latex2html Hakan Ardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o faces - visual list monitor Brian Sulcer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vile (vi-like editor) o rogue o umoria Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vtwm: Virtual Window Manager for X11 o mutt: a new mailreader (ftp.infodrom.north.de:/pub/people/joey/debian/beta) Michael Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o amanda, the University of Maryland's free network backup system. o nntplink Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o spice (circuit simulation package) o gforth Billy Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbomb Alan Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o gpc (GNU Pascal) Christophe Le Bars [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Caml (A small, portable implementation of the ML language.) o Objective Caml: Caml dialect extended with a complete class-based object system o MMM: a WWW browser implemented in Caml Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ppd-gs (a set of PPD files for my Ghostscript drivers) o btoa o povray Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o awk2c Jon Rabone [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o SISCAD Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ilisp (emacs interface to a number of lisp systems) o calc (emacs calculator package) o hyperbole (emacs hypertext/info management system) o oobr (emacs package for browsing OO programs) o STk (Scheme Tk, a scheme interpreter with Tk support) Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o
The fuckin list request address is busted out.
Yeah, Ive unsubscribed from this list about 2 weeks ago, everything was fine, and now Im recieveing mail again. I tried to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and both gave me instructions on how to unsubscribe (which were, incidently the same procedure that I was using). So, I REALLY hate posting to the list about this, but since listname-request is fuckin broken, I have no choice. Thanks -- === Randall Shutt RaveNet Systems, Inc. ===
APM problems
From some time i use APM on my computer with some success but i've two questions : 1. From time to time when computer goes into suspend mode monitor turns off and then after 1-2 seconds turns on and an terminal i've such messages: apm_bios: set display standby: Unrecognized device ID apm_bios: set display ready: Unrecognized device ID I thought that's problem with my monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 15GLi) but my friend has NEC XV15+ and has this same problem. What's up? 2. When i use command apm -s or apm -S from the command line every even time (first time, thirdth time, fifth time ..) it prints strange message: apm_bios: busy: Unable to enter requested state After this message everything goes OK (APM works) but what means this message (naturally i know what means this message, but why it's printed)? Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The fuckin list request address is busted out.
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Randall Shutt wrote: Yeah, Ive unsubscribed from this list about 2 weeks ago, everything was fine, and now Im recieveing mail again. I tried to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and both gave me instructions on how to unsubscribe (which were, incidently the same procedure that I was using). So, I REALLY hate posting to the list about this, but since listname-request is fuckin broken, I have no choice. Thanks Please try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Place your request in the subject line (possibly: unsubscribe?) 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 --
Re: Which option gets ide-cd into my kernel?
|Just tried installing linux from Infomagics LDR 6CD set it reconises my |Creative Labs CD-ROM on boot but there appears to be no driver for it - |presumably dselect wants hd1 for the CD-ROM, but in the /dev directory |there is no ide-cd which it presumably needs. All advice will be |appreciated - am tearing my hair out at the moment. It might be /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd. Try making a symbolic link /dev/cdrom, or check with dmesg whether it actually gets detected. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NTeX for Debian generalized packaging
Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I myself have been using NTeX and have found it very good. Until july, NTeX shipped with modified cm-fonts that made it _incompatible_ with every other TeX of the world. Some students here at the university of cologne installed the german SuSE-Distribution (shipped with NTeX) and they wondered why their articles looked completly different when printed/viewed at university ... The difference between NTeX and the rest of the world was a 12 pages more/less on an 70-page document. It's a feature not a bug was the reaction to my bug-report. Sigh. The advantage of using teTeX instead is: it already ships with binaries for 23 plattforms and is proven to be a high quality TeX-Distribution (rumors say the author had tested it recently by installing it at CERN with several thousand users). My opinion is that we should not waste our time by providing several TeX-Distributions for Debian-users. We should stick either with the packages from Nils (works but is not that rich) or we should package up teTeX _instead_. -Winfried
mailing-list X-Loop field disappeared :-(
Field X-Loop is no longer available for a lot of mails sent by, at least, debian-user and debian-devel mailing-lists. It's very annoying to me since I filter my mailbox against this field using procmail. Which other field could I use by now ? Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant. Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
Re: The *'($^'( list... and Xdm login
From: Randall Shutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, Ive unsubscribed from this list about 2 weeks ago, everything was fine, and now Im recieveing mail again. I tried to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and both gave me instructions on how to unsubscribe (which were, incidently the same procedure that I was using). So, I REALLY hate posting to the list about this, but since listname-request is fuckin broken, I have no choice. Thanks I think many people are in the same situation. they unsubscribed several weeks ago, and they receive mails agin since the begining of the week. perhaps a good answer to this question is not only to unsubscribe concerned people, but to explain evrybody how to unsubscribe definitively... a simple question about xdm : my root password is ... say toto. when i try to login with password totoxxx, it works. The xdm login only compares characters from the begining, to the end of the password. is it normal ??? thanks, Richard
Re: list request address is busted out.
I also un-subscribed to this list about a month ago. I have been out of town for a week and to my surprise this morning I had 686 email messages !!! What gives...
Special kernals (again)
I'm trying to install Debian on a machine with an Intel Rhinestone MB, and hence the NCR 810/5 SCSI. Happily I saw that boot1440 2.0.5-5.bin was dated 19Sep96 13:47 but unfortunately the files on it are 12Jul96 18:17. So, of course, I got to installing the kernal and got the Error in archive format. Having been following this list for a while, I saw that the workaround is to recreate the MODULES.TGZ file. So I went over to a DOS machine, copied the file, ungzipped it, untarred it with -xvf, than tarred a new file with -cvf, gzipped that, renamed a:\modules.tgz to a:\omodules.tgz and copied on a new a:\modules.tgz. When I reselected Install the kernal, I got lib/modules/2-0.5/cdrom/cdrom.o no such file or directory star: no such file or directory So I created yet another DOS directory and ungzipped and untarred my new file. Apart from the date stamps being changed because I'm in the UK, the files are the same. The tar file listing differs in that the subdirectories themselves haven't been stored in the tar file (the files have the correct paths, though). What's going on, and are the corrupt files in the special kernals EVER going to be fixed? It's not a very good PR exercise for Debian. This IS the first thing in the distribution that you meet! David Wright.
Resent-Sender header missing from mailing list
I was using the Resent-Sender header on the mailing lists to filter my e-mail. When the mailing lists were switched over last night, the header disappeared and I ended up with dozens of messages in my inbox. :-( Could you add the Resent-Sender header back onto the mailing lists again? It was much easier to filter e-mail with them rather than filtering by the To: and Cc: fields. Thanks, - Jim
Re: Resent-Sender header missing from mailing list
Jim Could you add the Resent-Sender header back onto the mailing lists Jim again? It was much easier to filter e-mail with them rather than Jim filtering by the To: and Cc: fields. If you use procmail, consider the ^TO meta-expression which is *much* more general. Works for me all debian-something sublists; see this concrete example for debian-devel: * [EMAIL PROTECTED](debian.org|pixar.com) FYI here's a piece from procmailrc(5): MISCELLANEOUS If the regular expression contains `^TO' it will be sub stituted by `(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X- Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^a-zA-Z])?)', which should catch all destination specifications. -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul Christenson [N3EOP] 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 [...] 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. I think Infomagic should put a little more effort in distributing Debian: the booklet instructions cover Redhat and Slackware, which are, by the way, simpler in installation than debian (the main reason is that the user interface of dselect is not intuitive to me, and I kept making errors on my third installation too). So, some people have the feeling that debian is not the way to go, while upgrading a debian installation is of course much simpler than in other distributions. It's my first attempt at Debian (my previous experiences were with slackware 2.1, 2.2., 2.3, 3.0, and little yggdrasil redhat) and I really like it, altough I've been disappointed by some a.out binaries. All The Best, Marco Support Microsoft! Share with us your Windows success stories!
Re: nfs daemon
From: Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] would any one care to enlighten me why the nfs daemons are commented out of /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs. i needed to mount a disk off another linux machine and i couldn't do it until i turned on the daemons by hand. are there any security issues associated with this? the same daemons are also commented out of /etc/inetd.conf. Well if not configured properly (ie proper restrictions) it is possible for anyone to mount your drives and then convince your system that they have root file priveliges. I saw this on our local Sun nfs server before I was given root access and fixed it. In debian, as far as I can see, all daemons should be enabled by default. if you want to disable them, just remove the links in /etc/rc?.d. nfs is the only one that is disabled by default, as far as I know. nfs doesn't come with an exports file like /*(rw,no_root_squash) but rather with an empty one. That doesn't pose a security threat. And, had Alex had an /etc/exports file like the one above, Alex probably had a good reason for it (i.e. he only has a local network). In my opinion, nfs should just install like the rest of the daemons. IMHO, all network daemons should be disabled by default and the sysadmin should have to enable them one by one. I hate spending an hour on a new system just turning off things that I don't want running. An hour? # rm /etc/rc2.d/* Does that take an hour? (OK it deletes more than you want to, but selecting the right ones still doesn't get close to an hour). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!
What's up with debian-user headers?
Are the mail headers for this list in flux? For a long time, I've been using procmail to filter on Resent-From: debian-user. In the last day or so some messages are missing that header. So I shifted to filtering on * TO: debian-user. Problem is, some of the messages are being sent to debian-user via a cc line that is given as cc rather than the standard Cc, so procmail isn't picking them up. I don't want to rewrite my filter rules every day-- is this going to stabilize? David S.
Re: What's up with debian-user headers?
Are the mail headers for this list in flux? For a long time, I've been using procmail to filter on Resent-From: debian-user. In the last day or so some messages are missing that header. I don't want to rewrite my filter rules every day-- is this going to stabilize? Me too! And I'll be away for 2--3 weeks, next wednesday. I'd rather not come back, and find my 5M worth of debian mail in my mailbox! -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!
Re: zsh_3.0 (in rex) is not stripped!
hmm after installing zsh 3.0 from the rex tree, I found that the zsh bin is not stripped (ie it takes 1.6 Mb...) just thought I would let you zsh users know.. You might also let the maintainer know it -- this counts as a bug. (to report a bug, see in the package doc-debian the file : /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt) -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!
Re: The darned list request address is busted out.
Sigh. I unsubscribed him manually. I am looking at why the headers are broken. I think I fixed the -REQUEST problem yesterday, I am checking that. Bruce
Re: Swap partition and fdisk
Hmm...you might also want to start making a swapfile and see if you use it. (they're easy and convenient, and if you never [rarely] swap, there's no performance hit). Running 16 Mbytes with X and software development will cause swap, figure about 16 Mbytes of swap. If you have space on your system, I run swap in extended partitions and use this swap space for both win95 and linux...(I need to right up what I'm doing). The last time I ran out of VM was with 1.1* and it caused nasty things to happen...make sure you don't run out of space (don't know how we error recover any more). Of course, ram is so cheap now, you can get another 16 Mbyte for about $120 tops. -- marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the League for Programming Freedom
Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald? Solved
Hi Thanks to all the people who responded. It appears as if pppd/diald do not accept 115200 as a valid connection speed, whereas seyon does. The highest I have found diald/pppd to go is 57600, otherwise it seems to default to something strange which my modem does not like. Thanks again to all who helped. Regards Mark
New User
I need help. I installed Debian Linux and managed to get Xwindows working. I configured using xvidtune, and put the setting in the XF86Config file for window positions at the different resolultions. My next step is to setup ftape, and find out why most of the application and games do not work from xwindows' menu. I can't start additional xterm windows. Also, I'm not to sure as to using loopback only for modeming in to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) or not to use loopback only. Even though there seems to be lots of documentation, hardly any of it is straight forward enough for me to enable me to follow a step by step guide for installing and configuring Debian. I'm using the fixed-buzz packages and I'm not sure which bug reports apply. Is there someone out there who would be willing to talk me through configuring my system? Thanks. Into the light from darkness. -cj. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailing lists hopefully working better now
The Debian mailing lists should be working better now. The headers are back. Sorry about that. It put a lot of stuff in _my_ main mail inbox, too. I tested auto-unsubscribe, and it works. Instructions at the bottom of each message remind people how to unsubscribe. For procmail users, I prefer to switch my procmail script on the following pattern: ^X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org This way, if a message is CC'd to me as well, I will see _that_ in my main mailbox, and will see the copy from the list server in the mailbox I use for the list. You may prefer to have them both in the same place, in which case you can filter on: ^TO debian-user@lists.debian.org Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: list request address is busted out.
I also un-subscribed to this list about a month ago. I have been out of town for a week and to my surprise this morning I had 686 email messages !!! What gives... I suspect the distribution list got squished and had to be restored from a backup. How about you just unsubscribe again and leave it at that. These things do happen. -Scott -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailing-list X-Loop field disappeared :-(
Field X-Loop is no longer available for a lot of mails sent by, at least,
debian-user and debian-devel mailing-lists.
It's very annoying to me since I filter my mailbox against this field using
procmail.
Which other field could I use by now ?
I've always filtered by the To: field with procmail. This sticks all the
lists into a single mailbox, but you can change it so debian-user,
debian-devel, etc each gets it's own mbox easily enough if you prefer.
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how to start 2 X displays on one machine?
I start X in 256 color mode via xdm. I want to have another X session
running in 16bpp mode at the same time.
I've been trying to get xinit to do it. This almost works:
xinit fvwm2 -d :1 -- -bpp 16 :1
Except the X resources files don't get read. I tried modifiying Xsession
so it passed the -d :1 parameter to fvwm2, but that didn't work for some
reason.
What's a good way to do this?
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