Problems with xfig
I have installed the xfig through dselect. It works fine except for two things 1) in the option Picture Object I load an encapsulated Postscript file. Everything works fine. The next time I attempt to open this .fig file, xfig quits without doing anything and gives the following message in xterm xfig3.1.4b: SIGSEGV signal trapped xfig: figure empty or not modified - exiting IOT trap/Abort 2) at other times I try to expert the picture containing jpg images into a postscript file. Xfig would not create the file and would write Wrong number of colors: 465 Unable to open EPS file 'empty': error: No such file or directory (2) I presume the problem is with some drivers for the corresponding picture formats or with the way ghostscript (ghostview) works. Does anyone have an idea what is happening and how to fix it ? I really appreciate your help. Dmitri Nikonov -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice and Fvwm95
Anyway, it runs fine. The only thing is I'm having a difficult time creating a menu item for fvwm95 minding, though, that it executes properly when I just type in swriter3 in an xterm. The entry in .fvwm95 I'm using looks like all the rest: + StarWriter Exec swriter Would someone be so kind as to post their menu entry for any of the StarOffice products. Sounds like you want something like + StarWriter Exec exec xterm -T StarWriter -e swriter Although using rxvt might be an idea because its smaller. -Nick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Setting limit on mailbox size with smail
Anyone know how? I want to put a 2/3 Meg limit on mailbox size on a mail server. John F. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network setup question again
On Apr 25, Kevin Traas wrote: Install the package tcpdump, and run `tcpdump -i eth0` to get a view of the packets being sent/received on the eth0 interface. .. Thanks for the advice. This time it really shows something! The IP setting on computer has no problem. Below is the output of 'tcpdump -i eht0': 20:34:35.812345 arp who-has 128.174.57.65 tell 128.174.57.79 ... ( all such messages) 43 packets received by filter. 0 packets dropped by kernel. I also noticed that 'ifconfig' shows there are received packets. like 'Rx packets 43 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0'. So, is the problem occurs in kernel? I mean, the packets were received by card, but rejected by the kernel. So, it can not receive arp reply packets, thus can not connect to other computer? What is the next diagnostic step? -ctang -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network setup question again
Install the package tcpdump, and run `tcpdump -i eth0` to get a view of the packets being sent/received on the eth0 interface. .. Thanks for the advice. This time it really shows something! The IP setting on computer has no problem. Below is the output of 'tcpdump -i eht0': 20:34:35.812345 arp who-has 128.174.57.65 tell 128.174.57.79 ... ( all such messages) 43 packets received by filter. 0 packets dropped by kernel. I also noticed that 'ifconfig' shows there are received packets. like 'Rx packets 43 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0'. So, is the problem occurs in kernel? I mean, the packets were received by card, but rejected by the kernel. So, it can not receive arp reply packets, thus can not connect to other computer? What is the next diagnostic step? Is `ifconfig` showing received packets or sent packets? From the above, I would assume sent and not received. However, if so, then that rules out cabling, NIC, or driver problems The `tcpdump` summary message you got is normal. The packets received by filter number is how many packets were detected going across the interface. The packets dropped by kernel indicates how many packets the kernel dropped because it was unable to allocate processor time to analyze the packet - this should be 0 unless you're on a really slow system attached to a really busy network. Is your netmask set to 255.255.255.0? Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper CA http://www.eroper.bc.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lyx figures and mice
Kingsley G. Morse Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] The User Guide says that the user should click with the center mouse button to popup a dialog box which allows you to insert a postscript figure, but it doesn't work for me. In my case, pressing the middle mouse button dumps out Xwindow's paste buffer or nothing, depending on where the pointer is. The User Guide is out of date wrt Lyx 0.10.7. Almost anywhere it prompts you to middle click, you should double left click. (This applies to footnotes too, for example.) My .sig is very appropriate in this case. -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lies, damn lies, and computer documentation. - Nick Leverton -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing Debian over Slackware Linux
Joseph B. Ottinger writes: Hi, all. I'm currently running a version of Slackware Linux (3.2, updated with the new kernel+libc and some other things). I'm still relatively new to Linux, so my question may be something that's already been answered or addressed. If so, please tell me where to look - I've looked at the install.txt and other documents and still I'm not sure... how to install Debian over a working Slackware distribution. My floppy drive doesn't work at the moment, and Slackware is currently supporting itself, albeit a bit creakily; is it possible to have my Linux box put in dselect (or whichever packages it needs) to slowly migrate over to a fully Debian installation? You could install Debian all over the system at once using any boot mechanism - you'll lose all your data. Or you can migrate to debian step by step. If you want to do that, look out for a file dpkg_1.versio.tar.gz which contains a non-debian binary. This has to be unpacked in /. From that on you have dpkg and dselect installed and can continue installing packages. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country / / Featuring Debian GNU/Linux motd von irc.funet.fi / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Setting up news
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to set up a news server on my LAN. I have IPmasquerading running to allow the other computers access to the Internet through one 28.8 modem and a standard PPP account, as well as diald for demand dialing at night and constant connection during the day. This is similar to my home network. Difference is I have a smaller lan and I call the ISP once an hour to get mail, and news and post mail and news. I use inn and suck. Here's what I'm trying to do: I want to use suck and a news server (which one?) to run a server that will update itself at night, when the bandwidth demand on the system is lowest. Here's the questions I've yet to answer: 1. Which news server should I use? This is a small network of about 10 machines, most of them Winbloze95 but a few Linux. The only problem with inn might be memory. It tends to take all it can find. 2. Since I have 'normal' access to the NNTP server, suck is the program I'll need to collect news, right? Yes. 3. How would I get the new posts onto the ISP's real news server for distribution? Debian installs a script called get-news to automate the suck/post cycle. I believe with inn it uses rpost to send the news to the isp's server. 4. Is there any documentation anywhere that explains explicitly how to do this? I've tried my books (running Linux and Linux Secrets), but they (and the howto) focus on a Slackware installation. How do I do it with Debian? I know of no book that covers news well. Seems like the install under Debian took care of most of the setup. Other than that I printed some of the man pages and some information from /usr/doc/inn and possibly other /usr/doc directories. Seems like once I did this, everything just fell in place. Don't recall any major problems anyway. If it had been hard I would remember more about what I had to do. If you've made it this far, thanks for reading my long-winded post. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tim O'Brien Linux 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape Communicator Beta3/4/5
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, W Paul Mills wrote: I have not had good luck with this one. ( Netscape Communicator 40b3, 40b5 ) Sometimes when it crashes, it causes a reboot! Not cool! I have never had a linux program bring linux to it's knees -- until now. The last (and only) program that ever hung/crashed my Linux was Netscape 1.0. Go figure. ...RickM... Solved! Installed libc5.4.26 from 5.4.20. Seems to work. I don't think this libc is in the Debian distribution yet, but had it on one of my InfoMagic CD's. I do not know if this could cause other problems. So far have not noticed any. Netscape lists some libc's that are known compatable, and some that are known uncompatable. 5.4.20 was not listed as either. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ricoh CDRW (CD-ReWritable) drive
On Fri, Jun 06, 1997 at 11:20:50PM +1000, Lawrence Chim wrote: Does Linux support the new Universal Disc Format (UDF)? ISO9660 have several limitations: File names must be only in capital letters , A - Z. File names are limited to the DOS 8 + 3 format. No more than 8 directory levels. Only legal character besides letters is the under score (_). UDF does not have the name and directory restrictions that ISO9660 imposed. How do people deal with the long file name problem in ISO9660? Rockridge, which Linux has supported since at least 1.2.0 and I expect much much earlier. It supports at least mixed case, long filenames and other punctuation. I doubt 8 directory levels is too much of a limitation, and I don't know if RR fixes it. Unfortunately, support outside Unix machines is poor. OS/2 doesn't have it, Windows95 doesn't have it (has Juliet instead), DOS obviously doesn't have it. But almost all Unix CDs use it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 47% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If you do it too fast, it will crash your system. There are other ways to do it also, some I don't know how to repeat. This might be a libc problem. That seems to have been the problem with Netscape Communicator. Graphic intensive pages seemed to be one of it's first noticed crash and reboot sequences. Today, I just discovered StarOffice. I can already tell it is much better than wordIMperfect. Plus, you have all the other tools. Now if I could just find the documentation so I could learn how to use it... As I understand it, the english documentation is not yet completed. You could learn another language or two ;-) http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan:
That worked. As you said, there *should* be another way to specify
local packages. Though I can understand why update-menus does not add
an item if the package is not installed.
My preference is that a new test be added (or it might already exist, for
all I know), like:
?file(/usr/local/bin/vim): ...
/usr/doc/menu/BUGS now contains:
- update-menus:
? -package($p) is not general enough!
(Joey: file(/usr/local/bin/vim))
(the last line I just added).
The menu package used to allow any menu file starting with local to ignore
whether the package was installed or not, so you could make a local.vim menu
file. However, then the menu package changed a lot of things, and this no
longer works.
Yes, that was a bug introduced in menu-1.3. I fixed it now in the
source, but haven't tested it yet (and, just now I checked again
to see whether I fixed it and I saw I did mess it up slightly, but
now it should be OK, I think).
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Re: Install Stopped
Hello,
I was installing the new 1.3 version onto a 486 based PC when the
install stopped progressing. After formatting a second new floppy,
using rawrite2 again to create a second new rescue disk, then rebooting,
the exact same thing happened. I got as far as seeing a number of
screens of information fly by, then the install stopped. The
installation information said this may happen for periods of time, but I
figured that 2 hours was long enough. The last line on the screen each
time was:
Code: 80 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 c6 f7 c5 10 00
Is it me or does this look like a kernel panic?
Did the other lines look anything like:
kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
kernel: eax: ffaa0055 ebx: 4100 ecx: 0075fc34 edx: 7c00
kernel: esi: 0147c810 edi: 315f5975 ebp: esp: 0019da1c
kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: ss: 0018
kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=0019d694)
kernel: Stack: 0147c810 0075fc34 a8ee82ac 0075fc70 00145493 0147c810
0075fc34
kernel:315f5975 0034 001a2c40 0075fc20 0075fc70 a8ee82ac
001a3856
kernel:001abecc 0034 0013d6f7 0075fc70 001abecc 2101e584
0034
kernel: Code: 8b 40 48 2b 43 48 79 0d 68 77 20 19 00 e8 f4 f5 fc ff 83 c4
If so, you've found either a kernel problem, or a hardware problem
on your computer (probbly the latter). The stuff above comes from
my logfiles, and the way I god rid of it was by setting my CPU speed
somewhat lower (it was overclocked). You may have success with eighter
increasing RAM wait times, or replacing your ram (if possible).
I don't know if this screen information is useful, but I wasn't sure
what might be relevant.
If it really is a hardware/kernel problem, then the version of debian
etc souldn't matter too much (except that different debian versions have
different kernels).
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Re: Problems with xfig
1) in the option Picture Object I load an encapsulated
Postscript file. Everything works fine.
The next time I attempt to open this .fig file,
xfig quits without doing anything and gives the following
message in xterm
xfig3.1.4b: SIGSEGV signal trapped
xfig: figure empty or not modified - exiting
IOT trap/Abort
I haven't had this problem before (though I've seen similar problems).
Could you send me (uuencoded) the .fig and .eps file, so that I can
try and reproduce your problem?
2) at other times I try to expert the picture containing
jpg images into a postscript file. Xfig would not create
the file and would write
Wrong number of colors: 465
Unable to open EPS file 'empty': error: No such file or directory (2)
I presume the problem is with some drivers for the corresponding
picture formats or with the way ghostscript (ghostview) works.
Well, xfig uses ghostscript for postscript files, but if you just
include jpg's then ghostscript isn't used.
Does anyone have an idea what is happening and how to fix it ?
I really appreciate your help.
No, I don't have any idea. But I would like to reproduce your
problems here (could you sent me the .jpg too, with an .fig
that loads it and generates errors? Just one uuencoded .tar.gz
file would be great).
Thanks,
Your surprised debain xfig maintainer.
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Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote:
There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect.
Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try
paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If
you do it too fast, it will crash your system. There are other ways
to do it also, some I don't know how to repeat.
This might be a libc problem. That seems to have been the problem
with Netscape Communicator. Graphic intensive pages seemed to be
one of it's first noticed crash and reboot sequences.
A libc, netscape, WordPerfect problem should _NEVER_ crash linux itself.
(for the kernel, libc is just a part any application like netscape/gcc,etc,
so bugs in libc should, just like bugs in netscape, not crash linux).
Do you guys really mean crashing linux, as in a solid system crash, not
be able to telnet into your mashine, etc? Or just a sigseg of
netscape/whatever?
Today, I just discovered StarOffice. I can already tell it is much
better than wordIMperfect. Plus, you have all the other tools. Now
if I could just find the documentation so I could learn how to use
it...
As I understand it, the english documentation is not yet completed.
You could learn another language or two ;-)
I speak Dutch, that's similar to German, but not enough to be able
to read it -- Yes, I've had German at school, and maybe enghough to be
able to read the documentation in emergencies, but not while I still
have Emacs/TeX.
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Re: Setting limit on mailbox size with smail
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: Anyone know how? I want to put a 2/3 Meg limit on mailbox size on a mail server. Install quota on your system. regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech, Incorported Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)433-3520 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http://www.lasaltech.com/andre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Setting limit on mailbox size with smail
At 05:43 PM 7/06/97 +0800, A. M. Varon wrote: Anyone know how? I want to put a 2/3 Meg limit on mailbox size on a mail server. Install quota on your system. There's another solution that can be implimented along with quotas which means that it saves bandwidth (if you just install quotas it'll receive the whole message and bounce the whole thing back) - have a look at the max_message_size variable in /etc/smail/config . Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: video card driver (fwd)
Hi There, I am installing linux debian on dell machine and it has a Matrox MGA Millennium PowerDesk video card and I haven't found any Matrox Video Cards in the database provided by the linux. If you please tell me which one in the closest match for the Matrox Video Card's driver, I'll really appreciate it. Sincerely, Riaz Khan The XFree86-SVGA-Server is the right choice for the Matrox Millenium Card. Run the XFConfig-program and select the SVGA (NOT the Mach64)-Server. If you still have problems, contact me - my Matrox Millenium runs very well. Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mail problem
Hi, I have problems with sending mails from my linux machine. Here is a description of the circumstances: System: Debian Linux 1.3 Linux Kernel 2.1.29 linuxm68k 14 MB, 12 MB Swap Mailprograms: smail as mta mailx, elm or pine fetchmail as popclient Short description of mailpath: incoming Mail: I get mail from pop.uni-mainz.de with fetchmail (using pop3). Fetchmail delivers mail to my system via smtp, smail distributes to the local recipients. outgoing mail: if not online mail is stored in the mailqueue. Running a runq it is delivered to goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de when I go online. (goofy... is configured as smarthost in smail). my problem: sending a mail with pine I have no problems. For a special purpose I need a mailer usable in scripts (- no pine). Sending a mail with mailx or elm some (not all) mails don't reach their recipients (but I don't get bounces or error messages). The adresses are from aol or tu-berlin. clue? running mailq I sense significant differences in the queued mails: queued mail sent from pine: !-oem !-f [EMAIL PROTECTED] !-oMs !localhost !-oMr !smtp !-oMP !sendmail ![EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 10:08:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Dirk Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Atlantis Report anscheinend nicht angekommen In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] queued mail sent with mailx !allad000 !1000 100 !-oem !-oMP !send-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test - Anybody who can help me? How can I configure my system to make mailx fully work? Dirk --- Dirk Allard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GM of United 2 and 3(Soccer-PBEM) GM of Atlantis (Conquest ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
trouble with MH
Hello, I sent this message several days ago, but saw no responses so I'm suspecting I mailed it improperly. If the original message was posted, then sorry for the double post. The problem is that I get the following error message when I try to send a message using MH: post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket send: message not delivered to anyone I feel its just a matter of configuration. Any suggestions? Original message: -- I normally use elm for my emailing needs, but I recently decided to upgrade to mh and exmh. I installed those packages and their dependencies on my debian 1.3 system. Everything seemed to install properly and looks fine but I can't seem to send a message. This is what happens: To: ken cc: Subject: Test number 4 This is a test of the mail system --ken What now? send post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket send: message not delivered to anyone What now? quit whatnow: draft left on /home/ken/Mail/drafts/4 leisure:~ leisure:~ send -verbose -watch Use /home/ken/Mail/drafts/4? y -- Posting for All Recipients -- post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket send: message not delivered to anyone I normally use elm on top of smail and this works great. The man page indicates that mh uses the installed mail transport system (smail), but it apparently uses it differntly than elm does. Here are the versions of the installed packages: leisure:~/Mail dpkg -l | grep smail ii smail 3.2-3 Electronic mail transport system. leisure:~/Mail dpkg -l | grep mh ii exmh1.6.9-4An X user interface for MH mail. ii mh 6.8.4-13 A set of electronic mail handling programs. ii mh-papers 6.8.3-1The MH papers: A set of document on/about MH leisure:~/Mail BTW, I am trying to read the mh-papers to see if this might shed some light. I'm currently having a little trouble compiling the documentation using teTex ;-) Any suggestions? -- Thanks. --ken -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Vid card memory
I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is 1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800 in XF86Config) X tries to start and dies over and over (I must reboot from floppy). Now my thinking is that 1Mb means 1MegaBit, so 600x800x16 = 7.68 Mbits thus no joy. Have I finally got it right? TIA for any light you all might add to the heat of my fevered brain. -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
depmod failure
I've just built a new 2.0.30 kernel from source in stable and as the last step ran depmod -a. This produced: get_kernel_sys failed: Cannot find Kernel symbols. I built as follows: cd /usr/src/linux; make mrproper;make menuconfig;make dep;make clean;make zlilo;make modules;make modules_install;depmod -a I confirmed that /user/src/linux points at kernel-source-2.0.30/. Any clue would be appreciated. -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If you do it too fast, it will crash your system. There are other ways to do it also, some I don't know how to repeat. This might be a libc problem. That seems to have been the problem with Netscape Communicator. Graphic intensive pages seemed to be one of it's first noticed crash and reboot sequences. A libc, netscape, WordPerfect problem should _NEVER_ crash linux itself. (for the kernel, libc is just a part any application like netscape/gcc,etc, so bugs in libc should, just like bugs in netscape, not crash linux). Do you guys really mean crashing linux, as in a solid system crash, not be able to telnet into your mashine, etc? Or just a sigseg of netscape/whatever? In my case it was a crash as in the computer instantly rebooted! No lockup, no chance to telnet in, just reboot on its own. I know this should not happen. Netscape Communicator is the first program I have had crash linux. I have been running linux for several years ( since kernel 1.1.08 or so ). A libc upgrade did seem to solve the problem. Today, I just discovered StarOffice. I can already tell it is much better than wordIMperfect. Plus, you have all the other tools. Now if I could just find the documentation so I could learn how to use it... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: depmod failure (fwd)
Forgot to CC this to the list. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 10:49:34 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: depmod failure On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: I've just built a new 2.0.30 kernel from source in stable and as the last step ran depmod -a. This produced: get_kernel_sys failed: Cannot find Kernel symbols. I built as follows: cd /usr/src/linux; make mrproper;make menuconfig;make dep;make clean;make zlilo;make modules;make modules_install;depmod -a I confirmed that /user/src/linux points at kernel-source-2.0.30/. Any clue would be appreciated. Try leaving out the make clean step. I'm pretty sure the Kernel-HOWTO mumbles something about having it, but I've never understood why you needed to cleanup after establishing dependencies. I've had many a successful kernel compile with the following technique: Kernel Compiling for Dummies By Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Version 1.2, Dec 28 1996, 4239 bytes For Debian users, the kernel-package package is supposed to do these things for you, but I have had rough going with it, especially in the modules department. The following steps have worked for me on multiple machines, with various kinds of hardware and booting methods (floppy, loadlin, lilo). It makes a number of assumptions (i386 architecture, use of loadable modules, etc.). If anything looks inappropriate for your setup, make backups and go with your instincts. Always, always, always make sure you keep a known good booting kernel around on floppy disk to save your bacon. It also makes sense to compile-in, rather than modularize, things that are crucial to your system's operation. This always includes the binary format you use, ELF or a.out, and I think (can someone clarify?) it also includes the filesystem type of the root disk, often ext2fs (a.k.a. e2fs); for your personal sanity compile in things you can't live without (like your network card and mouse, for example), until you're willing and ready to take the plunge with modularizing as much of the kernel as you can. I would appreciate feedback on this document. I was thinking of adding a longer, more explanatory section after the quick recipe version, but some people seem to like this file short and sweet. What do you think? *) if upgrading and if possible, preserve your old kernel sources (if your /usr/src/linux is a symlink to the old sources, remove the link *before* extracting the tar file to /usr/src, otherwise just rename /usr/src/linux) // if installing a Debian kernel-source package, do that instead of the next four steps *) copy .tgz source file to /usr/src *) cd /usr/src and untar source file (it sticks itself in /usr/src/linux) *) mv linux kernel-source-?.?.?? *) ln -s kernel-source-?.?.?? linux // if you want to preserve the asm and linux libraries that shipped with your libc, simply mv them before doing the symlink manipulations below *) if necessary, cd /usr/include; ln -s asm-i386 asm *) if necessary, cd /usr/include; ln -s ../src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm-i386 *) if necessary, cd /usr/include; ln -s ../src/linux/include/linux linux *) if kernel version the same as current version, mv /lib/modules/?.?.?? /lib/modules/?.?.??.old *) cd /usr/src/linux; make mrproper; make (config|menuconfig|xconfig); make dep; make (zImage|zlilo); make modules; make modules_install *) check symlink in /lib/modules (current - /lib/modules/?.?.??), fix it if necessary (shouldn't be necessary) (recent kernels don't do this) *) depmod -a (depmod -a ?.?.?? using new kernel version if applicable) *) create new /boot : A) cd /usr/src/linux; cp System.map /boot/System.map-?.?.?? B) cd /usr/src/linux; cp arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-?.?.?? C) cd /; if necessary, ln -s boot/System.map-?.?.?? System.map D) cd /; if necessary, ln -s boot/vmlinuz-?.?.?? vmlinuz *) edit /etc/modules appropriately (if you're lucky, auto may be all you need) *) edit /etc/conf.modules (/etc/modules.conf on some systems) appropriately (for instance, you may need lines like alias eth0 de4x5 and options de4x5 io=0x0d) *) rebuild psdatabase with psupdate (creates /boot/psdatabase) *) check symlink in /etc (psdatabase - ../boot/psdatabase) (if you didn't have one before, don't bother creating it) *) if necessary, mv /boot/psdatabase /boot/psdatabse-?.?.?? *) cd /boot; if necessary, ln -s psdatabase-?.?.?? psdatabase *) if you use lilo, check /etc/lilo.conf for correct parameters (esp. things like linear) *) backup your old kernel image(s) and then put the new ones wherever you need them, e.g.: cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /dev/fd0 cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /mnt/win95/Etc/Linux *) reboot *) if insmod complains about missing modules (but not
Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there such a standard utility or do I have to digeven deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^ dos2unix infile outfile or: fromdos infile outfile or: tr -d \013 (in csh clones, it seems like \013 works ; but you may also try Ctrl-V Ctrl-M). Vadik. -- Vadim Vygonets * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Unix admin The fish doesn't think, because the fish knows... everything. -- Arizona Dream -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
URL for StarOffice is here
Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a Debian Success Story. So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice I got it out of the mini-HOWTO which should be in your /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini directory if you keep it up to date with the latest Debian Packages. :-) I hope it works as well for you as it does for me. Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: URL for StarOffice is here
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a Debian Success Story. So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice Can anybody give a report of the StarOffice word processor compared to Lyx? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box
W Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If you do it too fast, it will crash your system. There are other ways to do it also, some I don't know how to repeat. This might be a libc problem. That seems to have been the problem with Netscape Communicator. Graphic intensive pages seemed to be one of it's first noticed crash and reboot sequences. A libc, netscape, WordPerfect problem should _NEVER_ crash linux itself. (for the kernel, libc is just a part any application like netscape/gcc,etc, so bugs in libc should, just like bugs in netscape, not crash linux). Do you guys really mean crashing linux, as in a solid system crash, not be able to telnet into your mashine, etc? Or just a sigseg of netscape/whatever? In my case it was a crash as in the computer instantly rebooted! No lockup, no chance to telnet in, just reboot on its own. I know this should not happen. Netscape Communicator is the first program I have had crash linux. I have been running linux for several years ( since kernel 1.1.08 or so ). A libc upgrade did seem to solve the problem. I had this sort of thing happen once too... I think I was playing with an early beta of the gimp. My take on it was that it took the X server down in some nasty way. The X server, of course, is running as root and thus should be more capable of buggering the whole system. Shouldn't happen, however... --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
debian 1.3 upgrade: my first success with one minor problem
I just installed the 1.3 upgrade. I have to say this is the cleanest major Debian upgrade ever! This particular machine is only a print server, and does not have much installed. Nevertheless, Debian is getting better all the time! Many more packages than I will ever need! I did have one minor problem however. I accidently tried to install lesstif and lesstif-bin. lesstif-bin would not install due to errors. I don't even have X11 installed, so it should have been a prerequisite. Anyway, now I can't get rid of the lesstif-bin package. Here is the error message from dpkg --remove lesstif-bin (Reading database ... 11943 files and directories currently installed.) Removing lesstif-bin ... dpkg: error processing lesstif-bin (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: lesstif-bin If there is not an easy fix for this, I'll post it as a bug. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble with MH
Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Hello, I sent this message several days ago, but saw no responses so I'm suspecting I mailed it improperly. If the original message was posted, then sorry for the double post. I've seen it several days ago -- probably nobody knows the answer. :-( Perhaps try mh mailing list (is there one?) or Usenet? The problem is that I get the following error message when I try to send a message using MH: post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket send: message not delivered to anyone I feel its just a matter of configuration. Any suggestions? FWIW all the configuration I've done in mh was to change path to maildir in ~/.mh_profile. I did about as much config for qmail (I have qmail for MTA, also debian package) and everything worked. Any suggestions? Yeah... UTSL... Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble with MH
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Hello, I sent this message several days ago, but saw no responses so I'm suspecting I mailed it improperly. If the original message was posted, then sorry for the double post. I saw it the first time The problem is that I get the following error message when I try to send a message using MH: post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socke t send: message not delivered to anyone I feel its just a matter of configuration. Any suggestions? I think that mh is compiled to use sendmail. I did strings on every mh executable and got sendmail but not smail. Perhaps you need to get the source and reconfigure it to use smail??? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
InfoMagic Apriil 97 LDR Installation
I have gotten around the problems of the April 97 LDR and done a fresh Debian 1.2 installation by downloading 7 missing files and creating a directory with correct symbolic links. If anyone else is trying to install from this CD and would like more details, I will try to supply. Otherwise, this is a short message. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
why so many broken links when installing 1.3?
Tried to install debian 1.3 but dselect displayed broken links error
message:
Installing Communicator Java files...
== moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/ifc11.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/ifc11.jar.old'
== moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/iiop10.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/iiop10.jar.old'
./ns-install: line 289: 15565 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i}
15566 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar
-xf - )
== moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jae40.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jae40.jar.old'
./ns-install: line 289: 15572 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i}
15573 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar
-xf - )
== moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar.old'
== moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jio40.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jio40.jar.old'
== moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jsd10.jar' to
'/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/jsd10.jar.old'
./ns-install: line 289: 15593 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i}
15594 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar
-xf - )
I also found that netscape 4.0 installer have a similar problem and the
netscape binary is not installed properly.
Installing Communicator Help files...
./ns-install: line 289: 15602 Broken pipe ${GZIP} -dc
nethelp-*.nif
15603 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}; tar -x${v}f - )
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup: line 8: 15786 Broken pipe
find $mountpoint$2 -follow -name '*.deb' -print 2/dev/null
15787 Done| head -1
15788 Done| grep . /dev/null
Using `/large/mirror/debian/stable/binary-i386' as main binary dir.
Using `/large/mirror/debian/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for main.
Using `/large/mirror/debian/contrib/binary-i386' as contrib binary dir.
Using `/large/mirror/debian/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for
contrib.
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup: line 8: 15792 Broken pipe
find $mountpoint$2 -follow -name '*.deb' -print 2/dev/null
15793 Done| head -1
15794 Done| grep . /dev/null
Using `/large/mirror/debian/non-free/binary-i386' as non-free binary
dir.
Using `/large/mirror/debian/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for
non-free.
`/large/mirror/debian/local/binary-i386' does not exist.
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Re: Vid card memory
Ralph Winslow wrote: I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is 1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800 in XF86Config) X tries to start and dies over and over (I must reboot from floppy). Now my thinking is that 1Mb means 1MegaBit, so 600x800x16 = 7.68 Mbits thus no joy. Have I finally got it right? TIA for any light you all might add to the heat of my fevered brain. Horiz.Resolution * Vert.Res. gives you number of pixels on your screen. That times BYTES per pixel is VRAM requirements in BYTES. That divided by 1024 and rounded up is VRAM in Kbytes. 7.68 Mbits / 8 / 1024 = 938 Kbytes. 96/1024 = guess what. :-) (What I really don't understand is why VideoModes.[doc,html] was not included in xbase v.3.2 package.) Are you sure 9440 works in 16 bpp? Did you try 24/32 bpp? Is VRAM recognized (look at X startup messages)? Did you read the README (in particular, do you need to specify linear addressing)? -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Getting mail fro ISP, and mime mail setup
I have hadan account with Netcom faor a long time. It is a shell account, and provides elm as a mail reader. I also use elm as a mail reader at work. Letley I have had the need to receive and send email with mime inclusions. I beilieve that I need to do 2 things to acomplish this: 1. Set up a pop mail fetchong system to get/put mail to/from netcom. 2. Set up my debiian box to support mime. Sp here are the questions: How do I set up pop? Can I set up elm to use mime? If so how do I go about this? Pointers to appropriate docs are greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead...Henry Spencer (c) 1997 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box
stephen farrell writes: My take on it was that it took the X server down in some nasty way. The X server, of course, is running as root and thus should be more capable of buggering the whole system. Shouldn't happen, however... The X server also has I/O privileges to the video card. If your video card is capable of being programmed in such a way as to jam the bus, their isn't anything the kernel can do. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Non-interactive modem hangup
Does anyone know a simple command or tool to hang up the modem? Just hang it up, not stay connected to the tty and await more commands. What I'm after is something simple I can put into a script for sudo to kill the ppp daemon and also hang up the line, freeing /dev/ttyS1 immediately (rather than waiting for the ISP to idle out the line and hang up on me). The first part I've got figured out -- start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/pppd But there has to be an easier way to hang up the modem than writing a chat script or something like that. Does anyone have any ideas? -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Non-interactive modem hangup
How about a trick I use in M$DOS frequently to test modem response: ECHO ATH0/dev/modem (or COMx: in DOS) Toss that in right after the pppd kill in your script. On 7 Jun 97, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote regarding: __ Non-interactive modem hangup __ Does anyone know a simple command or tool to hang up the modem? Just hang it up, not stay connected to the tty and await more commands. What I'm after is something simple I can put into a script for sudo to kill the ppp daemon and also hang up the line, freeing /dev/ttyS1 immediately (rather than waiting for the ISP to idle out the line and hang up on me). The first part I've got figured out -- start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/pppd But there has to be an easier way to hang up the modem than writing a chat script or something like that. Does anyone have any ideas? -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Gerald V. Livingston II Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Vid card memory
Dima wrote: Ralph Winslow wrote: I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is 1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800 in XF86Config) X tries to start and dies over and over (I must reboot from floppy). Now my thinking is that 1Mb means 1MegaBit, so 600x800x16 = 7.68 Mbits thus no joy. Have I finally got it right? TIA for any light you all might add to the heat of my fevered brain. Horiz.Resolution * Vert.Res. gives you number of pixels on your screen. That times BYTES per pixel is VRAM requirements in BYTES. That divided by 1024 and rounded up is VRAM in Kbytes. 7.68 Mbits / 8 / 1024 = 938 Kbytes. 96/1024 = guess what. :-) (What I really don't understand is why VideoModes.[doc,html] was not included in xbase v.3.2 package.) Are you sure 9440 works in 16 bpp? I displays jpegs with better color and finer resolution. Is there a better check than my eyeball available? Did you try 24/32 bpp? Yes, I got them by default, but CTRLALT+ and CTRLALT- (+ and - on numeric keypad) don't seem to be working. Is VRAM recognized (look at X startup messages)? Yes, I've seen a message that implies that 2048Kb is available on the vid card. Did you read the README (in particular, do you need to specify linear addressing)? Which README are you referring to? Any way, thanks for the reply - I'll try to research what linear addressing is and how to specify it and let you know how trying that works out. -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Rick Morrison wrote: 2. Any tips as to how to start NFS services for mounting from my PC /Win95 client? If you want to interface linux with MouseDriver95 then forget NFS and install the samba suite; it does SMB aka MS LanManager aka Microsoft Networking over TCP/IP. Good luck, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
