RE: Compaq Mouse vs PPP vs hostname
Also, the system refuses to take a hostname. I've reinstalled it several times (I'm using it as a training tool) and it seems to alternate between UNKNOWN_13 and (none). Typing hostname DLinux to set the name (or just hostname) gives hostname: command not found. PPP seems to be quite flaky on this system - would this affect the connection stability? From user $ hostname Dlinux hostname: you must be root to change the host name The program should be /bin/hostname As far as it is alternating, you might want to check your /etc/ppp/ip-up file (and /etc/ppp/ip-down). My (non-stock) setup changes my hostname to match with what my ISP says has designame for my dynamic IP. Also, if you reboot your machine the hostname is retrieved from /etc/hostname. Looked around the system - #find / -name hostname shows /usr/doc/hostname and /proc/sys/kernel/hostname... My /usr/pppup/ip-up and /usr/pppup/ip-down are calling /etc/HOSTNAME (which doesn't exist so I created it). Nothing else strikes me as odd. Reboot, and noticed an error: /etc/init.d/boot: hostname: command not found Copied HOSTNAME to hostname and rebooting got rid of the error but din't change anything else... Next step is to remove extra modules in modconf (maybe a conflict?) and try again... Otherwise it's another fresh install (and this time no adding extras to it until it works!) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ppp help
Hi, This is the first time installing Debian or any other linux and I'm having a big problem setting up the ppp conection. If anybody can help I'd be more than greatful Wayne McLemore Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tape driver configuration
On Mon, Nov 24, 1997 at 04:18:25PM +, G. Kapetanios wrote: I have just installed a new tape driver ( seagate travan 3200 ). I have tried it u der windows and it works ok. I am trying to make it work under Linux. I have installed ftape-2.0.30 and am using a 2.0.30 kernel. When ftape was installed it complain that the modules were unresolved symbols. I thought I should recomplile with modversion switched off but I gave it a try with modprobe and the modules seemed to load OK. Then I tried garfield:~# ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status as mentioned in the manual but got ftmt: /dev/qft0: Device not configured after the floppy disk was accesed brielfy the tape driver was not accessed at all. What am I doing wrong ?. A quick look at the documwentation included mainly info on compiling. What about some debian specific info ? Any help will be appreciated. You need to add some parameters when loading the modules to tell ftape what sort of tape controller you have. There should be information about this in the html pages that come with ftape-2.0.30. You can put your command line in /etc/conf.modules so that you don't have to type it each time. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [**] 60% Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
printing in 2.1.x kernels
did i hear that there are problems here? i have two dev kernels, one based on 2.1.59 and one on 2.1.65 and neither seems to want to print anything. as soon as i reboot into my 2.0.29 kernel, the jobs spooled start printing before the system even finishes booting. do i need to change any configs? (i am using the dev kernels because i have an Intel EtherExpress ProB 10/100 and the driver is built in. i still haven't been able to get my win95 laptop networked with my Debian box, but i'll keep working on it a while before i ask for help. :) ) thanks... Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: zipdirve
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Holler) writes: One more thing that might be a bit confusing... The Parallel Zip Drive installs as a SCSI device under Linux and does not as of yet support port thru for a prin ter plugged into the Zip Drive. If you want to connect your Parallel Zip and a p rinter at the same time... you will need 2 Parallel ports. I recommend the SCSI type of Zip Drive because it is faster and doesn't screw with your printer. Keith This is not true. The parport patch to 2.0.x kernels provides the ablility to use the printer on the passthrough port at the same time as the zip (I can print a file on a zip disk). It is quite stable (never had a problem) and adds EPP support to the zip driver which greatly increases the speed of the parallel driver. This support is of course standard in the experimental series 2.1. Good Luck, Erv -- Graduate Student[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Chemistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ of Wisconsin-Madison [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take my Worf, please! - Data (The Outrageous Okana) -- tagline 1.00 by xopy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: zipdirve
KEWL!!! FINALLY! I am so glad you told me that. I have been working on my own pa tch for it and have yet to get it to work. Keith On 25-Nov-97 Erv Walter wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Holler) writes: One more thing that might be a bit confusing... The Parallel Zip Drive installs as a SCSI device under Linux and does not as of yet support port thru for a prin ter plugged into the Zip Drive. If you want to connect your Parallel Zip and a p rinter at the same time... you will need 2 Parallel ports. I recommend the SCSI type of Zip Drive because it is faster and doesn't screw with your printer. Keith This is not true. The parport patch to 2.0.x kernels provides the ablility to use the printer on the passthrough port at the same time as the zip (I can print a file on a zip disk). It is quite stable (never had a problem) and adds EPP support to the zip driver which greatly increases the speed of the parallel driver. This support is of course standard in the experimental series 2.1. Good Luck, Erv -- Graduate Student[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Chemistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ of Wisconsin-Madison [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take my Worf, please! - Data (The Outrageous Okana) -- tagline 1.00 by xopy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - E-Mail: Keith Holler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #5386440 Date: 24-Nov-97 Time: 17:48:50 __ _ / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . . - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Yamaha CDrecorder 400tx
On Nov 24, 11:31, Timothy Phan wrote: I'd like to know has anyone here used the Yamaha CD Recorder 400tx with Adaptec 2940 scsi control under Debian/Linux to record files succesfully? I've just purchased the recorder and try out the command: $ cdwrite --eject and the kernel/Adaptec driver kept printing out of a lot of message concerning the timeout on the CDrecorder device. Hi Timothy! Use cdrecord, not cdwrite (which I understand is very out of date). I have only done simple things, such as recording images made with mkisofs, but cdrecord has worked with my Yamaha CDR400tx. Unfortunately, last I looked, the only Debian cdrecord package was in hamm (unstable), so I grabbed the sources from http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html and built it myself without any problems. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
I need help with internic registration process!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am building a webserver to use it for my company. I have problems because I want to register in internic a name now in order to use it in about 3 months with my webserver. The Problem is that since the webserver is not ready I do not know how to register it without IP adresses. I thought that maybe I can to register now and point it to other one webserver and later change it to my own IP adresses but I do not know how to make that. Please someone help me to do that as soom as posible. If is imposible to register a name without starting using it please tell that to me. I want to register the name tomorow. Note: Please email back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ppp help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is the first time installing Debian or any other linux and I'm having a big problem setting up the ppp conection. If anybody can help I'd be more than greatful No need to be greatful, just being appreciative will do. ;) If you could send a little more detail on your problem, we'd all be grateful. Have you installed the pppd package? Did you try using pon? Do you get connected at all? Have you turned on debugging in pppd? Can you give us the output? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ld.so linking conflict
On Mon, Nov 24, 1997 at 03:54:59PM -0500, Brian White wrote: then I get the warning: ld: warning: libdl.so.2, needed by /usr/lib/libtk8.0.so, may conflict with libdl.so.1 I have been unable to find where this libdl.so.1 is coming from since the dl libraries are: You probably have a left over link in /lib. Perhaps you 'forced' something that conflicts with libdl1-dev. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bash syntax
Witold Grabysz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: : ((ls);(ls)) : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This does work: ( (ls);(ls)) Try changing the definition of the helper in Netscape to follow the above syntax. E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ld.so linking conflict
then I get the warning: ld: warning: libdl.so.2, needed by /usr/lib/libtk8.0.so, may conflict with libdl.so.1 I have been unable to find where this libdl.so.1 is coming from since the dl libraries are: You probably have a left over link in /lib. Perhaps you 'forced' something that conflicts with libdl1-dev. Thanks. I'll check into that. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Management should work for the engineers, not the other way around. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
sunsite help
Hello everybody, I have two question about the sunsite site. first You get a package file called INDEX.whole. or something similar. the second is there a file like the contents file to tell you all of the file on the sunsite site. Thanks for anyother help. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
but how do you vote? and where are the current results? I went to the URL you give and it's a REAL MESS Joey Hess wrote: At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
installing samba
hi everybody, i'm trying to install sam but you need libpam0 and libpam-util. The only thing is that they depend on the other. the big question is how do I get around this little but very frustrating obsticle. I am using the dpkg method of installing packages and have all the packages on my system. I tried to use the force option in dpkg but to no avail. Can somebody help me? Plaaase! Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Manos Papantoniou wrote: Joey Hess wrote: At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. but how do you vote? and where are the current results? I went to the URL you give and it's a REAL MESS Here it isn't a mess, using Netscape 4.02 or Lynx 2.7.1. When you vote you'll automatically get the 'results' page. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: installing samba
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Paul wrote: hi everybody, i'm trying to install sam but you need libpam0 and libpam-util. The only thing is that they depend on the other. the big question is how do I get around this little but very frustrating obsticle. I am using the dpkg method of installing packages and have all the packages on my system. I tried to use the force option in dpkg but to no avail. Can somebody help me? Plaaase! Paul They need to be installed by one dpkg command, so do dpkg -i libpam0 package limpam-util package or cd directory where packages are dpkg -iGREOB . Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: permissions and ownership
Hi, Understanding this X permission stuff was confounded by the limited amount of information available in /usr/doc , man pages, regular and mini HOWTO's, and even my books offered virtually nil. Undeterred, I was compelled to find out about all this xauh, xhost, ssh stuff, so I set out on a 'net quest, and found the answers to my questions. Since I can't recall seeing any similar discussion on this list, I thought someone else might also be X-permission knowledge-challenged, so I decided to post some url's I found useful in the event someone might benefit. Also, the Term-HOWTO , section 12.3 was good. How to Run Remote X Applications http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Remote-X-Apps.html Securing X Windows (html) http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/documents/ciac2316.html X Security ftp://ftp.beckman.uiuc.edu/security/xsecurity.ps Safely Using the X Window System http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dittrich/x/safe-x/ Ssh (Secure Shell) FAQ - Frequently asked questions http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ig25/ssh-faq/ssh-faq.html I still don't know why my cpu load went through the roof last night and all root logins froze, but I'm at least glad to think I know what I'm doing for a moment or two.:-) I appreciated the responses I got. David Stern -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
installation question
Hi, I am intalling Debian for the first time. Is there a place during intallation telling which disk to choose in intalll Debian? I want to intall Debian in disk D but I am afraid of losing the old win95 data on disk C. Before I am sure about this, I don't dare to proceed. Anyone cares to give me a hint? Appreciate. -H.He -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
cannot open /dev/cua2
Hello, I'm trying to set my modem under Linux. I've made a few tests as root with minicom and it's working fine for AT commands and for dialing and transferring files with zmodem protocol. But it reffuses to work with common users and gives me this message when a try to run minicom: minicom: cannot open /dev/cua2: Permission denied With ls -l cua* I get: crw-rw 1 root dialout5, 64 Jan 18 1997 cua0 crw-rw 1 root dialout5, 65 Jan 18 1997 cua1 crwxrw 1 root dialout5, 66 Nov 25 00:57 cua2 crw-rw 1 root dialout5, 67 Jan 18 1997 cua3 How can I enable an user to access /dev/cua2? Is it just enable write-read-execution for all users? Is this a secure option (ok, I'm on a stand-alone linux box but ...)? Thanks, -- Adalberto da Silva Instituto Astronomico e Geofisico Universidade de Sao Paulo - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: installation question
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, wdh wrote: Hi, intallation telling which disk to choose in intalll Debian? I want to intall Debian in disk D but I am afraid of losing the old win95 data on disk C. Before I am sure about this, I don't dare to proceed. Anyone cares D in linux parlance is likely to be /dev/hdb, but check it out. At some point, it'll ask you to create a linux partition or something, at which point you specify that you want to use your second hard disk. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- | You and I and George went strolling through the park one day | | and then you held my hand as if to say, I love you. | | Then we passed a brook, and George fell in and drowned himself| | and floated out to sea, leaving you alone with me. | || | -- As sung by Red Kelly, on | | Stan Kenton/Live at the Las Vegas Tropicana | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 02:18:11AM +, Manos Papantoniou wrote: but how do you vote? and where are the current results? I went to the URL you give and it's a REAL MESS Joey Hess wrote: At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. I just went and voted, and it worked fine, shows debian at 118 and red hat at 154. -- Gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
simple questions
Howdy. I'm new to linux/gnu and have a couple questions I haven't been able to find answers to. 1) Can Debian co-exist with my windows95 environment? 2) Does Debian come with compilers for languages other than Xwindows. (i.e. c, c++, java, and such?) I realize these are probably simple questions, but I got tired of surfing pages to find the answers. Thanks a lot! Clayton Berry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help needed intalling debian
Dale, thanks for your help. I was unable to run rawrite2 on my computer (it kept hanging) so I was using an earlier version which must not have been working correctly. I created the disks with rawrite2 on a different computer and also used the special tecra files. Installation was a success !! thanks again David - David Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] College of Natural Resources University of California, Berkeley Dale Scheetz wrote: There are several possibilities for these errors. First make sure you have a top quality floppy (Check it with Norton DD or some such). Bad floppies is the most common cause of failure. It is also not clear exactly how you are using rawrite (BTW, this should be rawrite2.exe, found in the same directory). If you are running windows, you will want to get to the dos prompt for this, as windows will interfere with the write process. If you have '95 the problem is more complex and I will deferr to someone with more experience with that problem. In addition, many laptops have problems with the bzImage that is provided on the installation disk. Depending on which section of disks you downloaded, there should be a special subdirectory that contains a tecra and a v30 directory. The tecra kernel is a zImage and should work on your machine. I would try these resc and drv disks and see if that helps the problem. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: simple questions
Hi Clay. 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO( Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you boot multiple OS's. 2) You can get plenty of packages for Debian for compiling other languages. Java, C, C++, Perl and shell scripting are just a few of the many exciting languages you can code under. And god forbid.. shucky darns.. no VB. ;-) Best thing you could do is buy a book on Linux and dive in. Running Linux by O'rieley and Associates seems to be a good start for many people, as it starts with the customization and installation of Linux right down to its use. Personally. I would suggest breaking down and going to www.lsl.com and buying the CD SuperPak, which contains 7 cds FULL of linux stuff. My fav.. is the Debain 1.31 Source CD, and Binary CD.. which made my first installs nice. It also includes RedHat, Slackware and a sunsite archive 3 cd set. And hey.. its like 10 bucks. Good luck. Clayton Berry wrote: Howdy. I'm new to linux/gnu and have a couple questions I haven't been able to find answers to. 1) Can Debian co-exist with my windows95 environment? 2) Does Debian come with compilers for languages other than Xwindows. (i.e. c, c++, java, and such?) I realize these are probably simple questions, but I got tired of surfing pages to find the answers. Thanks a lot! Clayton Berry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Dana M. Epp [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.
I'm not new to Linux by any means, and I've read my eyes raw looking for ways in which to get my 3c509b ISA PnP ethernet card to work under Linux. I have installed many of these same cards on our Linux boxes at work with no problem, however this one is a doozy. These are the ways in which I've configured it so far: PnP enabled, driver built into the 2.0.30 kernel, reserve= and/or ether= commands at the Lilo boot prompt. PnP disabled, driver built into the 2.0.30 kernel, reserve= and/or ether= commands at the Lilo boot prompt. PnP enabled, driver built as a module for the 2.0.30 kernel, io= and/or irq= commands at the insmod command line and in conf.modules. PnP disabled, driver built as a module for the 2.0.30 kernel, io= and/or irq= commands at the insmod command line and in conf.modules. The card works under Win95 in both PnP and non-PnP modes. The card is configured for I/O base 0x300, and IRQ 10 (both free and clear so no conflicts.. looking in /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports confirms this). IO 0x300 and IRQ 10 are pretty standard so I don't forsee any problems there. Thinking that my cheap Reveal Ensoniq Soundscape ripoff may be the culprit I yanked it from the system and tried the above methods again with NO success. Here's the kicker.. brace yourselves When I have run the el3-diag and 3c5x9 diagnostic/configuration programs under Linux (also written by Becker, the god of ethernet) they find the card just fine AND they confirm that my settings are indeed as listed above. When attempting to 'insmod 3c509' (with AND without the io= and irq= options) I get this message: init_module: Device or resource busy. But it can't be because NOTHING is using it And just in case you're wondering what my setup is: 5x86 133MHZ AMD 32M Ram (SIMMs) Cirrus Logic GD5426 SVGA Zoom 28.8 V.34i Fax/Modem CMD EIDE VLB Dual Port IDE controller Maxtor 7G EIDE drive (Diamond Series) Torisan 16x IDE/ATAPI CDROM Some intrinsics: 3 Serial ports all registered at the appropriate places: 3f8, 2f8, 3e8 (IRQ's 4,3,4 respectively) IDE controller using IRQ 14,15 and IO base 0x1F0 AMI BIOS REV July 1994 NO PnP BIOS NO PCI BIOS 1 LPT port at 378 as usual. I challenge anyone to step up and take a swing at this. Lord knows I've given it my absolute best shot. The only thing I could hope for is that someone could tell me how to hard code the 3c509 driver to force initialization at my specified IO/IRQ settings, or convince Becker to release manually editable 3c509.c source code. I'm all out of answers here. Anyone with something to try please don't hesitate to send it my way. Who knows, it may go a long way in helping alot of other people with the same problem. One other thing: I have been thinking that perhaps the Device or resource busy. message might not be a result of the driver, but something else in the kernel, or something misconfigured on the system (the usual suspects IE: permissions, a missing dev, etc...) but I know I'm reaching. I am running Debian 1.3.1 Official released by LSL. It's a stock install with no modifications other than a standard kernel compile after install. Lots of luck gentlemen. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
Manos Papantoniou wrote: but how do you vote? and where are the current results? I went to the URL you give and it's a REAL MESS Hm, it looks ok in lynx or netscape. I just tried it in Mosaic, and you're right, it's an absolute mess. The voting is right on the url I gave, http://www.slashdot.org/ . Suggest you use lynx. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pppd 2.3.1
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote: Does pppd version 2.3.1 have demand dial built into it or does one still Does ppp 2.3.1 have documentation, or do you still have the read the source to see what features are built in? -- Jon Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/message. Florida Digital Turnpike| __http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: simple questions
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Clayton Berry wrote: 1) Can Debian co-exist with my windows95 environment? As already mentioned, yes it can; you can either set up linux to load via lilo (a boot manager designed for loading linux, but perfectly capable of loading Win95 as well, so that you choose at startup), or you can use LOADLIN, which is a way of loading linux from Dos (or from Win95 rebooted into Dos mode). 2) Does Debian come with compilers for languages other than Xwindows. (i.e. c, c++, java, and such?) First off, Xwindows is not a programming language, any more than Windows95 is a programming language. (That is, from the programming point of view, Xwindows is a large API, but this is different from the language per se) Most Xwindows programs are written in C or C++, and Debian (as do all Linux distributions I know of) comes with an excellent C compiler (gcc) and a C++ compiler that is not as great, but getting there (g++). I can't speak for the Java tools that come directly with Debian, (kaffe and guavac) but the Debian package of jdk1.1 (which can be ftp'ed from the non-free part of hamm on ftp.debian.org) works just fine for what I've been doing with it on my machine. (little math-teaching applets) And let's not limit ourselves to common languages - on my Debian CD, I find interpreters for Perl, awk, sed, Emacs Lisp, forth, scheme, intercal, python, icon, logo, tcl, and even BASIC. I find compilers for pascal, scheme, fortran77, Ada, Common Lisp, icon, and mercury (or is this one an interpreter - can't tell from the description). Then there are a handful of assemblers, and loads of debugging/development tools (most admittedly geared at C/C++, but I think gdb handles pascal and Ada debugging as well). I'm reasonably certain that there are more compilers/interpreters on the CD that I just missed; I know that there are more available via ftp. It's a wonderful environment for programming, especially for one looking to get a start in C - C and unix machines in general work together very naturally. DANIEL MARTIN p.s. I am tempted to now go and see how many of these languages I can write hello, world! in... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: printing in 2.1.x kernels
Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MT did i hear that there are problems here? i have two dev kernels, one MT based on 2.1.59 and one on 2.1.65 and neither seems to want to print MT anything. as soon as i reboot into my 2.0.29 kernel, the jobs spooled MT start printing before the system even finishes booting. MT MT do i need to change any configs? The names of the printer devices changed from the DOS-like ones in all of the older kernels (/dev/lp1 == LPT1:) to device names consistent with the rest of Linux (/dev/lp0 == LPT1:, lp1=LPT2:, lp2=LPT3:). You need to change the name of your printer device in /etc/printcap if you run a 2.1 kernel (probably replace /dev/lp1 with /dev/lp0). -- _ / \ The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cat is dead. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Make sure you don't have another icky Plug and Pray device assigned to the same IRQ / ioport -- they sneak in when you least expect it. Got you there. Not counting the 3c509b (which PnP is currently disabled on), there are NO other PnP cards in my system (as I mentioned in the system specs). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: installation question
intallation telling which disk to choose in intalll Debian? I want to intall Debian in disk D but I am afraid of losing the old win95 data on disk C. Before I am sure about this, I don't dare to proceed. Anyone cares D in linux parlance is likely to be /dev/hdb, but check it out. At some point, it'll ask you to create a linux partition or something, at which point you specify that you want to use your second hard disk. What is important is not to use /dev/hda, which is drive c: If oth drives are on the same controller, d is /dev/hdb, while it will bee /dev/hdc if it is on the second controller, if you even have one. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.
A. M. Varon wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: I'm not new to Linux by any means, and I've read my eyes raw looking for ways in which to get my 3c509b ISA PnP ethernet card to work under Linux. hi Wintermute, Some tips: Could you try to initialize the 3c509b ISA card under DOS? Remove the PnP feature. And try to hard boot the computer after you set the settings, In my experience... a soft reboot sometimes is not effective. Did that as instructed in other messages to mailing lists and as listed in the directions that come with the 3c5x9cfg.exe tool under DOS. (I'm rather quick in that respect :) ) Try to compile a kernel where the 3c509b card is not a module, but is compiled in the kernel. I already mentioned that I had in the list of things I've tried in my previous message. In the 3c509b DOS setup... try to force it to use RJ-45 (if you are using a UTP) or coax (if you are using... well, a coax.). There is no choice to do this in the setup utility as there is only a TPO (RJ45) capability for the card (and the configuration program tell me so when I attempt such a thing). And one more thing, type dmesg | more and see if the kernel did detect a 3c509b PnP card. Nope, sure doesn't, and I've rebooted my kernel enough time in the past 3 days to force at least 2 maximal mount count checks, too. In my workplace, I have three linux box with a 3c509b PnP cards. All works perfectly. Same here... all my Linux boxes at work (5 total) use the same card I use here at home. That's why I'm so frustrated as to why this won't work. Makes me want to look over my shoulder and see if Rod Serling is standing there Mail me again if it works. Well, I'm mailing you anyways. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: And one more thing, type dmesg | more and see if the kernel did detect a 3c509b PnP card. Nope, sure doesn't, and I've rebooted my kernel enough time in the past 3 days to force at least 2 maximal mount count checks, too. Hmm linux did not detect the 3c509b card. Could you try to swap ethernet cards with your other linux box? maybe you have some spare ones. Try to see if another ethernet card is working with your current setup. regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 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] .
infinite loop in interrupt
Hello everybody this may be more of a hardware question. i frequently see the error message eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011. on my terminal; however, the network connection is fine. what should i do to make whatever is causing that error stop reporting it? thanks. aaron. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
directory with pkgs in 5-6 howto
I have looked, and cant find it, but thats normal for me I think. Is there a directory that contains only the files mentioned in the Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO. For example: ldso_1.9.6-2.deb libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb, et cetera... Thanks, -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rapidramp.com/~walterp L I N U X Where You Really Should Be! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 11:58:51PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 04:49:21PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote: I've just finished installing the right honorable Debian version of KDE. I'm impressed with how well it works and how well it is packaged. The README.debian file says the KDE team is not too happy with the packaging. I'm wondering why. Maybe simple. They prefer the /opt way. But as it's a piece of software which can be fully integrated in the usual tree a set of /usr/bin /usr/lib, /var/lib/ c should be used. If we put everything the size of KDE into /opt, we could just about delete /usr now! Indeed. I never quite understood this strategy of putting things under /opt. Once I had problems on a SUN because the system couldn't handle the length of the PATH an MANPATH variables anymore: every package gets its own bin, lib and man directory. We should never indulge in letting this plague enter the debian file system structure. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X startup problems
Thanks for the help, guys. Seems I hosed the file I created with xf86config during the installation. Re-ran that, added the line below, and that fixed the problem. Now if I could find a replacement for that ghastly login screen... Hey, while I'm thinking about it and since I can't try it right now, would adding a line like :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X allow me to use VT08 for another login, or do I have to do something else? On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Paul wrote: Hello Dale, there is a file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. That file lets you had your xservers. you should have a line that says: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X This line should be the last line in this file. If it isn't the xserver won't get started. I hope this helps. Let me know if this is a fix. Paul On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I picked up Debian Linux on the Boot magazine CD-ROM, and have been trying for a couple of days to get it working the way I want it too, with little success. What's the deal with xdm? My understanding was that that was the program used to login under X, without having to login from a console and then issue a startx command. During installation I told the program I wanted to start X with xdm; I see a message when I boot about xdm being started, and then I log in to a console. Then if I try to use startx like I'm used to, I get a bunch of error messages about some missing socket thing (I'm not at home right now so I can't quote the exact error), then I get an error message about not finding xinit. Anybody know what I did wrong, or what I need to do? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Commands Manual
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think his needs are far more basic than that. He seems to be wanting a
list of utility-names, as most first-time Linux users (including me) want.
There are not many things more frustrating than thinking I know it can be
done, but I don't know how and I don't even know with what utility, so I
don't know what man page to look at -- if you have already discovered the
very existance of the 'man' utility.
I remember in my early days of Linux trying to create such a list, by
printing out a directory listing of /bin and /usr/bin, and running man
for each of the files I found there. I made a file (by hand!) with
one-line descriptions for each program I found that way. Imagine how I
felt when I heard about apropos!
To get an idea of what's available, the original poster may want to
try something like:
apropos -r '*' | awk '$2 ~ (1) {print}' | less
Gertjan.
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Adding users to groups
I'm feeling a little crippled without the Control Panel I was used to in my old Red Hat distribution (afraid to try setting up the printer yet!). Couldn't find it in the FAQ's or howto's: how do I add users to diffferent groups, e.g. dialout? Do shadow passwords affect the process at all? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
strange MS mouse behaviour: defective mouse or serial driver?
Hi, I am experiencing a strange problem with a mouse used with gpm. I connect a Microsoft mouse to /dev/ttyS0, then issue: killall gpm; gpm -m /dev/ttyS0 -t bare so far, so good: gpm displays its cursor, which moves regularly. Then I issue: killall gpm; gpm -m /dev/ttyS1 -t bare killall gpm; gpm -m /dev/ttyS0 -t bare and the mouse stops working. If I pull it out and connect it again, it starts working. This is perfectly reproducible. An older MS mouse does not exhibit this behaviour. That is, it does not stop working when I change the gpm port and switch it back. Is the newer mouse broken? Should I ask for a replacement or it is normal? And why ever? Thanks for reading Francesco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tar, cpio, or cp?
Peter S Galbraith wrote: tar cf /path | ( cd other/path ; tar xvf -) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Zander) writes: cd /path; find . | cpio -dump /other/path Why not cp -a /path /other/path Are there real differences between the three? What about symlinks, hard links, empty dirs, devices? I know, I could read the manuals, but after a first look none of the three seems to do everything right, that's why I am asking. Francesco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Adding users to groups
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 01:46:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't find it in the FAQ's or howto's: how do I add users to diffferent groups, e.g. dialout? Do shadow passwords affect the process at all? Just edit /etc/group and put the username you want at the end of the line containing the group you want the name added to. eg: floppy:*:25: becomes: floppy:*:25:olive I don't think shadow passwords affect that. olive -- Olivier Tharan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] « Just how much caffeine does a Dave Miller take to run. » -- Alan Cox -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
upgrade debian1.2 to 1.3
Hi, When I want to upgrade from Debian 1.2 to 1.3 following the instructions in the Web page i get the following error: dpkg -i ldso_1.8.10-2.deb ... ldconfig:warning:can't open /usr/local/lib, skipping... I get the same with package libc5*.deb The system does not do the upgrade. Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tar, cpio, or cp?
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 10:40:10AM +0100, Francesco Potorti` wrote: tar cf /path | ( cd other/path ; tar xvf -) This one's good. cd /path; find . | cpio -dump /other/path This one (actually, find) won't handle filenames with newlines. If dump would have something like xargs -0 parameter it would be better. echo test 'new line' Why not cp -a /path /other/path Won't handle devices, pipes, etc. but after a first look none of the three seems to do everything right, Why isn't the tar one good? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's a valid address w/o spam | +358-50-5124907 f u cn rd ths, thn u cn rd perl 2 | rm -rf / echo bye-bye. | --tv -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Adding users to groups
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 10:41:26AM +0100, Olivier THARAN wrote: Couldn't find it in the FAQ's or howto's: how do I add users to diffferent groups, e.g. dialout? Do shadow passwords affect the process at all? Just edit /etc/group and put the username you want at the end of the line containing the group you want the name added to. eg: floppy:*:25: becomes: floppy:*:25:olive I don't think shadow passwords affect that. If you edit it, do it with vigr. Even better is using either adduser user group or my favorite: gpasswd. You can assign administrators to groups, etc.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's a valid address w/o spam | +358-50-5124907 f u cn rd ths, thn u cn rd perl 2 | rm -rf / echo bye-bye. | --tv -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X startup problems
Hi! Hey, while I'm thinking about it and since I can't try it right now, would adding a line like :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X allow me to use VT08 for another login, or do I have to do something else? Not quite what you propose, but a line like this would do the trick: :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 You can also ask a display to have a different color depth by doing this: :2 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :2 -bpp 32 and so on, until you run out of memory. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tar, cpio, or cp?
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Tommi Virtanen wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 10:40:10AM +0100, Francesco Potorti` wrote: Why not cp -a /path /other/path Won't handle devices, pipes, etc. It does here. $ cp --version cp (GNU fileutils) 3.16 $ Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
Gary L. Dolan wrote: Joey Hess wrote: At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. I just went and voted, and it worked fine, shows debian at 118 and red hat at 154. My vote put us over the top, at least for the moment -- debian 200, redhat 199! :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How do people make backups on Linux?
Hi, I am installing a system with a QIC tape. I would like to know how do people on this list do their backups. I am switching from an ATT environment where I used bru, and am very satisfied with it. I know it is available for Linux, too, but I was wondering if you can suggest free alternatives. I find taper way too unstable, and top/afio don't seem too professional (I'd like to hear your opinions about this). Also, are there good experiences about using cpio or tar? Thanks Francesco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: parallel zip and scsi-kontroller conflict
Joerg Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a scsi-controller and a harddisk are recognized as /dev/sda. If I try to use the zip-drive insmod ppa fails (maybe because it wants to be /dev/sda, too). I had similar problems when having the zip driver as a module. After compiling it into the kernel, it worked fine. Probably the driver has to find the zip drive while booting. If you find a solution how to do it with modules, please notify me ;-) Falk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Default Screen Blanking
Does anyone know how to disable that annoying screen blanking? Keith - E-Mail: Keith Holler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #5386440 Date: 25-Nov-97 Time: 06:31:28 __ _ / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . . - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: parallel zip and scsi-kontroller conflict
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Falk Hueffner) writes: Joerg Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had similar problems when having the zip driver as a module. After compiling it into the kernel, it worked fine. Probably the driver has to find the zip drive while booting. If you find a solution how to do it with modules, please notify me ;-) I'm not sure about the scsi conflict, but I have a working solution with the parport patch installed and lp, ppa, and parport as modules. Everything works fine. If the scsi problem is actually a problem with unpatched ppa modules in general, the parport patch may be a solution. Good Luck, Erv -- Graduate Student[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Chemistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ of Wisconsin-Madison [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am OLX of Borg. Your tagline will be assimilated. -- tagline 1.00 by xopy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
apologies, I had white letters in white background, please don't throw any stones :-))) I just voted for Debian, we are ahead with 239, red hat 219 Manos Gary L. Dolan wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 02:18:11AM +, Manos Papantoniou wrote: but how do you vote? and where are the current results? I went to the URL you give and it's a REAL MESS Joey Hess wrote: At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. I just went and voted, and it worked fine, shows debian at 118 and red hat at 154. -- Gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Default Screen Blanking
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Keith Holler wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 06:33:00 -0700 (MST) From: Keith Holler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Default Screen Blanking Does anyone know how to disable that annoying screen blanking? setterm -blank 0 Bye Carlos Barros. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
sound interference
The sound card(SB16) on my Debian box picks up electronic interference when I use the line-in as source(external radio). It sounds like I a helicopter, whop, whop, whop, whop and it fades in and out. It only happens under Debian, when I am booted in Win95 it doesn't happen. Setup: Debian 1.3.1 kernel 2.0.30 real SB16 with speakers on line-out and portable radio on line-in Any suggestions? Why would it make a difference between the OS's? My only thought is the sound driver but I don't know. Thanks, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue Universityhttp://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Adding users to groups
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Olivier THARAN wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 01:46:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't find it in the FAQ's or howto's: how do I add users to diffferent groups, e.g. dialout? Do shadow passwords affect the process at all? Just edit /etc/group and put the username you want at the end of the line containing the group you want the name added to. eg: floppy:*:25: becomes: floppy:*:25:olive You can also do this with adduser. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
I just voted for Debian, we are ahead with 239, red hat 219 What I find most interesting is the number of people using either RedHat or Debian vs. all others (Of course, maybe Slackware users don't know about the survey) I clipped the following from the results page and added percentages Caldera 9 2% Debian 245 42% RedHat 223 38% Slackware 93 16% Other 9 2% Total number of votes 579 Later, Kevin Traas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: parallel zip and scsi-kontroller conflict
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 01:57:41PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: Joerg Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a scsi-controller and a harddisk are recognized as /dev/sda. If I try to use the zip-drive insmod ppa fails (maybe because it wants to be /dev/sda, too). I had similar problems when having the zip driver as a module. After compiling it into the kernel, it worked fine. Probably the driver has to find the zip drive while booting. If you find a solution how to do it with modules, please notify me ;-) I think you might need to find you need to load the higher level modules, like scsi_mod and finally sr_mod for SCSI disks/CDROM, AFTER you load the hardware drivers, like ppa for the Zip and your regular scsi driver. So if your modules contains ppa aha152x (or whatever you use) scsi_mod sr_mod Then things might work better. It doesn't matter if there is a disk in the Zip drive or not, it will sort itself out when you mount one. That said, I've never tried it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [**] 60% 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: Compaq Mouse vs PPP vs hostname
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Rob Lindenbusch wrote: Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: Here's a question I haven't been able to find anyplace: I have Debian installed on a Compaq Prolinea MT, and the mouse is on a built-in port. GPM detects and installs this as ttyS0, coincidentally locking out the modem on com1/irq4/ttyS0...I tried to uninstall gpm, but it refuses to uninstall with dpkg, then after dpkg fails it re-starts gpm! I jst went through a similar problem with my Micron PC: 1) You don't have to re-install gpm, you can use ... a command whose name I don't remember (something like gpmconfig - see /etc/gpm.conf - it is mentioned there) 2) You want to tell it that the mouse is on /dev/mouse, and (in my case) ^^ This only works if /dev/mouse is a link to /dev/psmouse or /dev/psaux. See my config file. ( I use gpm in repeater mode so it can stay loaded when I run X-windows. # /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1) # Written by Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Mostly self-explanatory. If you mouse seems to be to slow, try # to set responsiveness=15, append contains some random arguments appended # to the commandline. # device=/dev/psmouse responsiveness= type=ps2 append=-R also tell it that it is a ps2 style mouse (This is even the case if you have a m$ mouse - don't be fooled. It seems to want a ps2 mouse if it is on a mouse port, no matter what) 3) restart gpm, and run mev to test your mouse. Hope this helps :) Rob -- Rob Lindenbusch Indian@ Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ai.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: directory with pkgs in 5-6 howto
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I have looked, and cant find it, but thats normal for me I think. Is there a directory that contains only the files mentioned in the Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO. For example: ldso_1.9.6-2.deb libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb, et cetera... Unfortunatly not, they are scattered across several directories in the hamm (dists/unstable) section of your local Debian mirror. The next version of the howto should list the section of each package as well (as soon as I find time to finish with it). -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: upgrade debian1.2 to 1.3
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Marc Fleureck wrote: Hi, When I want to upgrade from Debian 1.2 to 1.3 following the instructions in the Web page i get the following error: dpkg -i ldso_1.8.10-2.deb ... ldconfig:warning:can't open /usr/local/lib, skipping... I get the same with package libc5*.deb The system does not do the upgrade. These packages should install ok dispite the warning, however you may get rid of the warning by simply creating /usr/local/lib on your system. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: directory with pkgs in 5-6 howto
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I have looked, and cant find it, but thats normal for me I think. Is there a directory that contains only the files mentioned in the Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO. For example: ldso_1.9.6-2.deb libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb, et cetera... When looking for the location of packages (or the package that contains a particular program) the most useful method that I have found is to search the Contents file. This file is usually in the directory that contains the binary-i386 tree. Download the file, then search inside the file for the package or program you are looking for. The line containing the package also indicates the section you will find it in. The line containing a program also contains the package that provides that program. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
hostname problem
Hi all, I am having the following problem with the hostname: when I login as a normal user I get the message: hostname: you must be root to change the host name I suspect that I might have messed up with files or permissions without realising it, but I don't know where to start looking...any ideas? thanks in advance Manos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 02:18:11AM +, Manos Papantoniou wrote: but how do you vote? and where are the current results? I went to the URL you give and it's a REAL MESS Joey Hess wrote: At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. I just went and voted, and it worked fine, shows debian at 118 and red hat at 154. Just voted myself.. Debian is at 267 Redhat is at 233 -- Gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Southwest Technology Development Institute New Mexico State University --- HP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ DBP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/ SWAO: http://desertwinds.multipleimage.com/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Annoying boot-up messages
This started happening weeks ago when I upgraded from rex to bo. It seems to have no real effect other than the annoying boot-up messages. The other day I built a custom kernel and updated all my installed packages from ftp.debian.org, and it didn't magically go away, so I guess it's time to ask: What's going on and how do I fix it? --- schnipp! Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97) /dev/hdb5: clean, 11296/44176 files, 116691/176035 blocks Loading modules: sonycd535 modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory Sony CDU-535: probing base address 340 Sony CDU-535 I/F CDROM : SONY CDROM CDU-531-01 1.0b base address 340, using 65536 byte buffer hpfs modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory lp modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) serial modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A bsd_comp modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory --- schnapp! What I'm concerned about, of course, are the lines like this: modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory Can anyone help? Thanks. Cheers, Pann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hostname problem
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, E Papantoniou wrote: when I login as a normal user I get the message: hostname: you must be root to change the host name I suspect that I might have messed up with files or permissions without realising it, but I don't know where to start looking...any ideas? Check bash_profile for references to hostname. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- | You and I and George went strolling through the park one day | | and then you held my hand as if to say, I love you. | | Then we passed a brook, and George fell in and drowned himself| | and floated out to sea, leaving you alone with me. | || | -- As sung by Red Kelly, on | | Stan Kenton/Live at the Las Vegas Tropicana | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Upgrade Debian 1.2 to 1.3
Hi, Recently I reported a problem about upgrading to 1.3 using some dpkg-commands, which caused an error style can't open /usr/local/lib. This problem was solved by simply creating the dir. But the system has not done any upgrade. Even after running lilo (and rebooting of course). The file /etc/debian_version still says 1.2. Also, the last command of the upgrade dpkg --purge --force-depends texbin gives an error style ignoring request to remove texbin because texbin isn't installed. Regards, Marc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Applying patches to linux 2.0.30
How do you apply patches to the kernel ? I tried it and got rejections. I'm trying to bring my kernel up to 2.0.32. I have the debian linux source for 2.0.30 installed (I believe it is level 9). David Natkins Computer Group of Princeton Telephone: (609) 896-2239 Fax : (609) 896-2239 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Quitting pppd
/usr/bin/poff Bob On Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:16:46 -0900 me [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After starting/quitting minicom, and then finishing internet connection, what is the best way to kill pppd without doing a 'kill ' (or the pid of pppd? I haven't found that answer anywhere, and I have tried looking. If I missed a simple statement somewhere, my apologies ;) Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Commands Manual
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 09:40:30AM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: I made a file (by hand!) with one-line descriptions for each program I found that way. Imagine how I felt when I heard about apropos! Tss ... apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) command, so by looking at the man page for man, you'd have found it :-) (Actually, I had forgotten the existence of apropos, I don't tell my students about it, I tell them about man -k) -- include std_disclaim.h Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Default Screen Blanking
setterm -blank 0 On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Keith Holler wrote: Does anyone know how to disable that annoying screen blanking? Keith -- When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. ,, / ( ___ _(-}) B I T B U R N A C C E S SSystem Administrator .' ^^ http://www.bitburn.org/ mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do people make backups on Linux?
people on this list do their backups. I am switching from an ATT environment where I used bru, and am very satisfied with it. I know it is available for Linux, too, but I was wondering if you can suggest free alternatives. dump restore I considered dump, but it does not compress, so I won't use it. I am thinking about improving tob to verify tapes. I'd also love to hear more comments on this topic, and people's experience. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tar, cpio, or cp?
tar cf /path | ( cd other/path ; tar xvf -) cp -a /path /other/path Are there real differences between the three? What about symlinks, hard links, empty dirs, devices? I know, I could read the manuals, Your question prompted me to think about the way I make backups of my Debian system to tape. I use: tar cvf /dev/st0 . Could someone on the list please tell me if I can restore my complete working system from the archive made in this fashion - or suggest a better way ! Thanks, Frere Roy -- Taize Community, 71250 TAIZE, France Personal email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact Taize: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To visit Taize: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List of useful info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site http://www.taize.fr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
MSDOS files...what to do...
I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix these...does Linux have a similar tool, and what package is it in? -- ++ | Andrew Akins | | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ames.net/igor/| | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cms-gt.com/| ++ | May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your | | sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your | | daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love | | gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your | | lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. | |- Number Ten Ox, Bridge of Birds | ++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Thanks...
I would just like to offer thanks to everyone that has helped me over the last week in setting up my Linux box. I'm new to the Unix world, and so I had many questions that I'm sure were simple or easy. On another mailing list, I might have gotten nasty emails about RTFM or read the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@% FAQ or what are you, stupid? (no joke...I've gotten these before). But not here. Everyone who has responded to my questions has been polite and helpful. My Laptop is now running completely the way I want it to, nice and stable with X, StarOffice, Java 1.1.3, Postgres and Netscape 4.03. And it all works better and faster than my old Windows95 box. It appears at lot of what I was hearing on the grapevine about Linux is true :) Again, my thanks... -- ++ | Andrew Akins | | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ames.net/igor/| | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cms-gt.com/| ++ | May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your | | sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your | | daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love | | gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your | | lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. | |- Number Ten Ox, Bridge of Birds | ++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP Dialup
I was wondering what people use for handling their PPP dialups. I've been using simple pppd, which works well. But, it has no feedback - I have to simply wait, and run ps to see if it makes the connection. What tools or programs (if any) would provide more information/feedback? I'm running X, so an x-based tool or program would be cool... -- ++ | Andrew Akins | | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ames.net/igor/| | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cms-gt.com/| ++ | May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your | | sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your | | daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love | | gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your | | lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. | |- Number Ten Ox, Bridge of Birds | ++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ATAPI NEC CDROM Changer
Timothy Phan wrote: I do not quite know how the ATAPI CDROM work. I've alread gotten all the base install. Now, I need to do the dselect and mount the cdrom. However, it seems that the CDROM is not recognizable the the system. I did a manual mount: $ mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdb1 /cdrom and it gives me some error: --- isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 04:41 iso_blknum 16 block 32 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1 or too many mounted file system. --- Instead of: $ mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdb1 /cdrom use: $ mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdb /cdrom because there is no partition table on CD. NEC CD Changer is for Linux like normal CD - only one slot at time is seen. When you want to change visible slot use setcd program (it should be in Debian distribution) or compile program from kernel sources (look at file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd). __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
uninstall GMT
25/11/97 Hello, My name is Marco Secli' (CELINT S.R.L.) I'm in trouble with GMT time and I'd like to remove it without repeating all the installation of DEBIAN linux. Waiting your kind answer. Thank you Marco Secli' (CELINT S.R.L.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Rebuilding the kernel
Now that everything is working right, I was toying with the idea of screwing it all up :) Basically, I'm considering rebuilding the kernel to add in some things I'm missing (sound) and removing some things that I don't need (SCSI support, for one). I've read all the howtos and got all the files, so I'm pretty sure I have a good idea of how to do it (but I'm open to suggestions, if anyone has them). My problem is this - my *$#$ laptop manual doesn't say what the settings of my ESS688 sound chip are (IRQ, Mem base, etc). And I no longer have any other OS on my machine (I dived into Linux head first...), so I have no easy way of running a program to find out. The menuconfig script is asking me for these settings (obviously)...if I provide the wrong numbers, will the machine boot (without sound), or will it completely crash? And if I supply the wrong numbers, will I have to recompile the kernel again, or are their config files that can be changed? Any insight would be helpful. Thanks. -- ++ | Andrew Akins | | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ames.net/igor/| | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cms-gt.com/| ++ | May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your | | sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your | | daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love | | gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your | | lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. | |- Number Ten Ox, Bridge of Birds | ++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re : I need help with my Gravis Ultrasound
Hi! I have trouble configuring the MPU-401 MIDI interface under Linux; my sound card is a Gravis Ultrasound Extreme, which is just like GUS MAX, mostly. I cannot also initialize it under Linux, so I have first to boot with MS-D*S :-( and execute the init programs. Has anybody any experience with this card? The documentation included (.PDF) is for Windows users, and doesn't explain these matters. I really need your help. Look at page: http://home.pf.jcu.cz/~perex/ultra/ It has really great Linux GUS Driver and all documentation fo Linux. __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
multiple X sessions
Hi, when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user and I type startx. I get some errors: Fatal server error Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: no such process (errno 3): Server error does anybody know how to correct this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
multiple X sessions (continued)
to add to my previous msg: when I try to get back to the first X session with Ctrl-Alt-F1 I get another error msg: AUDIT: X: client 11 rejected from local host Auth name MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 any ideas what does this mean? thanks in advance Manos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP Dialup
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: I was wondering what people use for handling their PPP dialups. I've been using simple pppd, which works well. But, it has no feedback - I have to simply wait, and run ps to see if it makes the connection. What tools or programs (if any) would provide more information/feedback? I'm running X, so an x-based tool or program would be cool... Try diald, the auto-ppp-dialer. It sets up a proxy thingie so that whenever you try to use a net-needing app (eg. telnet, ftp, netscape) your ppp line gets dialed. Works great, very customizeable, available as a debian package, etc... Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- | You and I and George went strolling through the park one day | | and then you held my hand as if to say, I love you. | | Then we passed a brook, and George fell in and drowned himself| | and floated out to sea, leaving you alone with me. | || | -- As sung by Red Kelly, on | | Stan Kenton/Live at the Las Vegas Tropicana | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pppd 2.3.1
Jon Lewis writes: Does ppp 2.3.1 have documentation, or do you still have the read the source to see what features are built in? The man page appears to be up to date. -- 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] .
Re: multiple X sessions
E Papantoniou wrote: - - Hi, - - when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 - and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user - and I type startx. I get some errors: - Hi, you have to open another display. Try this: startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 Besides, you can also login as yourself, and maybe to use a different color depth, like starx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -bpp 16 Have fun Ettore -- Ettore Aldrovandi Department of Mathematics // [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUNY at Stony Brook // ph.: [+]1 516 632 8271 Stony Brook, NY 11794-3651, USA // fax: [+]1 516 632 7631 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MSDOS files...what to do...
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix these...does Linux have a similar tool, and what package is it in? Next time use mtools and mcopy, ought to work ok. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- | You and I and George went strolling through the park one day | | and then you held my hand as if to say, I love you. | | Then we passed a brook, and George fell in and drowned himself| | and floated out to sea, leaving you alone with me. | || | -- As sung by Red Kelly, on | | Stan Kenton/Live at the Las Vegas Tropicana | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP Dialup
I just gave up on trying to configure diald; thought it would make things easier but don't have enough time to mess with it. Started using pon and poff instead. To see when the connection has been established, use ifconfig. If you see a line starting with ppp0 (I'm guessing you are just using one dial-up connection), you're ready to go. I don't know if there are any X tools, but I imagine I'll be writing a simple Tcl script for my wife very soon... On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: I was wondering what people use for handling their PPP dialups. I've been using simple pppd, which works well. But, it has no feedback - I have to simply wait, and run ps to see if it makes the connection. What tools or programs (if any) would provide more information/feedback? I'm running X, so an x-based tool or program would be cool... -- ++ | Andrew Akins | | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ames.net/igor/| | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cms-gt.com/| ++ | May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your | | sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your | | daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love | | gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your | | lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. | |- Number Ten Ox, Bridge of Birds | ++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do people make backups on Linux?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francesco Potorti`) writes: [snip] I considered dump, but it does not compress, so I won't use it. I am [snip] If your backups are critical you might not want to compress them at all. Or, at least, be careful how the compression is performed. Compression before archiving (gzip then tar) is more forgiving of media errors than compression after archiving (tar then gzip). In the latter case you will lose more data if the archive/tape is corrupt. IMHO: Get a bigger tape. -- _ _ Steve Kostecke| (_)_ __ _ ___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / http://kostecke.home.ml.org | | | | | | |_| | |_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
Looks like a well-done site to me! I like the torn-page edges... Excerpt follows :-) Your Vote has Been Registered. Caldera 11 Debian 303 RedHat 259 Slackware 108 Other 9 Total number of votes 690 On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 02:18:11AM +, Manos Papantoniou wrote: but how do you vote? and where are the current results? I went to the URL you give and it's a REAL MESS Joey Hess wrote: At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. I just went and voted, and it worked fine, shows debian at 118 and red hat at 154. Just voted myself.. Debian is at 267 Redhat is at 233 -- Gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -=-=- Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Southwest Technology Development Institute New Mexico State University --- HP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ DBP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/ SWAO: http://desertwinds.multipleimage.com/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -=-=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP Dialup
I was wondering what people use for handling their PPP dialups. I've You might want to look into DialD (Dial-on-Demand). This package automatically makes and breaks connections to the Internet as needed. You just start up NetScape, etc. and the modem dials... After an inactivity timeout, DialD drops the link (to save you money... grin...). It's really slick and many people use it. As for an X config for PPP, I've never used it (I'm shell-prompt driven...), but you're probably looking for XISP. Both XISP and DialD are Debian packages Good Luck! Kevin Traas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: multiple X sessions
On 25-Nov-97 E Papantoniou wrote: Hi, when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user and I type startx. I get some errors: Fatal server error Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: no such process (errno 3): Server error does anybody know how to correct this? You don't correct it: it is correct already. You cannot run 2 X sessions on the same display (:0.0 in your case).** If you need to, you can start an independent X session on a different display (say :1.0; if your first was on VT7 then the next will be on VT8), but probably you only need to get xterm windows owned by a different user opened on the X display you already have. To do this, all you need to do is, say, Ctrl-Alt-F2, login as the new user, and then, from this terminal, do xterm [options] -display :0.0 . Then (Alt-F7) switch back to the X display and you will have a new xterm owned as a logged-in window by the user newly logged in on VT2. From this xterm, the new user can start up any applications all of which will be owned by him. (This user may then log out from VT2, provided the was used). In this way, any number of users can have their own user-owned windows on a single X display, just as if each user had started up X -- with the difference that the X background, or root window, and the window manager, will be owned by the user who originally started X, so that all applications started up by clicking on root-window menus or on button-bars will again be owned by the original user. If you don't want that, and you do need to start an independent X session on display :1.0, then do something like startx -- :1 [other server options e.g. -bpp 16] and you will then have 2 X displays, and you switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-F7, Ctrl-Alt-F8 However, the switch is always cumbersome and the previous approach is usually preferable, provided it is sufficient. Hope this helps. Ted. ** Actually, while this is a correct statement, you CAN run startx as a new user provided your xinitrc and wmrc are set up in a certain way: the attempt to start a new X session will fail, for the reason given, likewise for the WM, but you can persuade the applications which the WM would have started up to be started up on behalf of the new user, and they will overlay the old ones; but this is a perverse way to achieve the multi-user in one X result, E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25-Nov-97 Time: 17:55:44 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X startup problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the help, guys. Seems I hosed the file I created with
xf86config during the installation. Re-ran that, added the line below,
and that fixed the problem. Now if I could find a replacement for that
ghastly login screen...
You can design your own login screens with the xbanner
package. I don't particulary like the default screen that
comes with the Debian package but you can tweak xbanner to
produce a screen to suit yourself.
Hey, while I'm thinking about it and since I can't try it right now,
would adding a line like
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
allow me to use VT08 for another login, or do I have to do something else?
I had trouble getting that idea to work consistently but
here's a solution I'e found. I use xdm for my initial login
and then with these lines added to the end of
~/.bash_profile to accomodate logins from VC's. The first
gets VT08, the next VT09, etc.
if [ `tty` = /dev/console -a $TERM = sun -o $TERM =
linux ]; then
VC=1
while [ -f /tmp/.X${VC}-lock ]
do
VC=`expr $VC + 1`
done
Display=`expr $VC + 7`
export DISPLAY=:$VC
echo Starting X on VC $Display (type Ctrl-C to
interrupt)
sleep 5
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
#startx -- :${VC} -bpp 16 /dev/null 21
startx -- :${VC} -bpp 8 /dev/null 21
clear
echo -n Automatically logging out (type Ctrl-C to
interrupt)
sleep 5
clear
logout # logout after leaving windows system
fi
clear
fi
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Re: Rebuilding the kernel
Basically, I'm considering rebuilding the kernel to add in some things I'm missing (sound) and removing some things that I don't need (SCSI support, for one). Good call ! I've read all the howtos and got all the files, so I'm pretty sure I have a good idea of how to do it (but I'm open to suggestions, if anyone has them). Ahhh... Someone who RTFM's... grin Basically, you wanna run: cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper (the first time after you install a new kernel version) make menuconfig make dep ; make clean make zImage make modules make modules_install cp arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot Then, edit /etc/modules and remove/add modules as required based on your choices in building the new kernel. From here, you've got to update your /etc/lilo.conf file... I suggest keeping your existing kernel in place and setting up to boot your new one as an alternate. (At least, first time around) Here's how to do this... (I'm sure others will criticize/comment - everyone's got their own way of doing this...) cd /boot mv zImage current cd /etc ae lilo.conf (change delay to delay=50 and add the following two lines...) image=/boot/current label=Current lilo (this should respond with...) Added Linux * Added Current (if you get errors, then there's a problem with lilo.conf... try again, or let me know.) Now, you can reboot. When you see LILO on the screen just after POST, hit LEFT-SHIFT and type in current (no quotes, of course). (You can also hit TAB to get a list of available boot options) Note the * above? That's the kernel image that will boot by default My problem is this - my *$#$ laptop manual doesn't say what the settings of my ESS688 sound chip are (IRQ, Mem base, etc). And I no longer have any other OS on my machine (I dived into Linux head first...), so I have no easy way of running a program to find out. The menuconfig script is asking me for these settings (obviously)...if I provide the wrong numbers, will the machine boot (without sound), or will it completely crash? And if I supply the wrong numbers, will I have to recompile the kernel again, or are their config files that can be changed? No problem here... If you select wrong settings and they get compiled in, you'll just end up with no sound At worst, it might not boot, but that's why your new kernel is setup as an alternate - it's easy to reboot and go back to the main (original) kernel, and try again Best of luck! Let me know if you need any further help/have any further questions. Regards, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Commands Manual
Gertjan Klein wrote:
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think his needs are far more basic than that. He seems to be wanting a
list of utility-names, as most first-time Linux users (including me) want.
There are not many things more frustrating than thinking I know it can be
done, but I don't know how and I don't even know with what utility, so I
don't know what man page to look at -- if you have already discovered the
very existance of the 'man' utility.
I remember in my early days of Linux trying to create such a list, by
printing out a directory listing of /bin and /usr/bin, and running man
for each of the files I found there. I made a file (by hand!) with
one-line descriptions for each program I found that way. Imagine how I
felt when I heard about apropos!
To get an idea of what's available, the original poster may want to
try something like:
apropos -r '*' | awk '$2 ~ (1) {print}' | less
Gertjan.
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Re: MSDOS files...what to do...
Andrew Akins writes: I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix these...does Linux have a similar tool, and what package is it in? dos2unix is in the sysutils package. A suggestion, download a copy of the .../stable/Contents-i386 file from your favorite Debian mirror. It lists every file and its package. Then just grep it for your file in question, I use it all the time. #grep dos2unix Contents-i386 usr/bin/dos2unix utils/sysutils usr/man/man1/dos2unix.1 utils/sysutils Good luck, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. Has anyone advertized this on whatever Redhat (and the other distributions) have as user lists? While it might be nice to achieve a bigger number than the other guys, it would seem rather pointless to do so by biasing the sample. -- http://staff.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MSDOS files...what to do...
I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix these...does Linux have a similar tool, and what package is it in? Hi. Debian does have dos2unix in some package. You would have to search Contents file on ftp site to find which one. Meanwhile I can show you the way I do this: tr -d '\015' dosfile unixfile Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Found interesting diald info
For those of you with dynamic ip's, problems with windows machines (random dialing) and other problems related to diald, check out this link: (english) http://personales.mundivia.es/personales/luca/diald-win-e.html (spanish) http://personales.mundivia.es/personales/luca/diald-win-s.html -Brian -- Brian Rectanus Kansas State University Computing and Informational Sciences Multimedia/Web Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~trojan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
