FTP Server availability

[Raney Ellis]

Good day...

When the Debian distribution software is compiled into a functioning
Linux system, is the FTP server automatically available for anonymous
upload and download?  Or must the system administrator make it available
and configure it?

Thanks in advance, and please send your response to me directly.

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Re: Xterm ALT key

[Anders Hammarquist]

>Please excuse my unfamiliarity with the nomenclature of the keyboard.  I
>think this is an FAQ, but I haven't grokked the previous threads.  I am
>posting to ask why xterm persists in crummy handling of ALT so that bash
>readline is a pain, or at least, not equivalent with bash on a terminal.
>This is the case in jed, for example.  On a term, I can type \M-x using the
>ALT key, but in and Xterm it's not so, I have to hit ESC then x.  The shell
>readline keys are also not working "right" with ALT.
>
>Rxvt has gone through evolutions over the post two years in handling of ALT.
>These past few months it's been ok, but over the past two years, this
>behavior has come and gone.
>
>What will I have to do to get xterm to "do the right thing"?

To have xterms send ESC+7bit-char instead of 8bit-char, add this to
your ~/.Xresources file:

XTerm*eightBitInput: false

It tells xterm not to accept characters with the 8th (or meta) bit
set, but instead strip that bit and preceede the character with the
ESC character.

Regards,
/Anders


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X cursor crapped out

[Christopher J. McNicholas]

Hi!

I put a new video card in and was playing around with the settings. I 
locked up X about three timesso bad that I had to tap the reset 
button on my PC. I now have the correct settings, but my cursor is 
shot. Instead of the little X, I now get a handful of dark colored 
pixels scattered in a little clump on the screen. I can still *use* 
the cursor, I just can't be sure of exactly where it's pointing!
Is there a file I can replace to fix this? Or do I have to reinstall 
X again? I have a feeling I corrupted it during the fiasco.


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Private network goes down when outside network goes down.

[jason. ish]

I have an agonizing problem that I hope someone can help me solve.

I have an old 486SX-25 that acts as a ipmasqing machine.  My cable modem
plugs into it, and then I have an internal network on the 192.168.1.*
private network space.  Behind this machine I have a Win98 box and an
OpenBSD box that really on this 486 for my personal file areas, mounted via
samba and nfs.

The cable modem seems to lose its connection every few days for up to an
hour at a time.  And when the cable modem goes down (eth0) my internal
network goes down to (eth1).  I can't telnet to the 486 or see any of the
filesystems mounted via it.  If the cable modem comes back online before
DHCP quits, I can get back in.  But if the cable modem goes down for around
an hour, dhcp quits and my internal network doesn't come back online, and I
have to hit the reset button on the 486 to get everything back online.  The
486 has no monitor or keyboard, therefore without telnet access to restart
dhcp / re-enable eth0, my only choice is a hard reboot.

Is there a solution to my internal network going down.  The cable going down
as often as it does doesn't really bother me, its just that the internal
network does to.  I can still ping the 486, but thats as far as access to it
goes.

Thanks for hints into a solution.

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Re: Modem installation

[shaul]

> I bought a US Robotics external modem. I don't find any documentation
> saying how to install it, how to access my internet provider (do I need ppp,
>  sendmail...?).  Could anyone point me to the good way.
> 

With a bit of lack, installing your modem is simply connecting it to the 
comuter through a serial port.
Before trying to access your ISP, it is a good idea to activate the modem using 
minicom.
You might want to take a look at the Serial-HOWTO and the PPP-HOWTO.
I suggest you come back to the list if you will have more questions.
 


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Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

[shaul]

> Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.  

Can you prove that Win95 is just pretending to be multitasking ? 
What about Win98 ?




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Re: Xdvi doesn't scale!

[Geza Gyorgyi]

 
> Hi, the size of xdvi doesn't scale. I can call it up with -geometry axb
> but that only controls the window size. The layout of the controls are
> too large and I can't get the lower part of the controls on my 800x600
> resolution screen without running a virtual desktop. Any suggestions?

I cannot answer the question how controls can be rescaled.  However, you do not 
need them, because the controls have their shortkeys.  For instance, "n" stands 
for next or "M s" for shrinking by the integer scale M, the manual tells you 
all.  You can toggle the display of controls by typing "x".  In order to 
eliminate controls at startup, call xdvi with the option "-expert" or the 
resource "xdvi.expert: true". 

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Re: Stopping XDM

[Shaleh]

Forgot to mention you can still get to console by typing CTRL-ALT-F? for
whatrever console you want.

Gabrie van Zanten wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just install X11 and while configuring I select XDM instead of StartX.
> Now when I boot, XDM is started and I can't leave it. When pressing
> CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC he just restarts XDM.
> 
> Is there a daemon I should stop ? And how, if I'm within XDM.
> 
> Gabrie
> 
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Re: SyQuest

[Norbert Veber]

On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 05:49:11PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> There is no need for any special software.  There is a parport driver
> for it at torque.net.  

I realize that, I got the drive to work perfectly without anything (ide
version).  But the drive does come with some windows software to
enable/disable certain features such as disk write protect etc.. That is
what I am looking for.


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Re: Stopping XDM

[Shaleh]

All daemons in Debian can be stopped by calling the start-stop-daemon. 
An easier way is to look in /etc/init.d and call its script.  for XDM it
is /etc/init.d/xdm stop (start would restart it).

Gabrie van Zanten wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just install X11 and while configuring I select XDM instead of StartX.
> Now when I boot, XDM is started and I can't leave it. When pressing
> CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC he just restarts XDM.
> 
> Is there a daemon I should stop ? And how, if I'm within XDM.
> 
> Gabrie
> 
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Stopping XDM

[Gabrie van Zanten]

Hi,

I just install X11 and while configuring I select XDM instead of StartX.
Now when I boot, XDM is started and I can't leave it. When pressing
CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC he just restarts XDM. 

Is there a daemon I should stop ? And how, if I'm within XDM.

Gabrie



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Re: SyQuest

[Shaleh]

There is no need for any special software.  There is a parport driver
for it at torque.net.  

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SyQuest

[Norbert Veber]

Does anyone know of any linux software for the SyQuest SparQ drive?  I am
aware of the jaztool program that comes with hamm, but I doubt that it would
work with this drive..  I am looking for something like that for the SyQuest
drive, and would be more than willing to package it for debian..


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Re: Linux On NPR

[Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella]

Bob Nielsen writes:
>> > It sounds like rvplayer didn't get installed as a plugin for you.
>> 
>> Should I report this as a bug to debian developers?

> One thought--did you install netscape with the debian installer?

Yes.

> If not,
> the files may not go where they will be expected.

All the other plug-ins work out-of-the-box. I was impressed the first
time I clicked on a pdf...

> Did you install netscape before installing rvplayer?

Yes, but, AFAIK, dpkg takes care of that and "upgrades" your plug-ins
list whenever you install a new program or something... Am I mistaken?

> Which version of Debian are you using?  I'm using hamm and it all worked
> for me. 

Mine is hamm (frozen)... almost everything is very up-to-date!

> Previously I had it working with bo, however.  rvplayer does NOT work with
> the mozilla 5.0 beta version of netscape by the way. 

netscape 4.04.

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Xdvi doesn't scale!

[Matthew Lee]

Hi, the size of xdvi doesn't scale. I can call it up with -geometry axb
but that only controls the window size. The layout of the controls are
too large and I can't get the lower part of the controls on my 800x600
resolution screen without running a virtual desktop. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Linux On NPR

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:

> Bob Nielsen writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
> >> Bob Nielsen writes:
> >> 
> >> I did and all the binary garbage appeared in the netscape screen. No
> >> real player...
> 
> > It sounds like rvplayer didn't get installed as a plugin for you.
> 
> Should I report this as a bug to debian developers?

One thought--did you install netscape with the debian installer?  If not,
the files may not go where they will be expected.  Did you install
netscape before installing rvplayer? 

Which version of Debian are you using?  I'm using hamm and it all worked
for me. 

Previously I had it working with bo, however.  rvplayer does NOT work with
the mozilla 5.0 beta version of netscape by the way. 

> 
> > You can probably set it up manually be editing preferences in netscape.
> 
> Won't the manual confs be erased the next time debian changes the
> plug-ins? 

I'm not sure about that.

Bob


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Re: Linux On NPR

[Fabien Ninoles]

On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 10:13:24AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
> 
> > Joey Hess writes:
> > 
> > > Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
> > >> This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not being
> > >> called as a Netscape plug-in, even though I installed it through the
> > >> .deb... Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
> > >> 
> > >> ii  rvplayer5.0-1  Real Video Player (installer)
> > 
> > > What site are you trying to use it on? It has to be a site with embedded
> > > real video content, not just a link. I haven't been able to find such a 
> > > site
> > > yet to test it.
> > 
> > I'd suppose that the simple fact that you click on a ".ram" file,
> > Netscape was supposed to call rvplayer, much the same way that with a
> > ".pdf" it calls Acrobat, and with ".avi" it calls xanim...
> > 
> > Am I missing something?
> 
> Try clicking on the file /usr/doc/rvplayer/examples/welcome.rm with
> Netscape. This works for me (both rvplayer and netscape 3 installed using
> the .deb installer packages). 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 
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don't work for me (with netscape 4.04) although mailcap and mime.types
seems to be set correctly.

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Re: xwin and monitor

[John Wingfield]

I'm afraid I need some more information.

If the X Server actually starts, then the problem is likely to be your
monitor configuration, as you suggest.  If the X Server does not start,
then it is more likely to be a conflict with your system.  Do you have
the appropriate versions of the required libraries?

If it is a monitor configuration and you don't have the manual, try
using XF86Setup (I think it's called) to set up a standard monitor.

I'm afraid I can't be of more help at this stage.

Regards

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>and was wondering id you could helpme.  i installed the latest Debian
>distribution of linux, but i can't seem to get the latest version of Xfree86
>installed the only thing that I think is wrong is the modeline for my
>monitor.  i can get in and use xvidtune but i cant get it to configure
>right.  i don't have my manual for my monitor.  if there is anyway you could
>help me that would be great.
>thanks
>
>
>
>neskie manuel
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Re: sgml authoring

[Fabien Ninoles]

On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 02:15:34PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> On this topic, sort of...
> 
> I'm going to be writing a Masters thesis this year (ie. approx 30k words),
> and I'm planning on doing it in Linux (drag myself kicking and screaming
> into the Emacs documentation...).
> 
> The possibilities I am looking as as to format are the ubiquitous LaTeX, or
> the newer contender, SGML. I don't know any of either, so I'm going to have
> to learn something from scratch, but I'm wondering if anyone has any
> recomendations as to which is easier to learn and use. I do know a little
> HTML.
> 
> I know that SGML can be converted to LaTex and lots of other stuff, LaTex
> to HTML, RTF all that stuff, so either would prolly be alright.
> 
> Any comments? Anyone recomend a good starting point to learn one?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> damon
> 
> 
> 
> Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Web Page:   www.sub.net.au/~tr  It's not a sense of humor. It's
> ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony disguised as one.
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> 
> 

If you have to done lot of math typesetting, may be latex is better
than SGML. The learning curves is a little steep but if you use lyx
(for wisywig like interface) or a (X)Emacs with AUC-TeX (for a better
control), you can quickly learn. There are lot of documentation about
LaTeX available. Check for your local mirror of CTAN.
["http://www.CTAN.ORG/";]. I recommend personnaly "LaTeX Essentials"
[http://www.CTAN.ORG/CTAN/tex-archive/info/latex-essential/index.html";].
Also, some good books are
"LaTeX, A Documentation Preparation System" from Leslie Lamport
(ISBN 0-201-52983-1, Addison-Wesley) and
"The LaTeX companion" from Goosen. Mittelbach and Samarin
(ISBN 0-201-54199-8, Addison-Wesley).

If you don't have to typeset mathematics, may be you will prefer SGML.
Take then a look at the debiandoc package, where an excellent
introduction is provided. Check out however that SGML is not a
"word processor" like TeX... You do the content and it decided the
format. It can be harder to have exactly the format you want at
output. (BTW, LaTeX too, but it's more easy to change latex behaviour
than SGML, IMHO!!!)

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Re: new

[Adam Klein]

On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 04:19:14PM -0500, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mike wrote:
> 
> > Hope I got the right e-mail address, Just heard about Linux and was
> wanting to try it out but do not know where to get it.  
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> > 
> 
> Mike, 
> 
> please set your Netscape mailer to send only text.  Many of these guys
> will just grab the delete key if you send html, which is Netscape's
> default. In fact I am guilty of that as well. 

You failed to notice two things.  First, he wasn't using Netscape, he
was using Outlook Express, and second, he didn't send HTML.

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Re: new

[DAVID B. TEAGUE]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mike wrote:

> Hope I got the right e-mail address, Just heard about Linux and was
wanting to try it out but do not know where to get it.  
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 

Mike, 

please set your Netscape mailer to send only text.  Many of these guys
will just grab the delete key if you send html, which is Netscape's
default. In fact I am guilty of that as well. 

Linux is free, the easiest way is buy a $3 CD from www.cheapbytes.com or
to download the 6 boot disks from www.debian.org, or sunsite.unc.edu,
and install from the net -- IF you ahve a fast net connection. If not,
then a CD is likey best.

You have to do a bit of searching on sunsite, but debian.org cd to 'bo'
aka 'stable' is fairly straightforwd. I just connected to www.debian.org
to look. Prowl around.  Read.  Then click at "Getting Debian ..." 

The distribution is not small, and you will need to decide what you
need. If you can run Windows 95 you can run Debian quite satisfactorily. 
But you will need to repartition you disk

Lots of luck.

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Re: Threading list subjects?

[Jason Costomiris]

On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 01:48:48PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
: Hi,
: >>"Jason" == Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: 
: Jason> Indeed.  However, you don't need to learn the finger-breaking
: Jason> keystrokes emacs requires (sorry guys, what was that,
: Jason> meta+alt+left shift_F9 for that function?  )...
: 
:   You are just showing how dated your knowledge of Emacs is. 

Sure, beat up on the vi guy who makes a joke about emacs. 

Would you recognize a joke if it jumped off of your screen and kicked you?
Besides, are there no more wacko keybindings in emacs?  I think they are
still there.

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new

[Mike]

Hope I got the right e-mail address, 
Just heard about Linux and was wanting to try 
it out but do not know where to get it. 
 
Thanks,
Mike

Re: sgml authoring

[King Lee]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Damon Muller wrote:

> On this topic, sort of...
> 
> I'm going to be writing a Masters thesis this year (ie. approx 30k words),
> and I'm planning on doing it in Linux (drag myself kicking and screaming
> into the Emacs documentation...).
> 
> The possibilities I am looking as as to format are the ubiquitous LaTeX, or
> the newer contender, SGML. I don't know any of either, so I'm going to have
> to learn something from scratch, but I'm wondering if anyone has any
> recomendations as to which is easier to learn and use. I do know a little
> HTML.
> 
> I know that SGML can be converted to LaTex and lots of other stuff, LaTex
> to HTML, RTF all that stuff, so either would prolly be alright.
> 
I would recommend Latex to be safe. I know lots of people have
already written thesis with Latex, but no one in SGML.  

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IPX problem

[BRIAN SCHRAMM]

 I know that this might not be the proper group to ask but I cannot
 find any that I can ask in so here it goes.

 I have loaded the ncp package for Novell login capability.  No matter
 what I do to configure it I get a steady display of the following
 error message:

 ipx: network number collision e2766820
 eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2

 I can log into the system but since the error repeats itself
 continually the login is not worth the fight around the error.  Can
 anyone tell me what is going on?  Or maybe point me in the right
 direction to get the answer.

 Thanks

 Brian Schramm


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Re: qt compile problem after upgrade to libc6

[Scott Ellis]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Michael [badpixel / bad sector] wrote:

> 
> hi!
> 
> i have alot of problems compiling things, after i have 
> upgraded to libc6 (from debian 1.3.1)
> 
> the programs, that i can't compile now compiled
> before, without problems.
> 
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec c1plus': No such file or directory
> 
> i can't compile qt 1.31 ...
> 
> "locate cc1plus" says: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.90.27/cc1plus
> 
> have i forgot to upgrade something? ... it compiled on my debian 1.3.1
> before.
> 
> hm... looks like my problem is with qt only .. and kde

Yep, g++ has been split out into a seperate package so our g++ compiler
can be egcs and gcc can remain at version 2.7.2.x.  You need to install
the g++ package.

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Re: Threading list subjects?

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
>>"Jason" == Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Jason> Indeed.  However, you don't need to learn the finger-breaking
Jason> keystrokes emacs requires (sorry guys, what was that,
Jason> meta+alt+left shift_F9 for that function?  )...

You are just showing how dated your knowledge of Emacs is. 

manoj
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Re: Linux On NPR

[Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella]

Bob Nielsen writes:

> On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
>> Bob Nielsen writes:
>> 
>> I did and all the binary garbage appeared in the netscape screen. No
>> real player...

> It sounds like rvplayer didn't get installed as a plugin for you.

Should I report this as a bug to debian developers?

> You can probably set it up manually be editing preferences in netscape.

Won't the manual confs be erased the next time debian changes the
plug-ins? 

> Bob

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Re: problems using xmaple in a remote xterminal

[Marco Anglesio]

> (maple is a computer algebra system). 
> If I start xmaple (the graphical interface) locally, 
> everything works fine. However, if I try to use a 
> remote xterminal (using rlogin or telnet) I get a 
> segmentation fault.

Have you tried using rexec?

% rexec -l username -p password hostname /usr/local/bin/xmaple \
-display yourip:0.0

should work properly. (assuming you're using x yourself, of course).

You should also add the foreign system to your xhosts (although, yes,
there is a more secure way - xhosts is just simpler) with:

% xhosts +hostip

prior to rexecing xmaple

Regards

m.

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Re: Linux On NPR

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:

> Bob Nielsen writes:
> 
> >> I'd suppose that the simple fact that you click on a ".ram" file,
> >> Netscape was supposed to call rvplayer, much the same way that with a
> >> ".pdf" it calls Acrobat, and with ".avi" it calls xanim...
> >> 
> >> Am I missing something?
> 
> > Try clicking on the file /usr/doc/rvplayer/examples/welcome.rm with
> > Netscape. This works for me (both rvplayer and netscape 3 installed using
> > the .deb installer packages). 
> 
> I did and all the binary garbage appeared in the netscape screen. No
> real player...

It sounds like rvplayer didn't get installed as a plugin for you.

You can probably set it up manually be editing preferences in netscape.

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Re: Major Failure re-installing system!!!

[stephen . p . ryan]

On 10 Apr, John Maheu wrote:
> There is a good signal 11 reference on the web somewhere - unfortunatly I
> can't remember the address.

http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
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Re: Linux On NPR

[Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella]

Bob Nielsen writes:

>> I'd suppose that the simple fact that you click on a ".ram" file,
>> Netscape was supposed to call rvplayer, much the same way that with a
>> ".pdf" it calls Acrobat, and with ".avi" it calls xanim...
>> 
>> Am I missing something?

> Try clicking on the file /usr/doc/rvplayer/examples/welcome.rm with
> Netscape. This works for me (both rvplayer and netscape 3 installed using
> the .deb installer packages). 

I did and all the binary garbage appeared in the netscape screen. No
real player...

> Bob

> 
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qt compile problem after upgrade to libc6

[Michael \[badpixel / bad sector\]]

hi!

i have alot of problems compiling things, after i have 
upgraded to libc6 (from debian 1.3.1)

the programs, that i can't compile now compiled
before, without problems.

gcc: installation problem, cannot exec c1plus': No such file or directory

i can't compile qt 1.31 ...

"locate cc1plus" says: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.90.27/cc1plus

have i forgot to upgrade something? ... it compiled on my debian 1.3.1
before.

hm... looks like my problem is with qt only .. and kde

regards,

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Re: Major Failure re-installing system!!!

[John Maheu]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:

> I have re-installed my Debian Linux system many times over the past
> few months...
> A few times from hardware failures, once because of a broken package
> corrupting my filesystem...
> last night I had to do it again...I was recompiling my kernel (adding
> NE2000 suport...which I didn't have in the previous custom version)
> It would go for a while then I woul dget
> cc1 recieved fatal signal 11 and it would stop dead
> (I was building 2.0.29  on a hamm system)
> after a while of "futzing around" I tested the memory (I had a similar
> problem recently that was memory related...but these are
> completly differnt SIMMS)
> The memory tested fine (with memtest86) and I ddecided that since
> /home is on a differnt partition than /   ...I wont loose much
> so I saved soem configs and offf I went

I think your best course is to find where the hardware problem is. If you
have a minimal install then start testing. Use a cpu intensive program and
run it for 2-3 days as a test.

If you have replaced the simms, you could try to disable your cache
from the bios and run your program. If you still get problems it may be
your motherboard. There is also the possibility of the hd but its not
likely from what you've mentioned. 

Get in the habit of checking /var/log/messages. Any serious problems will
show up here. 
There is a good signal 11 reference on the web somewhere - unfortunatly I
can't remember the address.

Hope this helps.
John


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Re: Help with a PS/2 mouse and X11

[Ian Keith Setford]

Yo-

> I installed off of the 1.3.1 CD's, and haven't been able to get my mouse to
> work with anything yet.  (What program's could I test with besides X11?)
> The mouse is a PS/2 style Logitech Mouseman 3 button mouse.
> 
> I went into XF86Config and tried the following settings:
> mouse protocol: mouseman (also tried microsoft)
> mouse device: /dev/ttys0 (also tried /dev/mouse)
> baud rate: 1200

Since you have a PS/2 mouse when you run xf86config use the folllowing:

Mouse Protocol: PS/2
Mouse Device :  /dev/psaux

That should do it.

-Ian
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Help with a PS/2 mouse and X11

[Cam Vetter]

I installed off of the 1.3.1 CD's, and haven't been able to get my mouse to
work with anything yet.  (What program's could I test with besides X11?)
The mouse is a PS/2 style Logitech Mouseman 3 button mouse.

I went into XF86Config and tried the following settings:
mouse protocol: mouseman (also tried microsoft)
mouse device: /dev/ttys0 (also tried /dev/mouse)
baud rate: 1200

I get no response from the mouse cursor on screen after applying these
settings.  After reading a couple of "how-to faqs", I also tried gpm -k
before running XF86Config.   I don't think this is the problem though since
it seems to be using my com1 port. (which has nothing attaching to it).

Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?

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Re: [OFF TOPIC] Connecting Win95 to Linux(server/gateway)

[Lazar Fleysher]

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
> > 
> > I would like to network the two so that the new Win95 machine uses the
> > Linux box as a gateway to the internet and as a server.  I will
> > probably try to use PLIP as the protocol between the two as the Win95
> > machine will not have a printer attached to it and I have a spare
> > parallel card I can drop in the Linux box which already has a printer
> > attached to it.  
> > 
> > So what documents do you all recommend.  I would like to leave the
> > printer on the Linux box.  So far I think I should read.
> > 
> > Diald mini howto
> > IP Masquerade mini howto
> > Net-3 howto
..
> 
> You need to rebuild the kernel for the IP Masq. stuff, its spelled out
> completely in the howto.  We used Ethernet as the LAN between the two
> computers and used the standalone IP addresses (192.168.1.0 network)
> mentioned in the howto. 
> 
> 
> Good luck...

Probably, you would want to read PLIP mini howto and I must mention that
it says that nobody had been able to connect Linux and Win95 using plip
and direct cable connection. (As far as I can remember) I did not try it
myself so try it, maybe it will work for you... 

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Pnp setup

[Marc van der Vossen]

Hi,

I'm going to set up my AWE 32 card which is Plug and Pray.
this is the only PnP card in my computer, does anyone have a config file
where I can just put my own setting in and it works ?

Any directions installing SB -drivers ?

Any input is appreciated.

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Re: Where/how can I get Staroffice?

[Alain Toussaint]

> Also netscape won't install because it says it needs a .tar.gz file not a
> deb file with netscape in. What do I do?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tristan

you download netscape (3.01 for a debian 1.3.1 installation) from the
netscape site,it come in a .tar.gz file,you put it in the /tmp directory
and then,you install the netscape package and it will install itself.

Alain

p.s.for debian 2.0,you download communicator (dont know witch version on
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Re: printing with kernel 2.1.94

[James Dietrich]

On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 07:14:16AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote:
> 
> Aria Prima Novianto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> APN> On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:38:47PM -0400, James Dietrich wrote:
>  JD> 
>  JD> But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly
>  JD> configure the parallel port and/or printer modules. (I have enabled
>  JD> the parallel port and PC-style parallel port and parallel printer
>  JD> all as modules).

Thank you both for your suggestions.  However, none of the methods outlined
below seem to work.

>  JD> 
> APN> 
> APN> Edit /lib/modules/2.1.94/modules.dep
> APN> 
> APN> Change
> APN> /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport.o
> APN> to
> APN> /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport_pc.o

If I do this, then after giving the command to print a file (lpr )
this appears in syslog
Apr 10 13:02:40 debian kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
Apr 10 13:02:41 debian kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
and lpq says this
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Rank   Owner  Job  Files Total Size
1stjdietrch   162  helloworld42 bytes
and nothing prints.

The three modules parport, parport_pc, and lp all get loaded.

Yes, the printer is on :-)

> 
> The better thing to do (which won't have to be redone with every
> kernel upgrade) is to put an alias in your /etc/conf.modules for the
> parport_lowlevel driver, like so:
> 
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

If I do this, then this appears in syslog
Apr 10 13:12:11 debian kernel: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
and lpq reports the same problem as above and nothing prints.

The parport and lp modules get loaded.

> 
> Unfortunately, I've not had much luck with this at all.  Instead, I
> have
> 
> post-install parport modprobe "-k" "-s" "parport_pc"

When I add this line to /etc/conf.modules the error message
in syslog is
Apr 10 07:45:36 debian modprobe: post-install 
/lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport.o failed
Furthermore, lsmod doesn't report that any of the needed modules are
loaded.

> 
> This seems to work significantly better.  It's the same trick I use to 
> get the 2.1.x modularized sound driver working properly; I don't know
> if there's a better way.

Interestingly, the post-install line
post-install sb modprobe  "-k" "adlib_card"
I added when figuring out my sound problem produces this error in syslog
Apr 10 13:16:33 debian modprobe: post-install /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/sb.o 
failed
which looks a lot like the error I get from the similar line
for the parport post-install line.

Just wondering:
Do I need to specify any further paramaters in /etc/conf.modules? It
looks like they are being detected (or defaulting!) to proper values.
Does it make any difference if the printer is driven by interrupts or
polling?

Again, thanks for your quick responses to my first question.  If you
or anyone else has any more ideas about how to get this going, I'd
really appreciate it.  And if any further information would be helpful
feel free to ask.

Thanks.

James


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Re: Where/how can I get Staroffice?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote:

> I hear everyone saying how good staroffice is but don't know where I can get
> it. 

There are two versions.  StarOffice 3.1 is at ftp.gwdg.de.  You need to
get three files, StarOffice31-common.tar.gz, StarOffice31-english.tar.gz
and StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz (assume you want the English language and
don't have Motif).  Put these files in /tmp and the installer will do the
rest.

Version 4 is available on a link from www.stardivision.com (I don't
remember the exact site).  IIRC, this is one *BIG* file.

> 
> 
> Also netscape won't install because it says it needs a .tar.gz file not a
> deb file with netscape in. What do I do?

The deb file is an installer only.  Get the tar.gz file and put it in
/tmp, like above.

Bob


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Re: Graphic card installation : 3D Emotion

[Ossama Othman]

> > I too have a card with the Voodoo Rush chipset
> >
> > By the way, IIRC the 3Dfx Glide libraries have also been ported to Linux!
> 
> You do recall correctly, but there are only Linux drivers for the
> Voodoo Graphics chips so I think you're both out of luck.

Are you sure about that?  I believe that I read about someone porting the
Glide 2.43 library to Linux, which does include Rush support (IIRC :)).
This was a while ago, so I could be wrong again :-).

-Ossama


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Re: Need a little help

[Shaleh]

Hi, My name is Sean and I am the E and imlib maintainer.  To get
enlightenment go to www.enlightenment.org.  There is a mailing list
there and there is a #E on efnet.  There will be a Debian package of E
probably the first week of June.  There is a major release of E at the
end of May.  The current E can not easily be packaged.  There are Debian
packages of ALL required libs for E in frozen/hamm.

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Re: conflict between xlib6 and xlib6g

[Scott Ellis]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Pierre Dupuis wrote:

> I need to install xlib6g library forms in order to make some app run (like
> squake)
> 
> But xlib6 which is already installed is in conflict with xlib6g,
> 
> and xlib6 is need by xbase and some others app like emacs...
> 
> I would like to know if someone know if i can force installation of xlib6g..

NO, don't force xlib6g.  Instead, upgrade xlib6 to the version from hamm
(probably in oldlibs) and then install xlib6g.

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Re: Linux On NPR

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:

> Joey Hess writes:
> 
> > Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
> >> This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not being
> >> called as a Netscape plug-in, even though I installed it through the
> >> .deb... Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
> >> 
> >> ii  rvplayer5.0-1  Real Video Player (installer)
> 
> > What site are you trying to use it on? It has to be a site with embedded
> > real video content, not just a link. I haven't been able to find such a site
> > yet to test it.
> 
> I'd suppose that the simple fact that you click on a ".ram" file,
> Netscape was supposed to call rvplayer, much the same way that with a
> ".pdf" it calls Acrobat, and with ".avi" it calls xanim...
> 
> Am I missing something?

Try clicking on the file /usr/doc/rvplayer/examples/welcome.rm with
Netscape. This works for me (both rvplayer and netscape 3 installed using
the .deb installer packages). 

Bob


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Need a little help

[Kendrick Myatt]

Hello :)
I've been off this list and out of the Debian loop for a while,
but I'm starting to get back into it now.  I'm getting a system set
up at the house and have just a few (hopefully quick) questions:

1) What are the best websites for info on how to do such-and-such
with Debian Linux?
2) Where do I get the "Enlightenment" X-Windows package that looks so
cool?
3) What do I need to use my 3Com Impact IQ ISDN TA for dialup PPP
access to my ISP?
4) How do I set up my Creative SB16 soundcard to work under Linux?
5) I have 36MB RAM on my system, how much of a swap partition do I
need, if any?

As these are pretty basic-sounding questions, a good answer to #1
may be all I need :)  I've been running Debian 1.3 for a while now,
and recently destroyed it trying to upgrade to the "frozen" code.  No
worries, though...  I'll just reinstall the base stuff from CD and
start over :)  Thanks in advance for any help!

Regards,

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Re: tetex in frozen--Problem?

[Christoph Martin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Art Lemasters) writes:

> 
>  I am using dselect ftp to try to download and install
> tetex packages.  tetex-bin_0.9-3.deb says it needs
> tetex-base_0.9-3.deb in order to work, but
> tetex-base_0.4pl8-7.deb is all that is available.  The
> download directory I am using is:
> /dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/
> 
>  And yes, I am running hamm (frozen), of course.
> 

tetex-base_0.9 is sitting in Incoming for about two weeks and is
coming not forward because of the new package tetex-nonfree I had to
create to resolve some bugs.

I hope Guy will move it into hamm (and slink) soon.

Christoph
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Need a little help

[Kendrick Myatt]

Hello :)
I've been off this list and out of the Debian loop for a while,
but I'm starting to get back into it now.  I'm getting a system set
up at the house and have just a few (hopefully quick) questions:

1) What are the best websites for info on how to do such-and-such
with Debian Linux?
2) Where do I get the "Enlightenment" X-Windows package that looks so
cool?
3) What do I need to use my 3Com Impact IQ ISDN TA for dialup PPP
access to my ISP?
4) How do I set up my Creative SB16 soundcard to work under Linux?

As these are pretty basic-sounding questions, a good answer to #1
may be all I need :)  I've been running Debian 1.3 for a while now,
and recently destroyed it trying to upgrade to the "frozen" code.  No
worries, though...  I'll just reinstall the base stuff from CD and
start over :)  Thanks in advance for any help!

Regards,

Kendrick


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Re: Graphic card installation : 3D Emotion

[Bruce Mardle]

> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 19:44:24 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ramon Olivella wrote:
> > These are my technical specifications : 
> >   Graphic chipset : 3Dfx Voodoo Rush 
>
> I too have a card with the Voodoo Rush chipset
>
> By the way, IIRC the 3Dfx Glide libraries have also been ported to Linux!

You do recall correctly, but there are only Linux drivers for the
Voodoo Graphics chips so I think you're both out of luck.


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conflict between xlib6 and xlib6g

[Pierre Dupuis]

Hello !!! :))

I'm expecting a problem, 

I need to install xlib6g library forms in order to make some app run (like
squake)

But xlib6 which is already installed is in conflict with xlib6g,

and xlib6 is need by xbase and some others app like emacs...

I would like to know if someone know if i can force installation of xlib6g..

Bye

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LILO on second harddisk

[Gabrie van Zanten]

Hi,

I have two harddisks. On /dev/hda2 is Win95, on /dev/hdb2 is Linux on
/dev/hdb5 is linux swap.

Now when using Lilo I get the error that it can't use the second harddisk.
Is this because this one is not set active ? If I set it active, can I
still boot win95 ?

Gabrie




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off-topic: sex a-la *NIX

[Arunas Norvaisa]

 Received from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rafal Polonski)

# unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ;
sleep

 :)

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Problem with UTMP file upgrading to hamm

[Matt Porter]

I took my up to date bo distribution (always bleeding edge from ftp
updates) and used the latest hamm distribution autoup.sh script and
appropriate packages to update libc5-libc6.  I then used dselect to suck
down all the important packages and had them updated.

When completed, I had a system with dselect claiming that everything was
up to date with regard to the hamm (frozen) distribution.  I followed the
instruction to recreated wtmp and utmp and rebooted the system.  I
received the following messages (very loose syntax because the logging is
not yet active to get a dump of the boot messages):

--

Cannot exec /etc/init.d/boot

...

/sbin/SVGATextMode: /usr/sbin/STM_reset does not exist

...

Starting scheduler atd: no /usr/sbin/atd

...

While opening UTMP file: No such file
While opening UTMP file: No such file
While opening UTMP file: No such file
While opening UTMP file: No such file
While opening UTMP file: No such file
While opening UTMP file: No such file
While opening UTMP file: No such file
While opening UTMP file: No such file

(none) login:

---

The messages about SVGATextMode and atd just appear to be harmless
leftover init.d configs from bo but it concerns me that /etc/init.d/boot
is not found (there is an /etc/init.d/boot.OLD) and it appears the
showstopper is a problem with UTMP because I cannot log on to my machine
anymore.

I've booted to my old bo rescue disk and poked around the directories a
files a bit and found that indeed for /var/run/utmp is a 0 length file
with 644 permissions so I don't see the problem there.  It appears a lot
has changed in the bootup process so I'm not sure where to begin to sort
things out now.  

Anybody have any suggestions?  I am building up a better rescue disk so I
have some useful tools like grep to look into this further.

Thanks,

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Re: How to recover???

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

T-SNAKE wrote:

> > You should be able to recover using the rescue disk (aptly named,
> > no?). Once you get booted up to where it would ask you to format the
> > disk, exit to a single user shell (this option is at the very bottom)
> > and then run fsck from there.
>
> Will this be the same type of shell as if I did an alt-f2?

Yes, well, that depends what you mean. You don't get bash, you get ash.

> Do I need to mount anything?

No, but you need to know the block-device path (/dev/hda1, whatever) for the
filesystem. This is what you'll pass to fsck.

> How much stuff do I need to mount? Just the root partition? Root and a swap?
> Root and /usr?
> What exactly will be different when I furn fsck like this versus the bottup
> process trying to run it? I don't very much understand why it doesn't work
> (other than the obvious hands on nature of linux).

You don't need to mount anything. That's why it works. You see whether you know
it or not, when you install linux the first thing you do is load a very small
(but complete) linux system into *memory* using a ramdisk. You then execute
programs off of that in-memory linux systems. fsck is one of the programs
available to you. If you don't have much memory you may want to enable a swap
partition. If you've got 16MB or more you probably don't need to worry about
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Re: How to recover???

[T-SNAKE]

> You should be able to recover using the rescue disk (aptly named,
> no?). Once you get booted up to where it would ask you to format the 
> disk, exit to a single user shell (this option is at the very bottom) 
> and then run fsck from there.

Will this be the same type of shell as if I did an alt-f2?
Do I need to mount anything?
How much stuff do I need to mount? Just the root partition? Root and a swap?
Root and /usr?
What exactly will be different when I furn fsck like this versus the bottup
process trying to run it? I don't very much understand why it doesn't work
(other than the obvious hands on nature of linux).
thanks,
Chris
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Re: enlarge my / directory

[Stephen Carpenter]

I don't think you can "merger" trhe 2 partitions
it would be a real feat to do it and would involve changing the partition tabl,
moving other partitions, and re-writing disk structures through ALL of the
partitions
(probably) and I know of no program that can do it...
you coul dposibly however use parition magic
to grow and shrink partitions of the FAT16 typw to try
and "coax" the free space right nxt to the linux partition..and then it would
just
be a matter of finding a utility to enlarge the linux partition
here might be a better way though...
use mke2fs /dev/hdc7 to make a new partition and then
use /dev/hdc7 for your user home directoriesthe reason...
user home directories ar where you tend to keep almost all
of your data...personal etc
basiclaly the stuff that is hardest if not impossible
to recover
that way if there is a major crash within the / partition..you can
format, r-install etc without loosing the data in /home
(a good idea is to create a dir in home called something like "save"
and periodically save some system cofigs there
ie. XF86config, the dir /etc/ppp/, /etc/passwd (this would only be importnat
if there are other people whose acount info you wish to preserve..and
if that..get groups files too)
butthat my dime bag
if you wanna do it...here is how I did it:
mount /dev/hdc7 /mnt
the idea would be then to cd /home
cp -rf * /mnt
then rm -rf *
and umount /mnt
mount /dev/hdc7 /home


Benoit Joly wrote:

> hi, i plan to enlarge my / directory but i dont know how, this is my info of
> partition:
>
> Filesystem 1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hdc3 460612  35222684598 81%   /
> /dev/hda1 521840  339744   182096 65%   /wmnt/c
> /dev/hdc1 519824  406496   113328 78%   /wmnt/d
> /dev/hda5 521832   11696   510136  2%   /wmnt/e
> /dev/hda6 521832   76720   445112 15%   /wmnt/f
> /dev/hda7 495640  358872   136768 72%   /wmnt/g
> /dev/hdc5 519824  401056   118768 77%   /wmnt/h
> /dev/hdc6 411008  16   410992  0%   /wmnt/i
> /dev/hdc7 665056  32   665024  0%   /wmnt/j
> /dev/hdd  661852  6618520100%   /cdrom
>
> all partition other than /dev/hdc3 are fat16 partion
>
> i want to remove my /dev/hdc7 and put this in a linux partition...
> this part i know how, but how can i merge this new partition with the /
> directory?
> show i copy all from /dev/hdc3 to my new linux partition and then remove my
> /dev/hdc3 and enlarge the new linux partition?
>
> is it possible to do this in linux? i know partition magic for windows but it
> dont work with linux partition...
>
> thanks
>
> Benoit Joly
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Re: How to recover???

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

You should be able to recover using the rescue disk (aptly named, no?). Once you
get booted up to where it would ask you to format the disk, exit to a single 
user
shell (this option is at the very bottom) and then run fsck from there.

T-SNAKE wrote:

> OK, last night I was trying to set up X again (my vid card has an OAK 087
> chipset, which I think isn't correctly supported...). After running the setup,
> I ran xdm to run X. The screen started to blink madly... not letting me do
> anything. This has happened before, but this time I wasn't able to alt-fX to
> get another terminal to commence a shut down, so I ^-alt-del. I thought it was
> shutting down fine, but when I rebooted I got the following messege after
> loading the kernel and all kinds of other stuff:
> --start transcribing
> /dev/hda2 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced
> Duplicate or bad blocks in use!
>
> /dev/hda2: Unexpected Inconsistency, RUN fsck MANUALLY
>   (i.e., without -a or -p options)
>
> fsck failed, Please repair manually and reboot.
> Please note that the root file system is currently
> mounted read-only. To remount it read-write:
> # mount -n -o remount,rw/
> Control-D will exit from this shell and REBOOT the system.
>
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D for normal startup):
>
> ---end transcribing
> /dev/hda2 is my root partition.
> When I give the password, it flashes some lines quickly and then continuously
> scrolls  something about "passwd not found".
> I thought booting from a linux boot disk would be of help, but it only goes to
> the same place. I thoguht the resue disk might be of assistance, but not that
> I could tell.
> * How the heck do I recover? **
> Man, I'll never get this machine going. I can't get sendmail to work either.
> thanks,
> Chris
> Screw X, I think I give up on it, having never gotten it to function correctly
> (other than getting it to actually run, but do nothing).
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Major Failure re-installing system!!!

[Stephen Carpenter]

I have re-installed my Debian Linux system many times over the past
few months...
A few times from hardware failures, once because of a broken package
corrupting my filesystem...
last night I had to do it again...I was recompiling my kernel (adding
NE2000 suport...which I didn't have in the previous custom version)
It would go for a while then I woul dget
cc1 recieved fatal signal 11 and it would stop dead
(I was building 2.0.29  on a hamm system)
after a while of "futzing around" I tested the memory (I had a similar
problem recently that was memory related...but these are
completly differnt SIMMS)
The memory tested fine (with memtest86) and I ddecided that since
/home is on a differnt partition than /   ...I wont loose much
so I saved soem configs and offf I went
things went well...my method was to
A) install bo from debian 1.3.1 r6 offical CD (which I burned in january
I think)
[when I ran dselect to finish the install, I just allowed it to install
all of the
standard packages, I changed nothing)
B) use my poorly setup hamm disk (burned in late feb b4 freeze) and run
autoup.sh
right off from th disk
[same deal on the dselect, I didn't change anything (excpept I may have
told it
to use emacs20 instead of 19) ]
then I started the install...itt seemed to work ok ...only 2 packages
had problems
both from the "oldlibs" section (tk something I think)
I did the whole reboot/ wtmp/utmp fix...
Then I tried to run dselect again to instal X and everything else I
use...
it tried to install some packages..then died
it gives the following error whenever dpkg is used (which i salso
what dselect uses)
"Archive EOF is not on block boundery" or something to that effect
(very simmilar to that) and also look slike an error  in "tar"
the thing is..I tried tar out on some archives..it works fine
I can not get dpkg towork at all with any deb file..on CD or off
any ideas? could this be a hardware problem?
-Steve

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-I- Re: lesstif not motif

[Carroll Kong]

Oh yes, sorry, I stand corrected.

Carroll Kong

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:00:05PM -0400, Carroll Kong wrote:
> > Motif is not freeware.  Lesstif is.. but you need Motif to run XMCD.
> 
> No you don't. The xmcd package in frozen uses LessTif, not Motif.
> 
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Re: booting from dos

[D. W. Wieboldt]

On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 04:30:19PM +0100, Joop wrote:
> > Hie,
> > At work, I've got a HP venturis FX2 with 1.2 Go hard disk with windows
   3.11 and
> >  connected to a novel (HP3000) network.
> > 
> > I am not allowed to partition or reformat the harddisk but I
> > would like to run linux on it. Is it possible to do ? How ?
> > 
> 
> There are a couple of distributions that
> run from dos. You only have to keep them
> in a certain directory.
> 
> Check out sunsite. Should not be hard to find..
> 
> > Thanks
> > Franck
> > 
> > 
> 
> Joop
> 
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I don't think this one is on Sunsite anymore, but it is fresh and good:
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/tux/robotti/doslinux

Doslinux is a Slackware variant and it installs and runs on your messydos
partition, only taking space that windoze bloatware will want.  For a
beginner is is pretty cool.  For the long haul though, you will want to
get a disk that you can partition and use Debian!

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enlarge my / directory

[Benoit Joly]

hi, i plan to enlarge my / directory but i dont know how, this is my info of
partition:

Filesystem 1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hdc3 460612  35222684598 81%   /
/dev/hda1 521840  339744   182096 65%   /wmnt/c
/dev/hdc1 519824  406496   113328 78%   /wmnt/d
/dev/hda5 521832   11696   510136  2%   /wmnt/e
/dev/hda6 521832   76720   445112 15%   /wmnt/f
/dev/hda7 495640  358872   136768 72%   /wmnt/g
/dev/hdc5 519824  401056   118768 77%   /wmnt/h
/dev/hdc6 411008  16   410992  0%   /wmnt/i
/dev/hdc7 665056  32   665024  0%   /wmnt/j
/dev/hdd  661852  6618520100%   /cdrom

all partition other than /dev/hdc3 are fat16 partion

i want to remove my /dev/hdc7 and put this in a linux partition...
this part i know how, but how can i merge this new partition with the /
directory?
show i copy all from /dev/hdc3 to my new linux partition and then remove my
/dev/hdc3 and enlarge the new linux partition? 

is it possible to do this in linux? i know partition magic for windows but it
dont work with linux partition...

thanks

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Re: Motif

[Helmut Leinfellner]

At 16:24 09.04.98 -0500, you wrote:
>On  9 Apr, Helmut Leinfellner wrote:
>> Hi !
>> 
>> I was trying to install XMCD and I think what I'm lacking is ... Motif.
>> 
>> Where do I get it ?
>> 
>
>Well since Motif libs cost about $100US you could go to your local
>sunsite mirror and go to the ../apps/sound/cdrom/X/ directory where
>there is a pre-compiled statically linked binary.  This has the Motif
>libs built into it.  I use it and it works great.
>
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THANKS (Brian), I found it easily !

Now, how do I install it?
It's called "xmcd_2.0ELFStaticMotif2.0" (or kinda like this)

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How to recover???

[T-SNAKE]

OK, last night I was trying to set up X again (my vid card has an OAK 087
chipset, which I think isn't correctly supported...). After running the setup,
I ran xdm to run X. The screen started to blink madly... not letting me do
anything. This has happened before, but this time I wasn't able to alt-fX to
get another terminal to commence a shut down, so I ^-alt-del. I thought it was
shutting down fine, but when I rebooted I got the following messege after
loading the kernel and all kinds of other stuff:
--start transcribing
/dev/hda2 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced
Duplicate or bad blocks in use!

/dev/hda2: Unexpected Inconsistency, RUN fsck MANUALLY
  (i.e., without -a or -p options)

fsck failed, Please repair manually and reboot.
Please note that the root file system is currently
mounted read-only. To remount it read-write:
# mount -n -o remount,rw/
Control-D will exit from this shell and REBOOT the system.

Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup):

---end transcribing
/dev/hda2 is my root partition.
When I give the password, it flashes some lines quickly and then continuously
scrolls  something about "passwd not found".
I thought booting from a linux boot disk would be of help, but it only goes to
the same place. I thoguht the resue disk might be of assistance, but not that
I could tell.
* How the heck do I recover? **
Man, I'll never get this machine going. I can't get sendmail to work either.
thanks,
Chris
Screw X, I think I give up on it, having never gotten it to function correctly
(other than getting it to actually run, but do nothing).
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Re: Where/how can I get Staroffice?

[Joost Kooij]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote:

> I hear everyone saying how good staroffice is but don't know where I can get
> it. 

http://www.stardivision.de

http://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/packages/staroffice4/final/ 

> Also netscape won't install because it says it needs a .tar.gz file not a
> deb file with netscape in. What do I do?

If you installed debian 1.3, then you have to get a tarball from
netscape's site, put it in /tmp and then install the netscape.deb. If you
look at the .deb's size compared to the tarball, you'll undestand that it
is only an installer that sets some defaults right so netscape doesn't
coredump. 

Cheers,


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Re: Is SPI moot?

[Tim Sailer]

Britton wrote:
> 
> I thought Bruce was continuing to head up SPI (which I though was
> dedicated to serving free software in general).

Correct. SPI is still intact.

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Where/how can I get Staroffice?

[Tristan Day]

I hear everyone saying how good staroffice is but don't know where I can get
it. 


Also netscape won't install because it says it needs a .tar.gz file not a
deb file with netscape in. What do I do?

Cheers,

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Re: Motif

[jdassen]

On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:00:05PM -0400, Carroll Kong wrote:
> Motif is not freeware.  Lesstif is.. but you need Motif to run XMCD.

No you don't. The xmcd package in frozen uses LessTif, not Motif.

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Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:51:11AM +0200, LOPARIC Marko wrote:
> -
> The DALnet #Linux has started a movement to get Linus Torvalds voted as
> Man of the Century. Their idea is to get a massive number of votes for
> Linus, which would at least get the attention of Linux if nothign else.
> They estimate that they need about 1 million votes to pull it off.
> 
> They've requested everybody to vote for Linus and to pass it along. The
> catagory in which Linus is being placed also has a mention of Bill Gates,
> so we've got some competition. If you would like more information, see the
> URLs below.
> 
> Vote for Linus Torvalds:
>   http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/time100poll.html

Go, People, Go!

Be sure to get the spelling right!

Current rating:
  BUILDERS AND TITANS

   Total Percent
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   douglas macarthur 474770 5.53
   bill gates 468605 5.46  <--- We can beat this poor rating!
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WVDial

[Ian Watkins]

SS> Has anyone gotten wvdial to work with static IP? ISDN?

What's the problem with fixed IP on a dial-up? Is your ISDN treated like 
a modem? (I know nothing about ISDN) If so you could try editing the 
/etc/wvdial.conf file and put the correct init strings in there

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SS> > Have you tried the package wvdial that is in _some_ of the Debian
SS> > distributions? (Certainly in frozen).


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Re: Pioneer DRM-602X multi-CD player and AHA-2940AU with Debian 1.3.1?

[Bjoern Fischer]

On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 02:16:33AM +0200, Cleto Pescia wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get a Multi-CD player Pioneer DRM-602X to work on a Debian
> 1.3.1 system (kernel 2.0.33 custom-compiled using make-kpkg) with
> an Adaptec 2940AU SCSI controller, but without luck...
> The various CD-ROM drives get different LUNs at boot-up, but then I get
> timeout errors while trying to mount the CDs.
> The SCSI chain also contains a Samsung SCSI HDD (ID 0), a SCSI CD-ROM
> drive from MediaVision (ID 1) and an HP DAT C1533A streamer (ID 2).
> As far as I can tell, termination is OK, as is the external SCSI cable.
> The kernel SCSI options also seem to be correctly set. 

I know your problem. With my Pioneer DRM-624x everything was the same:
Timeouts while trying to mount all luns at a time. First
I tried to increase the timeout in the kernel sources - but unfortunately
that introduced other problems.

Then I hacked a small shell script that does mounting/unmounting of all
luns. After each mount, it waits 5 seconds before it attempts to mount
the next lun. Simple. No timeouts during mounting/unmounting.

But still if two or more processes access different discs, timeouts may
occure. Since it's foobar to access two different discs of a changer at
a time (the cd changer does 99.9% changing and 0.1% reading data),
I can live with it.

Bjørn


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Re: CD-R, CD-RW

[Bjoern Fischer]

On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 09:56:11AM +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote:
> 
> Has anyone any experience of using a CD-R, or preferably a CD-RW drive 
> with Linux ? I'm particularly interested in SCSI based drives.

Linux (or generally: Unix) is a first class platform to write CD-R(W)s.

The cdrecord software by Jörg Schilling is capable of working with most
newer hardware (I would recommend a SCSI-3/MMC CD writer) and giving
excellent results. The latest version of cdrecord is 1.6alpha14 and
1.6 will be released soon.

At the time cdrecord does not support disc at once. So expect problems
if you want to create non red-book-conformant audio CDs (those without
2 secs silence at the beginning of a track).

I won't tell you what hardware I use for CD recording - this is no
advertisement ;-)

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?not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.?

[Pedro Quaresma de Almeida]

Hi

I have a Matrox Millenium II with 4Mg and my XF86Config file it is
like this (display section)

Section "Screen"
   Driver  "SVGA"
   Device  "Primary Card"
   Monitor "Primary Monitor"
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth16
  Modes"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
"640x400" "512x384" "480x300" "400x300" "320x240" "320x200"
   EndSubSection

But when I try to run "flying -pool" (and others) I get the message

 not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.

What can I do to get more colors (and planes)? What it is the meaning
of "Depth 16"?

Thank you.

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SOLVED! Re: Outgoing Message Error

[Mike Acklin]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:13:53AM +0700, Michael Acklin wrote:
> > |- Message log follows: -|
> >  no valid recipients were found for this message
> > |- Failed addresses follow: -|
> >  :include:/var/log/majordomo/lists/crew702 ... failed: unknown user
>  ^^^
> log?
> 
> > I have checked the aliases file and it shows:
> > 
> > crew702:"|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l crew702 crew702-list"
> > crew702-list:   :include:/var/doc/majordomo/lists/crew702

> doc?
> 
> As far as I'm aware, both those should be /var/lib/majordomo/lists/crew702.

Thanks AJ,

That was one problem I found, like you said, the directories were
all messed up. I have put all files in the /var/lib/majordomo/lists now.
When I did that the crew702 still did not work, so I switched to sendmail
from smail. Believe it or not, I got sendmail working first time. Amazing!
Anyway crew702 still didn't work as I was getting the same messages that
the file could not be found.

So, went back to the drawring board and did exactly as the
NEWLIST info file said and set up a list called "test". It worked fine
with no problems at all. So tried adding another list called "phoenix" and
it worked also. But crew702 still would not work. 

My conclusion is that majordomo or MTA programs don't like lists
with numbers at the end. That is not what the NEWLIST doc says. But I did
get it working now and just have to use the "Phoenix" list name. No big
deal. 

Thanks for your reply and help.

Mike



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Re: Problem with X and ViRGE card

[Philippe Andersson]

> I have an AOpen 3D Artist PT70 video card based on the ViRGE/DX chip. I can 
> start 
> the svga xserver and it seems to work. After selecting "exit" with the mouse, 
> the 
> xserver terminates and leaves the console corrupted.  About every second 
> character 
> is visible.
> Apparently the video card has been confused. 

Hello,

I have the exact same problem, with the same chipset, but embedded in a
Compaq Deskpro 4000. You might also want to have a look at a page by
Robert Moniot where he describes the same symptom on the same hardware
(see : 
). I
already played a lot with the mode lines, but was not able to get rid of
this.

Sorry not to be of more help. If you learn something more, please keep
me posted.

Cheers. Bye.

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Re: printing with kernel 2.1.94

[David Z. Maze]

Aria Prima Novianto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
APN> On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:38:47PM -0400, James Dietrich wrote:
 JD> 
 JD> But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly
 JD> configure the parallel port and/or printer modules. (I have enabled
 JD> the parallel port and PC-style parallel port and parallel printer
 JD> all as modules).
 JD> 
APN> 
APN> Edit /lib/modules/2.1.94/modules.dep
APN> 
APN> Change
APN> /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport.o
APN> to
APN> /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport_pc.o

The better thing to do (which won't have to be redone with every
kernel upgrade) is to put an alias in your /etc/conf.modules for the
parport_lowlevel driver, like so:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

Unfortunately, I've not had much luck with this at all.  Instead, I
have

post-install parport modprobe "-k" "-s" "parport_pc"

This seems to work significantly better.  It's the same trick I use to 
get the 2.1.x modularized sound driver working properly; I don't know
if there's a better way.

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Re: Linux On NPR

[David Morris]

Oh, I see. I, like Joey, have not found any embedded rpm files that 
would trigger the plugin. But it looks like you need to tell netscape 
you have an application that will play .ram and .rm and .ra files. Go 
to the edit-preferences-advanced-applications line of menus in netscape 
and find the RealAudio line to see what is defined for that. If it is 
nothing you will need to set it.

the rvplayer has a set of html docs that are accessible from 
/usr/doc/rvplayer/index.htm I know that is one of the topics there.

On "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 23:58:59 PDT." "Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" wove 
together:
Joey Hess writes:

> Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
>> This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not being
>> called as a Netscape plug-in, even though I installed it through the
>> .deb... Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
>> 
>> ii  rvplayer5.0-1  Real Video Player (installer)

> What site are you trying to use it on? It has to be a site with embedded
> real video content, not just a link. I haven't been able to find such a site
> yet to test it.

I'd suppose that the simple fact that you click on a ".ram" file,
Netscape was supposed to call rvplayer, much the same way that with a
".pdf" it calls Acrobat, and with ".avi" it calls xanim...

Am I missing something?

> -- 
> see shy jo

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RAID installation in hamm?

[Ulisses Alonso Camaro]

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Any experencies or comments?

Thanks in advance,

Ulisses
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Re: Debian and ISDN: Getting there...

[Martin Bialasinski]

"Atte Koivula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I finally got HiSax working but I have run into some more problems
> (figures). My current problem is that I have no clue on how to configure
> the isdnutils package. Do I need to configure it in the 1st place or do I
> just need some scripts like the ones at ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/linux/isdn
> or do I need both? When I installed isdnutils it launched some kind of a
> configuration program but I couldn't really follow the instructions, so
> could someone help me?

Get the new isdnutils package from ftp.debian.org/debian/bo-unstable/
(isdnutils2.1). There is a configscript included, which will let you
create a device and a ipppd script. Both scripts will be created in
/etc/isdn/ . You have to edit them, but this is pretty easy, as they are
very well commented.

If you want dial on demand, then also check
/etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d/isdnutils

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: Debian and ISDN: Getting there...

[Jaakko Niemi]

>> Ok, I think I'm finally getting somewhere with my ISDN configuration ;)
>> 
>> I finally got HiSax working but I have run into some more problems
>> (figures). My current problem is that I have no clue on how to configure
>> the isdnutils package. Do I need to configure it in the 1st place or do I
>> just need some scripts like the ones at ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/linux/isdn
>> or do I need both? When I installed isdnutils it launched some kind of a
>> configuration program but I couldn't really follow the instructions, so
>> could someone help me?

 Take a look at the script /etc/isdn/device.ippp0 and the config-file 
ipppd.ippp0.
 I can mail you the settings that I did use with dlc, if I can find them 
somewhere.

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Re: dselect problem (method locked)

[Aria Prima Novianto]

On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 11:21:06PM -0400, R. Chris Ross wrote:
> 
>   I was installing a bunch of packages while telnetting into a
> machine.  The Telnet session died while the install was running and now I
> can't change the access method, Install or update the database.  How do I
> remove the lock?
> 
> 

rm /var/lib/dpkg/{methlock,lock}
HTH,
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[OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

[LOPARIC Marko]

Hello,

I think this might interest... It arrived to me wihout the original sender
id.

-
The DALnet #Linux has started a movement to get Linus Torvalds voted as
Man of the Century. Their idea is to get a massive number of votes for
Linus, which would at least get the attention of Linux if nothign else.
They estimate that they need about 1 million votes to pull it off.

They've requested everybody to vote for Linus and to pass it along. The
catagory in which Linus is being placed also has a mention of Bill Gates,
so we've got some competition. If you would like more information, see the
URLs below.

Vote for Linus Torvalds:
  http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/time100poll.html

Linus as Man of the Century Mailing List:
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When you vote the system gives you the present ratings. The category
where Linus shows now:

BUILDERS AND TITANS
Total Percent
richard rogers 636494 7.42
henry ford 555916 6.48
douglas macarthur  474770 5.53
bill gates 468605 5.46
howard hughes  351237 4.09
vehbi koc  350473 4.08
steve jobs 336439 3.92
murat arslan   205791 2.40

Marko


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Re: printing with kernel 2.1.94

[Aria Prima Novianto]

On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:38:47PM -0400, James Dietrich wrote:
> 
> But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly
> configure the parallel port and/or printer modules. (I have enabled
> the parallel port and PC-style parallel port and parallel printer
> all as modules).
> 

Edit /lib/modules/2.1.94/modules.dep

Change
/lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport.o
to
/lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport_pc.o

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Re: Is SPI moot?

[Britton]

I thought Bruce was continuing to head up SPI (which I though was
dedicated to serving free software in general).

Britton Kerin
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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> 
> With all that is now suddenly going on, I would suspect that SPI could
> play an important part. Since Bruce left, has anyone taken over as head of
> SPI? Seems to me there is a vacuum for a coordinating effort.
> 
> 
> 
> George Bonser
> 
> If I had a catchy quip, it would be here.
> 
> http://www.debian.org
> Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system.
> 
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Re: Outgoing Message Error

[Anthony Towns]

On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:13:53AM +0700, Michael Acklin wrote:
> |- Message log follows: -|
>  no valid recipients were found for this message
> |- Failed addresses follow: -|
>  :include:/var/log/majordomo/lists/crew702 ... failed: unknown user
 ^^^
log?

>   I have checked the aliases file and it shows:
> 
> crew702:"|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l crew702 crew702-list"
> crew702-list:   :include:/var/doc/majordomo/lists/crew702
^^^
doc?

As far as I'm aware, both those should be /var/lib/majordomo/lists/crew702.

> owner-crew702:  htuttle
> crew702-owner:  htuttle
> crew702-request:"|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo -l crew702"

Cheers,
aj

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Re: Unable to open an initial console.

[Jaakko Niemi]

 Check that /dev/console is linked to appropriate /dev/tty? file. It's linked 
to tty0
 in my system. Also remember correct permissions!

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Re: Linux On NPR

[Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella]

Joey Hess writes:

> Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
>> This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not being
>> called as a Netscape plug-in, even though I installed it through the
>> .deb... Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
>> 
>> ii  rvplayer5.0-1  Real Video Player (installer)

> What site are you trying to use it on? It has to be a site with embedded
> real video content, not just a link. I haven't been able to find such a site
> yet to test it.

I'd suppose that the simple fact that you click on a ".ram" file,
Netscape was supposed to call rvplayer, much the same way that with a
".pdf" it calls Acrobat, and with ".avi" it calls xanim...

Am I missing something?

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> see shy jo

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Re: X configuration problem

[Alain Toussaint]

> I probably could write you a video mode that runs at low refresh rates with
> 320x200 and no double scan. You could even make me to do it ;)
> 
> But serious: You don't want to run X Window with 320x200: The most programs
> will have a window much bigger than your screen. It would be possible using
> the virtual desktop (as you are doing it now (4 times bigger). But then you
> would have to scroll around to find the buttons of the program.
> 
> No, I don't think you want this. I really urge you to buy a better graphic
> card. A trio64v2 is pretty cheap, and will give you all modes you need on a
> 15 inch monitor. For a 17 inch monitor, a card with 4 MB is desirable.
> 
> Marcus

no,i dont think this would be useable at such low res,i'm allready in the
process of buying a new computer (in fact,i'll build it from piece) and
maybe this one will serve only for text usage,another thing,does anyone
here know if netscape 3.01 would work at 16 color,i tried but it
complained ???

Alain

also,i'm having problem mailing with pine,my PPP is up but then,pine give
me this error message when i try to send mail:
[Error sending: 421 SMTP connection went away!]
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Re: SyQuest internal IDE 1GB disk?

[vandeveb]

Hey Rick,
I'm a partner in a company that installs networks for small businesses, and 
have had some 
experiences w/ the syquest.  As far as the internal ( both SCSI & ide ) ones 
go, I would stay
away from them.  They are pretty flimsy, and we have had to return several of 
them.  
Instead of a nice solid case around the drives, it seems as if they are covered 
in thin aluminum
foil.  They are also annoying in that sometimes the cartridge will unseat 
itself, and even though it
looks as if the drive is in, it isn't.  Although I've not used the parallel 
port one under Linux, I will say
that they are built much tougher.  I would sacrifice the speed and go w/ the 
parallel port one.
But even w/ the problems, I think they are much better for the money than the 
Jaz stuff

For my own uses, I have found that the cheapest, fastest, & most reliable way 
to backup is w/
a nice extra internal HD. Just rig it up so that one of your IDE cables and a 
power cord are
hanging out the back of your computer, and then plug in the drive, back up, & 
put the drive into
a static bag.  For the price of a syquest w/ several cartrages, you can have 
two full sized drives,
and quickly back up your whole system.  And by using dd ( or ghost -- 
www.ghostsoft.com -- 
if you use that other OS ) you can just image your HD so as to assure very 
quick restorations.

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mh upgrade problem

[Matt Thompson]

Just upgraded, got this:

Setting up mh (6.8.4-20) ...
chmod: /usr/lib/mh/spopfi: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing mh (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

??

TIA for any help :)
Matt


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Re: Edit Program

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Pete Poff wrote:
> 
> > Is there a edit program that I can use without X-WIN that will allow
> > me to copy and paste?  If so, where can i find it.
> 
> Pine will (for some reason it appears to have been removed from hamm)

Oops, I meant pico (which is the editor included in pine, but is also a
separate package for general editing use).

> 
> If you install gpm, you can copy and paste any text, even to a different
> virtual console.

Bob


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Re: Edit Program

[Nathan C. Burnett]

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Pete Poff wrote:

> Is there a edit program that I can use without X-WIN that will allow
> me to copy and paste?  If so, where can i find it.

emacs, vi, jed, pico.basically all of them provided you know the magic
keystrokes.  Also, if you're running on the console and have gpm working,
you already have X-like copy-paste on the text consoles.

l8r, Nate

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tetex in frozen--Problem?

[Art Lemasters]

 I am using dselect ftp to try to download and install
tetex packages.  tetex-bin_0.9-3.deb says it needs
tetex-base_0.9-3.deb in order to work, but
tetex-base_0.4pl8-7.deb is all that is available.  The
download directory I am using is:
/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/

 And yes, I am running hamm (frozen), of course.

TIA

Art


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Re: Edit Program

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Pete Poff wrote:

> Is there a edit program that I can use without X-WIN that will allow
> me to copy and paste?  If so, where can i find it.

Pine will (for some reason it appears to have been removed from hamm)

If you install gpm, you can copy and paste any text, even to a different
virtual console.

Bob


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Edit Program

[Pete Poff]

Is there a edit program that I can use without X-WIN that will allow
me to copy and paste?  If so, where can i find it.

Thanks,

Pete Poff
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Re: Linux On NPR

[Joey Hess]

Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
> This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not being
> called as a Netscape plug-in, even though I installed it through the
> .deb... Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
> 
> ii  rvplayer5.0-1  Real Video Player (installer)

What site are you trying to use it on? It has to be a site with embedded
real video content, not just a link. I haven't been able to find such a site
yet to test it.

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Re: sgml authoring

[Damon Muller]

On this topic, sort of...

I'm going to be writing a Masters thesis this year (ie. approx 30k words),
and I'm planning on doing it in Linux (drag myself kicking and screaming
into the Emacs documentation...).

The possibilities I am looking as as to format are the ubiquitous LaTeX, or
the newer contender, SGML. I don't know any of either, so I'm going to have
to learn something from scratch, but I'm wondering if anyone has any
recomendations as to which is easier to learn and use. I do know a little
HTML.

I know that SGML can be converted to LaTex and lots of other stuff, LaTex
to HTML, RTF all that stuff, so either would prolly be alright.

Any comments? Anyone recomend a good starting point to learn one?

Thanks,

damon



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Re: Multi-tasking

[Damon Muller]

G'day,

>Is there a way I can multi-task in debian?  Like with Win95, you can
>open two programs and switch between them.  I compare files, and it would
>make my life easier if I could switch between two files, rather then
>editing it, looking at a section, quiting, then editing and comparing it
>with the other.  I use pico when I edit the files.

I assume a million ppl have already replied to this to suggest the ALT-F1
ALT-F2 sort of thing, but something that I find I use heaps is a program
called Screen, which is especially useful when you are telneting to a Linux
box.  You can open multiple windows and switch between them with CTL-C n
(where n is your virtual screen) - at least, I think it's CTL-C...

It's easy to use, well documented, packaged for debian, and is a bit less
of a stretch on the fingers than ALT-Fn

damon


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dselect problem (method locked)

[R. Chris Ross]

I was installing a bunch of packages while telnetting into a
machine.  The Telnet session died while the install was running and now I
can't change the access method, Install or update the database.  How do I
remove the lock?




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Re: olvwm locks up ...

[Nathan E Norman]

On 10 Apr 1998, Carey Evans wrote:

: [I'm just catching up on debian-user after not reading it for a week,
: so apologies if I'm coming in a bit late.]
: 
: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: 
: > : On a brand new install, Debian 2.0, using install disks from 29 Mar98.
: > : Machine has an S3 Trio 64/V+ ... I'm using the SVGA xserver, olvwm WM,
: > : and xdm.
: 
: Can you try some variations: twm instead of olvwm, VGA16 server, just
: startx?

I did a complete reinstall and avoided X altogether.  So far, so good.
I noticed someone mentioned that the grep bug was causing a host of
problems, including a few with X.  I wonder if that was the problem.
This machine is slated to become a server soon, and I'm a bit leery of
installing X on it again - a complete disk crash might mean starting
over again :)  On the other hand, that'll give me something to do.

If I do try X again I will indeed try a few different window managers.

: > : However, after that things are screwed pretty good.  No mouse pointer,
: > : no keyboard ... ctrl-bkspc doesn't work, ctrl-alt-f[1-6] doesn't work
: > : ... even numlock doesn't work!  It seems to be locked up solid.
: 
: [snip]
: 
: > As long as the xdm login screen is up, all is well.  However, once I
: > reach this "locked up" state, the machine goes down hard ... I can't
: > even ping it!
: 
: My suggestion would be to try telnetting in, but if it locks up that
: hard your only recourse is to press Reset.

No ping == no telnet :)  It was locked up harder than I've ever seen a
Linux box locked up.

: > Also, this thing has PII, 266 processor (2 of them, but no SMP kernel
: > yet), and 320 MB RAM.
: 
: *Drool*
: 
: Could there be a hardware problem?  The hwtools package includes a
: memory tester, or you could run `make -j 4' on a kernel compile to
: stress your machine.

At the time, I was in non-SMP mode ... this is an IBM PC Server 325.  It
seems you need kernel 2.1.79 or greater for SMP to work properly, so I'm
going to wait for the kernel code freeze, or at least for reports of a
"good" kernel out of 2.1

I've beat on this thing pretty hard ... only X ever gave it fits, and at
the exact same spot (during xdm login)

Thanks,

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printing with kernel 2.1.94

[James Dietrich]

This one has me stumped:

I have been experimenting with the latest kernels--versions 2.1.92 and
now 2.1.94.  However, I have had difficulties configuring my soundcard
and parallel printer to work with the new kernels.  After reading the
documentation provided, I found that I needed to put these lines
alias char-major-14 sb
post-install sb modprobe  "-k" "adlib_card"
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM synthetiser
in my /etc/conf.modules file.  That solved the soundcard problem.

But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly
configure the parallel port and/or printer modules. (I have enabled
the parallel port and PC-style parallel port and parallel printer
all as modules).

The printer prints fine from kernel 2.0.33, so I know it isn't a
hardware problem. When I put no further paramaters in /etc/conf.modules
and execute the command 'lpr coma.cc', an entry in syslog like
Apr  9 22:20:17 debian kernel: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
appears.  And 'lpq' says
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Rank   Owner  Job  Files Total Size
1stjdietrch   157  coma.cc   171 bytes

When I specify paramaters in /etc/conf.modules such as
alias char-major-6 lp
options parport_pc io=0x378
options lp parport=0
I am still unable to print.  I have also tried doing all the above
manually with insmod, but to no avail.

Yes, I have read parport.txt in the kernel source Documentation
directory, as well as other documentation relating to parallel
ports and modules and kmod.

In case it helps, I am running the latest from hamm; the printer
is a DeskJet 682C; there is one parallel port at 0x378. If any
further information would be helpful, just let me know, and I'll
do my best to provide it.

If someone who has successfully configured their printer to work
with these last few development kernels would be willing to give
me a few hints about how to properly configure my printer or about
where to find more information, I would be very grateful.

Thanks again!

James


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