Re: Logoff & clearscreen

[Matt Garman]

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 11:32:34PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote:
> I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that the
> next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this?

Not too long ago, the same question was asked.  There are a billion
ways to accomplish what you want.

I used to use an alias:

alias bye = "clear && exit"

Another viable solution, if you use the bash shell, I believe you can
add the word "clear" on one line of your ~/bash_logout, and the screen
will be cleared for you.

You can also install the "mingetty" program, then do the following:
edit /etc/inittab, and change the lines that look like

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
...

to look as follows:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
...

(or just comment the originals out, and add the new lines).

Regardless, mingetty clears the screen automatically on logout, by
default.  Some would argue that mingetty is also faster.

There are still other clever ways to clear the screen on logout, too.

Pick your favorite!
Matt

Re: Samba doesn't know host name

[Kent West]

Fixed. Changed the name in /etc/hosts also.

At 04:14 PM 9/22/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>At 03:39 PM 9/22/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>>I installed Samba on my debian box the other day, but haven't figured out
>>how to use it very well yet. At the time the box was named "sheasbys".
>>Today I changed the hostname to "jonah". I did this by changing the name in
>>/etc/hostname and then by issuing the command "hostname -F/etc/hostname".
>>Now when I run "testparm smb.conf" from /etc, I get an error about not
>>being able to GetMyhostname jonah. 
>>
>>I also needed to move the PC, so I shut it down; when I rebooted I also
>>noticed that there was an error on bootup about not being able to get the
>>name jonah; this error had something to do with printing. If you need the
>>exact text, let me know where I can find a log file that might have it and
>>I'll post it.
>>
>>Did I do something wrong in renaming the computer?
>>
>>TIA, Kent
>
>In case the info is pertinent, I'm running on ethernet, and our net is
>using DHCP and WINS. I'm wondering if WINS still thinks my NIC's hardware
>address still belongs to sheasbys, and therefore jonah is not being
>recognized by WINS, and my debian box looks to WINS instead of itself to
>find out that it's own name is jonah? Sound anywhere near reasonable?
>
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Re: Logoff & clearscreen

[Terry Carney]

On 22 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote:

> I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that the
> next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this?

If you are using bash then create a file named '.bash_logout', if one
dowsn't exist, and add the single command 'clear' .


Hope this helps.

Terry.


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Re: Compiling the dpkg source package..

[ninjaz]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> dpkg-source -x foo_version.dsc
> cd foo_version
> debian/rules binary  or   dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
> 
> Marcus

Thanks - I appreciate it. :)   The output of dpkg-buildpackage even showed
how to call aclocal to get things started, and tell me that I gnu gettext,
which I didn't have was needed. 

Logoff & clearscreen

[Ruud de Bruin]

I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that the
next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this?

regards, Ruud.

touchpad driver?

[D'jinnie]

Ok, it hurts me to say this - but it seems like Win95 actually has one
advantage over Linux: it has nifty touchpad driver where you can configure
a scroll zone, how light your touch is, etc. Has anyone worked on anything
similar in Linux? 

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PGP

[Michael Beattie]

Hmmm Whats a good way to jog your memory to remember your PGP passphrase?


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Re: Samba doesn't know host name

[Kent West]

At 03:39 PM 9/22/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>I installed Samba on my debian box the other day, but haven't figured out
>how to use it very well yet. At the time the box was named "sheasbys".
>Today I changed the hostname to "jonah". I did this by changing the name in
>/etc/hostname and then by issuing the command "hostname -F/etc/hostname".
>Now when I run "testparm smb.conf" from /etc, I get an error about not
>being able to GetMyhostname jonah. 
>
>I also needed to move the PC, so I shut it down; when I rebooted I also
>noticed that there was an error on bootup about not being able to get the
>name jonah; this error had something to do with printing. If you need the
>exact text, let me know where I can find a log file that might have it and
>I'll post it.
>
>Did I do something wrong in renaming the computer?
>
>TIA, Kent

In case the info is pertinent, I'm running on ethernet, and our net is
using DHCP and WINS. I'm wondering if WINS still thinks my NIC's hardware
address still belongs to sheasbys, and therefore jonah is not being
recognized by WINS, and my debian box looks to WINS instead of itself to
find out that it's own name is jonah? Sound anywhere near reasonable?

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Re: mp3 player

[Michael Beattie]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Oz Dror wrote:

> 
> What is the MIME type for mp3
> what lines to add to .mailcap and .mime.types

I THINK it is  audio/x-mp3  Although I am probably wrong.

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Re: Unidentified subject!

[technical]

>> sorry but I need to know where exactly .bash_profile is located and which

usually in your home directory (cd ~)

>> editor do I use to  edit it.  I tried the vi editor.  I show nothing and I
>> don't know the command to get out of it. Even control c  (^C) does not help.
>
>OK. Login as a normal user (i.e. not root)
>
>vi is evil, so use emacs ;)

.-)

vi is more likely to be present.

>type:
>
>emacs .bash_profile
>
>then hit return
>
>emacs will fire up...
>
>use the arrow keys to navigate to the bottom of the file (hit return if
>necessary toadd another time)
>
>type 
>
>export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
>
>Hit Control X followed by Control C

try

vi .bash_profile

type

Goexport PS1='\h:\w\$ ' Escape ZZ

Done!


Cheers, Rex

Fwd: /usr/local

[Kent West]

This came to me but was supposed to arrive at the list (but the list
address had an extra "s"). I've forwarded it to the list. (Sorry I don't
know enough about Linux to address your question.)  --Kent

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>Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:37:45 -0300 
>From: "Paulo J. da Silva e Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: /usr/local
>X-Mailer: VM 6.32 under Emacs 20.2.3
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>Hello,
>
>I would like to ask a question. I noticed that some important packages in
Hamm
>(Latex and Emacs, for example) write in /usr/local during installation (at
>least they create directories there).
>
>Well, our local system administrator is having problem with this. It has
>decided to mount /usr/local using nfs as read only (then you would have an
>unique copy of /usr/local in all machines). When he tries to install any
>package that writes in /usr/local it aborts installation.
>
>He figured a temporary solution. He simply unmounts /usr/local after
>installing and then the install scripts are smart enough to deal with this.
>Is there any better solution?
>
>Other point, why this new behavior? I thought /usr/local was an administrator
>responsibility...
>
>Thank you all.
>
>Paulo.
>
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Samba doesn't know host name

[Kent West]

I installed Samba on my debian box the other day, but haven't figured out
how to use it very well yet. At the time the box was named "sheasbys".
Today I changed the hostname to "jonah". I did this by changing the name in
/etc/hostname and then by issuing the command "hostname -F/etc/hostname".
Now when I run "testparm smb.conf" from /etc, I get an error about not
being able to GetMyhostname jonah. 

I also needed to move the PC, so I shut it down; when I rebooted I also
noticed that there was an error on bootup about not being able to get the
name jonah; this error had something to do with printing. If you need the
exact text, let me know where I can find a log file that might have it and
I'll post it.

Did I do something wrong in renaming the computer?

TIA, Kent
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Re: How to get rid of the motd

[shaul]

You have to touch .hushlogin.

[04:43:35 shaul]$ man login

LOGIN(1) LOGIN(1)

NAME
   login - Begin session on the system

SYNOPSIS
   login [username [environmental-variables]]

DESCRIPTION
   login  is used to establish a new session with the system.

. . .

   for more information.

   After a successful login, you will be informed of any sys­
   tem messages and the presence of mail.  You may  turn  off
   the  printing  of  the  system message file, /etc/motd, by
   creating a  zero-length  file  .hushlogin  in  your  login
   directory.   The mail message will be one of "You have new

> This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed
> at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU
> software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah,
> blah that appears directly after login.  Any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 

automatic updates

[Brian Schramm]

I have a machine that I would like to set up for unatended updates.  I
can ssh into it to do things but I may not be able to all the time.  I
would like to have any prompts ansured in the default mode automaticly
and have it send me a massage to my main email account of what
packages it updated.  

This will probaby happen at night since that is when the network load
is the lightest.  Since nobody will be here to use the machine at that
time automation is critical

Can I do that now?  How do I set it up?

Thanks.

Brian




==
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Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

[Adrian Bridgett]

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 05:57:26PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> 
> > Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment.
> > I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security
> > patches which are in the upstream release  - the fewer patches we apply the
> > better, however we don't want to compromise security.  Have you tried other
> > SVGAlib programs.
> 
>   No, this is the only SVGAlib program I have tried. I have not had
> time to try others. As for support, I just switched from a S3-968 based
> Diamond card because it was not supported very well either. :( Actually,
> the Matrox card came with a server I got a two months back, and it was to
> be headless, so I hated for a good card to go to waste, and dropped it in
> my workstation. :)

I'm currently using a Diamond Stealth VRAM 968 with IBM-RGB525? RAMDAC.  The
only problems I have is needing to run "stm 80x25" before using SVGAlib (stm
is SVGATextMode).

> > >   libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000b000)
> > >   libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x40014000)

Hmm - this looks like the libc6 version of the library, do you have svgalib1
installed?

> /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d 
> /usr/lib/libc5-compat
> /lib/libc5-compat 
> /usr/X11R6/lib

That looks okay for squake.

Adrian

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Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

[Joey Hess]

JonesMB wrote:
> I recently had a hard drive die on me causing me to lose lots of data.  I 
> have rebuilt my system (a K6/233 with Debian on 1GB and Win95 on 1GB) and I'm 
> looking at various ways of backing up my data so I don't lose it all again.  
> I currently have about 2 GB of drive space that I am not using and want to 
> devote to backing up my system.  At worst I can just do a cpio or tar but I 
> am sure there is a more elegant way to do it.  There might even be a package 
> which does this.  Any ideas are appreciated.

I've been using taper for a long time to do a nightly backup of 1 gb of data
to a spare hard drive. It works great. You can set it up to do the backups
fully automatically and mail you the results, and it can do incrementals.

-- 
see shy jo

Re: pcmcia scsi

[stephen . p . ryan]

On 22 Sep, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hi all,
> I would like to buy a pcmcia scsi card for my laptop. Can someone suggest me a
> model that is know it works with Debian linux?
> 

There is a complete list of supported cards at
http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/SUPPORTED.CARDS

Unfortunately, there is no information as to how well each one works.  

Anything listed as a supported card is supported by the pcmcia
package(s) distributed as part of Debian, though you may have to
recompile the pcmcia modules to match your kernel.  Anything listed as
supported by a contributed driver is not (yet) supported by the Debian
packages, though you can probably add the contributed drivers in
yourself fairly easily.  I have a recent New Media Bus Toaster, which
is only supported by a contributed driver; however, it was fairly easy
to rebuild the pcmcia package to include the new driver, and it has
worked well for me.  I've used a CDROM, a Syquest EZ-drive and a
Seagate tape backup with it.  The Bus Toaster was also relatively
inexpensive (I got mine at an auction), which made a big difference in
my decision.

HTH,
-- 
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Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College

Re: desktop calendar for linux

[Colin Telmer]

On 22 Sep 1998, Matt Garman wrote:

> Anybody know of something like this?  Or would it be a good project
> for me?

You would be reinventing the wheel if I understand what you are looking
for. Try plan which is packaged as a debian package. Great program. Also
look at http://www.bitrot.de/plan.html

Cheers.

--
Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Re: desktop calendar for linux

[Gary L. Hennigan]

Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
| that has been posted to uiuc.sw.linux as well.
| 
| 
| I am looking for a type of "desktop calendar" application for Linux.
| 
| Several folks have large (physical) calendars on their actual desk.
| They are well-suited for writing down appointments, exam dates,
| interviews, etc.
| 
| I would like to have an application that runs on my desktop, if
| possible, that simulates one of these large physical calendars.  A
| grid for the month, each cell representing another day.  And, perhaps, 
| I could click on a cell with my mouse and bring up a text editor or
| something to look and and change that day's agenda.  Best case, I
| think it would be nice if this calendar application ran in my root
| window of X (of course being customizable, colorful, etc.).
| 
| Even a text mode (ncurses, s-lang, maybe) calendar would be nice, with 
| some of the same features: indicate a cell to view/edit.  Running with 
| a program like screen, the text-mode version would be very nice.
| 
| Anybody know of something like this?  Or would it be a good project
| for me?

You're describing the "plan" application almost to a tee. In addition
you can add places to look for other's ".dayplan" files and view their 
appointments. This allows you do things like schedule group meetings
that don't conflict with meetings other members of your group may
have. There's even a "netplan" component for getting more complex
network-wide scheduling, but I've never used it.

It's a great application. I use it at work on my SGI and at home on my 
Linux box. Best of all, it's packaged and ready to go for Debian. Look 
for main/binary-i386/misc/plan*.deb. It does require some type of
Motif, but I haven't had any trouble with it using the free version,
LesTif.

I do not think it has a text-mode version. You can interact with it on 
the command line though, adding appointments, removing them, etc.

Gary

Re: desktop calendar for linux

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I am looking for a type of "desktop calendar" application for Linux.

If you don't fear "unreleased" software, gnomecal might be just
what you need. It already has quite a lot of functionality, and
works well for me.

It's in the package gnome-utils.

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Re: HELP: Printing in Wordperfect8

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote:

> I am having trouble printing in WP8. I have a Lexmark Optra R+ set to lp
> using Printer Create/Edit , then Setup, then Destination. When I click
> on Print, WP says the print job has been queued but the printer does not
> get fed the file. When I try again, WP queues the file a second time.
> When I invoke lpq, it reports the queue empty. My printcap file is
> 
> lp|lex|lex|Lexmark OptraR+:\
>  :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lex:\
>  :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
>  :if=/usr/sbin/ps600-filter:\
>  :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
>  The fact that I am a newbie probably explains my difficulty. By the
> way, my 30 day licence is expired but WP8 continues on by clicking
> Cancel at opening screen.

I don't have WP8, but with WP7, I set it up to use a Postscript printer (I
used Apple Laserwriter IINT) with the destination as "lp".  This get
routed to the printer through magicfilter and prints as expected using gs.

I think that selecting a non-postscript printer in WP requires that you
send the raw output directly to the printer, not through magicfilter.

hth,

Bob


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Re: desktop calendar for linux

[Ossama Othman]

Try "ical."  It is fairly useful.

-Ossama

Re: Modem Speed

[Bob Nielsen]

In addition to line noise, bandwidth and/or phase shifts can sometimes
limit the connection, particularly if there are analog-to-digital
conversions taking place, which happens when the telco combines multiple
lines onto a pair of copper wires.  I can only get 24.0Kbps here :-(  

USR (now 3com) has a test number to check out your line, 1-847-262-6000.
For details, see:



Bob

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Mike Patterson wrote:

> 
> Hi there. 
> 
> A friend of mine and I both recently got Zoom 56k Modems to allow my friend 
> to hook into my system. Unfortunately, my friend can only connect at 26400 
> BPS,
> but we aren't sure why. 
> 
> # setserial -a /dev/ttyS2
> /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
> Flags: spd_vhi skip_test
> 
> 
> Any ideas? I would think that even with minor line noise, we'd be able to 
> connect at 33.6. If the diagnosis is line noise, is there a way we can test
> this? 
> 
> Also, my friend is connecting with a Mac (one of the new G3s) is there any 
> settings they should be looking at? 
> 
> --Mike Patterson


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Latest sendmail in slink causes "host unknown" errors.

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:

The latest version of sendmail in slink, 8.9.1-9 causes all mail I try to
send to fail with a weird message of "host unknown".

I get a message back from mailer-daemon with lines like:

550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Host unknown (Name server: 
pegasus.azstarnet.com.: host not found)

and in /var/log/mail.log, I get a corresponding entry:

Sep 22 10:26:46 nielsen sendmail[3062]: KAA03060:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1000/1000),
delay=00:00:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,
relay=pegasus.azstarnet.com., stat=Host unknown (Name server:
pegasus.azstarnet.com.: host not found)

This is just an example; the problem occurs for any mail hosts and
nslookup shows that the hosts in question actually exist.

The previous version did not have any such problem, and in the changelog
I don't see anything which would affect this.  I downgraded to the hamm
version (8.8.8-20) which works fine.

Bob
 
 
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desktop calendar for linux

[Matt Garman]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to uiuc.sw.linux as well.


I am looking for a type of "desktop calendar" application for Linux.

Several folks have large (physical) calendars on their actual desk.
They are well-suited for writing down appointments, exam dates,
interviews, etc.

I would like to have an application that runs on my desktop, if
possible, that simulates one of these large physical calendars.  A
grid for the month, each cell representing another day.  And, perhaps, 
I could click on a cell with my mouse and bring up a text editor or
something to look and and change that day's agenda.  Best case, I
think it would be nice if this calendar application ran in my root
window of X (of course being customizable, colorful, etc.).

Even a text mode (ncurses, s-lang, maybe) calendar would be nice, with 
some of the same features: indicate a cell to view/edit.  Running with 
a program like screen, the text-mode version would be very nice.

Anybody know of something like this?  Or would it be a good project
for me?

Thanks.
Matt

kbackup

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,

I have long been meaning to investigate kbackup, but it kept
 loosing to procrastination.I am used to restore/dump and different
 levels of dump; I do not see any level 2 or higher facilities in the
 documentation (incremental dumps are, well, tedious when restoring). 

I have now started to set kbackup up, and there were a few
 false starts (like, do not turn on the verify after backup for a
 tape, the option always shows the first archive on the medium, and do
 not automatically rewind after every operation).

I still have questions (the documentation is, charitably,
 sparse). And I think I have a bug -- when backing up my home dir, I
 do not want to backup the netscape cache> So, I included the line
.netscape/cache 
 in Exclude_Files-- but the cache files still ended up on the tape ;-(

Also, how do people handle multiple backups? I have a dozen
 different configs defined so far, and there are more to come
 (/var/lib/dpkg and /var/named come to mind). How do you set up an
 automated backup schedule? How can one script things such that one
 does not have to manually toggle the incremental flag?

manoj
 beginning to think about amanda
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 Do, or do not; there is no try.
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/usr/local

[Paulo J. da Silva e Silva]

Hello,

I would like to ask a question. I noticed that some important packages in Hamm
(Latex and Emacs, for example) write in /usr/local during installation (at
least they create directories there).

Well, our local system administrator is having problem with this. It has
decided to mount /usr/local using nfs as read only (then you would have an
unique copy of /usr/local in all machines). When he tries to install any
package that writes in /usr/local it aborts installation.

He figured a temporary solution. He simply unmounts /usr/local after
installing and then the install scripts are smart enough to deal with this.
Is there any better solution?

Other point, why this new behavior? I thought /usr/local was an administrator
responsibility...

Thank you all.

Paulo.

Re: Multiple NE2000 Cards (Using NE Loadable Module)

[Nils Rennebarth]

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 08:29:05AM +, James Brown Ender/GCC" wrote:
> I'm trying to set up debian (running .30 kernel, and 
> libc5 NOT hamm!), with 2 NE2000 compatable network cards.
> One is 0x340 Irq=5, and other is 0x360 irq 12.
> I'm read the minihowto (Multiple Ethernet), and put that in my lilo 
> config, but that seems to only apply with the BUILT IN drivers.
> 
> I'm using the ne loadable driver, (eg, at the end of my etc/modules 
> theres a line that reads 'ne io=0x340').
Try

ne io=0x340,0x360

and read
 _path_to_the_kernel_source/Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt

Nils

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Re: DHCP on boot

[Nils Rennebarth]

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 12:02:41PM -0400, Smith, Brian N. wrote:
> I am referring to the client
> What happens to the IP address one assigns during the kernal build?
??? You mean during debian installation? The one in /etc/init.d/network?

Never mind, it gets overwritten anyway.

Nils

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Re: xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

[Michael Stone]

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I mean in /etc/groups add a group "xdm".  List all users that use xdm in it.
> Then add this new group xdm to the floppy line.

That wouldn't work. I think what he's looking for is a way to put people
into the group when they're logged in at the console (or via xdm) but
not when they telnet. (This is really good in a lab environment when you
want people to be able to use sound & floppies, for example.)

mike stone

HELP: Printing in Wordperfect8

[Albert Hurd]

I am having trouble printing in WP8. I have a Lexmark Optra R+ set to lp
using Printer Create/Edit , then Setup, then Destination. When I click
on Print, WP says the print job has been queued but the printer does not
get fed the file. When I try again, WP queues the file a second time.
When I invoke lpq, it reports the queue empty. My printcap file is

lp|lex|lex|Lexmark OptraR+:\
 :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lex:\
 :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
 :if=/usr/sbin/ps600-filter:\
 :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
 The fact that I am a newbie probably explains my difficulty. By the
way, my 30 day licence is expired but WP8 continues on by clicking
Cancel at opening screen.

Albert Hurd

[Joke] Y2K Bug...

[Kevin Traas]

Check out the following:
 
http://www.thesitefights.com/wepatrol/mil_bug.gif
 
Regards,
Kevin
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like a knight in shining armor tolead all customers out of a mire of 
technological chaos neatly ignoresthe fact that it was he, who by peddling 
second-rate technology, led theminto it in the first place." - 
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Re: Microchannel architecture support

[Bob Clark]

I am running Debian on two Model 77's with MCA SCSI, IDE,
NIC, and Xfree86 all working perfectly.  I had to put
'append="fdomain=0x140,5,ibm"' in /etc/lilo.conf to boot
from the SCSI disk.  Although I now use a custom built
kernel, my memory is that the distributed kernel worked as
long as I specified the SCSI driver information as boot
options.  There are of course a wide variety of PS/2 models
and I have no idea how other models may respond.

--Bob

Jor-el wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What support if any does the debian distribution offer for MCA
> hardware? Are there precompiled binaries for the i386 architecture, or
> do I have to apply an MCA patch to the source and build it?
> 
> Kenneth
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Re: xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

[shaleh]

I mean in /etc/groups add a group "xdm".  List all users that use xdm in it.
Then add this new group xdm to the floppy line.

RE: DHCP on boot

[Smith, Brian N.]

I am referring to the client

I have a cable modem, and have to run DHCP 

What happens to the IP address one assigns during the kernal build?

Thanks

Brian

-Original Message-
From:   Giuseppe Sacco [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Tuesday, September 22, 1998 8:22 AM
To: debian-user
Subject:Re: DHCP on boot

Are you talking about the client or the server?

If you are talking about the client then you should have installed
(automatically, from dhcpcd*.deb) a script in /etc/init.d/ that will
start the
client at boot time. But if you have a PCMCIA network card you
should set
DHCP="y" in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts.

Bye,
Giuseppe

modutils 2.1.121-4 uploaded

[Wichert Akkerman]

Apparently maintaining modutils means you have to run both development
and stable kernels to test everything.. *sigh*.

As some people deduced correctly the problem was with a change in the
kernel includes: kerneld.h was removed from the kernel sources and
is now directly in the modutils sources. This also means that modutils
is solely responsible for maintaining compatibility with both kernels.

I've just create a new modutils package, 2.1.121-4, which has been compiled
with a known-good kerneld.h file. I just tested it on a 2.0.33 system and
it works fine there.

It should be installed in the main archive in a couple of hours and be
on the bigger mirrors by tomorrow.

Wichert.


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Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs > COM5? RESOLVED

[Edward J Young]

Thanx for the reply
Problem is resolved. 

They  show up in the device manager, and I know they work because of
diagnostic utilities provided with the board. The problem was that non of
the apps I used would see com5. Hyperterm still won't, but PCPlus did
after some configuration of PCPlus. So problem is resolved. 


Thanx again, 

Ed 


On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Edward J Young writes:
> [snip]
> > I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To
> > do this I need a  com program that will work with com5 and above. I know
> > this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the
> > W/World, most programs don't go up there. I believe it's simply that they
> > have hardcoded their programs, not that it's not possible. 
> 
> Ok, are the additional serial ports shown in the device manager menu?
> (Settings, Control panel, System, Device Manager, Ports) If they show there,
> you should be able to use Hyperterm.
> 
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Modem Speed

[Mike Patterson]

Hi there. 

A friend of mine and I both recently got Zoom 56k Modems to allow my friend 
to hook into my system. Unfortunately, my friend can only connect at 26400 BPS,
but we aren't sure why. 

# setserial -a /dev/ttyS2
/dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
Flags: spd_vhi skip_test


Any ideas? I would think that even with minor line noise, we'd be able to 
connect at 33.6. If the diagnosis is line noise, is there a way we can test
this? 

Also, my friend is connecting with a Mac (one of the new G3s) is there any 
settings they should be looking at? 

--Mike Patterson

Re: Motif on Hamm??

[aqy6633]

> What are people using for Motif on glibc systems? 

"Motif Complete!" from Metro Link Inc. (www.metrolink.com) is an EXCELLENT 
product. Great documentation, possibility for multi-version development
environments, latest versions, customized winow manager, etc.


Alex Y.
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Re: Modem recommendation

[Peter Iannarelli]

Hello:

My personal preference is Zyxel --> www.zyxel.com

Peter

-Original Message-
From: G. Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Date: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 9:46 AM
Subject: Modem recommendation


>
>Hi all,
>
>I am switching from ethernet to modem (end of school days) and I would be
>grateful about suggestion for a good external modem that works well under
>Debian
>2.0.
>TIA
>George
>
>
>
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Modem recommendation

[G. Kapetanios]

Hi all, 

I am switching from ethernet to modem (end of school days) and I would be
grateful about suggestion for a good external modem that works well under
Debian
2.0. 
TIA
George 



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Remote printer and magicfiler

[Robert Ramiega]

 Hi! 

I'm using remote printer (connected to Win95) through Samba is ther a way to
use magicfilter in this situation?

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Re: Compiling the dpkg source package..

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 06:31:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi, any chance someone could tell me the correct incantations for
> compiling dpkg from source?  I've tried both the versions in hamm and
> slink, but the INSTALL file is just a default gnu configure one, and
> ./configure (it's installation instructions) does nothing useful.  I also
> tried autoconf and automake using the configure.in and Makefile.am
> (without arguments - I'm not familiar with either of them really).  This
> was done on debian 2.0 machines with everything but the kitchen sink as
> far as the development environment goes.  Any help is appreciated. :)

dpkg-source -x foo_version.dsc
cd foo_version
debian/rules binary  or   dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc

Marcus

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Re: printer advice

[Daniel Martin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Norris) writes:

> As near as I can tell it's not a winprinter, and it's print-language is
> "Enhanced HP PCL 5" (which I believe is a superset of postscript, but
> might well be mistaken on that point).

No; it's a superset of HP's PCL (Printer Control Language) - a
proprietary HP language. (PCL is kind of interesting; it reminds me
of the good old days of sending escape codes to my parent's first
dot-matrix printer, and yet one can do vector graphics with it)

But that's ok; ghostscript can convert postscript into the PCL that
was used on HP LaserJet 4's, so a simple little filter in
/etc/printcap will take care of being able to print postscript.  (or
you could just take care of things by installing magicfilter which
ends up moving everything through ghostscript)

Re: this is probably too easy

[Jeremy Freeman]

you know you might be right :) i just phoned my isp and they confermed
that i had to send a lowercase ppp to activate my ppp session 
lots of rolling eyes and gasping
well i am going to go home tonight and check if it is the case i will
be very angery and very happy because i have spent about 3 months on
and off and even resorted to using windows :( anyway if it does work i
will start pestering yall with questions about gcc :) and if it doesnt
well ..

:)
thanks for ur help
Jeremy

---Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Are you certain that your chatscript is going far enough?
> That is, are you certain that after sending PPP your ISP doesn't ask
> for a username and password?  (or do you perhaps need PPP in
> lowercase?)  This error looks like your ISP isn't responding to pppd
> at all; this often happens when there's some other prompt your ISP
> presents that you aren't taking care of with your chatscript.
> 
> Try dialing in manually with minicom, and do what's necessary to
start 
> ppp far enough to get the ppp garbage that looks like 
> !}!}!} }8}"}&} } } } }#}
> or similar.  (or, at the very least get to the point where your ISP
> isn't sending you anything, but is waiting for pppd on your machine
to 
> send garbage like the above).  Then, to make sure that you have
indeed 
> manually connected properly, exit minicom without hanging up the
modem 
> (Ctrl-A Q), and do:
> 
> /usr/sbin/pppd bsdcomp 15 crtscts mru 300 mtu 300 defaultroute
>noipdefault /dev/modem 38400 modem noauth
> 
> (all on one line).  (Instead of 38400, use the speed minicom was
using 
> with your modem; if your provider uses PAP, include "user
>  error somewhere in your chatscript.

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Motif on Hamm??

[Wayne Cuddy]

What are people using for Motif on glibc systems? 

Wayne Cuddy
CRB-WEB (C & H Consulting)
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Support for PC2TV on ATI Xpert@Play?

[pedro . i . sanchez]

Hello,

I have an ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] video card that I've been unable to connect to 
my TV. Is this feature supported by the Xfree86 project? (I haven't found any 
specific reference to this feature in the docs).

Thank you,

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Re: printer advice

[Michael Stutz]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Greg Norris wrote:

> Of course, any suggestions for alternate laser-printers which work well
> under Linux would also be greatly appreciated.

The HP LaserJet 4M+ is a good printer with a lot of features. With
magicfilter installed, it works like a charm. It's an older model, but you
might be able to find someone who sell them. (Corporate Raider and A Matter
of Fax are two companies that sell them; they advertise in _Computer
Shopper_. I bought mine "as new" from Corporate Raider a few years ago for
around $600.)

Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs > COM5?

[tko]

Edward J Young writes:
[snip]
> I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To
> do this I need a  com program that will work with com5 and above. I know
> this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the
> W/World, most programs don't go up there. I believe it's simply that they
> have hardcoded their programs, not that it's not possible. 

Ok, are the additional serial ports shown in the device manager menu?
(Settings, Control panel, System, Device Manager, Ports) If they show there,
you should be able to use Hyperterm.

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More hard disk woes (repeat)

[Kevin Scott]

(resent as smail configuration was dodgy - apologies if it appears twice)

I have a system with a WD 2GB IDE drive that has started acting flaky -
when I tried to upgrade from bo I got a thoroughly corrupted filesystem
(files and directories becoming block special files that could not be
deleted, lots of filesystem errors), so I re-installed hamm from scratch
with a re-format of the disk. Unfortunately I have now started to lose
files and directories again.  Running e2fsck produced a lot of files in
/lost+found.

I would just go and replace the disk drive were it not for the fact that
during my installation of hamm from CD-ROM the installation paused a
number of times giving errors from the CD-ROM drive:

IRQ timeout
Status 0xd0

Although the installation seemed to work OK initially, this makes me
wonder if I have a flaky IDE controller on the motherboard (in which
case a new PC may be the better option given its age - Pentium 100
vintage).

Does anyone have any idea whether the above points to controller or
disk failure, or know how I could determine which was at fault?

Thanks for any pointers,

Kevin

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Compiling the dpkg source package..

[ninjaz]

Hi, any chance someone could tell me the correct incantations for
compiling dpkg from source?  I've tried both the versions in hamm and
slink, but the INSTALL file is just a default gnu configure one, and
./configure (it's installation instructions) does nothing useful.  I also
tried autoconf and automake using the configure.in and Makefile.am
(without arguments - I'm not familiar with either of them really).  This
was done on debian 2.0 machines with everything but the kitchen sink as
far as the development environment goes.  Any help is appreciated. :)

RE: Bootloaders

[Ingo Hohmann]

Hi Ulysses,

On 22-Sep-98 Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> 
> I would like to know if there is a boot loader wich allows to "modify"
> command line arguments at the prompt, this is what I want:
> 
> nfsaddrs=147.156.10.20:147.156.17.31:147.156.1.11:255.255.128.0:eth0:none
>  ^
> 
> The selected characters should be replaced in the commandline (without
> writting the entire parameter), just this field of this parameter ilst is
> that I want to modify in the prompt.


I'm not sure, but maybe grub will do the trick,
it is used for booting Hurd, but I don't know where to find 
it, but http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html might be
a good place for starting investigations.

I hope, this'll help.


Ingo

Re: this is probably too easy

[Daniel Martin]

Are you certain that your chatscript is going far enough?
That is, are you certain that after sending PPP your ISP doesn't ask
for a username and password?  (or do you perhaps need PPP in
lowercase?)  This error looks like your ISP isn't responding to pppd
at all; this often happens when there's some other prompt your ISP
presents that you aren't taking care of with your chatscript.

Try dialing in manually with minicom, and do what's necessary to start 
ppp far enough to get the ppp garbage that looks like 
!}!}!} }8}"}&} } } } }#}
or similar.  (or, at the very least get to the point where your ISP
isn't sending you anything, but is waiting for pppd on your machine to 
send garbage like the above).  Then, to make sure that you have indeed 
manually connected properly, exit minicom without hanging up the modem 
(Ctrl-A Q), and do:

/usr/sbin/pppd bsdcomp 15 crtscts mru 300 mtu 300 defaultroute
   noipdefault /dev/modem 38400 modem noauth

(all on one line).  (Instead of 38400, use the speed minicom was using 
with your modem; if your provider uses PAP, include "user
 writes:

> i have been pulling my hair our over this one and it is something so
> simple you will laugh at me
> 
> My PPP doesnt work
> 
> now dont all roll your eyes let me explain
> 
> my chat script works and my pppd works but when ever i try and open a
> link to my isp it all terminates and puts this error in my messages file
> 
> Sep 16 00:10:09 localhost chat[760]: Protocol:
> Sep 16 00:10:09 localhost chat[760]:  -- got it 
> Sep 16 00:10:09 localhost chat[760]: send (PPP^M)
> Sep 16 00:10:09 localhost pppd[755]: Serial connection established.
> Sep 16 00:10:11 localhost kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel
> allocation)
> Sep 16 00:10:11 localhost kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code
> copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
> Sep 16 00:10:11 localhost kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
> Sep 16 00:10:19 localhost kernel: registered device ppp0
> Sep 16 00:10:19 localhost pppd[755]: Using interface ppp0
> Sep 16 00:10:19 localhost pppd[755]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
> Sep 16 00:10:49 localhost pppd[755]: LCP: timeout sending
> Config-Requests
> Sep 16 00:10:49 localhost pppd[755]: Connection terminated.
> Sep 16 00:10:49 localhost pppd[755]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit
> clean:
> Sep 16 00:10:49 localhost pppd[755]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
> Sep 16 00:11:30 localhost pppd[755]: Exit.
> Sep 16 00:13:10 localhost kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline
> successfully unregistered
> 

Re: mp3 player

[Brian Almeida]

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:36:36AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
> They are in the non-free and contrib sections.
> Look for mpg123 and x11amp (for example).
My MP3 player package, eMusic, is in main.  Also, FreeAMP is in 
main.

Brian

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Mapping memory

[Ruben Usamentiaga Fernandez]

I have a device witch maps memory in the mega 12, but i have physical
memory at this location. 

Is there any way to solve it?

Re: non microsoft OS using windows drivers

[Wojciech Zabolotny]

Great! May by this will be a good solution for my Primax scanner, which is 
equipped only with M$-Win drivers... According to the license I may use
them WITH THIS SCANNER, not with the particular OS. So may be the
React OS will be the good solution for me...

Wojtek Zabolotny
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, aphro wrote:

> At 09:21 PM 9/20/98 +0200, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> >> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote:
> >> > Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device
> drivers
> >> > (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why a
> person
> >> > could not use the device drivers written for the MS Windows operating
> system ?
> 
> it is possible, and it is being done, slowly but surely by the ReactOS
> project,
> an operating system aimed to be a free clone of NT that will use NT
> drivers. As
> far as doing this in linux, dont know how it would be done. It is still very
> much in development..dont know when(if ever) it will be completed. If this
> project can do it, I can't think of a way MS could stop individuals from
> loading a NT driver on a non MS OS, they may be able to stop distribution
> of it
> with the OS..if it was a microsoft driver..but 3rd partys..MS could not stop
> directly since it is not microsoft code.
> 
> But if you want info on ReactOS:
> 
> Homepage - http://www.sid-dis.com/reactos/
> 
> What ReactOS is (from their page)
> "ReactOS will be a free operating system that can run software and drivers
> compatible with Windows NT. It will serve as a free alternative to the
> Microsoft
> Windows series of operating systems. ReactOS is targeted for Intel systems but
> may be ported to others later. The project is under development by several
> people around the world that communicate via the services of the Internet."
> 
> 

Re: Easy X exit manager....

[Kevin Scott]

It looks like time to post this again! (originally posted 7 Mar 1997).
Still works for Debian 2.0 so far as I am aware.

My scripts are based on those posted to this list by
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Monday 7th October 1996
(subject: " Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?").  I've modified
them considerably for use at our site, where one of the requirements
for our linux machines is to be able to emulate an X terminal on an
HP-UX server machine.

It (almost) goes without saying that you need tcl and tk packages
installed - only the runtime parts are needed, and I am not aware
of a need for any particular version.

Assuming you have xdm running, you need to do the following:

Modify /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 - this script is run when xdm is
(re)initialising the login screen.  Mine is now:

===
#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: Xsetup_0,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:31 gildea Exp $

if grep -q ^run-xconsole /etc/X11/config
then
  xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed \
-exitOnFail -file /dev/xconsole
fi
xsetroot -solid grey50

# Start the rebooter etc...
/usr/local/bin/tkmgr &
echo $! > /var/run/tkmgr-pid
===

Modify /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_0 - this script is run after a user has
successfully logged in at the xdm login prompt.  Mine is now:
===
#! /bin/sh
#
# This script is run as root after a user starts a session on :0.

# Call the global Xstartup script, if it exists
if [ -x /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup ] ; then
  /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup
fi

# :0 specific startup commands go here

# Kill the mgr
if [ -f /var/run/tkmgr-pid ]
then
  kill `cat /var/run/tkmgr-pid`
  rm /var/run/tkmgr-pid
fi

exit 0
===

The Tk script is /usr/local/bin/tkmgr.  Mine is modified to give three
choices.  The first is to connect to one of our server machines acting
as an xterm, the second to reboot the system and the third to halt it.

The script determines the location of the xdm login window and places
itself centrally below it.  It will obviously need customising, to either
remove the xterm reference or make it applicable to a particular site.

/usr/local/bin/tkmgr contains:
===
#!/usr/bin/wish

# Init stuff
wm title . Chooser
wm protocol . WM_DELETE_WINDOW Quit

# Place this below bottom LH corner of login window
set info [split [exec xwininfo -name xlogin] "\n"]
set LoginGeom [split [lindex [split [lindex $info 21] " "] 3] +]
set LoginH [lindex [split [lindex $LoginGeom 0] x] 1]
set NewX [expr [lindex $LoginGeom 1] + 1]
set NewY [expr [lindex $LoginGeom 2] + $LoginH + 6]
wm geometry . +$NewX+$NewY

# The buttons
frame .buttons
button .buttons.xterm \
-text "Start xterm on ..." \
-width 19 \
-relief raised \
-command Xterm
button .buttons.reboot \
-text "Reboot the system" \
-width 19 \
-command Reboot
button .buttons.halt \
-text "Halt the system" \
-width 19 \
-command Halt
pack append .buttons \
.buttons.xterm  {left expand fill} \
.buttons.halt   {left expand fill} \
.buttons.reboot {left expand fill}

menu .buttons.xterm.menu
.buttons.xterm.menu add command -label "sleepy"  -command {Xterm "sleepy"}
.buttons.xterm.menu add command -label "sneezy"  -command {Xterm "sneezy"}
.buttons.xterm.menu add command -label "bashful" -command {Xterm "bashful"}
.buttons.xterm.menu add command -label "dopey"   -command {Xterm "dopey"}
.buttons.xterm.menu add command -label "grumpy"  -command {Xterm "grumpy"}
.buttons.xterm.menu add command -label "happy"   -command {Xterm "happy"}

pack .buttons -side top -fill x -expand true

# The Functions
proc Quit {} {
exit 0
}

proc Reboot {} {
exec /sbin/shutdown -rt 15 now < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2> /dev/tty1 &
}

proc Halt {} {
exec /sbin/shutdown -ht 15 now < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2> /dev/tty1 &
}

proc Xterm {} {
catch "destroy .xtlist"
toplevel .xtlist

# Place this below chooser window
set MainGeom [split [ wm geometry . ] +]
set MainH [lindex [split [lindex $MainGeom 0] x] 1]
set NewX [lindex $MainGeom 1]
set NewY [expr [lindex $MainGeom 2] + $MainH]
wm geometry .xtlist +$NewX+$NewY

frame .xtlist.list
button .xtlist.list.sleepy \
-text "sleepy" \
-padx 10 \
-width 7 \
-command {exec /usr/local/bin/tkxterm sleepy &}
button .xtlist.list.sneezy \
-text "sneezy" \
-padx 11 \
-width 7 \
-command {exec /usr/local/bin/tkxterm sneezy &}
button .xtlist.list.bashful \
-text "bashful" \
-padx 11 \
-width 7 \
-command {exec /usr

Re: Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

[Michael B. Taylor]

Sure.  You can run pretty much anything in hamm that ran in bo.  You just need
the proper packages from old-libs.  Since I am running Netscape 3.04, I have
several packages from old-libs installed, but I would guess that libc5 is
all that WP needs.  

Mike

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 01:49:02PM +0200, Bostjan JERKO wrote:
> Hello !
> 
> Has anybody tried to install Wordperfect on Debian 2.0. I know it is possible 
> to install it on 1.3 with libc5, but what about 2.0 (with libc6).
> 
> Bostjan
> 
> 
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More hard disk woes

[Kevin Scott]

I have a system with a WD 2GB IDE drive that has started acting flaky -
when I tried to upgrade from bo I got a thoroughly corrupted filesystem
(files and directories becoming block special files that could not be
deleted, lots of filesystem errors), so I re-installed hamm from scratch
with a re-format of the disk. Unfortunately I have now started to lose
files and directories again.  Running e2fsck produced a lot of files in
/lost+found.

I would just go and replace the disk drive were it not for the fact that
during my installation of hamm from CD-ROM the installation paused a
number of times giving errors from the CD-ROM drive:

IRQ timeout
Status 0xd0

Although the installation seemed to work OK initially, this makes me
wonder if I have a flaky IDE controller on the motherboard (in which
case a new PC may be the better option given its age - Pentium 100
vintage).

Does anyone have any idea whether the above points to controller or
disk failure, or know how I could determine which was at fault?

Thanks for any pointers,

Kevin

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RE: Bootup error

[Lewis, James M.]

It looks like you might have an IDE interface enabled at int 14.
Try moving the scsi to int 10.  You also need to add
append="mem=96M" to your lilo.conf file.

How about sending a few more details about your system?

jim

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Subject:Bootup error


I've got a 1gig SCSI HD which linux fails to see it.
Right now it is installed on the 1st SCSI drive which is 540meg.
The SCSI controller is set to IRQ14 and I get errors about this.
I have search alot of documentation on to solve this problem,
but I can't find any. Can someone out there help?

In addition, in my BIOS setting, I don't have any power management.
The server has 96meg RAM on it.

here is my bootup log:

Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pci_init: no BIOS32 detected
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 33.18 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63524k/66556k available (1124k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1524k
data)
This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good.
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized Checking 386/387
coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.34 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Thu Jul 9
10:57:48 EST 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29
02:46:13 $
tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x277800 (0x2777d8)
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips or a
power saving mode enabled.
hda: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
hda: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
hda: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
hda: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
hda: non-IDE drive, CHS=840/16/63
hdb: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
hdb: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
hdb: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
hdb: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
hdb: non-IDE drive, CHS=516/65/63
hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 65 PHYSICAL HEADS?
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is an 8272A
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
qlogicisp : PCI bios not present
eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still
depends on it.
  Skipping scan for PCI HBAs. 
Couldn't allocate IRQ 14, Sorry.eata_pio: No BIOS32 extensions present.
This driver release still depends on it.
  Skipping scan for PCI HBAs.
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
ppa: Version 1.42
ppa: Probing port 03bc
ppa: Probing port 0378
ppa: SPP port present
ppa: Probing port 0278
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
 hda:hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest }
hda: drive not ready for command
 hda1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
eth0: 3c509 at 0x310 tag 1, 10baseT port, address  00 a0 24 a0 5d f6,
IRQ 11.
3c509.c:1.16 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.


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Re: mp3 player

[Oz Dror]

What is the MIME type for mp3
what lines to add to .mailcap and .mime.types
-Oz
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X-Window is free again

[Ulisses Alonso Camaro]

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Re: xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

[Michael Stone]

Quoting Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> May be an easier way but how about making an XDM group?  Put the
> users in that.  Then let group xdm be a member of floppy.

? What do you mean by XDM group?

Mike Stone

Bootloaders

[Ulisses Alonso Camaro]

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Hi all again

I would like to know if there is a boot loader wich allows to "modify"
command line arguments at the prompt, this is what I want:

This is one of the parameters I want to modify: 

nfsaddrs=147.156.10.20:147.156.17.31:147.156.1.11:255.255.128.0:eth0:none
 ^

The selected characters should be replaced in the commandline (without
writting the entire parameter), just this field of this parameter ilst is
that I want to modify in the prompt.

Does this exist?

reagards,

Ulisses

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Re: DHCP on boot

[Giuseppe Sacco]

Are you talking about the client or the server?

If you are talking about the client then you should have installed
(automatically, from dhcpcd*.deb) a script in /etc/init.d/ that will start the
client at boot time. But if you have a PCMCIA network card you should set
DHCP="y" in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts.

Bye,
Giuseppe

DHCP on boot

[Smith, Brian N.]

How does one get DHCP to initiate on bootup?  All the Faqs seem to point to
assigning the IP address when compiling and assume it will never change

Thanks in advance

Brian Smith

Re: Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

[Giuseppe Sacco]

> Has anybody tried to install Wordperfect on Debian 2.0. I know it is possible 
> to install it on 1.3 with libc5, but what about 2.0 (with libc6).

I installed it, I have libc5-compat. All went fine.

Bye,
Giuseppe

Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

[Bostjan JERKO]

Hello !

Has anybody tried to install Wordperfect on Debian 2.0. I know it is possible 
to install it on 1.3 with libc5, but what about 2.0 (with libc6).

Bostjan

Software RAID ? Was: [Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas]

[Guido Bozzetto]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote:
> 
> Why not isolate the data you want to backup in you file system so you
> can setup raid on the second spindle.  As an example:
> /usr under Debian is fairly static, so don't include it in any raid
> solution.  /home on the other hand has lots of stuff you do want to
> preserve, So create a partition on a second or third drive that's the
> same size as /home and setup raid to have the two mirror each-other.

This is a software or hardware mirror ? If it's a software RAID how
can I realize it ?

   Thanx in advice, Guido.
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this is probably too easy

[Jeremy Freeman]

i have been pulling my hair our over this one and it is something so
simple you will laugh at me

My PPP doesnt work

now dont all roll your eyes let me explain

my chat script works and my pppd works but when ever i try and open a
link to my isp it all terminates and puts this error in my messages file

Sep 16 00:10:09 localhost chat[760]: Protocol:
Sep 16 00:10:09 localhost chat[760]:  -- got it 
Sep 16 00:10:09 localhost chat[760]: send (PPP^M)
Sep 16 00:10:09 localhost pppd[755]: Serial connection established.
Sep 16 00:10:11 localhost kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel
allocation)
Sep 16 00:10:11 localhost kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code
copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Sep 16 00:10:11 localhost kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Sep 16 00:10:19 localhost kernel: registered device ppp0
Sep 16 00:10:19 localhost pppd[755]: Using interface ppp0
Sep 16 00:10:19 localhost pppd[755]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Sep 16 00:10:49 localhost pppd[755]: LCP: timeout sending
Config-Requests
Sep 16 00:10:49 localhost pppd[755]: Connection terminated.
Sep 16 00:10:49 localhost pppd[755]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit
clean:
Sep 16 00:10:49 localhost pppd[755]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Sep 16 00:11:30 localhost pppd[755]: Exit.
Sep 16 00:13:10 localhost kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline
successfully unregistered

i have read every howto i can find with no success i hope you can help
me

thnking you in advance
Jeremy
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Solutioned: NFSROOT problems

[Ulisses Alonso Camaro]

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Re: your mail

[Remco van de Meent]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Dan Hrabarchuk wrote:

 : How do I change the distribution dselect downloads, and updates from? I want
 : to change it to unstable from stable.

Have a look at the 'Access' option in dselect's main menu. When configuring
the access method, you'll be asked which distribution it should use.

NFSROOT problems

[Ulisses Alonso Camaro]

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Hi all,

I found an extrange behaviour in NFSROOT while not using BOOTP or RARP to
provide client-ip, Instead I provide it in the command line

Using the following kernel 2.0.35 configuration:

CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M386=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC=y
CONFIG_WD80x3=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y

And the following parameters to loadlin:

zkernel <- Kernel Image name
root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=147.156.17.31:/nfs-root
nfsaddrs=147.156.10.20:147.156.17.31:147.156.1.11:255.255.128.0:eth0:none
ether=10,0x300,eth0

Using kernel shows correctly this settings using NFSROOT_DEBUG but It gets
the following condition

if (!bootp_dev_count && !rarp_dev_count) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Root-NFS: Unable to open at least one network 
device\n");
return -1;
}

The Ethernet card is detected Ok

That is as If I did not specified the client-ip-adress in the command line!
(and using instead rarp or bootp!!!)

I commented these lines but then I've got the following message
Root-NFS; Multiple devices and no server!!

Any comment or suggestion will be greatly appreciated, right now I'm going
to try with netboot...

Ulisses

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Multiple NE2000 Cards (Using NE Loadable Module)

[James Brown \(Ender/GCC\)]

Hi,
   I need HELP! I'm trying to set up debian (running .30 kernel, and 
libc5 NOT hamm!), with 2 NE2000 compatable network cards.
One is 0x340 Irq=5, and other is 0x360 irq 12.
I'm read the minihowto (Multiple Ethernet), and put that in my lilo 
config, but that seems to only apply with the BUILT IN drivers.

I'm using the ne loadable driver, (eg, at the end of my etc/modules 
theres a line that reads 'ne io=0x340').

HELP! Please? Anyone?

-- Ender

Re: ISDN-Setup

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "HM" == Helmut Metzdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

HM> 1: use the old config files (pap-secrets, host.conf, hosts,
HM> resolv.conf)by copying them to the appropriate places (/etc,
HM> /etc/ppp).

Yes.

HM> 2: my old entries in isdnlog.conf are placed in callerid.conf.
I think so.

HM> 3: country- and areacode as well as my MSN and my providers phonenr
HM> have to be set in isdn.conf.
Yes.

HM> Question: There was mentioned a ~/.isdn, where to find any info on
HM> that, and what is it good for?
This is part of isdnlog config. See /usr/doc/isdnutils/isdnlog/README.de.gz

18. Verwendete Dateien
--

Folgende Files werden von diesem System verwendet:

  /sbin/isdnlog  - Das Protokoll-Programm
  /usr/sbin/isdnrep  - Das Report-Programm
  /usr/sbin/isdnconf - Das Konfigurationstool
  /etc/isdn/isdnlog.conf - Die alte Config-Datei
  /etc/isdn/isdn.conf- Die neue Config-Datei
  ~/.isdn- Die Config-Datei des Benutzers
[...]

HM> 4: take my old ioptions file and edit device.ippp0 accordingly, ignoring
HM> the mass of new options.

HM> Question: do i have to use the no..-options where i had
HM> -..-options   before e. g. novj instead of -vj?  

Better do so. This is not much hassle to change this, no?
ALso you should edit /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 if you use syncppp.

HM> 5: lookup the scriptfile that sets the base values via isdnctrl   
HM> (isdn.ippp0?) and check it against the old script i was using.

Base values? What do you mean with this?

HM> Question: there the defaultroute is set, mustn´t i delete it again to 
HM> disable dial-on-demand?
Yes.

Edit /etc/isdn/device.ippp0, etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d/isdnutils
Also make sure you don't have an old entry in /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.

HM> 6: the option file for isdnlog (isdnlog.isdnctrl0?)

HM> Question: should i change some of the default parameters or can i
HM> leavethem untouched?

There are reasonable defaults. If you want something special, change
them.

HM> 7: edit /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/isdnutils to disable dial-on-demand.
Yes. See above.

HM> 8: remove the "not configured" lines from the config files.
Yes.

HM> How to change, set permissions (which permissions?) to initiate an
HM> internet session as user xyz, preferably using xmonisdn and how to
HM> change the according scripts besides eliminating the leading "exit 0"
HM> - working examples wellcome - ?
Sorry, I use dial on demand. Probably add the user to group dialout
and dip (adduser dialout theuser).

HM> Can i insert the commands for mail-processing in
HM> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/isdnutils

Better create a new script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d . This is better design. 

HM> and do i have to precede the fetchmail command with su -u xyz when
HM> the acording .fetchmailrc is in /home/xyz?
Yes.

HM> In my old setting i had a one line script to reset the default route
HM> because sometimes it happened that it was lost during a session, should
HM> i keep it?
Never heared of such a bug.

Ciao,
Martin

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X locks at -bpp 16

[David Densmore]

I have a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with CL-GD5426 chip and am running
the svga X server.

It works fine when I run it at -bpp 8, but at -bpp 16 it starts with
a completely black background and the mouse freezes as soon as I place
the xterm window on the screen (still using TWM).  After a couple of
minutes the mouse will unfreeze and I can move it around the edge of
the screen, but if I move it over the xterm window it will freeze
again.

Does anyone know what to do about this?

Thank you,
David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

pcmcia scsi

[Giuseppe Sacco]

Hi all,
I would like to buy a pcmcia scsi card for my laptop. Can someone suggest me a
model that is know it works with Debian linux?

Thanks a lot,
Giuseppe Sacco

Re: Unidentified subject!

[M.C. Vernon]

> >> 5. In dos you can have your current directory listed in the command
> prompt
> >> by doing prompt $p$g  what is the equivalent for linux.
> 
> >Add the following line to your .bash_profile:
> >export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
> 
> sorry but I need to know where exactly .bash_profile is located and which
> editor do I use to  edit it.  I tried the vi editor.  I show nothing and I
> don't know the command to get out of it. Even control c  (^C) does not help.

OK. Login as a normal user (i.e. not root)

vi is evil, so use emacs ;)

type:

emacs .bash_profile

then hit return

emacs will fire up...

use the arrow keys to navigate to the bottom of the file (hit return if
necessary toadd another time)

type 

export PS1='\h:\w\$ '

Hit Control X followed by Control C

done!

HTH,

Matthew

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Syncing local SW depot to remote one

[Joe Marchak]

Hi,

I have a disk with the debian distributions on it which I would like
to automatically update from an ftp site.  Is there a good way
to do this?

Thanks,

-Joe.

Joe Marchak
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Unidentified subject!

[Wilson Tuma]

Hello

I need some clarifications on this issues from a previous mail

>> 3. Currently my system does not see my network card. what programs to can
I
>> get to help me atomatically dectect it.  Basically I have just the os
with
>> no packages. Can I do it manually ? How?

>Did you set up network support in the install process?

  Yes I did. Whey I boot the system it tell me something like

   SIOCADDRT Network unreacheble.
   eth 0 : unkown Device
   SIOCSIFBRDADDR operations not supported by device.

  The problems must be my NIC card. How do I go about reconfiguring it. So
it works.


>> 5. In dos you can have your current directory listed in the command
prompt
>> by doing prompt $p$g  what is the equivalent for linux.

>Add the following line to your .bash_profile:
>export PS1='\h:\w\$ '

sorry but I need to know where exactly .bash_profile is located and which
editor do I use to  edit it.  I tried the vi editor.  I show nothing and I
don't know the command to get out of it. Even control c  (^C) does not help.

Thanks.

wilson

Re: Anybody got wine to install on hamm?

[schulte]

According to Daniel Mashao:
> 
> I have a circular problem trying to install wine. Wine says it cannot
> install since libwine is not configured. Libwine would not install since
> wine is not configured. It is a case of chicken and egg. Any help?

Try: dpkg -i libwine*.deb wine*.deb
(in _one command_ as root in the directory where the packages are situated).

kws

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Re: mp3 player

[Michael Beattie]

> > I can't seem to find an mp3 player package, everything in sound seems to
> > be either mixers or wav players. Are there no takers or is it somehow
> > illegal?
> 
> For a text based mp3 player: mpg123 for debian is available. 
> 
> For an X based mp3 player: There are plenty, but x11amp is the one I like
> and using. It's avail. at : http://www.x11amp.ml.org. They have a debian
> package for it.

Which is in slink, BTW.

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Re: Samba

[Michael Beattie]

> I fiddled around with the network  and the message  
> about failing to bind went away.
> Samba seems to work - I can use it as a print server. However, I 
> am puzzled about why  don't see a smbd process running when
> enter 
>  ps -aux | grep smbd
> 
> If smbd is called by nmbd, then do I have to run it in the rc.d
> scripts as suggensted in documentation.


Is is running from inetd.conf? If so, then it will not show unless someone
is browsing your box on the network. Otherwise... Pass.

I do not see it either.. at startup:

Warning: Samba is not running as daemons. Daemons not restarted/stopped.
Daemons will start automatically by inetd. Use 'killall nmbd' and
'killall smbd' to stop the Samba daemons (they'll start again).

Do you get this?

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Re: losing 10s per day?

[Michael Beattie]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Shane Hynes wrote:

> Hi,
>   I've recently upgraded to Hamm and have started noticing
> that my clock is consistently losing 9.5 sec per day.  This wasn't
> happening under the bo release.  I update my clock with netdate
> daily so the the error isn't cumulative & isn't really a problem
> but it is curious.
> 
> Any ideas where I should look to find out what is happening?


My clock started to do strange things as my CMOS battery started to walk
out the door


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Re: Connecting to NT share via samba

[Michael Beattie]

> BTW, I'm fairly new to internet/Linux-speak; what's "IIRC"? (Sorry for my
> ignorance.)

IIRC = If I Remember Correctly.

IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
HTH  = Hope That Helps
RTFM = Read The F** Manual
FYI  = For Your Information
etc...

Get the "jargon" package.. has heaps of these.

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Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

[Christophe Broult]

aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At 07:06 PM 9/21/98 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I've just added more RAM on my old Pentium 100. Now I have 128 Mb of
> >RAM and as expected I'm experiencing a slowdown when a program is run
> >above the 64 Mb limit. I think that running programs in the first 64
> >Mb and using the upper 64 Mb as a swap area would be more efficient
> >because I would not experience as many performance penalties due to
> >cache problems and swapping in RAM should be a lot faster than
> >swapping on hard drive. Am I correct?
> 
> swapping to ram is bad..!! waste of memory, with 128MB of ram you should
> only be swapping VERY rarely anyways(I have 128M, and only swap after I
> have about 70-80 processes running including X, netscape, KDE etc).  If
> your using one of the 2.0.xx kernels you will have to tell LILO that you
> have more by using the append="mem=128M" (?) line in lilo.conf. As for
> slowdowns, there shouldnt be many noticable, i run on the TX chipset that
> also can only cache 64MB and have not noticed any slowdowns with apps
> loaded in the upper 64M. 
> 

Well with only 64 Mb of RAM I have a document that needs 6 minutes to
get compiled through LaTeX and when the 128 Mb are activated and the
LaTeX job is probably running in the upper 64 Mb it takes more than 7
mn 30 s to get it compiled. I can tell there is a major slowdown and
cache problem here:-( 
Anyway, as suggested in the mailing list I'll try to find the kernel
patch for 2.1.xxx that allows me to do swapping those upper 64 Mb of
RAM. 

Chris

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Re: Anybody got wine to install on hamm?

[A. M. Varon]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:

> I have a circular problem trying to install wine. Wine says it cannot
> install since libwine is not configured. Libwine would not install since
> wine is not configured. It is a case of chicken and egg. Any help?

Funny, wuz having that same problem/comments few hours ago... :)

Wine is installed, it's not just configured. What I did was: 

Run dselect and go to configure or just run dpkg --pending --configure 

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Anybody got wine to install on hamm?

[Daniel Mashao]

I have a circular problem trying to install wine. Wine says it cannot
install since libwine is not configured. Libwine would not install since
wine is not configured. It is a case of chicken and egg. Any help?

Problems with system locking up, and blank or garbled vid screens.

[Goofball]

    I just 
recently upgraded to a brand new sparkly AMD K6-2 300mhz CPU. This involved 
replacing the MotherBoard and RAM also. After doing so, I booted up to find that 
my Debian Linux was displaying garbled video, or just a plain blank screen. 
After a liitle experimentation, I decided that my video card was going shotty. I 
went and bought a brand spanking new ATI Xpert 98 AGP. Great Vid card. Too bad 
that it had the exact same display problems that my old cruddy S3 Virge was 
having. Thinking that it might be my monitor, I grabbed a dinky little one that 
I was using for testing, and behold, the problem was still there. Anyway, sorry 
about all the sarcasm, I am totally frustrated, and have narrowed the problem 
down to the MotherBoard that I bought. This e-mail is to find out what other 
Debian users are running a K6-2 on a 100mhz FSB, and what brand of MB they are 
using. I am currently using an EPoX 
EP-58MVP3C-M MotherBoard, 
64Megs PC100 memory and the CPU is clocked at it's rated 300mhz with a 100mhz 
FSB and a 3x multiplier. I was hoping to find someone out there who might 
suggest a different brand of 100mhz Super7 board for the K6-2 300mhz. Any input 
is greatly appreciated. I would prefer sugestions from people currently running 
a setup similar to mine, minus the MB, and with Debian "Hamm" 2.0 
running (X-Windows optional). 
 
Thanks,
 
J. Jones
 
PS: I have also had problems 
with the video on this board under Windoze 98, 95, and NT4.0. It is rated highly 
by everyone that has tested it but I suggest that you go with something else if 
you are looking for a 100mhz capable Socket7 board. It seems to have stability, 
untill you take it out of it's box and install it  
:o)

Re: Re Help

[M.C. Vernon]

> 2. I got the floppy mounted with the following command
> mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt one you do this you can only see the files
> in the diskette  that was mounted. Even when the diskette is changed.
>my question is once you mount a floppy and use it do you have to unmount
> it before you can change the floppy. If so what are the commands to use.

make sure you're not using the floppy (e.g. current dir is not /mnt) then
umount /mnt
 
> 3. Currently my system does not see my network card. what programs to can I
> get to help me atomatically dectect it.  Basically I have just the os with
> no packages. Can I do it manually ? How?

Did you set up network support in the install process?

> 5. In dos you can have your current directory listed in the command prompt
> by doing prompt $p$g  what is the equivalent for linux.

Add the following line to your .bash_profile:

export PS1='\h:\w\$ '

> 6. Can I install the packages which come with slackware version of linux to
> debian linux?.

Yes, but if you don't know what you are doing this may cause problems -
Slackware packages don't include dependancy checking. Most packages are
available as .debs, so I'd recommend using these.


HTH,

Matthew

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Re: One last chance

[Jens Ritter]

john mcpeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi all,
>  O.K. no one can write a driver for a network adapter to use the LPT in
> w95.  (I know I can't) This is what I want to do.  I want to plip some
> files from my win95 box(bob) to my
> Linux box(hal).  I was reading "Another FAT 32 question" and it sounds
> like I can install
> Debian to a FAT32 partition and boot it up from the dos prompt and not
> affect the hard drive or my win95 install at all. 

You can do it. See: 
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/linux/looproot.html#toc4

With 2.0 I have not found a way to trick the install program into
installing in a mounted loopback device. So you need to transfer a
rather huge file from you linux box now...

(I heard it is possible with the Debian 1.3.1 install program --- I
haven't tried yet).

>  I need to verify that
> before I continue because I have critical stuff on bob and can't afford
> to wreck the OS or files.  Then just to get it in before
> it comes up, get me started on NFS if that is within the realm of
> possibility.

Easiest permanent solution is to buy two cheap ne2000 compatibles
(around US$ 20 each here in Germany) and some cable.

Jens   

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Re: mp3 player

[Jens Ritter]

"D'jinnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I can't seem to find an mp3 player package, everything in sound seems to
> be either mixers or wav players. Are there no takers or is it somehow
> illegal?

They are in the non-free and contrib sections.

Look for mpg123 and x11amp (for example).

Jens
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Re: Hard drive woes...

[Jens Ritter]

Adam Lazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The fan on my power supply recently siezed up, I have since replaced
> it, but it was not working for 2 days without me noticing. This
> allowed my box to get HOT, and as a result my hard drive isn't too
> happy anymore... In my MS-DOS partition (have to use Visual Cafe for
> work) scandisk found several bad sectors, and has since corrected
> them (marked bad). I know there are bad sectors in my Linux partition,
> as when I try to use man for anything I get:
> 
> Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...
> gzip: /usr/man/man1/dumpkeys.1.gz: Input/output error
> 
> and the corresponding messages in /var/log/messages are:
> 
> Sep 21 18:39:00 LazC0M kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } 
> Sep 21 18:39:00 LazC0M kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=12253958, sector=3900158 
> Sep 21 18:39:00 LazC0M kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03,
> sector 3900158
> 
> I plan on scrapping this hard drive as it's progressively getting
> worse, but don't have the money for a new hard drive just yet. 
> 
> Is there any way to mark these sectors as 'bad' and limp it along
> further?

Unmount the partition (i.e. in case of the root partition: reboot with
the rescue disk --- note the name of the disk!) and run fsck on the
partition.

HTH,

Jens
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Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

[Jens Ritter]

Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> You need to load the isofs module.  Add the line 'isofs' (without
> ''s) to /etc/modules.  Make sure that usr/lib/modules/fs actually has
> this module file in there! (It should, it comes with the default setup).
> 
> 
>   I installed Debian 2.0 from a bootable cd. Everythinng went fine until
> I rebooted
> and began deselect. I received the message "fs type iso9660 not
> supported by kernal.
> I did not see any option to enable NLS or anything that mention iso9660
> file system.
> What do I need to do. If you can help please give detailed info.


This is the easy solution. 

You uncomment the "#auto" line in /etc/modules (remove the "#").
And have a look at /etc/conf.modules. 

Use "kdstat debug" to see which modules the system wants to have
inserted.

Jens
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Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 01:12:15PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> Christopher, I think the RAM/swap idea is a bad one.  More productive
> would be making your swap partition at least 128mb.  Then you can swap
> all of your memory.  (Although why you are swapping on 128mb is beyond
> me).  Also the 2.1.x series of kernels has done a LOT of work on large
> mem handling.  Try a newer kernel and see of that helps.

I think you missed the point -- the RAM above 64mb is slow enough
to be unusable for normal RAM work. Using it for swap lets you make
some use of it; it'll be much faster than disk.


Hamish
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Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 12:44:06PM -0500, Ryan King wrote:
> Okay, I took a closer look at the partition table, and, you were right...
> WinNT DID switch hda3 (my main) with hda2 (my swap).

Odd, but perhaps they were in that order on the disk.

> First of all, it said "VFS: Mounted root (ex2 filesystem) readonly"

That's normal.

> activating swap...
> Unable to find swap-space signature
> 
> then it said the following about 30 times:
> ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only 4096-charblocks implemented (1024)

That's normal, it's trying to look for your swap on the root partition.

Boot it up with something like "linux emergency root=/dev/hda2",
change the root partition to read-write with

mount -n -o remount,rw /

edit /etc/fstab to have swap on /dev/hda3, / on /dev/hda2, 
change the root back to read-only with

mount -n -o remount,ro /

then 

reboot

and it should be fixed.


Hamish
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Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 11:42:43AM -0400, Frederic Breitwieser wrote:
> same results.  When NT's disk administrator trys to "play" with the hard
> drive, irregardless of how "safe" is says it is, its writes something to
> the boot sector to "identify" the drive to disk manager.  It messes up the
> table just enough that Linux can't access all the low-level information
> stored in that sector, thus you get the panic situation.

Works fine here.


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Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:38:36AM -0500, Matt Garman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:43:13AM -0500, Ryan King wrote:
> > I installed Debian Linux (and am very happy with it), and was working on
> > getting Lilo to give me dual-boot options between it and my current
> > WindowsNT O/S.
> 
> An extremely delicate procedure, Windows NT gets moody when you share
> you system with another OS.

Wow. I've been running NT for over a year and Debian for even longer;
NT is far more accepting than 95 in my opinion. I've never had the Disk
Administrator mark my partitions for death, either. I think a bit of
care and understanding is required, and that's a reasonable enough
requirement IMHO.


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Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-"Ryan King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| When I say "didn't work" I mean I get the error:
| Unable to find swap-space signature
| ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only 4096-charblocks implemented (1024)
| ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only 4096-charblocks implemented (1024)
| ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only 4096-charblocks implemented (1024)
| ...(ad infinitum, (ad nauseum))...
| 
| Have I exhausted all hope yet?

Device 03:02 is /dev/hda2. Wasn't /dev/hda3 your swap partition
(or is my memory just too bad :-)? If so, check /etc/fstab and
see if you have a line something like:
/dev/hda2   noneswapsw  0   0

If you have, change it to /dev/hda3 instead.

You have done 'mkswap /dev/hda3', right?

Just guessing...
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Re: Shared Lib problem

[technical]

The saga continues,

Switching to netscape to try and resolve this.

> >Apperantly you didn't use the installer packages provided for these.

I got that and used it to install netscape 4.03
(setenv TMPDIR ; dpkg -i netscape4_4.0-12.deb)
followed dependencies etc etc

No joy, it still SEGVs.  Stacktrace was unhelpful.

gecko.rex% pwd
/usr/lib/netscape 

gecko.rex% ldd netscape
/lib/nfslock.so.0 => /lib/nfslock.so.0 (0x4000d000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000f000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40057000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4006)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40075000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40087000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40095000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400a1000)
libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40144000)
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40147000)
libg++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 (0x40207000)
libstdc++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.27 (0x4023f000)
libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4027c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40284000)
ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40329000)
libstdc++.so.2.7.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 (0x40335000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40372000)

gecko.rex% ls -l /lib/libc.so.5 /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.27 
/lib/libm.so.5 /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 
/lib/libm.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   11 Aug 28 08:07 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> 
ld-2.0.7.so*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 Sep 17 09:03 /lib/libc.so.5 -> 
libc.so.5.4.46*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 Aug 28 08:07 /lib/libc.so.6 -> 
libc-2.0.7.so*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 Sep 16 17:12 /lib/libm.so.5 -> 
libm.so.5.0.9*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 Aug 28 08:07 /lib/libm.so.6 -> 
libm-2.0.7.so*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 Aug 31 20:15 /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 -> 
libg++.so.2.7.2.8
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   20 Aug 31 19:41 
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 -> libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   20 Aug 31 20:16 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.27 
-> libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8


> >You don't have all the libc5 libraries these programs require installed.

Yes, i do,

> >Using the installer packages would have taken care of that.

No, it didn't.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers, Rex