Help on Intel PRO/100+ PCI Ethernet board

[Javaherian, Benjamin]

Any idea where I can get the driver for this board?
It is based on Intel 82558 controller.

Thanks,
Benjamin

Re: Thoughts about winmodems

[Kent West]

At 05:01 PM 5/6/1999 -0400, Mitch Blevins wrote:
>In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
>> Somewhat off-topic, but perhaps applicable
>> 
>> If a modem is a device for MOdulating/DEModulation,
>> and a "winmodem" turns that job over to the software (Windows),
>> is that not grounds for a class-action fraud suit against winmodem
>> manufacturers for marketing them as modems (modulator/demodulators)?
>> 
>> Or are winmodems really doing the mod/demod and Windows just does other
>> necessary processing?
>
>I bought a big, plastic, insulated box the other day.  It was clearly
>marked as a "Cooler".  Imagine my surprise when I found out that it
>needed ice to actually do the cooling.
>
>Perhaps we can expand your class-action suit to include these evil
>manufacturers.
>
>-Mitch

Aah, but "fraud" implies "intent to deceive".

Ask the average picnic-er if a "cooler" will work without ice, and he will
answer "No"; in other words, the average user of a cooler is not deceived
by the name "cooler". On the other hand, ask the average modem user if a
modem will work without Windows, and you'll get a significant number who
answer "Yes" (just ask the many converts to Linux who believe a modem
should work with their new OS); in other words, the modem user who knows
enough to know there ARE other OSes is deceived into thinking a modem is a
modem.

But I liked your response; made me think

BTW, I don't plan on filing any lawsuits; it was just one of those
late-night thoughts. Now I'll quit wasting bandwidth  :-)

ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?

[Debian Mail]

Once (Debien 1.3.1) I could use my ZIP drive by saying 

rmmod lp
insmod scsi_mod
insmod sd_mod
insmod ppa

After I installed Debian 2.0, ppa.o was not there any more. Now I
installed kernel 2.2.5. So ppa.o is there again, but not the other two
modules above. If I just say

insmod ppa

I get:

/lib/modules/2.2.5/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

(but I did a rmmod lp first...)

How does it work for kernel 2.2?

Stef

Re: gshutdown

[Havoc Pennington]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Robert Kerr wrote:
> I'm using gnome with enlightenment, and I'd like to add the gshutdown to
> my panel.  I've added it successfully, changed gshutdown to setuid root,

You should know that this is a *huge* security hole. You're welcome to
have such a hole if your system doesn't need to be secure of course, but
you should know you have it.

> only the superuser can shutdown the system.  I've changed /sbin/shutdown
> to setuid root also.  Can anyone shed some light?

Yeah, gshutdown checks to see if you're root and it shouldn't. I wrote
gshutdown, but someone else added this patch; I don't think it's correct.
I'll fix it upstream and it will be fixed in some future version. For now
you have to be root. If you file a bug against the Debian package, the
Debian maintainer may see fit to apply a Debian-specific patch in a
shorter timeframe.

In the future, the correct way to set it up will be to either have the
right to run /sbin/shutdown, or use a graphical su utility such as 'gsu'
(which exists but isn't in the default Gnome build due to security
concerns).  gshutdown really shouldn't be suid root.

Thanks for reminding me about this.

Havoc

Re: Rescue disk's cfdisk reports HDD is corrupt

[Nathan E Norman]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, BOHICA wrote:

[ snip ]

 : Problem:
 : On running install.bat from DOS (512Mb FAT partition), I cannot get
 : cfdisk to run successfully.  The error message reports that "THE
 : PARTITION IS CORRUPT!" and then offers to wipe the partition table for
 : me and start over - not exactly the best choice option for me.
 : 
 : Question:
 : Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be causing the error?
 : Has this been seen before and I missed the post?

cfdisk seems to have issues with empty or "weird" partition tables, and
you've got a very large IDE disk, so it's probably confused.  Use fdisk
instead.

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Rescue disk's cfdisk reports HDD is corrupt

[BOHICA]

I've done searches at the list archive and FAQ-O-MATIC for similar
problems, but it would seem I've found a new one.

System Config:
IBM PC 300PL
368Mb RAM
10Mb IDE HDD, 512Mb FAT, 3092 NTFS, remainder unpartitioned
Windows NT 4 SP5 (required for RealWork(tm))

Goal:
Install Debian on the unpartitioned region of the disk and modify
boot.ini to run bootsect.lnx as an option. (Which I have done on several
other machines without any difficulty.)

Problem:
On running install.bat from DOS (512Mb FAT partition), I cannot get
cfdisk to run successfully.  The error message reports that "THE
PARTITION IS CORRUPT!" and then offers to wipe the partition table for
me and start over - not exactly the best choice option for me.

Question:
Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be causing the error?
Has this been seen before and I missed the post?

Or is this a bug report for the maintainer/upstream developer?

TIA,

- BOHICA

Where is ppa.o?

[Debian Mail]

> 1. mount -o loop -t msdos drv1440.bin /mnt 
> 2. find modules.tgz... ppa.o is there.

Zu frueh gefreut: There is no module called ppa.o in modules.tgz for
Debian 2.0 with kernel 2.0.34...

Stef

Re: ftpd and nis

[Michel Kaempf]

On Mon, May 03, 1999, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> I have a problem with ftp to debian when it is configured to use nis.
> 
> Everything works OK as long as I have a normal user entry in /etc/passwd
> but when I take the user account infomation from nis fptd wont allow the
> user to connect. Telnet and other stuff works so its related only to
> ftpd I think.

What is your ftp server ? If your ftp server is proftpd, you have to add
the following line to /etc/proftpd.conf in order to have proftpd work
with NIS passwords :

PersistentPasswd off

Maybe there is something similar to add to the other ftp servers
configuration file...

-- 
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Re: Sportster Voice (Re: PPP problems)

[Remco van 't Veer]

Yes please, I would appreciate it very much.  Thanks.

Regards,
Remco


On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 16:30, Jonathan J. Lupa wrote:

> Remco,
> 
> I have successfully used vgetty and mgetty to do fax, voice,  and
> DTMF recognition on my non-Debian gateway.  Unfortunately, I had to
> hand-patch the code a little to get the handset features working
> with my Sportster 33.6 F/V. I doubt those fixes have made it into
> the Debian packages, and if that is the case, you will have to hand
> compile it.
> 
> If you are still interested, email me and I can send you my scripts,
> and where I patched the code (I snarked it off of the mgetty
> newsgroups a few months back).
> 
> Pax,
>  Jonathan
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Re: Thoughts about winmodems

[Mitch Blevins]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Somewhat off-topic, but perhaps applicable
> 
> If a modem is a device for MOdulating/DEModulation,
> and a "winmodem" turns that job over to the software (Windows),
> is that not grounds for a class-action fraud suit against winmodem
> manufacturers for marketing them as modems (modulator/demodulators)?
> 
> Or are winmodems really doing the mod/demod and Windows just does other
> necessary processing?

I bought a big, plastic, insulated box the other day.  It was clearly
marked as a "Cooler".  Imagine my surprise when I found out that it
needed ice to actually do the cooling.

Perhaps we can expand your class-action suit to include these evil
manufacturers.

-Mitch

crypt ???

[kvaughan]

Got a package which is encrypted ... "crypt" (as mentioned in the docs for
unraveling it) does not exist.  I can't find a package called crypt but saw one
which integrates into Emacs (if that will even do what I'm looking for).  I
naturally don't have (nor really want) Emacs installed, but if this is the Only 
way to do
things 

Noted the man page for crypt(3) from apropos, but that's a programmer's
issue, it seems.

Is there something simple I can do to undo this file?

Thanks for any help!

Kenward Vaughan

Re: X internal error

[Fernando T C Brandt]

On Mon, 3 May 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:

> On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 09:08:26AM -0300, 
>Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt  wrote:
> > My /var/log/xdm.log is full of the following lines:
> > 
> > X internal error: trying to rotate odd-sized pixmap.
> > 
> > I suspect that this has something to do with one of the
> > screensavers in the xscreensaver program. 
> > 
> > Because of this problem, sometimes my /var partition 
> > (which has about 100MB) becomes completly full.
> >  
> > Has anyone had a simmilar problem?
> 
> See if you can narrow it down to a particular mode in xscreensaver, and
> file a bug against xscreensaver.
> 
> In the meantime, you could always use xlock :)

In fact I realize that I am NOT using xscreensaver.  
I am using the xlock program (xlockmore-gl 4.12-4).  
The buggy mode is "world". 
My /var/lib/gnome/Debian/Screen/Lock/Space/World.desktop is:  

[Desktop Entry]
Name=World 
Comment=World 
Exec=xlock -remote -nice 19 -mode world
Terminal=0
Type=Application

I am running Debian slink and xdm3.3.2.3a-11


   Fernando T. C. Brandt

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Re: Sendmail for dial-up

[weim0404]

   Do you have a fully qualified domain name setup? That is a major cause for 
sendmail 
hanging on dialup accounts. Your /etc/hosts file should look something like 
this:
127.0.0.1   localhost
x.x.x.x host.domain.com   host

Where x.x.x.x is your ip address or a guess of what it might be if you have a 
dynamic ip on dialup.
/etc/hosname should only contain the host entry not the entire host.domain.com 
entry.
For further help with sendmail on a dialup take a look at the 
Sendmail-Adress-rewrite howto.

Doug 

>> I'm using Potato with the latest sendmail.  Everything works except for one
>> annoyance:  when the daemon is first ran, and anytime anyone sends mail, it
>> takes an extremely long time.  This is a dial-up machine, so it doesn't have
>> it's own actual domain.  A long time ago, I had configured sendmail, using
>> sendmailconfig, so that it worked just fine without these extremely long
>> pauses or spawning of extra sendmail processes just to send mail.
>> 
>> Any suggestions for the best way to configure sendmail for a dial-up box?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Randal
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Re: PPP problems

[Kent West]

At 01:18 PM 5/6/1999 -0100, aco wrote:
>Recently , I installed Debian GNU/Linux , 2.1 release ,on i-386
>architecture but , I notyfied , that  configuring my PPP conection using
>'pppconfig' utility was not 
>succesful. When I start 'pon' , my modem 'USR Sportster Voice' ,doesn't
>start dialing to my ISP server.I am new in Linux , so I'm asking help
>from kind Debian users.

Internal or external? If external, you can be almost certain it's not a
winmodem. If it's external or jumpered, make sure you know what IRQ, etc
it's using. If it's internal and not jumpered or if it's PnP, see what
settings Windows uses (I assume you still have Windows on this box), and
then use those settings in Linux.

RE: Sportster Voice (Re: PPP problems)

[Jonathan J. Lupa]

Remco,

I have successfully used vgetty and mgetty to do fax, voice,  and DTMF 
recognition on my non-Debian gateway.  Unfortunately, I had to hand-patch the 
code a little to get the handset features working with my Sportster 33.6 F/V. I 
doubt those fixes have made it into the Debian packages, and if that is the 
case, you will have to hand compile it.

If you are still interested, email me and I can send you my scripts, and where 
I patched the code (I snarked it off of the mgetty newsgroups a few months 
back).

Pax,
 Jonathan
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On Thursday, May 06, 1999 3:56 PM, Remco van 't Veer 
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It should be able to recognize pulse tone commands from the caller.
> That's something I'd like to play around with.
>
> About two years ago I looked at voice-0.6 which is ready to with a
> Rockwell modem.  But it isn't ready to go with the Sportster.  I had a
> hard time testing it since I have only one phone line which was my
> only way to the Internet.
>
> Can you tell me what software you use and what changes you made to the
> configuration files?
>
> Regards,
> Remco
>
>
> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:37, Paul McDermott wrote:
>
> > Hi there, I got the modem to work with those "nifty" features.  BTW what
> > are those "nifty" features?  I got my voice part to work. where my
> > computer acts as an answering machine.  If you want help let me know and I
> > can see what I can do.
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Remco van 't Veer wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 10:37, Kirk Hogenson wrote:
> >
> > > aco wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Recently , I installed Debian GNU/Linux , 2.1 release ,on i-386
> > > > architecture but , I notyfied , that  configuring my PPP conection
> > > > using 'pppconfig' utility was not succesful. When I start 'pon' , my
> > > > modem 'USR Sportster Voice' ,doesn't start dialing to my ISP server.I
> > > > am new in Linux , so I'm asking help from kind Debian users.
> > >
> > > I have a friend who is using what I *think* is a USR Sportster Voice,
> > > and he hasn't got it working yet.  So, you *might* have a modem that
> > > is difficult to get working in Linux, but hopefully not impossible.
> >
> > I'm using a USR Sportster Voice modem to make PPP connections and had
> > no problems getting it to work.  It's no different from any other USR
> > modem apart from some nifty features.  I'm not using any of these
> > features and assume they are hard to get working on Linux.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Remco
>
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Thoughts about winmodems

[Kent West]

Somewhat off-topic, but perhaps applicable

If a modem is a device for MOdulating/DEModulation,
and a "winmodem" turns that job over to the software (Windows),
is that not grounds for a class-action fraud suit against winmodem
manufacturers for marketing them as modems (modulator/demodulators)?

Or are winmodems really doing the mod/demod and Windows just does other
necessary processing?

Just a thought

can't login after package installation

[Werner Reisberger]

I tried to install TCL on my machine (hamm) but had to install first
libreadline and libncurses. I made a fault and tried to install first
libreadline (with dpkg) the package complained that libncurses are required
first. 

After this installation attempt I wasn't able to login anymore (with
telnet). The login processes finishes before the prompt is displayed with 
the following error message:

  You have mail.
  -bash: error in loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot open
  shared object file: No such file or directory

Since I can't login I  cannot install libncurses or remove libreadline :[
There seems to be a bug in the libreadline debian package. If some other
package is required first the package shouldn't make any changes to the
system.

I didn't tried to login on the console yet since the machine is remote but
I suspect the login process will also kick me out. Could someone give me
a hint how to fix this this problem? I only have a boot disk (prepared by 
copying the kernel) and the debian rescue disk. I suspect I need a real
boot disk with an own root file system on it.

-Werner

CDROM seen as floppy during install

[Larry Loreman]

Debian 2.0 installation recognizes my CDROM drive as a floppy.

The message:

NEC CDROM Drive,260 ATAPI CDROM or Floppy? Assume floppy

Can this be adjusted from the shell level, or am I stuck trying
to do the install from floppies?

I get the same error if I boot DOS and boot from the CD, or
boot from the installation floppy.

System Background
Gateway P5-60 non bootable CDROM :-(
Quantum 3.2 GB disk (master)
WD 540MB disk (slave)
NEC CDROM
Floppy
Debian 2.0

Thanks

Larry Loreman
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Re: PCI Soundblaster card?

[Andrew Holmes]

Hi,

Thanks, I'm using 2.2.0, so I'll recompile and keep my fingers crossed.

Thanks for the info

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Dead symlinks - where are they coming from?

[William R Pentney]

When I installed the gtk 1.2 packages from the GNOME slink staging area,
I got the following message:

cannot open libgmodule.so: No such file or directory

and likewise for libgtop and libgthread. These are symlinks which point
to nonexistent libraries. There are new versions of the libraries there,
but they don't point to them.

I was advised to reinstall GTK and GNOME, but it didn't work. They're
still there. Might they be causing problems? I don't get any errors, but
GNOME is running very slowly.

- thanks, Bill

Sportster Voice (Re: PPP problems)

[Remco van 't Veer]

It should be able to recognize pulse tone commands from the caller.
That's something I'd like to play around with.

About two years ago I looked at voice-0.6 which is ready to with a
Rockwell modem.  But it isn't ready to go with the Sportster.  I had a
hard time testing it since I have only one phone line which was my
only way to the Internet.

Can you tell me what software you use and what changes you made to the
configuration files?

Regards,
Remco


On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:37, Paul McDermott wrote:

> Hi there, I got the modem to work with those "nifty" features.  BTW what
> are those "nifty" features?  I got my voice part to work. where my
> computer acts as an answering machine.  If you want help let me know and I
> can see what I can do.
> Paul
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 May 1999, Remco van 't Veer wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 10:37, Kirk Hogenson wrote:
> 
> > aco wrote:
> > > 
> > > Recently , I installed Debian GNU/Linux , 2.1 release ,on i-386
> > > architecture but , I notyfied , that  configuring my PPP conection 
> > > using 'pppconfig' utility was not succesful. When I start 'pon' , my 
> > > modem 'USR Sportster Voice' ,doesn't start dialing to my ISP server.I 
> > > am new in Linux , so I'm asking help from kind Debian users.
> > 
> > I have a friend who is using what I *think* is a USR Sportster Voice,
> > and he hasn't got it working yet.  So, you *might* have a modem that
> > is difficult to get working in Linux, but hopefully not impossible.
> 
> I'm using a USR Sportster Voice modem to make PPP connections and had
> no problems getting it to work.  It's no different from any other USR
> modem apart from some nifty features.  I'm not using any of these
> features and assume they are hard to get working on Linux.
> 
> Regards,
> Remco


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Compaq Elite 4/75

[Ted Harding]

Hi all,

Anyone out there using Linux on a

   Compaq Elite 4/75 model laptop

especially with

Graphics: WD 24A

who would be willing to get in touch with a friend of mine about X
problems?

With thanks,
Ted.


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Date: 06-May-99   Time: 19:08:04
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bash weirdness under potato?

[Bob Billson]

I did a fresh install of slink.  The installation is pretty complete as
far as the number of packages go.  I configured everything the way I
wanted.  I worked very well!  (Nice job Debian developers!!)

Since I don't mind living on the bleeding edge with this particular
machine, I decided to upgrade to potato.  After that, bash started 
acting flaky.  

I can login and run any program I want; that works just fine. However, if
I have the shell prompt and, say, try to use tab completion, bash will
just die (no core dumps).  I will be left looking at the 'login:' prompt.
It also dies if I am typing in a long path and don't use tab completion at
all.  And it dies randomly, too.  I can just login and do nothing more
after some random amount of time (< 5 minutes), I'm logged out.

bash is acting almost it's environment variable TMOUT is set, but that
doesn't seem to be the case.  It is possible there is something weird
about my machine (AMD 486/133 with 36 MB).  However, that is not likely.
This machine is up 24/7 and normally is running Red Hat v5.2 (installed on
a separate partition).  Never a sign of flakiness.  Slink also was very
stable in over a week of running.  Does anyone have any ideas what is
going on?

   bob
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2.2 kernel under slink?

[Bob Billson]

I have a machine with a fresh install of Slink.  (This is *not* the same
machine in my previous message which has the bash weirdness under potato.)
I have been running the 2.2 kernel on a Red Hat v5.2 machine for the last
few months.  I want to do the same on the new Debian machine.

I looked on Debian's web page and found the 'gotchas' about running 2.2 on
Slink.  Unfortunately, the instructions seem a bit dated.  I guess they
were written before potato switched to glibc2.1.  dpkg now complains about
needing glibc2.1 when I tried to install the needed packages from potato.

Upgrading from 2.0.x to 2.2.x kernels only needs upgrading only of other
bits of software (i.e. modutils, procps, ipchains, etc.).  I have no
problem doing this manually.  My question is will I break Slink by going
this route?  If so, is there a more proper way?

Sorry if this is a FAQ, but the info on Debian page no longer seems
accurate.  Thanks for the help.

bob
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Re: Strange things happening

[Jens Ritter]

Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Last night everything worked ok - printing too.  Today I could not print.
> I get the following 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED](20)$ lpq
> waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
  

Well? 

> Rank   Owner  Job  Files Total Size
> 1stjhspies314  (standard input)  110621 bytes
> 2ndjhspies315  (standard input)  9 bytes

What does status issued in lpc give?
Is there an active server?

Which printing daemon do you use? lpr or lprng?

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Newbie cd installation problems

[Paul Walton]

I`ve been a Windows user up to now so please 
excuse my ignorance.
I`m trying to install Debian 2.1 from the 
"Official" Binary- i386 CD. My computer, a 486 with 2 hard drives, a 
floppy and a CD drive wouldn`t boot CDs so I started the the installation from 
DOS, fine.
Things went well until I got to the stage 
"Install Operating System Kernel and Modules"
Seems whichever device I select for the CDROM 
returns the message "The CD-ROM was not mounted 
successfully"  
 I`ve looked at the ttty3 terminal and hda 
and hdb give the message "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock 
on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems"
hdc and hdd give the message "mount: the 
kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device (`maybe insmod 
driver`?)
The SCSI option just brings up the "No SCSI 
Adapter" screen.
All other options give the message "mount: 
special  device /dev/cdrom does not exist"
 
To make matters worse this is a spare PC bought 
cheaply so I have no real idea of any of the hardware specifications, and no 
Windows OS to check them on.
I really would like to escape from Microsoft so 
any help would be much appreciated.
 
 
Paul Walton

xset broke my monitor!?!

[Per-Olof Widstrom]

I tried the different powersaving modes of xset, but after I tried the
suspend option
my monitor just show a very thin bright vertical line. The line is width
is no wider then 1-4 pixels.
To accomplish this I first tested the off mode: `xset +dpms dpms 0 0 1`,
worked fine,
and the standby mode ` xset +dpms dpms 1 0 0`, also worked fine,
and the suspend mode: ` xset +dpms dpms 0 1 0` after I "woke" the monitor
the thin line was there, that is how I did it.

What I would like to know is if my monitor is completely damage or if it
is possible to fix it.
Has anyone done this and been able to fix their monitor again?
Is my monitor just garbage or can I, or someone else, mend it somehow?




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Contact me? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
visit http://www.big.du.se/~pow/contact_page.html

Re: PCI Soundblaster card?

[Remco van 't Veer]

Hi,

You need to use es1370 or es1371 (I am not sure) to get it working,
it is a AudioPCI card.  I last tried this on with a 2.2.1 kernel,
which gave me partial support.  mpg123 worked but saytime did not, or
vice versa..  The current stable 2.2 might do better..

Regards,
Remco


On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 18:24, Andrew Holmes wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm probabily missing the obvious here but is it possaible to use a
> Soundblaster AWE64 PCI soundcard. I have read in the docs that the
> AWE64 is supported by Linux, but I can't seem to make it work and I
> can't find any mention about wether the PCI bus makes a difference.
> I managed to get an SB16 ISA PnP card to work on another machine.
> But the PCI card is driving me nuts. I can find the interupt and IO
> range from NT (Dual boot machine)!
> 
> Any information would be greatly appreciated! Is there a web page
> about this somewhere, I can't seem to find much in the sound, or AWE
> howtos. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
> 
> -- 
> Andy Holmes
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> "The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own
> satanic herd!", Edmund Blackadder


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Re: Strange things happening: solution found - cause not determined

[Johann Spies]

To reply to my own mail earlier today:

I experienced problems to print and to read my dos partition and cdrom. 

The latter I solved by modconf and tonight I suspected maybe the lp module
was not running.  Activating it by modconf solved the printing problem.

I still do not know what caused my system to lose the modules between
yesterday and today without me tampering with any configuration issues in
between.

About all I can think about is that I upgraded my exim to slink last night
and it required me to install an additional library with the name of
libident.  Could that have caused this problems?

Johann

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  peaceably with all men."Romans 12:18 

Re: printing permissions?

[Johann Spies]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Ian Peters wrote:

> 
> cat /tmp/r > /dev/lp1

[EMAIL PROTECTED](2)$ cat /tmp/r > /dev/lp1
bash: /dev/lp1: Operation not supported by device


> I don't know why lpr isn't working for you; you sure /dev/lp1 is
> correct?  Did you recently change to a 2.2.x kernel?

No.  I am using the same 2.0.34 I have been using for the past 6 months.

Johann
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RES: X server crash.

[Leandro Dutra]

> 1. hsync in kHz: I choose 31.5: standard VGA, 640x480 @ 60 
> Hz, as mine is 
> a 640x480 STN LCD capable of 256 colors (although the manual 
> says it can 
> use external VGA monitor of three types (640x480, 31.5kHz; 900x600, 
> 35.5kHz for 256 colors; 1024x768, 35.5kHz for 256 colors).

External VGA is not the issue, with LCD displays usually the
limitator is the panel, not the VGA interface.


> 2. vertical sync range: here's the puzzle.  I have no idea 
> what to do.  I 
> chose 50-70, 50-90, 50-100, none worked so far.
> 
> 3. identifier for monitor definition: no clue what to do.
> 
> 4. vendor name of monitor: CTX, I suppose.
> 
> 5. model name of monitor: no clue what to do.
> 
> 6. server: I choose XF86_VGA server.
> 
> 8. video card definition: no idea.
> 
> 9. vendor name of video card: no idea.
> 
> 10. model name of video card: no idea.

It seems you really need to know about you video card... X really
really wants to know about it.

You can read your notebook's manual, or search places like the
HOW-TOs or the notebook links in http://www.linux.org./ in order to discover
something about your video; or even go to debian-laptop and ask about it.


Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Amdocs (Brasil) Ltda

RES: Estou preparando uma revista

[Leandro Dutra]

> > A Debian e' muito superior a RH. Ano podemos continuar 
> assistindo
> > essa palhaçada da Conectiva.
> 
>   Tá aqui a minha justificativa por topar fazer até 
> gratuitamente. Não
> agüento mais escutar falar em Linux e escutar o nome RedHat!!!, muito
> menos Conectiva!!!

Tá bom, agora me expliquem por que essa bronca toda.


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Amdocs (Brasil) Ltda

gshutdown

[Robert Kerr]

I'm using gnome with enlightenment, and I'd like to add the gshutdown to
my panel.  I've added it successfully, changed gshutdown to setuid root,
and when I type gshutdown in a window I get the nice shutdown confirmation
dialog.  But, when I click on the gshutdown button, I get the message that
only the superuser can shutdown the system.  I've changed /sbin/shutdown
to setuid root also.  Can anyone shed some light?
Thanks

-bob

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PCI Soundblaster card?

[Andrew Holmes]

Hi all,

I'm probabily missing the obvious here but is it possaible to use a
Soundblaster AWE64 PCI soundcard. I have read in the docs that the AWE64 is
supported by Linux, but I can't seem to make it work and I can't find any
mention about wether the PCI bus makes a difference. I managed to get an
SB16 ISA PnP card to work on another machine. But the PCI card is driving me
nuts. I can find the interupt and IO range from NT (Dual boot machine)!

Any information would be greatly appreciated! Is there a web page about
this somewhere, I can't seem to find much in the sound, or AWE howtos. Thanks
for taking the time to read this.

-- 
Andy Holmes

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic 
herd!", Edmund Blackadder

Re: msgfmt

[Luis M. Garcia]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 03:40:14PM +0200, Krosigk, Lorenz Von wrote:
> I'm trying to compile the version 1.1 of KDE using the makefiles that came
> with the tar.gz files i'm using. In the case of kdebase the make is looking
> for a program called MSGFMT. But that's not installed and I don't find it in
> dselect. Does anybody know what program this is and where I find it?
>  Thanks in beforehand
> Lorenz

Try in "devel/gettext"

Regards.

Re: Newbie Question: PPP

[wolfgang zeikat]

for help about compiling your kernel and thus
adjusting your linux system to your needs see:

http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html

good success!

wolfgang


--- "R.Feenstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running Debian 2.1 Slink since one week and now
> I'm trying to get
> my ISDN card to work.Installed isdnutils.
> The first problem i run into is when i give the
> command pon I get the
> response :
> /usr/bin/pppd:This system lacks kernel support for
> PPP.
> This could be because the PPPkernelmodule is not
> loaded,or because the
> kernel is not configured for PPP.
> 
> My question : How can I configure the kernel for PPP
> and load the module ?
> Please step by step advice because I'm a real newbie
> in this.
> I'll apreciate any help.
> 
> Rene
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: slink and netscape/mozilla

[Jerry Gardner]

Ray writes:
 > Netscape and Mozilla are DIFFERENT things.  Netscape is release level
 > software and for most of us works fairly well (aside from being a memory

The difference isn't as clear-cut as you may think. Every version of
Netscape that I've ever used (and this goes back to prior to v1.0)
has a readme file that has this in it:

 * And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."

Although not as common as it used to be, Netscape is sometimes called
Mozilla.

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My X just went bananas!

[Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe]

Hi

I had to restart my X (wicg was running for a few days) and now i can't
get it to start (more on this in a while).

I ran strace on xinit and the result was the file ola.txt wicg I attach.
My .xinitrc looks like :

xset fp+ unix/:7101 &
exec esd&
exec enlightenment &

It just stops... The strange part is that if I rename .xinitrc and do
startx it still doesn't work but with xinit it does (no window manager
and a shell window).

I'm running slink and i haven't installed anything in weeks!

Thanks
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http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnfexecve("/usr/bin/X11/xinit", ["xinit"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0
brk(0)  = 0x804b6a8
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)  = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=15739, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 15739, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4000c000
close(4)= 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 4
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4001
munmap(0x4001, 4096)= 0
mmap(0, 72164, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4001
mprotect(0x4002, 6628, PROT_NONE)   = 0
mmap(0x4002, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, 0xf000) 
= 0x4002
close(4)= 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 4
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40022000
munmap(0x40022000, 4096)= 0
mmap(0, 292856, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40022000
mprotect(0x40066000, 14328, PROT_NONE)  = 0
mmap(0x40066000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, 
0x43000) = 0x40066000
close(4)= 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 4
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4006a000
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x4006b000
munmap(0x4006a000, 4096)= 0
mmap(0, 33568, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4006c000
mprotect(0x40073000, 4896, PROT_NONE)   = 0
mmap(0x40073000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, 0x6000) 
= 0x40073000
close(4)= 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 4
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4006a000
munmap(0x4006a000, 4096)= 0
mmap(0, 84512, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40075000
mprotect(0x40087000, 10784, PROT_NONE)  = 0
mmap(0x40087000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, 0x11000) 
= 0x40087000
mmap(0x40088000, 6688, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40088000
close(4)= 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 4
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4006a000
munmap(0x4006a000, 4096)= 0
mmap(0, 45384, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4008a000
mprotect(0x40094000, 4424, PROT_NONE)   = 0
mmap(0x40094000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, 0x9000) 
= 0x40094000
close(4)= 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 4
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4006a000
munmap(0x4006a000, 4096)= 0
mmap(0, 666796, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40096000
mprotect(0x40134000, 19628, PROT_NONE)  = 0
mmap(0x40134000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, 
0x9d000) = 0x40134000
close(4)= 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 4
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4006a000
munmap(0x4006a000, 4096)= 0
mmap(0, 673220, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40139000
mprotect(0x401cb000, 75204, PROT_NONE)  = 0
mmap(0x401cb000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, 
0x91000) = 0x401cb000
mmap(0x401d2000, 46532, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x401d2000
close(4)= 0
munmap(0x4000c000, 15739)   = 0
personality(PER_LINUX)  = 0
getpid()= 13051
access("/usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/mjnf/.xinitrc", F_OK) = 0
access("/home/mjnf/.xserverrc", F_OK)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
brk(0)  = 0x804b6a8
brk(0x804b750)  = 0x804b750
brk(0x804c000)  = 0x804c000
sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
sigaction(SIGQUIT, {0x8048b40, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8048b40, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x8048b40, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x8048b40, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8048b90, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
sigaction(SIGUSR1, {0x8048bb0, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0

Printer and stuff

[Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy]

I tried to print, and paragraphs got tabs before it, like this:


3
Understand? How can I take them out? I need also to configure Linux to
connect to the Internet with an ISDN card. What should I do first? (Already
installed every package for ISDN and Linux recognizes it but in the
beggining while loading modules and stuff it says I still need to configure
3 files at /isdn/ I think.) Is there any document, how-to that explains this
kind of things to me? I know I installed a newbie package but I don't know
where it is located or how can I read the file. HELP!!!

Regards,
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Re: PPP problems

[Kirk Hogenson]

Remco van 't Veer wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 10:37, Kirk Hogenson wrote:
> 
> > I have a friend who is using what I *think* is a USR Sportster Voice,
> > and he hasn't got it working yet.  So, you *might* have a modem that
> > is difficult to get working in Linux, but hopefully not impossible.
> 
> I'm using a USR Sportster Voice modem to make PPP connections and had
> no problems getting it to work.  It's no different from any other USR
> modem apart from some nifty features.  I'm not using any of these
> features and assume they are hard to get working on Linux.

Well, that's a relief!  It must be something else we have set up wrong,
then (or I'm remembering his modem model incorrectly).

Thanks for the info!

Kirk

Re: unable to cd "/home/directory_name"

[Bob Hilliard]

"budi wibowo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 

> there's no problem wirh the permission because i have tried to add new
> user and then login with this newe account but it didn't work and
> the message appear but if i change uid of the new user with 0 i can
> login normally?  so.. should i reinstall my slink :(

 Do you mean that you checked the permissions, or that they must
be OK because you have tried to add a new user?

 Did you check that /home/my_home_dir actually exists?

 Did you use a program to add the new user, or did you do it by
hand?  It is easy to get things messed up if you try to edit the
passwd and group files manually.  

There are two programs in slink to add a user - /usr/sbin/adduser and
/usr/sbin/useradd.  I don't know which is preferred in this
circumstance - perhaps someone more knowledgable will post the answer.
Are you using shadow passwords?

 I suggest you remove the new user with /usr/sbin/userdel, and
then re-add her using adduser or useradd.

 If you change the uid of the new user to 0, she can certainly
login, but she will have full root permissions - not very desirable.

 No, this doesn't mean you need to re-install slink.  The problem
can probably be resolved without re-installing anything.  The worst
case is that, if one package is determined to be corrupt, is that
that package must be reinstalled.

HTH

Bob
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Re: OpenGL and X

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Check out http://glide.xxedgexx.com/.

Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote:

> Hey,
> Do you know if some hardware (nvidia,tnt,ati) openGL code are directly
> supported by X or other free api ?
>
> I have to buy a computer but would like to know the better card to
> choose. (don't want to spend money for 3D card that I will not be able
> to use 3D acceleration).
>
> if you know a url speaking about this, could you tell me ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. : thans for other answer to other questions, that help me to solve
> my old probleme.
>
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Re: Mount floppy?

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a newbie question.  I was wondering if I can copy defrag onto my
> boot disk, boot from there, unmount the HD, and do defrag.  If this is
> the case, how can I mount the floppy?  Is it
>
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> or
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

I believe this is correct. However if you omit the '-t XXX' mount will probably 
be
able to figure out what type of filesystem it is (I think).

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Re: PPP problems

[Remco van 't Veer]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 10:37, Kirk Hogenson wrote:

> aco wrote:
> > 
> > Recently , I installed Debian GNU/Linux , 2.1 release ,on i-386
> > architecture but , I notyfied , that  configuring my PPP conection 
> > using 'pppconfig' utility was not succesful. When I start 'pon' , my 
> > modem 'USR Sportster Voice' ,doesn't start dialing to my ISP server.I 
> > am new in Linux , so I'm asking help from kind Debian users.
> 
> I have a friend who is using what I *think* is a USR Sportster Voice,
> and he hasn't got it working yet.  So, you *might* have a modem that
> is difficult to get working in Linux, but hopefully not impossible.

I'm using a USR Sportster Voice modem to make PPP connections and had
no problems getting it to work.  It's no different from any other USR
modem apart from some nifty features.  I'm not using any of these
features and assume they are hard to get working on Linux.

Regards,
Remco


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Netscape problems

[Hans Dumbrajs]

Hello.
I'm running Slink and am having problems with netscape.
I have upgraded to 2.2.7, and upgraded netstd, netbase and sysutils as
recommended by the 2.2 upgrade guide at www.linuxhq.com.
I've installed the unsupported glibc2 version of communicator 4.51.
The problem is that I occasionally get Bus errors when trying to start
netscape. What is really strange is that netscape sometimes runs, and
sometimes gives a Bus error. I can't see why this happens.. it seems to
happen randomly at startup of netscape...
I'm using the X supplied with Slink and WindowMaker 0.53.0..

any ideas?
tnx!

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Re: PPP problems

[Kirk Hogenson]

aco wrote:
> 
> Recently , I installed Debian GNU/Linux , 2.1 release ,on i-386
> architecture but , I notyfied , that  configuring my PPP conection 
> using 'pppconfig' utility was not succesful. When I start 'pon' , my 
> modem 'USR Sportster Voice' ,doesn't start dialing to my ISP server.I 
> am new in Linux , so I'm asking help from kind Debian users.

I have a friend who is using what I *think* is a USR Sportster Voice,
and he hasn't got it working yet.  So, you *might* have a modem that
is difficult to get working in Linux, but hopefully not impossible.

> What to do now? Where to get concise diagnostic procedure about this
> problem?Which additional informations needs experienced Debian user,
> to help me to make steps in the right directio

The first thing you should do is tell us what appears in your
ppp log file.  You can find out by typing "plog".  (You might have to
be root to be able to view the log, since it will contain your
password.)  Before you send the message, edit the output of plog
so you don't tell everyone your password!

> Thank You for Your answers

Well, no answers yet...

Kirk

Newbie Question: PPP

[R.Feenstra]

I'm running Debian 2.1 Slink since one week and now I'm trying to get
my ISDN card to work.Installed isdnutils.
The first problem i run into is when i give the command pon I get the
response :
/usr/bin/pppd:This system lacks kernel support for PPP.
This could be because the PPPkernelmodule is not loaded,or because the
kernel is not configured for PPP.

My question : How can I configure the kernel for PPP and load the module ?
Please step by step advice because I'm a real newbie in this.
I'll apreciate any help.

Rene

Re: Via chipset problems

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 11:57:25AM +0300, Heikki Ylipiessa wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 1999, Colin Tree wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> Yo!
> > I have a K6II-350 on a motherboard which
> > has a Via Apollo MVP3 chipset. I tried kernel 2.2.1 a 
> > couple of times. If I select via82c586 chipset support
> > and PCI bus-master DMA support, it stuffs the whole 
> > file system. I patched it up to 2.2.7, still the same 
> > problem. 
> > 
> > Has anyone else seen this? 
> > Who do I report it to? 
> > Is there a kernel group?
> 
> I had similar problems .. but when i disabled the VIA support
> nb after that .
> so the problem is with via driver .
> Don't know whos work is it .. but i hope someone will do 
> something about this BUG asap.

What are the symptoms of this?  I just recompiled 2.2.7 with via support
to take a look.  So far I don't see any problems.

Bob

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Re: Space in Linux Partition

[William Park]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 02:17:50PM +0100, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote:
> How do I check the space I have left on the partition?
> 
> Regards,
> Paulo Jorge Matos aka PDestroy
> Minister of FortuneCity - Marina District
> http://www.fortunecity.com
> Personal Page : http://pdestroy.fortunecity.com
> E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Page me at : http://wwp.mirabilis.com/361853#pager
> SBN Level 2 Member
> HTML Writers Guild Member

Try 'man df'.

OFF TOPIC: Solaris x86, WABI and Linux.....

[Person, Roderick]

Hey guy, 

I'm staring at a copy of solaris for intel arch, that includes the WABI
cdrom.

Any one have any experience with using this. Is it worth installing on a 133
pentium?

I have found some softtware for solaris that I want to use but  can't ge tit
to run on linux.

That is question 2, has anyone ported any solaris software to linux? I like
to use WABI and JAVA workshop.

Thanks

Rod.

Re: X server crash.

[MallarJ]

In a message dated 5/6/99 7:06:31 AM Central Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> No valid modes comes from the fact that resolutions and bpp you want the X
>  to run at do not match your system's capabilities.
>  

So, here's a question for someone that wants to take a stab at it...

If X can detect that you don't have any valid modes, it obviously can make 
some decisions on what settings are valid for your card - so, why can't X 
just set the values for you?

-Jay

Re: Pico.

[Nathan E Norman]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, John Galt wrote:

[ snip ]

 : binary and avoid the moronic situation altogether (rather curious that
 : Debian is the only distro with legal probs in this area, no?)

It's not at all curious if you bother reading the list archives.
Reading the DFSG might now be a bad idea either.

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Re: Can't allocate DMA buffer

[Ian Peters]

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:23:29AM -0600, Jake Griesbach wrote:
> I'm running the most recent kernel (2.2.7), and I also use a Crystal
> semiconductor sound card, so I have the cs4232 kernel module.  Sometimes I
> get the kernel error: 
> 
>   kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
> 
> I have plenty of available memory left, so I don't understand why I am
> getting this error.  Has anybody else received this error?  Does anybody
> know of a workaround or fix for it?  I haven't received this error before
> installing the 2.2.7 kernel.

linux/Documentation/sound/README.modules

The sound modules normally allocate DMA buffers during open() and
deallocate them during close(). Linux can often have problems allocating
DMA buffers for ISA cards on machines with more than 16MB RAM. This is
because ISA DMA buffers must exist below the 16MB boundry and it is quite
possible that we can't find a large enough free block in this region after
the machine has been running for any amount of time. The way to avoid this
problem is to allocate the DMA buffers during module load and deallocate
them when the module is unloaded. For this to be effective we need to load
the sound modules right after the kernel boots, either manually or by an
init script, and keep them around until we shut down. This is a little
wasteful of RAM, but it guarantees that sound always works.

To make the sound driver use persistent DMA buffers we need to pass the
sound.o module a "dmabuf=1" command-line argument. This is normally done
in /etc/conf.modules (or the more proper /etc/modules.conf) like so:

options sound   dmabuf=1

If you have 16MB or less RAM or a PCI sound card, this is wasteful and
unnecessary. It is possible that machine with 16MB or less RAM will find
this option useful, but if your machine is so memory-starved that it
cannot find a 64K block free, you will be wasting even more RAM by keeping
the sound modules loaded and the DMA buffers allocated when they are not
needed. The proper solution is to upgrade your RAM. But you do also have
this improper solution as well. Use it wisely.

Documentation is nifty.

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Re: Can't allocate DMA buffer

[Remco van 't Veer]

Hi,

I've encountered this problem too with a 2.0.36 kernel and a SB16
kernel module.  Especially after handling large (300Mb) files in
xwave.

The following two messages found at dejanews:

  
  

provide methods for "fixing" this problem without rebooting.  I have
not tested these tricks yet since the problem has not occured again on
my machine.

Another thing I read was what not using a kernel module might solve
this problem too.  But I don't remember where I read this..

Good luck!

Regards,
Remco


On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:23, Jake Griesbach wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running the most recent kernel (2.2.7), and I also use a Crystal
> semiconductor sound card, so I have the cs4232 kernel module.  Sometimes I
> get the kernel error: 
> 
>   kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
> 
> I have plenty of available memory left, so I don't understand why I am
> getting this error.  Has anybody else received this error?  Does anybody
> know of a workaround or fix for it?  I haven't received this error before
> installing the 2.2.7 kernel.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jake Griesbach
> University of Colorado


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Re: Pico.

[John Galt]

Because pico is a separate subprogram in Pine, an email program that
Debian doesn't support in binary form because of licensing considerations.
Pine is available in non-free as a source package, along with pilot and
pico in the same package, so you'll have to download the -diffs, -src,
and .dsc files and run dpkg-dev on them and then run debian/rules binary
to make a debianized binary, or simply get a tarball and make your own
binary and avoid the moronic situation altogether (rather curious that
Debian is the only distro with legal probs in this area, no?)


On Thu, 6 May 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone can tell me why I cannot find a simple editor 
> pico on my Debian 2.1r2 packages.  Thanks a lot!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Chip 
> 
> 
> 
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Given my druthers, I'd druther not.

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playing music with scsi emulation

[Paul McDermott]

Hello everyone, I just noticed a problem playing audio cd's on my cdrom.
I have two hardrives on the primary interface. I have an hp7200i cdrw on
the secondary master and a liteon 32x cdrom. I have kernel version 2.2.7
compiled and installed from source. I have configured and compiled
(successfully) 2.2.7 to include scsi emulation and scsi cdrom support. I
have taken out support for ide/atapi support.

 The error I get when I use cdplay is:

sr1: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
cdplay: ioctl cdromplaytrkind

The lines in kern.log are:

May  6 09:34:13 experimental kernel: sr1: CDROM not ready yet.
May  6 09:34:15 experimental kernel: sr1: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL
REQUEST.
May  6 09:34:27 experimental kernel: sr1: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL
REQUEST.
May  6 09:40:46 experimental kernel: sr1: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL
REQUEST.

The weird thing is that I can read from the drive find the contents of the
audio cd's. I can also mount and read data cd's that are msdos and other
formats. I hope this gives you enough information to  give me some ideas
on the problem.
Paul

msgfmt

[Krosigk, Lorenz Von]

I'm trying to compile the version 1.1 of KDE using the makefiles that came
with the tar.gz files i'm using. In the case of kdebase the make is looking
for a program called MSGFMT. But that's not installed and I don't find it in
dselect. Does anybody know what program this is and where I find it?
 Thanks in beforehand
Lorenz

Re: Roxen

[Pann McCuaig]

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 12:20:29PM -0400, Dan Nguyen wrote:

> I'm interested in using the Roxen webserver, however, I'm currently
> running Apache, and don't want anything to break.  Does anyone know of
> any problems which will occur if I do so?

Well it all depends on what you're doing with your webserver. mod_perl,
for example, is apache-centric. But for general purpose web serving
Roxen is fine and has some attractive features, a drop-in mysql
authentication module that works right out of the box, for example.

Since you're running debian and (de)installation is so easy, why not
just replace Apache with Roxen and see how it goes. You can always
change back easily if something breaks.

Luck,
Pann
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Re: ppa.o?

[Debian Mail]

> 1. mount -o loop -t msdos drv1440.bin /mnt 
> 2. find modules.tgz... ppa.o is there.

That's exactly the answer I was looking for.

Thanks a lot!
Stef

CDROM or Floppy?

[Larry Loreman]

Debian 2.0 installation can't determine if my CDROM is a CD or a floppy
drive.

The message:

 NEC CDROM Drive,260 ATAPI CDROM or Floppy? Assume Floppy.

Is there any way I can manually set this? I'd rather not have to do a
floppy disk install if I can avoid it.

System Info

Gateway P5-60
24MB RAM

3.2 GB disk (master)
540 MB disk (slave)

2x NEC CDROM
1.44 MB Floppy

Thanks for the information.
Larry Loreman
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Re: Space in Linux Partition

[Wolfgang Fink]

Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote:

> How do I check the space I have left on the partition?
>
> Regards,
> Paulo Jorge Matos aka PDestroy
> Minister of FortuneCity - Marina District
> http://www.fortunecity.com
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try df -k;-)

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Space in Linux Partition

[Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy]

How do I check the space I have left on the partition?

Regards,
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Re: X eating all my memory!!

[Brian Servis]

*- On  3 May, Havoc Pennington wrote about "Re: X eating all my memory!!"
> 
> On Sun, 2 May 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
>> 
>> This is crazy!  Why is X taking so much memory?  This is the result of 
>> ps axmw trimmed to show only X and netscape(4.5glibc2). The machine has
>> only been up just under 2 days.
>> 
> 
> Remember that applications can allocate server-side resources, such as
> pixmaps. Pixmaps are pretty big. So if an app is buggy and doesn't
> deallocate these things the X process can get largish.
> 
> Not to say the X server isn't at fault, but it's more likely to be a buggy
> application.
> 

More info.

Ok, this makes since.  But this behavior only started showing up after
I upgraded from Vincent's 3.3.3.1-0 packages to Joey's 3.3.3.1-1
packages.  I run Matlab and have noticed that the apperance of the
figure windows causes the X memory to increase.  So either Matlab has a
problem that was being blocked by -0 packages and all previous X
packages back since '93 or something changed in -1.  

Now the problem is to trace it down. 

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Re: printing permissions?

[Ian Peters]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 02:39:21PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> When I do 
> cat /tmp/r | /dev/lp1
> 
> I get sh: /dev/lp1: Permission denied
> 
> It is the same for a normal user, root or lp.
> 
> Is that why I get the following message from lpq?
> lpq
> waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
> Rank   Owner  Job  Files Total Size
> 1stjhspies317  (standard input)  854 bytes
> 2ndroot   318  /tmp/r855 bytes

cat /tmp/r | /dev/lp1 doesn't work because you're trying to use a
pipe.  Try redirection like this:

cat /tmp/r > /dev/lp1

I don't know why lpr isn't working for you; you sure /dev/lp1 is
correct?  Did you recently change to a 2.2.x kernel?

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Re: filtering of text files

[Richard Harran]

Also thanks to all those who suggested this or awk, or ways to use sed:
Ian, Marc and Stephan.  (I posted before reading, always daft).

Thanks again
Rich

Richard Harran wrote:
> 
> Ok, I'm replying to my own post.  I found I could do what I wanted with
> 'tr', which has a usable man page.
> 
> Cheers
> Rich
> 
> Richard Harran wrote:
> >
> > I need to filter some text files to convert all the letters to the same
> > case, and to remove punctuation.  I guess I should use 'sed', but the
> > man page is disfunct, and I'm struggling with the info.  Could someone
> > give me a hint (particularly for the case change thing).
> >
> > Cheers
> > Rich
> >
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printing permissions?

[Johann Spies]

When I do 
cat /tmp/r | /dev/lp1

I get sh: /dev/lp1: Permission denied

It is the same for a normal user, root or lp.

Is that why I get the following message from lpq?
lpq
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Rank   Owner  Job  Files Total Size
1stjhspies317  (standard input)  854 bytes
2ndroot   318  /tmp/r855 bytes

My permissions are:

crw-rw   1 root lp 6,   0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/lp0
crw-rw   1 root lp 6,   1 Jan  1  1970 /dev/lp1
crw-rw   1 root lp 6,   2 Jan  1  1970 /dev/lp2

Johann

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Re: filtering of text files

[Marc Mongeon]

When I tried this, it mapped all punctuation to 'Z'.  It seems
like the second argument needs something like [*] tacked
on (enough nothings to make arg2 as big as arg1).  This
didn't work, and I couldn't find a "null" special character in
the tr man pages.

Might I suggest:

cat filename | tr '[:lower:][:punct:]' '[:upper:][a*]' | sed 's/a//g' > 
filename2

Since the lower-to-upper translation has been performed, 'a' (or any other
lower-case letter) will safely match all punctuation (i.e., sed won't be
deleting any a's that are really a's and not punctuation marks).

Marc Mongeon

>>> Ian Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/06 7:22 AM >>>
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:12:37PM +, Richard Harran wrote:

cat filename | tr '[:lower:][:punct:]' '[:upper:]' > filename2

Re: filtering of text files

[Ian Peters]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 08:22:40AM -0400, Ian Peters wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:12:37PM +, Richard Harran wrote:
> > I need to filter some text files to convert all the letters to the same
> > case, and to remove punctuation.  I guess I should use 'sed', but the
> > man page is disfunct, and I'm struggling with the info.  Could someone
> > give me a hint (particularly for the case change thing).
> 
> cat filename | tr '[:lower:][:punct:]' '[:upper:]' > filename2

My fault, this is broken.  Too early in the morning.

cat filename | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] | tr -d [:punct:]

-d for delete

man tr

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PPP problems

[aco]

Recently , I installed Debian GNU/Linux , 2.1 release ,on i-386
architecture but , I notyfied , that  configuring my PPP conection using
'pppconfig' utility was not 
succesful. When I start 'pon' , my modem 'USR Sportster Voice' ,doesn't
start dialing to my ISP server.I am new in Linux , so I'm asking help
from kind Debian users.

What I already done : I looked for help in several Debian manuals ,
Debian FAQ's , Linux HOWTO's etc ..

What to do now? Where to get concise diagnostic procedure about this
problem?Which additional informations needs experienced Debian user , to
help me to make steps in the right directio

Thank You for Your answers

Re: filtering of text files

[Ian Peters]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:12:37PM +, Richard Harran wrote:
> I need to filter some text files to convert all the letters to the same
> case, and to remove punctuation.  I guess I should use 'sed', but the
> man page is disfunct, and I'm struggling with the info.  Could someone
> give me a hint (particularly for the case change thing).

I read the message which suggested awk; with all due respect, I think
tr is more appropriate to this case.  Try something like this:

cat filename | tr '[:lower:][:punct:]' '[:upper:]' > filename2

Of course, to go from uppercase to lowercase, switch the upper and
lower in the command above.

Roughly, tr just translates from one set to another.  lower maps to
upper well, and punct maps punctuation to the nothingness at the end
of the second string, thereby removing it.

-- 
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Re: filtering of text files

[Stephan Engelke]

Hi Richard,

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:12:37PM +, Richard Harran wrote:
> I need to filter some text files to convert all the letters to the same
> case, and to remove punctuation.  I guess I should use 'sed', but the
> man page is disfunct, and I'm struggling with the info.  Could someone
> give me a hint (particularly for the case change thing).

you may want to consider any of the awk-dialects ({n,m,g}awk).
awk's got functions called tolower() and toupper()
for case changes.

To simply convert everything to lowercase and remove the punctuation 
one could use the following awk command ($0 contains the entire line of
text.) and pipe the result to sed:

awk '{ print tolower($0) }' inputfile | sed -e 's/[.,:;]//g' > outputfile

The sed command replaces all occurences of whatever you place in the
brackets with nothing. You may need to add more "punctuation" to the
set.

So long -- Stephan
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Installing on a SCSI HD

[Kenneth Scharf]

>Hello everybody,
>
>How can install Debian2.1 on a SCSI HD?
>SCSI controller: Adaptec AHA-1510.
>I cannot choose the SCSI HD during installation just >booting from the
>rescue floppy. Linux cannot see the SCSI controller, I >believe. What
>can
>I do?
Make sure that you have the bios enabled on the scsi controller or
linux will not detect it.  You may have another problem, in that the
boot floppies have more than one scsi controller driver installed, and
adaptec controllers sometimes get screwed up by the probing for other
controllers.  If this happens then install a minimal system on the ide
drive, build a custom kernel that supports scsi, then enable the scsi
controller and move the system to the scsi hd.  This is what I had to
do on a system here (had to borrow an ide cd rom until the scsi system
was up so I could then use the scsi cd rom!)

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Re: how to install sources

[Nils Rennebarth]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 01:12:55PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> i'd like to install ssh sources and compile them by myself... can I do it
> with dpkg somehow ? Of course i can d/l sshd and compile it but i'd like to
> do it more debian-like...
Use debget (from potato) to download sources in apt-get manner:

debget ssh

and use dpkg-source -x to extract the source and the debian patches.
Now (as root or with sudo or ..) run
  ./debian/build binary
to build the .deb files

Nils

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Re: X server crash.

[Andrei Ivanov]

> 1. hsync in kHz: I choose 31.5: standard VGA, 640x480 @ 60 Hz, as mine is 
> a 640x480 STN LCD capable of 256 colors (although the manual says it can 
> use external VGA monitor of three types (640x480, 31.5kHz; 900x600, 
> 35.5kHz for 256 colors; 1024x768, 35.5kHz for 256 colors).

> 2. vertical sync range: here's the puzzle.  I have no idea what to do.  I 
> chose 50-70, 50-90, 50-100, none worked so far.

For the above, you have to either look up your documentation on laptop, or
look around on the net. Those are important, since they are cruicial to
the performance, and if you go over the limit, you can fry something.
Choosing very conservative settings is ok, going over for a little bit is
ok too.
FOr example, my hsync is 31.5-48.5, but I'm using 1280x1024 resolution,
and with xvidtune (great program to tune up your video once you got
something to work) I tuned it up that hsync actually can operate, and
maybe does, at 49.5. Not to bad.

> 
> 3. identifier for monitor definition: no clue what to do.
> 
> 4. vendor name of monitor: CTX, I suppose.
> 
> 5. model name of monitor: no clue what to do.

Above 3 are not important. Tey are just for your information.

> 
> 6. server: I choose XF86_VGA server.
> 
> 7. VRAM: 1024K.

K. Check hte /etc/X11/Xserver file, make sure that path in htere is really
to the right server.
Also, I've noted that in final XF86Setup file, it doesnt put RAM amount.
Like, I have 4M on my card, but in the Device section, I can see htat
VideoRam section is commented out.
SO, you might uncomment it.
Anyway, all of the above will not result in this problem.
No valid modes comes from the fact that resolutions and bpp you want the X
to run at do not match your system's capabilities.
Typically, hsync/vsync and the card type determine what modes you can run.
You HAVE to know hte card name/vendor/model, so you can take  look at the
card database and choose an appropriate one.
The options below don't really matter, they do not determine anything. But
since you don't know what they are, means you dont know what your card is.
You have to know that.
> 
> 8. video card definition: no idea.
> 
> 9. vendor name of video card: no idea.
> 
> 10. model name of video card: no idea.
> 11. clockchip setting: I ran X -probeonly, and got 28.32  28.32  28.32 
> 28.32 

I think clock settings get inserted automaticallly ( never had to deal
with them, all my cards were 'Do not probe clock', but I think it's all in
the readme there, how to deal with clock)
>  
> The results: no mode found. I am sure it's one or more of the settings 
> that is not set correctly.  Would appreciate any help!  Thanks!
> 

Now. Just follow the procedure on my page to set up the modes from
smallest to largest. For example, make them 320x200 640x480 800x600 or
something like that, and try to start X in 8bpp mode. The above order will
make sure that Xserver picks up the first valid mode, and hopefully you
will get 320x200 resolution. In either case, if you do or if you don't,
you will need to get some info on your hardware, so you can get the most
out of X without frying your videocard by accident.

Andrew
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filtering of text files

[Richard Harran]

I need to filter some text files to convert all the letters to the same
case, and to remove punctuation.  I guess I should use 'sed', but the
man page is disfunct, and I'm struggling with the info.  Could someone
give me a hint (particularly for the case change thing).

Cheers
Rich

Re: ftp of complicated directory structure

[Richard Harran]

Thanks for all the suggestions
Cheers
Rich

Strange things happening

[Johann Spies]

Last night everything worked ok - printing too.  Today I could not print.
I get the following 

[EMAIL PROTECTED](20)$ lpq
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Rank   Owner  Job  Files Total Size
1stjhspies314  (standard input)  110621 bytes
2ndjhspies315  (standard input)  9 bytes

and whatever I try, I cannot get linux to print the queue.

Another strange thing happened: today I could not mount either the cdrom
or the dos partition - getting an error message that the filesystems was
not supported by the kernel - a custom compiled kernel - the same one I
have been using for about 6 months now.  I did not alter any kernel
configurations.  

In the end I re-installed the kernel image (2.0.34) from the hamm CD
after enabling the kernel to read the cdrom using modconf.

1. Can anybody explain to me why such things happen
2. How can I print the queue?

Maybe it is because I boasted about Linux's stability as much better than
Windows95 or 98 on Sunday.  I think my Windows 3.1 was more stable than my
linux the past few months - since I upgraded to Debian 2.0 from 1.3.1.

Can the problem be that the some files on the hard drive(s) was damaged
without linux reporting it?

Johann
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how to install sources

[Matus fantomas Uhlar]

Hello,

i'd like to install ssh sources and compile them by myself... can I do it
with dpkg somehow ? Of course i can d/l sshd and compile it but i'd like to
do it more debian-like...
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Re: Advanced Printer Control?

[Jens Ritter]

Marc Lepage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm configuring a print server for remote clients. I've set up a Debian 
> machine
> with an HP LaserJet 4000 hooked to it via parallel cable. I've installed lprng
> and samba, and can print to it from two types of client:
> 
[...]
> The issue, is that the NT drivers are able to take full advantage of the
> printer's capabilities. It can do duplex, 2- 4- 8-up printing, etc.
> 
> How can I achieve such control from the Linux clients? I need to be able to
> specify at least duplex, and hopefully a greater subset of the printer's
> capabilities. Linux is working great as a print server to NT clients, but not 
> so
> great to Linux clients.


Have a look at the cti-ifhp package.


> PS: I can't help but imagine C++ iostream manipulators:
> 
> cout << unix_line_feeds << file.txt << duplex << 4up << file.ps;

cat file.ps |  | lpr. 


HTH,

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Re: Via chipset problems

[Heikki Ylipiessa]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Colin Tree wrote:

> Hi,
Yo!
>   I have a K6II-350 on a motherboard which
> has a Via Apollo MVP3 chipset. I tried kernel 2.2.1 a 
> couple of times. If I select via82c586 chipset support
> and PCI bus-master DMA support, it stuffs the whole 
> file system. I patched it up to 2.2.7, still the same 
> problem. 
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? 
> Who do I report it to? 
> Is there a kernel group?

I had similar problems .. but when i disabled the VIA support
nb after that .
so the problem is with via driver .
Don't know whos work is it .. but i hope someone will do 
something about this BUG asap.

Heikki Ylipiessa

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Re: Exim and fetchmail

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, 05 May 1999 17:45:09 -0400, you wrote:
>I regard this as a bug in the installation procedure.  Either
>fetchmail should deliver to "user" (without the "@localhost") 
>or exim should be configured by default to accept such mail.

See bug #36837. The installation script of exim tells you that you
might want to add localhost to local_domains. A future release will
include this advice in the docs, too.

I am told that there are good reasons not to include localhosts in
local_domains by default.

As to delivering to "user":
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh > telnet localhost 25
|Trying 127.0.0.1...
|Connected to localhost.
|Escape character is '^]'.
|220 torres.gf1.internal ESMTP Exim 2.10 #1 Thu, 6 May 1999 10:23:30 +0200
|helo torres
|250 torres.gf1.internal Hello mh at localhost [127.0.0.1]
|mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically correct
|rcpt to: 
|501 : recipient address must contain a domain
|quit
|221 torres.gf1.internal closing connection
|Connection closed by foreign host.
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh >

exim doesn't support this.

Fetchmail can also be configured to deliver to other domains than
@localhost using the smtpaddress directive.

Greetings
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Re: ppa.o?

[Robert Norris]

Alternatively, you can just go to http://www.torque.net/~campbell/ , and
download the drivers from the author.

re,
Rob.

Re: slink and netscape/mozilla

[Ray]

On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 09:13:32PM -0400, Anonymous Coward wrote:
>  netscape/mozilla gives errors in X 

Netscape and Mozilla are DIFFERENT things.  Netscape is release level
software and for most of us works fairly well (aside from being a memory
pig).  Mozilla is barely alpha level code and if it is that that you are
having problems then the solution is just stop using it and install
Netscape which is also available on the same cds.

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rtc: lost some interupts

[John Leget]

Greetings all,

Kernel 2.2.7-ac1, potato Asus p2b-ds.

Hmm im beginning to wonder if ive got some hard ware problems here.
Anyway anyone clued up enough
to give me an idea regarding the following errors. I had these a few
weeks ago, now theyre back :).
Also had a lock up just before just wondering if the two are related.

May  5 19:53:12 gabriel kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 32Hz.
May  5 19:53:51 gabriel last message repeated 2 times
May  5 19:53:57 gabriel kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 2Hz.
May  5 19:54:02 gabriel kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz.


Cheers

Re: Can't allocate DMA buffer

[E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running the most recent kernel (2.2.7), and I also use a Crystal
> semiconductor sound card, so I have the cs4232 kernel module.  Sometimes I
> get the kernel error: 
> 
>   kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
> 
> I have plenty of available memory left, so I don't understand why I am
> getting this error.  Has anybody else received this error?  Does anybody
> know of a workaround or fix for it?  I haven't received this error before
> installing the 2.2.7 kernel.

I have had this error with kernels from the 2.0.x series.  My floppy
drive also has this problem sometimes.  The problem is that apparently
the DMA buffer needs to be allocated in the first 16MB of address
space.  In my view, the driver should reserve enough of this memory
when it is loaded, but this may be a problem if it is not loaded at
boot time (but later, as a module).  I once asked around on a linux
kernel news group, and people were thinking about how to reorganise the
DMA memory.  It doesn't seem to be trivial to solve.  A `solution'
would be to get a PCI sound card.  Often you get around the problem
stopping some applications hoping to free some of the `right' memory :(

HTH,
Eric Meijer

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Re: Quake2, x11amp, sound probs

[Frank Barknecht]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I am running Slink, kernel 2.2.5, on a P200 overclocked, SB16 Sound
> card etc. My problem is that after a game of Quake2 I can no longer
> play mp3s on x11amp, I get "can't open audio" If I use mpg123 or
> anything else I can play sounds fine. I am at a loss, ps aux shows no
> errant/zombied processes that are causing this and I am at a loss.

Try to look for the process that is still using your /dev/[audio|dsp] with
fuser /dev/audio (fuser comes with package psmisc) and kill this process.

Maybe it is not yet a Zombie.

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Re: finding and using applications

[Jean-Marc Bourdaret]

It seems very clear to me that the Menu package is what you are looking for.
it's strange that nobody has said anything about it since you posted your
question;
The README file of /usr/doc/menu answers most of your askings.

First, you must have a debian system, this shouldn't be a problem 
_here_ .
I believe the menu package is installed by default. of course, the system
is more complex, but here is rufly how it work:

almost all package you install via a normal way (eg dpkg -i ) create a file
in /usr/lib/menu/package-name. this file contains:
the name of the program,
a one-line description (maybe a little more precise than apropos,
definitly not the same)
the type (X11,text,...)
the section (Apps/Editors, Games/Strategy ...)
the path of a (very :-( ) optional icon,
the executable file,
and other stuff i cannot remenber

so far i understood, the main goal of all this is to help users finding
applications (!!!)
and so far i know, only Window managers are using those files in order to
create inteligent menus. i saw somewhere that one of them (afterstep ?)
even use the "description" field to add
mini-ballons's popups along the menus dynamicaly created.

With this base installed, it should be a lot easier to create a frontend
for finding apps than creating it from dpkg -l or -L outputs ( what is THE
executable ?, and ignoring the secondary ones ). 

On the other side, for this to work, you must install well-made deb
packages which include this feature. too often, package maintainers (?)
forget this.

This is included in debian since at least the bo (1.3) distribution.

So Tommy, does it answers some questions ?

the strangiest part is that i thought before that everybody was using it ,
and it's hard to admit
that somes deactivate it. you probably use it and dislike it for unknown
reasons. that's must be.



PS: this is my second mail about "finding applications" , i wonder what
happened to the first..

OpenGL and X

[Khalid EZZARAOUI]

Hey,
Do you know if some hardware (nvidia,tnt,ati) openGL code are directly
supported by X or other free api ?

I have to buy a computer but would like to know the better card to
choose. (don't want to spend money for 3D card that I will not be able
to use 3D acceleration).

if you know a url speaking about this, could you tell me ?

Thanks.


P.S. : thans for other answer to other questions, that help me to solve
my old probleme.

Re: unable to cd "/home/directory_name"

[budi wibowo]

there's no problem wirh the permission because i have tried to add new user and 
then login with this newe account but it didn't work and the message appear but 
if i change uid of the new user with 0 i can login normally?
so.. should i reinstall my slink :(
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>permissions on /home and /home/my_home_dir.
>
> ls -ld /home  - your userid should have at least r-x
>
> ls -ld /home/my_home_dir - your userid should have rwx
>
>HTH
>
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Re: Pico.

[Nils Rennebarth]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 03:17:44AM -0400, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone can tell me why I cannot find a simple editor 
> pico on my Debian 2.1r2 packages.  Thanks a lot!
The pico copyright is the same as the one for pine and forbids distribution
of modified binaries. Modification is however needed to make pine adhere to
the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard).

pine (an pico) are available as source and you may compile them yourself.

You could also install joe and use the jpico as pico substitute. This is
what I do.

Nils

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Pico.

[Fu-Dong Chiou]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone can tell me why I cannot find a simple editor 
pico on my Debian 2.1r2 packages.  Thanks a lot!

Best wishes,
Chip 

Re: Which package has the program "mail"

[Steve Lamb]

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On Wed, 5 May 1999 23:16:38 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote:

>mailx

Thanks.  I can understand that other packages may look for it, but you'd
think that the exim package would use exim -t to deliver the nightly reports.
 I mean, it isn't like the maintainer doesn't know that exim is installed,
right?  :)

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Which package has the program "mail"

[Steve Lamb]

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Hash: SHA1

For some reason the nightly exim stats sends mail with, well, mail, but
that program is not included in the package.  :/

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Re: ppa.o?

[A. M. Varon]

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Debian Mail wrote:

> But I think there was a possibility to sellect it when I installed
> Debian. So there should be a way to get that module without compiling
> it, shouldn't it?

There are 3 ways that I can think of if you want to  get ppa.o from
drv1440.bin file:

option a:

1. mount -o loop -t msdos drv1440.bin /mnt 
2. find modules.tgz... ppa.o is there.

This assumes that you have installed loop block device module.

option b: (A bit risky! you might screw up your linux partition)

1. boot rescue boot disk. After Debian asks you for the debian driver
diskette... 
2. press alt-F2 (to go to another console. press alt-F1 to go back.) mount
your linux partition if it's not yet mounted... and just copy the ppa.o
from the mounted diskette. For a hint on where your drv1440.bin is
mounted... run the command: "df".

option c:

I can e-mail to you the file ppp.o. :)

regards,

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Re: Exim and fetchmail

[Arcady Genkin]

Jake Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Fetchmail's documentation has a special section on working wiht
exim. It specifically mentions that you should add localhost to your
exim's accepted domain names. Did you do that?

Cheers!

> I am having a problem getting exim and fetchmail to work.I just
> installed Slink.I used option #2 in the
> eximconfig menu. when I try to send a message with mutt it only goes to
> /var/spool/mail/jak3b.
> when I try to use fetchmail I get this message: 1 message for jak3b at
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network troubles

[Aaron Solochek]

I have two machines, both running 2.2.6, slink, just the basics.
Anyways, both machines have 3c905's, one boots up as a vortex, the other
as a cyclone.  The cyclone is SLOW in linux, giving me like 17k/sec to
sites that the other gives me 800k/sec to.  both give me about 800k/sec
in windows, so I'm fairly sure the cards are both fine.  So I was
wondering what could be causing this.  Both kernels are compiled without
dummy network support.

Thanks.

-Aaron Solochek
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Re: Via chipset problems

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:55:33AM +, Colin Tree wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have a K6II-350 on a motherboard which
> has a Via Apollo MVP3 chipset. I tried kernel 2.2.1 a 
> couple of times. If I select via82c586 chipset support
> and PCI bus-master DMA support, it stuffs the whole 
> file system. I patched it up to 2.2.7, still the same 
> problem. 
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? 

I just installed one of these yesterday and recompiled 2.2.7 for it.  I
didn't select CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL, so didn't even see the Via chipset
option.

It seems to be working fine (which is more than I can say for Windows
95--there's a patch, but only for OSR2). 

> Who do I report it to? 
> Is there a kernel group?

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Re: X server crash.

[Fu-Dong Chiou]

Thanks for the info.  I did used xf86config, repeatedly, but didn't seem 
to set up everything correctly.  Here's what I think is crucial, but not 
sure how to do it correctly:

1. hsync in kHz: I choose 31.5: standard VGA, 640x480 @ 60 Hz, as mine is 
a 640x480 STN LCD capable of 256 colors (although the manual says it can 
use external VGA monitor of three types (640x480, 31.5kHz; 900x600, 
35.5kHz for 256 colors; 1024x768, 35.5kHz for 256 colors).

2. vertical sync range: here's the puzzle.  I have no idea what to do.  I 
chose 50-70, 50-90, 50-100, none worked so far.

3. identifier for monitor definition: no clue what to do.

4. vendor name of monitor: CTX, I suppose.

5. model name of monitor: no clue what to do.

6. server: I choose XF86_VGA server.

7. VRAM: 1024K.

8. video card definition: no idea.

9. vendor name of video card: no idea.

10. model name of video card: no idea.

11. clockchip setting: I ran X -probeonly, and got 28.32  28.32  28.32 
28.32 
 
The results: no mode found. I am sure it's one or more of the settings 
that is not set correctly.  Would appreciate any help!  Thanks!


Chip


Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > (--) VGA16: videoram: 256k (using 256k)
> > (**) VGA16: clocks:  28.32  28.32  28.32  28.32
> > (--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90.000 MHz
> > (--) VGA16: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode "640x480"
> > (--) VGA16: Removing mode "640x480" from list of valid modes.
> > (--) VGA16: There is no mode definition named "800x600"
> 
> No modes found means screen modes you specified are not valid for the
> particular video card+monitor combo.
> Basically, what you want to do is change the order of modes (in
> xf86config, when you get to modes screen), so that smallest modes come
> first. 
> I have more detailed procedure on my page, URL below.
> Andrew
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Best wishes,
Chip 

home compiled sysutils has broken dependency

[Robert King]

Hi All,
I compiled sysutils myself because procinfo complains that it needs to
be compiled to display all IRQs.  I unpacked the debian source file and
used debian/rules binary to make a binary.  When I installed the .deb using
dpkg (which happens without complaint and the programs work), apt-get starts 
complaining about broken dependencies.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Robert.

solzhenitsyn:~king/Linux/deb# apt-get check
Updating package file cache...done
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...dependency error
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet
dependencies:
  sysutils: Depends:libc6 Depends:libncurses4

solzhenitsyn:~king/Linux/deb# dpkg -l sysutils perl libncurses4 libc6
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii  sysutils1.3.4  Miscellaneous small system utilities.
ii  perl5.004.04-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and
Report
ii  libncurses4 4.2-3  Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libc6   2.0.7.19981211 GNU Libc: shared libraries


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help: host name unqualified

[hylx]

Hi

My computer uses a dial-up connection to the internet. I installed 'bind' and 
'sendmail'( hamm packages) and configured them according to DNS-HOWTO and 
SENDMAIL-ADDRESS-REWRITE HOWTO exactly. Now i still have problems:

1. when make aliases database using 'newaliases'  i get following message:

WARNING: local host name (hylx) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
/etc/mail/aliases: 5 aliases, longest 9 bytes, 64 bytes total

2. sendmail startup delay not eliminated and my syslog says:

hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases: No such file or directory

sendmail[2406]: My unqualified host name (hylx) unknown;
sleeping for retry

If anyone knows how to resolve it please drop me a message. TIA