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Re: [solved] g2player (fwd)

[Joey Hess]

scratch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've solved the lib bugs by installing the stdlibc++-2.8 package. (I only
> had the stdlibc++-2.9 package installed).
> 
> Works fine now. If only I knew how to install it properly on my Debian
> system. The way I did it now, I used Alien to convert the .rpm from
> real.com to a .deb.

The correct way to install it is to use the realplayer.deb in unstable.

> Of course this is not how it should be, as, for
> example, Netscape plugin support isn't there. 

That's not your fault, the alpha doesn't have netscape plugin support.

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RE: linuxconf

[Person, Roderick]

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/experimental

I believe the differences is in the stablity and that the are either less
stable. Although, I never had a problem with the linuxconf packages ...
except one package linuxconf-boot which even warns you on installation that
it can hose your system, so I never used it. But the X package and the rest
seemed to work fine!

Rod...

> -Original Message-
> From: Johannes Beigel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 3:11 PM
> To:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  Re: linuxconf
> 
> 
> "Person, Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > There is a linuxconf in the debian experimental archives.
> 
> Where can I get experimental packages?
> 
> Are they even more unstable than packages from unstable/potato?
> 
> Jojo.
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Re: help: clock resets on reboot

[John Foster]

Rob Mahurin wrote:
> 
> My clock resets when I reboot, pretty much at random.  Doesn't matter how long
> it's been off; when I check in the CMOS before it boots, it's still right.  
> But
> sometime between when lilo loads and I get a login prompt, it sets, pretty 
> much
> at random.  date and hwclock agree, but they're wrong.  Sometimes it's back 
> half
> an hour; sometimes it's a couple of hours; once it went to march 1997.  Never
> goes forward.  This never happened before a couple of weeks ago.  I have no
> idea.  Does anybody?
-
Most modern Motherboards have a small rechargeable battery on them that
hold enough power to keep the hardware clock set to the correct time,
when the system is powered off. It appears that your battery is
degrading and may need to be replaced. That may be a matter of simply
pluging in a new one or it may require surgery on the board. Consult you
user manual for the Motherboard or the systems builders tech support.
-- 
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Re: laptop netconfig

[Lawrence Walton]

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:07:19PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would 
> like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something 
> like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in 
> getting an address and starting diald if it didn't.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Justin Hagemeier wrote:
> 
> > I have a laptop with three possible network configurations that I would 
> > like to use.
> > 1. Ethernet 10 Mbps DHCP-sv
> > 2. PPP daild
> > 3. None at all
> > is there any suggestions on tools for configuration techniques for this 
> > kind of setup. It looks as if I could do it if one of the init.d scripts 
> > sniffed out the PCMCIA to see if there where activity, then if there was 
> > not it would start daild instead of DHCP.  I have no idea where to begin on 
> > such a thing though.  Any thoughts?
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Justin
> 
> --
> Jens B. Jorgensen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
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Well I sort of do this allready I have a laptop that has the Potato distro on 
it, I use both ethernet and ppp,
I am using the DHCP client in potato and it works great; if there is no 
ethernet connection, then no IP is assigned
to the eth0 interface, essentially no route. I just use PPP normaly.
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NDN: Re: Modem GM56PCI-L

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Unable to compile kernel 2.2.5 w/sound module

[jean-Yves BARBIER]

Hi all,

I try to compile a 2.2.5 kernel (was up to 2.2.7 :-(( ) to make my SG live! work
under Linux with the object module from (mis)creative.
Each time I do 'make-kpkg kernel_image' (or make clean, dep, bzImage) I have
this error message:

# drivers/char/char.a(msp3400.o): In function `msp3400c_init':
# msp3400.o(.text+0x1d02): undefined reference to `register_send_mixer'
# make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
# make[1]: Leaving directory `usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.5'
# make: *** [build] Error 2

Arrrghh ([EMAIL PROTECTED] creative!), pls help me to get this kernel to compile
correctly.
JY
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RE: how to make modem silent?

[Pollywog]

On 24-May-99 Karen Hu wrote:
> Is there a way will make "pon" dial my modem silently?
> I'm still using Hamm (version 2.0).

In my connect script, I added M0 to my AT string to make the modem quiet:

AT&F2&C1&D2&K3M0 (last character is a zero)

This is in my /etc/diald/connect script, but you can do this with your ppp
script too.

--
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XF86Setup incorrectly updates /etc/X11/XF86Config

[Arcady Genkin]

Hi all!

I have this weird behavior of XF86Setup. I try to change the mouse
settings to "4 buttons" and "MouseManPlusPS/2" instead of "3 buttons"
and "PS/2". I go into the graphical mode, and change all the necessary 
settings. Then I click Done, and so on, and it exits normally saying
that /etc/X11/XF86Config was written and the old one was renamed into
XF86Setup.bak.

Ok, I go into shell, and see by the time-stamp that the file indeed
has been updated. But inside, the "Pointer" sectino I invariablly see

Section "Pointer"
   Protocol"PS/2"
   Device  "/dev/mouse"
   BaudRate1200
   Emulate3Timeout 50
   Resolution  200
EndSection

After I edit it by hand to look like this:

Section "Pointer"
   Protocol"MouseManPlusPS/2"
   Device  "/dev/mouse"
   Buttons 4
   Resolution  200
EndSection

everything works. But if I rerun XF86Setup, and confirm that I want to 
use my existing file as a default, then change some parameters (not
even in the Mouse section; BTW the mouse info shows correctly in
there at this point), then save the changes, my XF86Config's "pointer" 
sections reverts to the wrong settings.

I tried deleting the file altogether thinking that maybe it was
corrupt, then new file is created, and the same behavior is observed.

Any ideas, anyone? I'm getting sick of editing it by hand every time
(I'm experimenting with keyboard settings currently, and run XF86Setup 
often).

TIA!
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RE: how to make modem silent?

[Patrick Kirk]

Usually ATM0 ie M Zero will bo it.  The Linux default is ATZ which turns
sound back on with a lot of modems bu doing a soft reset.

Hope this helps.

Patrick


> -Original Message-
> From: Karen Hu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, 24 May 1999 19:07
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: how to make modem silent?
>
>
> Is there a way will make "pon" dial my modem silently?
> I'm still using Hamm (version 2.0).
>
> Thanks,
>
> (Note: I'm not on debian-user@, so plz include this address in your
> msg).
>
> -Ping
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Re: laptop netconfig

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Since the ethernet driver will detect carrier on the ethernet if you could 
detect the error correctly you'd be able to know if the ethernet was hooked up. 
Trying to send a packet is easy. Trapping the error correctly may be the hard 
part. If the kernel would log such a message then you could just monitor the 
log. This is a kind of
braindead approach but may be the least intrusive and easiest.

Justin Hagemeier wrote:

> "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
>
> > I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would 
> > like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something 
> > like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded 
> > in getting an address and starting diald if it didn't.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Justin Hagemeier wrote:
> >
> > > I have a laptop with three possible network configurations that I would 
> > > like to use.
> > > 1. Ethernet 10 Mbps DHCP-sv
> > > 2. PPP daild
> > > 3. None at all
> > > is there any suggestions on tools for configuration techniques for this 
> > > kind of setup. It looks as if I could do it if one of the init.d scripts 
> > > sniffed out the PCMCIA to see if there where activity, then if there was 
> > > not it would start daild instead of DHCP.  I have no idea where to begin 
> > > on such a thing though.  Any thoughts?
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Justin
> >
> > --
> > Jens B. Jorgensen
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Would anybody like give some input on developing this?  I was thinking about 
> using ifconfig in a script to temporarily configure the networks so that it 
> might "feel" for a network pulse over the ether net.  If no pulse is felt 
> then it will start daild, otherwise it would start dhcpcd, then make a script 
> called net-switch that would
> allow you to stop dhcpcd and start daild on the fly or vice-verse.  The 
> problem with accomplishing the net selection with DHCP is that the boot 
> script will just hang if it can't find an address, and I have never been 
> patient enough to wait for it to time out(if it does at all).  I asked if 
> anyone had done it because I did not want
> to go around re-inventing the wheel.  Tell me what you all think.
> Regards,
> haggs

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Re: how to make modem silent?

[shaleh]

> 
> Is there a way will make "pon" dial my modem silently?
> I'm still using Hamm (version 2.0).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> (Note: I'm not on debian-user@, so plz include this address in your
> msg).
> 

Consult your modem docs.  Most modems can be passed an initialization string
value which turns of the speaker.  Something like AT&FM0DT555 would init,
turn off sound (the M0), and dial 555-.  Place that in the chatscript where
it has ATDT555.

Re: Debian applications - where to get them???

[Robert Rati]

On Mon, 24 May 1999, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote:

> I am running into problems getting applications for Debian.
> 
> 1.I wanted to get the Communicator 4.5 and so I checked the Debian
> archives. There is a listing for Communicator 4.5 but when I add up the file
> sizes, they don't match nowhere close to the Netscape Binary posting (of
> around 12MB). Are there any other files that I should be installing along
> with these (there are no other dependencies shown on the package listing)
> ???

If you just install the debs you see on the site, you will be fine.  If I
were you, I'd use dselect or apt to make sure all dependences are met.  

> 3.I wanted to download x11amp (also called winamp in the Windows
> world) to play MP3 files but could not find it anywhere. Any suggestions on
> where I might be able to get a copy (preferably in .deb format)? (Any
> suggestions for a better player are also welcome :-)  ).
> 

goto www.x11amp.com (or x11amp.org I can't remember which) and the newest
x11amp will be available for download in .deb format.  You can also get
the source and compile the newest version that hasn't been officially
released yet.

Rob

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Re: laptop netconfig

[Justin Hagemeier]

"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:

> I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would 
> like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something 
> like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in 
> getting an address and starting diald if it didn't.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Justin Hagemeier wrote:
>
> > I have a laptop with three possible network configurations that I would 
> > like to use.
> > 1. Ethernet 10 Mbps DHCP-sv
> > 2. PPP daild
> > 3. None at all
> > is there any suggestions on tools for configuration techniques for this 
> > kind of setup. It looks as if I could do it if one of the init.d scripts 
> > sniffed out the PCMCIA to see if there where activity, then if there was 
> > not it would start daild instead of DHCP.  I have no idea where to begin on 
> > such a thing though.  Any thoughts?
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Justin
>
> --
> Jens B. Jorgensen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Would anybody like give some input on developing this?  I was thinking about 
using ifconfig in a script to temporarily configure the networks so that it 
might "feel" for a network pulse over the ether net.  If no pulse is felt then 
it will start daild, otherwise it would start dhcpcd, then make a script called 
net-switch that would
allow you to stop dhcpcd and start daild on the fly or vice-verse.  The problem 
with accomplishing the net selection with DHCP is that the boot script will 
just hang if it can't find an address, and I have never been patient enough to 
wait for it to time out(if it does at all).  I asked if anyone had done it 
because I did not want
to go around re-inventing the wheel.  Tell me what you all think.
Regards,
haggs

Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem - solved!

[Kris]

To those who were (or weren't) having the same problem as me (PPP freezes 
in kernel 2.2), I found the answer after talking with Clifford Kite on 
comp.os.linux.networking (he didn't suggest it, though, he just prompted me 
to get on with the diagnosing):


The modem UART type wasn't set right. On boot, the kernel (2.2) reported 
ttyS2 to be a 16550A type, which was correct. However, the 0setserial 
script decided to set the UART type to whatever it was just underneath the 
manual configuration area (can't remember at present). So, if you've got a 
problem with PPP freezing under a 2.2 kernel, check your UARTS!!


To see if it works for you, do a 'setserial /dev/ttySx uart 16550A', with 
'x' being whatever your modem is. Everything will go back to normal on reboot.


Anyway, I'm off to reinstall; I kinda messed everything up while I was 
messing about with everything :-)


Yours,
  A very happy "uebergeek" Kris :-)

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RE: Debian applications - where to get them???

[Pollywog]

On 24-May-99 Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote:
> I am running into problems getting applications for Debian.
> 
> 1.I wanted to get the Communicator 4.5 and so I checked the Debian
> archives. There is a listing for Communicator 4.5 but when I add up the file
> sizes, they don't match nowhere close to the Netscape Binary posting (of
> around 12MB). Are there any other files that I should be installing along
> with these (there are no other dependencies shown on the package listing)
> ???

What you saw on Debian's website is just an installer for Communicator.  You
also have to get the Netscape Communicator binary from Netscape's ftp site and
then you place it in /tmp.  Make sure it is owned by root.root when you have
placed it there.  Once that is done, use the installer (just install it as
usual) and it will install Netscape as though it were a deb package.


> 
> 2.I have seen posting on Real G2 player for Linux but I could not find
> it at www.real.com  . Is there a G2 player for Linux
> yet or is it still version 5.0?

I believe it is still 5.0 but I am not certain.  A similar situation exists
with respect to RealAudio and Debian.  You can download an installer and then
install RealAudio in a fashion much as the one I described above.


--
Andrew

Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "MW" == Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

MW> so this has changed from hamm then which used to unpack it all for
MW> you and make the link from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/ version> ?

Yes.

Ciao,
Martin

Re: pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "RvdM" == Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

RvdM> It's strange indeed; it has come up before, and because the
RvdM> default Debian 2.1 install comes with 2.0.36, which doesn't
RvdM> support the /proc/bus/pci interface of the 2.2 kernels (the
RvdM> interface that pciutils uses) it might have been better to not
RvdM> to include that call to lspci.

I think it has been done to allow to drop in a 2.2 kernel (I think you 
have to update netbase though). And as it doesn't do any harm on 2.0
kernels, it is easier to let keep the program execution in, as to
advice the user to add it to the startup file.

Ciao,
Martin

Re: daylight savings time aint savin' ME time

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: daylight savings time aint savin' ME time
Date: Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:40:15PM -0400

In reply to:Michael Stenner

Quoting Michael Stenner([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Ever since Daylight savings time struck, my clock has been incorrect.
> 
> I've tried setting it with hwclock --set --date="bla bla"
> which seems to work, according to hwclock --show
> 
> but when I reboot, the clocks (system AND hardware) are still wrong.
> 
> I've also tried setting it in the BIOS.  Again, my computer outsmarts
> me.
> 
> Once, I used hwclock --set --date=   followed by hwclock --systohw
> (or whichever one makes the system clock the same as the hardware clock)
> 
> this did permanently change my clock (i.e. upon reboot it was still
> changed), but it changed it by TWO hours!!
> 
> What am I doing wrong, here?
> 
>   Thanks,

Michael - Try man tzconfig

>Michael
> 
> Other info:  slink
> 
>   Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513
>   Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
> 
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Re: fetchmail problems

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: Re: fetchmail problems
Date: Thu, May 20, 1999 at 11:17:01AM -0500

In reply to:Matt Garman

Quoting Matt Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 09:10:03AM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote:
> > Make sure you have a line like this in your /etc/exim.conf:
> > 
> > local_domains = localhost
> 
> Yup, I have that in my /etc/exim.conf
> 
> > 
> > And one like this in your /etc/hosts:
> > 
> > 127.0.0.1   localhost
> 
> Mine actually looks like the following:
> 
> 127.0.0.1 loopback localhost
> 
> ...but that shouldn't make a difference, right?
> 
Matt

  Here is something I have in my log files about your problem.
Configuring exim:
I "finally!" got the beast to work.  I have
a suggestion for how to install it.  When the install script starts
give it the following answers:

Question #  Answer
1.  Your HOME network.domain
2   none
3   none
4   none
5   No Filter
6   Your.ISP's.domain.name
7   Any user (I made one called boss)
8   Yes - Replace /etc/aliases  ( after
you have the #7 already created) 
Then go into the /etc/exim.conf and check the following:

qualify_domain = Your Home.domain
local_domains = localhost  # This made it deliver mail from
 the ISP to me.

HTH

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Re: Modem GM56PCI-L

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: Modem GM56PCI-L
Date: Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:57:56PM -0300

In reply to:Luiz Felipe

Quoting Luiz Felipe([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello, now I use Debian 2.0 and a modem GM56PCI-L of Genius. My minicom
> (ttyS1) don't recive responce, in Windows my modem is COM3 it's put in
> PCI2 on my MotherBord, and how I can use it?
> Sorry my english but I'm Brazilian.!!!
> 
> Wait your mail!

Try to set up minicom to usr COM3 = Linux /dev/ttyS2.
WIN COM1 = /dev/ttyS0
WIN COM2 = /dev/ttyS1
WIN COM3 = /dev/ttyS2
WIN COM4 = /dev/ttyS3

Be sure your mouns is not on the same port!

HTH

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how to spy out serial line communication?

[Ingo Hohmann]

Hi,

I need to know the commands a windows based program
sends to the modem. How is it possible to read what 
it's sending and receiving? (I'll start it under 
wine or dosemu/win311).

thanks,

Ingo

Re: Sound blaster 16 pnp

[Brad]

On Mon, 24 May 1999, Ali Onur UYAR wrote:

> What this means is that, as the 16-bit dma channel you have to pass another
> 8-bit dma channel that is instead of passing irq 5,6,7 etc. you have to pass 
> irq
> 0,1,2,3
> At some point an error message is displayed, something similar to
> "Bad dma channel."
> Simply IGNORE THIS MSG. Everthing works fine once configuration is complete.
> The message is displayed because the sb module expectes one  8-bit an another
> 16-bit dma channel, but you have to pass teo 8-bit dma channels to the module.

Odd. All this time i've been passing dma16=5 to the sb module and
everything worked fine. pnpdump (and windows, for that matter) gave the
same number for 16-bit dma.
insmod sb io=0x220 irq=9 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x300 type=6
(the type=6 came from the soundcard manual, i'm not completely sure if
the sb module uses it at all... or where i even got the option 'type'
from)

> Before invoking pnpdump, do not forget to remove all the sound modules first.
> This was one of the mistakes I made. If you skip this step some of the irq's
> might be marked as being used. and pnpdump will not produce the correct 
> results.
> Using lsmod and rmmod may be helpful.

If it's not too late, do the pnpdump before booting to a kernel that even
has sound support. That way you can't have the modules causing problems.

Check the output anyway, especially if you know what the numbers should
be.

> Summary
> Install pci utils
> pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf
> Install the following modules: sb, sound. soundcore, uart401, opl3

adlib_card too.

> Using insmod what I did for testing was
> insmod soundcore
> insmod sound
> insmod uart401
> insmod sb irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3 io=0x220 mpu_io=0x330

Pull the numbers out of isapnp.conf, they could easily be different for
your computer.

> insmod opl3 io=0x388

Instead of the line above, i do this:
  modprobe adlib_card io=0x388
Probably a well-placed modprobe could be used in place of a good number of
the other insmods, but i'm too lazy to mess around with it when it works
;)

> Then
> cat /dev/sndstat

Just to check if things are sane. Another good check is to try playing a
sound and see if it works! i do this every time i compile a new kernel (as
well as checking net access and my printer)

Re: Installing from source

[Carl Mummert]

There is a package named 'alien' that can take care of some of this, depending
on exactly what you are needing to install.


What you do is to layout the files in some remote directory, like you
would want them installed: 

  /somewhere--etc/file1
|
 --usr/bin/\file2
|
--- and so forth

You can do this automtically with most makefiles by chainging the
INSTALL_PREFIX or similar variable to point to some remote directory
that you create for this purpose (then, 'make install' will put the files
in that remote place.. just go slow.)  You can also just build up
the directories by hand.  

Make sure the permissions on all the files are correct.

Then, cd to that remote directory.  Notice that, in some sense, it is the
root directory for your installation.  What you will do is to package the
files in this direcotry; then, when they are installed from the root
directory, they will fall where they should. 

>From that remote directory, run 'tar czvf package.tgz'.  This will amke
a file named 'package.tgz' that has all of the files that were in
your current directory and below. Don't use the name 'package'!

Now run 'alien package.tgz' as root - you will get a package.deb
file.  Now, run dpkg -i pacakge.deb.  You cen rm the tgz file and
the files in the remote directory.  

To uninstall, 'dpkg --purge package' will work.


Carl

enlightenment, rpm

[Anonymous Coward]

ok i wanted the latest version of enlightenment on my debian 2.1 so i
took the rpm off of the RH6 cd and copied it to /.  then i did alien -d
theenlightenmnetrpm.rpm on the rpm and it generated it.  i also did it
on the enlightenment-conf rpm.  then i used dpkg -i on the .deb files
and everything went smoothly except for warnings about libungif.  then i
attempted to start enlightenment but it said no libungif so i got that
off of the RH6 cd also and did alien, dpkg etc. and installed it
everything went smoothly also.  then i try to start enlightenment and i
get "segmentation fault".  can anyone tell me either how to fix this or
how to get the latest (latest being 15) ver. of enlightenment on my sys
using apt or dselect or something like that (either of which i do not
have much knowledge).  is there a way i can get it on there without
installing it from tarballs?  i'd like to keep my system homogenous of
debian packages.  thank you

NDN: Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?

[Post Office]

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Re: mounting nfs when server down

[Joey Hess]

Pere Camps wrote:
>   b. Imagine bot the client and the server fall (power out, for
> example). The client boots up faster than the server and when it tries to
> mount the partition it can't.

Yes, and then it hangs until the server comes up.

-- 
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Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?

[Rob Browning]

Sergey V Kovalyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> When you install libnss-ldap, there is a short howto in
> /usr/doc/libnss-ldap
> I also suggest downloading conversion tools from www.padl.com, which will
> help populate the LDAP database

OK.  I'm back working on this, and I've gotten openldap
etc. installed, and I've gotten the migration tools, read the HOWTO,
and played with gq to see that I can actually see my database, and I'm
about ready to try and cram my passwd/group stuff in there.  However,
from looking at the migration tools, it seems that they can translate
a lot more than just passwd/group stuff like services, protocols,
aliases, fstab, etc.

So I'm a little curious now.  I'd like to get a brief overview of the
overall picture.  Are people using ldap much for things like fstab?
If so, how would that actually work, and how would it interact with
other package upgrades?  (I can see how accounts work via glibc2 and
libpam-ldap/libnss-ldap.)  Also, I'm wondering what, if any, the
security concerns are relating to ldap access to passwd etc.

Can someone give me a brief overview or point me at an appropriate
doc?  I haven't found one yet.

Thanks

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List archives? was: Re: fetchmail problems

[Lazarus Long]

On Thursday, May 20, 1999 at 11:17:01 -0500, Matt Garman wrote:
 > Subject: Re: fetchmail problems
 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 > X-UIDL: 685403a47c42011da0baee50b375ebfe
 > 
 > Also, I read through the fetchmail FAQ, and searched the debian-user
 > list archives.

How did you search the archives?  Do you have a working URL for this
handy?  I just filed a bug against www.debian.org since the link from
there appears to be broken recently.  Is there another I overlooked?

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Re: linuxconf

[Johannes Beigel]

"Person, Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> There is a linuxconf in the debian experimental archives.

Where can I get experimental packages?

Are they even more unstable than packages from unstable/potato?

Jojo.
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DHCP and debian

[Mark Wright]

I'm adding a debian workstation to our Windows network, and I'd like to use
our DHCP server to assign it's ip-address, DNS servers, netmask, etc.  Is
this possible?

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Re: mail clients

[Rob Browning]

Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> See /usr/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz
> It answered all of my questions.

See also "info exim-filter".

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Re: postgresql installation trouble ...

[Jon Marler]

I figured it out ...


The permissions on /dev/null by default are set to 0600 root root.  I set
them to 0666 root root.  Problem solved.

Jon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)

[Kenneth Scharf]

>That explains something I experienced before. Thanks >for the tip.

>BTW, this pciutils package is not in the basic Debian >2.1 set up, yet
>with
>every boot up the kernel invokes lspci, which is >doesn't find of
>course. Is
>this an oversight from the team who compiled the >installation list,
or
>is
>there a reason for omitting? Seems a bit strange to >me.

I was wondering about that message at boot up too.  It started after
upgrading to slink from hamm.  I had no idea WTF lspci was, thought it
was a hardware reference.  Guess I'll have to install pciutils.  BTW I
did not have any problems configuring my SB16 (which I thought was a
vibra), it's a 16 bit ISA card, PNP.  Just let pnpdump do it's thing,
edit the dump and then rebuild the kernel with the settings found.
Then tested it with X11Amp (compiled from potatoe sources under slink).
 Now to get some real speakers instead of the 2 by nothing ones I have now.
===
Amateur Radio, when all else fails!

http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze

Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .


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Re: laptop netconfig

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would like 
to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something like 
this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in getting 
an address and starting diald if it didn't.

Good luck,

Justin Hagemeier wrote:

> I have a laptop with three possible network configurations that I would like 
> to use.
> 1. Ethernet 10 Mbps DHCP-sv
> 2. PPP daild
> 3. None at all
> is there any suggestions on tools for configuration techniques for this kind 
> of setup. It looks as if I could do it if one of the init.d scripts sniffed 
> out the PCMCIA to see if there where activity, then if there was not it would 
> start daild instead of DHCP.  I have no idea where to begin on such a thing 
> though.  Any thoughts?
> Thanks in advance,
> Justin

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kde locale

[Serge Gavrilov]

Hello!

Today I install kde 1.1.1 (unofficial debian packages) on my Slink system.
But kde localization does not work. Does anybody have this problem? 
And how I can overcome this problem? 

Thank you!

-- 
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Re: Modem GM56PCI-L

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

I'm not sure if Linux supports any PCI modems yet. Check out the latest Hardware
howto.

Luiz Felipe wrote:

> Hello, now I use Debian 2.0 and a modem GM56PCI-L of Genius. My minicom
> (ttyS1) don't recive responce, in Windows my modem is COM3 it's put in
> PCI2 on my MotherBord, and how I can use it?
> Sorry my english but I'm Brazilian.!!!
>
> Wait your mail!

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[solved] g2player (fwd)

[scratch]

Hi,

I've solved the lib bugs by installing the stdlibc++-2.8 package. (I only
had the stdlibc++-2.9 package installed).

Works fine now. If only I knew how to install it properly on my Debian
system. The way I did it now, I used Alien to convert the .rpm from
real.com to a .deb. Of course this is not how it should be, as, for
example, Netscape plugin support isn't there. 

Anyone has got some pointers on how to enable the plugin support in
Netscape? (ie. which plugin *.so files to put where probably).

Thanks, Nico.

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  ::   ::
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-- Forwarded message --
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 01:47:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: scratch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: g2player


Does Real G2 player need glibc2.1 ? I downloaded the binaries from
real.com, but it refuses to run on my slink system.

intra:~# realplay
realplay: error in loading shared libraries
: undefined symbol: __eh_pc

That's really all it does. Anyone?

--nico

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Re: bios q

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Koyote wrote:

> I'm rebuilding a 486/33 to be our internet server (when I get that
> far...)
>
> The cmos setup isn't handling the hdd (1 gig), nor the cdrom- I've
> heard that  Linux bypasses the system setup, or it can use devices in
> spite of it. How much of this is true?

This is indeed all true. However, LILO, the most commonly used boot utility, 
relies
(as it must) on BIOS calls to load the kernel into memory and start the system. 
You
may have to rely on a floppy to boot the system. Once the thing is booted you 
don't
need the BIOS.

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(OT?) Enlightenment memory hogging

[William R Pentney]

Is there any way that I can reduce the amount of memory used by Enlightenment? 
Currently,with GNOME on top of it, it occupies about 95% of my memory wny 
programs loaded up. Any tips on making it use memory more efficiently would be 
appreciated.

- Bill

Postgres SQL - potato installation problem

[Jon Marler]

I am having a problem installing postgresql into a potato i386 system.

I did not have a previous version of postgres installed.  Here is the
errors I'm getting ...  I apologize for the length.

Vacuuming template1
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
Creating public pg_user view
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
mv: /var/postgres/data/base/template1/xpg_user: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
Creating view pg_rules
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
mv: /var/postgres/data/base/template1/xpg_rules: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
Creating view pg_views
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
mv: /var/postgres/data/base/template1/xpg_views: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
Creating view pg_tables
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
mv: /var/postgres/data/base/template1/xpg_tables: No such file or
directory
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
Creating view pg_indexes
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
mv: /var/postgres/data/base/template1/xpg_indexes: No such file or
directory
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
Loading pg_description
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied
dpkg: error processing postgresql (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 postgresql
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)


Any ideas?

Jon
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how to make modem silent?

[Karen Hu]

Is there a way will make "pon" dial my modem silently?
I'm still using Hamm (version 2.0).

Thanks,

(Note: I'm not on debian-user@, so plz include this address in your
msg).

-Ping

Installing Base System from Floppies

[Xela Wren]

I am trying to install the latest stable Debian on a Dell 486DX and am running 
into trouble installing teh base system.  Having tried it with FOUR different 
sets of install floppies (no CD, no network connection, no other machine 
nearby) I always get the same message when it finishes copying the 7 install 
disks and begins extracting the base2_1.tgz file:  Error extracting file.  

The REALLY strange thing is that when I try to install the Base System again it 
will stop in between disks 6 & 7 (once between 5 & 6 and once between 4 & 5) 
after having copied the whole disk with no problem and will display an error 
somtehing to the effect of, "Error outputting file: Success".  THis happens 
whenever I try to install the Base System again without starting the 
installation from scratch.

Any ideas?  Thanks for helping the newbie in advance.

Debian applications - where to get them???

[Nadarajah, Dinesh]

I am running into problems getting applications for Debian.

1.  I wanted to get the Communicator 4.5 and so I checked the Debian
archives. There is a listing for Communicator 4.5 but when I add up the file
sizes, they don't match nowhere close to the Netscape Binary posting (of
around 12MB). Are there any other files that I should be installing along
with these (there are no other dependencies shown on the package listing)
???

2.  I have seen posting on Real G2 player for Linux but I could not find
it at www.real.com  . Is there a G2 player for Linux
yet or is it still version 5.0?

3.  I wanted to download x11amp (also called winamp in the Windows
world) to play MP3 files but could not find it anywhere. Any suggestions on
where I might be able to get a copy (preferably in .deb format)? (Any
suggestions for a better player are also welcome :-)  ).

Thanks.

-D

Problems: setserial, mgetty

[Mike Patterson]

Howdy! 

First: I'm trying to get my Palmtop (HP680- Jornada) to dial into my system.
My system is a Debian 2.1 machine with an internal Zoom modem jumpered for 
com3. Although the system has com1/com2 configured, there are no devices on
them.

There are two problems. 

First, I seem to have problems getting /dev/ttyS3 to recognize the modem in
the first place. I use the following command to set up the port:

/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0x03e8 irq 4

Seems simple enough, but a review of /proc/ioports shows nothing:

# more ioports 
-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : npu
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0378-037f : lp
03c0-03df : vga+
03f0-03f5 : floppy
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
1000-101f : eth0
1400-147f : eth1

This isn't always true. sometimes, after dinking around with various port 
settings, it'll show up, but it is unreproducable. I double-checked my 
settings, comparing them to the jumpers on the card, and they are the same.
(The fact that I sometiems get it working with these values is proof)

---

Second problem. When I do get the modem working, the WinCE palmtop connects, 
tried to negotiate password, then disconnects without a reason. There is no
useful information in the mgetty docs. I followed the win95 documentation that
was provided with mgetty. 

Any ideas would be appreciated, since I'm going on a trip in two days, and it
would be nice to be able to check email. 

Also, if responses could be CCed to my email, it'd be appreciated, since I 
don't know yet if I'm successfully reading the mailing list.

--Mike

Re: linuxconf

[Shao Zhang]

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:23:58AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> hi,
> 
>   I'd like to know if there is a tools in debian distribution similar the
> linuxconf in
>   redhat?
> 
>   Thanks!
Yep!. Debian has linuxconf as well. Since Redhat and Debian do things
differently, the Debian folks are now working on it.

It should be ready for testing in potato soon. Read the DWN news to
find more.
 
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X server and pseudo-color

[Mark Tucker]

I've got some slink systems running at 1024x768 at 24bpp.  Several of the apps
that need to run on these systems require exactly 8bit color and refuse to run
if the display is set to anything other than 8bpp.  I still need the high color
(16 or 24 bpp) for other work which must be done concurrently.  How do I define
pseudo-colors for the current display?  Yes, I've done some reading of the
docs and searched dejanews, so far without results.  The graphics cards have 4mb
video RAM which should be enough for this task. 

Thanks.


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Lyndon State College
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Re: help /var is filling up!!!

[Carl Johnson]

Johann Spies at Johann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

I am not an expert on this, so I had to search a little to find this, so
if anybody finds any problems with this, please correct me.

The lastlog file appears to be an array of structures of binary data,
with an entry for each UID (except 'nobody' on mine).  The size of
yours would indicate that your last UID is 63434 if your is a x86
based system.  You could do a 'ls -s' /var/log/lastlog to get the real
size in blocks to see if the file has holes in it.  The structure
information is in /usr/include/utmpbits.h, which is included from
/usr/include/lastlog.h.  The lastlog file simply holds the last time
each user logged in, so is appears to never be rotated.

The wtmp file should be an array of structures of all logins and
reboots.  The size of yours might be correct if your system has a lot
of users, although I just discovered that my wtmp.0 file is corrupt.
The 'last' command will show a decoded version of the file, and the
option '-f ' will also allow you to specify another file.  This
file appears to be rotated from the /etc/cron.monthly/standard script.
The dates of your files indicate it has not been rotating properly in
the past, so your wtmp.0 file probably has 7 months of logs.  The
utmp(5) manpage has further details on the file, if you need it.

> I have two large files in my /var/log:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 18523020 May 24 07:14 lastlog <-
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root adm871296 May 24 07:14 wtmp
> -rw-r--r--   1 root adm   7499904 May  5 14:07 wtmp.0  <-
> -rw-r--r--   1 root adm 49369 Oct  1  1998 wtmp.1.gz
> -rw-r--r--   1 root adm 26365 Aug  1  1998 wtmp.2.gz
> -rw-r--r--   1 root adm 56427 Jun  9  1998 wtmp.3.gz
> -rw-r--r--   1 root adm 18072 Mar  1  1998 wtmp.4.gz
> -rw-r--r--   1 root adm   652 Feb  1  1998 wtmp.5.gz
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   130944 Aug 21  1998 wtmp.libc5
> 
> It seems as if wtmp.0 is on its way to become wtmp.1.gz some time but what
> about lastlog?  Is this normal?
> 
> I have tried to look at the contents of lastlog and it contains thousands
> of ^@'s.
> 
> On 21 May 1999, Carl Johnson wrote:
> > My /var/log directory is only a little over 2MB, but mine is mostly just a
> > workstation for me.  Just for reference, I only have 5 files over 100KB, and
> > the largest is only 300KB.
> 

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running programs from other computers on local net (window manager)

[Micha Feigin]

How do i start a window manager from another computer on the local net
(university) when I start up a xwindows session?
Alternatly, can i check on what local computer i am running in order to
chose the local available window manager, and if so, how do i encorperate
this into xsession?

Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?

[Martin Waller]

From: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>> "MW" == Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

MW> I don't know what's going on, but when I try to install (from my
MW> slink CD) the 2.0.36 kernel package .deb, I get a 2.0.36 aource
MW> .tgz under /usr/src

Yes, this is intended. You unpack it when you need it (with tar xfvz )
and it is also easier to handle by the packages manager.



so this has changed from hamm then which used to unpack it all for you and 
make the link from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/ ?



MW> (with a rehat package icon under tkdesk...!)

I don't know tkdesk, but if it uses a red hat icon for tarballs, then
I would call it a bug. Use the bug package to report it.

MW> and a directory under /usr/src of REDHAT, with al it's associated
MW> sub dirs!

It you install the rpm package, it will create these directories, as
you can check with dpkg -S /usr/src/redhat.



Ah - that explains it.  Excuse my confusion!  It all makes sense now.

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International characters

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Thanks for all help,

regarding "international characters for the swedish language". It seems to
be more than one solution to the problem. The first one is:

export LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.iso-8859-1

insert this line in /etc/profile. And, all users on the system will been
able to use the swedish characters.

And, the second solution is:

set convert-meta off
set input-meta on
set output-meta on

insert these lines in /etc/inputrc. And, it works as well.

However, are there any advantages/disadvantages using the first or the
second method?

My system already had the "set input-meta on" and "set output-meta on" in
the /etc/inputrc, but the "set convert-meta off" was not activated. Why?

Christian Ericsson

Re: Installing from source

[Brad]

On Mon, 24 May 1999, Otgonbayar Uuye wrote:

> 1. How am I supposed to install programs from tarball source code? I can 
> untar and compile them,
> but then the debian package system doesn't recognize it. 
> 
> For instance I have downloaded qt-1.44.tar.gz, compiled and installed it. 
> Then qt installs itself in
> /usr/local which violates the debian policy as I understand. KDE does the 
> same thing. As my
> system doesn't recognize them, it wouldn't configure it properly. Also how do 
> I uninstall them  then?   

Actually, that is exactly Debian policy: programs you install yourself go
under /usr/local, the distro never touches it.

If you make a deb from the sources, then you should of course make it not
touch /usr/local.

help: clock resets on reboot

[Rob Mahurin]

My clock resets when I reboot, pretty much at random.  Doesn't matter how long
it's been off; when I check in the CMOS before it boots, it's still right.  But
sometime between when lilo loads and I get a login prompt, it sets, pretty much
at random.  date and hwclock agree, but they're wrong.  Sometimes it's back half
an hour; sometimes it's a couple of hours; once it went to march 1997.  Never
goes forward.  This never happened before a couple of weeks ago.  I have no
idea.  Does anybody?

Rob

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RE: linuxconf

[Person, Roderick]

There is a linuxconf in the debian experimental archives. It requires libc6
from potatoe and some other stuff from there, it works and is better that
the linuxconf that I used (redhat 5.1 version). The X version of the
linuxconf is really cool. But, the libc6 from potatoe did like some stuff on
my slink box, so I had to get rid of it.

> -Original Message-
> From: Timothy C. Phan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 9:24 AM
> To:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  linuxconf
> 
> hi,
> 
>   I'd like to know if there is a tools in debian distribution similar the
> linuxconf in
>   redhat?
> 
>   Thanks!
> 
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Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

[Werner Reisberger]

On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 11:30:37AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, which important startup script has the /bin/bash?
> So i can watch out for it if i ever have a broken bash

I had bash in /etc/init.d/rcS (hamm).

-Werner

Key board and mouse lockup

[Tommy Malloy]

Every once in a blue moon, when I am in X  my keyboard and mouse lockup.
I am forced to turn the computer off. This is bad.  Is there a log file
that I could look at that might help me to figure out what the problem
is? Also is there a particular grep syntax that I should us on the log
file.  

Thanks

Tom

Re: [Help] Memory

[Gary L. Hennigan]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nguyen Hai Ha) writes:
| Hi folks,
| 
| I've just installed the debian 2.0.34 on my machine.
| Everything seems to work well excepts the memory.
| The real memory consists of 2 DIMM 128M+32M. But it
| seems to me that the kernel doesn't think so.
| 
| % cat /proc/meminfo
| 
| total:used:free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
| Mem:  15171584 13418496  1753088  7012352   593920  6090752
| Swap: 119697408  5156864 114540544
| MemTotal: 14816 kB
| MemFree:   1712 kB
| MemShared: 6848 kB
| Buffers:580 kB
| Cached:5948 kB
| SwapTotal:   116892 kB
| SwapFree:111856 kB
| 
| I think this is the problem of the kernel's configuration.
| Please tell me something. Thanks in advance.

It's probably something strange going on with the BIOS function used
by linux to detect the amount of memory in your computer. I have two
suggestions you can try:

1) Manually edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a line like:

append="mem=160M"

or, if you already have an "append" line add it to the line like:

append="floppy=thinkpad,mem=160M"

2) Alternatively, upgrade to kernel 2.0.36 or higher. Starting with
2.0.36 the memory detection uses an extended BIOS call to get the
amount of memory and this could solve your problem. If Windows can
properly find the amount of RAM then a Linux kernel >= 2.0.36 will
also, since they use the same BIOS call.

Gary

debian-user@lists.debian.org

[Dave Swegen]

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:37 -0500, Judith Elaine Bush wrote:
> 
> *- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about "netscape menubar
> black&white" 
> Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
> 
> > Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode.  Netscape has a known problem
> > with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp.
> 
> Other than the icons being in b&w (and i like the reduced visual
> clutter) is there any other reason you shouldn't run Netscape under
> 24bpp?

I might be incorrect about this, but I recall reading somewhere that
running the xserver at 32 bpp is faster than running it at 24 bpp, as it
can then take advanatage of the fact that image data is nicely aligned
along word boundaries (I presume the data is padded with an extra 8 bits in
24 bpp mode, which would slow things down). Not so much a reason for not
running Netscape at 24 bpp, but rather a general reason for running X at
either 16 or 32 bpp...

Cheers
Dave

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Re: pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)

[Remco van de Meent]

Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> BTW, this pciutils package is not in the basic Debian 2.1 set up, yet with
> every boot up the kernel invokes lspci, which is doesn't find of course.
> Is this an oversight from the team who compiled the installation list, or
> is there a reason for omitting? Seems a bit strange to me.

It's strange indeed; it has come up before, and because the default
Debian 2.1 install comes with 2.0.36, which doesn't support the
/proc/bus/pci interface of the 2.2 kernels (the interface that pciutils
uses) it might have been better to not to include that call to lspci.


 -Remco 

Sound Card

[Adilson dos Santos Dantas]

Hi!

I still have problems in configuring my sound card
in linux. I search at mail archives, FAQs
HOWTOs,documentations, downloading the OSSfree
evaluation software and I didn's have sucess.My
sound card is an Aztech Sound Galaxy that uses
2316/R Chipset. 

Is this card supported by kernel 2.2.9?

If yes, how to setup the drivers?

If not, I thing that it's time to buy a new sound
card.

I's using a slink with kernel 2.2.9

Any help is welcome.


 []'s


Adilson

Re: Unsupported protocols??

[David Wright]

Quoting Jens B. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Some kinda error I'd guess. I took a look at the assigned numbers RFC and the 
> only one
> of those defined is 0x7f and its:
> 
> 007freserved (compression inefficient)[RFC1662]
> 
> I'm thinking there must've been some sort of corruption of the data. This 
> shouldn't
> happen though since the ppp frames FCS should've discarded any corrupted 
> frame which
> is received. Very odd.
> 

Worse than that, they're not just unsupported protocols (I get one of
these, 0x8029, whenever I connect to a certain ISP) but they should
be flagged as "unrecognisable". PPP protocols are all supposed to be
odd at the end and even in the middle, i.e. XeXo, and many of those
quoted aren't.

> Sean wrote:
> 
> > I was glancing at tail /var/log/messages, and noticed the following:
> >
> > pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x7f) received
> > pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol  (0x88fc) received
> > pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x67ec) received
> > pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x7432) received
> > pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x4822) received
> > pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0xfe39) received
> > pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x8c73) received
> > pppd[1007]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x61
> > pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x848c) received
> > pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0xbacd) received
> >
> > etc, etc, etc

Cheers,

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Gnome themes

[Jason Murray]

I'm having a little trouble attempting to install themes for gnome (gtk). I've
downloaded a few from gtk.themes.org. When I go to install them from the
control center it doesn't seem to work.

Here's what I do. In the "Theme Selector" I hit the "Install new theme..."
button. Then I navigate my way to the directory that contains the gtkrc file.
I select that file. It tells me: "Error installing theme: .../gtkrc Unknown
file format"

Obviously I am doing something wrong. I don't know what.

When I get this method working (with some help) does it make this theme only
available to the user who installed it? I am assuming yes. If that is the
case, how do I make the themes available to the other users on the system?
I.e. do I put it in /usr/share/some/path?

BTW I have GNOME from potato, and I've got the gtk-engines-* packages
installed.

TIA
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Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "MW" == Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

MW> I don't know what's going on, but when I try to install (from my
MW> slink CD) the 2.0.36 kernel package .deb, I get a 2.0.36 aource
MW> .tgz under /usr/src

Yes, this is intended. You unpack it when you need it (with tar xfvz ) 
and it is also easier to handle by the packages manager.
 
MW> (with a rehat package icon under tkdesk...!)

I don't know tkdesk, but if it uses a red hat icon for tarballs, then
I would call it a bug. Use the bug package to report it.

MW> and a directory under /usr/src of REDHAT, with al it's associated
MW> sub dirs!

It you install the rpm package, it will create these directories, as
you can check with dpkg -S /usr/src/redhat.

Ciao,
Martin

debian-user@lists.debian.org

[John Foster]

Judith Elaine Bush wrote:
> 
> *- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about "netscape menubar
> black&white"
> Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
> 
> > Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode.  Netscape has a known problem
> > with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp.
> 
> Other than the icons being in b&w (and i like the reduced visual
> clutter) is there any other reason you shouldn't run Netscape under
_
I have it running in 24bpp and the only thing I have noticed is it
crashes on some play requests for some animated scripts. esp shockwave.
I suspect that is because of the depth setting, BUT that is only a
suspicion. Anyone else have any ideas about this? I just have not had
the time to reconfigure the xserver, to see if that fixes it
-- 
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linuxconf

[Timothy C. Phan]

hi,

  I'd like to know if there is a tools in debian distribution similar the
linuxconf in
  redhat?

  Thanks!

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Re: EMERGENCY 'umount /'

[David B.Teague]

On Mon, 24 May 1999, per_adua32 wrote:
[snip]

> After booting with linux-init=/bin/sh I was dropped
> into bash. I then tried to unmount the root filesystem
> so that I could mount it again as read/write. However,
> when I entered the command

> umount /

> I got some message like can't open mtab: file doesn't 
> exist or something like this.

> Can someone please. I would to solve this without having
> to re-install the whole system.

In /etc/init.d, I find the lines:

  # Ensure that root is quiescent and read-only before fsck'ing.
  #
  mount -n -o remount,ro /

This command should remount an rw root file system read only.

--David
David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
 useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
 (Hope this qualifies.)

Re: mail clients

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "SP" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

SP> Windows is designed for the causal user. That's great,
SP> initially. There is no learning curve,

Hahahahahahah.

Sorry. I work parttime on phone support to pay for my studies. I can
assure you, that a current Linux is no more complicated to learn than
Windows, when the user is new to computers.

"I just got your CD. What do I do now?" - "Well, you put it in your CD 
drive and start setup from the CD." - "How do I do this?"

Set someone (a relative or such) infront of windows 95 and tell them
to copy a file a textfile you have on the harddisk to a floppy. They
won't be able to do this. So far about "no learning curve".

Also users comming from Windows 3.1 can't use Windows95
initially. They have to learn *much* as well, as many things
changed. I also casually spek to them. Therefore you often still find
windows3.11 at work (at least here), even on new computers. It is
sufficient, it is what the employees know, the sysadmins know the
quirks of the different software acting together (win + lotus +
whatever), and you don't have to spend a huge amount of money to
teach them a new windows.

If you take a person, who isn't spoilt by windows paradigmen, and give 
hin/her a current Linux distribution, they won't have more problems
using it than windows. But they have to have someone to ask
questions. They will do this when then install windows as well.

Hmm, quite off topic now.

Ciao,
Martin

Re: Installing from source

[Mavroyanopoulos Nikos]

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:30:02PM +0900, Otgonbayar Uuye wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a couple of questions.
> 
> 1. How am I supposed to install programs from tarball source code? I can 
> untar and compile them,
> but then the debian package system doesn't recognize it. 
There is an instmon package intended to do that. You may found it at
http://argeas.cs-net.gr/pub/unix/instmon
It checks which files are being installed and creates a .deb (or rpm) file.

> Thanks a lot.
> ---Otgonbayar

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Re: MPEG-3

[Rob]

> works! (Bob's interview is worth the work to hear) X11amp is a playback
> only though?  What software is available for recording mp3's?  Now I'd

Check the stuff on freshmeat. Personally, I use mpg123 for playback and
bladeenc for encoding. The latter isn't free, but the (few) free projects
that were around seem to have disappeared because of patent problems :(

Rob.

MPEG-3

[Kenneth Scharf]

I downloaded an mp3 file of an interview with Bob Young (RH CEO) on
friday from LinuxToday.com.  Now I needed a way to hear it!  So I
finally rebuilt my kernel (and moved up to 2.0.36) with support for my
sound card (and also added scsi emulation to support my new cd rom
burner).  The only mp3 software I could find on the slink cd was
freeamp, and it didn't like the downloaded file for some reason, so I
went to the debian ftp site and downloaded the source to x11amp from
potato and built it (tried to make a debian package but I don't have
pgp installed.  What mirror site has it?)  Oh well , just do it the old
way, 'make', 'make install', and oops 'chmod +s x11amp'.  Great this
works! (Bob's interview is worth the work to hear) X11amp is a playback
only though?  What software is available for recording mp3's?  Now I'd
like to compile my own cd's. (hmm, I can fit between 10-20 cd's worth
on one cdr in mp3, and give that cdr drive something to do)
Any ideas?
===
Amateur Radio, when all else fails!

http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze

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Re: mail clients

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "JB" == Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Dispite some vocal mails from other users, I have a simple solution
for you.

JB> Someone sends to joe and the mail is filtered into his
JB> mailbox... meanwhile, tom's mail is filtered into his mailbox.

No problem. postilion does this without any problems. You can have
local or remote folders (like pop3, imap), and for each folder, you
define name, emailaddress etc.

It has some other nice features as well.

Another option is to use fetchmail, and add an indication for the
mailbox you fetch to the program call in the mda option. This way you
have sorted them into different folders. Now you just need to use a
mail client that uses different identities depending on the folder you 
are in. AFAIK, this is no problem with mutt. Gnus, *the* news/mail
client, does this with ease as well.

Try the first suggestion first. If you want to try the second
possibility as the firstone doesn't fulfil your needs, I can get more
specific.

Ciao,
Martin

pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)

[Hans van den Boogert]

>Another tip that might be helpful; if you are using slink, install pciutils
>package, which provides
>lspci utility which can be invoked by pnpdump when called with the
argument '-c
>'.
>Once lspci is installed pnpdump worked fine for me, I did not have to make
any
>further
>modifications in /etc/isapnp.conf
>

That explains something I experienced before. Thanks for the tip.

BTW, this pciutils package is not in the basic Debian 2.1 set up, yet with
every boot up the kernel invokes lspci, which is doesn't find of course. Is
this an oversight from the team who compiled the installation list, or is
there a reason for omitting? Seems a bit strange to me.

Hans 

Translation of Debian User Manual

[Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira]

Hi Debian users,
I'm interested in translate the Debian User Manual to portuguese.
I found one time it and downloaded. I have only a .html copy. How to
translate it? Is there a sgml copy? Where to get it? Who contact to coordinate
translations?
Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

debian-user@lists.debian.org

[Judith Elaine Bush]

*- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about "netscape menubar
black&white" 
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:

> Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode.  Netscape has a known problem
> with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp.

Other than the icons being in b&w (and i like the reduced visual
clutter) is there any other reason you shouldn't run Netscape under
24bpp?

Thanks,

judith
 

Installing from source

[Otgonbayar Uuye]

Hello,

I have a couple of questions.

1. How am I supposed to install programs from tarball source code? I can untar 
and compile them,
but then the debian package system doesn't recognize it. 

For instance I have downloaded qt-1.44.tar.gz, compiled and installed it. Then 
qt installs itself in
/usr/local which violates the debian policy as I understand. KDE does the same 
thing. As my
system doesn't recognize them, it wouldn't configure it properly. Also how do I 
uninstall them  then?   

2. I have Creative AudioPCI 64, and got it working with es1370 module. Now I 
can play xgalaga 
with sound, watch movies with MpegTV, but none of the cdplayers  play CD. No 
sound at all.
Gom says CD channel is 64, so it's not closed. What could be wrong?

Thanks a lot.
---Otgonbayar

Re: Sound blaster 16 pnp

[Ali Onur UYAR]

Roddie,
I've just configured my SoundBlaster Vibra 16pnp card on Friday.
I started off sending a posting to this newsgroup, compiled a 2.2 kernel,
read plenty of docs and manuals and if you have the some card that is
Vibra 16, than I guess you may be experiencing the same problems I have
experienced a week before.

The answer is in the kernel docs. I have installed kernel 2.2.9 and looking
up  ./Documentation/sound/VIBRA16 will be helpful. The following paragraph
is from the mentioned file.

So, the big problem still remains, because the sb module wants a
8-bit and a 16-bit dma, which we could not allocate for vibra... it supports

only two 8-bit dma channels, the second one will be passed to the module
as a 16 bit channel, the kernel will yield about that but everything will
be okay, trust us.

What this means is that, as the 16-bit dma channel you have to pass another
8-bit dma channel that is instead of passing irq 5,6,7 etc. you have to pass irq
0,1,2,3
At some point an error message is displayed, something similar to
"Bad dma channel."
Simply IGNORE THIS MSG. Everthing works fine once configuration is complete.
The message is displayed because the sb module expectes one  8-bit an another
16-bit dma channel, but you have to pass teo 8-bit dma channels to the module.

Another tip that might be helpful; if you are using slink, install pciutils
package, which provides
lspci utility which can be invoked by pnpdump when called with the argument '-c
'.
Once lspci is installed pnpdump worked fine for me, I did not have to make any
further
modifications in /etc/isapnp.conf

Before invoking pnpdump, do not forget to remove all the sound modules first.
This was one of the mistakes I made. If you skip this step some of the irq's
might be marked as being used. and pnpdump will not produce the correct results.
Using lsmod and rmmod may be helpful.

Summary
Install pci utils
pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf
Install the following modules: sb, sound. soundcore, uart401, opl3

Using insmod what I did for testing was
insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod uart401
insmod sb irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3 io=0x220 mpu_io=0x330
insmod opl3 io=0x388
Then
cat /dev/sndstat

That's all.
Send a mail, for further questions.

Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?

[Martin Waller]

I just use Xnest -query  :1 &

and login via the xdm prompt as root.

voila - a root session in a window under a normal users session.

No faffing about with authorities and crap.


> > How do i start graphical programs under X as root while I'm logged in 
as a

> > normal user?
>



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Re: strange msg in bootup

[Ali Onur UYAR]

On Sat, 22 May, Graham Aston wrote:

On Friday 21 May, Dan Willard wrote:

> The route command now requires a netmask.  Just add one in to both of the
> route commands and it should go away.

if you read the 2.2 docs in /usr/src/linux/Changes (or whatever it's
called) then you should find a bit that tells you that routes for local
interfaces are added automatically by the kernel. comment out the
"route..." lines in /etc/init.d/network and the problem should go away.

Thanks, the problem is solved now. The correct solution seems to be commenting
out the appropriate lines in  the file /etc/init.d/network

2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?

[Martin Waller]

Hi,

I don't know what's going on, but when I try to install (from my slink CD) 
the 2.0.36 kernel package .deb, I get a 2.0.36 aource .tgz  under /usr/src 
(with a rehat package icon under tkdesk...!) and a directory under /usr/src 
of REDHAT, with al it's associated sub dirs!


Is this a practical joke???

I wasn't amused!



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Re: mounting nfs when server down

[Pere Camps]

Joey,

> hard   The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file system will hang
>when the server crashes. The pro­ cess cannot be interrupted or
>killed unless you also specify intr.  When the NFS server is back
>online the program will continue undisturbed from where it was. This
>is probably what you want.

I've tried it, but I see two problems with it:

a. 'root' can not login as it looks for it's mail on
/var/spool/mail (also nfs-mail). I can put a .hushlogin and anyway root
never receives email (admin does it for him), but if root tries to ls
/var/spool/mail it hangs. Maybe I'm too much of a purist here.

b. Imagine bot the client and the server fall (power out, for
example). The client boots up faster than the server and when it tries to
mount the partition it can't. Idea for this: make a C program that looks
for well mounted directories and if they aren't good it mounts them. C
because the program will run 'suid' from /etc/profile (and mount is not
suid). Of course the C program will not accept any parameters nor
configuration (I don't know much of C program security, so better make it
simple).

What I'm looking for exactly is if it exists a standard solution
for problem b.

Thanks for your help!

-- p.

Re: EMERGENCY 'umount /'

[Conrado Badenas]

per_adua32 wrote:
> 
> After booting with linux-init=/bin/sh I was dropped
> into bash. I then tried to unmount the root filesystem
> so that I could mount it again as read/write. However,
> when I entered the command
> 
> umount /
> 
> I got some message like can't open mtab: file doesn't
> exist or something like this.

I don't know what the option "linux-init=/bin/sh" makes. Rescue disk
creates a root filesystem in memory (doesn't use any hard disk, the
device for that fs is /dev/ram0) which is loaded from the diskette with
the kernel image. The root fs in the hard disk is not mounted.
Nevertheless, it can be mounted for example in /target with:

# mount /dev/hdb3 /target
(/dev/hdb3 is the device for the disk partition where my working Linux
has the root filesystem)

Now, your mtab can be read in /target/etc/mtab. In order to know which
filesystems are mounted and where, try "df".

BTW: You cannot umount / if it is busy (open files or processes with
their working directory under it). If "umount" find it not busy
(unbusy?) then it will umount it, and then will try to write the new
situation in /etc/mtab but... /etc/mtab does not exist because / is not
mounted. After this, you will be able to do nothing but running programs
already in memory (e.g., shell and built-in commands). For example, you
will not be able to "mount" because this program was somewhere under /.

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Re: Making a Debian CD?

[Wojciech Zabolotny]

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:34:41AM -0400, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if any one can tell me if it's possible to make one's own 
> Debian CD.  MkLinux has a 648MB CD image file for people to download and 
> make CD of.  I don't know if this is the case for Debian.  Thanks!

Take a look at http://cdimage.debian.org/
I've got the CD images from one of the mirrors, to prepare CD's for 
debian users in our institute.

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   with the FREE cryptographic system

writing Debian CD images

[scratch]

(Sorry I lost the original message to reply to, hope the person who asked
this question will read this)

For your Debian CD images to write yourself, take a look at:

http://cdimages.debian.org

You can find the official CD images for Debian there. Beware that it's a
huge download though, hope you don't pay on a per megabyte basis :)

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Re: help /var is filling up!!!

[Johann Spies at Johann]

I have two large files in my /var/log:

-rw-r--r--   1 root root 18523020 May 24 07:14 lastlog <-

-rw-r--r--   1 root adm871296 May 24 07:14 wtmp
-rw-r--r--   1 root adm   7499904 May  5 14:07 wtmp.0  <-
-rw-r--r--   1 root adm 49369 Oct  1  1998 wtmp.1.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root adm 26365 Aug  1  1998 wtmp.2.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root adm 56427 Jun  9  1998 wtmp.3.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root adm 18072 Mar  1  1998 wtmp.4.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root adm   652 Feb  1  1998 wtmp.5.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   130944 Aug 21  1998 wtmp.libc5

It seems as if wtmp.0 is on its way to become wtmp.1.gz some time but what
about lastlog?  Is this normal?

I have tried to look at the contents of lastlog and it contains thousands
of ^@'s.



On 21 May 1999, Carl Johnson wrote:

> Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > > You really should find the real problem before you try changing
> > > logging.  Try something like the command 'find /var -xdev -size +5000k
> > > -print'.  This will print out the names of all files more than 5MB
> > > (there probably shouldn't be any).  Then look into the file and see if
> > right found another big file.. daemon 

> My /var/log directory is only a little over 2MB, but mine is mostly just a
> workstation for me.  Just for reference, I only have 5 files over 100KB, and
> the largest is only 300KB.

Johann

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laptop netconfig

[Justin Hagemeier]

I have a laptop with three possible network configurations that I would like to 
use.
1. Ethernet 10 Mbps DHCP-sv
2. PPP daild
3. None at all
is there any suggestions on tools for configuration techniques for this kind of 
setup. It looks as if I could do it if one of the init.d scripts sniffed out 
the PCMCIA to see if there where activity, then if there was not it would start 
daild instead of DHCP.  I have no idea where to begin on such a thing though.  
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Justin

質問

[あなたの名前]

Ｄｅｂｉａｎをインストールするには、ファイルの大きさは、どれくらいです
か？
初心者なので、分かりやすくインストール方法を教えて下さい。
インターネットのホームページで分かりやすい所も教えて下さい。

Re: sourcing the new install

[John Pearson]

On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:52:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> > Sounds like more trouble that it is work. Slink packages (usually) don't 
> > change,
> > because they are the stable distribution. Right now, packages in unstable 
> > are
> > changing. I use apt-get in the apt package to do what you want to do,
> > keep my system up to date.
> >
> One thing I was hoping to avoid...I haven't seen slink/apt yet, but I am aware
> that it will install from multiple CD's...under the previous release, I had
> copied the binaries of Contrib/Non-Free/Non-US to my hard drive, left the i386
> CD in the tray, and told dselect that I was installing from the hard drive.
> Then, I could tell dselect the paths to each of the sets of packages, and it
> installed all without my having to change CD's (which the previous release
> wouldn't do, anyway).
> 
> Will I be able to get a Non-Free and Non-US CD, and will apt do the multiple
> install from them?  Or, if not, how do I make apt aware of where I am keeping
> those sets of files?
> 

Dselect in slink provides a 'multi-CD' access method that works well with
properly-made CD sets.  Apt in slink doesn't support multiple CDs well at
all, although apt-0.3.4 from potato does and works fine for me on slink
systems.

Slink doesn't fit onto a single CD, so you will need some way of dealing
with at least two CDs anyway; multi-CD access is the most straightforward,
but your old scheme should still work.  I don't use the 'official' CDs, but
I think non-free & non-US will make it three CDs or so; if you want to use
multi-CD access in dselect I believe that the CDs must be designed to work
together as a set (or at least, one of them must be designed to work with
the other two), as the contents of the entire set are read from one of the
CDs.  apt-0.3.4 appears extremely flexible, and I expect that it would work
with just about any collection of reasonably well organised CDs.

If you 'need' non-US and non-free packages you should be able to find a set
that puts slink, contrib, non-US and the re-distributable bits of non-free
onto 2 CDs (but that would exclude, among other things, Netscape). If you
use apt-0.3.4 or working equivalent you can use apt with the official CD set
for main and contrib, and http for non-free & non-US, 'transparently'.


John P.
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Re: Staroffice 5.1 under slink

[John Leget]

Hi,

I use "wget" for all downloads, i cut and paste urls into a text file as i come 
across them
which in turn is set up to be read by wget when it starts.
I then start wget up in "ip-up.d" no problem, apart from being impatient 
sometimes :)


wget is included with debian to >;0)
cheers

Shao Zhang wrote:

> Hi,
> I don't understand why they don't split the one big tar into pieces.
> With the daily use of the telephone, it is nearly impossible for me
> to download the whole thing.
>
> Is there any programs similar to Go Right in linux?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Shao.
>
> On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 01:40:40PM +1200, John Leget wrote:
> > Unfortunately it seems the tar file i downloaded is corrupt :(. The sum of 
> > extracted
> > files is less than the originall tar file 
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Paul Harris wrote:
> >
> > > i didn't have a single problem: i just downloaded the tarball again to be
> > > sure:
> > >
> > > download it, untar it. cd so51inst/office51
> > >
> > > ./setup
> > >
> > > thats it... its there (in the tarball from mirror.aarnet.edu.au), along
> > > with shitloads of f_..._. files, setup.ins and setup.zip
> > >
> > > you didn't just forget to look at the whole dir right? ls | less ?
> > >
> > > just try typing the binary name and see if it works...
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > On Sun, 23 May 1999, John Leget wrote:
> > >
> > > > Im about to try under potato except i cant find the .office51/setup 
> > > > file there
> > > > lots off f files and a setup.ins
> > > > and thats it.
> > > >
> > > > I had a look inside the older 5.0 version and it does have a "setup" 
> > > > and also a
> > > > "setup.zip" ,thing is the
> > > > file i have appears ok same size as on the server - file length of the 
> > > > tar is72336K
> > > > as on the ftp site i got it ?
> > > >
> > > > Did i miss something obvious.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > >
> > > > Paul Harris wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > yeah it works under slink fine... but i'm wondering if that is all 
> > > > > they
> > > > > changed... apart from some small user interface diffs in the 
> > > > > configuration
> > > > > section, nothing seems to have changed... i still see the little
> > > > > annoyances from 5.0...
> > > > >
> > > > > Paul
> > > > >
> > > > > --
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Making a Debian CD?

[Fu-Dong Chiou]

Hi,

I was wondering if any one can tell me if it's possible to make one's own 
Debian CD.  MkLinux has a 648MB CD image file for people to download and 
make CD of.  I don't know if this is the case for Debian.  Thanks!

Best wishes,
Chip 

Re: sourcing the new install

[John Foster]

> One thing I was hoping to avoid...I haven't seen slink/apt yet, but I am aware
> that it will install from multiple CD's...under the previous release, I had
> copied the binaries of Contrib/Non-Free/Non-US to my hard drive, left the i386
> CD in the tray, and told dselect that I was installing from the hard drive.
> Then, I could tell dselect the paths to each of the sets of packages, and it
> installed all without my having to change CD's (which the previous release
> wouldn't do, anyway).
> 
> Will I be able to get a Non-Free and Non-US CD, and will apt do the multiple
> install from them?  Or, if not, how do I make apt aware of where I am keeping
> those sets of files?
> 
> Steven C. Martin

I had very good results with the Debian  4 pak CD set that I gotr here
for $4.95 +shipping and handling.

http://www.lsl.com/
-- 
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AdVance-Computing Systems
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Re: tulip 100mps card; need advice

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0x6100, 00 c0 f0 17 16 0d, IRQ 11.
eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth0:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
eth0:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 3000 status 7829.
eth0:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 01e1.

Works fine at 100MB on an autosensing 10/100 ProCurve hub. The
 load is non-existant to moderate, though, but I have heard good
 things about this card from other people.

manoj
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RE: kde headers

[Pollywog]

On 24-May-99 Alan wrote:
> Hello people, 
>   I was wondering if anyone can help me with me with KDE headers. Im trying
> to
> install a few programs that keep comming up with a prefix error when I run
> 'configure', but i can't seem to find out where they are supose to be or get
> any info on the KDE site.  Im using debian 2.1 with kernel 2.2.3 if it
> matters.

Try your /usr/bin/X11/include directory if you installed from debs.

--
Andrew

Sound Card Config/Kernel Compile Problems

[Chris Hoover]

I'm having some problems with my yamaha pci sound card that I just installed.  
After reading the kernel documentation, I compiled in every thing it said to 
for the olp3-sa stuff.  However, on the reboot of my system, it looks like some 
of the sound card parameters are wrong, and I'm not sure what they should be.

Here is what the kernel said:

OSS: OPL3-SA chip not found
Found OPL3-SAx (YMF719)
MSS: I/O port conflict
Sound initialization complete

Alright, the kernel found my card and called thinks it's a YMF719, although it 
really is a YMF724E-V.  Anyway, how can I tell what the MSS i/o port should be? 
 Here is some other information I've found while snooping around the proc dir.

/proc/sound:
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver compiled into kernel
Kernel: Linux debian 2.3.1 #2 Sun May 23 23:48:52 EST 1999 i586
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 
Type 10: MS Sound System
Type 27: Compaq Deskpro XL
Type 42: OPL3SA2
Type 43: OPL3SA2 MIDI
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 5: Roland MPU-401
Type 26: MPU-401 (UART)
Type 38: Yamaha OPL3-SA
Type 40: OPL3-SA MIDI
Type 36: SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table

Card config: 
(Yamaha OPL3-SA at 0x530 irq 11 drq 0,3)
(OPL3-SA MIDI at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0)
SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table
(OPL3SA2 MIDI at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0)
OPL3SA2 at 0x530 irq 9 drq 0,1
(Compaq Deskpro XL at 0x530 irq 11 drq 3)
(Roland MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0)
(OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0)

Audio devices:

Synth devices:
0: SoftOSS

Midi devices:

Timers:
0: System clock
1: SoftOSS

Mixers:

/proc/pci:
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C585 Apollo VP1/VPX (rev 35).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 39).
  Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.  
  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
  I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001].
  Bus  0, device   8, function  0:
Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 5).
  Vendor id=1073. Device id=4.
  Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=5.Max 
Lat=25.
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe200 [0xe200].
  Bus  0, device  10, function  0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C595 100bTX (rev 0).
  Medium devsel.  IRQ 10.  Master Capable.  Latency=248.  Min Gnt=3.Max 
Lat=8.
  I/O at 0x6200 [0x6201].
  Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
VGA compatible controller: NVidia Unknown device (rev 4).
  Vendor id=10de. Device id=20.
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  
Latency=32.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe000].
  Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe100 [0xe108].

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Chris

kde headers

[Alan]

Hello people, 
  I was wondering if anyone can help me with me with KDE headers. Im trying to
install a few programs that keep comming up with a prefix error when I run
'configure', but i can't seem to find out where they are supose to be or get
any info on the KDE site.  Im using debian 2.1 with kernel 2.2.3 if it matters.

Thanks Alan.