Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Rick Macdonald]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote:

> > What version of netscape, from where?
> > 
> > It works for me and others.
> 
> I am using 4.73 now and I have no problems with RealPlayer now.
> Now I have to figure out how to play mp3's from Netscape.  It seems plugger
> will play them from some websites and not others.

Post some examples of URL's that fail and we can see if it works for us.

...RickM...

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Pollywog]

On 24-Jul-2000 Joey Hess wrote:
> Pollywog wrote:
>> When I installed the Debian package that is used to install what I
>> downloaded
>> from www.real.com, Netscape could not see the plugin, for some reason.
>> This was not a problem when I downloaded the rpm from real.com and then
>> used
>> Alien to make a deb from it.
> 
> What version of netscape, from where?
> 
> It works for me and others.

I am using 4.73 now and I have no problems with RealPlayer now.
Now I have to figure out how to play mp3's from Netscape.  It seems plugger
will play them from some websites and not others.

--
Andrew
 

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Joey Hess]

Pollywog wrote:
> When I installed the Debian package that is used to install what I downloaded
> from www.real.com, Netscape could not see the plugin, for some reason.
> This was not a problem when I downloaded the rpm from real.com and then used
> Alien to make a deb from it.

What version of netscape, from where?

It works for me and others.

-- 
see shy jo

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Pollywog]

On 24-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> 
>> Are you using the version of Plugger that installs with Netscape?
>> That is what I have.  I believe it does not come with Netscape but that it
>> is
>> part of the Debian installer for Netscape.  Does anyone know for sure?
> 
> It's a deb package of its own: web/plugger_3.2-3.deb
> 

I believe I attempted to install that package after I had upgraded Netscape a
few months ago, but I was unable to install because dpkg said that plugger was
installed with Netscape.

--
Andrew

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Rick Macdonald]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote:

> Are you using the version of Plugger that installs with Netscape?
> That is what I have.  I believe it does not come with Netscape but that it is
> part of the Debian installer for Netscape.  Does anyone know for sure?

It's a deb package of its own: web/plugger_3.2-3.deb

...RickM...

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Rick Macdonald]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote:

> 
> On 24-Jul-2000 Joey Hess wrote:
> > Pollywog wrote:
> >> I uninstalled the RealPlayer package I had installed with the Debian
> >> install
> >> package.  I made a new Deb package using Alien and the RPM package I
> >> downloaded and it works much better.
> > 
> > Please degine "much better". As the author of both alien and the
> > realplayer installer package, my feelings arn't hurt that you chose one
> > over the other, but I am very puzzled how alien could do a better job.
> > 
> When I installed the Debian package that is used to install what I downloaded
> from www.real.com, Netscape could not see the plugin, for some reason.
> This was not a problem when I downloaded the rpm from real.com and then used
> Alien to make a deb from it.
> 
> Now I am able to actually use the RealPlayer plugin on Netscape.

It worked for me this morning, installing all the potato debs at once with
dselect in potato, using the rpm file as intended.

...RickM...

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Pollywog]

On 24-Jul-2000 Joey Hess wrote:
> Pollywog wrote:
>> I uninstalled the RealPlayer package I had installed with the Debian
>> install
>> package.  I made a new Deb package using Alien and the RPM package I
>> downloaded and it works much better.
> 
> Please degine "much better". As the author of both alien and the
> realplayer installer package, my feelings arn't hurt that you chose one
> over the other, but I am very puzzled how alien could do a better job.
> 
When I installed the Debian package that is used to install what I downloaded
from www.real.com, Netscape could not see the plugin, for some reason.
This was not a problem when I downloaded the rpm from real.com and then used
Alien to make a deb from it.

Now I am able to actually use the RealPlayer plugin on Netscape.

--
Andrew

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Pollywog]

On 24-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
>> > Now I am trying to decide how to have Netscape play mp3 files.
>> > Plugger doesn't seem to cut it.
>> 
>> Do you have mpg123 installed?  Plugger suggests, but does not depend
>> on it.  It is necessary for playing mp3 files via plugger, however.
> 
> Yes, the plugger seems to work on mp3 for me.
> 
> ...RickM...

Are you using the version of Plugger that installs with Netscape?
That is what I have.  I believe it does not come with Netscape but that it is
part of the Debian installer for Netscape.  Does anyone know for sure?

--
Andrew

Re: ReiserFS with Debian (Potato)?

[Jesse Jacobsen]

Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi all.
Hi Morten,

>  I'm contemplating installing debian on ReiserFS like this:
> 
> 1: Install Debian.
> 2: Patch & compile kernel with ReiserFS support.
> 3: Backup the partitons [1] one after one and reformat them with
>ReiserFS, restore from backup.
> 4: Be very happy! :-)
> 
...
> 
> Has anyone reading this done this before?

Yes.  I'm running ReiserFS under my /home partition.  It's
particularly nice when I'm booting after an unclean shutdown.  It
takes the ext2 partitions 5 minutes or more to fsck, and the reiserfs
partition of the same size just replays the journal and mounts, all in
about 5 *seconds*.

There are reports of ReiserFS not working with kernel-space NFS and
some problems with tar (because tar depends on certain inode behavior,
which is not present in ReiserFS).  I'm happy with user-space NFS, and
I use afio for backups, which works.  Some people actually recommend
using Samba/smbfs as a replacement for NFS.

Note: you *can* use ReiserFS on your root partition.  It involves
making a boot disk with ReiserFS support compiled into the kernel, and
mounting your root partition with the -notails option.  The latter is
to enable lilo to find the whole kernel -- it may not be necessary if
you use grub instead.

Also Note: I'm using stable ReiserFS, for 2.2.x kernels.  Things are
changing a lot for the 2.4-pre branch.

> [1]: What should I use for this, I have two HDD's, and will have the
> backup on one (6Gig), and work on the other (10Gig). A simple ``cp''
> will do, but there might be somthing better, recommendations?

I used cpio to retain all possible file attributes.  Don't ask about
specifics - I'd have to look it up again on the manpage at this point.
As for the method, mine was essentially identical to what you outlined
above.  One difficulty I ran into was that lilo stopped booting from
the hard drive, and the newest boot disk I had was from Hamm.  Turns
out that the ext2 filesystem has changed since then in a
non-backward-compatible way.  Things got a little hairy, but after a
hamm install on top of Potato, some manual tweaking, and recovery of
my dpkg data from backup tapes, things were smoothed over in a matter
of a couple days.  But that was probably my fault; I wouldn't worry
about it.  (But how nice it would have been to have a working rescue
floppy for Potato at that time!)  As long as you know what to watch
out for, you'll be fine.

I'm pasting below the contents of a recent post to the reiserfs
mailing list that is becoming a reiserfs FAQ.  For more information,
I'd suggest the Reiser web site (which you probably have already
perused) and the mailing list.


Q> From: Dr A V Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Q> Subject: (reiserfs) Debian install a success
Q> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Q> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:17:40 +0100
Q> Reply-To: Dr A V Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Q> 
Q> I succeeded with little trouble in installing Debian potato with
Q> reiserfs as its root partition.  I'll summarise the process for those
Q> who are interested.
Q> 
Q> I created a boot floppy with a kernel supporting reiserfs and
Q> a root floppy with the mkfs.reiserfs on it.  I did find it useful
Q> to mount and umount each mkfs-ed partition, since it takes a
Q> good deal of time for the first install.
Q> 
Q> I rebooted using my reiserfs kernel but the potato root disk.
Q> I then installed as normal, with the following exceptions:
Q> 
Q> (1)  The Debian install procedure does not know about reiserfs,
Q> so I had to mount the various filesystems manually.  Then
Q> I picked another item from the menu.  The first time this
Q> fails since the install program does not know the root
Q> partition is mounted (on target), but then it figures this
Q> out and proceeds normally.
Q> (2)  The install procedure writes a correct /etc/fstab for all
Q> partitions except the root, to which it incorrectly gives
Q> a file type of ext2.  Simply edit this before rebooting.
Q> (3)  The install procedure installs a kernel which knows nothing
Q> about reiserfs.  I just replaced this with my kernel, and
Q> put the appropriate modules in /lib/modules.
Q> (4)  I use grub instead of Debian's mbr or LILO, so I simply
Q> 'dpkg --delete mbr' and install grub before rebooting the
Q> first time.  The latest grub supports reiserfs.
Q> 
Q> I chose to do this because I had a machine with a hardware fault
Q> which needed frequent rebooting.  This of course led to a number
Q> of corruption problems even with reiserfs, but we eventually
Q> ran the problem down to faulty sims (thanks to memcheck-86).
Q> To avoid possible problems, I've reinstalled again, again using
Q> reiserfs.  The machine has run beautifully ever since.
Q> 
Q> I've been digging through the mailing list, and seen occasional
Q> remarks about FAQs, but no pointer to a reiserfs FAQ.  Can I
Q> presume none exists at this time?
Q> 
Q>  -- Owen
Q>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Good luck!

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For

Can't get Voodoo 3 3000 to work on slink!

[jswain]

Hey,
 
I can't seem to figure out how to get my Voodoo 3 
3000PCI to work on my Slink.  I got the right packages and installed them 
off of linux.3dfx.com (Their was a couple listed for slink, you are are 
supposed to use alien to debian-ize them.  Alien went fine)  When I 
tried to install the first one (the server itself), it over-wrote a couple 
files, but no errors other than that.  Then when I tried to install the 
xf86setup, I got about a hundred errors, and when I try to run 'XF86Setup' I get 
the error: 'libtk.so not installed'.  I went to find what package it was in 
so that I could install it, but no package has that file.  What should I 
do?
 
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson

Re: Planner/PIM/Calendar Packages

[Mark Wagnon]

Wow, so many choices! Thanks guys, I guess I'll be fiddling around
with these to see which on I like the best.
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Compressed mailboxes with mutt

[Mark Wagnon]

Hi all,

Anyone using compressed folders with mutt?

My mailboxes are getting out of hand. I have a couple that are fast
approaching the 10 meg point. I read a thread on comp.mail.mutt that
says one can utilize compressed folders if the source is patched with
some special patch. I was wondering if the debian package (woody, mutt
1.2i) is able to access compressed folders. If so, how might I go
about doing that? 

Thanks a bunch
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Re: cannot talk with AT modem

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Well, too soon to be happy.
> cron runs periodically rmmod -a .
> Then when I want to use the modem again serial driver is re-loaded:
>   Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
>   tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>   tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> And the modem is inaccessible again.
> setserial shows that /dev/ttyS4 reverted to original parameters.
> I have to run the setserial command manually again.

Try running 'insmod serial' before using setserial - what 'rmmod -a' does
in cron is unload the modules that have been "automagically" loaded.

> How can I fix this?
> BTW I have added proper setserial command to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial
> as mentioned in the manpage.
> Tomasz.

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--
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"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Joey Hess]

Pollywog wrote:
> I uninstalled the RealPlayer package I had installed with the Debian install
> package.  I made a new Deb package using Alien and the RPM package I
> downloaded and it works much better.

Please degine "much better". As the author of both alien and the
realplayer installer package, my feelings arn't hurt that you chose one
over the other, but I am very puzzled how alien could do a better job.

-- 
see shy jo

Re: Keyboard fails *only* in X

[Carl Fink]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:13:55PM -0600, Tremaine Lea wrote:
> 
> 
> >How could installing a new power supply screw up the keyboard, and
> >only in X?
> 
> Quite simply, it can't :) 

You're right.  I just switched in another keyboard and it works fine. 
I had dropped the keyboard during the changeover, and apparently
damaged it so selectively that it worked fine in terminal mode, but
not in X.  This one works great (although it's crap, and I'll replace
it soon).

Anyway, problem solved, turned out to be hardware.
-- 
Carl Fink   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

[ferret]

Tom,

Try feeding the IO port and IRQ you see from lspci into setserial. Or try
building a 2.4.0-pre4 kernel, which has PCI serial support.

I've heard that some PCI hardware DSP modems might not even use an uart,
but I've never seen anything specific.

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Tomasz Barszczak wrote:

> > Having the modem recognize the Hayes AT command language is not a reliable
> > indicator.  Many winmodem drivers have an AT command interpreter to
> > satisfy older programs.
> 
> When I bought the modem I was assured it is not a winmodem
> (software modem) but a hardware modem.
> I also searched the web and it seems it is not a winmodem.
> 
> > According to the USRobitics web site, this is a PCI modem device; are you
> > able to open the case on your computer to verify that?
> 
> Yes it is a PCI modem, I am sure of this.
> 
> > The contents of the file /proc/pci will also tell us if this is a PCI
> > modem.
> 
> I don't really understand output, but typing by hand what seems
> to be relevant:
> 
> PCI devices found:
>   Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
> Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1).
>   Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008.
>   Medium devsel. IRQ 5.
>   I/O at 0xd400
> There are 5 more devices:
>   Multimedia audio controller, vendor 1274(Ensoniq) device 5800
>   IDE interface, vendor 1022(AMD) device 7409
>   ISA bridge, vendor 1022 device 7408
>   PCI bridge, vendor 1022 device 7007
>   Host bridge, vendor 1022 device 7006
> 
> Tomasz.
> 
> 
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Re: Using Partition Magic with Debian

[ferret]

I used partition magic 4 when it first came out. It worked fairly well,
but I found that it would corrupt logical partitions made under linux
fdisk. Basically it would change the partition type of the extended
partition which would hide the logical partitions. And if I recall
re-setting the partition type did not work. Don't know if that's been
fixed or not.

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Has anyone used Partition Magic in order to resize partitions under Debian?
> The software claims to support resizing Linux EXT2 filesystems, etc, but will 
> I 
> trash my system if I do so?  I used Norton Ghost to image my system from a 
> 2.1 
> gig drive to an 8.4 gig drive and it's working great so far, but I have all 
> this slack space I would like to assign to various partitions, /usr etc.
> 
> So, has anyone done this sucessfully and/or have alternate methods that can
> be used to add slack space to existing partitions?
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreiciated,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
> -
> This message was sent using Endymion MailMan.
> http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/
> 
> 
> 
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Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)

[ferret]

FWIW:

Here's /etc/printcap on this machine:
lp|esc660|Epson Stylus colour 660:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc660:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:


You also want to install everything that magicfilter 'suggests'; all the
converting programs that do the actual work aren't installed if you
'apt-get install' magicfilter.
You can find the names of the programs by grepping through the filter file
and checking the against the contents file. Or just run a pass through
dselect. ;)



On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:

> > I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works
> > well with it.
> 
> I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this:
> 
> lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\
> :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
> :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\
> :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
> 
> But right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error
> messages. I have checked /dev/lp1, so this can't be the problem
> 
> > The SC 600 is well supported. Magicfilter has 3 filters
> > for it:
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Did you create the filters by yourself? I only found two corresponding
> driver entries: stylus_color_360dpi and stylus_color_720dpi (with
> magicfilter version 1.2-28).
> 
> Please tell me, how you made it work, I'm really curious...
> 
> Best regards,
> Andreas
> 
> 
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Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Rick Macdonald]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> > Now I am trying to decide how to have Netscape play mp3 files.
> > Plugger doesn't seem to cut it.
> 
> Do you have mpg123 installed?  Plugger suggests, but does not depend
> on it.  It is necessary for playing mp3 files via plugger, however.

Yes, the plugger seems to work on mp3 for me.

...RickM...

large HDD

[Mark Bathie]

Hi,

I'm sure this question has been posted many times. I am trying to configure my new 17Gig

HDD to work with linux/win dual boot. At the present all I want to do is partition the HDD

with linux and get linux to recognise these partitions. It seams that no matter how you

partition using cfdisk, I can only mount the 1st partition on the drive i.e. /dev/hdx1 and

non of the others. I have read the large-HDD-howto, which really identifies the problem and doesn't

tell me how to get around it.



What is the process to setup my large HDD ?



thanks in advance.



Mark Bathie
 

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

[John Pearson]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 11:53:02AM -0700, Tomasz Barszczak wrote
> > Having the modem recognize the Hayes AT command language is not a reliable
> > indicator.  Many winmodem drivers have an AT command interpreter to
> > satisfy older programs.
> 
> When I bought the modem I was assured it is not a winmodem
> (software modem) but a hardware modem.
> I also searched the web and it seems it is not a winmodem.
> 
> > According to the USRobitics web site, this is a PCI modem device; are you
> > able to open the case on your computer to verify that?
> 
> Yes it is a PCI modem, I am sure of this.
> 
> > The contents of the file /proc/pci will also tell us if this is a PCI
> > modem.
> 
> I don't really understand output, but typing by hand what seems
> to be relevant:
> 
> PCI devices found:
>   Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
> Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1).
>   Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008.
>   Medium devsel. IRQ 5.
>   I/O at 0xd400
> There are 5 more devices:
>   Multimedia audio controller, vendor 1274(Ensoniq) device 5800
>   IDE interface, vendor 1022(AMD) device 7409
>   ISA bridge, vendor 1022 device 7408
>   PCI bridge, vendor 1022 device 7007
>   Host bridge, vendor 1022 device 7006
> 

Because it's at a non-standard location, Linux will probably
need you to locate it & configure the driver "by hand".

Does running the command
# setserial -b /dev/ttyS5 io 0xd400 irq 5

help at all?  If it does, you can add this to
/etc/init.d/setserial to get it run at each boot.


John P.
-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Pollywog]

On 24-Jul-2000 Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> Do you have mpg123 installed?  Plugger suggests, but does not depend
> on it.  It is necessary for playing mp3 files via plugger, however.
> 

I do have it installed.

--
Andrew

Keyboard fails *only* in X

[Carl Fink]

Greetings.

I just installed a new power supply in my box.  (The fan in the old
one had died.)  After reconnecting everything, I have two detectable
problems:  my floppy disk isn't recognized, which I don't care about
in any immediate way, and my keyboard works only in a VT. 

That is, I can boot up and LILO recognizes my commands, but xdm
freezes absolutely.  If I boot with "linux single" I can work fine in
VTs, but starting X freezes the keyboard.

I know the keyboard is freezing because the Caps Lock and Num Lock
keys, which work fine in a VT or during the console-mode part of
bootup, stop working once XDM loads.

How could installing a new power supply screw up the keyboard, and
only in X?

Running potato (apt-get upgrade-ed yesterday) on a homebuilt Cyrix
M2-based system, w/AT style keyboard.  The "X" above is XFree86 as of
whatever the upgrade was yesterday.  I'm sending this by telnetting
to my ISP.

Thanks in advance for any help.
-- 
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Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 11:44:27PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 23-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, I hadn't noticed that there was a deb for installing realplayer. I had
> > removed the whole lot, so just now I reinstalled all the 4.73 debs
> > including the realplayer, and guess what -- it works fine now. I don't
> > know why. I had been installing the realplayer with it's own installer,
> > not the rpm file that the deb wrapper uses.
> > 
> > The javascript pages (bigbrother2000) also seem more stable with this
> > 4.73.
> > 
> > Beats me why!
> 
> I uninstalled the RealPlayer package I had installed with the Debian install
> package.  I made a new Deb package using Alien and the RPM package I
> downloaded and it works much better.
> 
> Now I am trying to decide how to have Netscape play mp3 files.
> Plugger doesn't seem to cut it.

Do you have mpg123 installed?  Plugger suggests, but does not depend
on it.  It is necessary for playing mp3 files via plugger, however.

Bob

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Bainbridge Island, WA  http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
 

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

[Tomasz Barszczak]

Well, too soon to be happy.
cron runs periodically rmmod -a .
Then when I want to use the modem again serial driver is re-loaded:
  Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
  tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
  tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
And the modem is inaccessible again.
setserial shows that /dev/ttyS4 reverted to original parameters.
I have to run the setserial command manually again.
How can I fix this?
BTW I have added proper setserial command to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial
as mentioned in the manpage.
Tomasz.

Re: Starting FTP Daemon

[Eric G . Miller]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:27:51PM -0600, Chris Cameron wrote:
> I'm using a rather unheard of FTP server, and I'm trying to get is
> started under it's own user that I made for it. Problem is something
> is stopping it from opening port 21. The only user that seems to be
> able to use port 21 is root. Is their a specific group the ftp program
> should belong to?  If someone could help me out with this it'd be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks, Chris

Yea, only root can bind to ports < 1024.  Many daemons start as root,
bind to the port, then spawn children under a different user.

-- 
According to MegaHAL:
The emu is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.

RE: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Pollywog]

On 23-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote:
> 
> Oh, I hadn't noticed that there was a deb for installing realplayer. I had
> removed the whole lot, so just now I reinstalled all the 4.73 debs
> including the realplayer, and guess what -- it works fine now. I don't
> know why. I had been installing the realplayer with it's own installer,
> not the rpm file that the deb wrapper uses.
> 
> The javascript pages (bigbrother2000) also seem more stable with this
> 4.73.
> 
> Beats me why!

I uninstalled the RealPlayer package I had installed with the Debian install
package.  I made a new Deb package using Alien and the RPM package I
downloaded and it works much better.

Now I am trying to decide how to have Netscape play mp3 files.
Plugger doesn't seem to cut it.

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Starting FTP Daemon

[Chris Cameron]

I'm using a rather unheard of FTP server, and I'm trying to get is
started under it's own user that I made for it. Problem is something is
stopping it from opening port 21. The only user that seems to be able to
use port 21 is root. Is their a specific group the ftp program should
belong to?
If someone could help me out with this it'd be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

RE: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Rick Macdonald]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote:

> 
> On 23-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > 
> > I can't get netscape 4.73 (tried debs and manual install) to work with
> > RealPlayer7. The realplayer works fine on its own, but the plugin causes a
> > bus error when netscape starts up (plugins/rpnp.so). 4.72 also fails.
> > 
> > I tried deleting those ~/.RealNetworks* files ( I think somebody mentioned
> > that), but that didn't help.
> > 
> > My system is potato, current as of yesterday.
> > 
> > Is anybody running RealPlayer7 on potato?
> 
> I am, in fact, a few moments ago I removed my Debian package for RealPlayer
> and I download the RPM file and used Alien to make a Deb.  This Debian package
> works much better and I no longer have the problem you mentioned.
> 
> I was just at BigBrother2000.com and RealPlayer worked great.
> I am using Netscape 4.73

Oh, I hadn't noticed that there was a deb for installing realplayer. I had
removed the whole lot, so just now I reinstalled all the 4.73 debs
including the realplayer, and guess what -- it works fine now. I don't
know why. I had been installing the realplayer with it's own installer,
not the rpm file that the deb wrapper uses.

The javascript pages (bigbrother2000) also seem more stable with this
4.73.

Beats me why!

...RickM...

Re: voodoo3 board not found

[Jean-Philippe Guérard]

Le 2000-07-22 18:05:31 -0700, Aaron Maxwell écrivait :
> I've tried to run quake3 and the demo version of descent3 on my
> spanking new system, with its Voodo3 3K 16MB accelerator card.  Neither
> can detect it -- the error message they give is:
> 
> gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board

You also probably need the device3dfx module, that will enable
access to your card.

You can compile this module from the device3dfx-source package.

Hope it helps.

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[Patrick Howden]

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ReiserFS with Debian (Potato)?

[Morten Liebach]

Hi all.

 I'm contemplating installing debian on ReiserFS like this:

1: Install Debian.
2: Patch & compile kernel with ReiserFS support.
3: Backup the partitons [1] one after one and reformat them with
   ReiserFS, restore from backup.
4: Be very happy! :-)

I know that /boot has to be ext2fs, and I'll prolly install 2 linuxen to
work on one from the other. That way I can convert / to ReiserFS too.

The problem is: will things break right and left because of ReiserFS?

I know SuSE give you the choice between ext2 abd reiser at install, and
I have tried it, so I know it's stable, but I don't know how much SuSE
has modified to make it work.

My understanding is that nearly all things WRT disk read/write is
handled by the kernel, so programs don't know what filesystem they're
on. Is that correct?

Has anyone reading this done this before?

I personally plan to write something about it and upload it to my
website if I go ahead and do it, unless someone else has already done
it!

[1]: What should I use for this, I have two HDD's, and will have the
backup on one (6Gig), and work on the other (10Gig). A simple ``cp''
will do, but there might be somthing better, recommendations?

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nVidia geForce2 support?

[salguod]

Hi all --

I just installed 2.1 and would like to find drivers for my Hercules 3D Prophet 
2 card, which uses nVidia's geForce2 chipset.  Are there drivers for that to 
run X with, or should I just use the SVGA drivers?

Thanks,
Steve Chalfant

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Thank you. It worked. I can talk to the modem in minicom now.
> For the reference: I got IRQ and address number from Windows.
> The magic command was:
> setserial -v /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A port 0xD400 irq 5 session_lockout 
> ^fourport

Email their tech support and have 'em put that on their web site...

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Re: cannot talk with AT modem

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> > Having the modem recognize the Hayes AT command language is not a reliable
> > indicator.  Many winmodem drivers have an AT command interpreter to
> > satisfy older programs.
> 
> When I bought the modem I was assured it is not a winmodem
> (software modem) but a hardware modem.
> I also searched the web and it seems it is not a winmodem.

It does appear to be a hardware modem.

Check any and all floppies and CDs for Linux drivers - Linux is explicitly
supported on the web site, but doesn't give any easy to download the
drivers :(  Contact their tech support.

Be prepared to upgrade your installation of Debian (particularly the
kernel you have installed).  Debian 2.1 (which I assume you have
installed) is dead ancient, and doesn't support many pieces of common
hardware (such as PCI modems).

> > According to the USRobitics web site, this is a PCI modem device; are you
> > able to open the case on your computer to verify that?
> 
> Yes it is a PCI modem, I am sure of this.
> 
> > The contents of the file /proc/pci will also tell us if this is a PCI
> > modem.
> 
> I don't really understand output, but typing by hand what seems
> to be relevant:
> 
> PCI devices found:
>   Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
> Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1).
>   Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008.
>   Medium devsel. IRQ 5.
>   I/O at 0xd400

This is what I was looking for.

> There are 5 more devices:
>   Multimedia audio controller, vendor 1274(Ensoniq) device 5800
>   IDE interface, vendor 1022(AMD) device 7409
>   ISA bridge, vendor 1022 device 7408
>   PCI bridge, vendor 1022 device 7007
>   Host bridge, vendor 1022 device 7006

Most of those are devices directly connected to the motherboard - the
first device listed is your sound card.

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Re: cannot talk with AT modem

[Tomasz Barszczak]

Thank you. It worked. I can talk to the modem in minicom now.
For the reference: I got IRQ and address number from Windows.
The magic command was:
setserial -v /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A port 0xD400 irq 5 session_lockout ^fourport

RE: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Pollywog]

On 23-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote:
> 
> I can't get netscape 4.73 (tried debs and manual install) to work with
> RealPlayer7. The realplayer works fine on its own, but the plugin causes a
> bus error when netscape starts up (plugins/rpnp.so). 4.72 also fails.
> 
> I tried deleting those ~/.RealNetworks* files ( I think somebody mentioned
> that), but that didn't help.
> 
> My system is potato, current as of yesterday.
> 
> Is anybody running RealPlayer7 on potato?

I am, in fact, a few moments ago I removed my Debian package for RealPlayer
and I download the RPM file and used Alien to make a Deb.  This Debian package
works much better and I no longer have the problem you mentioned.

I was just at BigBrother2000.com and RealPlayer worked great.
I am using Netscape 4.73

--
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Re: editors and browsers

[kmself]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 03:28:32PM -0400, Thomas Kirsch wrote:
> 1. Are there any "WYSIWYG" email editors available for Linux? Preferentially
> any that would run also on Windows?

I believe you mean "GUI".  WYSIWYG doesn't apply to email, in which
you've no control over recipient client interpretation of client.
Netscape and Mozilla are compatible with both Linux and legacy MS Windows.  
Several mailers use standard mailbox formats allowing sharing of files.
A better general approach is to set up an IMAP server and access this
from various systems.  Divorce your client from your server and storage.

> 2. Are there any graphics based web browsers available for Linux other
> than Netscape? If yes, are there "release versions" of these browsers?

This is a FAQ answered several times a week here and on Usenet.
Search Google or Deja for general lists, or Freshmeat
(http://www.freshmeat.net/) for sets of clients.  Netscape is probably
the most commonly used browser, though it's a PITA.  I've also posted
tips on improving your Netscape experience through various config
options.

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Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)

[Andreas Hetzmannseder]

> > > I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works
> > > well with it.
> >
> > I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this:
> >
> > lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\
> > :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\
> > :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
> > :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\
> > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
> >
> > But right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error
> > messages. I have checked /dev/lp1, so this can't be the problem
> 
> Are you running a 2.2 or later kernel?  If so, use /dev/lp0 instead of
> /dev/lp1.

I have version 2.0.38

Andreas

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

:: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:25:16 -0600 (MDT), Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
said:

> I can't get netscape 4.73 (tried debs and manual install) to work with
> RealPlayer7. The realplayer works fine on its own, but the plugin causes a
> bus error when netscape starts up (plugins/rpnp.so). 4.72 also fails.

> I tried deleting those ~/.RealNetworks* files ( I think somebody mentioned
> that), but that didn't help.

> My system is potato, current as of yesterday.

> Is anybody running RealPlayer7 on potato?

I'm running it with woody... And I had no problems. I first installed
plugger, then realplayer. I've already used the plug-in, and it's just
perfect.



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RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

[Rick Macdonald]

I can't get netscape 4.73 (tried debs and manual install) to work with
RealPlayer7. The realplayer works fine on its own, but the plugin causes a
bus error when netscape starts up (plugins/rpnp.so). 4.72 also fails.

I tried deleting those ~/.RealNetworks* files ( I think somebody mentioned
that), but that didn't help.

My system is potato, current as of yesterday.

Is anybody running RealPlayer7 on potato?

BTW, for me, 4.72 seems more stable that 4.73 on javascript pages such as
bigbrother2000.com.

...RickM...

Mass instalation

[Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira]

Hi all,
I have to install 80 PCs (+/- the same hardware) with Debian.
What tools can help me on this?
Thanks,Paulo Henrique

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Re: g++ and netscape

[Nate Bargmann]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 08:41:41AM -0700, Nianwei Xing wrote:
> 
> As for the netscape, it still doesn't work. I have
> check the status of bookmarks, I have write
> permission.
> Now I can add bookmarks when I am use the netscape,
> however, when I exit my machine and login it again,
> all of the bookmarks dispears. That's what I want to
> know. Sorry for I didn't tell the details of my
> problem. So do you know how to handle it?

How are you trying to add the bookmarks, through Netscape or
manually with an editor?  To add a bookmark in NS use the Alt+k
combination.  You should be able to edit the bookmarks with the
Alt+b combination.  You might also check to see if you have
write permission in the ~/.netscape directory.  Who is the owner
of that directory?

If you're using an external editor to modify the bookmarks.html
file, be sure NS is NOT running.  It writes over the file upon
exit, so you'll lose any changes.  It is safe to edit it if
NS is not running, however.

HTH,

- Nate >>

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Re: editors and browsers

[Mike Werner]

Thomas Kirsch wrote:
> 1. Are there any "WYSIWYG" email editors available for Linux? Preferentially
> any that would run also on Windows?

I really don't know quite what you mean by a WYSIWYG email editor.  I know
of two email clients that exist for both Linux and Windoze - they are
Netscape and pine.  There might be others, but I don't know of them.

Of course, there's also the possibility of trying to run a Windoze client
under something like Wine.  There's a fellow on another list I'm on that
uses the Juno client under Wine.

> 2. Are there any graphics based web browsers available for Linux other
> than Netscape?

Yes.  Ones I've used are Mozilla (Netscape 6 is based on this), Opera (not
very usable yet), gzilla (very basic).  There are at least a few others, but
I'm not very familiar with them.

> If yes, are there "release versions" of these browsers?

Again, I really don't know what you mean by this.
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editors and browsers

[Thomas Kirsch]

1. Are there any "WYSIWYG" email editors available for Linux? Preferentially
any that would run also on Windows?

2. Are there any graphics based web browsers available for Linux other
than Netscape? If yes, are there "release versions" of these browsers?

Thomas Kirsch


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xfs-xtt - cannot establish any listening sockets

[Brendon B]

I'm trying to setup xfs-xtt, and when starting the process as user nobody
"xfs-xtt -user nobody" I can a fatal error to the effect it can't establish
any listening sockets. When I just run it as root without the -user param.
it loads fine.

So the question How can it run as nobody and not get the error? (get
access to listening sockets)

Tks
Brendon

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

[Tomasz Barszczak]

> Having the modem recognize the Hayes AT command language is not a reliable
> indicator.  Many winmodem drivers have an AT command interpreter to
> satisfy older programs.

When I bought the modem I was assured it is not a winmodem
(software modem) but a hardware modem.
I also searched the web and it seems it is not a winmodem.

> According to the USRobitics web site, this is a PCI modem device; are you
> able to open the case on your computer to verify that?

Yes it is a PCI modem, I am sure of this.

> The contents of the file /proc/pci will also tell us if this is a PCI
> modem.

I don't really understand output, but typing by hand what seems
to be relevant:

PCI devices found:
  Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1).
  Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008.
  Medium devsel. IRQ 5.
  I/O at 0xd400
There are 5 more devices:
  Multimedia audio controller, vendor 1274(Ensoniq) device 5800
  IDE interface, vendor 1022(AMD) device 7409
  ISA bridge, vendor 1022 device 7408
  PCI bridge, vendor 1022 device 7007
  Host bridge, vendor 1022 device 7006

Tomasz.

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

[Pavel M. Penev]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Tomasz Barszczak wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed slink on my AMD Athlon PC.
> I have an internal USR 56K modem model 2977.
> It is not a winmodem, it uses Hayes AT language.
> Under Windows 98 it is recognized at COM5 and works fine.
> 
> First problem was that in /dev there were only ttyS0-ttyS3 (COM1-COM4)
> with major number 4 and minor numbers 64-67.
> I have created by hand ttyS4-ttyS7 character devices with minor numbers 68-71,
> and same owner, group and permissions and ttyS0-ttyS3.
> I hope they correspond to COM5-COM8.
> 
> However when I run minicom with /dev/ttyS4 I cannot talk to the modem.
> It does not respond to "at", pressing enter, etc., no characters are echoed.
> 
> wvdialconf scans my serial ports, finds active ports at ttyS0 and ttyS1
> (COM1, COM@) with no modem there (it tries to send AT commands), 
> then continues with port scan of ttyS2-ttyS7 without even attempting
> to send AT commands, i.e. I guess it did not find active serial ports there
> at all.
> 
> Does anyone know what I can do?
> 
> Tomasz.

As a metter of fact, there are up to four physical communications ports on
a normal PC. The reason to have devices like COM5 under windows is that it
represents a non-default port configuration by assigning it a new
number. In Linux you have the "/dev/ttyS[0-3]" devices which represent
your physical ports. You can change their configuration (IRQ+I/O base) via
setserial. See the manual page.

Success,
Pavel

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed slink on my AMD Athlon PC.
> I have an internal USR 56K modem model 2977.
> It is not a winmodem, it uses Hayes AT language.
> Under Windows 98 it is recognized at COM5 and works fine.

Having the modem recognize the Hayes AT command language is not a reliable
indicator.  Many winmodem drivers have an AT command interpreter to
satisfy older programs.

According to the USRobitics web site, this is a PCI modem device; are you
able to open the case on your computer to verify that?

The contents of the file /proc/pci will also tell us if this is a PCI
modem.

> First problem was that in /dev there were only ttyS0-ttyS3 (COM1-COM4)
> with major number 4 and minor numbers 64-67.
> I have created by hand ttyS4-ttyS7 character devices with minor numbers 68-71,
> and same owner, group and permissions and ttyS0-ttyS3.
> I hope they correspond to COM5-COM8.

Ordinarilly they would, but trying to access them will have no affect if
the serial driver can't find the serial device (the modem in this case).  
The minor numbers, however are correct.

> However when I run minicom with /dev/ttyS4 I cannot talk to the modem.
> It does not respond to "at", pressing enter, etc., no characters are echoed.

That just means the serial driver didn't find a modem for minicom to
connect to.

> wvdialconf scans my serial ports, finds active ports at ttyS0 and ttyS1
> (COM1, COM@) with no modem there (it tries to send AT commands), 
> then continues with port scan of ttyS2-ttyS7 without even attempting
> to send AT commands, i.e. I guess it did not find active serial ports there
> at all.

I looks like wvdialconf looks to see if a device is attached to
ttyS2-ttyS7 before it will try to send AT commands to it.

> Does anyone know what I can do?

We need more information first.  Without more information, all I can say
is "I don't think your modem will work with Linux".

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Re: voodoo3 board not found

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

try going to linux.3dfx.com and download the rpm, convert it to deb with
rpm and install it. see what happens.

(thats what i do, and it works on frozen)

nate

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote:

amaxwe >Hi.  Can anyone help me here?
amaxwe >
amaxwe >I've tried to run quake3 and the demo version of descent3 on my
amaxwe >spanking new system, with its Voodo3 3K 16MB accelerator card.  Neither
amaxwe >can detect it -- the error message they give is:
amaxwe >
amaxwe >gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board
amaxwe >
amaxwe >I haven't been able to figure out why.  I'm running woody[1]; my gui is
amaxwe >gnome+enlightenment.  I think all the relevant packages are installed,
amaxwe >including: libglide2-v3, glide2-base, libglade-gnome0, libglade0,
amaxwe >libglib1.[12], and libgltt2. 
amaxwe >
amaxwe >I don't quite grok video hardware, m'fraid... Thanks for your help, and
amaxwe >have a good weekend.
amaxwe >
amaxwe >Aaron
amaxwe >
amaxwe >[1] More precisely, I have a CorelOS that's been converted to woody.  
That
amaxwe >means remove all the packages with the string "corel" in them; edit
amaxwe >sources.list; then apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. 
amaxwe >
amaxwe >
amaxwe >
amaxwe >-- 
amaxwe >Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
amaxwe >

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Re: X crash question (where's the core file?)

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

:: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:42:21 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said:

> core file should be wherever X started up.  Depending on how you start,
> this can be in a number of places.  I use startx to launch my X session
> (think for a few minutes -- what *really* is the function of an X
> display manager other than to provide the overhead of an X session when
> you explicitly don't need one).   I'd recommend  you do the same. You
> can shut down your X display manager with:
> # /etc/init.d/dm stop
> ...as root.

Yes, I also use startx...

> You may also want to check your "ulimit -a" output to find out if you've
> truncated core files.  I've done this as I don't usually care to know
> what's in them:

Well, this was the problem, but I would not even check if you hadn't
suggested, because I've used some core files from my own programs two
weeks ago, so I assumed the limit wasn't set to zero. Maybe the
default changed in some recent upgrade...

Anyway - thank you! I've already changed it, and I'll get the core
next time X segfaults.

J.

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Re: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?

[Bruce Stephens]

Andreas Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > Attempting to print a simple text file with "lpr filename" on my
> > > Epson Stylus Color 600 produces a single line:
> > >
> > > Unknown device: escp2
> > >
> > > Then it prints the same sentence on new sheets of paper over and
> > > over again, so that I have to remove the paper to stop the printer.
> 
> > I also have that printer, and use apsfilter.  (Version 5.1.4-1)
> 
> Do you know from where can I download that version? I can only find
> version 4.9.7-5 on the ftp-server...

It's in unstable (and frozen).

> > The /dev/lp0 thing is presumably a difference in kernel or something
> > (I seem to remember the numbering changed).  However, the obvious
> > difference is uniprint.  Maybe it's worth you trying that driver,
> > instead?
> 
> uniprint is not in the drivers list - maybe it's listed in your
> newer version...

Probably.  The changelog mentions making uniprint more obvious.

So, it looks like you could upgrade to 5.1.4-1 (moving to frozen ought
to be safe by now, even if you want to avoid unstable), or try one of
these other packages like magicfilter.

Re: Debian/Windows compability

[kmself]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 06:00:19PM +0200, Fam. Marlies und Hansruedi Hess wrote:
> I have windows 98 on my computer right now and I really like it but I would
> like to try the Debian OS. Now the question: Is it possible to have two OS's
> on the computer? Because my parents are using the computer too and they only
> know how to work windows.Thankx

Yes, dual-booting is possible.  There are several "HOWTOs" which cover
various dual-boot configurations at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/mini.html

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cannot talk with AT modem

[Tomasz Barszczak]

Hi,

I have just installed slink on my AMD Athlon PC.
I have an internal USR 56K modem model 2977.
It is not a winmodem, it uses Hayes AT language.
Under Windows 98 it is recognized at COM5 and works fine.

First problem was that in /dev there were only ttyS0-ttyS3 (COM1-COM4)
with major number 4 and minor numbers 64-67.
I have created by hand ttyS4-ttyS7 character devices with minor numbers 68-71,
and same owner, group and permissions and ttyS0-ttyS3.
I hope they correspond to COM5-COM8.

However when I run minicom with /dev/ttyS4 I cannot talk to the modem.
It does not respond to "at", pressing enter, etc., no characters are echoed.

wvdialconf scans my serial ports, finds active ports at ttyS0 and ttyS1
(COM1, COM@) with no modem there (it tries to send AT commands), 
then continues with port scan of ttyS2-ttyS7 without even attempting
to send AT commands, i.e. I guess it did not find active serial ports there
at all.

Does anyone know what I can do?

Tomasz.

Re: X crash question (where's the core file?)

[kmself]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 12:50:00PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>   X has been crashing (signal 11) here sometimes (once a day, or maybe
>   once   every two days). I believe it's the kernel
>   (2.4.0-test5-pre4), but   it could be something else (I use the CVS
>   version of flwm)... These are the only two relevand things that I
>   have changed recently...
> 
>   So, after crashing, X tells me that it dumped a core file - that I
>   wanted to use - but it's nowhere... Any ideass of what I could do so
>   I can perhaps determine where the crash is happening and report
>   this?
> 
> 
>   This is woody, with XFree86 3.3.6-10.

core file should be wherever X started up.  Depending on how you start,
this can be in a number of places.  I use startx to launch my X session
(think for a few minutes -- what *really* is the function of an X
display manager other than to provide the overhead of an X session when
you explicitly don't need one).   I'd recommend  you do the same.  You
can shut down your X display manager with:

# /etc/init.d/dm stop

...as root.

Usual candidate locations would be /, $HOME, and /root for an
[xgkw]dm-initiated session.

To save your X session output to a file, try:

$ startx -- 1>.startx.log 2>&1 & 

...to launch X

You may also want to check your "ulimit -a" output to find out if you've
truncated core files.  I've done this as I don't usually care to know
what's in them:

core file size (blocks) 0   # no cores
data seg size (kbytes)  unlimited
file size (blocks)  unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes)  unlimited
max memory size (kbytes)unlimited
open files  1024
pipe size (512 bytes)   8
stack size (kbytes) 8192
cpu time (seconds)  unlimited
max user processes  256
virtual memory (kbytes) unlimited

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Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

[Pavel M. Penev]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Corry Opdenakker wrote:

> Hi people,
> 
> for some dark reason is my rootpassword changed.
> 
> does anyone know how I can reset the password for root?
> A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot
> disc or cd's.
> 
> I hope I will not have to reinstall my machine.
> 
> All help and tips are welcome!
> kind regards and best wishes, Corry.

Try booting from anywhere (the Debian installation source is a good
choice). Then mount the partition to which you mount "/" (the root file
system). Next open /etc/passwd with some editor ("ae" if from
the Debian install disks). Find the line which looks like this:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

Change the "x" into "", i.e. so that the line looks like

root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

You no more have a password set for "root" so boot your machine and supply
an empty one to log in.

I also suggest reading passwd(1) :).

Success,
Pavel

Re: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?

[Pollywog]

The Printing HOWTO has some links to some sites with information and drivers
for many printers.  I found the uniprint driver from there but had no idea how
to install/use it.

--
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Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 06:38:25PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
> > I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works
> > well with it.
> 
> I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this:
> 
> lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\
> :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
> :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\
> :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
> 
> But right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error
> messages. I have checked /dev/lp1, so this can't be the problem

Are you running a 2.2 or later kernel?  If so, use /dev/lp0 instead of
/dev/lp1. 

Re: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?

[Andreas Hetzmannseder]

> > Attempting to print a simple text file with "lpr filename" on my
> > Epson Stylus Color 600 produces a single line:
> >
> > Unknown device: escp2
> >
> > Then it prints the same sentence on new sheets of paper over and
> > over again, so that I have to remove the paper to stop the printer.

> I also have that printer, and use apsfilter.  (Version 5.1.4-1)

Do you know from where can I download that version? I can only find
version 4.9.7-5 on the ftp-server...
 
> The /dev/lp0 thing is presumably a difference in kernel or something
> (I seem to remember the numbering changed).  However, the obvious
> difference is uniprint.  Maybe it's worth you trying that driver,
> instead?

uniprint is not in the drivers list - maybe it's listed in your newer
version... 
 
Thanks for your advice anyway,

Andreas

Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)

[Andreas Hetzmannseder]

> I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works
> well with it.

I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this:

lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

But right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error
messages. I have checked /dev/lp1, so this can't be the problem

> The SC 600 is well supported. Magicfilter has 3 filters
> for it:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Did you create the filters by yourself? I only found two corresponding
driver entries: stylus_color_360dpi and stylus_color_720dpi (with
magicfilter version 1.2-28).

Please tell me, how you made it work, I'm really curious...

Best regards,
Andreas

Debian/Windows compability

[Fam. Marlies und Hansruedi Hess]

I have windows 98 on my computer right now and I really like it but I would
like to try the Debian OS. Now the question: Is it possible to have two OS's
on the computer? Because my parents are using the computer too and they only
know how to work windows.Thankx

X crash question (where's the core file?)

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

Hello,

  X has been crashing (signal 11) here sometimes (once a day, or maybe
  once   every two days). I believe it's the kernel
  (2.4.0-test5-pre4), but   it could be something else (I use the CVS
  version of flwm)... These are the only two relevand things that I
  have changed recently...

  So, after crashing, X tells me that it dumped a core file - that I
  wanted to use - but it's nowhere... Any ideass of what I could do so
  I can perhaps determine where the crash is happening and report
  this?


  This is woody, with XFree86 3.3.6-10.

Thank you,
J.

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Re: PNP hardware and dual boot machine.

[Lehel Bernadt]

On 22-Jul-2000 adam b. wrote:
> isapnptools works okay, probably.
> 
> I have gotten cards to recognize and load drivers, but I have never gotten
> them actually working before giving up.
> 
> Be prepared to edit long config files from pnpdump and also you must know
> free IRQs, IO hexes, and Memory ranges for all your devices.  They will
> probe, but he'll come up with like 5 or 6 viable configurations, only 1 or
> 2 of which might actually work (especially if you have a commercial
> machine-in-a-box).  Also, you _may_ have to put your devices in
> Memory-Mapped mode (I've heard rumors to that effect).  In this case, you
> have to find a free memory range that's in the on-limits range for Debian.
> Not too hard, but get the range from Debian.org before you go killing
> things.
> 
> I have no clue about kernel PnP...I'd love to hear about it though!  What
> kernel are you running?
> 

I have one PnP card (ESS1868 soundcard) and I *don't* use isapnptools. AFAIK you
need to use isapnp in two situations:
1. when your BIOS doesn't support PnP (if you have a really old machine)
2. when you want to change the default configuration of the card

The only thing I have to do is set the "PNP OS installed" option to "NO" in the
BIOS setup, and to pass the same irq,dma,io to the sb driver that
the card uses in windows.

Re: g++ and netscape

[Nianwei Xing]

Hi, Ragga:
Thanks for your information!
I have make the g++ work for I forget to give the
directory ./
As for the netscape, it still doesn't work. I have
check the status of bookmarks, I have write
permission.
Now I can add bookmarks when I am use the netscape,
however, when I exit my machine and login it again,
all of the bookmarks dispears. That's what I want to
know. Sorry for I didn't tell the details of my
problem. So do you know how to handle it?

Cheers

Nianwei

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wrote:
> 
> Nianwei Xing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Debians:
> > I have two problem with my new debian.
> > 1. Afte I compile and link my c++ code with g++ ,
> it
> > generate a.out but I can not execute it. should I
> need
> > to install some packages?
> 
> Do you get some error message ?
> I can imagine 2 possibilities:
>   1. You don't have execution permissions on the
> file.
>The remedy is 'chmod u+x a.out'
>   2. You really generated an a.out but have no
> support in the kernel
>Hmm... somehow I doubt this...
> 
> > 2. I can not use "add bookmark" in my netscape,
> > however, there is the file bookmark.html exist
> under
> > the directory ./netscape under my home directory.
> How
> > can I handle this situation?
> 
> Check that you have write permissions on that file
> and directory.
> Does netscape read the file if you point it to it ?
> 
> HTH
> Ragga
> 
> 
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Re: A strange little kppp error

[John Hasler]

Barry Samuels writes:
> I had assumed some permissions problem.  Is that what you are saying...

Yes.

> ...and if so can you suggest where I might look?

At something other than kppp.  It's broken by design.
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Re: g++ and netscape

[Ragga Muffin]

Nianwei Xing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi, Debians:
> I have two problem with my new debian.
> 1. Afte I compile and link my c++ code with g++ , it
> generate a.out but I can not execute it. should I need
> to install some packages?

Do you get some error message ?
I can imagine 2 possibilities:
  1. You don't have execution permissions on the file.
 The remedy is 'chmod u+x a.out'
  2. You really generated an a.out but have no support in the kernel
 Hmm... somehow I doubt this...

> 2. I can not use "add bookmark" in my netscape,
> however, there is the file bookmark.html exist under
> the directory ./netscape under my home directory. How
> can I handle this situation?

Check that you have write permissions on that file and directory.
Does netscape read the file if you point it to it ?

HTH
Ragga

RE: Does Debian Support DSL?

[Pollywog]

On 23-Jul-2000 Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 22-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I am going to install Debian Linux, but don't know if it will suport the
>> DSL
>> modem I am using, the Intel Pro/DSL 2100.  Anybody know if it will work?
>> 
>> Thanks,
> 
> I don't know if Debian supports DSL, but I use DSL with my Debian system.
> The software recommended by Pacific Bell Internet will not connect me, so I
> am
> using Roaring Penguin and it works great.  If your DSL provider uses PPPoE
> and
> the Enternet software won't work for you, try Roaring Penguin.  I installed
> it
> from an RPM package using Alien.  The rpm package is called rp-pppoe.  You
> could also install it from source.
> 
> see http://www.roaringpenguin.com

Sorry about that.  You were asking about the modem and I went off on a tangent.

--
Andrew

Re: Does Debian Support DSL?

[Pollywog]

On 23-Jul-2000 Phil Brutsche wrote:
> 
> Your best bet would be to see if you can get an external DSL 'modem' that
> has ethernet output - those are platform agnostic.  The Cisco 675 DSL
> 'modem' (it's really a router) is an example of what you need.  You should
> be able to get one from them pretty easily; if the people providing DSL in
> your area can help set it up that's the way to go.  They can be had on
> eBay for less than $150 USD.

I use a Westell Wirespeed external modem and it seems to work well.
It was provided by Pacific Bell Internet and I don't know what they cost.

--
Andrew

Re: DHCP and 2 cards

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Hi, I have just set my cable modem up under linux and am trying to get
> a firewall up and running.  My local network traffic is handled on
> eth0 and the cable modem traffic is using eth1.  Is there any way I
> can stop DHCP from assigning an IP address to both cards?  I only want
> to get an IP address for eth1 and get DHCP to ignore eth0.

Everything should Just Work as long as everything is on separate ethernet
segments.  This is a rough drawing of how the firewall on my cable modem
is set up here at home:

|
-
| Cable |
| Modem |
-
|
| <- ethernet cable going to eth1
|
   
   | firewall |
   
|
| <- ethernet cable coming from eth0 to
|the switch & the rest of the network
|

What are you using as the dhcp client on eth0? 

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g++ and netscape

[Nianwei Xing]

Hi, Debians:
I have two problem with my new debian.
1. Afte I compile and link my c++ code with g++ , it
generate a.out but I can not execute it. should I need
to install some packages?
2. I can not use "add bookmark" in my netscape,
however, there is the file bookmark.html exist under
the directory ./netscape under my home directory. How
can I handle this situation?
Any information is appreciated!

Nianwei



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Re: grep crashes machine

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just stumbled upon the following. If I do
>
># cd /
># grep -r * stuff
>
>it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The
>last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device
>files, but maybe it's just me...

Well, if grep opens /dev/port, /dev/mem and /dev/kmem it is mucking
around in your system memory and doing lots of direct i/o to your
hardware, so it's not really strange that that hangs the machine ..
Just Don't Do That ...

Mike.
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Re: A strange little kppp error

[Barry Samuels]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, John Hasler wrote:

> > That doesn't explain why the same error message is *not* displayed when
> > running kppp as root.
> 
> The message originates with pppd.  When it is unable to access the
> resources it needs it jumps to the erroneous conclusion that there is no
> ppp support in the kernel.  When run by root it can access anything.
> -- 
> John Hasler

I had assumed some permissions problem.  Is that what you are saying and
if so can you suggest where I might look?

Barry Samuels

Re: Does Debian Support DSL?

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I am going to install Debian Linux, but don't know if it will suport
> the DSL modem I am using, the Intel Pro/DSL 2100.  Anybody know if it
> will work?

This DSL 'modem' fits inside a PCI slot - *it* *will* *not* *work* without
Win9x/NT - you'll be lucky to have support for Win2000 and the Macintosh, 
much less anything related to Linux or Unix.

Your best bet would be to see if you can get an external DSL 'modem' that
has ethernet output - those are platform agnostic.  The Cisco 675 DSL
'modem' (it's really a router) is an example of what you need.  You should
be able to get one from them pretty easily; if the people providing DSL in
your area can help set it up that's the way to go.  They can be had on
eBay for less than $150 USD.

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RE: Does Debian Support DSL?

[Pollywog]

On 22-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am going to install Debian Linux, but don't know if it will suport the DSL
> modem I am using, the Intel Pro/DSL 2100.  Anybody know if it will work?
> 
> Thanks,

I don't know if Debian supports DSL, but I use DSL with my Debian system.
The software recommended by Pacific Bell Internet will not connect me, so I am
using Roaring Penguin and it works great.  If your DSL provider uses PPPoE and
the Enternet software won't work for you, try Roaring Penguin.  I installed it
from an RPM package using Alien.  The rpm package is called rp-pppoe.  You
could also install it from source.

see http://www.roaringpenguin.com

--
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Re: grep crashes machine

[Frodo Baggins]

Christian Pernegger scripsit:
>Hallo!
>
>I just stumbled upon the following. If I do
>
># cd /
># grep -r * stuff
>
>it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The
>last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device
>files, but maybe it's just me...
 are you shure? shouldn't be 

# grep -r stuff *

?

Anyhow... It will have a problem when grep-ing never endig devices
such as /dev/zero.

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Unthinkable routing problem

[Nagarjuna G.]

Hi ,
This is regarding a routing problem that has cropped up since yesterday
(using potato). The setup is as follows
There are 3 entities involved in the configuration of the network
a)The Router which connects to the internet
b)The gateway which routes the packets for the entire network to the router
c)A system on the internal network which connects to the gateway and also
has multiple network interfaces for connecting the other LAN segments
The gateway system is running on Potato ver 2.2 kernel 2.2.15
The router is a zyxel prestige router.

Initially the setup was working fine. However yesterday there was a power
failure at the ISP which was down for 6 hours. When the ISP came up the
following peculiar behaviour was noticed on the gateway.
Also no configuration changes were made. We are also not clear if the
problem at the ISP has got something to do with this.

All the systems on the LAN are accessing the internet via the gateway and
router. However the gateway itself is not able to even ping/connect to the 
router
directly which is connected via a cross cable. In essence the forwarding is
ok but the connections on the local system ( gateway) is failing
Ipchains is installed on the machine and all the chains have a default
policy of ACCEPT. The things like the physical connectivity , routing with a
proper default route is working fine as the forwarding is ok.
This eliminates any issues with the n/w cards and the cables.
Anybody shed some light on this. 

It is unthinkable for us that a machine can forward packets without itself
able to approach the router. !!!
Pl mail if you require more information on this.

Regards
Nagarjuna



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My first ever incursion into sound isn't very successful

[Barry Samuels]

Debian Potato (frozen) with Slink KDE

I have just bought my first ever soundcard, a SoundBlaster Live 1024
Player, and my attempts to setup sound have been only partially successful.

I first tried the latest (2721) Creative Emu driver.  Downloaded,
compiled the source and installed the modules.  First problem - the
module(s) won't load automatically as other modules do.  I can, of course,
load them with modprobe and, using kscd, I can play a CD successfully. 
But I would rather have them load automatically.  Is there a way to do
this?

I have also ldownoaded an application called Broadcast which records onto
the hard drive.  However the record/playback part of this doesn't work and
displays a message in the console window to the effect that it cannot
access the sound device.  Perhaps it won't work with the emu drivers but
there is no clue in the documentation as to what the sound device is from
this applications point of view.

The appropriate sound devices do appear to be in /dev (audio, dsp, midi,
mixer, sequencer, sndstat).

I then decided to try the Alsa drivers and installed the appropriate Alsa
Potato packages.  This appeared to successful except that there were no
actual driver modules included or installed.  I find this a bit puzzling. 
I downloaded matching version drivers from the Alsa site and installed
them.  The nearest card in the list was a SB PCI 128 but the module would
not load (device busy).  Incompatible with the 1024 perhaps.  I removed
the Alsa stuff altogether.

Any advice would be welcome as I am a total beginner when it comes to
sound.

Barry Samuels

Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

[Gerhard Schromm]

* Corry Opdenakker writes:
> does anyone know how I can reset the password for root?
> A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot
> disc or cd's.

Reboot the computer and enter at the LILO-Prompt '
init=/bin/bash'

 ist the name of the Kernel you want to boot. The default is linux.

After this, remount / readwrite (with mount -n -o remount,rw /) and edit
your /etc/shadow. Remove the crypted password for root (the second
field. separator is ':'). Remount / readonly again (mount -n
-oremount,ro /) and reboot the machine.

Now you can log in as root without password.

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Debain om DVD ?

[Rolf S Edlund]

Don't know if this has been discussed before, but is it possible to get
Debian (2.2) on a DVD disk ? As I now could with SuSE.

Rolf

Re: compiling teTeX-src-1.0.7

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:42:36AM -0700, Sherab Puntsok wrote:

>Where do I get the xlib.h, intrinsic.h, and stringdefs.h files ?
>Please help.
>Thanks in advance.

$ dpkg -S X11/Xlib.h Intrinsic.h StringDefs.h
xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h
xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Intrinsic.h
xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/StringDefs.h

> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 05:49:05 -0400
> From: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.16 i586)
> To: Debian-Users 
> Subject: Re: staroffice
> 
> Damon Muller wrote:
> > 

Is there some particular reason you decided to 

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Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:51:51PM +0200, Corry Opdenakker wrote:

> yes, but there is one additional problem: Currently I'm not logged on as
> root.

Boot specifying "init=/bin/bash" on the kernel command line.  If you
have LILO, then say "linux init=/bin/bash" where linux is the name of
the LILO option for Linux.

If security features prevent you from doing this you should try booting
via the rescue disk.  Either get a shell from the installation system
and mount your root partition or say "linux root=
init/bin/bash" at the first prompt.

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Mark Brown
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 13:38

Please quote properly: delete material not needed for context and place
new text after old.

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RE: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

[Lukasz Walewski]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Corry Opdenakker wrote:

> yes, but there is one additional problem: Currently I'm not logged on as
> root.

If you can boot from install CD, there should be a shell session
on some virtual console ( probably second ) with root's privileges.
You can mount your root device under /mnt or elsewhere and follow
the instructions given by Mark.

Lukas


Lukasz Walewski
Centrum Onkologii Instytut
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> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Mark Brown
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 13:38
> To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other
> way)
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Corry Opdenakker wrote:
> 
> > does anyone know how I can reset the password for root?
> > A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the
> install-boot
> > disc or cd's.
> 
> Delete the second field from root's entry in /etc/passwd (/etc/shadow if 
> you're using shadow passwords - you'll have an "x" in the passwd file if
> you are).  This will remove root's password, and you can reset it using
> passwd.  
> 
> A safer thing to do is to generate a new crypted password and directly 
> replace the password, but unless you're on-line when you do this I
> wouldn't worry about it.
> 
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RE: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

[Corry Opdenakker]

yes, but there is one additional problem: Currently I'm not logged on as
root.

So the door is closed, And I have key anymore to open it.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Mark Brown
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 13:38
To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other
way)


On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Corry Opdenakker wrote:

> does anyone know how I can reset the password for root?
> A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the
install-boot
> disc or cd's.

Delete the second field from root's entry in /etc/passwd (/etc/shadow if 
you're using shadow passwords - you'll have an "x" in the passwd file if
you are).  This will remove root's password, and you can reset it using
passwd.  

A safer thing to do is to generate a new crypted password and directly 
replace the password, but unless you're on-line when you do this I
wouldn't worry about it.

-- 
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http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
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compiling teTeX-src-1.0.7

[Sherab Puntsok]

Hi,
   I am building my own linux based on Debian 2.1

   Now I come across to install gpm-1.19.0. Gpm requires tex, so I
get the teTeX-src-1.0.7.tar.gz and teTeX-texmf-1.0.2.tar.gz.

   The ./configure goes ok but errors in make world as follows:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/download/src/teTeX-1.0/texk/web2c'
cd window && make x_cppflags='' -w CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-g -O2 ' 
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/download/src/teTeX-1.0/texk/web2c/window'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I.. -I./..   -g -O2  -c x11.c
x11.c:19: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
x11.c:20: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
x11.c:21: X11/StringDefs.h: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [x11.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/download/src/teTeX-1.0/texk/web2c/window'
make[2]: *** [window/window.a] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/download/src/teTeX-1.0/texk/web2c'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/download/src/teTeX-1.0/texk'
make: *** [all] Error 1

   Where do I get the xlib.h, intrinsic.h, and stringdefs.h files ?
   Please help.
   Thanks in advance.
   
   Alan






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Damon Muller wrote:
> 
> Quoth Ed Cogburn,
> >   The registration is a PITA, and they provide no help when an
> > internet connection goes bad, you have to start the download all over
> > again.  They don't allow ftp access which would have allowed me to
> > "resume" the download.  The only other option was special plugins for
> > IE/Netscape browsers, but only Windoze versions.  I had to download
> > the thing using the multiple files:  10 megabytes at a time.
> 
> I have seen SO52 on at least one mirror FTP site (mirror.aarnet.edu.au,
> which, I believe, is only accessably to .au's), so there is a good
> possibility that you'll also find it on others. This lets you avoid
> registration (hey, it's free anyway), and also may allow you to resume.


From where I am, your URL is nonexistant.  I'm surprised Sun would
allow mirrors, as it clearly wants all users to go through the
registration process to get all that customer info.  Sun never
mentions any mirrors on their site.  That mirror in .au may be
"unoffical" 8-).  Ahh, doesn't matter now anyway.  Thanks.


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Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Corry Opdenakker wrote:

> does anyone know how I can reset the password for root?
> A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot
> disc or cd's.

Delete the second field from root's entry in /etc/passwd (/etc/shadow if 
you're using shadow passwords - you'll have an "x" in the passwd file if
you are).  This will remove root's password, and you can reset it using
passwd.  

A safer thing to do is to generate a new crypted password and directly 
replace the password, but unless you're on-line when you do this I
wouldn't worry about it.

-- 
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howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

[Corry Opdenakker]

Hi people,

for some dark reason is my rootpassword changed.

does anyone know how I can reset the password for root?
A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot
disc or cd's.

I hope I will not have to reinstall my machine.

All help and tips are welcome!
kind regards and best wishes, Corry.

Does Debian Support DSL?

[dmagnuss]

I am going to install Debian Linux, but don't know 
if it will suport the DSL modem I am using, the Intel Pro/DSL 2100.  
Anybody know if it will work?
 
Thanks,
 
Dan

DHCP and 2 cards

[Triggs; Ian]

Hi, I have just set my cable modem up under linux and am trying to get a
firewall up and running.  My local network traffic is handled on eth0 and
the cable modem traffic is using eth1.  Is there any way I can stop DHCP
from assigning an IP address to both cards?  I only want to get an IP
address for eth1 and get DHCP to ignore eth0.


Thanks in advance,

Ian

Re: ip-up problem under X

[Kai Weber]

+ John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > If a watch the log on /dev/tty10 the output continues but not in a
> > xterminal with tail. Any ideas?
> 
> Post the script.

Oh no! False alarm! My fault! Hit me, hit me!

I just realized I changed the syslog.conf so that output to /dev/tty10
and /var/log/messages are not the same! That confused me.

Thanks for trying anyhow, Kai.
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Re: staroffice

[Ed Cogburn]

Damon Muller wrote:
> 
> Quoth Ed Cogburn,
> >   The registration is a PITA, and they provide no help when an
> > internet connection goes bad, you have to start the download all over
> > again.  They don't allow ftp access which would have allowed me to
> > "resume" the download.  The only other option was special plugins for
> > IE/Netscape browsers, but only Windoze versions.  I had to download
> > the thing using the multiple files:  10 megabytes at a time.
> 
> I have seen SO52 on at least one mirror FTP site (mirror.aarnet.edu.au,
> which, I believe, is only accessably to .au's), so there is a good
> possibility that you'll also find it on others. This lets you avoid
> registration (hey, it's free anyway), and also may allow you to resume.


From where I am, your URL is nonexistant.  I'm surprised Sun would
allow mirrors, as it clearly wants all users to go through the
registration process to get all that customer info.  Sun never
mentions any mirrors on their site.  That mirror in .au may be
"unoffical" 8-).  Ahh, doesn't matter now anyway.  Thanks.


-- 
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire

Ed C.

"no DRQ after issuing WRITE"

[jpglutting]

Hi Everyone,

I have just installed Potato on an old P233. I put it on a new 17GB 
UDMA drive (Seagate), which the bios does not recognize 
correctly. It works fine with kernel 2.2.17, but I get the folloing 
message from time to time:

hda: status timeout: state=0xd0 { Busy }
hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
ide0: reset: success

normally when I am doing some intensive disk access (like 
updatedb, for example). If I boot from a floppy with kernel 2.0.36, 
this does not happen.

Any information at all would be helpful, but my specific question is 
this - Is this a problem with the 2.2.17 kernel, working with an old 
bios/motherboard (I also installed the 2.2.17 kernel patched for 
UDMA disks, but this has not helped...)? Is this some type of disk 
failure that the 2.0.36 kernel does not report, but that the new 
kernel does? Is there a way to deal with this in software, or should I 
think about returning the hard drive?

Many Thanks,

JP

Montse Rue
JP Glutting
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xdvi weird stuff

[David Purton]

Hi,

While using slink, I found that xdvi didn't display lines (table lines or
lines in maths functions such as fractions). The dvi files printed fine with
dvi2ps, just the display was up the creek.  I got round the problem by using a
different dvi viewer (dvilx).

I recently rebuilt a system from scratch to run potatoe by first installing a
base slink system from cd then running apt-get dist-upgrade and then
installing the rest of the software using dselect and apt sources.

I had hopped that this would fix my problem, since a friend's machine worked
fine with potatoe, but the same problem seems to exist.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?



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as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in order
to rush down again.  In a way this is funny,...

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Re: grep crashes machine

[kmself]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:17:18AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> I just stumbled upon the following. If I do
> 
> # cd /
> # grep -r * stuff
> 
> it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The
> last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device
> files, but maybe it's just me...
> 
> If I do the same as user the process exits at the same point with a message
> amounting to "out of memory."
> 
> The machine is a P3-650E with 256MB RAM (+256MB swap) and ~200MB files on
> all disks. A quite fresh potato-test-2 install.

Nothing specific -- haven't tried this and don't care to given your
results.

In general, it's not a good idea to go rooting around through /dev,
particularly as root.

You might want to install and configure glimpse or sglimpse to to
pattern searching through your system files.

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