Re: Big Problem->2.4-test12+Nvidia
On Saturday 23 December 2000 20:06, John Travis wrote: Never mind :-). Somone in one of the ngs pointed me to the nvidia IRC channel where I could get a patch for Test12. Happy Holidays to all of the Debianites around the world!!!
Re: Unidentified subject! - cdrom timeouts
John,
I think there is something funny going on here . I did not recieve a copy of
your mail . Could you please repost. It may be that I have messed up the
settings of my email client ? I am new to the unix world. But I am earnestly
interested in understanding the cause of irq timeouts and would have certainly
responded to your mail if I had seen it . Also please change the subject and
save me the embarrasment if this is permissible by mailing list ethics.
Sincerely
Balbir Thomas
Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 03:44:34PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
>
> I really don't mind you CCing me when you respond to what I said, but if
> you cut out what I said, cut me out of the CC list as well, please. TIA
>
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Jeremy wrote:
>
> > >
> > > --- Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato
> > > > and my cdrom seems to have the following
> > > > problems :
> > > > Most of the time I get errors like :
> > > >
> > > > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
> > > > hdb: ATAPI reset complete
> > > >
> > >
> > > isn't the CD ROM drive supposed to be hdc?
> >
> > I can't really say whether your CD ROM is supposed to be hdb or hdc,
> > because it depends on how it's set up in your system, but I encountered
> > this error as well. For me, it was only happening on one CD, which
> > happened to be the first in the 3 CD set of potato. I foundthat it was a
> > problem with how I had burned the CD the first time, and so I made
> > another and haven't had the problem since. I don't know if it's happening
> > with a CD you made yourself or not, but it's only a thought.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
>
> --
> Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a
> damn.
> email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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just some debian problems...help
ok, a few weeks back I installed Woody, everything runs fine but I have a few questions.. I want to install xmms-dev and i get this error: --- CUT --- apt-get -f install xmms-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: xmms-dev: Depends: xmms (= 1.2.4-helix1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: xlib6g-dev but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgtk1.2-dev but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages --- CUT --- --- CUT --- apt-get -f install libgtk1.2-dev libgtk1.2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, libgtk1.2 is already the newest version Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libgtk1.2-dev: Depends: xlib6g-dev but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages --- CUT --- that problem has been around for a while. But I noticed that Im not receiving any updates to woody. (for the last 1.5weeks) I use (/etc/apt/sources.list) --- CUT --- deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/Debian woody main deb http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US main contrib non-free --- CUT --- but an apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade (or upgrade) says _everything_ is current..which i think is false, as my current XFree86 version is ..4.0.1pre2.RC3 no apt-get updates for 1.5wks..whats happening to me? apt-get install task-kde couldnt install apt-get -f install task-kde Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package task-kde help? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: keeping the screen on
Put this in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section "ServerFlags" Option "Blanktime" "0" Option "StandbyTime" "0" Option "SuspendTime" "0" Option "OffTime" "0" EndSection There are similar settings if you are still using X 3.3.6. --Paul * q ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > debs, > > since i use rather nice background images for my > potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even though, > i may not be using my computers for more than 15 > minutes, after which the screens go black. > > which package controls the "black-out" feature? > (xscreensaver is listed as, "pn" by "dpkg -l > xscreensaver," so i don't believe it's that package.) > > please cc me. > > ia, t. > > bentley taylor. > > // > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Barton http://www.moonkhan.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Bielzebub has a devil put aside for me" - Queen
Re: keeping the screen on
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +, q wrote: > debs, > > since i use rather nice background images for my > potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even though, > i may not be using my computers for more than 15 > minutes, after which the screens go black. > > which package controls the "black-out" feature? > (xscreensaver is listed as, "pn" by "dpkg -l > xscreensaver," so i don't believe it's that package.) > > please cc me. > > ia, t. > > bentley taylor. > > // rob and bob, thank you. bentley taylor. //>
test
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HTML editor
Any suggestions for a good HTML editor that does color highlighting & understands PHP? My favorite editor is HomeSite, and I have yet to find anything comparable for Linux. I've tried running HomeSite with WINE, but haven't gotten that to work :( thanks for any suggestions. Michael _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: keeping the screen on
man xset On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +, q wrote: > debs, > > since i use rather nice background images for my > potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even though, > i may not be using my computers for more than 15 > minutes, after which the screens go black. > > which package controls the "black-out" feature? > (xscreensaver is listed as, "pn" by "dpkg -l > xscreensaver," so i don't believe it's that package.) > -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
Re: keeping the screen on
man xset I believe 'xset s off' will turn off the blanking. -Rob. > On 20001223.2116, q said ... > > debs, > > since i use rather nice background images for my > potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even though, > i may not be using my computers for more than 15 > minutes, after which the screens go black. > > which package controls the "black-out" feature? > (xscreensaver is listed as, "pn" by "dpkg -l > xscreensaver," so i don't believe it's that package.) > > please cc me. > > ia, t. > > bentley taylor. > > // > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Yay verily and was much work done, and several projects signed off. And there was much rejoicing. And QA came unto thy programming team and talked about having a post project dissection of 'what we could do better'. A great shadow fell across the land and the hackers fled into the darkest corners of the offices. -- Alan Cox
keeping the screen on
debs, since i use rather nice background images for my potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even though, i may not be using my computers for more than 15 minutes, after which the screens go black. which package controls the "black-out" feature? (xscreensaver is listed as, "pn" by "dpkg -l xscreensaver," so i don't believe it's that package.) please cc me. ia, t. bentley taylor. //
Debian net install w/ new PCMCIA package?
I've got a PCMPC200 PCMCIA card for my laptop, and the recently released version of the PCMCIA packages have support for this card. (1) How can I find out which drivers are on the 1.44 image driver disks, and (2) if the latest PCMCIA package isn't there, can I make my own driver disk with it? I'm wanting to do a net install to my laptop of 2.2r2. I could get the ISOs if nothing else, but would prefer the above method if it isn't too difficult. Thanks, Rob -- Yay verily and was much work done, and several projects signed off. And there was much rejoicing. And QA came unto thy programming team and talked about having a post project dissection of 'what we could do better'. A great shadow fell across the land and the hackers fled into the darkest corners of the offices. -- Alan Cox
Re: backingup /home/foo/.* files
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:38:08AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:35:03AM +, q wrote: > > > (my apologies...it's on my list of projects. i use vi. the posts i > > > see for this issue seem to be for vim. (anyone know how to line wrap > > > in _vi_?)) > > > > Don't know if this is the answer you keep getting, but, in elvis, ":set > > textwidth=NN" causes it to wrap at NN columns. > > If it's nvi (the default vi on Debian), you want "set wraplen=NN" in > your $HOME/.exrc. But nvi is pretty slim on features-- it doesn't even > have multi-level undo. Better to just install vim & vim-rt and put "set > textwidth=NN" in your $HOME/.vimrc. > > brian ...success! works great. thanks for helping me out w/ excellent info. bentley taylor. //>
Re: NEED help with dynamic linker problem
on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:17:27PM -0800, losthalo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am receiving the following error on the command line: BUG IN DYNAMIC > LINKER ld.so:.. sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h: 291: elf_machine_rel: > Assertion! '! "unexpected dynamic linker reloc type: 'failed! No specific experience or expertise, but the following might be helpful: - What are you doing? What command are you issuing? Are you trying to compile a program or run one? - Have you searched Google or Deja for this bug? A Google search for BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h ...turns up a number of hits, including: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/1998-02/msg00209.html There's also a Debian bug report: http://www.de.debian.org/Bugs/db/63/63861-b.html > I posted about this once before, and received no response. I'm not > asking someone to walk me through it, but I would really appreciate > some help (a URL of a doc, advice, even just an idea of where the > problem lies). I'm new to Debian, to Linux in general, and having a > hard time finding -anything- relating to this online (I have looked, > via search engines, mailing list archives, Debian.org, etc.). Less griping and more specifics would be helpful here. > I can't even find anything -approaching- a comprehensive list of > general error messages for Linux. No such beast, sorry. "Linux" is simply too large an aggregate of multiple packages and components, constantly being updated. Best bet: search the source or online indexes. For kernel-specific messages, guessing at the invariant portion of an error message and running: find /usr/src/linux/* -type f -name \*.c -print0 | \ xargs -0 grep -l 'regexp' ...typically turns up something. If you can work out which program your error is coming from, you might try downloading and grepping its sources. You don't have to know C, but it may help identify *where* your problem is occuring. > The man info for ld.so, ldconfig, and ldd told me nothing. Typically, they don't. If you're lucky, exit status may be indicated. This is a shame. > I tried installing the ld.so package afresh, downloaded from the net, > thinking it may have been corrupted or buggy from the start. The > install seemed to go fine, compiled and installed without error > messages. Good steps. > The ld.so bug error message continues to crop up. It does not seem to > be triggered by a particular command, and once it occurs, basically > locks up the machine, anything entered on the command line gives that > message as a response. Ok. *THIS* is significant. Didn't see it until I started factoring through your post. Put the *important* data at the *TOP* of your post. Check your memory. Report your kernel version. Several of the 2.2.x series have problems, particularly in the 2.2.9 - 2.2.16 range. 2.2.17 has a virtual memory error. Look through your system logs (/var/log + messages, system, and kern.log). See if anything appears to be happening at or near the time the error occurs. > I have compiled and installed other programs I've downloaded, and they > appear to work fine. I have recently recompiled my kernel (slink > 2.0.36) which may have something to do with the problem. Now you tell us. 2.0.36 is old, but basically pretty reliabile. 2.0.38 is, IIRC, the current 2.0 series kernel, you might want to look at it. > Tonight I've put the old kernel back in place (the one I got off of > the slink distro CD), so I'll see if that fixes the situation. In any > case, I have hit a big wall in finding documentation, which has me > pulling my hair out. Look at your system logs. > If I've hit an obvious problem, tell me what it is, if I'm overlooking > something, mention it, and if it's hopeless, please let me know. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpAEJT5HqpDw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: lilo
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:14:25PM +0200, Stefaans Mostert wrote: :> dd if= of=/dev/fd0 count=1 :> :> Alternatively change the line "boot=" in /etc/lilo.conf to point :> at the floppy and then re-run LILO. :Just another question. :I have a /boot partition and if I dd it onto a stiffy will it fit? :My biggest problem here is it must go to a machine that had it's mbr :overwritten by doze AFAIK, you can't dd a directory only a file (block special files like /dev/sda2 qualify here) The "Right Thing" is to read the bootfloppy HOWTO and build something up with either LILO or loadlin. The quick and dirty thing is to dump a raw kernel to disk then use "rdev" to set where that kernel looks for the root partition. For example my machine mounts root from /dev/sda1, if I want to take my kernel and boot a machine with root on /dev/hda1: dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1 you can set other various and sundry things with rdev as well [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ rdev -help usage: rdev [ -rsv ] [ -o OFFSET ] [ IMAGE [ VALUE [ OFFSET ] ] ] rdev /dev/fd0 (or rdev /linux, etc.) displays the current ROOT device rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda2 sets ROOT to /dev/hda2 rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 set the ROOTFLAGS (readonly status) rdev -s /dev/fd0 /dev/hda2 set the SWAP device rdev -r /dev/fd0 627set the RAMDISK size rdev -v /dev/fd0 1 set the bootup VIDEOMODE rdev -o N ... use the byte offset N rootflags ... same as rdev -R swapdev ... same as rdev -s ramsize ... same as rdev -r vidmode ... same as rdev -v Note: video modes are: -3=Ask, -2=Extended, -1=NormalVga, 1=key1, 2=key2,... use -R 1 to mount root readonly, -R 0 for read/write. The beauty of a LILO set up is that you can pass these (and other) kernel params at boot time, which you cannot do with a raw disk. -Jon
exim pop auth question
Dear colleagues, I use a mail service that needs POP authentication before sending messages through SMTP. I've read the exim FAQ and it points me to the http://cc.ysu.edu/~doug/exim-pop.tar.Z in order to solve this. But I'm no expert and I haven't any 'make it easy' guide in order to have it working, as I have in /usr/doc/exim/README.Debian and the daemonisation [sic] of exim. I'd like to know experiences on this, or if you could suggest me any other mailer for just a poor soul dialup intermittent connection. I know the answer could be RTFM, but TFM is so huge and technical... Thank you. If I finish this, the network will be the last part to configure. Best, Ignasi __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
keymaps
Dear all,
I have some problems with the maping of my keyboard.
I read all the manuals and howto's about it.
What is about?
My `k' key generate:
o normal: k
o shift: K
o alt: k
o alt+shift: K
o meta:ë (e with 2 dots above)
o meta+shift: Ë (E with 2 dots above)
o meta+alt:ë (e with 2 dots above)
o meta+alt+shift: Ë (E with 2 dots above)
o ctrl:compose
o ctrl+shift: compose
o ctrl+alt:compose
o ctrl+alt+shift: compose
o ctrl+meta: (don't know, it show as ~K as one character, I
assume it is a command)
o ctrl+meta+shift: compose
o ctrl+alt+meta: (don't know, it show as ~K as one character, I
assume it is a command)
o ctrl+alt+meta+shift: (don't know, it show as ~K as one character, I
assume it is a command)
o capslock:K
Other modifiers don't change the value of the key. (numLock, ScrollLock, etc.)
I have a PC 104 keyboard. XKeyCaps 2.46 call it: ``PC 104 key, wide Delete,
short Enter, XFree86; US'' or PCOW104.
First question I had: From where is coming the letter with 2 dots on the e?
If I could find out, I could change this behavior.
I open xkeycaps and I changed the capital K with Icircumflex.
Now the meta+k generate still the e with 2 dots, but the meta+shift+k generate
Icircumflex
as well as the shift+k. I change also the k to generate icircumflex. I got a
similar answer.
Now k as well as meta+key generate icircumflex.
I reset the changes, and I edit the `k' key to generate k, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and
6.
Doesn't mater which combinations of modifiers I use the behavior is the same as
it
was at the very beginning. The digits are not generated at all, and the e and E
with 2
dots are generated with meta key.
I reseted all the changes because I realize that xmodmap and xkeycaps can't
help me.
I went to ``http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html''
to read
``The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO''.
Chapter 15. Examples of use of loadkeys and xmodmap, show how to make F12
produce the string
"emacs ". It does not work at all. dumpkeys show that I did the change but if I
press F12
I still have the same string of characters: "\033[24~".
Next I try to change /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz:
the line `keycode 37 = k' into `keycode 37 = k Icircumflex' (run loadkeys)
==> no change
the line `keycode 37 = k' into `keycode 37 = icircumflex' (run loadkeys) ==>
no change
Next I change in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/drivers/char/defkeymap.map
the line ``keycode 37 = k' into `keycode 37 = icircumflex Icircumflex
k k k k k k'.
I recompile the kernel ==> no change. With this new kernel I changed again
/etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz but no better luck.
Conclusions: I don't understand who/what is responsible with the key binding.
What I want in fact? Check the table:
I have I want
normal:
`1234567890-= `1234567890-=
qwertyuiop[]\ ăşertţuiop[]\
asdfghjkl;' asdfghjîl;'
zxcvbnm,./ zxcvbnm,./
Shift:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*()_+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]&*()_+
QWERTYUIOP{}| ĂŞERTŢUIOP{}|
ASDFGHJKL:" ASDFGHJÎL:"
ZXCVBNM<>? ZXCVBNM<>?
Meta:
๲ł´ľśˇ¸š°˝
ń÷ĺňôůőéďđŰÝÜ qwy
áóäćçčęë읧 âk
úřăöâî폎Ż
Meta+Shift:
ţĄŔŁ¤ĽŢŚŞ¨ŠßŤ
Ń×ĹŇÔŮŐÉĎĐűýü QWY
ÁÓÄĆÇČĘËĚş˘ ÂK
ÚŘĂÖÂÎÍźžż
If nothing can be done I am willing to write a driver. Where I can
read a manual about?
If nothing can be done I am willing to write a driver. Where I can
read a manual about?
Thank you for your help,
Ionel Ciobica
P.S. In fact I want to have an alternate Romanian keyboard. The default one
(for Romanian) is silly. It assign the key {[, ]}, |\, ;: and '" to Romanian
letters: acircumflex, icircumflex, tcommabelow, scomabelow, abreve.
This is not good enough because those key are in heavy use, especially
if one use latex. I want to change the q, w, y and k keys which doesn't
bellong to Romanian language and are not use in Romanian texts.
Currently I solve somehow the problem by having two .vimrc files.
For Romanian text: I have a script which copy the Romanian .vimrc to
~/.vimrc and then open vim.
A sample of the .vimrc file:
:inoremap k î
:inoremap K Î
:inoremap ë k
:inoremap Ë K
etc.
I can't assign abreve to a key but rather atilde and then use a iso-8859-2
font encoding to see it right.
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keymaps
Dear all,
I have some problems with the maping of my keyboard.
I read all the manuals and howto's about it.
What is about?
My `k' key generate:
o normal: k
o shift: K
o alt: k
o alt+shift: K
o meta:ë (e with 2 dots above)
o meta+shift: Ë (E with 2 dots above)
o meta+alt:ë (e with 2 dots above)
o meta+alt+shift: Ë (E with 2 dots above)
o ctrl:compose
o ctrl+shift: compose
o ctrl+alt:compose
o ctrl+alt+shift: compose
o ctrl+meta: (don't know, it show as ~K as one character, I
assume it is a command)
o ctrl+meta+shift: compose
o ctrl+alt+meta: (don't know, it show as ~K as one character, I
assume it is a command)
o ctrl+alt+meta+shift: (don't know, it show as ~K as one character, I
assume it is a command)
o capslock:K
Other modifiers don't change the value of the key. (numlock,
scrolllock, etc.) I have a PC 104 keyboard. XKeyCaps 2.46 call
it: ``PC 104 key, wide Delete, short Enter, XFree86; US'' or
PCOW104.
First question I had: From where is coming the letter with 2 dots
on the e? If I could find out, I could change this behavior.
I opened xkeycaps and I changed the capital `K' with Icircumflex.
Now the meta+k generate still the e with 2 dots, but the
meta+shift+k generate Icircumflex as well as the shift+k. I
changed also the `k' to generate icircumflex. I got a similar
answer. Now k as well as meta+key generate icircumflex.
I reset the changes, and I edit the `k' key to generate k, K,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Doesn't mater which combinations of
modifiers I use the behavior is the same as it was at the
very beginning. The digits are not generated at all, and the
e and E with 2 dots are generated with meta key.
I reseted all the changes because I realize that xmodmap and
xkeycaps can't help me.
I went to ``http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html''
to read ``The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO''.
In chapter 15. Examples of use of loadkeys and xmodmap, it shows
how to make F12 produce the string "emacs ". It does not work at
all. Dumpkeys show that I did the change but if I press F12
I still have the same string of characters: "\033[24~".
Next I try to change /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz:
the line `keycode 37 = k' into `keycode 37 = k Icircumflex'
(run loadkeys) ==> no change
the line `keycode 37 = k' into `keycode 37 = icircumflex'
(run loadkeys) ==> no change
Next I change in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/drivers/char/defkeymap.map
the line ``keycode 37 = k' into `keycode 37 = icircumflex Icircumflex
k k k k k k'.
I recompile the kernel ==> no change. With this new kernel I changed again
/etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz but no better luck.
Conclusions: I don't understand who/what is responsible with the key binding.
What I want in fact? Check the table:
I have I want
normal:
`1234567890-= `1234567890-=
qwertyuiop[]\ ãºertþuiop[]\
asdfghjkl;' asdfghjîl;'
zxcvbnm,./ zxcvbnm,./
Shift:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*()_+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]&*()_+
QWERTYUIOP{}| êERTÞUIOP{}|
ASDFGHJKL:" ASDFGHJÎL:"
ZXCVBNM<>? ZXCVBNM<>?
Meta:
à±²³´µ¶·¸¹°½
ñ÷åòôùõéïðÛÝÜ qwy
áóäæçèêë컧 âk
úøãöâîí¬®¯
Meta+Shift:
þ¡À£¤¥Þ¦ª¨©ß«
Ñ×ÅÒÔÙÕÉÏÐûýü QWY
ÁÓÄÆÇÈÊË̺¢ ÂK
ÚØÃÖÂÎͼ¾¿
If nothing can be done I am willing to write a driver. Where I can
read a manual about?
Thank you for your help,
Ionel Ciobica
P.S. In fact I want to have an alternate Romanian keyboard. The default one
(for Romanian) is silly. It assigns the key {[, ]}, |\, ;: and '" to Romanian
letters: acircumflex, icircumflex, tcommabelow, scomabelow, abreve.
This is not good enough because those key are in heavy use, especially
if one uses latex. I want to change the q, w, y and k keys which doesn't
bellong to Romanian language and are not use in Romanian texts.
Currently I solve somehow the problem by having two .vimrc files.
For Romanian text: I have a script which copy the Romanian .vimrc to
~/.vimrc and then open vim.
A sample of the .vimrc file:
:inoremap k î
:inoremap K Î
:inoremap ë k
:inoremap Ë K
etc.
I can't assign abreve to a key but rather atilde and then use a iso-8859-2
font encoding to see it right.
chat error & kernel
I installed debian and used pppconfig to generate the chat scripts. Everything worked ok. A little later, I installed a custom kernel using my regular parameters ( ie: moving ppp into the kernel, not a module ). I couldn't connect, or even dial out as far as i could tell. In syslog I find "Chat: can't get terminal parameter: input/output error." But if I boot from the floppy boot disk I made during install, pon/ppp works. The custom kernel is the 2.2r2 source package (2.2.18, from memory) with a security patch that I've used on that machine without problems before. I'm sure I must be missing something configuring the kernel, but I can't catch it. thanks & best wishes, Jon
Big Problem->2.4-test12+Nvidia
I was just wondering if anyone has successfully compiled the Nvidia .95 drivers with the latest kernel. The reiserfs patches for it just came out so I thought I would upgrade from test9 to test12. But when trying to rebuild the nvidia drivers (which worked very well before) I get ___ cs1609-155:/usr/local/nvidia/NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5# make ld -r -o Module-linux nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o ld -r -o NVdriver Module-linux Module-nvkernel size NVdriver textdata bss dec hex filename 388173 26944 40 415157 655b5 NVdriver depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol mem_map_inc_count /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol mem_map_dec_count /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol put_module_symbol /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol get_module_symbol /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video /NVdriver failed /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: insmod NVdriver failed make: *** [package-install] Error 255 -- I suppose I could try building it for the old kernel and allowing for the unmatched module in the new kernel but I was wondering if there was a better workaround. Or I could just go back to test9 if I really need the drivers or xv. TIA, jt
Re: CD Audio tracks/file system
I had done that, but overlooked one small fact; I was in the cdrom group, but not the disk group, to which /dev/hdc was pointed. I had no rights to physically scan the CD for tracks! How has everyone else set up the permissions for their IDE /dev/cdrom links? I don't like being in the disk group, I just hope it's usually automatically set up the *proper* way and I just wrecked it myself... On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 06:01:52PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I had to open up the xmms properties, and then enable the CD plug-in. It > will > probably ask you what device name it is, etc. But after that, it worked > fine for > me. > > Cameron Matheson > > > - Original Message - > From: Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 1:42 PM > Subject: CD Audio tracks/file system > > > > I was just over at a friend's place, and showing him how to use Storm... > > when I showed him XMMS, and he asked if it would play CDs. I said "It's > > supposed to..." and put a CD in, pointed it at his /cdrom path, and it > > showed up! All sorts of *.cda tracks. I can't replicate it on my system > > though! What am I missing? > > > > -- > > Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich > > == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html > == > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html == The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars. -- H. L. Mencken
Re: How to track *part* of unstable?
> Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to do this easily - there doesn't seem > to be any way to tell apt, "Keep the system up to date with potato, except > for packages foo, bar, and baz, which should be woody." The closest I've > come is: > > - Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at potato > - apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade > - Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at woody > - apt-get update ; apt-get install foo bar baz The only problem with this is that every time you change the sources.list file and run apt-get update, it takes ages downloading package files that you usually have already downloaded before, but were discarded through an earlier sources.list change. This is a waste of time and bandwidth. My solution is to do this: Assuming currently you are pointing at potato and uptodate... cp -a /var/state/apt/lists /var/state/apt/lists.potato edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at woody apt-get update apt-get install whatever packages you want mv /var/state/apt/lists /var/state/apt/lists.woody cp -a /var/state/apt/lists.potato /var/state/apt/lists edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at potato apt-get update (just to be on the safe side) Then you will be safely back pointing to potato again, having installed a few woody packages. By keeping a copy of the /var/state/apt/lists directory for potato, you won't need to download it again. Next time you do the above, you could replace the first step by mv /var/state/apt/lists /var/state/apt/lists.potato cp -a /var/state/apt/lists.woody /var/state/apt/lists but this is of lesser value, because woody is constantly changing so you will probably have to download the package files anyway. Hope this helps, Mark. P.S. I like the sound of the new apt-get ability to mix and match!!! Does anyone have an idea of when this will be stable enough for general use? -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
mutt save-hook stopped working
Hi, I have the following in my .muttrc: ### Tell mutt what mailing lists I belong to. lists awad debian-laptop debian-user evolution exmh_users intermezzo-discuss lists linuxsa linux-announce lists linux-lvm wine-users ### Misc global hooks. save-hook ~l +lists/save/%B # if message was sent to a known list, # default save box is lists/save/ And this used to work fine, so that if I ever wanted to save a certain message from say, the debian-user list, it saved it in lists/save/debian-user. But of recent times this no longer works. The only change that has been made, is that my version of mutt was upgraded slightly --- I am now running version 1.2.5-4. But I checked the manual and it would seem the above still should work --- no major syntax changes etc that I can see. So any ideas on what is wrong? Thanks, Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
Re: Fetchmail and exim ... again
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:25:24PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > As root, try running eximon and looking at exim's logs in /var/log/exim (as > I recall) to see if it reports any activity. The first thing is to figure > out if the problem is exim or fetchmail. I use that combination, though I > recall the setup was a bit tricky. The exim manual has a section for > intermittently connected hosts, which is what you want. And be sure to set the keep and fetchall flags for fetchmail, so as to prevent loosing any mail in the process. The keep-flag tells fetchmail *not* to delete the mail at your IPS after dowloading it succesfully. Ant the fetchall-flag tells it to fetch all mail, even mail that has been fetched before. > >I hate testing this too much, as I'm sure everyone can understand !! ;) no need to loose mail in the testing face, se above. Try running "fetchmail -a -k -v -v" to get a full transcript of what is going on, this will show you whether fetchmail or exim is to blame. You could also try to mail to yourself locally like: $ mutt your-local-account -s testing
Re: CD Audio tracks/file system
Hey, I had to open up the xmms properties, and then enable the CD plug-in. It will probably ask you what device name it is, etc. But after that, it worked fine for me. Cameron Matheson - Original Message - From: Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 1:42 PM Subject: CD Audio tracks/file system > I was just over at a friend's place, and showing him how to use Storm... > when I showed him XMMS, and he asked if it would play CDs. I said "It's > supposed to..." and put a CD in, pointed it at his /cdrom path, and it > showed up! All sorts of *.cda tracks. I can't replicate it on my system > though! What am I missing? > > -- > Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich > == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html == > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
[OT] Anyone got Neogeo working with mame (or other emus)?
Hey, I downloaded the mame source a few days ago, so that I could play some good ol' fashioned neogeo games, but when I try to load them if says i'm missing the following files: neo-geo.o, sg-fix.o, sg-1.o. I can play any other kind of arcade game, just not neogeo. Any one else experienced this? If so, how did you fix it? Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Re: Dump root window to a JPG?
On Saturday 23 December 2000 14:03, Laurent Boulard Debian User wrote: > Le Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:25:49PM +0100, John Travis écrivait : > > Thanks, that's a lot faster than my previous methods. Except the > > video (from xine) still shows up as a bright ass blue box :-). Any > > other suggestions? > > you can't grab the display of xine because it use Xv extension. The > display of the movie on the screen is render by the video card. xine > computes the display in memory and the video card grabs it in order > to replace the blue color of the root display. This is why you see a > blue color on your screenshot. > The (almost) only way of doing a movie shot is by xine which know > where is memory of the movie. So, until xine offers a grab fonction, > you can't take a shot. If you really want to grab a picture of the > movie, disable the Xv rendeering but be ready to lose many many > frames. > > Laurent. > PS: sorry for my bad english Thanks, I hadn't thought of that one yet :-). Screenshots taken! Too bad I couldn't get any fullscreens without xv but all well. There is a somewhat random (at least to me) _huge_ memory leak if you force it not to use the xv extension. Thanks again. P.S. Your english is much better than my 8*). jt
Re: agp
Mario Carugno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi. > > I would to know if i can use agp cards with Debian, and if there's some particular > model that is recomended for using. > > Thanks > The AGP bus is transparent to the PCI bus, which is to say that when you run `lspci', AGP devices show up as well. The primary difference between AGP (1x) and PCI is about four times the total bandwidth, so even a chip that was originally meant for PCI devices still works a heckuvalot faster on AGP. If you want a good, fast, reliable, well-supported card (2D and 3D), I'd highly recommend a Voodoo3, preferably a 3000 or 3500 model (3500's have video capture stuff on the card, but are otherwise the same as a 3000). The downside to a V3 is that you are limited to the color depth on 3D stuff (16-bit only), but most of the other drivers are limited the same way, even if the hardware can do better. HTH -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington| Atipa Linux Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.atipa.com Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550
Re: Catch-22 with modules/backups
On 23 Dec 2000 16:27:02 EST, mikpolniak said: > > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:32:34 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > > I did not install SCSI support during my debian-2.2.17pre6 > > installation, since I have no SCSI devices. > > > > I have one backup mechanism, a CD-Rewritable drive. > > The CD-Rewritable howto says I need SCSI support. > > (whoops!) > > > > I am eager to try making a debian kernel, > > to make sure only the drivers I need are there, > > but first I need to make a backup !!! > > > > The module I am missing is sr_mod, which I am told is loadable. > > dselect knows nothing about scsi or sr_mod, > > apt-get knows the same. > > www.google.com has no links to any sources that I can find. > > If you look for "sr_mod" in the debian packages area, > > you get nothing, becuase it treats the _ as a space. > > > > Two or three people have tried to give me help, but one > > said "good luck" and the other main one began > > "Start with a clean .config file" (um, what .config file?) > > > You can use your /boot/config-2.2.xx as a bootstrap for > your kernel compile .config file. > To get the 'sr_mod ' set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m in SCSI > support type. > To record on IDE/ATAPI drive you'll need SCSI emulation > set for module 'ide-scsi' ; SCSI support for 'scsi-mod' module; > SCSI generic for 'sg' module. > Also set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD to N or M and not > directly linked to the kernel. > When you want to record a cd you'll have to activate the > SCSI bus and drivers with modprobe ide-scsi and also run > cdrecord -scanbus. > I think this will clarify your situation. Look for the following in /lib/modules/scsi : ide-scsi.o scsi_mod.o sg.o sr_mod.o in /lib/modules/block: ide-cd.o These modules should allow you to use 'cdrecord' to make a recording on your IDE/ATAPI CD-RW. If some of these modules are not listed then they must be directly linked into the kernel, which you can see in your /boot/config-2.2.XX file. If ide-cd is directly linked then you will have to edit lilo.conf and add : append='hdx=ide-scsi' where x is your drive e.g. hdc. This is necessary so that ide-cd does not grab your CD-RW before the ide-scsi module. If you have to compile to get the required modules you can leave out ide-cd since with SCSI emulation you will reference your drive as scd0.
Re: removing XFree
Use a frontend like capt or aptitude, there's a whole bunch of packages to uninstall. You could also use dselect :P if you're really a masochist... BTW, you can get a list of packages presently installed on your system by using dpkg -l|less (pipe it through a pager, I use less, it's a huge output...) if you really like the idea of going through package-by-package. On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Xucaen wrote: > I know this sounds strange, but I want to remove > Xfree. I have tried "apt-get remove" with every > combination of X11 and Xfree I could think of, > but to no avail. What is the exact name of the > Xfree package that should be used with apt-get? > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel version
2.2.17 in both cases (actually, there's a 2.2.18pre21 package optional, but you have to do special things to get it like apt or dselect). On 23 Dec 2000, Bob wrote: > what linux kernel version does the current stable debian release (2.2r2) run > on. what kernel version does the current unstable version run on? > > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at > http://home.netscape.com/webmail > > > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
removing XFree
I know this sounds strange, but I want to remove Xfree. I have tried "apt-get remove" with every combination of X11 and Xfree I could think of, but to no avail. What is the exact name of the Xfree package that should be used with apt-get? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
kernel version
what linux kernel version does the current stable debian release (2.2r2) run on. what kernel version does the current unstable version run on? Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: Unidentified subject!
I really don't mind you CCing me when you respond to what I said, but if
you cut out what I said, cut me out of the CC list as well, please. TIA
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Jeremy wrote:
> >
> > --- Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato
> > > and my cdrom seems to have the following
> > > problems :
> > > Most of the time I get errors like :
> > >
> > > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
> > > hdb: ATAPI reset complete
> > >
> >
> > isn't the CD ROM drive supposed to be hdc?
>
> I can't really say whether your CD ROM is supposed to be hdb or hdc,
> because it depends on how it's set up in your system, but I encountered
> this error as well. For me, it was only happening on one CD, which
> happened to be the first in the 3 CD set of potato. I foundthat it was a
> problem with how I had burned the CD the first time, and so I made
> another and haven't had the problem since. I don't know if it's happening
> with a CD you made yourself or not, but it's only a thought.
>
> Jeremy
>
--
Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a
damn.
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Navigating your drive in text mode (was: Re: configuring network card solved.)
--- "S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, you are right about that. But check out the > package documentation in > /usr/doc/. If you don't have > manpages installed, you can > always look at the package docs in /usr/docs to I just wanted to mention (for anyone who didn't know already) that I found an easy way to go thru the documentation. (I don't have X installed. I need to learn linux before I can begin playing with X) For anyone using the command line to navigate the system, if you start lynx with the parameter of '/' (that is, a slash without the single quotes) it points lynx to your root directory and lynx becomes a file manager. (I used to use XTree on DOS years ago, so for me, this is great.) > But just know that you do not have to reinstall > Debian to tweak and > reconfigure the system. And telling newbies to > reinstall Debian to do > that, no matter how many smilies you use, just > isn't good advice. ok, I (finally) agree with you. > > We all need to do our bit to make sure that new > users do not get > intimidated by Debian, and go back to their > OrangeVest Linux distro that > has GUI config tools. I'm keeping a notebook of all the files and utilities I find in my exploration of linux. maybe in a few months we'll see yet another linux doc out there... > PS: If you have any other configuration issues > with your Debian > installation, speak up now and we'll try and > help you in ways that won't > require you to reinstall Debian. > well... now that you mention it... ;-) no, seriouisly, I just have to figure out the nameing conventions used on the system for all config files. can you recomend any good books on linux sys administration? thanks!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
CDROM?
Good Day, Have a CD ROM question here. Background: I recently upgraded my machine from RH6.2 to Debian 2.2r2. Hardware has not changed. Upgraded to kernel 2.4.0-test11, the same kernel I was running under RH, configured the same way. None of my filesystems are built as modules (all built in to kernel). I have a properly written fstab file. Symptoms: Attempts to mount a CD from console (init 3) result in a modprobe complaint about not being able to find nls_iso8859-1. The CD mounts nonetheless (verified with mtab) Attempts to mount from an Xterm while in init 5 result in no warnings, and the CD mounts. In both cases, listing /mnt/cdrom (the mount point) produces an empty directory. The disks were readable under RH6.2 and read under both Win and Mac. I don't understand the reference to modprobe...I have exactly *one* item built as a module - my Nvidia driver. Everything else is built-in, so why is modprobe getting involved? I've checked to make sure that modules.conf is setup properly, and the correct system.map is installed. I've tried the mount as a user, and as root. I've chmod both devices to 777. I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions? -- Steve Bradley Registered Linux User#187404 (register at www.linuxcounter.org) ICQ#19864616
setting up apt-get "server"
I setup an rsync mirror of the kde2 site for my home network. I was wondering how to set it up so I can apt-get from workstations in my network the packages off my rsync mirror. Has anyone done this? Any pointers for me? TIA, Jesse
Re: Catch-22 with modules/backups
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:32:34 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I did not install SCSI support during my debian-2.2.17pre6 > installation, since I have no SCSI devices. > > I have one backup mechanism, a CD-Rewritable drive. > The CD-Rewritable howto says I need SCSI support. > (whoops!) > > I am eager to try making a debian kernel, > to make sure only the drivers I need are there, > but first I need to make a backup !!! > > The module I am missing is sr_mod, which I am told is loadable. > dselect knows nothing about scsi or sr_mod, > apt-get knows the same. > www.google.com has no links to any sources that I can find. > If you look for "sr_mod" in the debian packages area, > you get nothing, becuase it treats the _ as a space. > > Two or three people have tried to give me help, but one > said "good luck" and the other main one began > "Start with a clean .config file" (um, what .config file?) > You can use your /boot/config-2.2.xx as a bootstrap for your kernel compile .config file. To get the 'sr_mod ' set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m in SCSI support type. To record on IDE/ATAPI drive you'll need SCSI emulation set for module 'ide-scsi' ; SCSI support for 'scsi-mod' module; SCSI generic for 'sg' module. Also set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD to N or M and not directly linked to the kernel. When you want to record a cd you'll have to activate the SCSI bus and drivers with modprobe ide-scsi and also run cdrecord -scanbus.
Re: Fetchmail and exim ... again
As root, try running eximon and looking at exim's logs in /var/log/exim (as I recall) to see if it reports any activity. The first thing is to figure out if the problem is exim or fetchmail. I use that combination, though I recall the setup was a bit tricky. The exim manual has a section for intermittently connected hosts, which is what you want. At 11:16 AM 12/23/2000 -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: I know the combination of fetchmail and exim is discussed frequently, but I don't know if the problem I'm having is similar. What's happening is, if I use fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP, I never see it. The log file shows it getting messages, but they never show up in my mailbox. Exim is running all the time, as a daemon vs in inted.conf. ~> ps ax | grep exim 164 ?S 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q30 I hate testing this too much, as I'm sure everyone can understand !! ;) From the fetchmail FAQ, when this happens, it's usually because my MTA isn't setup up correctly. That's where I'll have a problem... I did set it up during installation and I can send mail fine. Looking at the exim.conf file, the settings for "qualify_recipient" and "local_domains" are the first place I had ideas about. "qualify_recipient" is commented out. "local_domains" looks like this: local_domains = localhost:mindspring.com:eeyore.homeip.net I know *I* added the "eeyore.homeip.net" entry, but think that the setup added both "localhost" and "mindspring.com". I'm off to exim's site now, but any help from here is appreciated ! Thanks in advance Hall Stevenson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: undelete? Help
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:40:24PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > See the Ext2fs-Undeletion mini-HOWTO > (/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.txt.gz, for > instance). Also try the recover and/or gtkrecover packages if you're > running unstable. I gave a talk about ext2 file undeletion to my LUG (http://www.phillylinux.org/) a couple of months ago. If you'd like, my notes from the talk are available at http://www.billjonas.com/papers/undeletion.html; this page contains basically the exact steps I took when I did the same thing several months ago. -- Bill Jonas| "In contrast to the What You See Is What You [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Get (WYSIWYG) philosophy, UNIX is the You http://www.billjonas.com/ | Asked For It, You Got It operating system." http://www.debian.org/| --Scott Lee, as quoted by Lamb and Robbins
Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:31:45PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > my /lib/modules/kernel-2.2.13/misc or any of the other dirs here. There > should be a driver ps2mouse.o or the like created when the kernel is > compiled and installed. I used the make-kpkg buildkernel command and If you're using the kernel's PS/2 mouse driver, the option to build it as a module doesn't exist. I recall from a past issue of Kernel Traffic that the PS/2 mouse driver shares a lot of code with the PS/2 keyboard driver. It's a "have it/don't have it" type of proposition; the option to build as a module simply isn't there. -- Bill Jonas| "In contrast to the What You See Is What You [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Get (WYSIWYG) philosophy, UNIX is the You http://www.billjonas.com/ | Asked For It, You Got It operating system." http://www.debian.org/| --Scott Lee, as quoted by Lamb and Robbins
Re: Catch-22 with modules/backups
Lo, on Saturday, December 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write: > I am eager to try making a debian kernel, to make sure only the drivers I > need are there, but first I need to make a backup !!! While backups never hurt, a kernel rebuild shouldn't require backups. If you leave out some necessary drivers, you won't be able to boot, but all of your files will still be there and more or less intact. If you save a copy of your previous kernel (always a good idea), then reboot under that image and try another rebuild, including all of the necessary drivers. > The module I am missing is sr_mod, which I am told is loadable. dselect > knows nothing about scsi or sr_mod, apt-get knows the same. > www.google.com has no links to any sources that I can find. If you look > for "sr_mod" in the debian packages area, you get nothing, becuase it > treats the _ as a space. > > Two or three people have tried to give me help, but one said "good luck" > and the other main one began "Start with a clean .config file" (um, what > .config file?) > > I am using 2.2.17-pre6 and all I want to do is get and load a "loadable > device driver". > > I know I could have gotten this module off of my installation CDs in the > first place. Loadable modules (or ``loadable device drivers,'' as you call them) are not in separate debian packages; they're all part of the kernel and are thus contained in the kernel-image package, which (I think) should have been installed during your Debian install. Therefore, dselect, apt, and the Debian package list aren't going to know anything about them. The first step is to figure out exactly which drivers you need. Is your CD-RW an ATAPI or a SCSI device? See the table in section 2.1 of the CD-Writing HOWTO for a discussion of the drivers you'll need. Now, my understanding (i.e., educated guess) is that the necessary drivers were installed on your machine, but those modules weren't loaded by default. Type "modprobe " as root to load module and any dependencies. If that works, you're good to go. (If you use the ide-scsi module, you'll need to hide your CD-RW drive from the IDE driver. Run `cat /proc/modules'. If you see ``ide-cd'' in the first column, then you're cool. Become root, then create a file called /etc/modutils/local which contains this stuff from the HOWTO: options ide-cd ignore=hdb# tell the ide-cd module to ignore hdb alias scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon access of scd0 pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd before ide-scsi then run the commands update-modules # umount any CDs rmmod ide-cd modprobe ide-cd modprobe ide-scsi If, however, ``ide-cd'' is NOT in /proc/modules, then you'll have to adjust lilo.conf, as in the HOWTO, and reboot before you can load ide-scsi.) Otherwise, you'll need to rebuild your kernel, including support for the necessary drivers. See section 8.5 of the Debian installation manual for details on how to do this. (The .config file you refer to is your *kernel* compilation configuration file.) > PS I don't want to install debian on my swap partition, and > then try to move the sr_mod module, but I bet it might work. Unnecessary. I think the sr_mod module is installed on your system (somewhere under /lib/modules), just not loaded. Hope this helps, Richard
Re: Removal from list
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:12:00PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
> brian moore wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 03:08:15PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > > brian moore wrote:
> > >
> > > well, the confusing thing is that the address that I tried to
> > > unsubscribe by explicitly listing it in the subject (I have the same
> > > problem) is exactly the same as the one listed as similar. And since I
> > > explicitly asked for specific address to be unsubscribed I see no reason
> > > for SmartList to try to figure out what the address is from headers.
> >
> > Sure there is. For the simple reason that someone -changed- the defaults
> > so that your name would not match.
>
> I almost understand what you are saying (here and below) but I would
> think that it would be a fallback behaviour when EXACT match is not
> found. I guess that's why I am so puzzled because in my case the EXACTLY
> EXACT match is found.
>
> what defaults can change so that [EMAIL PROTECTED] would not match
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're thinking digital. Don't.
The numeric value of matching is a number between -32767 and +32767 of
the 'closeness' of the match. It is, effectively, a floating point number
between -1.0 and +1.0, non-inclusive (ie, just the fractional part.)
Because of the nature of floating point on digital devices, you are
HIGHLY unlikely to get an -exact- match.
Here's a simple example for your calculator: what is sqrt(2) * sqrt(2)?
Is it 2? Logically, yes, it is... but is that the answer your
calculator will give? It's not what bc gives:
[durin:~] 134 % echo 'sqrt(2) * sqrt(2)' | bc -l
1.
Better file a bug against bc since it's just as broken as you contend
SmartList is.
There is no configuration option to say "only do exact matches". There
is only an option for how to round the numbers. (ie, round 0.5 to
1 or 'true', but 0.4 would round to 0.0, or 'false'). That is the
value that was changed. Effectively the list requires that 'sqrt(2) *
sqrt(2)' evaluate to 2... but in the real world, that won't happen.
> smartlist as a program (or set of program) probably yes. smartlist as
> a mailing list system (or as particular installation of smartlist) does
> not.
No, the fault lies not in the software, but in the person who changed
it. (cf Hamlet)
> still, why is it that exact match does not take priority over all
> other approximate ones? I haven't thought much about mailservers but
> generaly the idea is to use deterministic algorithm first, if that fails
> try heuristics...
'apt-get source smartlist' and change the source yourself then. When
properly set up (and not fucked with), it works great. That someone
fucked with it and then it breaks doesn't mean the software itself is
broken.
Good luck getting anyone to use the 'improved' version, though, when the
standard version works fine until someone decides to 'fix' it.
> or is it not exact match? why wouldn't [EMAIL PROTECTED] (that I
> want to unsubscribe) be an exact match for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the
> list of subscribers)?
Because 0. isn't 1.0 and 'sqrt(2) * sqrt(2)' isn't 2.0 on a
computer.
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CD Audio tracks/file system
I was just over at a friend's place, and showing him how to use Storm... when I showed him XMMS, and he asked if it would play CDs. I said "It's supposed to..." and put a CD in, pointed it at his /cdrom path, and it showed up! All sorts of *.cda tracks. I can't replicate it on my system though! What am I missing? -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html ==
Catch-22 with modules/backups
I did not install SCSI support during my debian-2.2.17pre6 installation, since I have no SCSI devices. I have one backup mechanism, a CD-Rewritable drive. The CD-Rewritable howto says I need SCSI support. (whoops!) I am eager to try making a debian kernel, to make sure only the drivers I need are there, but first I need to make a backup !!! The module I am missing is sr_mod, which I am told is loadable. dselect knows nothing about scsi or sr_mod, apt-get knows the same. www.google.com has no links to any sources that I can find. If you look for "sr_mod" in the debian packages area, you get nothing, becuase it treats the _ as a space. Two or three people have tried to give me help, but one said "good luck" and the other main one began "Start with a clean .config file" (um, what .config file?) I am using 2.2.17-pre6 and all I want to do is get and load a "loadable device driver". I know I could have gotten this module off of my installation CDs in the first place. Please help, thankfully, Joshua S Narins PS I don't want to install debian on my swap partition, and then try to move the sr_mod module, but I bet it might work.
Re: yet another ppp failure story...
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 07:59:17PM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> At 11:04 AM -0800 12/20/00, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> >On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> >
> >> At 5:42 PM -0800 12/19/00, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Show us your chatscript.
> >> >
> >>
> >> My chat script looks like this:
> >> 'TIMEOUT' '30'
> >> 'ABORT' 'BUSY'
> >> 'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER'
> >> 'ABORT' 'NO ANSWER'
> >> 'ABORT' 'NO DIALTONE'
> >> 'ABORT' 'RING'
> >> 'ABORT' '% User/password invalid'
> >> '' 'ATZ'
> >> 'OK-+++\c-OK' 'AT &F1 L W2 Q0 V1 E1 &D2 &C1 S0=0 S7=150+MS=56'
> >> 'OK' 'ATDT5551000'
> >> 'CONNECT 42000' ''
> >> 'User Access Verification--User Access Verification' ''
> As you can see, my script only works (now) -- that is, actually goes
> through the authentification process -- iff the CONNECT speed matches
> 42000. Considering that this speed can change upon each connection,
> this is one bug from the script.
Yes, it is. It would be unreliable on any system for that reason.
(Your distribution doesn't control the negotiated speed, that's up to
your phone line quality, the modems and phase of the moon.)
So change the 'CONNECT 42000' to 'CONNECT'.
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Re: backingup /home/foo/.* files
Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > If it's nvi (the default vi on Debian), you want "set wraplen=NN" in > your $HOME/.exrc. But nvi is pretty slim on features-- it doesn't even > have multi-level undo. Better to just install vim & vim-rt and put "set > textwidth=NN" in your $HOME/.vimrc. Oh, and if you have trouble with your paragraph formatting (as I did when I used nvi), that is, if your paragraphs end up looking like this because you tried to revised them, install the par package, put export PARINIT='rTbgqR B=.?_A_a Q=_s>|' in your $HOME/.bashrc and execute it on the command line, and then you can type "!(motion)par NN" in vi to reformat your text. (motion) should be replaced with whatever key(s) represents the portion of the document that you want to reformat-- if just to the end of the current paragraph, try "}", if the current cursor position to the bottom of the document, try "G", if the whole document, try "1G", etc. Also note that this vi command doesn't start with ":". As always, man nvi and man par for details. Or install vim & vim-rt and use the builtin "gq(motion)" command which accomplishes much the same thing. brian
Re: How I got ALSA sound drivers kind of working
oops sorry for my bad quoting on previous post. On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:56:36 + (UTC), Pollywog said: > > I used Timmy's ALSA tutorial but I did not follow this particular > advice and I still had no problems with my SB VibraX. > When I ran alsaconf, I set up the card as a SB16. Here is what I do have installed for esound and libesd: lilypad:~->dpkg -l | grep esound ii esound 0.2.20-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support binaries ii esound-common 0.2.20-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common files lilypad:~->dpkg -l | grep libesd ii libesd00.2.20-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries ii libesd0-dev0.2.20-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Development files -- Andrew
Re: backingup /home/foo/.* files
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:35:03AM +, q wrote: > > (my apologies...it's on my list of projects. i use vi. the posts i > > see for this issue seem to be for vim. (anyone know how to line wrap > > in _vi_?)) > > Don't know if this is the answer you keep getting, but, in elvis, ":set > textwidth=NN" causes it to wrap at NN columns. If it's nvi (the default vi on Debian), you want "set wraplen=NN" in your $HOME/.exrc. But nvi is pretty slim on features-- it doesn't even have multi-level undo. Better to just install vim & vim-rt and put "set textwidth=NN" in your $HOME/.vimrc. brian
Re: How I got ALSA sound drivers kind of working
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:18:14 -0600, Timmy Douglas said: > > >lots of libraries. The ALSA Tutorial by Timmy says you should get > >esound-alsa and libesd-alsa0, but then adds that the latter conflicts > >with libesd, and many packages depend on libesd. I used Timmy's ALSA tutorial but I did not follow this particular advice and I still had no problems with my SB VibraX. When I ran alsaconf, I set up the card as a SB16. -- Andrew
Re: Debian 2.2 and ISDN
Peter Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:58:57PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote: > > > > I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his > > mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with > > isdnconfig and edit them). > > > > If you turn on 'debug' in the ipppd config file what > output do you get in /var/log/messages ? "debug" was enabled. I alsa tried isdnctrl verbose 1000, but I still get the same (few!) messages... -- "ipppd.ippp0": - # Options file for ipppd. # ipppd will not read /etc/ppp/options or /etc/ppp/ioptions or any other # config file. Everything has to be in here. # REMOVE the next line once configuration is complete # # REMOVE the above line once configuration is complete # "peer" is the name for our syncppp partner. # STANDARD OPTIONS debug # enable debugging kdebug 10 # set kernel debugging level to X #nodetach # (no) fork to the background #callback X # ask for callback (parameter X ?) #lock # create a lock file for device #domain X # add domain X to a given hostname #pidfile X # save pid in file X #call X # take options from privileges file (???) #idle X # idle time limit (seconds) #holdoff X # holdoff time limit (seconds) #maxconnect X # set maximum connection time (in seconds ?) #+mp# enable multi line ppp #+pwlog # log password (WARNING: possible security hole) #nomagic# magic number negotiation # ppp handshake : tuning #silent # don't even try to initiate the connection #passive# wait for the peer to initiate the connection #lcp-echo-failure X # consecutive echo failures #lcp-echo-interval X# time for lcp echo events lcp-restart 1 # Set timeout for LCP #lcp-max-terminate X# Set max #xmits for term-reqs #lcp-max-configure X# Set max #xmits for conf-reqs #lcp-max-failure X # Set max #conf-naks for LCP # AUTHENTICATION name 83755 # set local name for auth XXX_ #user X # set name for auth with peer; default is value for name #usehostname# use hostname for auth #remotename X # set remote name for auth #noauth # (dont) require peer (the other) to auth #require-pap# allow only pap authentication (dialin only) #require-chap # allow only chap authentication (dialin only) #login # use system password database for pap #papcrypt # pap passwords are encrypted # AUTHENTICATION TUNING #pap-restart X # Set retransmit timeout for PAP #pap-max-authreq X # Set max #xmits for auth-reqs #pap-timeout X # Set time limit for peer PAP auth. #chap-restart X # Set timeout for CHAP #chap-max-challenge X # Set max #xmits for challenge #chap-interval X# Set interval for rechallenge # COMPRESSION noaccomp# address compression on/off nopcomp # protocol field compression on/off novj# van jacobsen compression on/off novjccomp # van jacobsen connection-ID compression on/off #vj-max-slots X # tune maximum vj header slots nobsdcomp # bsd compression on/off nodeflate # deflate compression on/off nopredictor1# predictor1 compression in/off noccp # compression negotation on/off nolzs # LZS compression off (not yet supported fully) # IP NETWORKING #noip # en/disable ip transfer #X:Y# set local ip to X, remote ip to Y noipdefault # don't use name for default ip addr useifip # use ip addresses form interface #usefirstip # use first ip from auth file for remote netmask 255.255.255.255 # set netmask, 255.255.255.255 is for pointopoint #defaultroute # (dont) set default route nohostroute # dont set host route #noproxyarp # (dont) set an proxy arp entry #mru X # set maximum size of recive units to X #default-mru# disable mru negotation mtu 1500# set maximum size of transmit units to X (1500 is OK) #useifmtu # use mtu from interface #ipparam X # set ip parameters in script X #ms-dns X # dns address for the peers use (dialin only) #ms-wins X # wins address for the peers use (dialin only) #ms-get-dns # accept peers suggestion of dns address (dialout) #set_userip # define valid ip addresses in /etc/ppp/useriptab #ipcp-restart X # Set timeout for IPCP #ipcp-max-terminate X # Set max #xmits for term-reqs #ipcp-max
Re: Debian 2.2 and ISDN
Michael Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Felix Natter wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his > > mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with > > isdnconfig and edit them). > > If you are in Germany you have to use the 1TR6 protocol and not DSS1 as > in rest of europe. this is not true for most of Germany (maybe it is true for switzerland ?). 1TR6 used to be popular among German companies, I believe (but it isn't any more). -- Felix Natter
Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:18:43PM +0100, Dietmar Schultz wrote: :I'm happy with Etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/), which :you can use to create a ROM-Image loaded via BootROM, bootdisk or :LiLo. The image receives the kernel as NetBootImage using tftp or nfs. :Configure the netbootimage to use the values from boot-rom. I'll check that out. :If you enable 'IP: kernel-level configuration support' and its options :*and* NFS filesystem support (not as a module!) 'Root file system on :NFS (NEW)' will appear under NFS support. Shurely, your network :interface must not be a module. the boot kernel is non-modular, I must have missed something I thought I enabled, try try again... Thanks, Jon
Re: How I got ALSA sound drivers kind of working
>lots of libraries. The ALSA Tutorial by Timmy says you should get >esound-alsa and libesd-alsa0, but then adds that the latter conflicts >with libesd, and many packages depend on libesd. yep, it is a pain in the butt. sounds like you had a really fun time with that. ;) I think if I was to compile another kernel with that card, i would compile soundblaster and sound support into the kernel and use that. Maybe you can find more info on that at: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/Soundblaster.txt and perhaps this would work if it was compiled as a module: modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=3 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x300 that's all i know!
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
ok, thanks a lot to you all.
Here´s what I did:
find . -regex ".*\ .*" -exec kickspaces.sh {} \;
---kickspaces.sh---
#!/bin/bash
OLD=$1
NEW=`echo $OLD | sed s/"\ "/"_"/g`
mv -v -i "$OLD" $NEW
--
to kick all of the spaces in the files (I always intended to do so
sometimes and now was the "some"time ;-) )
I`m now making another backup of all my mp3´s and then will run
---anpass.sh---
#!/bin/bash
for MP3FILE in `find . -name '*.mp3'`; do
FILE=`echo $MP3FILE | sed s/"\.mp3$"//`
echo "converting: $FILE to WAV"
/usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/mpg123 -w $FILE.wav $MP3FILE
echo "...done"
echo "normalizing $FILE."
/usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/normalize -a 0.25 -n -v $FILE.wav
echo "..done"
mv $MP3FILE $MP3FILE.bak
/usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/gogo -v 9 -b 128 $FILE.wav
echo "**"
echo " "
done
--
When I´m done with some test-files I´m coming back and´ll tell you how
the quality suffered ;-) (and will proceeed accordingly or restore from
backup ;-) ).
And to the point of loosing information when fiddling with the volume:
I usually copy randmon mp3s to my rio and it´s _absolutely_ annoying to
have to adjust the volume for each&every song...on the other hand, most
of it´s rock & heavy metal so it a little quality loss doesn´t really
matter at all.
again: tnx!
&rw
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Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 03:25:06PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > Well, I can generally speak with a low voice, forcing others to pay > more attention to what I say. If you raise the volume, the words are > still the same, but you broke one of the intentions I had to say > things the way I did. True, but I still wouldn't call that "destroying" the value of your speech. It also raises the question of your intent vs. my enjoyment. If it's not normalized, nothing stops me from turning the volume up so I can hear your words better, then turning it back down afterwards when the next file starts playing. Normalizing my mp3 collection would essentially just automate this process, providing the same result, but at less annoyance to me, the listener, since I don't have to be fiddling with the volume constantly. > It's the musicians choice not to use all the > dynamic range with which might technically be possible. In my experience, the things I've wanted to normalize have been cases where an entire CD is unusually quiet. Particularly considering the nature of the content on many of these CDs, I'm more inclined to suspect that it's due to paranoid audio engineers than the musicians' intent. (Do you really think that NiN wanted Pretty Hate Machine to be substantially quieter than most other CDs? Or that the orchestra performing 1812 Overture for the Classical Thunder series (sold on the pretense of being big, loud classical music) wanted their cannons to be barely audible? I don't. NiN is the sort of music that's mostly intended to be uniformly loud, while 1812 calls for using all available dynamic range. But the CDs were mixed poorly.) > Also, if you > have an oeuvre in several files, you certainly will break the whole > thing. Yes, in that case, it would be a problem. Personally, though, I prefer to listen to extended pieces such as that directly from the CD. When I listen to mp3s, I grab a couple hundred of them, throw them into a big pile, and play them in a random order, which would do far more harm to the oeuvre's integrity than normalization could ever hope to. -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r y+
Re: Fetchmail and exim ... again
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:16:29AM -0500, thus spake Hall Stevenson: > I know the combination of fetchmail and exim is discussed frequently, but I > don't know if the problem I'm having is similar. What's happening is, if I > use fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP, I never see it. The log file shows > it getting messages, but they never show up in my mailbox. Exim is running > all the time, as a daemon vs in inted.conf. Hall, I just tried emailing you direct and the mail bounced back - this was the message:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (generated from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) unknown local-part "hallstevenson" in domain "mindspring.com" Interesting - something adrift with aliases? HTH Glyn M -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: cdrom - timeouts
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:16:49AM -0500, Jeremy wrote:
> >
> > --- Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato
> > > and my cdrom seems to have the following
> > > problems :
> > > Most of the time I get errors like :
> > >
> > > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
> > > hdb: ATAPI reset complete
> > >
> >
> > isn't the CD ROM drive supposed to be hdc?
>
> I can't really say whether your CD ROM is supposed to be hdb or hdc,
> because it depends on how it's set up in your system, but I encountered
> this error as well. For me, it was only happening on one CD, which
> happened to be the first in the 3 CD set of potato. I foundthat it was a
> problem with how I had burned the CD the first time, and so I made
> another and haven't had the problem since. I don't know if it's happening
> with a CD you made yourself or not, but it's only a thought.
> Jeremy
You are right it does not happen with all cd's , though in my case it
also happens with some commercial cd's. I wonder if it could be due to
an unclean lens or some missing boot parameter ? I still don't
understand why I did not have this problem with Red Hat .
balbir
Please not I changed the subject to correct my embarassing error of not
providing a subject in my original mail
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:10:51 -0600 Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:38:01PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > > But think of it twice. > > Changing the volume of a song can actually destroy the musical value of > > the piece. > > How do you figure? As long as relative volume of the sections within each > individual piece is maintained, I don't see why there should be any problems. Well, I can generally speak with a low voice, forcing others to pay more attention to what I say. If you raise the volume, the words are still the same, but you broke one of the intentions I had to say things the way I did. It's the musicians choice not to use all the dynamic range with which might technically be possible. Also, if you have an oeuvre in several files, you certainly will break the whole thing. > > And also, remember that mp3 as well es jpeg are lossy > > compressions. If you uncompress and recompress, you will loose more > > and more information until lowering quality well audibly. > > This is, however, a significant drawback to the decode-manipulate-reencode > process. I guess it's not that bad, if you like techno music and don't repeat the action lots of times. But if you like subtile features... -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
Re: How to track *part* of unstable?
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 05:24:57PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The closest I've come is: > > > >- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at potato > >- apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade > >- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at woody > >- apt-get update ; apt-get install foo bar baz > > That, I think, is the best advice for current apt, though if you're > tracking potato you'll need to point sources.list back to potato again > at the end. Not a bad idea, but (on machines where I actively maintain mixed versions) I've gotten myself into the habit of editing sources.list and doing an apt-get update at the start of every apt operation. With that habit, it doesn't matter where you left sources.list pointing. -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r y+
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:59:40PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote:
> You can write a simple script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for i in `find . -name "*.mpr"` ; do
> mpg123 $i `basename $i .mp3`.1.mp3
> ...
> done
Why's everyone so script-happy here?
find . -iname "*.mp3" -exec mpg123 -w {} | normalize > /tmp/working.mp3 ;
my-encoder -options /tmp/working.mp3 -outfile {} \;
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Re: How to track *part* of unstable?
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:06:33PM -0500, D-Man wrote: >> I don't think that can be done. Woody (unstable) is based on glibc >> 2.2 while potato is based on glibc 2.1. Thus any binaries for woody >> that use the C library at all won't run (even if you get them to >> install) on potato. > >Seems to work for me when I install lone woody packages on my potato boxes. It depends on the package. Some are built against glibc 2.1 and some against 2.2, since developers - and autobuilders - don't have to be running unstable. >Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to do this easily - there doesn't seem >to be any way to tell apt, "Keep the system up to date with potato, except >for packages foo, bar, and baz, which should be woody." There will be, come apt 0.4. Packages are available from http://people.debian.org/~jgg/apt/, though I have no idea how stable they are. You can reportedly do things like 'apt-get install foo=woody'. >The closest I've come is: > >- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at potato >- apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade >- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at woody >- apt-get update ; apt-get install foo bar baz That, I think, is the best advice for current apt, though if you're tracking potato you'll need to point sources.list back to potato again at the end. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:38:01PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > But think of it twice. > Changing the volume of a song can actually destroy the musical value of > the piece. How do you figure? As long as relative volume of the sections within each individual piece is maintained, I don't see why there should be any problems. > And also, remember that mp3 as well es jpeg are lossy > compressions. If you uncompress and recompress, you will loose more > and more information until lowering quality well audibly. This is, however, a significant drawback to the decode-manipulate-reencode process. -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r y+
Re: Woody stability.
Danut A Maces <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am runing potato but I would really like to try woody. How stable >is woody these days? woody's now the 'testing' distribution, a halfway house; I believe it's pretty stable, since care is taken to keep it free of the particularly nasty bugs. sid, a.k.a. unstable, is not too bad at the moment, as it happens. There are still some dependency troubles (tetex being the most annoying), but the system itself runs well. And XFree86 4 is *nice*. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backingup /home/foo/.* files
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:35:03AM +, q wrote:
> (my apologies...it's on my list of projects. i use vi. the posts i
> see for this issue seem to be for vim. (anyone know how to line wrap
> in _vi_?))
Don't know if this is the answer you keep getting, but, in elvis, ":set
textwidth=NN" causes it to wrap at NN columns.
If that doesn't work for you ":set all" will show you all the settings which
you can play with. Check to see whether any of their names look promising.
Finally, you can use "!" as a general way to
execute shell commands against your text. The text moved across by will be used as input for and be replaced by its
output. It just so happens that there is a shell command which wraps text:
fmt. So, to wrap the text of two paragraphs, you can go to the beginning of
the first paragraph and type "!2}fmt". To do your whole message, you could
use "1G}!Gfmt" ("1G}" puts the cursor on the blank line following the
headers, so use just "1G" if they're not displayed. "!Gfmt" wraps everything
from the cursor to the end of the file.) This is also handy for wrapping
quoted text or re-wrapping edited paragraphs.
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Re: OT - web browsers
Joey Hess wrote: > > Who needs an open button? Select text, move mouse pointer over a part of > the netscape window that does not have a hyperlink or other clickable > thing on it, and middle-click (ie, "paste" the url right into netscape. > Netscape immediatly starts loading the url. > Amazing! For years I've been pasting the urls the same way into the Open Page dialog box and never realized I could have just pasted them anwhere on the blank page. Thanks Joey. John -- Merry Christmas to all!
Re: Junkbuster "Ho hum"
> Rob VanFleet writes: rv> This isn't really a problem as it happened only once, and I'm rv> just curious about it. I just changed the settings in Mozilla rv> to use junkbuster, and the first time I attempted to load rv> slashdot, I instead got a page with only the text "Ho rv> hum". After two more reloads, I finally got slashdot up and rv> everything was working fine. Strange... It was probably mozilla. Everything that Junkbuster shows you says Junkbuster on it. Besides, I grepped the junkbuster source for "hum" and didn't find anything. Cheers, Chris -- Got jag? http://www.tribsoft.com
Re: undelete? Help
Thanks, now it is 'only' puzzeling (it seems that I had the kernel source stored in my homedir). Thanks, Sebastiaan On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes I know, it is stupid, but I just deleted everything in my > >homedir. Glad I made a backup of important files today. > > > >Is there a way to retreive deleted files? In the Amiga days there were > >lots of programs to undelete files. Is there also a program for Linux? > > See the Ext2fs-Undeletion mini-HOWTO > (/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.txt.gz, for > instance). Also try the recover and/or gtkrecover packages if you're > running unstable. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:59:40PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > > You can write a simple script: > > #!/bin/sh > > for i in `find . -name "*.mpr"` ; do > mpg123 $i `basename $i .mp3`.1.mp3 > ... > done > > But this will break if there are spaces in the file names. A reall > straight forward solution could be then writing the filenames into a > file and use an emacs macro to explicitly construct the commands... A more straightforward way than using the editor with an OS, ;-) would be a simple Perl script. Use readdir, and spaces in filenames won't break it. Mike > --- > ^X^C > q > quit > :q > ^C > end > x > exit > ZZ > ^D > ? > help > shit > . Hee... Vim rocks, but this is still funny. ;-) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html pgpZU5cXiWRV5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Fetchmail and exim ... again
I know the combination of fetchmail and exim is discussed frequently, but I don't know if the problem I'm having is similar. What's happening is, if I use fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP, I never see it. The log file shows it getting messages, but they never show up in my mailbox. Exim is running all the time, as a daemon vs in inted.conf. ~> ps ax | grep exim 164 ?S 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q30 I hate testing this too much, as I'm sure everyone can understand !! ;) >From the fetchmail FAQ, when this happens, it's usually because my MTA isn't >setup up correctly. That's where I'll have a problem... I did set it up during >installation and I can send mail fine. Looking at the exim.conf file, the settings for "qualify_recipient" and "local_domains" are the first place I had ideas about. "qualify_recipient" is commented out. "local_domains" looks like this: local_domains = localhost:mindspring.com:eeyore.homeip.net I know *I* added the "eeyore.homeip.net" entry, but think that the setup added both "localhost" and "mindspring.com". I'm off to exim's site now, but any help from here is appreciated ! Thanks in advance Hall Stevenson
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:45:17PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > `mpg123 -w` for mp3->wav and gogo to reencode then. > > But I´ve no clue how to automate thismanually doing this for >5.000 > mp3´s would be more than a major PITA, I fear. Automation is my life. Not a problem. ;-) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html pgpyUP5yfhNua.pgp Description: PGP signature
Debian+Tekram 390u2w cannot run full 40MB/s speed?
Hello, I have a Tekram Ultra 2 SCSI card (DC390u2b eq DC390u2w) with an IBM Ultra 2 SCSI(LVD) Hard disk installed on the Debian 2.2. After successfully installed the Debian, I found a SCSI problem. Debian cannot run the SCSI(LVD) to 40MB full speed. (This system was installed Mandrake before and the SCSI Card was able to ran at 40Mb/s full speed by using NCR53cxx) Now, Debian is running it with the sym53c8xx on 10MB/s only. In Mandrake I don't need to install driver manually, it use ncr53cxx on 40MB/s automaticlly. Is there anyway I could fix this problem(such as modify a file) without install a offical Terkram SCSI driver? Here is the dmesg: scsi: Detection failed (no card) NCR53c486a: no avaliable ports found sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0 sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0 sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up) sym53c8xx: 53c895 detected sym53c895-0: rev=0x01, base=0xe100, io_port=0xb000, irq=11 sym53c895-0: ID7, Fast-40, Parity Checking sym53c895-0: on-chip RAM at 0xe00 sym53c895-0: restart (scsi reset). sym53c895-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS. sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0, sym53c8xx: IO region 0xb000 to 0xb07f is in use Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! IBM MCA SCSI: No Microchannel-bus support present -> Aborting. megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999) aec671x_detect: 3w-: tw_fincards(): No cards found. scsi0 : sym53c8xx -version 1.3g scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IBM Model: DENS-309170W Rev: SAH0 Tuye: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id6, lun0 sym53c895-0<6.*>: FAST-5 WIDE SCSI 10.0MB/s (200 ns, offset 31) Merry Christmas! Jacko p.s. This is the first time I use mailing list, if I posted to the incorrect mailling list, please forgive me and tell me where should I post to . Thank you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: Unidentified subject!
>
> --- Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato
> > and my cdrom seems to have the following
> > problems :
> > Most of the time I get errors like :
> >
> > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
> > hdb: ATAPI reset complete
> >
>
> isn't the CD ROM drive supposed to be hdc?
I can't really say whether your CD ROM is supposed to be hdb or hdc,
because it depends on how it's set up in your system, but I encountered
this error as well. For me, it was only happening on one CD, which
happened to be the first in the 3 CD set of potato. I foundthat it was a
problem with how I had burned the CD the first time, and so I made
another and haven't had the problem since. I don't know if it's happening
with a CD you made yourself or not, but it's only a thought.
Jeremy
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:17:27 EST, "Michael P. Soulier" writes: > >> I=B4m looking for an app which can normalize my mp3s under linux. > >> > >> All I was able to dig up on myself was "normalize"[0], but this only can= > > > >> do with .wav=B4s, and as I=B4m not good (eg I=B4m clueless) at=20 > >> shell-scripting (and perl and almost anything else for that matter) I=20 > >> have no idea how to automatically cope with my 5k+ mp3=B4s... > > > >Seems like a nice idea. Is there anything out there for converting to a > >wav and back? Then you could convert, normalize, and mp3 again. > > `mpg123 -w` for mp3->wav and gogo to reencode then. > > But I´ve no clue how to automate thismanually doing this for >5.000 > mp3´s would be more than a major PITA, I fear. It's not that hard really, just look at this little scriptie: --- cut hear and buy a new monitor --- #! /bin/sh for FILE in `find . -name '*.mp3'`; do echo $FILE done --- cut hear and buy a new monitor --- > > TIA, > &rw > -- > / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ > \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 / > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - New things are always on the horizon.
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:45:17 +0100 Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:17:27 EST, "Michael P. Soulier" writes: > >> I=B4m looking for an app which can normalize my mp3s under linux. > >> > >> All I was able to dig up on myself was "normalize"[0], but this only can= > > > >> do with .wav=B4s, and as I=B4m not good (eg I=B4m clueless) at=20 > >> shell-scripting (and perl and almost anything else for that matter) I=20 > >> have no idea how to automatically cope with my 5k+ mp3=B4s... > > > >Seems like a nice idea. Is there anything out there for converting to a > >wav and back? Then you could convert, normalize, and mp3 again. > > `mpg123 -w` for mp3->wav and gogo to reencode then. > > But I´ve no clue how to automate thismanually doing this for >5.000 > mp3´s would be more than a major PITA, I fear. You can write a simple script: #!/bin/sh for i in `find . -name "*.mpr"` ; do mpg123 $i `basename $i .mp3`.1.mp3 ... done But this will break if there are spaces in the file names. A reall straight forward solution could be then writing the filenames into a file and use an emacs macro to explicitly construct the commands... -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
Woody stability.
Hello, I am runing potato but I would really like to try woody. How stable is woody these days?
Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:26:38AM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > I'm trying to boot from a LILO based floppy with root=/dev/nfsroot > (the pseodo device 0,255 named in the docs, tried it as both a block > and char device), and the kernel fails on trying to mount the rootfs > with a device failure. I'm happy with Etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/), which you can use to create a ROM-Image loaded via BootROM, bootdisk or LiLo. The image receives the kernel as NetBootImage using tftp or nfs. Configure the netbootimage to use the values from boot-rom. > I enabled kernel level auto config, and all the NFS stuff I could find > in the kernel build (serveral iterations using xconfig, menuconfig, > config and finally hand hacking the .config file) couldn't find the > NFS_ROOT option anywhere, and I'm loath to just add it to the .config, > not knowing if it's supported in 2.2.17 If you enable 'IP: kernel-level configuration support' and its options *and* NFS filesystem support (not as a module!) 'Root file system on NFS (NEW)' will appear under NFS support. Shurely, your network interface must not be a module. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: "Choppy" sound - Woody, 2.4.0-test11 kernel, xmms & esd
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:20:31PM +, Matthew Exley wrote: > 1) Under kernel 2.2.18pre21, XMMS can play using the eSound plugin (i.e. > via esd) quite happily. > 2) Under kernel 2.4.0-test11, XMMS->eSound still works, but the sound is > "choppy" - broken up into audible chunks. No amount of tweaking the > My question is therefore: Can anyone else reproduce this, and can > anyone *fix* this? (tweaks to esound / XMMS settings perhaps?) I'm using a SB 128 PCI. The broken sound from esd was introduced by 2.4.0-test10 and fixed in test12. So upgrade or downgrade :) -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:17:27 EST, "Michael P. Soulier" writes: >> I=B4m looking for an app which can normalize my mp3s under linux. >> >> All I was able to dig up on myself was "normalize"[0], but this only can= > >> do with .wav=B4s, and as I=B4m not good (eg I=B4m clueless) at=20 >> shell-scripting (and perl and almost anything else for that matter) I=20 >> have no idea how to automatically cope with my 5k+ mp3=B4s... > >Seems like a nice idea. Is there anything out there for converting to a >wav and back? Then you could convert, normalize, and mp3 again. `mpg123 -w` for mp3->wav and gogo to reencode then. But I´ve no clue how to automate thismanually doing this for >5.000 mp3´s would be more than a major PITA, I fear. TIA, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 /
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:17:27 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:57:08AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I´m looking for an app which can normalize my mp3s under linux. > > > > All I was able to dig up on myself was "normalize"[0], but this only can > > do with .wav´s, and as I´m not good (eg I´m clueless) at > > shell-scripting (and perl and almost anything else for that matter) I > > have no idea how to automatically cope with my 5k+ mp3´s... > > > > Anyone caring to inject some clue? > > > > 0: http://freshmeat.net/projects/normalize/?highlight=normalize and > >http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cvaill/normalize/ > > Seems like a nice idea. Is there anything out there for converting to a > .wav and back? Then you could convert, normalize, and mp3 again. You can use mpg123 and sox to convert an mp3 to a wav file. And there is for instances bladenc to convert it back to mp3. But think of it twice. Changing the volume of a song can actually destroy the musical value of the piece. And also, remember that mp3 as well es jpeg are lossy compressions. If you uncompress and recompress, you will loose more and more information until lowering quality well audibly. -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:57:08AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > I´m looking for an app which can normalize my mp3s under linux. > > All I was able to dig up on myself was "normalize"[0], but this only can > do with .wav´s, and as I´m not good (eg I´m clueless) at > shell-scripting (and perl and almost anything else for that matter) I > have no idea how to automatically cope with my 5k+ mp3´s... > > Anyone caring to inject some clue? > > 0: http://freshmeat.net/projects/normalize/?highlight=normalize and >http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cvaill/normalize/ Seems like a nice idea. Is there anything out there for converting to a .wav and back? Then you could convert, normalize, and mp3 again. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html pgpM885vFrp7o.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian 2.2 and ISDN - verbose level? How?
Sorry, my e-mail software did not copy previous message, but how do you increase debugging operations to "verbose level". Thanks, dave
Re: Living behind a SOCKS firewall
In a message dated 00-12-22 21:02:19 EST, you write: << i have a Debina machine that I have set up at hoem, and am fixing to move to work. At work I live behind a SOCKS firewall that will allow me to use HTTP and FTP by using the SOCKS proxy. Xan I set teh debian machine up to allow apt-get'ing things this way? If so, how. >> What does "SOCKS" stand for?? And how do you set the $SOCKS environmental variable? I need to do that at work to connect my machine there to the net. Otherwise, when I start Netscape under Linux, I get error message about SOCKS. Thanks in advance
Re: agp
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 23:28, Mario Carugno wrote: > Hi. > > I would to know if i can use agp cards with Debian, and if there's > some particular model that is recomended for using. > I've had good luck with a Matrox G200 AGP card. I don't remember having to do anything special because it was AGP. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
Re: undelete? Help
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes I know, it is stupid, but I just deleted everything in my >homedir. Glad I made a backup of important files today. > >Is there a way to retreive deleted files? In the Amiga days there were >lots of programs to undelete files. Is there also a program for Linux? See the Ext2fs-Undeletion mini-HOWTO (/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.txt.gz, for instance). Also try the recover and/or gtkrecover packages if you're running unstable. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reading screen contents
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:54:11AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hi, > can a program running on a text console read the current screen contents? > > Robert Epprecht Hi, you could cat /dev/vcs?. HTH, Torsten -- HERE'S A JOKE FOR YOU: WHY DID THE CHICKEN TURN AROUND AND AROUND IN CIRCLES. AS I THINK SHE TURNED AROUND; BUT WHY? WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD; I THINK SHE TURNED AROUND BUT WHY? WHY DID THE CHICKEN TURN AROUND AND DO SOMETHING ELSE? -- MegaHAL
Re: reading screen contents
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Dec 2000, Robert Epprecht wrote: > > can a program running on a text console read the current screen contents? > look at /dev/console or /dev/tty0: both refer to the current virtual > terminal. Thank you for your answer. cat /dev/console > ABF cat: /dev/console: Permission denied ls -l /dev/console crw--w--w-1 root tty5, 1 Dec 23 10:49 /dev/console (/dev/tty0 gives a similar result) Hmm, I don't know if I really want to change these permissions... I definetely do *not* want to require the users of my program to do that. I don't think they would want to add themselves to group tty either... So, is it possible at all? Robert Epprecht
undelete? Help
Hi, Yes I know, it is stupid, but I just deleted everything in my homedir. Glad I made a backup of important files today. Is there a way to retreive deleted files? In the Amiga days there were lots of programs to undelete files. Is there also a program for Linux? THanks in advance, Sebastiaan
Re: Dump root window to a JPG?
Le Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:25:49PM +0100, John Travis écrivait :
> Thanks, that's a lot faster than my previous methods. Except the video
> (from xine) still shows up as a bright ass blue box :-). Any other
> suggestions?
you can't grab the display of xine because it use Xv extension. The display
of the movie on the screen is render by the video card. xine computes the
display in memory and the video card grabs it in order to replace the blue
color of the root display. This is why you see a blue color on your
screenshot.
The (almost) only way of doing a movie shot is by xine which know where is
memory of the
movie. So, until xine offers a grab fonction, you can't take a shot. If
you really want to grab a picture of the movie, disable the Xv rendeering
but be ready to lose many many frames.
Laurent.
PS: sorry for my bad english
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Re: lilo
Peter Horton wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:59:50PM +0200, Stefaans Mostert wrote: > > > > Well I was wondering can one transfer lilo onto a stiffy and boot from > > that? > > > > dd if= of=/dev/fd0 count=1 > > Alternatively change the line "boot=" in /etc/lilo.conf to point > at the floppy and then re-run LILO. > > HTH > > P. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] O.K thanx Just another question. I have a /boot partition and if I dd it onto a stiffy will it fit? My biggest problem here is it must go to a machine that had it's mbr overwritten by doze and I need to have a quick solution if it happenes again.So will it not freak out if I put it on another machine and it tries to boot compressed kernel wich is in boot? I actually found an answer and fixed it so this is of purely academical interest. Cheers Stefaans
Re: Find: how do you exclude multiple directories?
On 23 Dec 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How can you use find to exclude more than one directory? > > > >I have: > > find /home/ac/ -path '/home/ac/.netscape' -prune -o -print > > > >This excludes ~/.netscape but I can't add any more directories to this > >list. Is it possible to do so? > > Add more '-path whatever -prune -o' phrases after the first one? > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, thanks, this seems to work. I thought I'd tried it late last night and it didn't, but I must have been getting pretty cross-eyed by then.. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical essays: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ "Palo y tente tieso." (Spanish proverb) Free translation: "Holdfast is your only dog."
Re: Loading SB16 modules...
Stefan Srdic wrote:
>
> I have a Creative Vibra 16x (Sound Blaster 16) that I'm trying to
> configure so that I can listen to music in Debian. Where do I find the
> proper kernel modules for my card and how do I load them in Debian?
>
> I know which IRQ, DMA 8 and DMA 16 plus I/O that the card uses but do
> not no which module[s] are needed to load this card.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Stef
>
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You will find my config, below, just change io irq and dma's to your
needs.
If it is an ISA card like my one see the isapnp.conf file too.
Michael
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in /etc/modutils/sb
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5
in /etc/modules
soundcore
sound
uart401
sb
...
in /etc/isapnp.conf
##
# VIBRA16
##
(READPORT 0x0273)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
# SB 16 and OPL3 devices
(CONFIGURE CTL0070/-1 (LD 0
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
(IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
(IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
(IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
(NAME "CTL0070/-1[0]{Audio }")
(ACT Y)
))
# Joystick device - only if you need it :-/
(CONFIGURE CTL0070/-1 (LD 1
(IO 0 (SIZE 1) (BASE 0x0200))
(NAME "CTL0070/-1[1]{Game}")
(ACT Y)
))
(WAITFORKEY)
Re: Debian 2.2 and ISDN
Felix Natter wrote: > > hi, > > I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his > mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with > isdnconfig and edit them). If you are in Germany you have to use the 1TR6 protocol and not DSS1 as in rest of europe. Michael -- Michael Steiner, Minorgasse 35, A-1140 Vienna, Austria
Re: Find: how do you exclude multiple directories?
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can you use find to exclude more than one directory? > >I have: > find /home/ac/ -path '/home/ac/.netscape' -prune -o -print > >This excludes ~/.netscape but I can't add any more directories to this >list. Is it possible to do so? Add more '-path whatever -prune -o' phrases after the first one? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reading screen contents
look at /dev/console or /dev/tty0: both refer to the current virtual terminal. On 23 Dec 2000, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hi, > can a program running on a text console read the current screen contents? > > Robert Epprecht > > > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backingup /home/foo/.* files
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:17:06PM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > Please wrap your text. (my apologies...it's on my list of projects. i use vi. the posts i see for this issue seem to be for vim. (anyone know how to line wrap in _vi_?)) > > q wrote: > > > [...] i've become interested in backing up my /home/foo directory (by: > > tar cvzf .tar.gz *). > > > > i've noticed that such backup does not include my /home/foo/.* > > (hidden) files, like .muttrc > > $ man bash > [...] > When a pattern is used for pathname expansion, the character ``.'' at > the start of a name or immediately following a slash must be matched > explicitly, > [...] > > Try "echo *" to see this in action-- it won't list your . files. > > Try this to create a complete archive of your home directory: > > $ tar cvzf backup.tar.gz /home/foo ah, yes...works, like a charm. thx. > > Finally, if you're kernel is panic-ing a lot, try mounting all your > filesystems with the "sync" option to reduce the severity of the fs > corruption. > i'll get on this later today. thx, again for the info. bentley taylor. //
Re: Loading SB16 modules...
Have you tried modprobe sb yet? Basically, the Vibra line is a weird model SB16--most of them used PnP, so you might want to look into using isapnp program on bootup to configure it. IIRC, there's issues with the DMA8 and full duplex mode, but that shouldn't prevent you from using it: it should only prevent you from using both the mic and speakers simultaneously... On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote: > I have a Creative Vibra 16x (Sound Blaster 16) that I'm trying to > configure so that I can listen to music in Debian. Where do I find the > proper kernel modules for my card and how do I load them in Debian? > > I know which IRQ, DMA 8 and DMA 16 plus I/O that the card uses but do > not no which module[s] are needed to load this card. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks > > Stef > > > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reading screen contents
Hi, can a program running on a text console read the current screen contents? Robert Epprecht
Re: Unidentified subject!
yOn Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Xucaen wrote:
>
> --- Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato
> > and my cdrom seems to have the following
> > problems :
> > Most of the time I get errors like :
> >
> > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
> > hdb: ATAPI reset complete
> >
>
> isn't the CD ROM drive supposed to be hdc?
/dev/hdX is defined by the relative position on the IDE chain(s)
hda: primary master
hdb: primary slave
hdc: secondary master
hdd: secondary slave
There is a possibility that you'll have hde and hdf, but that implies a
third IDE controller, which is a rarity (I've had one before, but the only
reason it got used was that I wanted to run the CD through a sound
card). Traditionally, the CD is the master on it's own chain, thus hdc on
a two chain system. There is no real reason for this: you could save on
cabling and make the CD the slave on the primary chain, thus hdb.
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Re: exim and envelope sender
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Balbir Thomas wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:23:19AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Robert Epprecht writes: > > > I have recently changed to debian which implied a change from sendmail to > > > exim. > > > > No, exim just happens to be the MTA that is installed by default. Sendmail > > is in Debian, as are several others. > > -- > > John Hasler > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dancing Horse Hill > > Elmwood, Wisconsin > > > Excuse me if this is a gross misunderstanding, but dselect does not allow the > installation of Sendmail and exim togeather and reports a conflict between > the two. Why would this be ? > Sincerely > Balbir Thomas They both want port 25 constantly. You can't have two daemons listening on the same port simultaneously. So exim conflicts with sendmail (and any other MTA like postfix), meaning that you can't have them both on the same system at the same time. > > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 2.2 and ISDN
Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I tried to dial using > $isdnctrl dial ippp0 > which does not create a connection and only results in these messages: > Dec 16 20:29:10 couchpotato kernel: isdn_net: local hangup ippp0 > Dec 16 20:29:10 couchpotato kernel: ippp0: Chargesum is 0 Perhaps you get more useful information, if you increase the verbose level? moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
