ximian gnome on unstable

[jdls]

Hi,
I would like to know if it's possible to install ximian/helix gnome on 
unstable.I cannot seem to install it using manual installation (via editing 
sources.list, then doing apt-get update;apt-get install task-helix-gnome) or 
using the sh go-gnome script provided by ximian. it bogs out and complains that 
I have requested an impossible situation and that task-helix-gnome cannot 
continue because it needs gnome-games but that cannot be installed???

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks 

Re: Debian Home LAN

[Carel Fellinger]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:43:37PM -0600, Ronald L. Chichester wrote:
...
> What I'm more interested in is transferring data from one box to
> another.  (No, the files I want to transfer are major backups of 400+ MB
> each, so I don't want to tie up phone lines for that long.)
> 
> I would prefer an NIS/NFS setup, but I'd be happy with just simple ftp.
> I've got the server set up with ftp, but haven't been able to get either
> of them talking to one another.  (Each time I try to ping or ftp the
> other, it gives me a "host unreachable" error message).

Both machines should have an IP number and should know each others ip-nr,
that's the function of /etc/hosts.  For a local network a bunch of ip-nrs
is reserved 10/8, 172.?/16 and 192.168/16.  So if you put something like

   127.0.0.1   localhost
   192.168.1.1 one.localnet
   192.168.1.2 two.localnet

in /etc/hosts of each machine, the first step is made.

The second step is entering the relevant things in /etc/network/interfaces.
On machine one.localnet this should look like:

   # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

   # The loopback interface
   iface lo inet loopback

   # The first network card (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
   iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0

On machine two.localnet all is the same but for the ip-nr, there the address
line of the first network card should read:

address 192.168.1.2

Okee, w're almost done.  We need to assure that the driver for your
network card is loaded, have a look at dmesg's output (dmesg | less)
and look for a line starting with "eth0".  If it is missing, look up
the brand and model of your network card and use modconf to add the
correct driver.

And finally to make it all work (normally done at boot) on both
machines do:

   # ifup eth0

As far as I know, now "ping {two,one}.localnet" should work.

-- 
groetjes, carel

Re: Debian Home LAN

[Susumu Takuwa]

> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:43:37 -0600
Ronald L. Chichester writes:

RLC> I would prefer an NIS/NFS setup, but I'd be happy with just simple ftp.
RLC> I've got the server set up with ftp, but haven't been able to get either
RLC> of them talking to one another.  (Each time I try to ping or ftp the
RLC> other, it gives me a "host unreachable" error message).

When you connect each other directly, you have to use cross
cable. Straight cable is used at connecting machine through
some HUB.

RLC> Is there a resource out there specifically for a standalone LAN (static
RLC> IP) or a PPP type LAN with example hosts, host.conf, resolv.conf,
RLC> nsswitch.conf, etc. files so that I can emulate it?

You might as well care DNS after connecting your Linux boxes.


Susumu Takuwa

Where do timings go for Xf86 4?

[Stan Brown]

I have a nice Xfree86 4 server runing on my ATI card thanks to progeny!

Ni, I have run xvidtune, and determined the correct timings, but I don't seem 
to be
able to find the correct fiel to put them inot.

What file is it?

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Re: kde.tdyc.com gone for good?

[Ethan Benson]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 10:57:03PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> 
> That would imply that I won't be getting any more KDE upgrades until
> Woody goes release, presumably sometime in 2005.

nah, i predict woody will be released fairly close to the same time
potato was, between august and november.   probably december at the
latest.  

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Re: Timezone/sustem time configuration?

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 11:06:20PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>   Thanks, this seems to have gotten the offset from UTC correct,
>   but when I run ntpdate, the hardware clock dose not get reset,
>   to the curretn UTC time. Seems like I remeber that I had to run
>   another task after btpdate to do this on former Debian machiens,
>   is this correct? If so what is this other task?

Have a look at man hwclock.  Don't think ntpdate works if your time is
very far off.  I don't know (I use chronyd).

-- 
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Re: Timezone/sustem time configuration?

[Stan Brown]

On Sat Mar 17 21:59:45 2001 Eric G. Miller wrote...
>
>On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:13:04PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>> I'm creating a new Debian machine, after a failry lengthy absence from
>> the comunity.
>> 
>> I seem to have managed to get something mucked up about the timezoen
>> configuration.  I want teh hardware clock set to UTC, and the TZ
>> mdifier used to show current lcal time.
>> 
>> What do I need to set up to get this right? At the moment I have the
>> correct timezoen in /etc/timezone, but the system persists in showing
>> UTC time.
>
>Run tzconfig.  It should set everything straight.
>

Thanks, this seems to have gotten the offset from UTC correct, but when 
I run
ntpdate, the hardware clock dose not get reset, to the curretn UTC 
time. Seems
like I remeber that I had to run another task after btpdate to do this 
on
former Debian machiens, is this correct? If so what is this other task?

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a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit 
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kde.tdyc.com gone for good?

[Carl Fink]

>From a posting to this list a few days ago, I got the impression that
there will be no further updates to this site, and thus no KDE
updates for Potato systems, ever again.  Can anyone confirm this?  If
so, I can stop waiting for apt-get to time out trying to download new
Packages files from it.

That would imply that I won't be getting any more KDE upgrades until
Woody goes release, presumably sometime in 2005.
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Re: v4 x screen size and flicker

[Bill Wohler]

  Fixed. Off by one error in xserver-xfree86. I'll post a bug presently.

  My monitor manual says the horizontal refresh is from 27 to 79 kHz,
  so I used 27 - 80 in XFConfig-4. Now I've got a rock-solid image at
  75 Hz. And the monitor hasn't blown up yet. And surprise! the screen
  went back to its original size so I'm now fiddling with the monitor
  again...

  Thanks again for the quick responses. Appreciate the support.

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Debian Home LAN

[Ronald L. Chichester]

I want to set up a home network (just with PPP access to the Internet),
but am having some trouble getting the machines to talk to each other.
Both boxes have 100 MB Ethernet NICs.  I want to set up one as a server
and the other as a workstation.  Both boxes are running Linux.

Internet access is not important, as each box has its own modem.

What I'm more interested in is transferring data from one box to
another.  (No, the files I want to transfer are major backups of 400+ MB
each, so I don't want to tie up phone lines for that long.)

I would prefer an NIS/NFS setup, but I'd be happy with just simple ftp.
I've got the server set up with ftp, but haven't been able to get either
of them talking to one another.  (Each time I try to ping or ftp the
other, it gives me a "host unreachable" error message).

There are several articles out there that have home networks, but each
of them is assuming either a cable modem or DSL.  Generally these set a
DNS, gateway and/or subnets that I can't duplicate.

Is there a resource out there specifically for a standalone LAN (static
IP) or a PPP type LAN with example hosts, host.conf, resolv.conf,
nsswitch.conf, etc. files so that I can emulate it?

TIA,

Ron

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

[Bill Wohler]

ray p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is anybody else getting some odd perl errors from apt and if so have
> you fixed it or do you know what is going on? Thanks.

  Yup, and Joey said they are innocuous and are fixed in sid.

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Re: Seti At Home & gethostbyname

[Jaye Inabnit ke6sls]

Hello Judith,

I Had same problem while ago. I talked to tkseti coder and he had same 
problems too. Turned out, you have to update your [EMAIL PROTECTED] client to 
the 
3.03 and THEN it will run just fine. I was completing units about every 8 
hours, and now about every 12 hours, so it's doing a lot more analizing then 
the older client.

wget won't work, it looks only for the 3.0 client, you will have to manually 
get it and install it.http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html

tatah

On Saturday 17 March 2001 14:41, Judith Elaine Bush wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I'm having a problem with tkseti &/or setiathome.  It's been AGES
> since I ran the client, and I actually think i upgraded to potato
> since i last started. I started it back up and have finished a
> unit. Unfortunately, sending a result doesn't seem to work.
>
> Error message:
>
> Sending result - connecting to server.
> gethostbyname: No such file or directory
> Can't connect to server; will retry in an hour.
>
> I ran a find across the entire system and, yup, gethostbyname is
> not a file to be found:
>
> < 139 2:36pm greycat:~/WorkSpaceCode> find / -name gethostbyname\* -print |
> & grep -v denied /usr/share/man/man3/gethostbyname.3.gz
> /var/cache/man/cat3/gethostbyname.3.gz
>
> Any suggestions (for a package to install, perhaps)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> judith
>
> my SETI directory:
>
> -rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie 0 Aug 18  2000 lock.sah
> -rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie   393 Aug 21  2000 user_info.sah
> -rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie  6289 Aug 21  2000 000818.out
> -rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie32 Mar 14 06:43 version.sah
> -rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie 4 Mar 16 17:13 pid.sah
> -rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie  2106 Mar 17 00:54 outfile.sah
> -rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie  3501 Mar 17 02:48 wtemp.sah
> -rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie  3733 Mar 17 02:48 result.sah
> -rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie   132 Mar 17 02:48 key.sah

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Re: v4 x screen size and flicker

[Bill Wohler]

Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Probably the new install wiped away your old settings, so it's now
> picking the first listed choice, or something like that.  Try editing
> your configuration file, comparing with your old one if possible.

  Thanks for all the suggestions guys.

  My new config file has the same entries for HorizSync and
  VertRefresh, namely:

HorizSync   27 - 79
VertRefresh 55 - 90

  These values are from the manual. Note that this is an *old*
  monitor--I bought it used in '94--so the refresh rates are lower
  than your (probably) newer and smaller monitors.

  So, is this a bug in X v4? These values, or the Modelines, in v3
  were able to produce a pleasing 74 Hz, whereas v4 can only pull an
  Excedrin-downing 60 Hz.

  Is it possible there is an off-by-one error somewhere? How much
  trouble could I get into by fudging these numbers up a little? If
  so, how high would you go?

  I'm also curious why the x v4 config (when running dpkg-reconfigure
  xserver-xfree86) doesn't offer a 1280x1024 resolution on the screen
  where you select the resolutions you want to see. Could that
  observation be related? Hmmm, rerunning dpkg-reconfigure doesn't
  write the XF86Config-4 file...

  p.s. I learned a lot about my monitor today. It turns out adjusting
  the size only affects the current resolution, so I was able to get
  rid of those margins--in all resolutions--with the monitor
  adjustments. I'm feeling a little silly that I haven't tried this
  before in the 7 years that I've had this monitor. I just figured I'd
  get it right for 1280x1024 and leave it alone.

  So that just leaves the refresh rate.

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Re: can't resolve names, ipchains or dns problem

[Alvin Oga]

hi nic

if yu can ping using the ip#...

just add your "dns server ip#" into /etc/resolv.conf

c ya
alvin

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Nick wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I have an internal network setup behind linux on a single static IP
> I am having problem reolving names but can ping IP's numericaly.
> 
> I set up dhcp to allocate 192.168.1.0/24 throught the internal network
> Then I setup ipchains very basic, just to get it all going
> 
> ipchains -P forward DENY
> ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ
> 
> kernel is set to forward, echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 
> So I can ping from an internal machine to any global IP address, but when it 
> comes to ping www.yahoo.com, get a bad host message.
> 
> Using 192.168.1.1 as gateway for internal machines
> looked at /etc/resolv.conf,  looks ok
> /etc/hosts
> /etc/network/interfaces all good too
> 
> route tables look ok
> have 255.255.255.255 line for dhcp windozs
> default gateway ok
> 
> I can ping domain names and ip address from the linux firewall.
> Just doesn't seem to want to forward those requests for the internal network 
> 
> 
> HELP!!!
> 
> -Nick
> 
> 
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can't resolve names, ipchains or dns problem

[Nick]

Hi list,

I have an internal network setup behind linux on a single static IP
I am having problem reolving names but can ping IP's numericaly.

I set up dhcp to allocate 192.168.1.0/24 throught the internal network
Then I setup ipchains very basic, just to get it all going

ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ

kernel is set to forward, echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

So I can ping from an internal machine to any global IP address, but when it 
comes to ping www.yahoo.com, get a bad host message.

Using 192.168.1.1 as gateway for internal machines
looked at /etc/resolv.conf,  looks ok
/etc/hosts
/etc/network/interfaces all good too

route tables look ok
have 255.255.255.255 line for dhcp windozs
default gateway ok

I can ping domain names and ip address from the linux firewall.
Just doesn't seem to want to forward those requests for the internal network 


HELP!!!

-Nick

Re: Timezone/sustem time configuration?

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:13:04PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> I'm creating a new Debian machine, after a failry lengthy absence from
> the comunity.
> 
> I seem to have managed to get something mucked up about the timezoen
> configuration.  I want teh hardware clock set to UTC, and the TZ
> mdifier used to show current lcal time.
> 
> What do I need to set up to get this right? At the moment I have the
> correct timezoen in /etc/timezone, but the system persists in showing
> UTC time.

Run tzconfig.  It should set everything straight.

-- 
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apt-get dist-upgrade

[ray p]

Is anybody else getting some odd perl errors from apt and if so have you 
fixed it or do you know what is going on? Thanks.

Re: [OT] _("STRING") notation

[Moritz Schulte]

Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What is the significance of the '_' character in the following usage?
> 
> printf(_("This is fetchmail release %s"), VERSION);
> 
> Why the '_' and why the additional ()'s around the string constant?

Seems that the code is using the GNU gettext library, which handles
translation of messages. Have a look at the gettext info pages...

moritz
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Timezone/sustem time configuration?

[Stan Brown]

I'm creating a new Debian machine, after a failry lengthy absence from the
comunity.

I seem to have managed to get something mucked up about the timezoen 
configuration.
I want teh hardware clock set to UTC, and the TZ mdifier used to show current 
lcal
time.

What do I need to set up to get this right? At the moment I have the correct
timezoen in /etc/timezone, but the system persists in showing UTC time.

-- 
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-- 
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useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit 
company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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[OT] _("STRING") notation

[Sven Burgener]

(This applies to programming in C)

What is the significance of the '_' character in the following usage?

printf(_("This is fetchmail release %s"), VERSION);

Why the '_' and why the additional ()'s around the string constant?

This looks like _ does something special to the ()-part...?

Could the following have done the job just as well instead?

printf("This is fetchmail release %s", VERSION);

Thanks for any insight

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #71

[Raymond L. Zarling]

On 17-Mar-01, Albrecht Frank wrote:
> 
> "Raymond L. Zarling" wrote:
> > 
> > I am trying to install X 4.0 on my (newly installed) debian
2.2.18-pre21-ide
> > system.  I've got it partially-working after creating the missing
> >
> [..] 
> > And if I try to remove it, again using dpkg:
> > 
> > # dpkg remove xserver-xfree86
> [..]
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > 
> > How does one proceed from here?  I've tried various --force-things, and
> > --fix-broken and --force-yes in apt-get, all to no avail.
> 
> $man dpkg 
> (section --force)
> 
> greetings
> Albrecht

Sorry, I should have spelled out more fully the --force-things I tried.  I
have read the manual, I think quite carefully, for several days, and it's
either not in there or I'm mmissing something.

The "obvious" thing to try is either --configure (which is all that dpkg
--audit suggests), the output of which I posted in my earlier post, or else

#dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq --purge xserver-xfree86
(Reading database ... 20414 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xserver-xfree86 ...
dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xserver-xfree86

As you can see, it is the same as everything else; the pre-removal script
(or post-installation script, as the case may be) keeps failing.

I have also managed to manually download the xserver-xfree86...deb file, and
got it to unpack using apt-get unpack, thinking perhaps the copy that had
been automatically downloaded by dselect when I first started all this (and
which has since, evidently, been cleaned away) might have been corrupt. 
Well, still no joy.

So I followed another user's suggestion and downloaded the binary from
ftp.xfree86.org and installed it.  It installed fine, but I _still_ can't
clear the error in the package managers!  xserver-xfree86 still shows up as
a "Broken Optional Package in Section X11", and it won't remove!

This is making me crazy.  Do dpkg, apt-get, etc. rally not have some kind of
"override" that will just let you start over?  Is my only option to
reformat the drive and install the whole OS from scratch?

--Ray

cdrecord

[Torsten Kersting]

Hi all,
whenever i burn a cd using the script below, the burnprocess finishes
without any problems but i cant copy the data back to the hd anymore.
Just before the copyprocess finishes, i get a scsi input/output error.
I experienced this problem with different scsi controllers (Adaptec
2940U2W and 1460). I am using cdrecord 1.9-1, tried Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.4.2
and a Teac CDR55S. 
The script taken from the CD-Writing-HOWTO:

#!/bin/bash
IMG_SIZE=`mkisofs -R -q -print-size /home/torsten/cdr/ 2>&1|sed -e "s/.* = // "`
echo $IMG_SIZE
[ "0$IMG_SIZE" -ne 0 ] && mkisofs -r -J -v /home/torsten/cdr/|cdrecord -v 
speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -fs=12m tsize=${IMG_SIZE}s -data -

thanks for helping
Torsten

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Fw: Re: 2.4.x kernel on a current woody machine

[Susumu Takuwa]

Forwarded by Susumu Takuwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- Original Message ---
From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:17 Mar 2001 09:06:33 -0800
Subject: Re: 2.4.x kernel on a current woody machine


Just go upgrade to woody or sid . Try sid , it's not bad 

On Sat, 17 March 2001, Susumu Takuwa wrote:

> 
> > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 08:34:59 -0700
> ray p writes:
> 
> rp> Is the current incarnation of Woody ready for the 2.4.x kernel? In other 
> rp> words if I want to do this is there anything special I have to do or 
> rp> should it just work?
> 
> You don't have to do anything special.
> 
> 
> Susumu Takuwa
> 
> 
> 
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unable to mount FreeBSD partition

[William Staniewicz]

I recently installed Debian onto my PC which now
shares space with Windows95, FreeBSD, and Plan 9.

I tried to mount FreeBSD from Debian but can only
do it to root, nowhere else.  I use the following:

mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda7 /mnt

Below is information I gathered. I really don't know
what it is telling me but I suspect something is wrong.
How can I fix it?

Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3! hda4 < hda5 hda6 > < hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >

Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 782 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes

   Device BootStart   EndBlocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   * 169278176+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda2   124   250512064   39  Unknown
/dev/hda3   251   782   2145024   a5  BSD/386
/dev/hda470   1232177285  Extended
/dev/hda57085 64480+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda686   123153184+  83  Linux

BSD disklabel command (m for help): p

8 partitions:
#   start   end  size fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:  251   263*   12*4.2BSD 1024  819216 
  b:  263*  281*   17*  swap
  c:  251   782   532 unused0 0   
  e:  281*  286*5*4.2BSD 1024  819216 
  f:  286*  782   496*4.2BSD 1024  819216 

Re: Borland's JBuilder & O'Reilly's _Learning_Java_

[Dimitri Maziuk]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 05:03:40PM -0600, Judith Elaine Bush wrote:
> 
> Dear All:
> 
> Has anyone installed and run Borland's JBuilder 4.0 or 3.5 on a
> potato system (not as root) successfully?

Not exactly. I've successfully installed jbuilder 4 as root on
a woody (testing) system.

...
> Version 4.0 appears to come with its own JVM and also installed
> without complaint. When i start it, it opens the licensing window
> and i can fill out name & company, but no other form or button
> options work.

Have a look at http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,26055,00.html
Also, try starting it from command line and check the output.

HTH
Dima
-- 
E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home)
I'm going to exit now since you don't want me to replace the printcap. If you 
change your mind later, run
-- magicfilter config script

Re: v4 x screen size and flicker

[Ross Boylan]

I have a G200 and NEC XV17.  It works quite well, but I used the windows 
settings to guide my X settings.


I see the mga_h1 error too, though no ill effects (unless this is 
responsible for overlay mode not working).  I filed a bug about it (87504) 
which was reported upstream.


Probably the new install wiped away your old settings, so it's now picking 
the first listed choice, or something like that.  Try editing your 
configuration file, comparing with your old one if possible.


At 03:14 PM 3/17/01 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 12:10:51PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
>   I just upgraded to X v4 (woody) and selected the mga driver for my
>   Matrox Millenium G200. I have an NEC MultiSync 6FG (21") monitor. I
>   now have two problems:
>
> 1. Large margins around the screen.
> 2. Incredible flicker.
>
>   At 1280x1024, there is now a large margin around the screen: 1 cm
>   top and bottom, 2 cm right and left. xvidtune can't make it bigger.
>   Is xvidtune still used in v4 (since I noticed that the mode lines
>   are cheerfully no longer in the configuration) or is there a newer
>   tool that I can use to adjust the size? I don't really want to
>   adjust the monitor size (much) since the size was perfect under v3
>   and the size in the console is fine.
>
>   Also note that my 1024x768 screen is also small; however, my 800x600
>   screen extends past the edges of the monitor.
>
>   Also, there is now noticeable flicker which is giving me quite a
>   headache. I've used the same horizontal and vertical refresh rates
>   that were present in v3, but I see in the log below that I'm only
>   pulling 60 Hz, rather than 75 or higher. Suggestions?
>
>   I also noted that mga_hal failed to load. Is this a problem?
>
>   Are there any other tools besides SuperProbe that can be used to
>   debug/adjust these things?
>
>   Thanks for any help you all can provide.
>
>   Here's the log:
>
[snip]
> (==) MGA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (==) MGA(0): Min pixel clock is 12 MHz
> (==) MGA(0): Max pixel clock is 250 MHz
> (II) MGA(0): NEC MultiSync 6FG: Using hsync range of 27.00-79.00 kHz
> (II) MGA(0): NEC MultiSync 6FG: Using vrefresh range of 55.00-90.00 Hz

Looks like X thinks your monitor isn't fast enough.  You can set the
monitor info in /etc/X11/XF86Config.  You'll have to find out if your
monitor will support higher ranges.  For instance, my 17" monitor
supports these:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync   30-95
VertRefresh 50-180
EndSection

Notice the upper end of the ranges are substantially higher. So with
same video card, but different monitor settings, I can get up to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is way too high [small] for my tastes).  If it
supported higher ranges before, it will support them again.

Note: I don't know what that mga_hal is about (maybe for a different
Matrox card...).

--
Eric G. Miller 


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Re: fstab

[Robin Gerard]

- Original Message -
From: Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: fstab


> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Robin Gerard wrote:
> > hello,
> > I have added a wrong line in my fstab file and when linux starts I have
> > many errors.
> > Under root I can open fstab with mc (or xemacs) but read only  and
Ican't
> > change it.
>
> as root do:
>
> # mount -oremount,rw /
> # xemacs /etc/fstab
> # reboot
> groetjes, carel
MANY  MANY ..THANKS. it's OK
Gerard

Re: USB mouse in gpm + 2.4

[Ethan Benson]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 06:11:25PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> Has anyone used a usb mouse in kernel 2.4?  I'm running Woody and finally
> got 2.4 running, hoping for its advantages.  I can't seem to get gpm to
> recognize the mouse.
> 
> I found a page that recommends:
> mknod /dev/mice c 13 63
> 
> And I also tried:
> mknod /dev/input/mouse0 c 180 16
> 
> ...as a test, based on devices.txt in the kernel tarball.  My /proc/devices
> contains:

this is the new input layer, you need to have a few other options
turned on for it to work, such as:

CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768

you will probably find more info about the input layer and usb mice on
powerpc GNU/Linux sites such as penguinppc.org then anywhere.  recent
macs have no other option then usb input devices.  the setup should be
not much different from powerpc to x86.  also check archives of
debian-powerpc.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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Re: v4 x screen size and flicker

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 12:10:51PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
>   I just upgraded to X v4 (woody) and selected the mga driver for my
>   Matrox Millenium G200. I have an NEC MultiSync 6FG (21") monitor. I
>   now have two problems:
>   
> 1. Large margins around the screen.
> 2. Incredible flicker.
> 
>   At 1280x1024, there is now a large margin around the screen: 1 cm
>   top and bottom, 2 cm right and left. xvidtune can't make it bigger.
>   Is xvidtune still used in v4 (since I noticed that the mode lines
>   are cheerfully no longer in the configuration) or is there a newer
>   tool that I can use to adjust the size? I don't really want to
>   adjust the monitor size (much) since the size was perfect under v3
>   and the size in the console is fine.
> 
>   Also note that my 1024x768 screen is also small; however, my 800x600
>   screen extends past the edges of the monitor.
> 
>   Also, there is now noticeable flicker which is giving me quite a
>   headache. I've used the same horizontal and vertical refresh rates
>   that were present in v3, but I see in the log below that I'm only
>   pulling 60 Hz, rather than 75 or higher. Suggestions?
> 
>   I also noted that mga_hal failed to load. Is this a problem?
> 
>   Are there any other tools besides SuperProbe that can be used to
>   debug/adjust these things?
> 
>   Thanks for any help you all can provide.
> 
>   Here's the log:
> 
[snip] 
> (==) MGA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (==) MGA(0): Min pixel clock is 12 MHz
> (==) MGA(0): Max pixel clock is 250 MHz
> (II) MGA(0): NEC MultiSync 6FG: Using hsync range of 27.00-79.00 kHz
> (II) MGA(0): NEC MultiSync 6FG: Using vrefresh range of 55.00-90.00 Hz

Looks like X thinks your monitor isn't fast enough.  You can set the
monitor info in /etc/X11/XF86Config.  You'll have to find out if your
monitor will support higher ranges.  For instance, my 17" monitor
supports these:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync   30-95
VertRefresh 50-180
EndSection

Notice the upper end of the ranges are substantially higher. So with
same video card, but different monitor settings, I can get up to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is way too high [small] for my tastes).  If it
supported higher ranges before, it will support them again.

Note: I don't know what that mga_hal is about (maybe for a different
Matrox card...).

-- 
Eric G. Miller 

Re: Applying colors to Netscape

[Frank Copeland]

On 17 Mar 01 20:13:05 GMT, William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think I found this mentioned somewhere, something to do with editing your 
>.Xresources file. Does anyone know more of this?

If you are using Gnome or KDE, try installing grdb or krdb. This will
apply your GTK/KDE theme to 'legacy' applications like netscape. On my
woody system there's also /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape which might be
what you are looking for.

Frank

Re: fstab

[Carel Fellinger]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Robin Gerard wrote:
> hello,
> I have added a wrong line in my fstab file and when linux starts I have
> many errors.
> Under root I can open fstab with mc (or xemacs) but read only  and Ican't
> change it.

as root do:

# mount -oremount,rw /
# xemacs /etc/fstab
# reboot

-- 
groetjes, carel

USB mouse in gpm + 2.4

[Jonathan Markevich]

Has anyone used a usb mouse in kernel 2.4?  I'm running Woody and finally
got 2.4 running, hoping for its advantages.  I can't seem to get gpm to
recognize the mouse.

I found a page that recommends:
mknod /dev/mice c 13 63

And I also tried:
mknod /dev/input/mouse0 c 180 16

...as a test, based on devices.txt in the kernel tarball.  My /proc/devices
contains:

Character devices:
  1 mem
  2 pty
  3 ttyp
  4 ttyS
  5 cua
  6 lp
  7 vcs
 10 misc
 13 input
 14 sound
108 ppp
128 ptm
136 pts
162 raw
180 usb
195 nvidia
 
Block devices:
  2 fd
  3 ide0
  7 loop
 22 ide1

Ideas?  Thanks.

-- 
Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich

Things will be bright in P.M.  A cop will shine a light in your face.

Borland's JBuilder & O'Reilly's _Learning_Java_

[Judith Elaine Bush]

Dear All:

Has anyone installed and run Borland's JBuilder 4.0 or 3.5 on a
potato system (not as root) successfully?

Version 3.5 comes on a CD with O'Reilley's _Learning_Java_. I
installed it using an IBM JVM (below for version). Install went
well, but it died with an error (below for verbose out) when i
tried to start it.

Version 4.0 appears to come with its own JVM and also installed
without complaint. When i start it, it opens the licensing window
and i can fill out name & company, but no other form or button
options work.

So, if anyone's bothered to solve this sort of problem, I'd love
to hear from you.

On the other hand, i suppose i'll just happily use emacs. 

Thanks,

judith


< 182 11:15am greycat:~/WorkSpaceCode/LearningJava> 
/opt/IBMJava2-13/jre/bin/java -version
java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0)
Classic VM (build 1.3.0, J2RE 1.3.0 IBM build cx130-2815 (JIT enabled: 
jitc))



Jbuilder 3.5 failure:


Warning: JIT compiler "javacomp" not found. Will use interpreter.
Scanning manifest from /opt/IBMJava2-13/lib/tools.jar
java.util.zip.ZipException: No such file or directory processing opentools for 
/opt/IBMJava2-13/lib/jpda.jar
Scanning manifest from ../lib/beandt3.1.jar
Scanning manifest from ../lib/dx3.1.jar
Scanning manifest from ../lib/jbcl3.1.jar
Scanning manifest from ../lib/jbuilder.jar
Scanning manifest from ../lib/lwtoolkit.jar
Scanning manifest from ../lib/pthelp3.1.jar
OpenTools discovered (271ms)
--- Initializing OpenTools-Core
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.JBuilderToolkit (471+389ms)
OpenTool com.borland.primetime.node.FolderNode (269+1ms)
OpenTool com.borland.primetime.node.ImageFileNode (25+33ms)
OpenTool com.borland.primetime.node.TextFileNode (137+1ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.PropertiesFileNode (16+27ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.ClassFileNode (8+1ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.CPPFileNode (7+1ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.HTMLFileNode (18+1ms)

JBuilder 3.5 Unlicensed
Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Inprise Corporation.  All rights reserved.

*** OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.JspFileNode failed to initialize
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 
findComponentAt
at java.awt.Container.initIDs(Native Method)
at java.awt.Container.(Container.java:106)
at com.borland.jbuilder.info.JBuilderInfo.showInfoDialog(Unknown Source)
at com.borland.jbuilder.info.JBuilderInfo.b(Unknown Source)
at com.borland.jbuilder.info.JBuilderInfo.isEntEnabled(Unknown Source)
at com.borland.jbuilder.node.JspFileNode.initOpenTool(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.borland.primetime.PrimeTime.b(Unknown Source)
at com.borland.primetime.PrimeTime.initializeOpenTools(Unknown Source)
at com.borland.primetime.PrimeTime.start(Unknown Source)
at com.borland.jbuilder.JBuilder.main(Unknown Source)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.IDLFileNode (12+0ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.JavaFileNode (9+1ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.SQLFileNode (8+0ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.XMLFileNode (8+1ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.PackageNode (8+0ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.JBProject (67+6ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.JPRProjectStorage (22+0ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.node.JPXProjectStorageLoader (9+25ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.build.BuildCommand (47+1ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.build.IDLBuilder (42+8ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.build.JavaBuilder (7+1ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.build.ResourceBuilder (7+1ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.build.RMIJNIBuilder (9+0ms)
OpenTool com.borland.jbuilder.build.VisiBrokerJavaBuilder (10+1ms)

Re: Gnus/emacs to Gnus/xemacs

[Brian May]

> "Richard" == Richard C Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Richard> The Debian xemacs packages include Gnus and a number of
Richard> other "external" elisp packages.  For instance, xemacs
Richard> 21.1.10-5 (as included with potato) contains gnus 5.6.45.
Richard> As far as I can tell, xemacs will use its own copy of
Richard> gnus by default, but there's likely a way you can get it

Not on my system... The latest version just works. Yes, I have made
extensive modifications, but not to the load path or anything like
that.
-- 
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

XFree864 PS/2 mouse & gpm

[Stan Brown]

I'm seting up a new machine using Debian & Prgeney (nice stuff). At the moment 
I am
having problems with the mouse in the X sessiosn. I am runing gpm, and the X 
config
file points to /dev/psaux. I think I would be better off using /dev/gpmdata, but
since gpm is runing with the -Rms3 option, I am uncertain which device type I
should put in the Xf86 config file.

What device type should it be?

-- 
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154
Charleston SC.
-- 
Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit 
company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
-
(c) 2000 Stan Brown.  Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.

warning when upgrading xlibs (sid)

[Pollywog]

I ran 'apt-get upgrade' and got this when the xlibs package was upgraded.  I 
hope I have not just broken X.
Unfortunately, this warning does not really tell me what I need to do:

Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.2-1 (using .../xlibs_4.0.2-7_i386.deb) ...
Warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults is a directory that should be a
symbolic link.
  
  A symbolic link to what??



  Packages containing files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
need to move them to /etc/X11/app-defaults instead; they will not be used
by the X Window System until they are moved.

 Does this mean I should not upgrade any X stuff?


thanks

--
Andrew

Seti At Home & gethostbyname

[Judith Elaine Bush]

Dear All:

I'm having a problem with tkseti &/or setiathome.  It's been AGES
since I ran the client, and I actually think i upgraded to potato
since i last started. I started it back up and have finished a
unit. Unfortunately, sending a result doesn't seem to work.

Error message:

Sending result - connecting to server.
gethostbyname: No such file or directory
Can't connect to server; will retry in an hour.

I ran a find across the entire system and, yup, gethostbyname is
not a file to be found:

< 139 2:36pm greycat:~/WorkSpaceCode> find / -name gethostbyname\* -print | & 
grep -v denied
/usr/share/man/man3/gethostbyname.3.gz
/var/cache/man/cat3/gethostbyname.3.gz

Any suggestions (for a package to install, perhaps)?

Thanks,

judith

my SETI directory:

-rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie 0 Aug 18  2000 lock.sah
-rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie   393 Aug 21  2000 user_info.sah
-rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie  6289 Aug 21  2000 000818.out
-rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie32 Mar 14 06:43 version.sah
-rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie 4 Mar 16 17:13 pid.sah
-rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie  2106 Mar 17 00:54 outfile.sah
-rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie  3501 Mar 17 02:48 wtemp.sah
-rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie  3733 Mar 17 02:48 result.sah
-rw-r--r--1 blondie  blondie   132 Mar 17 02:48 key.sah

fstab

[Robin Gerard]

hello,
I have added a wrong line in my fstab file and when linux starts I have
many errors.
Under root I can open fstab with mc (or xemacs) but read only  and Ican't
change it.
I have not a rescue floopy .
How can I restore my fstab ?
Looking forward for your advice and help.
Many thanks.
Gerard.

Re: v4 x screen size and flicker

[Bill Wohler]

"S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bill> (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs
>  ^
> Do you have support for MTRRs built into your kernel ? If not, recompile
> your kernel to include support for MTRRs (CONFIG_MTRR) and then see how
> XFree-4 behaves. I don't see a similar message in my log file.

  Done. The error message is now gone but the behavior (large margins
  and flicker) are the same. Thanks for the tip. I had no idea what
  MTRR was, but Configure.help indicated that it was a Good Thing.

"S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have same video card as you and am running XFree-4.0.2-7 on a Sid
> system with kernel-2.4.2 without any display problems on a 19" monitor.

  If I had a 19" monitor, the image would fill the entire screen too ;-).

-- 
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian!
If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

problem when starting X

[Attila Csosz]

Hi,

This is a new installation of Debian Woody. I've got the following error 
messages when starting X with typing 'startx'.


X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.
xinit:  unexpected signal 2


Thanks for any help
 Attila


-- 

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- PGP key: gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.com --recv-key 0x2cc33acb  -

Re: Gnus/emacs to Gnus/xemacs

[David Z Maze]

Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BR> On Saturday 17 March 2001 13:07, mike polniak wrote:
 MP> I am using Gnus5.8.8 and emacs 20.7 and would like to try Gnus
 MP> with xemacs. If i just apt-get install xemacs from stable will it
 MP> work with my current version of Gnus (unstable). Are there any
 MP> problems using the same version of Gnus with emacs and xemacs?
BR> 
BR> I'm pretty sure that won't work.  As best I remember, gnus byte 
BR> compiles differently in emacs and xemacs so the two versions are not 
BR> compatible.

Yes, but Debian makes an effort to make elisp add-on packages work
correctly with multiple Emacsen.  My guess is that, if you're using a
Debian package of Gnus (even from unstable), it should work with any
Emacs in stable, unstable, or testing.

BR> The xemacs package at debian comes with an older version 
BR> of gnus,

(Though if things work correctly the external Gnus package should
override this.)

BR> but it's a piece of cake to download a tarball from gnus.org and
BR> roll your own.  There is always a stable release version called
BR> gnus.tar.gz and a development version called something like
BR> ognus.tar.gz or pgnus.tar.gz.  They're working backwards through
BR> the alphabet so ognus is newer than pgnus.  Kind of like debian
BR> stable and unstable, the stable version is usually quite solid
BR> while the development version may be broken in some fashion on any
BR> given day.

The Gnus versioning scheme:

-- Versions with an odd minor number (5.7, 5.9) are "stable" and can
   generally only be found distributed with an Emacs (possibly even
   only with FSF Emacs).

-- Versions with an even minor number (5.8.8) are "beta" versions, but 
   late revisions tend to work fairly well.  I'd recommend 5.8.8 for
   most Gnus users.

-- Named versions are "alpha" versions.  Once upon a time there were
   frequent releases of these, but these days everything's in CVS.
   Pterodactyl Gnus was before Gnus 5.8, and Oort Gnus is the current
   release.  As noted previously, alpha release names are in strictly
   decreasing alphabetical order by first letter of name.

As I said before, I'd recommend Gnus 5.8.8 for most people who use
Gnus, and in particular for everyone who isn't tracking the CVS Gnus.
Conveniently, the Gnus package in Debian unstable is for Gnus 5.8.8,
so you're set there.

-- 
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell

Reporting bugs (was: xmh crashes)

[Bill Wohler]

Robert Cymbala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Have never reported a bug before, but I'll give it a try.
> Is there a HOWTO-bug_report?

  I installed the `bug' package and report bugs with the `bug' program
  that the package installs. Just type `bug task-x-window-system' and
  follow the prompts.

  It appears that `reportbug' is a better system, but depends on the
  nonexistent python-newt package in woody. I've already reported the
  bug against python-newt.

-- 
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian!
If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: Gnus/emacs to Gnus/xemacs

[Bud Rogers]

On Saturday 17 March 2001 13:07, mike polniak wrote:
> I am using Gnus5.8.8 and emacs 20.7 and would like to try Gnus with
> xemacs. If i just apt-get install xemacs from stable will it work
> with my current version of Gnus (unstable). Are there any problems
> using the same version of Gnus with emacs and xemacs?

I'm pretty sure that won't work.  As best I remember, gnus byte 
compiles differently in emacs and xemacs so the two versions are not 
compatible.  The xemacs package at debian comes with an older version 
of gnus, but it's a piece of cake to download a tarball from gnus.org 
and roll your own.  There is always a stable release version called 
gnus.tar.gz and a development version called something like 
ognus.tar.gz or pgnus.tar.gz.  They're working backwards through the 
alphabet so ognus is newer than pgnus.  Kind of like debian stable and 
unstable,  the stable version is usually quite solid while the 
development version may be broken in some fashion on any given day.

-- 
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   http://www.sirinet.net/~budr
All things in moderation.  And not too much moderation either.

quake-svga problem: SVGAlib wrapper: unable to open default visual

[Rob Eso]

Hey everyone

This morning I have been trying to get quake-svga running, and am getting this
error message:

SVGAlib wrapper: unable to open default visual

I have been looking around the list archives and the web but cannot find
any info on how to fix this error, anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

Rob Eso
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

inews

[ivan demakov]

it's a misterious.
i ask my question in a some forums and get no answers.
and i see other peoples that ask the same.  silence.

some day i install potato from my cd's.
and i install inn and inews.  all fine and all work.  was.
and some day i upgrade my potato.

only 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade', nothing else.

my '/etc/apt/source.list':

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

inn and inews was upgraded.

inn continues to work.  i can read news, i can send news (i use gnus to do 
such).
but wnen i want to submit article with inews, i can't.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] interp$ (echo "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; echo "Newsgroups: 
local.general";
 echo "Subject: test"; echo ""; echo "test" ) | /usr/bin/inews -S -h
Can't get list of newsgroups, Invalid argument.
(Article not posted.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] interp$ 

maybe i do wrong, but anyone can help me?


-- 
ivan

Re: Minimum RAM Requirement.

[Ian Thomas]

Check out the Linux Documentation Project, it has
instructions on how to setup a system with 4 mb.  I
have followed these instructions and gotten an IBM
laptop with slightly less than 4 mb to work fine. 
Although the installs start with non-debian dists the
author says that you can use almost any distro to add
more functionality after the initial barebones system
is up.

Ian
--- kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:59:39AM -0700,
> Simmons-Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would like to know the minimum amount of RAM a
> computer needs in order to
> > run a basic Linux setup and then also the minimum
> for  X Window System.
> 
> Some guidelines.
> 
>   - 4 M:  bare minimum for Linux kernel, and you'll
> need to specify some
> configurations to get there.
> 
>   - 8 M:  minimum basic linux configuration.  I
> don't think modern Debians
> will install into 8 MB.
> 
>   - ~16-32 M:  you'll need something in this range
> to let the packaging
> system run.  It likes to store stuff in RAM.
> 
>   - ~32-64 M:  minimum I'd recommend for a
> single-usr workstation,
> running X, a lightweight window manager (not
> GNOME/KDE), and,
> sometimes, Netscape.  You'll be swapping a fair
> piece.
> 
>   - ~96-128 M:  comfortable single-user general
> purpose workstation.
> Tends to minimize swapping under most
> circumstances.
> 
>   - 128 M - 1G:  high end workstation, mid-level
> server.  Particularly
> useful if you're running VMWare, StarOffice,
> that bloated stuck pig
> of an office suite, or a heavily loaded services
> (apache, mysql,
> file/print).
> 
>   - 1G - 4G:  high-end server.  I believe the
> maximum addressable memory
> on Linux is currently 4GB, with a patch.  Could
> be wrong on this.
> 
> There's a lot of flexibility on all of this, and
> personal expectations
> matter.  More memory is almost always the first
> route to a faster
> system.  However, there's no reason a "workable"
> system can't 
> 
> For swap, the general rule of thumb is 1-2x
> installed RAM, though some
> people top out swap at some point, generally between
> 128 MB and 1 GB.  I
> tend to take the multiplier rule all the way up to
> max swap (4 GB, IIRC).
> You can add swapfiles at any point later, but swap
> partitions are more
> efficient (they don't fragment) and harder to add
> (you have to
> repartition).
> 
> You can always experiment with lower memory
> configurations by specifying
> the appropriat MEM= boot option, to see how your
> system would perform
> with less memory installed.  Results can be
> interesting.
> 
> Currently, memory for reasonably up-to-date systems
> is pretty cheap
> (DIMMs).  If you're buying the older SIMMs, prepare
> to pay a premium.
> 
> -- 
> Karsten M. Self
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
>  What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?  
> There is no K5 cabal
>   http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.kuro5hin.org
> 

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Re: Applying colors to Netscape

[Richard C. Cobbe]

Lo, on Saturday, March 17, William Leese did write:

> I think I found this mentioned somewhere, something to do with editing your 
> .Xresources file. Does anyone know more of this?

Well, if you're looking for X resource settings which affect Netscape, look
for a file named Netscape.ad.  On my potato system, it's in
/usr/lib/netscape/476/communicator/Netscape.ad, among other places.  This
lists all of the resources that Netscape acknowledges.

It's been a while since I've looked through that file, and it's quite
large, so I may be wrong, but I don't remember any color settings in
there.  Still, it's worth a look.

Richard

Applying colors to Netscape

[William Leese]

I think I found this mentioned somewhere, something to do with editing your 
.Xresources file. Does anyone know more of this?

v4 x screen size and flicker

[Bill Wohler]

  I just upgraded to X v4 (woody) and selected the mga driver for my
  Matrox Millenium G200. I have an NEC MultiSync 6FG (21") monitor. I
  now have two problems:
  
1. Large margins around the screen.
2. Incredible flicker.

  At 1280x1024, there is now a large margin around the screen: 1 cm
  top and bottom, 2 cm right and left. xvidtune can't make it bigger.
  Is xvidtune still used in v4 (since I noticed that the mode lines
  are cheerfully no longer in the configuration) or is there a newer
  tool that I can use to adjust the size? I don't really want to
  adjust the monitor size (much) since the size was perfect under v3
  and the size in the console is fine.

  Also note that my 1024x768 screen is also small; however, my 800x600
  screen extends past the edges of the monitor.

  Also, there is now noticeable flicker which is giving me quite a
  headache. I've used the same horizontal and vertical refresh rates
  that were present in v3, but I see in the log below that I'm only
  pulling 60 Hz, rather than 75 or higher. Suggestions?

  I also noted that mga_hal failed to load. Is this a problem?

  Are there any other tools besides SuperProbe that can be used to
  debug/adjust these things?

  Thanks for any help you all can provide.

  Here's the log:

XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)
Release Date: 18 December 2000
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.2.18 i686 [ELF] 
Module Loader present
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat Mar 17 11:28:32 2001
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
 (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown.
(==) ServerLayout "Simple Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen 1" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "NEC MultiSync 6FG"
(**) |   |-->Device "Matrox Millennium G200 8MB"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "itouch"
(**) XKB: model: "itouch"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) XKB: layout: "us"
(**) FontPath set to 
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(++) using VT number 7

(WW) Cannot open APM
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.3
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.1
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.2
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3
(II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1
(II) PCI: Config type is 1
(II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,7190 card , rev 03 class 06,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,7191 card , rev 03 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,7110 card , rev 02 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 8086,7111 card , rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 8086,7112 card , rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 8086,7113 card , rev 02 class 06,80,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:0d:0: chip 1000,000c card 1000,1000 rev 01 class 01,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:0e:0: chip 1000,0001 card 1000,1000 rev 23 class 01,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:0f:0: chip 8086,1229 card 8086,0009 rev 05 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:10:0: chip 1274,5880 card 1274,2003 rev 02 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 102b,0521 card 102b,ff03 rev 01 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) LoadModule: "scanpci"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a
(II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3
(II) UnloadModule: "scanpci"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) PCI-to-ISA

Need expert help on default selection and dependencies in dselect

[Onno]

Hi All,

I'm using Debian a few years now and it's the best distro around, but 
there are two annoying topics that irritate me when I'm installing 
debian and using dselect.

1) By default, the first time you use dselect it automatically selects 
   a standard system. Using R doesn't help, you have to purge the 
   packages you don't want by hand.
 
My question: What must be done to disable this auto selection when you 
 use dselect for the first time. 

Expert question: What must be done to disable -a few packages- for auto 
 selection when you use dselect for the first time.

2) I do not want to use debconf or debconf-tiny. It's probably a 
   personal thing and it may work for others but I simply don't like 
   them. I just purge them when I'm installing a debian system but some 
   packages do not only recommend or suggest debconf they simply depend 
   on it. As far as I know a package should always be able to install in 
   'text' mode and optional have debconf as a suggestion so I think it's 
   wrong(?) to force people to use debconf or debconf-tiny.

My question: What is the best way to avoid debconf in packages that 
 depend on it?

Expert question: Can I make dselect ignore depends on debconf?  

Please cc me because I'm not subscribed (anymore…).

Sincerely,

Onno

Re: Gnus/emacs to Gnus/xemacs

[Richard C. Cobbe]

Lo, on Saturday, March 17, mike polniak did write:

> I am using Gnus5.8.8 and emacs 20.7 and would like to try Gnus with
> xemacs. If i just apt-get install xemacs from stable will it work with my
> current version of Gnus (unstable). Are there any problems using the same
> version of Gnus with emacs and xemacs?

The Debian xemacs packages include Gnus and a number of other "external"
elisp packages.  For instance, xemacs 21.1.10-5 (as included with potato)
contains gnus 5.6.45.  As far as I can tell, xemacs will use its own copy
of gnus by default, but there's likely a way you can get it to use the
newer version (assuming it works with xemacs).  You'll probably have to
play around with your load-path.

I'm not really sure what the differences are between gnus 5.6.45 and 5.8.8;
it probably depends on how heavily you've customized your Gnus.

Richard

Re: Dell OptiPlex GX110

[mike polniak]

Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   We received such a machine and I've installed Debian
> testing/unstable on it.
>   I'm running 2.4.3-pre4 and one problem I was not able to get
> solved is for DMA/UltraDMA.
>   The box has a Maxtor 20GB 7200rpm 5T020H2 model and whenever I
> try to set the using_dma flag with hdparm I get an HDPIO_something not
> permitted.
>   Does anyone has a clue about this? How to enable DMA in this HD.
>   The chipset is i810 with Intel Host Controller (ICH). The kernel
> detects it correctly, but nothing else.
>   I've tried to pass several parameters to kernel at boot with
> little success (ide0=dma idebus=66 hda=autotune), that is, the bus speed
> was set to 66MHz but DMA and PIO optimization were ignored at all, or at
> least not set.

Check your kernel config in /boot and see if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA is set
-- 
LINUX~~nobody owns it~~everybody can use it~~anybody can improve it
~~~

Gnus/emacs to Gnus/xemacs

[mike polniak]

I am using Gnus5.8.8 and emacs 20.7 and would like to try Gnus with
xemacs. If i just apt-get install xemacs from stable will it work with my
current version of Gnus (unstable). Are there any problems using the same
version of Gnus with emacs and xemacs?
-- 
LINUX~~nobody owns it~~everybody can use it~~anybody can improve it
~~~

Re: Anyone using SoundBlaster 16? / better card? -noway, good card

[Pollywog]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:59:57 -0500 (EST)
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> you may also want to get an audio mixer (package aumix, for some reason I 
> have to run
> this even though the software says it is NOT muted...you can use this utility 
> to
> adjust the volume--useful if you are using headsets...
> 
xmixer is good too, but I am not sure it is available as a deb.
I used it to get my laptop to stop emitting a loud noise because of 
regenerative feedback.

--
Andrew

pppd problem ?

[Philipp Bliedung]

Hi,

I just compiled the 2.4.0 kernel. (I compiled the ppp-support into it.)
When I reboot everything works fine, except for the PCMCIA modem. My
PCMCIA network card works just fine. So I upgraded pppd to version
2.4.0  but it still doesn't work?
Is there anything else I'm missing?

Here is what I get when I try to connect to my ISP using pon:
laptop:/home/user1# tail /var/log/syslog
Mar 17 19:44:48 laptop chat[1785]: ^M
Mar 17 19:45:07 laptop chat[1785]: ATDT6749955^M^M
Mar 17 19:45:07 laptop chat[1785]: CONNECT
Mar 17 19:45:07 laptop chat[1785]: -- got it
Mar 17 19:45:07 laptop chat[1785]: send (\d)
Mar 17 19:45:08 laptop pppd[1784]: Serial connection established.
Mar 17 19:45:08 laptop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
tty-ldisc-3
Mar 17 19:45:08 laptop pppd[1784]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline:
Invalid argument
Mar 17 19:45:08 laptop pppd[1784]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Mar 17 19:45:08 laptop pppd[1784]: Exit.
laptop:/home/user1#

It complains about the module: tty-ldisc-3. I have absolutely no clue
where I can get it from, I've never heared about anything lilke that.
What do I have to do to get my modem working?

TIA !
Philipp

Re: Samba and inetd

[Igor Mozetic]

> Should smbd and nmbd be running?

No, unless some (Win) clients requests the service.

> If yes, how do I start them since /etc/init.d/samba does nothing if
> samba is setup to start from inetd?

Just /etc/init.d/inetd reload, and inetd will start smdb, nmbd when needed.

> Any other words of wisdom would be appreciated.

Make sure that smbd and nmbd appear in /etc/hosts.allow.

-Igor Mozetic

Dual ethernet cards

[Steve Doerr]

Hello.
I just rebuilt the 2.2.17 kernel for a firewall/router and got the
following errors with my NIC's.

/var/log/debug - eth0 no IPv6 routers present
/var/log/dmesg - IP-Config: No network devices available

lspci -vvb lists both cards and I added the appropriate "append=" line
to lilo.conf.

I followed the firewall/ethernet howto's about building the kernel for
this as best I could (it has changed a little bit).  The card support is
in the kernel and not a module.

Does anyone have any ideas what I overlooked, or what might be wrong?

Thanks for any input.
Steve

Re: Anyone using SoundBlaster 16? / better card? -noway, good card

[Walter Tautz]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, ktb wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:50:40AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> > I purchased a Soundblaster 16 (PCI) CT4810 OEM card yesterday and still 
> > can't
> > get the thing to work.  I've selected all the soundblaster choices for
> > the kernel as well as pnp support.  The card isn't detected on boot,
> > nothing in dmesg.  I've tried using module es1371, got a little static.
> > /sbin/lspci -v shows -
> > 
> > 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq: Unknown device 5880 (rev 02)
> > Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 2003
> > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
> > I/O ports at d800 [size=64]
> > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> > 
> > I got this card because I though it would be easy to install.  Are there
> > any lower end cards that are?  How do I get this thing to work.
> > Thanks,
> > kent
> > 
> 
> Don't know exactly what I did but I have music from cdrom and can cat
> .au files to /dev/audio.  
> kent
> 
You will need to add yourself to the audio group, and if you are using modules
(see addgroup)


you need to load these at boot time by adding these to /etc/modules:

sound
# My main sound module, does not seem to need any special options
es1371



lsmod output:

es1371 23876   2
sound  55480   0 (unused)
soundlow 348   0 [sound]
soundcore   2372   7 [es1371 sound]
tulip  30232   1


you may also want to get an audio mixer (package aumix, for some reason I have 
to run
this even though the software says it is NOT muted...you can use this utility to
adjust the volume--useful if you are using headsets...

Re: ide-cd(re)writer HP8250i --> crash

[Matthias Gasser]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:40:59PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:40:05PM +0100, Matthias Gasser wrote:
> > if i do a # cdrecord -scanbus i'll get the correct answer. (sorry, i
> > can't post, i'm writing from another PC...)
> 
> > i made the symlink of /cdrom -> /dev/scd0
> 
> It should be /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0
> 
> So do:
> 
> # cd /dev ; ln -s scd0 cdrom
> 
> and /etc/fstab containing
> 
> /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
>

sorry, but this was only a type-mistake.

there must be something other... I hope... 

thank you...

bye, matthias g.

Re: dpkg fails to allocte memory ?

[B Thomas]

No I don't get any message reporting VM failure. But I did manage a fix by 
loging into single user mode and apt works just fine. I don't know why though. 
However I think it is time I upgrade to 2.2.18 :-). Please note the suggestions 
in the bug report that it may be a problem with locale did not work. Since I 
had tried to run kde after "unset LANG  unset LC_CTYPE  ".

b thomas

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:01:37PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> B Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >  malloc failed (65552 bytes): Cannot allocate memory
> >  dpkg: failed to realloc for variable buffer: Cannot allocate memory
> >  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> 
> > Please note I have 128 Mb or ram and am able to run xfree86 and
> > other programs well.
> 
> > My kernel version is 2.2.17 and the dpkg version is 1.6.14 .
> 
> Linux 2.2.17 has some problems with virtual memory management. Perhaps
> the dpkg problem is related to this. Does linux log something like
> "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for [dpkg]"?
> I suggest to install Linux 2.2.18 + Andrea Arcangeli's
> VM-global-2.2.18pre25 Patch, which can be found on a kernel.org mirror
> under people/andrea or Linux >= 2.2.19pre2, which has this VM patch
> included.
> 
> hth,
>   moritz
> -- 

RE: Getting LILO right

[Rick Commo]

Thank you Tom and David!

I was being *completely* thrown off by the fact that there was the "root"
directive and I thought that the "image" directive was root-relative!!

OK then, so at this point, I will try the band aids mentioned.  But at this
point I will probably scrape the disk and repartition since I finally
decided to make "workaday" distribution and will need fewer partitions to
play with.  It all boils down to a partition for stable-Debian, test-Debian
and "gee I'd like to look this distro over for yucks".

-rick


<>

RE: avifile-player DivX

[Carlos Laviola]

You'll need some Win32 .DLL's, which are available at aviplay's page:
http://divx.euro.ru.

On 16-Mar-2001 Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After reading some of discussions about the DivX, I decided to try it out.
> I apt-getted it(0.6.0), but it is not working as expected.
> 
> The file I tried works with xanim. I am running the latest unstable.
> 
> Here is what I am getting:
> 
> [12:55|pts/[EMAIL PROTECTED] % aviplay test.avi 
> libwin32.so.0: found 22 plugins
> libmpeg_audiodec.so.0: found 1 plugin
> libmp3lame_audioenc.so.0: found 1 plugin
> libaudiodec.so.0: found 4 plugins
> Available CPU flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
> pat pse36 mmx fxsr
> 465.588 MHz Celeron (Mendocino) processor detected
> Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0".
> Stream 0: 73646976:32335649, 67 chunks
> Cache: Adding stream 0, 67 chunks
> Cache:   Creating cache for file descriptor 6
> Successfully initialized stream 0
> Chunk table size 67, format size 40
> Successfully opened test.avi. 1 video streams, 0 audio streams
> Length 67
> File test.avi successfully opened
> 1 streams
> WARNING: File does not contain audio streams
> File test.sub not found
> File test.SUB not found
> Win32 loader: FATAL: Could not load library
> IAviPlayer: FATAL: Failed to initialize decoder object
> No video will be available
> Cannot play this
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Shao.
> 
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> 
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Re: Can't install (or remove) xserver-xfree86

[Albrecht Frank]

"Raymond L. Zarling" wrote:
> 
> I am trying to install X 4.0 on my (newly installed) debian 2.2.18-pre21-ide
> system.  I've got it partially-working after creating the missing
>
[..] 
> And if I try to remove it, again using dpkg:
> 
> # dpkg remove xserver-xfree86
[..]
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> How does one proceed from here?  I've tried various --force-things, and
> --fix-broken and --force-yes in apt-get, all to no avail.
> 
> --Ray
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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$man dpkg 
(section --force)

greetings
Albrecht

Re: Finding search results in Netscape

[Felix E. Klee]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ethan Benson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but to answer your question it looks like this can be changed with the
> following resources in your ~/.Xresources file.  these are the defaults:
> 
> ! These resources control the foreground and background colors of text
> ! which has been selected with the mouse.
> !
> *selectForeground:  #00
> *selectBackground:  #CC

Thanks, putting
*selectForeground:  #00
*selectBackground:  #FF
in .Xresources solved the problem.

Felix

Re: Anyone using SoundBlaster 16? / better card?

[ktb]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:50:40AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> I purchased a Soundblaster 16 (PCI) CT4810 OEM card yesterday and still can't
> get the thing to work.  I've selected all the soundblaster choices for
> the kernel as well as pnp support.  The card isn't detected on boot,
> nothing in dmesg.  I've tried using module es1371, got a little static.
> /sbin/lspci -v shows -
> 
> 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq: Unknown device 5880 (rev 02)
>   Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 2003
>   Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
>   I/O ports at d800 [size=64]
>   Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> 
> I got this card because I though it would be easy to install.  Are there
> any lower end cards that are?  How do I get this thing to work.
> Thanks,
> kent
> 

Don't know exactly what I did but I have music from cdrom and can cat
.au files to /dev/audio.  
kent

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Anyone using SoundBlaster 16? / better card?

[ktb]

I purchased a Soundblaster 16 (PCI) CT4810 OEM card yesterday and still can't
get the thing to work.  I've selected all the soundblaster choices for
the kernel as well as pnp support.  The card isn't detected on boot,
nothing in dmesg.  I've tried using module es1371, got a little static.
/sbin/lspci -v shows -

00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq: Unknown device 5880 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 2003
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at d800 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

I got this card because I though it would be easy to install.  Are there
any lower end cards that are?  How do I get this thing to work.
Thanks,
kent

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RE: Can't install (or remove) xserver-xfree86

[Kim De Smaele]

I had the same problem as you.
but I didn't install the server again via dselect.

Just remove everything of /usr/X11R6/* and /etx/X/*

Download the currecnt server from the net ftp.xfree86.org and re install it.
Before you start installing it, read the file may.txt . it will tell you
howto and don't forget to create your links.

greetz,
Kim

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Raymond L. Zarling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Verzonden: zaterdag 17 maart 2001 8:20
Aan: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Onderwerp: Can't install (or remove) xserver-xfree86


I am trying to install X 4.0 on my (newly installed) debian 2.2.18-pre21-ide
system.  I've got it partially-working after creating the missing
/etc/X11/X link (I get a window with a primitive xterm and an X cursor
using startx, but no pop-up menus and it doesn't launch with gdm).  The
primary problem is the xserver-xfree86 package configuration during
installation failed.  Now I am in limbo:  It won't let me re-install
xserver-xfree86, because it thinks the current version is up-to-date.  But
it won't let me remove it, and try again either.  Here's what happens if I
try to install, using dpkg:

# dpkg install xserver-xfree86
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Sorry, xserver-xfree86 is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7) ...
dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xserver-xfree86
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
#

And if I try to remove it, again using dpkg:

# dpkg remove xserver-xfree86
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xserver-xfree86
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 11.6MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 20414 files and
directories currently installed.)
Removing xserver-xfree86 ...
dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xserver-xfree86
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How does one proceed from here?  I've tried various --force-things, and
--fix-broken and --force-yes in apt-get, all to no avail.

--Ray
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Re: sound with 2.4.1

[Gudmundur Erlingsson]

Did you compile the sound support as module? I had some problem with the
ESS1868 soundcard, I didn't read the documentation in the first round, and
the support in the new kernel is a bit different from the 2.2.x kernels.
Anyway, read all the docs concerning sound and your specific soundcard, and
if you compile it directly into the kernel don't forget to choose plug and
play support. If you compile it as a module you may have to do some
tweaking, there should be information about that in the docs.

hope this helps,

Gudmundur

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 08:07:06AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:03:07PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> > ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > I'm running kernel 2.4.1.  Just bought a sound card today - Sound Blaster
> > > 16.  I can't see it is even being detected in dmesg.  Seems like I read
> > > once there is some issue with the new kernel and sound.
> > 
> > Have you compiled support for this sound card in your Linux?
> > 
> 
> Yes.
> kent
> 
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Re: 2.4.x kernel on a current woody machine

[Susumu Takuwa]

> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 08:34:59 -0700
ray p writes:

rp> Is the current incarnation of Woody ready for the 2.4.x kernel? In other 
rp> words if I want to do this is there anything special I have to do or 
rp> should it just work?

You don't have to do anything special.


Susumu Takuwa

2.4.x kernel on a current woody machine

[ray p]

Is the current incarnation of Woody ready for the 2.4.x kernel? In other 
words if I want to do this is there anything special I have to do or 
should it just work?

Re: NIC identification

[b3]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:52:54PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > I've got a Dell box I'm installing debian on with an intergrated
> > NIC on the motherboard.
> 
> The NIC is likely a PCI device even when it's integrated into the MB.
> So, try "cat /proc/pci" and look for an "ethernet controller" line. It
> will probably give you the chipset it uses which is usually a pretty
> good starting point.

(just to add a bit) If it doesn't tell you the exact chipset, it may
give you a vendor and model ID - there's a good chance you can figure
out the chipset from this.  Just do a search on Google for:

vendor  model  ethernet

This has helped me identify many a piece of otherwise unidentifiable
hardware =)

-b3

Re: Installation problems

[Sebastiaan]

Hi,

I have had some trouble too regarding the rescue floppy's. If you are
installing from CD, you might try to write the rescue image on floppy and
during installation make Linux read it back from the floppy again. I guess
there is some error in the installation program.

The images are located in:
dists/stable/main/disks-i386/images-1.44/rescue.img
as far as I can remember. You can write it to a floppy using rawrite in
dos (located somewhere on the installation cd).

Hope that helps,
Sebastiaan


On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Enzo wrote:

> I'm a beginner user of Linux and I've a problem during the installation
of Debian 2.2r2. In fact I can't install Kernel and Modules because the
program warn me that is impossible to create a Rescue Floppy or to load
some drivers. How can I solve this problem? If the problem is the
installation from CDs, how can I install from another source?
> Please, help me because I've no idea about Linux installation.
> Thank you very much!
> Gabriele (from Italy)
> 

Re: something wrong with security.debian.org?

[Carlos Laviola]

On 16-Mar-2001 John Griffiths wrote:
> At 11:07 PM 3/15/2001 -0500, Mark Hurley wrote:
>>On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:30:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote:
>>> is something wrong with security.debian.org?
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to apt-get update at the moment and its timing out...
>>> 
>>> consistently for the last hour.
>>> 
>>> is it just busy or does it need a kick or is something going badly wrong?
>>
>>Ditto on my end...something between {us} and the server...My last
>>response is here
>>
>>svgw.liacs.nl (132.229.44.254)  115.923 ms  118.064 ms  118.655 ms
>>
>>after that drops.
> 
> 
> Is it supposed to be sitting in Holland?

Yes; security.d.o, aka non-US (pandora.d.o, in fact), is located in at the
Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Wichert posted a message to -devel
yesterday explaining that there was a power outage, and that he went there to
fix it. non-US is connecting normally here already.

> 
> I also get 
> 
> svgw.liacs.nl (132.229.44.254)  340.011 ms  341.555 ms  340.136 ms
> 
> as the last point of routeing.
> 
> John
> 
> 

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Re: Getting LILO right

[David Raeker-Jordan]

One of the best explainations I have seen is at:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lilo.htm


Rick Commo wrote:
> Partitions:
>hda1 => Mandrake Linux 7.2 (installed first)
>hda5 => Debian potato (stable - don't play with it)
>hda6 => Mandrake 8.0 beta1
>hda7 => Debian potato (sandbox - play here and then move to stable)
> 
> Problem:
> During boot, on any Linux version except ML 7.2, there are dependency errors
> listed where the error message contains a reference to the kernel in ML 7.2.
> In order to get a clean boot I have to sue a floppy that was created when
> the OS in a partition was installed.
> 
> My current lilo.conf file follows the signature.
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=ML7.2_stable
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> lba32
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> # Mandrake stable
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>   label=ML7.2_stable
>   root=/dev/hda1
>   read-only
> # Debian
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>   label=Debian_stable
>   root=/dev/hda5
>   read-only
> # Mandrake 8.0 beta
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>   label=ML8.0_test
>   root=/dev/hda6
>   read-only
> # Debian sandbox
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>   label=Debian_test
>   root=/dev/hda7
>   read-only
> #
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>   label=failsafe
>   root=/dev/hda1
>   append=" failsafe"
>   read-only
> #
> other=/dev/fd0
>   label=floppy
>   unsafe

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Re: Finding search results in Netscape

[Ethan Benson]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:20:29PM +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when I use the find command in Netscape, the found text is allways
> marked yellow. That is very hard to read on white backround. Where can I
> change this color?

you think thats bad, in mozilla when you highlight text the highlight
color is white, which is very hard to read on a white background. 

but to answer your question it looks like this can be changed with the
following resources in your ~/.Xresources file.  these are the
defaults:

! These resources control the foreground and background colors of text
! which has been selected with the mouse.
!
*selectForeground:  #00
*selectBackground:  #CC

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Re: ppp mystery

[Gil Elad]

Thanks for the advice. It worked like a charm. I don't know why I hadn't 
thought of it earlier.
I tried Isolating the one setting which is crucial that the modem received 
in Windows and not

in Linux and found out it was AT&B1 which manages the modem's serial port rate.
&B0 means variable, follows connection rate
&B1 means fixed serial port rate
&B2 means fixed in ARQ mode, variable in non-ARQ mode.

I guess the port rate needs to be fixed.

Thanks a lot

Gil Elad


At 16:30 15/03/2001 -0500, you wrote:

Gil,

I had a very similar problem with my US Robotics V.Everything external
modem.  This may sound insane, but my problem seemed to be related to modem
initialization strings.

There is a setting someplace in Windows for its dialer that makes it create
a log file when it dials the modem.  One of the things that it puts in the
log file is the initialization string that it sends to the modem.  I'm
sorry, but I forget exactly where the setting is (I have been using DSL for
some time now and my modem is gathering dust on the shelf  :-) ).  Look
through the properties for your dial-up connection.  I believe that the log
file is created in the \windows subdirectory.

The way I got it to work with my modem was to take the modem initialization
string (it starts with AT and has a bunch of letters and numbers and symbols
like "&", "%", #"  in it - please forgive me if you already knew that :-) )
from the log file and plop it into my wvdial configuration file so that it
used the exact same initialization string as Windows.  There might be more
than one line in the log file.  Check the wvdial documentation for more info
on how to modify its configuration file if you're not sure.

That might not be your problem, but it was what worked for me.

As an aside, I believe that whether you need to use PAP or CHAP is
determined by your ISP, not Windows.  I believe that most of them use PAP,
though.  I could be mistaken.

I hope that helps you out.

Best regards,

Tom Delany

- Original Message -
From: "David Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gil Elad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: ppp mystery


> Quoting Gil Elad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > 1. I tried connecting using Minicom at different speeds ranging from 19
to
> > 38 kbps without success.
>
> "Without success" doesn't mean anything in this context.
> I'm not necessarily expecting you to make a connection.
>
> Your modem ought to work at 115200 bps - that's the speed between
> the PC and the modem, and is nothing to do with the eventual
> speed of the connection (49k in windows).
>
> So, what happened when you dialled the number. I take it you got
> that far? Does the other end answer? Without your telling us these
> things, we can't help you at all.
>
> > One thing I did notice when reading the pppconfig man page is that
support
> > for mschap is not yet available, at least not in the version I'm using,
> > which is the one that came on the distribution CDs. I don't know how
> > relevant that information is, since everywhere I look in Windows seems
to
> > indicate that it authenticates itself using PAP, but for some reason I
have
> > an inherent mistrust in M$. I guess I'm just funny that way :)
>
> That's still irrelevant. You will find out about authentication when
> you are successfully swapping LCP with the other end. Your logs showed
> only one-way traffic and nothing from the other end.
>
> Cheers,
>
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Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 4)

[Adrian Bunk]

I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.2 on a Debian
2.2r2 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information.

Changes since the last release:

  + added: devfsd
  + added: libxml2
Binary packages:
   o libxml2
   o libxml2-dev
  + added: powertweak
Binary packages:
   o powertweak
   o powertweak-extra
   o powertweak-gtk
   o powertweak-text
   o powertweakd
  + added: usbmgr
  + updated: modconf (0.2.31 -> 0.2.32)


cu
Adrian

[1] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html


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Finding search results in Netscape

[Felix E. Klee]

Hi,

when I use the find command in Netscape, the found text is allways
marked yellow. That is very hard to read on white backround. Where can I
change this color?

TIA,

Felix

Installation problems

[Enzo]

I'm a beginner user of Linux and I've a problem 
during the installation of Debian 2.2r2. In fact I can't install Kernel and 
Modules because the program warn me that is impossible to create a Rescue Floppy 
or to load some drivers. How can I solve this problem? If the problem is the 
installation from CDs, how can I install from another source?
Please, help me because I've no idea about Linux 
installation.
Thank you very much!
Gabriele (from Italy)

Re: apt problems and why?

[Wouter de Vries]

Maybe esound-common is still an old version. You could try a apt-get
update before trying again, because esound-common could have been
updated.


Wouter

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:12:50AM -0500, Raymond Wood wrote:
> I had something similar happen when I did woody->sid dist-upgrade.
> 
> Anyway, make sure that the 2 other 'esound' packages are selected for
> installation also.  This solved (one of) my problem(s) - hope it works
> for you  :)
> 
> R.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:55:39AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
> > I get the following error message 
> > 
> > 
> > home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Correcting dependencies... failed.
> > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   libesd0: Depends: esound-common but it is not installed
> > E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
> > by held packages.
> > E: Unable to correct dependencies
> > 
> > I cannot solve this problem and also I cannot install any package. Any
> > help? This has to be looked at as one of Debian's biggest weakness. We
> > boast about Debian easy upgradability but it does sometimes show Msoft
> > weaknesses. 
> > 
> > I have tried to install  esound-common but it cannot because of something
> > else, untlimately the system is un-upgradable. 
> >  Thanks,
> > /--/
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> > University of Cape Town   
> > http://www.eleceng.uct.ac.za/~daniel 
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> > /--/
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Re: apt problems and why?

[Raymond Wood]

I had something similar happen when I did woody->sid dist-upgrade.

Anyway, make sure that the 2 other 'esound' packages are selected for
installation also.  This solved (one of) my problem(s) - hope it works
for you  :)

R.

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:55:39AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
> I get the following error message 
> 
> 
> home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... failed.
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libesd0: Depends: esound-common but it is not installed
> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
> by held packages.
> E: Unable to correct dependencies
> 
> I cannot solve this problem and also I cannot install any package. Any
> help? This has to be looked at as one of Debian's biggest weakness. We
> boast about Debian easy upgradability but it does sometimes show Msoft
> weaknesses. 
> 
> I have tried to install  esound-common but it cannot because of something
> else, untlimately the system is un-upgradable. 
>  Thanks,
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Re: sound with 2.4.1

[ktb]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:03:07PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I'm running kernel 2.4.1.  Just bought a sound card today - Sound Blaster
> > 16.  I can't see it is even being detected in dmesg.  Seems like I read
> > once there is some issue with the new kernel and sound.
> 
> Have you compiled support for this sound card in your Linux?
> 

Yes.
kent

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Re: Zope-emarket in sid

[Thomas Deselaers]

> "Thomas" == Thomas Deselaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Thomas> Hello everybody, I am running the latest sid and I wanted
Thomas> to install zope and the zope-emarket module. Just after
Thomas> installing Zope tells in the List of products just after
Thomas> EMarket "Broken product EMarket". What do I have to do to
Thomas> make this work. It would be fine if somebody could help
Thomas> me, because until now I am not very experienced with Zope.
I found out what to do in concerning this problem. There is just a
missing dependency of the deb. EMarket needs ZPatterns. So I solved
this. But now I am having trouble in using this EMarket. In the
README.gz is written that I would have to create some ZClasses. But I
don't know how to do this. Is here anybody able to give me a more
detailed outline on how to do this. 

Sorry for being not very debian-specific.

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Re: E-mail configuration

[mike polniak]

Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:39:34PM -0300, Hammurabi Mendes wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm having problems with e-mail configuration: when someone receives
> > some of my e-mails sent from debian, the From line is the following:
> > 
> > From: Hammurabi das Chagas Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > (hmendes is my username and carbona is the hostname of my machine)
> > 
> > when I would like to use : Myname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > (set the name to Myname, for example; set the e-mail to the shown above)

Exim looks in /etc/email-addressess, so put user name, email
address there.
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Re: dialing with wvdial without termonal auth on PPP

[John Hasler]

Run wvdialconf.
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Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

[Ilya Martynov]

> "ES" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

ES>   if you have enough $$ go with ibm 390 (or whatever the number is)
ES> otherwise try wmware (or other similar product), if you require
ES> completely virtual machines (hw and all) you need a virtual machine, I
ES> guess there's no way around it, chroot and I suspect jail (I don't know
ES> jail) would not cut it.

Both ibm 390 and vmvare will be overkill. Ibm too expensive in my case
(it will be even cheaper just by several PCs) and vmware too slow and
heavy.  Probably I will try user-mode linux. I've heard that people at
ASPLinux have worked on product which allows several virtual Linux
boxes inside one real but seems that haven't released it yet.

BTW I've seen many people wrote to me that 'I don't know jail'. If you
are interested look at
http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html

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Re: sound with 2.4.1

[Moritz Schulte]

ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm running kernel 2.4.1.  Just bought a sound card today - Sound Blaster
> 16.  I can't see it is even being detected in dmesg.  Seems like I read
> once there is some issue with the new kernel and sound.

Have you compiled support for this sound card in your Linux?

hth,
moritz
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Re: dpkg fails to allocte memory ?

[Moritz Schulte]

B Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  malloc failed (65552 bytes): Cannot allocate memory
>  dpkg: failed to realloc for variable buffer: Cannot allocate memory
>  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

> Please note I have 128 Mb or ram and am able to run xfree86 and
> other programs well.

> My kernel version is 2.2.17 and the dpkg version is 1.6.14 .

Linux 2.2.17 has some problems with virtual memory management. Perhaps
the dpkg problem is related to this. Does linux log something like
"VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for [dpkg]"?
I suggest to install Linux 2.2.18 + Andrea Arcangeli's
VM-global-2.2.18pre25 Patch, which can be found on a kernel.org mirror
under people/andrea or Linux >= 2.2.19pre2, which has this VM patch
included.

hth,
moritz
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Re: GDM background image

[Moritz Schulte]

Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it
> is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to
> an image not a color. As far as images goes xsetroot apparently can only
> handle bitmaps, my question is: How do I set the background of gdm to a
> jpg (or some other common image format)? Thanks. -Jeff

Use something other than xsetroot - xloadimage for example.

moritz
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undefined reference to `__inet_addr' error while compilling libmilter sample.c.

[Romanenko M.A.]

While trying to compile ...example-milter/sample.c from sendmail-8.11.3-1
package
I got an error message:
lee:~/milter/sample# make
gcc -O2 -Wall  -I.   -o sample sample.c /usr/lib/libmilter/libmilter.a
/usr/lib/libmilter/libsmutil.a -pthread
/usr/lib/libmilter/libmilter.a(listener.o): In function `mi_milteropen':
listener.o(.text+0x246): undefined reference to `__inet_addr'
/usr/lib/libmilter/libmilter.a(engine.o): In function `st_connectinfo':
engine.o(.text+0x714): undefined reference to `__inet_aton'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [sample] Error 1

Before this I changed in Makefile `/usr/lib/libmilter/libmsmutil.a' to
`/usr/lib/libmilter/libsmutil.a'. I believe it is a typo.

In FAQ I read:
Q3.9 -- How do I fix "undefined symbol inet_aton" and "undefined symbol
_strerror" messages?

   This question is answered in detail within the Compiling Sendmail
   page.

But I found nothing about this in Compiling Sendmail page.

I use sid, kernel 2.4.2-2, libc6 2.2.2-1, sendmail, sendmail-doc,
libmilter-dev 8.11.3-1.

Can anybody, please, help me.

Thank you, Mikhail.

WindowMaker Postint problem in sid

[Sean Quinlan]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is a bug in the windowmaker package or a problem
with my setup, so thought I'd ask it here first.

I'm tracking sid at the moment, and after doing an apt-get upgrade on
my system this morning, I got the following error with the wmaker
0.64.0-5 package:

Setting up wmaker (0.64.0-5) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make
/usr/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to
/etc/alternatives/x-window-manager.1.gz: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing wmaker (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wmaker
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I don't have a /usr/man/man1 directory on my system, although I do
have a /usr/share/man/man1 directory, where all the man pages or
symlinks are installed.

Here is the relevant part of wmaker.postinst:

  configure)
 update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-window-manager \
 x-window-manager /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker 50 \
 --slave /usr/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz \
 x-window-manager.1.gz /usr/X11R6/man/man1/wmaker.1x.gz


I tried changing the wmaker.postinst script, and replacing
/usr/man/man1 with /usr/share/man/man1 and that allowed it to install
with no problems.  Does this mean that I should file a bug report
again wmaker?

Thanks
-- 
Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [bounce-debian-user=w.l.devries=student.tudelft.nl@lists.debian.org: ]

[Wouter de Vries]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:42:33AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 10:14:48AM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:37:21PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:15:19PM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote:
> > > > I really wonder what this is about ... I use fetchmail in combination
> > > > with exim and procmail.
> > > 
> > > Could you explain what it is you don't understand?
> > > 
> > > [snip...]
> > 
> > I get these bounce mails regularly and I wonder what they are and
> > whether there is something I can do about it.
> 
> Does this happen shortly after responding to a message on this list?  If
> so, some people have their mailers misconfigured in such a way that a
> certain header (I forget which at the moment, Sender: ??) causes your
> mailer to try to send the message to such a person, but the address is
> not valid (usually only a local address).  This bounce will come
> directly from your system (exim).


Well, the strange thing is that I have nothing to do with the message or
the sender. I did not reply to the message. The only connections is that
I also am subscribed to the mailing list.
My account is hosted on a university machine running 'QUALCOMM Pop
server derived from UCB (version 2.1.4-R3)'.


Wouter

Re: Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff

[David Purton]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:

> Hi All. Just wanted to say that I've finally got my AWE 64 working, say 
> thanks to
> those who helped me out and document how I got it working.
> The first thing was that I had my BIOS set to PnP OS installed (dumb I know, 
> now I
> wonder how it worked on RedHat?) so once I fixed that I could play waves, but 
> no
> midis and the mixer didn't work. This is the important part: with isapnptools 
> 1.23
> pnpdump only detected the first of the IO ports for the wavetable section so 
> I had to
> add the other 2 (not that uncommon from what I've read), but the hex 
> addresses can't
> have capital letters in them or it doesn't work. I don't know why this is, but
> perhaps the maintainer should look into this because I have read alot of 
> complaints
> about this problem. My isapnp.conf wavetable section now looks like:
> 

yeah - that captial letter one is weird - It seemed to change from the
potato version of isapnp to the woody one, because when I upgraded to
woody sound broke, and I happed to remember something coming up about
letter case in the hex values - everything worked again after making
that modification to the file.



Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars 
on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them
as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in order
to rush down again.  In a way this is funny,...

Francis A Schaeffer

David Purton

http://www.chariot.net.au/~dcpurton/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Power off on Shutdown using ACPI and kernel-2.4.x

[idalton]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:19:38PM -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has gotten their system to power off upon
> shutting down when using
> kernels 2.4.x. I get an ACPI message, 'Could not enter S5'. My
> understanding is that APM and ACPI
> are mutually exclusive, so I do not think I should be trying to use APM.
> But, I am not sure, because
> the computer will power off when shut down using a 2.2.x kernel, which
> does not have ACPI support.
> So I am curious as to whether or not ACPI is just plain broken when it
> comes to this feature, and just
> wondering if anyone on this mailing list might have any insight.

I'm not sure actually. I have one system with ACPI, but interestingly
enough it only has an AT power connector, so can't power off anyway. But
I get the same message.

-- Ferret

Re: [bounce-debian-user=w.l.devries=student.tudelft.nl@lists.debian.org: ]

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 10:14:48AM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:37:21PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:15:19PM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote:
> > > I really wonder what this is about ... I use fetchmail in combination
> > > with exim and procmail.
> > 
> > Could you explain what it is you don't understand?
> > 
> > [snip...]
> 
> I get these bounce mails regularly and I wonder what they are and
> whether there is something I can do about it.

Does this happen shortly after responding to a message on this list?  If
so, some people have their mailers misconfigured in such a way that a
certain header (I forget which at the moment, Sender: ??) causes your
mailer to try to send the message to such a person, but the address is
not valid (usually only a local address).  This bounce will come
directly from your system (exim).

-- 
Eric G. Miller 

dialing with wvdial without termonal auth on PPP

[elemag]

Hi ,
I-ve got some problems dialing to my ISP using  wvdial ( I use dial-up)  . My 
distro is  Debian 2.2 , kernel 2.4.2 , pppd 2.4.0 and wvdial1.41 .
The problem is that my ISP no longer supports the terminal asscess ,which 
causes  wvdial to wait for prompt and not establishing the ppp connection 
( sending PAP stuff , etc .) . My question is how to
force wvdial to send all this PAP secrets and to esteblish connecting
successfully whitout waiting for the terminal prompt . It worked well when my 
ISP supported the terminal access . I just need to make it work using PAP , but 
not waiting for the terminal . How to do that ?
Should I use any other internet dailer instead of wvdial ? Which one is 
recomended???

Thank you in advance ,
George Dancheff ,
Air Traffic Controller,




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Re: [bounce-debian-user=w.l.devries=student.tudelft.nl@lists.debian.org: ]

[Wouter de Vries]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:37:21PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:15:19PM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote:
> > I really wonder what this is about ... I use fetchmail in combination
> > with exim and procmail.
> 
> Could you explain what it is you don't understand?
> 
> [snip...]

I get these bounce mails regularly and I wonder what they are and
whether there is something I can do about it.


Wouter

Re: How to kill PAM messages on the console

[Tommi Komulainen]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:39:14AM -0500, Mike wrote:
> Just recently, I started getting these messages appearing on the console,
> about every half hour.  They also appear in /var/log/auth.log
> 
> PAM_unix[18768]: (cron) session opened for user mail by (uid=0)
> 
> Any ideas on how can I get these things to quit showing up on the console? 
> I've read all of the PAM docs I can find, with no clue whatsoever.  I'm
> stumped.
> 
> Oh yeah - I'm running unstable, kernel 2.4.2

sysklogd in unstable was just recently split into two packages, sysklogd
and klogd.  Did you install klogd afterwards?  Though I don't see how
kernel logging is related to PAM, but that's something you could try.


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Re: Getting LILO right

[Tom Pfeifer]

The problem is that you are using the same kernel to boot all 4
installations. Each one of your 4 boot menu choices specifies
'image=/boot/vmlinuz'

You have to specify the path to each kernel that you want to run 
for each installation in /etc/lilo.conf. There's a few ways to do 
that. For example, you could copy the other 3 kernels to your /boot 
directory on /dev/hda1, renaming them appropriately - so that you 
have something like this:

# Mandrake stable
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=ML7.2_stable
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
# Debian
image=/boot/vmlinuz-from-hda5
label=Debian_stable
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
# Mandrake 8.0 beta
image=/boot/vmlinuz-from-hda6
label=ML8.0_test
root=/dev/hda6
read-only
# Debian sandbox
image=/boot/vmlinuz-from-hda7
label=Debian_test
root=/dev/hda7
read-only

Instead of copying the kernels, it's probably better to just mount each 
of the other 3 partitions from MH 7.2, and then specify the path to each
of the other kernels in /etc/lilo.conf.

Another approach would be to install a separate Lilo in each of the
other 3 partition's boot sectors, and then use the Lilo in the MBR 
(installed from MH 7.2) to chain to the others. Your /etc/lilo.conf 
for MH 7.2 would look like this:

# Mandrake stable
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=ML7.2_stable
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
# Debian
other=/dev/hda5
label=Debian_stable
# Mandrake 8.0 beta
other=/dev/hda6
label=ML8.0_test
# Debian sandbox
other=/dev/hda7
label=Debian_test

For each of the other 3 installs, you would need to install a separate
Lilo from that partition in the boot sector of that partition
(specify 'boot=/dev/hda5' for Debian-stable etc.). Your boot sequence 
for the 4 installations would look like this:

Mandrake stable:  Lilo MBR -> kernel /dev/hda1
Debian_stable:Lilo MBR -> Lilo /dev/hda5 -> kernel /dev/hda5
Mandrake 8.0: Lilo MBR -> Lilo /dev/hda6 -> kernel /dev/hda6
Debian sandbox:   Lilo MBR -> Lilo /dev/hda7 -> kernel /dev/hda7

Tom

Rick Commo wrote:
> 
> Partitions:
>hda1 => Mandrake Linux 7.2 (installed first)
>hda5 => Debian potato (stable - don't play with it)
>hda6 => Mandrake 8.0 beta1
>hda7 => Debian potato (sandbox - play here and then move to stable)
> 
> Problem:
> During boot, on any Linux version except ML 7.2, there are dependency errors
> listed where the error message contains a reference to the kernel in ML 7.2.
> In order to get a clean boot I have to sue a floppy that was created when
> the OS in a partition was installed.
> 
> I've read three O'Reilly books, the LILO HOW-TOs and a lot of posts and
> replies regarding LILO.  In fact one of the O'Reilly books, Linux In A
> Nutshell, seems flat out wrong in their example.  When I try to adapt my
> lilo.conf to look like theirs it produces LILO syntax errors.
> 
> Does grub get around these problems?  Can (and how do) you install it from
> binaries?
> What am I missing?  Can anyone give me some pointers?
> 
> My current lilo.conf file follows the signature.
> 
> Thanks,
> -rick
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=ML7.2_stable
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> lba32
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> # Mandrake stable
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=ML7.2_stable
> root=/dev/hda1
> read-only
> # Debian
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=Debian_stable
> root=/dev/hda5
> read-only
> # Mandrake 8.0 beta
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=ML8.0_test
> root=/dev/hda6
> read-only
> # Debian sandbox
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=Debian_test
> root=/dev/hda7
> read-only
> #
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=failsafe
> root=/dev/hda1
> append=" failsafe"
> read-only
> #
> other=/dev/fd0
> label=floppy
> unsafe

any problem with security. and non-us.debian.org?

[G.Angely]

Since friday 16 in the morning, the ftp servers non-us.debian.org and
security.debian.org are not accessible.

There is a reply to a ping (same address: 132.229.131.40), but no access
for ftp ("could not chdir to .../~/").

I send this mail to the user list; is there a more appropiate mail
address for such problems?

Gaetan A.