anyone playing DVDs?
OK I'm about to re-open the dvd can of worms. The video place down the street rents them out, and since I don't have a tv or a vcr, this might be an elegant solution to the movie problem (yes, I know about the MPAA, sigh). Is anyone playing DVDs succesfully in linux? I don't have any microsoft OS and I don't plan to (this is not so much a political statement as a question of convenience - administering one operating system is enough.) By "successfully", I mean well enough to invite some friends over and not have to worry about it crashing halfway through. I've also recently gained access to a dvd-rom. Don't remember the brand, does it matter? Options I'm currently considering are 1) Sigma Hollywood hardware decoder + cheap ATI xpert98 video card - not sure if Linux supports the Sigma decoder - not sure what software to use for playback 2) Matrox G400 - does this card have a built-in decoder, or some features that make DVD viewing easier? - assuming it doesn't have a built-in decoder, what software to use for playback? - Do I need to upgrade to XFree86 4.x to make it work? Last time I tried X4 it broke a bunch of things (e.g. DPMS). 3) Software decoder + cheap ATI xpert98 video card - what software to use for playback? - is a PIII/500 fast enough? what about a PIII/333? Any suggestions welcome. Feel free to send me mail, I'm willing to use "illegal" software if it turns out that no "legal" solution exists for the operating system of my choice. -chris
.bashrc
I've been running Debian for about 3 days now (been running RedHat for 5 years+). I've read through several docs, but haven't found (if I did find it, I must've read right past it) answers to a couple of problems. 1) When I log in, my .bashrc isn't executed. Here's my ls -al: -rwx-- 1 stephen stephen694 Mar 24 09:59 .bashrc What do I need to do to get this to execute. I've set up a .login which executes the file and even set up a symbolic link of .profile. Still no dice. 2) Where do I need to put programs which I want to execute on boot up? I guess I'm looking for the equivalent of RedHat's /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks! -- steve
Soundblaster Live! Driver is not running?
Hi! I had compiled debians kernel-2.2.18-21 with soundsupport and EMU10K1 (not as modules) to get sound for my Soundblaster Live! Player 5.1. Then i installed the package alsa-base cause it is needed for some kde-packages and i thought this is all i have to do. But now i have seen: at boottime i get a message like alsadriver: no driver installed. How is that possible and what can i do to get sound? Cu, Timo
Re: Authoring tools (was Re: Star Office)
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > lyx requires non-free software, thats a showstopper. It does? Which? -chris
Re: Star Office
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under > unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's > mostly what I pull out to do something that involves short text and > hardcopy -- a letter, say. Actually, I love LaTeX for letters. It's easy to format, and it knows how to print my envelopes. Does abiword? (Of course, I've been a LaTeX type for long enough that I've set up infrastructure for everything, and it really is easier for me to do a letter in it than anything else.) -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Cats have their own lives; get on with yours
Re: printer woes
> #lpr: connect: No such file or directory > #jobs queued, but cannot start daemon > Anybody know what I should do? This is something has been happening to me several times.. every time the daemon went up after some retrials.. since this system is always up I didn't research the problem farther. (The printer is working and since I need it quite a lot so I can't fix something critical which actually is working) Try to use -D7 option and start lpd manually. Please send the results. Regards Roberto Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://vivaldi.ddts.net Powered by ddt dynamic DNS Powered by GNU running on a Linux kernel. Powered by Debian (The real wonder) Concerto Grosso Op. 3/8 A minor Antonio Vivaldi (so... do you need beautiful words?)
printer woes
Hi all. I'm making progress but still stuck setting up a printer with debian... Right now I have magicfilter on the system and BSD style lpr I've run through the /usr/sbin/magicfilterconig routine and set up an appropriate filter for my printer The printer is connected to the parallel port (I'm doing this on a desktop) and the hardware makes successful contact. I get the following error message I get from the bash shell when I try to print out using lpr command #lpr: connect: No such file or directory #jobs queued, but cannot start daemon Anybody know what I should do? -- Eric Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Authoring tools (was Re: Star Office)
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:39:18PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Probably. I've always found if I'm using nedit I keep asking myself why > I'm not using vim ;-) Though I'll sometimes pull up nedit for > cut'n'paste out of Netscape edit dialogs. yup for me i use emacs, but for this individual something more basic is more appropriate (they are not a hacker). > Looking over recent updates -- 10-20 MB is fairly typical, running on > the order of 30 minutes to a copule of hours. If you can run this > overnight, it's probably acceptable if you can't othewise dedicate a > connection. Note that in my case it's a dedicated 56K modem connection. thats about how potato was when it was unstable, i tracked potatos unstable. i have since had the use of a dual full duplex T1s (6Mb) connection to the internet for a few months, but not anymore. i can no longer tolerate downloading anything larger then about 400K. :/ > How about Lyx or Klyx? Heard good things, haven't used them. lyx requires non-free software, thats a showstopper. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp49LEZoRuee.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mouse problems on X (intellieye)
Thanks! It turned out to be a combination of my gpm settings (I'm still not sure what gpm really is) and the XF86Config settings. Currently, I'm using -m /dev/psaux -t pnp -r ms3 for gpm and using the ps/2 protocol in XF86Config. Don't know why it works, but it does ... Thanks! Jen --- Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try using the protocol "IMPS/2". And disable 3 button emulation, you > only need > that if you want simultaneous left and right clicks to be a middle > click...your > mouse wheel is your true third button. That should fix you. > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:36:50AM -0800, jennyw scribbled... > > I'm using an Microsoft's optical mouse (Intellieye), and am having > > trouble getting it to work well with X. In particular, I can't get > the > > mouse to emulate the middle button (I tried using Emulate3Buttons). > I'm > > using Debian 2.2 which comes with XFree86 3.3.6.11. Although I > think > > this is an X issue, I'm also running Ximian Gnome and > Enlightenment, in > > case that makes a difference. > > > > I read in the Enlightenment dox that changing the protocol to > > "MouseManPlusPS/2" and adding ZAxisMapping and Buttons 5 would help > > > for a wheel mouse (and not using Emulate3Buttons). Unfotunately, > > changing the protocol caused the pointer to jump around weirdly, so > I > > changed the protocol back to "microsoft". It works okay again, but > I > > can't seem to get either the additional buttons (including the > wheel) > > to work. Any suggestions? > > > > My pointer section currently: > > Section "Pointer" > > # Protocol "PS/2" > > # Device "/dev/mouse" > > # Protocol "MousemanPlusPS/2" > > Protocol "microsoft" > > Device "/dev/mouse" #symlink to /dev/psaux > > ZAxisMapping 4 5 > > Buttons 5 > > #Emulate3Buttons > > EndSection > > > > Thanks! > > > > Jen > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
RE: problems compiling the kernel 2.4.2 with: debian testing/unstable
In /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile, you need to replace all instances of -oformat with --oformat. This threw me a bit too on kernels until I went and checked the upgrade messages, which tell you this. Peter -Original Message- From: Miguel F. M. Sousa Filipe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 2:21 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: problems compiling the kernel 2.4.2 with: debian testing/unstable Hello, I'm not being capable to compile the 2.4.2 kernel in my linux debian... and i can't understand the cause of the error, the problem aparently happens right at the end.. after compiling: /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bbootsect.S here is the error message that apears on the console: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' gcc -E -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bbootsect.s as -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s bbootsect.s: Assembler messages: bbootsect.s:253: Warning: indirect lcall without `*' ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [bbootsect] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 This happens with three diferent config files.. and the file bbootsect.o exists Can anyone help me? I really would like to fix this. If any important information is omitted.. please email me i'll be glad to help you helping me. I've instaled debian 2.2r0.. and then.. updgraded to the unstable version with dselect, i can't see what package could be missing to cause this.. or any other reason... totaly lost out here! thanx in advance! from: Miguel S. Filipe (from PORTUGAL) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems compiling the kernel 2.4.2 with: debian testing/unstable
Hi! On Sun, Mar 25, 2001, Miguel F. M. Sousa Filipe wrote: > I've instaled debian 2.2r0.. and then.. updgraded to the unstable version > with dselect, i can't see what package could be missing to cause this.. or > any other reason... totaly lost out here! Without thinking too hard about your specific error message (since I'm not sure I'd be able to contribute much in that regard) I just wanted to confirm that you have the as86 (from package info: 8086 assembler and loader which can make 32-bit code for the 386+ processors, under Linux it's used only to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries) assembler which is needed only on the i386 architecture and can be found in the bin86 package (apt-get install bin86). I've been having some trouble myself with compiling 2.2.18pre21 on my thinkpad, and wonder if it's a memory error in my case, but that's another issue. Yours certainly doesn't seem to be a memory issue to me. HTH, Daniel > > thanx in advance! > from: > Miguel S. Filipe (from PORTUGAL) -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
where is kde2.1 download for debian?
do anyone know where is kde2.1 download? sincere eric --- Begin Message --- hello --- End Message ---
problems compiling the kernel 2.4.2 with: debian testing/unstable
Hello, I'm not being capable to compile the 2.4.2 kernel in my linux debian... and i can't understand the cause of the error, the problem aparently happens right at the end.. after compiling: /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bbootsect.S here is the error message that apears on the console: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' gcc -E -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bbootsect.s as -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s bbootsect.s: Assembler messages: bbootsect.s:253: Warning: indirect lcall without `*' ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [bbootsect] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 This happens with three diferent config files.. and the file bbootsect.o exists Can anyone help me? I really would like to fix this. If any important information is omitted.. please email me i'll be glad to help you helping me. I've instaled debian 2.2r0.. and then.. updgraded to the unstable version with dselect, i can't see what package could be missing to cause this.. or any other reason... totaly lost out here! thanx in advance! from: Miguel S. Filipe (from PORTUGAL)
Authoring tools (was Re: Star Office)
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:22:06PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:13:47PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under > > unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's > > mostly what I pull out to do something that involves short text and > > hardcopy -- a letter, say. > > > > Version: 0.7.13-0.2 > > Version: 0.7.12-0.ximian.2 > > for the absolute lightest of work (ie plain text) its fine, but if all > your doing is plain text nedit is far more reliable. Probably. I've always found if I'm using nedit I keep asking myself why I'm not using vim ;-) Though I'll sometimes pull up nedit for cut'n'paste out of Netscape edit dialogs. > i would probably be running unstable on that box if i had faster > internet connection, atm i just don't fancy the idea of a 20MB > download a day or a 60MB download a week. i would LOVE to get rid of > this ximian crap though. Looking over recent updates -- 10-20 MB is fairly typical, running on the order of 30 minutes to a copule of hours. If you can run this overnight, it's probably acceptable if you can't othewise dedicate a connection. Note that in my case it's a dedicated 56K modem connection. > > I've used DocBook for a couple of projects, and prefer LaTeX for > > generalized typeset output myself as well. For Real Work they're the > > Right Tools, IMO. > > except for someone who isn't interested in learning them, latex is > fine for me, but not for the user of the computer in question. How about Lyx or Klyx? Heard good things, haven't used them. -- 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 pgpVYoTov8Jkv.pgp Description: PGP signature
problem compiling pcmcia with kernel 2.2.18
I am unable to make pcmcia kernel modules for kernel 2.2.18.
I am running woody and I used 'make-kpkg' to build modules.
Anyone know what the problem might be?
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:4,
from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:101,
from ../include/pcmcia/k_compat.h:201,
from i82365.c:36:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/wait.h:24: warning: `init_waitqueue_head'
redefined../include/pcmcia/k_compat.h:59: warning: this is the location of the
previous definition
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:4,
from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:101,
from ../include/pcmcia/k_compat.h:201,
from i82365.c:36:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:502: warning: `__set_current_state'
redefined
../include/pcmcia/k_compat.h:186: warning: this is the location of the previous
definition
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:12,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/tty.h:20,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:21,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:4,
from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:101,
from ../include/pcmcia/k_compat.h:201,
from i82365.c:36:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/wait.h:19: redefinition of `wait_queue_head_t'
../include/pcmcia/k_compat.h:61: `wait_queue_head_t' previously declared here
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:9: Warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for .modinfo
make[4]: *** [i82365.o] Error 1
thanks
--
Andrew
Re: Star Office
"Michael Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > standards. If you want WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean), use LyX. LyX rocks, too bad its latex conversion is not invertible: foo.lyx -> foo.tex -> bar.lyx != foo.lyx In fact, the example I tried (some random thing I was typing) broke hopelessly when I tried to convert it back and forth to/from latex (or maybe it was the other way around?) Of course, if everyone used lyx instead of msword, lyx would get better, and so would life, because I could just read normal .ps documents instead of msword-encrypted stuff. -chris
Re: How do I make a debian boot cd
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:47:56 -0800 (PST) Denzil Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I go about burning a cd that will serve the > same function of a boot floppy. I guess the question I > really want answered is what files need to be added to > a cd to to allow me to use it as a boot cd. If you are asking for sort of a rescue disk on CD (which won't have the troubles floppies have sometime) rather than a CD for a new installation, you can just use your rescue floppy, dd it to your hard disk and pass it to mkisofs as the boot image for the El Torito extension. I did make such a CD which is essentially empty; just a few tools which I use occasionally. Though I didn't do it yet, I guess it should be possible to make a CD also for installation of computers with a good net connection, putting on it only the boot, root and driver floppies, but the boot floppy would need to be adjusted to look for the root fs at the right place. Beside for not losing time searching a working floppy, it would also speeds up things quite a bit if you burn such a CD with speed 10 or better. -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
Re: Mounting Linux 2.4 NFS share on an OpenBSD 2.8 machine
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:19:35PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported > # to NFS clients. See exports(5). > /null localhost i have read that exporting nfs filesystems to localhost is a huge security hole, but its never explained why... > /tmp 192.168.13.0/255.255.255.0(rw) > # Automatically added for use by cfs > /.cfsfs localhost(rw) # Cryptographic Filesystem export > > And restared /etc/init.d/nfs-server. > > I went to the BSD box (narcolepsy), and ran: > > [narcolepsy:~]% mount rei:/tmp /mnt > mount_nfs: can't access /tmp: Permission denied > > On my Debian box (rei), I got the following in the logs: > > Mar 25 12:06:49 rei mountd[18186]: NFS mount of /tmp attempted from > 192.168.13.70 > Mar 25 12:06:49 rei mountd[18186]: NFS request from > narcolepsy originated on insecure port, psychoanalysis suggested > Mar 25 12:06:49 rei mountd[18186]: Blocked attempt of 192.168.13.70 to > mount /tmp read the openbsd man page for mount and find the option to make it use a privileged source port when mounting the filesystem. linux requires this by default. > I didn't think that there was anything particularly strange about what I > did, so I'm at a bit of a loss. I'm not sure what it means by "insecure > port", and whether it's a BSD or Linux issue. I'm a lot more familiar > with Linux than BSD, FWIW. insecure ports are any port > 1023. only root may bind to ports below 1024. the way i understand it if you allow connections from any old port then a ordinary luser on any machine can mount the filesystem saying they are root [1] (or whoever) and get that access since NFS implicity trusts the client. by restricting connections to privileged source ports you are sure that its root on the client and not some luser trying to connect to your box. i could be wrong though. [1] linux also by defaults maps root to nobody, but this isn't very useful on /home since the luser in question can just say they are whoever the want (other then root) and get access to anyone's home directory. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpj6Fm8G2IGO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Star Office
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:13:47PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under > unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's > mostly what I pull out to do something that involves short text and > hardcopy -- a letter, say. > > Version: 0.7.13-0.2 Version: 0.7.12-0.ximian.2 for the absolute lightest of work (ie plain text) its fine, but if all your doing is plain text nedit is far more reliable. i would probably be running unstable on that box if i had faster internet connection, atm i just don't fancy the idea of a 20MB download a day or a 60MB download a week. i would LOVE to get rid of this ximian crap though. > I've used DocBook for a couple of projects, and prefer LaTeX for > generalized typeset output myself as well. For Real Work they're the > Right Tools, IMO. except for someone who isn't interested in learning them, latex is fine for me, but not for the user of the computer in question. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpjXOY2Xn5Bk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Mounting Linux 2.4 NFS share on an OpenBSD 2.8 machine
Hi folks, I have an OpenBSD 2.8 machine that I've been building up, and is sitting on my LAN. I want to back it up, so I was intending to mount a directory from my Debain GNU/Linux (Testing with 2.4.1-ac2) onto the BSD box. I added "/tmp" to the exports file: # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /null localhost /tmp 192.168.13.0/255.255.255.0(rw) # Automatically added for use by cfs /.cfsfs localhost(rw) # Cryptographic Filesystem export And restared /etc/init.d/nfs-server. I went to the BSD box (narcolepsy), and ran: [narcolepsy:~]% mount rei:/tmp /mnt mount_nfs: can't access /tmp: Permission denied On my Debian box (rei), I got the following in the logs: Mar 25 12:06:49 rei mountd[18186]: NFS mount of /tmp attempted from 192.168.13.70 Mar 25 12:06:49 rei mountd[18186]: NFS request from narcolepsy originated on insecure port, psychoanalysis suggested Mar 25 12:06:49 rei mountd[18186]: Blocked attempt of 192.168.13.70 to mount /tmp I didn't think that there was anything particularly strange about what I did, so I'm at a bit of a loss. I'm not sure what it means by "insecure port", and whether it's a BSD or Linux issue. I'm a lot more familiar with Linux than BSD, FWIW. I have the following in /etc/hosts.allow ALL: 192.168.13.0/255.255.255.0 which would hopefully not stop narcolepsy (192.168.13.70) to accessing it. Any suggestions or pointers to appropriate documentation would be greatly appreciated. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"
Re: Resource limit question
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:18:24PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Um. I feel stupid asking this, but what resource limits *do* work, and per user process limits work (though pam_limits and/or ssh is broken in that you must set it higher then the number of root owned processes for logins to work) core size limits work, cpu utilization works (any process taking more consecutive time then allowed is killed) and virtual memory works. im not sure if anything else works as i don't know of a useful test for each. rss i know for sure is totally ignored by the kernel. > how can user resource limits be imposed at the system level? I've been pam_limits and /etc/security/limits.conf (latter being the config for the former) > looking at the bash man pages -- there's no more specific resource > utilization interface, is there? bash's ulimit command just uses the same resource limit calls any other program will use. some shells just don't provide a command to set the limits, but they are subject to limits set by thier parent (pam_limits). limits are [supposed to be] enforced by the kernel. > My preference would be to be able to limit memory utilization. *Some* > form of CPU throttle could also be useful under some circumstances. ulimit -v is all you got then AFAICT. this is the `as' limit in /etc/security/limits.conf. note that when a process runs into this limit it will just die horribly (killed, segfault etc). as for cpu throttle, you can set the number of seconds a process can take at a given time, so say you set a limit of 60 seconds, your shell will be fine but a password cracker will be killed after 60 seconds (since its constantly sucking the cpu) /me wishes there was more documentation on resource limits, and that they actually worked under linux properly. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0vhJHlJbx2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How do I make a debian boot cd
See section 4.11 of the CD-Writing-HOWTO. If you burn the official Debian CD .iso images, using the pseudo-image kit, the first CD is bootable. See http://cdimage.debian.org for more information. Bob On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:56PM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: > How do I go about burning a cd that will serve the > same function of a boot floppy. I guess the question I > really want answered is what files need to be added to > a cd to to allow me to use it as a boot cd.
Re: staroffice..
Just remember: old age and treachery will beat out youth and skill any day... On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: >On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:21:45 -0800 >Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The problem is that we are outnumbered by all them young >> whippersnappers. > >Or maybe it just that they make so much more noise... > >-- >Christoph Simon >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >--- >^X^C >q >quit >:q >^C >end >x >exit >ZZ >^D >? >help >shit >. > > > -- There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved with suitable application of High Explosives. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
How do I make a debian boot cd
How do I go about burning a cd that will serve the same function of a boot floppy. I guess the question I really want answered is what files need to be added to a cd to to allow me to use it as a boot cd. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Resource limit question
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:18:24 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > Um. I feel stupid asking this, but what resource limits *do* work, and > how can user resource limits be imposed at the system level? I've been > looking at the bash man pages -- there's no more specific resource > utilization interface, is there? > > My preference would be to be able to limit memory utilization. *Some* > form of CPU throttle could also be useful under some circumstances. The only system-wide place I know of is /etc/security/limits.conf. I think they work but I'm not completely sure if they *do* work... -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
Re: Resource limit question
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:41:22PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:35:47PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote: > > Thanks very much for the info! Good to know. I've been assuming that > > this has been working for years. I do have a vague recollection that > > "memoryuse" has worked in the past under Linux, no? > > i don't know > > > Do you, by any chance, have a pointer to the kernel > > documenation/source tree on this? > > linux-kernel mailing list archives. this has been discussed a few > times there. usually when someone reinvents an age old DoS like su > `cat /dev/urandom` > > the answer is always `well of course, set resource limits' `but > resource limits on linux are broken' Um. I feel stupid asking this, but what resource limits *do* work, and how can user resource limits be imposed at the system level? I've been looking at the bash man pages -- there's no more specific resource utilization interface, is there? My preference would be to be able to limit memory utilization. *Some* form of CPU throttle could also be useful under some circumstances. -- 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 pgpzVJx5ydihr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Star Office
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:09:09PM -0500, Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:53:51PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > abiword is unusably buggy in potato (and helix/ximian) kword in > > the unofficial potato repository is also quite buggy (it makes most of > > the text invisible randomly when your typing). ted might be ok, i > > haven't done much testing yet. but its rather limited and a bit > > klunky. > > Abiword and kword are both crap currently. I'm sure they'll develop into > fine tools, but I wouldn't be relying on them just yet. What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's mostly what I pull out to do something that involves short text and hardcopy -- a letter, say. Version: 0.7.13-0.2 > Personally, I do all of my work in either LaTeX or DocBook. LaTeX > looks better overall, and is easier to customize IMO, but DocBook > offers quite a few easy conversions and the XML DTD is probably going > to be a major force in open standards. If you want WYSIWYM (What You > See Is What You Mean), use LyX. Otherwise, keep hunting for WYSIAYG > (read... All You Get) tools. I've used DocBook for a couple of projects, and prefer LaTeX for generalized typeset output myself as well. For Real Work they're the Right Tools, IMO. > > > Or you can just be Yet Another Prick For Open Standards like me. > > Amen. /me grins -- 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 pgpheN056999f.pgp Description: PGP signature
Making /etc/hosts.allow | hosts.deny changes effective (was Re: easy question - getting changed files read)
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:18:09PM -0700, Mike Millner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I make changes to files, for example hosts.deny or hosts.access > how do I get the OS to see them without rebooting? I know with my DNS > files I can do a "rndc reload" and the changes are read but with these > types of files I don't know hot get the read. Note the subject change. More specific is generally better. The issue is not the OS, but inetd, which processes these files: /etc/init.d/inetd restart ...will do it. In general, you can force a restart of any particular daemon (service) in a similar fashion. You can force *all* services to be stopped and restarted by going to "maintenance" level. The "shutdown" command does this by default: $ /sbin/shutdown now ...then follow prompts to return to your default init state. This *does* stop all processes (other than init) but is faster than going through a full reboot. -- 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 pgpvQ7vmupftt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Resource limit question
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:35:47PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote: > Thanks very much for the info! Good to know. I've been assuming that > this has been working for years. I do have a vague recollection that > "memoryuse" has worked in the past under Linux, no? i don't know > Do you, by any chance, have a pointer to the kernel > documenation/source tree on this? linux-kernel mailing list archives. this has been discussed a few times there. usually when someone reinvents an age old DoS like su `cat /dev/urandom` the answer is always `well of course, set resource limits' `but resource limits on linux are broken' -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpJi1iqjTJHL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:19:13PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > On Sat Mar 24 18:07:15 2001 ktb wrote... > > > >On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > >> broken my sound? > >> > > > >I have the same card and it uses - > >es1371 > >ac97_codec > >kent > > > > Sorry that's over my head. > > How can I make certain that I have the corect modules installed. What's > a > simple way to test to see if it's working? > > I suspect that what I have done is broken Gnomes access to sound, but I > am > uncertain how to diagnose this, > Run the command - $ /sbin/lsmod This will tell you which modules you have loaded. If you don't have es1371 listed as a module then you probably don't have it compiled. Check and see if the actually module "es1371.o" exists on your system. If it does then you can put "es1371" into /etc/modules so it will be loaded at boot time. If you don't have this module then you will have to recompile your kernel adding support for your card in the form of a module or compiled into the kernel. hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
Re: Resource limit question
Ethan Benson wrote on Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:32:44 -0900 >> I have set a hard limit on memoryuse to 1 (10M). limits (or >> ulimit -a) shows the limit but, it doesn't seem to be working. >> For example, with the limit set the following bit of code > >[sniped code] > >> compiled as follows: >> cc tst.c >> give me the output: >> RSS limit curr, max: 1024, 1024 >> weinberg 25601 11.0 16.2 41000 20836 pts/1 S16:25 0:00 ./a.out >> Note the RSS limit of 10M. But the code as a data size of >> 20M to start and mallocs an additional 20M. What am I missing? > >that the kernel does not have a proper bean counter so these resource >limits don't work. > >the only way to limit memory usage is to limit `virtual memory' use >ulimit -v or the `as' limit in /etc/security/limits.conf. Thanks very much for the info! Good to know. I've been assuming that this has been working for years. I do have a vague recollection that "memoryuse" has worked in the past under Linux, no? Do you, by any chance, have a pointer to the kernel documenation/source tree on this? --Martin
apt-get install gmc failed
Hello, after my system failed, gmc does not work fine I have the message "segmentation fault". I desinstall gmc (apt-get remove gmc) and when I reinstall gmc I have the message of error which follow in attached document. How can I reinstall gmc correctly ? Thanhs for your help. -- Gerard debconf: failed to initialize Web frontend debconf: falling back to Gtk frontend debconf: failed to initialize Gtk frontend debconf: falling back to Dialog frontend
Re: staroffice..
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:21:45 -0800 Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that we are outnumbered by all them young > whippersnappers. Or maybe it just that they make so much more noise... -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
Re: Star Office
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:53:51PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > abiword is unusably buggy in potato (and helix/ximian) kword in > the unofficial potato repository is also quite buggy (it makes most of > the text invisible randomly when your typing). ted might be ok, i > haven't done much testing yet. but its rather limited and a bit > klunky. Abiword and kword are both crap currently. I'm sure they'll develop into fine tools, but I wouldn't be relying on them just yet. Personally, I do all of my work in either LaTeX or DocBook. LaTeX looks better overall, and is easier to customize IMO, but DocBook offers quite a few easy conversions and the XML DTD is probably going to be a major force in open standards. If you want WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean), use LyX. Otherwise, keep hunting for WYSIAYG (read... All You Get) tools. > > Or you can just be Yet Another Prick For Open Standards like me. Amen. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, TD12, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925 Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com
Re: staroffice..
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:52:44PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Saturday 24 March 2001 15:41, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > unstable and testing. No menu problems. Then again I've defined my > > own WMaker menus, crotchety old fart that I am. > > Hey, let's hear it for crotchety old farts. I'm glad I'm not the only > one. The problem is that we are outnumbered by all them young whippersnappers. Bob Nielsen (who punched his first IBM card 44 years ago and just received his first Social Security check)
Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(
On Sat Mar 24 18:07:15 2001 ktb wrote... > >On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> broken my sound? >> > >I have the same card and it uses - >es1371 >ac97_codec >kent > Sorry that's over my head. How can I make certain that I have the corect modules installed. What's a simple way to test to see if it's working? I suspect that what I have done is broken Gnomes access to sound, but I am uncertain how to diagnose this, -- 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.
Re: libxaw7 - undefined symbol?
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone else with these problems? Am I missing something? > > something goes currently wrong with linking when the paths to the libc5 > libraries are before the paths to the libc6-X11 libraries in > /etc/ld.so.conf. As a workaround move the lines > /usr/lib/libc5-compat > /lib/libc5-compat > to the end of this file and run "ldconfig". That fixed it. Thx. by Töns -- Linux. The dot in /.
Re: sshd error message
On Saturday 24 March 2001 18:10, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "Bud" == Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bud> Is it possible that you have an entry for sshd in > Bud> /etc/inetd.conf? I think you would get that error if Inetd > is Bud> already bound to port 22. > Bud> > > I don't have an entry for sshd in /etc/inetd.conf. sshd is a daemon > and can't be started through inetd. Actually, sshd can be run from inetd. The extra time to start up the daemon would cause some initial delay in accepting incoming connections, but on a host that rarely needs the functionality, that is one way to conserver resources. > Also, my /etc/inetd.conf is empty > on both systems since I don't run that many services anyway. Just a thought... -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
Re: resizing partitions
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 24 Mar 01, 1:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier said: > > Hey people. I've recently found out that my /tmp partition might > > be too small for a particular application. I know that fips is > > supposed to allow non-destructive repartitioning. How would you > > recommend such a thing under Linux? I don't have a windows > > partition, nor do I want one, so Partition Magic isn't an option. > > I'd just like to grow my /tmp partition a bit. > > > parted and ext2resize. > > also, partition magic knows about ext2, so that's your easiest option. > just get a partition magic bootdisk. Have heard good things about parted (gparted?), but typically do the old fashioned thing of backing up partitions, repartitioning, and restoring to partitions. With the luxury of over-the-net archival (though I still keep current tape backups), this isn't terribly slow. Fact is that repartition-in-place *still* requires data backups for failure recovery. -- 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 pgpNn0GZ44W4h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Star Office
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:33:54PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > StarOffice, that bloated stuck pig of an office suite, isn't packaged. > It probably offers the best compatibility with MS file formats, however. any other suggestions? abiword is unusably buggy in potato (and helix/ximian) kword in the unofficial potato repository is also quite buggy (it makes most of the text invisible randomly when your typing). ted might be ok, i haven't done much testing yet. but its rather limited and a bit klunky. in my case i don't give a damn about MS compatiblity but i do need to find something that provides the basic features a self respecting word processor should provide, and most importantly it has to be usable, abiword and kword are not. (i doubt staroffice would be either given this box is a 166 pentium with only 96MB of ram, openoffice barely compiles from what i hear and would not be any lighter) note that this isn't for me, if i needed such i may very well use latex or something, but that is not an option in this case. > Or you can just be Yet Another Prick For Open Standards like me. yeah! -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpojlcKPZUUV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:47:36 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >I have a new machine that I am setting up. It has a Creative Labs Sound >Balster PCI >16 sound card in it. > >I installed a minimal "stable" system, and then pointed my apt-get source to >the >Progeny RC1. Then I installed thier RC1. > >Almost everythign worked flawlesy, including sound. > >Now I have been playing around with kernel compiles and ading software with >dselect >in an atempt to get frambuffer support working and my WinTV card working. > >Somewhere along the way I broke sound copletly. I have backed up to what I >think >was a version of the kernel that I had sound working on. I was able to access >sounds from the Gnome envrionment before, and now i can't. > >Could some kind soul tell me what kernel modules I should have installed, and >what >software should be installed to make this work? I remeber something about >alsa, but >I'm not certain if it was there, or I installed it with dselect. Could that >have >broken my sound? If you are using gmix and updated that while messing about, you will have screwed sound up. Use wmmixer or any other mixer 'cause gmix is broken. If you don't use gmix, disregard this note. Jens
Re: Star Office
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:53:41AM +, Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I need to be able to read, and compose MS compatible documents. I have > pretty much decided that the path of least resistance for me will be > Star Office. > > I cannot find it in the 2.2r2 distribution. Is it in there but I am > too blind to see? If not is it available in deb format somewhere, and > if so what would be the correct location to add to my "sources.list" > to keep current? StarOffice, that bloated stuck pig of an office suite, isn't packaged. It probably offers the best compatibility with MS file formats, however. Define "MS Compatible". Ted and AbiWord will create and edit RTF documents. MS Word nominally works with HTML, though the HTML it produces defies description, not to mention definition as HTML. You can use 'tidy' plus a special mode to rationalize MSWord HTML, though in my experience, the input breaks the rationalizer as often as not. And, rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, MSFT will read text files. Tools such as mswordview and catdoc will render MS Word files to text, with varying degrees of accuracy dependin on fast save features used by the author (but can be used to reveal potentially interesting information to you). It's always amusing to send back an ASCII-rendered document to someone who agonizes over every last physical detail of layout I'd argue that the level of compatibility depends on how obsequious you need to be to the recipients. For clients, they may set the rules. For vendors, you do. For other collaborators, pecking order rules. Or you can just be Yet Another Prick For Open Standards like me. -- 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 pgpbZg3Q5b5VJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Resource limit question
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:29:38PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote: > > I have set a hard limit on memoryuse to 1 (10M). limits (or > ulimit -a) shows the limit but, it doesn't seem to be working. > For example, with the limit set the following bit of code > > [sniped code] > > > compiled as follows: > >cc tst.c > > give me the output: > > RSS limit curr, max: 1024, 1024 > weinberg 25601 11.0 16.2 41000 20836 pts/1 S16:25 0:00 ./a.out > > Note the RSS limit of 10M. But the code as a data size of > 20M to start and mallocs an additional 20M. What am I missing? that the kernel does not have a proper bean counter so these resource limits don't work. the only way to limit memory usage is to limit `virtual memory' use ulimit -v or the `as' limit in /etc/security/limits.conf. > P.S. This is a pure potato system. The limit itself is set by > pam_limits from the limits.conf file. I assume that this part > is fine because the "limits" or "ulimit -a" correctly reports > the values set in limits.conf and /var/log/auth.log reports that > pam has read and set the value (with the debug flag set). yup, your not doing anything wrong, the kernel is just broken. its unlikely to be fixed until 2.6 either, at the soonest. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpLJe0r9veZ1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: easy question - getting changed files read
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:18:09PM -0700, Mike Millner wrote: > When I make changes to files, for example hosts.deny or hosts.access > how do I get the OS to see them without rebooting? I know with my DNS > files I can do a "rndc reload" and the changes are read but with these > types of files I don't know hot get the read. Well, I don't think the OS ever consults those files. Most of the applications that use those files seem to consult them when they get a new connection request. So, you shouldn't have to do anything special. But maybe some daemons cache the info? Is there a particular server daemon that doesn't seem to be responding to your changes? -- Eric G. Miller
Re: i810 problems
yi victor.. try the following... - install the agpgart stuff root# rpm -ivh I810Gtt-0.1-6.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ compile agpgart stuff - install intels silly X11 driver root# rpm -ivh XFCom-i810-glibc2.1-1.0.0-rh60.i386.rpm - check that it works root# XFCom_i810 -probeonly - works if you see that 1024x768 resolutions defined - startx --- and magic it should be working.. == or use the debianized packages of the same *.rpm... for more info.. http://www.Linux-1U.net/MotherBoard/Intel.X11.Patch.uhow2.txt have fun alvin http://www.linux-1U.net ... On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Victor wrote: > I've installed potato 2.2r2 on my desktop, a Celeron Compaq Presario, endowed > unfortunately of an Intel 82810 graphic card which I would use with X and kde. > I've read all the extremely poor and distressing pieces of "Documentation" > about i810 both under the various /usr/doc and www.debian.org/branden and > downloaded the required tar file. > I've installed X86Free 3.3.6 and the server xserver-svga which according to > dselect supports i810 (how? ;-( ) > I've compiled agpgart.o > and then I've felt lost & miserable: what does the cryptic sentence in the > tar file documentation "Then recompile the glx module: > ./configure --with-mesa= --enable-agp && make > make install (as root)..." mean? > Where is that glx module, I couldn't find it!! > Is there anybody out there able to explain in a straightforward way (step by > step) how I can set the i810 graphic card? > Ciao > Vittorio > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: Nautilus
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:23:41PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: > Hi, > > I have problems installing nautilus on my debian potato. Here is my > sources.list : > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/1.4beta1/distributions/debian unstable main > deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/evolution-snapshots/distributions/Debian > unstable main > > When I try to install it, I have : > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > nautilus: Depends: librpm1 (>= 3.0.5-4) but 3.0.3-1 is to be installed why on earth does it *depend* on rpm? suggest would be a better choice since i think all thats for is browsing .rpm package files. > I don't know what to do, and I don't want to switch to unstable. file a bug saying that it should suggest NOT depend on rpm, i don't want rpm installed on any of my systems. > And another question about Nautilus. I think the two main programs developped > by companies are now Evolution which I think is a great mailer, and Nautilus > which > doesn't seem to respect > too much the gnome desktop. Do you think that some debian developpers > can fork nautilus to make > it much more integrated in the gnome desktop, or use some routines of > nautilus and implement it > in gmc. Does anyone knows the future of gmc ? i have not tried nautilus yet since it won't install on a potato system, but from what i have heard its bloated and slow and unlikely to be usable on anything but the fastest of hardware (a 166Mhz pentium with 96MB to be too slow if its slow even on a 600Mhz athlon?) i could be wrong and hope i am. that would be a very sad trend to see the gnome project emulate MS to this degree. as for gmc it was supposed to die, but if nautilus requires a massive hardware upgrade it may very well live on, unfortunatly... gmc is really a pile of crap it badly needs replacing by something usable. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpQNwzVfREkB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sshd error message
On Saturday 24 March 2001 17:28, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > After the latest sid update, I noticed that sshd prints the following > messages in /var/log/auth.log: > > Mar 24 18:24:25 viper sshd[7084]: fatal: Cannot bind any address. > > > even though I am able to ssh into that system from other machines. Is > this message cause for concern ? Is it possible that you have an entry for sshd in /etc/inetd.conf? I think you would get that error if Inetd is already bound to port 22. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
Re: openssh incompatibility with ssh.com's ssh
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:37:34AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > woody uses openssh 2.2.0 which is incompatible with ssh.com's ssh [1]. > > i NEED the most current version of openssh, which i think is 2.2.3. the current version in sid/unstable is 2.4.1p2 or 2.4.2p1 (maybe p2) just install that. > is there any way of getting it short of uninstalling my ssh deb package and > installing a tarball from openssh's site? install the ssh package from unstable instead of testing. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpDXcfFazEFb.pgp Description: PGP signature
easy question - getting changed files read
When I make changes to files, for example hosts.deny or hosts.access how do I get the OS to see them without rebooting? I know with my DNS files I can do a "rndc reload" and the changes are read but with these types of files I don't know hot get the read. Thanks, Mike
Re: Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a new machine that I am setting up. It has a Creative Labs Sound > Balster PCI > 16 sound card in it. > > I installed a minimal "stable" system, and then pointed my apt-get source to > the > Progeny RC1. Then I installed thier RC1. > > Almost everythign worked flawlesy, including sound. > > Now I have been playing around with kernel compiles and ading software with > dselect > in an atempt to get frambuffer support working and my WinTV card working. > > Somewhere along the way I broke sound copletly. I have backed up to what I > think > was a version of the kernel that I had sound working on. I was able to access > sounds from the Gnome envrionment before, and now i can't. > > Could some kind soul tell me what kernel modules I should have installed, and > what > software should be installed to make this work? I remeber something about > alsa, but > I'm not certain if it was there, or I installed it with dselect. Could that > have > broken my sound? > I have the same card and it uses - es1371 ac97_codec kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
Re: i810 problems
Victor wrote: > Where is that glx module, I couldn't find it!! > Is there anybody out there able to explain in a straightforward way (step by > step) how I can set the i810 graphic card? if your just looking to get 2D working then thats not too hard, to get 3D working i don't have personal experience using 3D on i810 so i can't say. the key to getting XFree86 3.3.6 working with i810 is the agpgart module. however only(from my tests almost a year ago anyways) ONE version of this module works, that is the one included with XFree86 3.3.6 source. last i saw that module is not included with debian as the Xfree packager wans't sure how it should be installed(which makes sense to me). the fastest way to get it up and going is: ftp to ftp.xfree86.org download the Xfree86 source for 3.3.6 run a find for the agpgart directory (find . -name "agp*") cd to that directory and compile the module, then install the module with insmod, and copy it to /lib/modules/`uname -r/misc (or something) that should allow XF86_SVGA to work with your i810. I don't remember wether or not at that point XF86_VGA16 worked (to use XF86Setup) but i don't think it did. so i suggest using xf8config to configure X. be sure to add agpgart to /etc/modules or do something else so that it loads it on boot. i didn't look much into using 3D on the i810 when i had them at my job last year we just bought voodoo3s for everyone instead. good luck nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Research for Customer Profiles Assingment
I am doing reasurch for my Customer Profile project for my Customer Behavior course at Eastern Illinois University. The product I am doing reasurch for is GPS maps out side of the US for the private sector. Any demographic, psyhographic, and geographic information you could sent me about your costumers would be very helpfull. My E-Mail adress is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sincerly Steve Huber _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Hepl, please, I broke my sound :-(
I have a new machine that I am setting up. It has a Creative Labs Sound Balster PCI 16 sound card in it. I installed a minimal "stable" system, and then pointed my apt-get source to the Progeny RC1. Then I installed thier RC1. Almost everythign worked flawlesy, including sound. Now I have been playing around with kernel compiles and ading software with dselect in an atempt to get frambuffer support working and my WinTV card working. Somewhere along the way I broke sound copletly. I have backed up to what I think was a version of the kernel that I had sound working on. I was able to access sounds from the Gnome envrionment before, and now i can't. Could some kind soul tell me what kernel modules I should have installed, and what software should be installed to make this work? I remeber something about alsa, but I'm not certain if it was there, or I installed it with dselect. Could that have broken my sound? -- 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.
i810 problems
I've installed potato 2.2r2 on my desktop, a Celeron Compaq Presario, endowed unfortunately of an Intel 82810 graphic card which I would use with X and kde. I've read all the extremely poor and distressing pieces of "Documentation" about i810 both under the various /usr/doc and www.debian.org/branden and downloaded the required tar file. I've installed X86Free 3.3.6 and the server xserver-svga which according to dselect supports i810 (how? ;-( ) I've compiled agpgart.o and then I've felt lost & miserable: what does the cryptic sentence in the tar file documentation "Then recompile the glx module: ./configure --with-mesa= --enable-agp && make make install (as root)..." mean? Where is that glx module, I couldn't find it!! Is there anybody out there able to explain in a straightforward way (step by step) how I can set the i810 graphic card? Ciao Vittorio
Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:52:17PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official > > > kernel source? > > > > > > > Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the > > nature of a patch. For the most part patches are created to fix > > bugs that were unknown when the original was released. > > OK, so these are official kernel.org patches then? Or something else? > Yes, official. > > > There's too many Unixes as it is, why have more than one Linux? > > > > > > > Unix/Linux is a tool. Do you use only one tool when fixing a car? No, you > > use the right tool for the right job. > > kent > > Hm, not sure I buy this comparison. When fixing a car it's usually > pretty clear whether you need an Allen key or a Philips screwdriver or > whatever. The choice between Redhat and Debian, or even the choice > between Solaris and GNU/Linux, is nowhere near this clear. I guess > Unix is like a toolbox, except there are many different brands of > tools and the various brands are only vaguely compatible with each > other. If only it were possible, as you suggest, to pick and choose > tools from various brands of toolboxes.. unfortunately, this doesn't > work: you wouldn't normally take a Solaris box and add the Debian > package manager to it, for example. > Things become much more clear after you have researched and used the various flavors. It is very clear to me why I use OpenBSD for firewalls and very clear to me why I use Debian instead of Redhat for my workstations. Just as clear as when I look at a screw and know I need an Allen wrench or a Philips screwdriver. Some of these reasons are technical, some are personal or more subjective. I did not suggest picking tools from various brands of toolboxes. I suggested picking the tool. OpenBSD is a good security "tool." Debian is a good workstation "tool." You say that it is 'unfortunate that you can't add the Debian package manager to Solaris.' This wish is partially why there are so many flavors of unix out there. People build a new distro of Linux because they feel that what is out there is less than what they want. Your very wish to "pick and choose tools from various brands of toolboxes" is what has created your frustration of wading through the various nuances of unix. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
Re: audio recording in xawtv
> Hmm, I'm working on someting similar to this. > How did you get sound working in xawtv at all? In my case I had to run > a jumper > from "line out" on the WinTV card to "line in" on the sound card. Given > this, I > can't see how recording sound can work at all. Yes thats the way I have sound.. I supposed xawtv could take its sound source from the sound card.. How is it supposed to work the sound recording in xawtv? Regards Roberto Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://vivaldi.ddts.net Powered by ddt dynamic DNS Powered by GNU running on a Linux kernel. Powered by Debian (The real wonder) Concerto Grosso Op. 3/8 A minor Antonio Vivaldi (so... do you need beautiful words?)
Re: Soundblaster Live Player! Which driver?
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:07:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you're posting to the list regarding a new topic, not as a reply to an existing thread, *don't* reply to an existing post. Under many mailers, your message will be read as threaded into the discussion you're replying to, which almost certainly isn't appropriate. You've done this twice in the current thread. -- 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 pgpVVLpjQUT8u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mouse problems on X (intellieye)
Try using the protocol "IMPS/2". And disable 3 button emulation, you only need that if you want simultaneous left and right clicks to be a middle click...your mouse wheel is your true third button. That should fix you. On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:36:50AM -0800, jennyw scribbled... > I'm using an Microsoft's optical mouse (Intellieye), and am having > trouble getting it to work well with X. In particular, I can't get the > mouse to emulate the middle button (I tried using Emulate3Buttons). I'm > using Debian 2.2 which comes with XFree86 3.3.6.11. Although I think > this is an X issue, I'm also running Ximian Gnome and Enlightenment, in > case that makes a difference. > > I read in the Enlightenment dox that changing the protocol to > "MouseManPlusPS/2" and adding ZAxisMapping and Buttons 5 would help > for a wheel mouse (and not using Emulate3Buttons). Unfotunately, > changing the protocol caused the pointer to jump around weirdly, so I > changed the protocol back to "microsoft". It works okay again, but I > can't seem to get either the additional buttons (including the wheel) > to work. Any suggestions? > > My pointer section currently: > Section "Pointer" > # Protocol "PS/2" > # Device "/dev/mouse" > # Protocol "MousemanPlusPS/2" > Protocol "microsoft" > Device "/dev/mouse" #symlink to /dev/psaux > ZAxisMapping 4 5 > Buttons 5 > #Emulate3Buttons > EndSection > > Thanks! > > Jen > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba Password
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:27:57PM +0100, Gregor Kaleta wrote: > I have a problem with the Samba Password. Samba is running and the > correct smbpasswd file exists. But when I want to login (for using > shares) from my Win98SE Client, I get the Error that my Password was > wrong. What have I done wrong? > Install Ptxt_on in W98 which can be found in the \tools\Mtsutil directory of th W98 cd. This allows plain password passing. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
Re: fbtv won't run for anyone but root
Stan Brown wrote: > > I finally figured out how to ge framebuffer working, but now I can't get fbtv > to > work for anyone but root. I have added the appropriate users to the vidoe > group, > and they can use xawtv. /dev/fb0 is owned by roo, group video and is rw--w--- > mode, > which looks wrong to me. try chmod g+r /dev/fb0 see if that helps. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???
Well, OK.. I guess *somebody* has to patch the kernels, so it may as well be the people who "sell" them, i.e. distribution "vendors" like Debian and RedHat.. as long as the patches aren't forking the kernel source tree, official or effective, I'm happy - chris On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > > OK, so these are official kernel.org patches then? Or something else? > > > > > Here is the README.Debian file from kernel-source-2.2.18pre21: > (yes it looks like somebody forgot to update the title) > > > kernel-source-2.2.17 for DEBIAN > --- > > These patches were appllied: > > * Big Physical Area (2.2.5) > > http://www.uni-paderborn.de/fachbereich/AG/heiss/linux/bigphysarea.html > > These modifications were also made: > > * Don't align the stack by 16 bytes on i386. > * Fixed a typo in tgafb.c. > * Added CONFIG_APM_DISABLE_BY_DEFAULT. > * Fixed a typo in aha152x.c. > * __asm__ fixes for egcs (hfmodem/refclock.c). > * Fixed a couple of argument processing bugs in main.c (Eric Delaunay). > * Added tulip.c from NetGear. > > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > $Id: README.Debian,v 1.34 2000/11/18 02:14:23 herbert Exp $ >
Re: staroffice..
On Saturday 24 March 2001 15:41, Karsten M. Self wrote: > unstable and testing. No menu problems. Then again I've defined my > own WMaker menus, crotchety old fart that I am. Hey, let's hear it for crotchety old farts. I'm glad I'm not the only one. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
Re: 'setxkbmap dvorak' not working
On Saturday 24 March 2001 03:29 pm, you wrote:
> My initial thought was that 'setxkbmap' was failing because you didn't use
> the -layout switch, but 'setxkbmap [dvorak|us]' works fine here. Sorry I
> can't be of more help. I know that trying to hunt down keyboard problems
> in X11 is a real pain.
Thanks for the advice, but I've concluded that it's just unstable breakage,
although I still can't seem to find anything resembling a dvorak layout in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb. Do you have a line in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 that says:
xkb_keymap "dvorak" {
?
-Adrian
(typed at 10 wpm on dvorak!)
Re: staroffice..
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:22:20AM +0100, Roberto Diaz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > There is a powerpoint filter in Kpresenter, see http://www.koffice.org for > > details. > > Yes but for kpresenter to work I have to install kde 2.x I even havent > installed kde 1.x and since I am using windowMaker I am a little bit > afraid of KDE mostly due to last Nick Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posting > about "Subject: Re: kde virus-like menu masher" IMO highly overrated. WindowMaker user with KDE installed under both unstable and testing. No menu problems. Then again I've defined my own WMaker menus, crotchety old fart that I am. -- 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 pgpa4AsTNMIvz.pgp Description: PGP signature
fbtv won't run for anyone but root
I finally figured out how to ge framebuffer working, but now I can't get fbtv to work for anyone but root. I have added the appropriate users to the vidoe group, and they can use xawtv. /dev/fb0 is owned by roo, group video and is rw--w--- mode, which looks wrong to me. What 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.
Re: apt question
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:47:47AM +0100, Radu Muschevici ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > is it posible to have two distro lines in /etc/apt/sources.list > like this: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib > > and prevent apt from taking every package from unstable since it > has the newer version. > > I want to run testing and only manually pick certain packages from > unstable, like kde packages by entering something like: > > apt-get install kdebase/unstable > > how is this possible? Generally it's not a good idea to mix and match between different Debian release versions. You *can* do this, but results vary, and you'll almost always have issues in dependencies for downstream updates. Better IMO to decide whether or not you want the overall features of the stable, unstable, or testing paths, and stick to that. Note that nominally, testing is unstable minus ten days and bugs. Alternatives include building latest-release packages from sources, downloading directly from the maintainer, or packaging them yourself into local debs. There are command-line options to apt-get to temporarily select another archive source if you so chose. -- 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 pgp32XGbNWNVI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Matlab R11 doesn't want to run after recent apt-get upgrade
Wow... reported Thursday (by someone other than me), new package available Saturday morning... Thats what I call service... thanks Branden! (xlib6 maintainer) The libs in package xlib6 (which Matlab was trying to find the correct versions of) were accidentally linked to libc6 when they should have been linked against libc5. And work on my thesis can continue :) -- Ken > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Kenneth Litko wrote: > > > I just apt-get'ted my system and Matlab (student version R11) doen't want to start for me. > > > > | bash-2.04$ matlab > > | /usr/local/bin/matlab5/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' > > | bash-2.04$ > > > > But... > > > > | megatron:/home/phenym# ldconfig -v | grep libXt.so > > | libXt.so.6 -> libXt.so.6.0 > > | libXt.so.6 -> libXt.so.6.0 > > | megatron:/home/phenym# > > > > The tail end of an strace follows this... There are some libs that matlab can't find, but I'm not enough of a programmer to understand exactly what's going on. Does anyone have a clue as to what may be wrong? > > > > TIA > > > > Ken > > > > > > > > old_mmap(0x4099, 203740, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) = [snip]
Resource limit question
I have set a hard limit on memoryuse to 1 (10M). limits (or
ulimit -a) shows the limit but, it doesn't seem to be working.
For example, with the limit set the following bit of code
/* Name: tst.c */
#include
#include
#include
#include
static char x[20*1024*1024];
int main()
{
int i;
struct rlimit limit;
getrlimit(RLIMIT_RSS, &limit);
printf("RSS limit curr, max: %d, %d\n", limit.rlim_cur, limit.rlim_max);
if (! malloc(2000))
printf("malloc not successfull - good\n");
for (i=0; i < sizeof(x); i+=4096)
x[i] = 1;
system("ps gauxww | grep a.out | grep -v grep");
exit(0);
}
compiled as follows:
cc tst.c
give me the output:
RSS limit curr, max: 1024, 1024
weinberg 25601 11.0 16.2 41000 20836 pts/1 S16:25 0:00 ./a.out
Note the RSS limit of 10M. But the code as a data size of
20M to start and mallocs an additional 20M. What am I missing?
P.S. This is a pure potato system. The limit itself is set by
pam_limits from the limits.conf file. I assume that this part
is fine because the "limits" or "ulimit -a" correctly reports
the values set in limits.conf and /var/log/auth.log reports that
pam has read and set the value (with the debug flag set).
Re: 'setxkbmap dvorak' not working
I use the XF86Config file to set dvorak mode with XFree86 3.3. Here are the
relevant lines from the keyboard section in /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "Keyboard"
Protocol"Standard"
AutoRepeat 500 30
XkbModel"pc102"
XkbLayout "dvorak"
XkbKeymap "xfree86(us)"
EndSection
If you want to switch back to qwerty on occasion (for example, someone needs
to do something briefly on your machine) you can try something like this in
your ~/.bashrc:
function aoeu() { if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then setxkbmap -layout us; else
loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us-latin1.kmap.gz; fi; }
function asdf() { if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then setxkbmap -layout dvorak; else
loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.kmap.gz; fi; }
My initial thought was that 'setxkbmap' was failing because you didn't use
the -layout switch, but 'setxkbmap [dvorak|us]' works fine here. Sorry I
can't be of more help. I know that trying to hunt down keyboard problems in
X11 is a real pain.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:02:07AM -0600, Adrian Kubala wrote:
> I run unstable;
>
> I've seen a few debian-related docs which imply that 'setxkbmap dvorak' and
> 'setxkbmap us' should work, but both give me an 'Error loading new keyboard
> description.'
>
> A search for dvorak keymaps for x turns up one in the gnome-applets package,
> and one in the kbd package, neither of which look like they'll make setxkbd
> work. I'd like to use setxkbd rather than xmodmap and some file I dig up
> somewhere, or at least know why I can't.
>
> Is this an unstable-broken thing? (I didn't see any files that looked useful
> in stable though). Anybody know how to set up dvorak 'properly' in debian?
>
> - Adrian
Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > OK, so these are official kernel.org patches then? Or something else? > Here is the README.Debian file from kernel-source-2.2.18pre21: (yes it looks like somebody forgot to update the title) kernel-source-2.2.17 for DEBIAN --- These patches were appllied: * Big Physical Area (2.2.5) http://www.uni-paderborn.de/fachbereich/AG/heiss/linux/bigphysarea.html These modifications were also made: * Don't align the stack by 16 bytes on i386. * Fixed a typo in tgafb.c. * Added CONFIG_APM_DISABLE_BY_DEFAULT. * Fixed a typo in aha152x.c. * __asm__ fixes for egcs (hfmodem/refclock.c). * Fixed a couple of argument processing bugs in main.c (Eric Delaunay). * Added tulip.c from NetGear. Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $Id: README.Debian,v 1.34 2000/11/18 02:14:23 herbert Exp $
Re: openssh incompatibility with ssh.com's ssh
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, > > woody uses openssh 2.2.0 which is incompatible with ssh.com's ssh [1]. > > i NEED the most current version of openssh, which i think is 2.2.3. > > is there any way of getting it short of uninstalling my ssh deb package and > installing a tarball from openssh's site? when i needed that i just installed the commercial ssh with --prefix=/usr/local/ssh then made symlinks in /usr/local/bin called 'ssh2' 'sshd2' etc. so when i wanted to go to a commercial ssh2 host i could and at the same time keep my debian stuff installed. i have since migrated most of the commercial ssh2 systems that had redhat to debianand openssh1.2.x nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official > > kernel source? > > > > Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the > nature of a patch. For the most part patches are created to fix > bugs that were unknown when the original was released. OK, so these are official kernel.org patches then? Or something else? > > There's too many Unixes as it is, why have more than one Linux? > > > > Unix/Linux is a tool. Do you use only one tool when fixing a car? No, you > use the right tool for the right job. > kent Hm, not sure I buy this comparison. When fixing a car it's usually pretty clear whether you need an Allen key or a Philips screwdriver or whatever. The choice between Redhat and Debian, or even the choice between Solaris and GNU/Linux, is nowhere near this clear. I guess Unix is like a toolbox, except there are many different brands of tools and the various brands are only vaguely compatible with each other. If only it were possible, as you suggest, to pick and choose tools from various brands of toolboxes.. unfortunately, this doesn't work: you wouldn't normally take a Solaris box and add the Debian package manager to it, for example. My main problem with software, and especially free software, is that there's too *much* choice -- which suggests to me that none of options are really very good. Sort of like, say, Christianity: there are hundreds of different flavours, they all claim to be The Right One, and they all disagree with each other. (This argument doesn't necessarily hold in reverse: for example, there is only one Microsoft Windows, and yet public opinion suggests it's far from perfect.) With software, I'm hoping this is something that will improve over time. For example, if you type 'ls' at a Solaris box and a GNU/Linux box, you can expect to get the same result. Presumably this is because 'ls' has been around for 30 years, and has more or less stabilized. Some things have not stabilized yet: 'tar', for example, will give different results on Solaris and GNU/Linux. The Linux kernel is a tool that is good for one particular job: running a Unix workstation. (It is not so good for other jobs, like real-time heart monitoring, for example.) For all I know, the Debian kernel patches may be a A Good Thing (TM). The reason I bristled at the idea, in my previous post, is this: the Linux kernel strikes me as a Good Tool (TM), and I like to see Good Tools standardize, rather than fork into many competing flavours. I like to be able to compile my Linux kernel and my friend's Linux kernel, and get that same warm fuzzy compatibility feeling that I get from typing 'ls' on different kinds of Unix boxes. *That's* security. Forget about protecting your box from imaginary teenage hackers. The real threat is in the form of legions of benevolent programmers, wielding the power to make your computer forever incompatible with anybody else's. -chris
Re: List
Jay wrote: > > If i was to create my own cd that had everything on it that you put on > yours, what would i need. Is there anything that is on a mirror site thats > not on your cd? you talking about a debian cd? if so see http://cdimage.debian.org and follow the directions to make a cd. i think the official debian distribution doesn't incllude any of the stuff from non-free(which the most popular package in there is probably netscape 4.x) nor does it include updates from security.debian.org. 2.2r3 i read should be out sometime soon which incorporates all the current fixes on security.debian.org i forgot where i read that though. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Applying kernel patches
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I apologize that this isn't directly Debian-related, but I know there > are some people around who probably know the answer... > > I'm currently running kernel 2.4.2-ac20. I just downloaded the patch for > 2.4.2-ac24. My question is, can I apply this patch against my current > source tree (2.4.2-ac20) ?? > > When I applied the ac20 patch, I did it against a 2.4.2 tree. i don't beleive so, you need to patch it against a plain 2.4.2. this is (i imagine) so if you want patch ac24 you don't have to do 24 patches to get to that level. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba Password
Gregor Kaleta wrote: > > I have a problem with the Samba Password. Samba is running and the > correct smbpasswd file exists. But when I want to login (for using > shares) from my Win98SE Client, I get the Error that my Password was > wrong. What have I done wrong? maybe win98se is using encrypted passwords, see the samba docs on how to disable encrypted passwords on the client side or how to enable them on the server side. or check the logs, increase the debug level in samba's config file and see what is going on. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network configuration
Steve Doerr wrote: > > Hi. I wonder if anybody has any advice on network configuration, > because I can't get eth1 to pass any traffic out of my router box. > > I've got box1's eth0 connected to my dsl line through the dsl > modem/router and it picks up the ip, etc. through dhcpcd. This card is > connected to the internet fine. > > I've got box1's eth1 connected to jack 1 of the hub, but the hub doesn't > show anything connected. eth1 is a good card, and I can ping it at > 192.168.1.1, but I've missed something about configuring it to send > traffic out to my hub and my network. > > eth1 on box1 is configured as follows in /etc/network/interfaces (even > though I'm using dhcpcd on eth0, the external ip is always the same, so > I'm using static on eth1): > > iface eth1 inet static >address 192.168.1.1 >netmask 255.255.255.0 >network 192.168.1.0 >broadcast 192.168.1.255 >gateway for one eth1 should have no gateway. i don't know if this would cause the problem your having but it might. just keep the gateway on eth0 if traffic is going out there. also be sure ip forwarding is turned on. if your using kernel 2.2: echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward also if your doing IP MASQ be sure the rules are enabled/configured right. and be sure that all other machines are using 192.168.1.1 as their gateway if this machine is the only router/gateway. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Lion Worm
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free That's my sources.list, I have the space there, It usually works, but there may have been a server error which caused the 404 file not found. Peter. -Original Message- From: Tony Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 11:48 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Lion Worm Glenn Becker wrote (on 23 Mar 2001, at 22:14): > > OK, I've tried adding this line via dselect *and* direct editing of the > source.list file ... and I get '404 file not found's for the security > stuff. What could I be doing wrong? ... > > Not if you hsve put > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free ^ There's a space after .org/ Did you miss it by any chance? T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network configuration
Hi. I wonder if anybody has any advice on network configuration, because I can't get eth1 to pass any traffic out of my router box. I've got box1's eth0 connected to my dsl line through the dsl modem/router and it picks up the ip, etc. through dhcpcd. This card is connected to the internet fine. I've got box1's eth1 connected to jack 1 of the hub, but the hub doesn't show anything connected. eth1 is a good card, and I can ping it at 192.168.1.1, but I've missed something about configuring it to send traffic out to my hub and my network. eth1 on box1 is configured as follows in /etc/network/interfaces (even though I'm using dhcpcd on eth0, the external ip is always the same, so I'm using static on eth1): iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway Does anyone know what I should check now? Thanks very much for any input. Steve
Samba Password
I have a problem with the Samba Password. Samba is running and the correct smbpasswd file exists. But when I want to login (for using shares) from my Win98SE Client, I get the Error that my Password was wrong. What have I done wrong?
Applying kernel patches
I apologize that this isn't directly Debian-related, but I know there are some people around who probably know the answer... I'm currently running kernel 2.4.2-ac20. I just downloaded the patch for 2.4.2-ac24. My question is, can I apply this patch against my current source tree (2.4.2-ac20) ?? When I applied the ac20 patch, I did it against a 2.4.2 tree. Thanks in advance Hall
Unreasonable setuid changes?! Am I hacked?
Prolog: Running Debian Potato 2.2 r2 with most recent security updates from the security servers. *Any* suggestions or comments welcome. I was checking my RADIUS server logs...just for the fun of it :-) and came across this in my setuid.changes line: *** radius changes to setuid programs and devices: --- setuid.todayFri Mar 23 00:05:34 2001 +++ /var/log/setuid.new.tmp Sat Mar 24 00:06:07 2001 @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ - 81 4755 1 root root5668 Fri Jan 12 04:59:29 2001 /usr/lib/pt_chown 137 4755 1 root root 36188 Fri Jan 12 20:27:58 2001 /bin/login 138 4755 1 root root 23420 Fri Jan 12 20:27:58 2001 /bin/su 139 4755 1 root root 65404 Fri Jan 12 20:27:58 2001 /bin/mount 140 4755 1 root root 36572 Fri Jan 12 20:27:58 2001 /bin/umount 141 4755 1 root root 14896 Fri Jan 12 20:27:58 2001 /bin/ping 143 4755 1 root root 13808 Fri Jan 12 20:27:58 2001 /bin/ping6 + 147 4755 1 root root5668 Mon Jan 15 15:06:47 2001 /usr/lib/pt_chown 2088 666 1 root root 0 Fri Jan 12 20:51:00 2001 /dev/null 2089 640 1 root kmem 0 Fri Jan 12 20:51:00 2001 /dev/kmem 2092 666 1 root root 0 Fri Jan 12 20:51:01 2001 /dev/zero @@ -810,10 +810,10 @@ 2898 666 1 root tty0 Wed Jul 5 12:43:52 2000 /dev/tty7 2899 600 1 root root 0 Wed Jul 5 12:43:53 2000 /dev/vcs7 2900 600 1 root root 0 Wed Jul 5 12:43:53 2000 /dev/vcsa7 -2901 666 1 root tty0 Fri Mar 23 00:05:01 2001 /dev/tty8 +2901 666 1 root tty0 Sat Mar 24 00:05:01 2001 /dev/tty8 2902 600 1 root root 0 Wed Jul 5 12:43:53 2000 /dev/vcs8 2903 600 1 root root 0 Wed Jul 5 12:43:53 2000 /dev/vcsa8 -2904 666 1 root tty0 Fri Mar 23 00:05:01 2001 /dev/tty9 +2904 666 1 root tty0 Sat Mar 24 00:05:01 2001 /dev/tty9 2905 600 1 root root 0 Wed Jul 5 12:43:53 2000 /dev/vcs9 2906 600 1 root root 0 Wed Jul 5 12:43:53 2000 /dev/vcsa9 2907 666 1 root tty0 Wed Jul 5 12:43:53 2000 /dev/tty10 @@ -4122,7 +4122,6 @@ 29236 4755 1 root root 25692 Fri Jan 12 20:27:47 2001 /usr/bin/passwd 29384 4755 1 root root 34480 Mon Apr 3 06:57:46 2000 /usr/bin/at 29415 2755 1 root tty10004 Tue Jul 18 10:03:22 2000 /usr/bin/write - 29501 2755 1 root mail 65660 Tue Aug 8 14:08:47 2000 /usr/bin/mail 30703 2755 1 root mail8288 Mon Jun 21 12:48:03 1999 /usr/bin/dotlockfile 30707 2755 1 root mail6212 Fri Sep 24 18:47:00 1999 /usr/bin/mail-lock 31232 4755 2 root root 536236 Sun Apr 30 11:14:04 2000 /usr/bin/sperl5.00503 All of the previous setuid.changes.x (going back to 6) log files only have the /dev/ttyxx and /dev/vcsxx files listed. This gives me great pause. I checked the setuid.today and the setuid.yesterday and they both read the same. I can list those if necessary and requested, but I've check them over and over and *every* line is the same. Not to mention the fact that I haven't installed or updated anything with regard to login, password, mount, etc. The question is this; Has the checksecurity program lost it's mind, or have I been breached? This server is exposed at our firewall for only the radius related ports and those coming from specific IP addresses. I understand that IP's can be spoofed, so that isn't completely secure, but better than nothing. Is there anything that I can check to start seeing if I've been hacked? Any way to check what might be going on? Has anyone seen anything like this? Please help!
Re: staroffice..
From: Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yes but for kpresenter to work I have to install kde 2.x I even havent > installed kde 1.x and since I am using windowMaker I am a little bit It's better to not have KDE 1 first, since you won't then get any nasty hangovers when you use KDE 2. > afraid of KDE mostly due to last Nick Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posting > about "Subject: Re: kde virus-like menu masher" I have absolutely no problem with Window Maker 0.64.1 and KDE 2.0.1 either on Debian potato or Mandrake 7.0 Chris Howells
Nautilus
Hi, I have problems installing nautilus on my debian potato. Here is my sources.list : deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/1.4beta1/distributions/debian unstable main deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/evolution-snapshots/distributions/Debian unstable main When I try to install it, I have : Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: nautilus: Depends: librpm1 (>= 3.0.5-4) but 3.0.3-1 is to be installed I don't know what to do, and I don't want to switch to unstable. And another question about Nautilus. I think the two main programs developped by companies are now Evolution which I think is a great mailer, and Nautilus which doesn't seem to respect too much the gnome desktop. Do you think that some debian developpers can fork nautilus to make it much more integrated in the gnome desktop, or use some routines of nautilus and implement it in gmc. Does anyone knows the future of gmc ? Francois
Re: audio recording in xawtv
On Sat Mar 24 08:16:17 2001 Roberto Diaz wrote... > >Hi!.. > >I am trying out the avi recording capabilities of xawtv (latest stable >potato version) but I am not getting success with audio. The video is fine >but I've never get audio.. xanim +Ae doesnt work.. the xanim control >widget shows me a volume control but it has no effect.. > >All the rest of the sound capabilities in my system (cd, xmms, microphone >recording.. etc..) are working fine.. > >I am using alsa.. > Hmm, I'm working on someting similar to this. How did you get sound working in xawtv at all? In my case I had to run a jumper from "line out" on the WinTV card to "line in" on the sound card. Given this, I can't see how recording sound can work at all. -- 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.
List
If i was to create my own cd that had everything on it that you put on yours, what would i need. Is there anything that is on a mirror site thats not on your cd? Till next time, Jay ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/
Re: mrtg weirdness.
Nate Amsden wrote: > > ive been having this problem for sometime and am wondering what could be > wrong. after subscribing to the mrtg list i figured out what was wrong..me. i was expecting to see(for some reason i don't know why) stats of the machine on the port not stats of the port. and what is shows is stats of the port(which is right). *smack* nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:53:46AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > > > Use the 'kernel-source' packages and you will get extra features and > > bugfixes patched in by Debian which are not in stock Linux. For example > > 'kernel-source-2.2.18pre21'. When installed the archive gets put into > > Is this anything like RedHat's customized kernels? My experience with > those was that the headers were broken in a subtle but deep way, > so that third-party kernel module source, for example, would not > compile. > No. > If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official > kernel source? > Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the nature of a patch. For the most part patches are created to fix bugs that were unknown when the original was released. > There's too many Unixes as it is, why have more than one Linux? > Unix/Linux is a tool. Do you use only one tool when fixing a car? No, you use the right tool for the right job. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
Re: A fact & a problem
Hi David, check rtl8139.o instead of <18>39 hope this helps Hansmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > Von: David Carlile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hey Bob, > > It sounds like we are trying to install the same module. I have the same > kernel build as you (2.2.18pre21) if I'm not mistaken. Check the following > path: > > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/rtl1839.o > > if it's there, try > > insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/rtl1839.o > > Let me know if that works for you because I get an error from insmod when I > try it, but it may work for you. >
Re: apt question
On Sat, 24 Mar, 2001 at 09:58:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib > > Entries like this are not wise, because you will get only the newest > packages in the list, using select funktion of dselect. > > > I want to run testing and only manually pick certain packages from > > unstable, like kde packages by entering something like: > > If you only want to get kde packages you can put I have potato packages right now, but i want those from unstable (for font anti-aliasing mainly) > > deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional > > into your sources.list to get the newest packages. If you like to use a more > stable kde then look at kde.org or kde.de (greman) for ftp mirrors. I use > > deb > ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/kde/stable/2.1/distributio > n/deb potato main > > and had found no bugs of this 2.1-final since now. i do _not_ want the kde packages for potato, i want the unstable ones. Potato KDE packages in combination with testing are unsupported and besides that, font AA isn't enabled in the potato packages. Radu
Re: Matlab R11 doesn't want to run after recent apt-get upgrade
I have a CRDOM from Mathworks that has both Windows and Linux versions. It also
includes Simulink, though I don't use it.
-- Ken
Hi,
I have a dual-boot system and use MatLAb 5.3 Student version in windows. I
was unaware of the linux version. Where did you get it from?
Dave W
- Original Message -
From: "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kenneth Litko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Matlab R11 doesn't want to run after recent apt-get upgrade
> Hi,
>
> I have had some trouble with this too. You need might need some oldlibs.
> The name of the libs are the same, but the libs are not.
>
> I do not remember which oldlibs. Look in the directory oldlibs on the ftp
> server and install what seems logical (it were just a few packets).
>
> Greetz,
> Sebastiaan
>
>
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Kenneth Litko wrote:
>
> > I just apt-get'ted my system and Matlab (student version R11) doen't
want to start for me.
> >
> > | bash-2.04$ matlab
> > | /usr/local/bin/matlab5/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't load library
'libXt.so.6'
> > | bash-2.04$
> >
> > But...
> >
> > | megatron:/home/phenym# ldconfig -v | grep libXt.so
> > | libXt.so.6 -> libXt.so.6.0
> > | libXt.so.6 -> libXt.so.6.0
> > | megatron:/home/phenym#
> >
> > The tail end of an strace follows this... There are some libs that
matlab can't find, but I'm not enough of a programmer to understand exactly
what's going on. Does anyone have a clue as to what may be wrong?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >
> >
> > old_mmap(0x4099, 203740, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0) =
> > 0x4099
> > old_mmap(0x409c2000, 6176, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0x310
> > 00) = 0x409c2000
> > close(3)= 0
> > mprotect(0x4099, 203740, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/sys/os/lnx86/libstdc++.so.27", O_RDONLY) =
3
> > read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0h\24\1\000"...,
4096) =
> > 4096
> > old_mmap(NULL, 192512, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x409c4000
> > old_mmap(0x409c4000, 161031, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0) =
> > 0x409c4000
> > old_mmap(0x409ec000, 24676, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0x27
> > 000) = 0x409ec000
> > close(3)= 0
> > mprotect(0x409c4000, 161031, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/sys/os/lnx86/libm.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
> > read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\350\21"...,
4096) = 409
> > 6
> > old_mmap(NULL, 36864, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x409f3000
> > old_mmap(0x409f3000, 25012, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0) =
> > 0x409f3000
> > old_mmap(0x409fa000, 4480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0x600
> > 0) = 0x409fa000
> > close(3)= 0
> > mprotect(0x409f3000, 25012, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/sys/os/lnx86/libc.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
> > read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320\'\1"...,
4096) = 40
> > 96
> > old_mmap(NULL, 770048, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x409fc000
> > old_mmap(0x409fc000, 537347, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0) =
> > 0x409fc000
> > old_mmap(0x40a8, 19952, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0x83
> > 000) = 0x40a8
> > old_mmap(0x40a85000, 207068, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANO
> > NYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40a85000
> > close(3)= 0
> > mprotect(0x409fc000, 537347, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/sys/os/lnx86/libdl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No
> > such file or directory)
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/bin/lnx86/libdl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No su
> > ch file or directory)
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/extern/lib/lnx86/libdl.so.1", O_RDONLY)
= -1 ENOENT
> > (No such file or directory)
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/windu/lnx86/libdl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No
> > such file or directory)
> >
open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/java/vm/lnx86/lib/lnx86/native_threads/libdl.so
.1",
> > O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> > open("/lib/lnx86/native_threads/libdl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file
> > or directory)
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/sys/opengl/lib/lnx86/libdl.so.1", O_RDONLY)
= -1 EN
> > OENT (No such file or directory)
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/sys/os/lnx86/libXt.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No
> > such file or directory)
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/bin/lnx86/libXt.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No su
> > ch file or directory)
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/extern/lib/lnx86/libXt.so.6", O_RDONLY)
= -1 ENOENT
> > (No such file or directory)
> > open("/usr/local/bin/matlab5/windu/lnx86/libXt.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No
> > such file or directory)
> >
open("/usr/local/bin/matl
Re: openssh incompatibility with ssh.com's ssh
Hi, you can use regular apt or dpkg commands to remove openssh, and use "alien" to transform the new openssh tarball into a .deb so that you can manage it with the packaging system. -Jon
Re: Mouse problems on X (intellieye)
Hi, Try XF86Setup this config utility allows you to tweeak the device settings and see the results (there are ofcourse many key bindings for when you completely disable the mouse). -Jon
xserver-xfree86 upgrade in limbo (unstable)
Hi, ran a dist-upgrade last night on my "unstable" box and xserver-xfree86 is stuck in unconfigurable limbo. first error: Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-11) ... dexconf: /etc/X11/XF86Config already exists. dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xfree86 I mv my config out of the way and get to: Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-11) ... dexconf: cannot generate configuration file; shared/xfree86v3/config/inputdevice/mouse/port not set. Aborting. Reconfigure the X server (e.g., with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86") to correct this problem. dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xfree86 dpkg-reconfigure (as sugested), doesn't work because the package isn't fully installed. I've tried removal and reinstall and every force option I could think of with dpkg and apt to no avail. X does work (once I put the config back), so I guess I'm not too worried. But I'm curious what's going on and how to fix it. -Jon
openssh incompatibility with ssh.com's ssh
dear all, woody uses openssh 2.2.0 which is incompatible with ssh.com's ssh [1]. i NEED the most current version of openssh, which i think is 2.2.3. is there any way of getting it short of uninstalling my ssh deb package and installing a tarball from openssh's site? pete [1] only for those who are interested. ssh.com's sshd had an error in the encryption algorithm. openssh's ssh corrected this mistake. however, ssh.com's sshd has now been corrected. unfortunately, openssh's ssh is still trying to apply the correction which generates a "corrupt HMAC" error message. -- "Coffee... I've conquered the Borg on coffee!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kathryn Janeway on the virtues of coffee www.dirac.org/p
Mouse problems on X (intellieye)
I'm using an Microsoft's optical mouse (Intellieye), and am having trouble getting it to work well with X. In particular, I can't get the mouse to emulate the middle button (I tried using Emulate3Buttons). I'm using Debian 2.2 which comes with XFree86 3.3.6.11. Although I think this is an X issue, I'm also running Ximian Gnome and Enlightenment, in case that makes a difference. I read in the Enlightenment dox that changing the protocol to "MouseManPlusPS/2" and adding ZAxisMapping and Buttons 5 would help for a wheel mouse (and not using Emulate3Buttons). Unfotunately, changing the protocol caused the pointer to jump around weirdly, so I changed the protocol back to "microsoft". It works okay again, but I can't seem to get either the additional buttons (including the wheel) to work. Any suggestions? My pointer section currently: Section "Pointer" # Protocol "PS/2" # Device "/dev/mouse" # Protocol "MousemanPlusPS/2" Protocol "microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse" #symlink to /dev/psaux ZAxisMapping 4 5 Buttons 5 #Emulate3Buttons EndSection Thanks! Jen __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Gnome: short question
A shamefully stupid question: how do i change the text background (and foreground) colors of gtk apps? I found the .gtkrc file but had no clue how to change the colors (if it does that) because of the odd way of defining different colors (0.897 / 0.763 etc.. ) I've installed a few themes to see if they changed it from the default white to something more dark but that didnt work either. Actually, some themes didnt work at all, the only ones that do are pixmapped ones. The 'color themes' dont change a thing. in Gnome Control Center the only option there is for changing the appearance of gtk apps is the Themes section. I'm using unstable, with blackbox as my WM and (as far as i'm aware) just about all the core packages from GNOME installed. William
Where to put an xmodmap script
Where is the best place to load an xmodmap script automatically in Debian? If I put it in .xsession (which previously didn't exist), I get dumped back to an xdm login. Thanks, Brian
Re: GMix reports no mixer devices
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 13:56:22 +, you wrote: >bug report > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=89391&repeatmerged=yes > >has already been reported. > >LeeE I DON'T FLIPPING BELIEVE IT ! I don't know how many hours I spent screwing around with that ! I posted inquiries absolutely everywhere I could think off . not a single person was aware of this ! Lee, THANK YOU VERY MUCH !! I loaded wmmixer and everything works peachy Jens
How to clear dselect list?
For some reason, when I run dselect and select I for install (without using S for select), I get a list of stuff I don't remember selecting (this happened shortly after I installed Ximian Gnome using apt, per Ximian's instructions). Some of the files it says it's going to remove include task-helix-gnome, gnome-utils, and bunches of other gnome stuff. Is there a way to clear dselect's list of stuff to do? Is there a reason this happened? Thanks! Jen __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: resizing partitions
parted and ext2resize. also, partition magic knows about ext2, so that's your easiest option. just get a partition magic bootdisk. DON'T use fips. wrong tool for the job. fips doesn't know how to split ext2 filesystems. only vfat and dos. pete On Sat 24 Mar 01, 1:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier said: > Hey people. I've recently found out that my /tmp partition might be too > small for a particular application. I know that fips is supposed to allow > non-destructive repartitioning. How would you recommend such a thing under > Linux? I don't have a windows partition, nor do I want one, so Partition Magic > isn't an option. I'd just like to grow my /tmp partition a bit. > > Options? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily > a > good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be > dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- "Coffee... I've conquered the Borg on coffee!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kathryn Janeway on the virtues of coffee www.dirac.org/p
