Problems with CD-writer in 2.4.2

[Price, Tim]

Hi all,

I've just upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 and am having trouble using
cdrecord/cdrdao.

They are both complaining that there are no valid scsi devices.

I have compiled in the appropriate (advansys.o) driver & am able to mount &
read data CDs. Just not write.

Anyone else have this trouble?

Cheers

-tim
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Re: Win4Lin

[John Bagdanoff]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:46:37PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
> Hi
> 
>   Just wondering if Win4Lin works under kernel 2.4.2.
> 
> Edwin Lau
> 
Version 3 will, which should be out in a month or 2.  Check their
mailing list archives for the past week or so for more info.

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Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

[Roberto Diaz]

> > I really doubt very much that to connect your electric installation to
> > your pipes installation is even legal.. ask an insurance company.
> It's common practice around here.. The pipe going out of the house is an
> excellent ground. However, if you do it wrong, or the pipe is the wrong
> sort you can do all sorts of nasty things to yourself. I've never seen
> this sort of connection done using solder, I doubt it wold work. There are
> special press connectors that are generally used. Be sure to use green
> wire :>

I am living in a flat.. several years ago me and my neighbours noticed
electric socks at bathroom.. a research shown it was due to a  
"wise" new neighbour who has been using his pipes to ground his domestic
electric devices.. 

It is much better to ask your electric company.. they are the only ones
who realy can to know how to ground your home properly.

Watch out!!

Regards

Roberto


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Sid vs unstable

[Stephen Boulet]

Can someone tell me (who's new to Debian) what the difference between sid and 
unstable is?

Thanks.

-- Stephen

Re: GPM and XF86

[Stephen Boulet]

Thanks. This solved my problem with my logitech firstmouse+ too.

-- Stephen

On Sunday 25 March 2001 11:13 am, Jimmy Richards wrote:
> Hello Raffeale,
>
>
> Run 'gpmconfig' while in console or X, it doesn't matter. Then at the
> end it'll ask you what you want for the 'Repeat' value. Answer 'none'.
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Jimmy Richards
>
> On 25 Mar 2001 18:12:40 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have an IntelliMouse. I use the imps2 protocol with gpm - all works
> > well. I send raw data to /dev/gpmdata... Now, if i choose imps2 at
> > xf86setup and /dev/gpmdata the cursor filps around and nothing works. The
> > same happens if i use ps2 at xfsetup. I tried to use msc to repeat to
> > /dev/gpmdata but this also didn't work. Now i have to shut down gpm then
> > XF works with the imps2 prot on /dev/psaux.
> > Any idea to get that in order?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Raffaele
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cups drivers via kups not there

[Stephen Boulet]

I don't see any drivers for the kups add printer wizard for my remote printer 
(it's an hp2100 with an ethernet connection). All the selections besides 
local printer and file are grayed out.

Is there some other package I need to install?

-- Stephen

Re: Win4Lin

[stephen]

You wrote:

> Hi
>
>   Just wondering if Win4Lin works under kernel 2.4.2.
>


I have no idea.  I'm running 2.2.18.  You can check out the support
section at http://www.win4lin.com.

Thanks for everyone's pointers on this.  I've now managed to get it set up
and working.  I do appreciate the assistance.
--
steve

Re: problems in mounting cdrom

[Rob Mahurin]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:26:14PM +0200, Patrizia Canton wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Debian and to Linux,
> after installing it, I mounted many times the cdrom
> with no problems. Today I tried to install apt
> and, when I was requested to select the install source for apt,
> I was not able to continue
> either giving /dev/cdrom or giving /cdrom.
> After that when I tried to mount 
> mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom 
> (which is the entry I have in /etc/fstab and
> that it worked till this morning)
> the prompt is always 
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device.
> What should I do?

Try "ls -l /dev/cdrom" to inspect for further problems:

23:00 $ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Jul 18  2000 /dev/cdrom -> scd0
23:42 $ ls -l /dev/scd0
brw-rw2 root cdrom 11,   0 Jul 16  2000 /dev/scd0

/dev/cdrom is usually a symbolic link to your real cdrom device.  If
your CD-ROM is the master drive on the second IDE cable, it might be
accessible as /dev/hdc.  So, I can do either

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom

or

mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0  /cdrom

and get the same result.  To re-create the link, read "info ln".  

Rob

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Re: Win4Lin

[Chun Kit Edwin Lau]

Hi

Just wondering if Win4Lin works under kernel 2.4.2.

Edwin Lau

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:03:52 Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:22:57PM -0600, stephen wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a good step-by-step guide to installing Win4Lin on
> > Debian?  I've searched for one, and I've found several places where
> people
> > claim to have it working, but I've been unable to find a guide to
> getting
> > up and going.  I used alien to convert the rpm and installed that, but
> > everything after than has failed miserably.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > steve
> Try:
> 
> http://zeolites.cqe.nwu.edu/marty/tips1.html
> 
> -- 
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> The
>rest of them have to pee on the electric fence
> for
>themselves.  -- Will Rogers   
> 
> 
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Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote:

> I really doubt very much that to connect your electric installation to
> your pipes installation is even legal.. ask an insurance company.

It's common practice around here.. The pipe going out of the house is an
excellent ground. However, if you do it wrong, or the pipe is the wrong
sort you can do all sorts of nasty things to yourself. I've never seen
this sort of connection done using solder, I doubt it wold work. There are
special press connectors that are generally used. Be sure to use green
wire :>

That said. Your house should already be well earthed. The 3rd prong on a
plug (the roundish one) is a path the grounding block in a fuse box which
then goes to either a metal pipe (water) or a metal stake. 

A well built computer should connect all the metal case parts directly to
the ground prong on the outlet, so to dissipate static it is usually
sufficient to touch metal on a computer.

Jason

Re: pon and user in debian

[Hogan]

> > I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects
> > OK. But how to make it work for some selected users. If a group can
> > be made for that purpose say dialup, what are all the files needs to
> > be changed with permissions.
> 
> I think debian is set up that way by default.  Just add the select 
> users to the group dialout.

>From my understanding:
dialout is if you want the users to be able to dial anything they like..
dip (dialup ip) gives them access to pon/poff..

Once an authorised user invokes a dialup IP connection, all other users on
the system can access that initiated connection.. I know that if root does
pon or poff.. a non-root user in the dip group still cannot poff this
connection... I'm not sure what the deal is between non-root users,,

(Either way, when I'm not home, my sister has figured out that she can go
into my bedroom and power down the modem so she can yap to her friends
on my phone! :/ :) )

Anthony Hogan

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... If thought persists, consult your favourite lifestyle program
... If we're alone in the universe, then it's an awful waste of space

Re: pon and user in debian

[John Hasler]

Bud Rogers writes:
> I think debian is set up that way by default.  Just add the select users
> to the group dialout.

'dialout' is for serial port users.  'dip' is for ppp users.
-- 
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Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

[Roberto Diaz]

> if you solder a wire to any peice of metal pipe which is part of the
> plumbing system in your home, that should be more than sufficient for most
> uses.

Never ever, ever connect your electric instalation cables to your plumbing
system!!!..

It could result in fatal electric socks at shower... no joke!!

Better ask your electric company to set up a real and safety ground cable.

I really doubt very much that to connect your electric installation to
your pipes installation is even legal.. ask an insurance company.


Regards

Roberto


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Re: Printer reccommendation

[Roberto Diaz]

> I've never had problems configuring an HP on Linux, and they're pretty 
> reliable
> my Epson Stylus 740 prints like crap, and started doing so, right after the
> warranty ran out, so I'd recommend against Epson (but then that's only one
> printer, it could have been a fluke), and there's not a whole lot of support
> for their models.

I completely agree with you.. HP printers are great.. and epson are very
prone to failures...

I advise to purchase a laser printer for everybody who want a printer just
to print out documentation hp 1100 is a very nice choice for this and if
you buy recicled tonners then the ratio price per printer page is realy
good.

For those who want a color printer.. well I see no point in buy an
"unexpensive" color printer since their quality is realy bad not to
mention the ratio price per printer page which makes the investment really
bad in the middle term.

For printout photographs the best choice is an **expensive** color
printer.. 


Regards

Roberto


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enlightenment deb repository?

[DvB]

Does anyone know of an enlightenment deb repository I can add to 
/etc/apt/sources.list?


TIA

Re: I want to StartX Manually

[Karsten M. Self]

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:15:51PM -0700, Dan Reinhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern,
> 
> 
> I want to start the XServer Manually and not on boot.  How do I do
> this.  I have looked in the lilo.conf, xfree86.cong, and the
> inetd.cong thinking it was in there, but couldnt find anything.  Where
> is it loacted? 

Read:

http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html

Cheers.

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Re: Running X apps when logged as su'd as root

[Karsten M. Self]

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:56:42PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote:
> > Speaking of reasonable defaults, shouldn't this be one? 
> > -chris
> 
> no users should not run X programs as root.

I believe you mean one or more of:

   Users should not run X programs as root.
   No users should run X programs as root.

In general, I agree.  There are specific instances -- the graphical
printtool app comes to mind -- in which system configuration utilities
are available which _must_ be run as root to be effective.  One could
argue that this is a flaw of software design, but it's the way it is.

My rule of thumb is that I only *very* rarely run an X session as root
(usually while troubleshooting X), and run very few X apps as root.
None if I can help it.  But neither are hard and fast rules.

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correct fonts in console

[Timothy Ball]

It's not a big deal but I used to have correct ansi escaped fonts on my
console so when I ran epic4 my scripts wouldn't look stupid. Since I've
installed debian a couple months ago the fonts have never looked right
on the console. I've searched around to try to find a way to fix this
and nothing seems to be fruitful.

If it helps I'm using sid/2.4.2-XFS. 

TIA,
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Setting up internet w/ Sygate Server

[Matheson Cameron]

Hey,

I used to have a crappy free proxy server, but it
didn't work well at all, so I've downloaded the Sygate
Home Network connection-sharing software (transparent
proxy?)  Anyway, I can't seem to get it to work, this
is what I've done:

edit the /etc/network/interfaces like so:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2   #that's me
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0#???
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.3   #that's the sygate
server

then I changed my /etc/resolv.conf like this:

search nofx.gnu #my domain name
nameserver 192.168.1.3

I thought that would be all I have to do, am I missing
something?

Thanks,
Cameron Matheson


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Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

[Christopher Mosley]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:20:32PM -0500, Christopher Mosley ([EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> <...>
> 
> > This outfit did not sell "coolers" in the belief that the local
> > separation into hot and cold was energy intensive and in the long run
> > just created more heat inside the PC that would eventualy have to be
> > removed from the P.C via a fan.
> 
> While this is generally true, several options mitigate:
> 
>   - Coolers might be attached to an external heat exchanger.  Ambient
> cooling from the box exterior is more feasible.


This is not the situation to which I was referring. 
This is why I said "local separation of (into) hot and cold" (within the
pc).  I was referring to a particular kind of product.



>   - As others have noted, significant fan noise is generated not from
> the fan itself, but the sounding-board properties of the
> motherboard and attached components.  Moving the fan location to a
> more rigid portion of the case, and applying acoustical damping to
> it, would probably result in an overall quieter design.

The reason for the proximity of the fan to the heatsink and cpu is for
an immediate cooling of the heat critical and sensitive cpu. In the
particular heatsink fan combination I am speaking of, the noise is low,
efficiency good, and removal of feet^3 per second is considerably
better than the standard heat sink fan combo. It is a trade off, but
I wonder how much noise (in normally operating cpu fan) can be attributed
to the soundboard properties of the motherboard/components/sheet steel
back. Just generally it seems far more likely that objectionable
sounds  will arise from the power supply fan. 
 
I just this second found the name of the Co. that made the
cpu heat sink fan combo and power supply fan I am using.  It is:
 
PC POWER & COOLING INC.  
Hope they are still around and on the web.
 
 
> 
> Cheers.
> 
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> 

Re: nvidia drivers - file missing

[Matthew Dalton]

Tomaas Ortega wrote:
> 
> ive had the same problem when it comes to installing natsemi drivers for my
> netgear ethernet card.
> 2.4.x have the modversion files but it seems 2.2.x do not. I just edited the
> source. all works perfectly now...


I believe that this file is created when you do 'make dep' in the kernel
sources. If you haven't compiled your own kernel, you won't have created
this file. You should also be able to get it by installing the
kernel-headers package of the kernel version you're using.

Matthew


> - Original Message -
> From: "redgirl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "debian" 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 12:15 PM
> Subject: nvidia drivers - file missing
> 
> > When I unpack the NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.tar.gz and do "make install", it
> > reports that there's a file missing.
> >
> > The error  get is
> > nv.c: 49 /linux/modversions.h missing file
> >
> > I oculd not find this on my system.

Re: pon and user in debian

[Bud Rogers]

On Monday 26 March 2001 20:44, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects
> OK. But how to make it work for some selected users. If a group can
> be made for that purpose say dialup, what are all the files needs to
> be changed with permissions.

I think debian is set up that way by default.  Just add the select 
users to the group dialout.

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Re: pon and user in debian

[John Hasler]

L.V.Gandhi writes:
> I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects OK.
> But how to make it work for some selected users.

Run pppconfig, select 'Change', select the relevant connection (you might
have only one), select 'Advanced', select 'Add-User', and add a user.

> If a group can be made for that purpose say dialup,...

The group 'dip' already exists for that purpose and all the relevant files
are in it.  The procedure outlined above adds users to it.  You can do the
same thing with 'adduser'.
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Re: sound in potato

[Dermot Coffey]

>From memory, forgive me if its wrong, but debian installs the
audio devices with read/write access for owner and group with
owner being root and group being audio.  To fix it you can either
add read/write access for world to the devices (chmod o+rw) or 
add any users needing access to sound to the audio group (vi /etc/group).
It appears I have done the second option and as I am listening to music
I presume it worked.

Dermot Coffey

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:10:08AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I have installed debian in a box with yamaha opl3-sax card. In the same
> box, I have RH6.2 also. With sndconfig, I installed modules for in both
> boxes. In RH, sound works for root and user. In debian, it works for
> root. As user when i try to access gmixer in debian, I get msg kernel is
> not configured for sound where as sound works already for root and lsmod
> shows all the necessary modules. How to make sound work for users.
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> 
> 
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mount a mounted filesystem

[Brian Stults]

The unix system at my school is not mountable from off-campus.  However,
I can mount it via smbfs from my work computer (on campus), and I can
mount my work filesystem via nfs from home.  I figured that if the unix
filesystem is mounted to my work computer, I could access it from home
through my work computer.  However, when I mount the work filesystem and
access the directory under which the unix filesystem is mounted, it
appears empty.  If I ssh to my work computer and view the mounted
filesystem from there, it is not empty.  Is there some limitation here
that I'm not aware of, or some option that I must invoke?  I apologize
for the unclear explanation of the situation here.  I'm fairly new to
the language of remotely mounted filesystems.

Thanks.

sound in potato

[L.V.Gandhi]

I have installed debian in a box with yamaha opl3-sax card. In the same
box, I have RH6.2 also. With sndconfig, I installed modules for in both
boxes. In RH, sound works for root and user. In debian, it works for
root. As user when i try to access gmixer in debian, I get msg kernel is
not configured for sound where as sound works already for root and lsmod
shows all the necessary modules. How to make sound work for users.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED],  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pon and user in debian

[L.V.Gandhi]

I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects OK.
But how to make it work for some selected users. If a group can be made
for that purpose say dialup, what are all the files needs to be changed
with permissions.
Further there is nice way to know time online with RHPPP dialer. But
when we connect is there any software to know this continuously.
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Re: Printer reccommendation

[Alan Shutko]

"Karsten M. Self"  writes:

> My recommendation:  don't get anywhere close to an inkjet.

Not as bad a bet as they once were.  Epson printers are well-supported
by gimp-print (which, name to the contrary, is not limited to Gimp)
.  HP printers just got a dose of
support from HP at 

The print quality may not be quite as good as Windows (I haven't tried
the new HP drivers on my deskjet yet) but should be much better than
they used to be.

Laser is still king when it comes to mono, in terms of ease and
support.  (I have an LJ2100M and love it.)  But if you need color,
working with an HP or Epson inkjet will give it to you much cheaper.

-- 
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Re: Quicktime *.mov player

[Matthew Dalton]

Matheson Cameron wrote:
> XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C)
> 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved
>   Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18)

Sorenson Video not supported, and is not likely to be for a while yet
due to patents, agreements between Sorenson and Apple, and Apple being a
right pain in the arse about it all. Read about it on the xanim site:
http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/xa_unsupported.html


> Unknown(and unsupported) Audio Codec:
> QDM2(0x51444d32).

Dunno about this.


>   Notice: Video and Audio are present, but not yet
> supported.
> 
> so I guess something didn't work, any help would be
> appreciated

Indeed.


Matthew

Re: Making root run fetchmail as a user?

[Mark Devin]

Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:37:46AM +1000, Mark Devin wrote:
> >
> > OK, I tried it.  It seems to still not want to run.
> > Here is what I did:
> > 1.  Copied my users .fetchids and .fetchmailrc files to /etc/ppp/ and 
> > changed the
> > group and owner for them to "mail"
>
> /etc/ppp is not readable by user mail, at least not on my potato box:
>

Yeah.  That was the problem.  Thanks.  I fixed it with the following:

Edit the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail-up script to look like:
su - -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900 -t 90 --silent --syslog --fetchmailrc
/etc/fetchmail --idfile /var/spool/mail/.fetchids' mail

Edit the /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/fetchmail-down script to look like:
su - -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail --quit' mail

Then touch /var/spool/mail/.fetchids
chown mail /var/spool/mail/.fetchids
cp /root/.fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmail

user mail does own the /var/spool/mail directory and I made the owner and group 
for
/etc/fetchmail "mail"

And most importantly, it works.  Thanks to all who helped me learn something 
here.

Regards.

Mark.

Re: Quicktime *.mov player

[Matheson Cameron]

Hey,

thanks for the help, I almost have this figured out. 
I downloaded gxanim, and xanim-modules.  When it tried
to configure xanim-modules, I had to bail, because I
don't have FTP working through my proxy server.  I
downloaded the files on another machine, and copied
them over to mine in /usr/local/tmp/xanim-modules.  I
then ran `update-xanim-modules
/usr/local/tmp/xanim-modules', but it gave the
followint error:

Downloading and installing from
file:/usr/local/tmp/xanim-modules/
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-xanim-modules", line 229, in
?
main()
  File "/usr/sbin/update-xanim-modules", line 170, in
main
if pasv:
NameError: pasv

What does that mean?  I manually untarred the files
into /usr/lib/xanim, but it didn't help, now when I
try `xanim ff8.mov`, it says:

XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C)
1991-1999. All Rights Reserved
  Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18)
Unknown(and unsupported) Audio Codec:
QDM2(0x51444d32).
  Notice: Video and Audio are present, but not yet
supported.

so I guess something didn't work, any help would be
appreciated

Thanks,
Cameron Matheson


--- Alson van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:39:21PM -0800, Matheson
> Cameron wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I was wondering if their is a quicktime (*.mov)
> player
> > for Linux that *works*.  The version of xanim that
> > came with Debian doesn't load quicktime, if I get
> it
> > myself will it?  I tried one called xmovie that
> didn't
> > work.
> xanim can do it afaik, with some seperate
> xanim-nonfree or codecs
> package, that downloads the codecs in the postinst
> script. try
> apt-cache search xanim...
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# apt-cache search xanim
> fxanim - Plays multimedia files (animations,
> pictures, and sounds)
> tkxanim - Tcl/Tk front-end to xanim.
> xanim-modules - Installer for xanim binary-only
> modules
> gxanim - GTK frontend to xanim
> 
> you prolly need xanim-modules and the fxanim
> package, try it
> 
> -- 
> ,---.
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> > School:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]<
> `---'
> Yes, I chowned all the files to belong to pvcs.  Is
> that a problem to you?
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Re: nvidia drivers - file missing

[Tomaas Ortega]

ive had the same problem when it comes to installing natsemi drivers for my
netgear ethernet card.
2.4.x have the modversion files but it seems 2.2.x do not. I just edited the
source. all works perfectly now...
- Original Message -
From: "redgirl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian" 
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 12:15 PM
Subject: nvidia drivers - file missing


> Hi,
>
> I want to install the nvidia drivers to my new linux system (just
installed
> debian 2.2r2 / potato).
>
> When I unpack the NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.tar.gz and do "make install", it
> reports that there's a file missing.
>
> The error  get is
> nv.c: 49 /linux/modversions.h missing file
>
> I oculd not find this on my system.
>
> Does anyone knows where I can point the program to, or where to get this
> file, or an updated tar file?
>
> Thanks!
>
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Re: I want to StartX Manually

[Andrew Perrin]

Get rid of /etc/rc*/*xdm .

Alternatively, edit /etc/init.d/xdm to avoid starting xdm.

ap

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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dan Reinhardt wrote:

> To Whom It May Concern,
> 
> 
> I want to start the XServer Manually and not on boot.  How do I do this.  I 
> have looked in the lilo.conf, xfree86.cong, and the inetd.cong thinking it 
> was in there, but couldnt find anything.  Where is it loacted? 
> 
> Any help will be honored.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 

nvidia drivers - file missing

[redgirl]

Hi,

I want to install the nvidia drivers to my new linux system (just installed
debian 2.2r2 / potato).

When I unpack the NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.tar.gz and do "make install", it
reports that there's a file missing.

The error  get is
nv.c: 49 /linux/modversions.h missing file

I oculd not find this on my system.

Does anyone knows where I can point the program to, or where to get this
file, or an updated tar file?

Thanks!

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I want to StartX Manually

[Dan Reinhardt]

To Whom It May Concern,
 
 
I want to start the XServer Manually and not on 
boot.  How do I do this.  I have looked in the lilo.conf, 
xfree86.cong, and the inetd.cong thinking it was in there, but couldnt find 
anything.  Where is it loacted? 
 
Any help will be honored.
 
Thanks,
Dan

Re: Win4Lin

[Kevin C. Smith]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:22:57PM -0600, stephen wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good step-by-step guide to installing Win4Lin on
> Debian?  I've searched for one, and I've found several places where people
> claim to have it working, but I've been unable to find a guide to getting
> up and going.  I used alien to convert the rpm and installed that, but
> everything after than has failed miserably.
> 
> Thanks!
> --
> steve
Try:

http://zeolites.cqe.nwu.edu/marty/tips1.html

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Re: Printer reccommendation

[Karsten M. Self]

on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:09:57AM +1000, Price, Tim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I know this is way off topic, but can anyone reccomend a budget printer with
> good linux (and debianised) support?

Discussed here at length fairly recently.

My recommendation:  don't get anywhere close to an inkjet.  Laserjets
are far more reliable, vastly less expensive to operate, generally much
faster, are supported under GNU/Linux (particularly Postscript
printers), and provide what most people are looking for:  transferring
bits to paper quickly with minimal fuss.  

Primary downsides are power draw, size, and a modestly higher purchase
price.  My HPLJ 4 sits under my desk, is off most of the time, powers up
on less then a minute, and cranks pages far better than my DeskJet ever
did.  Used you can find these puppies for under US$400.

Older HP models are even less expensive (I'd been *given* an HPLJ-III),
but are larger and draw much more current.

> Cheers
> 
> Tim
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Re: Win4Lin

[Andrew Perrin]

Someone posted the below a while ago - I take no responsibility for its
content, I just happened to save it :)

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:30:46 +0100
From: Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: The Doctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Win4Lin
Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:32:03 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Setting up Win4Lin on Debian (tested 2.2)

* get the Win4Lin rpm package
* use alien to convert to a deb --> alien -d Win4lin*.rpm (don't use the
-c
switch)
* install the deb
* change directories to /opt/win4lin/ and run the script postinst-rpm.sh
* if suidmanager is running on your system then open the file
/etc/suid.conf and edit the Win4lin lines, changing 6146 124 to root bin:

win4lin /opt/win4lin/bin/mountc root bin 4555
win4lin /opt/win4lin/mcd root bin 4555
win4lin /opt/win4lin/publicbin/dosexec root bin 4555

[Win4lin has permissions set to root bin, but suidmanager runs a cron job
every day changing that to 6146 124, which makes Win4lin not run until you
change it back. Editing suid.conf will solve this problem.]

P.S. I running kernel 2.2.12, so can't help you with 2.2.18. If you can
compile the kernel with support for Win4Lin then you're set. --hans

At 05:24 PM 2/26/01 -0500, The Doctor wrote:
>The win4lin installer seems heavily rpm-centric. 
>Has anyone had any luck getting win4lin to work? I just tried running
alien on the rpm but I'm getting nowhere fast. 
>I recompiled my 2.2.18 kernel with their patches, but I'd appreciate
anyones experience in a sequence of events to make this successful.
>-- thedoctor


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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, stephen wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good step-by-step guide to installing Win4Lin on
> Debian?  I've searched for one, and I've found several places where people
> claim to have it working, but I've been unable to find a guide to getting
> up and going.  I used alien to convert the rpm and installed that, but
> everything after than has failed miserably.
> 
> Thanks!
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Re: can debian be a wins server??

[Andrew Perrin]

Yes - use samba which is perfectly happy to serve WINS.

Andy Perrin

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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Nick wrote:

> if so, what packages do i nee?
> 
> 
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apt-get unmet dependencies

[D. Hoyem]

I did a apt-get wmppp.app and that downloaded ok but
gave me this message..Sorry, but the following
packages have unmet dependencies:   wmppp.app:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) but 2.1.3-17 is installed
Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. How do I resolve
this?
Thanks for your help
Don

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kernel mode nfs server on debian, mounting on solaris gives errors

[Dean A. Roman]

Hello all,

   I am running an nfs server from a debian(potato) machine.  It is running
2.2.18 kernel and the kernel mode nfs server with both kernel mode nfs-server
v.3 and v2 configured.
   The solaris box is a sun sparc ultra60 dual processor running solaris 7.

==> On Debian machine (nfs server), /etc/exports looks like this:
/users (rw)


1) At first the solaris box could mount /users, however any files saved or vi'd
on the nfs mount were corrupt when doing it from the solaris machine.  I forced
solaris to mount using v.2 instead and no more corruption occurred.
2) When I run some xwindows type programs that seem to be fairly large in size,
from the nfs mounted directory, I begin to get nfs errors:
a)  nfs mount ok, then nfs mount error, then nfs mount ok, then nfs mount
error...etc...etc..etc.
b)  Eventually the program will segmentation fault after about 4-5 of these
nfs erorrs.

This only seems to happen on our sun solaris box.  Other linux boxes don't have
this same program when they nfs mount the file system.

Has anyone seen this problem before?  Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

Thanks,
---Dean.
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Re: Printer reccommendation

[jens]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:14:01 -0700, you wrote:

>I've never had problems configuring an HP on Linux, and they're pretty reliable
>my Epson Stylus 740 prints like crap, and started doing so, right after the
>warranty ran out, 

I am printing thru cups to a 740 via USB and the thing works just
dandy . except when it's gone into sleep mode after not printing
for a while. It never gets out of the sleep mode by itself and any
printout sent to it disappears until the printer is reset .
weirdest thing I have ever seen.

Jens

Re: Printer reccommendation

[Thomas J. Hamman]

Take a look at the suggested printers at linuxprinting.org:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html

I recently bought one of the low-end laser printers that they
recommend (Lexmark Optra e312) and I've been very happy with it.

-- 
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modern that it will not someday be antiquated."
-Ellen Glasgow

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

[Roberto Diaz]

> Noise. 

In my system the most noises cames from the power source fan
rather than the CPU fan. 

And be aware that a CPU fan shouldnt be too noisy.. if so maybe it has
started breaking down.. change it.. I change my CPU fan as soon as it
starts to vibrate too much and this way I always have a very silent fan.

Have you a silent power source? there are some expensive CPU fans which
are really silent..

I dont think is a very good investment to stop your CPU fan for noises, 
you could for example try to place your computer into some case to isolate
noises. Much more effective and unexpensive in the long term.


Regards

Roberto


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Installation: where are the modules?

[Mark H. Wood]

I am in a twisty little maze of installation errors, all different.

I downloaded the current Potato "compact" diskette images for installation
onto a Compaq ProLiant 1500R.  The box has a Compaq NetFlex NIC (tlan
driver) and the disks are connected via a Compaq SMART2/P RAID controller
(cpqarray driver).  "compact" is supposed to have both of these drivers
built as modules.

I can't get the modules loaded, so I'm stuck near the beginning of
installation.  These drivers don't seem to be on the root disk.  Okay, I
select "preload essential modules from diskette".  The drivers-1.bin image
isn't any kind of filesystem image that I understand; 'file' doesn't grok
it, and says it's just binary data.  The installer agrees:  it says it
can't mount the drivers diskette.

Okay, I found the combined drivers archive and unpacked the drivers I
needed.  I copied 'em to a diskette with an ext2 filesystem, into the
/boot directory.  Now the installer can find the modules, but it says they
failed to load.  I switch to vc2 and find it usable, so I manually
'insmod' them.  I am rewarded with a dozen complaints about unresolved
symbols.

By now I recognize that I'm just floundering, having missed some critical
piece of information.  Would someone please point me in the right
direction.

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Make a good day.

Win4Lin

[stephen]

Does anyone know of a good step-by-step guide to installing Win4Lin on
Debian?  I've searched for one, and I've found several places where people
claim to have it working, but I've been unable to find a guide to getting
up and going.  I used alien to convert the rpm and installed that, but
everything after than has failed miserably.

Thanks!
--
steve

xscrabble for Debian?

[Stan Brown]

Can anyone point me to a Debian package for xscrabble?

I'm buildng a new machine for my SO & it's one of her favorites.

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X connection

[aoki]

I know xhost and xauth to get X connected from remote site. xhost 
is insecure and xauth is complicated.  I see ssh has portforwarding 
(-X) for X.  Can anyone pont me to how to do remote connection
using ssh.

Pointer to document is fine but I need more than man page.

Regards,

Osamu

can debian be a wins server??

[Nick]

if so, what packages do i nee?

Re: reset: success

[Chun Kit Edwin Lau]

I don't know if it is related to the problem. Sometimes when I try to
upgrade debian using dselect. I got the forwarding error

hda: timout waiting DMA

ide_dmaproc: chipset support ide_dma_timeout func only 14
hda: reset timed-out status 0x80
hda: status timeout: status = 0x80 {Busy}
endrequest: I/O error dev 03:03

the message just repeat forever. and the system is sort of freeze until I
try to turn it off and back on again.
Ctl+Alt+del don't work
reset botton does work but the computer doesn't recognize the harddisk
after the reboot (only off and on work)

anyone knows what's happening? I am using Maxtor harddisk

Edwin Lau


On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:30:02 Jason Pepas wrote:
> perhaps you have power saving features implemented in your bios so that
> linux might be unaware of them?
> 
> jason
> - Original Message -
> From: "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:30 PM
> Subject: ide1: reset: success
> 
> 
> > logcheck sends me these often --
> >
> > Unusual System Events
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > Mar 26 06:26:03 server kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 26 06:26:03 server kernel: ide1: reset: success
> >
> > this is a hard drive i reaped from a legacy windo~1 system; there
> > were some parameters used in w98 (or w95?) to have the drive
> > automaticall spin down to power-save mode, and this seems to be
> > the result. i'm sure linux can handle those kinds of features,
> > but apparently my setup isn't sleep-mode aware...
> >
> > is there some advanced hdparm i can throw in there to make the
> > kernel (or some daemon) know to look for sleep mode? if not
> > hdparm, maybe something else?
> >
> > --
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> > -- Isaac Asimov, 'The Genetic Code'
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Re: Running X apps when logged as su'd as root

[Karsten M. Self]

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0800, Chris Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self"  writes:
> 
> > Rather than exporting xauthority, my preference is:
> > 
> > # As root
> > $ xauth merge ~$USER/.Xauthority
> > 
> > ...where $USER is your desired user.
> > 
> > This transfers cookies from $USER's .Xauthority file to root's
> > .Xauthority file.  Changes to user's .Xauthority file don't effect X.
> > X now has access to user's X session, but not vice versa.

> Speaking of reasonable defaults, shouldn't this be one? 
> -chris

Sorry?  I don't understand.

Root can *gain* access to an arbitrary user's X session.  This doesn't
mean root should *have* access.  X is something readily inverted.

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Re: Running X apps when logged as su'd as root

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote:
> Speaking of reasonable defaults, shouldn't this be one? 
> -chris

no users should not run X programs as root.

> "Karsten M. Self"  writes:
> 
> > Rather than exporting xauthority, my preference is:
> > 
> > # As root
> > $ xauth merge ~$USER/.Xauthority
> > 
> > ...where $USER is your desired user.
> > 
> > This transfers cookies from $USER's .Xauthority file to root's
> > .Xauthority file.  Changes to user's .Xauthority file don't effect X.
> > X now has access to user's X session, but not vice versa.
> > 
> 
> 
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Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:20:32PM -0500, Christopher Mosley ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

<...>

> This outfit did not sell "coolers" in the belief that the local
> separation into hot and cold was energy intensive and in the long run
> just created more heat inside the PC that would eventualy have to be
> removed from the P.C via a fan.

While this is generally true, several options mitigate:

  - Coolers might be attached to an external heat exchanger.  Ambient
cooling from the box exterior is more feasible.

  - As others have noted, significant fan noise is generated not from
the fan itself, but the sounding-board properties of the
motherboard and attached components.  Moving the fan location to a
more rigid portion of the case, and applying acoustical damping to
it, would probably result in an overall quieter design.

Cheers.

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Re: Making root run fetchmail as a user?

[Ethan Benson]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:37:46AM +1000, Mark Devin wrote:
> 
> OK, I tried it.  It seems to still not want to run.
> Here is what I did:
> 1.  Copied my users .fetchids and .fetchmailrc files to /etc/ppp/ and changed 
> the
> group and owner for them to "mail"

/etc/ppp is not readable by user mail, at least not on my potato box:

drwxr-x---6 root dip  1024 Oct 15 21:34 /etc/ppp/

> It doesn't seem to want to run when I do this.

see above

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Annoying gpm logs

[Dimitri Maziuk]

Hi all,

Mar 26 16:57:09 odyssey /usr/sbin/gpm[223]: Address  not a socket in processConn
Mar 26 17:01:14 odyssey /usr/sbin/gpm[223]: Address  not a socket in processConn

Anyone knows what's up with that? How do I get rid of this mess?

TIA
Dima
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gpm problem

[L.V.Gandhi]

I have microsoft intellimouse and installed debian potato previously
also along with gpm. But it didn't create any problem with X. Now it
gives me the problem. I am not sure which are the packages installed
with gpm and which one is hindering. When i do dpkg-reconfigure i get
either gpm is not installed or debconf is not used. Apt-cache search
gives
this. 
lvghomepc:~# apt-cache search gpm
libgpmg1 - General Purpose Mouse Library [libc6]
imwheel - Program to support the "wheel" on some new mice
aview - An high quality ascii-art image (pgm) browser
gpm - General Purpose Mouse Interface
libgpmg1-dev - General Purpose Mouse Library, development files [libc6]
Any solutions please
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Re: [xine-user] xine not work

[eric]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


But eric, is your dvd attached as a master in the ide0, you said your
dev driver is hda!!!.

In my case I have a dvd attatched as a slave in the ide1. First of all
yous must be sure both cd and dvd ar running as cdrom, I mean could they
read normal cds?

Then go to /dev; if it is created, delete the dvd device (rm dvd), then
create the linkg: ln -s /dev/cdrom2 dvd (in my case the dvd was the
cdrom2)

and this should be enought; try first with xine dvd://t0c5t6; if the led
of the dvd start lighting this is the good sign.

I hope this help you

Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)


- Mensaje Original -
Remitente: eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Lunes, Marzo 27, 2000 5:18 pm
Asunto: [xine-user] xine not work


Heiko Schaefer wrote:


Hey eric,


thanks your reply and hint,



no problem :) although you should really direct your questions to 


the> xine-user mailinglist (see xine's website)...


I change the time(2000->2001) then it can compile but I meet new
problem, when I run xine, click dvd tab, click play, it show 



nothing>> and I get a text script as:


[...]



maybe you're missing the /dev/dvd device, which should point to 


the device


that is your dvd drive ?

Heiko




thanks your reply , but /dev/dvd did point to my dvd drive  
/dev/hda  , 
I also tried /cdrom

both not work

I did not understand
input_dvd: unable to open raw dvd drive (/dev/rdvd): No such file 
or 
directory

I indeed do not have /dev/rdvd

so I tried ln /dev/rdvd
it still not work , but the moinitor script did not show up the 
above 
error message


input_dvd: using raw device /dev/rdvd

error: couldn't find demuxer for >DROP A FILE ON XINE<
hope to see some hint about demuxer or other essential component error
once again I am in 2.2.18, a small related question, how do I know 
the 
version of  x server I current runing( I play no supported free 
downlaod 
debian progeny)?


sincere
eric






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thanks your reply, I tried what you suggest, but not work
I copy some vob file to my harddisk then
play it
it is more than 22 minutes(I can scroll to the end see the picture, 
whcih I already watched on windcowME), it I hit play it only play 7 minutes


any suggestion welcome

sincere
eric

Re: permissions and fstab

[Carel Fellinger]

Hi Marcello,

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:04:21PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> I have a dos partition  which belongs to a win98 disk. I need to access 
> this dos partition from linux, in order to write some stuff on it. This 
> partition 
> is mounted automatically at startup trhough the appropriate entry in the 
> fstab 
> file. The problem are the permissions. This dos partition has root as owner, 
> so I don't have permission to write to it from my personal account. How can I 
> fix it at boot time? i.e I need this partition mounted with the correct 

[[ untested, mainly from reading the fine manuals (but admittedly prior
   to your question)  ]]

There are basicly three ways to handle this.

1) Remount per user:
   in /etc/fstab change the entry for that dos partition like this:

   /dev/hda1/winfun vfatdefaults,user   0 2

   this will allow any user on your system to unmount that dos partition
   and to remount it.  Remounting it will allow that user to write to it,
   but not others.  But ofcourse at any time others could remount it too,
   putting the first user again in a situation where he can't write to it.

2) Mount by root, but for a specific user:
   in /etc/fstab change the entry for that dos partition like this:

   /dev/hda1 /winfun vfat defaults,uid=1001,gid=1001,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 2

   this will allow root but also the user with uid 1001 and gid 1001
   to read and write to that partition. Only root can mount it.
   [[ I've added the flags noexec,nosuid,nodev as they were implied by
  the user flag ]]

3) Mount by root, but with very permissive file permissions:
   in /etc/fstab change the entry for that dos partition like this:

   /dev/hda1/winfun vfatdefaults,umask=000,noexec,nosuid,nodev  0 2

   this allows any body to read/write to this partition, but only root
   can mount it.

4) Combine 2 and 3:
   in /etc/fstab change the entry for that dos partition like this:

   /dev/hda1 /winfun vfat defaults,gid=1500,umask=002,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 2

   This will allow root and any user with gid 1500 to write to it. Every
   body can read from it, but only root can mount it.


In my home situation I prefere 1: the windows partitions are readonly
by default, yet accessible at will.  In les friendly environments I
would prefer 4:)  One could even try a combination of 1, 2 and 3
-adding the benifit of read-only per default-, but I think it won't
work, as malicious users could repeatedly remount it, preventing any
real work to be done.

-- 
groetjes, carel

ML not coming from Debian

[Osamu Aoki]

Suddenly, last few days, I am not getting mail from any of the ML I
subscribe at debian.  I do get from other ML (vim, emacs,...)

I requested to subscribe thinking bad mail transfer caused to stop ML to
send me new mail  No response from -request comes back.

I see new postings on Debian ML archive site.  ML seems working.

Does anyone have idea???

Osamu
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Re: Printer reccommendation

[Jason Majors]

I've never had problems configuring an HP on Linux, and they're pretty reliable
my Epson Stylus 740 prints like crap, and started doing so, right after the
warranty ran out, so I'd recommend against Epson (but then that's only one
printer, it could have been a fluke), and there's not a whole lot of support
for their models.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:09:57AM +1000, Price, Tim scribbled...
> Hi all,
> 
> I know this is way off topic, but can anyone reccomend a budget printer
> with
> good linux (and debianised) support?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tim
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Printer reccommendation

[Price, Tim]

Hi all,

I know this is way off topic, but can anyone reccomend a budget printer with
good linux (and debianised) support?

Cheers

Tim
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Re: GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

[debuser]

I'm not sure Nvidia's drivers work at 24bpp, so you might want to try
running at 16bpp. Also, you did remember to change the driver in your
XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if that file exists on your system) file to be
"nvidia" rather than "nv", right?

Gerry

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:

> I've got a Diamond Viper770 video card, which has a Nvidia TNT chip on it. 
> Using the standard XFree86 4 nv driver, 3D performance is, well, poor. So
> I decided to install the driver from NVidia. I downloaded and installed
> the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages. With those, I built the
> nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-2.2.18 (yes, I'm using kernel 2.2.18)
> packages and installed those, too. Then I reconfigured the X server to use
> the new nvidia driver. But 3D performance is still as poor as it was
> before. Have I done something wrong and if so, what?
> 
> BTW, I have tested the 3D performance by running the GLText demo from
> xscreensaver. With a resolution of 1600x1280 at 24bpp, I get about 2 fps.
> 
> Remco
> -- 
> qn-195-66-31-144:  23:20:02 up 3 days, 22:44,  9 users,  load average: 1.58, 
> 2.05, 1.64
> 
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Re: Linux wannabe

[D-Man]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:46:28PM +, Viktor Lakics wrote:
| On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:01:40PM -0500, D-Man wrote:
| 
| I like grub too. But it's nor fair to compare an older version of
| lilo to a newcomer grub. 


Maybe.  I tried lilo first when installing linux on the company
machine (RH6.2).

| FYI, recent lilo versions do NOT have the 1024 cylinder limit.

So I've heard.

| > One of the best things about grub is that you can configure it
| > when you boot.  It gives a nice menu and command-line interface.
| > Also it chainloads winows without any effort at all (unlike LILO).
| 
| Lilo also gives you the same menu as grub. I have Mandrake 7.2 on my
| laptop, and lilo installed automatically with the same menu system
| as grub would do...

Not quite.  You have to first setup all the boot sequences, then it
can show you them.  You can't press "e" and get the edit menu to fix
an erroneous boot sequence.

| > I now have grub on my MBR and won't go back to use lilo.
| 
| The only real advantage of grub over lilo, is that if you modify the
| grub menu config file, you do not have to reinstall grub on the MBR
| while lilo needs to be rerun.

In other words :  If you messed up with lilo, you have an unbootable
machine.  You need to then boot that unbootable machine inorder to
modify the config and rerun lilo and fix it's unbootability.  With
grub you simply correct your mistake and continue to boot the machine.
When it is booted you can make the correction to the config file.

In addition, I think it is possible to use grub without having linux
at all.  It can read several different partition types to get the
stage2 and menu.lst from so you could use Windows or some other system
to maintain the configuration (suppose someone wanted only DOS and
Windows on a system, dual booting).  Lilo requires Linux inorder to
run and read the config file and setup the MBR.

Also -- chainloading windows from lilo is difficult.  Ever read the docs
on linuxdoc.org and then try it?  I did.  Then I tried grub.  It took
me no time at all, with only the little documentation on the website
(and the sample menu.lst file).


Just my $0.02
-D

Re: Running X apps when logged as su'd as root

[Chris Majewski]

Speaking of reasonable defaults, shouldn't this be one? 
-chris

"Karsten M. Self"  writes:

> Rather than exporting xauthority, my preference is:
> 
> # As root
> $ xauth merge ~$USER/.Xauthority
> 
> ...where $USER is your desired user.
> 
> This transfers cookies from $USER's .Xauthority file to root's
> .Xauthority file.  Changes to user's .Xauthority file don't effect X.
> X now has access to user's X session, but not vice versa.
> 

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

[D-Man]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:30:38PM +0200, Norman Schmidt wrote:
| Hi!
| 
| NO!!!
| 
| The fans that are switched on and of or have highly variable speeds are
| moch more annoying than a fan running with the same speed all the time.
| There are very silent fans with less than 30 dB (I will find out how
| silent later this week), and using an accoustically insulated case does
| silence lots more (but expensive).

nah, just shove the machine in an insulated box of some sort (not the
keyboard and monitor, of course)

;-)

-D

Re: apt-get update

[Carel Fellinger]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:22:15PM -0500, Bill White wrote:
...
> Now, when I update, I frequently can't see packages with "dpkg -l",
> but I can install them.  That is to say, if the package libmumble 
> exists but is not installed, and I run "dpkg -l '*mumble*'" I used to
> get a line starting with "un".  Now, dpkg tells me that nothing
> matches '*mumble*'.  If, now, I run "apt-get install libmumble", the
> installation proceeds without any apparent problems.  This doesn't

Ha, bitten by this dselect/apt peculiarity too:) I find this confusing
too, dselect uses apt, you've done a "apt-get update" yet dselect
knows next to nothing.  To make dselect aware of changes in the
packet files you'll need to use dselect's Update menu.

-- 
groetjes, carel

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

[Christopher Mosley]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:19:19PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > Noise. 
> > -chris
> > 
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Why do you want to burn you CPU? a fan is very cheap.. less than $15 some
> > > models. You can buy one in all computer stores.
> > > 
> > > Just curious.. why do you want to make this? (maybe you have other
> > > solutions)
> [snip: wanting to run without a fan]
> 
> I hear there exist fans that can turn on and off according to
> temperature. The local computer shop down the road is trying to find one
> for me. Aparantly the newer P3 box sets have temperature-driven
> variable-speed fans, too. And I believe some motherboards can even
> control the fans through i2c, though I've not personally run across one.
> 
> I was running my K6/300 for a while with the fan power disconnected, and
> attaching it when doing CPU-intensive things like compiles and music. I
> also have noflushd installed and have the hard drive spin down.
> 
> -- Ferret

Someone in this group gave me the name of a Co. on the web that specialized
in quiet cooling for P.C's. The heatsink on the fan I bought was massive
and was cast rather than a slice off an aluminum extrusion, this allowed for
better design with more sharp edges, another important factor in heat
dissipation. The fan on the heat sink was very quiet as was the transformer
fan I also bought there. Wish I could remember the name of the outfit
(I will try to find out if you wish). This outfit did not sell "coolers"
in the belief that the local separation into hot and cold was energy
intensive and in the long run just created more heat inside the PC that would
eventualy have to be removed from the P.C via a fan.


> 
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Re: Linux in the company

[Nathan E Norman]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:20:12PM +0100, Gregor Kaleta wrote:
> Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which
> Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is
> the first election RedHat Linux?

My former employer Midcontinent Media Inc http://www.midcocomm.com
runs all their internet presence servers on Debian GNU/Linux (most of
the machines are IBM Netfinity 3000s).

My current employer Micromuse Inc./Ltd./Plc (whatever)
http://www/micromuse.com officially supports Red Hat Linux as one of
our software platforms.  I use debian every day on the desktop.

Cheers,

-- 
Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better
Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   |   -- Patton


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Re: deleting specific files

[Karsten M. Self]

Please respond to list mail on-list.  Reply redirected to list.  
Reply-to: set to list.

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:23:15PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Karsten
> 
> thank you very much for your illustrating answer!
> Now, I am new to linux and Debian, so I would like to understand more 
> of your answer:
> 
> > > > I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form 
> > > > *.doc, scattered into several subdirectories inside a given
> > > > directory. What should I do?
>  
> > Several options:
> >   - Create a script.  This *is* my preferred method.
> > 
> >  $ find . -type f -name \*.doc | sed -e '/.*/s//rm &/' > rmscript
> >  # Edit the script to make sure it's got The Right Stuff
> >  $ vi rmscript
> >  # run it
> >  $ chmod +x rmscript; ./rmscript
> > 
> 
> where is the script in your example above? (sorry, I knew this is a
> stupid question, but...). Of course the script's name is rmscript, but
> what's inside it?

Well, the easy answer is "run it and see".

Initially, the output from the find command, with 'rm ' prepended to the
start of each line.  After you edit it, whatever you've added or
removed.

Say I've got a directory tree:

/tmp/foo
`-- bar
`-- baz

With the following files in it:

/tmp/foo/bar/qux.doc
/tmp/foo/bar.doc
/tmp/foo/baz.doc

When I run the find command listed above, rmscript contains:

rm /tmp/foo/bar/qux.doc
rm /tmp/foo/bar.doc
rm /tmp/foo/baz.doc

Supposing I wanted to keep 'qux.doc', I'd edit it out of the script
(delete the line).

How exactly you deal with the file is up to you.  While I've
programmatically created all the commands (in this simple instance), you
could also just dump in a raw list of filenames and use vi editing
commands to substitute and replace within the script.

> thank you for your patiente...

De nada.  (Sorry, I know that's Spanish and not Portuguese).

-- 
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Re: Linux in the company

[Corwin Grey]

> > Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which
> > Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is
> > the first election RedHat Linux?

I work for a Network Operations Center and ISP and we run almost everything
off of debian servers.  We have a couple of RedHat boxen lying around that
perform some minimal work, but we have all but three of our servers
over to Debian about a year ago.  It's far more secure, and suits our
needs much better in terms of flexibility in installation and use.

Most of our workstations are also Debian or RedHat, with some dual boot
Windows.  The RedHat ones are slowly switching to Debian as well except
for a few who really seem to prefer it.

Personally give me Debian+Enlightenment. =)


#include 
/*
My opinions are my own and are not sponsored
by or endorsed by my employer.
*/

Corwin J. Grey
Techline, Inc.
http://www.techline.com
Engineering and Application Development

"What does this tell me?  That if Microsoft were the last software
company left in the world, 13% of the US population would be scouring
garage sales & Goodwill for old TRS-80s, CPM machines & Apple ]['s before
they would buy Microsoft. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement."
-- Seen on Slashdot

Re: Audio CD DAO recording

[John Griffiths]

># Pipe ripped songs over to cdrdao using the 'toc' generated above
>cdda2wav -q -D 0,0,0 -t 1 -d 5000 -O cdr -C guess -E big - |\
>cdrdao write --paranoia-mode 1 --driver generic-mmc:0x2 \
>  --device 0,1,0 --buffers 64 --speed 4 --eject /tmp/cd.toc

I think this is your problem, the piping over, your system is way over the spec 
of the one I'm using without a single coaster.

if you've got the disk space get the wav's onto harddrive.. i use:

#cdparanoia -s -B

but i'm sure there are other ways.

Re: Linux in the company

[R. Ransbottom]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Gregor Kaleta wrote:

> Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which
> Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is
> the first election RedHat Linux?

I have Debian running on every thing and have since 1.1, I think.
Occasionally I run Red Hat on one of our servers because that is
the blessed distribution of a software vendor and I check if
the application's bugs might be resolved by having the "right" libraries.

Red Hat is much more appropriate for a PC that is outside of IT's
domain.  It is easy to set up with RH's defaults.

Debian is marginally more difficult to install.  The difficulty is
knowing what services/packages you want installed.  Debian is
much more attuned to the Unix geek, redhat adds many bits of
indirection which will trip up a unix geek.  (Such as overwriting
/etc/hostname on reboot, etc., double layers of compression on
drivers on boot floppy set.)

If saving money by using older machines appeals, Debian is a better
bet.

rob Live the dream.

Audio CD DAO recording

[Sergio Da Silva]

Hi,

Due to hard disk limitations, I am not currently able to do TAO 
recording. I have tried using 'cdrdao' for DAO recording with some 
options enabled but so far only few of the audio CDs I have burned are 
perfect: on most of them there are parasite noises. A friend told me 
that buffer underruns would be occurring. I have tried to play with the
options but had no success so far.

What are failsafe options to perform DAO (time does not matter as long 
as the result is perfect) ? 

Here is the hardware I am using:

 Athlon 500 w/ 128 M Asus K7 
 Ricoh MP 7040A (CD writer)
 Sony CDU 611 (CD reader)

I use modules 'ide-scsi' and 'sg' module of course.

Here is the script I use to perform DAO:

#!/bin/sh

# Generate 'table of contents' for DAO recording
cdrdao read-toc --datafile - --device 0,0,0 /tmp/cd.toc

# Pipe ripped songs over to cdrdao using the 'toc' generated above
cdda2wav -q -D 0,0,0 -t 1 -d 5000 -O cdr -C guess -E big - |\
cdrdao write --paranoia-mode 1 --driver generic-mmc:0x2 \
  --device 0,1,0 --buffers 64 --speed 4 --eject /tmp/cd.toc

# Erase the 'toc' when recording is done
rm /tmp/cd.toc

The script was adpated from a script that somebody has posted on this
list (I have not kept track of who it was).

If someone has found a way to use 'cdparanoia' instead of 'cdda2wav',
let me know.

Any suggestions are welcome.

-- 
Sérgio Da Silva  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

No matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

gmc segmentation fault

[Robin Gerard]

hello,
I have solved my problem with debconf but gmc 
always dislays the message "segmentation fault" and the address for
help does not exist on the WEB.
Can someone advise me, please, how to deal with this problem.
I can't use gdb gmc core because gmc had not been compiled with
the option -g.
THanks for your help.  

-- 
 Gerard 
   

GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

[Remco Blaakmeer]

I've got a Diamond Viper770 video card, which has a Nvidia TNT chip on it. 
Using the standard XFree86 4 nv driver, 3D performance is, well, poor. So
I decided to install the driver from NVidia. I downloaded and installed
the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages. With those, I built the
nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-2.2.18 (yes, I'm using kernel 2.2.18)
packages and installed those, too. Then I reconfigured the X server to use
the new nvidia driver. But 3D performance is still as poor as it was
before. Have I done something wrong and if so, what?

BTW, I have tested the 3D performance by running the GLText demo from
xscreensaver. With a resolution of 1600x1280 at 24bpp, I get about 2 fps.

Remco
-- 
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2.05, 1.64

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

[Norman Schmidt]

Hi!

NO!!!

The fans that are switched on and of or have highly variable speeds are
moch more annoying than a fan running with the same speed all the time.
There are very silent fans with less than 30 dB (I will find out how
silent later this week), and using an accoustically insulated case does
silence lots more (but expensive).

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> 
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:19:19PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > Noise.
> > -chris
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Why do you want to burn you CPU? a fan is very cheap.. less than $15 some
> > > models. You can buy one in all computer stores.
> > >
> > > Just curious.. why do you want to make this? (maybe you have other
> > > solutions)
> [snip: wanting to run without a fan]
> 
> I hear there exist fans that can turn on and off according to
> temperature. The local computer shop down the road is trying to find one
> for me. Aparantly the newer P3 box sets have temperature-driven
> variable-speed fans, too. And I believe some motherboards can even
> control the fans through i2c, though I've not personally run across one.
> 
> I was running my K6/300 for a while with the fan power disconnected, and
> attaching it when doing CPU-intensive things like compiles and music. I
> also have noflushd installed and have the hard drive spin down.
> 
> -- Ferret
> 
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-- 

--
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cand.chem. Sysadmin Wohnheimnetzwerk RatNET
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reset: success

[Jason Pepas]

perhaps you have power saving features implemented in your bios so that
linux might be unaware of them?

jason
- Original Message -
From: "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:30 PM
Subject: ide1: reset: success


> logcheck sends me these often --
>
> Unusual System Events
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Mar 26 06:26:03 server kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Mar 26 06:26:03 server kernel: ide1: reset: success
>
> this is a hard drive i reaped from a legacy windo~1 system; there
> were some parameters used in w98 (or w95?) to have the drive
> automaticall spin down to power-save mode, and this seems to be
> the result. i'm sure linux can handle those kinds of features,
> but apparently my setup isn't sleep-mode aware...
>
> is there some advanced hdparm i can throw in there to make the
> kernel (or some daemon) know to look for sleep mode? if not
> hdparm, maybe something else?
>
> --
> It is always hazardous to ask "Why?" in science, but it is often
> interesting to do so just the same.
> -- Isaac Asimov, 'The Genetic Code'
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

[Jason Pepas]

if you solder a wire to any peice of metal pipe which is part of the
plumbing system in your home, that should be more than sufficient for most
uses.

but for simple hardware upgrades, just make sure your computer IS plugged in
(the thrid prong is the ground in your plug) and your whole case becomes a
ground.

jason

- Original Message -
From: "Rick Rezinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?


> A grounding strap just creates a circuit between you and a ground
> terminal.  A ground terminal is a relatively infinite pool of electrons.
> So, all you should need is a conducting strip going around your wrist
> and a bit of copper to run to your pool of electrons and some tape to
> hold the strip to the pool.  For low voltage work (like with static
> electricity), you should be able to get away with using some local piece
> of metal (like the computer case) as your pool.  Just make sure to touch
> something to release those bad boys prior to sensitive work.
>
> rick
>
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, jh wrote:
>
> > Hi. Does anyone know how or have a link to building your own grounding
> > device that could attach to your wrist for hardware upgrades? I live in
a
> > very small town with no way to get one quickly. I know there are places
> > online that sell them. Hoping to make something that would do the same
job.
> > I am in the process of upgrading my motherboard and don't want to take
any
> > chances. Thank you. -Jeff H
> >
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Re: How to activate the datacompression at SCSI-DAT-Streamer HP C1533A ??

[Anton Emmerfors]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:55:34PM +0200, Walther, Christoph wrote:

> It makes no sense, if the datacompression is activated by the
> DIL-switches 1 and 2 at the streamer or to do that by
> mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 1.
 

I'm not certain whether this is relevant to your problem or not but my
Python 27871-XXX (Compaq OEM) and mt from Testing (and Potato when I
used that) needs "datcompression 2" to turn compression ON and
"datcompression 0" to turn it OFF. "datcompression 1" simply reports
the status of compression without changing it.

Hope this helps.

/Anton
-- 
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

Re: Is is possible for updating 2.2.16 to 2.2.18?

[Jie Zou]

Thanks!


--Jie 



On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Galt wrote:

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> 
> No, boot-floppies are not the kernel.  boot-floppies ARE up to
> 2.2.20--Debian 2.2 floppies version 20.  In fact, AFAIK boot-floppies use
> 2.2.18...
> 
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:
> 
> >
> >Maybe you are right. I was confused by the versions:
> >
> >ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/
> >and ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/
> >
> >Maybe the first one is debian's version.
> >
> >Am I right?
> >
> >
> >--Jie Zou
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Galt wrote:
> >
> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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> >>
> >> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >I found kernel 2.2.20.0.1. Is it the newest one?
> >>
> >> u. no.  On ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/  there is a
> >> file: LATEST-IS-2.2.19.  Anybody trying to give you a 2.2.20 kernel today
> >> or for the near-term future ought to be distrusted.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >
> >> >--Jie Zou
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi Jie!
> >> >>
> >> >> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:
> >> >> > Is is possible for updating kernel 2.2.16 to 2.2.18? If it is where 
> >> >> > to get
> >> >> > the 2.2.18?
> >> >>
> >> >> 2.2.19pre17 is available in Debian unstable.
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >>   "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
> >> >>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
> >> >>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
> >> >>   Henrique Holschuh
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> - --
> >> There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million
> >> keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare
> >> would be produced.   Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true.
> >>
> >> Who is John Galt?  [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
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Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

[Anton Emmerfors]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 03:02:51PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:

> This is strictly non-Debian but I haven't found any info on this
> anywhere so maybe someone can help: can I run a PIII with the CPU
> fan unplugged, provided I underclock it?  I ran my Katmai 500MHz
> processor with the fan unplugged for a whole day, underclocked to
> 333MHz, it didn't even blink. This included 1.5 hours of intense
> benchmarking stuff (I was scared to push it for longer than
> that). Very hot though (couldn't touch the heatsink for more than a
> half second or so). Presumably this is not very good for the
> CPU. But will it last about a year under these conditions? What
> about other Intel CPU's? A Celeron? A gigahertz processor? If I
> underclock these things as far as they will go (on my mobo this
> means 66 MHz bus speed), will they run reliably without active
> cooling? Do I need a special heatsink? Where can I buy one? And so
> on.

I do not believe that this would be a good solution. If noise is your
primary you could check out the Silverado coolers from NoiseControl
and the review at Toms Hardware.

http://www.noisecontrol.de/ (almost entire site is in german)
http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q1/010306/index.html

Hope this helps.

/Anton
-- 
Have you crashed your Windows today?

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

[Chris Majewski]

I  dropped  by  the  campus  bookstore  just now  and  saw  two  quiet
machines. One  is of course the Apple  G4 Cube. You can  hear the hard
drive on  it, but only  barely. It's  a bit of  a black box  though --
didn't see where I could plug in, say, a microphone. The display model 
had  a huge  (>= 24")  LCD screen  and played  DVD's  nicely (hardware
decoding? software decoding?). 
The other is this box called Sony Vaio Sound Studio, or something like
that. It  looks like  a regular  ATX-type box but  with a  nicer paint
job. Didn't hear any CPU fan on it, can anyone confirm this? 
As far  as variable speed, goes,  I think my  Slot-1 motherboard (ASUS
p3v133)  supports  it,  since  the  hardware monitor  (both  BIOS  and
lm-sensors) report fluctuating fan speeds. However, I think the p3v133
doesn't  have   enough  temperature  sensors  to   make  this  feature
useful. Basically the  fan always spins at 4000-4500  RPM. It seems to
me if I could do the same thing to my CPU fan as I did to my P/S fan -
re-wire it to  run at a lower  voltage - both my computer  and my ears
would  be happy. A  proper temperature  sensor (thermistor?)  would of
course be the right solution, anyone know how to build/buy/install one
of these? Failing that, maybe I'll  just get a resistor at Radio Shack
and  try   patching  that   into  the  wire   from  the  fan   to  the
motherboard.. suggestions on this also welcome. 

-chris



On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:19:19PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > Noise. 
> > -chris
> > 
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Why do you want to burn you CPU? a fan is very cheap.. less than $15 some
> > > models. You can buy one in all computer stores.
> > > 
> > > Just curious.. why do you want to make this? (maybe you have other
> > > solutions)
> [snip: wanting to run without a fan]
> 
> I hear there exist fans that can turn on and off according to
> temperature. The local computer shop down the road is trying to find one
> for me. Aparantly the newer P3 box sets have temperature-driven
> variable-speed fans, too. And I believe some motherboards can even
> control the fans through i2c, though I've not personally run across one.
> 
> I was running my K6/300 for a while with the fan power disconnected, and
> attaching it when doing CPU-intensive things like compiles and music. I
> also have noflushd installed and have the hard drive spin down.
> 
> -- Ferret
> 

permissions and fstab

[Marcelo Chiapparini]

Hi!

I have a dos partition  which belongs to a win98 disk. I need to access 
this dos partition from linux, in order to write some stuff on it. This 
partition 
is mounted automatically at startup trhough the appropriate entry in the fstab 
file. The problem are the permissions. This dos partition has root as owner, 
so I don't have permission to write to it from my personal account. How can I 
fix it at boot time? i.e I need this partition mounted with the correct 
permissions which allows me to write to it from my personal account (which is 
not root! :)).

Thanks in advance!

Marcelo

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DFT-IF/UERJ
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Re: Is is possible for updating 2.2.16 to 2.2.18?

[John Galt]

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No, boot-floppies are not the kernel.  boot-floppies ARE up to
2.2.20--Debian 2.2 floppies version 20.  In fact, AFAIK boot-floppies use
2.2.18...

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:

>
>Maybe you are right. I was confused by the versions:
>
>ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/
>and ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/
>
>Maybe the first one is debian's version.
>
>Am I right?
>
>
>--Jie Zou
>
>
>On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Galt wrote:
>
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>>
>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >I found kernel 2.2.20.0.1. Is it the newest one?
>>
>> u. no.  On ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/  there is a
>> file: LATEST-IS-2.2.19.  Anybody trying to give you a 2.2.20 kernel today
>> or for the near-term future ought to be distrusted.
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >--Jie Zou
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Jie!
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:
>> >> > Is is possible for updating kernel 2.2.16 to 2.2.18? If it is where to 
>> >> > get
>> >> > the 2.2.18?
>> >>
>> >> 2.2.19pre17 is available in Debian unstable.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>   "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
>> >>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>> >>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>> >>   Henrique Holschuh
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> - --
>> There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million
>> keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare
>> would be produced.   Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true.
>>
>> Who is John Galt?  [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
>>
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Re: Linux wannabe

[Viktor Lakics]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:01:40PM -0500, D-Man wrote:
> I tried LILO myself, and on my machine with my BIOS it didn't
> work.  When asked to add linux to a win2k box at work I tried lilo
> first.  I couldn't get a lilo floppy to dual-boot the system.
> LILO would also have had trouble on the MBR since the kernal was
> above the 1024 cylinder mark.

I like grub too. But it's nor fair to compare an older version of
lilo to a newcomer grub. FYI, recent lilo versions do NOT have the
1024 cylinder limit. 

> One of the best things about grub is that you can configure it
> when you boot.  It gives a nice menu and command-line interface.
> Also it chainloads winows without any effort at all (unlike LILO).

Lilo also gives you the same menu as grub. I have Mandrake 7.2 on my
laptop, and lilo installed automatically with the same menu system
as grub would do...

> I now have grub on my MBR and won't go back to use lilo.

The only real advantage of grub over lilo, is that if you modify the
grub menu config file, you do not have to reinstall grub on the MBR
while lilo needs to be rerun.

-- Viktor 

Re: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA

[D-Man]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:09:13PM +1200, Lex McPhail wrote:
| What does the following message mean:
| 
| hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
| hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
| 

The drive is probably going bad, or you might just have a bad machine.
About a month and a half ago I got errors like this (then the ide bus
would reset it would try again, and again ..., and I couldn't do
anything but pull the plug).  I saved all my data, ran Maxtor's
diagnostic utilities (I have a Maxtor drive) and it said all was fine.
I reinstalled Debian, and last night got the errors again.  This time
I unplugged my zip drive, and the machine was ok.  My box only has a
110 watt power supply, so I think I was pushing it over its limit and
the hd really is fine.  If you have a similar situation with your box,
try removing disks you don't really use and see if the problem goes
away.  If it does, live without the disks or get a bigger power
supply.

HTH,
-D

Re: Is is possible for updating 2.2.16 to 2.2.18?

[Jie Zou]

Maybe you are right. I was confused by the versions: 

ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/
and ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/

Maybe the first one is debian's version.

Am I right?


--Jie Zou


On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Galt wrote:

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> 
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:
> 
> >
> >I found kernel 2.2.20.0.1. Is it the newest one?
> 
> u. no.  On ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/  there is a
> file: LATEST-IS-2.2.19.  Anybody trying to give you a 2.2.20 kernel today
> or for the near-term future ought to be distrusted.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >--Jie Zou
> >
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jie!
> >>
> >> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:
> >> > Is is possible for updating kernel 2.2.16 to 2.2.18? If it is where to 
> >> > get
> >> > the 2.2.18?
> >>
> >> 2.2.19pre17 is available in Debian unstable.
> >>
> >> --
> >>   "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
> >>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
> >>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
> >>   Henrique Holschuh
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> - -- 
> There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million
> keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare
> would be produced.   Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true.
> 
> Who is John Galt?  [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
> 
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Re: Linux in the company

[Michael Soulier]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:59:07AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> 
> the vast majority of my company's servers(especially at the office im at) are
> linux.
> they started out all redhat but are quickly becomming debian.

There is an internal movement here for Linux within the company. The
officially supported avenue is a modified version of RedHat, but I use Debian
on my desktop and support myself. Those behind the movement are aware of
Debian's plusses, but it is much easier to sell to suits when you have a
commercial agreement with a company. 

Mike

-- 
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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
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Re: no opengl after woody update

[Brad Cramer]

are you talking about re-installing the Nvidia drivers. If so I tried that
and it didn't seem to work. I try to do a apt-get upgrade every week so it
hadn't really been that long since the last one.
Thanks
- Original Message -
From: "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-users" ; "Brad Cramer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: no opengl after woody update


> If you installed from the tarballs just do a quick make install
> agian and it should work fine. Before the last one when was the
> last time you did a upgrade? In the past month or so it has broken
> twice on me but a quick reinstall has fixed it.
> -- Original Message --
> From: "Brad Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:29:02 -0500
>
> >I have a geoforce 256 running the newest nvidia drivers
> (0.9.6.767) I think.
> >and I did a apt-get upgrade 3 nights ago and now opengl is broke.
> No opengl
> >xscreensaver hacks no quake III no ut. I have checked to make
> sure I have no
> >stray libGL* files around and ldconfig -v looks good. Anyone have
> anyidea
> >what might have broke my opengl? Also /var/log/XFree86.0.log does
> not show
> >any errors.
> >Thanks for any help.
> >Brad
> >
> >
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Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

[idalton]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:19:19PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> Noise. 
> -chris
> 
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Why do you want to burn you CPU? a fan is very cheap.. less than $15 some
> > models. You can buy one in all computer stores.
> > 
> > Just curious.. why do you want to make this? (maybe you have other
> > solutions)
[snip: wanting to run without a fan]

I hear there exist fans that can turn on and off according to
temperature. The local computer shop down the road is trying to find one
for me. Aparantly the newer P3 box sets have temperature-driven
variable-speed fans, too. And I believe some motherboards can even
control the fans through i2c, though I've not personally run across one.

I was running my K6/300 for a while with the fan power disconnected, and
attaching it when doing CPU-intensive things like compiles and music. I
also have noflushd installed and have the hard drive spin down.

-- Ferret

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Re: RSA and DSA keys?!

[Karsten M. Self]

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:11:57AM -0500, Mark Livingstone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Would anyone please tell me how to generate DSA key for the server?
> Why isn't it automatically generated upon installation of openssh?

You've started the daemon?

man sshd and reply back if you're still unclear or having problems.

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Re: Problem with alsa and oss emulation.

[Warren Turkal]

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For you mixer problem, try aumix.  It works on console and in x.

On Monday 26 March 2001 09:09, Roberto Diaz wrote:

> The problem is that if I just cat file.au > /dev/audio or /dev/dsp it
> doesnt works.. while aplay (all related with alsa) works fine.

> Another annoying thing is this:
>
> # alsamixer
> TODO
> #
>

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Debian Client / OpenBSD NAT Very Strange Problem. A hand would be appreciated, at least to understand the problem! I am lost.

[Martin Marconcini]

Hello:

I must apologize for the crossposting, but I am not sure whether the problem
is in the OpenBSD or the Debian Box. Let me explain. (I am posting to
OpenBSD list and the Debian also)
I would like to make this clear before proceding. I have READ THE
DOCUMENTATION. I printed 200 pages of FAQ's/pppoe/obsd as a gateway and many
other stuff.

with that in mind...

Scenario:

- 4 Clients -> 3 Win9x. 1 Linux Debian Sid/2.4.2 not patched.
- 1 Firewall NAT. WAS RedHat 6.1. Now it's OpenBSD 2.8 (GENERIC)
- 1 adsl connection made through pppoe out of the box. (In the RedHat box i
downloaded the latest version).
- The Server has 2 well recognized RTL8129.
- Workstations are spread across 3 hubs (because two of them are 35 meters
away the server).

Situtaion 1: Sunday Morning.
- RedHat 6.1 running ip_masquerade / some ipchains rules / Samba as PDC /
Apache 1.3.14 / Sendmail 8.x / Bind 8.x / pppoe
- Everything worked Perfect. (yeah, i have had no damn major problems). But
ANYWAY I decided to replace redhat with OpenBSD.
Don't ask why. =)

Situation 2: Today.
- OpenBSD 2.8 (GENERIC) running all but pppoe (which I configured thanks to
the faq someone here pointed me to).
- rl0: 10.0.0.1 255.255.0.0 media 10baseT (i've tried 100baseTX, same
problem).
- rl1: 192.168.9.1 255.255.255.0  same media. (fake ip i gave to the iface)
- rl0 is connected to a hub and that is the internal lan...
- rl1 is connected to adsl suscriber via crossover cable. (and it works
ok... i can assure it)
- All Cables are supposed to work ok (they are brand new and were working
saturday evening, prior to installation)

Ok. OpenBSD connects through ppp -ddial pppoe and it works OK. even when it
says that tun0 does not support ipv6... something like that. But it connects
and I have access to internet. It stays connected.

Problems:

a) I have some ipnat.rules -> map tun0 xx
 But when the Computer Boots tun0 does not exist yet. Because the ppp -ddial
pppoe is exectued at the end of rc.local
 So I receive some error messages indicating error in ipnat.rules regarding
tun0... (this is not too important)
b) More important. Whether being connected or not, if I ping any of the
internal computers i get 85% packet loss (or even more). I changed Hub and
Cables and there is no improve.
 If I ping (always from the Obsd box) an external host, the adsl is fine.
Now, it sounds like it's an Internal Problem? Keep Reading...
 As I've said, I have changed hubs, and a lot of network stuff,
disconnecting every hub, etc. with no success...
c) Someting strange: I was testing from obsd to debian only (on the same
hub) because it was too late and I had no access to the other
workstations... This morning i pinged from a win9x laptop a few hubs away
and it seemed to work ok, even when the 'nat' response was horrible. I was
able to enter www.openbsd.org after 2 minutes... and a few timeouts from
IExplorer, but after insisting 4 or 5 times... i got ther. Even when the
Ping running was <10ms, i wasn't able to surf nor do anything else fast.
This is getting more strange.
d) I decided to do something. I only have One crossover cable, so I
unplugged the adsl suscriber, and connected the obsd box with the debian box
directly (without hub) and the ping was, again, <10ms!!! no packet loss.
Excellent.
e) I though then, ok, the cables are wrong, the hub, something. I removed
EVERYTHING and put a new hub/cables, reconnected the crossover to the
suscriber and .. again, 85-90% loss... amazing.

Since I was tired I didn't do more tests. The Debian Box as well as the
win98 box have 10.0.0.xxx /255.255.0.0 ip addresses. If I set up in obsd the
rl1 (External) with a 10.0.0.x ip i will get an ifconfig: SCIOCADDR error..
(in use or something like that). And in linux was like that because it made
an ifconfig eth1 down before proceeding. Seems like obsd does not. But that
is a matter of no importance.

Now, my problem seems to be on the obsd? or the debian? Is it nat? is it the
NIC?

Any idea will be appreciated, because I am lost with this problem. I have
also (I forgot to mention) changed the mtu-mru to 1492 as the help
suggests.. but I am not sure whether this is being changed or not.

Ideas? Comments? Bugs? Kill Myself?

Thanks in advance.

Martin Marconcini.

ps: If there is anything it might help you to help me, please let me know, a
dmesg? a config? (I haven't changed anything far from the defaults and what
the readme/faq says...)

Martin Marconcini
Departamento de Sistemas
www.circuloasegurador.com
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Re: Where are woody's install disk images?

[John Galt]

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To be released RSN FWIH.  The unstable boot disks used to be symlinked to
stable until the unstable ones were ready, but this process stopped
sometime around slink-> potato xsition.  When I asked about this a month
or so ago (on another list), the boot-floppies maintainer said that the
woody ones should be ready soon, and that the symlinks are no longer going
to be used.  So I can now categorically state that there are no
unstable/testing boot floppies, nor will there ever be, except shortly
before a freeze (usually freezes end up waiting on boot-floppies, as
they're the last things that can gel, because they depend on so much
else).

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Bill Wohler wrote:

>ncftp .../woody/main/disks-i386 > pwd
>ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/mirrors/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/
>ncftp .../woody/main/disks-i386 > ls
>ncftp .../woody/main/disks-i386 >
>
>--
>Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
>Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian!
>If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
>
>
>

- -- 
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keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare
would be produced.   Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true.

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Re: /dev/mixer missing

[Philipp Bliedung]

Yes, I'm in group 'audio'

laptop:/dev# adduser user1 audio
The user `user1' is already a member of audio.
laptop:/dev#

sound is compiled in (as moules) - here is  my .config

#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI_SPDIFLOOP is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI_4CH is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=m
CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION=m

CONFIG_SOUND_PAS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_PSS=m
# CONFIG_PSS_MIXER is not set
 should I compile this in ??

# CONFIG_PSS_HAVE_BOOT is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_AWE32_SYNTH=m

CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI=m


Raja R Harinath wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Philipp Bliedung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Thanks, I could create /dev/mixer - but it looks like this:
> >
> > laptop:/dev# ls -l mixer*
> > crw-rw1 root audio 14,   0 Mar 25 22:46 mixer
> > crw-rw1 root audio 14,  16 Mar 25 22:46 mixer1
> > crw-rw1 root audio 14,  32 Mar 25 22:46 mixer2
> > crw-rw1 root audio 14,  48 Mar 25 22:46 mixer3
> >
> > laptop:/dev# wmmixer
> > wmmixer : Unable to open mixer device '/dev/mixer'.
> > wmmixer : Sorry, no supported channels found.
> >
> > What can I do? Why doesn't it open??
>
> Couple of checks
>
>   * are you in group 'audio'
>   * is sound support compiled in
>
> - Hari
> --
> Raja R Harinath -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "When all else fails, read the instructions."  -- Cahn's Axiom
> "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing."   -- Roy L Ash

ide1: reset: success

[will trillich]

logcheck sends me these often --

Unusual System Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Mar 26 06:26:03 server kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Mar 26 06:26:03 server kernel: ide1: reset: success

this is a hard drive i reaped from a legacy windo~1 system; there
were some parameters used in w98 (or w95?) to have the drive
automaticall spin down to power-save mode, and this seems to be
the result. i'm sure linux can handle those kinds of features,
but apparently my setup isn't sleep-mode aware...

is there some advanced hdparm i can throw in there to make the
kernel (or some daemon) know to look for sleep mode? if not
hdparm, maybe something else?

-- 
It is always hazardous to ask "Why?" in science, but it is often
interesting to do so just the same.
-- Isaac Asimov, 'The Genetic Code'

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Re: Is is possible for updating 2.2.16 to 2.2.18?

[John Galt]

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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:

>
>I found kernel 2.2.20.0.1. Is it the newest one?

u. no.  On ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/  there is a
file: LATEST-IS-2.2.19.  Anybody trying to give you a 2.2.20 kernel today
or for the near-term future ought to be distrusted.



>
>Thanks,
>
>--Jie Zou
>
>
>
>On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
>
>> Hi Jie!
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:
>> > Is is possible for updating kernel 2.2.16 to 2.2.18? If it is where to get
>> > the 2.2.18?
>>
>> 2.2.19pre17 is available in Debian unstable.
>>
>> --
>>   "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
>>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>>   Henrique Holschuh
>>
>
>
>

- -- 
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would be produced.   Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true.

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Re: apt-get update

[Bill White]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:52:51AM -0700, Kai Martens wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> Running apt out of dselect by default. Recently my machines one after the
> other seem to refuse to really update the apt cache; they contact the
> server, get all the HITs, but no more GETs for the package files.
> Consequently there never is anything to update these days.

I've actually seen a similar thing on my desktop machine at work.

Now, when I update, I frequently can't see packages with "dpkg -l",
but I can install them.  That is to say, if the package libmumble 
exists but is not installed, and I run "dpkg -l '*mumble*'" I used to
get a line starting with "un".  Now, dpkg tells me that nothing
matches '*mumble*'.  If, now, I run "apt-get install libmumble", the
installation proceeds without any apparent problems.  This doesn't
happen with all packages, and I have not been able to characterize
which ones it happens with.  This is with a brand new stable
installation.

Here is the contents of my sources.list:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian ./

-- 
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Re: apt-get update

[Hall Stevenson]

> Consequently there never is anything to update these days. Is
> that right? Looks like security alerts and their fixes are not
> readily propagated to the stable distribution but parked in
> http://security.debian.org (Why?), so maybe there really was
> not much to update in the last two(?) month. But how can I be
> sure (short of checking 4468 packages by hand)?

Do you have this line

deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free

in your /etc/apt/sources.list ?? That will get you security updates.

As for there not being updates anymore, since your distro is considered
"stable", hence the name, there will be few to no updates made for it.
Security-related issues will be handled through the above line. If you
want new(er) packages, you'd need to point to "testing" or "unstable".

Regards
Hall