Re: package version problem
BM> I have no clue why it deletes it since there is no mention of any BM> ssh package higher than 2.5.2p2 from debian... so what can I do to BM> make this work. And another question.. when I create some package BM> from the debian source (for instance by running apt-get -b source BM> somepackage). When I install that newly created .deb file and than BM> run apt-get upgrade, that same package is marked as old and BM> replaced by the original debian file... what does one have to do BM> for the package only be replaced by higher version number and not BM> the same version... Because ssh package on debian has epoch in its Version field. $ dpkg -s ssh Package: ssh ... Version: 1:2.3.0p1-0.11 ^^^ 1: in Version field is epoch. Package with higher epoch is considered as always having higher version number. Default epoch is 0. You need to set epoch for your package to 1. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)| | GnuPG 1024D/323BDEE6 D7F7 561E 4C1D 8A15 8E80 E4AE BE1A 53EB 323B DEE6 | | AGAVA Software Company (http://www.agava.com/) | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: quake-x11 problems
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:13:26PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to get quake-x11 running but w/o luck to now. > I have apt-installed quake-x11 with all its dependencies but > whenever I try to start it I get: You might consider checking the debian bug list on this package, and if there is nothing outstanding for this issue, contact the maintainer and file a bug report. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925 pgpYb0Jk53yqe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DHCP client retrieving 2 IP's
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:09:57AM -0700, Aaron Walker wrote: > >I recently installed Debian v2.2r3 and I installed the DHCP client as >well.. when debian boots, DHCP assigns eth0 an IP (which it is >supposed to do, in this case 192.168.1.4) then it also assigns the >loopback (/dev/lo) an IP (192.168.1.5). If I look at my DHCP clients >table on my DHCP server, it lists both IPs with the both of them >having the same MAC address as well. Can anyone tell me why it's >retrieving 2 IP's? Thanks for your help, What dhcp client are you using? dhcpcd? pump? Ah, I see dhcp-client in stable currently, so that's dhcpcd renamed I believe. Lets see your /etc/network/interfaces, and your /etc/dhcpc/config (assuming dhcp-client still uses that). Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925 pgpgfTPmaT81L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Slow Cable Modem Revisited
Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link DFE-530TX+ (uses rtl8139 driver.) So I put it back in and lo and behold! my connection is zipping along again. I still think @home are up to some funny business but for now I'm happy. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Error message
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Eileen Orbell wrote: > I keep getting this error message about 20 times a day emailed to me via my > server from Cron Daemon: > /bin/sh: rnews: command not found > I am not even sure why? Or how to get rid of it? > I do not want the news server anyway.. Snoop around /etc (probably in cron.daily) for the script cron is trying to run, then use "dpkg -S " to find out which package it belongs to, followed by "dpkg --purge " to get rid of it. Maybe run "deborphan" (if you are using testing/unstable) to see what got left behind. - Bruce
quake-x11 problems
Hi, I'm trying to get quake-x11 running but w/o luck to now. I have apt-installed quake-x11 with all its dependencies but whenever I try to start it I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ quake-x11 Removing symlink ./idsw/pak0.pak Removing symlink ./idsw/base Removing symlink ./qw/qwprogs.dat ln: `/home/mario/.quake/./idsw/pak0.pak': File exists ln: `/home/mario/.quake/./qw/qwprogs.dat': File exists ourbase /usr/share/games/quake/idsw basename of ourbase idsw QuakeForge (UQuake) v0.1.1 Added packfile ./base/pak0.pak (339 files) FindFile: can't find gfx/pop.lmp Console initialized. UDP Initialized Exe: 04:27:41 Feb 27 2000 8.0 megabyte heap - And nothing happens from this point! I have to Crtl+C it! Any help? []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Re: a new program called xtar
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:51:12PM +0800, a wrote: > i wrote an X interface to process tar/tgz files. It works by calling > tar/gzip/gunzip. It is based on Athena widgets, readily available in every X > packages. It's built on Debian 2.0. > > Please give it a try. It's in the attachment. Please do not send attachments to mailing lists. And especially don't send them more than once. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r y+
Re: Stylus Color & magicfilter
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:44PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I have just installed magicfilter in my potato 2.2r3 box. I have attached a > Epson Stylus Color 800 printer. I have configured magicfilter but when I try > to print anythig I get the message: I screwed around with magicfilter for my Stylus for a while and never got it working that well. Then I decided to give CUPS a try - it was a lot easier to get working with a Stylus and seemed to work better as well. Might be worth checking out... -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r y+
Building XFree86 4.0.3 on Debian potato
I have successfully build XFree86 4.0.3 on my potato box (I've just left the old 3.3.6 DEBs in place to stop a dependency messup), although when I try to 'make install' XFree86 4.0.3, I get the following message: install: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymgr/pmconfig: Too many levels of symbolic links Does any body know how to fix it? Cheers, -- Chris Howells E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 93699029 Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net
Re: motherboard suggestions OT: ECC memory
> I need to replace a dual PIII-600MHz motherboard, which apparently got > fried. I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good, Linux friendly one. > Preferably something which can make use of ECC memory, which the dead > one (i840 chipset) couldn't. one of those things i was going to look into put never got around to. whats the difference between SDRAM and ECC SDRAM?
Re: Stylus Color & magicfilter
Hi Mario, I am using lpr. For the moment I would like to solve the problem without moving to lprng. Thanks for the help! On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:32:22AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > Dears debianners, > > > > I have just installed magicfilter in my potato 2.2r3 box. I have attached a > > Epson Stylus Color 800 printer. I have configured magicfilter but when I try > > to print anythig I get the message: > > > > lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/epsonsc800/.seq > > > > what I am doing wrong? Just in case here follows my printcap file: > > if you're using lprng try the checkpc utility; it can help you fix > permissions, etc. > > see checkpc(8) for more info! > -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stylus Color & magicfilter
Hi Stephen, the permisions for the /var/spool/lpd directory are "drwxrwsr-x", are they OK? Thanks for the help! On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:35:32AM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > Dears debianners, > > > > lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/epsonsc800/.seq > > > > what I am doing wrong? Just in case here follows my printcap file: > > just a thought, but do you have write permissions for this directory? -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Run dos command on NT4 from debian box?
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > I'd like to put files in a directory on an NT4 box, run a dos command (a > CAD processor batch command) and then bring the files back to the Debian > box using cron, samba and perl. > > I don't know anything about samba or performing commands on NT4 from > Linux. Any suggestions? there is a ssh for nt, i don't know if its server or client or both, there is also telnet servers for nt if you can't get sshd for nt. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: max concurrent processes can't be > 257?
Brett wrote:
>
> I'm running qmail and am trying to set up linux to allow for hundreds of
> outgoing connections at once (no, I'm not a spammer but the new admin of
> some very large, dynamic mailing lists). I'm using Debian Linux 2.2.18pre21
> and from what I read, it should be quite possible to adjust the maximum
> processes per
> user through 'limit' (or 'ulimit' depending on the shell) rather than
> adjusting and recompiling the kernel. Well, I'm root, I do the adjustments
> to limit ('limit maxproc 1000') but when I check the logs, qmail never gets
> above 257 concurrency (256 is the default limit of maxproc). I do a 'limit'
probably because you did not restart qmail *using the shell with the modified
ulimits*.
you can't change ulimits and expect programs that are already loaded to
be affected in any way, it is bash specific.
so, change ulimits, stop qmail, restart qmail, log out of shell. or
change qmail's init script to set the ulimits for you BEFORE it changes
uid to non root.
nate
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Re: Installation Problems with USB keyboard
Am Freitag 04 Mai 2001 13:46 schrieb Simon Law: > On Fri, 4 May 2001, Christoph Pickart wrote: > > Am Freitag 04 Mai 2001 08:45 schrieb Anthony Lau: > > > At 11:03 PM +0200 5/3/2001, Christoph Pickart wrote: > > > >Hello debian users, > > > > > > > >since a couple of hours I try to install debian 2.2r2 on > > > >an AMD1GHz, AsusA7M266 with USB keyboard and > > > >mouse. > > > > > > I'm pretty sure the Asus BIOS has the option of having the BIOS "take > > > care" of the USB ports. This will allow you to setup the kernel and > > > install correctly. > > > > The only options I found in the BIOS setup were to enable > > or disable legacy USB support. > > That's the option that you want. Legacy USB support allows > support for OS's that don't have support for USB keyboard and the like. > > http://support.intel.com/support/peripherals/usbnotes.htm > > Of course, once you have 2.2 or 2.4 recomplied with USB support, > you should be fine. (You probably want to leave Legacy USB support on, > I'm not sure if you can use LILO without it.) > It simply doesn't work! I enabled legacy support (it was marked 'AUTO' before), but the kernel still complains about a non-existing AT-keyboard, and when the grey screen of the debian installation appears, the keyboard won't be so kind to do a simple return to continue. I also tried disabling support, but did no good, as was (too late for me) marked on your link. Maybe the BIOS is too old, or the keyboard doesn't work (my 2.2.17 under Mandrake complains about 'too many Nacks -- noisy kbd cable'). I will look for a newer BIOS version or a 'normal keyboard'. It should work once the system is installed. Thanks anyway! Christoph
Re: motherboard suggestions
I would suggest looking at AnandTech (www.anandtech.com) or Tom's Hardware Guide (www.tomshardware.com). Both are excellent resources with in depth reviews by guys that REALLY understand hardware. In addition, anandtech had some links to vendors with very respectable prices. Using some reviews from anandtech, I just purchased a Iwill KK266 motherboard and an AMD Athlon 1GHz with 266MHz front side bus from newegg.com for $263. -- Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 817-556-4720 > From: "Gregory T. Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 20:35:53 -0500 > To: debian-user > Subject: motherboard suggestions > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 20:33:51 -0500 > > I need to replace a dual PIII-600MHz motherboard, which apparently got > fried. I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good, Linux friendly one. > Preferably something which can make use of ECC memory, which the dead > one (i840 chipset) couldn't. > > It's not yet clear if either CPU survived, so feel free to suggest > boards which might not support the old processors. > > Thanx! > >
Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files
asdfasf asfasf wrote: > > This is getting ridiculous. I've been trying for many > hours over many days now to save realplayer broadcasts > to files on my disk and have been completely unable to > do so. It almost seems as if the realplayer software > has been _designed_ so that you can't save content you > view through the player to disk. (I can't actually > confirm or deny this though through google searches.) > > Is there a way to do this? it IS designed to prevent that. also i think to record files you need the real player plus package(not available for linux). and even then you can only record if the server's configuration allows you to(most don't). a few years ago there was a crack for real audio that could override that, don't know if there are still cracks around or if they work on the linux version .. if it were me i woulda given up a long time ago :) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: motherboard suggestions
On Fri, May 04, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > I need to replace a dual PIII-600MHz motherboard, which apparently got > > fried. I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good, Linux friendly one. > > Preferably something which can make use of ECC memory, which the dead > > one (i840 chipset) couldn't. > > > > It's not yet clear if either CPU survived, so feel free to suggest > > boards which might not support the old processors. > > > > Thanx! > > Hi, > > Depending upon how much you're looking to spend, you might want to > look into a Supermicro board with a Serverworks chipset. A little on > the pricey side (~$500+), but that might be worth it for you. I'm > personally waiting (still...) for the dual Athlons to come out > (promises, promises) which should give super bang for the buck > (depending upon final unknown cost of dual motherboard) with PC2100 > memory ($115/256Mb from Crucial). Answering my own post (or at least adding to it). Just after posting, I read on theregister (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18750.html) that AMD will supposedly be introducing the chipsets on this May 15 to support dual Athlons. The implication is that they will ship soon after. Who knows, though. You should judge for yourself, I just thought you might want to know. Take care, Daniel -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
Re: Stylus Color & magicfilter
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dears debianners, > > I have just installed magicfilter in my potato 2.2r3 box. I have attached a > Epson Stylus Color 800 printer. I have configured magicfilter but when I try > to print anythig I get the message: > > lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/epsonsc800/.seq > > what I am doing wrong? Just in case here follows my printcap file: if you're using lprng try the checkpc utility; it can help you fix permissions, etc. see checkpc(8) for more info! HTH, []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Re: Stylus Color & magicfilter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 May 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dears debianners, > > lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/epsonsc800/.seq > > what I am doing wrong? Just in case here follows my printcap file: just a thought, but do you have write permissions for this directory? - -- ) ,_) (-(__ -|- __ ) | (/_\/(/_ ( ___ | mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | linux : http://exitwound.org | | mozart : http://mozart.sourceforge.net| | buck : http://www.BuckOwensFan.com | ___ | Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest | | thing in the nicest way. -- Balfour | ___ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE68r42r9c0KwefYXMRApYOAJ9ZIW8Vw1B+eL2/S3wNMmk+FUkMhwCfaane 9NsIrQR27etzonl6Ebv10LY= =nIte -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Diagrams with Dia: Help!
Has anyone been able to get dia to work worth a darn? I've tried it on two machines, one with woody and the other with potato. I've tried both dia-gnome and dia. I can draw just fine, can save it as a dia file, and can export as and eps file. When I try to open the dia file again, the sketch is off the edge of the axies, or one or more of the scroll bars lock, or I get messages like: ** WARNING **: v_len_sq is NaN while calculating bezier curve! Or even better: Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkpixmap.c: line 822 (gdk_pixmap_unref): assertion `pixmap != NULL' failed. This is really frustrating because it makes great diagramsand then I lose them. -Glen
Re: motherboard suggestions
On Thu, May 03, 2001, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I need to replace a dual PIII-600MHz motherboard, which apparently got > fried. I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good, Linux friendly one. > Preferably something which can make use of ECC memory, which the dead > one (i840 chipset) couldn't. > > It's not yet clear if either CPU survived, so feel free to suggest > boards which might not support the old processors. > > Thanx! Hi, Depending upon how much you're looking to spend, you might want to look into a Supermicro board with a Serverworks chipset. A little on the pricey side (~$500+), but that might be worth it for you. I'm personally waiting (still...) for the dual Athlons to come out (promises, promises) which should give super bang for the buck (depending upon final unknown cost of dual motherboard) with PC2100 memory ($115/256Mb from Crucial). Hope this helps and take care, Daniel -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
Re: #pound-sign files# what are they?
TS> I notice that when I stop a process, I sometimes get a file from it like this: #foo.txt# or #.foo. TS> What are these? Are they safe to rm? Usualy it is an auto-safe or backup file ( I don't remember exactly) from some editors: emacs, xemacs, jed and maybe some others. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)| | GnuPG 1024D/323BDEE6 D7F7 561E 4C1D 8A15 8E80 E4AE BE1A 53EB 323B DEE6 | | AGAVA Software Company (http://www.agava.com/) | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Stylus Color & magicfilter
Dears debianners, I have just installed magicfilter in my potato 2.2r3 box. I have attached a Epson Stylus Color 800 printer. I have configured magicfilter but when I try to print anythig I get the message: lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/epsonsc800/.seq what I am doing wrong? Just in case here follows my printcap file: # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|epsonsc800|Epson Stylus Color 800:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsonsc800:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: The /var/spool/lpd/epsonsc800 directory doesn't exist. The /var/log/lp-errs file is empty. Any help will be very appreciated! Thanks in advance, Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: #pound-sign files# what are they?
Tom Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I notice that when I stop a process, I sometimes get a file from it > like this: #foo.txt# or #.foo. The #file# are Emacs autosave files. They appear when you are editing a file and haven't saved yet. They're deleted when you save or kill the buffer. (If you just kill Emacs, they're left so you can recover the files.) The .#files are lock files, indicating that you're editing a file. If you've stopped editing it, and the lock file is still there, it's safe to delete. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Nobody ever ruined their eyesight by looking at the bright side of something.
Re: Minor Technical Difficulties
On Thu, May 03, 2001, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:06:35PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > Hi, > > > > don't know about the scsi errors, but loosing the graphical login is > > easy. > > > > dpkg --purge xdm > > > > if you only want to disable it change the /etc/rc.d/S99xdm symlinks > > to /etc/rc.d/K01xdm > > ...via the debian-friendly method > > update-rc.d remove xdm > > preferably. Hi, Don't we also want the '-f' (force) flag in that update-rc.d command (since I thought the suggestion was to run it without first removing the 'xdm'). Take care, Daniel -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
package version problem
Hi! I have created the new openssh package for my personal use (version 2.9p1) and have build .deb files of ssh and ssh-askpass-gnome packages. But when I uploaded the package to my local .deb archive and ran dpkg-scanpackages I got the following output: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Del ssh 2.9p1-1 [489kB] Del ssh-askpass-gnome 2.9p1-1 [82.3kB] I have no clue why it deletes it since there is no mention of any ssh package higher than 2.5.2p2 from debian... so what can I do to make this work. And another question.. when I create some package from the debian source (for instance by running apt-get -b source somepackage). When I install that newly created .deb file and than run apt-get upgrade, that same package is marked as old and replaced by the original debian file... what does one have to do for the package only be replaced by higher version number and not the same version... THX in advance! Bostjan -- Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neonatus.net/~neonatus For my PGP key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:7506644 Celular: +386(0)41243189, Powered by Debian GNU/LiNUX , Student of VFUL Loose bits sink chips.
Re: Spontaneous reboot! HW diagnostics?
On Fri, May 04, 2001, Tony Crawford wrote: > Hi Gang! > > After over 100 days of error-free service, my Debian 2.2/i486 > dial-up-router-cum-print-server did a spontaneous reboot > yesterday. > > (Aftermath: the CMOS clock had jumped ahead an hour and a half, > the nmbd log contained non-printing characters at that point, > and 1 e-mail in the exim spool was corrupt.) Before this happens > again, maybe somebody can recommend ways to test for decaying > silicon? Preferably in-service; if that's not possible then at > least without booting a different OS? > Hi Tony, memtest86 (available from http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/) will give your memory at least a good workout. It needs to be run directly from boot off of floppy in real mode of processor). Hope this helps and take care, Daniel -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
#pound-sign files# what are they?
I notice that when I stop a process, I sometimes get a file from it like this: #foo.txt# or #.foo. What are these? Are they safe to rm? Thanks in advance. Tom
Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...
Just have to mention, alsa appears to be working great. Still odd that the normal es1371 module doesn't work. Thanks anyway, Hugo On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:04:31PM +0200, hugo wrote: > A friend has a new PC (Athlon 900MHz) with a motherboard with onboard > "SoundBlaster PCI128" (or should I call it Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI...) > Oh, and I'm using kernel 2.4.2.. I'm gonna try alsa now. -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgpuDWFBSfVLU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Image
I seen a few websites that have been done with linux and linux programs and I once used corel linux as well, alot of times I notice the image have a water color like pixel like blending, theres no smoothing or blending, can you tell me why alot of debian is like this ? Is there going to be better color option in the future like 64K, 32, 64 bit display and over a billion colors for the 3d artist and cad users ?
Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...
A friend has a new PC (Athlon 900MHz) with a motherboard with onboard "SoundBlaster PCI128" (or should I call it Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI...) Relevant Output of lspci: $ /sbin/lspci | grep 5880 ; /sbin/lspci -n | grep 5880 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 03) 00:0e.0 Class 0401: 1274:5880 (rev 03) The odd thing is, the es1371 module loads without any apparent problems (Output of dmesg: es1371: version v0.27 time 17:21:08 May 3 2001 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x03 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0e.0 es1371: found es1371 rev 3 at io 0xd000 irq 10 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: 0x:0x (Unknown) ) and the mixer appears to work (I used gom -it), but when I try to play something (an mp3 with mpg123, a wav or .au with sox's "play", esd's test by simply running "esd"), the relevant program "freezes" and no sound comes out. (By "freezes" I mean it doesn't have any progress - it is not the case that they are playing but the sound is muted.) A search on google didn't turn anything up (other than that 1274:5880 works with the es1371 module...) - maybe I need to refine my searching techniques though... ;) Any ideas? Oh, and I'm using kernel 2.4.2.. I'm gonna try alsa now. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe ps. I'll appreciate a CC:. -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgpiTijQU0ZvZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Error message
Hi, I keep getting this error message about 20 times a day emailed to me via my server from Cron Daemon: /bin/sh: rnews: command not found I am not even sure why? Or how to get rid of it? I do not want the news server anyway.. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orbell.net BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Version: 3.1 http://www.geekcode.com GCS/L s: a c UL P+++ L+++ W+++ N- o-- K- w-- O- M-- V-PS PE++ Y-- PGP t- 5-- X-- R--- tv++ b+++ DI-- D++ G e h--- r+++ x+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Minor Technical Difficulties
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:39:16AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:56:28AM +0200, Alberto Cabello S?nchez wrote: : > Unless I'm mistaken, the runlevel is irrelevant in Debian (unless you > as the administrator configure it to be relevent), by default if xdm > is installed it starts in all multi-user runlevels (2,3,4,5). It Ãs. > RedHat (possibly others?), starts xdm in /etc/inittab rather than from > a normal rcN.d script, and uses runlevel 5 for graphic mode, runlevel > 3 for console mode. > > Debian uses runlevel 2 as the default. > > -Jon I always wondered, why are there different ways of using the runlevels? It took me a while to figure out why "telinit 3" won't kill X! Danie. -- "In Smalltalk, everything is an object" If you have procedural programming experience, this is a good mantra to repeat for about 6 months. -- Seen in Linux Gazette
Re: Minor Technical Difficulties
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:56:28AM +0200, Alberto Cabello S?nchez wrote: : :For the machine don't start at graphics mode, it suffices to change the line (of /etc/inittab) : id:5:initdefault: :5 is the default runlevel, so you can put in it 3 (multi-user, no graphics mode). Unless I'm mistaken, the runlevel is irrelevant in Debian (unless you as the administrator configure it to be relevent), by default if xdm is installed it starts in all multi-user runlevels (2,3,4,5). RedHat (possibly others?), starts xdm in /etc/inittab rather than from a normal rcN.d script, and uses runlevel 5 for graphic mode, runlevel 3 for console mode. Debian uses runlevel 2 as the default. -Jon
Spontaneous reboot! HW diagnostics?
Hi Gang! After over 100 days of error-free service, my Debian 2.2/i486 dial-up-router-cum-print-server did a spontaneous reboot yesterday. (Aftermath: the CMOS clock had jumped ahead an hour and a half, the nmbd log contained non-printing characters at that point, and 1 e-mail in the exim spool was corrupt.) Before this happens again, maybe somebody can recommend ways to test for decaying silicon? Preferably in-service; if that's not possible then at least without booting a different OS? T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: Installation
> I would like to see a installation wizard for linux similer to the > ones on windows. Try Progeny ... http://www.progeny.com It's based on "stable" Debian and it's install is *simpler* than Windows 9x. Regards Hall
Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files
On Friday 04 May 2001 05:43, asdfasf asfasf wrote: > This is getting ridiculous. I've been trying for many > hours over many days now to save realplayer broadcasts > to files on my disk and have been completely unable to > do so. It almost seems as if the realplayer software > has been _designed_ so that you can't save content you > view through the player to disk. (I can't actually > confirm or deny this though through google searches.) > > Is there a way to do this? If you just want the audio you can use a full duplex sound card to record it. I have done this with a SoundBlaster Live Value II. Select the 'Volume' channel as the record source and you will record anything that is played. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Problems with USB keyboard
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Christoph Pickart wrote: > Am Freitag 04 Mai 2001 08:45 schrieb Anthony Lau: > > At 11:03 PM +0200 5/3/2001, Christoph Pickart wrote: > > >Hello debian users, > > > > > >since a couple of hours I try to install debian 2.2r2 on > > >an AMD1GHz, AsusA7M266 with USB keyboard and > > >mouse. > > > > I'm pretty sure the Asus BIOS has the option of having the BIOS "take care" > > of the USB ports. This will allow you to setup the kernel and install > > correctly. > > > > The only options I found in the BIOS setup were to enable > or disable legacy USB support. That's the option that you want. Legacy USB support allows support for OS's that don't have support for USB keyboard and the like. http://support.intel.com/support/peripherals/usbnotes.htm Of course, once you have 2.2 or 2.4 recomplied with USB support, you should be fine. (You probably want to leave Legacy USB support on, I'm not sure if you can use LILO without it.) Simon
Re: motherboard suggestions
I'll definitely take a look. Thanx! On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:45:45PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi Gregory... > > i've been collecting urls for dual cpu motherboards... > > http://www.linux-1u.net/1U_Features/dual.txt > ( these are just the flip-chip cpu style ) > > since cpu and memory is so cheap now days... it might be > good to replace the mb/cpu/mem just in case ??? > > have fun > alvin > http://www.Linux-1U.net ... 500Gb 1U Raid5 ... pgpamaJbsRHey.pgp Description: PGP signature
Getting realplayer streams to disk files
This is getting ridiculous. I've been trying for many hours over many days now to save realplayer broadcasts to files on my disk and have been completely unable to do so. It almost seems as if the realplayer software has been _designed_ so that you can't save content you view through the player to disk. (I can't actually confirm or deny this though through google searches.) Is there a way to do this? Thank you VERY much in advance for any help with this. ---John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: LS120 drive
On Fri, 4 May 2001, [iso-8859-2] Szatori P?ter wrote: > Hi > > At home I use a LS-120 drive and yes if you buy a knewer one, it's > much faster reading ordinary floppys. > In the kernel you have to compile the ide floppy support and it should > work. > I don't know how it works with the amiga floppies, what fs do they use. Thanks for your reply. The problem is not the fs, but the amount of data stored on it. DD floppys are 880KB formatted, while on PC this is only 720KB. The problem is not the drive, but the floppy controller, PC's can not read further than 720KB. Thanks, Sebastiaan > -Original Message- > From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:32 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: LS120 drive > > > Hello, > > I am planning to copy several hundreds (thousands?) of old Amiga floppys > to my computer and burn a cd from it. My Amiga drives are old and > relatively slow and an ordinary PC floppy controller can not read Amiga > floppys, so I was thinking about buying a LS120 drive for this job. > > How well does this drive work under Linux? I have heard that it is > possible to read Amiga floppys with this drive, and that the drive is much > faster. Is this true? > > Or does anyone have an alternative on how to read Amiga floppys on PC's? > > Thanks in advance, > Sebastiaan > > > -- > $ man clone > > BUGS > Main feature not yet implemented... >
Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
Hi, On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:46:42PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Monday 30 April 2001 00:04, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I don't see why. Nor is this any different to any external drives. > > > You have a hefty ground connection between the power supplies anyway > > > (the mains, plus the metal case acting as ground). Alas, one generally cannot assume this! Here in The Netherlands, most residential wall outlets do not have a ground connection. This causes mysterious computer illnesses. The server won't come up on reboot, when the printer is attached. The problem is gone after the printer gets a proper earth ground. After purchase of a new "Brand Quality" monitor, the harddisk appears damaged. The bootup ID string is corrupt after 12 or so characters. Fixing the monitor's wall outlet fixes the harddisk. Multiply the fun as you start plugging in network cables. But I digress.. Frame ground isn't so important here I think, circuit ground is what you should care about. In principle, these are different things. In most applications they also are strictly different things, but pc's just isn't one of them. > > External drives generally don't use an ATA interface! I am not confidant > > of > > the main earth acting as a suitable earth for the DC power. > > True, but I don't see this as a big issue. All traditional external drive systems that I know of have: - Their own power supply in the external disk housing. - A connection to the host that carries only signals, not power. This connection has a dedicated frame ground line (in fact, any decent cabling has its shielding connected to frame ground.) > I think it would be better to deliberately turn them on in order, rather > than trying to guess at the same time. Turn the hard drives on first. > They may or may not spin up while the controller is powered off. Then > turn on the main supply. AFAIK harddisks have two motors: - A start motor that speed up the disk's rotation very quickly, but eats a lot of current; It is normally only used at boot time. - A continuous motor that spins with a very precisely controlled speed and consumes considerably less power. It works all the time when the disk is operating normally. If some day you turn on your computer and suddenly the disk is dead, you should be able to hear from the disk's cries of agony which of the two motors burned out ;-) (There is an (urban?) legend that harddisk manufacturers classify batches by the motor that is expected to fail first. If the start motor is weak, it will be a scsi disk, if the continuous motor is weak, it will be an ide disk.) All scsi disks (that I know of) have this feature, called "Spin Delay". If you configure the disk appropriately, it will not attempt to spin up on powerup until it is explicitly asked to do so when initialised by the scsi host controller. This way the system can distribute the surges in current draw caused by the powerful start motors in the disks. > > There was a presentation at a Linux Users of Victoria meeting some years > > ago > > about doing hot-swap IDE hard drives with cheap standard hardware. My > > recollection is that the power lines of the hard drive had to be connected > > in > > a particular order... I have sucessfully powered down, disconnected, reconnected and powered back up again an IDE disk once (this is why you should take anything I claim here with a grain of salt.) No umount or even swapoff, just disable dma and cross my fingers ;-) The disk was only off for 30 secs or so. What probably helped is that the disk is an old, low-rpm disk. Modern disks seem to have a tendency to draw a lot power at once when power is plugged in from a running system, throwing the whole system into a hardware reset. A rather unfortunate side-effect when hotplugging. It can be really nice to have cheap (free) old hardware (junk) to mess around with. How else would I have discovered that sometimes, you _can_ successfully hotplug isa cards ;-) > Standard power supplies may have sequencing to switch the supplies on a > known order. That doesn't stop you powering them from different power > supplies though, as the sequencing isn't under motherboard control. > > > On Monday 30 April 2001 16:11, PiotR wrote: > > > A good solution for this might be to connect the first PS's output to the > > > other, so the voltage is the same, and there's no massive current flow > > > across the data cables. > > > > That's if both PSU's have exactly the same voltage. If one provides a > > slightly higher voltage than the other then it will try to power everything > > itself (at least until the current drain lowers the output voltage). Also > > if > > two PSUs with different voltages are connected together with insufficient > > load then reverse current will flow through the PSU with the lower voltage! Well, I'm not an electrical engineer, but I do
Run dos command on NT4 from debian box?
I'd like to put files in a directory on an NT4 box, run a dos command (a CAD processor batch command) and then bring the files back to the Debian box using cron, samba and perl. I don't know anything about samba or performing commands on NT4 from Linux. Any suggestions? Rory
Re: Installation
Try this one: http://www.mslinux.org/ __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Installation
I would like to see a installation wizard for linux similer to the ones on windows. Anthony
Re: speedup nvidia?
EJ> 4.Download Nvidia drivers (kernel and GLX tar files) and follow the included EJ> http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html EJ> instructions: Debian way: use nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)| | GnuPG 1024D/323BDEE6 D7F7 561E 4C1D 8A15 8E80 E4AE BE1A 53EB 323B DEE6 | | AGAVA Software Company (http://www.agava.com/) | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
DHCP client retrieving 2 IP's
Hi, I recently installed Debian v2.2r3 and I installed the DHCP client as well.. when debian boots, DHCP assigns eth0 an IP (which it is supposed to do, in this case 192.168.1.4) then it also assigns the loopback (/dev/lo) an IP (192.168.1.5). If I look at my DHCP clients table on my DHCP server, it lists both IPs with the both of them having the same MAC address as well. Can anyone tell me why it's retrieving 2 IP's? Thanks for your help, Aaron
a new program called xtar
i wrote an X interface to process tar/tgz files. It works by calling tar/gzip/gunzip. It is based on Athena widgets, readily available in every X packages. It's built on Debian 2.0. Please give it a try. It's in the attachment. Xtar-4.2.3.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:24:53PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Oh, and (since they sound like the kind of servers that come with > monitors) don't plug monitors into UPSen. Uhm, sorry, why not? I have connected a monitor (14", normally turned off) to our server and to his USV so I can even read my email if the whole campus is without mail. What's the problem with that apart from the shorter period you can run on battery power? Thanks Torsten pgpTYNwp9ihQU.pgp Description: PGP signature
LS120 drive
Hello, I am planning to copy several hundreds (thousands?) of old Amiga floppys to my computer and burn a cd from it. My Amiga drives are old and relatively slow and an ordinary PC floppy controller can not read Amiga floppys, so I was thinking about buying a LS120 drive for this job. How well does this drive work under Linux? I have heard that it is possible to read Amiga floppys with this drive, and that the drive is much faster. Is this true? Or does anyone have an alternative on how to read Amiga floppys on PC's? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
Re: Minor Technical Difficulties
For the machine don't start at graphics mode, it suffices to change the line (of /etc/inittab) id:5:initdefault: 5 is the default runlevel, so you can put in it 3 (multi-user, no graphics mode). I also have SCSI drives and Scsi bus reset is O.K. (it always happens to me), but I don't know about the other problems. Finally, you can install the S3-Virge driver via dselect and use XF86Setup or xf86config to say "use this by default". -- - Alberto Cabello Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Servicio de Informática Universidad de Extremadura 924 298 351 - 924 289 352 -- Debian 2.2 Potato Sylpheed 0.4.61 ==
Re: Does apsfilter work?
Hi Nelson, do you mean that now your apsfilter is up and running ( in other words is yours a suggestion to fix the problem) or did you abandon apsfilter? Vittorio >> -- Forwarded Message -- >> Subject: Re: Problems with printing >> Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:56:29 -0400 >> From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> >> >> Subject: Re: Problems with printing >> Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:59:34AM - >> >> In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> > Well, Wayne, I don't really think a Debian potato distribution fails >in a >> > strategic and basic piece of software such as apsfilter. I rather >think >> > there's something wrong in my configuration relating to >authorizations but >> > I don't know where and what to manipulate. Perhaps I missed to >define some >> > special group, or whatever else. What strikes me is that the >test which >> > apsfilterconfig suggests works great, while any following attempt to >print >> > dies unexpectedly. Any suggestion to fix it before eliminating >apsfilter? >> > Vittorio > >I just set up apsfilter last night, and I had the same problem--the test page >printed fine, and I could cat stuff directly, but everything else >failed. It turns out that the permissions of the printer device in /dev >were set wrong-- read-only, no write for the lp group, which obviously >doesn't make much sense for a printer using lprng for spooling. > >-Nelson - messaggio inviato con Freemail by superEva http://www.supereva.it -
Re: Installation Problems with USB keyboard
Am Freitag 04 Mai 2001 08:45 schrieb Anthony Lau: > At 11:03 PM +0200 5/3/2001, Christoph Pickart wrote: > >Hello debian users, > > > >since a couple of hours I try to install debian 2.2r2 on > >an AMD1GHz, AsusA7M266 with USB keyboard and > >mouse. > > I'm pretty sure the Asus BIOS has the option of having the BIOS "take care" > of the USB ports. This will allow you to setup the kernel and install > correctly. > The only options I found in the BIOS setup were to enable or disable legacy USB support. I build another kernel to boot my existing linux (which is Mandrake, and it was only possible to install because the mouse worked). The kernel complains about a non-existing or not AT-compliant keyboard. Later while booting the input core and usb support work, but that is too late to change the floppies. You have to du it earlier in boot process. Perhaps there is a parameter for the kernel to look for usb devices earlier? Christoph
a new program called xtar
i wrote an X interface to process tar/tgz files. It works by calling tar/gzip/gunzip. It is based on Athena widgets, readily available in every X packages. It's built on Debian 2.0. Please give it a try. It's in the attachment.
Re: I forgot my root Password
At LILO prompt, type: linux 1 and press enter. This will cause linux to start at runlevel 1 (single-user) so you can run passwd. After that, don't forget your passwd again. Saludos al Plata -- - Alberto Cabello Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Servicio de Informática Universidad de Extremadura 924 298 351 - 924 289 352 -- Debian 2.2 Potato Sylpheed 0.4.61 ==
Re: Installation Problems with USB keyboard
At 11:03 PM +0200 5/3/2001, Christoph Pickart wrote: Hello debian users, since a couple of hours I try to install debian 2.2r2 on an AMD1GHz, AsusA7M266 with USB keyboard and mouse. I'm pretty sure the Asus BIOS has the option of having the BIOS "take care" of the USB ports. This will allow you to setup the kernel and install correctly. -- Anthony Lau
RE: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?
> -Original Message- > From: Darren Wyn Rees [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:30 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ? > > I've noticed that Linux Mandrake 7.2 is the only Linux distribution > I've come across that actually switches off my (ATX) computer after > shutdown. > That's because Linux-Mandrake has a different focus to Debian GNU/Linux (just look at their names). Mandrake's focus is to have as many things working out of the box for most users, even if it breaks some users systems completely or causes minor security holes, etc. AFAIK APM can cause some machines to hang on boot-up. Debian does not enable it by default as the Debian guys would like Debian to *work* on as many hardware configurations as possible out of the box. Mandrake enables it by default, because they want as many *features* working on *standard* hardware as possible out of the box. CAUTION This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are privileged and confidential information intended for the use of the addressee. The confidentiality and/or privilege in this e-mail is not waived, lost or destroyed if it has been transmitted to you in error. If you have received this e-mail in error you must (a) not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it; (b) please notify Australia Post immediately by return e-mail to the sender; and (c) please delete the original e-mail.
Re: speedup nvidia?
Steps I used for Diamond Viper 770 AGP 1.Environment is Debian Unstable, XFree 4.0.3. 2.Remove Open GL software support Mesa, Utah-GLX etc. 3.Compile Kernel and ensure MMTR support, no DRI, no Framebuffer, no AGP. 4.Download Nvidia drivers (kernel and GLX tar files) and follow the included http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html instructions: Add: Driver "nvidia" Option "NvAgp" "1" to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 5.Reboot 6.cat /proc/nv/card0 : should show AGP on. 7.Tuxracer,Flightgear and Xscreensaver+GL much improved speed. Jeff > > I promise to make a report how I found/got the solution for this problem... > > Marc. >
shutdown - for UP and SMP (solved)
Well this power off thing is deep. Finally solved. If uni-processor: append="apm=on" If multi-processor: append="apm=on apm=power-off" Tested and read kernel source. :-) Now I can turn off my SMP box. read apm.c for details Darren you made me have funThanks -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
