Re: Mutiple mail servers : REPOST
> If you should dare to run sendmail on Debian box, you should know the > answer to what you should to get what you want: > > "Just set up vertual domain." I meant to type: If you should dare to run sendmail on a Debian box, you should know the answer to what you asked: "Just set up vertual domain." Cheers :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
Setting up a server for XDMCP
How do I set up a server for XDMCP - do I need to do more than edit the Xaccess file to allow any user to connect? Thanks, Lars. %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?
Hi, On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:22:06PM +0200, Sigue wrote: > I know this is a bit to generic question, and it has been probably > already discussed a 1000 times, but I'm fairly new, so please forgive > me if I ask it nevertheless. Yes. If you ask this question here, answer is NO. (Half joking ...) What ever other somewhat experienced people say, just do not "upgrade" to unstable without _fair_ knowledge of Debian Package system. I recommend you to start with upgrading to "testing" first. With tesing, you can have partial unstable on demand like: # apt-get install libc6/unstable. Read "man apt_preferences" in testing/woody. Once you upgrade to apt in woody, you can have pckages from unstable while having testing as your system and can up/down-grade at your finger tip. See my web page on my sig where I wrote what I do :-) > 1. Just checking. If I would want to upgrade to Woody, I'd need to add > 'testing' or 'woody' to the sources.list, and then I'd need to issue > 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? Yes. Use following to be safe side: # apt-get -u dist-upgrade > 2. Is it possible to somehow delete the package database, and make apt > reread the official ones from debian.org? # apt-get update > 3. Is it possible to go back to the state in dselect before you > started making selections? I know that i theory 'R' should go back to > the state before the current selection, but sometimes it seems to get > stuck in a loop and alway brings me back the same dependency screen. > Also if I made several selections, but then change my mind and want to > go back to the state where it was when I've started dselect, is this > possible? Yes. (Provided you keep woody at) > Many,many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs No problem :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
php4-mysql package
Which packages do I need to install to be able to use mysql and php4 together? There are more mysql packages than just php4-mysql I'm assuming. I currently have apache, php4, and php4-mysql installed. --Patrick
GeForce3: X won't start!!!!
I just got a new GeForce3, and am having problems getting X working at all. I'm using an AMD 760 based motherboard with a 1ghz Athlon and SB Live!. I compiled a new kernel, and the NVIDIA kernel module and GLX package. I modified XF86Config-4 as the instructions said. When I type "startx", I get the cool NVIDIA splash screen, and then X just exits. The real annoyance is there is NO error message given in the log. I'm using Woody, the newest version (1541) of the NVIDIA drivers, and the 2.4.9 kernel. This is really bugging me! Help!
Re: Apple Keyboard
Once in debian galaxy, I heard Tomoo Nmura say > Hello, > > I'm using Sid i386. > Currently, I choose Apple USB keyboard. > When touching key, Linux always goes to freeze. > I reconfigure console-common and set keyboard as qwert, US america, > Apple USB keyboard but the problem still exist. > Any solutions ? I have a very similar symtomps with Abit VP6 (via chipset) running two PIII 933. I compiled the basic usb driver into the kernel using the usb-uhci driver. ctrl-s on console, also makes my box goes crazy, but the caps lock is even worse, as it freezes the whole box. After I switch to uhci JE driver, these symthoms go away. My siggest is to try uhci JE driver. Cheers, Chanop -- ,. | May Debian be with you ~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | http://thai.anu.edu.au| `' pgpw3gKq62BNv.pgp Description: PGP signature
GeForce3: X won't start!!!!
I just got a new GeForce3, and am having problems getting X working at all. I'm using an AMD 760 based motherboard with a 1ghz Athlon and SB Live!. I compiled a new kernel, and the NVIDIA kernel module and GLX package. I modified XF86Config-4 as the instructions said. When I type "startx", I get the cool NVIDIA splash screen, and then X just exits. The real annoyance is there is NO error message given in the log. I'm using Woody, the newest version (1541) of the NVIDIA drivers, and the 2.4.9 kernel. This is really bugging me! Help!
Re: IPchains output
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:27:21AM +1000, Craig wrote: > Hi, > I am curious as what each field refers to I know that the example is, date > hostname then deny 24.242.71.87 src port 137 to my box on port 137 proto 17 > which I believe is udp, however the rest fails me (also does someone have a > complete listing of proto numbers to names (such as proto 17 udp?) You can look at the iptables manpage for detains on those other entries, but in my opinion they really aren't terribly important. FWIW, what's important to me is the time, source/dest ports/addresses, protocols, chain, and reason for denial (which I provide from my rules). That probably wasn't terribly helpful, but here is an answer for your second question. You can look at the following links for information on various internet things: protocol numbers:http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers port numbers:http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers icmp numbers:http://www.iana.org/assignments/icmp-parameters multicast addresses: http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses address spaces: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space Hope that helps. -- John Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde
Re: Mutiple mail servers : REPOST
Hi, If you should dare to run sendmail on Debian box, you should know the answer to what you should to get what you want: "Just set up vertual domain." You can run as many sendmail(MTA) in theory using chroot and different port. I see no point running another MTA. I can assure you that learning exim (for MTA) is much easier. Setting up MTA for multiple domains with multiple accounts are so easy even for newbie like me. Cheers ;-) On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:06:55PM -0700, Debian GNU wrote: > I am using sendmail for mail distribution. I am planning to add one > more mail server so that some users are in the first mail server and > the rest in the new one (For the same domain). Internet mails arrive > directly on the first mail server. > > Can I configure sendmail so that if a user is found in the first mail > server, it is to be delivered otherwise forward to the next mail > server for further distribution and forwarding ? -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
Re: extra text prints at the end of jobs
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:28:28PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: | Why bother using postscript interpreter (GS) on Linux work for Windoze | machine? | | Make an lpr device without filtering (RAW) and access it though samba | from windoze. Let windoze machine worry formatting for windoze. | | Cheers ;-) Close, but ... See the older thread about why windows doesn't work well with this printer. I'll give you the short version here. The Canon-supplied drivers assume that the printer is on LPT1 and won't work over samba (there are actually 2 windows machines that need to share the printer). Also, recently it has been complaining about the paper thickness setting even though it is set correctly. There are some drivers intended for the 600e that ship with windows, however they don't produce the correct colors. gs works great though (with the exception of those extra lines that only occurs from the windows machine), which is why I want to server the printer from my debian box. If I don't get any other suggestions, I'll try filtering out the offending postscript with sed before I hand it to gs and see how it goes. Thanks for the response though. -D
Re: supercomputer (sort of?)
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:35:53PM -0700, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: | Is there any info anywhere on linking with other | computers (not LAN) on the Internet to form a higher | computing capacity entity (LINUX specific, non-LINUX | specific)? HOWTO's? Books? Online sources? CORBA is one platform independent technology that can be used for this. Some information can be found at : http://www.omg.org/ http://www.labs.redhat.com/orbit/ http://orbit-python.sourceforge.net HTH, -D
Re: extra text prints at the end of jobs
Why bother using postscript interpreter (GS) on Linux work for Windoze machine? Make an lpr device without filtering (RAW) and access it though samba from windoze. Let windoze machine worry formatting for windoze. Cheers ;-) On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:03:51PM -0400, dman wrote: > > I now have a Canon BJC-610 (color inkjet) working with CUPS through a > custom "filter" script that invokes gs to generate the bjc610 data > stream. This works great from my machine, and also allows the > connected win95 and win98 machines to use it via samba. However, from > the win* machines an extra page with > > %%[ Page: 1 ] %% > %%[ LastPage ] %% > > is printed. (I don't know if this is after every page or just at the > end because I only printed 1 page -- the windows "test" page). That > page doesn't feed either, I have to press the 'ff' button to eject it. ...[SNIP]... -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
Re: can i run caldera linux with windows xp together?
Your subject doesn't match ;-). I'll assume the subject is in error and you meant Debian. On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:17:16PM -0700, Shouguo Li wrote: | hi, i have a question about installing debian linux on my computer. | i have a laptop with windows xp installed, can i partition my hard | drive and install debian linux, too? I have no experience with winxp, but Debian (linux in general) is not jealous and has no problems sharing the disk with other OSes. There are several bootloaders to choose from depending on your platform, lilo and grub are the most popular. The biggest trick is configuring the bootloader to boot windows and make windows happy. For example, the following snippet of a grub config file boots windows -- I've actually used it for win98 and win2k : ## #title M$ Windo~1 root(hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 # Chainload from the first sector Some of the known issues with booting windows include : o win95 (others too I think) will only work if they are on the first hard disk. May even need the first partition or a primary partition. o winnt/win2k are more complicated to get lilo to chainload them (according to the docs on linuxdoc.org and my futile attempts). The above snippet works fine with grub. o winme has no DOS (maybe XP too?). I don't know if this is significant wrt booting from non-MS boot loaders Basically what it comes down to is how flexible did MS make windows this time around? I don't know since I don't have XP anywhere to play with. -D
Re: how to remove penguin logo
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:35:18PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: | > do you have to use fb? I think the logo is mandatory w/ framebuffer... but | > when you clear the screen, it's supposed to go away | | No, as far as I know, I don't need to use fb. I too think that you are using the fb, whether you realize it or not. The logo is mentioned in the fb howto, and the first time I saw it (aside from the Debian installer, which had messed up colors) was when I started using the fb. For me, if I do anything that uses the whole screen the logo goes away. For example : start X, switch VT, run a curses app (ie less, vim or mutt). | Where are the documented steps for getting rid of the logo? See above -- running a curses app should do it. | On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: | | > The kernel Documentation has something about that in the framebuffer | > directory... If I remember correctly, someone had written a gimp-plugin to | > convert any image to a file that you replaced the penguin w/... | | I think the above was for another reader, but it was also sent to me. I am Yes, the other reader wanted to know how to put a custom image there instead. | hoping that I don't have to rebuild a kernel. (This is for a student You shouldn't need to. | workstation in a Unix class where each workstation is running a different | OS; please note that each workstation usually only takes three to ten | minutes to install; in other words, I don't have time to waste on this | particular system.) | | I read an older debian-user posting that said the framebuffer can be | enabled via lilo (configurations sent to kernel). Hopefully, this means I | can disable it too :) Yep. | I guess I can check for some append="video=..." or vga=... line. My lilo | manual doesn't discuss this, my lilo(8) and lilo.conf(5) manuals don't | have info on this. I am not at the system, but I'll try setting These are the argument names. | vga=normal. This is not a legal value (to the best of my knowledge). (Nice guess though ;-)). See /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.8/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.gz for the various modes that are legal for the VESA framebuffer. Presumably they work for the matroxfb too, but I've only used the vesafb. If you set 'vga=ask' then you get a list of the VGA (not fb) modes that are allowed for your video card. I just found /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.8/Documentation/svga.txt.gz which includes the following : --- The ASK_VGA mode causes the kernel to offer a video mode menu upon bootup. It displays a "Press to see video modes available, to continue or wait 30 secs" message. If you press , you enter the menu, if you press or wait 30 seconds, the kernel will boot up in the standard 80x25 mode. The menu looks like: Video adapter: Mode:COLSxROWS: 0 0F00 80x25 1 0F01 80x50 2 0F02 80x43 3 0F03 80x26 Enter mode number or `scan': --- There is much more interesting information. The summary is that for standard VGA text console you want "vga=0x0F00". The fb is really cool though -- you get a better console since any resolution and font can be used. Also configuring X is as trivial as telling it to use the fb driver. No modelines, etc, to fuss with. The downside is that most cards are not accelerated (the Matrox and _some_ ATIs are supposed to be). | Does anyone know where I can find the lilo documentation that talks about | disabling fb? I don't know about lilo specifics, but everything is in the kernel docs. | (I forgot to mention that I am not on the mailing list. The debian.org | archive was last updated on Monday and the geocrawler.com archive doesn't | show anything yet. Please consider Cc'ing messages to me.) Done, though using the Mail-Followup-To: header helps with this :-). -D
Apache Method: POST
I am trying to get the method Post to work with Apache 1.3.9 and PHP4. I can't get the POST method to go through. I have looked at the Apache newsgroup but can't seem to find anything on there that will work. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Michael begin:vcard n:Cole;Michael tel;pager:757 475-3182 tel;home:757 548-0746 tel;work:757 548-0746 x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;525 Fernwood Farms Road;Chesapeake;Virginia;23320; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;3 fn:Michael Cole end:vcard
rescue recovery
I finally got 90% of my notebook back up and running. Someone else mentioned they were in the same spot. Here's what I've managed to do so far: First, no I did not make a backup kernel. No I did not RTFM some critical 'M' No I did not pay any attention to all the questions being asked of me during the install and royally hosed it up. I should be spanked for the errors I have made. That said... I got another PC with Debian on it. Copied the kernel tree into a new directory so I could do all kinds of damage there without breaking that PC's kernel source configuration. In the copied directory (/usr/src/notebook) I did "make menuconfig" and set up the kernel the way I hoped would work on my notebook. These are essentially the commands: cd /usr/src/notebook make menuconfig make clean make dep make bzImage cat arch/i386/boot/bzImage > ./vmlinuz mkboot -r /dev/hda5 /usr/src/notebook/vmlinuz NOTE: /dev/hda5 is the location of root on my notebook PC (The broken one) /usr/src/notebook is the location of the kernel (2.4.9) tree that I was working in for the notebook. RTM on mkboot - it can save your butt. I ended up making a shell script to do all of this because I have to remove all the modules since they were fuggered up on the notebook as well. I was able to get a basic kernel working from a floppy and boot from that floppy onto the notebook. From there I was able to reconfigure (make menuconfig) the kernel and install it correctly from that poing and reboot the notebook without the boot floppy in place. That's where I am today -- but I have a lot of problems with my pcmcia drivers -- they have many unresolved symbols and I'm not sure why. It's too late in the evening for me to mess with it any more -- I'll screw it up again and have to start over. I'll try in the morning. If anyone has some suggestions on what to do with the unresolved symbols in the pcmcia packages I would appreciate it. I think what I need right now are diagnostic tips on how to really identify the problem and the why. Thanks to everyone for their answers/suggestions/support. I was able to save an aweful lot of time!!!
Re: gnome slowdown
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:10:57PM -0400, dman wrote: | On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: ... | | After compiling and installing ALSA, apt-get installing esound, and adding | | myself to group "audio", GNOME was clipping right along. | | | | I think that GNOME should not depend on esound to run properly, especially | | given that many people have no sound output device. | | I run GNOME just fine at home (the Duron mentioned above) with no | sound card whatsoever. (PC speaker doesn't count, it only beeps) I | either disabled esd or ignore the warnings about not finding /dev/dsp. | I'll have to check after I get home. Ok, I'm home now :-). After loggin in (via gdm), "ps -A | grep esd" show nothing. Looking in the gnome control panel under sound I see that the "Enable sound server startup" check box is not selected. As a result the "Sounds for events" is disabled. So as it turns out, I'm not running esound at all on this (woody) machine and have no problems at all. (Well, I can't play music, but that's what I get for not buying a sound card ;-)) -D
ATI Radeon 7500 (XFree86 config problem)
I recently purchased an ATI Radeon 7500 over a GEForce because of the opensouce support. The ATI Radeon is supported by XFree86 according to #283 on http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/changes.html I am running XFree86 4.1.0-7 (unstable). I have compiled in DRI and Radeon support in the 2.4.12 kernel. But, I am getting "no screen errors." Anybody know how to fix this ? -- GNU PGP public key http://www.annapolislinux.org/docs/public_key/GnuPG.txt - Ted Knab Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "dbe" #Double buffer extensions Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "pex5" Load "record" Load "xie" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "v4l" #Video for Linux EndSection # set DRI device permissions Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional Option "ShadowFB True" # [] #Option "VGAClocks" # [] Identifier "ATI Radeon" Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI" BoardName "Radeon QD" #Option "Accel" #Option "GlideDevice" "dev/Idontknow" #BusID "PCI:0:16:0" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" VideoRam 65536 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "ATI Radeon" Monitor "superscan" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "superscan" HorizSync 31-69 VertRefresh 50-120 EndSection This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: xx August 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.7 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Oct 17 22:54:51 2001 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout "XFree86 Configured" (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "superscan" (**) | |-->Device "ATI Radeon" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (--) using VT number 7 (WW) Cannot open APM (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.4 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.2 XFree86 Server Extens
Re: How can I get ntp working?
The answer is Use a simple server for your ntpd and never ever let it go down. Some places I know have something not much better than a Pentium 1 with kernel 2.2.xx on it. Uptimes for things like this and DNS servers should be in the years, if all goes well. Unfortunately, if you've got a whole bunch of servers waiting to start to synchronize with your main time server(s). In a hierarchical environment you can get up to hours until they all are in sync :( Running ntpdate and starting ntpd immediately after doesn`t address that problem, I'm afraid. But that, I guess, is the tradeoff for ntpds deep black, but very precise magic... cheers, &rw
emacs & w3m problem
I am not able to get w3m to run successfully from within emacs. w3m works fine outside of emacs, and I can browse-url successfully with w3 or with lynx from within emacs. Each time I try to start w3m, either with "M-x w3m", I get messages back starting with "Dump Header", then ultimately the error message: (error "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth"). If I try to start w3m with "browse-url-at-point", I get "Dump Header" and then "Buffer is read-only: #" I have a backtrace which I can send if necessary, but this problem is beyond my capacity to solve, so any help will be greatly appreciated. My system is mostly "testing", emacs 20.7.2, w3m_0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-3, with /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m/w3m.el and /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50w3m.el in the load path. Thanks in advance for any help, Tomasz
Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 05:42:23PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:49:01PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > | > | Does Linux support any RAM drive(s)? How much faster are these drives over > | an attached drive? Is there a CPU performance penalty? > > According to the kernel FAQ, Linux ext2 implementation is fast enough > that it is not necessary to implement /tmp as a ramdisk. Some systems > (they give stats, I think solaris is one of them) is much slower with > on-disk filesystems so Sun went with a ramdisk for performance with > temp files. I don't think you'll get much, if any, performance boost > from using a ramdisk. In the kernel config, look for "shm" (I think) > in the filesystem section. If you press "help" on it you'll see a > discussion of tmpfs (the other name for it). You can then mount it > with an entry in /etc/fstab. To enable a fixed-size ramdisk, you need to select CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM. To enable the "Virtual Memory Filesystem", choose CONFIG_TMPFS. The documentation is a bit confusing for this as it indicates that this filesystem is intended for POSIX shared memory, but it doesn't say you can't use it as a ramdisk. The relevant code is in mm/shmem.c Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpYtzxD4R4aF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian books
ramsubs wrote: > The book's back cover indicates Reader Level is "Beginner to Advanced". Unfortunately, Debian is not for beginners. Use Mandrake, as long as you do not encounter problems! (See the Debian FAQ for more detail). In my place, there are *many* "Debian Server" maintainers who are using Mandrake (besides MickeySoft of cause). > IMHO, Steve Hunger must remember that his books are sold worldwide, > know that complete CDROM sets are very meaningful to people here > in Asia where in many countries it's out of the question to download > the entire Debian distribution through a modem, ... Who cares Asia anyway? Asians should! Thus, I set up front-end mirrors like http://sapi.vlsm.org and http://www.id.debian.org I am aware, links are slow and often broken. Therefore, just add sufficient back-end mirrors in every city: http://kambing.vlsm.org http://kebo.vlsm.org http://gajah.vlsm.org regards, -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim - VLSM-TJT - http://rms46.vlsm.org -- Read my lips: war and reelection do not mix! --
Re: Mutiple mail servers : REPOST
Hi Mike, For some reasons, I would like to have another one. Main reason is space constraint in the existing one. It it is the case with only one server, I wouldnt have posted this question. :) Deb --- Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I was just wondering why you don't just have one > mail server with all accounts on that one mail > server? > > Mike > > Quoting Debian GNU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi all, > > > > I am using sendmail for mail distribution. I am > > planning to add one more mail server so that some > > users are in the first mail server and the rest in > the > > new one (For the same domain). Internet mails > arrive > > directly on the first mail server. > > > > Can I configure sendmail so that if a user is > found in > > the first mail server, it is to be delivered > otherwise > > forward to the next mail server for further > > distribution and forwarding ? > > > > Regards, > > > > Deb > > > > > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > > http://personals.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
Forwarding Debian-user "digest": what is the best current practice?
Hello: I would like to know the "best current practice" of forwarding an *EDITED* debian-user thread to another list. 1. Should I notify each original writer, or should I also post the digest to the debian-user list, or just do nothing (default)? 2. I prefer not to disclose the writer's email address, altough I guess that will not reduce spam. Is that OK? As an example, please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/debid/message/362 regards, -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim - VLSM-TJT - http://rms46.vlsm.org -- Read my lips: war and reelection do not mix! --
Re: supercomputer (sort of?)
"Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any info anywhere on linking with other > computers (not LAN) on the Internet to form a higher > computing capacity entity (LINUX specific, non-LINUX > specific)? HOWTO's? Books? Online sources? > Thanks, Hearthstone. Plenty... Most of them are distributed projects. Take a look at http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/ as a starting point, or Google: http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Computer_Science/Distributed_Computing/ Oh, and I guess one of the projects with the most computers is probably SETI: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Have fun! -- Tschoe,http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt - Fingerprint: Jens 1AAB 67A2 1068 77CA 6B0A 41A4 18D4 A89B 28D0 F097 pgpnrYZUFD4x5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?
> I know this is a bit to generic question, and it has been probably already > discussed a 1000 times, Actually I believe it was discussed less then you imagine. > but I'm fairly new, so please forgive me if I ask it nevertheless. > It seems to me that this should be the major factor by which you should decide. Are you fairly new to Linux in general? > Is there a big risk in upgrading to Woody now? I believe a risk is a relative in nature and depends on many factors: Is this a production machine? Are you willing to face a possible reinstall from scratch? How experienced are you? Have you got any means to surf the Internet in order to post and read the Debian lists if there will be a problem? Are you willing to wait a few days until a possible problem is resolved and you get to know the solution? > What speaks agains it? There are few glitches from time to time. Not many and some of them are much less severe then others, but there are. The need to put more time in your system. > What is the main advantage in doing so? Having more recent versions of packages, much easier to grab only few packages from unstable in case that is what you need, constant updating your system in a rather safe from bugs manner, help in debugging Debian and free software, getting more experience with the system. > > Also to give a little more background to the question: > I yesterday foolishly tried to experiment with adding some unoffical sources > to the apt sources.list. > Basically I wanted to get a recent Mozilla already packaged as deb. > > I somehow didn't payed attenion while selecting, or else dselect > automatically has found and selected > severel nver versions of some basic packages, without me noticing, because > it installed several new > gnome packages etc. > Also suddenly some of the packages which were installed (e.g XMMS) claim to > be missing some > dependencies, which I can't find in the package list anywhere etc. > (Allthough it works - at least for mp3s) > I've also had trouble installing mozilla from tarballs. It was missing > libstdc++libc6.1-1.so.2 etc. > > So the thought occured to me, that I could do an upgrade to Woody and get > the latest from everything... > > Some related problems: > 1. Just checking. If I would want to upgrade to Woody, I'd need to add > 'testing' or 'woody' to the sources.list, > and then I'd need to issue 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? > Not sure if testing will work although I believe it will. So the answer is yes. > 2. Is it possible to somehow delete the package database, and make apt > reread the official ones from debian.org? > Probably yes, but `somehow' sounds to me more trickier then you imagine. > 3. Is it possible to go back to the state in dselect before you started > making selections? > I know that i theory 'R' should go back to the state before the current > selection, but sometimes it > seems to get stuck in a loop and alway brings me back the same dependency > screen. > Also if I made several selections, but then change my mind and want to go > back to the state where it was > when I've started dselect, is this possible? > I do not have that much experience with dselect but I believe that it is not hard to get back if nothing was actually installed. That is, aborting before any package was actually installed should not be too hard. > Many,many thanks for your help in advance! > best regards, > Balazs > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- When responding, please qoute my entire message. Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
supercomputer (sort of?)
Is there any info anywhere on linking with other computers (not LAN) on the Internet to form a higher computing capacity entity (LINUX specific, non-LINUX specific)? HOWTO's? Books? Online sources? Thanks, Hearthstone. = Modelling the Future http://homepages.about.com/hearthstone/ecosusworld.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
Re: how to remove penguin logo
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: > JCR> Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA > JCR> G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that > JCR> doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and > JCR> couldn't even recognize that it was a penguin.) > > JCR> The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel > and > JCR> the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew correctly > JCR> in the first place). > > JCR> How can I easily choose to never display any logo? > what are you talking about? there is a logo? > a text one? Graphical. > well,check /etc/motd and remove the lines...or This is irrelevant. Please read my message again: "the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel a$ the system boots." This implies that it is on the screen long before any /etc/motd of the day is used. > if it's a logo package try to uninstall it via > apt-get remove logo* or something.. As far as I can see, there is no such thing as a logo package. On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: > do you have to use fb? I think the logo is mandatory w/ framebuffer... but > when you clear the screen, it's supposed to go away No, as far as I know, I don't need to use fb. Where are the documented steps for getting rid of the logo? On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: > The kernel Documentation has something about that in the framebuffer > directory... If I remember correctly, someone had written a gimp-plugin to > convert any image to a file that you replaced the penguin w/... I think the above was for another reader, but it was also sent to me. I am hoping that I don't have to rebuild a kernel. (This is for a student workstation in a Unix class where each workstation is running a different OS; please note that each workstation usually only takes three to ten minutes to install; in other words, I don't have time to waste on this particular system.) I read an older debian-user posting that said the framebuffer can be enabled via lilo (configurations sent to kernel). Hopefully, this means I can disable it too :) I guess I can check for some append="video=..." or vga=... line. My lilo manual doesn't discuss this, my lilo(8) and lilo.conf(5) manuals don't have info on this. I am not at the system, but I'll try setting vga=normal. Does anyone know where I can find the lilo documentation that talks about disabling fb? Thanks, (I forgot to mention that I am not on the mailing list. The debian.org archive was last updated on Monday and the geocrawler.com archive doesn't show anything yet. Please consider Cc'ing messages to me.) Jeremy C. Reed FAQs for ISPs http://www.isp-faq.com/
X server hangs during test config
dear debianists, i am a newby in debian, i installed debian sid 3.0 and kernel 2.4.19. but i can't configure X server . my system is AMD duron 700, biostar - VIA KT 133 chipset S-A-M7VKL, with integrated video - S3 ProSavage4, x will detect it as S3 ProSavage KM133 rev 0, so i installed S3-xserver, but the system will hangs during the test using 'XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config-4.new' how can i tackle the problem ? the X version is 4.1.0, have it support of S3 Prosavage 4 ? i include the Configuration,log and output of the server . pls reply me. TIA -jijo [EMAIL PROTECTED] == XF86Config-4.new == Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "pex5" Load "record" Load "xie" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "SAM" ModelName"1034" HorizSync30.0 - 55.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "NoAccel" # [] #Option "HWCursor" # [] #Option "SWCursor" # [] #Option "ShadowFB" # [] #Option "Rotate"# [] #Option "UseBIOS" # [] #Option "LCDClock" # #Option "ShadowStatus" # [] Identifier "Card0" Driver "savage" VendorName "S3" BoardName "ProSavage KM133" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor"Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection ===XFree86.0.log== XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 2 June 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.7 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Oct 17 20:36:33 2001 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Samsung 45Bn" (**) | |-->Device "S3" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc101" (**) XKB: model: "pc101" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Mouse" (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath s
Apple Keyboard
Hello, I'm using Sid i386. Currently, I choose Apple USB keyboard. When touching key, Linux always goes to freeze. I reconfigure console-common and set keyboard as qwert, US america, Apple USB keyboard but the problem still exist. Any solutions ? Tomoo -- ** Nomura Technical Management Office Ltd. * Tomoo Nomura [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tmo.co.jp/ Phone: +81-78-797-0240 Fax: +81-78-797-0241 @nifty:GBH12257 Worldwide Airline Timetable 'Flight Planner' European Electronic Timetable 'HAFAS' ValueFax Support
Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes
on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:35:20AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > > > To this extent, the CSS spec is severely flawed in that it grants > > > precedence to website author, not reader. This is bass ackwards. > > > > One major point of CSS was explicitly to grant precedence to reader to > > override things. It's browser vendors/authors who have been unable to > > grasp this concept, and come up with a decent UI. > > Mozilla has a perfectly good UI for this. Just uncheck that box in > the font preferences panel that allows web pages to use their own > fonts. Your fonts will be used all the time. This isn't sufficient. And yes, I use Galeon. I can specify a font *face*. I cannot specify a font *size* to be used. The minimum font scaling helps, but due to differences between fonts (Courier New TT displays larger than Garamount TT at an equivalent point size), it's not sufficient. What I'm requesting, again, is the ability to disable use of the "size" attribute, or the ability to factor the step size such that a size=1 font is still readable. Looking back at a page I turned up earlier today: http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3X0JDKUSC&live=true&tagid=ZZZC00L1B0C&subheading=information%20technology (if the above doesn't work, try: http://news.ft.com/) - The stylesheet specifies 12pt Ariel as the "AllWide" font (default text style). - With my default settings, I need to bump the page to 130% for comfortable viewing (relatively easy with Galeon, but an annoyance all the same). - Deselecting the "use own fonts" setting makes the situation XXX worse/better. In this case, there's a confounding of effects between my chosing a font that I prefer, and the site insisting (through stylesheets) on a point size. I'm not altogether sure that I can override a class specification for a font. I'll look into it eventually. More general point: websites are doing themselves a disservice by *overspecifying* presentation. CSS or no CSS. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpep2ajb78bb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Any windowing system in text mode?
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:00:44PM +0800, ramsubs wrote: > > If I wanted to write an app which runs on a pseudo windowing system in > > text mode, what tools do I use? By this, I mean something similar to > > Foxpro for DOS which has a windowing system running in DOS mode where > > you can drag windows around, able to pop up dialog boxes, uses gpm-type > > mouse, and so on... > > Do you want to use an existing toolkit for this "text gui" or are you > going to write your own? > > If you're writing your own, you can do it all with (n)curses or s-lang. > i want to use an existing toolkit. any suggestions? thanks ram linux newbie
Re: /proc permissions
on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:53:07AM +, andrej hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:01:12PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:19:35PM +, andrej hocevar ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > lately i've inherited my brother's rockwell modem, which is a hsf, > > > meaning, as far as i know, it's a winmodem. so i took a look a > > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO/hsf.html > > > the instruction say to change the content of /proc/pci. > > > which is the problem -- i cannot do it as i can't change the > > > permissions! > > > what's the answer? or is there another way of making such a modem > > > work? (as you see, i can do without as well, but my own modem is > > > supposably slower ...) > > > > /proc is a virtual filesystem. Features are determined by supported > > compiled into (or provided via a module) in your kernel. > > > > Changes to /proc settings must be supported by your kernel, and > > performed as root. Please use postfix quoting format: your reply goes below the material cited. Trim your quotes appropriately and ensure your attributions are accurate. Fix your mailer. cc'ing 'root' on my host isn't going to do either of us much good. Thank you. > so now i've found out that there's also the /proc/sys/proc directory > to which one should be able to write and thus make modifications to > the system. since it is empty, do i just have to create a new file > with the name /proc/sys/proc/pci and append only the lines i first > wanted to add to /proc/pci? or do i need to copy the whole /proc/pci > plus the new lines? Learn the use of your shift key. It makes reading posts far easier. IIRC (too lazy to search kernel docs: /usr/src/linuc/Documentation), /proc/sys/pci is one of the PCI support options in the kernel. You *cannot* create files under /proc via standard filesystem commands. That's not how proc works. The directory and file structure are determined by your kernel. You'll need to compile in appropriate support. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpSLX7dDpSga.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems browsing a site
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:32:05PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 08:33 PM 10/16/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:54:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/javascript-rant.html > > > >Write your councilmember as well. > > > >In general, sites should avoid client-side scripting. It's necessary in > >only the very fewest of instances. It grossly erodes site > >accessibility. > > > >Ask if the library would be willing to design its doors in such a way > >that a quarter of the people of the city would be unable to pass > >through. > > Well, maybe you've convinced me sites should try to avoid java/script > (I didn't mention it, but this one uses javascript as well as java, I > believe). But I still don't understand why I'm having problems with > this site, given that my browser is java-enabled. > > What's your basis for saying such issues render the site inaccessible > to 1/4 the potential users? I thought it was http://www.counter.com/, but can't find the page. At any rate, an over-the-web stats tool that's javascript enabled. The number of hits from non-Javascript enabled clients was on the order of 21-25%. This is from a broad base of largely simple, end-user sites, it may not be fully representative, but is probably a relatively good sample. Can't find the reference currently. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpR2khbl1ray.pgp Description: PGP signature
Font problem with Gnumeric etc.
Hello, I have a problem with some fonts displaying the text as squares instead of the letters. I noticed the problem initially with Gnumeric, but it also appears with xmms playlist display. So I don't think it's a Gnumeric problem, rather than a problem with fonts in X, or how Gnome is handling the fonts. This problem appeared about a month ago when I updated some X and X fonts packages using apt-get (I forget the time and packages exactly, unfortunately). I am running Debian unstable. XFree86 3.3.6. I don't usually run Gnome, just some Gnome applications from time to time. I have made a screen capture of the problem, it's at http://www.wizzu.com/scratch/gnumeric-window.gif I found a similar problem report on debian-user from Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Sep 4th. (Archived at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg00310.html ) But the fix that worked for him (re-arranging the font configuration lines in the XF86Config file) does not work for me. Also, I can't get the fonts show correctly in Gnumeric regardless of the magnification. But it is similar in the for every 2 typed characters I get 1 square. My X configuration for fonts looks like this: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "unix/:7101" I am not subscribed to debian-user, so please Cc all replies to me as well. I'm at a loss what to do to get fonts showing properly again in Gnumeric, so I'm thankful for any help, ideas or suggestions. Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.wizzu.com/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak// DALnet IRC operator/ // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy & scifi, the Corrs/ When in doubt, ignore it.
Hard drive repartitioning..
Well,i have a pc without a floppy disk,with only cdrom and a 3 gb hard drive. I've put a first 1,8 gb windows partition and a 1,2 gb debian partition.Now,since i'm not using any X thingie,i'd like to know an easy way to repartition my hardrive like 2,3 gb hdd windows and only 700 megs of debian. I don't want to reinstall windows,i can reinstall debian. What tool should i use? debians or windows? I'd appreciate any help. Dani, Repartitioning support. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Evolution - sorta fixed.
I had been having troubles with the mail component of Evolution appearing to crash, and after finding killev and oafslay (more programs to kill runaway processes!), I was a bit happier, but it seems that the source of my troubles lay deeper. I was running Nautilus and Evolution at the same time, and I hadn't configured sound ( esd ) yet, since I wasn't too bothered. BUT according to this Debian bug I found, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=107941&repeatmerged=yes Nautilus runs crappy if esd isn't configured. I had noticed this, but it wasn't high on my list of things to fix. Once I stopped using Nautilus, Evolution seemed to perform flawlessly ( YAY! ). I can only surmise that Nautilus was disturbing oaf or bonobo or one of those type things, and that was disturbing Evolution. HTH - Just in case someone else had this problem. I'll be filing bugs ( or at least warnings of ) with Debian and Ximians bugzilla for future reference. Steve -- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."' - Isaac Asimov
X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!
Hi boys and girls, anyone can tell me what the fuck is that dexconf crap and how do I get rid of it? I mean, really, which genius came up with the idea that I need to regenerate a perfectly working config file every time I update $PACKAGE? Jeesus F. Christ... it could at least ask me if I *really* want to overwrite XF86Config-4... Dima -- "Mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of entities."-- corollary to Occam's Razor
IPchains output
Hi, I am curious as what each field refers to I know that the example is, date hostname then deny 24.242.71.87 src port 137 to my box on port 137 proto 17 which I believe is udp, however the rest fails me (also does someone have a complete listing of proto numbers to names (such as proto 17 udp?) Oct 18 09:01:43 networkconfusion kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=17 24.242.71.87:137 144.137.126.120:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=26791 F=0x T=101 (#8) I would appreciate any assistance. Regards, Craig
Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:52:52PM -0400, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > To this extent, the CSS spec is severely flawed in that it grants > > precedence to website author, not reader. This is bass ackwards. > > One major point of CSS was explicitly to grant precedence to reader to > override things. It's browser vendors/authors who have been unable to > grasp this concept, and come up with a decent UI. Ah. I was wrong on this. My prior reading was that author overrides user, _including_ in use of the "!important" attribute. I see this isn't the case. As this is a change from CSS1 I may have been confused by prior references or different sources. This is a much better situation than I'd feared. Spec follows. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification W3C Recommendation 12-May-1998 6 Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance ... 6.4.1 Cascading order To find the value for an element/property combination, user agents must apply the following sorting order: ... 2. The primary sort of the declarations is by weight and origin: for normal declarations, author style sheets override user style sheets which override the default style sheet. For "!important" declarations, user style sheets override author style sheets which override the default style sheet. "! important" declaration override normal declarations. An imported style sheet has the same origin as the style sheet that imported it. ... Apart from the "!important" setting on individual declarations, this strategy gives author's style sheets higher weight than those of the reader. It is therefore important that the user agent give the user the ability to turn off the influence of a certain style sheet, e.g., through a pull-down menu. 6.4.2 !important rules CSS attempts to create a balance of power between author and user style sheets. By default, rules in an author's style sheet override those in a user's style sheet (see cascade rule 3). However, for balance, an "!important" declaration (the keywords "!" and "important" follow the declaration) takes precedence over a normal declaration. Both author and user style sheets may contain "!important" declarations, and user "!important" rules override author "!important" rules. This CSS feature improves accessibility of documents by giving users with special requirements (large fonts, color combinations, etc.) control over presentation. *Note. This is a semantic change since CSS1. In CSS1, author "!important" rules took precedence over user "!important" rules.* [Emphasis in original] Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpW5LABxCd6o.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to remove penguin logo
Hey, The kernel Documentation has something about that in the framebuffer directory... If I remember correctly, someone had written a gimp-plugin to convert any image to a file that you replaced the penguin w/... Cameron Matheson - Original Message - From: Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: Re: how to remove penguin logo > > > How do you change the logo? I remember back when he came out there were > alot of alternatives. I'd like to find something a bit more interesting. > > > Thus spake Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hey, > > > > do you have to use fb? I think the logo is mandatory w/ framebuffer... but > > when you clear the screen, it's supposed to go away > > > > Cameron Matheson > > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:14 PM > > Subject: how to remove penguin logo > > > > > > > Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA > > > G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that > > > doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and > > > couldn't even recognize that it was a penguin.) > > > > > > The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel and > > > the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew correctly > > > in the first place). > > > > > > How can I easily choose to never display any logo? > > > > > > Please note that I attempted to search using the glimpse interface for the > > > Debian lists and search via google's usenet search, but never found an > > > answer within all the noise about logo contests and framebuffers. Feel > > > free to point me to documentation, FAQ or mailing list posting that > > > answers this question. > > > > > > Jeremy C. Reed > > > ... > > > BSD software, documentation, resources, news... > > > http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > :wq! > -- - > Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : > Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability > at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't > \_ that important! > DISCLAIMER: > These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. > FYI: > perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: How can I get ntp working?
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:03:30 EDT, Tom Allison writes: >Additional comment. >ntpd on Server 'A' will not accept any time synchronization requests until it >is satisfied it's got a reasonable time, then Computer 'B' will be able to >synchronize with Server 'A'. >After you run ntpdate and start ntpd -- wait a little while. If you need to >know exactly how long - watch tcpdump for the ntp traffic to die down a >little bit and then try it. >I find 10 minutes is a very good number. Unfortunately, if you've got a whole bunch of servers waiting to start to synchronize with your main time server(s). In a hierarchical environment you can get up to hours until they all are in sync :( Running ntpdate and starting ntpd immediately after doesn`t address that problem, I'm afraid. But that, I guess, is the tradeoff for ntpds deep black, but very precise magic... cheers, &rw -- -- Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; -- and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. - Dick Brandon pgpL20EMuMROR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Fw: root raid & xfs journalling file system - woody
- Original Message - From: "Callide- Eagle Engineering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2001 9:25 Subject: root raid & xfs journalling file system - woody > Hi, > > Please cc me as I'm not on the list yet. > > I'll be soon setting up a server at work running debian woody (yes I've been > running it on a workstation for a month no problems) and will need to use > software raid 5 on 3 scsi disks on top of which I would like to use the SGI > journalling file system. > > Is anyone on the list using this combination? > > If so any pointers for installation? > > 1. I thought the way I might start out would be to install the base system > on an IDE drive and install a compilled kernel and tools required to set up > the raid and xfs file systems > > 2. Reboot the new kernel configure the raid array, partition the logical > drive, format the file systems. > > 3 Reboot again transfer the relevant files across to the new root partition > on the raid array, edit fstab and lilo, make a boot floppy then boot off > floppy, tell lilo to boot off the new root file system on the logical disk > (raid array) at the lilo prompt and then run /sbin/lilo. (Will this work > with the new array? Or should I have a copy of the boot partition on each > disk?) > > Any better suggestions? > > > Thanks in advance, > > Peter Firmstone. > > > N.B. we won't be using MS Outlook for much longer due to virus problems. >
mozilla
Hi folks I just want to ask if anybody has observed the same symptoms described below? Well, I installed Mozilla/5.0 (X11;U;Linux 2.2.19 i586;en-US;m18) Gecko/20001103. I'm running Icewm (without gnome,kde) with the default theme. After a while the colors of the window-manager and mozilla starts to invert their colors. When I change to an other workspace (where mozilla doesn't work) this symptonn dissapears. But when I change back to the workspace where this syptoms appears, this happens again. Why? System: AMD K6/2 350 RAM 128MB Kernel 2.2.19 gcc 2.7.2.3 woody (downloaded raw files from server in Hungary [16.11.01]) regards Ranko p.s.: sorry for my english p.p.s.:please send a copy to me because I do not have the list subscribed -- Doctrína est fructus dulcis radícis amárae. GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net
Re: How can I get ntp working?
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 14:13, Dave Sherohman spewed forth: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:44:50PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > > [Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:36:38AM -0500] Dave Sherohman : > > > ntpdate sets the time to be correct now. > > > > ntpdate sets the system time after syncing with the time server. Now > > you have to update the hardware clock by doing a 'hwclock -w' before you > > do a reboot/halt. Have I gone wrong somewhere ? > > Slightly. Unlike date/rdate, it appears that ntpdate also updates > the hardware clock, so you don't need to use hwclock if you use > ntpdate. > > > > idea is that you run ntpdate at boot (or on installation) to make the > > > time correct, then run ntpd continuously to keep it correct. > > > > Do we have ntpdate symlinked in all run-levels ? > > It should be set up to run in all networked runlevels (2-5) by the > package's installer. > > > You mean to say that > > ntpdate should run before ntp ? > > Yes. ntpdate cannot run while ntpd is active because they both > listen on the same port. The debian ntpdate and ntp packages handle > this properly, by setting up the rc?.d symlinks such that ntpdate > runs first, then ntpd is started. > > > Do ntpdate and ntp read the same config > > file ie. /etc/ntp.conf ? > > No. ntpdate isn't that smart and needs to have its list of time > sources passed on the command line. To configure it, you have to > edit /etc/init.d/ntpdate and follow the instructions in the script's > comments. Additional comment. ntpd on Server 'A' will not accept any time synchronization requests until it is satisfied it's got a reasonable time, then Computer 'B' will be able to synchronize with Server 'A'. After you run ntpdate and start ntpd -- wait a little while. If you need to know exactly how long - watch tcpdump for the ntp traffic to die down a little bit and then try it. I find 10 minutes is a very good number.
Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?
Ari Pollak wrote: > The newest gs 6 packages are at http://incoming.debian.org. hopefully > they should be in unstable tomorrow. > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > > package built with stp support? Yes, and it has stp support! I finally got my Canon S400 to work! (Strangely, if I set it to 720x720 instead of 360x360, it prints everything twice as big!) Thanks! Peter
Re: File corruption
Firstly I think this is more suitable for debian-user, so I'm BCCing -devel and CCing -user. Please CC me on any follow-ups. On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:27, Steven Mooij wrote: > Hello, I'm not a debian developer (yet), but I hope I am allowed to post a > message here. It is about a potential bug, but I can't send it with the > BTS, because I don't know which package to file it against. Firstly what you are describing isn't a debian bug so is not suitable for the BTS. It's either a kernel issue or a hardware issue. > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:58:59 Russell Coker wrote: > > Also there's this new "tainted kernel" thing which is a huge new feature, > > and > > there are rumours about Ext3 FS corruption and data loss.. > > Maybe my problem has something to do with these rumours, maybe not: When I > copy large amounts of data sometimes some bytes are changed. This must > sound vague: sometimes, some bytes, but unfortunately this is the case, I > haven't figured out a reproducable test-situation. Firstly create a file with a variety of data that's significantly larger than ram. Eg: tar cvf /tmp/junk /usr Then run md5sum repeatedly on it in the following fashion: while /bin/true ; do md5sum /tmp/junk ; done > /tmp/out Leave that running overnight and then run the following in the morning: uniq < /tmp/out If it gives more than one line of output then your hard drives are not repeatedly returning the same data to read requests. There is a potential problem that this error may only occur on certain parts of the hard drive. Booting with init=/bin/sh and running the following could be useful in that case: while /bin/true ; do md5sum /dev/md1 ; done Doing that all night shouldn't exhaust the kernel scroll-back buffer. Then if that doesn't show anything then you have to try repeatedly copying a file and using md5sum to check the result (should be the same after every copy). > 2628DB Delft If your machine is portable I could meet you at a HCC or NLLGG meeting and check it out. Send private mail if that interests you. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
Re: font problem in kde
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 14:56, Mario Olimpio de Menezes spewed forth: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing a weird problem in kde: > - when using kde wm, I can't access all fonts available in my > system; it defaults to a very ugly and almost unreadable font (Arnold > Boecklin). > - when using another window manager, like wmaker, I launch kde > control center, choose the appropriate font (arial), apply it, the > control center window gets redrawn with the chosen font and every kde > app that I launch will have the right font (arial, courier, whatever). > Any hint on why this is happening? > How to find the culprit? > I have a similar situation where my Fixed Width fonts are defaulting to an Agate 8 -- which is a hideously difficult to read font similar to an Olde English type. It might be nice someplaces, but not on my terminal windows.
Re: how to remove penguin logo
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:28:04AM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > Hello Jeremy, > > Thursday, October 18, 2001, 01:26:41 Acasica, you wrote: > > JCR> Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA > JCR> G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that > JCR> doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and > JCR> couldn't even recognize that it was a penguin.) > > JCR> The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel > and > JCR> the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew correctly > JCR> in the first place). > > JCR> How can I easily choose to never display any logo? > > JCR> Please note that I attempted to search using the glimpse interface for > the > JCR> Debian lists and search via google's usenet search, but never found an > JCR> answer within all the noise about logo contests and framebuffers. Feel > JCR> free to point me to documentation, FAQ or mailing list posting that > JCR> answers this question. > > JCR> Jeremy C. Reed > JCR> ... > JCR> BSD software, documentation, resources, news... > JCR> http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ > > > what are you talking about? there is a logo? > a text one? > well,check /etc/motd and remove the lines...or > if it's a logo package try to uninstall it via > apt-get remove logo* or something.. > good luck. > Dani, > Hackers unsupport. > I think Jeremy might be using framebuffers, at least I met with the penguin when I started to use framebuffers. My experience is that the logo disappears when you need the space, i.e. when you start a ncurses program. Doesn't it go away with Cltr-l? I did not find any boot option for not displaying the logo in kernel-documentation (Documenation/logo.txt and Documentation/fb/*.txt). pgpMB4NGWEbBi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gnome slowdown
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > hello, > after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is > gnawing at my nerves again.. now it slows down in a very haphazard > manner.. first of all it seems to start up slower than before.. Gnome slow? Gee, I thought that was a feature. :) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "Pretty soon, massive bloat is the industry standard and everyone is using huge, buggy programs not even their developers can love." -Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming pgpmVAQeBvvLj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: KDE v's Gnome font rendering & how do I get all of gnome Anyways?
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Aniartia wrote: > I've just finaly got X working only to find KDE, correctly, uses 75dpi font > rendering but gnome for some god forsaken reason is using 100dpi, anyone got > any ideas how to get gnome & kde on the same page, prefrably the 75dpi page? Check /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc for the 100dpi command switch, and change it to 75. Make sure that /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 lists 75dpi fonts before 100dpi fonts. -jwb
Re: how to remove penguin logo
* Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011018 00:32]: > How do you change the logo? I remember back when he came out there were > alot of alternatives. I'd like to find something a bit more interesting. http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~piefel/debian/ is probably what you are looking for. regards, Volker -- Idaho state law makes it illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.
Re: Change XFree from 4.1.0 to 3.3.6 in testing?
Ok, I figured it out. I used the 3.3.6 packages that dselect shows but had to go and get the xserver-mach64 package from potato. It seems to be working OK now...except I can't use a framebuffer console with the mach64 server, but that's a different problem. -M "Mark S. Mathews" wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Pardon the inquiry, but I'm still a little new to debian. > > I've installed testing on my laptop, it installed XFree 4.1.0 (which is > very nice BTW), but unfortunately I need to move back to XFree 3.3.6. I > have a Mach64 controller in this laptop and the XFree 4.1.0 driver only > supports 8-bit color on this chip. > > Can someone clue me in on the proper procedure for doing this? > > In dselect, I can see a couple of 3.3.6 packages but only the SVGA > server is shown. I'm a little confused about which way I should go at > this point. > > Thanks, > -Mark > > -- > > Mark S. Mathews > > AbsoluteValue Systems Web:http://www.linux-wlan.com > 715-D North Drive e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Melbourne, FL 32934Phone: 321.259.0737 > USAFax:321.259.0286 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark S. Mathews AbsoluteValue Systems Web:http://www.linux-wlan.com 715-D North Drive e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne, FL 32934Phone: 321.259.0737 USAFax:321.259.0286
Re: how to remove penguin logo
How do you change the logo? I remember back when he came out there were alot of alternatives. I'd like to find something a bit more interesting. Thus spake Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hey, > > do you have to use fb? I think the logo is mandatory w/ framebuffer... but > when you clear the screen, it's supposed to go away > > Cameron Matheson > > > - Original Message - > From: Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:14 PM > Subject: how to remove penguin logo > > > > Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA > > G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that > > doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and > > couldn't even recognize that it was a penguin.) > > > > The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel and > > the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew correctly > > in the first place). > > > > How can I easily choose to never display any logo? > > > > Please note that I attempted to search using the glimpse interface for the > > Debian lists and search via google's usenet search, but never found an > > answer within all the noise about logo contests and framebuffers. Feel > > free to point me to documentation, FAQ or mailing list posting that > > answers this question. > > > > Jeremy C. Reed > > ... > > BSD software, documentation, resources, news... > > http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: how to remove penguin logo
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:15:11 -0700 "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --snip-- > The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel > and > the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew > correctly > in the first place). > --snip-- Are you talking about the framebuffer logo? If so, just switching to another VT and then back should make it go away.
Re: how to remove penguin logo
Hey, do you have to use fb? I think the logo is mandatory w/ framebuffer... but when you clear the screen, it's supposed to go away Cameron Matheson - Original Message - From: Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:14 PM Subject: how to remove penguin logo > Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA > G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that > doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and > couldn't even recognize that it was a penguin.) > > The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel and > the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew correctly > in the first place). > > How can I easily choose to never display any logo? > > Please note that I attempted to search using the glimpse interface for the > Debian lists and search via google's usenet search, but never found an > answer within all the noise about logo contests and framebuffers. Feel > free to point me to documentation, FAQ or mailing list posting that > answers this question. > > Jeremy C. Reed > ... > BSD software, documentation, resources, news... > http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: how to remove penguin logo
"Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA > G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that > doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and > couldn't even recognize that it was a penguin.) > > The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel and > the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew correctly > in the first place). > > How can I easily choose to never display any logo? I hate to harm that cute little penguin but. dpkg --purge linuxlogodid the trick here! Glyn -- ** * Here we are then... * * http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk * **
KDE v's Gnome font rendering & how do I get all of gnome Anyways?
I've just finaly got X working only to find KDE, correctly, uses 75dpi font rendering but gnome for some god forsaken reason is using 100dpi, anyone got any ideas how to get gnome & kde on the same page, prefrably the 75dpi page? Next thing, how do I get all of gnome down devel libs n' all with apt-get? Please don't tell me to use dselect cause I want to use apt-get. Have I missed something here?.. TIA Ani
Re: how to remove penguin logo
Hello Jeremy, Thursday, October 18, 2001, 01:26:41 Acasica, you wrote: JCR> Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA JCR> G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that JCR> doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and JCR> couldn't even recognize that it was a penguin.) JCR> The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel and JCR> the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew correctly JCR> in the first place). JCR> How can I easily choose to never display any logo? JCR> Please note that I attempted to search using the glimpse interface for the JCR> Debian lists and search via google's usenet search, but never found an JCR> answer within all the noise about logo contests and framebuffers. Feel JCR> free to point me to documentation, FAQ or mailing list posting that JCR> answers this question. JCR> Jeremy C. Reed JCR> ... JCR> BSD software, documentation, resources, news... JCR> http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ what are you talking about? there is a logo? a text one? well,check /etc/motd and remove the lines...or if it's a logo package try to uninstall it via apt-get remove logo* or something.. good luck. Dani, Hackers unsupport. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
can i run caldera linux with windows xp together?
hi, i have a question about installing debian linux on my computer. i have a laptop with windows xp installed, can i partition my hard drive and install debian linux, too? thanks = Shouguo Li __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
how to remove penguin logo
Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and couldn't even recognize that it was a penguin.) The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel and the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew correctly in the first place). How can I easily choose to never display any logo? Please note that I attempted to search using the glimpse interface for the Debian lists and search via google's usenet search, but never found an answer within all the noise about logo contests and framebuffers. Feel free to point me to documentation, FAQ or mailing list posting that answers this question. Jeremy C. Reed ... BSD software, documentation, resources, news... http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
Re: gnome slowdown
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Frank Preut wrote: | > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: | > > hello, | > > after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is | > > gnawing at my nerves again.. now it slows down in a very haphazard | > > manner.. first of all it seems to start up slower than before.. | > > secondly, applications might load normally but then take minutes to shut | > > down.. or they "sleep" for some 15 seconds or so before they continue.. | > > the whole thing is very slow to respond most of the time.. i'm on | > > testing and i recently upgraded X to the infamous 4.1-7 release and my | > > kernel to 2.4.10-686 and i wonder whether anyone else is seeing this | > > kind of problem.. the machine (a pII-350 with 256M) isn't the fastest on | > > the planet but it was much more bearable before.. That machine should do just fine. I had a PII-300 (only 64MB RAM) up until several months ago and had no performance problems with it. I got a new machine because Compaq makes bad desktops -- not expandable at all. I didn't make a big jump, only a Duron 750 with 256M RAM. I have so much memory because it was cheap (the first 128M stick was cheaper than 2 64s would have been so I went for it, the other was on sale for very little money). | I just installed unstable freshly, including GNOME. I noticed that GNOME | was *totally* useless if esd wasn't running. Nautilus would hang for | 15-30 seconds at a stretch, as would Galeon. Logging out was impossible | or took a very long time. Generally nothing worked properly. I bet those apps are trying to play sounds, and eventually timing out. | After compiling and installing ALSA, apt-get installing esound, and adding | myself to group "audio", GNOME was clipping right along. | | I think that GNOME should not depend on esound to run properly, especially | given that many people have no sound output device. I run GNOME just fine at home (the Duron mentioned above) with no sound card whatsoever. (PC speaker doesn't count, it only beeps) I either disabled esd or ignore the warnings about not finding /dev/dsp. I'll have to check after I get home. -D
Re[2]: Help: SB16 & 'potato'
Hello Joseph, Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 22:16:54 Acasica, you wrote: JWD> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: >> it's not hard. >> i have a creative sound blaster 16 myself. >> just do "modprobe sb" and you're all set. JWD> I'm surprised - that *did* work. I had managed to get it working before JWD> on a previous installation of potato I had by jumping through hoops with JWD> insmod, isapnp and suchlike. [bad memory on my part - I have no idea these JWD> days just what I finally did last time to get it to work :] >> i think you're supposed to edit /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules >> and add an alias for sb >> but i bet modutils can do that for you. JWD> I remember trying to do that before and ending up with a ton of JWD> "/etc/modules.conf is newer than /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/modules.dep" JWD> errors [and vice-versa]. >> good luck and don't forget "saytime" and "mpg123" JWD> First things I grabbed. :) you're right.i forgot about those things. It's an isa card,right? so first you have to check it out,sort of speak,hehe.like "pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf" then you have to edit that file and set the irq and port and activate it.then run "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" and it should say that soundblaster something enabled.. then there is a command in modutils that i can't remember right now,that sets that not to go away after reboot.i might be wrong.. once the card is set up,then just issue "modprobe sb" or "insmod sb".mine it loads sb,mpu-401,soundcore,soundSOMETHING.. so like 4 modules.. i can't remember if you either edit /etc/modules.conf now or work with modutils to keep enable the sb modules autoloading after reboot..hmm...gotta get some lecithine :p c yah,and gluck. Dani, Winmodems unsupport. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:22:06PM +0200, Sigue wrote: | I know this is a bit to generic question, and it has been probably already | discussed a 1000 times, | but I'm fairly new, so please forgive me if I ask it nevertheless. | | Is there a big risk in upgrading to Woody now? ^^^ I don't think so. | What speaks agains it? Some things could be broken. For example, right now X is. However, if you check the archives, the fix is as simple as deleting 2 characters from a one-line-long file. | What is the main advantage in doing so? Newer stuff. For example, the GNOME in potato is 2 "major" revisions behind (technically "minor", but they are significant -- not "micro"). There are also some stuff that doesn't exist in potato. | Also to give a little more background to the question: | I yesterday foolishly tried to experiment with adding some unoffical sources | to the apt sources.list. You can tweak your sources.list then run 'apt-get update' and your local database will be "fixed". | 1. Just checking. If I would want to upgrade to Woody, I'd need to add | 'testing' or 'woody' to the sources.list, | and then I'd need to issue 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? 'apt-get update' first | 2. Is it possible to somehow delete the package database, and make apt | reread the official ones from debian.org? apt-get update Sometimes I point my sources at sid. Not all packages are in woody (eg galeon, recent gnucash). I adjust source.list, run 'apt-get update' to update the database, 'apt-get install ' to install foo, put sources.list back, run 'apt-get update' to update the database. This last "update" makes the woody stuff be the newest that is known (aside from the installed stuff). HTH, -D
Re: galeon crashing - solutions so far?
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hey again, > > THe problems I am having are with plugins (java, realplayer, flash, > etc.); when any plugin is called, galeon just quits. It's annoying > because these plugins are use a lot, and my browser just crashes in > the middle of doing work. I'm using the flash 5 plugin and it works fine. Try disabling Java and see if that fixes the problem. If it does, try training yourself to do without Java in the browser. It really is an abomination. -jwb
Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:49:01PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: | | Does Linux support any RAM drive(s)? How much faster are these drives over | an attached drive? Is there a CPU performance penalty? According to the kernel FAQ, Linux ext2 implementation is fast enough that it is not necessary to implement /tmp as a ramdisk. Some systems (they give stats, I think solaris is one of them) is much slower with on-disk filesystems so Sun went with a ramdisk for performance with temp files. I don't think you'll get much, if any, performance boost from using a ramdisk. In the kernel config, look for "shm" (I think) in the filesystem section. If you press "help" on it you'll see a discussion of tmpfs (the other name for it). You can then mount it with an entry in /etc/fstab. HTH, -D
Re: galeon crashing - solutions so far?
Hey again, THe problems I am having are with plugins (java, realplayer, flash, etc.); when any plugin is called, galeon just quits. It's annoying because these plugins are use a lot, and my browser just crashes in the middle of doing work. Cheers, rohan
Re: galeon crashing - solutions so far?
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Greetings all, > > Just wondering what those of you in unstable are doing with the current > galeon problem. Any idea when it will be fixed? Any solutions as of yet > (besides compiling from source)? It is working fine on my unstable machines. What problems are you having? -jwb
galeon crashing - solutions so far?
Greetings all, Just wondering what those of you in unstable are doing with the current galeon problem. Any idea when it will be fixed? Any solutions as of yet (besides compiling from source)? Cheers, rohan
Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?
Thus spake Sigue: > Some related problems: > 1. Just checking. If I would want to upgrade to Woody, I'd need to add > 'testing' or 'woody' to the sources.list, > and then I'd need to issue 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? yes - just replace all instances of stable or potato with woody or testing. then apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. > 2. Is it possible to somehow delete the package database, and make apt > reread the official ones from debian.org? You can just comment out the unofficial sources in source.list, and rerun apt-get update - this will readjust the pool to your disitribution. > 3. Is it possible to go back to the state in dselect before you started > making selections? > I know that i theory 'R' should go back to the state before the current > selection, but sometimes it > seems to get stuck in a loop and alway brings me back the same dependency > screen. > Also if I made several selections, but then change my mind and want to go > back to the state where it was > when I've started dselect, is this possible? I believe, although I could be quite wrong, that once you apply the changes you've selected, they stick in dselect. You can always use dpkg to remove the offending packages in the meantime. Back to your starting question, though. Potato is now at least a year (and I think more) out of date, as it has been frozen (no new packages added, merely bugfixes), so there are many advantages to changing distributions in order to take advantage of newer software that won't be available in potato. However, testing means what it says, it's a work in progress, and may break at the most inopportune moments. I know - has happened to me, usually when I have the least time for it. But if you have some background in this type of thing, or don't mind mucking about in the guts of your OS, I think it's a pretty remarkable distribution. I'm pretty new to linux in general, and I'm managing, although with some amount of bending of the collective ear on this list. Good luck, Steve > Many,many thanks for your help in advance! > best regards, > Balazs > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. -- P.J. Bailey pgp5viVB4TPR0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gnome slowdown
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Frank Preut wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > > hello, > > after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is > > gnawing at my nerves again.. now it slows down in a very haphazard > > manner.. first of all it seems to start up slower than before.. > > secondly, applications might load normally but then take minutes to shut > > down.. or they "sleep" for some 15 seconds or so before they continue.. > > the whole thing is very slow to respond most of the time.. i'm on > > testing and i recently upgraded X to the infamous 4.1-7 release and my > > kernel to 2.4.10-686 and i wonder whether anyone else is seeing this > > kind of problem.. the machine (a pII-350 with 256M) isn't the fastest on > > the planet but it was much more bearable before.. I just installed unstable freshly, including GNOME. I noticed that GNOME was *totally* useless if esd wasn't running. Nautilus would hang for 15-30 seconds at a stretch, as would Galeon. Logging out was impossible or took a very long time. Generally nothing worked properly. After compiling and installing ALSA, apt-get installing esound, and adding myself to group "audio", GNOME was clipping right along. I think that GNOME should not depend on esound to run properly, especially given that many people have no sound output device. -jwb
Re: gnome slowdown
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > hello, > after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is > gnawing at my nerves again.. now it slows down in a very haphazard > manner.. first of all it seems to start up slower than before.. > secondly, applications might load normally but then take minutes to shut > down.. or they "sleep" for some 15 seconds or so before they continue.. > the whole thing is very slow to respond most of the time.. i'm on > testing and i recently upgraded X to the infamous 4.1-7 release and my > kernel to 2.4.10-686 and i wonder whether anyone else is seeing this > kind of problem.. the machine (a pII-350 with 256M) isn't the fastest on > the planet but it was much more bearable before.. argh, even my clock doesn't count correctly, it rather chooses "arbitrary second-like intervals".. why me?? frank. pgptNjqplvAOs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD
* Piet Knoester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 23:00:29+0200]: > chmod /dev/hd? a+r the right syntax would be chmod a+r /dev/hd?, but DON'T DO THIS. the above works, but i doubt for multiple files... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] it may look like i'm just sitting here doing nothing. but i'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away. pgpAsO5xoDxJo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 14:03:04-0700]: > Erk! I should have followed that up with "replace ? with the > appropriate drive letter or you will have bad things happen." This > would likely be hdc for most people. I kind of misread the question - access to the CDROM drive seems to be the problem. well, to listen to audio CDs, you need to be member of the 'cdrom' group. To play WAV or MP3 files, you need to be member of the 'audio' group. /dev/hdc, the CDROM drive for most people belongs to group cdrom, so it is *not* necessary to give "others" read access. therefore: chmod o= /dev/hd? vigr # and add the user names (comma separated) after the audio # and cdrom groups... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "it appears that pl/i (and its dialects) is, or will be, the most widely used higher level language for systems programming." -- j. sammet pgp94qpYSZuVV.pgp Description: PGP signature
The right to sing along with an audio CD - Solution !!
On the command line chmod /dev/hdd a+r did the trick. As user I was already added to the group "audio". I'am enyoing the music, thanks for the tips. Greetings Piet Knoester
Gnome Panel crashing all the time...
Hi, Don't know if it is just me, I am using unstable and upgrade recently. And Gnome Panel just crashed a lot of the time when I exit X window. I don't have much info so far. Just wondering if it is a bug or just me -- Edwin ERTW Lau _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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there is something wrong, isn't it? README says: >cd /usr/lib >mkdir -p dosemu freedos >ln -s ../freedos dosemu my guess here: "mkdir -p dosemu/freedos; cd dosemu/freedos" before linking? Gehard
Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, martin f krafft wrote: > * Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 13:02:24-0700]: > > chmod /dev/hd? a+r > > > aaah! don't do this, unless you want your users to be > able to read /etc/shadow. Erk! I should have followed that up with "replace ? with the appropriate drive letter or you will have bad things happen." This would likely be hdc for most people. -- Baloo
Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub
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Default font does not display properly
Hi, I have a problem with fonts generally and vim-gkt particularly, the initial screen has Roman crosses for tilde characters and boxes for normal characters. I have a similar problem with other applications, like AbiWord. Other applications display text fine, except for the About box, which shows squares. I downloaded the source for vim and it appears that the default font string is -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*- 14-*-*-*-m-*-*-*" To narrow the problem, I wrote a small program and gave gtk_font_load the same string. The displayed text also showed squares. If I select a font in vim, or specify - adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-* in my toy program, text is displayed normally. I have read the recent post on font problems I have changed my FontPath per the suggestions, but to no avail. Im using testing version xfree86-common 4.1.0-7, I have xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts- scalable, and xfonts-scalable-nonfree. Does anyone have suggestions for fixing my font problems? Gary Setter
Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:02:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote: > > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > > error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks > > like a matter of rights but where do I have to do what. > > chmod /dev/hd? a+r Talk about killing a fly with a shotgun... This solution would make all IDE drives world-readable as raw devices, allowing enterprising users to sift through the contents of your (IDE) hard drives to see such things as the contents of /etc/shadow or any passwords that may have been stored in memory which was subsequently swapped out to disk. Yeah, it'll work, but (even on a single-user home system) do you really want to open up all those extra holes? Either just do the CDROM device (usually /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd - check to see what /dev/cdrom is linked to if you're not sure) or add your user account to the audio group instead. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Mr. Slippery
Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 13:02:24-0700]: > chmod /dev/hd? a+r aaah! don't do this, unless you want your users to be able to read /etc/shadow. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] (a)bort, (r)etry, (p)retend this never happened pgpJFzfmht9St.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...
* Mart van de Wege ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:24, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > I use 2.4.12 with nVidia drivers -- works just fine. I installed from > > nVidia tarballs (plus devfs patch). > > > > Does anyone know if/which debian packages overwrite nVidia's GL stuff? > > > IIRC it was xlibosmesa or xlibmesag3, whichever is the one that does > direct rendering. I could at least safely delete these from my sid > install, and the nvidia modules satisfy the dependency. Ok, so I should apt-get nvidia packages and remove mesa stuff. Thanks. Dima -- Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.-- Shmuel Metz "Fornicate Off And Decease". -- Rik Steenwinkel
Re: nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...
* Michael C. Alonzo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:24:09PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > ... ... > 2.4.9 + 1541 = STABLE > 2.4.12 + 1541 = stable with eterms except XTerm > > whenever i close an Xterm, that's when X breaks > > should i file this as a bug? or its just me? Dunno, I've just installed xterm and tried it. Nothing breaks when I close xterm (2.4.12 + 1451). Dima -- Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.-- Shmuel Metz "Fornicate Off And Decease". -- Rik Steenwinkel
Re: nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...
* Michael C. Alonzo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:24:09PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > ... > > > I'm using 1541 + vesafb successfully so I doubt it's that. > > > > > > Have you tried just grabbing the tarballs direct from nVidia's servers > > > and > > > installing them by hand? Works everytime for me. That said, I haven't > > > used > > > 2.4.12 - I'm languishing back in the "good ol' days" of 2.4.9 - not sure > > > if > > > that makes any difference. > > > > I use 2.4.12 with nVidia drivers -- works just fine. I installed from > > nVidia tarballs (plus devfs patch). > > is there a devfs patch? Yes. Dima (ok, ok, http://www.google.com/search?q=nvidia+devfs+patch) -- Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.-- Shmuel Metz "Fornicate Off And Decease". -- Rik Steenwinkel
Re: DSelect again
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Reto wrote: > Hi! > Does DSelect log the installation anywhere? How else can I see, which > package produces an "Internal Error"? Nope. If you get errors, leave dselect and tryp apt-get dselect-upgrade and see what it does. > How can I unselect everything but the packages already installed? Go into dselect, and look for the stuff that doesn't have three installed stars ahead of it and start hitting the purge key on those. -- Baloo
Re: Help: SB16 & 'potato'
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: > it's not hard. > i have a creative sound blaster 16 myself. > just do "modprobe sb" and you're all set. I'm surprised - that *did* work. I had managed to get it working before on a previous installation of potato I had by jumping through hoops with insmod, isapnp and suchlike. [bad memory on my part - I have no idea these days just what I finally did last time to get it to work :] > i think you're supposed to edit /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules > and add an alias for sb > but i bet modutils can do that for you. I remember trying to do that before and ending up with a ton of "/etc/modules.conf is newer than /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/modules.dep" errors [and vice-versa]. > good luck and don't forget "saytime" and "mpg123" First things I grabbed. :) -- "...there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes into work every day and has a job to do."[Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"] http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa343/index.html
nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
I've got two computers on a small home LAN. One is my Debian "workstation" and the other is an OpenBSD firewall/NAT "server." I have some NFS shares on the OpenBSD box which I would like to have mounted (on the Debian system) at boot time. So I have some entries in /etc/fstab like the following: septictank:/wrk/mp3 /nfs/mp3 nfs 0 0 Where "septictank" is the name of the OpenBSD system. When my system boots, these shares are not mounted. Doing a "dmesg" I noticed the following line: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel However, I can mount these NFS shares manually by doing something such as the following: mount -t nfs septictank:/wrk/mp3 /nfs/mp3 I.e. doing it manually works fine. Any thoughts here? Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Do you think that it would be too much to say that two hours of the working time of every efficient member of a community goes to feed the red fiend of war?" --Upton Sinclair, _The_Jungle_
Re: host name in e-mails reply-to field in mutt
* Nicolau Werneck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011017 10:01]: > hello... > > I read my e-mails in an acount at yahoo, using mutt, > and access it via a dial-in ISP. Every now and then, > my e-mails are rejected because the adderess > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" doen't exist. > > "aquarius" is the hostname I've defined on my computer > somewhere installing some software. > > I've managed to make mutt use the "yahoo.com.br" > hostname when I'm replying to e-mails I get from the > yahoo pop server. But I can't find where to tell it > that the hostname should be "yahoo.com.br" also on > e-mails I send from my machine. What sould I do to get > this thing working? Others have suggested things to do to mutt; this can be a "good-enough" solution. What is your MTA? Exim? Maybe you just need to add a line to /etc/email-addresses to make it do the Right Thing and rewrite your addresses for you on the way out. > > I've losted a date with the girl of my dreams because > of this, please help me! :) Ah, just call her up and tell her that; she'll take you back. (but what do I know?) good times, -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use of this .sig may constitute violation of US law. echo Qba\'g gernq ba zr\! |tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M' pgpXR0jXXrGaN.pgp Description: PGP signature
strange error files
I get strange empty error files in my root directory. I have no idea what causes them. Here's a listing: -rw---1 root0 Oct 12 21:49 errs3IY3FQ -rw---1 root0 Oct 15 20:56 errs83W4Qt -rw---1 root0 Oct 16 22:48 errs8oJuts -rw---1 root0 Oct 15 18:51 errs8yTgVd -rw---1 root0 Oct 17 12:21 errsLuZWMg -rw---1 root0 Oct 13 10:04 errsMaXwZ8 -rw---1 root0 Oct 17 12:58 errsN9XEXL -rw---1 root0 Oct 12 17:49 errsU99Kg2 -rw---1 root0 Oct 14 08:20 errscI7gTQ -rw---1 root0 Oct 11 22:23 errso6ELHV -rw---1 root0 Oct 16 08:41 errsuicVx6 Does anybody have any idea how I can keep them from appearing? Thanks, Jason
Re: Any windowing system in text mode?
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:00:44PM +0800, ramsubs wrote: > If I wanted to write an app which runs on a pseudo windowing system in > text mode, what tools do I use? By this, I mean something similar to > Foxpro for DOS which has a windowing system running in DOS mode where > you can drag windows around, able to pop up dialog boxes, uses gpm-type > mouse, and so on... Do you want to use an existing toolkit for this "text gui" or are you going to write your own? If you're writing your own, you can do it all with (n)curses or s-lang. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Do you think that it would be too much to say that two hours of the working time of every efficient member of a community goes to feed the red fiend of war?" --Upton Sinclair, _The_Jungle_
Re: I've done it! Wanted SMP now I get Kernel Panic!
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Mark Lanett wrote: > When I have recompiled and installed my kernel, I get a new "LinuxOLD" entry > in Lilo automatically. I guess the dpkg install step does it. I'm running on the assumption that most people grab the official tarballs off kernel.org, which sounds like is the case here, anyway. Not sure at all what the Debian way is. -- Baloo
Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote: > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks > like a matter of rights but where do I have to do what. chmod /dev/hd? a+r -- Baloo
Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD
edit /etc/group and add yourself to the audio group. like this: audio:x:29:shock, fame On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote: > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks > like a matter of rights but where do I have to do what. > > Has anyone a good suggestion. > > Thanks in advance. > > Piet Knoester > > > -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_, ___ | http://www.exitwound.org : hard to find | ___ | Once it hits the fan, the only rational | | choice is to sweep it up, package it, and | | sell it as fertilizer.| ___ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- | Version: 3.1 | | GJ/IT 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+++ | --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: How to stop the 'beeps'
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Morbo wrote: > Is it possible to stop the terminal windows from beeping every time I press > tab where there are multiple > matches etc.? Well, there's always options for that but the easiest way from my experiance is to pop the case and either flip the speaker jumper or unplug the speaker. -- Baloo
Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote: > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks > like a matter of rights but where do I have to do what. Add yourself to the group "audio" or change the permissions on /dev/dsp* and /var/run/esound/*. -jwb
Re: The right to sing along with an audio CD
* Piet Knoester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 21:31:07+0200]: > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an > error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks > like a matter of rights but where do I have to do what. try adding your user to the "audio" group with vigr... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "in contrast to the what-you-see-is-what-you-get philosophy, unix is the you-asked-for-it,-you-got-it operating system." --scott lee pgpkW852rXRSI.pgp Description: PGP signature
The right to sing along with an audio CD
On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks like a matter of rights but where do I have to do what. Has anyone a good suggestion. Thanks in advance. Piet Knoester
Re: GPL issues [Was: Old debian package source archive - where?]
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:12:20PM +0100, Richard Davies wrote: > > Putting on my devil's-advocate hat to troll for a minute, why isn't > this GPL violation (or LGPL or whatever for this specific package)? > > Given we've got separate binary and source packages, it would seem > that we probably don't fall under the "accompany the work with the > source code" clauses, in which case don't we have to be able to > provide source for up to three years after we distribute any binaries? But we do provide the human readable source to our packages. It is all fully available to you at the time that you download the binaries from one of the Debian mirrors. This allows us to distribute the source under section 3a of the GPL v2. If we wanted to ship binary-only cds, then we would fall under section 3b. However, since we don't ship any cds at all, we don't have that problem. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpt3tHHJxmYd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Shall I upgrade to Woody?
I know this is a bit to generic question, and it has been probably already discussed a 1000 times, but I'm fairly new, so please forgive me if I ask it nevertheless. Is there a big risk in upgrading to Woody now? What speaks agains it? What is the main advantage in doing so? Also to give a little more background to the question: I yesterday foolishly tried to experiment with adding some unoffical sources to the apt sources.list. Basically I wanted to get a recent Mozilla already packaged as deb. I somehow didn't payed attenion while selecting, or else dselect automatically has found and selected severel nver versions of some basic packages, without me noticing, because it installed several new gnome packages etc. Also suddenly some of the packages which were installed (e.g XMMS) claim to be missing some dependencies, which I can't find in the package list anywhere etc. (Allthough it works - at least for mp3s) I've also had trouble installing mozilla from tarballs. It was missing libstdc++libc6.1-1.so.2 etc. So the thought occured to me, that I could do an upgrade to Woody and get the latest from everything... Some related problems: 1. Just checking. If I would want to upgrade to Woody, I'd need to add 'testing' or 'woody' to the sources.list, and then I'd need to issue 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? 2. Is it possible to somehow delete the package database, and make apt reread the official ones from debian.org? 3. Is it possible to go back to the state in dselect before you started making selections? I know that i theory 'R' should go back to the state before the current selection, but sometimes it seems to get stuck in a loop and alway brings me back the same dependency screen. Also if I made several selections, but then change my mind and want to go back to the state where it was when I've started dselect, is this possible? Many,many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs
