Re: G400 vs. DRM

[Oleksandr Moskalenko]

* Eugene Tyurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having trouble with this strange error message from bzflag (.deb
> 1.7e2-1) and GL in general:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bzflag
> libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
> libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
> loading fixedbr...
> loading panel...
> 
> At the same time, log file for X (.deb 4.1.0-9 ) shows:
> 
> (II) LoadModule: "drm"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a
> (II) Module drm: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 32 depth: 24
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2200+664: 2864
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] created "mga" driver at busid "PCI:1:5:0"
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] added 4096 byte SAREA at 0xc99ef000
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xc99ef000 to 0x4001a000
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xdc00
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] Added 128 65536 byte DMA buffers
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] Registers handle = 0xd800
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] Status handle = 0xca9fb000
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] Mapped 128 DMA buffers
> 
> I am running up-to-date woody with custom kernel 2.4.15-pre1:
> 
> CONFIG_DRM=y
> CONFIG_DRM_MGA=y
> 
> If I run X as '-depth 16', I don't get libGL error, but bzflag still
> uses indirect rendering.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?
> 
> --ET.


  Eugene,

 To my untrained eye this log doesn't really show if dri was loaded. I
had the same log, but dri didn't work on my G400. I apologize if I
needlesly reiterate what you've already done, but I believe that in
addition to the kernel compile options you mentioned I had the
following:

CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y (since I have a 440BX chipset)
CONFIG_DRM=y
CONFIG_DRM_MGA=y

also, look for this part in the XFree86.log:

(==) MGA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) MGA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) MGA(0): Using overlay video
(II) MGA(0): X context handle = 0x0001
(II) MGA(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
(II) MGA(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) MGA(0): [drm] Mapped 128 DMA buffers
(==) MGA(0): Direct rendering enabled

 You really want to se the last line above. I╢m attaching my XF86Config-4 if 
that will help any.

 Alex.

# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexconf, the
# Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config" at the shell prompt.)

Section "Files"
#   FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server
#   FontPath"unix/:7110"# xfs-xtt true type font server

# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load"ddc"
Load"dri"
Load"GLcore"
Load"dbe"
Load"extmod"
Load"glx"
Load"pex5"
Load"record"
Load"xie"
Load"bitmap"
Load"freetype"
Load"speedo"
Load"type1"
Load"vbe"
Load"int10"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "CoreKeyboard"
Option  "Protocol"  "Standard"
Option  "AutoRepeat""500 30"
Option  "XkbKeycodes"   "xfree86"
Option  "XkbTypes"  "default"
Option  "XkbCompat" "default"
Option  "XkbGeometry"   "pc"
Option  "XkbRules"  "xfree86"
Option  "XkbModel"  "microsoft"
Option  "XkbLayout" "rums(basic)"
Option  "XkbOptions""grp:toggle"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Generic Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "CorePointer"
Option  "Device""/dev/psaux"
Option  "Protocol"  "PS/2"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "yes"
Option  "Emulate3Timeout"   "150"
Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Matrox G400"

make: no such command

[Peter Plantagenet]

Hi -- 

I've just installed Potato from floppy images and a local drive. I downloaded 
2.2.26-2001-06-14 to my Win98 harddrive E, made the disk images using rawrite2, 
and the installation process found the base installation files in E. So far so 
good. 

However, my PCI Netgear FA312 network card isn't being recognized correctly, so 
I can't access all of Debian. The driver it needs is natsemi.c, which I found, 
with instructions for how to build a module at 
http://www.scyld.com/expert/modules.html

The problem is that building a module requires a "make include" command and I 
don't seem to have whatever runs "make" -- a compiler, I take it (I'm new to 
linux). What is the compiler and how can I get it?

Are there more elegant solutions to my problem? I just need to install a driver 
I found. Ideally, I'd like it in the kernel, instead of the drivers I don't 
need.

Your help will be much appreciated.

Peter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>




Free ! Download the new Britney Spears' 'I'm A Slave 4 U'
directly from http://www.music.com

Re: fetchmail error?

[Craig Dickson]

Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:

>   Recently, fetchmail seems to stop working in Yahoo... it has the
> following error
> 
> client/server protocol error while fetching from pop.mail.yahoo.ca
> 5.9.5 querying pop.mail.yahoo.ca (protocol POP3) at Sat 17
> Query status=4 (PROTOCOL)

Oddly enough, I had exactly that same problem today. I think it's a
Yahoo problem, not a fetchmail one. I fixed it by logging into Yahoo
Mail with a web browser and deleting the first message (which wasn't
anything I needed, fortunately). Then fetchmail got all the remaining
messages without error.

Craig

Re: sourceforge and postgresql

[Matt Fair]

After looking into this more I can see that it is my ldap configuration.
I am using slapd.
When I do a dpk-reconfigure libpam-ldap and I set the root login =
cn=admin, dc=< ?? > What do I put for dc?
If I am using debian.org as my ldap server location would I have
cn=admin, dc=debian, dc=com?
I am confused, after I configured the ldap again I got ldap_bind:
Invalid credentials which I guess means that I got the password wrong. 
I went through and reconfigured everything to have an empty password,
and still I got the same thing.
Any ides?  I really want to get this to work, and I feel like I am so
close.
Thanks,
Matt

On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 20:42, Matt Fair wrote:
> Hi,
> The problem with it connecting and installing the database works good
> now, but it cannot connect to the ldap server?  What is going on, would
> it be due to a config problem, or is it the package?
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> Setting up sourceforge (2.5-14) ...
> You'll see some debugging info during this installation.
> Do not worry unless told otherwise.
> It seems your database upgrade went well and smoothly.  That's cool.
> Please enjoy using Debian Sourceforge.
> Installing chroot environnement at /var/lib/sourceforge/chroot
> 
> Configuring DNS for domain name = dev.uprint.web and IP address =
> 192.168.10.2...
>  dev.uprint.web
> Creating /var/lib/sourceforge/bind/dns.head
> DNS configuration done.
> Modifying inetd for cvs server
> CVS usual config is changed for sourceforge one
> Modifying /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
> WARNING: Please check referal line in /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
> Adding /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema
> Adding /etc/ldap/schema/cosine.schema
> Adding /etc/ldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
> Adding /etc/ldap/schema/nis.schema
> Adding /etc/sourceforge/sourceforge.schema
> Restarting ldap server(s):
>   Stopping ldap server(s): slapd.
>   Starting ldap server(s): slapd.
> Modifying /etc/libnss-ldap.conf
> WARNING: Probably incorrect base line in /etc/libnss-ldap.conf
> Modifying /etc/nsswitch.conf
> Load ldap
> Distinguished Name is dc=sourceforge,dc=example,dc=com
> Creating ldif file from database
> Filling LDAP with database
> ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
> ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
> Restarting ldap server(s):
>   Stopping ldap server(s): slapd.
>   Starting ldap server(s): slapd.
> Setup SF_robot account
> Adding robot accounts
> ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
> Changing SF_robot passwd using admin account
> ldap_initialize(  )
> ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
> Changing dummy cn using SF_robot account
> ldap_initialize(  )
> ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
> dpkg: error processing sourceforge (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  sourceforge
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 18:08, Tim Uckun wrote:
> > 
> > >Uncaught exception from user code:
> > > Cannot connect to database:  at 
> > > /usr/lib/sourceforge/lib/include.pl
> > >line 46.
> > > main::db_connect called at /usr/lib/sourceforge/bin/db-upgrade.pl 
> > > line
> > >29
> > >Installing chroot environnement at /var/lib/sourceforge/chroot
> > >
> > 
> > It works fine now. You should try the latest version.
> > 
> > 
> > :wq
> > Tim Uckun
> > US Investigations Services/Due Diligence
> >   http://www.diligence.com/
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: newbie question

[mobtek mobtekl]

hey all,
had probs with amd not working (but it had been) on debian unstable, 
here's the 
output from apt-get after trying to reinstall-

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:root] apt-get install amd
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, amd is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10  not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up am-utils (6.0.7-4) ...
/etc/init.d/am-utils: please setup your domainname
dpkg: error processing am-utils (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of amd:
 amd depends on am-utils; however:
  Package am-utils is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing amd (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 am-utils
 amd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


any pointers on how I fix this configure prob?

cheers peter vdm

fetchmail error?

[Chun Kit Edwin Lau]

Hi everyone,

Recently, fetchmail seems to stop working in Yahoo... it has the
following error

client/server protocol error while fetching from pop.mail.yahoo.ca
5.9.5 querying pop.mail.yahoo.ca (protocol POP3) at Sat 17
Query status=4 (PROTOCOL)

-- 
Edwin ERTW Lau

_
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: HP DeskJet 632C - can't print

[John R. Daily]

Never mind, finally got it to work with lpdomatic. Is foomatic
really not packaged for Debian?

-John Daily
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla not sending email

[Jerome Acks Jr]

David P James wrote:


Hi all

I just started using mozilla today after getting a little tired of Netscape's 
quirks (scroll wheel problems in particular). The amount of configuration in 
Mozilla is a vast improvement. Anyway, I can't seem to be able to send any 
email with mozilla's email client. It keeps giving me an error message 
telling me to verify my settings or that the server is down. Well if you're 
seeing this the latter is definitely not true and I've used the same settings 
as here in KMail. I even tried throwing smtp:// ahead of the server name, to 
no effect. I tried a different known server and the same thing happened.

I'm using mozilla from unstable, 0.9.5.

Anyone had this problem before/have a suggestion?



I'm using mozilla 0.9.5 email client with no problem on a woody box. To 
get the SMTP to work, I had to check use name and password.


--
Jerome

Re: Will the Progeny graphical install process inspire our developers ?

[Jesse Goerz]

On Friday 16 November 2001 15:03, Patrik Modesto wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:16:37AM +1000, Jason Currey wrote:
> > A GUI installer might not make install easier, but it gives
> > first time linux users a much better feeling about
> > installing the product.
>
> Yes! But it makes it a bit easier. My first linux was Progeny
> and it's GUI installer helped me very much. I vote for GUI
> installer as a option at boot-time.
>
> Patrik

I would also have to agree.  Make the gui installer the default 
for the newbies but leave the console install *easily 
accessible* for those of us who prefer it.  I have to deal with 
a mostly red hat (or red hat derived) based LUG and this 
discussion has come up recently.  None of them will even suggest 
Debian to a newbie and I find most of their arguments flawed.  
For some reason they associate an install where you actually 
have to answer questions with a distro that is difficult to use.

Here's my response to those who make that assumption:
As a Debian user I always find this argument strange.  It is 
mitigated with an installfest as you stated in earlier posts and 
unless you plan to do reckless hacking to learn, you only have 
to do it once.  If you have a LUG for support, the question 
should be whether you can get the apps you want and whether or 
not they are easy to upgrade.

You can guess which distro I think does that best.

Re: C++: no hash_map while it is there?

[Martin v. Loewis]

> > It does compile cleanly when replacing  with  or with
> > .
> 
> It may be that that is the proper way to do it; I'm not familiar enough with
> STL to know. Perhaps someone on debian-gcc can comment on this?

Including  is certainly the wrong approach; it gives you an rb
tree, not a hash table.

I believe the right way is to do

#include 

I also believe that the comment in this header claiming that it is
internal is incorrect; the headers without .h are never internal, but
meant for the user only.

Further, I believe putting hash_map into ext was done to improve
standards compliance; this makes it clear that hash_map is not part of
standard C++, and it gives the opportunity to provide a different
 in case hash tables are ever added to ISO C++.

Regards,
Martin

vm related

[Jeffrin]

Is it possible to search "Subject" related part of a mailbox using vm ? 
-- 
Jeffrin Jose T.
www.MSServices.org
GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

[jennyw]

Just realized I copied down the error message:

Failed to open SSL key at /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl line 153.

This is when running:

  /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

Jen

- Original Message -
From: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl
isn'tinstalledbutitis


> Actually, weirdly enough, the ones from woody didn't work.  When I first
did
> the dist upgrade, I commented out the braincells lines.  After the
upgrade,
> I used apt-get to install webmin-ssl (which was .89, not .90).  It didn't
> work.  Since there were no meaningful errors, I tried running miniserv.pl
> manually ... It said something about not being able to use the ssl key or
> something like that.  Around line 159 or thereabouts ... I didn't look too
> carefully. Since I had gotten the braincells one to install okay before, I
> figured I'd just try that instead first. And it worked!
>
> Anyway, thanks for all your help. And thanks for doing the packages!
>
> Jen
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl
> isn'tinstalledbutitis
>
>
> > On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:
> >
> > > I ended up upgrading to Woody. Now I can apt-get install webmin-ssl
from
> > > braincells, and everything works!
> > >
> >
> > ...until something goes wrong again. :-)  The package there are for
> > potato and you don't need them because woody already has webmin with
> > correct dependencies.
> >
> > So you should either remove the apt line for braincells.com or change it
> > to say sid instead of potato.  (Though currently the only package I have
> > for woody/sid is pine.)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

[jennyw]

Just realized I copied down the error message:

Failed to open SSL key at /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl line 153.

This is when running:

  /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

Jen

- Original Message -
From: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl
isn'tinstalledbutitis


> Actually, weirdly enough, the ones from woody didn't work.  When I first
did
> the dist upgrade, I commented out the braincells lines.  After the
upgrade,
> I used apt-get to install webmin-ssl (which was .89, not .90).  It didn't
> work.  Since there were no meaningful errors, I tried running miniserv.pl
> manually ... It said something about not being able to use the ssl key or
> something like that.  Around line 159 or thereabouts ... I didn't look too
> carefully. Since I had gotten the braincells one to install okay before, I
> figured I'd just try that instead first. And it worked!
>
> Anyway, thanks for all your help. And thanks for doing the packages!
>
> Jen
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl
> isn'tinstalledbutitis
>
>
> > On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:
> >
> > > I ended up upgrading to Woody. Now I can apt-get install webmin-ssl
from
> > > braincells, and everything works!
> > >
> >
> > ...until something goes wrong again. :-)  The package there are for
> > potato and you don't need them because woody already has webmin with
> > correct dependencies.
> >
> > So you should either remove the apt line for braincells.com or change it
> > to say sid instead of potato.  (Though currently the only package I have
> > for woody/sid is pine.)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

[jennyw]

Actually, weirdly enough, the ones from woody didn't work.  When I first did
the dist upgrade, I commented out the braincells lines.  After the upgrade,
I used apt-get to install webmin-ssl (which was .89, not .90).  It didn't
work.  Since there were no meaningful errors, I tried running miniserv.pl
manually ... It said something about not being able to use the ssl key or
something like that.  Around line 159 or thereabouts ... I didn't look too
carefully. Since I had gotten the braincells one to install okay before, I
figured I'd just try that instead first. And it worked!

Anyway, thanks for all your help. And thanks for doing the packages!

Jen

- Original Message -
From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl
isn'tinstalledbutitis


> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:
>
> > I ended up upgrading to Woody. Now I can apt-get install webmin-ssl from
> > braincells, and everything works!
> >
>
> ...until something goes wrong again. :-)  The package there are for
> potato and you don't need them because woody already has webmin with
> correct dependencies.
>
> So you should either remove the apt line for braincells.com or change it
> to say sid instead of potato.  (Though currently the only package I have
> for woody/sid is pine.)
>
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
>

Re: sourceforge and postgresql

[Matt Fair]

Hi,
The problem with it connecting and installing the database works good
now, but it cannot connect to the ldap server?  What is going on, would
it be due to a config problem, or is it the package?
Thanks,
Matt

Setting up sourceforge (2.5-14) ...
You'll see some debugging info during this installation.
Do not worry unless told otherwise.
It seems your database upgrade went well and smoothly.  That's cool.
Please enjoy using Debian Sourceforge.
Installing chroot environnement at /var/lib/sourceforge/chroot

Configuring DNS for domain name = dev.uprint.web and IP address =
192.168.10.2...
 dev.uprint.web
Creating /var/lib/sourceforge/bind/dns.head
DNS configuration done.
Modifying inetd for cvs server
CVS usual config is changed for sourceforge one
Modifying /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
WARNING: Please check referal line in /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
Adding /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema
Adding /etc/ldap/schema/cosine.schema
Adding /etc/ldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
Adding /etc/ldap/schema/nis.schema
Adding /etc/sourceforge/sourceforge.schema
Restarting ldap server(s):
  Stopping ldap server(s): slapd.
  Starting ldap server(s): slapd.
Modifying /etc/libnss-ldap.conf
WARNING: Probably incorrect base line in /etc/libnss-ldap.conf
Modifying /etc/nsswitch.conf
Load ldap
Distinguished Name is dc=sourceforge,dc=example,dc=com
Creating ldif file from database
Filling LDAP with database
ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
Restarting ldap server(s):
  Stopping ldap server(s): slapd.
  Starting ldap server(s): slapd.
Setup SF_robot account
Adding robot accounts
ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
Changing SF_robot passwd using admin account
ldap_initialize(  )
ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
Changing dummy cn using SF_robot account
ldap_initialize(  )
ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
dpkg: error processing sourceforge (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sourceforge
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 18:08, Tim Uckun wrote:
> 
> >Uncaught exception from user code:
> > Cannot connect to database:  at /usr/lib/sourceforge/lib/include.pl
> >line 46.
> > main::db_connect called at /usr/lib/sourceforge/bin/db-upgrade.pl 
> > line
> >29
> >Installing chroot environnement at /var/lib/sourceforge/chroot
> >
> 
> It works fine now. You should try the latest version.
> 
> 
> :wq
> Tim Uckun
> US Investigations Services/Due Diligence
>   http://www.diligence.com/

Re: GLX and "ssystem"- how?

[Erik Steffl]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> GLX. How do I get it to work with "ssystem"?
> 
> I have installed utah-glx and loading gtx.so in XF86Config, which
> gets to the splash screen, but ssystem quits with the error:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest
>   Major opcode of failed request:  148 (GLX)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  17 (X_GLXVendorPrivateWithReply)
>   Serial number of failed request:  168
>   Current serial number in output stream:  168
> 
> The video card is an S3 Trio/64, I've tried both xserver-svga and xserver-s3
> with the same results.

  on my system (voodoo 3) ssystem works in windowing mode, works in
fullscreen mode, does not work from xscreensaver (blank screen). so it
is kinda suspicious (other openGL xscreensaver hacks work).

  is this for X 3.x? I guess it's better to use X 4.x if possible...

erik

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:

> I ended up upgrading to Woody. Now I can apt-get install webmin-ssl from
> braincells, and everything works!
>

...until something goes wrong again. :-)  The package there are for
potato and you don't need them because woody already has webmin with
correct dependencies.

So you should either remove the apt line for braincells.com or change it
to say sid instead of potato.  (Though currently the only package I have
for woody/sid is pine.)


-- 
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HP DeskJet 632C - can't print

[John R. Daily]

Ever since I've been a system administrator, I've hated printing
under UNIX. Some things will probably never change.

I have a new 632C, and I can't get anything to work. I have
investigated the hpijs driver; it seems to be integrated into gs
(probably violating HP's non-free license, but that's a topic for
a different list), but no luck. I added the appropriate printer
description into lprngtool's database, configured a printer via
that tool, and put the hpijs binary in /usr/bin; still no luck.

I tried running gs manually:
> gs -sDeviceName=DJ6xxPhoto -sDEVICE=hpijs ~/input.ps > /tmp/pcl
GNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

When I strace the running lpd (I have the latest lprng package),
I don't see gs exec'd.

I freely admit, I'm an idiot when it comes to all aspects of
printing. If there's anyone who has gotten hpijs to work, or
gotten any recent HP DeskJet model working, I'd appreciate any
advice.

-John Daily
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

[jennyw]

I ended up upgrading to Woody. Now I can apt-get install webmin-ssl from
braincells, and everything works!

I'm amazed at how smooth it was. I guess I need not have worried!

Jen

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

[jennyw]

I ended up upgrading to Woody. Now I can apt-get install webmin-ssl from
braincells, and everything works!

I'm amazed at how smooth it was. I guess I need not have worried!

Jen

undefined symbol in SVGAlib ?

[BT]

Hi,
I am on debian unstable and after a recent dist-upgrade, all my console 
utilities that use svgalib dont work. For instance zgv gives the following
error

zgv: relocation error: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1: undefined symbol: 
_xstat

I would be grateful if you could tell me how to fix this. 
TIA
bt

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GLX and "ssystem"- how?

[jim]

GLX. How do I get it to work with "ssystem"?

I have installed utah-glx and loading gtx.so in XF86Config, which
gets to the splash screen, but ssystem quits with the error:

X Error of failed request:  GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest
  Major opcode of failed request:  148 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  17 (X_GLXVendorPrivateWithReply)
  Serial number of failed request:  168
  Current serial number in output stream:  168

The video card is an S3 Trio/64, I've tried both xserver-svga and xserver-s3
with the same results.

kmail link to konqueror

[ben]

i hate having to use konqueror as the default browser for web links in kmail 
messages. anyone know how to change this on debian?

Re: Still can't find TDFX in Kernel Config

[Erik Steffl]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm trying to compile my 2.4.5 kernel. I've enabled 3Dfx for the
> VooDoo3/Banshee, and DRI support. However, I can't find TDFX. I looked in
> character devices, at the end, near the 3Dfx support and such, but it's not
> there. I suspect this is probably the reason 3Dfx and OpenGL won't work. I
> have Mesa-4.0 installed and all the libs I need.

  3dfx support IS tdfx module, enable 3dfx support (as a module) and you
will get tdfx.o as a result. not sure why it's tdfx instead of 3dfx,
they probably didn't want number at the beginning (not sure why, they
probably use the same name as identifier somewhere where identifier has
to start with a letter, e.g. in driver code itself)

erik

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:01:29PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> Why is SPI so against frequent, less-dramatically-different releases,
> anyway?

Please help us if you care. http://qa.debian.org/ is a good place to
start.

> Note:  I'm posting this to Debian-Policy as well as Debian-User, and
> suggest further discussion take place there.

I suggest debian-qa instead, as this isn't a policy issue, it's a
getting stuff done issue.

-- 
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Re: How to upgrade to woody?

[Paul Smith]

I wouldn't worry at all about needing to reinstall from scratch.

I have some Debian _2.0_ CDs, and I installed them, upgraded to Potato
over the net, and from there to Woody.  No real problems at all.

Just a couple of weeks or so ago, I installed Potato from CD on a VMWare
virtual machine, then upgraded it to Woody and I had no serious
problems.  You may run into a few minor glitches, where the dist-upgrade
may stop.  Just run it again.  If you get to a point where everything
except one or two packages is configured, but the last one or two won't,
then you can ask here or maybe just try removing and reinstalling them.

Really, you'll be surprised how easy it is.

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The OpenGL/3Dfx Problem Continues

[JakeCatfox]

I installed the Glide drivers, Mesa-4.0, and compiled in my sound card, 3Dfx 
VooDoo 3 and DRI support into the Kernel, but I still can't use OpenGL or 
3Dfx. Quake 3 will only run in dog-slow Software Rendering Mode (1fps), and 
in Quake 2 sound is replaced by a repeating, odd beeping/static noise playing 
continually. XMMS and Gnome's sounds all run fine. I couldn't find TDFX to 
compile into my kernel, I suspect this may be the problem. I was told it's in 
Character Devices, but it's not. I'm using the 2.4.5 kernel sources.

Does anyone know what I should do, or where to find TDFX at least?
Thanks,
Deven Gallo

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

[Carl Fink]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:15:01PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:

> > Note:  I'm posting this to Debian-Policy as well as Debian-User, and suggest
> > further discussion take place there.
> 
> No, the Policy list isn't correct, either.

Any special reason you're being mysterious, rather than just telling
me which list you prefer?
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Re: woody and sid

[Paul Smith]

I tend to just follow this list, and if I see problems being reported I
wait a while.

Obviously there's still the chance you could pick up a package just
released that has problems that haven't been noticed by others, but I've
certainly avoided any real Woody problems that way.  The ones I have run
into have been trivial to fix and fixes were often discussed here
beforehand (like the problem starting X for example).

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Re: woody and sid

[Geoff Beaumont]

On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 00:06, Michel Loos wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 21:30, Geoff Beaumont wrote:
> > I run Woody on my desktop machine and have almost no trouble with it -
> > there's been the occasional broken package which I've had to roll back
> > after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, but nothing that took more than a
> > few minutes to figure out and fix (I'm not a Debian guru). Even this
> > doesn't happen often - on average perhaps once every couple of months,
> > purely from personal experience.
> > 
> > I might hesitate to use it on a server without good reason, but on a
> > Desktop the far more up-to-date packages make it well worth it.
> 
> I run Woody both on a server and on 2 desktops without any real
> problems.
> Rule of thumb when dselect gives you a list of dependency problems: just
> don t upgrade at that moment it will be fixed in the week.
> All problems we saw with woody the last few monthes were X related which
> is of no concern at all for the server which doesn t even have a screen
> attached to it. For the desktops it took some time to resolve the
> installation problems but with the help of this list it took only some
> hours.

I do leave upgrades if there are dependency problems - but I had a
couple of packages that were actually broken when I downloaded them (one
wouldn't install due to a missing file, others have installed but had
bugs). I've either fixed them if it's trivial, lived with it till the
package maintainer fixed it or rolled the package back to the old
version and locked it at that until it's been fixed.

That said, as far as I can remember the few problems I've had have all
been with X software anyway...

I didn't have any trouble with the Desktop install - in fact it was
easier than Potato on this machine - mainly because it's got a G450
graphics card which only works with XFree86 4. I did kind of cheat
though - I installed a Potato base system from CD then changed
sources.list to point at testing.

-- 
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Re: MAN doesn't work

[Shaul Karl]

> Hi
> 
> I have a bug i never seen before.
> 
> I watched at the cdrecord manpage. I was then logt in to 4 ttys. I
> stoped man on the same console i watched the manpage of cdrecord and
> executed there "modprobe ide-scsi" and "cdrecord dev="0,1,0"
> speed=4 -data image.iso". cdrecord exited because there was no CD-R in
> the burner. I wanted to rewatch the cdrecord manpage but i got a
> segmentation fault when i executed "man cdrecord". So i tried it on
> another TTY. It worked there. I loged in a new TTY there i also get
> the segmentation fault. After i restarted my PC i get only Segmentaion
> faults when i execute "man" in every manpage and i happend ONLY with
> man.
> 
> Please HELP me on this. I'm at the end of all my knoladge. I have no
> idea what to do to get man working angain.
> 
> cheers
> Raffaele
> 


Are there any other problems? Is it just man that gets seg faults?
Also, have you restarted your PC in a clean way?

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Re: Apache+PHP4+Postgresql

[Michael Ward Cole]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:06:39PM -0500, Michael Ward Cole wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:07:31PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> > Michael Ward Cole wrote:
> > 
> > >I am trying to load PHP4 4.0.3 pl 1-0 on debian/linux 2.2.19 with 
> > >Apache 1.3.9-13.2.  I keep having trouble with the libpgsql2 vs libpgsql2.1
> > >with PHP4 saying that it needs sql2 > 6.4-0.  I don't understand why it
> > >won't allow me to install all with the libpgsql7.1release-3.potato.1 that 
> > >loads with postgresql7.1release-3.potato.1?
> > >Thanks,
> > >Michael
> > >
> > 
> > I've been haggling with this one for  along time.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the only way the I was able to get through the upgrade 
> > was to remove everything and then put it back in.  IIRC, the problem was 
> > not with the pgsql server, but the psaccess GUI for it.
> > 
> > I had to install pgsql, then work on the rest of them in one big apt-get 
> > load.
> 
> My problem seems to be with the libpgsql2.1 component of the upgrade.
> I have apache 1.3.22 installed and I have postgresql 7.1 installed.
> I have php4 installed but can't get past the dependency on php4-pgsql.
> It wants libpgsql2 (>=6.4-0) and won't acknowledge that libpgsql2.1
> meets that criterion.  I am trying to do this using linux kernel
> 2.2.20 on a Pentium machine.  I have installed most of the potato
> updates.  Is there a work around or is this a bug that will be
> remedied in the near future?  I am not using IIRC.
> Thanks,
> Michael

I have been able to find sites with packages that work.  This is no longer 
a problem.
Thanks,
Michael
> 
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Re: apt-get: 404s on update/install

[hmike]

On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 22:31, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:05:41AM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
> > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'm getting problems with 404 codes on apt-get dist-upgrade or install
> > > > attempts, in particular, from http.us.debian.org.
> > > 
> > > I've seen that occasionally, but usually if I try again after an hour,
> > > everything's fine. The only exception to that was Wednesday evening this
> > > week, where the 404's persisted. I took Mozilla and went to look at a
> > > directory listing of the site, and indeed, the files that the package
> > > listed claimed were available simply weren't there.
> > > 
> > > Thursday evening, all went well. I'm surprised you're having this
> > > problem late Thursday night, assuming that you sent your mail after
> > > verifying that the problem was still present.
> > > 
> > > As to what causes this, I have no idea, but I think it could be
> > > prevented if the mirroring system made sure that the actual package tree
> > > was updated before the package list.
> > 
> > Word on the devel list was that the ftp-master (auric) went down in
> > the middle of a sync, and hence the inconsistencies.  Should be fixed
> > by now.
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> Any discussion on making syncs atomic, so that until a the update's
> completed, the old packages are available, and the old package files are
> authoritative?

Since new packages won't confuse apt-get why not just make sure that the
package files get transferred to the mirrors last?  This should solve
the problem simply and easily unless I'm missing something very obvious.

--mike

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

[Branden Robinson]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:01:29PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> Why is SPI so against frequent, less-dramatically-different releases,
> anyway?

SPI has absolutely nothing to do with Debian's release management
practices.

> Note:  I'm posting this to Debian-Policy as well as Debian-User, and suggest
> further discussion take place there.

No, the Policy list isn't correct, either.

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Re: Lyx broken in Woody

[Jerome Acks Jr]

David Teague wrote:


Hi

My system has recently installed Woody pre-beta on a 10 G IDE disk,
392 MB RAM, 350 K6-2 and a Windows 98 2nd on the other partition.

I'm runing K6=2 optimized Woody from a CD snapshot. My desktop is
Gnome 1.4 and the window manager is Enlightenment 0.16.5 2000/07/28

(Aside, and a plug for a helpful outfit: I recently upgraded from
Potato pre-beta 2.2 (circa jan 1999) -- to Woody Pre Beta 3.? using
CDs The CDs are from linux-cd.com. I've been happy with their
service. The details of the upgrade form the subject of another
message. Right now I have a question about LyX.)
  
Lyx (version 1.1.6 fix 3 of Fri July 24 2001 starts with the

folloing messages.

Frodo$ lyx
LyX: Unknown tag `\latex_command' [around line 6 of file 
~/.lyx/lyxrc.defaults]




Try Edit menu command to reconfigure your TeX-setup.

If that doesn't work, remove your .lyx directory.

--
Jerome

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

[Carl Fink]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:10:30PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:

> Which implies a kernel issue ... if that's the case, you can install
> Adrian Bunk's 2.4 kernel packages for potato (URL in another recent
> thread).

Good deduction, but wrong.  I did use Adrian Bunk's much-appreciated
packages to upgrade this potato system to 2.4, which worked flawlessly.  (If
you're reading this, Adrian, thanks.)

Problem is, I need Xfree86 4.10 to use my on-motherboard video chipset
(savage4).  I don't see any way to upgrade potato to X 4.1 (the original
topic of this thread, after all).  Anyway, using unofficial stuff like
Adrian's, while probably preferable to upgrading the whole distribution,
still isn't as desirable as using "stable".

Why is SPI so against frequent, less-dramatically-different releases,
anyway?

Note:  I'm posting this to Debian-Policy as well as Debian-User, and suggest
further discussion take place there.
-- 
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Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: "Linux window" in Windows

[Jeff]

tabanna, 2001-Nov-17 05:27 +:
> 
>  ~ believe, that, Linux file systems are safer . . . do it therefore, the
> other way around, and run windows on Linux ~
> 
> VMWare is said to do an excellent job.
> 
> best wishes

This is how I do it.  I have Debian installed and run VMware with
both a Win98 and a Win2K virtual machine.  The Win98 is more
stable as a virtual machine than it was natively installed on
this same system.  Win2K is faster than Win98 too.  

I still get the occasional Windoze hangs, but I can just kill the
process and restart it...and read email while it reboots :-) .

jc

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Diggin' Debian  Admin and User

Re: font problem in woody (gimp and gnucash)

[Jerome Acks Jr]

Richard Seymour wrote:


A few weeks ago some upgrade to my woody system broke my gnucash.
Whatever font is used to display the register began showing only
rectanlges and squares.

Later I installed the gimp and all its menus show up as rectangles and
squares.

Both packages are currently unusable.

X server info:

lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   22 Jul 12 18:22 /etc/X11/X ->
/usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA

I've been poking through the debian bug tracking system and this list
off an on for a couple weeks new, but can't find any clues on how to fix
this.

Anyone got any ideas?






Your problem might be related to this:


See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ under "Fonts missing 
after upgrade".


When this happend to me, I think I fixed it by restarting xfs.

--
Jerome

Re: Blindly Installing...

[D.]

Rafe B.
  I use the Matrox MGA-G200 video card and was able to
use Xfree-3.3.6 that comes with Potato.  I used the
xserver-svga in the 1024x768 mode without any
problems.. In fact this Matrox card was identified in
the date base when I ran xf86config.
  What kind of problems are you having with the card?
Don
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> 
> [rafe b:]
> > How is a newbie expected to avoid this situation?
> > You know, I've been around the block a time or
> two, 
> > but getting a wee bit frustrated with debian
> install 
> > issues.
> >
> 
> [sean:]
> I don't see how blindly attempting to install
> unstable packages into a
> stable distribution is a Debian install issue.
> 
> 
> I don't mean to whine, and I *DO* very much
> appreciate 
> the support I've gotten on this list since I took
> the 
> plunge into debian.
> 
> Still, you old hands ought to consider the plight of
> 
> us newbies.  There's an awful lot to learn.
> 
> Problems arise when one's hardware base isn't
> completely 
> generic.  In my case, this &^%*$ Matrox board is 
> rather at the root of my difficulties.  If I read 
> the tea leaves right, it seems an upgrade to X4.1 
> is required.  So suddenly, as a newbie, I'm dealing 
> with some gnarly system-configuration and update 
> issues that I'm not really prepared for.  Still 
> struggling with it, though.  Your patience is 
> appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> rafe b.
> 
> 
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Re: Wordperfect 8 now is broken for current Debian/Sid

[adcarlson]

I experienced the same problem, and to make WP8 work again I,

apt-get delete xlib6

and then...

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xlib6_3.3.6-38_i386.deb

NOTE:  The defective version of the above file seems to be "version 39". 
Basically I had to roll back to the previous version.  Now WP8 is back in
operation.

On 14-Nov-2001 Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
>> Dear Kevin:
>> 
>> Thank you very much.  This fixed the problem.  It is because of folks 
>> like you that make Linux such a pleasure to use!
>> 
>> It seems a bug report for xlib6 is on order.  Has one been submitted.  
>> I would be happy to do so it need be.
> 
> Yes, see bug reports #118796 and #119643.  I'm glad I could help.
> 
> -Kevin McCarty
> 
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Re: Newbie with apt-get problem

[Michel Loos]

On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello. I'm a Debian newbie, although I've used it briefly in the past, and
> have used Linux for about seven years (mainly RedHat).
> 
> I'm using a box that's running Woody and it looks like it's got a problem.
> I went to install a package and I'm getting some errors. When I run
> apt-get check, here's the output:
> 
>   attic:~# apt-get check
>   Reading Package Lists... Done
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
>   Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> kdebase-libs: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is
>   installed
> kdm: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is installed
> libkonq3: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is installed
>   E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> 
> So, I tried following those instructions:
> 
>   attic:~# apt-get -f install
>   Reading Package Lists... Done
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   Correcting dependencies... Done
>   The following extra packages will be installed:
> kdelibs3
>   3 packages not fully installed or removed.
>   Need to get 0B/6758kB of archives. After unpacking 5603kB will be used.
>   Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>   (Reading database ... 17959 files and directories currently installed.)
>   Preparing to replace kdelibs3 4:2.1.2-3 (using
>   .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb) ...
>   Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ...
>   Replacing files in old package konqueror ...
>   dpkg: error processing
>   /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb (--unpack):
>trying to overwrite
>   `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/devices/3floppy_mount.png', which is
>   also in package kdebase
>   dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb
>   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Any clues? I'm not able to install anything at this point...
> 
cd /var/cache/apt/archives
dpkg -i *.deb
should resolve your problem (if you usually remove your .deb files after
a succesful install)

Michel.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Opinions on Laptops to Install With Debian

[Shaya Potter]

On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 02:21, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Mark Seven Smith, 2001-Nov-16 15:52 -0800:
> > > Someone recently pointed me towards eBay regarding my video card
> > > delimma; but when I considered the matter, what I *really* want, is
> > > a LAPTOP, than I can use from bed (i have some health difficulties)
> > > for learning Linux, and doing a lot of paperless reading...
> > > 
> > > What sort of a laptop should I look for, in terms of what is really
> > > compatible with Linux, and especially DEBIAN?
> > > 
> > > There are decent offers for IBM ThinkPads, for instance (Such as an
> > > offer for an "IBM Thinkpad 560X, P233, 24XCD, 96MB, 4GB,56k",
> > > $113.50 (two of 'em like this)).
> > > 
> > > Suggestions?
> > > 
> > > TIA,
> > 
> > I'm on the debian-laptop dist list and have seen some positive posts
> > regarding that IBM system.  From what I read, the IBM laptops in
> > general are pretty solid laptops with good Linux support.  You
> > shouldn't have too much trouble getting everything working on it.
> > Plus, the price seems pretty darn good.  That's more than enough
> > system for what you want to use it for.
> 
> I'm going to second the ThinkPad recommendation.  Damned solid hardware,
> I've been playing with some older models -- 600x and a 560.  If you
> can't shell out for a new system, a refurbed older one (shoot for 1-2
> years back) will be nice, and a 500-800 MHz CPU is more than adequate
> firepower.
> 
> The feel is far more solid than the unit I picked up (for about half the
> price) from TuxTops.  Having gone down the "return for service" route,
> I'm quite disappointed with the service provider.  $60 for shipping, and
> no system for a week and a half, truculent service at best from Arm
> Computer.   Compare to a 48-hour turnaround for a friend with a ThinkPad
> recently.  Go IBM!

Typing this on a T-22.  

bought it at http://www.ebaystores.com/ibm this is direct from IBM.  The
motherboard was having problems where it would only work if it was
plugged in.  Called them on a tuesday, they had a box for me on wed,
FedEx picked it up Wed at 5pm, it was waiting for me at 10am Friday
morning.

ibm's ebay store is tremendous.  I bought it there, because it was
cheaper than buying it using my IBM employee discount!

shaya

Re: woody and sid

[Michel Loos]

On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 21:30, Geoff Beaumont wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 13:52, ben wrote:
> > 
> > > I've run both Sid and Woody systems, and find that the latter is
> > > actually slightly more problematic.  OTOH, we haven't had a "wipe your
> > > data" class of error for quite some time, and your chances of exposure
> > > to this on Sid are far higher than Woody.
> > 
> > what's the most drastic level of disfunction i could expect with woody? i'm 
> > just trying to guage the amount of free time i have against that required 
> > to 
> > enable a certain degree of functionality.
> 
> I run Woody on my desktop machine and have almost no trouble with it -
> there's been the occasional broken package which I've had to roll back
> after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, but nothing that took more than a
> few minutes to figure out and fix (I'm not a Debian guru). Even this
> doesn't happen often - on average perhaps once every couple of months,
> purely from personal experience.
> 
> I might hesitate to use it on a server without good reason, but on a
> Desktop the far more up-to-date packages make it well worth it.

I run Woody both on a server and on 2 desktops without any real
problems.
Rule of thumb when dselect gives you a list of dependency problems: just
don t upgrade at that moment it will be fixed in the week.
All problems we saw with woody the last few monthes were X related which
is of no concern at all for the server which doesn t even have a screen
attached to it. For the desktops it took some time to resolve the
installation problems but with the help of this list it took only some
hours.

Michel

Newbie with apt-get problem

[rich]

Hello. I'm a Debian newbie, although I've used it briefly in the past, and
have used Linux for about seven years (mainly RedHat).

I'm using a box that's running Woody and it looks like it's got a problem.
I went to install a package and I'm getting some errors. When I run
apt-get check, here's the output:

  attic:~# apt-get check
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
  Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdebase-libs: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is
  installed
kdm: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is installed
libkonq3: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is installed
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

So, I tried following those instructions:

  attic:~# apt-get -f install
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  Correcting dependencies... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
kdelibs3
  3 packages not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0B/6758kB of archives. After unpacking 5603kB will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  (Reading database ... 17959 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace kdelibs3 4:2.1.2-3 (using
  .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ...
  Replacing files in old package konqueror ...
  dpkg: error processing
  /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite
  `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/devices/3floppy_mount.png', which is
  also in package kdebase
  dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any clues? I'm not able to install anything at this point...


Thanks,

Rich

Re: xine fails

[Jim McCloskey]

Xingguo Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

|> I installed xine-ui v0.9.2. However, it pops up the video windows and
|> then shuts itself down, reporting:

This is the version in testing?  According to the principal Xine
developer, there is an incompatibility between the library and ui
packages of xine v0.9 in testing. You need to install version 0.9.4
from unstable for a working version of 0.9,

Jim

Re: PPP Disconnects as soon as Connected

[nate]

 said:
> Hi, I'm using pon, configured with pppconfig, to set up my PPP
> dialup  connection. However, whenever I connect, after about 5
> seconds, the  connection dies with no messages. Does anyone have
> any suggestions?

do you have network access during this time? what does
/var/log/messages say ? what is your isp ? if your using
aol are you sure that you can dial into aol using a generic
PPP dialer?

nate

Re: woody and sid

[Geoff Beaumont]

On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 13:52, ben wrote:
> 
> > I've run both Sid and Woody systems, and find that the latter is
> > actually slightly more problematic.  OTOH, we haven't had a "wipe your
> > data" class of error for quite some time, and your chances of exposure
> > to this on Sid are far higher than Woody.
> 
> what's the most drastic level of disfunction i could expect with woody? i'm 
> just trying to guage the amount of free time i have against that required to 
> enable a certain degree of functionality.

I run Woody on my desktop machine and have almost no trouble with it -
there's been the occasional broken package which I've had to roll back
after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, but nothing that took more than a
few minutes to figure out and fix (I'm not a Debian guru). Even this
doesn't happen often - on average perhaps once every couple of months,
purely from personal experience.

I might hesitate to use it on a server without good reason, but on a
Desktop the far more up-to-date packages make it well worth it.

-- 
Geoff Beaumont
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opinions on Laptops to Install With Debian

[Simon Wong]

On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 03:33, dman wrote:
> part).  The only problem I have is if I close the cover I lose the
> NIC.  I have to re-insert it and cycle the interface.

Have you got apmd installed with "apm=on apm=power-off" appended to your
kernel on boot?

Also, check out vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/~park/dell.html for some
good pointers on power management.



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Re: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

[Donald R. Spoon]

"Randy Orrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> I'm a relative newbie to Linux and Debian (though in a former life I was a
> Unix sysadmin).  I've installed potato r3, upgraded to 2.2r4, and had my
> pppd working fine, dialling out on demand at reasonable and predictable
> times.  Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every 5-10 minutes,
> then hanging up after the idle timeout.  I've looked at all the /var/log/...
> files I can think of to find out why it's dialling out, but I can't find any
> activity in any of the logs that would explain it trying to connect.
> 
> Without going into all the gory details of what's installed and running, is
> there some log I can look at (or request) that will give me the pid of the
> process that's connecting to a non-local IP address and causing ppp to dial?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

I don't know if I can answer your question without further details on
your setup, but maybe the following will point you in a general
direction to look for the answer.

The basic "problem" is you Demand Dialer is being triggered by something
wanting an outside connection (bet you have already figured that out
).  The usualy suspects when this happens apparently independently
are DNS queries or attempts to get E-Mail from an outside server. 
Actually, the E-Mail request involves a DNS lookup too most of the
time.  I had one instance in Corel Linux where a dhcp client would
always "trigger" a dial-out on boot up.  This can be a hard problem to
track down, and often proves to be a quite serious exercise in Deductive
Reasoning!   I have even tried shutting down various add-on
"services" not needed for the basic functioning of the system (like
Exim, Apache, Samba, etc), to find the one that might be causing the
dial-out.  

The fact that this happens on regular intervals would point to some sort
of E-Mail query, IMHO.  It also could be a result of a CRON job.

In addition to this computer's Mail programs (Exim, Sendmail, Fetchmail,
etc.), I would suggest you check ALL your E-Mail CLIENTS (Netscape,
Outlook, KMail, etc) that have a capability to be setup to check for
E-Mail automatically every few minutes.  You should check ALL the
computers on your LAN for this condition, as any computer on a network
behind an IPMasq machine with Demand Dialing setup "should" be able to
trigger a dial-out.  A simple way to see if it is another computer is to
disconnect the others and see if it still happens.  You can hook them
back up one-by-one to narrow it down to the culprit.

A while back, my son was running a Napster-like program that checked his
favorite sites periodically.  He never told me he had it running & the
first "clue" was un-explained dial outs.

I would also check all your CRON scripts and make sure they are setup
the way you want.

Finally, take a look at the Demand Dialing scripts to see if there is a
"re-dial" option that is set.  It may be named something else.

HTH & Cheers!
-Don Spoon-

Re: Small-Text console Tweaks?

[Simon Law]

On 17 Nov 2001, Sean wrote:

> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
> 
> Also, you have to have framebuffer support compiled into your kernel.
> 
> If you happen to have a matrox card, then you'll wanto look at: 
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt instead.
> 
> 
> Sean
> 
> On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 09:45, Rafe B. wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a way to work in debian, outside of 
> > X-windows, using a text layout other than that 
> > awful, klunky 80-column x 25-row VGA arrangement?
> > 
> > Eg., in DOS one could opt for smaller characters 
> > using the 'mode' command, and achieve 50 lines x 
> > 132 chars.
> > 
> > Better yet would be a crude windowing system 
> > that works entirely in text mode (eg., similar 
> > to some pre-Win-3.1 tools from the mid 1980s.)

Hrm...  I think Rafe is looking for one supported by his video card.

Go edit your /etc/lilo.conf.  If there's an entry that says vga=normal,
change it to vga=ask.  From there, you can select the type of screen
configuration you want on boot.

After changing your lilo.conf, run /sbin/lilo again.  Make sure it
works, and reboot.

I also recommend looking at the lilo.conf(5) manpage.

Simon

Re: Man pages to PDF or RTF?

[Simon Law]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Rafe B. wrote:

> 
> Hi.  Nother newbie windoze-user question.
> 
> I know this has been asked before, apologies 
> and thanks in advance.
> 
> Is there a windoze util that will convert 
> Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript?
> 
> Specifically, what is the format of man pages?
> TeX/roff /troff/other ???  Is there a 
> HOWTO for man-page format (There must also 
> be a nifty indexing scheme, right?)
> 
> I really want printable files.  I know I can 
> find the man pages in HTML format at many 
> different websites -- that's not the point.
> 
> Furthermore, I'd prefer to be printing the 
> man pages that live on my own debian installation, 
> not some generic page off the web.

I can't think of a good way of doing this in Windows, unless you
have CygWin and GhostScript installed there.

What I =think= you can do, is something like this...

Go to a directory on your GNU/Linux machine, where you want to place
your PDFs, say /home/rafe/manpages

$ mkdir /home/rafe/manpages
$ cd /home/rafe/manpages

Then, copy your man directory over, so that you can work with them.

$ cp --recursive /usr/share/man/* .
$ cp --recursive /usr/local/man/* .

Now, you have a mirror of your manpages.  Run through them and write out
your PDFs.  (I am using a bash script to do this, convert to your
favourite shell.)

$ for i in `find .` ; do man -T -l $i | ps2pdf - > $i.pdf ; done

After this, you can delete your duplicate manpages, leaving only your
PDFs.

$ find . -name *.gz -exec rm -f '{}' ';'

Now, for this to work, you will need groff, gs, and man-db installed.
Good luck!

Simon

Re: How to upgrade to woody?

[jennyw]

Hmm. Maybe I'll try it and see what happens ... this system isn't really
mission critical right now, although it would be kind of a pain to rebuild
it  ...

Jen

- Original Message -
From: ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: How to upgrade to woody?


> apparently, any entry referring to stable or potato should be changed to
> testing or woody. i'm about to embark on the same process. be sure to
backup
> your original sources.list.
>
>
>
> On Saturday 17 November 2001 22:02, jennyw wrote:
>
> > > I'm thinking of upgrading my potato (which has a couple packages from
> > unstable) installation to Woody.  I'm a bit scared, since this seems
like a
> > major overhaul and since I've never tried this before. So I was hoping
> > someone could give me an idea of what to expect (like how likely it is
I'm
> > going to have to reinstall from scratch).
> >
> > Do I just change sources.list to include:
> >
> >   deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> >   deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib
> > non-free
> >
> > Then do:
> >
> >   apt-get update
> >   apt-get dist-upgrade
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jen
>
> 
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> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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>
>
>
>

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutitis

[jennyw]

Actually, I don't have woody in sources.list. I've never had it there ... I
did install one woody package by downloading it off the Web site and using
dpkg -i. I believe that was webmin-postfix. Everything else that's not in
potato has come from:

deb-src http://www.braincells.com/debian potato/
deb http://www.braincells.com/debian potato/

Well, that's not entirely true. I did install module CPAN and it did somehow
add Perl 5.6.1 to my system. Not really sure how it did that -- I don't
think it did this in a Debian-specific way. Could that be messing me up?

Thanks!

Jen

- Original Message -
From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl
isn'tinstalledbutitis


> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:
>
> > Jaldhar,
> >
> > I didn't download webmin ... I got it using apt-get install a few days
ago
> > ... was there an older version of webmin-ssl on your site?   I tried
apt-get
> > remove webmin-ssl and it removed everything okay. Then I tried to get it
> > again and it said that it couldn't install because of unmet dependencies
> > (which seem to be related to woody):
> >
>
> I believe when there are two packages of the same name in apt-gets
> database, it will try and install the one that has the earlier line in
> /etc/apt/sources.list .  If I'm correct, then you have the line for my
> site at the end of your sources.list after a line for woody so you're
> getting woody versions of webmin-ssl or some of its' dependencies.  So the
> solution would be to move the line for braincells up before the one for
> woody and do an apt-get update again.
>
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutit is

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:

> Jaldhar,
>
> I didn't download webmin ... I got it using apt-get install a few days ago
> ... was there an older version of webmin-ssl on your site?   I tried apt-get
> remove webmin-ssl and it removed everything okay. Then I tried to get it
> again and it said that it couldn't install because of unmet dependencies
> (which seem to be related to woody):
>

I believe when there are two packages of the same name in apt-gets
database, it will try and install the one that has the earlier line in
/etc/apt/sources.list .  If I'm correct, then you have the line for my
site at the end of your sources.list after a line for woody so you're
getting woody versions of webmin-ssl or some of its' dependencies.  So the
solution would be to move the line for braincells up before the one for
woody and do an apt-get update again.


-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to upgrade to woody?

[ben]

apparently, any entry referring to stable or potato should be changed to 
testing or woody. i'm about to embark on the same process. be sure to backup 
your original sources.list.



On Saturday 17 November 2001 22:02, jennyw wrote:

> > I'm thinking of upgrading my potato (which has a couple packages from
> unstable) installation to Woody.  I'm a bit scared, since this seems like a
> major overhaul and since I've never tried this before. So I was hoping
> someone could give me an idea of what to expect (like how likely it is I'm
> going to have to reinstall from scratch).
>
> Do I just change sources.list to include:
>
>   deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>   deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib
> non-free
>
> Then do:
>
>   apt-get update
>   apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jen


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How to upgrade to woody?

[jennyw]

I'm thinking of upgrading my potato (which has a 
couple packages from unstable) installation to Woody.  I'm a bit scared, 
since this seems like a major overhaul and since I've never tried this before. 
So I was hoping someone could give me an idea of what to expect (like how likely 
it is I'm going to have to reinstall from scratch).
 
Do I just change sources.list to 
include:
 
  deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian 
testing main contrib non-free  deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US 
testing/non-US main contrib non-free
 
Then do:
 
  apt-get update
  apt-get dist-upgrade
 
Thanks!
 
Jen
 

UW IMAP 2000 shows dates as 12/31/1969

[jennyw]

I'm running on potato, but I installed imapd-ssl from braincells. It works great, except for one 
thing ... Messages for the inbox are delivered to a Maildir format inbox, but 
the other folders are in mbox (or mbx; I suspect mbox since I'm using procmail 
to write to them). Messages that go into the inbox (Maildir) come up with the 
start of Unix time date. Messages that are delivered to procmail and then moved 
to other folders have the correct date/time stamps.
 
Any ideas?  Mark Crispin (author of UW IMAP) 
said that this might be a bug in the Maildir patch to UW IMAP (apparently his 
distrib doesn't come with this).
 
Thanks!
 
Jen
 

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn'tinstalledbutit is

[jennyw]

Jaldhar,

I didn't download webmin ... I got it using apt-get install a few days ago
... was there an older version of webmin-ssl on your site?   I tried apt-get
remove webmin-ssl and it removed everything okay. Then I tried to get it
again and it said that it couldn't install because of unmet dependencies
(which seem to be related to woody):

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libnet-ssleay-perl: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7) but 2.1.3-19 is to be
installed
  Depends: libssl0.9.6 but it is not installable
  Depends: perl (>= 5.6.1-5) but it is not going to be
installed
  Depends: perlapi-5.6.1 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify
a solution).


I have no idea how it got installed in the first place if it won't install
now ... If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

Thanks!

Jen


- Original Message -
From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl
isn'tinstalledbutit is


> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:
>
> > The only one that I tried that didn't work was webmin-sshd:
> >
> > Failed to fetch
> >
http://www.braincells.com/debian/potato/webmin/webmin-sshd_0.90-1_all.deb
> >   Size mismatch
> >
>
> Once again, it worked for me.  Perhaps your downloads are getting
> corrupted for some reason?
>
> > Other than that, everything is working great!  By the way, when I go to
the
> > Webmin page, it says Version 0.88, even though everything works.
> >
>
> do dpkg -l webmin-ssl
>
> Are you absolutely sure you have 0.90-1 installed?  Earlier you said you
> tried the woody .debs.  Perhaps you have remnants of that still installed.
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: upgrade of nvidia-glx

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Grant'd this is a problem with the package's install but I
don't believe you need both 1251 and 1541 so it should merely replace
it... One possible way to get around this is to uninstall 1251 and then
re-install 1541... I've been runnin 1541 without problems for sometime
now on my machine at work with a nVidia GeForce2MX graphics card...

Jeremy

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:27:19PM +0100, Karsten Bolding wrote:
> I just tried to upgrade from nvidia-glx 1251 to 1541 but get the following:
> 
> Reading database ... 69919 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking nvidia-glx (from nvidia-glx_1.0.1541-3_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to 
> /usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions/libGL.so.1 by nvidia-glx' clashes with 
> `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia-glx/libGL.so.1 by 
> nvidia-glx'
> dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx_1.0.1541-3_i386.deb (--install):
>  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  nvidia-glx_1.0.1541-3_i386.deb
> 
> nvidia-kernel-2.4.14_1.0.1541-3_i386.deb installed fine - so now I'm a bit 
> afraid if X comes up again if I reboot.
> 
> So what is my next step?
> 
> Karsten
> 
> 
> 
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Re: woody and sid

[ben]

> I've run both Sid and Woody systems, and find that the latter is
> actually slightly more problematic.  OTOH, we haven't had a "wipe your
> data" class of error for quite some time, and your chances of exposure
> to this on Sid are far higher than Woody.

what's the most drastic level of disfunction i could expect with woody? i'm 
just trying to guage the amount of free time i have against that required to 
enable a certain degree of functionality.

Re: Reading .. And editing qxd files

[hanasaki]

Yuk!  Is there any type of plug-in for the win/mac version of quark that 
will do a save as something decent?  html/rtf/xml?  Some program that 
converts formats?


Pagemaker is the Quark Express replacement?
Thanks again.

Cam Ellison wrote:


* Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:


On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:02:59PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:

Can anyone tell me what kind of file this is and how to read /edit it 
under debian?  I think it is some type of page layout file.



.qxd is a Quark Xpress file. As to what can read it,
I couldn't help you.




Very little, as far as I know.  It's proprietary, after all.  I think a recent 
version of PageMaker will do it, but you need a Mac or Windows for that.

Good luck

Cam

Re: install comments + question

[hmike]

On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 02:32, Michael Kaminsky wrote:
> I finally got my new machine and armed with the advice of many people
> on this list, I aimed to install stable and upgrade to testing.  The
> follow is my feedback:
> 
>  * I installed the base from a Windows 2000 partition which worked
>fine.  The install kernel kept locking up on boot and it turns
>out I needed the idepci kernel.  The problem now was that although
>it didn't lock up, it wouldn't recognize my notebook's Intel
>PRO/100 (builtin ethernet).  Apparently in the 2.4 kernel, the
>eepro100 driver works with this card, but the install kernel
>couldn't find it.
> 
>Long story, but many hours later I finally got a functional kernel
>on the machine via Windows.  Ironically, I booted a Mandrake 2.4
>kernel I had on another machine to bootstrap Debian...Once I had
>network access I could install a kernel-image deb file, etc.
> 
>Bottom line is that I got the machine functional (not fully
>installed yet) in about a half-day.  BUT, I doubt there is any way
>a beginner could have pulled it off, IMHO.  I was moving modules
>and kernels around, using multiple machines, multiple boot disks,
>etc. until it clicked.  That's just to get the most minimal stable
>running.
> 
>(The Debian claim is that stable is so stable because it works and
>doesn't really ever change.  Problem with that is that the hardware
>changes underneath it and outdates--makes it UNstable anyway.)
> 
>  * That being said, apt-get is so much better than rpm.  My
>dist-upgrade to testing had no problems.  With minimal script
>updates, my new kernel + grub are working just fine.  The new
>flexiblity is a real win.
> 
>  * QUESTION:  The new notebook (A30p) has a Radeon Mobility card that
>happens to only be supported in the CVS version of XFree86
>(4.1.99.1) from this month.  So I have to compile this
>ultra-bleeding edge X server, which is fine, but...
> 
>How do I make the Debian packaging system think that I have the
>xserver-* packages installed.  I want to be able to apt-get galeon
>for instance but not have it try to pull down those packages and
>install an X-server. Can I insert a dummy entry/package into some
>DB?

Look into the equivs package.

--mike

Re: woody and sid

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:05:50AM -0800, David Roundy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:24:56AM +, ben wrote:
> > how does one go about upgrading to woody or sid and what are the pros and 
> > cons of either?
> 
> You just need to change 'stable' or 'potato' to either woody or sid in
> /etc/apt/sources.list, and then run `apt-get update` and then `apt-get
> dist-upgrade` (the latter you may need to run more than once).
> 
> Sid is more up-to-date, but changes quite often, sometimes for the worse.
> Woody is a bit older in some of its programs, but doesn't change so often,
> and is perhaps more seldom broken.

That's the theory.

The practice is a bit different.  Problems in Sid (the Gtk font-encoding
issue being the most recent notable exception) tend to be resolved
quickly, particularly if they're based on small problems with code or
configuration.

Problems with Woody tend to persist for a while, and sometimes leave the
distro in an inconsistent state.  The problem is that the policy of "ten
days, less bugs" (packages aren't promoted to Woody until they've been
in Sid for ten days and have no serious bugs), means that a buggy
package will be pulled (while those depending on it aren't), and that
its replacement doesn't appear for ten days.

I've run both Sid and Woody systems, and find that the latter is
actually slightly more problematic.  OTOH, we haven't had a "wipe your
data" class of error for quite some time, and your chances of exposure
to this on Sid are far higher than Woody.

Peace.

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Re: File attribute 's' ??

[ben]

On Saturday 17 November 2001 20:56, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote:
> > A certain text file has become un-editable
> > and "invisible" to 'cat.'
> >
> > Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it
> > has attribute 's' in the permissions string,
> > eg:
> >
> > srwxr-xr-x
>
> according to the fine find manual that's for a socket special file,
> it has nothing to do with suid-bits as an other poster suggested.
> I fear that somo bozo program opened a socket with that name and
> overwrote your text file.

 yes, it's a socket. my mistake.

Re: corrupted partion table

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:02:40PM +0100, Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:34:02PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> ...
> > fdisk *only* modifies the partition table.  It's not touching the data
> > on it, so you can try combinations without fear.  I think (and have been
> > through this, but if anyone knows differently, speak up).  Your next
> 
> No no, it's not that simple:)  Each extended/logical partition has its
> own partition table and some spare room at the beginning of its allocated
> partition space.  So when one of your extended/logical partitions gets
> mislocated it *will* overwrite sectors it shouldn't touch and quite
> likely destroy some data.

Thanks.  So I guess the message is:  nail the primaries first, then try
dealing with the logical partitions.

Peace.

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Re: Reading .. And editing qxd files

[Cam Ellison]

* Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:02:59PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what kind of file this is and how to read /edit it 
> > under debian?  I think it is some type of page layout file.
> 
> .qxd is a Quark Xpress file. As to what can read it,
> I couldn't help you.
> 
>
Very little, as far as I know.  It's proprietary, after all.  I think a recent 
version of PageMaker will do it, but you need a Mac or Windows for that.

Good luck

Cam


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Re: Reading .. And editing qxd files

[Sam Varghese]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:02:59PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what kind of file this is and how to read /edit it 
> under debian?  I think it is some type of page layout file.

.qxd is a Quark Xpress file. As to what can read it,
I couldn't help you.

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Re: best chart authoring tools

[Andrew Perrin]

What exactly about xfig doesn't work? You could also check out gle
(http://www.uark.edu/misc/vlabella/gle/gle.html).

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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Eric Smith wrote:

> For flow charts and commercial diagrams - what is the most
> convenient with auto-alignment, snap to etc.
> 
> xfig dont work (for me) as advertised for one thing.
> 
> suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> Eric Smith
> 
> 
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Re: Mozilla not sending email

[Akintayo Holder]

David P James wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I just started using mozilla today after getting a little tired of 
Netscape's
> quirks (scroll wheel problems in particular). The amount of 
configuration in
> Mozilla is a vast improvement. Anyway, I can't seem to be able to 
send any

> email with mozilla's email client. It keeps giving me an error message
> telling me to verify my settings or that the server is down. Well if 
you're
> seeing this the latter is definitely not true and I've used the same 
settings
> as here in KMail. I even tried throwing smtp:// ahead of the server 
name, to

> no effect. I tried a different known server and the same thing happened.
> I'm using mozilla from unstable, 0.9.5.
>
> Anyone had this problem before/have a suggestion?
>

1. i have never had this problem
2. i think using the debs of mozilla is a bad thing (tm)

How about a bit more info ? can you receive and not send etc.

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you can't get them together again, there must be a reason.
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Re: File attribute 's' ??

[Carel Fellinger]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote:
> A certain text file has become un-editable 
> and "invisible" to 'cat.'
> 
> Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it 
> has attribute 's' in the permissions string, 
> eg:
> 
> srwxr-xr-x

according to the fine find manual that's for a socket special file,
it has nothing to do with suid-bits as an other poster suggested.
I fear that somo bozo program opened a socket with that name and
overwrote your text file.

-- 
groetjes, carel

Re: Doubts

[Geoff Beaumont]

On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 20:49, JJ wrote:
> it's occuring a mistake when i try to use the graphic mode. 
> When i type startx or X, show some errors about display, like "can't 
> open display", how you could help me??

It sounds like X isn't configured correctly - can you post the error
messages? You'll find them in /var/log/XFree86.0.log

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best chart authoring tools

[Eric Smith]

For flow charts and commercial diagrams - what is the most
convenient with auto-alignment, snap to etc.

xfig dont work (for me) as advertised for one thing.

suggestions?

-- 
Eric Smith

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 21)

[Adrian Bunk]

I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.14 on a
Debian 2.2r4 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information.

Changes since the last release:

  + there are now alpha packages compiled by Fabrice
Haberer-Proust
  + added: kernel-image-2.4.14-i386
Binary packages:
   o kernel-headers-2.4.14
   o kernel-headers-2.4.14-386
   o kernel-headers-2.4.14-586
   o kernel-headers-2.4.14-586tsc
   o kernel-headers-2.4.14-686
   o kernel-headers-2.4.14-686-smp
   o kernel-headers-2.4.14-k6
   o kernel-headers-2.4.14-k7
   o kernel-image-2.4.14-386
   o kernel-image-2.4.14-586
   o kernel-image-2.4.14-586tsc
   o kernel-image-2.4.14-686
   o kernel-image-2.4.14-686-smp
   o kernel-image-2.4.14-k6
   o kernel-image-2.4.14-k7
  + added: kernel-source-2.4.14
Binary packages:
   o kernel-doc-2.4.14
   o kernel-source-2.4.14
   o mkcramfs
  + removed: kernel-image-2.4.13-i386
  + removed: kernel-source-2.4.13


cu
Adrian

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


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Re: File attribute 's' ??

[ben]

it's a link. do 'ls -al filename' and it should point to the original.


On Saturday 17 November 2001 20:49, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> From `man chmod` (text may be different, I'm on my OS X laptop atm):
>
> ---
> The perm symbols represent the portions of the mode bits as follows:
> [...]
> s   The set-user-ID-on-execution and set-group-ID-on-execution bits.
> ---
>
> What you have found is a set UID executable file (possibly a script or
> something?).
>
> To get rid of the setuid bit, chmod it to something else. Maybe `chmod u-s
> ` would be a place to start.
>
> Manpages are your friend.
>
> -nicole
>
> At 15:42 on Nov 17, Rafe B. combined all the right letters to say:
> > A certain text file has become un-editable
> > and "invisible" to 'cat.'
> >
> > Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it
> > has attribute 's' in the permissions string,
> > eg:
> >
> > srwxr-xr-x
> >
> > The 's' is in the position that you'd normally
> > find a 'd' or a hyphen.
> >
> > None of my manuals talk about this particular
> > attribute.  What does it mean, and more
> > importantly, how do I get rid of it??
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> >
> > rafe b.

RE: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

[Randy Orrison]

| From: Debian User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: 17 November 2001 20:32
|
| On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Randy Orrison wrote:
| > times.  Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every
| > 5-10 minutes, then hanging up after the idle timeout.  I've
| > looked at all the /var/log/...
|
| Maybe you have exim/sendmail/$YOUR_MTA set to send a queue every 10
| minutes?

exim checks its outgoing queue every 15 minutes, but it logs its activity
and the log entries don't correspond to the dialouts I'm seeing (and there's
rarely anything in the queue anyway).  fetchmail only runs when the link is
up...

RE: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

[Randy Orrison]

| -Original Message-
| From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: 17 November 2001 19:54
|
| Randy Orrison said:
| > I'm a relative newbie to Linux and Debian (though in a former life
| > I was a Unix sysadmin).  I've installed potato r3, upgraded to
| > 2.2r4, and had my pppd working fine, dialling out on demand at
|
| try running a network sniffer like iptraf, keep it
| up and watch the packets..then use lsof or fuser
| to try to map the ports to the program(s) that
| are trying to use the connection.

Great stuff, thanks!  I'm running iptraf now, and watching my son looking at
a London Underground website...  when he's off I'll be able to watch for the
stuff I'm interested in.  I'll let you know how it goes.

| or firewall the box and have the firewall log the
| packets.

The computer in question _is_ the firewall :-).

Re: File attribute 's' ??

[Nicole Zimmerman]

>From `man chmod` (text may be different, I'm on my OS X laptop atm):

---
The perm symbols represent the portions of the mode bits as follows:
[...]
s   The set-user-ID-on-execution and set-group-ID-on-execution bits.
---

What you have found is a set UID executable file (possibly a script or
something?).

To get rid of the setuid bit, chmod it to something else. Maybe `chmod u-s
` would be a place to start.

Manpages are your friend.

-nicole

At 15:42 on Nov 17, Rafe B. combined all the right letters to say:

> A certain text file has become un-editable 
> and "invisible" to 'cat.'
> 
> Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it 
> has attribute 's' in the permissions string, 
> eg:
> 
> srwxr-xr-x
> 
> The 's' is in the position that you'd normally 
> find a 'd' or a hyphen.
> 
> None of my manuals talk about this particular 
> attribute.  What does it mean, and more 
> importantly, how do I get rid of it??
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> 
> rafe b.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Doubts

[JJ]

it's occuring a mistake when i try to use the 
graphic mode. When i type startx or X, show some errors about display, like 
"can't open display", how you could help me??
Regards,    
JJ Andrade.

Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?

[ben]

> I think that switching the drive location may have, originally, been the
> problem.  Unfortunately, having tried several different ways to get it
> bootable I think that I have trashed the partition boot sector.  Is
> there any way to restore this, short of reinstalling with a boot floppy
> that I do not have?
>

it seems there should be some way of generating a boot floppy from the cd. 
then you could try a minimal install without redefining your partitions. just 
recreate the boot sector and update rather than install software. since, in 
that case, nothing apart from the boot sector will be overwritten, it could 
work.

PPP Disconnects as soon as Connected

[JakeCatfox]

Hi, I'm using pon, configured with pppconfig, to set up my PPP dialup 
connection. However, whenever I connect, after about 5 seconds, the 
connection dies with no messages. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thx,
Deven Gallo

Re: Lyx broken in Woody

[Carel Fellinger]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:10:01PM -0500, David Teague wrote:
> 
> Marc
> 
> Removing ~/.lyx Worked like a charm!  LyX appears to work and offer 
> import and export that it did not before. 

I think you don't really needed to delete that directory.
There is a menu option to reconfigure your TeX-setup,
next time you could try using that first, worked for me.

-- 
groetjes, carel

File attribute 's' ??

[Rafe B.]

A certain text file has become un-editable 
and "invisible" to 'cat.'

Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it 
has attribute 's' in the permissions string, 
eg:

srwxr-xr-x

The 's' is in the position that you'd normally 
find a 'd' or a hyphen.

None of my manuals talk about this particular 
attribute.  What does it mean, and more 
importantly, how do I get rid of it??

Thanks in advance



rafe b.

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

[Andreas Leitner]

On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 10:45, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> In woody:
> 
>  $ man 5 apt_preferences

Ahhh, thanks!

Andreas

Re: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

[iehrenwald]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Randy Orrison wrote:

> times.  Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every 5-10 minutes,
> then hanging up after the idle timeout.  I've looked at all the /var/log/...

Maybe you have exim/sendmail/$YOUR_MTA set to send a queue every 10
minutes?

gnome-session problems

[Jacob I. Stowell]

Hi All,

I am having trouble with gnome-session and was hoping someone might be
able to help me out. The problem is that I cannot get gnome-session to
start. When I have gnome-session in my .xinitrc, X crashes.  X will run
when gnome-session is removed from .xinitrc, but when I try to start
gnome-session from a console, I receive the following error:

shaq-fu[~]% gnome-session 
_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root

** WARNING **: Unable to lock ICE authority file:
/home/jake/.ICEauthority

I attached a file containing the output of an strace I ran on
gnome-session. I appreciate any help in correcting this problem.

Thanks in advance,
Jakeexecve("/usr/bin/gnome-session", ["gnome-session"], [/* 29 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="shaq-fu", ...}) = 0
brk(0)  = 0x805a114
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)  = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=30549, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 30549, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40016000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 I\0\000"..., 1024) = 
1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=134668, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 137220, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001e000
mprotect(0x4003f000, 2052, PROT_NONE)   = 0
old_mmap(0x4003f000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x2) = 0x4003f000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220b\0"..., 1024) = 
1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=137512, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 140580, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4004
mprotect(0x40061000, 5412, PROT_NONE)   = 0
old_mmap(0x40061000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x2) = 0x40061000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\v\0"..., 1024) = 
1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8676, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 11732, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40063000
mprotect(0x40065000, 3540, PROT_NONE)   = 0
old_mmap(0x40065000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x1000) = 0x40065000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)   = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\244\34"..., 1024) = 
1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9436, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x40066000
old_mmap(NULL, 12364, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40067000
mprotect(0x40069000, 4172, PROT_NONE)   = 0
old_mmap(0x40069000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x1000) = 0x40069000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320\23"..., 1024) = 
1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=27432, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 30624, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4006b000
mprotect(0x40072000, 1952, PROT_NONE)   = 0
old_mmap(0x40072000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x6000) = 0x40072000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0@)\0\000"..., 1024) = 
1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=50632, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 53916, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40073000
mprotect(0x4007f000, 4764, PROT_NONE)   = 0
old_mmap(0x4007f000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0xb000) = 0x4007f000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240F\1"..., 1024) = 
1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=888552, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 893976, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40081000
mprotect(0x40156000, 21528, PROT_NONE)  = 0
old_mmap(0x40156000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0xd4000) = 0x40156000
old_mmap(0x4015b000, 1048, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4015b000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\30"..., 1024) = 
1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=54604, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 57660, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4015c000
mprotect(0x40168000, 8508, PROT_NONE)   = 0
old_mmap(0x40168000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0xb000) = 0x40168000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libwrap.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\

upgrade of nvidia-glx

[Karsten Bolding]

I just tried to upgrade from nvidia-glx 1251 to 1541 but get the following:

Reading database ... 69919 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-glx (from nvidia-glx_1.0.1541-3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to 
/usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions/libGL.so.1 by nvidia-glx' clashes with 
`diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia-glx/libGL.so.1 by 
nvidia-glx'
dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx_1.0.1541-3_i386.deb (--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-glx_1.0.1541-3_i386.deb

nvidia-kernel-2.4.14_1.0.1541-3_i386.deb installed fine - so now I'm a bit 
afraid if X comes up again if I reboot.

So what is my next step?

Karsten





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Re: Help for the UDMAmentally challenged ...

[Hank Marquardt]

All that's there ... about the only wrinkle I have that perhaps I should
have done differently at the very start is I left both disks on 'cable select'
rather than explicitly choosing a master/slave.

Anyway while I'd love for it to 'just work' I've added a udma100_setup.sh script
to my init.d that runs the hdparm commads to start the drives -- to my mind,
still a kludge, but hey it works.

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 05:06:13AM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 13:42, Hank Marquardt wrote:
> > I used hdparm -d1 to turn it on for the drives and that boosts to 41Mbs on 
> > the
> > drives, but the pdc still shows the following:
> 
> There are several things that need to be
> set to use UDMA in order to make it work:
> 
> 1. PCI Bus
> 2. Controller
> 3. Drives
> 
> Make sure you have these two settings in your kernel set:
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
> 
> There are extra dma settings for this controller as well, I think ...
> 
> Compiling the kernel was the best solution for me.
> 
> Bye, Steffen
> 
> 
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Reading .. And editing qxd files

[hanasaki]

Can anyone tell me what kind of file this is and how to read /edit it 
under debian?  I think it is some type of page layout file.


Thanks,

Quake 2 can't "fall back to software refresh"

[JakeCatfox]

Hi, I'm trying to run Quake 2 in Debian 2.4.5. I installed it and a new 
version of libc5 to satisfy its need for libm.so.5 and such other libs. I 
moved quake2.conf to /etc. I put the files in /usr/local/games/quake2 and I 
put a copy of all the libs in /lib, /usr/lib, and /usr/local/lib, but it 
keeps saying it can't load ref_softx.so even though it's in ALL those places. 
I had it working a while ago on Debian, and now it won't run.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
 Deven Gallo

Re: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

[nate]

Randy Orrison said:
> I'm a relative newbie to Linux and Debian (though in a former life
> I was a Unix sysadmin).  I've installed potato r3, upgraded to
> 2.2r4, and had my pppd working fine, dialling out on demand at

try running a network sniffer like iptraf, keep it
up and watch the packets..then use lsof or fuser
to try to map the ports to the program(s) that
are trying to use the connection.

also reccomend disconnecting the system from any LAN
incase some machine on the LAN is generating the packets.
or keep it up the network sniffer will catch it.

or firewall the box and have the firewall log the
packets.

nate

Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?

[Marc Shapiro]

Eric,

Thanks for the tip to avoid having to switch the drives, unfortunately,
I already tried to switch the drives and it did not work.  Yes, the
partition was marked as bootable.

I think that switching the drive location may have, originally, been the
problem.  Unfortunately, having tried several different ways to get it
bootable I think that I have trashed the partition boot sector.  Is
there any way to restore this, short of reinstalling with a boot floppy
that I do not have?

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:23:44PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > Win95 expects to be the first drive on the first chain. When you moved
> > it to /dev/hdc, you broke Windows. Move it back to /dev/hda1; chances
> > are it'll come right up.
> 
> Or you can leave the disks the way they are and have LILO re-map the
> drives for you:
> 
> # boot Windows from second disk by swapping C: and D: drives
> 
> other=/dev/hdc1
> label=windows
> map-drive=0x80 to=0x81
> map-drive=0x81 to=0x80
> 
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Re: masquerading for internet access

[Osamu Aoki]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:36:31AM +0100, Eric Smith wrote:
> According to Michel Loos on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:54:53PM -0200:
> > > I thought this would just work out of the box :(
> that did not work for me - but this entry in modules.conf did:
> 
> ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/ethernet
> alias eth0 rtl8139
> alias eth1 3c59x
> 
> Now I have the eth0 pointing to the cable modem and eth1 to the lan as
> suggested.
> 
If you are using debian pre-compiled 2.4 Kernel like me, you need to
enable quite a bit more modules to get ipmasq to work.  Tricky.

I have followings in /etc/modules

# net/ipv-4
ip_gre
ipip

# net/ipv-4/netfilter
# iptable (in order)
ip_tables
ip_conntrack
ip_conntrack_ftp
iptable_nat
iptable_filter
iptable_mangle
#
ip_nat_ftp
ip_queue
#
ipt_LOG
ipt_MARK
ipt_MASQUERADE
ipt_MIRROR
ipt_REDIRECT
ipt_REJECT
ipt_TCPMSS
ipt_TOS
ipt_limit
ipt_mac
ipt_mark
ipt_multiport
ipt_owner
ipt_state
ipt_tcpmss
ipt_tos
ipt_unclean
#
ipchains
ipfwadm
#

Cheers ;-)


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Re: Mozilla not sending email

[DvB]

David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Saturday 17 November 2001 12:37, DvB wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure this is a problem with the debian mozilla package? I
> > suggest downloading 0.9.5 from ftp.mozilla.org and making sure it
> > doesn't have the problem before assuming it's a debian bug. Using the
> > builds from mozilla isn't hard... I suggest you download a tarball, then



> 
> I did check mozilla.org and found no listing of such a bug (nor at debian 
> either). My inclination is that it is a debian bug because it only applies to 
> mozilla-mailnews-cvs and not mozilla-mailnews, and only email and not news at 
> that. Moreover I cannot find a cvs version at mozilla.org anyway.
> 

Yes, I suppose that does sound like a debian bug. I don't use the debian
packages, however, so I cannot confirm the problem.

The mozilla nightly builds (found at
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly) are compiled several times a day
and are, for all intents and purposes, cvs versions. If you really must
have the very latest code, you can check it out of cvs and compile
(http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html) but that's probably overkill if all
you want to do is see whether or not your problem is in the current
nightlies :-)

Good luck and sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

[Nathan E Norman]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:33:02PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:40:42AM -0500, Sean wrote:
> 
> > I don't see how blindly attempting to install unstable packages into a
> > stable distribution is a Debian install issue. 
> 
> No, it's a Debian *policy* issue.  The problem is the absurdly long
> time between releases, so it's very hard to use stable on halfway-new
> equipment, or if you want halfway-modern functionality.  (For
> instance, I'm being forced to "upgrade" [downgrade in stability] to
> testing soon, just because my new motherboard has hardware not
> supported by potato.)

Which implies a kernel issue ... if that's the case, you can install
Adrian Bunk's 2.4 kernel packages for potato (URL in another recent
thread).

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Re: corrupted partion table

[Nathan E Norman]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:32:52AM +, ben wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > The question is, if I run fdisk to redefine the partion table (from a
> > > bootable potato cd), will fdisk only touch the sectors where the
> > > partion table is installed, or will it wipe out the data on the
> > > partions as well.
> 
> > 
> > fdisk *only* modifies the partition table.  It's not touching the data
> > on it, so you can try combinations without fear.  I think (and have been
> > through this, but if anyone knows differently, speak up). 
> 
> 
> cfdisk is more user friendly and allegedly more reliable than fdisk,
> which is notorious for not doing exactly as one would expect. fdisk is
> suitable to partition a new disk but to protect data that already
> exists, i would go with cfdisk.

I think you've got this exactly backwards, with the possible exception
of cfdisk being "more user freindly" if that means hiding details from
the user.

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Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installedbutit is

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:

> The only one that I tried that didn't work was webmin-sshd:
>
> Failed to fetch
> http://www.braincells.com/debian/potato/webmin/webmin-sshd_0.90-1_all.deb
>   Size mismatch
>

Once again, it worked for me.  Perhaps your downloads are getting
corrupted for some reason?

> Other than that, everything is working great!  By the way, when I go to the
> Webmin page, it says Version 0.88, even though everything works.
>

do dpkg -l webmin-ssl

Are you absolutely sure you have 0.90-1 installed?  Earlier you said you
tried the woody .debs.  Perhaps you have remnants of that still installed.

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Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installedbutit is

[jennyw]

The only one that I tried that didn't work was webmin-sshd:

Failed to fetch
http://www.braincells.com/debian/potato/webmin/webmin-sshd_0.90-1_all.deb
  Size mismatch

Other than that, everything is working great!  By the way, when I go to the
Webmin page, it says Version 0.88, even though everything works.

Jen

- Original Message -
From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't
installedbutit is


> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:
>
> > Jaldhar,
> >
> > I tried it again and it works now. Weird!  But it everything is good so
far.
> > Do you happen to know if any other Webmin modules would work with
Potato?
> >
>
> All the ones on my site should.  In a couple of cases there may be
> dependencies on sid stuff I haven't caught in which case let me know and
> i'll fix it.
>
> --
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>
>
>
>
>

What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

[Randy Orrison]

I'm a relative newbie to Linux and Debian (though in a former life I was a
Unix sysadmin).  I've installed potato r3, upgraded to 2.2r4, and had my
pppd working fine, dialling out on demand at reasonable and predictable
times.  Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every 5-10 minutes,
then hanging up after the idle timeout.  I've looked at all the /var/log/...
files I can think of to find out why it's dialling out, but I can't find any
activity in any of the logs that would explain it trying to connect.

Without going into all the gory details of what's installed and running, is
there some log I can look at (or request) that will give me the pid of the
process that's connecting to a non-local IP address and causing ppp to dial?

Thanks!

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installedbut it is

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:

> Jaldhar,
>
> I tried it again and it works now. Weird!  But it everything is good so far.
> Do you happen to know if any other Webmin modules would work with Potato?
>

All the ones on my site should.  In a couple of cases there may be
dependencies on sid stuff I haven't caught in which case let me know and
i'll fix it.

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Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installedbut it is

[jennyw]

Jaldhar,

I tried it again and it works now. Weird!  But it everything is good so far.
Do you happen to know if any other Webmin modules would work with Potato?

Thanks!

Jen

- Original Message -
From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian User List 
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't
installedbut it is


> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:
>
> > Thanks, I only just realized it was from woody ... I had added
braincells so
> > I could install imapd and that's where webmin-ssl came from, too.  So
maybe
> > I'll try woody since it has the software I'm most interested in ...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> Well the versions of uw-imapd-ssl and webmin (now 0.90, the version
> displays correctly too.) that I have on my website are compiled for potato
> so you shouldn't have had problems.
>
> Try it again and let me know if you still have problems.
>
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>
>
>
>
>
>