Massive memory leak with Gnome2 transparent panels is Sid
Greetings, Has anyone noticed a serious memory leak that occurs when using a few transparent panels with running applets in Gnome2? In my case, gnome-panel consumed over 70 megabytes in just one hour! Killing it didn't help much, the mem usage was slowly increasing again and the only solution was to turn off transparency (a panel to blame was a 'detached' panel at the top with 2 running applets: a clock and workspace 'switcher'). Regards, -- === Marcin Fusinski - [EMAIL PROTECTED] === + Glogow MASTERnet SETI User Group + /dev/null - it's fantastic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS266-VM
John Griffiths wrote: > At 10:38 PM 1/20/03 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > >But that driver does not support highly accelerated display > >nor framebuffer. > > ok, i can live without hardware acceleration, do i need framebuffer > for anything in particular? Games like tuxracer use the framebuffer, IIRC. Your best bet is to try the free software 'nv' driver. If you run into anything you can't do then you can try the proprietary non-free 'nvidia' driver. I always start out with 'nv' just because it brings X11 up painlessless. [Which is rather the whole point of free software. Being free to distribute it can be distributed freely. The non-free software is required by law to be more painful. One should only use it if they have to and at that time they will pay for it with inconvenience if nothing else.] Bob msg25267/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Error updating unstable non-free Packages
Don't know if it's just me but I'm getting an error trying to update. I get the same on: ftp.wa.au.debian.org ftp.au.debian.org ftp.uk.debian.org I get a parsing error in unstable non-free Packages, which results in "Dynamic MMap ran out of room" error. This occurs parsing package graphviz (NewVersion1). If this is a bug where do I report it as occuring? If not, where might the fault lie? Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse not aligned in X
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:44:47PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > >no but why not upgrade to X 4.2 in testing :) ... > Yeah, I'm uprading the entire system, but it's over dial-up, so it's > gonna take a day and a half, and I only have a couple of hours left > before I have to leave this physical location. So I'll leave it > upgrading, and will contact the owner of the computer in a day or two to > see if the upgrade made a difference. You are brave :) Did you select package through dselect. Also download-only is handy when you do apt-get while away from machine :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:31 am, Kent West wrote: > John & Peg Pickard wrote: > > As I didn't have time to keep playing with LINUX, I gave up. > > Linux, being an OS by geeks for geeks, up until just recently, needs a > geek to get it set up properly. Mandrake and others have made vast > improvements, but it's not automatic. If you expect it to be, you'll be > disappointed. Wait another couple of years. Until then consider yourself > a consumer; as a general rule, consumers get their computers > pre-installed with an operating system and don't do their own OS > installation (although they might do a "restore" using the System > Restore disk that came with their computer). At the risk of sounding like a troll, I have to take issue with this. To be even more blunt, this paragraph is, in my view, an example of some of the worst geek snobbery and elitism I've seen online. I also have to ask how long it's been since you tried Mandrake last. I found Mandrake 8.0 to be great at detecting EVERYTHING on my system. There was basically NO post-install to deal with. Printer drivers were there -- everything I needed was there. This is a user who obviously wants to learn more about computers and Linux, but does not have the time to mess with selecting the necessary kernal modules or with spending hours online tracking down drivers. This does not mean he is not ready for Linux. I would STRONGLY recommend trying Mandrake. While I have not had any problems with Mandrake 9.0, I have heard of some people who have. I found Mandrake 8.2 to be solid and stable. It's basically your choice -- I would think either one would work fine. One nice addition or change to Mandrake 9.0 is that it does not require the user to mount/umount cd-roms when they are put in or removed from a drive. I have seen HUGE strides forward in desktop Linux in the time since I've been working with Linux (which was somewhere around mid 2000). Mandrake, especially, has changed and improved quite a bit. While I hate to say this on a Debian mailing list, Debian still has quite far to go before I would consider recommending it to anyone who does not work with computer professionally. I started with programming in the late 1970's, grew up putting together Heathkit short wave radios and other kits, and used to program in assembler on an Apple //e as a hobby. After about 10 years of using a computer as only a tool (which is what they basically are, anyway), I started doing more with it. While I found Mandrake Linux easy to use, I have not found that to be anywhere near the case with Debian. While the people here, on this mailing list, are about the most helpful you can find, there were still install issues that nobody here was able to solve. While I don't think Linux is just for geeks anymore, I do think Debian is. And, to be honest, I think the Debian developers and maintainers (and administrators and others in charge) prefer it that way -- sort of a last retreat for geeks as the Linux world goes more and more mainstream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time nate wrote @ Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:33:22 -0800 (PST) > John & Peg Pickard said: > > > In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And > > then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a > > I don't believe your a good candidate for using debian on the desktop. > Perhaps SuSE, Mandrake or Xandros, despite being more propritary(sp), > they are a step in the right direction(towards more openness) compared to > most other platforms. I was using mandrake, i also recommend it for anyone asking me > I've been using debian as my desktop since 1998, and slackware before > that, with not too many issues. I purchase hardware specifically for linux, > I don't use a file manager, I don't use KDE/GNOME/some other fancy enviornment. The same here, my own designed desktop with many terminals opened - -- - - -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 FIRST make it run, THEN make it run fast "Brian Kernighan". -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+LO2zy2aOKaP9DfcRAqY5AKCPgJrhDj7zWc0LDEpgX8rC3knq7wCfQkqQ xrVvXr0kURWiizacVHx/gTA= =wDkA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX
John & Peg Pickard said: > In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And > then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a I don't believe your a good candidate for using debian on the desktop. Perhaps SuSE, Mandrake or Xandros, despite being more propritary(sp), they are a step in the right direction(towards more openness) compared to most other platforms. I reccomend SuSE professional(~$80), I use it on systems for people who are less experienced, or linux newbies and aren't interested in learning the details on how things work. SuSE Personal may work fine too, I just like the extra stuff thats in the pro version. I've been using debian as my desktop since 1998, and slackware before that, with not too many issues. I purchase hardware specifically for linux, I don't use a file manager, I don't use KDE/GNOME/some other fancy enviornment. debian is a great system once it's setup, but the initial setup can take some time depending on the hardware involved. And some of the desktop software in stable is "outdated". Some like to use testing or unstable as a solution to this but I prefer to stick to stable, and don't reccomend newbies to the other trees since they are, less tested. SuSE may suit you well though, it has a lot of bells and whistles, though despite using it off and on for 6 months it doesn't satisfy my needs on a more technical level, so the rest of my family uses it, while I stick to debian. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pumping puzzle
I have a desktop machine running woody, with kernel 2.4.20-ac2. The
desktop is connected to a Netgear switch, which is in turn connected
to a wireless access point. In addition, there are several laptops in
the house which connect to the Netgear switch.
I use a very simple iptables script to turn the desktop into a gateway
for the other machines in the house. One laptop uses a wireless card.
The others, until recently, connected to the Netgear switch directly
and used dhcp to get an IP address (the desktop is set up as a dhcp
server),
Until very recently, my connection to the net was a dialup PPP
connection, and all of the above worked very well.
A short while ago, however, I signed up for DSL (earthlink), bought
and installed a second ethernet card, and set about getting it all
working.
Mostly it works very well. The desktop connects to a DSL `modem'
through the new ethernet card and is assigned an IP address via
DHCP. The connection is as fast as I had hoped it would be. The
wireless connection works very well.
But for some reason, it is now impossible for a laptop connected
through the netgear switch to get a dhcp connection from the
desktop. I use pump on the Debian laptop (the other laptop that used
to connect in this way runs Os X; I don't know what dhcp client comes
with that). Calling /sbin/pump results in a long hang and then
`operation failed'. The logs don't reveal very much (to me
anyway). I'll paste them in below along with the interfaces file and
the dhcpd config file from the desktop machine.
I can assign a static IP address on the private network to the laptop
and connect it to the net in that way (this works just fine), but (i)
I'd like to understand why it seems to be impossible to use dhcp in
this kind of context and (ii) it would be very convenient if visiting
laptops could just plug in to the Netgear switch and connect to the
net using the desktop as a dhcp server.
I'd be very grateful for any insight about why this seems impossible
given the other decisions I've made. Thanks very much in advance,
Jim
--
Logs (Pump)
--
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog kernel: eth0: Setting 100mbps half-duplex based on
auto-negotiated partner ability 40a1.
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: PUMP: sending discover
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: opcode: 1
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: hw: 1
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: hwlength: 6
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: hopcount: 0
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: xid: 0xdad05b36
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: secs: 0
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: flags: 0x
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: ciaddr: 0.0.0.0
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: yiaddr: 0.0.0.0
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: server_ip: 0.0.0.0
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: bootp_gw_ip: 0.0.0.0
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: hwaddr:
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: servername:
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: bootfile:
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: vendor: 0x63 0x82 0x53 0x63
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: vendor: 53 1 0x01
Jan 20 17:29:39 lapdog pumpd[1839]: breq: vendor: 0xff
--
--
/etc/network/interfaces (desktop):
--
# The loopback interface
#
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The first network card (external connection)
#
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# The second network card (internal network)
#
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.93.3
network 192.168.93.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.93.255
--
--
/etc/dhcpd.conf (on the desktop):
--
#
# $Id: dhcpd.conf,v 1.4.2.2 2002/07/10 03:50:33 peloy Exp $
#
# option definitions common to all supported networks...
option domain-name "branci40.org";
option domain-name-servers 128.114.129.33, 128.114.142.6;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
server-name "toraigh";
subnet 192.168.93.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 {
range 192.168.93.20 192.168.93.30;
option broadcast-address 192.168.93.255;
option routers 192.168.93.3;
}
host lapdog {
hardware ethernet 00:40:D0:25:30:45;
fixed-address 192.168.93.2;
}
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Re: Is this normal with USB mice?
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:22:20AM -0500, R. Sinclair wrote: > When I got to VA, I set up the box and X wouldn't start at ALL. I hashed thru > a few websites to research the problem but still couldn't get it started > until one website mentioned checking the kernel to make sure "HID" was > enabled under "USB devices." I checked and it was set as a module and I saw > what module to use (hid.o). I'd already had the usbmouse module loaded and > when I loaded "hid" (insmod hid), then did "cat /dev/input/mice" and move the > mouse around, I knew I had the USB mouse working. I started X, and sure > enough, it was working. Hmmm, interesting. My USB mouse works without using hid.o: mousedev4340 1 hid14120 0 (unused) serial 46500 0 (autoclean) usb-uhci 23436 0 (unused) BTW, I'm using customized 2.4.20 kernel. Thanks, Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS266-VM
At 10:38 PM 1/20/03 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >But that driver does not support highly accelerated display >nor framebuffer. ok, i can live without hardware acceleration, do i need framebuffer for anything in particular? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is this normal with USB mice?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Ayman Haidar wrote: > you need to setup both mice in your XF86Config, mine looks like this: > -- > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device""/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > #Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "SendCoreEvents""true" > Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > #Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Screen "Default Screen" > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" > InputDevice "Configured Mouse" > InputDevice "Generic Mouse" > EndSection > Thanks for the hints. I have almost the same configure as yours. Would you try this for me when you by chance reboot your machine? Unplug the USB mouse, boot OS, startx, plugin the USB mouse. Does the USB mouse work right away? In my case, "cat /dev/input/mice" trick works, but the X does not detect the change. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS266-VM
John Griffiths wrote: > if needs must I will, but i though X 4.2.1 supported geforce2? The XFree86 server supports GeForce chips using the free software 'nv' driver. But that driver does not support highly accelerated display nor framebuffer. For that you need the closed source proprietary nVidia driver direct from nVidia. There are packages available to help with that. nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src > (4.2.1 comes in knoppix) Booting Knoppix and having it all work is a good way to verify that your hardware is fully functional. Bob msg25257/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: copying disks with dd and cat
Geoff Crompton wrote: > > I've just been copying a floppy disk onto my hard drive to back it up. > I initially used > % dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk_image Seems reasonable. > However it barfed with an IO error, and dmesg shows: > [...] > So then for some reason I tried cating the file: > % cat /dev/fd0 > disk_image.cat > This didn't produce any information about errors. Floppies are not the most reliable media. It looks like reading the device with 'cat' worked. It is possible that reading it again with 'dd' would work. Or the the same cat would fail a second time. In any case I would be suspicious of the floppy and be glad you have your data safe. > Can anyone explain how hexdump produces an almost identical listing > for a file that differs in size by 491520 bytes? Look at the addresses surrounding the lines with a '*'. The '*' indicates that lines have been omitted. Those lines all have identical data and so are suppressed. That is where your differences exist which consumed the difference in file size. Try your dump command again but using the -v, --output-duplicates option specified. The info page for od is a little sparse. Therefore I recommend using the online standards documentation. http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification_v2/xcu/od.html -v Write all input data. Without the -v option, any number of groups of output lines, which would be identical to the immediately preceding group of output lines (except for the byte offsets), will be replaced with a line containing only an asterisk (*). Bob msg25256/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX
John & Peg Pickard wrote: In early '99 . . . So problem #1 was LINUX wasn't smart enough to find a sound card if it wasn't on interrupt 5 (unless the user was smart enough to edit and recompile the sound module). Problem #2 was stair stepping when I printed. After some e-mail correspondence with Patrick Volkering, he suggested that I download a different prn file. I did. It was a monster of a file, with lots of printers, and I tried to set it up for my printer (OKIDATA OLE 810e, and then an hp equivalent. Still had stair- stepping. As I didn't have time to keep playing with LINUX, I gave up. Linux, being an OS by geeks for geeks, up until just recently, needs a geek to get it set up properly. Mandrake and others have made vast improvements, but it's not automatic. If you expect it to be, you'll be disappointed. Wait another couple of years. Until then consider yourself a consumer; as a general rule, consumers get their computers pre-installed with an operating system and don't do their own OS installation (although they might do a "restore" using the System Restore disk that came with their computer). Spring of 2000 I got Mandrake, LinuxWorld's editor's choice for 1999. This should be the ticket. After installing it, I still had problem #1 & problem #2. Also couldn't find the How To on setting up the modem, so never got connected to the Internet. Not too impressed with LINUX up to this point. As stated above, if you expect a Linux installation to be automatic, you'll be disappointed. Have a new motherboard/chip (DFI socket7/K6-2 550mhz), same modem, diff sound card (Audigy PCI). From the reviews I've read lately, Debian is the best LINUX if one ever gets it installed. Yep. Debian installation is not automatic; but once installed, it's a breeze to maintain and upgrade. Some articles mentioned KNOPPIX as a great way to get Debian LINUX installed, so I downloaded the ISO (we now have a T1 connection where I work), burned a CD, and tried it out. Booted up great. But no sound, and it can't find the modem or my printer. Knoppix does very good hardware detection. If it didn't find your hardware, I wouldn't expect Debian to do so. So much for KNOPPIX as an installer, or even as a trial for LINUX. It was well behaved, when I shut down it ejected the CD & asked me to close the tray and press enter. When I did it finished shutting down the computer. Nice touch. Open Office appears to be a nice suite if I could only find my files! I never figured out how to get to the disk the files were on using the programs file open browser. The only way I could open files was to click on one of the partitions on the desktop and then browse until I found a file and then clicked on it. Not real handy. (I had downloaded and installed OpenOffice 5.2 in WinME and had the same problem at first, but after some reading was able to find my files). With LINUX Open Office, I'm stuck with only LINUX partitions. Huh? Where do you have your files? Applications in Linux would expect as a general rule to find users' file in their home directories. If you have them stored elsewhere, it's up to you, not OO.o to be able to locate them. It sounds like you have your files on some other partition, in which case you need to do some system adminstration stuff beforehand to be able to get to your files (like mounting those partitions, making them accessible to your user, etc). *nix is a vastly different world than Windows. Sometimes that makes things better, sometimes not. But regardless, it's different. A problem that I am having with WinME is playing CD's through the IDE inter- face. Since I have both a DVD and CD/RW drive, I didn't hook either one up to the audio plug on the sound card, as the Plextor rep said I could play them through the IDE interface. I can, using Plextor's player, but no other Windows player that I've tried will. I've heard that such a thing is possible, depending on the player, but I've never done it. At any rate, you've described a problem in Windows here; can't give you much advice or sympathy. Sorry. I wish I could devote the time learning LINUX that I did when I first started using DOS (1984), but I don't have that much free time anymore. I understand that, and sympathize. But the fact remains that *nix is a different critter from Windows, and _requires_ a learning curve. Redhat and Mandrake & etc have tried to reduce that learning curve, but it remains. My first exposure to Windows was Win95 (I had been using OS2 at work previous to that), I read very little, I started using it and learned as I went. That's the way it will have to be with LINUX, I will have to be able to do something without devoting hours trying to figure out each task that I want to do. Until LINUX progresses to that point, I and many others simply can't make the switch. It has progressed to that point. Remember, when you were first exposed to Win95, the internet didn'
Re: Is this normal with USB mice?
> I found this in the log (first X start without USB mouse plugged in) > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such device. > (EE) USB Mice: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "USB Mice" > (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) I just moved to the East Coast and had to break down my home network before leaving so I could take one system with me. I'd had the USB mouse attached to a KVM using a PS/2 adapter, so Debian was configured to use the mouse as PS/2. When I got to VA, I set up the box and X wouldn't start at ALL. I hashed thru a few websites to research the problem but still couldn't get it started until one website mentioned checking the kernel to make sure "HID" was enabled under "USB devices." I checked and it was set as a module and I saw what module to use (hid.o). I'd already had the usbmouse module loaded and when I loaded "hid" (insmod hid), then did "cat /dev/input/mice" and move the mouse around, I knew I had the USB mouse working. I started X, and sure enough, it was working. I dunno if this'll work for you or not, but give it a shot...it shouldn't hurt. Regards. -- R. Sinclair http://www.wigglit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS266-VM
if needs must I will, but i though X 4.2.1 supported geforce2? (4.2.1 comes in knoppix) At 09:04 PM 1/20/03 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > >hi ya john > >you will need to get the x11 and nic drivers from nvidia.com > >works good other than that bending over backwards > >c ya >alvin > >On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, John Griffiths wrote: > >> g'day all, >> >> I've got a new machine with an "A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D >> DDR VGA/audio/LAN" mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running >> deb) >> >> >> I understand the video is a nvidia 220D Geforce 2, sound a Realtek 8201L >> >> not sure what the hell the networking is (will get a new NIC if needed). >> >> i was thinking of doing a backdoor knoppix install to get the X 4.2.1. >> >> does anyone know of any other gotcha's or snafu's i need to bear in mind? > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: default login manager
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, David Z Maze wrote: > Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 3) update-rc.d -f xdm remove > > This is arguably bad advice; if xdm ever gets updated (as in a > security release), update-rc.d will notice that there are no links for > xdm, conclude that the package was never installed, and recreate the > links, leaving you back where you started. You need to make sure that > at least one link is left behind (like the K links in runlevels 0 and > 6) so this doesn't happen. So from my point of view this behavior is a bug isn't it? Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit http://www.wreckingpit.com http://www07.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/qg7/snatch/cyberlabel/home.html http://home.tiscali.de/oliverfuchs/debian/muttrc.html http://home.tiscali.de/oliverfuchs/debian/procmailrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED - Re: why does X keep throwing messages on console?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:13:44AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > hello all > > > > when i run X from a console using a simple startx command, off and on, > > i keep getting a line that says > > > > 'getmodeline etc etc' on the console from where i fired X. > > > > is there a way to avoid this? > > It's just STDOUT and STDERR being displayed there, and it gets logged > for you anyway. So if you find it irritating, just redirect it to > /dev/null (startx > /dev/null 2>&1) thanx. this seems to be working -- regards, sandip p deshmukh --*** >From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx, from "The Book of Insults" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS266-VM
hi ya john you will need to get the x11 and nic drivers from nvidia.com works good other than that bending over backwards c ya alvin On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, John Griffiths wrote: > g'day all, > > I've got a new machine with an "A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D > DDR VGA/audio/LAN" mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running > deb) > > > I understand the video is a nvidia 220D Geforce 2, sound a Realtek 8201L > > not sure what the hell the networking is (will get a new NIC if needed). > > i was thinking of doing a backdoor knoppix install to get the X 4.2.1. > > does anyone know of any other gotcha's or snafu's i need to bear in mind? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which kernel-image for a Via Ezra chip?
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:50, Kent West wrote: Got a Walmart Microtel $300 computer with a Via Ezra microprocessor. I want to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel image from Unstable. Which image do I need for this chip, or will I have to roll my own? The Via C3 series, of which the Ezra is part of, is x86-compatabile: http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp In fact, it uses the Socket-370, just like the P3 (Tualatin). http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Via+Ezra&btnG=Google+Search First hit: http://www.geek.com/procspec/via/ezra-t.htm Well, yes, But does that mean I need the kernel-image-2.4-386 kernel-image-2.4-586tsc or the kernel-image-2.4-686 file, or perhaps some other? These are all "x86-compatible", are they not? If I had to make a guess, I'd guess 686, but I was hoping to have an authoritative answer before downloading a possibly wrong kernel over a slow-dial-up connection. And now I'm 90 miles away from that box, so trying to walk a newbie through the process via email and getting the wrong kernel has even less appeal. Oh well, I reckon it can wait until I make another trip down that way; the only real reason he needs to upgrade is to hopefully fix a mis-aligned mouse pointer and a lack of sound capability. Thanks for the response! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ASUS266-VM
g'day all, I've got a new machine with an "A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D DDR VGA/audio/LAN" mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running deb) I understand the video is a nvidia 220D Geforce 2, sound a Realtek 8201L not sure what the hell the networking is (will get a new NIC if needed). i was thinking of doing a backdoor knoppix install to get the X 4.2.1. does anyone know of any other gotcha's or snafu's i need to bear in mind? TIA John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse not aligned in X
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except that the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered to the left of where the actual click is made by about the width of a close button (the X in the upper right hand corner of a window) in icewm. This happens both in icewm and in KDE. The console mouse (gpm) seems to work fine. I've tried the X mouse with and without gpm (configuring X to look to /dev/gpmdata and /dev/psaux respectively). Any clues? no but why not upgrade to X 4.2 in testing :) I had strange freeze problem on 3dfx which was solved by this upgrade. Yeah, I'm uprading the entire system, but it's over dial-up, so it's gonna take a day and a half, and I only have a couple of hours left before I have to leave this physical location. So I'll leave it upgrading, and will contact the owner of the computer in a day or two to see if the upgrade made a difference. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is this normal with USB mice?
you need to setup both mice in your XF86Config, mine looks like this: -- Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" #Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents""true" Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" #Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Generic Mouse" EndSection I hope this helps Ayman On Monday 20 January 2003 11:17 pm, Jack wrote: > Hi, > > My USB mouse only works after I restart X. After X is restarted, it > works just fine, even when X is restarted without it plugged in. The > touch-pad always works. > > I found this in the log (first X start without USB mouse plugged in) > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such device. > (EE) USB Mice: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "USB Mice" > (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) > > The question is if possible to make X to reload mouse module for USB > mouse without restart? > > Thanks! > Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse not aligned in X
Bob Proulx wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except that the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered to the left of where the actual click is made by about the width of a close button (the X in the upper right hand corner of a window) in icewm. That sounds like the cursor you are using is strangely bitmapped. Did you install a custom cursor image? Nope. Nothing non-standard. As posted elsewhere, I'm currently upgrading this system to Sid, so we'll see where that goes. (It's over dial-up, so I expect it to take a day or two.) Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALSA (and kernel?) problem
George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't used alsa in a while but when I did, I used these scripts (RedHat) > to compile/install. > > http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-INSTALL.sh > http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-driver-0.5.11.sh > http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-lib-0.5.10b.sh > http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-utils-0.5.10.sh I'd ignore these scripts in a Debian world. First, I'd use APT to install the ALSA userspace. If you're using a stock kernel, there are probably precompiled ALSA modules to go with it; if not, install alsa-source, unpack /usr/src/alsa-driver.tar.gz, and then go to the top directory of your kernel tree and run 'make-kpkg modules-image --added-modules=alsa-driver'. (Assuming, of course, that you used kernel-package to compile your kernel in the first place.) This produces an alsa-modules-*.deb in the parent directory of your source tree; install it using 'dpkg -i'. (Comment: the same pretty much applies for any add-on kernel module. Caveat: I only know for sure that modules exist in unstable for 2.4.19 kernels, modules don't necessarily exist for any particular module for any particular kernel. But you're golden if you're building your own kernel. And you might even be able to use the 0.9.0rc6 ALSA source out of unstable, with some luck.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX
Hello John, Although Debian is my favorite distribution for several years, and although for me installation of debian is only a snap (me only), I would still recommend going with another distribution to start with. here is my recommendations: 1. have at least one day or one weekend devoted to installing, tweaking and learning the basics of Linux. 2. Mandrake in my opinion is still the friendliest distribution to install, give it another try (now at version 9.0) 3. once you know your way around linux, install Debian and enjoy it. just remember persistence help and we are all here to help out. and remember this, once you know your way around Linux you will wonder how you lived without it :) good luck On Monday 20 January 2003 10:54 pm, John & Peg Pickard wrote: > In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And > then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a LinkSys > Print server, and possibly a US Robotics broadband router (if I can use the > "back up" dial up connection on a permanent basis, which would then have an > external modem). All without requiring a PHD in networking? If I get that > far, LINUX will be for real, and I will also load it on my old 100 mhz Dell > and network that too. > > Any hope? > > Thanks, > > John S. Pickard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is this normal with USB mice?
Hi, My USB mouse only works after I restart X. After X is restarted, it works just fine, even when X is restarted without it plugged in. The touch-pad always works. I found this in the log (first X start without USB mouse plugged in) (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) USB Mice: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "USB Mice" (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) The question is if possible to make X to reload mouse module for USB mouse without restart? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to setup X
On Monday 20 January 2003 09:06 pm, CM Miller wrote: > Having a challenge trying to set up X under Debian > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated > Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator > +3D (rev 31) > at the xfree86.org web site it seems that your card is supported, accelaration is supported under 4.2.1 (the code is new though) http://xfree86.org/current/Status30.html#30 did you try to use xf86config or xf86cfg? good luck Ayman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX
In early '99 I tried Slackware Linux. After a lot of reading and research tofind out the specs for the computer's hardware, the install went well exceptfor two things. When I got my 8 bit ISA modem I needed an interrupt less than 8. I had plansfor both serial ports so I set the modem's IRQ @ 5 (second parallel port),and used the corresponding address for that IRQ. The sound card (AWE 32) wasset at IRQ 5, and since it was a 16 bit ISA card, I moved it to 12 I think (Iknew then, it's documented someplace). Anyway, LINUX was able to discover the sound card because the module thatset up the sound card was hard coded to an interrupt of 5. The modem went alittle better. After a lot of searching, I found the How To that explained howto modify which file to point to a serial port on interrupt 5. I actually gotconnected to the Internet and was able to browse with LYNX. The NETSCAPEbrowser wasn't on the CD's and I didn't want to download a 60 Meg file @ 28.6. So problem #1 was LINUX wasn't smart enough to find a sound card if it wasn'ton interrupt 5 (unless the user was smart enough to edit and recompile the soundmodule). Problem #2 was stair stepping when I printed. After some e-mail correspondencewith Patrick Volkering, he suggested that I download a different prn file. I did.It was a monster of a file, with lots of printers, and I tried to set it up formy printer (OKIDATA OLE 810e, and then an hp equivalent. Still had stair-stepping. As I didn't have time to keep playing with LINUX, I gave up. Spring of 2000 I got Mandrake, LinuxWorld's editor's choice for 1999. Thisshould be the ticket. After installing it, I still had problem #1 & problem #2.Also couldn't find the How To on setting up the modem, so never got connectedto the Internet. Not too impressed with LINUX up to this point. Have a new motherboard/chip (DFI socket7/K6-2 550mhz), same modem, diff sound card (Audigy PCI). From the reviews I've read lately, Debian is the best LINUX if one ever gets it installed. Some articles mentioned KNOPPIX as a great way to get Debian LINUX installed, so I downloaded the ISO (we now have a T1 connection where I work), burned a CD, and tried it out. Booted up great. But no sound, and it can't find the modem or my printer. So much for KNOPPIX as an installer, or even as a trial for LINUX. It was well behaved, when I shut down it ejected the CD & asked me to close the tray and press enter. When I did it finished shutting down the computer. Nice touch. The KDE file manager is a kludge. I understand now why XANDROS created theirown. The problem with XANDROS is that it's too proprietary. Open Office appears to be a nice suite if I could only find my files! I neverfigured out how to get to the disk the files were on using the programs file openbrowser. The only way I could open files was to click on one of the partitions onthe desktop and then browse until I found a file and then clicked on it. Not realhandy. (I had downloaded and installed OpenOffice 5.2 in WinME and had the sameproblem at first, but after some reading was able to find my files). With LINUX OpenOffice, I'm stuck with only LINUX partitions. A problem that I am having with WinME is playing CD's through the IDE inter-face. Since I have both a DVD and CD/RW drive, I didn't hook either one up tothe audio plug on the sound card, as the Plextor rep said I could play themthrough the IDE interface. I can, using Plextor's player, but no other Windowsplayer that I've tried will. I wish I could devote the time learning LINUX that I did when I first startedusing DOS (1984), but I don't have that much free time anymore. My firstexposure to Windows was Win95 (I had been using OS2 at work previous to that),I read very little, I started using it and learned as I went. That's the way itwill have to be with LINUX, I will have to be able to do something withoutdevoting hours trying to figure out each task that I want to do. Until LINUXprogresses to that point, I and many others simply can't make the switch. If I get the Debian disks and managed to get LINUX installed (I hear you have anew version with a better installer), will it be able to find my sound card,modem, and printer (Okidata OLE 810e). Can it print to a printer without stair-stepping? Can I easily add a USB HP Ink Jet, and an old Epson dot matrix later? Assuming Debian LINUX can find my sound card, can LINUX CD playersplay through the IDE interface? In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a LinkSys Print server, and possibly a US Robotics broadband router (if I can use the "back up" dial up connection on a permanent basis, which would then have an external modem). All without requiring a PHD in networking? If I get that far, LINUX will be for real, and I will also load it on my old 100 mhz Dell and network that too. A
copying disks with dd and cat
Hi all. I've just been copying a floppy disk onto my hard drive to back it up. I initially used % dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk_image However it barfed with an IO error, and dmesg shows: % dmesg VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) floppy0: CRC error: track 53, head 0, sector 16, size 2 floppy0: CRC error: track 53, head 0, sector 16, size 2 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 1923 So then for some reason I tried cating the file: % cat /dev/fd0 > disk_image.cat This didn't produce any information about errors. Doing an ls -l shows: % ls -l -rw-r--r--1 ghc ghc983040 Jan 21 13:50 disk_image -rw-r--r--1 ghc ghc 1474560 Jan 21 14:15 disk_image.cat What has got me really confused is the result of diff'ing a hexdump. % hexdump -C disk_image > hex_dimage_dd % hexdump -C disk_image.cat > hex_dimage_cat % diff hex_dimage_dd hex_dimage_cat 4c4 < 00168000 --- > 000f So now it seems that the files are exactly the same, except for the last bit of the file, or rather the output of hexdump. The end of the hex_dimage_dd file shows: % tail hex_dimage_dd 000aa920 c4 c4 c6 c6 c0 c0 c2 c2 cc cc ce ce c8 c8 ca ca || 000aa930 d4 d4 d6 d6 d0 d0 d2 d2 dc dc de de d8 d8 da da || 000aa940 24 24 26 26 20 20 22 22 2c 2c 2e 2e 28 28 2a 2a |$$&& "",,..((**| 000aa950 34 34 36 36 30 30 32 32 3c 3c 3e 3e 38 38 3a 3a |44660022<<>>88::| 000aa960 04 04 06 06 00 00 02 02 0c 0c 0e 0e 08 08 0a 0a || 000aa970 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 || * 000aaa00 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 || * 000f It is only the last line of the file that is different in the other hexdump. Can anyone explain how hexdump produces an almost identical listing for a file that differs in size by 491520 bytes? Cheers Geoff Crompton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Try adding: 192.168.0.x www.yourdomain.com to /etc/hosts Sometimes these routers aren't able to give the correct IP when it comes to accessing stuff behind the NAT. Thanks again, Matthew! That works fine for now, since my laptop is the only LAN client & I rarely take it out into another network. I'm cc'ing the list so the workaround is archived -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thnaks to the developers (sylpheed-claws & aspell)
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh the irony that I send a message to a public list thanking people for a > spell checker with a spelling error in the first word in the subject line. > *sigh* Heh heh. Most developers don't follow debian-user too closely, so if you want reach more developers, you should mail debian-devel instead. In any case, you're welcome. -Brian (Aspell maintainer) -- My secret to happiness... is that I have a heart of a 12-year-old boy. It's over here in a jar. Would you like to see it? msg25237/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Packages to install for WLL
Please say what are the packages to be be installed for Internet connection thro' WLL(wireless loop) Ramachandran __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( > > > > > > i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and haven't found much > > > in the way of answers for horiz/vert refresh or clock speeds. > > > anybody know of a site somewhere that's got a collection of that > > > kind of info? > > > > CDS-4583 is P/N 955313-003 which is a '14" SVGA monitor'. My > > recollection of Super-VGA is that you could do 1024x768 at some crappy > > refresh rate like 60Hz ... but anything better than that is a long > > shot. > > Good google :) but SVGA is Super-VGA and only 800 x 720 ! > > CGA: 640 X 200 (8*8 font, 80chars * 25 lines) > DCGA: 640 X 400 (8*16 font, 80chars * 25 lines) > VGA: 640 x 480 > SVGA: 800 x 720 > XGA: 1024 x 768 > SXGA 1280 x1024 > UXGA: 1600 x1440 Thanks, I will keep this list for future reference :) Once again someone has proved that my recollections are not as accurate as I would like. > In old days, it was not multi-sync monitor. No wonder you can only get > SVGA only. I guess that was the point I was trying to make; this monitor is so old the pain factor is quite high. I would not recommend running X on such a dinosaur. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. -- Will Durant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
hi ya matthew On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ... > > How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? > > Thanks to everyone who responded to this -- I was able to see the > partitioning using fdisk. > > Only problem is... the disk is a 40GB drive, and this older machine can > only handle drives up to 32GB. While I can see the partitioning and > access a good portion of the disk, I cannot get a large chunk of the > data off it that I need. I guess that'll teach me to back up to a hard > drive (instead of removable media)... lesson was/is... write down the fdisk partitions on a piece of paper and tape it to the disk or chassis -- if you cannot access the ful 40GB... read the "large-disk-howto" - you probably need to enable the jumpers on the disks so the bios can talk to the other 8GB -- if you were able to write/read 40GB before..you should be able see the whole thing .. sometimes explicitly tell the bios the cyl/sec/head ... and also to lilo if you wanna boot it c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X problems, likely vertical refresh
Hi Matthew. I have ATI All-in-Wonder Pro AGP card and I use driver from GATOS for XFree86 version 4.1.x. This driver works fine for me (XVideo, TV tuner ...) <>
Trying to setup X
Having a challenge trying to set up X under Debian phoenix:/proc# uname -a Linux phoenix 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown I have a K7SEM motherboard with builtin videocard. Runing lspci | grep vga | more 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator +3D (rev 31) Upon checking the website that makes the motherboard: http://www.ecsusa.com/ I check the downloads and under SiS630 and see there aren't any drivers under Linux for my motherboard... http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/drivers_vga.html#sis630730 Am I SOL? Or I notice that SiS 620/530 VGA Driver has a Linux Driver, could I try this or would it be unwise...? -Chris = "As a taxpayer, why should I support the war against Iraq this time, when it wasn't done right the first time? " * GAIM ID: cmmiller1973 * __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Mouse not aligned in X
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except that > the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered to the left > of where the actual click is made by about the width of a close button > (the X in the upper right hand corner of a window) in icewm. That sounds like the cursor you are using is strangely bitmapped. Did you install a custom cursor image? > The console mouse (gpm) seems to work fine. I've tried the X mouse with > and without gpm (configuring X to look to /dev/gpmdata and /dev/psaux > respectively). Although I can't guess further at your problem I cannot imagine a situation where gpm would cause the problem you describe. Bob msg25230/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DSL and Sound Configuration
Kris K wrote: > > I'm having problems configuring my ADSL connection w/Debian. I have a > Lynksys BEFW11S4 V.2 Etherfast Router that connects to the internet via my > Efficient Network's 5360 Speedstream Modem. I use a Lynksys 10/100 > Etherfast Card. Here's the rundown. Okay, stop right there. Take a deep breath. Repeat after me. The Speedstream connects to the Internet. The Linksys router connects to the modem. The computer connects to the router. The ankle bone connects to the knee bone. Only the dsl modem needs to know about dsl. All of the others use simple IP to connect to each other. Presumably you have already programmed your modem with all of the information such as passwords that you needed to connect to your ISP. > Decided to reinstall - this time, got X to run, but, ironically, my > internet is down. Damn, are computer's fickle? LOL. Did you configure for DHCP? Check /etc/network/interfaces and look for: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Check that your network card is recognized by looking at 'ifconfig'. ifconfig eth0 You may need to load a module in /etc/modules. In which case you need to have 'tulip' in /etc/modules for a Linksys card. Just editing the file and rebooting works. But I recommend that you use modconf to put it there. You must have missed doing that during the initial install. This is the same area where you selected your es1371 sound driver. modconf Page down to where it says 'tulip' submenu of tulip drivers and select it. Then on the next page select the tulip driver no description available and let modconf add it to your kernel. > I installed the 'ppp' module into my kernel like I normally do in the > Debian install. No joy. Tried removing that module. No joy. Added just > 'ppp_deflate'. Nope. Tried 'ppp' and 'ppp_deflate' together. Nada. Unless you are actually using ppp such as over a phone line or serial line or some ssh+ppp vpn solution you do not need to do this. > Next is my soundcard - a Soundblaster 128PCI - aka: ES1371. Everytime I > start up KDE, it brings up a dialogue box that I used to get with Mandrake > - 'do not have permissions to device '/dev/dsp''. I tried changing the > permissions on it, but it didn't work. I never did fix the problem - just > installed SuSE on top of it. LOL - I'm lazy. But, I like Debian too much > to just quit at it. That's why I'm asking you guys. Any ideas for either > of these two problems? Thanks a lot. adduser audio Then log out and log back in again. When you log in you will be in the audio group and will be able to access /dev/dsp. Bob msg25229/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Xcdroast, cdrecord and SafeDisk Copy protection
I'm having trouble making backups of games I think are protected with Safedisk. The reason I backup these games (Battelfiled 1942 and Rogued Spear) is that I have to have the CD in the drive in order to host a game. After time the discs can get scratched to the point of not being recognized. When I tried to use Xcdroast to make backups the it spits out all these read sector errors in the log window. The drive is a Plextor 16-10-40 which is known to be able to copy these discs with the appropriate Windows Software. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install all packages
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:15:47PM -0500, alex wrote: > >You can't. Too many packages conflict with one other to start with. > >Only pick out what you want to try out, it'll be easier to maintain. > > > Now you tell us beginners No wonder I had so much > trouble The trouble wasn't a hint? 8;o) -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg25226/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ALSA (and kernel?) problem
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:11:44AM +0100, Alex wrote: >I'm running kernel 2.4.20 and have recently got a abit kd7 with >an onboard audio chipset. > >The chipset on the motherboard is via vt8235. > >I just downloaded the latest alsa ( 0.9.0rc6 developer) version of alsa as i >couldn't see the kernel supporting this chipset. > >did everything according to: >http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=VIA&card=&chip=via8235&module=via82xx > >i'm a debian user, when coming to modprobing: >tudor:/etc# modprobe snd-via82xx >/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol _mmx_memcpy >/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: insmod >/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed >/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: insmod snd-via82xx failed > >CONFIG_SOUND was compiled into the kernel. > >searched some on google but found no useful information, >i'm thankful for all help. > It looks as if you don't have all the modules installed properly and/or alsa is expecting a different kernel or kernel options. I haven't used alsa in a while but when I did, I used these scripts (RedHat) to compile/install. http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-INSTALL.sh http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-driver-0.5.11.sh http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-lib-0.5.10b.sh http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-utils-0.5.10.sh notice especially what's happening at the end of alsa-driver-0.5.11.sh do you know how to apply module aliases you put in /etc/modutils/arch/i386? btw update-rc.d on Debian is similar to the RH chkconfig command. // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architectcell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: diald and error exit status 127(fixed)
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/diald.postinst: line 43: /etc/diald/cvtaddrs: No such ^->removed this file here and reran now it works. dpkg: error processing diald (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: diald E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > -- Now route out is gone :( Manually added w/route add default gw works but where could it be lost? Suggestions->rtfm's thanks again. -- From the Desktop of a Debianized Mutt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSL and Sound Configuration
On Monday 20 January 2003 02:26 pm, Kris K wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm having problems configuring my ADSL connection w/Debian. I have a > Lynksys BEFW11S4 V.2 Etherfast Router that connects to the internet via > my Efficient Network's 5360 Speedstream Modem. I use a Lynksys 10/100 > Etherfast Card. Here's the rundown. > > On a previous install of Debian, I was unable to get X to start, though > I had a fully functional internet connection that I used to d/l Debian. > > Decided to reinstall - this time, got X to run, but, ironically, my > internet is down. Damn, are computer's fickle? LOL. > > I installed the 'ppp' module into my kernel like I normally do in the > Debian install. No joy. Tried removing that module. No joy. Added > just 'ppp_deflate'. Nope. Tried 'ppp' and 'ppp_deflate' together. > Nada. > > I ran 'pppoeconfig' (or is it just 'pppconfig'? it's the 'ADSL/PPPOE' > Configurator in the Debian Menu) - it won't run on the initial try, and > prompts me to run 'modconf'. After selecting and removing/installing > one of the modules (apparently, it just wants a change, and it doesn't > care what), 'modconf' dumps me back into 'pppoeconfig' - which tells me > that it now detects my Ethernet Card, and then tries to auto-config > everything. That's when it tells me no - it can't detect the setup > from the 'provider' - I'm assuming that's the router. It also says > that its possible that other processes are using the interface 'eth0' - > my ethernet card. AFAIK you do not setup PPPOE on Debian, the router does the PPPOE stuff with your ISP. All you need to do is set up you nic card, & (hopefully) use dhcp to get an address from the router. > That's it. > > Next is my soundcard - a Soundblaster 128PCI - aka: ES1371. Everytime > I start up KDE, it brings up a dialogue box that I used to get with > Mandrake - 'do not have permissions to device '/dev/dsp''. I tried > changing the permissions on it, but it didn't work. I never did fix > the problem - just installed SuSE on top of it. LOL - I'm lazy. But, > I like Debian too much to just quit at it. That's why I'm asking you > guys. Any ideas for either of these two problems? Thanks a lot. > > Regaurds, > Kris Kerwin Add the user (you?) to the group that is shown for the device, i.e 'ls -l /dev/dsp' will show 'audio' as the group for the ~/dsp device. Use 'adduser' to do this. You also need to restart x-window for the change to be effective. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same > > > XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I > > > just do: > > > > > > startx -- :1 -screen > > > > but how do you FIGURE OUT WHICH RESOLUTIONS your monitor can > > handle? i've tried xvidtune, xf86cfg, xf86config, > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, discover read-edid (major > > lockup, there), xviddetect, XFree86 -configure... > > > > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( > > > > i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and haven't found much > > in the way of answers for horiz/vert refresh or clock speeds. > > anybody know of a site somewhere that's got a collection of that > > kind of info? > > CDS-4583 is P/N 955313-003 which is a '14" SVGA monitor'. My > recollection of Super-VGA is that you could do 1024x768 at some crappy > refresh rate like 60Hz ... but anything better than that is a long > shot. > I too have a couple of 14" monitors, interlaced ones to boot. I used to work at 1024x768 with interlace option earlier. X 4.x no longer supports that. On such machines running woody, I just installed X 3.3.6 and I could get 1024x768. Of course, with the flicker, etc. headache is assured :-) Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lilo and vga=791
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:20:52AM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > > > just change it too > > vga=791 > > for each option you want too; no append statement is needed. > That did it. Somehow I missed that :-( Removed the append statement and it is working fine. Thanks everybody, -- Sridhar M.A. "Live or die, I'll make a million." -- Reebus Kneebus, before his jump to the center of the earth, Firesign Theater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse not aligned in X
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except that > the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered to the left > of where the actual click is made by about the width of a close button > (the X in the upper right hand corner of a window) in icewm. > > This happens both in icewm and in KDE. > > The console mouse (gpm) seems to work fine. I've tried the X mouse with > and without gpm (configuring X to look to /dev/gpmdata and /dev/psaux > respectively). > > Any clues? no but why not upgrade to X 4.2 in testing :) I had strange freeze problem on 3dfx which was solved by this upgrade. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question on Winbind
Mark Roach wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 20:35, Debian User wrote: Hi, I have been pulling out hair on this one. I am trying to get a debian box to share files to an NT 4 network. I installed Samba, works great. I also installed Winbind and that also works, but I have a problem when trying to set file permissions. When I do a - getent group or a - getent passwd the mappings show from the NT PDC but the uid and gid are identical on some users. Like say User1 has a uid of 10004, but looking at getent group shows that 10004 is the GID for Domain Users on the NT box. So, basically the UID and GID are the same for some users and groups. This is causing a serious problem when trying to set permissions on certain folders for users. Having identical numbers for groups and users is not a conflict, it is numbering different things. You can be user #123 in group #123 or you can be user #456 in group #789, they do not conflict with each other. Thanks a bunch Mark, now that I think about it, I guess your correct about the group UID numbers, I guess I was use to seeing on my local box totally different numbers in the /etc/group file so I assumed they had to be different and I kinda changed my direction at that point to solve the number conflict, when it was actually ok. I also saw other post that said they had to be different. All the instructions I have see say to set the lines -- winbind uid = 1-2 and winbind gid = 1-2 in the smb.conf. So I figured Linux would give the id numbers a first come first basis, but it abviously dosent. I have completely uninstalled, purged and reinstalled both Samba and Winbind, and still the same mappings. I have also changed the smb.conf file to give completely different mappings of --winbind uid = 15000-2 - winbind gid = 20001-25000 , but when I do a getent group or getent passwd it still shows mappings starting at 1. I have restarted all the related services and rebooted the machine, still no luck. It is authenticating properly to the domain when browsing, but I really need to get proper permissions set. I searched the web for 2 hours and didn't find a bit of info on this problem. I'm stuck. It's as if there is a database file somewhere in the system that has kept this information from my orgional install and won't give it up. try /var/lib/samba/winbindd_idmap.tdb and /var/cache/samba/winbindd_cache.tdb for reference you can look at man winbindd for these filenames Not sure, but my man winbindd file shows locked files for the database, here is the sniplet, WINBINDD(8) WINBINDD(8) $LOCKDIR/winbindd_idmap.tdb Storage for the Windows NT rid to UNIX user/group id mapping. The lock directory is specified when Samba is initially compiled using the --with-lockdir option. This directory is by default /usr/local/samba/var/locks . $LOCKDIR/winbindd_cache.tdb Storage for cached user and group information. - Note, this is from the debian package of winbindd. I did find the .tdb files where you said they would be though, but the man showed different. Thanks again. -debuser I think you should post what your permissions problem is, not the uid/gid stuff. i.e., you are trying to use acl's and it is not working, can't create files when viewing the share from windows... you should have much better luck solving your issue that way. -Debuser. what an amazingly coincidental name ;-) Yes, isn't it a great name? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:32:30PM +, Tim wrote: > Maybe the MBR has been altered? Run GrUB from a floppy, and > > root (hd0,0) <-if hd0,0 is your linux root partition > > setup (hd0) <-places into MBR > Where root(hd0,0) defines the partition that the grub files can be found on. In grub terms (hd0,0) corresponds to hda1 in linux terms. (if only an ide system). I am uncertain what order grub considers scsi and ide disks. ie, in a mixed ide/scsi system, I don't know if (hd0) would be the first scsi disk or the first ide disk. Just remember that grubs disk/partition addressing is 0 based, where as the linux partition addressing is 1 based. Geoff Crompton > This worked for me once before...hope it helps you! > > Tim > > will trillich wrote: > > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. > > > > a friend suggested trying windo~1 fdisk to make it a fat32 > > drive, wiping previous linux stuff off, then retrynig with a new > > linux (ext3) partition scheme. i tried that (i think) and still, > > hang on boot after seeing "GRUB". > > > > is there a trick i missed in writing the boot sectors? (lilo > > worked on the machine in the past...) > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (forw) [hugh@mjr.org: Re: Quick aptitude question...]
* Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > not avoiding woodyr1 but i dont have fast connection [56k dialup] so i > want to aptiutude to install what i select and its dependencies [nothing > else- bit like apt-get install -which is what i end up using!] but as > ive fiddled about with it, aptitude has a list of about 150 packages it > wants to upgrade/install so everytime i use aptitude i use the shift-i > to only install what i want. [if want to upgrade, do apt-get update && > apt-get upgrade -y and leve it over night!] > > so not essential as can use apt-get but to make aptitude more usefull > it would be good to be able synchronise its status with the current > system package status hum, you _could_ rename sources.list, do an update then put it back... not sure if that'd cause a plaugue of locusts or not though. iain > > hugh > > ps: replying to right place this time! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [SOLVED]: Re: sound card detection problem
> -Original Message- > From: Stephen Gran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2003 3:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SOLVED]: Re: sound card detection problem > > > This one time, at band camp, Aryan Ameri said: > > On Monday 20 January 2003 18:41, Jon wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > The module you need is 'es1371' for the Vibra 128 chipset. I put > > > this on a line in /etc/modules so it gets loaded up each time. If > > > you haven't done so already, you also need to add yourself to the > > > audio group: > > > > > > adduser your_name audio > > This is correct. > > > > And also change the permissions on the audio devices: > > > > > > chmod o+rw /dev/dsp* > > > chmod o+rw /dev/mixer* > > No, no, a thousand times no. /dev/dsp is readable and > writable by a user and a group already, why make it > accessible to the whole world? What you have just done is > bypass standard *NIX permission protections, and allowed > anyone with a connection to your box to play music through > your speakers or listen to you through your microphone. > Thankyou! That seems quite obvious. I probably fiddled with the permissions _before_ I realised about the audio group, in an attempt to get sound working the first time and stop seeing error messages. There must be a lot of little things like this that I do to get the right result but perhaps not in the right way :-/ Jon. > When you have these sort of problems, it's better to learn > the way to resolve them that works within the existing > framework (as adding a user to group audio does) than totally > bypassing the existing filesystem layer of protection. > Habits learned early tend to stick, so it's better to learn > the right way early on. > > > > After that you should have sound. At least, that works for me. > > Unfortunately, so will everyone else )-: > > > Thanks Jon, it worked wonderfully > > -- > > -- > > | Stephen Gran | We are using Linux daily > to UP our | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | productivity - so UP > yours! (Adapted| > | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | from Pat Paulsen by Joe > Sloan) | > > -- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (forw) [hugh@mjr.org: Re: Quick aptitude question...]
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:20:25PM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > - Forwarded message from Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:57:15 + > From: Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i > X-SpamProbe: > Subject: Re: Quick aptitude question... > X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:22:46PM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > * ZephyrQ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to take better control of my installation, and fired up > > > aptitude. I inadvertently tried to do an upgrade (to woody rc1) a while > > > back and am trying to cancel it. Is there a way to 'wipe' queued > > > actions and/or reset aptitude? > > > > > > > when you hit 'g' to get the 'do this' screen, select the lines that say > > 'install' or 'upgrade' or similar, and hit '_' to purge, '-' to remove > > or '=' to hold(hold means keep installed, don't upgrade) - this should > > cut down the number of things on the todo list. > if youve told aptitude you want to upgrade a package, but havent > actually done the upgrade, how do you then > reset its status to installed -its a pain to do hold as that break > dependencies when you upgrade other things. > > hugh > > - End forwarded message - > > i'm not sure you can, using aptitude - it likes upgrading automatically. > have a look in the options to see if you can turn off that behaviour. > > at the same time, why do you want to avoid woodyr1 exactly? not avoiding woodyr1 but i dont have fast connection [56k dialup] so i want to aptiutude to install what i select and its dependencies [nothing else- bit like apt-get install -which is what i end up using!] but as ive fiddled about with it, aptitude has a list of about 150 packages it wants to upgrade/install so everytime i use aptitude i use the shift-i to only install what i want. [if want to upgrade, do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y and leve it over night!] so not essential as can use apt-get but to make aptitude more usefull it would be good to be able synchronise its status with the current system package status hugh ps: replying to right place this time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot
Maybe the MBR has been altered? Run GrUB from a floppy, and > root (hd0,0) <-if hd0,0 is your linux root partition > setup (hd0) <-places into MBR This worked for me once before...hope it helps you! Tim will trillich wrote: > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. > > a friend suggested trying windo~1 fdisk to make it a fat32 > drive, wiping previous linux stuff off, then retrynig with a new > linux (ext3) partition scheme. i tried that (i think) and still, > hang on boot after seeing "GRUB". > > is there a trick i missed in writing the boot sectors? (lilo > worked on the machine in the past...) > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DSL and Sound Configuration
Hi all: I'm having problems configuring my ADSL connection w/Debian. I have a Lynksys BEFW11S4 V.2 Etherfast Router that connects to the internet via my Efficient Network's 5360 Speedstream Modem. I use a Lynksys 10/100 Etherfast Card. Here's the rundown. On a previous install of Debian, I was unable to get X to start, though I had a fully functional internet connection that I used to d/l Debian. Decided to reinstall - this time, got X to run, but, ironically, my internet is down. Damn, are computer's fickle? LOL. I installed the 'ppp' module into my kernel like I normally do in the Debian install. No joy. Tried removing that module. No joy. Added just 'ppp_deflate'. Nope. Tried 'ppp' and 'ppp_deflate' together. Nada. I ran 'pppoeconfig' (or is it just 'pppconfig'? it's the 'ADSL/PPPOE' Configurator in the Debian Menu) - it won't run on the initial try, and prompts me to run 'modconf'. After selecting and removing/installing one of the modules (apparently, it just wants a change, and it doesn't care what), 'modconf' dumps me back into 'pppoeconfig' - which tells me that it now detects my Ethernet Card, and then tries to auto-config everything. That's when it tells me no - it can't detect the setup from the 'provider' - I'm assuming that's the router. It also says that its possible that other processes are using the interface 'eth0' - my ethernet card. That's it. Next is my soundcard - a Soundblaster 128PCI - aka: ES1371. Everytime I start up KDE, it brings up a dialogue box that I used to get with Mandrake - 'do not have permissions to device '/dev/dsp''. I tried changing the permissions on it, but it didn't work. I never did fix the problem - just installed SuSE on top of it. LOL - I'm lazy. But, I like Debian too much to just quit at it. That's why I'm asking you guys. Any ideas for either of these two problems? Thanks a lot. Regaurds, Kris Kerwin _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: restart / shutdown by normal user
Craig Jackson wrote: > # chmod +s /sbin/shutdown > > This is not something I would do though. Why don't you do this when you > want to shut down: I recommend against doing that chmod on shutdown. It has not been inspected for security holes and that might open big ones. If you really want any user that can log into the box to be able to reboot it then instead, install sudo, then put something like this in the sudoers file (using visudo). ALL ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown If you just want users on the console to reboot then just have them CNTL-ALT-DELETE the keyboard. Alternatively both kdm and gdm have reboot options on their login manager screen. This is by far safest for anything but a kiosk. Bob msg25212/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
(forw) [hugh@mjr.org: Re: Quick aptitude question...]
- Forwarded message from Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:57:15 + From: Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-SpamProbe: Subject: Re: Quick aptitude question... X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:22:46PM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > * ZephyrQ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I'm trying to take better control of my installation, and fired up > > aptitude. I inadvertently tried to do an upgrade (to woody rc1) a while > > back and am trying to cancel it. Is there a way to 'wipe' queued > > actions and/or reset aptitude? > > > > when you hit 'g' to get the 'do this' screen, select the lines that say > 'install' or 'upgrade' or similar, and hit '_' to purge, '-' to remove > or '=' to hold(hold means keep installed, don't upgrade) - this should > cut down the number of things on the todo list. if youve told aptitude you want to upgrade a package, but havent actually done the upgrade, how do you then reset its status to installed -its a pain to do hold as that break dependencies when you upgrade other things. hugh - End forwarded message - i'm not sure you can, using aptitude - it likes upgrading automatically. have a look in the options to see if you can turn off that behaviour. at the same time, why do you want to avoid woodyr1 exactly? iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which kernel-image for a Via Ezra chip?
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:50, Kent West wrote: > Got a Walmart Microtel $300 computer with a Via Ezra microprocessor. I > want to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel image from Unstable. Which image do I > need for this chip, or will I have to roll my own? The Via C3 series, of which the Ezra is part of, is x86-compatabile: http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp In fact, it uses the Socket-370, just like the P3 (Tualatin). http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Via+Ezra&btnG=Google+Search First hit: http://www.geek.com/procspec/via/ezra-t.htm -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | || | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | |RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines| | Flight 63 | ++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: functional languages
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:07:31PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes:
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:23:43AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> >> "imperative" and "procedural" are the same thing, and C is a prime
> >> example. It is such because the structure of a C program is a
> >> collection of procedures which start with "main". Each procedure is a
> >> linear list of statements to be executed in order.
> >
> > Could you specify a "linear list" more clearly? - the
> > contrary would be a "nonlinear list" which on the first
> > view seems to be self-contradictory.
>
> For example, in C:
>
> int fib(int n)
> {
> if (n < 2)
> return n;
> return fib(n-2) + fib(n-1);
> }
>
> the rules require that fib(n-2) is called before fib(n-1). In Scheme:
This is incorrect. There is no sequence point in the statement:
return fib(n-2) + fib(n-1);
So, it's up to the implementation which side of the '+' is evaluated
first.
> (define (fib n)
> (if (< n 2)
> n
> (+ (fib (- n 2)) (fib (- n 1)
The C and Scheme functions are essentially identical. In C, statements
are executed in order. I'm not too up on functional languages, but I
seem to recall they need special syntax to execute statements
sequentially.
That fib function is painfully slow via recursion and susceptible to
uncaught overflow in the C version (Scheme has big numbers built in).
#include
unsigned long long
get_nth_fib (unsigned long long count)
{
unsigned long long last2 = 0ULL;
unsigned long long last = 1ULL;
unsigned long long cur = count;
unsigned long long i;
if (count > 1) {
for (i = 1; i < count; ++i) {
cur = last + last2;
if (cur < last) {
fprintf (stderr, "get_nth_fib(%llu) overflows!\n", count);
cur = 0UL;
break;
}
last2 = last;
last = cur;
}
}
return cur;
}
Less elegant, but much faster and more robust than the recursive C version.
A table look-up would be even faster up to some 'n' (say, 93 in this case).
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Re: default login manager
David Z Maze wrote: > Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. > > However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is still the > > default login manager. Howshall I change the default login manager to > > kdm? > > The most straightforward thing to do would be to remove xdm. You > could also change the links in /etc/rc?.d to cause one display manager > or the other to start without removing the other one. Removing those links would be ill advised. It would be better to do one of these: 1. Edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager and set it to your preferred. 2. Recommended: run 'dpkg-reconfigure kdm' or whatever your favorite login manage is and select it as the default. The start up scripts for xdm, kdm, gdm, etc. look at that file and see if their own name is there. If so then then they start themself up. If not then they know they are not the window manager and the start up script exits instead. Bob msg25209/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: init scripts management
Francois Chenais wrote: > > Is there any "standard method" under debian to add/remove > shell @ boot/shutdown time in /etc/rc.* directories ? > > Like chk-config under R.H. in fact. As another poster mentioned update-rc.d is related to this. But I have to ask, what package do you want to enable or disable? Having used Redhat et al I am very used to installing a package, then needing to edit the init.d script to enable the script in different boot time run levels, then running chkconfig to install the symlinks. In that system doing that is just part of the install and something every RH user gets used to doing. But in Debian I have never needed to make any changes to the symlinks that control boot time running of packages. On Debian all of that "just works". I think it would be a bug if it did not. Therefore if I may ask, which package in Debian is giving you trouble? Perhaps there is a misunderstanding about how the package runs? Bob msg25208/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: debian on old powerbook?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:06:35AM -0800, anthony baldwin wrote: > I have several old Apple Powerbooks (140, 145) > They don;t have CD drives and I can't connect them to my dsl, because they have no > ethernet ports. is it that they really dont have any ethernet or that they have thicknet rather than standard ethernet -i have a powerbook510 and it needs a transciever between the mac and the rj45 patch cable. -havent ventured as far as linux on it -v small disk. It runs a terminal emulater and thats all i would use it for in linux anyway! hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:47:38PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > >>Yes, the virtual hosts all listen on >> >>I still have some domains set up for the LAN only (they belong to me, >>but are not registered with dyndns.org yet), these are VirtualHosts with >>the same apache configuration and they work fine, as shown below.. > > > So what exactly isn't working? I can see the Debian test page at > http://www.kuboaa.org/ > > right, but I can't. I get a "connection refused" message when I try to access it from the LAN with nothing showing up in the server's apache logs about my request, and nothing logged by iptables on the server that I can find. That's why I suspected the router.. mine is a "RP614" model maybe it's my laptop's firewall somehow blocking the request, let me reboot into windows ...nope, connection refused here too Here are all the diagnostics from windows I could think of C:\WINNT\system32>tracert dev.kuboaa.org Tracing route to kuboaa.org [66.108.241.38] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 66-108-241-38.nyc.rr.com [66.108.241.38] Trace complete. C:\WINNT\system32>telnet dev.kuboaa.org 80 Connecting To dev.kuboaa.org...Could not open a connection to host on port 80 : Connect failed C:\WINNT\system32>telnet 66.108.241.38 80 Connecting To 66.108.241.38...Could not open a connection to host on port 80 : Connect failed If I telnet to "192.168.0.3 80" I can type "GET /" and it sends back the default VirtualHost's index page (not the one I'm after) any thoughts? further diagnostics? is it back to making my local bind authoritative for the LAN? even though nobody outside should be able to connect to it, it seems like a really broken way to try to fix it... what model netgear router are you using, Matthew? & by the way, thanks for your help so far -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which kernel-image for a Via Ezra chip?
Got a Walmart Microtel $300 computer with a Via Ezra microprocessor. I want to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel image from Unstable. Which image do I need for this chip, or will I have to roll my own? Thanks! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mouse not aligned in X
Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except that the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered to the left of where the actual click is made by about the width of a close button (the X in the upper right hand corner of a window) in icewm. This happens both in icewm and in KDE. The console mouse (gpm) seems to work fine. I've tried the X mouse with and without gpm (configuring X to look to /dev/gpmdata and /dev/psaux respectively). Any clues? Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( > > > > i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and haven't found much > > in the way of answers for horiz/vert refresh or clock speeds. > > anybody know of a site somewhere that's got a collection of that > > kind of info? > > CDS-4583 is P/N 955313-003 which is a '14" SVGA monitor'. My > recollection of Super-VGA is that you could do 1024x768 at some crappy > refresh rate like 60Hz ... but anything better than that is a long > shot. Good google :) but SVGA is Super-VGA and only 800 x 720 ! CGA: 640 X 200 (8*8 font, 80chars * 25 lines) DCGA: 640 X 400 (8*16 font, 80chars * 25 lines) VGA: 640 x 480 SVGA: 800 x 720 XGA: 1024 x 768 SXGA 1280 x1024 UXGA: 1600 x1440 In old days, it was not multi-sync monitor. No wonder you can only get SVGA only. > Pardon me, but I would classify that monitor as a "boat anchor". You > can get a far more capable 17" replacement for under $200 (probably > less if you check out the dumpsters at various corporations :) Maybe cheap LCD XGA (15 inch which is as big as 17 inch CRT), they are getting sub $300 Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: restart / shutdown by normal user
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:33:37PM -0800, Jay wrote: > As far as I know, you can just do a ctrl-alt-delete at the login prompt, and > it will shutdown, no need to be root. > > May the Force of the Dragon's Spirit be with you...In Accordance With The > Prophecy. > > Happy Hacking, Bright Blessings and Gentle Breezes! You need to edit /etc/initab shotdown -r now -> shotdown -h now Then you cn do this :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: debian on old powerbook?
>I have several old Apple Powerbooks (140, 145) >They don;t have CD drives and I can't connect them to my dsl, because they have no >ethernet ports. If those powerbooks have SCSI ports, then you might be able to connect a SCSI cdrom drive or alternatively another powerbook with cdrom drive using scsi I think. Othwerwise am sure they can be networked in some other way (AppleTalk I think, so that might be the go). This is slower, but it may work. >How could I install Debian on them? and Where do I find the Debian >that is appropriate for that architecture? That would be 68k architecture and debian has a port for that. Info is on port section on debian website. >I'd like to use them for word processing, etc., in my classroom. An issue would be the hard drive size I think as you will need to partition the HD and that won't leave you with much. If you want XFree you may have to use some very light window manager or otherwise stick with no GUI. Davor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X problems, likely vertical refresh
> Section "Module" > Load"GLcore" > Load"bitmap" > Load"dbe" > Load"ddc" > Load"dri" > Load"extmod" > Load"freetype" > Load"glx" > Load"speedo" > Load"type1" > Load"vbe" Load"ati" > EndSection What version of XFree86 are you using? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last partition blocks can't be accessed after partition is mounted
Hello everybody. I installed Debian 3.0 r0 on my Dell 4100 machine. Everything is OK, but I noticed the following (little) problem. The last blocks (1, 2 or3) of some partitions can't be accessed (using badblocks in read mode or dd). The stange things are: 1: It only happens with some partitions (I can't figure out a rule). 2: If those partitions has never been mounted since boot up, it doesn't happen. 3: Once those partitions have been mounted, the problem will arise (even after those partitions have been unmounted). I observed this behavior with kernel 2.2.20 (from Debian 3.0). It also happens with kernel 2.2.16 (from RedHat 7.0). I am pretty sure this is not a hardware problem (tested with HD diagnostic tools). My questions are: Could this behavior lead to filesytem problems? Is this behaviour universal or only applies to my installation? (I would be very grateful if someone could test this in its machine). Below is my current partition table. It was created using fdisk v2.11n (the one from Debian 3.0 r0). I think it is OK (parted, cfdisk, sfdisk and Ranish report no problem). In this partition scheme, the problem will happen with partitions hda3 and hda9. Thank you in advance. Javier Miqueleiz. (I am not subscribed to the list because of the great volume of the traffic). * # fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2434 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 255 2048256 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 256 638 3076447+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 * 639 1340 5638815 83 Linux /dev/hda4 1341 2434 8787555 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1341 1468 1028128+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda6 1469 1838 2971993+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda7 1839 1870 257008+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 1871 1902 257008+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 1903 1943 329301 82 Linux swap /dev/hda10 1944 2434 3943926 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) * Below are kernel messages: * # dmesg Linux version 2.2.20 (root@europa) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #5 Tue Jan 7 23:20:00 CET 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0009f000 @ (usable) BIOS-e820: 0fec @ 0010 (usable) Detected 797428 kHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1592.52 BogoMIPS Memory: 257188k/261888k available (1284k kernel code, 416k reserved, 2936k data, 64k init) Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k) Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. 256K L2 cache (8 way) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=244b PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: WDC WD200BB-75AUA1, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG SV0432A, ATA DISK drive hdd: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-612, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: WDC WD200BB-75AUA1, 19092MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63 hdc: SAMSUNG SV0432A, 4112MB w/482kB Cache, CHS=8912/15/63, UDMA hdd: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 linear personality registered raid0 personality registered raid1 personality registered raid5 personality registered (scsi0) found at PCI 2/11/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 YES) (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.33/3.2.4 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-32TSRev: 1.03 Type: CD-ROM
Re: restart / shutdown by normal user
At 2003-01-20T21:05:36Z, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the current (default) settings restarting & shutting down is only > allowed for the root user; How can I change that so normal users can shut > down (restart) ? The safest answer is to install sudo, and give the ability to execute `shutdown' as root to an explicit set of users. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg25197/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel fallback
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:53:55PM +, Paul W wrote: > Hello all, > I've been trying (and still am) to compile a 2.4.20 kernel with alsa modules > to enable my soundcard, as per the good advice given me earlier. So far I've > tried the Debian way and the old fashioned way and I'm nearly there but not > quite - I now have a 2.4.20 kernel that doesn't work right as the default and > a 2.4.18 kernel in good order (apart from sound) that I can boot into from > lilo. My question is - If I now try to install another kernel will my > current 2nd choice (2.4.18) disappear, and if so how do I stop it from doing > so as it's my only fully operational choice at present? Depends upon how you're doing it. I have a system with 4 kernels to select from. You just have to spend a couple of minutes in /etc/lilo.conf, and add your own image listings. All you have to do after adding in more images is to make sure that what you wrote for the image location matches the reality (and run lilo). I don't rely upon the symlinks /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old, I make my own that contain a bit more information (such as /vmlinuz-2.4.18). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: restart / shutdown by normal user
As far as I know, you can just do a ctrl-alt-delete at the login prompt, and it will shutdown, no need to be root. May the Force of the Dragon's Spirit be with you...In Accordance With The Prophecy. Happy Hacking, Bright Blessings and Gentle Breezes! -*/ -= )O( Jay "CoolDragon" Arias-Chavez )O( =- /*- "En el horizonte vertical yace el espejo de nuestra Alma." "In the vertical horizon lies the mirror of our Soul." - J. Arias-Chavez ~-Original Message- ~From: Joris Huizer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ~Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:06 PM ~To: debian user ~Subject: restart / shutdown by normal user ~ ~ ~Hello, ~ ~In the current (default) settings restarting & ~shutting down is only allowed for the root user; ~How can I change that so normal users can shut down ~(restart) ? ~ ~Thanks. ~ ~Joris ~ ~__ ~Do you Yahoo!? ~Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. ~http://mailplus.yahoo.com ~ ~ ~-- ~To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact ~[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ~ ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same > > XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I > > just do: > > > > startx -- :1 -screen > > but how do you FIGURE OUT WHICH RESOLUTIONS your monitor can > handle? i've tried xvidtune, xf86cfg, xf86config, > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, discover read-edid (major > lockup, there), xviddetect, XFree86 -configure... > > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( > > i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and haven't found much > in the way of answers for horiz/vert refresh or clock speeds. > anybody know of a site somewhere that's got a collection of that > kind of info? CDS-4583 is P/N 955313-003 which is a '14" SVGA monitor'. My recollection of Super-VGA is that you could do 1024x768 at some crappy refresh rate like 60Hz ... but anything better than that is a long shot. Pardon me, but I would classify that monitor as a "boat anchor". You can get a far more capable 17" replacement for under $200 (probably less if you check out the dumpsters at various corporations :) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] When you're in command, command. -- Adm. Chester W. Nimitz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls color's messed up
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:42:36PM -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote: > This one is kind of strange. My ls colors work on everything except for > executables. In other words it turns archives red and directories blue, > but > Files with 700 privileges are still gray. When I just use 'ls --color' > do I not get any green. However, when I use ls --color -l it works > fine. Strange... Known bug. Look up coreutils in the BTS. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: restart / shutdown by normal user
# chmod +s /sbin/shutdown This is not something I would do though. Why don't you do this when you want to shut down: # su -c "shutdown -h now" On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:05, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello, > > In the current (default) settings restarting & > shutting down is only allowed for the root user; > How can I change that so normal users can shut down > (restart) ? > > Thanks. > > Joris > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Craig Jackson __ Wildnet Group LLC 103 North Park, Suite 110 Covington, Lousiana 70433 Office 985-875-9453 __ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: | any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after | the bios stuff, and then... nothing. I bet you don't have the MBR configured correctly. Here is a scenario which will show what you're seeing : 1) load grub on a floppy 2) boot from floppy 3) from the shell run the "setup" command (IIRC, I haven't done this in a while) 4) remove the floppy 5) reboot What happens is the stage1, on the MBR, is set to look for the stage2 on the floppy disk. It doesn't find it, so it gets stuck. If you put the floppy in at that point it would work. The solution is to specify where the stage2 is to be found -- on the hard drive. I like to eject the grub floppy once it has loaded so that I'll get an error if I don't correctly specify where to get the stage2 from (it defaults to the disk grub loaded from, which is the floppy in this case, and that wouldn't be found during the install if the floppy has been removed). HTH, -D -- "Piracy is not a technological issue. It's a behavior issue." --Steve Jobs http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ msg25191/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: setup ofr the printer
You may want to install mpage and will need samba if it is a windows-shared printer. ncpfs I believe is for netware-shared printers. That first lp printer is a dummy entry and can be safely deleted. Use printtool to autodetect your printer. On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:14, Joris Huizer wrote: > > --- Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > apt-get install printtool > > OK I've done that. > When I run printtool, I get warnings: > - Samba not installed > - ncpfs not installed > > And then in the main window of printtool the text: > "lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry type > unrecognized" > > I think that may be related to the missing programs > Sanba/ncpfs - which one should I install ? Or what > should I do ? > > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 11:56, Joris Huizer wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I know you can print a file using lpr and > > > configuration could be done using lpd - but lpd is > > not > > > present. > > > > > > I've got a Lexmark Z31 printer. Although it seems > > to > > > be a "windows only" printer I had a driver for > > redhat > > > before. > > > > > > Is there a driver and/or a howto for the printer > > > configuration available ? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Joris Huizer > > > > > > __ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > > now. > > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > > > Craig Jackson > > __ > > Wildnet Group LLC > > 103 North Park, Suite 110 > > Covington, Lousiana 70433 > > Office 985-875-9453 > > __ > > > > > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Craig Jackson __ Wildnet Group LLC 103 North Park, Suite 110 Covington, Lousiana 70433 Office 985-875-9453 __ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick aptitude question...
* ZephyrQ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm trying to take better control of my installation, and fired up > aptitude. I inadvertently tried to do an upgrade (to woody rc1) a while > back and am trying to cancel it. Is there a way to 'wipe' queued > actions and/or reset aptitude? > when you hit 'g' to get the 'do this' screen, select the lines that say 'install' or 'upgrade' or similar, and hit '_' to purge, '-' to remove or '=' to hold(hold means keep installed, don't upgrade) - this should cut down the number of things on the todo list. hth, iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X problems, likely vertical refresh
I just installed an ATI All-in-Wonder PCI VGA card in my machine, and I'm having a few problems with X. I'm using a Slimline flat-panel LCD monitor, and I have a chart showing Horizontal frequency and Vertical refresh rates. I've specified the appropriate ranges in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. I've also specified the "ati" driver for my video device. (I've attached the full XF86Config-4 file below.) I'm getting some wierd behaviour, though. When I load X, I get a gray pattern that has vertical dark areas that then gradate out to vertical lighter areas. Once blackbox has loaded with my backdrop, it's not noticable ... until you start looking at apps, and start to notice that wherever there was a dark bar, any text/graphics overlying that area are darkened and defocussed along those vertical strips. It makes it difficult to read, to say the least. I hadn't noticed this behaviour on the same monitor with a different graphics card (I've tried it with both an S3 Savage and an old NVidia TNT card), so I'm wondering if it's specific to the ATI card. In addition, I may have had it working previously with the ATI card -- but I cannot find any settings that work correctly right now. The settings available to the monitor are: Res.Horiz(KHz) Vertical(Hz) 640x400 31.47 70 640x400 31.47 70 640x480 31.47 59.9 640x480 37.972 640x480 37.86 75 800x600 35.16 56.3 800x600 37.88 60.3 800x600 48.09 72 800x600 46.975 1024x76848.36 60 1024x76856.48 70.1 1024x76860 75 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # 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-4 manual page. # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) # # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes # before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the # "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below. # # To change things within the debconf section, run the command: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 # as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated # XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Section "Files" FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" 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 "Module" Load"GLcore" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load"dri" Load"extmod" Load"freetype" Load"glx" Load"speedo" Load"type1" Load"vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Mach64 Rage 3d +DVD" Driver "ati" VideoRam8192 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "flatpanel" HorizSync 30-60 VertRefresh 50-75 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "ATI Mach64 Rage 3d +DVD" Monitor "flatpanel" DefaultDepth16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display"
Re: ls color's messed up
"Curtis Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one is kind of strange. My ls colors work on everything except for > executables. In other words it turns archives red and directories blue, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=175135 -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! It slices, it dices. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setup ofr the printer
--- Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install printtool OK I've done that. When I run printtool, I get warnings: - Samba not installed - ncpfs not installed And then in the main window of printtool the text: "lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry type unrecognized" I think that may be related to the missing programs Sanba/ncpfs - which one should I install ? Or what should I do ? > > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 11:56, Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I know you can print a file using lpr and > > configuration could be done using lpd - but lpd is > not > > present. > > > > I've got a Lexmark Z31 printer. Although it seems > to > > be a "windows only" printer I had a driver for > redhat > > before. > > > > Is there a driver and/or a howto for the printer > > configuration available ? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Joris Huizer > > > > __ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > > Craig Jackson > __ > Wildnet Group LLC > 103 North Park, Suite 110 > Covington, Lousiana 70433 > Office 985-875-9453 > __ > > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
restart / shutdown by normal user
Hello, In the current (default) settings restarting & shutting down is only allowed for the root user; How can I change that so normal users can shut down (restart) ? Thanks. Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:47:38PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > Yes, the virtual hosts all listen on > > I still have some domains set up for the LAN only (they belong to me, > but are not registered with dyndns.org yet), these are VirtualHosts with > the same apache configuration and they work fine, as shown below.. So what exactly isn't working? I can see the Debian test page at http://www.kuboaa.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmin CD Burn
I've been trying to use the Webmin CD Burner app (cdrecord) with little success. Perhaps the problem is the fact that I am using an iso-scsi device, which is picked up by CD Burner. That's fine. I want to burn files. So, when I do a test burn, here is my output: *Testing burn with command cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=2 -dummy '/tmp/.webmin/burner.iso' ..* scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'RICOH ' Identifikation : 'MP6200A ' Revision : '2.20' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 786432 = 768 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status. Track 01: data1 MB Total size: 2 MB (00:13.04) = 978 sectors Lout start: 2 MB (00:15/03) = 978 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is not unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11615 (97:27/10) ATIP start of lead out: 962 (00:14/62) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 5 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 00 00 00 Disk type:Phase change Manuf. index: 18 Manufacturer: Plasmon Data systems Ltd. Trying to clear drive status. Blocks total: 1166730 Blocks current: 1166730 Blocks remaining: 1165752 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds.8 seconds.7 seconds.6 seconds.5 seconds.4 seconds.3 seconds.2 seconds.1 seconds.0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... cdrecord: Input/output error. read track info: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 52 01 00 00 00 FF 00 00 1C 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 240s input buffer ready. Writing time:0.035s Fixating... WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. Fixating time:0.007s cdrecord: fifo had 32 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. -- Curtis Vaughan North Pacific Corporation Tel: (425) 822-1001 Cell: (206) 423-6979 WashTech (CWA Local 37083) IWW x353203 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ls color's messed up
This one is kind of strange. My ls colors work on everything except for executables. In other words it turns archives red and directories blue, but Files with 700 privileges are still gray. When I just use 'ls --color' do I not get any green. However, when I use ls --color -l it works fine. Strange... Any help would be appreciated Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quick aptitude question...
I'm trying to take better control of my installation, and fired up aptitude. I inadvertently tried to do an upgrade (to woody rc1) a while back and am trying to cancel it. Is there a way to 'wipe' queued actions and/or reset aptitude? Yes, I've RTFM, but haven't gotten anywhere except 'pkgstate' in /var/lib/aptitude. Can I delete this without undo problems? And will this accomplish my task? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. Can you type at this point? Maybe what you are seeing is the GRUB shell prompt. Try things like "help" to get a help. > a friend suggested trying windo~1 fdisk to make it a fat32 > drive, wiping previous linux stuff off, then retrynig with a new > linux (ext3) partition scheme. i tried that (i think) and still, > hang on boot after seeing "GRUB". Did you read the GRUB manual? :-) > is there a trick i missed in writing the boot sectors? (lilo > worked on the machine in the past...) The trick is to have a working /boot/grub/menu.lst (or /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst in case that /boot is an extra partition). Usually you have to do the following steps: 1. RTFM :-) 2. install grub using grub-install as it is described in the manual 3. run update-grub to create a basic menu.lst 4. Edit that menu.lst to let update-grub know about your partitions 5. run update-grub again 6. Reboot the system and you should get a boot menu and also the ability to use the grub shell Hope that helps Rainer -- Rainer König, Diplom-Informatiker (FH), Augsburg, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: themes for vt
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:14:00PM +0100, Niels Felsted Thorsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) writes: > > > Hi! > > I'm trying to track down a package that I had installed back when I > > was running Potato. AFAICT, the package is not in Woody (for whatever > > reason). I can't remember the name of the package, but it had tons of > > themes for the console-- it would look like CLIs from other OSs (RDOS, > > MSDOS, C-64, etc.), and it also had a bunch of original themes. I've > > just spent the last ~3 hours googling and wandering around the Debian > > website looking for the package, with no luck. > > > > Does anyone else have any idea what I'm talking about, or was that > > package just a hallucination, or what?? > > > > If someone could tell me what the name of the package was or (even > > better) where I can find it (or something like it), I'd really > > appreciate it. > > Is it something like bashish you're looking for? > > http://bashish.sourceforge.net/about.html Yes, that's it! Thank you! :) > But I don't know about any debian package. Yeah, it was a package in potato r7, IIRC. Or at least, that's how I got ahold of it in July-- at that point, I was too much of a newbie to install any other way besides apt. Unfortunately, when I did a clean install with Libranet in August, I ended up overwriting the package and I couldn't find it after that. But I just downloaded it now, so I won't have plain old white-on-black consoles anymore. :) Thank you. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Just because you're not paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you." (ripped from someone's slashdot .sig) PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C(++) UL P+> L+++> E>++ W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE++(+++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+ h! r-- x? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- msg25179/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Compaq with NC7781 NIC
Hi, I'm trying to install debian on a compaq server with an nc7781 nic-card. The driver for linux can be downloaded from http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/networking/nics/Compaq_NC7781_Gigabi t_Ethernet_NICs.html, but unfortunatly this is only a srpm for suse and redhat. I downloaded the precompiled module for Woody from http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ and during the installation process I switched to the console and copied bmc5700.o to /usr/lib/modules/kernel/drivers/net. When I tried to load the modules I got the errormessage "init_module: no such device". However I know for sure that there is a NC7781 in the server. Does anyone know what I have to do to enable the NIC? Thanks in advance, Daniel PS: Please CC me when you reply as I'm not subscribed to the mailinglist. However I'll read the archive too, just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:32:54PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Sunday, 19 January 2003, 06:30 PM -0500): > > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me > > Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard > > drive. I've thrown it into my older machine, and it's being > > recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I can't remember its > > partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what partition(s) > > to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted > > windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition > > and fs-type). > > > > How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? > Thanks to everyone who responded to this -- I was able to see the > partitioning using fdisk. and as for figuring which partition was mounted where, once you find your root partition, locate /etc/fstab, and it should answer most of your questions. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #103 from Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Trying to CREATE A CRONTAB FOR THE LAST DAY OF THE MONTH? Best to put all the logic within the crontab itself (a Good Thing, since you then only have to look in one place to find it): 1 0 28-31 * * [ "$(date +%d -d +1day)" -eq "1" ] && /path/to/script args Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vim and basic .bashrc questions
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:22:35AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > * Seneca ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:37:13PM -0800, CM Miller wrote: > > > Also, I have been able to set .bashrc preferences as > > > root, like "rm = rm -i". This works for root, but not > > > for my user cmmiller. > however, this is a _BAD_IDEA_. > > if you happen to sit down at a machine where this alias is not active, > and you think it is, guess what happens? :p > > iain quite so. best to make a whole 'nother alias and use that instead. zap, delete, xx... alias xx='rm -i' then you won't be in the habit of expecing a round of confirmations when you try 'rm' on someone else's machine. the worst that'll happen is you get $ xx thisfile.ext bash: xx: command not found better than losing a file you really didn't want to delete. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #66 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Do you know WHICH SHELL YOU'RE RUNNING? If not, you can find out: ps T and the first item listed is most likely to be your shell. (Valid shells are listed in /etc/shells.) The default user shell for Debian is bash, which you can learn about via "man bash". Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian V3 R1 install, not
I am fighing an Adaptac SCSI controller with the Debian CD. I have tried the no_reset, no_probe and it is no luck. I guess I am wondering how (or if a boot floppy set would work) because I have exactly one choice on this IBM 325. The Adaptac controller for hard drives and CD. I did an archive search and it seems like somebody did something but the tread doesn't seem to keep a subject line that threads back cleanly Looking forward to kicking this into installing before I kick the machine ;-) TIA, Tcat --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 1/12/2003 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kill with regex?
try man pidof :) On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Jor-el wrote: > >On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > >>On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote: > >>>Hugh Saunders wrote: > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill > 2) how do i get kill or bash to realise its an expression? > > A more general solution would be : > > > > | xargs kill > How would you produce this list? pidof $ ps ax | grep apache-perl 2642 ?S 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache-perl 24276 ?S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache-perl 24601 ?S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache-perl 25056 ?S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache-perl 25220 ?S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache-perl 25640 pts/0S 0:00 -usr/bin/tcsh -c (ps ax | grep apache-perl) < /tmp/v118216/4 >&/tmp/v118216/5 25648 pts/0S 0:00 grep apache-perl note that with grep you either get false hits, or have to do more complicated matches to skip the false hits... $ pidof apache-perl 25220 25056 24601 24276 2642 easy! so you could $ kill `pidof xine` and be done. :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #94 from Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : How do you RESTORE THE DEFAULT PERMISSIONS back on the / tree? If you have a clean host with very similar filesystem contents, try this: ssh root@okayhost "find / -regex '/\(mnt\|proc\|tmp\)/.*' -prune -or \ -not -type l -not -type s -printf '%04.4m %u %g %p\n' " \ | while read mode user group path do chown $user.$group $path chmod $mode $path done Alternatively, create a huge script like this: find / -regex '/\(mnt\|proc\|tmp\)/.*' -prune -or \ -not -type l -not -type s -printf 'chown %u.%g %p\nchmod %m %p\n' \ > fixperms.sh And copy that to the broken machine and run "sh fixperms". It might not fix all files, unless the two hosts are nearly equal, but enough to let you find the missing ones to fix by hand. Maybe /home/* will need special care. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same > XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I > just do: > > startx -- :1 -screen but how do you FIGURE OUT WHICH RESOLUTIONS your monitor can handle? i've tried xvidtune, xf86cfg, xf86config, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, discover read-edid (major lockup, there), xviddetect, XFree86 -configure... all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and haven't found much in the way of answers for horiz/vert refresh or clock speeds. anybody know of a site somewhere that's got a collection of that kind of info? -- There are 10 kinds of people: ones that get binary, and ones that don't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us! Looking for a firewall? Do you think smoothwall sucks? You're probably right... Try the folks at http://clarkconnect.org/ ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GRUB -- hangs on boot
any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after
the bios stuff, and then... nothing.
a friend suggested trying windo~1 fdisk to make it a fat32
drive, wiping previous linux stuff off, then retrynig with a new
linux (ext3) partition scheme. i tried that (i think) and still,
hang on boot after seeing "GRUB".
is there a trick i missed in writing the boot sectors? (lilo
worked on the machine in the past...)
--
I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #96 from Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
Did you know that you can SWITCH BETWEEN VIRTUAL CONSOLES using
leftalt+cursor{left,right}? To change from vc4 to vc5, press
alt-cursorright. Going back to X from vc1 is as simple as
alt-cursorleft. (It doesn't work when you're already within
X11, though -- but control-alt-F1 does.)
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Kenneth Dombrowski said: I am trying to set up a http://dev.domain.tld VirtualHost as well as a http://www.domain.tld VirtualHost, which was working fine in Apache from the LAN when I was serving the DNS myself, and is reportedly working now from without the LAN Do you have the Apache virtual host listening to the machine's local ip? (192.168.0.x) I am also using dyndns.org and a netgear router, and I have no problems whatsoever. Yes, the virtual hosts all listen on I still have some domains set up for the LAN only (they belong to me, but are not registered with dyndns.org yet), these are VirtualHosts with the same apache configuration and they work fine, as shown below.. kenneth@enlil:~$ wget http://www.music-db.net --14:22:29-- http://www.music-db.net/ => `index.html.1' Resolving www.music-db.net... done. Connecting to www.music-db.net[192.168.0.3]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 4,110 [text/html] 100%[>] 4,110 3.92M/s ETA 00:00 14:22:29 (3.92 MB/s) - `index.html.1' saved [4110/4110] kenneth@enlil:~$ wget http://dev.music-db.net --14:22:39-- http://dev.music-db.net/ => `index.html.2' Resolving dev.music-db.net... done. Connecting to dev.music-db.net[192.168.0.3]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 4,110 [text/html] 100%[>] 4,110501.71K/s ETA 00:00 14:22:39 (501.71 KB/s) - `index.html.2' saved [4110/4110] also, supporting the reports I've had that the outside world can see http://www.kuboaa.org, something's turned up in the server's logs: ENKIDU:/var/www/kuboaa.org# ls -l ./*/log ./dev/log: total 32 -rw-r-1 root adm 0 Jan 12 06:25 access.log -rw-r-1 root adm 0 Jan 12 06:25 error.log ./www/log: total 44 -rw-r-1 root adm 383 Jan 20 13:40 access.log -rw-r-1 root adm 0 Jan 12 06:25 error.log ENKIDU:/var/www/kuboaa.org# cat www/log/access.log 66.123.187.68 - - [20/Jan/2003:13:40:16 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4110 "-" "Mozilla/4.5 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-2" 66.123.187.68 - - [20/Jan/2003:13:40:16 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4110 "-" "Mozilla/4.5 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-2" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install all packages
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:04:57PM +0700, Hansel Yapadi wrote: > How to install all packages in the cds during installation? because I > wanna try those software This is what you want to do if you have a lot of tome and harddisk :) (You can not put all of them blindly. Enven if you can, how do you know command for it as others have said..) For newbies, here is practical answer: from root shell # dselect update # tasksel ... select everything (maybe not all thise foreign language you do not understand...) Have fun. If you feel like, then add more through dselect or aptitude. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
-- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, 19 January 2003, 06:30 PM -0500): > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, > and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into > my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I > can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what > partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted > windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and > fs-type). > > How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? Thanks to everyone who responded to this -- I was able to see the partitioning using fdisk. Only problem is... the disk is a 40GB drive, and this older machine can only handle drives up to 32GB. While I can see the partitioning and access a good portion of the disk, I cannot get a large chunk of the data off it that I need. I guess that'll teach me to back up to a hard drive (instead of removable media)... -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
