X hangs
Greetings - I set up X 4 recently, and have finally succeeded in making the tdfx drm module cooperate with me... It works great, except for one thing: if I leave the room for any period of time, say an hour, I can't expect my system to be functioning when I come back. I can't quite put my finger on the circumstances, but I come back, my console is blanked, and my system won't respond. Even the SysRq key won't do anything. An unRaw, Sync, and Reboot command via sysrq do nothing. This always seems to happen sometime after the console blanks. I'm running xautolock but it wasn't the cause -- i tried turning it off. Anyone have an idea of how to circumvent this problem? Thanks in advance. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire
XF 4.0.2 and glide for v3
Hi - I've been trying to configure drm support for my voodoo3 (hence I'm using xf4 from unstable), and having very little luck. I went through all the configuration questions, insmod'd the 3dfx drm module, and typed startx. this is what I get: (II) GLIDE: driver for Glide devices (Voodoo cards): Voodoo (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found But wait, I think I see that it successfully detected my v3? Is anyone else using sid's XFree86-4.0.2 series with a v3 and having any luck? Thanks. PS, I have libglide2 installed, as per instructions. I've tried linking libglide3 into the module directory instead and that didn't solve any problems. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire
xemacs and the docbook 3.1 dtd's
Hey people - I'm just trying to edit docbook here, and it's quite obvious that emacs doesn't know to look for DTDs. I've found that emacs has a number of options for setting custom search paths for these kinds of files, but I can't decide what to set... It's somewhere under: Emacs/Programming/Languages/Sgml/Psgml/Psgml_Dtd Any ideas? thanks in advance for any help. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire
How to apply stylesheets to docbook?
Hi all - I have been trying to figure out how to make something useful out of docbook documents. I'd like to render to pdf, latex, groff, and html, but available documentation is archaic and conflicting. Where do I start? I'd previously been trying with jade, but I caught wind that sgml-tools gained support for docbook 3.1. This doesn't appear to be true... Executing sgml2latex on a minimal document: ..~/docs$ sgml2latex DB-article.sgml Processing file DB-article.sgml /usr/bin/sgmlsasp: can't open /usr/lib/sgml-tools/dist/article/latex2e/mapping': No such file or directory Executing jade on the same minimal document: ..~/docs$ jade -t tex DB-article.sgml -d /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/print/docbook.dsl -o DB-article.tex [about 500 lines of errors follow] Even norm walsh's book doesn't offer any help here. Ideas anyone? ;) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt ax. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra
kpathsea/metafont/docbook and fonts
Hi all -- I was recently trying to render a pdf from docbook, but the farthest I got was TeX. Upon calling jadetex on jade's output, metafont dumped a bunch of complaints about missing files. What font packages do I need installed? TIA -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt ax. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Recording audio...
Hi all - Is there any way to *record* the audio that's playing to /dev/dsp? You'd think it'd be as simple as cat /dev/dsp myaudio, but no. Is there a program that will allow you to do this? Thx in advance. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org 0 7 * * * echo ...Linux is just a fad | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s And remember...
Winbond-based generic NICs
Hi all - I'm doing some superhero work here, rescuing fellow students from the Gates of hell and introducing them to sweet, brand GNU, true freedom. Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(. It has a winbond chip in it, and it's supposed to be 'ne2k compatible,' but the ne2k-pci module won't load. I get some of the more common module loading errors (device is busy... etc). My question is this: does anyone know what to do about not-quite ne2000 clones (PCI) that won't probe? the card's plug and play, and the kernel sees it -- a cat of /proc/pci lists the NIC loud and clear, including IRQ and base I/O address. Any help would be appreciated ;) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org
xemacs: modifying cc-mode formatting rules
I know that I've run across a facility that lets you modify cc-mode's style conventions for autoformatting. However, I blew it off, because I figured I'd never use it, and the default was fine for me. Now I'm in a class where I'm required to conform to very specific style, and I can't use xemacs if I can't modify the autoformatting rules. Could someone help me out? TIA... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.
Using ssh with fetchmail?
I know I've seen a procedure for doing this before. However, browsing fetchmail's docs, I can think of no way. Can someone that's doing this send me an example fetchmailrc? Thanks. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.
Allowing root to display to X...
Hi all - I remember hearing once that if you linked your ~/.Xauthority to /root/.Xauthority, a root shell would be able to run X applications (within your regular user's X session). However, I tried this, and it doesn't seem to work for me. Any ideas? I'm trying to install Sun's latest Star Office. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.
cvs log -d superfluous
Hi all - I've a question about cvs log. I'm writing a web page that will display log info on demand for a software project I'm involved in. the problem is that the repository is somewhat large, and cvs log seems to want to display log info on *every single file* therein, even if it wasn't changed during the date range specified. At least, when I tell it to get logs from so few as five days ago, I'm flooded with pages upon pages of useless garbage. I know for a fact that within this time there have been only a handful of files committed, and a slightly larger number of files modified. Anyone know how to narrow the output? -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.
perl leap year function?
Just a question - I need an algorithm that can match a number of days with any month. For this to be useful, I need a function that can tell me if it's a leap year this year. Is there one available in any of the perl modules? If not I could just hardcode the next few into my script... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
g'day all - I'm running OSS/Free SB16 drivers with my AWE64 on Linux 2.2.10. Whenever I try to send anything to /dev/dsp or /dev/audio, I xconsole shows this message: spire kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? (Yes, I've done all the necessary pry-configuration -- isapnp configures the card correctly, and the modules load fine) ... and I recieve no output from my speakers. Many applications cause this same situation, such as grip (a graphical CD player/track ripper). Strangely, however, some applications (notably bb and wine) are able to play sound without any difficulty. This strikes me as somewhat odd. Does it sound like an OSS/Free problem? Should I try alsa or a newer kernel version, perhaps? -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.
Remote print spooling, Debian/LPRng
Hi all - I've got a LAN behind an IPMasq gateway, and want to share a printer between all of my Debian machines. So, on machine 'spire' which has the printer (set up and working as well), I've added the following line to /etc/hosts.equiv (which is supposed to grant machine awac user aaron printer spool access) as a test: + awac aaron Note, the man page stressed that FQDN was important for security reasons, but I trust everyone behind my firewall. On machine awac, /etc/printcap looks as follows: # REMOTE djet695c lp|dj|deskjet:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj:\ :rm=spire:\ :rp=lp:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sh: on machine spire it is as such: lp|hpdj695c|HP Deskjet 695C:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj695c:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: ... and this was generated by magicfilterconfig. On machine awac, whenever I attempt to invoke lpr I recieve: ...~$ lpr dpkg2-spec.tov no connect permissions job 'cfA939awac' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed Does anyone have any ideas? -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.
Gateway 2000 solo 2500se
I'm looking into getting a gateway laptop. One thing I'm very leery of, however, is that both the CD-ROM drive and floppy are hot-swappable PCMCIA. I've directed an inquiry at gateway's techies about whether Linux will run on the thing, but I'd also like to ask the debian audience. Anyone with any series on the solo 2500 series from gateway, could you get back to me? Thanks in advance! -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org ...Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Custom headers -- outgoing email
Hi all I need to set some custom headers in my outgoing mail; however, it appears the MUA doesn't have final say in this matter; the MTA does some tinkering of its own in this field. I'm running mutt, and am using the exim MTA. Here are the relevant headers from most of my mails: From: Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have mutt set up to include ~/.muttrc-local for each user. My .muttrc-local has (among other things) the following commands: set hdrs my_hdr From: Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] my_hdr Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, where is the Sender: header being replaced? Does the MTA override this setting? If so, how can one get a mail system useful for a single, periodically connected account? I ask this because some MDA's reject mails with inappropriate Sender envelopes. IE my mails to certain private individuals bounce predictably. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org ...Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Converting Docbook .sgml to .html?
Hello all -- I'm trying to convert a Docbook document to HTML. upon executing 'sgml2html libgii-api.sgml' I recieve Processing file libgii-api.sgml /usr/bin/sgmlsasp: can't open /usr/lib/sgml-tools/dist/book/html/mapping': No such file or directory I've known in the past how to do this with jade, but documentation is *very* sketchy. What is the correct way to do this? can sgmltools be made to recognize docbook? -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. -- Seneca
reverse order printing?
I've been using an HP Deskjet 540 with spud, and it's worked fine so far. One annoying thing though -- the pages come out with the last page on top. Is there a simple way to reverse the order? would it be a gs or lpd/lpr option? Thanks in advance! -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. [There is no great genius without some touch of madness.] -- Seneca
Mutt and automatic archiving
Hi all - I've finally got my system back up. Now, I'm trying to put into place a more sophisticated mail subsystem. The one thing I want to do is to move all old messages in ~/mail/mailbox to an equivalent place in ~/mail/arch/mailbox, in the maildir format. However, mutt continually complains about such an arrangement; I suspect it doesn't know how to create the mailboxes itself. Anyway, for anyone who has done this before, here is the applicable config info: set folder=~/mail/ [snip unimportant stuff] set delete=yes set move=yes set mbox=+read # this will probably never get used, I have multiple mbox-hooks defined # later set postponed=+postponed set record=+sent set mbox_type=Maildir mailboxes ! +personal +berlin-devel +debian-devel +debian-private \ +debian-mentors +debian-policy +ggi-develop +debian-devel-changes \ +debian-changes +debian-user lists berlin-devel debian-devel debian-devel-changes debian-policy \ debian-mentors debian-private debian-user debian-canges ggi-develop mbox-hook berlin-design +arch/berlin-design mbox-hook debian-devel +arch/debian-devel mbox-hook debian-private +arch/debian-private mbox-hook debian-mentors +arch/debian-mentors mbox-hook debian-policy +arch/debian-policy mbox-hook ggi-develop +arch/ggi-develop mbox-hook debian-user +arch/debian-user alias debian-user Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org alias berlin-design Berlin Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias debian-devel Debian Development debian-devel@lists.debian.org alias debian-private Debian Private [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias debian-mentors Debian Mentors debian-mentors@lists.debian.org alias debian-policy Debian Policy debian-policy@lists.debian.org alias ggi-develop GGI Development ggi-develop@eskimo.com # ---END--- does this look right? It doesn't seem to work. thanks in advance! -Aaron
Re: Restricted group-writable directories
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 05:57:03PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 02:41:33PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ~$ groups aaron dip [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ~$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... /home/aaron# groups aaron aaron : aaron dip source the account aaron needs to logout anf log back in for the new groups to take affect. I tried. no luck. But thanks ;) -- Aaron Van Couwenberghe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux: finally, a distribution tailored for the administrator, not the cluebie. http://www.debian.org
Restricted group-writable directories
Hello all - I recently have been running low on drive space in my home partition. I've much free space on /usr, so I was considering moving my development to /usr/local/src rather than ~/src. So I did this: addgroup source usermod -G source aaron mkdir /usr/local/src chmod 775 /usr/local/src chgroup source /usr/local/src permissions appear correct. However, user 'aaron' can't write to /usr/local/src. Here is one discrepancy I discovered in this process: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ~$ groups aaron dip [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ~$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... /home/aaron# groups aaron aaron : aaron dip source [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... /home/aaron# Hmm. why is this happening? I'd love to be able to do this in a secure way, rather than making /usr/local/src world-writable. -- Aaron Van Couwenberghe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux: finally, a distribution tailored for the administrator, not the cluebie. http://www.debian.org
