Re: My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade
(Thomas is the author of tpctl, Debian maintainer and allround guru!) Thomas - have you any ideas? On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:08:13 -0400 (+), Tom Allison wrote: > Pavel Epifanov wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >I've had my IBM ThinkPad model 380Z dead (laptop not going thru POST, > >suspicion > >is about flash BIOS was wiped out) after "apt-get dist-upgrade" and > >following > >hibernation last Friday. The only thing I'm aware of is a warning from the lm-sensors package which comes up if you try and install lm-sensors-source (not sure about other lm-sensors packages: --debconf-- The upstream lm-sensors maintainers know of a problem using lm-sensors with IBM ThinkPad computers, resulting in firmware corruption. If you are installing this package on a ThinkPad, you should wait until the upstream maintainers have solved this problem before building modules from it. For more information, see /usr/share/doc/lm-sensors-source/README.thinkpad. IBM ThinkPad brokenness -- really install lm-sensors? --debconf-- --README.thinkpad-- WARNING: IBM Thinkpad users should not install I2C/Lm_sensors! There have been some reports that the eeprom and/or firmware of IBM Thinkpads have been corrupted after installing I2C/Lm_sensors. It's not clear why and what specific action (most likely scanning/probing for chips) causes the Thinkpad to corrupt it's eeprom. Unless you know otherwise, we suggest that users avoid installing I2C/Lm_sensors support on IBM Thinkpads until it becomes known what exactly is causing the corruption. Though you may disagree about whose fault this is, fact is that seemingly the Thinkpad can become corrupted even when only reading information from the i2c/SMBus. Be assured that we never, ever write any information to the bus while scanning(*), and that no halfway sane client implementation should change its internal state, not to mention overwrite system-critical information. For more information, see: http://www.linux-thinkpad.org/ (*) Actually, we do write some information to the bus, but only as specified in the i2c/SMBus protocol to select a certain chip address and to start/stop i2c transactions. -- Apparently this manifests itself as "EEPROM CRC ERROR" or "Invalid RFID Serialization Area". > >It could be due to this 3 y.o. laptop was broken itself or due to new > >thinkpad* > >related packages installed (I remember tpctl for sure). > > > >Does somebody else have the similar problem? > >Could it be really caused by problems during new package installation? > > > >I have a second new ThinkPad and I don't want to take any risk to damage > >it too > >(the same packages are installed but not upgraded yet). > > > >There was up-to-date Woody installation on it with custom 2.4.16 kernel > >and old > >thinkpad-source & pcmcia-cs modules compiled/installed. > > > >Pavel. > > > >PS: I know that my IBM TP BIOS had several mistakes in it (i.e switching > >occasionally LCD display off when on AC power). [snip] Adrian Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows NT - Uniin beta-testing. GPG/PGP keys available on public key servers Debian GNU/Linux -*- By professionals for professionals -*- www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: heads-up (and a chance to object) on expect packages
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 15:32:57 -0700 (+), Mike Markley wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm planning to drop the two separate expect packages (expect5.24 and > expect5.31) and create a single "expect" package with the current version. > An automated upgrade path will be provided. > > Nothing depends on either of these. The only dependencies are on the current > virtual package "expect", so the real problem is any scripts which don't work > with the latest version. > > If anyone has a good reason why the older one shouldn't be dropped, speak > now or forever hold your peace :). I plan to upload the new "expect" package > and the two new dummy packages this week sometime. How compatible are the two? i.e. why was the split done in the first place? Maybe it's worth uploading the new one (and getting rid of expect5.31), but leaving 5.24 around for a couple of weeks in case there is a compatibility problem? Adrian Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. GPG/PGP keys available on public key servers Debian GNU/Linux -*- By professionals for professionals -*- www.debian.org
Re: Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 (Was: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 02:10:20PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > > > > If you need your machine for "real work" then you shouldn't be running > > > unstable. > > > > If debian unstable isn't tested on machines used for real work, > > debian is going to end up a toy distribution which is only suitable for > > work on systems which aren't appropriate for real work. > > If your only PC to do "real work" on is running an ever-changing, > developer-suited version of Debian, then you're really asking for some > "mission-critical" failures. Not having at least a fairly recent backup > before upgrading critical libraries is ridiculous, and it doesn't take a > developer to know that (I offer myself as evidence on that point). Much as I'd love to have backups of my system, it's just not feasible. I run unstable because I want to test Debian, find bugs, run the latest programs. I read bugs and debian-devel and devel-changes so that I am aware of potential problems. Severe breakages are rare, normally you just need to downgrade a package or two, and that's fine. We really need these test areas to become more standardised - less of the "grab it from my home directory" and more "it's in staging/glibc2.1" or "staging/perl5.005". Currently getting packages from Debian unstable/experimental/staging(all over the place)/gnome-debs/enlightenment/etc is in a mess. People should be able to go to _one_ place for all work done by Debian developers. Most of this stems from Debian getting _very_ large quicker than the underlying systems can cope. It looks like the right noises and steps are being made - two years ago "apt" wasn't known at all, and now :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: --MARK--
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 03:13:35PM +, Daniel Marquez-Klaka wrote: > Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > > > > Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > > > > > > > It's generated by syslogd, and is intended to show that logging is still > > > > active. You can use the "-m" option to change it's frequency. > > > > > > But in my /etc/init.d/syslogd file i can't find the option -m !! > > > > Exactly; twenty minutes is the default interval - in case you do > > not specify something else, which is what -m is for. > > > > > And why is my maschine every 20 minutes so slow > > > > How slow? And for how long? Maybe you have some other program > > Very slow. A new xterm window need about 5 seconds to appear ! > > > that is being run automatically every twenty minutes. Look at > > your cron-files. > > I've allready examined my cronfile, but did`t find anythink. > I don`t believe that it is a cronjob because it happens on a fresh > installed system. > I installed xload to monitor this think and every 20 minutes it looks > terible and > my harddisk starts to work. Does "ps axf" show anything (a "find" for instance?). How about "free"? The --MARK-- means that the log has been flushed to disk, but unless you are very tight on memory this should hurt (much). We have a bad router at work and I need to comment out a kernel printk otherwise the logging every few seconds hurts performance (5->15% on a P166 according to top and it _is_ noticeable). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: Zip drive problem
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 11:46:07PM +1100, Attila Csobonyei wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed Debian 2.0 slink and tried to remake the kernel > with the Zip drive. Not being an expert in these things I first did a > make zdisk which worked fine, the Zip drive was working without any > problems. Next I tried to make zImagebut when trying to install > the ppa module, insmod ppa, I get an unresolved symbol > register_scsi, unregister_scsi. > Has anyone come across a similar problem ? The ppa module depends upon some other modules. "depmod -a" remakes the list of dependencies and is run on boot - you should never have to run it manually on Debian. The list is in /lib/modules/2.1.131/modules.dep (in my case): /lib/modules/2.1.131/scsi/ppa.o: /lib/modules/2.1.131/scsi/scsi_mod.o /lib/modules/2.1.131/misc/parport.o insmod doesn't check dependencies - use "modprobe ppa" instead as this will load the other modules. Use the kerneld to automatically load modules - put "auto" in /etc/modules. Finally you can specify paramters in /etc/conf.modules: alias scsi_hostadapter ppa alias block-major-8 ppa alias block-major-8 sd_mod alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 Enjoy. Adrian (no longer subscribed to debian-user - too many messages) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: [Debian] max. swap size?
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:33:47PM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34 > > I added the append="mem=128M" line to lilo.conf so the system > > realy sees 128M of RAM. Since I normaly use the rule SWAP=MEM*2 > > on SUN and SGI I created a swappartition of 256MB and did mkswap > > and... got only 130MB. Why can't I use 256MB of swap? > > > hi Nico > Linux can per default only handle swap-partitions <= 128 MB > if You need more swap-space You must add more than one swap- > partition, > also You must check the priority of swap-partition > the actual limit of swap space is > (4096 -10) * 8 * 4096 = 133890048 bytes or 127.6875 Megabytes The latest 2.1 kernels raise this to just shy of 2GB :-) You will need a new version of util-linux which I am about to do an NMU of - util-linux-2.9e-0.1 will be the name. Cheers Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: libsvga
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 12:01:06AM -0500, Phil Dyer wrote: > Hi all, > Trying to upgrade to svgalibg1.0.3 or dummy but dpkg won't let me > replace the current svgalib. Just trying to install gs, ghostview. How > do I get around this? > thanks, > dyer more info needed - what's the error message and how are you trying to upgrade? Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: newbie diff question
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 11:20:09PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 04:03:50PM -0500, Jeff Miller wrote: > > > is there an automatic way to update the applicable files based on > > the diff content or do I have to apply the changes manually? > > patch < your.diff > > This may or may not work, depending on the type of the diff. If you > experience problems, refer to `man patch'. patch -pX < your.diff is very useful - X is the number of depth of directories to skip, e.g. to apply a kernel patch (where files are refered to as linux/filename.c), either: cd /usr/src/; patch -p0 < patch.diff or cd /usr/src/linux; patch -p1 < patch.diff Cheers Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: Debian 1.2.125 kernel source
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 10:58:00AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: [snip] > Other than that minor change, the 2.1.125 kernel seems to work pretty > well. Now to patch it up to 2.1.127 :) What about Alan Cox's 2.1.127ac1 patch? Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: colors in text-mode
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:30:56PM -0800, jim r wrote: > Once more the newbie asks a question: > > I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? > nothing fancy...just the text in a color other than white. Use something gross like this in /etc/issue (but leave issue.net without the hackery): [1mThis is [35m\n[37m running [31mDebian \s[37m. Linux kernel is [33m\r[37m. It is [32m\t[37m on [32m\d[37m and you are logging in on [36m\l[37m.[0m I think "man 5 termcap" lists those funky numbers. NB: The whole prompt is in bold (aka bright colours). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: what is "invalid ICMP error" ?
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 04:59:30AM +, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: > Hi, > > My kernel is reporting: > > borco-ei kernel: 133.87.240.13 sent an invalid ICMP error to a > broadcast. > > What and how bad is this ? A machine has told your machine a different route to go through, but it isn't allowed to do this to a broadcast packet. Check that the netmask on the router and your machine match (use "ifconfig"). If they do then either ignore it or complain :-) At work I get so many of these messages I comment out the offending printk in /usr/local/src/linux/net/ipv4/icmp.c Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: slink: pppd & libcrack problem with last night's download?
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 05:06:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Art Lemasters writes: > > /usr/sbin/pppd: error in loading shared libraries libcrack.so.2 cannot > > open shared object file: no such file or directory > > PAM is hosed. Downgrade ppp, if possible. Ditto, I fixed it a different way - I moved the old pppd back again. The file seems to have dissappeared now, but it was fairly obvious - "ls -l /usr/sbin/*ppp*" should find it. Having pppd linked against libcrack does worry me somewhat - is it to check for insecure passwords or is there something else going on? It'd be great to see PAM support in Debian - kerberos and AFS would be much better served. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 05:57:26PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment. > > I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security > > patches which are in the upstream release - the fewer patches we apply the > > better, however we don't want to compromise security. Have you tried other > > SVGAlib programs. > > No, this is the only SVGAlib program I have tried. I have not had > time to try others. As for support, I just switched from a S3-968 based > Diamond card because it was not supported very well either. :( Actually, > the Matrox card came with a server I got a two months back, and it was to > be headless, so I hated for a good card to go to waste, and dropped it in > my workstation. :) I'm currently using a Diamond Stealth VRAM 968 with IBM-RGB525? RAMDAC. The only problems I have is needing to run "stm 80x25" before using SVGAlib (stm is SVGATextMode). > > > libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000b000) > > > libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x40014000) Hmm - this looks like the libc6 version of the library, do you have svgalib1 installed? > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d > /usr/lib/libc5-compat > /lib/libc5-compat > /usr/X11R6/lib That looks okay for squake. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 07:06:32PM +0200, Christophe Broult wrote: > > Hello, > > I've just added more RAM on my old Pentium 100. Now I have 128 Mb of > RAM and as expected I'm experiencing a slowdown when a program is run > above the 64 Mb limit. I think that running programs in the first 64 > Mb and using the upper 64 Mb as a swap area would be more efficient > because I would not experience as many performance penalties due to > cache problems and swapping in RAM should be a lot faster than > swapping on hard drive. Am I correct? This is probably a memory caching problem - most Intel chipsets (particularly of the P100 era - except the HX chipset) don't cache above 64MB. > How do I make sure the RAM disk is created in the upper 64 Mb? There is a patch for the 2.1.x kernels to use the higher memory as a very fast swap partition. It probably isn't in the main kernel yet though. Try looking at the kernel mailing list archives for details. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
Re: Iomega Zip
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:39:48PM -0500, dsb3 wrote: > > > I > >certainly wish > >to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to > >completely > >seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss > >the Fat16 > >format these disks have in favor of the far superior ext2. > > Unless my memory fails me, I've formatted a zip disk in ext2 complete with > swap partition and installed linux. I did this at the beginning of the > year when I had access to a zip drive - I still have the disk but alas > don't have a drive so can't verify exactly whats on there... > > Anyway, the point of what I want to say is this. Why bother with ext2 on > a zip disk. You're most likely going to use it to move files between > computer 1 and computer 2. Possibly to take files from computer 1 and > archive them offline someplace. Why do you need ext2? Long file names, permissions, its far faster (linux much prefers ext2 to any other format). Besides, I like showing the limitations of windows machines "I can read your disk but you can't read mine" - improved security I guess :-) Adrian (who always has more ext2 diskspace than DOS/NTFS diskspave ) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from Ryan Kirkpatrick on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500 On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > > >Does "ldd squake.real" say anything useful? > > > > > > Er, que? (spot the newbie sysadmin...) > > > > Which seems okay to me - the top one is the libc5 maths library, the bottom > > one is the libc5 C library and the middle one is the libc5 vga library. > > I am having exactly the same problem with squake on my Debian 2.0 > system as well, only I have a Matrox Millium(sp?) card. 'ldd `which > squake.real`' gives me: Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment. I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security patches which are in the upstream release - the fewer patches we apply the better, however we don't want to compromise security. Have you tried other SVGAlib programs. > libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000b000) > libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x40014000) > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40051000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4010f000) > ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x401b4000) > > Something is definetely wierd here, as linking to two libc (different > versions no less) can not be good for the health. I have tried different > values for LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD, but to no avail. Have you tried "unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH; unset LD_PRELOAD" - you may be forcing something nasty upon squake. > The only lead I have on this is that Netscape 4.x was giving me > simular problems to this as well. If I hand installed a copy of netscape > into /usr/local/..., it would segfault on start, and an ldd showed that > that it has also linked to both libc's, 5 and 6. When I feed the debian > wrapper package for netscape the same tar.gz distrib file as I had used to > install manually, netscape magically got installed in such a way that it > looks for only libc5. Wierd - the netscape wrapper script doesn't appear to do anything to the library loading. "ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape" shows libc5 stuff only. What are the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf? Here are mine: /usr/X11R6/lib/neXtaw /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/local/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat > From this, I suspect that the problem has little to do with svga > lib or video cards, but with messed up linking. I need to look at the > source to the debian wrapper package for netscape, the answer probably > lies there, but I have not had time yet. > My two cents, hope they help! I agree - the dynamic loader seems to have got confused what versions of these packages are you using (dpkg -s package-name): libc5 5.4.38-11 libc6 2.0.7t-1 ldso 1.9.9-5 I'm running slink (aka unstable) - last upgraded about a fortnight ago (two weeks for Americans and other non-English readers ) so your versions are likely to be a bit older. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
Re: Iomega Zip
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:56:49AM -0700, mjv wrote: > That's funny, I just mounted the zip w/o the -t msdos, and it still mounted > fine. > Am I playing Russian Roulette by doing that? > > Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since > we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true with > squeezing > extra space from the Zip floppy. Anyone have any experience with this? > I wish to create a backup disk for all the programs I download (the dos > format > truncates the names - and I'd rather store Linux files on a Linux file system) You can squeeze more out of a floppy by doing a more efficient low-level format (which divides the disk into little bits). However since the Zip disk is seen as a SCSI disk, I doubt you can get more than the ~100MB they store. You can repartition and reformat them (high level reformat) with a ext2 filesystem - I did this so that I can have /dev/sda1 rather than the silly /dev/sda4! Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 01:23:18AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote: > I forgot to mention that I'm a little new to this Linux admin business > (as in running my own box; I've been using other ppls for ages) > > >I don't suppose "ldconfig" (as root) helps? You are runnning the > programs > >as root aren't you - they need direct access to the video card (OTOH > plain > >vga probably wouldn't work either). > > I can't honestly remember - I've not been using the Linux side of my box > in the last couple of days (windows, grr...) I'll try that and let you > know. The reason for asking is that the docs that came with SVGALib > suggested that the Mach64 drivers are a bit dodgy anyway... > > >Does "ldd squake.real" say anything useful? > > Er, que? (spot the newbie sysadmin...) ldd lists the libraries that will be used with the program. "squake" is just a little script that runs squake.real, thinking about it, you'll probably need "ldd /usr/games/squake". For instance, here it says: libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000b000) libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1 (0x40014000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4005a000) Which seems okay to me - the top one is the libc5 maths library, the bottom one is the libc5 C library and the middle one is the libc5 vga library. You just pick the programs like "ldd" up one at a time after enough people have mentioned them - try "ldd `which squake.real`" Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome daily goat sacrifices - use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: Debian and two more OS's
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 10:48:03AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 07:09:43PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:29:24PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: > > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > > > Syncing disks. > > > Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. > > > Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated. > > > > Did you reboot before trying mke2fs /dev/hda3?? > > Every time this has happened to me, the actual changes to the > partition table have not been written. I always make sure I have no > mounted partitions on disks I am running fdisk on; that avoids the problem. I _think_ I had this at work the other day and all was fine (the partition table had been written). It definitely said that I needed to reboot anyway. At least I only had to reboot once and not fifteen times like today - testing installs on NT :-( Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome daily goat sacrifices - use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: can't compile 2.1.121 under Debian Hamm 2.0
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 04:21:09PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > > Using a typical installation of Debian Hamm 2.0, I am having trouble > compiling the current development kernel. Can anyone give me a clue > on the following error message: > _ > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/arch/i386/lib' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/arch/i386/lib' > ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e > stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o > init/version.o \ > arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o > fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \ > fs/filesystems.a \ > net/network.a \ > drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/misc/misc.a > drivers/net/net.a drivers/scsi/scsi.a drivers/cdrom/cdrom.a > drivers/sound/sound.a drivers/pci/pci.a drivers/pnp/pnp.a > drivers/video/video.a \ > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/arch/i386/lib/lib.a > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/lib/lib.a > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.121/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \ > -o vmlinux > fs/fs.o: In function `change_root': > fs/fs.o(.text+0x5a17): undefined reference to `initmem_freed' This is a kernel bug IIRC (short memory ) - try a later kernel - 2.1.122pre3 is out :-) PS: /usr/local/src is the recommended place for the source, not /usr/src. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome daily goat sacrifices - use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 08:54:22AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote: > It doesn't work basically! > > It seems that the Mach64 libvga drivers as supplied on the Debian 2.0 > CD-Rom don't actually work (it crashes out with a segmentation fault > when it attempts to initialise the display) > > If I select the default VGA drivers, then I can get some stuff to work, > but certain programs still crash (incl. squake, quakeII, lincity and a > couple of others) > > I've got a 4Mb AGP [EMAIL PROTECTED] on an SS7 Mobo w/ AMD K6-2 300MHz. > > Any help would _really_ be appreciated 'cos this is annoying... I don't suppose "ldconfig" (as root) helps? You are runnning the programs as root aren't you - they need direct access to the video card (OTOH plain vga probably wouldn't work either). You could try the 1.3.0-0.3 packages to see if they help, however there is no mention of mach64 fixes. Does "ldd squake.real" say anything useful? If all this fails, please email me a "strace" of a bad program, this might help to track down the problem. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome daily goat sacrifices - use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: Debian and two more OS's
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:29:24PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: [snip] NT needs read access to /dev/hda1 IIRC - so it must be FAT/NTFS > Using fdisk (linux) I got the following partition table: > [snip] > Unfortunately after the command 'w' > > Command (m for help): w > > I got the message: > > The partition table has been altered! > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > Syncing disks. > Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. > Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated. Did you reboot before trying mke2fs /dev/hda3?? > The command: > mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda3 > > gives information > > mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > /dev/hda3: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up > superblock > > > I am sorry for such long description. Better a detailed description than needing to post more detail later :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome daily goat sacrifices - use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: pc keyboard oddity in xterm
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 06:23:54AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> You don't happen to be using xbase 3.3.2.2-1 somehow, do you? That version
> did exactly what you describe. However, it has since been fixed (in
> 3.3.2.2-2, released on 15 July).
>
> It's also possible you used xbase 3.3.2.2-1 at some point, modified
> /etc/X11/Xresources, and then said no to letting dpkg replace that file in
> later upgrades.
>
> You should have the following in your /etc/X11/Xresources file:
> *VT100.Translations: #override BackSpace: string("\177")\n\
>Delete: string("\033[3~")\n\
>Home: string("\033OH")\n\
>End: string("\033OF")
I've got 3.3.2.2-4 and this in /etc/Xresources (no Xresources.dpkg* files
there BTW):
*VT100.Translations: #override Delete: string("\033[3~")\n\
Home: string("\033OH")\n\
End: string("\033OF")
Adrian
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Re: getting fqdn from gethostname on a hamm box
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Alan Su wrote: > when i call gethostname() on my hamm, it returns only the name of the > machine, rather than a fqdn. i distinctly remember that when i was > running bo, i got a fqdn. does anyone know how i can make it return > the fqdn? or is there another function i should be using? thanks. > > (btw, getdomainname() returns "(none)", which suggests to me that > something else is going on here. am i right?) I had this at work the other day, the problem was /etc/hosts: 1.2.3.4 name name.domain.com rather than 1.2.3.4 name.domain.com name which works much better Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
Re: svgalibg1 with mach64?
On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 06:07:12PM +0200, Jens Ch. Lisner wrote: > > Hi, > > one stupid question: > > Does svgalib support mach64 (it supports mach32)? The docs seem to indicate that although the code is there, it doesn't work :-( I've just uploaded 1.3.0 which you might have more success with. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 01:40:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Robert J. Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The debugging I and a friend in IBM have been doing seem to pinpoint the > > resolver problems I had to the release of libc6 we just both upgraded > > to: > > Version: 2.0.7t-1 > > > > with this installed even if your /etc/nsswitch.conf and your > > /host.conf files point to /etc/hosts, the host command never even > > tries to read it when doing name to address translation. > > That is the correct behavior. The host program only queries DNS servers; > it does not consult the local host table. You can try pinging a hostname > in the host table to see if it resolves. [NB: I was also a guilty culprit] It's wierder than that as someone at IBM pointed out - "host 127.0.0.1" _does_ read /etc/hosts, but "host localhost" doesn't. Strange. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
Re: Dtime of Inodes
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 07:43:29PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:10:03PM -0700, Alexander wrote: > > A deleted inode seems to have zero dtime sometimes when the machine is not > > shut down normally. (i.e., power failure, system crash, nuclear > > accident...) > > I tend to get them when the check is forced (due to 30 unchecked mounts), > without any abnormal shutdowns. I don't know why. This was posted to the kernel mailing list recently, I havn't checked Debian's status on this yet: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Oh well. I asked because the line "Deleted inode 10413 has zero dtime." >always indicated a dynamic init for me. That happens when you upgarde your libraries and remove the old libs- init is still using them, so after a reboot you do indeed get a "has zero dtime" warning. Since sysvinit-2.74 you can use "telinit u" to "upgrade" init. Init will reload itself from /sbin/init and preservce all state. That's great after a library upgrade. Kudos to Alexander Viro. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Linus Torvalds interview
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 02:12:44AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: > > > fyi, > > > > > > http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html > > > > If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head > > Linux the OS or Linus the person? Do you mean that what LT says goes for > the linux community as well? Oops :-) No - but he generally behaves responsibly by avoiding flame-wars (apart from his recent KDE comment where he seemed to mess up on the license issues :-( ) > > screwed on right (apart from the "I don't think Microsoft is an evil > > company" bit which I completely disagree with ). > > I do agree with him (Linus Torvalds) when he said that M$ only makes > crappy OS's. The apps are great 'cept for Office 97 but not their > compilers. Sheesshh, I hate all those M$ Visual compilers, Visual J++, > Visual anything, Visual anycrap. Yeah - at work we check for a environment variable to see if we want to run a program under the debugger (Englishfied code) : #if OS2 #define debug "start /c " debugenv #endif #if UNIX #define debug debugenv " &" #endif #if NT #define debug "echo Crappy Visual C won't let us start a program \ and there's no way I'm going to DDE it" #endif Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Linus Torvalds interview
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: > fyi, > > http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head screwed on right (apart from the "I don't think Microsoft is an evil company" bit which I completely disagree with ). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: using NTFS partitions under linux?
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 07:52:58PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:00:44 +0200 (CEST) > Jens Reinsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to know if there is a kernel module for Debian linux. > > Any hints/suggestions? > > There is a kernel module floating around somewhere (try a search for > +ntfs +linux +module and you should locate it). It was pretty alpha when > I last tried it. Now I have linux on a machine all of it's own, so I > don't need it. It's never failed me in the last sixth months or so - now on a 2.1.109ac2 kernel (2.1.109 + Alan Cox's patch No.2). I don't use the write support though - read only for me - I'd be too tempted to do 'rm -rf /NT' :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: nsswitch.conf & host.conf
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 01:13:05PM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote: > Hi, > > The discussion on named brought up a question or two. I went looking for > documentation on nsswitch.conf and couldn't find any (in man, anyway). But, > I did find host.conf. Looks like host.conf and nsswitch.conf have very > similar > functions. What's the difference? When do you use one and not the other, > etc.?? For documentation use something like: info libc6 -> network -> NSS (I can't look it up properly since it's not installed on this box ATM). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: fvwm2 config hook rant
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:02:37PM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote: > I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem > to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. > They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There > are several, prethis.hook postthat.hook etc. Some hooks are links to null > files. This is all very confusing for the novice. At least it is very > confusing and upsetting to me. Also the existing hook files are empty. > This means that the user must write them from scratch as opposed to merely > editing the existing configuration file. This is practically impossible They aren't all that bad - I use a normal .fvwm2rc file and have this in it: [damn - gpm won't paste into jed anymore] AddToMenu /Debian Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/main-menu.hook Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: [andrmuel@rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE: 'rm' doesn't terminat anymore]
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > - Forwarded message from Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - [snip copious headers] > I have used the program cdda2wave. > I gues that it will create big files (about 50MB and more). > After my tryings I deleted my big files: > > rm "big file" > > But rm doesen terminate. I couldn't kill or stop it. > I try'd to shut down the system but it didn't work. > More and more systempower becomes eaten by the rm-programm.. :-( Linux can take a *long* time to delete large files (I havn't had any problems personally even with 230MB files (a recursive grep piped to the current directory ;-)) I believe that rm also starts taking large amounts of memory up too. This could cause your machine to swap heavily - have a look at "vmstat -n1". Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: remote print-server
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 06:46:37PM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > I was wondering if anyone can give me a quick rundown on what's needed > to make debian a remote print-server for another unix system? We have 2 > AIX boxes at work (versions 4.1 & 4.2), and as the unofficial > administrator of our single Linux system, I'm supposed to work with our > support staff to set this up. I've got this setup at work (although it's more complex there because I pipe my main printer output through two filters before sending it to the printer). I assume you have printing working fine on the Debian box? Then I think all you need to do on the Debian box is to add in the allowed hosts to /etc/lpd.hosts. On the AIX box, run smitty, then "print spooling", "add a print queue", "remote", "standard", then fill in the blanks: name of queue (what you want it called on the AIX box) hostname (debian box name) name of queue on remote server (lp normally - look in /etc/printcap) type of print spooler on remote server (BSD) description :-) Adrian Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Internal: 7-245528 External: 01962-815528 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Customize Xemacs in text mode
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 07:35:28PM +0200, Dan Pomohaci wrote: > How can I customize Xemacs to have colors and menus in text mode? I read all > the stuff about faces, I try with customize-face but no success. I have a > hamm distribution. Something like this in .emacs: (set-face-foreground 'modeline-buffer-id "green") Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: CTRL+ALT+DEL reboot in X
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:10:14PM +0200, Oskar Liljeblad wrote: > Is there a way to make CTRL+ALT+DEL shutdown and reboot the computer in X? I have this in my .fvwm2rc. You will need to setup sudo to use it though. AddToMenu Quit +"Quit fvwm" Quit +"Reboot" exec sudo reboot -t now Alternatively, Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-Del. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Socks
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 06:06:01PM +0200, Boris Lackovic wrote: > helo!! > > Where can I find socks package? > Running bo 1.3.1. > I would like to install sockd demon to help local users to use port 1080 > as SOCKS port for the netscape etc... in my gateway to another network. > Btw...Im inside firewal..no chanse to run some proxy server on my PC. > (Im not alloved to use some proxy myself,only gatewaying.) SOCKS4 is in hamm, I have a package of SOCKS5 here, but I still have to make the libraries comply to debian guidelines and havn't got around to that yet. Feel free to email me if you want them though. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ZIP & ZIP+ drives
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 03:45:45PM +0200, Max Lawson wrote: > Hi, > > I know the ZIP drive is supported in the kernel; and > I would like to know if the ZIP+ drive is supported too. Not yet - try looking at http://www.torque.net/zip.html Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default permissions(was Re: cat's got my lp1)
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 01:39:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 3 Jun, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, wrote: > >> I recently chmod / -R 777 my system to try and cure a permission problem I > >> was having, I know - major stupid, This might be the problem. > > > > I think I'd do a reinstall after this - I doubt that it will introduce > > permission problems, but security will be .. lacking. > > > >> My delema is not knowing how to reverse the 777 stuff, or where to fix the > >> lpd. > > > > I'd give up on the first on I think :-( > > > > I think it would be great if perhaps the Contents files that are on the > ftp sites would also list the permissions of the files as they are > installed. This would at least help those that have permission > problems. It won't help for files that are created in setup scripts > but it would be better that a complete reinstall. My $0.02. Oddly enough, someone at work was mentioning that on HP, the permissions are listed in a file, so why don't we do something similar and add the permissions into /var/lid/dpkg/info/.list. This could be useful - if you install a package with messed up permissions, any *upgrades* won't change those permissions to the correct ones without "chmod/chown" calls in the postinst. Mind you, he then had problems with "chown" setting the permissions of a *symlink* (i.e. the symlink itself was being set to mode 550 !!). I'm glad I'm on Linux :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cat's got my lp1
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, wrote: > The only way I can print is with cat > /dev/lp1 > If I use anything other, I get: > Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .setdevice > Operand stack: > --nostringval-- > followed by lots of hex addresses, offsets, names, permissions and more hex > addresses. (I think they are addressses) It's a good idea to list the packages you are using (lpr/lprng/magicfilter/apsfilter). This error is actually from ghostscript. Ghostscript takes a postscript file and translates it into a different format (HP deskjet/epson/X-windows/...). Try configuring the printer (apsconfig?/magicfilterconfig). Then try "lpr file" on a normal text file. Then try more complex files - such as a compressed file. The way to print things on unix is to convert them into postscript and then print the postscript out. If you don't have a postscript printer, then you use ghostscript in the middle. The contents of /etc/printcap and what printer you are using would be helpful too. > I recently chmod / -R 777 my system to try and cure a permission problem I > was having, I know - major stupid, This might be the problem. I think I'd do a reinstall after this - I doubt that it will introduce permission problems, but security will be .. lacking. > My delema is not knowing how to reverse the 777 stuff, or where to fix the > lpd. I'd give up on the first on I think :-( Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fvwm window "shadows" don't move...
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 11:19:02AM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > Hello: > > I just installed Debian/GNU 1.3.1, I've got pretty much everything > going as I want it. > > On problem, though, is as follows: > I'm using fvwm2 as a window manager under XFree86. When I > click and hold the left mouse button on a window "handle" or title > bar, and move the mouse the window stays in place, and only the > crosshair moves, which makes it hard to determine where the window > will actually land. I copied my old fvwm2rc and XF86Config files from > my old slackware system, and on that setup, when I moved a window, the > border of the window would move around with the crosshair, so I could > get a better feel for where the window would land. > Basically, I'd like to have that border back, because it's > kinda hard to judge where a window will land with just the crosshair. > Even better, I'd like to have the entire window move with the > crosshair, but either way is okay. > Anybody know how I can get this feature to work? You probably just have XORvalue set to a bad value, try adding this to ~/.fvwm2rc: XORvalue 16777215 > Thanks in advance, > Eagerly awaiting Debian 2.0, As are we all :-) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I read NTFS from Linux?
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 02:08:40PM +0100, Robbie McGarrigle wrote: > HELP! > > I've just installed a Debian Linux *bare* system.. I got it on a bunch > of 8 floppies whilst @ work. I can download lotsa stuff at work but I > don't know how to read my NTFS partition from within Linux. COnfig is: > > 2 SCSI disks (1 NTFS partition on first disk, 1 Linux on 2nd & 1 > Linux swap on 2nd) > > I've got some important stuff on the 1st drive so I don't want to wipe > it to make it FAT. Suggestions? The 2.1.x kernels have read (and experimental write) support for NTFS, I believe you can get NTFS for 2.0.x kernels, but it is probably not as good. I've used it occasionally at work and havn't had any problems. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lincity and SVGAlib not working
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 03:09:19PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > Hi all > > I d/led Hamms Lincity, Lincity-svga and the SVGAlib dummy. However, > after typing 5 for mouse (PS2 - I do not have gpm if that makes > a difference) it just stopped. I then tried removing the svgalib dummy > and installing svgalibg1, but this time it stopped at a screen with > green and blue colours. Trying to switch VCs made it go all wierd > and I had to reboot. > > I have an Inspiron 3000, Neomagic video card. The packages I downloaded > were: > * lincity_1.09-3.deb > * lincity-svga_1.09-3.deb > * svgalib-dummyg1_1.2.13-2.deb > * svgalibg1_1.2.13-3.2.deb > > Can anyone help me get this working please? I think you are a bit confused - svgalibg1 is the glibc(2) aka libc6 version of svgalib, svgalib-dummyg1 is a fake version of svgalib1g. The reason the dummy package is there is that some programs work in both X-windows and svgalib and won't work without a svgalib library. However some people never use these programs in svgalib (only in X-windows) and the dummy package takes up lots less disk space than the proper library. Maybe svgalib-dummyg1's description will help: This package can replace the usual svgalib1 package, on which many other packages depend. Unfortunately, the proper svgalib1 requires some configuration and is a bit verbose, so if you don't need console graphics at all, and would install it only to satisfy dependencies, this dummy package may be an alternative for you. I would suggest removing the dummy package (you want to run it under svgalib since you have got lincity-svga, if you want to run under x-windows you will want lincity-x instead/as well). Then see what "dpkg -l" or "dselect" says about these packages - maybe they aren't installed properly. Try a different svgalib program and see if you can get the mouse to work - I have a feeling that you may need to run lincity as root to get permissions to access the mouse driver. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOSEmu 97.7
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 09:34:45PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 04:49:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would like to try a 2.1 kernel. Which do you recommend/Which one is the > > most > > stable? > > At this point, the latest is probably stable. I use 2.1.101 and it's more > stable than 2.0.33---which on some systems isn't saying much. I've just upgraded at work to 2.1.101 and it seems fine there. The "rusting" seems much better (the machine used to become slower over time - particularly my machine at home which only has 32MB). SMP still needs ironing out and you will need to upgrade several programs (pppd being one). If you don't want to read the kernel mailing list, then it's sensible to wait a little while after a release and check slashdot.org and freshmeat for any problems. PS: Kernel development being what it is, has released 2.1.102, there are some problems with it (menuconfig is broken somewhere). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing 2.0.33 > 2.1.101
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 08:25:04AM -0700, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > I'm running Debian 1.3.1r6 on a P5/120 96meg, libc.so.5.4.38 > Printer Hewlett Packard LaserJet 6mp 19meg postscript > > Printing under kernel 2.0.33 no problems. > > Printing under any 2.1.xx[x] kernel doesn't happen. > This is using the parallel port. Kernel is configured to use > the parallel port, support IEEE1284 status readback - set, unset. > in lilo.conf append="lp=0x378,0" or append="lp=0x3bc does no good. > > lpr textfile nada > cat textfile > /dev/lpxnada > > lpr commands que up but don't get executed > current lpr_5.9-20.1.deb > > Anyone have a clue as to what I may be missing? The 2.1.x kernels have had some problems with interrupt driven printing, try using polling instead - "lptune" is the program you want. The other thing is that you will probably want to use /dev/lp0 rather than /dev/lp1 (it changed). It's worth checking the kernel mailing list if you use 2.1.x (particularly the newer ones!). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: login + nis problems in hamm
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 03:55:23PM +0900, Kevin Squire wrote: [snip - problems with nis] Try looking at /etc/nsswitch.conf, to get info on it do "info libc" ->name service switch -> nss configuration file, also "man nsswitch". Cheers Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XDM doesn't work
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:21:58AM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: [snip] > The xdm-errors file gives an error that there are no valid resolutions > for the xserver / monitor. The machine is at home, and I neglected > to beinf the error report with me to work. If there were no valid > resolutions, wouldn't I get failures in startx and xinit? They both > start fine, and I get the 3 resolutions I configured (640x480, 800x600, > 1024x768). Funny you mention this - I had very similar problems at home. It also seemed to be using modes that it shouldn't have known about, but I may just be confused. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dos (spit> partition
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 02:06:51PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear Debian People, > > Thought it best to mail this separately to the last one, since the > problems are entirely different. I could do with being able to run a > couple of dos sysadmin programs on Selwyn-Server2, which I can mount using > ncpmount. Unfortunatly, to do so, I need dosemu, which means I need at > least a minimal dos partition with dos on. This means I need to snip a few > K of the end of my linux partition (which is about 20% full). Is there a > simple way to do this, bearing in mind I don't have 50MB space anyway to > back it all up on, and I'd rather not have to install Debian all over > again :) You can use the entire unix filesystem under DOSemu :-) Alternatively, use a hard disk image. Try something like this in DOSemu (DOSemu boots from a small hdimage by default IIRC): lredir d: linux\fs Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: zip disks unreadable
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:49:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:37:08PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: > > I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port > > zip drive? > Yes > It seems to me that they come formatted with 1 partition...which is partition > 4 (for no apprent reason) The zip drive looks just like a SCSI disk - /dev/sda. They are supplied formatted as /dev/sda4. You don't have to stick with this - I reformatted mine as a ext2 /dev/sda1 :-) Can't help on the linux & dos & mac bit I'm afraid. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOSEmu 97.7
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 12:22:14PM -0500, Asher Haig wrote: > Has anyone managed to make DOSEmu 97.7 work? There doesn't seem to be a > .deb file, so I downloaded the source from the dosemu site. It compiled > fine and everything in setup seemed to go fine to the point where I tried > to run dos. Then I get this error: AFAIK you need a 2.1 kernel to use later DOSemu versions. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with my shell
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:08:36AM -0400, Jeff Shilt wrote: > I wrote a postinst shell script for a package and when I went to test it > I get > bash: ././postinst: no such file or directory > I changed my PATH environent variable around a bunch, even took out . > and tried to run postinst with ./postinst and I get > bash: ./postinst: no such file or directory > > I cut the script down to: > #! /bin/sh > > echo Creating symlinks in directory > > and I don't see that there's anything wrong with this. The file has > executable permissions. If I go to /var/lib/dpkg/info and run one of the > scripts there with ./filename it runs fine. It just seems to be any file > I create. > What's up with this? Try removing the space after "#!". Also ensure the script is executable (chmod +x postinst), not that this will make much difference Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: M-g in XEmacs 20.4?
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 09:28:25AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi there, > > > When I press M-g (which as a developer I use frequently) I get "A-g not > > defined". So my ALT key has reverted to ALT behaviour, instead of META > > which I am sure it was before. > > > > What has changed? I'm need my M-g! Thanks! > > I also experienced this problem. On my system, the Meta key is now the > "Windows" key. I've got a 104 key keyboard. What kind of keyboard do you > have? I've had this for a while in X-windows - bottom left of the keyboard reads control, meta, alt (just as I want it!) Try this in the keyboard section of /etc/X11/XF86Config: LeftAlt Meta PS: Does anyone know how to get get "control, meta, alt" on the console? Cheers Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash help
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:23:13AM -0400, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote: > I am trying to tell if a program is passing back an error in a Bash > script. I would like to branch on receipt of the error to a wait > statement that will give me about 20 seconds and then retry. > > My trouble is I cannot remember how to detect the error and how to > make the shell wait a definite amount of time. Can anyone help me? Arrgh - your headers are messed up! Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:23:13 -0400 To: "- \(052\)tanclug-list\(a\)redhat.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "- \(052\)debian-user\(a\)lists.debian.org" $? is the return status of the most recent process (which I'm not using), : is true. while :; do command && break sleep 20 done Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and > Debian of course)? > > We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked for > offsite access (so they do all their WWW browsing via a WWWcache which can > then be billed for). I was wondering if there is something we can do like > this for telnet. Any ideas? There is no such thing as telnet-proxy. What you are after is SOCKS - socks4 is packaged already (I'm working on v5, but most people don't need that - *I* don't need it either!) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inconsistent X security?
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 10:52:15PM -0500, pgarcia wrote:
> I'm currently not using xdm; I'm using startx to start X.
> When I don't have an .xserverrc file, X uses magic cookies.
> When I do have one (that simply says X -bpp 24), the security
> is completely disabled. What gives? How do I use an .xserverrc
> file without losing my security?
I have an .xserverrc file and things work fine:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/X -ld 8192 v :0
maybe the "exec" is important? It certainly speeds up X-windows startup cf.
without the "exec".
I use this at work all the time ("cp ~/.Xauthority /remote/" in .xinitrc).
I'm runnnig the latest hamm stuff.
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Re: mail in linux...
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 07:25:12PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > First, the '_' character is illegal in host names. RFC 952 contains the > requirements for hostnames: > >1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up >to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus >sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when >they serve to delimit components of "domain style names". (See >RFC-921, "Domain Name System Implementation Schedule", for >background). No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a >name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case. The first >character must be an alpha character. The last character must not be >a minus sign or period. A host which serves as a GATEWAY should have >"-GATEWAY" or "-GW" as part of its name. Hosts which do not serve as >Internet gateways should not use "-GATEWAY" and "-GW" as part of >their names. A host which is a TAC should have "-TAC" as the last >part of its host name, if it is a DoD host. Single character names >or nicknames are not allowed. I think the install should check for this - it's not too difficult and would avoid people naming their computers wrongly (particularly post-win95). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Deskjet 672C
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 10:40:55PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Matt Thompson wrote: > > > This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different > > model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). > > Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and > > choose the 'dj550c' filter when prompted. > > Matt - I asked this question on the list awhile ago but got no response. > Hope you don't mind me asking you directly... > > My wife has an HP DJ722c attached to her Win95 machine. Through samba > (and magicfilter and ghostscript's dj550c) I can print plain text and > postscript (from Netscape) to her printer. > > When I tell Netscape to print color, nothing prints. > > Any ideas? The 722c doc says it's a windows-only printer, but since the > greyscale works I'm hoping that color might work too. There is some windows-only deskjet stuff (prints in black and white only) http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: swapFILE vs swapDISK ??
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 01:33:24PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: > > Is there any performance loss to making swapfiles (large ones), as opposed > to having a static swap partition? > Will it (this may sound silly, but my hard drive is old too ... 1993) > increase the wear and tear on my hard drive? Yes - with a swap partition you only need to ensure that you write to the correct parts. With a swap-file you have to deal with the filesystem too - e.g. ensuring that the "last modification" date is correct must take a fair bit of time for a swap-file! Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk partition problem
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:21:28PM -0500, Chris wrote: > Hello. > > I have been reading about Debian, and I am eager to try it out. > However, I seem to have a problem that I have not found an answer for > yet, even after searching through all of the FAQ's and help documents I > could find. The problem is with partitioning my hard disk. I DO NOT > want to wipe it out (like using fdisk), so instead I tried FIPS (found > on the Linux CD). First I scanned and defragged my disk, then I tried > to run fips. Then it told me there was a file(s) at the end of my hard > disk. So I checked the documentation on fips and it listed a two files > that might be at the last sector, but it wasn't true on my machine. And > > that's where I'm stuck. Please help me or tell me where I can get help > so I can free myself from the tyranny of Windows!! They might be special files which defraggers normally won't move. The windows swap file is one. If they are normal files, then try renaming them, copying them back to their original names and then deleting the renamed versions - hopefully the copies will be placed near the start of the partition rather than at the end. ie. ren a b copy b a del b (hey - I remember those long DOS commands :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 gamma correction
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 02:35:49PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > My XFree86 stuff looks much darker than on PCs or Macs... sounds like a > gamma problem to me. > > Anyone have any pointers to docs on setting up gamma on XFree86? Doesn't > seem to be a how-to on it. I've seen someone else has answered this, this is just to say that there is a picture in issue 17 of the linux gazette which hopefully tells you the correct value of gamma to use. (try www.ssc.com/lg) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.1.xx Kernels
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 10:52:41AM -0400, Adam Greene wrote: > Whats with these 2.1.xx kernels, When I was in University over a year ago, > they had 2.1.xx kernels, will this kernel ever come out of development, and > is Plug-and-Play in the kernel yet??? It sounds like there is going to be a code freeze as soon as the last few problems get sorted (the biggie is when it decides to leave 17MB free and use 17MB swap on a 32MB machine :-) Yes - it does have PnP in it. Adrian PS: Please word wrap to 72 columns or so, thanks. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash & burn win95 splashscreen
On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 12:35:17AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Last year, I think it was, someone mentioned a crash & burn win95 logo > splash screen. Does anyone know where it is (I've tried to look for it, > but there are a *lot* of win95 startup screens)? > > This is actually the second time I've asked. I'm just useless, I guess :] I've got that one - I've emailed it to you (ZIPped rather than gzipped) Enjoy Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Now he's a liar, too
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 11:30:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Yep, I lied. I thought I had posted my last message of the day, but there
> has been an outpouring of requests for the loggin surrounding my PPP
> problem. I concede that I should have included it in my original posting.
>
> There have also been requests for my config files. As I've explained to
> several individual respondents, the "box in question" is at home and I'm at
> work, so I don't have access to those files. One respondent did mention
> that I might check the permissions on those files (a good idea, and one
> that I'm ashamed to have not come up with on my own), so I'll do that when
> I get home (or maybe have my wife look for me -- no, probably not. :)
>
> Anyway, here are the highlights of the logging generated by a vanilla
> unsuccessful request:
>
> chat[5737]SIGHUP
> chat[5737]Can't restore terminal parameters: I/O error
> pppd[5747]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
> pppd[5747]: Removed stale lock on ttyS2 (pid 5729(
> chat[5748]: abort on (BUSY)
> chat[5748]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
> chat[5748]: abort on (VOICE)
> chat[5748]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
> chat[5748]: send (ATDT4042873038^^M)
> chat[5748]: expect (ogin)
> kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully unregistered
> chat[5748]: ATDT4042873038^^M^^M
> chat[5748]: alarm
> chat[5748]: Failed
> pppd[5747]: Connect script failed
I used to have this, but havn't for some time. It seems like the magic step
was to stop sharing IRQs (although this does seem a little odd). I used to
have:
/dev/ttyS0 4
/dev/ttyS1 3
/dev/ttyS2 4
now I have
/dev/ttyS0 4
/dev/ttyS1 3
/dev/ttyS2 2 (NB: IRQ2 = IRQ9)
by adding this to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial:
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0x3E8 irq 2 ${STD_FLAGS}
(and changing the jumpers on the modem!)
Before you go through all this, I'd suggest extending the timeout - by
putting this at the top of the chatscript:
TIMEOUT 60
It seems very odd that there is *no* reponse from the other side. I don't
know how PAP works, but it might be that the ISP is using this - I believe
you need to have "auth" in the /etc/ppp/options file.
> By the way, I'm very impressed and pleased by the vast and rapid response.
> At the same time, it's troubling to see the negative thoughts floating
> around about the future of Debian. Of course, the two threads contradict
> each other, don't they? The success of any product is directly
> proportional to the support of it's users. That's my initial impression,
> anyway.
Don't worry too much about it, I'm sure everything will look up when hamm is
released in just over a month (probably).
> While I'm not an application developer and cannot help on that side of
> things, I am a rather experienced web developer. If my services could be
> used for the further advancement of Debian's mission, I'm sure you'll let
> me know.
You're more than welcome to look around the web site and see what you think
needs improving. Have a chat with the webmaster - Sue Campbell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
My only request is not to turn it into a site where you need java just to
click on a button and a T1 connection to download lots of full-screen videos
and MP3 (unless I'm viewing it at work :-)
Maybe looking at the bugs database will help - there are a few suggestions
in there. I think a few of those involve more advanced options for the bugs
database, so depending on what kind of web development you do, you may or
may not be able to fix them!
Packaging programs isn't too difficult, just start off with something simple
before trying to package X-windows or the various emacs parts :-)
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Re: TRANSLATION Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 08:07:03AM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Luiz Otavio L Zorzella writes: > > > Here it goes. > > > It comes from: http://www.pro-unix.org/~puma/ > > > I translated the most important items: 2, 3 and 7. > > Well, folks. > > I don't know about you, but I tried. And tryed. And tryed. > > All I can get is, after the Blue Screen with the Windows logo, the > message "It is safe now to turn off your computer." Using 0.67-15 I get the same, however with 0.97.4 I get it complaining about the A20 line, XMS and HIMEM.SYS not being in the windows directory. I *hate* that last one - I never told it to load himem.sys but it does so whether or not it is in config.sys. I'm running a 2.1.89 kernel and I'm trying to load win95 OSR2. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?
On Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 12:32:10PM -0500, Brian White wrote: > Perhaps it would be best if the transient only automatically got focus > if its parent already had focus? Perhaps this option could be tri-state: > never, always, if-parent-has-focus. Great idea! If this could be a style option then it could be set according to the program in the window anyway. Unfortunately a friend has said that he thought that there were no more bits left for any more style commands. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM Token Ring Card [does not work]
Try using the diagnostic tools and setting the card to Auto 16/4. I have a Turbo 16/4 at work and it works fine. The routing table looks strange - how does the kernel pick which card to send data out on? On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 08:16:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > [kermit:/root] route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > eth * 255.255.255.0 U 0 01 eth0 > tok * 255.255.255.0 U 0 01 tr0 > localnet* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo > > [kermit:/root] ping 192.234.10.10 > tr0: Unknown command 02 in arb > tr0: Arrg. Transmitter busy for more than 50 msec. Donald resets adapter, but > resetting > the IBM tokenring adapter takes a long time. It might not even help when the > ring is very busy, so we just wait a little longer and hope for the best. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problems while updating packages with dpkg
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:37:01AM +0100, José LuisGarcÃa Pacheco wrote: > Hello, > Sometime ago I got the Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.4.Sept96 release. Working > with it, I managed to set up my little system at home.(I was very proud > of myself ;-)). > Two months ago, I borrowed from some friends the Debian 1.3.1. release. > Eagerly :-) I began updating packages, installing this, purging that,... > > In the middle of the fun, it ocurred to me that it could be interesting > to have the new dpkg package(s) on my system. So I installed > dpkg1.4.0.8.deb, dpkg_cross_0.1.deb, dpkg -dev_1.4 and dpkg_ftp_1.9.8, > well the dpkg-related packages appearing in my new distribution. > > A few days ago, I ran 'dpkg -l' and I got a message reading something > like 'problems while parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available'. I realized that > this database was corrupted!. Lots of package info lines were repeated > even twice or more times. I tried to restore it (by hand) and finally I > achieved to leave it "operative" (that means I can do dpkg -l, -s, > -iGOEB, --purge,... ) but there are still repeated lines (that someday I > will have to delete). > The question is : is there somebody out there with an idea of what > happened in my sistem?. Could it happen again and under what > circunstances?. Maybe a corrupted Packages file was installed? If it is only available that got messed up, then it shouldn't be too bad. Every day I do: dpkg --update-avail Packages dpkg --merge-avail Non-Free dpkg --merge-avail Contrib dpkg --merge-avail Non-US (Non-Free etc are the Packages.gz files (uncompressed) from the non-free section). The first line replaces available with the Packages file, the other three lines add the other packages in. PS: Please only post to one mailing list - debian-user is the right one in this case. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X-Windows Question
On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 12:28:32AM +0100, Hubert Fauque wrote: > Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > > > I get the dread: > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 > > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X > > > try > xhost > in your .xsession Wah! This is a *big* security risk - anyone one your computer can see your screen (and passwords, keystrokes,...) You need a file called .Xauthority in your home directory - AFAIK it is made by the Xserver on startup. It should look something like this (the permissions are important - it must not be readable by anyone else): [2]wyvern:~$ ls -l .Xauthority -rw--- 1 bridgett mdev2 150 Feb 23 19:27 .Xauthority Try looking at the "xauth" manpage. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr remote printing
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 02:49:36AM -0600, Alex Romosan wrote: > the problem is the missing link to /var/spool from /usr/spool. since base-files_1.6.1 has removed this link as it is against FHS, it might be put back in before the release, but it is good that we can find "broken" packages now. > there are no references to /usr/spool/lpd in lpd, this most certainly > comes from the /etc/printcap file. it certainly does on my system (the > printcap is generated automatically by the distributed printing > people). which brings up one of the things that i am beginning to find > annoying about linux these days: this so called file system standard, > which seems to be getting weirder and weirder every day, and more and > more different than the other unixes. i used unix long before there > was even linux, and for a while it was a pleasure to watch linux > transform itself into a full fledged unix-like operating system. but > now it is beginning to suffer from the emacs syndrome, insisting on > doing things its own way for the sake of being different (or so it > seems to me). don't get me wrong, i love linux and emacs (i am typing > this in emacs on a debian/linux machine) but i do think that the fsf > people suffer form terminal grandeur and debian, by choosing to follow > them so closely, is beginning to exhibit the same symptoms. There is no correct level of backwards compatability, I find Linux refreshing that it doesn't shy away from severing backwards compatibly links although your point is a good one. Indeed one of the main reasons for the DFSG is that it means that we *can* fix all the packages in main. We have twenty different unixes and one NT - which do *you* think is easier^H^H^H^H^Hcheaper to port to :-( Unfortunately the computer industry is the most backwards one in the world IMHO. VHS vs Betamax is often quoted as an example of bad technology winning over good technology, but the computer industry is just depressing: PCs, x86 chips, (E)IDE, TCP/IP, Ethernet, MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, NT, the list goes on... One of the few exceptions seem to be 3.5" disks which did eventually oust 5.25". Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Viewing bootup message
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 10:32:47PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > I have spent quite some time on this one. Reverting to the bo > svgatextmode does not help. The thing that makes the difference is the > particular font chosen. If I use 80x25, 80x25x9 or 80x25x8 I can still > scroll right back to the bios messages. But if I use 116x34x9 I cannot > scroll back at all. It appears, then, that a significant change of font > causes a reset. Maybe there is not enough video ram to have any scroll-back? I have a 2MB card and at 100x37 (and 110Hz thanks to SVGATextmode :-) ) I can press S-Up about six or seven times. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail & smail
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Ole J.Tetlie wrote: > [Please CC replies] > > Hi, > > I've tried to set up fetchmail to get mail from my university-account and > deliver it locally to smail on port 25. Telnetting to port 25 goes well. When > I run 'fetchmail -v' however; the following happens: [snip] > reading message 1 of 42 (1536 header bytes) > fetchmail: SMTP connect to apollo failed: Connection refused > > apollo is my local computer. I believe my .fetchmailrc is correct. Has anyone > got a clue? I had this problem with exim a while ago. IIRC the problem was that exim didn't like the mail as it came from an unknown computer (or maybe it was that fetchmail wasn't filling in some headers fully). Try telling smail that it accepts posts from "apollo" and "localhost". Alternatively try telling fetchmail to send the email to smail like this (this is for exim): poll mail.zetnet.co.uk proto pop3 user adrian.bridgett is bridgett here password X fetchall mda "exim -bm %s " email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: zip drive
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:35:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I'm running Linux 2.1.x and haven't been able to get my zip drive > to work in ages (parallel port one). It should be as simple as installing > parport, parport_pc, then ppa, shouldn't it? parport_pc always tells > me device/resource busy on insertion; inserting ppa seems > to just sit there ... > > Any hints? I have zip only on the port; I don't want to use a printer > as well. I use these in /etc/conf.modules and it all works fine (except today when I couldn't figure out why the ppa module wouldn't load - then I noticed that I had left the Zip drive downstairs in a bag!) alias scsi_hostadapter ppa alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 10:26:48PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On my P166 (64 meg RAM) it takes about 20 seconds. Strange, on a BSDi > P133 it takes about 5-10 seconds and that machine has less memory. I > suspect our Xemacs is loading a bunch of unneeded stuff but I don't > know for sure. You might want to mail our xemacs maintainer about this. > > Gerald Wann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi - > > > > I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine > > w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute > > to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load > > wait, or is it just me (& 20.3 ;-)? Here is a tip someone posted - it reduced the time on my machine from 20 to 15 seconds. I flushed the disk cache between runs and ran the test several times. Adrian On Thu, Dec 18, 1997 at 10:00:58PM +0200, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > Hi, > > If you are in a hurry do > touch /tmp/.sockets/audio0 > otherwise read on :) > > I was qurious about what makes XEmacs so slow at startup. With the help of > the strace(1) utility I found the following interesting behaviour of > XEmacs19. The XEmacs I am using is version 19.16-1 which comes with the > unstable distribution. > > When XEmacs starts up it creates a UNIX domain socket and tries to connect it > to /tmp/.sockets/audio0. If this special file does not exist (ENOENT is > returned) it does nanosleep(2) five times and sleeps about 1 second each > time. Only after nanosleeping it will continue loading. > > If a plain file named /tmp/.sockets/audio0 is created XEmacs gets > ECONNREFUSED as return value and goes on without nanosleeping or retrying. > This speeds up the startup time for about five seconds on my machine. > /usr/bin/time reports the time going from about 8.7 to 3.7 seconds. > > I hope you find this tip useful, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape 4.0 can we get just navigator?
On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 08:18:29AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2 Feb, Andrew wrote: > > > > I downloaded the beta version of the browser, and liked the new look & > > feel. However, it said it had expired, and wouldn't allow me to link > > anywhere but netscape to download the new version. I'd like netscape 4, > > but I'd also like to avoid the 10 Mb download and especially the huge > > expanse of disk space Communicator will take up with things I'll never use > > (like the mail and news readers, for example). Can you install the browser > > only, or must one go for the entire kit and caboodle (if so, I think I > > might stick with netscape 3)? > > The linux 2.0 browser only is in > > ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.04/shipping/english/unix/linux20/navigator_standalone/ > I thought I downloaded the browser only (no news/mail) from something like: .navigator/4.04/... but it might just be my warped and twisted mind :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 12:04:40AM +0100, joost witteveen wrote: > > Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > Let's compare like with like. To install a program on windows you double > > > click it and then keep clicking on next. To install a program on Debian > > > you > > > type "dpkg -i filename". Dselect is not the installer, it is the package > > > selection tool. It shows you a list of program which you have access to > > > and > > > can install. > > > > Adrian, > > Thanks for the clarification. That's nice to know the specific command > > for dpkg install. Does that also work out dependencies, or is that a > > function of dselect once a package has been selected from its list? > > Well, let's try: > [snip] > > Seems it does dependancies. Which you can override (be *careful*) by using "dpkg --force-depends ..." IIRC you can get yourself into a pickle with dpkg rather more easily than with dselect (since dselect checks the dependencies *before* removing/installing a program). > Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. > `head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter words (once every approx 4e8 > tries). :-) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 09:57:46AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, David E. Scott wrote: > > > Tyson, > > I guess I'm just expressing frustration at not being able to master the > > installation process. > > Agreed, Debian dselect does a tremendous lot of work during the install > > process, and it's very infrequent that dependency or other warnings are > > issued during a Win95 product install. In the hands of a Debian expert, > > my future son-in-law, the process is pretty impressive and quick, even > > if it's rather mysterious when I try to duplicate the process on my own. > > Ok, let's summarize the differences between the install programs. The > Win95 installs have a simple design, are brain-dead and can present you > with nice 'Next' buttons. The Debian installer can perform complex tasks > but has a user interface that is hard to learn. Let's compare like with like. To install a program on windows you double click it and then keep clicking on next. To install a program on Debian you type "dpkg -i filename". Dselect is not the installer, it is the package selection tool. It shows you a list of program which you have access to and can install. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Some remarks: Interrupts and serial ports
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 07:38:33PM +0100, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: > > Hi all! > > I've read a discussion about serial ports and interrupts and still have > some doubts. > WHY KERNEL'S SERIAL DRIVER IS WRITTEN IN THIS WAY THAT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO > SHARE INTERRUPTS? I think it is more of a case of PC's bad design, IIRC the latest kernels can share the interupts, but it's not recommended. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Monitor Specs for Xfree86
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 01:53:00PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: > Gregory, > > I believe that the dot clock setting is from the video adapter and not the > monitor. Correct, however monitors *do* have a bandwidth limitation - for instance my Iiyama is 160MHz. I believe that the dot-clock you specify shouldn't be above *either* the video-card spec or the monitor's bandwidth. In fact you'll probably hit problems long beforehand. > Gregory Guthrie wrote: > > > Gateway informs me that my GW2000 Vivitron 17" monitor is > >Hscan = 30-64 > >Vscan = 50-100 > >dot-pitch = .26 > > > > but that they have never heard of dot-clock. > > > > I haden't either. :-) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NTFS driver as modul
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 05:45:00PM +, Ian Watkins wrote: > MM> > I have tried all sorts of things to get around this, what have I m > MM> > I have not got module versioning installed in the kernel as far as > MM> > > MM> Try to recompile the module under new kernel v33 or insmod it with o > MM> force: > MM> insmod -f ntfs.o > > I did, a number of times > > MM> BTW I've got the same problem, when I've changed kernel... > MM> Even I don't tour on: > MM> Set version information on all symbols for modules > > Weird. Is this a bug perchance? It's not the ideal fix, but the 2.1.x kernels have much better NTFS support - even (experimental) write. Try 2.1.78 if you want (or possibly 2.1.79 although there seem to be a few compile problems). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xinetd not starting -- where is rpc.portmap?
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 01:17:27PM -0500, debian mail recipient wrote: > > I've had a problem telnet-ing to my machine recently, and the reason is > because xinetd is not starting. This is because the startup script > (S20xinetd) > checks for a file called "/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap" and, as it is not on my > system, > causes the startup script to exit: > > --- CONTENTS (PARTIAL) OF "bo/Contents-i386" --- > > usr/sbin/rmt utils/cpio Thanks for the partial include - I have a feeling that it a *pretty large* file :-) If you have a look at the startup script, you will see that it is a symlink to /etc/init.d/xinetd ? Anyway: [2]wyvern:~$ dpkg -S rpc.portmap dpkg: *rpc.portmap* not found. You have mail in /var/spool/mail/bridgett You have mail in /home/bridgett/mail/kernel You have new mail in /home/bridgett/mail/Debian/mentor You have mail in /home/bridgett/mail/Debian/devel You have mail in /home/bridgett/mail/Debian/user You have mail in /home/bridgett/mail/Debian/bugs [2]wyvern:~$ dpkg -S portmap netbase: /usr/sbin/portmap netbase: /usr/man/man8/portmap.8.gz netbase: /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz So it looks like it has changed it's name to portmap. Is this the latest xinetd package you have - if so then it looks like a bug report may be needed! Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: misc questions: screen, version notation
On Wed, Jan 08, 1997 at 11:17:42PM -0600, Asher Haig wrote: > G. Crimp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 1/8/98 10:51 PM > > > I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things > >that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection > >browser. The screen package is one. From the description it seems to > >me to be pretty much the same thing as the virtual terminals that come > >part and parcel with Linux. Are they the same, or do they provide > >something the VT's don't ? > > Screen is more for over telnet sessions etc. It also provides the ability > to detach (either great, or evil, depending on who you ask) screens and > resume them later. I have a DEC vt420 terminal hooked up and the screen package allows me to do virtual terminals on that (including cut&paste between the terminals) :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: misc questions: screen, version notation
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 12:31:22AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > G. Crimp wrote: > > I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things > > that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection > > browser. The screen package is one. From the description it seems to > > me to be pretty much the same thing as the virtual terminals that come > > part and parcel with Linux. Are they the same, or do they provide > > something the VT's don't ? > > Screen is useful becuase you can use it in situation where you're not at the > console -- telnet to a remote host and run screen therem run it in your > xterm, or from a dumb terminal. > > It also has additional handy features, most notable is the ability to > "detach" the programs running under screen, and reattach to them later, from > elsewhere. > > > How does one read the version numbers in the dselect window ? Eg., > > gsfonts 4.01-5. What does the -5 stand for ? > > It's the debian version number. Note that when the "upstream version" (i.e. 4.01) increases, then the debian version starts from 1 again. (just for completeness) If a non-maintainer release is made (because the normal maintainer can't for some reason), then the debian version is increase by 0.1 rather than 1. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lp/ppa configuration; how to set to use printer?
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 01:26:17PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I have a Zip drive on lp0, and at boot time it is recognized (een if no > disk inserted), and then I cannot use lp0 to print. > > The lsmod reports ls module loaded, no ppa module reported. > > How can I disable ppa, and print? Two answers: a) try the new 2.1 kernels which apparently fix this b) compile ppa and ls as modules and then make sure only one is installed at any time. Use "insmod" and "rmmod" (as root) to do this. PS: Two copies of your .sig were included. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: WordProcessor + SoundCard + ZIP & PRINTING
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 07:48:57AM +0100, Ãlex Maneu wrote: [snip] > And another question! I use a "Iomega Zip 100MB > parallel port" drive. I can use it with fstab, but > I cannot print having this drive connected to the parallel > port. I've heard that there's a patch or something > that you can use the printer and the Zip. I know I > can't use them at the same time, but it doesn't matter, > I wanna use the printer... snip... There are two solutions (I havn't tried them - just read about them): a) upgrade to the latest kernels (2.1.??) and use parport which can share the parallel port. In fact you may be able to patch the 2.0 kernels - have a look on the Linux Zip drive site. b) compile the printer driver as a module (lp.o) and compile the zip driver as a module. If you want to print, do "modprobe lp.o". Then if you want to use the zip drive, do "rmmod lp.o" "modprobe scsi.o"? HTH Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Tip: how to speed up XEmacs start
On Thu, Dec 18, 1997 at 10:00:58PM +0200, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > Hi, > > If you are in a hurry do > touch /tmp/.sockets/audio0 > otherwise read on :) > > I was qurious about what makes XEmacs so slow at startup. With the help of > the strace(1) utility I found the following interesting behaviour of > XEmacs19. The XEmacs I am using is version 19.16-1 which comes with the > unstable distribution. > > When XEmacs starts up it creates a UNIX domain socket and tries to connect it > to /tmp/.sockets/audio0. If this special file does not exist (ENOENT is > returned) it does nanosleep(2) five times and sleeps about 1 second each > time. Only after nanosleeping it will continue loading. > > If a plain file named /tmp/.sockets/audio0 is created XEmacs gets > ECONNREFUSED as return value and goes on without nanosleeping or retrying. > This speeds up the startup time for about five seconds on my machine. > /usr/bin/time reports the time going from about 8.7 to 3.7 seconds. > > I hope you find this tip useful, Wow! I must have a slower machine, but it reduced the time from 20 to 15 seconds. I ran xemacs four times with the file (28s,18s,15s,15s), then removed the file (20s,20s). This is probably worth forwarding upstream so that Xemacs (or the particular .el) can include this speedup. Cheers Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Partitioning
On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:12:08PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: [snip] > > DOS (and W95) require to be booted from drive C: (ignoring floppies > again). During booting, at some stage before processing config.sys, it > switches from loading files from the actual boot drive to loading them > from drive C:. If these are not the same, weird things can happen > (processing of config.sys of another partition, or refusing to load > command.com because it has the wrong version number). The way DOS > assigns drive letters is this: > > * All non-DOS partitions are completely ignored. This includes OS/2's >hidden DOS partitions. > > * Each _active_ primary DOS partition on each subsequent drive is >assigned the next drive letter, even if it is not the first primary >DOS partition. If a drive has no active (DOS) partition, its _first_ >primary DOS partition is assigned a drive letter. If no primary DOS >partition exists on the drive, no drive letter is assigned in this >stage. [snip] It seems that NT probably does the same thing - if you happen to have an OS/2 HPFS partition (id #9), then NT thinks it is an NTFS partition(id #9). If you are unlucky, then this partition will be in such a place that it is assigned drive letter C. NT will then get confused as it can't actually understand what's on C: God, I *love* mount points - and I *loathe*, *hate*, *despise* drive letters :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lilo and dosemu
On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 03:06:02AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions > > which use the lilo boot system. > > I don't believe this. I don't know why, but this is in the README (on dosemu-0.67.15): *IMPORTANT* You must not have LILO installed on the partition for dosemu to boot off. As of 04/26/94, doublespace and stacker 3.1 will work with wholedisk or partition only access. Stacker 4.0 has been reported to work with wholedisk access. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Partitioning
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 01:39:05AM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
[snip - BIOS and large HDs]
> Take your pick. What many people seem to be confused about is that
> many, if not most, decisions concerning this stuff are driven by
> market forces requiring backward compatibility. Let me state _again_
> that the BIOS is nothing but a piece of software in a PROM - it can
> easily be altered should the market so request. The design of the PC
> is flexible enough here.
I'm not sure that replacing a chip is entirely flexible, althought modern
Flash BIOS overcome this (yes, I saw the P in PROM).
> > As I understand it, (at least with DOS/windows/OS2), you can only "see" one
> > primary partition _per disk_. This was also what various HOWTO's seemed to
> > say.
>
> No, no, NO! How many times do I have to say this: I HAVE MULTIPLE
> PRIMARY DOS PARTITIONS, AND BOTH DOS AND WINDOWS '95 SEE ALL OF THEM!
> What does it take to convince you that I'm not lying?! Do I need to
> mail an output of DOS fdisk perhaps? Or would you then think I forged
> that?The only problem with multiple primary
> DOS partitions that both DOS and W95 have, is that their fdisk refuses
> to create more than one. For a workaround, and more details, see the
> docs of my boot manager (see sig). Once created, they are seen and
> accesible.
I stand corrected, I thought maybe you had one primary parition on one disk
and one on another - I never meant to imply you were lying. MS fdisk is
badly broken - I've some very strange results from it.
> > The fact that windows (95 and NT) cannot use partitions properly - they
> > *require* that they are on the first primary partition on a disk - means
> > that partitioning is _alot_ of hard work (trust me - I've spent a week
> > reinstalling things and messing around).
>
> I doubt if you've spend as much time partitioning as I have developing
> my boot manager ;-) I have very little experience with NT, but I know
> for a fact that Windows '95 does _not_ require to be installed to the
> first primary partition of a harddisk - on my harddisk, it is installed
> on the fourth. The requirements are:
>
> - It must be installed on the first harddisk. This requirement goes
> for both DOS and W95; for DOS 6.22 and 7.0 (the DOS part of W95) there
> is a workaround if there are no primary DOS partitions on the first
> harddisk.
>
> - The active flag must be set to the booted partition. If W95 is
> booted from the fourth partition, but the active flag is set to the
> first, it will hang.
Is it possible to boot 95 from a logical partition? On a seperate note, is
it possible to *install* (from CD) 95 onto a logical HD.
One thing that I'll mention, HPFS (OS/2) and NTFS (NT) both use the same ID
for their paritions. If you try to install NT onto a disk where there is an
HPFS partition "before" the one that you are going to install NT on, it gets
confused ("it's an NT ID, but I can't read it - aaarrgh")? I'm sure of this,
but it seemed to be what happened on someone's machine at work (I didn't
have this problem and did have OS/2 installed).
> > One feature I look for in a design is easy modification in the future
> > (which is normally always needed for one reason or another).
>
> The PC having come this far, I'd say it apparently was modifyable
> enough to give us Pentium PCs without losing the ability to run DOS.
> Your list of things you object to is not exhaustive, and some of it I
> agree with; I am not defending everything to do with PCs, I just hate to
> see misinformation - especially on a list otherwise so helpful and
> accurate.
I can run a spectrum emulator on my PC, but that certainly wasn't designed
to be easily modifiable. In a similar way, if the PC was better designed in
the first place, they would be much faster now as the backwards
compatibility would come at a much lower cost than we are currently paying.
> > - allowing spaces in filename - *completely* *braindead*
>
> kilu:~$ > "Filename with spaces"
> kilu:~$ ls
> Filename with spaces
>
> I assume you are now going to tell me that the Linux "design" is
> completely braindead too? Or perhaps different rules apply to operating
> systems you like than to operating systems you don't like?
Oops - I knew this too! More anti-MS than anti-PC, but at least most people
using unix don't actually use any strange characters in filenames; unlike 95
which has "Program Files", the default short form of this is progra~1.
Unfortunately MS has seen fit to hard-code "progra~1" into their installation
for other programs (excel and word IIRC) which b*s things up if you've
changed the registry to give better short names like "programf".
Backwards-compatibility is a pet hate of mine. If we all used DEC alphas, we
would have far faster machines capable of running legacy applications faster
than "modern" PCs (e.g. Alphas can emulate Pentiums *very quickly*).
Adrian
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Re: Partitioning
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: > Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean with "incompatible workarounds"? What's incompatible > about booting from an extended partition? > > > I have "lost it". In as much as I really do not wish to mislead anyone > > then by "misinformation" are you talking about my assertions with respect > > to the BIOS design (and indeed design evolution) upon the overall > > filesystem design, or rather my (admitted) failure to even mention that > > there are new BIOS designs that do not themselves impose this scheme, or > > both? > > Your misinformation was that: > > - BIOS imposes the current partitioning scheme opon us, and limits the > number of primary partitions to four (not true - BIOS knows nothing > about partitions and doesn't care either). It does have the "1024 cylinders" problem though. > - DOS, Windows and OS/2 don't see other primary partitions than the one > they booted from (not true - DOS and Windows see other primary DOS > partitions just fine, and OS/2 won't even boot when they are present and > not "hidden"). As I understand it, (at least with DOS/windows/OS2), you can only "see" one primary partition _per disk_. This was also what various HOWTO's seemed to say. The fact that windows (95 and NT) cannot use partitions properly - they *require* that they are on the first primary partition on a disk - means that partitioning is _alot_ of hard work (trust me - I've spent a week reinstalling things and messing around). One feature I look for in a design is easy modification in the future (which is normally always needed for one reason or another). Most things "designed" by MS or to do with an IBM-PC are not. This ain't a flame - it's just fact: - BIOS date problems - compared with Unix which will eventually hit a problem 60 years after it's "birth) - IRQ cascading - only now going 32-bit (cf Mac/Atari/Amiga - 32/16bit since introduction) - FAT filesystem - VFAT (and even NTFS IIRC) - upper/lower case confusion - allowing spaces in filename - *completely* *braindead* The PC wasn't badly designed - it just wasn't designed. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: zgv (libc6)
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:35:47AM -0500, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > Just tried zgv thats in hamm. I get this: > > red# zgv > svgalib: FATAL internal error: > Set MAX_REGS at least to 405 in src/driver.h and recompile everything. Normally I'd suggest sending something like this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I've already reported the bug so don't bother :-) --sample email-- Package: zgv Version: 2.8-2 red# zgv svgalib: FATAL internal error: Set MAX_REGS at least to 405 in src/driver.h and recompile everything. I have a ... video card , the relevant bits of /etc/vga/libvga.config are attached below. BTW I got this running ... and ... [bits of libvga.conf] --sample email-- Thanks Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: umsdos
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 01:27:20PM -0600, Jason Ish wrote: > I have to install Linux onto a umsdos file system on one of my computers, > even though I know it isn't a suggested practice. > > What steps should I take to install a fresh debian system onto umsdos. I > have a up and running Debian system to make a new kernel and what not. Youch! I tried doing this a while ago and when I finally had it working, I tried to shrink it down in size and then broke it and gave up. I used a normal Debian box and mounted the directory etc. Maybe there is a cunning way to do this using a "looped"? filesystem? Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: package update listing from dpkg ?
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 10:54:02AM -0600, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > Hello, > > I checked the dpkg man page and the dpkg --help listing but could > not find an answer: > > Is there an option or set of flags that can be passed to dpkg in > order for it to provide a listing of installed packages that have > been updated? I'm assuming there must be since dselect does this > and it's simply a wrapper for dpkg, right? > > I would like to be able to just get the latest Packages.gz file and > check for updates. I'm looking for a list of updated installed > packages, not available (uninstalled) ones. Sort of, install the "dpkg-mountable" package, and then do this: /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/mountable/updated-packages where and are the status and available files - normally /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/available This returns a list of packages that you might want to go and FTP - very useful! Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: EPP Driver
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 10:05:54PM -0500, Lou5212 wrote: > I'm trying to optain or download the EPP Driver which is said to increase > loading time to at least 18 to 24 megs a min. > My Zip is so slow I loose my patience. > I have a 166mhz can you please tell me how I can increase loading time. No - but I'll try and *decrease* loading time. Try checking your BIOS settings, try using "EPP" - on one machine I have "ECP&EPP" worked fine, but on another it wouldn't. You'll never get 28-24MB/min - don't believe the specifications. I havn't tuned it (I leave FIFO checking on), but I get 2-3MB/min which is fine for my purposes. > Please note that Im using a paralell port. I'd hope so - otherwise the EPP driver is a bit useless :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: multiple X sessions problem
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 04:23:44PM +, E Papantoniou wrote: > (this is a repost) > Hi all, > > my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. > When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do > Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 > The second X server attempts to start (the gray default background appears) > and gets stuck at that point. Going back to the Ctrl-Alt-F2 screen the > erron message is : > > AUDIT ...(time and date)... 2144 X:client 1 rejected from local host > Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorised to connect to server This seems to be saying that the currently running Xserver won't let you connect. I think when you run "startx --:1.0" it is trying to start it on the currently running server. Try using something like "startx --vt9 :1.0" (I don't know if that's right, but it's getting there!) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PCL printer cannot be accessed
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 07:41:48AM -0600, Charles Read wrote: > Two questions: > > 1. If I used dvihp to generate a PCL file, can I then >go to a DOS shell in Win95 and say: >c:> copy PCL.file LPT1 > >I tried this, but first page was very messed up. DOS is stuffed - you must use "copy /b PCL.file LPT1" - ignoring the fact that it has a four letter extention :-) In fact I think this works too: "copy /b pcl.file prndositreallymessedup" as it only looks at the prn bit (IIRC). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: FW: HotJava browser for Linux?
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 07:58:25AM -0600, Jones, David A (CAP, ITS, US) wrote: > > > > -- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 1997 9:44 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:Re: HotJava browser for Linux? > > > > Dave- > > > > JavaSoft does not create the Linux port of the HotJava > > Browser. However, I have forwarded your request to > > an engineer that does work on that project. Um - good news, but since HotJava is written in Java it should (in theory) work anyway. Although last time I checked they distributed several versions, someone has packaged it up - it's in the unstable distribution. Cheers Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Communicator 4.
On Mon, Nov 24, 1997 at 11:15:17AM -0800, TJM wrote: > I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30 > kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage > is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes > with the communicator package from netscape. I know that dselect won't > offer any options for the package, but are there further advantages to > installing as a *.deb package? It also ensures that you have satisfied all the dependencies. It also makes the default mail non-HTML :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: zipdirve
On Mon, Nov 24, 1997 at 04:54:02PM -0700, Keith Holler wrote: > One more thing that might be a bit confusing... The Parallel Zip Drive > installs > as a SCSI device under Linux and does not as of yet support port thru for a > prin > ter plugged into the Zip Drive. If you want to connect your Parallel Zip and > a p > rinter at the same time... you will need 2 Parallel ports. I recommend the > SCSI > type of Zip Drive because it is faster and doesn't screw with your printer. As well as the new ppa which does this, you can apparently compile printer support and Zip drive support as modules. Then "all" you have to do is unload the modules, swap the cables?, and reload the other module! I've got the parallel version and I'm happy with it's speed - and I save $$ on my phone bills. On a PC at work I had to change the BIOS from "ECP+EPP" to just "EPP", otherwise it would use PS/2 style rather than EPP. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xmcd_2.2-4.deb problems
On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 07:27:43PM -0800, Jason Wright wrote: > Setting the binary +s allowed it to run, and start sucking all available > memory: > > overmind:/var/adm ] ps -auxww | grep xmcd > peewee 28825 0.0 0.5 836 360 p0 S 19:17 0:00 grep xmcd > root 28809 43.3 50.7 64088 32116 p1 D 19:16 0:24 > /usr/X11R6/bin/xmcd > > If it matters, it was attempting to do a CDDB lookup at the time. I had the same problem. Apparently it is a bug in Lesstif. Get the pre-compiled binary from the author's site (it has Motif statically linked) - it should work "fine". I think some paths are then messed up a bit - I also had problems sending off a CD list (only found one that wasn't listed so far - "Gorky's Zygotic Mynci") Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: immovable mouse cursor under XFree86 (Debian 1.3)
On Nov 05, Stephen Ryan wrote > Charles Read wrote: > > > > I'v installed Debian 1.3 on an AMD-K6 platform. > > My Xserver, XF86_S3V, starts out fine and autodetects > > the chipset used for my Nitro 3D (S3 ViRGE/GX). > > In the /etc/X11/XF86Setup, I specify in the Pointer > > section a protocol of "IntelliMouse" and a device > > of "/dev/ttyS0". However, the mouse cursor does > > not respond or move. I get the same behavior for > > all four possible setups with protocols "Mouse" and > > "IntelliMouse" and devices "/dev/ttyS0" and "/dev/ttyS1". > > > > What's wrong? > > That isn't a Microsoft serial mouse by any chance, is it? > Revision 2.1A? (Check the bottom of the mouse to be sure). > There was a thread recently on this describing the exact same > symptoms, in which the problem was tracked down to this. I > verified this by exchanging mice with the original poster, > since his office is 3 doors down from mine :-) The only fix > I have heard of is exchanging the mouse for another one. I have a 2.1a mouse and it works fine on /dev/ttyS0. It isn't an intellimouse. Here are the two bits of /etc/gpm.conf and /etc/X11/XF86Config that might help. Let me know if there is any thing you would like me to try to see what the problem is. I'm running (pretty much) the latest Debian unstable (XF86 3.3 not 3.3.1). /etc/gpm.conf - device=/dev/ttyS0 responsiveness= type=bare append="" /etc/X11/XF86Config --- Protocol"Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse" Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
