Re: JDK 1.1.7 doesn't swing
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 04:05:50PM -0700, Craig Coles wrote: Hi Seth, Thanks for the info, unfortunately nothing helps! ldconfig didn't help, jar placement hasn't helped, and the xlib6g-dev package was already installed. Also tried getting the original 117 package from Steve Byrne's site and it does the same thing... Anyone with success using Swing on Debian? What needs to be done, what am I doing wrong? Check http://www.mindspring.com/~tumu/java/Debian-JDK.html It is a bit outdated, but may be you could find some clues... I myself never tried using Swing with jdk1.1 - just used 1.2. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: C Program confused me
I encountered following program in one of the Linux Howtos. This calculates the value of pai. But how does it do this? I am not asking the programming details, but on what theory the formula is based on. Can anybody help? Is there any better place to look for help? First of all, remove ';' after #include instructions :) The formula is: 4* Integral(from 0 to 1) of 1/(1+x^2) dx = 4 * (arctan(1) - arctan(0))= 4* ( Pi/4 - 0) = Pi Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: AcceleratedX
I would like to put debian on my laptop but my chipset is not supported by Xfree in the accelerated mode. Will Accelerated X Laptop Server work with debian?? Yes, it will. Just make sure to install AccelX server ONLY. (Well, may be also fonts, if you like). DO NOT INSTALL their X libraries. Be aware that AccelX is still libc5-based so you will need to install libc5, xlib6, xpm4.7, etc Debian packages (libc5-based compatibility libraries). But look at Metro-X (www.metrolink.com) first. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: $ tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpS -)
I'm using this to copy a filesuyem to another partition: $ tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpS -) Consider using something like find . -depth -xdev -print | cpio -dumpv /mnt Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Apache 1.3 + SSL + PHP + PGSQL
Actually php3.ini is in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini. I tryed to copy it to /etc but it still doesn't work. In the meanwhile i've tryed to use just apache (no ssl) and the same thing happens! Thanks for any ideias, suggestion, etc I remember having exactly the same problem, but I got around it somehow. I cannot check my box right away, I can only suggest to use full path when specifying extension. Alex Y.
Re: Maelstrom crashes under X
I try to run Maelstrom under X (XF86_Mach64), and I get the following message: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 129 (MIT-SHM) Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_ShmPutImage) Serial number of failed request: 96 Current serial number in output stream: 97 It does not work even under root. What is the matter? Current version of maelstrom does not support 24/32 bpp screen depths. Run X in 16bpp mode to enjoy maelstrom for now :) Alex Y.
Re: ssh for debian
Is there a port of ssh for debian? If so, where is it? I'm using hamm. ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Recommendations
I am wondering if someone could recommend good ftp,telnet clients for x. For FTP client, I would recommend the program I created myself - WXftp (http://www.wxftp.seul.org). This is basically a clone of WS_FTP client for Win32. Good luck. Alex Y. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strcpy HELP!!!
Scott D. Killen writes: You are copying the string to temp2 which has not been initialized and is a NULL pointer. You need to allocate memory of at least the same size as temp1 to temp2 and this will solve your problem. When using C library string functions always allocate memory of at least the length of the string pointed to by temp1 plus 1 byte to hold the string termination character '\0'. As in: temp2 = (char*)malloc(strlen(temp1) + 1); When doing strcpy(temp2,temp1) ??? How could it possibly do that? It cannot change the value of temp2, it is passed by value. Please read man strcpy. Good luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AccelX on Debian
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I used to run AccelX on Debian 1.3.1 with no problems. I did a custom install and installed ONLY server and fonts. Did xdm work with your configuration? Yes. Actually I used X only via xdm. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AccelX on Debian
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, AUBORD Alain wrote: 3) Buy the complete package 4) Do a custom installation and then install just the AcceratedX package Is there anyone out there running Accelerated X on Debian? HOW do I do it? I used to run AccelX on Debian 1.3.1 with no problems. I did a custom install and installed ONLY server and fonts. I also had to edit a few files in /etc/X11 to reflect that they should use a different server. ALex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running java (JDK 1.02) applicatios.
I installed all the important parts of the JDk 1.02 (at least all the parts that were at the ftp server). My CLASSPATH is set to .:/usr/lib/jdk/classes.zip but when ever I do java ???.class it says it can't find the class. Can you help? Just do java ??? (without .class) and everything be all right:) Alex Y. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running java (JDK 1.02) applicatios.
BTW - Does anyone know why Sun makes javac use filename.java and java use filename with no .class extension? Because some may want to name .java files differently, like .jav And you may not necesseraly have .class file - class may be part of .zip or .jar file. Alex Y. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11R6.4 and Debian
I suspect that the result of making the Open Group's X non-free is that development of that version will start to fall behind the free version quickly. If the commercial folks don't want the freeware folks to have their contributions at all, it is very likely the freeware folks don't want them to profit from their contributions without doing something in return any longer. One way of doing that would be to switch X from BSD-like to GPL licensing. HTH, Ray Ray, let's not start the war, please... May be it is time to realize the existence of non-free software and try to live in peace with that, not try to ignore as much as possible its existence, adjust our policy and practice to the changing world. Proprietary software has its own and very important role,let's understand that. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install process
in no case did I enter runtime parameter for the device modules that I selected which included : under fs binfmt_java and vfat under ipi4 ip_alias , ipip( IP Tunneling) , and rarp Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. under misc lp (took the default one the parameters) , and psaux I wonder if I should have selected in addition Serial Softdog and/orwdt Note. The documentation seems to indicate that I should create a drv1440.bin floppy; but the install process did not call for this floppy. This may be that I installed from cd. Yes, that's the reason. All you mentioned above are just different kernel modules. You have them all installed anyway (in /lib/modules/2.0.*/) Names of those that you have selected are just appeared in /etc/modules file. Check it out. You may add new lines or remove existing ones any time without any reinstall. See what you got under /lib/modules. The name in /etc/modules file just means that the module is loaded at boot time. If you want to remove module, you use rmmod ... command, to insert one just do, for example insmod vfat. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Mouse Driver
When I was installing Debian (which should be the latest version - I received the CD only recently) I was given the option to install mouse support in the kernal. I attempted to do so, but this produced a device in use error or something similar. I have no objections to reinstalling Debian (I have done so twice already) but this error always occurs. You don't have to reinstall Debian for that. (It won't help much anyway). The truth is that there are quite a few mouse drivers in the menu you mentioned. What kind of mouse do you have: serial or busmouse? If busmouse - is it PS2 or some other type? Please tell us as much as you know about it. If you don't know the answer even to the first question, tell us what kind of plug the mouse have - round or not? Anyway, my guess would be that you have a ps2 mouse. In this case just do (as root) insmod psaux. If it works, then you should use /dev/psaux device to configure X or gpm (and ps2 protocol). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with vnc
might be the appropriate software, so I tried to set up my linux box as a vnc server. This was not possible couldn't as the vnc server didn't find any free sockets (I don't remember exactly what the error message was, but something like you might have already an x session running?!). Now I noticed that there seems to be a vnc package in hamm?! Is it possible to use it in bo? Has anybody used vnc under Debian 1.3 and encountered similar problems? No. I am running vnc on a bo machine fine. Are you starting the server using vncserver script? I don't use the debian package, and therefore had to use the fonserver - you should do the same. Also, you would have to edit vncserver script a bit- like to change the very first line - localtion of perl, also some changes needed inside -read the FAQ on the VNC website. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bye Bruce
Alex and then there is that ugly word: outsiders. And yes, there are always outsiders. When you have a community, unless it encompasses all humanity, there are always outsiders. People who do not get freedom of software. People who And those who get this freedom differently (like myself) ? Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp firewalling
I am trying to set up a firewall on our network, but to allow ftp connections from internal machines to specific external sites (on a per-site basis). The problem I am having is that ftp seems to use ports other than 20 and 21. At the moment I only allow transfers on these two ports. This allows me to make an ftp connection (ie. the external site prompts for username password, and I can enter those) but when I try to do any transfers (ie gets, puts, or lists) they just time out. Can anybody give me a bit more info on how ftp works? Well everything is described in RFC959, but in short, ftp can use whatever port it wants :) The thing is that there are 3 ways to establish data connection: 1) PORT without arguments - assumes client is listening to default data port (20), this is possible if all sockets bound to port 20 have reuse option set. Server connects to port 20 on the client machine. 2) PORT with arguments - client listens to data socket bound to some alternative port (or even different host - to allow remote-remote transfers). This alternative address and port are the arguments to this command. Server then connects to this alternative port and/or host. 3) PASV (no arguments) - requests server to open socket and listen for connection. Server opens socket and reponds to the client with address and port to connect to. In this case *client* connects to that port on the server machine. That's it. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Q] XDM -- how to reconfigure
xwindows for regular users. Is there a way to reconfigure xwindows or xdm to ask me that question about whether I want to use xdm again so I can answer 'No'. You can modify /etc/init.d/xdm script to meet your requirements. Another question is: I would like to know whether it is possible to switch back and forth between Xwindows and a full screen terminal (sort of like in NT where I can have a full screen command promt and switch from and to it). Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or -F2,-F3,...,-F6) will bring you to the virtual console(s). Alt-F7 brings you back to X. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What SCSI should I buy?
Adaptec 2940 UW 300$ Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$ Advansys UW180$ Advansys U 150$ Diamond fireport (UW ?) 180$ The only semi-viable choice is the 2940UW.. The Buslogic cards are my current favorite. Yep, BusLogic 958 is a very nice UW card similar to Adaptec 2940UW. ALex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem
Ok. when I use the man or apropos commands I get a bad command kind of error. Any ideas? Install man-db package along with many others to statisfy dependencies. ALex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSI controller
I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Only BusLogic (Mylex) is guranteed to work properly under Linux. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian-|-Zip
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 04 10:07:30 1998 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:07:30 -0500 Resent-date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 14:56:26 + Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:56:27 -0500 (EST) Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian-|-Zip In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-message-id: P6gRp.A.MnD.YuW_0@debian Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/28606 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Authentication-warning: seminole.gate.net: storm owned process doing -bs X-UIDL: 8bd86776c09c3ec7270608c2c84d86eb Resent-Sender: Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? Yes, all varieties. Well, Zip Plus plugged into parallel port was not supported last time I checked... That's odd, it's worked for me for a while. You're looking for the ppa driver, you probably have to insmod it first, unless you've configured /etc/conf.modules correctly. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modifying Routing Tables on the fly
Is there a way to safely change the routing table dependant on who logs in ? Well, this is hard to imagine for a multi-user system. If you have several users logged in -on on the console and another one from local network via telnet? Anyway, if you still insist on this kind of setup, you may want to look at sudo package. It may be anofigured to allow specific users to run specific commands as root. But then the same user can change te routing tables the way s/he wants... I don't think it is possible. I am doing on-the-fly changing of the routing tables - but different changes - I modify the gateway depending on what computer on the local network is actually connected to the outside net (via ppp). ALex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help with ftp
How can i download the entire tree structure to my PC so i could copy it to CD (i have a cd writer)? i mean, a single instruction that makes it recursively. Assuming you have Linux installed on your home PC (right?) - you may use package mirror to create a mirror of the remote directory tree on your home machine. You may also install ncftp or lftp which has recursive downloading function. This task is a bit more complicated than you probably think because of the symlinks inside the tree. Mirror is guaranteed to get everything correctly, not sure about the other two. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf. But, I don't remember the solution. Could someone repeat it for me? append=mem=80M Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Max swap on Linux
I am going to install Debian on a system that may require alot of swap space. According to the Debian installation notes, Linux only uses up to 128MB of swap space. I've been also told that Linux can handle more. Which is correct? Linux cannot handle more than 128M of swap in one partition. But you can have several 128M swap partitions. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Thanks :)
P.S.: I noticed alot of you use IIRC. Since I only found out about the IIRC=If I Remember Correctly Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: popclient
I try to find the popclient package but I cannot find it. It seems that the popclient package has become obsolete. Can someone tell me which package has the popclient program. fetchmail And the program is called fetchmail, not popclient. Be aware: both poclient and fetchmail use configuration files that look very alike. Nevertheless, they are not 100% compatible. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.
Great proposition. Unfortunately, both lesstif and gtk developers flamed me heavily while I was lurking on their lists :) May be it's my problem though... could be. it's hard to imagine that a lurker would get flamed. people usually only get flamed for saying something annoying. Oh, yeah. I was saying very annoying things. Like the one that gtk people broke the X naming conventions. And that the goal of lesstif is theoretically unachievable in a way it is stated on their homepage due to the nature of X... Do you use Netscape? :) yes. netscape has enough utility value to offset the non-freeness. as i said, open source is only ONE of my criteria. a very important one, but not the only one. fortunately, netscape is being released as an open source project next month so this anomaly will be gone. Yes, but I wouldn't get that excited about it. Remember, Netscape uses Motif (and as any other decent Motif product, not only Motif, but some other add-on *commercial* widgets). Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Getting Started
I've a Syquest (1.5 G) drive and I do not seem to be able to mount it onto any partition: mount /dev/sdca /syquest Always gave me some error on unknown ftype... Did I do something wrong? Thanks! To mount the disk in syjet, you should know the partitions you have on that disk. Just run fdisk -l, it will list all the partitions you have on your system. If your syjet is really /dev/sdc device, and have only one dos partition, then mount it with mount -t msdos /dev/sdc1 /mnt But if you want just to install linux on the drive, you don't even need to do that. Just insert the disk into the drive, rescue floppy into the floppy drive and reboot the computer. Configure the keyboard and go to the partition the hard drive menu. Select the syjet drive from there (/dev/sdc, if it is correct) and repartion it the way you like. You will create /dev/sdc1, /dev/sdc2, etc. partitions. You will be prompted on where these partitions should be mounted, respond to that and just follow the installation path. Everything will be done automatically. Just don't try to make the hard drive bootable! Create a boot floppy! Now, each time you want to boot linux, insert the boot floppy you created and the syjet disk and reboot. You may remove the floppy after booting. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape communicator
but how can I install the libraries depending on libc5 when I have libc6? You can. If you install those from hamm/ tree - there would be no problem. They are just installed in an alternative location. Check out oldlibs/ section in hamm. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.
I hope you'll put it under the GPL. Hope you wouldn't :) Since I wouldn't be able to create a Motif interface in case you put it under GPL. I am having a big problems with GPL'd software now: I am writing a Motif clone of WS_FTP and while the front-end is almost ready, I am forced to write my own back-end because the usable ftp software is GPL'd! I feel more then frustrated about it now. Q: ouch! it hurts when i do this. A: don't do that then. in other words, if motif is causing you problems then don't use motif. there are several GPL-ed alternatives available, including lesstif. Hi. I expected this :) Guys, what I am doing is a high-quality gui programming. (sorry if it sounds a bit ... not humble). Even Motif is not enough for this kind of task. I am using most of the features of Motif 2.0 (those which are also present in 2.1) - this rules lesstif out. And still, it was not enough. I even thought of using the VERY non-free, (check out the prices on www.klg.com), the XRT PDS widget set for Motif. There were several other alternatives though, due to the very long history of Motif many free widgets were created. I compared several of them and found that the gain from XRT PDS would be minimal, ended up with using some free (but still Motif-based) widgets (XbaeMatrix comes to mind). If you like, I can send you a pilot prototype so that you can compare its look with the one of, say, gzilla. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Motif
Thanks... , This is my output.. obviously no Motif.. Is it in a particular package? and should I have more thaa this output? Motif is not free. You can buy it from several vendors. Which puts up a question. What are people's experiences with different kind of motif distributions in combination with debian? Will the libraries coninue to Metrolink Motif 2.0.1 worked more then fine for me. Unfortunately, in libc6 system you will need to somehow reconfigure the loader to make it think that libXm.so.2 is libc5 and not libc6 linked. On the other hand, Metrolink already has libc6 (glibc2) version of Motif 2.1 for Linux. work after a libc5-libc6 transition? Are there distributions with source that allow you to rebuild the libraries if this would be necessary? Nope. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape communicator
Hi I installed Netscape Communicator 4.04 on my debian 1.3.1 updated to libc6 and it just writes that it cannot load libXpm.so.4 I have installed xpm4g_3.4j-0.6.deb and the library file is there in /usr/X11R6/lib. what might be the problem? before updating to libc6, this version of netscape worked normally. netscape is libc5 based binary and it needs all the shared libs it uses to be libc5 based. You should install all the X11 libs without 'g' (libc5 counterparts). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.
Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML version. But why reinvent the wheel if there is already one. I hope you'll put it under the GPL. Hope you wouldn't :) Since I wouldn't be able to create a Motif interface in case you put it under GPL. I am having a big problems with GPL'd software now: I am writing a Motif clone of WS_FTP and while the front-end is almost ready, I am forced to write my own back-end because the usable ftp software is GPL'd! I feel more then frustrated about it now. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XWindows too big for my screen.
Hello, == In X-Windows, almost any software I run extends off the edges of the screen, making it difficult or impossible to use some stuff (Especialy games, but other stuff too.) I'm using an SVGA monitor, but with a generic VGA graphics card. Hi. While the following is all true, what you probably asked for is just that most (if not all) X programs have -geometry option which allowes to specify the initial size of the window. Like in the following gv -geometry 200x300-0+0 will make gv open the window in the upper right corner with height 300 and width 200. Alex Y. Well, how much VRAM do you have on your graphics card? I have just 1 MB, but it allows me to run XWindow in 800x600x256 colors with virtual screen of 1024x768. I think it is also suitable for you. Virtual screen is a screen that 'exceeds' the size of your physical screen. You can enlarge it and move in it by simply dragging your mouse towards some corner of the screen. I suspect your virtual screen is too small, so it'll be good to enlarge it. So, edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, find the 'Screen sections' section and add this line to every 'Subsection Display': Virtual 1024 768 (or how much do you want) so it looks like this: Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 640x480 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Of course, only one of that subsections is responsible for your display (because X automatically chooses the proper driver and settings for your card), but because I don't know which one of them is to be used to set up your X, I suggest you put that line into every such subsection. Of course you may experiment and find out which one subsection is really needed and edit only that. I think you should edit preferably those section which are commented to be for generic VGA. But there is nothing to mess. By the way, how many screens do you have on your X? It is set in the system.fvwm2rc file (if you're using FVWM2) in the line DeskTopSize. Make sure it is at least 2x2. Well, try it - and if it doesn't work, just e-mail ;-) Everything the best, Peter -- * * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * Kysucke Nove Mesto* * 024 01* * Slovakia, Europe * * - * * tlf: +421 826 421 2542* * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: FTP Killing PPP Connection
I'm having some strange results when I use the default FTP software. It goes for a while and eventually kills my PPP connection. I don't make it to a meg of a download before the system redials. This also happens when remote users access ftpd and transfer files. But not as badly or as often. The strange thing is... ncftp does NOT do this. I have never had a redial while using it. Anyone else run into this? Could it be a network setting that needs to be adjusted? Because I can't nail this down to a specific cause... RTFM hasn't been too successful ;) The connection is a standard 33.6 USR Sportster. I run a low usage Apache server, sendmail (20 users max) and 21 Eggdrop bots. I first thought I was taxing my bandwidth. however, lag is not a problem... everything else functions great, and if it was a bandwidth problem... ncftp would have the same problem. Hi. I studied the code of both ftp and ncftp recently and found that while there is a great deal of inspiration of ncftp from ftp, they are a bit different in settings the socket options for both control and data connection. But you can't change it. The other thing is that ncftp uses passive mode by default while ftp sendport mode for data connection. Try setting passive in ftp and see if it helps. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?
I know I'm not playing fair comparing the systems this way (different kernels, memory, chipset, ...) but I was hoping somebody could give better statistics on this. Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it on my PII/233 for comparison if you want. Same here, only with PII/300. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: OSS setup
This is from the OSS linux-x86 page. This does not sound right based on how debian does other things. Could we perhpas offer a better solution to them. The URL is: http://www.opensound.com/linux-x86.html BEGIN QUOTE: ... It was already discussed. The better solution was indeed proposed and it will appear in the nearest releases of OSS (hopefully). The text of the quote was changed after this discussion. Previously it sound something like: the way Debian treat kernel headers is seriously broken Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Running fetchmail in ip-up
I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a couple of different places. Would it be best to run it via su so that it is run using my account? Is there a better way? All of the accounts have different user names. Not my choice. Hi. If my memory doesn't fail me, fetchmail can be configured to poll mail from different hosts with specified remote user id AND local user id to deliver to for each host seperately. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Librarys
Can someone tell me what file I need off of ftp.debian.org that contains all the .h files like, types.h, and time.h? I need the ones that work with the gcc compiler. I've downloaded gcc*.deb, gdb*c, and make*deb. Can someone also tell me what command to use to see how much space I have left? Thanks, Pete Assuming you are using 'stable', get libc5-dev package. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Renaming a directory..
Hi all Does somebody know if there's some command to *rename* either a file or directory in Linux. I don't want to move them to another files/dirs. Thank you Bruno mv oldname newname mv actually *moves* files only if oldname and newname are on the different partitions (filesystems), otherwise it plainly renames files (directories). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
help with man-db
Hi. I'm having problems with Motif man pages which I installed on my system. If I run, say, man XmString I get the following error messages: Reformatting XmString(3x), please wait... zsoelim: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x:292: \\$1: No such file or directory zsoelim: \\$1.gz: No such file or directory zsoelim: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x:292: warning: failed .so request zsoelim: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x:329: /tmp/pI.tmp.: No such file or directory zsoelim: /tmp/pI.tmp..gz: No such file or directory zsoelim: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x:329: warning: failed .so request input in flex scanner failed And then only part of the page is displayed. Meanwhile, zcat /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x.gz | groff -Tascii -tmandoc - | less works perfectly. If anyone have any idea on how to fix that, I would be very obliged. I can send the example of the problem page, if needed. Thanks a lot. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc5 (not libc6) by default? (was: CDE)
I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6 which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in converting the rpm files to deb files using alien. Unfortunately, when I tried to start CDE using dtlogin, I received a core dump. I received no response from RedHat technical support. Its a real pity that Debian doesn't have support for the primary window enviornment used by all commercial UNIX vendors. Maybe we should try to work directly with TriTeal, the suppliers of CDE for RedHat, a seperate package for Debian. I'm sure there is not the problem that the package is not *.deb. The problem here is that it was not linked with specific major version of libc. If you try to do ldd /path/to/some/CDE/executable/or/library I bet that you'll get dependence on libc6. Same thing happens to my Motif: libXm.so.2.0 seems to depend on libc6 while both of them used libc5 headers. The solution is to configure shared lib loader to use libc5 by default. If somebody can tell me how to do it, I would be very gratefull. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice multiuser
it doesn't seem to be necessary anymore. I used custom install as root to put it in /usr/local/share, than ran /usr/local/share/Office40/bin/setup as a user, ignored the incorrect statement that it was going to use 110MB again (really 12k or so, i think), then ran it with no problem. As near as I can tell this is what the README meant, but it is less than clear [uses /net rather than -net as an option???] This MultiUserUnstall is helpful because once you (as root) installed everything somewhere, than any user can run soffice (which can be a symbolic link from /usr/local/bin to the actual location of this script) and install all the necessary files into the user directory non-interactively (if s/he starts soffice for the first time) and then starts the StarOffice itself. Pretty slick I would say. Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ppp connection newbie
Can some one describe the files that I need to alter to create a dialup ppp connection. Do I need to issue a command after the program dials the server. Sorry, I really am a newbie... Here is some of my dialup info Server Phone # 875-6996 The Server assigns me an ip on connect Primary DNS 146.7.2.2 Secondary 150.199.1.11 Does you server use PAP ? Do you need to enter your user ID and password on login? I would advise you to install minicom, dial the server with it and look for the prompts it gives you. In my case it askes me for a Username: , I have to enter that, then Password: , I enter password, then it gives me prompt NYUmodem and I have to enter ppp to start pppd on the other side. It also uses PAP so I put the following line in my /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file: myuserID* mypassword Also, I had to add the following options to /etc/ppp.options_out file: user myuserID - on the same line! And finally, my /etc/ppp.chatscript looks like this: REPORT CONNECT ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ATDTphonenumbertodial CONNECT '' name:--name: myuserID word:\qmypassowrd \--\ ppp\q Hope this helps. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help please!
I have reset the comp with the rescue-floppy and everything seemed fine.When i pressed enter at the boot prompt after a while this message came up: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 And the computer stops. Anyone know what this means? Among other reasons you might have a bad or corrupted floppy. Try to use another one. This may sound silly, but it is the most typical reason for installation failures. And one more thing: the fact floppy works under DOS doesn't mean it is not corrupted. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Module Problem ? (was: Re: help with SB AWE 64 !)
Yes, this is really bad. It shouldn't be this way. I'm at a loss here, sorry. Anybody else? Please, if you find a solution, mail it to me. It seems to be a module problem, although I can't see what is wrong... Marcus, I solved the problem. There were several issues here. First (bonehead one) is that I am not accostomed to work in XDM'ed evironment with xconsole running - that is the reason I didn't see the messages while inserting the module :) As for real reasons to fail, there were two: I had to use newer isapnptools 1.9 is NOT got. I don't know about 1.10, 1.11 work. And another problem is with patch - the one in bo is no good at all, patch 2.5 from bo-unstable is no good either: -d option doesn't work, I had to change install.sh from awedrv in the following way: all lines in the form patch -d $dir bla.diff to cat bla.diff | (cd $dir ; patch -p0) This way it patches OK and everything works. (In the second scenario). The first one I also fixed: with newer OSS driver (3.8s). The problem was that I had to do rm -rf linux/drivers/sound first, then untar the oss3.8s, then patch with newer awedrv (with install.sh changed in the already described way). Another trick here is that during make *config I shouldn't say YES to the OSS wavetable engine. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice
Hi Group, I keep seeing posts regarding StarOffice. Where can I get this? http://www.stardivision.com/ Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Automating PPP with cron?
Hi, I would like to setup my system to do two things. To check periodically to see if my PPP connection has died, and redial my isp if it has. And to disconnect and redial every 6 hours, (my isp doesn't like it if you stay one more than 6 hours consecutively). What would be the best way to go about implementing this, and how should I start going about it? Add persist option to pppd. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can I pass dselect a list of packages?
I was wondering if it was possible to pass dselect a _custom_ list of packages that has been previously compiled. ie: `cat pkg-list` If you already have a debian system with desired set of packages installed you could do: dpkg --get-selections pkg-list and then on a new system dpkg --set-selections pkg-list The file pkg-list is an ascii file and I think you can customize it to your need. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem
Okay i installed linux but i can't seem to install anything with dselect. I think I must have configured my ethernet wrong. This is what it says when i try to install something with dselect: Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405 FTP error Query/setup script returned error exit status 1. my hardware is: 3com Etherlink III ISA (3C509b-TPO) Could you please post to the list the following files: /etc/init.d/network /etc/resolv.conf /etc/networks Thanks. ALex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XFREE86 ?
When using Dselect, I can't seem to find the XFREE86 package. I have noticed that there are several different front-ends to the X GUI available in the distribution but I can't find XFREE86. I looked at your FTP site and found out that Debian 1.3.1 included XFREE86 but what is the name of the file I have to download. (?.deb) There is no package named xfree86. There are several packages. You would need to install: xlib6, xbase, xfntbase, xfnt75,xserver-vga16, and one of the xserver-* which matches your video card. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Matrox Millenum II under XFree86 [was: Which Linux distribution???]
I'm having a little trouble with configuring my card. I have the 250MHz type with 8 megs of ram.. anyhow, when I switch to another console and return, the screen is shifted about 5 and wrapped around the other side.. Also, the X doesn't fill the screen correctly -- squished vertically and too wide horizontailly... Any suggestions? I should assume you are using Xfree86 packages from hamm, right? (Since xfree86 3.3 found in bo does not have MMII support). To fix the screen geometry use xvidtune program. In case it still doesn't work the way you want, get X server from SuSE web site http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
help with SB AWE 64 !
Hi. I failed to configure my AWE64 sound card. By following all the instructions in the min-HOWTO I come up with very predictable result - system hangs solid on my attempt to insert sound module. I installed the latest OSS-Free driver, patched with AWE extentions, compiled the kernel (2.0.33), run pnpdump (ver 1.9), it failed to detect all three chanels of the wavetable- I inserted them manually, all data was availble from the card manual. I also had to put (WAITFORKEY) in there. isapnp runs OK, module lock my computer solid. I am running out of ideas. Please help... Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help with SB AWE 64 !
Sorry for sending that to the list, message directly to Marcus bounced. - Forwarded message from Alex Yukhimets - From alexy Thu Feb 5 12:31:37 1998 Subject: Re: help with SB AWE 64 ! In-Reply-To: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Feb 5, 98 03:56:07 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 12:31:37 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] I installed the latest OSS-Free driver, patched with AWE extentions, compiled the kernel (2.0.33), run pnpdump (ver 1.9), it failed to detect all three chanels of the wavetable- I inserted them manually, all data was availble from the card manual. I also had to put (WAITFORKEY) in there. isapnp runs OK, module lock my computer solid. Mmmh. Please, could you provide me with all relevant conf files (including kernel configuration and boot messages)? I hope I am able to help you, but I need some more information. PLease give me also the version number of the OSS-Free driver, as you said you installed the latest. Did you also try the standard version that ships with the 2.0.33 kernel? I am running out of ideas. Please help... I will have ideas when I see your files, I hope. It is not the usual sort of problems I hear of. What Liunux version do you use? How do you compile and install modules? Hope I can help you, Marcus PS: Perhaps better to not bother the list with the conf-files, or? Thanks, Marcus. I already moved forward and got a bit better result. Anyway, here is a description of the first attempt: 1)Unpack the linux-2.0.33 into the /usr/local/src directory (linux directory created) 2)Unpack ossfree38s6-linux20x.tar.gz into the same directory. (also goes into linux/) 3)Unpack awedrv-0.4.2d.tgz (awe-0.4.2d directory created). 4) As recommended, run make menuconfig and exit. 5) In awe-0.4.2d/, run sh ./install.sh, tell it about my /usr/local/src/linux seems to be run OK. 6) Again make menuconfig. Here is my .config file: # # Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit # # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KERNELD=y # # General setup # # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_NET=y # CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=m CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y CONFIG_M686=y # # Floppy, IDE, and other block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=m CONFIG_MD_STRIPED=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set # # Networking options # CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y CONFIG_RST_COOKIES=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y # CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE is not set CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y # CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY is not set CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set # CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y # CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set CONFIG_INET_RARP=m # CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y # CONFIG_IPX is not set # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_AX25 is not set # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set # # SCSI support # CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y # CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS is not set # # SCSI low-level drivers # # CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC=y CONFIG_SCSI_OMIT_FLASHPOINT=y # CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_PPA is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH is not set # # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m # CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set # CONFIG_DLCI is not set # CONFIG_PLIP is not set CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_SLIP=y CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y # CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 is not set # CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
Re: perl5.004_04 bo?
Would perl 5.004_04 break debian 1.3.1? No. Works fine here (the version from bo-unstable). Or should I upgrade to 'hamm'? I've seen some comments about 'hamm', apparently stable now. Probably, it is true, but I failed to create proper environment for libc5 Motif development, failed to install StarOffice, and ended up reinstalling bo. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with dual boot NT/linux
First I thought that it was just because Debian has somehow installed something on the master boot record, so I booted dos with dos system floppy and I did fdisk /MBR in order to clear the MBR and I verified that my dos partion was OK; but I didn't work out. I also tried to remove the second hard-drive (/dev/sdb) but it still tells me : Missing operationg system Yes, I encouneterd something similar also. The reason I was unable to boot NT was simple - somehow the bootable flag for /dev/sda1 partition was erased. And the worse thing that after restoring it with linux fdisk, I got another message: invalid partition table. The fix was to make NT (or DOS) to run it's own fdisk to resrtre the flag correctly. fdisk /mbr does nothing, 'cause MBR is OK! try just starting fdisk in dos and exit without chnaging anything. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with dual boot NT/linux
Yes, I encouneterd something similar also. The reason I was unable to boot NT was simple - somehow the bootable flag for /dev/sda1 partition was erased. And the worse thing that after restoring it with linux fdisk, I got another message: invalid partition table. The fix was to make NT (or DOS) to run it's own fdisk to resrtre the flag correctly. fdisk /mbr does nothing, 'cause MBR is OK! try just starting fdisk in dos and exit without chnaging anything. I tried that and it tells me : Error reading fixed disk But I still can read data on drive C: under DOS !! I also tried to toggle the bootable flag with linux fdisk and then try to launch dos fdisk again but it did the same : Error reading fixed disk Do you have an idear ? The point here is to start the fdisk of NT. I am no NT expert so I end up reinstalling it... Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
StarOffice in hamm
Hi. After (sucessfull) attempt to install useing hamm disks and installing a large number of packages over ftp I found impossible to use StarOffice. Regardless of whether I use static or dynamic version, installer or without, running setup always gives me segmentation fault. Running inside gdb says that it happens in rindex(). Is it anything known? Another thing - in the staroffice postinst script, checking for motif is a little bit not working: after reading /etc/ld.so.config into array, it would be better to chop the array first before trying to concatenate with /libXm.so.2. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with java
I'm trying to learn a little about java, so I installed jdk1.1 from hamm.
The rest of my system is Debian 1.3 (or stable).
I'm testing the installation using the 'hello world' app below:
class HelloWorldApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(Hello World!); //Display the string.
}
}
Compiling the app seems to work fine:
My problem is when I try to run the app:
[/usr/home/witt/devel/java] $ java HelloWorldApp.class
Can't find class HelloWorldApp.class
I've checked the environment variables CLASSPATH (I don't have it set, so
it should be set by the java scripts) and can't think of anything else.
Anyone have any ideas??
Sure, lots of ideas :)
just run it as java HelloWorldApp
(without .class) and everything will be fine.
Alex Y.
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Re: LINUX
I dont understand how i download debian Can u tell me the exact place to go and which files tro download??? I just a want a basic linux system with a GUI and applications included Please post such questions to debian-user@lists.debian.org Get ftp://ftp.debian.org/bo/disks-i386/current/install.txt This file contains the instructions on how to do it. Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't install Debian Linux on a 586 with 166mmx tech!
When i get to the place where it says to install base files i choose to install from a floppy. It asks for disk#1 and when i do it comes up with the message of it dosen't look like disk#1 and i tryed it again and it still comes up with the same message! Could you help me with the installation of Debian Linux. I have all of the files nessary files to install Debian Linux. I have 32 mega byites of ram do I need the base floppies? The base Images from the ftp site do not look like the ones on the web page about installing Debian inux. On that web page it hase the base14-1.bin and so on, and on the ftp site it has base-1.bin. What do I to put the base image on the 1.44 floppy disks. The way it is on the ftp site, when i use rawrite to put the base images on to the floppy it rites the source code one the floppy. the base-2.bin it makes the floppy unuseable. Please tell me How to do it right so I can install Debian Linux Operating system on my machine. I want to be able to use Debian Linux. Download base-1.bin,...,base-4.bin, drv1440.bin, and resc1440.bin files from ftp.debian.org/bo/disks-i386/current/. Use rawrite2 to make 7 floppies from the above files. Insert resc1440 floppy and reboot the computer. A little later it askes to insert _RESCUE_ disk (i.e resc1440) and only then base-1, etc. Note, that resc1440 should normally be in the drive at the time it is asked to be inserted. The problems with disks are usually the reflection of bad blocks on them. Use rawrite2 to create another set of disks on different floppies. Hope this helps. ALex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is it?
All right, don't flame me too hard. I want to download Debian. Someone told me to go to debian/dists/stable. From there, what file(s) do I need to download if I have no previuos version of Debian. I am not lazy, I have read all th README files. I have Rawrite to save it to disk, but the rest of the commands in th README files (like dselect) seem to be for Unix or Linux users. I am running under Win95 and have a spare hard drive for Linux but, for the life of me, I can't find the file(s). From debian/dists/stable/main/ I downloaded a file called Contents-i386.gz and contents.gz. Are these the files I am looking for? Nope. Go to debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ and download install.txt (or install.html) from there. This document explains how to proceed. Just to give you a hint, you would have to download base-*.bin, resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin files from the same directory, use rawrite2.exe under DOS to write them to 7 floppies. Insert the floppy with resc1440.bin on it into the drive and reboot the computer. Have fun. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Small home network ?
i want to have terminal to be able to see outside world As far as i understand from reading NET-3 HOWTO i can use dedicated class C addresses (something like 196.xxx) Is there any docs how to do it? Hi. What you are looking for is IP Masquerading HOWTO. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Probably a simple question
I have an InfoMagic developers kit and this has Metro-X server in it. What's the low down on installing it on my system? Can this be done or was it only included as part of the Red Hat release? The Metro-X server supports the QVision 1024. I'm not sure if mine is a 1024 or a 2000 off the top of my head. From what I've read AcceleratedX is the only way I can go if it's a QVision 2000 . Is this correct? Any assistance and guidence is appreciated. Hi. Metro-X claims to support Compaq QVision 2000. You may go ahead and install it. Accelerated-X definitely supports it. I would suggest to install xbase, xfntbase, and xfnt75 packages first. Also, please use debian-user list for this kind of questions. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help with ddd!
I've been trying to get ddd running on my machine. I have a good install of Debian 1.3, and am quite happy with it. I have been using gdb and XEmacs, but would like to give ddd a try. However when I try to start it up I get: Warning: Name: status_form Class: XmForm Layout algorithm bailing out after 200 iterations This message repeats 20-30 times in the window I started ddd from, and then nothing! It just sits there until I hit ^C and abort it. I don't see why this should be happening, and would greatly appreciate some help! What ddd version are you using? Try installing ddd-smotif (or ddd-dmotif in case you have Motif) from hamm/contirb. It will work with your Debian 1.3 very well. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Good Soundcard
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 06:29:14PM -0600, Jon Nelson wrote: Can anybody recommend a sound card based upon the following criteria: * Compatability with Linux * SBPro compatability * Sound Quality * Price Try to get a SB 32, but stay away from SB 64! Reason: The SB32 does work fine with the awe patch to the kernel (available as Debian package). The SB64 will work , too, but only as a SB32 (because the additional 32 are windoze driver only). Hi. So what is the reason to stay away from SB AWE64? Especially if one has a dual-boot system? By the way Net Express on their web page (http://www.tdl.com/~netex/redhat/configuration.html) suggests what I understand as an alternative way of confuguring Sound Card. And provided they ship their systems with AWE 64 by default, described procedure should be applicable to this particular card. What is in contradiction with your HOWTO is they explicitly say that sound should NOT be compiled as a module as it will default volume and other settings each time application access audio devices. Who's wrong? Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: new computer advice
Right now, it looks like Micron is where I'll be purchasing it from (though that isn't absolutely certain). Here's the main features of what I'm currently planning on: Hi. Check out Net Express (http://www.tdl.com/~netex/). They have exactly what you want and in addition *very* knowledgeable technical support. *Very* experienced with Linux. Dual 300MHz Pentium II 128MB SDRAM Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI controller Suggest BusLogic 958 instead. Dual 4GB ultra-wide SCSI HDs Diamond Fire GL 1000 PCI video (this will probably change) Go for AGP card and save PCI slot for something else. Alex Y. JAZ drive (internal) US Robotics x2 modem (need to make sure it's not a winmodem) 3COM 3C905 Ethernet card Logitec 3-Button mouse -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pgp and elm
find /usr/bin/pgp. Now I have pointed dselect both at ftp.debian.org and at ftp.de.debian.org (which I thought was outside the U.S.), but I found no package that would give me a pgp executable usable by elm. What is the solution? It seems a bit strange to provide a package that is broken. Please read ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.pgp Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Changing video modes on fly?
Is there a way to change the text video mode (say, from 80x25 to 80x50), on the fly? Try svgatextmode package. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IRQ and Sound
Could some one tell me how to change the default irq settings for sound card. Default is 7, mine is 5. It is impossible to do it from make menuconfig... Use make xconfig or edit .config file directly. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ppp and ip-up
Does ppp run the ip-up and ip-down scripts for incoming connections as well as outgoing? I added some commands to my ip-up on the server to set up extra routes when I dial in, but they don't seem to get run. Hi. They DO run here. As for ttyS? or /dev/ttyS? you'd better find this out experimentally: put echo $2 /tmp/pppdev into ip-up script and check /tmp/pppdev after connection being established. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie question.
But How do I insert escape characters in emacs or vi? In vi - use C-VEsq C-V = Ctrl-V Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gimp and libXm.so.2
?? I thought that lesstif was supposed to do the same things Motif does. Could I make a symbolic link from libXm.so.2 -- libXm.so.0 ? Hi. Well, of course you can make this link, but it won't work anyway :) Lesstif is _FAR_ from being drop-in replacement for Motif. The most you can do with Lesstif is try to recompile and link the code written for Motif _1.2_ (NOT 2.0) with Lesstif and see what happens. It works in some cases. These cases are usually packaged for Debian main distribution. If it doesn't work, then they packaged for Debian contrib (or non-free) part. In this case package usually called *-dmotif or *-smotif. If you have Motif 2.0 libraries installed on your machine, use -dmotif package (dynamically linked), -smotif otherwise. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: compile error: as86 command not found!
I got the following output when trying to compile a new kernel on my hamm system: make[1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error Install bin86 package. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xvidtune
When I run xvidtune, it works for the time being. When I exit X then launch X again it's back to what it was before I ran xvidtune. How can I get xvidtune to save the changes it makes? No other way then to click on show and then paste the modeline shown into your XF86Config file manually. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: compiling the kernel - as86 missing
The command as86 is missing to compile the kernel. It's not on my disk. Where can I find this command ? Regards, Marc Dear Marc, you have to install bin86 package to have as86 available. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: accelx question
has anyone installed accelx 4.1 on a bo system. I have a copy and wanted to install it. But the last time I did it rendered Xfree unusable. It ate the kb database. It's a feature of AX 4.1. Next time before installing AX, backup you /etc/X11 directory and restore after installation. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Grey Screen After Starting XF86
Newbie Question: I've configured XF86 (correctly I think) but evertime I try to start it with the X command, I get a grey screen and an X cursor. Nothing happens after that. Try startx command instead of plain X. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: JDK for Linux
Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze).. Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any stable versions for linux beyond 1.0.2, or because the package hasn't been updated, or what? Thanx, Timothy Hi. First, regarding your question about netscape. Check out ftp://ftp.netscape.com for more recent versions. 4.0.x is available for quite some time already. As for JDK, JDK 1.1.3 is available as a debian package in hamm/non-free (It can be safely installed on your stable system). If you want to use both 1.0.2 and 1.1.3 simultaneously, I would recommend downloading 1.1.3 directly from http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html The latest stable release of JDK from Sun is 1.1.5 and it _is_ available for Linux at ftp://lagrange.la.asu.edu/pub/Linux_jdk/JDK-1.1.5/ This port is by a different person (Sergey Nikitin) than 1.1.3 and franckly, I would not recommend using it because it is compiled against glibc2 (libc6) while Motif libraries that are currently available are still libc5 based. And dependence on both libc5 and libc6 of the same binary is not a good idea. Yes, Sun released JDK 1.2 beta2 recently for Solaris and Windows. To start working on Linux port we need to have a source code of the release which is not available (yet). Previous Sun's practice shows that the source would be available only after full (not beta) release. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: can^ôt use FIPS on windows 95
2) I bought my computer and it comes preinstalled with windows 95, so all of the hard disk is in one single partion. Reading the files that come with the debian distribution I read that I could use fips, but unfortunatly when I run it it stops with an error: that the partiosn is OBh or something... I suposse, as I read further, fips only can do partitions on msdos file systems, and I have a pure windows 95 FAT32... So the question is: How can I shrink my only one partition ! even if it is a windows 95 one. I was told that there is one program that may help you: Partition Magic. But it's a highly commercial program. Another alternative is a newer version of FIPS. Go to http://www.dejanews.com and search for fat32 fips to get a pointer on where to download it. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: a single command
Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps directory and all its contents. I looked at the man page but didn't see anything helpful. Thanks. rm -rf apps Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Matrox Millenium II vs. #9 Revolution 3D
Hi. I am about to get a new P II system and had to decide on many alterantives available. My current concern is what video card would suit me the best. I have no doubt that I would go with AGP one (even not for the sake of performance, but to save PCI slot :) and my current choice is between Matrox Millenium II AGP and Number Nine Revolution 3D AGP. Matrox seems to be the fastest under X (and free driver is already available from S.u.S.E.), Revolution 3D is faster under Windows. I do not intend to use Windows a lot, so the best bet would be Matrox, but I heard the opinion that in spite of the fact that it is the fastest, it's image quality is substantially worse than that of Number Nine cards. Could anyone confirm this? And another thing, assuming I would have to use Accelerated X server with my card, what are the cons of the fact that server is libc5 compiled and my system will be libc6-based (of course, I would have to install libc5 runtime libraries also). I would greatly appreciate any input. Thanks a lot. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XF86Setup get error
Since there has been a lot of discussion on this, I have a basic question: What package contains XF86Setup? The man page is in xbase, but that is all. It's in xserver-vga16. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XF86Setup get error
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Since there has been a lot of discussion on this, I have a basic question: What package contains XF86Setup? The man page is in xbase, but that is all. It's in xserver-vga16. Does it only work with the vga16 server (I use xserver-svga)? It uses vga16 server only to fire up the configurator. While configuring your card, go to 'detailed setup' and check the server you want to use (SVGA in your case). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X-windows
hey all, i have tried several things to get x-windows up and running, but it enver works. Can someone please give me step by step directions right from the start of how i can do this, even if i have to reinstall linux? I've done everything i thought i was supposed to, but it can never find an X-server (how do i configure that?) Please always give more detailed description of what you already tried. Usually only small correction would be needed. In any case, did you install linux? IS it working OK? 1) If that's the case then first step would be to find out what video card are you using and what X server has a driver for your card. Check out http://www.xfree86.org to find that out. 2) DOwnload and install the following packages: xbase, xfnt75, xserver-vga16 (while installing this, say no to the question whether you want to configure it) AND xserver- - the one suitable for your card. Say yes for the question thet you want it to be a default X server and yes that you want to configure it now. The installation program will ask a couple of questions. After the install try startx. 3) if it works -fine. If doesn't (most probably) - fire up XF86Setup configuration utility. It is *very* good. You may need to go through it several times to get fully aquainted and check all the appropriate boxes for your hardware. AS a final step, this utility starts chosen X-server (the one suitable for your card) so you can see whether it works or not. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: now i've done it (serious help now)
xstart startx I presume. i get; _X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:errho=2 what do i do to get into xwindows? Obviously you server is not configured properly, starts and immediately dies. That's why it is not possible to connect to it. The only way to configure it more or less painlessly is to install xserver-vga16 package (and the pckages it depend on, like xfnt75) and run XF86Setup utility. Make sure you know the type and port of the mouse you use, chipset of the card, monitor frequencies. If there is something you would like to look up during configuration, don't abort it, press Ctrl-ALT-F2 to get to console, Alt-F7 will bring you back. Let me know how it went. also, i have booted into dos. running windows provides the blue screen: Missing Vfat (or something) You need vfat support to be either compiled into kernel or be available as a module. If you are using stock kernel, you should also install kernel-modules (or something like that) package to get vfat module (among others) or recompile the kernel yourself with whatever support you need. o xwindows first if possible. also, what other experiences have you had with other distributions such as redhat? I guess you have to ask that on a different list :) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian wont pick up ethernet
Hello Debian I'm back on debian list. I'm beginner of Debian user at the moment. i have installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 R6 but it doesnt working with SMC EZ 16bit ISA card. Is SMC 'Ultra' working with SMC EZ card? Yes, smc-ultra driver is the one to use with EtherEZ card. The only catch is that you should run configuration utility from SMC (ezstart?) in DOS to make sgure your card is put into memory-mapped mode and disable PnP. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kde?
How can I install the latest kde on my machine? Just want ot play with a few of its apps really. What do i need and where can I get it. I am using bo presently. Bo-compiled kde packages are in project/experimantal on Debian ftp site. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)
Thats over 250megs of tables and internal structures ? Wow... Not only. I don't remeber whether it was already mentioned but by default 5% of the filesystem is reserved for the super-user. You may override this default with -m option to mk2efs. Alex Y. On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: But I don't have 4,401,778 blocks, I only have a total of 4,253,289 blocks which becomes aprox 4,355,367,000 bytes. How does it get from 4,401,778 blocks to 4,253,289 blocks ? Somewhere along the line I lost about 250,000 blocks... ?? You neglected to account for the inode tables and other internal filesystem structures that take up space in the filesystem. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] Printing..
Dear Linuxoids, Hmm... - If I want to install magicfilter and it needs dvips does it mean I have to install tetex (tetex-bin, tetex-base, tetex-extra ...)? You may install no tetex at all but then you won't be able to print .dvi files. To have this ability, install tetex-base and tetex-bin. - I also noticed that lprm can be executed by root only. Is it fixable? Use lpr from bo-updates. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Motherboard with Adaptec 2940
I am thinking to buy a motherboard with SCSI controller. A local newspaper advertised Iwill motherboard with Adaptec 2940U Ultra SCSI controller. Does Debian support such motherboard? The manufacturer has a web site @ http://www.iwill.com.tw I appreciate it if someone could tell me pros and cons after used the board. Hi. I myself considered buying MB with on-board SCSI adapter, though it was Asus P2L97-DS and AIR P6LDX-S. The AIC7880 SCSI chip (the one used in 2940UW) is supported by linux, but you can always expect any surprise from Adaptec - a little change in SCSI BIOS and you are out of luck (at lest for a while). In any case BusLogic SCSI adapters are *MUCH* better supported. So the only PRO is that you save one PCI slot for something else. The CONS are: worse supported adapter, practically impossible to attach any external devices. (MB doesn't have external scsi slot, you can daisy-chain the connector from the internal one, but SCSI bus length limitations would not allow you to attach no more than one external device, if you are lucky.) Length restrictions also apply for the case of PCI adapter and though more easily fulfilled with the same number of devices, any serious system should consider having 2 SCSI adapters (if you do not plan to use IDE at all), and not only for SCSI bus length reasons. So, the real alternatives are: SCSI MB with another PCI (Adaptec, mixing two brands of adapters is probably not good idea) SCSI controler and non-SCSI MB with 2 BusLogic Adapters. The second is much better, and cost only about $150 more. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Linux and Cirrus
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus 5446 Chipset ? In short: YES. The Chipset has a problem that there is no one porting X86 to it. If you read the READMEs that come from the X development group they do mention this problem. So the problem is not Debian support but X support. I think the problem was made worse initially because the chip maker was unwilling to give information about the chip. Hi. May be I am mistaken, but this chipset is listed as supported (with acceleration) even in Xfree86-3.3. I myself use similar Alpine chip with no problems. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Linux and Cirrus
I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus 5446 Chipset ? In short: YES. Thanks a lot for such a quick answer. I have another question... I have got a CDD2600 CD Recorder and a Pioneer 12x SCSI CDROM on an Adaptec 1505. Could I have any problem to use them on the Debian distribution ? I promise that it is my last question :-) Is CD-recorder also SCSI? If yes, then there is only a question whether SCSI host adapter is supported. Adaptec is generally not the best choice for Linux, but this particular card seems to be supprted for already some time and I would not expect a problem with it. Refer to SCSI-HOWTO for more information. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CGI Error
How can I fix this problem? Run perl -c on your script and see what happens. Plus check if it is mode 755. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: msdos packages
So let say I spent a bunch of time downloading packages before I realized I needed to download them from the msdos directory (you know, that long file name thing). Is there any reason I can't just rename them to the names that are given in the msdos directory? -Brian, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hi. No reason at all. You may rename them, you may leave them as they are, it doesn't matter. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!
Hi, A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is engaged. Then it complains as follows. pppd Serial connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect:ppp0 - /dev/ttyS1 LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Connection terminated. Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Problem: all has bit 7 set to 0 I've tried connecting with ppp from windows 95 on the same machine with the same modem etc, and it all works fine, so it would seem the problem is something to do with the debian setup. The only thing I can think of is interrupts, but I have looked at /proc/interrupts and it seems okay - but perhaps this doesn't tell the whole story??? Hi. This has nothing to do with interrrupts. The problem here is that ppp is not started on remote side and still trying to communicate with you via human-readable ascii (that's the origin of 8-bit unclean). Try to connect to the peer using minicom, login mannualy and start ppp by either typing ppp or something like that. When you see garbage on the screen - you are done! Just remember what you did and edit your /etc/ppp.chatscript accordingly. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
