Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:59:45PM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello James, > > Something about the tone of your reply makes me think I've missed > something obvious:-) > > Certainly, please do tell me what you did/where I've gone wrong. Don't read too much into the tone of my reply :) It's just that these kinds of projects always appear so much simpler after figuring them out, and I can at least share what's worked for me. Well, this page was my primary reference: http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIuserguide.html What it boiled down to for me was the following: 1) Install xlibmesa3 (this will remove/replace mesag3 libraries) 2) Configure the kernel in the Character Devices section: CONFIG_AGP=y # CONFIG_AGP_INTEL is not set # CONFIG_AGP_I810 is not set CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y # CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set # CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set # CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set CONFIG_DRM=y # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_GAMMA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_I810 is not set CONFIG_DRM_MGA=m That is, say Yes to /dev/agpgart, Yes to whatever is your motherboard chipset (which for me is VIA, as I've got an Abit KT7-RAID), Yes to Direct Rendering Manager, and Module to Matrox g200/g400 Of course, recompile the kernel. I would also get rid of or move away any modules from Matrox that you may have lying around. It might be good to check Section 6 and 10.3 in the sourceforge document mentioned above to be sure your XF86Config file is correct. Oh yes, I *did* have to assign an interrupt to the video card in the BIOS, too. After rebooting and starting X, run glxinfo in an xterm; you should have a line like OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI G400 2510 If the word 'Indirect' is at the end of that line, something's not working right yet. And when it works, OpenGL apps such as those in xscreensaver-gl run much faster, I was quite impressed! HTH, James > > TIA, > > LeeE > > > James Dietrich wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:45:34PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > > Quoth Lee Elliott, > > > > I'm not able to get hardware rendering/GL running on my G400. Kernel is > > > > currently 2.4.0-test11 (2.4.0 was a bit wobbly for me - haven't d/loaded > > > > 2.4.1 yet) and I'm getting the follwing error in /var/log/XFre86.0.log > > > > > > I don't know if this will help for your particular problem, but Matrox > > > has recently (within the last few days) released a new set of driver > > > modules for X 4.02 > > > > > > The drivers are available here: > > > > > > http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm > > > > > > While I had problems with the last lot of drivers, I now have dri > > > working perfectly with my G450. > > > > Lee, > > > > Do you have this figured out yet? I was able to get hardware GL working > > on my G400 without using any drivers from Matrox (don't know if the > > Matrox drivers do anything that the kernel ones can't), and I can tell > > you what I did if you're still stumped... > > > > James >
Re: ncurses / libncurses
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:29:25PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I can't use 'make menuconfig' when trying to use the kernel because ncurses > is not installed. I have tried: > > apt-get install ncurses > apt-get install libncurses > apt-get install libncurses-dev > > all with no luck. I'm not very familiar with the Debian packaging system, > so could someone help me out? Thanks! apt-get install libncurses5-dev HTH, James
Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and kernel 2.4.0-test10
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:39:18AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hi. > > :: Guenter Bechly writes: > > >> Anybody else having trouble with this combination? While running > >> 2.4.0-test10, startx hangs after showing a plain gray screen sometime > >> before completing successfully. At that point the system reponds to > >> neither Ctrl-Alt-Backspace nor Ctrl-Alt-Fn, so I hit the reset button. > >> > >> Note that the exact same configuration works great with 2.2.17 (thanks > >> for all your hard work Branden!). > >> > >> My hardware is a Matrox G400 video card and an Abit KT7-RAID motherboard. > >> If it would be helpful to see either my kernel configuration or X > >> configuration or both, I'll be glad to provide them. > > > Exactly the same here with XFree86 4.0.1-3 and kernel 2.4.0-test9 on Woody. > > Also my system runs with a Matrox card (Mystique 220) and works perfectly > > with kernel 2.2.17. There definitely seems to be something wrong! > > Any hints??? > > Since I'm using X 4.0 with kernel 2.4.0-test11 and everything is > running perfectly, I guess it must be the specific driver to your > video card - or something to do with the agpgart module (which isn't > used with my card yet). > > Did you try "Option NoAccel" in your XF86Config? You may want to try > enabling/disabling individual acceleration options there to see which > one is causing problems... The first thing I'd try would be disabling > direct rendering. A temporary solution to this problem came up in one of the threads on debian-devel. If you are not running xfs, the xserver will go into an endless loop when encountering the line FontPath "unix/:7100" So comment that out. Apparently it has nothing to do with a specific video card or dri or agpgart. HTH, James Dietrich
XFree86 4.0.1 and kernel 2.4.0-test10
Anybody else having trouble with this combination? While running 2.4.0-test10, startx hangs after showing a plain gray screen sometime before completing successfully. At that point the system reponds to neither Ctrl-Alt-Backspace nor Ctrl-Alt-Fn, so I hit the reset button. Note that the exact same configuration works great with 2.2.17 (thanks for all your hard work Branden!). My hardware is a Matrox G400 video card and an Abit KT7-RAID motherboard. If it would be helpful to see either my kernel configuration or X configuration or both, I'll be glad to provide them. Thanks for your help. James
Re: console MP3 player
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:22:14PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > Is there such a thing as a console-only MP3 player for Debian? I spend a lot > of time in Command Line lately, and I don't want to start X just to play a > MP3. mp3blaster works great. James
Re: Adding hdparm at boot time
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:23:32PM +1300, Matthew Sherborne wrote: > I would put the script in init.d, and a symlink rc3.d and prepend the > symlink name with S01 or S00 so that it starts up before everything else. If you install hwtools, then /etc/init.d/hwtools has a spot to put your custom hdparm configuration. James > > Matthew > > > -Original Message- > > From: Willy Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Willy Lee > > Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2000 3:28 p.m. > > To: serge delorme > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Adding hdparm at boot time > > > > > > "serge" == serge delorme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The place to put your own boot-up scripts is /etc/rc.boot. > > > > Hm. But the man page for rc.boot says that it is obsolete, and that > > you should use the /etc/rcS.d directory instead? However, it does say > > that /etc/rc.boot is scanned for backward compatibility. > > > > =wl > > > > -- > > Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer > > "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of > > SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!" > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: gpm and X and mouse
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:19:51PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > I've tried to tell X to use the fifo /dev/gpmdata as its > pointing device but it doesn't work. The mouse behaves fine > under gpm (even cut&paste works) but is unuseable under X. The > mouse cursor does move when I move the mouse, but in > completely erratic and unpredictable ways. The only way I've > got the mouse to work under X is to not use the gpm fifo, and > to stop gpm before starting X. My mouse is a Logitech 3-button > PS/2 type. -chris My mouse is not the same kind as yours, but to get this to work for me, I needed to put the -R option at the beginning of the append line in /etc/gpm.conf like so: append="-R -l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" X has happily used /dev/gpmdata ever since--with no need to stop gpm before starting X. HTH, James
Re: Unmet dependencies
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:15:32PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > After running apt-get update; apt-get -f dist-upgrade and downloading > tons, I got the following umet dependencies: (Says file 404 not found) > info 4.0-1 > debian-policy 3.1.1.0 > dnsutils 1:8.2.2p5-1 > rcs 5.7-12 > catdoc 0.91.2-2 > libwww-perl 5.4-1 > scwm 0.99.5.1-1 > xdaliclock 2.14-3 > xscreensaver-gl 3.21-2 > and a buch more. > So, it does not want to install anything, complains about the > dependencies. I've tried --fix-missing, and -f dist-upgrade. Same > result. What do you recommend? May be I need to add some other link that > I have missing in my sources.list? But then, it happened after running > update!!! I checked my version of info, and it is 4.0-2. Same for debian-policy, I have 3.1.1.1 installed. Try running update again, and then install. The packages files are regenerated every day. HTH, James
Re: disk error at scheduled time
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:33:51AM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On 1 Dec 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: > > > > > Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: > > | I forgot to say that I already did this: went to single mode (init > > | 1), then ran: mount -t ext2 -r -o remount,ro /dev/sdaX /mount-point > > | Then, e2fsck -c /dev/sdaX > > | > > | Well, no badblocks, no problem at all in the whole disk. > > | Where/what should I look for now? > > > > Interesting. Where is this box located? If at home, does your heating > > switch on shortly before this time? Anything on the same power supply > > kicking in? Is the machine permanently networked --- if so, is there > > some network process occuring? > > Yes, it's interesting. > The box is at work (here). I think the hardware (fan cooler, power supply, > etc) is OK. This is a new machine (arrived last friday Nov 26th). > > Yes, the machine is permanently networked but I can't say which other > processes are running at that exact time. > > My main surprise is that under a high load -- lot of disk access, lot of > memory usage, lot cpu usage, the machine didn't present any kind of error. > > I have no idea what is happening here! Isn't 6:25 the time when cron.daily is run? It is on my box, anyway. I don't know what about that could cause the disk errors, but that's the first thing I thought of when I read your original message. Perhaps you could manually run each script that cron.daily runs. HTH, James
Re: Abiword 0.7.6-1 segfaults
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 04:37:18PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > I installed the abiword package in Potato, version 0.7.6-1, and I get > the following at the prompt: > > $ abiword > /usr/bin/abiword: line 40: 9194 Segmentation fault $DYNAMIC_BIN $1 > $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 > > The wrapper is actually calling /usr/bin/AbiWord_d and this one > segfaults. Is it working for you out there? I had this same problem earlier this week. As I hadn't used Abiword for several days, quite a number of packages had been upgraded in the interim, so I don't know where the problem originated. I downloaded 0.7.5-1 and it segfaulted on me too. So I just recompiled the .deb from the source package and it works great now. Perhaps abiword uses some internal symbol(s) from some library and those changed? Or is there a better explanation? James
Re: lprng help
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:00:29PM -0800, tjm wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to us lprng to print to a remote printer, > an HP870, on an nt network. nt is running the tcp/ip > print services and I can get plain text to print just fine. > However, it seems that the if= is not being used for > other document formats. > > The printcap file is this: > > > hp870|filt-Remote hp870 printer entry >:rm=192.168.1.1 > :rp=hp870 >:if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote870 >:mx#0 > :sh > > checkpc shows file permissions are ok. The docs say this > should work, and it does send everything to the printer, > but without the filtering. > > Using Debian2.1, 2.0.36 kernel and magicfilter 1.2-28 and > lprng 3.5.2-1.3. lpq shows the printer on the nt machine. > > Any suggestions? Just last night I happened upon this very problem. http://bugs.debian.org/47899 has some useful information--seems that you need to add the lpr_bounce option to the printcap file. I'm not a lprng expert, but this worked for us last evening. HTH, James
Sed complains (in dh_make and dwww-build) after upgrading to glibc2.1
So yesterday I finally decided to upgrade my machine to glibc2.1. Well, the upgrade of over 70 packages went very smoothly--many thanks, apt developers! Anyway, after upgrading I ran into a problem while running dh_make. Seems it doesn't like some of the sed expressions in there, but I can't figure out why. After typing in the kind of package I intend to make, 12 of the following lines are printed: sed: -e expression #1, char 16: Unterminated `s' command By putting echo statements in various places the best I can tell is that the messages are printed in response to at least the following line in the function process_file() -e "s&#DOCS#&$DOCS&g" \ I've looked through the man and info pages for sed and cannot figure out what is the matter. If I isolate this line, -e "s/#VERSION#/$VERSION/g" \ though, everything is fine. And I've substituted slashes for the ampersands in the problem line and still it doesn't help. Then this morning I received a (long) error output from /etc/cron.daily/dwww Apparently it is related, because there are many of the following lines sed: -e expression #1, char 29: Unknown option to 's' followed by the following: Number found where operator expected at -e line 8, near "26 06" (Missing operator before 06?) syntax error at -e line 8, near "26 06" Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 8, near "s/DATE/Mon Apr 26 +06:25:07 /etc" syntax error at -e line 8, near "s/DATE/Mon Apr 26 06:25:07 /etc" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. And these seem to arise from the file /usr/sbin/dwww-build One place that brings up the sed error is the following from the man_by_name function in dwww-build: sed "s/LETTER/$i/g;s/TITLE/$DWWW_TITLE/g" \ $lib/man-begins-with.start \ > $tgttmp/man/byname/$i/index.html Now for the big question :) Does anyone know how I can get solve these problems? I am now running all the latest from potato. I know this is a long message, but I wanted to give enough information to be helpful. And as usual, if any more help or information is needed, I'll be glad to provide it. Thanks! James
Re: floppy too slow during bootup
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:37:18AM -0500, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > > I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get > sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during > a boot process?? > > It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes > just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds > to decompress it. I have had the same problem myself--here are a few more details that may be helpful in figuring this out. I installed Debian 2.1 and the Custom Boot Floppy it made during the initial install takes _forever_ to boot. However, I later made my own boot disk using the Bootdisk HOWTO and it booted up at a normal speed. It appears to me, then, that it isn't the fault of the drive itself or the floppy disk, but rather something about the way the boot disk is created during the install process. Interestingly enough, the rescue disk also boots at a normal speed on the same computer. BTW, this was not a problem for me when I installed an earlier version of Debian several years ago. Does anyone with more knowledge about boot disks have any idea why there is such a large discrepancy between the booting time off the rescue floppy and the custom boot floppy created during install? Thanks. James
Re: Realplayer wrapper for 2.2?
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 05:37:43PM +0200, Patrick wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Dan Brosemer took time to write: > > > > I remember reading that the linux realplayer 5.0 was broken with kernel > > 2.2 and that there was a wrapper to fix this. I just learned about the > > Linus keynote at comdex being broadcast and I'd like to get realplayer > > working to view it but I can't seem to find this wrapper anywhere. > > > > Am I delusional or does this wrapper exist, and if so, where can I find > > it? > > no, there *is* a wrapper for realaudio and it's working allright with kernel > 2.2.5 > > I don't remember where i've found it but just go to support page on real audio > web sites and use linux as keyword. > I found it pretty easily among the answers. > > BTW the .tar.gz file is only 8444 bytes so if anyone wants it i can send > it to him. > > i've just checked again on their knowledge base, here is the url : > > http://www.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/ If you install realplayer with the Debian installer package, the wrapper is installed automatically. HTH, James
Re: Switching pine to mutt - but...
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 01:05:46AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I finally decided to switch pine to mutt. I went through the mutt > documentation and have the following questions to ask: > [snip questions 1-3] > > 4. Rather than reading the message page by page, I would like to > read the message by scrolling it down. Can I configure mutt to do that? I use the and keys to scroll up and down one line at a time. HTH, James
Re: BASH programming
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 03:06:18PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > Hi, > Where can I find a bash programming HOWTO? > Im trying to make some scripts to make my life easier but I cant seem > to decipher the langage by looking at scripts on the system:(. I just found this site recently: http://www.oase-shareware.org/shell/ HTH, James
Problems with new ppp package from potato
I just upgraded ppp and ppp-pam to version 2.3.6-1 that is in potato and noticed a couple of oddities. First of all, with the new version I am unable to execute the command 'pon' as a regular user, even though I am a member of the dip group. Here is the error message it gives: /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: Permission denied AFAICT, the permissions on all the directories and files are the same as they were on the previous version. Also, in /etc/ppp/ip-up I have the line /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 60 and in /etc/ppp/ip-down I have the line /usr/bin/fetchmail --quit When I type 'poff', the fetchmail process is not killed. I do know that /etc/ppp/ip-down is getting run, because I touched a file from that same script and it was created. Both of these problems disappear if I install the old version from slink (2.3.5-2). Any ideas on either of these? James
Re: Sound solution
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 03:02:20PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I have an Ensoniq AudioPCI. I don't know how to get my sound working. > What is the answer? Please advise. Have you tried the Ensoniq AudioPCI support in the kernel -- it's not in the OSS modules section? Of course, ALSA is another option. Last week I set up ALSA on a computer with an Ensoniq AudioPCI card. I encountered a couple of interesting difficulties, but in the end it seemed to work much better for me than the kernel driver did. I can give more details on what I did if anyone is interested. HTH, James
Re: searching for files on cdrom
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 07:42:14PM +, Holger Mense wrote: > Hi... > > I have a problem: sometimes I need some special files for a Linux > Installation (actually its msgfmt :) , but I don't know in which > .deb-package it is. > > Does someone know how to search the whole cd-rom for a special file, or, > is their a possibility to list recursivly with "dpkg --contents" the > contents of all(!) .deb-files on the cd-rom? > > I tried with "dpkg --contents `find -name *.deb`", but that doesn't work > correctly, because the result of "find -name *.deb" is given to "dpkg > --contents" when this processed is finished, but "dpkg --contents" only > allows one more parameter... :( > > Any hints? > > CU, Holger > > P.S.: Or can someone tell me, in which package "msgfmt" is? :) zgrep msgfmt Contents-i386.gz HTH, James
Re: Xterm not showing Xresources changes
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:08:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using KDE 1.1 & Debian 2.1 (slink): > > I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose: > Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file: > > XTerm*background: black > XTerm*foreground: yellow > XTerm*geometry: 69x28 > > Any way I open up an Xterm window, it displays full screen in black on white. > Why isn't it reading my resources file? Have you restarted X? I did that this morning to get X to read a Xresources file I was making. And do you have a ~/.Xresources file? I believe settings in there will override settings in the system-wide Xresources file. HTH, James
Imlib in potato broken?
I just upgraded to the newest imlib packages from potato--version 1.9.3-1 gdk-imlib1, imlib-base, imlib-progs, and imlib1. Neither of the two problems detailed below occur with version 1.9.2-1 of these imlib packages. Can anyone help me figure this out? I am running all the latest from potato. If any more information would be helpful, I'll be glad to provide it. Thanks! James wmakerconf now fails to work. When I start wmakerconf, it gets 96% done with its init routines--to the IconBack section--and hangs there. In the xterm where I started it, the following message is repeated endlessly, so that I have to resort to manually killing the process: wmakerconf: window.c: line 976: Warning: Can't display pixmap 'BulletHole.xpm`. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /home/jdietrch/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/BulletHole.xpm All fallbacks failed. Gnome's panel also dies with a segmentation fault without ever starting. Below is the output of panel: Unable to connect to server port 35091 This generally means that the program could not talk to the esound server gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-up.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-down.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-purple-up.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-purple-down.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-green-up.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-green-down.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-blue-up.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-blue-down.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/panel-arrow-left.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/panel-arrow-up.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/panel-arrow-right.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/panel-arrow-down.png All fallbacks failed. gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-icon-transparent.png All fallbacks failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 725 (gtk_signal_connect_after): assertion `object != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 700 (gtk_signal_connect): assertion `object != NULL' failed. Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1416 (gtk_widget_show): assertion `widget != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkobject.c: line 1077 (gtk_object_set_user_data): assertion `object != NULL' failed. ** CRITICAL **: file applet.c: line 426 (register_toy): assertion `applet != NULL' failed. [1]+ Segmentation fault panel
Re: Trubles with real player.
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 09:19:41AM -0300, Paulo Silva wrote: > James, > > I tried the solution you have proposed and it didn't work out. I get > an "segmentation fault" when trying to execute the script which loads > the small "libraby". I have compiled the library with the -share > argument. > > Any hint? Well, I looked at my configuration and just realized that I am not using libnlock.so anymore. From the rvplayer changelog: rvplayer (1:5.0-7) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Now contains a small shared library that is preloaded to work around the bug that keeps it from working on 2.1.x kernels. I think this belongs in slink - linux 2.2 will probably come out about when slink does. So, what version of rvplayer do you have? HTH, James > > Paulo. > > James Dietrich writes: > > > > I've used the procedure in > > http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9810_02/msg00616.html > > to temporarily "solve" the problem. > > > > HTH, > > James > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: Trubles with real player.
I've used the procedure in http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9810_02/msg00616.html to temporarily "solve" the problem. HTH, James On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 12:38:03AM -0300, Paulo Silva wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there anyone having problems with real player and sound in new > kernels? > > I am using kernel 2.2.1 and I got an awe64 sound card. As far as I > know, every other sound application is working well (I am hearing a cd > now for example). But, every time I click on a rvplayer link I got the > following error message in a dialog from rvplayer: > > General error. An error occurred. > > On the console I get: > > audio: write error: 832 bytes errno: 0 > > At least one link I am sure is for the old 5.0 player (and not the new > G2, that are not available for linux). You can find it in the page > http://www.starwars.com/episode-i/news/trailer/ > It's the second real video link. > > My /proc/sound says: > > - > > OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 > Load type: Driver loaded as a module > Kernel: Linux leia 2.2.1 #1 Sun Feb 14 22:16:07 EST 1999 i586 > Config options: 0 > > Installed drivers: > > Card config: > > Audio devices: > 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) (DUPLEX) > > Synth devices: > 0: AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM512k) > > Midi devices: > 0: Sound Blaster 16 > 1: AWE Midi Emu > > Timers: > 0: System clock > > Mixers: > 0: Sound Blaster > > - > > I could not find any error during boot up process. > > Thanks for help. > > Paulo. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: help with EXIM setup
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 09:09:30AM -0500, Michael Lea wrote: > At 10:46 AM 1/20/99 +, you wrote: > >Can anyone point me in the direction of a setup guide for Exim MTA? I'm > >wanting to set up a simple mail system for 1 or 2 users using a dial up > >connection, with mail delivered to my system via SMTP from my ISP. However, > >I'm completely new to MTA's, and find the 250 page Exim Spec a bit daunting! > > I just did this last night, and I mainly used the TeXinfo file...so 'info > exim' at a > prompt. Lots of good information in there, and since it is hypertext it is > easy > to find what you want. Check out http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/debian/myexim.html I found it to be invaluable as I was setting up exim on my box. HTH, James
popularity-contest mail gets frozen
I have installed the popularity-contest package and the mail it generates is not sent, but rather frozen. This is what the first file in /var/spool/exim/input/ says: 101qNi-0005l7-00-D This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unrouteable mail domain "debian.org" -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from root by debian with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 101qMj-0005bU-00; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 06:27:37 -0500 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: popularity-contest submission Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 06:27:37 -0500 And then follows the package-usage info. And this is what the other file in /var/spool/exim/input/ says: 101qNi-0005l7-00-H mail 8 8 <> 916572518 0 -ident mail -received_protocol local -body_linecount 362 -frozen 916581369 -localerror -manual_thaw XX 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 119P Received: from mail by debian with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 101qNi-0005l7-00; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 06:28:38 -0500 048 X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 050F From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 022T To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 059 Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender 039I Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 038 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 06:28:38 -0500 I'm running the latest from potato with exim as my mailer. Exim seems to be configured properly for everything else I do. One other point that may be relevant--I'm not online all the time, but shouldn't this message get queued up and sent like all the other mail that I send while offline? What's going on here? Is it a misconfiguration on my part? If it would be helpful to provide any more information/config files I'll do so. Thanks, James
man page for hwclock
Simple question: Where did it go? I'm running the latest from potato. util-linux 2.9g-3 /usr/man/man8/clock.8.gz -> hwclock.8.gz ls: /usr/man/man8/hwclock.8.gz: No such file or directory /var/catman/cat8/hwclock.8.gz does exist, so it used to be there. Thanks for your help! James
Re: Apt and packages on hold
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 11:09:53AM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.0.7-19981211-1
>
> [ sent to the bug system, watch the cc's ]
>
> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, James Dietrich wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:47:46AM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, James Dietrich wrote:
> > >
> > > > The following packages have been kept back
> > > > xbase xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-base
> > > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
> > > >
> > > > Why doesn't it show libc6 and friends as well? I'd like
> > > > to make sure I'm not overlooking something obvious.
> > >
> > > libc6 and friends don't need to be updated / don't have a newer version,
> > > so apt isn't holding them back. It will be holding them back when a new
> > > version is available.
> >
> > OK, here is the line from dselect for xbase:
> > *== Std x11 xbase3.3.2.3a-8 3.3.2.3a-8. X Window System ...
>^ ^???
> There's something missing from that version number.
Yes, it was too long to fit in the dselect field.
The installed version is 3.3.2.3a-8 and the available version
is 3.3.2.3a-8.1
>
> > and here is the line from locales:
> > *== Std adminlocales 2.0.7v-12.0.7-19981 GNU Libc: ...
Again, the installed version is 2.0.7v-1 and the available
version is 2.0.7-19981211-1
>
> The 'v' is missing, so it seems to be an older package:
> $ perl -e 'if ("2.0.7v-1" lt "2.0.7-19981") {print "new\n";}'
> $ perl -e 'if ("2.0.7v-1" lt "2.0.7v-19981") {print "new\n";}'
> new
> $
>
> This is a bug, thanks for reporting it,
It appears that the same thing is wrong with libc6, libc6-dev,
timezones, and glibc-doc.
Thanks again!
James
Re: Apt and packages on hold
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:47:46AM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, James Dietrich wrote: > > > I use the apt method in dselect. > [ ... ] > > > > However, apt still shows those same five X packages > > as being the only ones on hold: > > Updating package status cache...done > > Checking system integrity...ok > > The following packages have been kept back > > xbase xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-base > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. > > > > Why doesn't it show libc6 and friends as well? I'd like > > to make sure I'm not overlooking something obvious. > > libc6 and friends don't need to be updated / don't have a newer version, > so apt isn't holding them back. It will be holding them back when a new > version is available. OK, here is the line from dselect for xbase: *== Std x11 xbase3.3.2.3a-8 3.3.2.3a-8. X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure and here is the line from locales: *== Std adminlocales 2.0.7v-12.0.7-19981 GNU Libc: National Language (locale) data and (Sorry for the long lines.) It looks like there is a new version of locales. Or am I still missing something? Thanks, James
Apt and packages on hold
I use the apt method in dselect. I have had the NMUs of several X packages (-8.1) on hold for a long time and after selecting install in dselect, it listed those five packages as having been held back. After seeing the message this morning about a possible problem with locales 2.0.7-19981211-1 I also put libc6, locales, timezones, libc6-dev, glibc-doc, and libc6-dev on hold pending further information. However, apt still shows those same five X packages as being the only ones on hold: Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages have been kept back xbase xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-base 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Why doesn't it show libc6 and friends as well? I'd like to make sure I'm not overlooking something obvious. Thanks. James
Re: ftp gone from dselect
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 08:15:29AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > Whenever I go into dselect to choose which method to use, the ftp > option is now gone! I really don't know what caused this, nor how to > restore it. Any hints? You have (re)installed dpkg-ftp? HTH, James
isapnptools
I'm trying to set up Debian on a friend's computer, and so far have been unable to get the modem to work. It is an ISA card, so I ran pnpdump > isapnp.conf. Towards the bottom of the file there was a section for an 'LT Win Modem'. After uncommenting the lines for an IO of 2F8 and IRQ3 I ran isapnp and still the modem doesn't work. Now I know that winmodems are generally a hopeless case, but is this still true if pnpdump detects it? Any other ideas on how to configure it? TIA, James
Re: xterm-debian
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 12:10:31AM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > Where is that page that explaines why we use xterm-debian instead > of xterm? Searching for xterm-debian on the debian site only produces the > FAQumatic. I have seen this somewhere before (Branden's pages?), and need > it RSN, as someone has decided to flame me http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html HTH, James
Re: /dev/cdrom problem
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 11:39:26PM +, Vincent Murphy wrote: > i can't use xplaycd or any other cd playing program as a normal user. > the message i get from xplaycd is that permission is denied to use /dev/cdrom. > i can make the program work using sudo though. > any way i can fix this? See if adding yourself to group disk helps, as in adduser username disk HTH, James
Re: Zip/Unzip
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 05:22:33PM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > Hi all! > > Where is the zip/unzip debian package in the slink distribution? I have been > looking for it but no luckmaybe it is in other distribution? It's in non-free/utils. HTH James
Re: RealPlayer and Netscape
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 12:38:21PM -0800, Terry Carney wrote: > Hi. > > I'm having difficulty solving a problem with the Debianized Netscape > (browser component only) and RealPlayer. I am currently using the Debian > 2.0 Realplayer package and the Netscape packages from Slink. > > Everything SEEMS to behave normally when I select a link to a *.ram file > except that the player does not load and there are no error messages. > > Netscape shows that it is actually accessing the site in question. > RealPlayer is installed as an application and not a plugin. > RealPlayer is being called via 'rvplayer %s" . > > RealPlayer will run properly outside of Netscape via a term window. > Netscape runs properly in all other instances. > > Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. What I have done is put audio/x-pn-realaudio; /usr/bin/X11/rvplayer %s in ~/.mailcap and type=audio/x-pn-realaudio \ desc="RealAudio" \ exts="ra,ram,rm" in ~/.mime.types and then restart Netscape. HTH, James > > > Terry. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: problems compiling 2.1.126
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:15:06PM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > Does someone else have this problem when compiling kernel 2.1.126 on a > hamm machine which underwent a partial "slinkification" ? (Meaning that > a few packages were upgraded, notably modutils, libc6, libg++ and egcs) http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9810_04/msg00253.html HTH James > > egcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/scratch/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes > -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 > -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o sysctl.o sysctl.c > egcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/scratch/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes > -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 > -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o acct.o acct.c > acct.c: In function `check_free_space': > acct.c:90: structure has no member named `f_inode' > acct.c:85: warning: `sb' might be used uninitialized in this function > make[3]: *** [acct.o] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/scratch/usr/src/linux/kernel' > make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/scratch/usr/src/linux/kernel' > make[1]: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/usr/src/linux' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux # > > > I was compiling using make-kpkg, not the direct 'classic' method of > running make bzImage&make modules... > > Pf > > -- > > --- > Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it >ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 > Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple > Affairs > Linux penny 2.1.125 #1 Fri Oct 16 23:18:57 CEST 1998 i586 unknown > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: mutt won't send mail?
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:57:53AM -0500, Victor Torrico wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed mutt_0.94.14-2.deb. > > Everything works OK except sending Mail. > > I get the following error message when I send mail: > > "Error sending message, child exited 127 ()." > > All help appreciated. > > Best regards, > > Victor > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > I really don't like adding a "me too", but it does this for me, as well. I might add that sending mail with the 'mail' command (at the command line) works just fine, so it's not a problem with the MTA. TIA James
SupraMax 56i Voice PCI modem
This morning I tried to install Debian on a system with one of these modems and was unsuccessful in creating a PPP connection. The BIOS initializes the modem to IRQ 9, and Win95 says it's on COM2. So I used /dev/ttyS1 as the device name and used setserial to change the IRQ to 9, but still no success. pon fails with the message tcgetattr: Input/Output error(5) Since I have successfully set up PPP on another machine using the same ISP, I am fairly sure that the config files are correct. I know this question was discussed recently, but a search of the archives gave me conflicting opinions on this subject. At least one person suggests that it isn't useable at all, while another suggests using setserial to avoid an irq conflict; another place suggested to specify the UART. Does anyone have a definitive answer as to whether or not these are usable with Linux, and if so, what needs to be done to convince them to work? If you need any more information about the system or config files just ask for them. Thanks a lot for the help. James Dietrich
Re: About realplayer
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:22:59AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > James Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer > > doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. > > > > A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) > > and everything worked just fine. However, after upgrading to Slink, > > RealPlayer stopped working. When I try to run the welcome.rm provided > > there are a few frames of video and then it says this: > > > > General error. An error occurred. > > > > For more information, please see Error 1 at: > > http://www.realaudio.com/help/errors > > > > and goes no further. The same thing happens when I click on a link in > > Netscape--I get perhaps 1/3 second of video/sound and then the above error. > > > > Yes, I'm using the Debian package, and yes, I have purged and reinstalled > > it (several times) to no effect. > > > > Anybody got any ideas? Any more information about my system I'll be glad > > to provide. > > I just went through this, but with different symptoms, so I can give > some ideas where to look. First, try running rvplayer from the > command line, and see if it gives any error message. In my case I was > getting an error like: > > audio: write error: -1 bytes errno: 5 > > Also try checking the log files in /var/log. I found messages (all > the same) in messages, syslog, and kern.log. In my case I had DMA > errors, but it worked when I disabled 16-bit audio in the preferences > menu. I do have a 16-bit card, but obviously I don't have the 16-bit > parts configured properly. I don't think you have the same problem, > since mine wasn't playing at all before I switched the preferences. Thanks for your tips--but I am still having the same problem. Actually, this morning I installed the most recent version of rvplayer 5.0-6--the one that uses the RedHat 5.x version from www.real.com. Now it seems that I can listen to some files without trouble, while others give trouble. For example, the 14.4 news broadcast from http://www.npr.org/news/ has no problems, but the 28.8 news broadcast from the same site fails with the error message given above. Others, such as live RealVideo of NASA TV from http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ltc/live/ play OK for a while and then fail with the same error. And trying to play the welcome.rm that comes with rvplayer from the commandline fails immediately with that same error quoted above. I can't seem to figure this out. I have rebuilt my kernel with the sound built in, instead of using a module to avoid any possible module problems, and 'cat /dev/sndstat' shows everything installed properly. Does anybody have any more ideas? I would really like to have this working properly :-) If my description of the problem seems a bit vague it is because there seems to be no definite cause or set of conditions that cause the error. So I'll gladly try other things or answer other questions about my setup if that will be helpful. Thanks for your help! James Dietrich
Re: About realplayer
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:21:07AM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote: > > On 18-Sep-98 James Dietrich wrote: > > > > I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer > > doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. > > > > A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) > > and everything worked just fine. However, after upgrading to Slink, > > RealPlayer stopped working. When I try to run the welcome.rm provided > > there are a few frames of video and then it says this: > > > > General error. An error occurred. > > > > For more information, please see Error 1 at: > > http://www.realaudio.com/help/errors > > > > and goes no further. The same thing happens when I click on a link in > > Netscape--I get perhaps 1/3 second of video/sound and then the above error. > > > > Yes, I'm using the Debian package, and yes, I have purged and reinstalled > > it (several times) to no effect. > > What is the name of thios pacjkage under slink! I've looked for it and > I haven't found it! It's in the contrib/net section. James
Re: About realplayer
I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) and everything worked just fine. However, after upgrading to Slink, RealPlayer stopped working. When I try to run the welcome.rm provided there are a few frames of video and then it says this: General error. An error occurred. For more information, please see Error 1 at: http://www.realaudio.com/help/errors and goes no further. The same thing happens when I click on a link in Netscape--I get perhaps 1/3 second of video/sound and then the above error. Yes, I'm using the Debian package, and yes, I have purged and reinstalled it (several times) to no effect. Anybody got any ideas? Any more information about my system I'll be glad to provide. Thanks a lot! James Dietrich
Re: where is zip/unzip?
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 11:15:40AM +, eyal wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Just installed Hamm, and was surprised to not find zip. A search > through the packages list did not help. What am I missing? I found it in the non-free section. HTH, James
Re: window manager lockups with latest X
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 12:15:47PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > This makes me wonder > when you say that "the mouse can't give any window focus" > is it able to move windows by dragging or bring them to the front? No, the mouse is able to move around the screen, but it does not let me do _anything_. It doesn't change back and forth from an I-beam to a pointer when moving over an xterm; clicking on a window has no affect; clicking on a wmaker menu does nothing; trying to drag a window doesn't work. Very strange. > I have had a very similar problem without even leaving X > to a VT an dback...just ocasionally I can click on windows, bring them to > front > etc > juct can't geve them focus and type in them (BTW I have ClickToFocus ON > because > I HATE focus following the mouse) > I have only tired FVWM2 but I have noticed that if I click n the root window > with > > either middle or left (I forget which) to bring up the "Window List" > and I select a window in that wayit will get focus and work fine... > until I want to give another window focus..then I have to use > the window list again... > it happens infrequently ...I leave X and startx again and it works fine... > never really bothered me enough to look into it further... > are these the symproms that you describe? No, your problem seems to be a different one. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Any more ideas? BTW, if looking at any of my config files or anything else would be helpful, I'll be glad to post them. I'm just not sure what would be helpful at this point. Thanks, James > > James Dietrich wrote: > > > The subject line says it quite well; here are some more > > details. > > > > Several weeks ago I was still running the 3.3.1-2 packages > > (xbase, xfnt100, xfnt75, xfntbase, xfntpex, xlib6, xlib6g, > > xlib6g-dev, and xserver-mach64) with the scwm window manager. > > Once in a (long) while scwm would lock up and I would have > > to restart X. > > > > Then (several weeks ago) I upgraded to the 3.3.2-3 versions > > of all the above packages. Very soon I noticed that it took > > only a matter of minutes and several switches between X and > > a VT to lock up scwm. What I mean by "lock up" is that the > > mouse is unable to give any window focus; furthermore, scwm > > has a very large virtual desktop, and in this locked up state > > I am able to pan around an area only slightly larger than my > > monitor screen. Interestingly, though, a program running in > > X will continue to run, even though I can't control it. > > > > Downgrading the xserver-mach64 package to the old 3.3.1-2 > > version caused the problem to disappear. Now I thought that > > it might be a scwm bug, since then I have tried the new > > xserver-mach64 with the wmaker window manager, and the very > > same thing happens after a few minutes. Sometimes with scwm > > it is enough to switch out of X and then back _one_ time to > > make it freeze as described above. > > > > I am running the latest from hamm. Kernel is 2.1.98. Just to > > be sure it wasn't a kernel problem, I booted up on 2.1.32 and > > started X. It took several hours to lock up the first time, > > and when I restarted X again, scwm locked up within minutes. > > > > I really don't know where to go from here. What can I do > > to figure out where the problem is so I can use the new > > xserver-mach64? Has anyone else experienced this difficulty? > > > > Thanks, > > > > James > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- > Version: 2.6.3a > > mQCNAzG30VYAAAEEAK8aj0pclro6ULfzim7TN0Y2FeNtzJKkA9rNZ8KGim3N+ULO > 1dn4tfIqymSNDQLc/SDCvliTDP9vodSSYfQaovHE2wWE6n5igGIhA3RqyAnX9ctl > 4wPI5FYJHHhsl2OsKJLui1TbTo6uJul3vG4U9CnopYscEbHm+Hxvn0zebBV9AAUR > tCVTdGVwaGVuIEouIENhcnBlbnRlciA8U0pDQGRlbHBoaS5jb20+iQCVAwUQMcz2 > fnxvn0zebBV9AQFb2QP+OiFDvDvuuomwdZns+pQTVqOu5zy3wdlyQki4Mo/X+5qY > Nmj0s4qjfowaimj69db6w6jSvzeEY5gnlM92NI5dj6qliJScBVlRNBRffsHkvHkk > C27LjUtVYkF3j30wyCwdzNe0FhRYBsz5F+i78ZSPrxlUkOvfFBUgAo2ZFwlwS4k= > =z4IB > -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
window manager lockups with latest X
The subject line says it quite well; here are some more details. Several weeks ago I was still running the 3.3.1-2 packages (xbase, xfnt100, xfnt75, xfntbase, xfntpex, xlib6, xlib6g, xlib6g-dev, and xserver-mach64) with the scwm window manager. Once in a (long) while scwm would lock up and I would have to restart X. Then (several weeks ago) I upgraded to the 3.3.2-3 versions of all the above packages. Very soon I noticed that it took only a matter of minutes and several switches between X and a VT to lock up scwm. What I mean by "lock up" is that the mouse is unable to give any window focus; furthermore, scwm has a very large virtual desktop, and in this locked up state I am able to pan around an area only slightly larger than my monitor screen. Interestingly, though, a program running in X will continue to run, even though I can't control it. Downgrading the xserver-mach64 package to the old 3.3.1-2 version caused the problem to disappear. Now I thought that it might be a scwm bug, since then I have tried the new xserver-mach64 with the wmaker window manager, and the very same thing happens after a few minutes. Sometimes with scwm it is enough to switch out of X and then back _one_ time to make it freeze as described above. I am running the latest from hamm. Kernel is 2.1.98. Just to be sure it wasn't a kernel problem, I booted up on 2.1.32 and started X. It took several hours to lock up the first time, and when I restarted X again, scwm locked up within minutes. I really don't know where to go from here. What can I do to figure out where the problem is so I can use the new xserver-mach64? Has anyone else experienced this difficulty? Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing with kernel 2.1.94
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:25:36PM -0400, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, James Dietrich wrote: > > > This one has me stumped: > > > > I have been experimenting with the latest kernels--versions 2.1.92 and > > now 2.1.94. However, I have had difficulties configuring my soundcard > > and parallel printer to work with the new kernels. After reading the > > OK. I might be able to help you with the printer problem. For some > STRANGE reason, it seems that the lp device numbers changed between the > kernel versions! For example, under 2.0.33 my printer device was > /dev/lp1, but when I started using the 2.1.9x kernels, I had to go through > my /etc/printcap and change all /dev/lp1 entries into /dev/lp0 !! Thanks for this pointer! It was the very piece of information I needed. For anyone else who has been following this thread, here's what I had to do to get my printer to work with kernel 2.1.95: I changed the reference to /dev/lp1 in /etc/printcap to /dev/lp0 I added the lines alias char-major-6 lp options parport_pc io=0x378 options lp parport=0 to /etc/conf.modules. I also changed /lib/modules/2.1.95/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.95/misc/parport.o to /lib/modules/2.1.95/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.95/misc/parport_pc.o in /lib/modules/2.1.95/modules.dep. Hopefully I'll someday find a way to do without that last change. For some reason, post-install parport modprobe "-k" "-s" "parport_pc" doesn't work for me. Thanks again to all who helped. James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing with kernel 2.1.94
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 07:14:16AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote: > > Aria Prima Novianto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > APN> On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:38:47PM -0400, James Dietrich wrote: > JD> > JD> But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly > JD> configure the parallel port and/or printer modules. (I have enabled > JD> the parallel port and PC-style parallel port and parallel printer > JD> all as modules). Thank you both for your suggestions. However, none of the methods outlined below seem to work. > JD> > APN> > APN> Edit /lib/modules/2.1.94/modules.dep > APN> > APN> Change > APN> /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport.o > APN> to > APN> /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/lp.o: /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport_pc.o If I do this, then after giving the command to print a file (lpr ) this appears in syslog Apr 10 13:02:40 debian kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP] Apr 10 13:02:41 debian kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling). and lpq says this waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stjdietrch 162 helloworld42 bytes and nothing prints. The three modules parport, parport_pc, and lp all get loaded. Yes, the printer is on :-) > > The better thing to do (which won't have to be redone with every > kernel upgrade) is to put an alias in your /etc/conf.modules for the > parport_lowlevel driver, like so: > > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc If I do this, then this appears in syslog Apr 10 13:12:11 debian kernel: lp: driver loaded but no devices found and lpq reports the same problem as above and nothing prints. The parport and lp modules get loaded. > > Unfortunately, I've not had much luck with this at all. Instead, I > have > > post-install parport modprobe "-k" "-s" "parport_pc" When I add this line to /etc/conf.modules the error message in syslog is Apr 10 07:45:36 debian modprobe: post-install /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/parport.o failed Furthermore, lsmod doesn't report that any of the needed modules are loaded. > > This seems to work significantly better. It's the same trick I use to > get the 2.1.x modularized sound driver working properly; I don't know > if there's a better way. Interestingly, the post-install line post-install sb modprobe "-k" "adlib_card" I added when figuring out my sound problem produces this error in syslog Apr 10 13:16:33 debian modprobe: post-install /lib/modules/2.1.94/misc/sb.o failed which looks a lot like the error I get from the similar line for the parport post-install line. Just wondering: Do I need to specify any further paramaters in /etc/conf.modules? It looks like they are being detected (or defaulting!) to proper values. Does it make any difference if the printer is driven by interrupts or polling? Again, thanks for your quick responses to my first question. If you or anyone else has any more ideas about how to get this going, I'd really appreciate it. And if any further information would be helpful feel free to ask. Thanks. James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
printing with kernel 2.1.94
This one has me stumped: I have been experimenting with the latest kernels--versions 2.1.92 and now 2.1.94. However, I have had difficulties configuring my soundcard and parallel printer to work with the new kernels. After reading the documentation provided, I found that I needed to put these lines alias char-major-14 sb post-install sb modprobe "-k" "adlib_card" options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM synthetiser in my /etc/conf.modules file. That solved the soundcard problem. But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly configure the parallel port and/or printer modules. (I have enabled the parallel port and PC-style parallel port and parallel printer all as modules). The printer prints fine from kernel 2.0.33, so I know it isn't a hardware problem. When I put no further paramaters in /etc/conf.modules and execute the command 'lpr coma.cc', an entry in syslog like Apr 9 22:20:17 debian kernel: lp: driver loaded but no devices found appears. And 'lpq' says waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stjdietrch 157 coma.cc 171 bytes When I specify paramaters in /etc/conf.modules such as alias char-major-6 lp options parport_pc io=0x378 options lp parport=0 I am still unable to print. I have also tried doing all the above manually with insmod, but to no avail. Yes, I have read parport.txt in the kernel source Documentation directory, as well as other documentation relating to parallel ports and modules and kmod. In case it helps, I am running the latest from hamm; the printer is a DeskJet 682C; there is one parallel port at 0x378. If any further information would be helpful, just let me know, and I'll do my best to provide it. If someone who has successfully configured their printer to work with these last few development kernels would be willing to give me a few hints about how to properly configure my printer or about where to find more information, I would be very grateful. Thanks again! James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
non-fatal xkbcomp error while starting X
I just upgraded all my X packages (xbase, xbooks, xfnt100, xfnt75, xfntbase, xfntpex, xlib6g-dev, xlib6g, xlib6, xserver-mach64) to 3.3.2-2. Now when I start X with startx -- -bpp 16 as I usually do, the following error appears on the bottom of the VT from which I executed the startx command (after the usual messages about video RAM, Ramdac, etc): System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm' What is going wrong here? I looked at the man page for xkbcomp but it didn't seem to help very much in understanding this. Thanks. James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
initdb error while configuring postgresql 6.3-2
While installing postgresql 6.3-2 with dselect, the following error message appears during the config phase: Setting up postgresql (6.3-2) ... Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data su - postgres -c initdb -l /usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /var/postgres/data -u postgres -sh: initdb: command not found dpkg: error processing postgresql (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql I have made sure that /usr/lib/postgresql/bin in part of root's PATH. In fact, if I exit dselect and type initdb at the command line, the message about needing to specify some options to initdb is printed, so I know that it is finding initdb. What do I need to do to finish configuring postgresql? I am running the latest from hamm, and do not have the package secure-su installed. Is that package needed? Thanks for your help. James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
syntax error in cron start-up file at boot-time
The subject fairly sums up the problem: Below is a snip of the messages that are displayed upon booting. [snip] Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. /etc/rc2.d/S89cron: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `;' /etc/rc2.d/S89cron: line 20: ` ; cron reloads automatically' [snip] What do I need to do to fix this problem? I am running the latest from hamm. Thanks. James -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: broken lan
On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 08:52:20PM -0700, RUSSELL COOK wrote: > I forgot to mention in my previous email, that when executing pon, the script > in /etc/chatscripts/provider runs, but /var/log/ppp.log shows that ppp fails > with the message "peer failed to authenticate." > Try adding the word 'noauth' (without the quotes) to the end of your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file. > I apparently have two different programs trying to connect to my ISP. One at > system boot which looks for /etc/ppp.chatscript and can't find it because it > isn't there, and one which uses /etc/chatscripts/provider. > > Thanks again for any help. > > Russ > > -- > From: RUSSELL COOK[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 8:21 PM > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: broken lan > > Hello All, > Last night I upgraded a number of packages on my Hamm system. While > resolving dependencies, I believe I downloaded and installed dip. I don't > think it was previously installed. As a result, I can no longer connect to > my ISP. Also, my lan is now broken - I can't ping my other machine. When > the system boots, I get a message about netmask not making sense for my > system - it scrolls by too fast for me to catch it all. > My file chatscript file is missing now, and the ppp.log file shows > complaints about that when sendmail tries to dial out at boot up. Can anyone > tell me what I should do? Do I need to remove dip and reinstall ppp? Are > they compatible? My ppp package is version 2.3.3-4. Dip is 3.3.7p-1. I > don't know which package caused me to download this one. > Thanks for any help. > > Russ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem compiling Gzilla
Has anyone successfully compiled Gzilla recently? I just downloaded version 0.1.5 from http://www.levien.com/gzilla/ and tried to compile it following the directions in the INSTALL file. However, the compilation failed with: gcc -DPACKAGE=\"gzilla\" -DVERSION=\"0.1.5\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_LIBM=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_SOCKET=1 -I. -I. -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -c gtkgzwscroller.c gtkgzwscroller.c: In function `gtk_gzw_scroller_get_type': gtkgzwscroller.c:72: `GtkArgFunc' undeclared (first use this function) gtkgzwscroller.c:72: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once gtkgzwscroller.c:72: for each function it appears in.) make: *** [gtkgzwscroller.o] Error 1 I am running the latest from hamm, and I have both libgtk-dev 0.99.3-1 and libgtk1 0.99.3-1 installed. In any case, I'm quite sure that it found my gtk stuff because it compiled the file before this one (commands.c) with only a few warnings about unused variables. Interestingly, the command find /usr/include/gtk -name '*.*' -print | xargs grep GtkArgFunc reports no matches. Thanks for any and all help! James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Install CD rom drive
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 11:16:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > My system is a Debian/Gnu Linux 1.3, Kernel 2.0.29. I can´t install the > CD-Rom drive. It is a Mitsumi Atapi IDE CD-Rom connected to the > Soundblaster 16 card (IRQ 11, address 0x1e8). I´ve used the CD-Rom > installation utility for Soundblaster Pro "sbpcd" with command line > options sbpcd=0x1e8,11. It failed. I have had a similar setup with CD-ROM/soundcard that you described above. What I had to do was to connect the CD-ROM cable to the secondary IDE connector on my motherboard (right next to the hard drive connecter) and then it worked just fine as /dev/hdc. It did not need the sbpcd driver, just the standard IDE one. Hope this helps. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
plog
My 'plog' command has stopped working--by that I mean that when I type 'plog' nothing is printed. And possibly related is the fact that my ppp.log files are empty. I'm running the latest from hamm. Any ideas? Thanks. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ldconfig warning while installing packages
Rather frequently, while dselect/dpkg is setting up an upgrade to a package, the following warning appears: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping The only file in /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout is libdb.so.1, which is a link to libdb.so.1.85.1 and the latter file is not there. After searching the Contents file, it looks like the libdb.so.1.85.1 was part of the libc4 package, which I removed some time ago. Is it safe to remove this dangling symlink and the i486-linuxaout directory? Thanks, James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: reading HOWTO files
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote: > I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. > However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are > gz. How can I read them? Thank you. > zcat *-HOWTO.gz | less where '*' stands for the name of the HOWTO you wish to view. I'm sure there are many ways to do this, but the above works for me. James > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X error
I successfully compiled XFITSview (a program for viewing and manipulating images in the FITS format) on my machine (running the latest from unstable, including LessTif 0.82). However, when I try to run it, the program starts, I briefly see a couple windows flash on the screen, then they disappear, and the following message appears: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap) Serial number of failed request: 915 Current serial number in output stream: 916 The above happens if I have started X as startx -- -bpp 16 However, if I have started X as startx -- -bpp 8 then XFITSview brings a message up saying Colormap full, create new one Is this a problem with XFITSview or is it a problem with my Xserver (xserver-mach64 version 3.3.1-2) or is it a problem with LessTif? Any ideas on what I can do to solve this problem? If further information would be helpful, I'll provide it. Thanks. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Removing libc4
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 11:32:03PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote: > > I have libc4 installed on my Debian system (running the latest from > > unstable). How can I find out if any programs depend on libc4, so that I > > can remove it if it isn't needed? Or is there a good reason to keep it? > > You could just try to remove it; that will find any debian-installed > libc4-dependent binaries. It won't find anything you installed > yourself though. > > Probably no reason to keep it if you're not using it. You're > unlikely to be installing any a.out software from here on in. > I checked the file /var/lib/dpkg/status and it didn't show any packages that depended on libc4; dselect didn't complain when I removed libc4 just now, so I hope everything is all right :-) Thanks to all who responded. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Removing libc4
I have libc4 installed on my Debian system (running the latest from unstable). How can I find out if any programs depend on libc4, so that I can remove it if it isn't needed? Or is there a good reason to keep it? Thanks. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: qt1g (>= 1.30) where ???
One place to find it at the moment is ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming/HELD-FOR-GUY James On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, David Lutz wrote: > > Arrgh!!! > > Where is qt1g (>= 1.30)? I can't find this package anywhere and it seems > to be required for QWeb and KDE which I would like to try out. > > Thanks. > D.L. > > / David Lutz --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://www.pobox.com/~david \ > | Those of you who think you know everything : KD6GNS Portland, OR | > \ are annoying those of us who really do.: '97 Toyota Tacoma SR5 / > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tty uses only bottom line of screen
Sorry to answer my own post, but I figured out a solution to the problem: Put the following script in some directory such as /usr/bin and while you are at the messed up terminal, type cat /usr/bin/fixvt.sh if /usr/bin is the path to the file and fixvt.sh is its name. That should clear things up. ***Start of script fixvt.sh** #!/bin/sh # fixvt 1.00 # Fixes console corruption from vt bombs and the like #(c) 1994 Brian Stoler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] #Freely redistributable under the GPL 2 #Mail me any changes/fixes/etc #Send flames to /dev/null -- I'm no scripter if [ -r /etc/?getty ]; then DAG=/etc/?getty elif [ -r /sbin/?getty ]; then DAG=/sbin/?getty elif [ -r /sbin/?getty ]; then DAG=/sbin/getty_ps elif [ -r /sbin/?getty ]; then DAG=/sbin/getty_ps elif [ -r $1 ]; then DAG=$1 else echo NO GETTY FOUND -- PUT GETTY ON CMD LINE exit 1 fi cat $DAG echo c clear echo Display restored. End of script fixvt.sh*** I found this on http://www.lsl.com/forum/fixvt.html some time ago and used it to clear a terminal that got messed up by catting a binary file. On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > I had the same problem some time ago. It would happen when I used less. > As time went by more and moreof my consoles would suffer that. It stopped > on its own after upgrading to a new kernel (at the time I was using 2.0.0 > ) and I guess I must have upgraded less at some point. > > I know this isn't much help but try upgrading relevant packges and see > what happens. > George > > > > On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, James Dietrich wrote: > > > > > Several times I have had it happen that after running (and quitting) top > > on one of my virtual terminals, the terminal then uses only the bottom > > line of the screen. Everything seems to work all right, because I can > > type commands and login and logout just fine except for the fact that all > > output is restricted to the bottom line. When the terminal is in this > > state, top will run and use the entire screen, but it redraws in a strange > > way--quite a bit of flickering and blinking at the top of the screen > > during each redraw/update. > > > > FWIW, this only seems to happen after my computer has been up for a > > while--a day or two. I am running Debian 1.3 and kernel 2.0.30. And I > > have tried killing all the process on the offending tty, but the problem > > still persists. > > > > Anyone else seen this quirk? Any ideas on how to fix it? I would like to > > be able to fix it without rebooting ( it must be possible :-) ) > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > James > > > > > > -- > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > > > --- > George Kapetanios > Churchill College > Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html > --- > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tty uses only bottom line of screen
Several times I have had it happen that after running (and quitting) top on one of my virtual terminals, the terminal then uses only the bottom line of the screen. Everything seems to work all right, because I can type commands and login and logout just fine except for the fact that all output is restricted to the bottom line. When the terminal is in this state, top will run and use the entire screen, but it redraws in a strange way--quite a bit of flickering and blinking at the top of the screen during each redraw/update. FWIW, this only seems to happen after my computer has been up for a while--a day or two. I am running Debian 1.3 and kernel 2.0.30. And I have tried killing all the process on the offending tty, but the problem still persists. Anyone else seen this quirk? Any ideas on how to fix it? I would like to be able to fix it without rebooting ( it must be possible :-) ) Thanks for your help. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
