Re: HPT370 Questions
On Thursday 14 November 2002 7:15 pm Ellen Mingott wrote: > My HPT370 ATA100/RAID controller is on the motherboard (not PCI). > > 2.2.17 is installed on a disk connected to ide0 -- the ATA33 controller. > > It can't see the other disk which is connected to the HPT370 controller. > > Is there a solution? in Potato? in Woody? You need support in the kernel for the HighPoint (referred to as the 366 in the kernel config). I have mine compiled in: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y (and maybe CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT=m to get the RAID features going though I've not used this). This worked for me in Potato with a 2.2 kernel, and now with Sid and 2.4. You will also want something like append="ide2=ata66 ide3=ata66" or append="ide2=ata100 ide3=ata100" in /etc/lilo.conf to get the ide channels seen as higher speed (I have an ata66 IBM drive as /dev/hdg on an Abit KT7-RAID) Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (plain text emails only) http://www.dbg400.net /"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X Debian GNU/Linux | ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Debian on a stubborn laptop
Hi folks I have an old Toshiba 110CS laptop[1] that I'm trying to get Woody on to. After a few false starts I managed to get it booted and into the first stage of installation. It didn't like the first driver disk, but six floppies later I managed to find a disk it liked, and then it failed unpacking the drivers.tgz file it had built. Restarting from scratch several times still couldn't get it past that point. The next move was to try for a pcmcia boot disk, that would let me use either my vaio cdrom drive, or a network card to get the appropriate file. As I had the Red Hat 7.3 cds, I thought I'd try the pcmcia boot disks from there, but they just complain that there is insufficient ram to install it, even in text and rescue mode. After that, I managed to hook it up to my home lan booting with tomsrtbt. That took a couple of goes - the floppy drive seems to be on its last legs :( I've now got the local hard drive mounted and also an nfs share from my server. What I'd like to do now is copy a base debian system over from my server to the laptop drive, then chroot into it, setup LILO, and boot direct from the hard disk. Then I'd just carry on with a network install, assuming I have pcmcia support. Now my questions: Does the base Debian system exist on the Woody cds in a form I can copy, or maybe somewhere else on the net? If not, how can I construct one? Does this sound workable and/or is there a more Debian way to do it? Regards, Martin [1] Pentium 100, 16Mb RAM, 845Mb hd, floppy drive only. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X Debian GNU/Linux | ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/usr/sbin/eximconfig problem
Hi folks I was updating one of my boxes running sid, and as part of the dependancies for new packages it pulled down exim. The problem was on configuration: Setting up exim (3.36-1) ... syntax error at /usr/sbin/eximconfig line 955, near "" )" (Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 948) Execution of /usr/sbin/eximconfig aborted due to compilation errors. dpkg: error processing exim (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: exim Any attempt at an apt-get dist-upgrade after that resulted in the same error, as did a dpkg --configure exim. I have exim installed on my other machines (though configured not to do anything as yet) and hadn't seen the problem there, and the only difference is the first machine hadn't had a /etc/exim/exim.conf file written yet. Copying that across, followed by dpkg --configure exim, sorted out the problem. I'm assuming this is a temporary glitch caused by the perl 5.8 upgrade as /usr/sbin/eximconfig is a perl script (and gives the same result on other boxes if I run /usr/sbin/eximconfig). As such I don't know if it warrants a bug report (can't see similar filed against exim at present) or if I should now ignore it as it currently 'works for me'. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X Debian GNU/Linux | ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot run X apps when 'su'
Hi all Don't know if it's been mentioned on this thread yet, but Francois Gouget wrote a script, sux[1], to transfer $DISPLAY and X cookies so X apps work fine when assuming another user's identity. Details were posted here[2] about a year ago and I've appreciated it ever since. Just use it as a drop in replacement for su. Regards, Martin [1] http://makeashorterlink.com/?U27C32511 [2] http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X Debian GNU/Linux | ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Menus not updating
Hi all I've recently installed Debian sid on my kids' box and it's running fine, except that the menus (in Blackbox) don't get updated after an apt-get install or dist-upgrade. A manual update-menus does the trick, but I'm wondering what is missing for it not to happen automagically. It runs fine on the other sid boxes I run. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X Debian GNU/Linux | ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla
On Friday 24 May 2002 10:51 pm, Robin Putters wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 23:31, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports > > spelling checking/ GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. > > Evolution? There's KMail too. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X Debian GNU/Linux | ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody install infinite loop
On Monday 06 May 2002 2:13 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 08:51:19PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > > The install proceeds as expected until I get to the point of > > specifying the system time. The HW clock is NOT set to GMT, so I > > select NO for that option. I give my locality as US; Eastern. I then > > create a root account/password and a user account for myself. After I > > do that, the install loops back to ask me again if the HW clock is > > set to GMT. From that point on, nothing I do breaks this loop, and > > all of the above steps just keep on cycling. I have tried the install > > twice, restarting from the very beginning and reformatting all drive > > partitions to ensure there isn't any residual data from a prior > > install that could mess things up; same result each time. > > Yes, this is a known bug in base-config. A fix is in unstable and is > going to be pushed into woody before the release. How recently did unstable get fixed? I tried a sid install from a jigdo image last week and couldn't get past this. In the end I booted from a potato install disk and when it asked for the additional CDs I put in the unstable ones. Did the job nicely, but I did like what I saw of the new installer. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent of CloneCD?
On Sunday 21 April 2002 9:47 pm, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:33:43 +0200 > > "martin f krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > also sprach Troy Telford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.21.2228 +0200]: > > > Is there a Linux equivalent of CloneCD? (Meaning it can make a > > > perfect bit-per-bit copy of a CD?) > > > > cdrecord -v -isosize -data /dev/cdrom > > This will work, provided that the original CD comply's to the ISO > standard. Things such as SafeDisc and other copy protection schemes > will mess this up. However, in the case of CloneCD, the copy is a bit > by bit copy not an iso dump (which is what cdrecord provides TMK). I > too would be interested in a lower level copy option for these pesky > CDs. I've always used dd to create disk images for duplicating - jamaro:~# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd1.iso and so far it's worked fine. Not tried it on audio disks, though. I've also seen cat /dev/cdrom > cd1.iso recommended. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GDM under VNC
On Sunday 21 April 2002 5:38 am, hanasaki wrote: > How can VNC server, on Woody, be setup to drop into the GDM and/or XDM > login screen? It is coming up already logged in with the id of the > process runing vncserver. > > Thanks, Hanasaki The VNC server can run from inetd bringing up a [xkg]dm login prompt when someone tries to connect to that port. The functionality was absorbed into VNC proper in 3.3.3r2, so Woody should be fine. This link[1] is still the best (only?) documentation on the feature found going through the VNC site (Contributed...Modifications and add-ons...iXvnc). [1] http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm
On Sunday 14 April 2002 5:56 pm, Carlos Sousa wrote: [snip] > So it would seem your unix machine must have as much instances of > vncserver running as you have users (each on its own virtual display, I > presume). gdm is still not required because user selection and > authentication is done on the client side (by selecting machine:display > and password). > > Actually, I don't think it's possible to use gdm with VNC's X server, > which must be already running under a user ID when the client connects. > What you want is probably an X server for Windows that can be managed > by gdm, and VNC ain't no such thing. It is possible to have VNC launch as a service when required from inetd. You define ports in /etc/services and add lines to inetd to display VNC servers of a particular resolution & colour depth, say 800x600x8 on port 5850 & 1024x768x8 on 5851. Any client that wants an [EMAIL PROTECTED] session runs vncviewer to serverhost:50 and gets an X login window (gdm, kdm, etc). Use serverhost:51 to get the login at [EMAIL PROTECTED] It works very nicely, but it loses one advantage of a 'normal' vncserver session - it's no longer stateless :) When the client closes the window, the session gets shut down. The docs for this are on the VNC site somewhere, and the feature's been around for a while - I've been using at work for 18 months or so and it works really well. I can dig out more details if anyone's interested. > Anyway, you can take a look at a detailed paper on VNC on > ftp://ftp.uk.research.att.com/pub/docs/att/tr.98.1.pdf > > Good luck. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kcalc math bug?
On Saturday 30 March 2002 12:05 am, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 12:43:52AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 15:33:36 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Package: kcalc > > > Priority: optional > > > Section: utils > > > Installed-Size: 392 > > > Maintainer: Debian QA Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Architecture: i386 > > > Source: kdeutils > > > Version: 4:2.2.2-5 > > > > > > run these calculations: > > > > > > 1x2+5x50 (in this order, not in normal precedence order that > > > computers and etc use...) > > > > > > And it outputs 252 not 350! > > > > It should be 252 anyway. Any calculation tool should use the > > conventional precedence. > > NO. Not if I enter it in a specific order. > > 1x2 = 2 > > 2+5 = 7 > > 7x50 = 350 > > Not 252! > > That is how a calculator should work when you are typing in the > calculation by *hand*! I shouldn't have to worry about precedence > then. > > This app is supposed to replace the calculator I can buy for $10. And > that is how it should work. The calculators I've tried, including XCalc, all give 252. In your example above you've expanded the calculation to include equal signs. Do that on the calculator (press = after every number you enter) and you'll get the desired effect. However, I did find one javascript calculator that works just as you want - http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html and click on the link 'popup a simple math ' below the central currency converter. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Could not connect passive socket?
On Friday 08 February 2002 11:10 pm, John Lord wrote: > Hi there, > > > The last couple of days I have not been able to d/l anything from the > uk server, I get the following: [snip] > Get:2 #ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org# testing/main killustrator 1:1.1-beta2-3 > [543kB] > Err #ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org# testing/main killustrator 1:1.1-beta2-3 > Could not connect passive socket. [snip] > I normally have no problems, and have not seen this error message > before. > > Hints please ;-) Hi John Well, you're not alone - I've been getting this on and off since the middle of January :( It just didn't want to know at all last night. Switching to http has generally worked, though even then I've had the occasional hiccup where it wouldn't connect. I've had to switch to http permanently at work as ftp access always gives connection refused - just to ftp.uk.debian.org. Pointing to another ftp mirror like ftp.fr.debian.org works fine too[1] If anyone more informed could enlighten us, it'd be appreciated. Regards, Martin [1] Though the recent rsync problems made that a bit hairy too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \
Re: vncserver ignoring ~/.vnc/xstartup :(
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 19:12, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Martin Rowe wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be > > bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls up > > KDE. The .vnc/ session log doesn't report any problems, and I can run > > xstartup within the VNC window and it runs (just lanches an aterm) fine - > > just on top of KDE. This has worked fine for me in the past, though on > > Mandrake, and runs okay at work on Debian (though launched from inetd > > instead of manually starting each session, and using a login manager, so > > no xstartup involved). > > > > The only similar problem I've seen hunting via Google has also been on a > > Debian system, so I was wondering if there was a difference in the > > packaging of VNC for Debian - or more likely I've missed something > > obvious somewhere. > >Replying late but... I believe this can be caused by > x-session-manager. When KDE is installed it seems to systematically > start its own window manager, which means that when twm gets to start > there is already a window manager running so it fails. >Well, in any case I had this problem when I installed KDE on my box, > x-window-manager was not used anymore so I deleted the > x-session-manager symlink. Well, that got me a bit further. Now it starts up with Enlightenment! I can at least get a Blackbox session by choosing it from the Window manager menu option (though it does nothing the first time I select it). As a check I put some other commands into my .vnc/xstartup, and they do *not* get run at all when running vncserver. I've since tried doing a 'manual' vncserver from work, with an identical xstartup script, and that works. Both boxes are running up to date Sid, with the only obvious difference (that I can see) being the work box boots to an X login (kdm), and my home box just boots to the console. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net /"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \
Re: vncserver ignoring ~/.vnc/xstartup :(
On Monday 19 November 2001 2:51 am, Jeff wrote: > Martin Rowe, 2001-Nov-18 22:47 +: > > Hi all > > > > I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be > > bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls > > up KDE. The .vnc/ session log doesn't report any problems, and I can > > run xstartup within the VNC window and it runs (just lanches an > > aterm) fine - just on top of KDE. This has worked fine for me in the > > past, though on Mandrake, and runs okay at work on Debian (though > > launched from inetd instead of manually starting each session, and > > using a login manager, so no xstartup involved). > > The only thing I can think of is to make sure you're starting > vncserver as the user, not as root. The root account may have > the KDE config. > > jc Hi Jeff Makes no difference if root or user, though I'm only interested in getting it to work as a user. As it happens, /root/.vnc/xstartup gets ignored for root too :( Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \
vncserver ignoring ~/.vnc/xstartup :(
Hi all I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls up KDE. The .vnc/ session log doesn't report any problems, and I can run xstartup within the VNC window and it runs (just lanches an aterm) fine - just on top of KDE. This has worked fine for me in the past, though on Mandrake, and runs okay at work on Debian (though launched from inetd instead of manually starting each session, and using a login manager, so no xstartup involved). The only similar problem I've seen hunting via Google has also been on a Debian system, so I was wondering if there was a difference in the packaging of VNC for Debian - or more likely I've missed something obvious somewhere. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net/"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open\ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \
Re: Anyone gottem mndi to work?
On Thursday 25 October 2001 8:17 pm, Stan Brown wrote: > I want to create a disaster recovery CD using mondo. The first step to > doing this is using mindi to create boot floppy images. > > I've tried to do this on 2 different machines, and it has failed 2 > different ways. > > Has anyone gotten this working under Debian? I'm running unstable (and 2.4.9-ac10) with mondo-archive v1.15 and it seems to work okay. I had a bit of difficulty getting the initrd side working (didn't have it compiled into the kernel, and needed to get the initrd tools) to start with, but the cds it created boot my box okay. I haven't tried doing boot floppies seperately, as my machines can boot from cd. The author (Hugo Rabson) was quite helpful with one error that tripped me up, so you may find it useful to get in touch with him (look for the feedback section at http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ for details) Make sure you're running the latest versions - Mondo is now at 1.17 & Mindi 0.43 (which means I'm due for an upgrade ;-) Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?
On Sunday 14 October 2001 9:25 pm, Jason Boxman wrote: > On Sunday 14 October 2001 04:02 pm, Jason Boxman wrote: [snip] > > Someone mentioned trying an IRQ priority scheduler or something. A > > google search turned this up, which appears to be on the money: > > This program is in the "hwtools" package it seems. > > > http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune/ > > > > I'll have to play with this next time I'm near the 486 (which is 100 > > miles away). Could be a while. Maybe it'll fix the problem. > > > > Good luck! Fortunately my box is in front of me, so I've run irqtune (the defaults are fine for me) and I'll see how I get on. At least ppp is still working after running it :-) I've also added the low_latency flag to setserial to see if that helps. Thanks for the pointers. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?
On Saturday 13 October 2001 11:13 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my > > meager 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp > > traffic becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected. > > You have a proper modem, or one of those 'software modems' aka > win/linmodem POS? I get similar problems when burning CDs, though I've had it happen with other processes (can't remember if it was bzip2, though). If the connection is already up, it becomes unusable (though usually stays up), if not, then it won't establish the link (stalls on negotiation, drops off, tries again...) until the burning process finishes. I've a hardware modem (3Com/USR 56K external) and have had this problem all the time I've been using Linux. In the meantime, the hardware, distro and most recently the burner have all been upgraded. One of my reasons for getting a faster burner (12x10x32 from a 2x2x6) was to have less on-line curfew. I've asked this question before on other forums, but no answer yet. Maybe it'll improve when I get cable later this year :) Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
Re: gmix problems
On Sunday 26 August 2001 17:13, Martin Rowe wrote: > Hi all > > After my most recent sid apt-get dist-upgrade gmix has stopped working > :( It pops up a dialog box reporting it couldn't open the sound device > - check permission to /dev/mixer and that sound is compiled into the > kernel. Well the latter is okay as it works fine for root. Permission > on /dev/mixer after the upgrade was > crw-rw1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/mixer > and my userID is a member of the group audio. > Even changing permissions to > crw-rw-rw-1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/mixer > doesn't improve things. > > Is gmix supposed to be setuid - I don't remember ever changing this. > Sound works okay for my user, just not the mixer properties (the > equaliser in xmms doesn't work either). > > Regards, Martin Just to follow up with more info. gmix obviously can't be setuid - GTK doesn't like it & refuses to start the program. Both xmix & aumix work fine for a user, and gmix still won't run even if I chown /dev/mixer so I own it. I guess it must be a bug in gmix. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
gmix problems
Hi all After my most recent sid apt-get dist-upgrade gmix has stopped working :( It pops up a dialog box reporting it couldn't open the sound device - check permission to /dev/mixer and that sound is compiled into the kernel. Well the latter is okay as it works fine for root. Permission on /dev/mixer after the upgrade was crw-rw1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/mixer and my userID is a member of the group audio. Even changing permissions to crw-rw-rw-1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/mixer doesn't improve things. Is gmix supposed to be setuid - I don't remember ever changing this. Sound works okay for my user, just not the mixer properties (the equaliser in xmms doesn't work either). Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
UK suppliers of laptops with Debian preinstalled ?
Hi all Anyone know where I might be able to locate such a beast? I've been digging around on Google, but most links seem to be out of date - hardware firms now consultacy/software only, etc. There seem to be a few that sell RedHat[1] but I can't find anything for Debian. I wondered if HP had any offerings, as they seem to like Debian, but there doesn't appear to be anything :-( Regards, Martin [1] http://www.dnuk.com do some nice portables - I'll need to check if they can do Debian (only list RH on the web site). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work
On Sunday 29 July 2001 06:13, Tao Liu wrote: > Yes! The problem is resolved! > I am using 2.4.7 now. > Thank you! > > But what does initrd mean? > Is it new for 2.4? Initial Ram Disk. It's been there for sometime as I needed it to get ide-scsi emulation going for my cdburner back on Mandrake 6.0 (2.0.36 or early 2.2). I *think* it's the equivalent of the debian root disk you use on a floppy install after the rescue disk - but I could be way out on this one ;-) It didn't seem to be required in later versions, and I don't currently need one for 2.4.4-ac6 (I recompile for hardware support so I don't use stock debian kernels). Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
Re: Debian Issues!!
Hi I'm afraid I 'cheat' and grab the iso direct from http://www.linuxiso.org which lists Debian right at the top (as it should be ;-) ). I did look into getting it the Debian way, but decided to go with linuxiso.org as it was easier and they're geared up for that sort of demand. I'm happy enough for the debian mirrors retaining their bandwidth so my dist-upgrade's can go through more quickly[1] ;-) Regards, Martin [1] Especially as I'm still on dial-up at home - though fortunately unmetered with 29Mb coming through at present ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
Re: kmail
On Monday 16 July 2001 1:32 pm, Brian Schramm wrote: > OK, I have heard several times that kmail uses imap. Yet I cannot find a > way to set it up for that. Can anyone tell me how? All I have for > options are local and pop accounts. I would like to use kmail to have > full support for imap including server side mail folders. Any chance of > that working? > > Thanks. > > Brian I believe it's a recent addition to KMail - I'm running version 1.2.9 from sid (unstable) - what version do you have? Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)
On Thursday 12 July 2001 17:28, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on
> about MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you
> scrape off the bottom of your shoe.
I'm tempted to drop the from the sentence ;-)
> I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and have yet to find a Linux
> MUA that meets my needs. I really do like Linux and would like to
> transition over to it for my desktop machine, but because of it's
> weakness on the MUA side, I haven't been able to do so. ("weakness" is
> my perception - you can prove me wrong by continuing to read)
I was in a similar position when I started Linux ( a couple of years ago)
and used Forte Agent under Wine for about a year (couldn't find a usenet
client I liked either). I eventually settled on Kmail from KDE as a MUA,
now very much improved since KDE 2. I'll see what features I can match up.
> So, here's a list of my requirements and I'm hoping you guys can point
> me to an MUA that meets them. If so, I'll gladly switch over to Linux
> full-time and forswear Microsoft forever. :)
Just wiped the last vestiges of Windows off my box (haven't used it this
year) - just wish I could do the same at work :-(
> - Must be able to handle multiple IMAP-based accounts. (not
> necessarily on the same server)
Can handle multiple pop, IMAP & local mailbox
> - Must be able to easily change which account I'm sending email from,
> ideally selectable from the individual message composition screen.
Has an 'Identity' selecting at the top - I've set it to my debian-lists
for this one. You can also associate a folder with a mailing list, and
have it associate the list with an identity to speed up posting new
messages.
> - Must support caching of IMAP messages to local folders (i.e. offline
> mode) no -- POP3 won't work for me.
Don't know about this, as I don't have any IMAP accounts - I suspect it
probably will though.
> - Must be able to provide a view similar to Outlook's folder list that
> shows me, *at a single glance* how many unread messages I have in each
> of my IMAP accounts. No switching around, no multiple keystrokes --
> one screen.
Fairly configurable - I currently have 21 unread in Trash (not from this
list - honest ;-) ) and 55 unread from this list - which I can see while
writing this.
> - Must have preview pane capabilities or, at the very least, something
> similar to Outlook's show first 3-lines capability.
Your email is currently in mine - I rarely open up messages & just
navigate via the preview.
> - Must have sophisticated filtering/rules capabilities. (pretty sure
> procmail can fulfill this)
Has a decent set of filters that can move, redirect, forward, bounce,
rewrite headers, etc. It also supports message scoring though I haven't
used that as yet.
> - Must support automatic spell-checking of emails.
Got me on that one - You have to click on an icon or set up a key binding
(F7 for me)
> - Must seamlessly handle MIME attachments (meaning I click on the "add
> attachment" button/key, select the file from the hard drive and send
> the email message with no other farting around.)
No problems
> - Must have integrated address book (or seamlessly integrate into
> another address book program) This includes auto-completing email
> addresses as they're entered and the ability to enter actual names and
> have the address program substitute the email address upon sending.
Various choices of address book. Can use the KDE address book. Does
auto-completions (though appears to be case sensitive). I still use the
old kmail addressbook and it just name searches on the start of the entry
(there is just one field for name & email combined) - I guess the KAB
interface is more sophisticated
> - Must have integrated calendaring program (or seamlessly integrate
> into another calendar program)
:-( Don't know if there is a KDE calendar app that will link. I use
blackbox as my window manager and just have KDE installed for kmail &
konqueror, so I'm fairly ignorant on KDE's other offerings.
> - Must synch up with Palm Pilots (at least address book and calendar --
> don't care about synching email)
Pass.
> - Address book must support exporting for use in other programs.
KAddressbook exports to .csv - any use?
> - Nice to have a debian package, but not required.
# apt-get install kmail
(assuming you are running woody or sid)
> - Nice to be free, but not necessarily required.
:-)
> - Be as stable (or more) as Outlook 2002.
I've not had any problems (other than of my own making) with KMail 1.2
(1.1 under KDE 1 was a bit ropey at times)
> - Does not have to be one single program, but does have to integrate
> reasonably simply. I'm not willing to write custom code or spend 12
> hours on fiddling with things to get them interoperating correctly.
> (especially as this is not something I have to do with Outlook)
Does most things itself but can hook
No text echo in virtual consoles
Hi all I've got a weird error that seems to crop up after being in X for a while. If I switch to a virtual console I see the login prompt fine. If I type my user ID, the cursor moves, but no characters are shown. Obviously nothing shows typing in the password. I can then type (but not see) something like ls, and get a screen full of coloured dots & lines, but nothing recognisable as text. If I switch to another console & back again, everything shows as it should, but then anything typed or echoed to screen after that is invisible (or shows as dots) until I flick elsewhere and back again. At first I thought the login problems were due to the recent pam issue, but I've done several dist-upgrades (tracking sid) since then, and a login after reboot works fine, as do virtual consoles before and, for a while at least, after starting X. One other thing, which may or may not be connected is starting a second X session. Thanks to a recent posting here, I've managed to get :1 running with the vt8 qualifier, but the cursor in a term or text on window borders or toolbars, etc occasionally disappear, only to reappear when cycling to another workspace & back. None of these problems happen with the main X session on :0 There is an unresolved problem with dri/3D acceleration mysteriously stopping after a few days - one night it's working fine (TuxRacer :) ) then the next it's gone. I've no idea if this is connected to the other problems, as dri is working fine at present, but the other problems are there now. Running 2.4.4ac6, with a Matrox G450 & XFree 4.03 (blackbox wm) Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
Re: FRIACO
On Sunday 08 July 2001 19:30, George wrote: > If anyone here has any experience with FRIACO and linux, or btinternet > friaco in particular could you drop me an email. > > Cheers > > George I have a couple of hours experience - is that enough? ;-) Just switched over from Freeserve Unlimited to their Anytime service that runs on FIASCO (or something like that) and it seems to be fine so far. Just switched the number in /etc/wvdial.conf - no other changes required. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
Re: Not Debian related. wvdial
On Sunday 08 July 2001 13:54, Wayne wrote: > After I do all this I then start Netscape and try to go to some web > page. The responds I get it that Netscape is unable to locate the web > page. > > I tried to telnet into my isp, but I get host name undefind. I don't > know which file telnet is looking into for the host name. > > Wayne > > P.S. Does wvdial use /etc/ppp/pap-secret or /etc/pp/chap-sceret? I don't know much about wvdial, other than it just works for me :) Do you have any nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx lines in your /etc/resolv.conf ? I get that sort of message if those are missing - going for an IP direct works, though. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
NFS woes :(
Hi all I've just put Debian 2.2r3[1] on my work box (alongside Mandrake 7.1) and I'm getting nfs bindresvport: Permission denied when trying to mount some NFS shares from our AS/400s. This works fine if I boot back into Mandrake, and the NFS server on the AS/400 is running fine. A showmount -e dev1 does list all the available shares, so I'm assuming it's something I've done (or more likely not done) on the client side that's causing me grief. Including the verbose option to mount doesn't give any more output, and I can't find anything in the logs to indicate a problem. Running mount in with -f happily reports dev1:/it on /mnt/dev1/it type nfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) One slight complication is that the AS/400's implementation of NFS (version 2) at OS/400 V4R4[2] or below only accepts a UDP connection. Recent versions of mount are TCP based (so I'm told), and won't work. The workaround is to use an older version - in my case I've been using the Mandrake 7.0 mount command successfully (on 7.1, that is). In case there is some issue with that, does anyone have a Slink mount binary I could try (I think it needs to be pre 2.10). Any ideas or suggestions of where else to look appreciated. Regards, Martin [1] dist-upgraded to sid - it's my desktop box rather than a production server :) [2] Which is what we're running - it's fixed at V4R5, but we won't be upgrading anytime soon :( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
