Re: removing wierd files
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:32:45PM +0100, Ken Gilmour wrote: Ar Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0400, scr?obh Matt Price: ?somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: ?I've tried to remove them but bash doesn't seem to like commands of ?hte kind: ?rm \-* ?or ?rm '-0.pnf' ?is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? ?thanks, ?matt What about rm *0.png tried that too: $ rm *0.png rm: invalid option -- 0 Try `rm --help' for more information. somehow I need to escape the '-' but can't seem to manage it. m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removing wierd files
CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [Snip] rm \-* or rm '-0.pnf' is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? try 'rm -- -0.pnf' Or rm ./-0.pnf works too. doh! and it's even in the manual! thank you for the info. anyone know what the '--' option sigifies? I notice it's not really documented in the man page. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
procmail puzzle
I'm trying to filterm ail form the evolution lists into a sep. mailbox, but for some reason it's not working. I've looked over the recipes I wrote they seem exactly like the ones that DO work... Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the following recipes: # ximian... * ^TO_evolution $MAILDIR/.evolution/ # ximian... * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $MAILDIR/.evolution/ # ximian... * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $MAILDIR/.evolution/ # ximian... * ^Subject: .*Evolution $MAILDIR/.evolution/ The lists are, respectively, (evolution|evolution-hackers)@lists.ximian.com (sometimes (evolution|evolution-hackers)@ximian.com), and have the string [(Evolution|Evolution-hackers)] in the subject heading. thanks as always for the help! m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail puzzle
David Clymer wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 22:18, Matt Price wrote: I'm trying to filterm ail form the evolution lists into a sep. mailbox, but for some reason it's not working. I've looked over the recipes I wrote they seem exactly like the ones that DO work... Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the following recipes: # ximian... * ^TO_evolution $MAILDIR/.evolution/ # ximian... * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $MAILDIR/.evolution/ # ximian... * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $MAILDIR/.evolution/ # ximian... * ^Subject: .*Evolution $MAILDIR/.evolution/ The lists are, respectively, (evolution|evolution-hackers)@lists.ximian.com (sometimes (evolution|evolution-hackers)@ximian.com), and have the string [(Evolution|Evolution-hackers)] in the subject heading. perhaps you need to add the customary :0 flags here line prior to each rule: :0 # ximian... * ^Subject: .*Evolution $MAILDIR/.evolution/ like so. god I'm such an idiot. thanks everyone for the help! Obviously I'd be *toast* without this list... matt check out http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/pm-tips.html. Its got lots of goodies and tips regarding procmail. -davidc -- -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apache error on restart --gaah!
hey folks, well, after three months I rebooted my computer today -- that was silly! Now apache won't start. I get this error: Starting web server: apachePHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/curl.so' - /usr/lib/php4/20020429/curl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/pgsql.so' - /usr/lib/php4/20020429/pgsql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 hmm. I can't tell who's trying to load these files. It looks like php, but php and libapache-mod-php4 are both installed at the current (unstable/ttesting) versions. can anyone help? matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache error on restart --gaah!
Matt Price wrote: hey folks, well, after three months I rebooted my computer today -- that was silly! Now apache won't start. I get this error: Starting web server: apachePHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/curl.so' - /usr/lib/php4/20020429/curl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/pgsql.so' - /usr/lib/php4/20020429/pgsql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 fixed the problem with apt-get reinstall libapache-mod-php4 php problem was presumably with php, not with apache per se. but mod-php4 was trying to load php couldn't -- at least, that's what I suppose. matt -- -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'
hi folks, I've been having this wierd error message when I ssh into my server: 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified' it's repeated about 20 times when I ssh in with a command, e.g. ssh server cat .bashrc or rsync server:/home/matt /home/matt the error doesn't show up when I just ssh in to a login shell, e.g.: ssh anarres I've checked and $TERM is in fact set to 'xterm' on the client temrinal before I execute the ocmmand, and in remote sessions started with ssh. So I don't understand why I get the error. I've googled around and not found much on this issue -- anzone have any ideas? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web-based calendaring that syncs w/ evo?
hi folks, I'm looking for a way to publish an iCal calendar to the web in a format that can be read by anyone (so, plain html). even better would be if anyone could add events to it (wiki-style), and I could then sync the calendar somehow in evolution or mozilla-calendar or something. The plan is to have a list of events that students might bei nterested in, but to only have to enter the data once, rather than twice (once in my calendar, once on the web). There seem to be a lot of calendaring programs out there but I haven't yet found one that matches these criteria... Anyone out there have suggestion? Thanks, -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set default paper size in firefox?
Hi,
the default paper size seems to be set to A4 in my version of
firefox (0.9.3). Anyone know how to change that setting? I often
forget to reset the print option and end up with slightly-wrong page
lengths...
I have tried messing with prefs.js but haven'th ad any luck.
e.g. I have this in my prefs.js, which I wouldh ave thought would
work:
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_command, lpr -o number-up=1
${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME});
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_edge_bottom, 4);
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_edge_left, 4);
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_edge_right, 4);
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_edge_top, 4);
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_in_color, false);
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_paper_height, 10.98);
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_paper_name, Letter);
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_paper_size_type, 1);
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_paper_size_unit, 0);
user_pref(print.printer_PostScript/default.print_paper_width, 8.46);
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_command, lpr
${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME});
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_edge_bottom, 4);
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_edge_left, 4);
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_edge_right, 4);
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_edge_top, 4);
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_in_color, true);
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_paper_height, 279.00);
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_paper_name, na-letter);
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_paper_size_type, 1);
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_paper_size_unit, 1);
user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_paper_width, 215.00);
anyway, appreciate the help.
m
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Re: set default paper size in firefox?
Martin Dickopp wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the default paper size seems to be set to A4 in my version of firefox (0.9.3). Anyone know how to change that setting? I often forget to reset the print option and end up with slightly-wrong page lengths... I have tried messing with prefs.js but haven'th ad any luck. In might depend on which printing method you use (postscript or xprint). I use postscript printing, and for me, the following line in user.js (or prefs.js or the about:config page...) works: user_pref(print.postscript.paper_size, A4); hmm... so this had already been set to Letter -- I tried na-letter as well and neither seems to have any effect. I don't know whether I use xprint or postscript -- I don't remember messing with the print system, so I expect firefox goes through CUPS to getthe printer names. Is this the default behaviour? Any other suggestions on where to set this value: thx, matt (Of course, this sets the paper size *to* A4, so you should replace A4 with whatever paper size you want to use.) Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
making tk and wx(python) prettier
Hi folks, I think I'm like most people in that, when I run straight x programs (for me this includds xpdf, acroread, and little scripts I've written or downloaded using Tk or wxPython) the output is aesthetically pretty unpleasing. THis doesn't really bother me, but I noticed when downoading one wxPython utility that the screenshots from MacOSX were gorgeous, while the program, when it ran on my Xfce4 desktop, was actually pretty hard to read on the screen. So I wondered whether I can set default display fonts and other settings to improve the look of these programs. Anyone know whether I'm asking the impossible? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: test if x server is running on a given display
thanks dave, that's very cool. now... I don't program in c. would it
be easy to modify this program in two ways:
1) pass the display number as a parameter
2) print or return a specific error message if the connection is not
accepted?
-- NEW VERSION --
#include X11/Xlib.h
int main(argc, argv) int argc; char **argv; {
exit(XOpenDisplay(NULL) ? 0 : 1);
}
-- END --
$ gcc -o xprobe xprobe.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
Now:
xprobe from an xterm: Connects to the xterm's server
xprobe from .xinitrc: Connects to new server
xprobe from a VT: Fails
DISPLAY=display xprobe Connects to display 'display'
As for an error message, here's what I'd do:
xprobe || echo Foo! server not responding? 2
wicked cool! thanks
matt
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Re: test if x server is running on a given display
Dave Howorth wrote:
know whether there's a way to contact the server directly to see
whether it's
REALLY running
The simplest way to me is to write an X client program that just makes a
connection, then disconnects. Something like this in fact:
#include X11/Xlib.h
#define DISPLAY :0.0
int main(argc, argv) int argc; char **argv; {
exit(XOpenDisplay(DISPLAY) ? 0 : -1);
}
Then cc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 xtest.c
Cheers, Dave
thanks dave, that's very cool. now... I don't program in c. would it
be easy to modify this program in two ways:
1) pass the display number as a parameter
2) print or return a specific error message if the connection is not
accepted?
Matt
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Re: test if x server is running on a given display
Matt Price matt.price at utoronto.ca writes: thanks to stefan for that answer! works great. though for fun, I'd still ike to know whether there's a way to contact the server directly to see whether it's REALLY running matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
openoffice sound plugin
hi folks, anyone know where I can set the sound plugin for openoffice? I tried adding an mp3 file to an impress presentation, and OOo hangs while trying to load mozplugger to play it. I can't find a setting anywhere that would let me tweak this -- butm aybe I'm missing it in my panic. Anyway, thanks... matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
test if x server is running on a given display
hi folks, I need to be able to test whether an x server is running on a given display on localhost, for a script I'm writing (it's a python script automating openoffice, but I could launch it from a bash wrapper no problem). I don't know how to do that -- any hints? thanks much, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xserver future?
Hi folks, after not noticing for months, I've finally beocme aware of the major behind-the-scenes feuding btwn xfree86 x.org. From browsing the debian-x lists, I see that xfree86 will likely no longer be supported by debian after the current release. this led me to two questions: 1) is this going to affect debian users much? That is, will we be able to effortlessly upgrade to x.org packages in the future and simply leave xfree86 behind? Or will this become rather more complicated? 2) Does this stimulate any interest in or increase the possibility of acceptance of the various successor projects to x -- like Y windows, and I think I've seen others elsewhere (fresco?) which aim to redesign the desktop from the gorund up? This isn't a troll, but I am interested in these questions in party because I plan to be teaching a bunch of kids to run linux in the winter, and I'm just wondering whether the x framework as we currently know it will still be around. later, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`demi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bookmarks.html
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:37:15AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:19:34AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: That's one of the reasons i never save my bookmarks in a browser. I have made php script that manages a few files that act as a db with my links divided in pages, topics and so on. It's also easy to transport bookmarks since i only have to copy the small script the text files containing the actual links, pages and categories. I then set my browser home page to the generated output index.html file and i have all my links at my disposale. Regards, Benedict Benedict, would you post your script for the benefit of the community? Yep, remember that it's not great code :) I'm toying with the idea of changing it to python. It's a simple program to start learning it. I went through the tutorial a while back and I definitely want to try it on a real proggie. You can download it here: http://www.benedictverheyen.be I also use divs and no tables for the layout. Anyway, if people find it interesting and do any changes to it that can benefit other people, send the changes over and i'll add the new package to the site. Or if people change it to python for instance, i could put that code up too. Regards, Benedict for firefox, folks might want to try using the bookmark synchroniser extension (check the extensions page, avilable vrom the firefox home page). I like it a lot -- igves methe same bookmarks at home/work/wherever. You need an ftp location, though. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strange du behaviour
hi folks, trying to pare down the system on my poor overburdened laptop, and using du to help me diagnose. I had some source files in /root which I have since deleted, but I am getting this strange behaviour. so from /root I try: hplaptop:~# du -sh ./ 1020K . but check this out: [EMAIL PROTECTED]517/home/matt]$ du -sh /* 4.0K/anarreshome 2.6M/bin 9.0M/boot 4.0K/cdrom 100K/dev 16M /etc 4.0K/floppy 430M/home 4.0K/initrd 28M /lib 4.0K/local 208K/lost+found 16K /mnt 4.0K/opt du: `/proc': No such file or directory 98M /root 3.0M/sbin 168K/tmp 1.4G/usr 136M/var 0 /vmlinuz 0 /vmlinuz.old I don't udnerstand why the second command gives a size of 98M for the directory /root. Is this a sign that something's wrong which I should try to fix? Maybe I should say that my hard drive was WAY too full for a while -- I booted up this morning, noticed it was at 99% (!) and have now pared it down -- but maybe there was some trouble due to the earlier crowding? anyway, thanks as always, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
presenter view in OOo Impress
Hey folks, was justreading this article inthe New York Times about the new version of MS Office for Mac: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/technology/circuits/20stat.html In it, the author discusses a new presenter tools view in MS office, which lets you see extra information on your laptop screen that isn't passed on to the projector (this is for powerpoint, obviously). This is something I would LOVE to emulate in openoffice impress presentation software on debian. I wonder whether it might be possible to do something tricky with X that makes this possible -- like, say, run one X session on the projector, a different one on the laptop lcd, and then remotely access the projector screen from within the laptop x session? Does this sound plausible I'd love to hear opinions. thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from header class btwn mutt and mailman?
hey folks, I've just realized that mutt has been sending out messages using a private address (matt - at - derailleur - org) instead of the 'form' header set in my .muttrc: set from = [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried grep -ir derailleur /etc/* ad the only relevant entry I could find was: mailman/mm_cfg.py:DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'www.derailleur.org' so my question: can mailman override mutt's 'from' header somehow? It seems bizarre and unlikely. But there's nothing at all in my .muttrc containing the string derailleur -- so I don't see how mutt would even encounter that address! Anyway, I find it puzzling. thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: presenter view in OOo Impress
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Matt Price wrote: In it, the author discusses a new presenter tools view in MS office, which lets you see extra information on your laptop screen that isn't passed on to the projector (this is for powerpoint, obviously). This is something I would LOVE to emulate in openoffice impress presentation software on debian. I wonder whether it might be possible to do something tricky with X that makes this possible -- like, say, run one X session on the projector, a different one on the laptop lcd, and then remotely access the projector screen from within the laptop x session? Does this sound plausible I'd love to hear opinions. Sounds like it should work. Another idea might be to configure your laptop to use the projector as a second head, and configure X as a dual-head setup. Then you only have one X session, but you can move the Impress window to the second head (projector). Of course that means you'll have to watch the projection screen to follow along with your own presentation, so your method is probably better. so, question: Is it actually possible to run a different X session on the projector? On reflection, it seems impossible, since the projector gets its signal from the laptop video out; if it's configured as a dual-head setup, I getthe problem you described; otherwise, the projector is a simple mirror of what happens on the lcd screen. Or do the vast complexities of x hide possibilities I haven't dreamed of (well, I know they do, but possibilities that would HELP me here...)? thx as always, m /Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: presenter view in OOo Impress
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:55:17PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:43 -0500, Kent West wrote: Matt Price wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Matt Price wrote: Another idea might be to configure your laptop to use the projector as a second head, and configure X as a dual-head setup. so, question: Is it actually possible to run a different X session on the projector? Having never had a laptop I could experiment much with, I don't know. I came across something last week that led me to believe that a laptop essentially has a second video card which it uses for the external monitor, but I briefly experimented with an older laptop that led me to believe that was not the case at least with this laptop. Most newer laptops which use ATI radeon or nvidia chipsets have this dual head capability. X does not currently seem flexible enough to switch between single head and dual head on the fly though, so you either have to have dual head running all the time, or restart X with a different XF86Config file when you want to do this nifty sort of thing. If someone came up with a way to make the second head map directly to a virtual desktop, that would be massively sweet... yeah, this is what I want. how would one start? Where's brandon when we need him??? m -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailman postmaster (exim?) message...
hey folks, ever since I installed mailman and got lists running, I've been getting error messages from the postmaster on my local machine: From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Message frozen Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:00:06 -0400 Message 1BQPjy-0002km-00 has been frozen. The sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The following address(es) have yet to be delivered: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: remote host address is the local host --- I assume this is exim sending these messages, but I don't quite understand what the problem is (why is it a problem for the remote host address to be the local host?). I have the following line (among a number of others mailman told me to insert) in /etc/aliases: mailman-owner:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman does this look wrong somehow? Is there somewhere else I should be looking? thx as always for your help. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-file usage
Hi, I'm trying to understand how to use apt-file. I've just installed it on unstable (2.0.3-6) and am using what I believe is the default /etc/apt/apt-file.conf (follows below). when I try: apt-file list mozilla-firefox or apt-file search firefox I get nothing. Am I doing something wrong? Or is the config perhaps not set up right? I ifnd the man page soemwhat telegraphic, so perhaps I'm missing something! thanks, matt # Apt-file configuration file # Substitutions are made as follow: # host = remote hostname # port = port # uri = complete URI from sources.list # path = path from / # dist = the distrib name # comp = the component name # cache = path to the cache dir # dest = the destination file name # cdrom = cdrom mount point # Where are located Packages (relative to comp directory) destination = host_path_dists_dist_Contents-arch.gz # Fetch methods http = wget -N -P cache -O cache/dest uri/dists/dist/Contents-arch.gz || rm -f cache/dest; ftp = wget -N -P cache -O cache/dest uri/dists/dist/Contents-arch.gz || rm -f cache/dest ssh = scp -l user -P port|22 host:/path/dists/dist/Contents-arch.gz cache/dest rsh = rcp -l user host:/path/dists/dist/Contents-arch.gz cache/dest file = cp /path/dists/dist/Contents-arch.gz cache/dest copy = cp /path/dists/dist/Contents-arch.gz cache/dest cdrom = echo Put CDROM labeled path in the cdrom device /dev/stderr ; read ; mount cdrom; cp cdrom/dists/dist/Contents-arch.gz cache/dest; umount cdrom --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-file usage
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:55:38AM -0700, Carlos Hanson wrote: Did you do an update first? # apt-file update err no. sorry for bothering the list. thanks for the tip! m On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:25:58 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to understand how to use apt-file. I've just installed it on unstable (2.0.3-6) and am using what I believe is the default /etc/apt/apt-file.conf (follows below). when I try: apt-file list mozilla-firefox or apt-file search firefox I get nothing. Am I doing something wrong? Or is the config perhaps not set up right? I ifnd the man page soemwhat telegraphic, so perhaps I'm missing something! thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla-firefox extensions
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:17:31AM +0800, Alexander Nordström wrote: On Friday, 7 May 2004 03:16, Matt Price wrote: anyonee lse having trouble installing extensions with mozilla-firefox 0.8-8 on Sid? I keep trying to install mozex and it doesn't seem to actually install. I have two other extensions working (Bookmarks Synchronizer and Session Saver) but they also seemed to install rather reluctantly (lots of extra x has been installed popup windows). Does this behaviour sound familiar to anyone? Yes. Probably mostly a case of mispackaged extensions assuming everyone uses operating systems where everyone is root by tradition. Incidentally, the extensions install fine if you are root (which lets all users use the extensions). It's a known issue with Mozilla, but not all extension developers seem to be aware. Where I have been affected, I have contacted the extension developers to let them know of the issue, and some have at least added instructions on what modifications you need to make. Just be aware of the following issues: a) Some extensions packaged on Windows require the permissions of the installed files to be fixed, or Firefox will not work at all when those permissions are installed. b) apt-get upgrading Firefox will botch root-installed extensions. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=206097 for details. thanks for the tip. However, I don't think this is the problem in my case -- I've tried it with several different extensions that have installed fine with earlier versions of firebird, and in each case I've had the same problem. I've also chown'd and chmod'd all the files in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox and /var/lib/mozilla-firefox so that my user has write access to them -- again, no luck. Now firefox crashes whenever I try to install an extension -- and as far as I can tell, does so without giving any messages or anything. anyone know if firefox has a log anywhere? I myself cant find it... anyway, thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: edit pdf's
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:30:11AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: thanks for the flues folks. pdftohtml -- which I confess I *did* already know about, sorry, should havesaid so -- won't work so well for me, i odn't think; these are scanned-in texts from the jstor journal collection, and it's important I keep the pages in order... as ,er, someone mentioned earlier (don't have the thread in front of me at the moment), a complex process involving gimp and pdftops seems to be the best bet, but it's insanely labour-intensive for long documents, so I may forego the whole project. thx all though. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
edit pdf's
hey folks, I have a bunch of pdf's I'd like to print out, scanned from small-paged books. I'd like to print them out two-to-a-page, but they've been saved with lots of blank space around the text; so when I just try lpr -o number-up=2 I get very very tiny type. I'd like to somehow strip the blank space away from the original files... but I have no idea whether it's posswible to do that in, say, a text editor, by editing some of the readable text. Anyone have any other idea how it might be done? Is there a program lurking out there that might work (apt-cache didn't seem to find anything). thanks much, m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'no screens found' -- how why?
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:24:41PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [sorry Ian, couldn't seem to write back to you directly, and anyway seemed relevant to the whole list] On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:07:27PM +0100, Ian wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Matt Price wrote: (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a (II) UnloadModule: vgahw (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) UnloadModule: r128 (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Have you moved your system over to udev. When I did this, I found that I had to add new udev rules to create the relevant nodes for my nvidia card hey, this might be the problem -- I did apt-get udev at some point in the evening last night! (though haven't fiddled with it yet). Do you happen to have the relevant rules handy -- I haven't looked into udev yet, really, so I could use a guide. Isn't udev supposed to be for hotplug stuff? Why does it apply to PCI cards? for the record, uninstalling udev returned my system to usability. I don't have prssing need for it right now so 'm putting that task off for now! thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:03:40AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my computer! You did that. Aptitude warned you about this after the first time you hit g. You told aptitude that it's idea of whats going to happen is correct and it g to go ahead anyway. In the future, pay attention to what your computer is telling you. 8:o) fair enough, I'll stop blaming aptitude... but I don't REMEMBER seeing the long list of red-coded packages aptitude must have presented me with... oh well. /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpts', which is also in package initscripts Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb thank you. should have looked harder in man (tho with the pagers missing it waas a bit tricky to consult... ). thanks to you and dircha both. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unlock a locked up tty session
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:15:11PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: This has happened several times recently. I have changed from one tty session to another, come back to the first, and the session is locked up. If I was in an application, it just sits there, if I was at the command line, I cannot type. I can change back to other tty sessions and continue to do work. I generally keep this up until I am down to my last session, then reboot, which clear up the problem, for awhile. I have 2 questions: 1. How do I log off of the locked-up session without restarting? 2. Where would I look to see what is causing the problem to begin with? I have no idea about 2, but you aren't by chance typing Control-s, are you? That locks the screen; typing Control-q frees it back up again. (sorry if you know this already...) m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'no screens found' -- how why?
Hi everyone, I've posted this on debian-powerpc but am feeling desperate -- apologies for the cross-post. I've just had something rather strange happen -- after functioning perfectly well on several bootups, suddenly 2.6.5 kernels are unable to run X. I don't believe I did *anything* to the X settings, and X still runs fine under 2.4.25. A quick look at the XFree86 logs indicates the problem is with the framebuffer support. Attempts to set 'UseFBDev' to 'false' in XF86Config-4 result in complete failure in both kernels (R128(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5)). This is wierd! X ran just fine under these same 2.6.5 kernels several times -- I'd say over 10 times, as I was testing a bunch of new kernels; it only suddenly stopped working last night. Why would it work for a while and then suddenly not work? This is all on a blue and white Apple Powermac g3 with the stock ATIRage128 card that came with it. I'm bummed since I noticed several marked improvements under 2.6, e.g. much better support for my Palm, and the sudden disappaerance of a serious printing problem that's been bugging me for 2 years. So if anyone can help me I'd be MUCH obliged. Here is part of the XFree86 log, followed by parts of my XF86Config-4 file parts of the kernel config: XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-10 20030820055107 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 October 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.19-powerpc ppc [ELF] (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) [this warning shows up under 2.4.25 also, so I assume it's not relevant to my problem] ... [just about everything gets loaded now] ... [now things start to go wrong] (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Loading sub module vgahw (II) LoadModule: vgahw (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) Module vgahw: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) R128(0): PCI bus 0 card 16 func 0 (**) R128(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (II) R128(0): Pixel depth = 16 bits stored in 2 bytes (16 bpp pixmaps) (==) R128(0): Default visual is TrueColor (**) R128(0): Option UseFBDev true (==) R128(0): RGB weight 565 (II) R128(0): Using 6 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC) (**) R128(0): Using framebuffer device (II) Loading sub module fbdevhw (II) LoadModule: fbdevhw (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 0.0.2 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (EE) Unable to find a valid framebuffer device (II) UnloadModule: ati (II) UnloadModule: fbdevhw (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a (II) UnloadModule: vgahw (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) UnloadModule: r128 (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found note the second to last error -- unable to find a valid framebuffer device. But why? now here's some of XF86Config-4: Section Device Identifier ATI Rage something Driver ati BusID PCI:0:16:0 Option UseFBDev true EndSection . Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device ATI Rage something Monitor ADI Micro Scan DefaultDepth16 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection [several more Display subsections follow] EndSection --- And from the kernel config file: # Graphics support # CONFIG_FB=y # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set # CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set # CONFIG_FB_OF is not set # CONFIG_FB_CONTROL is not set # CONFIG_FB_PLATINUM is not set # CONFIG_FB_VALKYRIE is not set # CONFIG_FB_CT65550 is not set # CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set # CONFIG_FB_S3TRIO is not set # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set # CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set # CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD is not set CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_FB_ATY128=y # CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set # CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set # CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set # CONFIG_FB_KYRO is not set CONFIG_FB_3DFX=y # CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set # CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set # # Console display driver support # # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FONTS is not
Re: 'no screens found' -- how why?
[sorry Ian, couldn't seem to write back to you directly, and anyway seemed relevant to the whole list] On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:07:27PM +0100, Ian wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Matt Price wrote: (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a (II) UnloadModule: vgahw (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) UnloadModule: r128 (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Have you moved your system over to udev. When I did this, I found that I had to add new udev rules to create the relevant nodes for my nvidia card hey, this might be the problem -- I did apt-get udev at some point in the evening last night! (though haven't fiddled with it yet). Do you happen to have the relevant rules handy -- I haven't looked into udev yet, really, so I could use a guide. Isn't udev supposed to be for hotplug stuff? Why does it apply to PCI cards? anyway, thanks for the tip, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'no screens found' -- how why?
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:35:17PM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:10:34 -0400, Matt Price escreveu: I've posted this on debian-powerpc but am feeling desperate -- apologies for the cross-post. I've just had something rather strange happen -- after functioning perfectly well on several bootups, suddenly 2.6.5 kernels are unable to run X. I don't believe I did *anything* to the X settings, and X still runs fine under 2.4.25. A quick look at the XFree86 logs indicates the problem is with the framebuffer support. Attempts to set 'UseFBDev' to 'false' in XF86Config-4 result in complete failure in both kernels (R128(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5)). Had something similar in 2.6.4, but I don't ever edit XF86Config directly, telling dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 not to use the framebuffer did the trick. I think (though I may be wrong) that there wouldn't be much differnece if I used dpkg-reconfigure (last time I tried, it wouldn't write back to XFConfig-4 because the file had been edited by hand, so I may not even be able to use that option anymore!). May I ask whether you use similar hardware? I think that it's hard to go without the fb when using powerpc hardware. My experience suggests I need the fb to use my video card at all. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aptitude display question
Hey folks, wading through the aptiude configuration options rightn ow... is there a way to group all the broken packages together somewhere in a special view? It would be ocnvenient sometimes. On a more general note, does anyone have a really excellent configuration for aptitude they'd like to share? It seems about as configurable as mutt -which is to say, rather extraordinarily. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aptitude display question
forgot to add my other question -- is there a way to change the percentage of the screen devoted to each part of the display (e.g., reduce the size of the package dexcription, which is rarely full, and give more space to list packages?) thx, m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe
hello, tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my computer! now I have to reinstall them, but the Sid glibc backage seems to have aserious conflict with sysinit: -- Note, selecting libc6 instead of glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11 Suggested packages: glibc-doc 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 753 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/4211kB of archives. After unpacking 20.5kB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 136582 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 (using .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpts', which is also in package initscripts Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) --- Is there a trick for getting around a fundamental conflict like this one? My system is pretty well disabled at the moment (e.g., I'm missing less and can't install it!any clues? m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe
gaah, forgot to add: downgrading libc6 leads to terrible system-breaking conflicts. m On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:07:44AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: hello, tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my computer! now I have to reinstall them, but the Sid glibc backage seems to have aserious conflict with sysinit: Note, selecting libc6 instead of glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11 Suggested packages: glibc-doc 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 753 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/4211kB of archives. After unpacking 20.5kB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 136582 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 (using ../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpts', which is also in package initscripts Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Is there a trick for getting around a fundamental conflict like this one? My system is pretty well disabled at the moment (e.g., I'm missing less and can't install it!any clues? m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: print kernel tree from make xconfig?
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 06:13:56PM +0100, stephen parkinson wrote: Matt Price wrote: anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of the kernel module tree from make xconfig? I would like to have an annotated copy (what modules are required on which machines for what purposes, etc...). If there's another similar pretty picture somewhere that is of course just as good... m do a screen grab out of gimp maybe ? unfortunately one screen length won't do it. I can improvise, but I'd love to have the whole tree printed outi n front of me sometimes... m stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
naming usb devices?
hey folks, feel like I saw this somewhere a while ago, but a quick search didn't turn up what I wanted. Is there a way to assign a permanent name to a usb device like a pen drive,' so that (say) if I plug in two different pen drives at the same time, each one gets assigned to an appropriate name, say /mnt/schoolfiles/ and /mnt/fun/? This would be convenient (tho not essential) for me. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: naming usb devices?
thanks colin, that seems to be it! will play with it a bit. thanks for the quick reply. m On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:30:56AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:24:06PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: feel like I saw this somewhere a while ago, but a quick search didn't turn up what I wanted. Is there a way to assign a permanent name to a usb device like a pen drive,' so that (say) if I plug in two different pen drives at the same time, each one gets assigned to an appropriate name, say /mnt/schoolfiles/ and /mnt/fun/? This would be convenient (tho not essential) for me. Sounds like you want the LABEL= or UUID= syntax in /etc/fstab. See fstab(5) for details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
print kernel tree from make xconfig?
anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of the kernel module tree from make xconfig? I would like to have an annotated copy (what modules are required on which machines for what purposes, etc...). If there's another similar pretty picture somewhere that is of course just as good... m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where does mailman get the host machine name?
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 04:01:16PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 05:13:19PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi, my ocmputer has a couple of domain names attached to it, of which the first and most awkward was awarded by the admin people at my workplace. Mailman., which I've just installed, works fine, but seems to think my ocmputer should be called by this name, i.e., pc09.hist.utoronto.ca. I would like mailman to tell people the address is something easier to remember (in this case, lists.derailleur.org). I cna change the list host name for individual lists through the web interface, but I would like to have this set properly for all lists. How do I do this? ANyone know? In my notes I have DEFAULT_HOST_NAME modified in /etc/mailmain/mm_cfg.py. Might look there. thank you, that works! m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new name issue
I've encountered another difficulty with Mailman. Using the web interface to add new lists (at http://any-valid-host-name-for-my-computer/cgi-bin/mailman/create) I am unable to actually generate the new list. I get the following error at the top of the page generated by Mailman: Error: Unknown virtual host: any-valid-host-name-for-my-computer This is wierd since I've been able to add lists from the command line without any difficulty. Anyone seen this before? Thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where does mailman get the host machine name?
hi, my ocmputer has a couple of domain names attached to it, of which the first and most awkward was awarded by the admin people at my workplace. Mailman., which I've just installed, works fine, but seems to think my ocmputer should be called by this name, i.e., pc09.hist.utoronto.ca. I would like mailman to tell people the address is something easier to remember (in this case, lists.derailleur.org). I cna change the list host name for individual lists through the web interface, but I would like to have this set properly for all lists. How do I do this? ANyone know? htanks as always, m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT]Europe Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft
OK, can we please take this off of debian-user now? Egregiously offtipic. m On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:43:35AM -0800, Number Six wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:35:11AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: You are kidding, right? You can't be that ignorant. Bombing Dresden and Nuking Japan didn't change anything. Sure, a decade for a Beevor, Antony The Fall of Berlin 1945 It is fascinating to read about the Volkstuurm. 13-year old boys being given Panzerfausts on bicycles. Optimists learned English; pessimists learned Russian. Listen, I still get pissed about the Civil War. It sucks to lose. But I have to eat shit sometimes and say my guys couldn't hack it. I want another shot too, lots of times. But I have to eat shit and say, no, this side one, and I have to act like this now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Really, I still don't have sound
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:01:43AM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Mark Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I still haven't managed to get sound up and running. It looks like everybody is stumped but I'm resubmitting the problem and including all that I gathered in the last attempt to get it working. I installed woody stable kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 When I boot knoppix it uses via82cxxx_audio and works. I have that module installed so I added the line to my via82cxxx_audio to my /etc/modules. Maybe the kernel is too old and doesn't support your card properly. Try to upgrade to a newer one, e.g. 2.4.25. You can get precompiled packages from http://www.backports.org. Install the proper package and configure your bootloader to use the initrd. the alsa modules for via82xx changed sometime around 0.9.1, I think. You most likely need to upgrade to the newest alsa-source using the various alsa packages, and roll the new kernel modules according to the instructions in /usr/share/doc/alsa-source. It's slightly intimidating but pretty easy if you follow the instructions. matt Please leave this. It is a filter term. ferulebezel best regards Andreas Janssen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian jr.
Anyone know wht's hapening with debian jr? Seems there hasn't been much news from that project in the last year or so... m On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:47:01PM -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: Elvis Presley wrote: where can i download debian jr. Elvis, I would reply something about 'debian jr.' being a set of children's packages that you can select in 'tasksel', but my ISP doesn't like me sending email to the cemetary. Sorry . . . . The other side. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[solved!] Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hey everyone, I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!! solved the probleem -- the device was defective! returned it, bought a new one, eveyrone's happy now. no problems. hopefully the next person withthis problem ill find this post via google... m with the old drive, I simply plugged the thing in, usb-storage took over and the drive was assigned /dev/sda(something or other). Now, dmesg gnerates this when the drive plugs in: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 19 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1292 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=19 (error=-110) hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 20 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=20 (error=-110) [EMAIL PROTECTED]503/home/matt]$ note that this is the output for a single plug-in event -- that is, the kernel tries to talk to it twice before giving up. On the web I see postings indicating that people have gotten it working. But I can't do it! any suggestions? btw, I'm running sid on an Athlon CPU with a self-rolled, make-kpkg 2.4.23 kernel; I think all the relevant modules are up and running, see the output of lsmod (attached below). I'm kinda desperate for help, and pretty well need this to work in the next couple of days -- so any assistance is desperately appreciated! thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which process is accessing my hard drive?
Hey folks, I'm trying to set my (aging) laptop up for maximum power efficiency. using hdparm, I set the spindown time very short, I don't use x, and I've gone so far as to shutdown things like cron and atd. Pretty much the only thing I have running is emacs (see the output of ps, attached). But somehow the hard drive keeps spinning back up spontaneously. Who's accessing my hard drive?? I don't have the slightest idea how to find out, or (even better) figure out how to stop it from happening. Can anyone help me with this? thx, matt USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.4 1484 444 ?S01:27 0:03 init root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 01:27 0:02 [keventd] root 3 0.0 0.0 00 ?SWN 01:27 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 01:27 0:01 [kswapd] root 5 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 01:27 0:00 [bdflush] root 6 0.0 0.0 00 ?TW 01:27 0:00 [kupdated] root 7 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 01:27 0:01 [khubd] daemon 165 0.0 0.3 1600 304 ?S01:27 0:00 /sbin/portmap root 254 0.0 0.6 2184 580 ?S01:27 0:00 /sbin/syslogd root 257 0.0 0.5 2200 492 ?S01:27 0:00 /sbin/klogd root 270 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 01:27 0:00 [kapmd] root 272 0.0 0.5 1484 540 ?S01:27 0:04 /usr/sbin/apmd -P /etc/apm/apmd_proxy --proxy-timeout 30 root 297 0.0 0.4 2164 452 ?S01:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd root 335 0.0 0.5 1500 556 ?S01:27 0:00 /sbin/cardmgr -C config-2.4 root 362 0.0 0.5 3040 544 ?S01:28 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 374 0.0 0.7 4268 732 ?S01:28 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon root 438 0.0 0.6 572 ?S01:28 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt -ac -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc :64 root 450 0.0 0.5 2304 532 ?S01:28 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd root 454 0.0 0.5 1528 528 ?S01:28 0:00 /usr/sbin/noflushd -n 5 /dev/hda matt 469 0.0 1.5 3436 1440 tty1 S01:28 0:02 -bash root 470 0.0 1.4 3424 1404 tty2 S01:28 0:01 -bash root 472 0.0 0.4 1480 404 tty4 S01:28 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 root 473 0.0 0.4 1480 404 tty5 S01:28 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 root 474 0.0 0.4 1480 404 tty6 S01:28 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 matt 5749 0.0 1.9 3444 1788 tty3 S03:29 0:00 -bash matt 6161 0.2 7.1 10784 6768 tty1 T04:09 1:04 emacs Strassbourg.ll matt 7322 0.0 0.8 2848 824 tty1 R11:31 0:00 ps aux
Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!
Hey everyone, I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!! with the old drive, I simply plugged the thing in, usb-storage took over and the drive was assigned /dev/sda(something or other). Now, dmesg gnerates this when the drive plugs in: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 19 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1292 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=19 (error=-110) hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 20 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=20 (error=-110) [EMAIL PROTECTED]503/home/matt]$ note that this is the output for a single plug-in event -- that is, the kernel tries to talk to it twice before giving up. On the web I see postings indicating that people have gotten it working. But I can't do it! any suggestions? btw, I'm running sid on an Athlon CPU with a self-rolled, make-kpkg 2.4.23 kernel; I think all the relevant modules are up and running, see the output of lsmod (attached below). I'm kinda desperate for help, and pretty well need this to work in the next couple of days -- so any assistance is desperately appreciated! thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:18:47AM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 March 2004 07:47 am, Matt Price wrote: Hey everyone, I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!! with the old drive, I simply plugged the thing in, usb-storage took over and the drive was assigned /dev/sda(something or other). Now, dmesg gnerates this when the drive plugs in: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 19 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1292 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=19 (error=-110) hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 20 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=20 (error=-110) [EMAIL PROTECTED]503/home/matt]$ note that this is the output for a single plug-in event -- that is, the kernel tries to talk to it twice before giving up. On the web I see postings indicating that people have gotten it working. But I can't do it! any suggestions? btw, I'm running sid on an Athlon CPU with a self-rolled, make-kpkg 2.4.23 kernel; I think all the relevant modules are up and running, see the output of lsmod (attached below). I'm kinda desperate for help, and pretty well need this to work in the next couple of days -- so any assistance is desperately appreciated! thanks, matt I have to actually use the mount command on mine, its a mini-cruzer. 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/mount point'. You need Fat vfat file system support. This is on my laptop, no other scsi devices, so if you use it on a scsi box the disk ID may be different. I think all of this is taken care of already in my kernel -- the problem is that the drive isn't assigned to /dev/sd* -- it doesn't even get recognized. I think the thing is supposed to light up when it comes on -- but it just flashes for a second and then turns off. blah! damned windows-centric crap... m - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQ3B3k7rtxKWZzGsRAqgbAJ9BIRjXGS7OV5TvXH+80jh9+02NnACfYLLj t2NGG0B1QCBWnFlfyLD/f70= =VQjz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:21:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Matt Price wrote: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 19 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1292 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=19 (error=-110) hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 20 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=20 (error=-110) I've seen this a few times with my lexar jumpdrive, and just doing an /etc/init.d/hotplug restart fixed it. thanks for the idea, but no luck here. I continue to get the same error I had before... Hotplug also gives the following output: /home/matt]$ sudo /etc/init.d/hotplug restart Restarting hotplug subsystem:Stopping hotplug subsystem: input pci usb. Starting hotplug subsystem: input** can't synthesize input events - /proc/bus/input/devices missing pci** can't synthesize pci hotplug events usb. I htink this is harmless, though. anyway, thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
scrollkeeper dpkg error
hey folks, having touble setting ups scrollkeeper on my system. Keep getting the following error: Setting up scrollkeeper (0.3.14-5) ... update-xmlcatalog: error: entry already exists dpkg: error processing scrollkeeper (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pybliographer: pybliographer depends on scrollkeeper (= 0.3.14-5); however: Package scrollkeeper is not configured yet. Looks to me like scrollkeeper doesn't like to see that an old version of itself has already been installed. Is this something I can fix manually? Should I file a bug report? m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: alt-right-click in xterm
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:38:43PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:18:20PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: description of various window manager behaviors deleted I liket he second style better, as it gives me more flexibility. Anyone know what option controls this behaviour? Sure. The window manager that's being used on the one, versus the window manager that's being used on the other. Which is the first using, and which is the second using? both are using xfce 4.0.0.final-1... I suspect there's a config variable osmewhere that I'm missing... matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alt-right-click in xterm
hey folks, On one computer running debian-unstable right-alt-click in xterm gives e a bracketed arrow pointint down and to the right. WHen I move the mouse, the size of the window changes in the direciton the mouse moves... On another system, also running debian-unstable, the same action gives me slightly different behaviours depending on wherei n the xtemr window the mouse focus happens to be; so if I'm in the bottom half of the window, the arrow pointsi n one direction; if I'm in the top half, it points in another. I liket he second style better, as it gives me more flexibility. Anyone know what option controls this behaviour? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
folder modification times
To: mutt users list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bcc: Subject: folder modification times not updated? Reply-To: Hi everyone, I've noticed recently that some of my Maildir folders don't have the right date attached to them. So for instance, one folder has recently been updated, but ls thinks it hasn't been modified since dec. 29: [EMAIL PROTECTED]501/home/matt]$ ls -ld Maildir/.moin drwx--5 matt matt 4.0K 2003-12-29 16:16 Maildir/.moin/ On theo ther hand, Maildir itself knows it's been updated recently: [EMAIL PROTECTED]502/home/matt]$ ls -ld Maildir/ drwx-- 125 matt matt 4.0K 2004-02-04 20:30 Maildir// What I'd like to know is, why would the modification date be changed in one case and not the other? And what can I do to fix this? Thanks as always, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 256-color xterm
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:10:41PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation There's an faq at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/ Not exactly (I don't make any of those packages, but frequently compile xterm on systems where they're installed). Looking at the stuff I've installed, it appears that xlibs-dev and libxaw6-dev is what you need to be able to do this. So making a package shouldn't require anything more (except of course the package-building-packages) than what I need to compile xterm. After all, they're not incorporated into xterm's package. ok, I went ahead and compiled/installed a 256-color xterm. I was hoping that the extra colors would magically appear for me in xemacs, but emacs still thinks I have only 16 colors. Also I tried running some of That could be a termcap issue - emacs has to see the xterm-256color entry. But I don't use emacs, and only know secondhand about the script it uses for setting this up. the tests in vttests (um, I get the impression from the net that you wrote these, Thomas!) but the oly one that seemed to generate more most of them - not the 256colors.pl (though I've made changes to it). than 16 colors was dynamic.sh. 256colors.pl, for instance, only shows the ANSI colors, not the 16x16 box or the grayscale ramp its supposed to. Do I have to set some other variables somewhere (e.g., in .Xdefaults) to make sure xtemr understnads 256-colors? No - the main thing here is whether your X server has enough colors available. The 8-bit displays don't. I've tested this mostly with 16-bit displays. xterm has defaults for the color resources (compiled in), so that's normally not a problem. Otherwise, when color is enabled there's no additional resources controlling whether the 256-colors are available. -- so I'm a bit confused. Does this mean I should check in my XF86config-4 (or someplace similar) to see if my display is 8 or 16 bit? Or is something else meant by #display' in this context? I don#t know how to find that kind of information out (I should say, though, that my monitor is a fairly modern color moniitor which has 'millions of colors' when I attach it to my mac... thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 256-color xterm
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:10:41PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, I went ahead and compiled/installed a 256-color xterm. I was hoping that the extra colors would magically appear for me in xemacs, but emacs still thinks I have only 16 colors. Also I tried running some of That could be a termcap issue - emacs has to see the xterm-256color entry. But I don't use emacs, and only know secondhand about the script it uses for setting this up. the tests in vttests (um, I get the impression from the net that you wrote these, Thomas!) but the oly one that seemed to generate more most of them - not the 256colors.pl (though I've made changes to it). than 16 colors was dynamic.sh. 256colors.pl, for instance, only shows the ANSI colors, not the 16x16 box or the grayscale ramp its supposed to. Do I have to set some other variables somewhere (e.g., in .Xdefaults) to make sure xtemr understnads 256-colors? No - the main thing here is whether your X server has enough colors available. The 8-bit displays don't. I've tested this mostly with 16-bit displays. xterm has defaults for the color resources (compiled in), so that's normally not a problem. Otherwise, when color is enabled there's no additional resources controlling whether the 256-colors are available. sorry for coming back so quick, I found some info on the net and just restarted X with startx -- :1 -bpp 16 which I understand ought to give me a 16-bit display; but still no luck with the color cube. sigh. best, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 256-color xterm
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:55:36PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No - the main thing here is whether your X server has enough colors available. The 8-bit displays don't. I've tested this mostly with 16-bit displays. xterm has defaults for the color resources (compiled in), so that's normally not a problem. Otherwise, when color is enabled there's no additional resources controlling whether the 256-colors are available. sorry for coming back so quick, I found some info on the net and just restarted X with startx -- :1 -bpp 16 That looks right (for some reason I've forgotten, on one of my older boxes I decided to not edit the XF86Config-4 file - probably to see what the automatic configuration updates would do). But perhaps your XFree86 config-file doesn't have a display defined for that value. Mine's a bit hacked up (adapted settings from other systems my machine boots on since the automatic configuration didn't work well). well, I'm at a bit of a loss -- I just went through dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and checked to make sure that 'depth' sections going all the way p to 24 were written into XFConfig86-4 -- no luck! and I definitely do have 256 colors enabled on mmy xterm... gaah! anyway, not that important, I cna live with 16 colors! Thanks for your help, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 256-color xterm
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs highlighting work when I'm in a terminal. The simplest way is to use the configure script which is part of the sources (see the INSTALL file for a summary of options). The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation There's an faq at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/ thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files named xfree86-4.2.1*. The implication is that one needs to build the whole of xfree86 in order to make a debian package; and following the instructions from the debian reference manual, namely: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc from within the directory xfree86-4.2.1 results in an attempt to build xfree86 (which fails, I suppose because not all the sources are really present). I am, however, able to use the configure script in the /xfree86-4.2.1/upstream/archives/xc/programs/xterm directory to turn on the --enable-256-colors switch. sooo... should I now just make, make install a custom xterm -- or is there in fact a way to make a .deb of xterm without building the whole xfree86 suite? Since I rely heavily on jdpkg/apt form anagingm y system, I'd really rather build a .deb than just install porgrams willy-nilly. Thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source Package for xterm?
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs highlighting work when I'm in a terminal. The simplest way is to use the configure script which is part of the sources (see the INSTALL file for a summary of options). The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation There's an faq at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/ thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files named xfree86-4.2.1*. The implication is that one needs to build the whole of xfree86 in order to make a debian package; and following the instructions from the debian reference manual, namely: Not exactly (I don't make any of those packages, but frequently compile xterm on systems where they're installed). Looking at the stuff I've installed, it appears that xlibs-dev and libxaw6-dev is what you need to be able to do this. So making a package shouldn't require anything more (except of course the package-building-packages) than what I need to compile xterm. After all, they're not incorporated into xterm's package. so, here's my confusion: the files downloaded by apt-get source xterm are: xfree86_4.2.1-15.dsc xfree86_4.2.1-15.diff.gz xfree86_4.2.1.orig.tar.gz when everything's untarred, I end up with a huge source tree for xfree86, which in fact will not compile on my machine as it currently is set up. So it seems like I can't use the Debian Way. But surely this should be possible for something as fundamental as xterm, right? I suppose I could just 'make install' but I am hesitant to do so. anywya, if anyone has successfully made xterm deb's Iäd love to hear about it. matt sooo... should I now just make, make install a custom xterm -- or is there in fact a way to make a .deb of xterm without building the whole xfree86 suite? It depends on whether you want to learn how to make packages (or just get xterm built). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 256-color xterm
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation There's an faq at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/ Not exactly (I don't make any of those packages, but frequently compile xterm on systems where they're installed). Looking at the stuff I've installed, it appears that xlibs-dev and libxaw6-dev is what you need to be able to do this. So making a package shouldn't require anything more (except of course the package-building-packages) than what I need to compile xterm. After all, they're not incorporated into xterm's package. ok, I went ahead and compiled/installed a 256-color xterm. I was hoping that the extra colors would magically appear for me in xemacs, but emacs still thinks I have only 16 colors. Also I tried running some of the tests in vttests (um, I get the impression from the net that you wrote these, Thomas!) but the oly one that seemed to generate more than 16 colors was dynamic.sh. 256colors.pl, for instance, only shows the ANSI colors, not the 16x16 box or the grayscale ramp its supposed to. Do I have to set some other variables somewhere (e.g., in .Xdefaults) to make sure xtemr understnads 256-colors? whew. thanks for your help! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 256-color xterm
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:20:57AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files named xfree86-4.2.1*. The implication is that one needs to build the whole of xfree86 in order to make a debian package; and following the instructions from the debian reference manual, namely: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc from within the directory xfree86-4.2.1 results in an attempt to build xfree86 (which fails, I suppose because not all the sources are really present). Have you installed all its build-dependencies, listed in the .dsc file (or 'apt-get build-dep xfree86')? err... no. I did, however, apt-get build-dep xterm, and I really only want to build xterm. Do I have to build all of xfree86?? I really don't want to do that, since I love my xfree86 setup as it is, and I live in mortal fear of screwing it up. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
256-color xterm
can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs highlighting work when I'm in a terminal. Thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla-firebird passwords
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:30:31PM -0500, David P James wrote: On January 27, 2004 07:13, Matt Price wrote: If I understand you correctly, pressing View Passwords does absolutely nothing at all? The password manager in Firebird was changed in the 0.7 release which might be the source of the problem. The new password manager (Satchel) is supposed to be backwards-compatible with the old files, but it might not be in all cases. Creating a new profile will tell you if the issue is one of an old profile or a different problem altogether. These kind of things happen with software in a state of flux... yes, I do think these password files are from pre-0.7; aybethis is the issue At any rate, a pre-0.7 password file is the same (essentially) as a Mozilla Navigator password file, so theoretically it ought to be possible to copy it over to a mozilla profile and clean it up there. sounds great -- but what's the name of the password file? is it cert8.db? I don't see an obvious 'psswords' file. thanks! matt I think I also remember seeing a post in the mozillazine forums from someone who had managed to migrate a password file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mozilla-firebird passwords
Hey there, after a recent upgrade I can't view the paasswords stored by mozilla-firebird. In the options menu under privacy, I still see a button marked 'view paswords' but clickingo n the button has no effect. I'd like to clean up my password files, so it's irritating thatthis doesn't work... Anyone know if there's another way to view pasword info, of where I should check to see if there's e.g. some kidn of permissions problem with the password file? Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using regex substitution on BASH variables
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:05:08PM +0100, Philipp Weis wrote: On 26 Jan 2004, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I asusme the script is running, but it's not receiving the data it needs, or at least not understanding it. Procmail sends the message via STDIN, so you would have to read it from there. As you have to read the message more than once for the different formail calls, it would probably be best to save the message in a temporary file and read it from there afterwards. So put a msg=`tempfile`; cat $msg on top of your script and replace all $@'s with $msg. Don't forget to delete $msg when your done. Thanks for this, that fixed the initial probem. A follow up: I'd like to strip the '@' sign from user addresses as a minimal precaution against spam-oriented webcrawlers. so I have a variable FROM=`formail -x From: $msg` which has the value: echo $FROM Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, if this information were stored in a file, it would be simple to manipulate with regex's: sed 's/@/ -at- /' addressfile But I don't see an obvious way to get sed or awwk to take variable values as input. I can do the following: FROM=`formail -xFrom: $msg` ; echo $FROM tempfrom FROM=$(sed 's/@/ -at- /' tempfrom) but this strikes me as awkward. Is there a better way? thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using regex substitution on BASH variables
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:54:52PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, if this information were stored in a file, it would be simple to manipulate with regex's: sed 's/@/ -at- /' addressfile But I don't see an obvious way to get sed or awwk to take variable values as input. I can do the following: FROM=`formail -xFrom: $msg` ; echo $FROM tempfrom FROM=$(sed 's/@/ -at- /' tempfrom) but this strikes me as awkward. Is there a better way? You can use sed and friends in a shell pipe. So a typical invocation would look something like FROM=`formail -xFrom: $msg | sed -e' s/@/ -at- /g'` (Run formail, taking its input from the file named in $msg; then send its output through sed, and take the result of that and assign it to $FROM.) wow, that's great, thdanks! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
promail and address lists
Thanks to help, I now have my bash script (for copying mail to a web
page) working. Ideally I would do something slightly more complex:
copy mails to a web page, then forward those same mails on to a list
of addresses. So my originjal procmail recipe was:
:0:
* ? $FORMAIL -xFrom: -xSender: -xReply-To: -xReturn-Path: |
grep -isF -f /home/movies/friends_and_family.txt
| /usr/local/scripts/moviepage
I thought to replace it with this:
SENDON=`cat /home/movies/friends_and_family.txt`
:0:
* ? $FORMAIL -xFrom: -xSender: -xReply-To: -xReturn-Path: |
grep -isF -f /home/movies/friends_and_family.txt
{
:0 c
! $SENDON
:0
| /usr/local/scripts/moviepage
}
but this does not work.
/home/movies/friends_and_family.txt is a list of addressses like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
etc. I think I need to have one address per line, in order to make
the grep command in the second line of the filter work.
Anyway, obviously I am either doing a bad job of setting the variable
SENDON, or SENDON is in a format that procmail or exim will not
accept. Any ideas on how this should really be done?
Thanks once again...
matt
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OT: procmail recipe/bash scripting issue
hey everyone, trying to get procmail to pipe messages to a script I wrote that processes mail to a web page. Here's the recipe: --- :0: * ? $FORMAIL -x From: | grep -isF -f /home/movies/friends_and_family.txt | /usr/local/scripts/moviepage - If I run the script from the command line iwth a message as input file, I get this: $ moviepage movietest/cur/1075094038.31194_26.anarres\:2\,S h2 Millenium Actress/h2 h3/h3 p Brilliant piece of Japanese animation, highly recommended to all. Very interesting use of comic-book tropes to do stuff that would be very hard to do with live action. And none of the stupid bloodgore that characterizes most anime. /p however, when I use the procmail recipe, I get this (same message): h2/h2 h3/h3 p/p So I asusme the script is running, but it's not receiving the data it needs, or at least not understanding it. Here's the script, which as ou see is very primitive: -- cat /usr/local/scripts/moviepage #!/bin/bash TITLE=`formail -xSubject: $@` ; HEADER=h2$TITLE/h2; FROM=`formail -xFrom: $@` ; BYLINE=h3$FROM/h3; BODY=`formail -I $@`; TEXT=p$BODY/p; echo $HEADER /www/derailleur.org/movies.html; echo $BYLINE /www/derailleur.org/movies.html; echo $TEXT /www/derailleur.org/movies.html; --- s... am I using the $@ wrong somehow? should I substitute somethng else? Thanks for your help! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diagnosing system crash (hardware failure?)
Hi everyone, my work machine has been crashing spontaneously: X freezes, sshd goes down, and I can't use the keyboard. This only happens when Im in the office, so I think it likely has something to do with my physical presence... In particular, we have a USB-kvm switch that I use to switch between the workstation and a webstation. I use it rarely, except when something seems to be wrong with my desktop... which has been happening a lot lately... Anyway, I can't figure out the significance of the pre-crash system messages. Here's a representtive sample: Jan 16 17:08:01 pc09 postgres[1590]: [8] LOG: database system is ready Jan 16 17:08:03 pc09 xfs: CONFIG: extra value for parameter cache-balance Jan 16 17:08:04 pc09 xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable) Jan 16 17:08:04 pc09 xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID (unreadable) Jan 16 17:08:13 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8310 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:08:20 pc09 kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003 Jan 16 17:10:18 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8319 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:12:23 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8329 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:14:28 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8337 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:16:33 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8348 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:18:38 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8373 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:20:43 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8381 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:27:40 pc09 syslogd 1.4.1#13: restart. Jan 16 17:27:40 pc09 kernel: klogd 1.4.1#13, log ... and another: Jan 16 17:28:20 pc09 usb.agent[1832]: kernel driver usbkbd already loaded Jan 16 17:28:20 pc09 usb.agent[1832]: kernel driver hid already loaded Jan 16 17:28:20 pc09 usb.agent[1832]: kernel driver usbmouse already loaded Jan 16 17:28:20 pc09 usb.agent[1832]: kernel driver keybdev already loaded Jan 16 17:28:20 pc09 usb.agent[1832]: kernel driver mousedev already loaded Jan 16 17:28:20 pc09 usb.agent[1834]: kernel driver usbkbd already loaded Jan 16 17:28:20 pc09 usb.agent[1834]: kernel driver hid already loaded Jan 16 17:28:20 pc09 usb.agent[1834]: kernel driver usbmouse already loaded Jan 16 17:28:20 pc09 usb.agent[1834]: kernel driver keybdev already loaded Jan 16 17:28:20 pc09 usb.agent[1834]: kernel driver mousedev already loaded Jan 16 17:29:02 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8475 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:31:07 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8497 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:33:12 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8515 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:35:17 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8530 PROTO=2 Jan 16 16:37:38 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=8553 PROTO=2 Jan 16 17:45:03 pc09 syslogd 1.4.1#13: restart. Now I don't really know what this stuff is telling me, but they don't look so bad. So I'm wondering whether the error, whatever it is, isn't being recorded. Are there general guidelines as to where to go next with this kind of problem? It's fairly annoying... thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
enscript margins
hey folks, just recently discovered enscript, which I'm loving as a pretty-printing tool (though if folks have suggestions for other tools, I'm happy to hear them). One little error that puzzles me -- enscript seems to think my 8.5x11 (US Letter) pages are longer than they really are. When formatting text it prints just past the bottom edge of the page. I'm able to correct this with the --margins= switch, but I wonder if this points to some strange lack of communication bettween enscript and CUPS or something. Any idea how to fix t his, or where the problem might lie? matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
setting print command in xemacs
Hi everyone, using the xemacs print command, my fext files end up starting exactly at the edge of the page and being difficult to readj. I'm trying to figure out a wayto get xemacs to use enxcript or some other formatting tool to do the actual printing -- but it's not obvious how to go about doing that. Any emacs curus out there know how to lend me a hand? Thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi, recentfly upgraded to OOo1.1 using the relativley new sid debs. New version is lovely -- well-done! -- but I've lost some fonts and don't understand how to get them back. The README.Debian states the following: Missing fonts on upgrade to 1.1.0 As part of the integration of Ximian's work, openoffice now uses fontconfig to determine the installed fonts on your system. Fonts that were installed using the 'spadmin' tool in a non-standard directory are no longer supported. You should move those fonts to a directory that fontconfig knows about, such as ~/.fonts or /usr/share/fonts. The same applies if you made use of special paths with SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE. ok... but where do I find the fonts that spadmin installed? the main one I'm worried about is charter, which I use 'cause it's pretty, fairly straightforward, and has a useful italics mode (thhe bittstream vera serif, which is the default, doesn't). The only filles named charter i cna find are in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter I just updated a few days ago. Locate finds the openoffice fonts here: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/psprint/fontmetric That dir is dated 12/29, when I updated but the file /usr/lib/openoffice/share/psprint/pspfontcache is dated 12/31, when I first got a chance to do some work with the editor. I didn't run spadmin so OO must have gone out and updated the fonts. You might also checl /etc/openoffice/psprint.conf. hey wayne, I know you wrote this a while ago, but did you notice if you have the charter fonts in that directory? If so, do you think you could just send them over to me? then I could try and put them in my .fonts directory and see if they show up. I have a /usr/lib/openoffice/share/psprrint/etc directory, but charter isn't listed there. I really would rather have the font back if I can possibly figure out howto get it! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nvidia-kernel-common/source + kernel 2.6 configuration question
hi folks, after trouble with nvidia and my old kernel I am hoping to update to 2.6.0, but am a bit stuck. when I installed one ofthe nvidia packages -- I think nvidia-kernel-common -- I was asked a debconf qusiton about installing the 2.4 or the 2.6 version of the package; I chose 2.4 (the actual question was something more specific which I can't remember). Now I'm hoping to upgrade to 2.6, but can't figure out how to get the debconf question pack. I've tried dpkg-reconfigure -plow nvidia-kernel-surce and nvidia-kernel-common, but neither one gives me any questions. any suggestions? matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg-divert error
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: after trouble with nvidia and my old kernel I am hoping to update to 2.6.0, but am a bit stuck. when I installed one ofthe nvidia packages installing the 2.4 or the 2.6 version of the package; I chose 2.4 (the actual question was something more specific which I can't remember). Now I'm hoping to upgrade to 2.6, but can't figure out how to get the debconf question pack. I've tried dpkg-reconfigure -plow nvidia-kernel-surce and nvidia-kernel-common, but neither one gives me any questions. the debcof question was in nvidia-glx -- so, solved the initial problem. but now this: nvidia-glx won't install. i initially made my /usr partition too small, so I moved /usr/share to a separate partition. now I get this error: Preparing to replace nvidia-glx 1.0.4496-2.1 (using .../nvidia-glx_1.0.4496-10_i386.deb) ... dpkg-divert: rename: rename `/usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions/libGL.so.1' to `/usr/lib/libGL.so.1': Invalid cross-device link dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx_1.0.4496-10_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 anything I caan do to overcome this issue, short of reorganizing partitions? matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set up simple mailing list?
hey there, I'd like to set up simple mail account on my box to act as a mailing list for one ofm y classes. So if someone writes to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail is automatically frwared to a bunch of people. This should be simple, right? I tried writing an od-fashioned .forward with a bunch of mail addresses in it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the mail doesn't seem to land anywhere. Is there a relatively simple way to do this? I believe I'm using exim, though I haven't really messe with the mail delivery system for a year. Well, I should say that I receive most of my mail via getmail and that it gets filtered through procmail. I thought that at one time I had to write a .forward file |/usr/bin/promcail but I find that my main account doesn't HAVE a .forward. huh. seems odd. if nayone can help, I'll send alongwhatever I need to. matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
urgent nvidia problem
hey folks, came into work today and the computer was crashed dead; don't know what the problem was (I'll attach the last few lines of /var/log/messages from yesterday; they don't tell me much, though). Rebooted and x wouldn't start because of a problem with nvidiactl (I have to use the nonfree drivers to make X work at all...). I've tried variouS things -- modprobe nvidia, insmod NVdriver, changing to an oder kernel, none of it matters. Gdm gives slightly different errors from those recorded in XFree86.log. Here's the last bit of gdm's log: Not loading .note.GNU-stack Not loading .note.GNU-stack Not loading .note.GNU-stack NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (No such device) (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found -- Here's an edited version of the XFree86 log. I've cut out most of the informational stuff and also a large number of repeats of: Not loading .note.GNU-stack which is new -- that is, doesn't appear in pre-crash logs. --- snip Not loading .note.GNU-stack Not loading .note.GNU-stack (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 --snip (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) NVidia GeForce4 MX 440 rev 163, Mem @ 0xe400/24, 0xd000/27, 0xd800/19 snip (II) LoadModule: GLcore (WW) Warning, couldn't open module GLcore (II) UnloadModule: GLcore (EE) Failed to load module GLcore (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: dbe (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a ---snip Not loading .note.GNU-stack (II) Module dri: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading sub module drm (II) LoadModule: drm (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a ---snip Not loading .note.GNU-stack Skipping /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o: No symbols found Not loading .note.GNU-stack Not loading .note.GNU-stack Not loading .note.GNU-stack (II) Module vgahw: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD000 (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xE400 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: nvidia (II) UnloadModule: vgahw (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - if anyone can help. I really need it! thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
crash messages
hi everyone, failed to attach this part of my /var/log/messages, as promised. So I'll just insert it in this message. I assume the eth-00 messages are harmless? In which case all I can see are messages of this kind: Jan 6 17:12:34 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 any hintas? PRE-CRASH MESSAGES: - Jan 6 17:00:03 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43835 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:02:08 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43844 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:02:42 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 Jan 6 17:03:23 pc09 last message repeated 2 times Jan 6 17:04:00 pc09 last message repeated 13 times Jan 6 17:04:13 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43853 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:06:18 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43872 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:08:23 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43885 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:08:32 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 Jan 6 17:08:35 pc09 last message repeated 5 times Jan 6 17:10:28 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43894 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:10:50 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 Jan 6 17:10:50 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 Jan 6 17:12:31 pc09 last message repeated 25 times Jan 6 17:12:33 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43903 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:12:34 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 Jan 6 17:12:35 pc09 last message repeated 2 times Jan 6 17:12:57 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 273 Jan 6 17:12:57 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 273 Jan 6 17:12:58 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 Jan 6 17:13:31 pc09 last message repeated 9 times Jan 6 17:14:29 pc09 last message repeated 16 times Jan 6 17:14:38 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43919 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:14:39 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 Jan 6 17:15:26 pc09 last message repeated 8 times Jan 6 17:16:32 pc09 last message repeated 4 times Jan 6 17:16:32 pc09 last message repeated 3 times Jan 6 17:16:43 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43936 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:17:04 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 Jan 6 17:17:29 pc09 last message repeated 11 times Jan 6 17:18:47 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43948 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:20:52 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43958 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:21:21 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 Jan 6 17:21:22 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272 Jan 6 17:22:57 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43968 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:25:02 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=43981 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:27:07 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=44001 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:29:12 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=44011 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:31:17 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=44019 PROTO=2 Jan 6 17:33:22 pc09 kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:50:99:bf:df:18:08:00 SRC=128.100.34.3 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=44028 PROTO=2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
killthread script
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:49:18AM -0600, Jesse Meyer wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2004, Justin Ellison wrote: I'm a linux user of 3 years who manages 10-15 RedHat servers at work, and I've run Gentoo on my laptop since 1.2. The mailing list is great, but the noise floor is too much for me. First of all, a good email client, aliases, and a killthread script is your friend. Impliment one using your email-client-of-choice and your scripting-language-of-choice. Procmail + Mutt + common shell tools can do it. debian-user is a flood of information. I have pretty good spamfilters up now, but I still find there's a bit too much info for me. How does one implement a killthread script? any pointers? matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: urgent nvidia problem
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:15:01AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:44:18AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Rebooted and x wouldn't start because of a problem with nvidiactl (I have to use the nonfree drivers to make X work at all...). I've tried variouS things -- modprobe nvidia, insmod NVdriver, changing to an oder kernel, none of it matters. (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD000 (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xE400 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Is the nvidia module loaded (should see it in the output of lsmod). Are you using the NVidia installation routines or the Debian binary and wrapper packages? If using the Debian packages, what are the versions of your nvidia-glx, nvidia-kernel-common, and nvidia-kernel packages (for the nvidia-kernel package the actual name should be something like nvidia-kernel-$kernelversion where $kernelversion is the output of uname -r). so, no, nvidia is not loaded. I tried modprobe nvidia, and got: modprobe: can't locate module nvidia I'm using the debian nvidia packages, which I compiled myself to fit a self-rolled kernel. nvidia-glx is 1.0.3123-4, nvidia-kernel-long-kernel-name is 1.0.3123-3 (odd that the package version is different) I guess these are somewhat old. I just dpkg -i --reinstall 'ed them without a hitch, but nonetheless nvidia.o does not appear in /lib/modules/kernel-version/kernel/drivers/video. Should it? This is all very strange since nvidia worked fine until yesterday afternoon... matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: urgent nvidia problem
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:46:49AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:42:06PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: so, no, nvidia is not loaded. I tried modprobe nvidia, and got: modprobe: can't locate module nvidia I'm using the debian nvidia packages, which I compiled myself to fit a self-rolled kernel. nvidia-glx is 1.0.3123-4, nvidia-kernel-long-kernel-name is 1.0.3123-3 (odd that the package version is different) I guess these are somewhat old. Yea, current version in Debian is 1.0.4496 the procedure for compiling them has changed a bit, the nvidia-glx package no longer needs to be compiled and there is an nvidia-kernel-common package. You might try upgrading to the newer version. err.. this may be slightly ocmplicated as I think I recently accidentally deleted the source directory for this kernel version. (might be the time to upgrade to 2.6!) I just dpkg -i --reinstall 'ed them without a hitch, but nonetheless nvidia.o does not appear in /lib/modules/kernel-version/kernel/drivers/video. Should it? Yes. To find out where it's putting the nvidia.o file try a dpkg -L of the nvidia-kernel package name. It should list the entire contents of the package including the path to the nvidia.o or in that older version it might have a different module name (seem to recall the name did change). dpkg -L doesn't list nvidia.o. Instead it has the following lines: /lib /lib/modules /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/kernel /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/kernel/drivers /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/kernel/drivers/video /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver I tried modprobe NVdriver, and the driver loads, but X still fails with the error: NV: Could Not Get Card Argument (Invalid Argument) I wonder whether the problem lies BEHIND the NVIDIA driver somehow -- somehow I imagine that X should still work under other kernels if the problem were specific to the module -- and I've tried loading other (previously funcitonal) kernels, with no success. I supposei t's possible there was a spontaneous hardware problem as well -any idea how I could diagnose that? matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing interface font size in openoffice
see the README file in /usr/share/do/openoffice. but short and easy answer: tools -options - view - scale -- set it to somewhere between 110 and 135% and you should get what you're looging for. matt On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:28:45PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: Is it possible to change the interface font size with open office? Its way to small for me to read. Thanx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: killthread script
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:03:04PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Matt Price: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:49:18AM -0600, Jesse Meyer wrote: First of all, a good email client, aliases, and a killthread script is I have pretty good spamfilters up now, but I still find there's a bit too much info for me. How does one implement a killthread script? In mutt, type ? That shows ^D is mapped to delete thread (at least here it is). ahh... I sort of thought that what was meant by killthread was a way to pre-emptively kill messages from a particular thread before they appear (ideally), this would either be done after procmail delivers the mail, or through some kind of dynamic addition to .procmailrc). Deleting threads is a good start, but with some of the super-active threads on this list or (say) [EMAIL PROTECTED], deleting a thread just lets it show up again later on. does anyone have some kind of script they've developed for htis purpose? m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evolution and Firebird
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:16:08PM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: Josh Robinson wrote: Hi all, i'm not sure if this is the best place to ask about such things, but could anyone tell me, or direct me to a place where i can find out - how to tell firebird to use evolution to handle mailto: links you need the mozex extension -- mozex.mozdev.org has it and is well-documented. matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls
hey folks, here's something that ocmes up a lot for me: I use locate to find a bunch of files: % locate charter | grep -i font /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter then I want to ls -l each of these files... so I have to do it by hand at the moment. But shouldn't I be able to automate it with somthing like: ls locate charter | grep -i font ? nothing I try works -- but I can't believe it's impossible! any hints? thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:46:28AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: ls -ld $(locate charter | grep -i font) this is great, thanks! I do like this syntax a bit better, I think. While we're on the subject of ls, here's another problem... I often want to find out which version of a program I'm using, e.g., which xemacs which returns /usr/bin/xemacs of course, ls -l reveals: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 23 2003-09-06 02:18 /usr/bin/xemacs - /etc/alternatives/xemacs I can collapse these two steps now with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll $(which emacs) ... but is there a way to trace the whole chain of symbolic links all the way to -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4254776 2002-04-09 18:46 /usr/bin/xemacs-21.4.6-gnome-nomule following the links manually takes about 5 steps! Is there a command that will trace links recursively until it ends up at a real file? I've tried various switches on ls (ls -H, ls -L) but they don't seem to do what I want them to... anyway, thanks a bunch! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:56:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:41:48AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: I can collapse these two steps now with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll $(which emacs) ... but is there a way to trace the whole chain of symbolic links all the way to -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4254776 2002-04-09 18:46 /usr/bin/xemacs-21.4.6-gnome-nomule following the links manually takes about 5 steps! Is there a command that will trace links recursively until it ends up at a real file? readlink -f wicked, thanks! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice crashes! was: charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
Hi,
ok... but where do I find the fonts that spadmin installed? the main
one I'm worried about is charter, which I use 'cause it's pretty,
fairly straightforward, and has a useful italics mode (thhe bittstream
vera serif, which is the default, doesn't). The only filles named
charter i cna find are in
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter
I just updated a few days ago. Locate finds the openoffice fonts
here: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/psprint/fontmetric
That dir is dated 12/29, when I updated but the file
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/psprint/pspfontcache
is dated 12/31, when I first got a chance to do some work with the
editor. I didn't run spadmin so OO must have gone out and updated the
fonts. You might also checl /etc/openoffice/psprint.conf.
how do I move them to .fonts, as the readme suggests, or fix the
probem otherwise?
Got me (?). I haven't lost any fonts but I have been running the
unstable version for months.
thx for the help... unfortunately my amateurish attempts to fix the
problem have led to a fatal problem, and now I can no longer start the
defaulty OOo installation anymore. I copied some font files from
/usr/share/texmf/ to /usr/share/fonts, then deleted them, not
realizing that OOo was still starting up; and now OO crashes on
opening after stalling for some time with the status bar at about
50%.
strace gives the following output pre-crash:
a bunch of sequences like this, which I assume aer non-pathological
attempts to read fonts:
open(/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fantasy/cartoon/charo___.ttf,
O_RDONLY) = 12
fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=51840, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 51840, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 12, 0) = 0x416d7000
close(12) = 0
open(/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fantasy/cartoon/cosmdd__.ttf, O_RDONLY) = 12
fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=22004, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 22004, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 12, 0) = 0x40473000
close(12) = 0
munmap(0x40473000, 22004) = 0
open(/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fantasy/cartoon/flintstone.ttf, O_RDONLY) = 12
fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=17696, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 17696, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 12, 0) = 0x40473000
close(12) = 0
---
then this:
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
gettimeofday({1073065904, 276624}, NULL) = 0
getpid()= 420
open(/tmp/crxmlF2Uo4i, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 12
gettimeofday({1073065904, 295864}, NULL) = 0
getpid()= 420
open(/tmp/crstkHZBRgF, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 13
fcntl64(12, F_GETFL)= 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x4002c000
_llseek(12, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0
fcntl64(13, F_GETFL)= 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fstat64(13, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40478000
_llseek(13, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0
write(12, errormail:Stack type=\Linux\\n..., 4096) = 4096
write(13, 0x4138b77d: /usr/lib/openoffice/..., 3159) = 3159
close(13) = 0
munmap(0x40478000, 4096)= 0
write(12, am/\/\nerrormail:StackInfo pos=..., 885) = 885
close(12) = 0
munmap(0x4002c000, 4096)= 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {0x40130770, ~[KILL STOP], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART,
0x4027b498}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {0x40130770, ~[KILL STOP], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART,
0x4027b498}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], ~[KILL STOP], 8) = 0
fork() = 533
waitpid(533,
then the crashreport kicks in, after which there's a bunch of other
stuff.
does this look at all intelligible to anyone? i'm afraid I don't know
how to read output from strace...
thanks for your help!!
matt
ps -- other versionso f OOo -- in particular a build of 680 which I
got direct from the website -- still run fine. I assume something is
screwed up with the debian installation, but I apt-get remove --purged
the ooo files and I still have the same problem.
thanks much,
matt
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charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1
Hi, recentfly upgraded to OOo1.1 using the relativley new sid debs. New version is lovely -- well-done! -- but I've lost some fonts and don't understand how to get them back. The README.Debian states the following: Missing fonts on upgrade to 1.1.0 - As part of the integration of Ximian's work, openoffice now uses fontconfig to determine the installed fonts on your system. Fonts that were installed using the 'spadmin' tool in a non-standard directory are no longer supported. You should move those fonts to a directory that fontconfig knows about, such as ~/.fonts or /usr/share/fonts. The same applies if you made use of special paths with SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE. ok... but where do I find the fonts that spadmin installed? the main one I'm worried about is charter, which I use 'cause it's pretty, fairly straightforward, and has a useful italics mode (thhe bittstream vera serif, which is the default, doesn't). The only filles named charter i cna find are in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter how do I move them to .fonts, as the readme suggests, or fix the probem otherwise? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-kernel 2.6.0
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:38:19PM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:44:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hey Folks, now that there are patches for the nvidia non-free drivers (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) I used this method, but had to export KERNDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.0 to successfully compile the nvidia kernel. thatw orked, trhanks. By the way, after installing 2.6.0 kernel and nvidia-kernel and rebooting, I found that loading the nvidia kernel resulted in thousands of messages in /var/log/kern.log and /var/log/messages such as: did you ever figure this out? thx for the solution,, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apple MSWord files
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:39:17AM -0500, Dan Griswold wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a pre-osX mac. Mutt tells me it's of type: application/x-macbinary anyway, I can open the file in OpenOffice, but it's a total mess -- control characters everywhere, illegible garbage top and bottom, no footnotes. Is there, then, a general strategy for dealing with these icky MacOS files? I've had this problem, too. I decided that the Linux-based converters had not been programmed to handle these early Mac formats. My only solution was to have someone save the file either in a current MSWord format or in something open or quasi-open, such as HTML or RTF. Dan ... I think I'm gonna go with this strategy myself... matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg modules_iimage error
I'm having a problem (described in the original post, but I'll repeat it below) compiling the nvidia modules for kernel 2.6.0 using make-kpkg. I'm beginning to think the problem lies with make-kpkg. so here we go: -running sid on an amd athlon with a self-rolled 2.4.21 kernel. -official source code downloaded and untarred in /usr/src/linux-2.6.0 -a couple of patches things from (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) downloaded and installed. Then I run: make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --append-to-version=-nondebian1 kernel-image (as usual) No show-stopping errors there. Follwed by: make-kpkg --append-to-version=-nondebian1 modules-image or IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 make-kpkg --append-to-version=-nondebian1 modules-image which gives the following response: You appear to be compiling the NVIDIA kernel module with a compiler different from the one that was used to compile the running kernel. We are going to use the compiler that were used to build the kernel with the specified headers. (if specified in KSRC/include/linux/compile.h) Using compiler gcc touch /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/gcc-check IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 CC=gcc /usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux-2.6.0/include module cat: /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/build/Makefile: No such file or directory cat: /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/build/Makefile: No such file or directory cat: /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/build/Makefile: No such file or directory make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv' make: *** /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make: Entering an unknown directorymake: Leaving an unknown directorynvidia.ko failed to build! make[2]: *** [module] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv' make[1]: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel' Module /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel failed. Two wierd things here: -first, make-kpkg doesn't seem to understand that I've set IGNORE_CCMISMATCH myself. Am I not passing the variable along properly? -second, why does make-kpkg want to access module files from the running kernel? THis does not, for instance, happen when I try the non-debian method for compiling these sources mentioned in http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html (but since I don't understand how the prcess outlined there works, I'd rather stick to the tried-and-true debian way. can anyone shed light on why make-kpkg does this? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apple MSWord files
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:18:12AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Dan Griswold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031220 06:55]: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a pre-osX mac. Mutt tells me it's of type: application/x-macbinary anyway, I can open the file in OpenOffice, but it's a total mess -- control characters everywhere, illegible garbage top and bottom, no footnotes. Is there, then, a general strategy for dealing with these icky MacOS files? I've had this problem, too. I decided that the Linux-based converters had not been programmed to handle these early Mac formats. My only solution was to have someone save the file either in a current MSWord format or in something open or quasi-open, such as HTML or RTF. Of course, if you're in a position to do so (accepting applicants' resumes, students' papers, etc.) flat-out refusal of all non-free file formats is a good way to go. Many times, unfortunately, we find ourselves not in this position, but one in which non-free de-facto 'standards' must be accepted. IMO, closed data file formats are the worst threat to free computing today. It's the case in which not only are users restricted in the usual ways of non-free software (not being able to perform security audits / bug fixes on their important applications' source), but indeed their own data are kept locked away from them in little black boxes. This is an effect which must be countered at every turn. with you there! matt good times, Vineet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diagnosing firewire hard drive problems
hey folks, I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. my 3-year-old turned off the drive unit's power switch one day when I wasn't paying attention (hopefully learned a parenting lesson there!). Now the drive is still detected by rescan-scsci-bus.sh, and the relevant partition will mount, but any operation I try gives the following error: [18:36:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /mnt/firewire2 [18:36:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /mnt/firewire2 ls: reading directory /mnt/firewire2: Input/output error so my question: how do I start figuring out what's wrong? I'd rather not have to delete the whole iflesystem... any suggestions? thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: diagnosing firewire hard drive problems
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:09:20PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:39, Matt Price wrote: hey folks, I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. my 3-year-old turned off the drive unit's power switch one day when I wasn't paying attention (hopefully learned a parenting lesson there!). Now the drive is still detected by rescan-scsci-bus.sh, and the relevant partition will mount, but any operation I try gives the following error: [18:36:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /mnt/firewire2 [18:36:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /mnt/firewire2 ls: reading directory /mnt/firewire2: Input/output error so my question: how do I start figuring out what's wrong? I'd rather not have to delete the whole iflesystem... any suggestions? thx, matt Well, for starters you can look at dmesg output when you first plug in the drive. Make sure that it's still being detected ok and that the connection is established properly. (if you see a logged in message you should be good.) Assuming that it was just a filesystem problem and not any sort of hardware problem, and assuming that all of your firewire stuff works ok, the first thing to do is make sure that sbp2 is creating the SCSI device properly and then to check the partition table on the HD. First do a 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' and make sure that it's showing up in there. If it is, do a 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' (assuming that it's at sda of course) and make sure the partition table is intact. If all of this comes up ok then you're in pretty good shape. Now just do a quick fsck on the drive and you're done. In case you're not sure how, just do 'fsck.your filesystem type /dev/sda'. So if you're using a reiserfs partition, it would be fsck.reiserfs. For ext3 it's fsck.ext3 and so on. Hope that helps. :) hey, thanks, that does help. Had, er, forgotten to mention that this is an hfsplus partition (running on a neworld mac). ran hpfsck and it tells me the disk is fine (no errors); but I still get input/output errors when mounting. So still don't know whatthe problem is -- but I'm gonna move the discussion over to debian-powerpc, now thattTT've,er, acually read the listing in my /etc/fstab and realized the problem pertains to a hfsplus partiton! thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nvidia-kernel 2.6.0
Hey Folks, now that there are patches for the nvidia non-free drivers (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) I'm trying to upgrade to 2.6.0 on my workstation. The instructions at the above link are quite clear and helpful, but I'm having trouble compiling the NVIDIA drivers nonetheless. I've apt-getted all the necessary nvidia-related packages, applied the patches as instructed, and run make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --append-to-version=-nondebian1 kernel-image without any evident problems (there are some minor error messages, and I think there may be some problems with the kernel; until I get the nvidia drivers to compile, I don't want to try it out, as X won't work without them). Anyway, then I run: make-kpkg --append-to-version=-nondebian1 modules-image and get the following response: You appear to be compiling the NVIDIA kernel module with a compiler different from the one that was used to compile the running kernel. We are going to use the compiler that were used to build the kernel with the specified headers. (if specified in KSRC/include/linux/compile.h) Using compiler gcc touch /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/gcc-check IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 CC=gcc /usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux-2.6.0/include module cat: /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/build/Makefile: No such file or directory cat: /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/build/Makefile: No such file or directory cat: /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/build/Makefile: No such file or directory make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv' make: *** /lib/modules/2.4.18-586-demudi/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make: Entering an unknown directorymake: Leaving an unknown directorynvidia.ko failed to build! make[2]: *** [module] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv' make[1]: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel' Module /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel failed. 2.4.18-586-demudi is my currently-running kernel. For some reason the nvidia sources want to access something from the running kernel! anyone know how to make them NOT do that? Anyway, thanks much for your help. best, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apple MSWord files
A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a pre-osX mac. Mutt tells me it's of type: application/x-macbinary anyway, I can open the file in OpenOffice, but it's a total mess -- control characters everywhere, illegible garbage top and bottom, no footnotes. In fact, it reminds me of the days (pre-enlightenment) when I used to have trouble moving files between my aged mac and work's evil Windoze machines. sooo... I assume the problem is related to endian-issues, or non-standard ascii coding, or something; but also that the problem should be solvable. Is there, then, a general strategy for dealing with these icky MacOS files? Help appreciated! Thanks, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
