Re: Sui precompilati...
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 02:06:58AM +0200, Marco Mililotti wrote: Una domandina sulle distribuzioni (ns. principalmente): ma i pacchetti precompilati distribuiti, sono compilati per il x386?? Spero di no, ma in caso affermativo, non ci si guadagnerebbe molto in prestazioni ricompilandoli per il pentium xx ??? riguardo il kernel l'aumento di prestazioni che si otterrebbe con una compilazione specifica non รจ al di sopra di qualche punto percentuale, e il risultato potrebbe essere un kernel meno affidabile per gli altri binari si potrebbero spesso ottenere maggiori prestazioni togliendo il supporto del debugging e attivando l'opzione -fomit-frame-pointer -Michele
Re: netscape
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 03:44:58PM +0200, Andrea Merello wrote: Hi Andrea, Hello World! When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 it says :Can't open display !! What can I do ? Please Help me Where are you typing it? Try running export DISPLAY=:0; netscape I also remind you of the existence of the debian-italian mailing list. ciao -Michele
Re: PARIDE almost working (but not quite).
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 10:06:53PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: Somebody already pointed out to me that under the 2.0.36 version Linux kernel you can not load two modules for the same parallel port and that maybe there is already a printer module installed. Is this so? How do I check that? How do I gracefully kill that other module? Your hints, tips advice (and money to buy a better notebook) are highly appreciated. use lsmod and look if the 'lp' (line printer) module is installed. to 'KILL' the module you have first to kill the application using: # fuser -k /dev/lp* if you want to do it gracefully the you'll probably have to do: # /etc/init.d/lpd stop Then you can safely remove the lp module # rmmod lp -Michele
Re: Need: Linux Xserver for Trident 9750 AGP
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 11:15:33AM +0530, Mohsin_Ahmed wrote: Hi, I need a Xserver for Trident 9750 AGP, even the plain VGA16 or SVGA servers don't work with this card on Celetron Intel CPU, 64Mb Ram, Linux/Redhat 5.2 CD. I have that card. I use the XF86_SVGA server version 3.3.3 (lower version will have serious problems at handling this card). To make it work, however, I had to put a Option noaccel line in the Device section of my XF86Config. -Michele
Re: cpu used too much
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:49:52PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...? It may be a serious problem. What are the first lines of the program 'top' ? -Michele
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 11:00:26PM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote: Hi, Wouldn't it be nice if POP mail boxes could be set to automatically bounce messages over a certain size as soon as they arrive at the ISP :-) to avoid downloading long letters you can use the -l option of fetchmail -Michele
Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 12:18:04AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: I have spent about a week trying to figure out why neither my Creative Labs SB16 or AWE64 work under Debian (2.2.4 2.1) I think it has to do with the way my motherboard handles the irq's and pnp etc. i have EXACTLY the same problem. As do I. I have an SB16 PnP (Vibra 16C, not 16X). I get DMA timeouts from some programs, but mixers and some other player programs work fine. I use dma=1, dma16=5. It works fine in 2.0.35, but doesn't work properly in 2.2.3. Time to switch to ALSA. Its support for cards like SB-AWEs is great (automatic isapnp configuration, full duplex support, wavetable support (available even with the standard Debian apps for SB-AWEs). -Michele
Re: Device detection?
On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 08:38:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Rob Browning writes: Presuming that most people won't have lockups, the overall inconvenience might be less this way, particularly if it dramatically cuts the time to run successful tests. I'm not sure I see why checkpointing every test should be particularly slow. Because you have to wait after every test for the checkpoint to be written to disk and the disk to be flushed (and disk's builtin cache to be flushed, too). I think we'll need to add a particular runlevel to implement this, since detection is a process that may require running across reboots. -Michele
Re: Booting linux with a file as root??
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:06:25PM -, Andrew Holmes wrote: I configured my new machine to dual boot DOS and NT, but I can start BeOS using loadlin.exe from DOS. I know I can boot the linux kernel like this but how do I make it use a file on the DOS filesystem for the root filesystem. If this is impossiable please let me know. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :-) It is possible, but it is a lot slower to access a filesystem inside another filesystem (expecially a fat one) then directly from a partition, so I would suggest to avoid this, unless the root filesystem is so small that it can be put in a ramdisk. -Michele
Re: left hand mouse in X
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:41:37PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: Hi, is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the mouse under X? xmodmap -e pointer = 3 2 1 I have found it for gpm, but I couldn't find mention in the X manuals. man xmodmap -Michele
Re: Windows NT over Windows 95
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 11:16:49PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote: No big traps that I can think of. I'm actually running NT+Linux on this very machine. I prefer copying the Linux boot sector and using the NT boot loader. Its nice being able to use the arrow keys and not have to type anything as Lilo can require. You can also use the Grub bootloader, then. -Michele
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 04:08:27PM -0700, Brett Wuth wrote: Hi, My Debian system is getting to have so many packages installed that backing it up is becoming difficult. Ideally I'd like to only back up the files which I can't restore by re-installing the packages. Does anyone have a scheme or suggestions for backing up: * all files / * except those that are part of Debian packages all except /home /root /usr/local /var/local * but including those files that have been modified from the distribution version don't know any quick way to determine those * and including those files that are dpkg-divert'd /etc/alternatives * and state information of which packages are installed so the same ones can be installed again? /etc So i'd suggest to back up the following areas: configuration: /etc user data: /home variable data: /var/local /var/backups /var/log site local: /var/local /usr/local /root (eventually) kernels and modules: /boot /lib/modules -Michele
Re: How to get fonts out of .exe !
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:28:10PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Any ideas how to decompress them? Try using Wine. I managed to decompress self-extracting Windows archives using it. -Michele
Re: Repairing a HD with fsck?
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:22:37AM -0700, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: I recently posted a message about GCC not being able to compile due to dma_intr and/or read_intr errors. After receiving a response here and scouring the net I've realized that the problem lies on the drive itself (bad blocks or similar). My question is how do I go about fixing the problem? Will a forced fsck (fsck.ext2 -f /dev/hdb3) be sufficient? No, that will only check the integrity of the filesystem structure. Use badblocks to check the readability of your partition. # /sbin/badblocks -b 1024 /dev/hdb3 partition-size-in-Kb -Michele
Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:28:28AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Hi folks, This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be able to help me out. I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come with any driver disks or anything like that. Unfortunately it is a jumperless card, and I have no way of setting the IRQs and DMAs under linux (or even finding out what they are) so I can set it up to run under Linux. Can you detect your card using pnpdump? eg. # pnpdump|grep ANSI ANSI string --Creative SB AWE64 PnP-- ANSI string --Audio-- ANSI string --Game-- ANSI string --WaveTable-- If your card is soundblaster compatible, you should be able to use it using the standard sb module (from recent 2.1.* kernels). If your card is not pnp you can try using the 'default' IRQ and DMA settings: irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 -Michele
Re: AWE 64 Value
On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 05:35:55PM +0100, Andrea Novara wrote: Hello! I'm experiencing problems configuring my new awe 64 value ISA PnP card! [...] Jan 3 04:28:50 gromit kernel: AWE32: not detected Maybe that you forgot to add support for the wavetable in /etc/isapnp.conf Do you have anything like this in that file? : (CONFIGURE CTL00c5/392940333 (LD 2 # ANSI string --WaveTable-- (IO 0 (BASE 0x0620)) (IO 1 (BASE 0x0A20)) (IO 2 (BASE 0x0E20)) (ACT Y) ))
Re: sound card
On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:25:49AM +0100, Darko Martic wrote: Where can I download it from? I mean for kernel 2.1. I currently have 2.0.36, and I can only listen .MID files now. You can download 2.1 kernels from http://ftp.kernel.org or one its many mirrors (such as http://ftp.us.kernel.org) -Michele
Re: Mwave Support?
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:50:21AM -0600, Nils wrote: The title pretty much explains this one. But is Mwave at all supported in Linux or is it pretty much in vain to install? It seems to be (partially) supported. Please read Documentation/sound/mwave from the Linux kernel source tree. -Michele
Re: sound card
On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 06:39:59PM +0100, Darko Martic wrote: Hi ! I have Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound card (SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster PRO and Windows Sound System compatible) and I have a problem installing/using it. After the Debian installation I manualy installed a newer kernel (from 1.3 to 2.0.33) and for it's configuration I used 'make menuconfig' where I choosed to install SounBlaster drivers or so, and as I'm booting linux from diskette I'm not sure if I'm booting with newer kernel cause I didn't make a new boot diskette (I don't know how) with newer kernel. So when I tried to play an MP3 file with splay program I get message 'segmentation fault' or something. It seems the 2.1 series kernels have specific support for Yamaha OPL3-SAx Hope this helps. -Michele
Re: Bad root partition :(
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 05:40:28PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
wrote:
Hi Debian users,
after a powerdown, my root partition have the following errors with
the comand:
# e2fsck /dev/hda2
Dec 19 13:33:59 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=340075, sector=82026
Dec 19 13:33:59 phantasy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02,
sector 82026
Dec 19 13:34:23 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReadySeekComplete Error }
Dec 19 13:34:23 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=291085, sector=33034
Dec 19 13:34:23 phantasy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02,
sector33034
Dec 19 13:34:24 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReadySeekComplete Error }
Dec 19 13:34:24 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=291085, sector=33036
Dec 19 13:34:24 phantasy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02,
sector33036
This seems to be an hardware/kernel error/bug rather than a
fsck bug.
After reading e2fsck man page, I couldn't figure how to repair this.
Is there some option to clean these errors with e2fsck or other command.
Try running badblocks (_without_ -w)
If not, I will have to reinstall :(
Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
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Re: HP Deskjet
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 09:02:55PM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, It's me again. I have a HP Deskjet 870Cxi. When I try to print to lpr it prints off the page. Does anyone know where I can get Deskjet drivers? HP says they don't have any for Linux. Thanks again! Please install magicfilter and gv and run magicfilterconfig. I think you should select one of these drivers: deskjet, dj500c, dj500 or dj550. -Michele
Re: odd errors using lredir
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 05:38:48PM -0500, MenTaLguY wrote: I'm running 0.98.1 right now, and everything I try with lredir consistently fails: C:\DOSEMUlredir d: LINUX\FS\dos Error f0bc redirecting drive D: to LINUX\FS\DOS C:\DOSEMUlredir d: LINUX\FS\dos\ R Error f0c2 redirecting drive D: to LINUX\FS\DOS\ This has been an issue for me with every installation of dosemu I have ever tried on this system (some versions as far back as 0.6x.something) -- what is the significance of these error codes? And yes, /dos does exist, and is a mounted msdos filesystem. -=MenTaLguY=- Dosemu is shipped with FreeDos, and FreeDos doesn't support lredir. I suggest that you put a bootable dos (M$DOS, DR-Dos or Caldera's OpenDos) disk on the drive and do # dos -A A: sys a: c: or (after having installed the mtools package) # cd /var/lib/dosemu # /usr/lib/dosemu/dexe/mkdexe hdimage.first -b /dev/hda1 -o noapp and then restart dosemu as usual. -Michele
Re: X is giving me a headache.
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 03:22:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, I thought I'd take a stab at compiling the source code for KDE. BIG mistake. Evidently, I don't have all the X includes it needs, and damned if it'll tell me what they are - it (./configure) just says they aren't there. I started to just grab them from the XFree86 site, but I'm not sure what to get, or if I really need all 140M worth of X11 source just to compile KDE. So, I thought I'd try Window Maker, since I've seen references to it here and there in this list. Well, I'm in just about the same boat - no binaries on the Window Maker site, and the source compile instructions say I need the X includes. Hurumphf... include files for X are in xlib6g-dev. Include files are generally provided by packages with a name ending in -dev. Remember that to find in which Debian package a file is you have to grep in the 'Contents' file in your Debian distribution: zgrep usr/include/X11 /cdrom/debian/hamm/Contents-i386.gz -Michele
Re: Accidental power-out / LILO / mount @ boot?
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 08:45:07PM +, Rich Hartman wrote: bootup, so that I can access my windows files from linux without having to su root and mount and unmount one at a time? add to your /etc/fstab a line like this /dev/hda1 /dosvfatdefaults0 1 and then run mount -a -Michele
Re: mouse speed in X
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 11:16:12PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Does anyone know how to change the BASIC mouse speed (not the acceleration) in X. The 'xset m' only changes the acceleration and threshold, but what I want is a faster non-accelerated mouse speed. I've tried 'xset m 4 1' which gives a good speed, but it makes the mouse 'jerky', since it moves the pointer 4 pixels at a time. Happy for any suggestions... Note that it is acceleration what you are looking for: it makes possible to have a good pointing precision while the pointer moves faster when you want to, that is if you move the mouse at speed 1 pixel/sec, the pointer moves at 1 pixel/sec, too, but if you move it at 2 pixel/sec, the pointer doesn't move, say, at 2 pixel/sec, but at 4 pixel/sec. -Michele
Re: 128 MB RAM
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 04:47:14PM -0600, Dana G Haugli wrote: Hi! I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB. I have tried adding mem=128M to my lilo config file as recommended in the HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? You need to rerun the command lilo for changes to take effect. -Michele
Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:00:32AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Yes, but does this use my wavetable? I tried this, using the sound | banks installed on my Windows partition from the Creative Labs disk, | and playing midi files sounds AWEFUL. It sounds cheap, like playing | midi through a non-wavetable card. The instruments sound perfect | under Windows. | | Also, my xconsole still reports: | Sequencer: No Midi devices. Input not possible | | but, remember, I do have midi devices! Are you using playmidi? If yes please use drvmidi (in the awe-midi package). playmidi (at least the one shipped with Debian) doesn't use the wavetable. -Michele
Re: kernel 2.1.128 sound
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:24:15AM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:10:40PM -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: alias char-major-14 sb alias synth0 opl3 options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 options opl3 io=0x388 Isn't irq 7 used by the printer port? You should get some warnings diring the loading. Try using irq=5. -Michele
Re: Mouse freezes
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 07:38:23PM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:07:50PM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: I got a small problem in X: sometimes, when I restart my xserver, mouse stops working, and only reboot fixes it. Any ideas what is it? Looks like You have Mouse-Support added as module (?), after a time of unussed mouse the modul will extract from the kernel to save place (oops; my english is not good, but hope You understand what I mean) No, this won't happen even if the mouse support is modulized (if you use automatic loading of modules). If You have installed gpm You don't must reboot, only give the mouse on a text-console a `little action` than You can restart X without problems, or install mouse support directly into the kernel There should be no need to do this. -Michele
Re: isapnptools
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 05:05:18PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote: Now I know that winmodems are generally a hopeless case, but is this still true if pnpdump detects it? I think of yes.
Re: I'm a newbie... with probs with modules
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 07:36:46PM -0500, The Cookie Man wrote: hi yall. i'm just installing debian today and i have no idea really what i'm doing with the modules. which ones do i need? which ones do i not need? (i.e. the ip modules) Usually kernel modules are automatically loaded by a kernel daemon, when the kernel needs them. If you need to give options to modules, edit /etc/conf.modules is it possible to make my primary Linux partition a logical drive? if so, how? Sorry, I can't understand what you are trying to say...
Re: dosemu help
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 01:43:03PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote:
I just installed dosemu on my system via Debian package (version
0.66.7-13). I need to run a dos program, but I cannot even access the
partition through dosemu.
Thus far, I have tried the following:
- lredir, always fails. Checking deja news, apparently the FreeDOS
does not support this? I keep getting Error 42 redirecting...
FreeDos doesn't seem to support lredir. You need to install
OpenDos, DR-Dos or M$-Dos if you want redirection
- mkfatimage16, seg faults. For instance, I tried
mkfatimage16 -p -f dos_img /the/directory/* and it just gives me a
Segmentation Fault. Also, I tried _not_ using the -f switch, just
to see if mkfatimage16 gets anywhere, and, in fact, it does write
crud to the screen, but still seg faults after a bit.
mkfatimage it seems to work for me
mkfatimage -p dir/* dos_image
- /etc/dosemu/conf modification, doesn't appear to do anything. I use
/dev/sda1 as my Windows/DOS partition, so I tried adding the
following line to my dosemu configuration file:
disk { partition /dev/sda1 }
and nothing happens. I assumed this would appear under the as the
next available drive letter, but I can't get to this data anywhere.
No, it should appear as C:
-Michele
Re: procmail....................
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 04:57:43PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hello, Promail is for filtering mails isnit? Well how do it work? It takes the /var/spool/mail/user file and prosess it?? No, the mail transport agent (eg. smail, exim) puts your mail to /var/spool/mail/user unless otherwise specified in your .forward -Michele
Re: Need help with ppp conection.
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:06:00AM -0600, Lloyd Burris wrote: When ever I hook up to the internet from linux I seem to have trouble connecting to websights, ftp, and news servers. Can anyone tell me how to tune up Linux for a faster connection. When I am in windows my system flys but in linux I am lucky to get a webpage to come up. I need some more detail about how you set up your connection. Also please send me the log you get (with plog -f). If you have a noisy line you should reduce your MTU MRU values.
Re: Does Sound even work for Java-Linux?
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 10:24:12PM -0700, Chip Grandits wrote: P.S. Is ADPCM the super-evil microsoft format that no opensource enthusiast deigns to support? How come I can't find a single Linux app to play ADPCM WAV files?! I know of two linux applications which are able to play ADPCM compressed wavfiles: - the SDL library (Gpl'd) http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/ - xanim (non-free), available as a Debian package.
Re: Problems with DOS and free disk space.
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 05:55:59PM -0500, James Von Derrau wrote: I have recently installed Linux on my machine, and I am having only one prblem so far... I've checked in the FAQ, and How-to's but can't seem to find the answers I need. After I installed Linux and rebooted in dos when I did a DIR, dos reported that I have more space on the disk than is available in the partition. I have a 1.01Gig hard disk that is partitioned as follows: 500MB DOS - first partition. 500MB Linux - second partition 39MB Linux Swap - Third partition DIR in dos reports 639 MB free, scandisk and chkdsk also claim the entire drive is accessable in dos. I'm using MS-DOS 6.22 and the Ontrack Disk Manager V7.0 Has anyone else had this problem? Or could anyone explain what is going on here? And further still, how do I fix this!?I'm afraid to install anything in dos incase it overwrites part of Linux. You should be right to be afraid. What program do you used to format your disk? Note that you cannot reduce the size of a dos partition using DOS/Linux standard fdisk, but you can make DOS think to have the entire partition even if the partition table says the opposite. You need fips or an equivalent tool to reduce the size of a DOS partition without losing data. -Michele
Re: Modem connection speed
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:23:31AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard sorry, what posting do you refer to? another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is it just an improper init string or etc? From my (short) experience many people (including me) experiencing slower connection speed under Linux were giving pppd the wrong connection speed. pppd only accepts a limited set of speeds (19200 38400 ... 115200), ^^^ and if you type a wrong one (e.g. 115000) your connection will work anyway, but pppd will output an error message 'speed X not supported' on the log file, and will actually choose a much slower ^^^ one. After realizing this, my connection speed increased a lot (more than two-three times) :-))), now I can reach 5-6 Kb/s (on Netscape : It seems that there isn't a place (manpages, howtos, readmes) where these speeds are listed :(, and even worse, my posting about this problem via the debian bug tracking system had no replies :( Please disseminate this info. If this is not your case try to tune your packet size: choose a small one if your phone connection is noisy, also consider enabling or disabling compression. -Michele
Re: Modem connection speed
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 02:01:55AM +0100, Michele Bini wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:23:31AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is it just an improper init string or etc? From my (short) experience many people (including me) experiencing slower connection speed under Linux were giving pppd the wrong connection speed. pppd only accepts a limited set of speeds (19200 38400 ... 115200), [...]^^^ Please disseminate this info. If this is not your case try to tune your packet size: choose a small one if your phone connection is noisy, also consider enabling or disabling compression. Also please remember to edit your /etc/rc.boot/0setserial file to have spd_vhi (or spd_hi) in the STD_FLAGS: STD_FLAGS=session_lockout spd_vhi -Michele
Re: Modem connection speed
On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 08:23:47PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michele writes: It seems that there isn't a place (manpages, howtos, readmes) where these speeds are listed :(, and even worse, my posting about this problem via the debian bug tracking system had no replies What package did you file the bug against? You should at least have gotten an automated reply from the system. The bug was filed against pppd, and I got only an automated reply. -Michele
Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:40:20AM -0600, Lance Arsenault wrote: It's a pain to have to pick through 1000 + packages to install. I prefer to just install all of them without picking through them. Hard disk space is now cheep, and time is not. You don't have to pick through 4000+ packages, you only have to choose the type of installation you prefer or to search the packages you want by looking at the sections you are interested in. And if you care about time you should avoid installing unnecessary packages, which can start ram and time consuming daemons, or need additional configuration by the user. -Michele
Re: About mount FAT32
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 08:01:22PM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: Hi, I had met problem on mounting a Fat32 drive (Win98), I don't know Which kind of fat should I use in the mount command. For normal Fat16, We use:mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /hd1 ^ but for Fat 32 What Should we use in state of vfat. Hey, here's one I can answer. You can use vfat also on Fat32. In fact I have used vfat on all the disks I mount. Of course, I think you have to have the Kernel of 2.0.34 or 2.0.33 at least and it has to be compiled into the kernel. You need 2.0.34, at least, not 2.0.33 -Michele
Re: SB32 PnP Midi
I tried playmidi, and it just did not output any sound at all... Try to adjust the midi output level using a mixer. You can also add the AWE 32 support (it should work on a SB32, too). (you can install the awe-drv, awe-midi awe-netscape and libawe0.4 packages under debian, and use drvmid instead of playmidi). The awe-drv package also has a good faq on this. -Michele
Re: Flicking in xterms when using vi
Hi guys, Sorry for asking the same question again.. when I use vi in an xterm, and when I reached the EOF, my xterm started flicking. Try to use rxvt, instead of xterm. It flickers much less. -Michele
Re: intent to package: gmt generic mapping tools
The full-resolution coastline archive is 57 Mb. Will it be included? (High resolution is 12.6MB). I can see us filling a CD quickly with this. On the other hand, if it saves me a 57 MB download, it's very well worth it! Data such this can be very useful to scientist but the main distribution is already too large (IMO). What about creating specialized distributions or add-on CDs containing this and similar data (such as star database)? (That is, scientific tools remain in the main distribution, including small databases, but the full ones are only put in 'scientific' CDs). Ciao -Michele
Re: Null modem connection
Dear Debian users, how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so that I can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base system installed) to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM) using the FTP or the NFS access methods? ppp / slip links are very slow. If you actually want to do some minimal networking use a null printer cable (parallel laplink cable), and use slip. There is a nice PLIP howto, too. -Michele
Re: Automatic Unzipping?
Can apache automatically decompress files ending in .gz and send the uncompressed stream (along with the correct mime-type) over the HTTP connection? It seems that netscape or lynx are able to recognize a gzipped file and read it, so I do not think that it would be useful to (g)unzip them before sending them. -Michele
Re: printing takes hours in HAMM
Hi! After my upgrade to HAMM every kind of printing takes forever. No matter whether I print via magicfilter or cat a file to /dev/lp1 my printer prints a line, waits something like 5 seconds, then prints the next line. Anyone out there who has an idea what happened? Do I have to set some baud rates for the device or something? Thanks a lot in advance! Andy. I strongly suspect this a kernel-related problem, since the printing is slow even when doing 'cat file /dev/lp1'. Or maybe you have confused /dev/lp1 with /dev/lp0? Try another kernel (an make sure to update the modules and install them (2.0.33 worked fine for me)). Ciao -Michele
Re: Xserver output
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Roy Ayres wrote: B Hi, When I shutdown X (using ctrl-alt-backspace) I get see the usual messages left on my screen by the xserver. I was just wondering how I get to see the full output of the xserver, rather that just the tail end of it. thanks Brian Sheehan X -probeonly 2/dev/stdout |less or X -probeonly 2/tmp/file
Re: Latency problems with Telnet
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote: Hi, Thanks for the letter. However, my modem speed is set to 115000. pppd is _NOT_ able to use that speed and will fall back to another, much slower one (28000?) !!! (at least my (Bo) version of pppd, to check against this look at the output of plog, you will probably see a line like this: Aug 27 03:43:08 diamond pppd[1296]: speed 115000 not supported ) Or do you only mean that you have specified the spd_vhi option to setserial? Sorry, I mistyped the speed to give to pppd i told you before. It _is_ 57600, no more, no less. ^ Actually, the reason for all this, is that I read somewhere, that linux is able to set latencies for various programs, since it is so network centric. And that article mentioned that telnet is set to low-latency, so that it gets a good response. This sounds interesting... So, I've been wondering is there is something I did, or didn't do, which changed that. I've played with the MTU and MRU settings. Currently, its 296 for both. No difference whatsoever. I am not an expert, but I think that using such low values can only be acceptable with very slow connections requiring very hi responsiveness (each packet contains an header, and using low values the header/data ratio is higher, wasting bandwidth). Ciao, Michele
Re: Latency problems with Telnet
Sorry, I mistyped the speed. It is _exactly_ 57600, or pppd will fall back to a much more slow speed (28000?). ^ On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Michele Bini wrote: Maybe you have made the same error I made: to connect to my ISP I wrongly specified 38400 as modem speed since it was the only speed I found in the documentation (manual pages and HOWTOSs). After replacing 38400 with 56400 (I found this value only in the setserial man ^ error use 57600, never 56400 page) I noticed an incredible (probably ~2x) speedup. -Michele
Re: QUESTION
The issue 30 of Linux Gazette, July 1998, has an article in which a user tell the experience he had with an experimental product called LinuxCad ( http://www.linuxcad.com ). Ciao _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Michele Bini [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux programmer Membro Pluto http://www.pluto.linux.it
Re: FPU
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Georgios Dimitriadis wrote: I recently tried to install debian on my laptop, 386sx. I have 5M of free RAM and acording to the installation guide it is enough. The problem is that when i try to boot from the disk the error message cant find coprossesor or math emulation appears and the boot stops. The manual says that an FPU is not needet to run Debian. This is true, but you should choose a kernel with FPU emulation compiled-in or. -Michele
Re: Latency problems with Telnet
I connect to my ISP with Win95 as well (cos there is no NetMeeting on Linux :-(, and it is much more responsive. Maybe you have made the same error I made: to connect to my ISP I wrongly specified 38400 as modem speed since it was the only speed I found in the documentation (manual pages and HOWTOSs). After replacing 38400 with 56400 (I found this value only in the setserial man page) I noticed an incredible (probably ~2x) speedup. I had a problem with latency once and it was due to name resolution, and the particular order I had DNS' in my system. With the host that you are having the lag with, setup a /etc/hosts entry for that machine and try it again. If it take the same about of time, then not resolution. If it is quick then you know you have a problem with resolution. -Michele
Re: xv package for deb?
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote: Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the XView program by John Bradley. When migrating from Debian 1.3 to 2.0, I just backed up the important stuff, and did a total reinstall. (Too many upgrade problems posted to this mailing list scared me :). Anyway, I had xv on my Deb 1.3 system, and I believe I had to get the source and apply a patch to get xv for my system. Does anyone know where these files are? I did a search for xv in the packages list on Debian's website and nothing came up. Any hints? Do you really need xv?! Have you ever tried GIMP? If you only need to put an image on the background you can use xpmroot (it only takes only xpm files, but you can convert them using GIMP or the netpbm package). Ciao Michele
Re: [3] Libforms?
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I have already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file libforms.so.0.88 is in my /usr/X11R6/libdirectory. What is happening? Why cant `DAP' find this lib? (DAP said: can't load library 'libforms.so.0.88') Have you already tried ldconfig? Hi, Do you mean executing ldconfig before DAP? Hi Phillip, Ldconfig should be run every time that a new shared library is installed. Otherwise programs would not be able to dinamically load newly installed libraries. When needed, dpkg does this automagically, but if you manually install a new library then you should manually run ldconfig.
Re: HELP! emufs doesn't work with FreeDos under dosemu in Debian
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Michele Bini wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All! I just had to run some DO$ software on my Linux Box (exactly: the monitor for DSP56002EVM evaluation module and DSP56002 assembler). I have decided to install the dosemu. To keep my box M$-free I wanted to use the FreeDOS I experienced the same your problem (I was not able to access the linux fs using lredir), and solved it using Open DOS from Caldera. Yes... I used the M$ DOS (which I have bought with my computer, because it is very difficult to buy a computer in Poland without included M$ additions). However I think, that we should report this problem as a bug to the FreeDos team. May be they simply don't know about it... Greetings Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: refocus photo?
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 10:59:44PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote: Hi, I've got (at least) one photo taken while the camera was moving. Only one? :) I'd really like to get rid of the vageness caused by this motion. Mmmh. I doubt that this is possible... but I'd like to be proofed wrong. Actually, missing sharpness is lost information. How can this information be regained? OTOH, maybe there are acceptable solutions for certain types of photos. No software can bring back lost information. However it is possible to enphasize the edges of an image 'refocusing' it a little. In GIMP you could use the 'enhance' filter.
Re: boot from an extended partition?
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: Can Linux boot from an extended partition if I use a program such as System Commander? If System Commander is as powerful as LILO, it should be possible. Ciao Michele
Re: [2] Libforms?
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I have already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file libforms.so.0.88 is in my /usr/X11R6/libdirectory. What is happening? Why cant `DAP' find this lib? (DAP said: can't load library 'libforms.so.0.88') Have you already tried ldconfig? Ciao Michele
Re: Runaway X
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Hersh, Harry wrote: Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm somehow is in the boot sequence and now I can't shut it off. Ctrl/Alt/BS kills the server, but it immediately comes back up. I've tried rebooting with the boot floppy and the rescue floppy, but as soon as the file system is mounted and fsck'ed, the disfunctional X comes right back. If you use lilo you can, at the lilo prompt (keep the caps lock on during the boot to see it), type linux single, so that starts in single-user mode (and do not start X). Ciao Michele
Re: Linux security
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:21:37 -0500, the lone gunman wrote: only to the Microsoft programmers. In my mind, it just seems that the more folks there are looking at code, the better the chances of discovering bugs, security concerns, etc. It is the glass half empty versus the glass half full problem. He sees the glass half empty. Open source means more people looking for security holes to *exploit*. You see the glass half full. Open source means more people looking for security holes to *plug*. You're both correct. Open Source means more people looking for security holes to exploit/plug. ;) IMHO the point is another: who do you trust more, Microsoft (a per-profit dictatorship, which hides security problems to user but not to crackers) or Debian (non-profit organization, which shows security problem and fixes them, making life hard to crakers)? Ciao Michele
Re: HELP! emufs doesn't work with FreeDos under dosemu in Debian
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All! I just had to run some DO$ software on my Linux Box (exactly: the monitor for DSP56002EVM evaluation module and DSP56002 assembler). I have decided to install the dosemu. To keep my box M$-free I wanted to use the FreeDOS I experienced the same your problem (I was not able to access the linux fs using lredir), and solved it using Open DOS from Caldera. Michele
Re: Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff]
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:37:15 PDT , phillip Neumann said: Well sorry for this questio, but what is GUS ?? GUS means Gravis UltraSound and is a sound card like the AWE 32. It is 'inclined' to play MOD files. I need to load soundbanks and create them too. Im searching for a program that can do edition of soundbanks... if someone knows about one please tell me... In the Debian awe-utils package I found some interesting programs: with them you can traslate soundbanks to/from textual representation and to/from gus-patches. I never tried it, but you should be able to edit the textual representation with an ordinary text editor and translate it back to the sfx format or use a gus-patch editor to modify your soundbank (but I am not much informed on such editors). Where have you downloaded it? ... maybe I can compile it and make a Debian package from it. Slab seems an interesting program. A Debian user recomend me this program. I forgot his name. but i didnt forgot the addres where i got slab, its at shareware music machine: http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Slab_Recording_Studio_Software/ Unfortunately it is shareware, and it is VERY big (over 2 Mb) for my VERY slow internet connection. PS: I cannot find information on thats ``ACI MIXER'' at the kernel configurartion...someone has? Whe i select this, sound initialization becomes very slow at my system... It seems to be a driver for the miroSOUND card, which enables full duplex. Sound initialization may be slow probably because the kernel tries to detect that card. For more info on it read the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/lowlevel/aci.c Ciao Michele
Re: Lower bogomips in debian?
The bogomips value you see at booting time depends only on the kernel, not on the distribution. Maybe that the bogomips calculation algorithm is changed from a kernel version to an other. And remember that the bogomips value is bogus ;) Michele [EMAIL PROTECTED]
