Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.
* Hans Steinraht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hi, I followed the conversation here about mplayer and like to try it now, but does anyone can tell wich password to use when I check it out of cvs. I have looked through the whole site, but couldn't find it. thanks, Hans I believe it's an empty password. They do have the procedure described in detail. Alex.
Re: Good Dual head /w TVout
* Matt Wehland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 04:43 PM 2/25/02 +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: Hi, I'm struggling with the secondary head of my Matrox Millennuim G550. I want to output that to my TV. I understand Matrox does not support this, still, has anyone got it working somehow? As a last resort, I have to buy a new card... What are your suggestions, I don't play games, I only want smooth output on my TV and (hopefully) at the same time on my monitor. Well I've just been going through the messages on the matrox-linux list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/marvel-linux and the news for the 450TV and up series doesn't sound good. Supposedly the 400TV works well under linux, I will hopefully be finding out for sure in the next couple of days, I just got the system with the 400tv up and running again under win98, now it's just time to plug the 60g drive back in and try woody on it. There is also another list you may want to try, video4linux. I have the list address, but not the subscribe address [EMAIL PROTECTED] This would be a good place to check card info other than matrox. Matt I found fairly good documentation on setting TV out on G400 on the mplayer website at http://www.mplayerhq.hu They use framebuffer and are somewhat PAL centric, but there is another page at http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~paul/g400.html There is another NTSC related how-to, but I lost the link to it. Alex.
Re: OT: cdburning: tao, dao and fixating
* Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I try to burn CD's with cdrecord, but I have a problem. I can burn an iso image (made with isofs) to a blank disc, but when the disc gets fixated, I directly get an error of the form 'Illegal Seek Error' or 'Segment not found'. The idea I have of buring in track at once is: - burn track by track starting from the center of the disc - when fixating, go back to the center and write some final data On the other hand, disk at once: - just start at the center and burn in one trip Because the drive is pretty old, I have the idea that the laser calibration is not very good anymore. So when the disc gets fixated, the drive is unable to find the precise location to burn. Sometimes it works correct (i.e. the disc gets fixated), and sometimes it fails. I have not found any regularity in it. I have an HP 7500 (2x2x24) and ran into the same problem. No amount of fiddling with it helped, so I got a new burner as they are pretty cheap nowadays. I'd be interested in hearing if you found a way around it as I still keep the old burner in an older machine. Alex. So I want to try to burn in disc at once mode, but cdrecord does not support that option for my drive. However, the drive specs say that it is capable of doing that. For completeness: - my drive is a HP CDwriter 7200+ (ide drive with scsi emulation) - I record with: cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=2 -v fs=8m -eject data.iso - blank cd's are Arita's (my dad never had serious trouble with these) So, my questions: - is my idea of the cdburning proces correct? - if so, is that really the problem (and if not, what could be)? - how to force cdrecord to burn in disc at once Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem (also called MS-DOS Subsystem). Above that, there is the windoze 95/98 16-bit Subsystem. Anyone can see that 16+16=32, so windoze NT is a *real* 32-bit system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: OT: TV Out DVD
* Crispin Wellington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 12:32, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television there, however I'm not sure what to look for in a video card. In order to get DVD's scaled to full screen, it'd be nice to have some degree of 2d acceleration on the tv-out, to get real Xv-type speeds. I understand the TNT2s that have tv-out are pretty good, but I've yet to hear any confirmation about whether or not they would support Xv on a output-to-tv display. Last time I checked (6 months ago) they did not support xv on tv-out. This may have changed with nVidias latest drivers. However it may not have due to Macrovision concerns in nVidia. What experiences have people had with Matrox G400's? Somebody? Somebody? Crispin I have a Matrox G400 32Mb dual-head. Using mplayer I can play DVD or VCD or whatever out to the second head with Xv enabled. I'm using Matrox framebuffer stuff from the console. The only problem I ran into is that I can't figure out is how to set the geometry of the picture to get rid of the black lines at the bottom and the left side. Their docs and tools are tuned for PAL format and I was not able to set the framebuffer correctly for a NTSC TV. Rather than that there is no visible difference between playing it out on the primary screen or TV. Some links to start: http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/~vana/matroxfb.html http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/video.html#2.3.1.7 Alex. Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: syslog-ng[16821]: STATS: dropped 0 ?
* Michael A. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've got a system that has started to produce many messages in the system logs that say syslog-ng[16821]: STATS: dropped 0. I've looked over the syslog-ng docs, but I've been unable to figure out what these messages mean. Can anyone explain them to me? Mike I'd like to second this request. I've searched on both web and groups and can't find the reason for this behavior. Anybody? Alex. Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE Controller card Support
* Maurice Helwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am new to linux and I have decided to use Debian. My problem is that I am using a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE controller card. Promise do not seem to provide a driver for it although I was told that they do when I bought the card. My Question is --- Does the latest version of Debian support the Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE controller card and where do I get the appropiate driver for it. ~~~ Maurice Helwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ It works beautifully on two machines that I have Debian GNU/Linux on. Running kernel 2.4.1x series, of course. You just have to enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y (from .config) which reads as enable PROMISE 20.. in 'make xconfig' besides your usual IDE stuff under block devices. Alex. Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: The New World Order is Here !
Stig, Would you mind sharing your set of procmail filters? Regards, Alex. * Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Err... No? Whatever gave you that idea? Did you not read my post? My spam filter caught the original spam, based on such things as sender address, character set used, adjacent crap characters in subject ([EMAIL PROTECTED]* etc.) and body, whether the subject is empty or lacks lower case characters (all caps subjects are seldom legit mail), certain words in the body and more. None of these are enough to trigger the filter on their own--that would create far too many false positives. However, when a follow-up to a previously caught spam is detected (using the references/in-reply-to header) it is instantly filed as spam. When the OP reposted the spam he did so with a legal subject line, announcing a (to me) understandable charset, a non-depreciated sender address and without the references/in-reply-to header that would link it to the previous spam so I could instantly blackhole it. Please explain to me, in the light of this information, how I can improve my spam-detection routines so that I would be able to catch the original post of this tread. I am genuinely interested to find out how you think that is possible. Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343 ``Oh, how I wish `undo' was ported to everyday life.'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: What is a good, small, web browser?
* Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:20:18PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:58:06 -0800, Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [snip] It's not for older/slower boxen though. I'd recommend *NO LESS* than a PII-233, and think you'll be happier with a PIII-600+ CPU. For memory, 128 MiB minimum, 256 strongly recommended. Particularly under intensive use (I can easily get over 100 tabs/windows open) it sucks both CPU and memory. But it does good things with both. Galeon does fine on this old 266 with 64MB of RAM. It certainly does better than Mozilla proper or Konqueror (KDE 1.x is just too memory hungry). So, while 128 is probably nicer, I'd hesitate to say it was the minimum. I'm also running Galeon quite happily on a P-200, albeit with 128 MB of RAM. The menus are a bit sluggish to display, but the browser as a whole is much better/faster/cheaper than anything else I've used. Rob I'll second it. I'm running Galeon on a double PPro 200 with low-latency and pre-emptive kernel patches compiled in and it's a snap. Alex. Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: Quake III
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:25:24PM -0600, Corey Halpin wrote: I'm using the following hardware: Pentium-II, 320M RAM. Intel 440LX AGP chipset. Matrox g400. When I run quake 3, it runs for a few minutes, and then locks X such that I can't switch consoles. The video freezes where it was, and the sound starts looping on itself. I can ssh in. If I kill X, it doesn't save the console. Does anyone have an install of Quake III that doesn't do this? Try switching off sound. It doesn't lock anymore, right! Its the sound drivers DMA issues or something. Had this problem for a while, upgraded video cards, everything. Then found out it was sound card. I have an el cheapo by the way. Maybe a high quality sound card would work better Crispin Nope, SBLive value barfs in situations like this regularly. For example, on quake2 any battle scene slows down to an unusable level with sound becoming raspy and jerky and FPS getting to 2 or 3. This is a combination of a Celeron-800/Matrox G400 32Mb/SBLive. And that card's drivers were supposed to be very good... Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hans Steinraht wrote: hi all, The thing I try to figure out is how I can print from my Debian sid to a printer that's connected to a windows 2000 proffesional machine. I'm not using CUPS (just lprng and samba), and have been trying for a year and a half (off-and-on of course) to print from a Linux box to a printer hanging off a Windows box. I'm confident that it can be done, but the documentation is sadly lacking, or perhaps I'm just too dense to get it. Unfortunately, I am in a similar situation. I have to use CUPS, but it takes too much resources from my old laptop. It's a shame that it is so difficult. Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: smbclient -P
Well, $smbclient --help gives the following answer: -Pconnect to service as a printer Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof
* Hans Steinraht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hi all, The thing I try to figure out is how I can print from my Debian sid to a printer that's connected to a windows 2000 proffesional machine. I have read something about it and saw that there are different ways that might work. Maybe someone has already experience with it and can point me to the right direction. thanks, Hans Hans, I know of one such a way and would be interested in finding out more. I use CUPS (cupsys). There are fairly straightforward instructions on using smbclient to set up a smb queue in cupsys in the SAM (Software Administrator's Manual) for CUPS. Just search for Printing to Windows Servers in SAM. However, I would prefer to find a more lightweight way to do such printing as keeping cups in the memory of my old laptop seems a bit too much price to pay. Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: mbox vs. maildir
* Chris Hilts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Are there any opinions on mbox vs. maildir? I'm told by several friends that maildir is probably the more efficient way to go, but my Debian system came with mbox by default, and I'm not sure how easy/wise it would be to change. Thanks in advance, Chris Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] My 2 bits. I changed mailbox format to maildir for all the directories where the number of messages began to make a noticeable hit on mutt's opening time. So far it's been an easy ride except now if I hit the save key I get a maildir instead of nice text file. That is if I forget. Then I have to extract the text file from a subdirectory. So, behold the power of habit. Otherwise there are no drawbacks I'd know of. Alex.
Re: 2.2r4 CD not recognising Ultra100 TX2 controller
There should not be a problem on the Debian side. I've used UltraDMA boot floppies to do two Debian installations on these controllers. I did have some trouble with them not wanting to be a boot device on the older machine. 'append=ide=reverse' seems to work just fine, though. I haven't seen the beginning of this discussion, so I may be ot of place. I did not have to do anything funny in either one of the two cases and am pretty happy with the hardware. Alex. * Adam Bogacki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Adam, I'm sorry if my last message was a bit unfocused: a wisdom tooth extraction had just ended up with the top spectacularly breaking off leaving the roots in the gum. Antibiotics and painkillers aside, maxillo-facial surgeons are a bit thin on the ground at this time of year ... hdc might be using a different controller unsupported by the install disk? (unlikely) ...snip... The controller is the Ultra 100TX2 by Promise Technology, Inc., http://www.promise.com Is there a problem with Deb install support ? (surely unlikely) Surely unlikely?!? I don't even think ATA-100 controllers even existed at the time the Debian install disks were created. Hold on, 2.2r4 is the latest version and ATA-100 support has surely been included in the kernel ... (?) I doubt the ReiserFS UDMA-66 install disks would even support it either. That will be the reason why the installer cannot see the controller. You computer many not be able to boot from the second hard disk controller? (likely) The Ultra100 TX2 manual has a 'Troubleshooting' section re. any difficulties with the hard drive being recognised by the card but it all seems to be within the Win/DOS tradition. It refers to the 'Ultra100 TX2 BIOS' but I have seen no sign of it. How do I access it ? Try Google or Google Groups. Thanks, I'll follow that one up. No luck there? try posting (for example) to the newsgroups comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage or comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage You are expecting a lot of specific hardware knowledge from a general Debian User mailing list. If you're lucky you might hit the right person. No harm in trying. The list seems to exist to solve these types of problems. The only one which makes sense to me is PROBLEM: Miscellaneous problems such as the Ultra100 TX2 BIOS not appearing during boot, the ULTRA100 TX2 driver not loading, or slow data transfer rates. SOLUTION: Move the Ultra100 TX2 to a different PCI slot. Thanks, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. I'm having problems with my ISP: the number of local calls charged for seems to have blown out by a factor of 10 and I'm fairly sure I did not make them. What is the broadband situation like in NZ ? AFB. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: Zope
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, i hope you are the right person to contact. I did not see this bug listed on debian.bugs Maybe you should use reportbug to list it there. The maintainers are usually very responsive. They should fix it if you submit it. That's what I'd do in such a situation. Alex. here goes. On Sid, when i try to upgrade or remove or reinstall zope i get this error: - text:/home/dude# apt-get install zope Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kdelibs3: Depends: libxslt1 (= 1.0.6-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). text:/home/dude# when i do 'apt-get -f install' i get : text:/home/dude# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libfam0 libxslt1 python zope The following packages will be REMOVED: python-base The following NEW packages will be installed: libfam0 libxslt1 python 1 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 99 not upgraded. 6 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/2046kB of archives. After unpacking 1686kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y (Reading database ... 34302 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace zope 2.3.3-1 (using .../zope_2.4.2-0.2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/zope_2.4.2-0.2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/zope_2.4.2-0.2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) text:/home/dude# - I looked at the sciprt but could not figure out what was going on. Thank you for you help -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
libapache-mod-mp3 doesn't stream ogg files
Hello, I've spent 6 or so hours trying to play my mixed mp3/ogg home music collection on my office computer. They both run Debian/unstable, so I set up libapache-mod-mp3 and used documentation from http://media.tangent.org/faq.html to set it up. After some banging on the wall I now have xmms play my mp3 files, but when it encounters an ogg file it buffers first 32kb and skips to the next one. Here is my mod_mp3 config from httpd.conf. I'm pretty lost at this point as no Google searching helped me as well. Here is the URL I use to play mp3 files (note All.m3u has both mp3 and ogg files listed) In xmms: Add URL - http://mp3.myhost.org:8000; === LoadModule mp3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_mp3.so #Mod_Mp3 configuration Listen 8000 IfModule mod_mp3.c VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8000 ServerName mp3.myhost.org ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /mnt/archive/Music MP3Engine On MP3MimeType audio/x-ogg IfDefine !is_a_browser Timeout 0 /IfDefine IfDefine is_a_browser MP3DefaultOperation select /IfDefine MP3CastName Alex' Music MP3Genre My music #MP3 /mnt/archive/Music MP3Playlist /mnt/archive/Music/All.m3u MP3Random On MP3LimitPlayConnections 2 ErrorLog /var/log/apache/music_error_log #Increase this if your connections are timing out Timeout 1200 /VirtualHost /IfModule ==
Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes
* Mark Lanett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How do I get mutt to read my maildir? I put mailboxes Maildir in my .muttrc and it still wants to create Mail at startup. The docs say that mailbox type is autodetected but Maildir is hardly mentioned in the documentation, FAQ, man muttrc, etc. TIA, ~mark Mark, Are you sure that mailboxes Maildir is the right setting? I have set folder=/home/malex/Mail set mbox_type=Maildir set mbox=+Inbox set spoolfile=+Inbox and it works. Alex.
Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes
* Eric Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi. I use Mutt as my mail client. I am trying to set it up so that messages from the lists to which I subscribe get moved from my mail spool file to a specific mailbox for storage after reading, filtered out from the general mail stream. Right now all my mail goes to 'mbox' -- I would like the debian-user mail to go to ~/.mutt/debian-user. I set up mbox-hook records in my mutt environment as follows: mbox-hook debian-user@lists.debian.org ~/.mutt/debian-user I am not an Emacs user much, I use vi more, and I'm not that familiar with the 'hook' idea, so I am not sure I'm understanding the effect that I should expect from the mbox-hook record correctly. Should the mbox-hook command have the effect I describe above? If so, is there something obvious I'm missing in the syntax above? Thanks. Eric -- Eric Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric, Do you have any particular reservations agains procmail? It'll do what you need beautifully. Then you can read your lists in their respective folders and tell mutt to notify you when there are new messages in them. ??? Alex.
Re: Framebuffer AVI player?
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 16:44, Stan Brown wrote: On Sat Nov 24 18:45:28 2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote... You are trying to play 24-bit video on an 8-bit display. Nearly nothing works with 8-bit color because such displays are usually palettes, whereas 16- and 24-bit are continuous color spectra. Change your frame buffer device to 16- or 24-bit color. You can use the fbset program or change it at boot time. See the documentation for fbset for more information. K, that got me closer. I woulnd up using: mplayer -vo fbdev -fbmode tv -vm [file_to_play] Anid it displayed, centered on the framebufer display. However it was pretty small (about 3 x 4), The framebuffer device does not expose an interface to the hardware video scaler, and software video scaling is pretty slow. Mplayer (which I have never used) may not be capable of software scaline. I run fbtv as fbtv -mtv and it pretty much fills the entire screen, which is what I want to replicate, while playing recoded video. TV tuners usually include their own scaling hardware, and they draw directly into the video output. Hence the difference. The best solution would be to define a video mode at the same size as the AVI files you are playing. I have special modes I use for playing DVDs, for example, to match the resolution and frame rate of most films. -jwb ⌡Can you please post the modes for DVDs et cetera? Thank you, Alex.
Re: Matrox G400 DualHead
* Matthew Reath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I installed Debian potato on a system with a Matrox G400 DualHead. I was wondering if anybody has worked with the Matrox Power Desk and drivers for XFree86. I want to setup a TV on the secondary display that I can use Xine/Xawtv on full screen and use the primary display has my linux desktop. You can do this in Windows using the DVDMax feature, and I would like to simulate this on the Linux platform. If anybody could help me I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Matt Matt, If you get any replies please forward them to me as I asked this question twice in the last half a year. No answer, yet. I also tried to bug a local Linux guru who is deep down into the multihead (last I heard he was running 6 monitors) and he just said it would be an interesting problem to solve, but didn't have any solutions as well. Is there a way we could get an answer from Matrox? What do you think? Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: G400 vs. DRM
(WW) Open APM failed (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mga_hal (WW) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block not detected! (EE) MGA: Failed to load module mga_hal (module does not exist, 0) Just in case it would shed any light, I am running Athlon on Biostar M7MKA motherboard... Thanks for your help, Alex. --ET. Well, it seems that mga_hal is not really required for dri. Several people mentioned that on this list. Forget about that error. It's something else. Another gotcha' in my case was that some of the earlier 2.4 kernels did not like mga compiled into them. However, if I made it into a module I'd get dri. Go figure. It seems to work fine in 2.4.14. There are a couple of mini how-to's on the web related to G400 and dri. Here are a couple of links I used when setting mine. http://ogre.rocky-road.net/mga.html http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~paul/g400.html http://www.cpbotha.net/misc.html Cheers, Alex.
Re: G400 vs. DRM
* Eugene Tyurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble with this strange error message from bzflag (.deb 1.7e2-1) and GL in general: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bzflag libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering loading fixedbr... loading panel... At the same time, log file for X (.deb 4.1.0-9 ) shows: (II) LoadModule: drm (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 32 depth: 24 (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2200+664: 2864 (II) MGA(0): [drm] created mga driver at busid PCI:1:5:0 (II) MGA(0): [drm] added 4096 byte SAREA at 0xc99ef000 (II) MGA(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xc99ef000 to 0x4001a000 (II) MGA(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xdc00 (II) MGA(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) MGA(0): [drm] Added 128 65536 byte DMA buffers (II) MGA(0): [drm] Registers handle = 0xd800 (II) MGA(0): [drm] Status handle = 0xca9fb000 (II) MGA(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) MGA(0): [drm] Mapped 128 DMA buffers I am running up-to-date woody with custom kernel 2.4.15-pre1: CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_MGA=y If I run X as '-depth 16', I don't get libGL error, but bzflag still uses indirect rendering. Any suggestions on how to fix this? --ET. Eugene, To my untrained eye this log doesn't really show if dri was loaded. I had the same log, but dri didn't work on my G400. I apologize if I needlesly reiterate what you've already done, but I believe that in addition to the kernel compile options you mentioned I had the following: CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y (since I have a 440BX chipset) CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_MGA=y also, look for this part in the XFree86.log: (==) MGA(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) Option dpms (**) MGA(0): DPMS enabled (II) MGA(0): Using overlay video (II) MGA(0): X context handle = 0x0001 (II) MGA(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) MGA(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) MGA(0): [drm] Mapped 128 DMA buffers (==) MGA(0): Direct rendering enabled You really want to se the last line above. I╢m attaching my XF86Config-4 if that will help any. Alex. # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page. # (Type man XF86Config at the shell prompt.) Section Files # FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # FontPathunix/:7110# xfs-xtt true type font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Module Loadddc Loaddri LoadGLcore Loaddbe Loadextmod Loadglx Loadpex5 Loadrecord Loadxie Loadbitmap Loadfreetype Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe Loadint10 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option Protocol Standard Option AutoRepeat500 30 Option XkbKeycodes xfree86 Option XkbTypes default Option XkbCompat default Option XkbGeometry pc Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel microsoft Option XkbLayout rums(basic) Option XkbOptionsgrp:toggle EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol PS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons yes Option Emulate3Timeout 150 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier Matrox G400 Driver mga Option AGPMode 2 # ChipSet mgag400 # BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Hitachi CM 751
Re: Opinions on Laptops to Install With Debian
* Mark Seven Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Someone recently pointed me towards eBay regarding my video card delimma; but when I considered the matter, what I *really* want, is a LAPTOP, than I can use from bed (i have some health difficulties) for learning Linux, and doing a lot of paperless reading... What sort of a laptop should I look for, in terms of what is really compatible with Linux, and especially DEBIAN? There are decent offers for IBM ThinkPads, for instance (Such as an offer for an IBM Thinkpad 560X, P233, 24XCD, 96MB, 4GB,56k, $113.50 (two of 'em like this)). Suggestions? TIA, Toshiba Portege 660CDT runs it perfectly here. You really should check out the http://www.linux-laptop.net/ though. It should answer your questions for almost any laptop under the sun. By the way, where do people get a hold of laptops at such prices as you listed. I think I saw one like that for $300 or more. Alex.
Re: G400
* Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have this Matrox G400 video card that's supposed to be really spiffy (or was, in it's day). I'm just trying to confirm the support in X v4. It seems that this card has taken a serious step back in basic performance. I'm not talking about frames/second, the basic picture is kind of lame. I have a 21 monitor and the whole thing worked great under 3.3.6 and even Windows (I had it installed for 3 days until I figured out I couldn't get all the devices to work correctly). I'm just looking for 'similar experiences' Hi Tom, I have one, but the picture is terrific and eventually I got the fps up to the sniff as well. If it helps you can read my XF86Config-4 below. I run 1280x960 as I think that things get way to small for my tired eyes above that resolution, but on a 21 you do whatever ye' like. Alex. # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page. # (Type man XF86Config at the shell prompt.) Section Files # FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # FontPathunix/:7110# xfs-xtt true type font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Module Loadddc Loaddri LoadGLcore Loaddbe Loadextmod Loadglx Loadpex5 Loadrecord Loadxie Loadbitmap Loadfreetype Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe Loadint10 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option Protocol Standard Option AutoRepeat500 30 Option XkbKeycodes xfree86 Option XkbTypes default Option XkbCompat default Option XkbGeometry pc Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel microsoft Option XkbLayout rums(basic) Option XkbOptionsgrp:toggle EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol PS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons yes Option Emulate3Timeout 150 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier Matrox G400 Driver mga Option AGPMode 2 # ChipSet mgag400 # BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Hitachi CM 751 HorizSync 31-93 VertRefresh 50-160 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Matrox G400 Monitor Hitachi CM 751 DefaultDepth16 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1280x960 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1280x960 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x960 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1280x960 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x960 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x960 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 32 Modes 1280x960 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default
Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2
* Matthew Daubenspeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone tried using a Promise UltraTX2 ATA/100 controller under Debian? I can get them for dirt cheap, and they have performed wonderfully otherwise, but haven't tried it with Debian. Any comments/suggestions would be appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm getting one for a machine at work. I should be able to share the results in a week or so. I tried the previous Ultra ATA/100 borrowed from a friend and it worked flawlessly with support compiled into the kernel 2.4.14. Email me if you'd be interested in seeing if TX2 works just as well. I'm keeping my fingers crossed as there is virtually no info on the TX2 on the net except for somebody posting on the linux-kernel mailing list and a brief memo elsewhere saying that those chips are very similar. Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: IRQ conflict on ethernet cards
* Eric Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a RealTek and a 3com card which are both sharing the same irq viz. /proc/interrups: I did all I could on the simplistic CMOS that I have but I cannot allocate IRQ specifically to ports. I also ran the reltek dos diagnostics and setting utility and all is fine but I cannot change the IRQ from 10 with it. Eric, I had such a problem and solved it by changing the IRQ on a 3Com card. Their diagnostics and install floppy works wonders in most cases. Have you tried that one? This is the way that I've seen advised on this list many times. Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: IRQ conflict on ethernet cards - a solution
* Eric Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: According to Oleksandr Moskalenko on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:05:43PM -0500: Eric, I had such a problem and solved it by changing the IRQ on a 3Com card. Their diagnostics and install floppy works wonders in most cases. Have you tried that one? This is the way that I've seen advised on this list many times. Thanx to you and schnobs - good answers. I solved the problem soon after sending the email by disabling irq 10 in the bios, then one card caught irq 9 and the other 4 - I thought there was meant to be some science in this stuff ;) ciao -- Eric Smith Well, I learn something new everyday on this list. On my machines you just can't do that - too old I guess. Congrats. Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: installing with SCSI disk
* Bashar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, Any idea how to load SCSI module i found the driver-1.bin ti -4.bin but am not able to write them to floppy using rawrite giving error and copying them gives no space error , any idea where to find the proper page/url describing this instructions or anyone can help regarding this issue? thanks in advace Bashar, Is there a chance that you might be trying to cram a say 2.88 image onto a 1.44 floppy or something like that? I was using rawrite2 to write driver images to floppies just last night and everything was fine. I used 1.44 images for 1.44 Mb floppies. Follow the Debian installation guide from the website, that's all you need. Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Micronics Lightning (Light2-pp200-T) Motherboard inquiry
Hello, I'm down to the last resort - this great list. I have this dual PentiumPro system that I'm trying to get a new HDD on as the old SCSI one died after 4 years of service. If anyone encountered this particular motherboard please be kind to write me if: BIOS is PnP Motherboard is PCI 2.1 compliant and supports bus mastering The reason I need this info is that they are listed in the requirements to Promise Ultra 100 ATA-100 TX2 controller. I tried an 8.4 Gb IDE HDD in it. BIOS recognizes it, but it wouldn't boot from it. So I think Promise controller is my only choice unless I want to find a 3Gb drive or so. Thanks, Alex. P.S. This is on a system at work, so I can't make a mistake ;-) by ordering the controller and finding out it wouldn't work. And yes, I tried Google to no avail. Micron tech support never answered my email. Our local admin says he wouldn't touch this 5 year old system with a stick. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: Mutt - sent-date hook?
* Wayne Topa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Patrick Mahoney([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hello all, Since Mutt since to be a hot topic, might as well... I'm looking for a way to put my outgoing mail in a month-dependent-mailbox so i could retrieve a sent mail more easily. I would have mailboxes of the form Sent/Oct-01 , Sent/Nov-01 , etc... Ive gone through Mutt's documentation, and havent found any sent-date-hook or the equivalent. Anyone has an idea on how to do this? I use: set record=+sent-mail-`date +%Y-%m` Beautiful. It looks like it does pay off to read the manual. Even though it was intended for somebody else this is the solution that scratched my long standing itch as well. Thank you. Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: New ssh v2 and authentication
* Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm a bit confused by the fact that OpenSSH now defaults to using version 2. How do I use ssh-agent as I have in the past to do password-less logins? In the past I'd do this once with my pass phrase: % ssh-keygen blah,blah,blah and copy the contents ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the remote machine ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. then when I log in to my machine, which runs my window manager via ssh-agent, I'd do % ssh-add blah,blah,blah and, viola, I could log in to the remote machine without entering my password or passphrase. How is the same thing accomplished in version 2? I know about generating id_[d|r]sa using ssh-keygen -t and that there is now a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file but what goes into it to allow passwordless login via ssh-agent? I tried adding ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to the remote machines ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 but that didn't do the trick. Thanks, Gary Gary, I use the same setup. In my authorized_keys2 I only have my sshd machine's public key (cut and paste from id_rsa.pub in its entirety). Then I copied both id_rsa and id_rsa.pub to ~/.ssh on my remote machine. It is maybe wrong to copy both, but my ssh-agent complains if I don't have id_rsa.pub on the remote machine. Then it basically started working. I have Protocol 2,1 RSAAuthentication yes in the sshd_config This is all it took me to do to get RSA authentication working. Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: reiserfs 3.6.x
* pReJkEr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hi is it possible to install debian on reiserfs 3.6.25 or higher? I did. At the time I had to find the unofficial 2.2.17 reiserfs boot floppies on the Freshmeat.net. It's easy. I don't know how that got developed in the last few months as they had older reiserfs then, but you can still go either that way, or just install on ext2 and change to reiserfs right after getting the base system on as I did with another machine. It was very easy Фas well. Cheers, Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: Gnucash
* Justin R. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): i use gnucash everyday and count myself as extremely lucky that i had the old (now obsolete) libs laying around on my system, so i can actually use the thing. Yeah, I'm dying here -- I used to use it several times a day and I've without for over a week now. The Post-It notes are getting too sloppy and too numerous ;-) And now I'm getting this error when I try to run it: ERROR: no such module (g-wrapped gw-runtime) Hi Justin, I was getting python errors of this kind (no such module). Cured it by unsetting PYTHONPATH. I don't know if you have the same problem though, so my case may not apply to you. Regards, Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 /* http://www.tagancha.org/pgp */ Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: Software DVD players
To shift the gear again. Has anyone succeeded in outputting the DVD stream to a TV connected to the second head of a Matrox G400? I really wanna be able to watch DVD on the TV when I have guests over. Alex.
Re: CUPS does not have samba support.
* Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tuesday 02 October 2001 11:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have cupsys version 1.1.10-3 installed. Now, when I type: debian:~# lpinfo -v network socket network http network ipp network lpd serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS2?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS3?baud=115200 You'd be correct. You can print to a CUPS printer through Samba itself from remote machines. If you need to print to a remote printer on a Windows box, you can set that up in Samba as well, I believe. I don't think you need CUPS on the local machine for that. Jason, How would you go about printing to a remote printer on a WinNT without CUPS? I have it working beautifully through CUPS/smbclient, but CUPS is too heavy memorywise on my old laptop. I couldn't find any info on the web on how to do it without CUPS, though. Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- My PGP public key can be found at http://www.tagancha.org/pgp Public key ID and fingerprint - pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, unstable - landscape only
Ok, here's the details :
o Canon BJC-610 inkjet printer, parallel port
o The driver from Canon doesn't work over samba -- it *needs* the
parallel port (it was originally written pre-win95 too).
o win95/98 come with some MS drivers for the 600 and 600e. I've
had it set up with the 600e driver which works over samba but
people are getting annoyed because the colors are wrong (too
much cyan)
(I also found out that samba in win95/98 is broken in such a
way tht 98 *can't* share a printer to a 95 client for anything
but text. I must have the 95 box as the server.)
o for a recent print job I tried moving the printer straight onto
LPT1 and using Canon's driver. It keeps complaining about the
paper thickness lever even though it is in the right place.
(Once, but only once, when I switch the cable it worked but
not again)
o I downloaded ghostscript to my Debian box and tried printing --
I can manually take PS input and get bjc output which I can
cat to /dev/printers/0 and get the correct colors, etc, from
the printer
o I can do the same with gs on windows, but it is still a PITA
(I'm using CUPS on my Debian box, hopefully I can get it to filter
though gs automatically, then share it from there)
o CUPS allows me to specify a filter using *cupsFilter: in a PPD
file
(ok, I ripped the PPD file off from gs because it was tne only
place I found one)
o I can write a filter that is just a wrapper around gs
Current status :
I specified a filter to use. CUPS' error log shows that it tries
to run it.
I wrote the filter (an sh script) but it isn't working. It works
if I run it from the shell, but not when CUPS runs it. It gives
an exit status of 2. ('gs' is the last command run, /bin/sh is
ash)
The next step is to determine what causes gs to give exit code 2.
Possibly it means the input was no good. The example in the CUPS
documentation shows application/vnd.cups-raster as the input type to
the filter, but I am trying to use application/postscript. I don't
see any raster to ps converter in the standard setup either.
I hope I didn't bore you too much with this :-). If you have any
suggestion, they are most welcome.
-D
Not boring dman, fascinating! I must say it takes the time I don't have
to go into such depth of taking CUPS apart. I hope you get it worked
out. I couldn't see clearly what machine you are trying to print from
and to which machine. Are you printing directly from your Debian box to
a printer on LPT?
Anyways, did you go to linuxprinting.org? There is A LOT of stuff for
BJC 610 there and it is listed as Working Perfectly
-610
Printer Canon BJC-610
Type Color Inkjet
Resolution 720x720
Works? Perfectly
Notes
Uses bjc610*.upp files; see driver links.
Different uniprint drivers for 360/720dpi printing and different paper types.
Printer does not support PJL.
Printer supports direct text printing with the `us-ascii' charset.
No known autodetection methods.
This information has been proofread.
Canon's history of cooperation with the free software community may be found on
the vendor report card page.
You can participate in the LinuxPrinting.org Canon discussion forum here on the
web, via NNTP, or by email.
Driver Information
bjc600
Traditional Ghostscript driver.
Type: Ghostscript
bjc610a0.upp
The printing system/execution information for this driver serves for all
bjc610*.upp drivers.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610a1.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610a2.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610a3.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610a4.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610a5.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610a6.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610a7.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610a8.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610b1.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610b2.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610b3.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610b4.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610b6.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610b7.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
bjc610b8.upp
See bjc610a0.upp for more information.
Type: Ghostcript Uniprint
---
Oleksandr Moskalenko
Department of Agronomy
Purdue University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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My PGP public
Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, unstable - landscape only
* Pete Willemsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi.
I've been attempting to get an Epson Stylus Color 880 printer to work
with my Debian unstable system. I'm running the latest version of CUPS
from the unstable archive and have been unsuccessful at getting
documents to print in portrait mode. In other words, every document I
print whether it is text, ps, or pdf comes out in landscape mode. I
have not modified any of the CUPS config files other than to setup my
printer through the web interface.
For comparison I took an Epson Stylus Color 777 and set it up on a
similar system and it worked correctly printing portrait documents in
portrait mode.
Has anyone experience anything like this? I'm stumped as to what
configuration files I need to mess with to get the CUPS rasterizer to
print the documents in the correct orientation. Any suggestions?
Many thanks.
Pete
Hi Pete,
I don't know if it'll help, but here are my ppd and cupsd.conf
files attached. THese surely work on my unstable system with an ESC 800
printer, just like yours.
Alex.
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Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
*PPD-Adobe: 4.3
*%
*% $Id: stcolor.ppd,v 1.6 2001/02/22 16:48:12 mike Exp $
*%
*% Sample EPSON Stylus Color driver PPD file for the Common UNIX Printing
*% System (CUPS).
*%
*% Copyright 1997-2001 by Easy Software Products.
*%
*% These coded instructions, statements, and computer programs are the
*% property of Easy Software Products and are protected by Federal
*% copyright law. Distribution and use rights are outlined in the file
*% LICENSE.txt which should have been included with this file. If this
*% file is missing or damaged please contact Easy Software Products
*% at:
*%
*% Attn: CUPS Licensing Information
*% Easy Software Products
*% 44141 Airport View Drive, Suite 204
*% Hollywood, Maryland 20636-3111 USA
*%
*% Voice: (301) 373-9603
*% EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*% WWW: http://www.cups.org
*%
*FormatVersion: 4.3
*FileVersion: 1.1
*LanguageVersion: English
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*PCFileName:STCOLOR.PPD
*Manufacturer: ESP
*Product: (CUPS v1.1)
*cupsVersion: 1.1
*cupsManualCopies: True
*cupsModelNumber: 2
*cupsFilter:application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertoepson
*cupsColorProfile 180dpi/-: 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 -0.2 -0.4 1.0 0.0 -0.2 0.0 1.0
*cupsColorProfile 360dpi/-: 1.0 1.5 1.0 0.0 -0.2 -0.4 1.0 0.0 -0.2 0.0 1.0
*cupsColorProfile 720dpi/-: 1.0 2.5 1.0 0.0 -0.2 -0.4 1.0 0.0 -0.2 0.0 1.0
*ModelName: EPSON Stylus Color Series
*ShortNickName: EPSON Stylus Color Series
*NickName: EPSON Stylus Color Series CUPS v1.1
*PSVersion: (3010.000) 550
*LanguageLevel: 3
*ColorDevice: True
*DefaultColorSpace: RGB
*FileSystem:False
*Throughput:1
*LandscapeOrientation: Plus90
*VariablePaperSize: False
*TTRasterizer: Type42
*OpenUI *PageSize/Media Size: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageSize
*DefaultPageSize: Letter
*PageSize Letter: /PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox nullsetpagedevice
*PageSize Legal:/PageSize[612 1008]/ImagingBBox nullsetpagedevice
*PageSize A4: /PageSize[595 842]/ImagingBBox nullsetpagedevice
*CloseUI: *PageSize
*OpenUI *PageRegion: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageRegion
*DefaultPageRegion: Letter
*PageRegion Letter: /PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox nullsetpagedevice
*PageRegion Legal: /PageSize[612 1008]/ImagingBBox nullsetpagedevice
*PageRegion A4: /PageSize[595 842]/ImagingBBox nullsetpagedevice
*CloseUI: *PageRegion
*DefaultImageableArea: Letter
*ImageableArea Letter: 8.60 39.60 603.40 766.49
*ImageableArea Legal: 8.60 39.60 603.40 982.49
*ImageableArea A4: 8.60 39.60 586.40 816.49
*DefaultPaperDimension: Letter
*PaperDimension Letter: 612 792
*PaperDimension Legal: 612 1008
*PaperDimension A4: 595 842
*OpenUI *Resolution/Output Resolution: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 20 AnySetup *Resolution
*DefaultResolution: 360dpi
*Resolution 180dpi/180 DPI: /HWResolution[180 180]setpagedevice
*Resolution 360dpi/360 DPI: /HWResolution[360 360]setpagedevice{0.
exp}bind settransfer
*Resolution 720dpi/720 DPI: /HWResolution[720 720]setpagedevice{0.4
exp}bind settransfer
*CloseUI: *Resolution
*OpenUI *ColorModel/Output Mode: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *ColorModel
*DefaultColorModel: Gray
*ColorModel CMYK/Color: /cupsColorOrder 1/cupsColorSpace 8/cupsCompression
1setpagedevice
*ColorModel Gray/Grayscale: /cupsColorOrder 0/cupsColorSpace
3/cupsCompression 1setpagedevice
*CloseUI: *ColorModel
*DefaultFont: Courier
*Font AvantGarde-Book
Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, unstable - landscape only
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Cool. I think the *LandscapeOrientation: Plus90 line the PPD is what does it. The printer must default to landscape, so the ppd tells the filter/driver to rotate the page by 90° so it comes out portrait. Try Plus270 ;-) -- if you want the paper to come out with the bottom of the page first. -D Double cool. I guess reading the files helps :-) Al. (BTW, I've been trying to get a Canon BJC-610 running on the network lately so I'm interested in seeing how the various things work in cups. I think I have a solution, but I can't test it until I go home and have the printer to play with.) Have you tried anything else? I've tried getting my laptop to print to a postscript printer attached to a WinNT 4.0 machine here at work, but nothing but the CUPS did the job. However, CUPS is taking a whopping 6Mb of laptop's precious 32Mb, so I've been looking for alternatives though unsuscessfully. I tried xpdq, but it just fails silently on me as the author of the only samba interface I could find on the web warned. Al. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- My PGP public key can be found at http://www.tagancha.org/pgp Public key ID and fingerprint - pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: kernel 2.4.10 and linus vs ac VM?
* Thomas Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 30-Sep 07:44, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I am confused about the state of the 2.4.10 kernel. It seems that there are two VMs that are going to fight it out moving forward: the original one (in the ac line of code) and a new one (in the main line of code). Before this became clear, I was planning to move up to 2.4.10 from 2.4.4 as it seemed that things were converging to a stable core. Things are getting much more stable. Drivers especially. Linus seems to be willing to work on core stuff still... Can someone help me understand if I should move to the new VM or just wait for this to all get sorted out? What is being done for the next release of Debian? (I'm running 2.2r3 with Adrian Bunk's 2.4 packages). I would say move the either of the two VM's in 2.4.10[-acX]. There are some real problems with the VM in 2.4.X (X9) and interactions with other subsystems. Things should really settle down once 2.5 starts. If you follow lkml, there seems to be a fare amount of stuff that wants in NOW, and conservatives think that makes the stable kernel more unstable. Given that some kernels haven't build w/o patch in a quick pre patch, I think the conservatives are gloating. :) Thomas PS: I have no idea where debian is going...I just follow it around. I'll second that. I got a noticable performance boost and much better swap handling out of 2.4.10. It compiled cleanly and hasn't given me any trouble, yet. YMMV of course. Alex. --- My PGP public key can be found at http://www.tagancha.org/pgp Public key ID and fingerprint - pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: OT:mutt: skipping deleted messages
* Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:00:15AM -0700, David Roundy wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:44:49PM +0200, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: I'm experimenting a little with Mutt, and noticed the following problem: while browsing through a mailing list, I tend to mark messages as to be deleted rather quickly. Sometimes too quickly. Unfortunately, I can't view that message once it's marked as to be deleted, since it's being skipped while moving up in the list. Can this behaviour be altered? With my (I think default) bindings, the left and right arrow keys allow you to select deleted messages, while the up and down arrows skip them. You can also (if you're used to vi bindings) use J and K to navigate the message list. Lowercase skips over deleted messages, uppercase doesn't. Or you can jump directly to any message (deleted or not) by entering the message number. Bingo - this one is a winner on my list! Thanks for a great tip. Alex.
Re: Which CDs to buy? (Did apt-get, nervous about kernel compile)
* Peter Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm still learning Debian-Linux, was so pleased that apt-get worked. It took 12 hours (!), but afterward Mozilla was finally working, so now I have internet access. After the apt-get dist-upgrade I got a message saying that I must upgrade the kernel. Current is 2.0.36, need at least 2.2.12. Compiling the kernel looks like it will be tough for a beginner. (I checked out some of the instructions on the Debian website.) So here's my question: I'm sure I'll make a mistake if I compile the kernel, so I want to have a fresh set of Debian CDs. According to the Debian website Cheapbytes sells a vendor release and a custom release. Linux-CD.com sells the official release. Does it make a difference which I buy? (Both sell the 2.2r3 release.) Thanks, Peter Peter, Why are you afraid of making a mistake while compiling a new kernel? Download Linus' kernel source from kernel.org. Do your: #make-kpkg clean #make xconfig /*Try your best at selecting the right config options*/ #make-kpkg --revision peter.01 kernel_image #dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.9_peter.01_i386.deb /*or whatever kernel source you'll download from kernel.org*/ #lilo -v /*make sure no errors pop up there*/ #reboot /*be happy, OR*/ Reboot and choose vmlinuz.old or whatever name LILO gives to your 2.0 kernel image and you'll be back where you started before the kernel compile. Then #dpkg -P kernel-image-2.4.9 /*restart the cycle with make-kpkg clean, etc., but use a different revision number. This way never failed me in my worst days of finding the right kernel config options for my old laptop. Make sure you are not trying to install another copy of recompiled kernel with dpkg over the faulty one as the LILO will place /vmlinuz.old link to the faulty kernel, and not the 2.0 one you have working. I usually manually recreate the right link and rerun lilo, but am not sure this is the right way (tm).*/ Alex.
Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?
* Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jason Boxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 23 September 2001 02:28 pm, Krzys Majewski wrote: Anyone run a matrox g450? I've got one working with kernel 2.4.8 and X 4.1.0, but it did hang my box once. Maybe I should be using the drivers from the Matrox site instead? The Matrox drivers need the code for X 4.0.2/4.0.3 to compile. I know, I know, I should just try it and see, but it's a bit of a pain to build/test etc., so if you have any g450 experiences to share, please do.. Well, my G400 works with the default X4.1 drivers. It seems to load the mga_hal module that Matrox providers for G200/4xx cards though. The mga_hal might only be necessary for the G450, I don't remember. OK, thanks. Mine tries to load the mga_hal module and fails, presumably because I haven't installed it. I take it you've downloaded the one from matrox.com? What does it do? Also, FWIW, if you don't install the matrox drivers, the 450 is only supported starting with X 4.1.0. -chris On my G400 mga_hal prevents dri from being enabled. I assume that's because mga_hal was compiled for ╬4.0 and they haven't updated it for 4.1, yet. Everything seems to work beautifully WITHOUT any Matrox drivers even though mga_hal load failure message shows up in XFree86 log. Someone else posted similar experiences for their G450 on this list before, too. Alex. --- Oleksandr Moskalenko Department of Agronomy Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- My PGP public key can be found at http://www.tagancha.org/pgp Public key ID and fingerprint - pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B
Re: Printing files through network
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | Hi. | | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 | machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to | share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print | documents to the printer connected to the Win98 machine? What do I have to | do to make it happen? On win98 share the printer (use the clicky-gui stuff). On Linux install the samba package and use the 'smbprint' program to submit print jobs. smbprint can be integrated into various print spoolers such as CUPS. HTH, -D Has anyone figured out how to use it with anything, but CUPS? I have an old laptop and it hurts to see CUPS taking 4-5Mb of RAM and not doing anything most of the time. Alex.
Re: Printing files through network
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | | Hi. | | | | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 | | machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to | | share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print | | documents to the printer connected to the Win98 machine? What do I have to | | do to make it happen? | | On win98 share the printer (use the clicky-gui stuff). | | On Linux install the samba package and use the 'smbprint' program to | submit print jobs. smbprint can be integrated into various print | spoolers such as CUPS. | | Has anyone figured out how to use it with anything, but CUPS? I have | an old laptop and it hurts to see CUPS taking 4-5Mb of RAM and not | doing anything most of the time. I don't know. When I was RTFM-ing to pick a spooler I remember that lp/lpr can have certain commands run on the job before it is printed. What if you made smbprint a prefilter, then made /dev/null the printer device? What about pdq? I think pdq lets one specify various output methods. -D I've experimented with a samba interface for xpdq that I found on somebody's website, but as the person warned it just failed silently on me and I don't know enough to program in some debugging. Alex.
Re: building pcmcia-cs for 2.4.9
* Martin F Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hi guys, i am trying frantically to build the pcmcia-modules for 2.4.9 and i have installed pcmcia-source and unpacked the /usr/src/pcmcia-cs.tar.gz file into the /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs directory. /snip/ Martin, Is there a chance you would consider just using kernel 2.4.9 source for building the necessary modules? I've had no end of troubles while using separate pcmcia-source, but they all went away since I started compiling pcmcia modules from kernel-source couple of versions ago. This doesn't answer your question directly, but it's a way that worked for me and I have fairly old hardware. Alex.
Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian
* Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've posted some tips on how I've got CD writing working on my debian machine, in the hopes they may be vaguely useful to others. My specific desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as I could tell required that I NOT be using ide-scsi) and cd-rw burning (which requires ide-scsi) without rebooting. The gory details are at: http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips/src/debian-cdrw.html Cheers, Andy Andy, Why do you have to NOT use ide-scsi when playing audio CDs? I have not had a problem with that. Just about yesterday I played/grabbed/encoded to oggvorbis 6 of my CDs all done with ide-scsi and I haven't had to do anything funky to get it working except that I made sure ide-cd would not get loaded ever (modutils). I'm using kernel 2.4, and I am not aware of any differences between it and 2.2 in this regard. Disclamer: I may be totally wrong. This works for me and you are allowed to disregard this info, delete this message and bash me silently. Here is my lsmod output: = Module Size Used by sg 22464 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 13440 0 (autoclean) cdrom 27104 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod] nls_cp437 4384 3 (autoclean) vfat8880 3 (autoclean) fat30912 0 (autoclean) [vfat] mga98336 1 ide-scsi7712 0 scsi_mod 80816 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi] emu10k152704 2 ac97_codec 8896 0 [emu10k1] sound 56048 0 [emu10k1] = And the relevant ide-scsi file from /etc/modutils: = options ide-cd ignore=hdd alias cdrom ide-scsi alias dvd ide-scsi alias sr0 sr_mod alias sr1 sr_mod pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi = Don't forget about update-modules
Re: X and -nolisten tcp
* Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have the following in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp When I run nmap, I get this for X: 6000/tcp openX11 Is that unusual? I had thought since I specified nolisten the tcp port would not be open. Also, how can I check to be sure it is not listening? I have only ever used X forwarding via ssh, so I don't know how to try it another way. I don't run a telnet server. Thanks. According to the debconf info given during the installation -nolisten will make it listen for connections from localhost only, isn't it so? Alex.
Re: Firewall program for Debian?
* Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: Basically, I have the 2.2.19 kernel. Is any of the programs that you mentined easy enough to be utilized by a Debian novice without going into the heavy-duty configuration? there is something called pmfirewall. http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/ sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Also there is rcf firewall based on ipchains. Config file could not be simplier and it is virtually bug-free. I've used it for over a year now and have no complaints at all. I think the website is http://rcf.mvlan.net:8080/ I think they have a Debian package, but I always use their install script. It's all well done. Alex.
Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations
* Rog?rio Brito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Aug 20 2001, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: Hi, Did you by any chance get your G400 to play DVD or DIVX out of the secondary head to a TV? If you did I would be very much interested in hearing how you did that. Unfortunately, my card is just a monohead with 16MB. But AFAIK, you wouldn't be able to, since the Linux drivers don't support that (I guess that this is due to the damn Macrovision rights). I've tried something similar to that with my notebook, which has an ATI Mobility LT board with TV Out and while playing DivX in Windows to the TV was fine (it was something that I had captured from a VHS tape and it seemed like the tape), under Linux I can only get the text-mode to play right on the TV. []s, Roger... Darn, I can get dualhead working, but nowhere on the web could I find any info on how to send a videostream to the second head TV. Oh well, it's a small setback. Alex.
(forw) [malex@purdue.edu: Re: xfree 4.1.0 problems on two different machines]
email. I don't even know if my reply reached you because of that. It's getting annoying. Alex. ---BeginMessage--- * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * On 16-08-01 at 21:34 Oleksandr Moskalenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ Change your sources.list to point to testing rather than unstable and run 'apt-get install package/testing'. This will downgrade the package. The easiest way to put a package on hold is to run this at your shell prompt: echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections This was posted on the debian-user list earlier by: From: der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Later you'll be able to apt-get install these packages when they are fixed and all will be good and grass will be green again. That's what I hope for anyways. Regards, Alex. +and here the quote ends+ Hi! There is another problem with this matter. If I insert the testing sources to my sources.list and than do apt-get update and than try to install anything I keep getting failed dependancies, if I remove the testing paths from sources.list everything works just fine. Do you by any chance know how to fix this? To have both unstable and testing paths in sources.list file and still be able to operate normally with the debian packages via apt? THX in advance! Bostjan Bostjan, What works is this: comment out your unstable sources, uncomment testing sources, do apt-get update, then run apt-get install xserver-xfree86/testing. Do the same for xfree86-common, then run the hold script I forwarded you earlier, change source lines to unstable and do your business as usual. This may not be the best way, but it works (TM) and I don't know any better. Alex. ---End Message---
Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations
* Rog?rio Brito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Aug 19 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: I am building a new computer (a first for me) and will be using an Abit KT7A motherboard with Athlon 1.3 Ghz cpu. Perhaps you'd like to see http://cr.yp.to/hardware/abit.html before purchasing your new motherboard. Be careful that VIA chipsets are an almost necessary evil if you go the AMD route: there are a lot of complaints of them in the Linux Kernel Mailing list these past months. Now, Alan Cox says that he discovered some contacts in VIA and that they're willing to help support VIA products with Linux in. Of course, you could buy a motherboard with an AMD chipset (like the 760 or the 760MP if you're into dual-processing), but you'll have a bit more of problems getting them from your local dealear than with a VIA board, since the AMD ones are more expensive and produced in lesser quantities. Personally, I'm using an Asus A7V purchased in December of 2000 with no problems. BTW, an advice: I have the impression (note that this is just my *impression* and not a fact) that the Promise controller embedded in my board is slighly better (and produces less load) than the VIA IDE controller controlling the same hard drive. To use the Promise controller (which supports UDMA 100), you'll either have to use a patch from Andr? Hedrick www.linux-ide.org or use a recent (2.4) kernel. I would appreciate recommendations for a video card which could be auto detected or at least very easy to install for X window system. I must say that I think that this is one of the hardest parts in understanding and purchasing for anybody that is outside the scene. It took me months to understand only the minimum of specifications on sites like Tomshardware and Anandtech to decide where to spend my hard earned bucks with something that would work well with Linux (since that's the only operating system that I use). I think that you should get either a Matrox G400 (or G450) or, if you want better 3D performance and a bunch of other high-end features, an ATI Radeon (there are some value models of the ATI Radeon, but I don't know very much of their product lines). Both Matrox and ATI are reasonably open source-friendly (with some slight exceptions, mainly regarding TV Out) and these are the manufacturers with which you should make business. ATI, BTW, seems to be supporting many open source projects. Personally, I have a Matrox G400 and I'm satisfied with it, but I don't play games and don't know if they are good for those things. What I do care about is some good performance in 2D and playing videos (DIVX, DVDs). Hi, Did you by any chance get your G400 to play DVD or DIVX out of the secondary head to a TV? If you did I would be very much interested in hearing how you did that. Cheers, Alex.
Re: DNS
* Michael W. Cole ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I am trying to install DNS on my linux 2.2.19 box (i386 dist). I am
having difficulty with the zone scripts for the domain, x.org. The
name server is ns..org Can you show me a generic file with a
description of what is needed in this file?
Thank you
Michael
Michael,
I hope these work for you. I've gotten them to work with the help of
people from my local LUG, manu kudos to them for help. Good luck.
Alex.
==
/etc/bind/named.conf:
==
// This is the primary configuration file for the BIND DNS server named.
//
// Please read /usr/share/doc/bind9/README.Debian for information on the
// structure of BIND configuration files in Debian, *BEFORE* you customize
// this configuration file.
//
options {
// If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
// to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
// directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
// questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 and later use an unprivileged
// port by default.
query-source address * port 53;
// If your ISP provided one or more IP addresses for stable
// nameservers, you probably want to use them as forwarders.
// Uncomment the following block, and insert the addresses replacing
// the all-0's placeholder.
auth-nxdomain yes;
directory /var/named;
#OM:forward first; # Makes NS ask the forwarders before trying the job
forwarders { 128.xxx.xx.x; 128.xx.x.x; };
allow-query { xxx.xxx.xx.xxx; 127.0.0.1; };
allow-transfer { xxx.xxx.xx.xx; };
pid-file /var/named/named.pid;
transfer-format one-answer;
version Whatchew talkin bout, Willis?;
allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; };
};
// define a key - you should really change the secret since
// all Debian boxes everywhere will have the same secret
key key {
algorithm hmac-md5;
secret c3Ryb25nIGVub3VnaCBmb3IgYSBtYW4gYnV0IG1hZGUgZm9yIGEgd29tYW4K;
};
// fortunately, using this control statement, we restrict access
// to the control port 953/tcp to only the localhost and we
// configure named to listen to 953 only on the lo interface
controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { key; };
};
logging {
channel named.log {
file named.log;
severity dynamic;
print-category yes;
print-severity yes;
};
category default { default_syslog; named.log; };
category queries { named.log; };
};
// prime the server with knowledge of the root servers
zone . IN {
type hint;
file /etc/bind/db.root;
};
// be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse zones, and for
// broadcast zones as per RFC 1912
zone localhost IN {
type master;
file /etc/bind/db.local;
};
zone 127.in-addr.arpa IN {
type master;
file /etc/bind/db.127;
allow-update { none; };
};
zone 0.in-addr.arpa IN {
type master;
file /etc/bind/db.0;
allow-update { none; };
};
zone 255.in-addr.arpa IN {
type master;
file /etc/bind/db.255;
allow-update { none; };
};
// add entries for other zones below here
zone mydomain.org IN {
type master;
notify yes;
allow-query { any; };
file /etc/bind/db.mydomain.org;
};
=
/etc/bind/db.mydomain.org
=
;
; Zone file for tagancha.org
; Written by Oleksandr Moskalenko from the initial file by Ryan Helfter
; with the help of Linux DNS How-To
$TTL3600
@ 1800SOA ns.mydomain.org. hostmaster (
2001080601 ; serial (MMDD##)
900 ; refresh
600 ; retry
259200 ; expire
1800; TTL
)
; Name servers
NS ns
NS ns1.granitecanyon.com.
NS ns2.granitecanyon.com.
; Mx record
MX 10 mail.mydomain.org.
; hosts
localhost A 127.0.0.1
ns A 128.xxx.xxx.xx
www CNAME ns
mailCNAME ns
ftp CNAME ns
babyCNAME ns
Re: How do I make python2 work with readline?
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:48:08PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: I'm puzzled as to why python2 doesn't use readline. Have a look at bug #84080 (http://bugs.debian.org/84080). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crying in despair I downloaded and compiled sources from python.org. And as my PATH has /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin I run the compiled version now when I need to use interpreter. It's not as good as if Debian package was fixed, but will work for now. Thanks, Alex.
Printing over SMB with xpdq
Hi,
Does anybody have a working interface for printing over SMB to WindowsNT?
I tried using the interface below, but xpdq fails silently and I don't
know what's wrong. I have a PostScript (LaserJet 4000N) on the other
side that works fine with Cups, but my Linux machine is really old and
slow (P150 with 32Mb or RAM) and cupsys takes almost 5 MB or RAM, so I
really want to get xpdq working. I have to authenticate myself by
providing my password as smbclient tries to access the printer share on
the WinNT machine. Any ideas?
Alex.
[lp.hp] A samba interface for PDQ, tested with HP OfficeJet
Dan Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:45:14 -0500
Hi,
I just went to try xpdq across SMB to my HP OfficeJet,
but I saw:
[[[
Printers connected to a Windows machine are
not currently supported, though it should be simple to
write a (1 line, I think!) pdq driver using the
smb_print utility. I don't have a network to
test this on. Someone please create one and share it!
]]]
-- The pdq homepage [@@probably not the title you meant]
http://pdq.sourceforge.net/drivers.html
Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:54:04 GMT
Indeed, it was a simple one line of code in the
right place. Attached find a samba driver
that I just cooked up in a few minutes.
Share and enjoy!
HOWTO:
1. make sure your samba client setup is
working. test with
smbclient //your_server/your_printer -c print - /etc/motd
(see below for what software to install to get
this far)
2. Stick the attached interface in /etc/pdq/interfaces
(if you're not root, I suppose there's someplace
else you can put it... I dunno.)
3. Fire up xpdq and choose Printer/add printer.
When you get to the choice of interfaces, choose samba,
then supply //your_server/your_printer
4. print away!
I suppose there are all sorts of ways that it can fail
silently. I hate that, but I'll let the next guy fix
those problems as they arise.
I just tested it using:
server:
Win98 box
printer: HP OfficeJet 330
client:
Linux version 2.2.17
smbclient Version 2.0.7
xpdq version 2.2.1
cdj550 driver
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=cdj550
GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1998-12-17)
filename=samba-0.1
interface samba {
help The samba interface requires smbclient.
contributed by Dan Connolly http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
$Id: samba-0.1,v 1.1 2000/10/09 20:22:59 root Exp root $
requires smbclient # This is part of the samba pagkage, in the debian
smbclient package, in particular
required_args SMB_PRINTER_NAME
argument {
var = SMB_PRINTER_NAME
desc = Windows printer name
help = This is the NetBIOS name of the printer
in //server/service format.
try smbclient -L machine to find some printers..
}
send_exec { smbclient $SMB_PRINTER_NAME -c print - $INPUT }
#status_exec {}
#cancel_exec {}
}
Re: X exits into unreadable screen
* Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Touloumtzis, Michael wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces more verticle white lines where the text should be. It is likely that your SVGA registers were corrupted by X crashing in this way. The only solutions are: 1. reboot 2. start X and live without consoles for now If you install svgalib-bin you can use savetextmode and estoretextmode to avoid a reboot caused by this problem in the future, but that solution depends on your already having saved the video registers from console mode when they were in a pristine state. See man savetextmode for an explanation of this problem. Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into savetextmode and restoretextmode. Do you have any idea why this would be happening, though? True, when I reboot everything goes back to normal and I can work at a console again. However, as soon as I start X again, the console display gets screwed up again. It doesn't seem like I should have to use savetextmode and restoretextmode every time I want to use X. Thanks again. -- Brian J. Stults I didn't catch the beginning of this thread, so excuse me if this has already been discussed. I had this same or a very similar problem on my system. The cause of it was the framebuffer as I remember. If I would start computer and boot straight into xdm, then kill xdm from within another console I would be left with the screen that looked like you describe. I just took off framebuffer line in the lilo. Just my 2 cents. Alex.
Re: Local DNS?
* Jeffrey Nowakowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there some way I can use a local DNS server to cache DNS queries? I ask because my current DNS server is sometimes slow; I have a cable modem and configure DNS automatically through DHCP. Ideally I'd like to configure a local DNS server to use the cable's DNS, but cache host lookups for something like 24 hours before going out to the remote server again. -Jeff Jeff, Look into dnscache from http://cr.yp.to It worked perfectly for me before I set up my own DNS server. And of course you could use the excellent BIND9 how-to to set it up as a caching only nameserver. Alex.
Re: xfree 4.1.0 problems on two different machines
* Bostjan Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! After the upgrade to xfree 4.1.0 on Debian sid I have run into some quite serious problems. 1. On my laptop (toshiba satellite 100cs) the xfree just segfaults and does not start at all (graphic card is chips and technologies and uses chips driver). I don't know where to send the bug report, since I don't know which part exactly is failing (sig11 when doing startx). 2. On my desktop system where I use latin2 (iso8859-2) fonts xfonts-biznet-* after the recent upgrade the latin2 fonts don't work anymore and even if I downgrade the package (to potato version, which still works) the -misc-fixed-*-iso8859-2 font still does not work (allthough -misc-fixed-*-iso8859-1 works just fine). Could someone please help me with this, since both problems are making my work allmost imposible. Thank you in advance! Bostjan -- Bostjan, I've had the same problem and after searching Debian bugtracking database it seems that there is a bug in 4.1.0 they forwarded upstream. What I did was to downgrade xfree86-common and xserver-xfree86 to 4.0.3 leaving all the rest of xfree stuff at 4.1.0. I put those two packages on hold and so far everything runs smoothly. I think this is the fastest fix until they fix the 4.1.0 chips module. Alex.
How do I make python2 work with readline?
Hello, I'm puzzled as to why python2 doesn't use readline. I'm learning Python and really liked command line capabilities that 1.5.2 + readline provided. However, python2 doesn't seem to utilize readline leading to some horrible experience for someone like me who makes a lot of mistypings. Does anybody know how to wrestle python2 into using readline? Thanks, Alex.
Re: xfree 4.1.0 problems on two different machines
Where can I find those two packages (the older versions), and how do I put it on hold and unhold it when new packages arrive? THX in advance! B. Change your sources.list to point to testing rather than unstable and run 'apt-get install package/testing'. This will downgrade the package. The easiest way to put a package on hold is to run this at your shell prompt: echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections This was posted on the debian-user list earlier by: From: der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Later you'll be able to apt-get install these packages when they are fixed and all will be good and grass will be green again. That's what I hope for anyways. Regards, Alex. ---BeginMessage--- * On 16-08-01 at 19:14 Oleksandr Moskalenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ Bostjan, I've had the same problem and after searching Debian bugtracking database it seems that there is a bug in 4.1.0 they forwarded upstream. What I did was to downgrade xfree86-common and xserver-xfree86 to 4.0.3 leaving all the rest of xfree stuff at 4.1.0. I put those two packages on hold and so far everything runs smoothly. I think this is the fastest fix until they fix the 4.1.0 chips module. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] +and here the quote ends+ Where can I find those two packages (the older versions), and how do I put it on hold and unhold it when new packages arrive? THX in advance! B. -- [*] Boštjan Müller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://neonatus.net/~neonatus [*] [*] PGP key - finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], RSA id: 0x90178DBD [*] [*] Celular: +386(0)41243189, Powered by Debian GNU/LiNUX - ICQ #:7506644 [*] Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals. ---End Message---
Re: matrox g450 and dri
Hi Matthew, I had exactly the same problem geting dri working on my G400 Dual Head 32Mb. What worked perfectly for me was a suggestion from someone on this list! I copied their suggestions below. If you follow them you should get everything working just fine. Remember though that you have to copy your newly compiled mga.o to /lib/modules/2.4.7/kernel/drivers/char/drm/ exit X, rmmod mga, modprobe the new mga and startx again. I'm pretty sure it'll work for you and you won't have to downgrade to 4.0.3 or do anything drastic. Moreover, mga_drv.o and mga_hal_drv.o from Matrox will still work. The version mismatch is with the kernel driver mga.o from what I could gather. Enjoy. Alex. = te: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 03:20:12 -0400 From: Chun Kit Edwin Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i To: Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Matrox G400 dri woes Try the source at dri.sourceforge.net. It works for me. I did the following 1. d/l matrox mga_drv.o and mga_hal.o from matrox site 2. copy them to the appropriate x11 directory 3. d/l the dri from dri.sourceforge.net 4. compile the mga.o by make -f Makefile mga.o 5. cp mga.o to the appropriate /lib/modules/... 6. make sure you have X4.1.0 you should have dri acceleration now * Matthew Garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello: I'm trying to get DRI to work with my new Matrox Millenium g450. It's the dual head, 32 MB ram version. I only have one monitor, so I really don't need the second head :) Anyway, here's my setup: Debian v2.2 (potato), but with the XFree86 4.1.0 binaries installed from people.debian.org/~cpbotha/. I'm running a self-compiled kernel version 2.4.7. Here are the things I've done: I replaced /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o with the file of the same name from Matrox's website. I also dropped in the file names mga_hal_drv.o from the Matrox site. I compiled my kernel with support for agpgart and the corresponding mga.o module. I verified that both agpgart.o and mga.o were loaded with lsmod. At this point, DRI still doesn't work. My /var/log/XFree86.0.log file reports (II) MGA(0): direct rendering disabled. So then I did a bit of research (over at dri.sourceforge.net). I downloaded the replacement kernel modules (drm), compiled them and installed them (these kernel modules are available at www.xfree86.org/~alahn). Still the problem persists. The most suspect line my /var/log/XFree86.0.log file is this one: (EE) MGA(0): [drm] MGADRIScreenInit failed (DRI version = 4.0.0, expected 3.0.x). Disabling DRI. Since I'm not really sure how all these pieces fit together, I'm not sure what file needs to be upgraded (or downgraded?). Thanks for any help you might have! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll tip my hat to the new constitution, Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around, Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday, Then I'll get on my knees and pray... -- Pete Townshend/The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### Oleksandr Moskalenko Department of Agronomy Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
XFree86-4.1.0-2 broke X on my laptop
Hello, I hope someone will have a clue because I have exhausted my resources. I've been running XFree86 4.0.x happily on my Toshiba Protege 660CDT. However, since last week's upgrade to 4.1.0 I can't use X anymore. It just segfaults in the middle of what appears to be a normal load. This is the log file. Please help me figure it out. I haven't changed anything in my XF86Config-4. Below are the console log and /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Attached is my XF86Config-4 Console log I get while startx is running XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 2 June 2001 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/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.7 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.1.log, Time: Tue Aug 7 15:30:07 2001 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout Default Layout (**) |--Screen Default Screen (0) (**) | |--Monitor Generic Monitor (**) | |--Device Generic Video Card (**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) XKB: model: pc101 (**) XKB: layout: us (**) |--Input Device Configured Mouse (**) |--Input Device Generic Mouse (**) FontPath set to unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi (==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) using VT number 7 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (--) PCI:*(0:4:0) CT 65554 rev 194, Mem @ 0xfe00/24 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libpex5.a (II) Module pex5: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.13.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a (II) Module xie: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.1.9 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a (II) Module speedo: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a (II) Module vbe: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/chips_drv.o (II) Module chips: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) CHIPS: Driver for Chips and Technologies chipsets: ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546, ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct6, ct68554, ct69000, ct69030, ct64200, ct64300 (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (--) Chipset ct65554 found (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) Module vgahw: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 0.1.0 (II) CHIPS(0): initializing int10 (II) CHIPS(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xe400 (II)
Re: XFree86-4.1.0-2 broke X on my laptop
* Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I get this whenever I have xinerama enabled which it looks like you don't. Same int 11 internal server error. Just downgrade by apt-get xfree86-common/testing etc for each xfree package (xserver-xfree86 xserver-common and the fonts if they complain)on your system. That should downgrade it to something tolerable. --mike I just realized I haven't looked at Debian BugTrack. There is a bug there that directly pertains to my case. I guess I'll take your advice and downgrade. Thanks, Alex.
Matrox G400 dri woes
Hi, I'm having no end of trouble trying to get dri work on my dual-head Matrox G400 32Mb. The xfree86 in question is newly appearing in unstable 4.1.0. If I try to run X with the mga_drv.o that comes with XFree86 or the one from Matrox website I get this error: [dri] mga.o kernel module version is 2.0.1 but version 3.0.x is needed. If I compile the 4.1.0 driver according to this hint: - The version included with 2.4.5 is a 2.0.x-series mga.o. You need to build 3.0.x from the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel directory included in the XFree86 source. -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://azz.us-lot.org/ - then insmod mga.o and try to run X I get this error: (II) LoadModule: mga (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga.o Not loading .fixup Not loading .rel.fixup Not loading .text.lock Not loading .rel.text.lock Not loading .modinfo Not loading __ex_table Not loading .rel__ex_table (EE) LoadModule: Module mga does not have a mgaModuleData data object. (II) UnloadModule: mga (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga.o (EE) Failed to load module mga (invalid module, 0) At this point I am as confused as I could be. What can I do to get dri? I'm attaching my XF86Config-4 to this message as well. I tried searching for these errors on the web to no avail. Please help. Regards, Alex. # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page. # (Type man XF86Config at the shell prompt.) Section Files FontPathunix/:7100# local font server FontPathunix/:7110# xfs-xtt true type font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/koi8-r.100dpi/:unscaled # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/koi8-r.75dpi/:unscaled # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/koi8-r.misc/:unscaled # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/koi8-r.100dpi # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/koi8-r.75dpi # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/koi8-r.misc # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Module Loadddc LoadGLcore Loaddbe Loaddri Loadextmod Loadglx Loadpex5 Loadrecord Loadxie Loadbitmap Loadfreetype Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe Loadint10 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option Protocol Standard Option AutoRepeat500 30 Option XkbKeycodes xfree86 Option XkbTypes default Option XkbCompat default Option XkbGeometry pc Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel microsoft Option XkbLayout rums(basic) Option XkbOptionsgrp:toggle EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol PS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons yes Option Emulate3Timeout 150 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier Matrox G400 Driver mga Option AGPMode 2 ChipSet mgag400 BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Hitachi CM 751 HorizSync 31-93 VertRefresh 50-160 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Matrox G400 Monitor Hitachi CM 751 DefaultDepth16 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display
Re: DVDs
* Hereward Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2001 14:20, Brian Nelson wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:02:04AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: Through fortuitous means, I just acquired a DVD player! I've looked at the DVD HOWTO and it recommends a whole bunch of software from the LiVID project. Is any of this software packaged up for Debian/unstable anywhere? I don't mind building it by hand, but not if there's packages out there. I couldn't find them though... I think the best DVD software package is xine, linux.com has a good article on how to get dvd working with Xine. (i think the guy writting it was running debian aswell). Hereward I'll second both of those. Xine and a little tweaking following the article on the linux.com and now I can play encrypted DVDs just fine. Now, does anybody know how to make Matrox G400 output DVD playback to the secondary head (TV)? Beats me... Alex.
Re: Printing Question
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello all, Is it possible to print from Linux on a printer attached to a Windows machine? How could i print on this printer? Any suggestions? Thanks! It is a trivial task to set up CUPS to use smb (Samba) for such printing to it. Read the SAM (Software Administrator's Manual) for CUPS. It has a section on exactly this particular setup. Alex.
Re: X 4.0.3 and agpgart
I'm running Matrox G400 on an Intel BX440 motherboard. This is what I have enabled in the kernel (2.4.6) to get through the part Jim is talking about: CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y As Sean noted depending on the chipset Jim may have to enable one of the following: # CONFIG_AGP_I810 is not set # CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set # CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set # CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set # CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set # CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set CONFIG_DRM=y # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_GAMMA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_RADEON is not set # CONFIG_DRM_I810 is not set CONFIG_DRM_MGA=m This is a snippet from my .config that also enables DRM and MGA driver for Matrox. Also it seems to be a good idea to enable AGP 2 in the XFree 4.0.3. It sped up the loading time of Gnome considerably subjective to my perception. It is strange, but acceleration works really inconsistently in my case. Mesa3D screensavers run beautifully, but I could not get Quake III to run at all, it would segfault the XFree86. Alex. * Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-07-18 22:00): I recently up-graded to X 4.0.3 as part of the upgade to debian testing. Also kernel version 2.4.5. There were some things to sort out, but all seems basically well at this point. There's one glitch, though, that I'm still trying to resolve. I have a Matrox G400 card and I'm using the mga driver. In the XFree86 log, I get this: (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 16 depth: 16 (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2196+632: 2828 [drm] failed to load kernel module mga (0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) MGA(0): [drm] DRIScreenInit Failed and in syslog: Jul 18 12:19:17 toraigh kernel: [drm] The mga drm module requires the agpgart module to function correctly Jul 18 12:19:17 toraigh kernel: Please load the agpgart module before you load the mga module So mga_drm requires the agpgart kernel module. I have this module in: /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/char/agp/ The device file exists: crw-rw1 root video 10, 175 Jul 18 12:22 agpgart But all attempts to load the module fail, with this on the command-line: init_module: No such device and this in sys.log: kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M kernel: agpgart: unsupported bridge kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found. lspci shows: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0391 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8391 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 22) So I tried: modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 but got the same error messages. Anyone know of a way forward? Thanks, Sounds like you have the agpgart module, but no support for your controller. When you enabled agpgart, you would have needed to specify the type of agp controller you have (probably VIA in your case). Then again, you may have an unsupported chipset, what motherboard do you have? Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### Oleksandr Moskalenko Department of Agronomy Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Re: Mutt Question
* Todd V . Rovito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have procmail set up to filter my mail into folders for the list servers I belong to. Some days I just don't have the time to read the mail in that particular folder (or list server), I would like to be able to perform a mass delete in that folder. What keys can I use in mutt to delete all the messages out of a folder? -- Todd V. Rovito [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carpe Aptenodytes! Seize the Penguins! I guess it's entirely possible to set up a macro that would do something along the lines of Shift+T to bring up the message selection prompt, then .* for messages matching any characters (i.e. all of them), then d to delete them. I just do it by hand like this. Alex.
Re: Two monitors on one machine...
* Darryl L. Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How do I setup X to use two monitors on one machine? The system has a Matrox Millenium G400 32MB video card with two video ports on it. -- Darryl L. Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Infobahn Offramp http://welcome.to/mcpierce I am the painting on the canvas; I am the painter, the one who shares... You can look at my config file (attached) for the G400. You also have to compile framebuffer into the kernel to be able to use Xinerama. I'll attach two configs: for dualhead and for a triple head with an additional G200. They are easily readable I think. Good luck. Alex. Section ServerLayout Identifier Matrox PowerDesk configured. Screen Display 1 0 0 InputDeviceGeneric Keyboard InputDeviceGeneric Mouse EndSection Section Files FontPath unix/:7100 FontPath unix/:7110 EndSection Section Module Load ddc Load GLcore Load dbe Load extmod Load glx Load pex5 Load record Load xie Load bitmap Load freetype Load speedo Load type1 Load vbe Load int10 Load dri EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option Protocol Standard Option AutoRepeat 500 30 Option XkbKeycodes xfree86 Option XkbTypes default Option XkbCompat default Option XkbGeometry pc Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel microsoft Option XkbLayout rums(basic) Option XkbOptions grp:toggle EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device /dev/psaux Option Protocol PS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons yes Option Emulate3Timeout 150 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Display 1 HorizSync31.0 - 93.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Display 2 HorizSync31.0 - 93.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 EndSection Section Device Identifier MATROX CARD 1 Driver mga ChipSet mgag400 BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Device Identifier MATROX CARD 2 Driver mga ChipSet mgag400 Option TV yes Option CableType YC_COMPOSITE Option TVStandard NTSC BusID PCI:1:0:0 Screen 1 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Display 1 Device MATROX CARD 1 MonitorDisplay 1 DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes1280x960 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes1280x960 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes1280x960 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes1280x960 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes1280x960 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes1280x960 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 32 Modes1280x960 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier Display 2 Device MATROX CARD 2 MonitorDisplay 2 DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes800x600 EndSubSection EndSection Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page. # (Type man XF86Config at the shell prompt.) Section Files # FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # FontPathunix/:7110# xfs-xtt true type font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/koi8-r.100dpi/:unscaled FontPath
Re: AGP 2x in X ?
* Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: With XFree86 4.1.0 it's Option AGPMode 2 Sean On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:18:43 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sebastian Drews) wrote: Dominique Deleris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone of you know how to tell the X server to use AGP 2x mode ? I have a Matrox G400 32Mb (AGP) card, and use a custom 2.4.4 [...] Section Device Identifier Generic Graphics Device Driver mga Option AGPMode2x EndSection [...] The following works for me under XFree86 4.0.3 (unstable). I wonder if they changed anything between 4.0 and 4.1 or if Option AGPMode2x and Option AGPMode 2 are equivalent (don't wanna try the other one right now ;-) to check myself). Alex. ! V Section Device Identifier Matrox G400 Driver mga Option AGPMode2x ChipSet mgag400 BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection
Re: Xine(.deb) DVD Playback
* Hereward Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have been using xine + libcss + xine_libcss_plugin to play dvds. The quality of playback wasn't too great compared to previous setups (about 4 months ago) so i tried to install the .deb version of xine, and in the process upgrade to testing. But once installed I've seen that there is no support for dvd playback in the debian version (e.g. no dvd button). Is this on purpose for legal reasons? And would have changing to the .deb format actually have improved the playback? Thanks, Hereward Hereward, apt-get xine-dvd should help you. However, this will only let you play unencrypted DVDs. To play the encrypted ones you'll have to get, compile and install both libcss and one of two good plug-ins for xine. At least that's what I did few days ago after reading http://xine.cjb.net/ and a really great article on http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=1aid=11799 Cheers, Alex.
Re: From IDE ATAPI cdrom to scsi simulation : trouble - help
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've been making a fresh installation of potato r.3, to get scsi support I made-kpkg a new kernel image with scsi support, rebooted with the new image, but now I am unable to read from cdrom. I know that the symbolic links for devices must point to sdx, but seemingly I am somewhat lost, since I've been unable to make it right. My settings (regarding CDROM devices) after booting with the new image are scsi 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 scsi 0 channel 0 id 1 lun 0 corresponding to cdrom and cdwriter. I did: rm /dev/cdrom; /dev/MAKEDEV --update and some other ln -s that didn't work. Help is needed as to what to do, in order to make the devices visible again. Thanks, AR Just curious. As per CD-Writing How-To after compiling generic scsi, scsi cdrom and ide cdrom as modules, etc, it calls for linking /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0. Then there are /dev/srx links to /dev/scdx, so you may link /dev/cdrom to those. My 2 cents. Alex.
Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1
* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Any idea when Mozilla-0.9.2 or fixes to Mozilla-0.9.1 will be available in testing or unstable ??? the way its looking not until Takuo threatens an NMU again... If you're brave enough, try apt-get install mozilla-cvs. I believe it's on a non-us server. I got it yesterday, the 10th, and it was version 0.9.2+. It was also dated 071001 (the same day). That's CVS for you... Admittedly, it crashed in the short time I was using it. Hall Worked beautifully for me and I could even finally access my credit union's site for my banking. Go mozilla-cvs! Alex.
Handheld scanner/OCR Shop questions
Hello everybody, I've considered buying a hand-held scanner that I could use for quick text scans of journal article abstracts. However, after looking around the Web (Google mainly + sane website) I still have my doubts as to which one would present a good price/usability ratio. Please share your own positive/negative experiences on this matter if you would be so kind. I really hope to find one that I could plug into a parallel port of my Debian laptop and have it reliably scan in the text I need. I'm thinking of purchasing vividata's OCR Shop software to do the text recognition. Does anybody have any experience with installing it under Debian? Thanks, Alex.
Re: video card for dvd
* Thomas Halahan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: dear deb-user i want to upgrade my video card for good DVD playback with a tv out, with 32Mb or more i presume. however there is so much choice out there i would like some suggestions. if anyone has had any success with their vid configuartion for DVD playback please tell me what card you have. i am not interested in games, just video playback quality and color. tom I have no complaints about my Matrix G400 32Mb Dual-head. However, it is a nuisance that I can't get DVD out to TV on the second head. Maybe Matrix drivers will support this under Linux soon. Alex. ### Oleksandr Moskalenko Department of Agronomy Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Gnucash 1.6 dependency bug
Hello, I just tried installing gnucash 1.6 from unstable and found out that it depends on libgwrapguile0 whereas there is only libgwrapguile1 in the distribution. It leaves me confused and wondering as what could be done to remedie this problem. Alex.
Re: Gnucash 1.6 dependency bug
* David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Oleksandr Moskalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OM I just tried installing gnucash 1.6 from unstable and found out that OM it depends on libgwrapguile0 whereas there is only libgwrapguile1 in the OM distribution. It leaves me confused and wondering as what could be done OM to remedie this problem. You should file a bug against the gnucash package, using the 'bug' or 'reportbug' commands. Complaining to debian-user won't necessarily get the problem solved; many developers don't read debian-user, for example. If you're feeling particularly adventurous, you could get the source for the package, figure out how to fix the bug, and include a patch with your bug report. I am not in the position to be able to figure out how to fix this package, yet, so I just installed and used reportbug. Thanks, Alex.
Re: Apt, Debconf, and Perl.
* Ray Percival ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know how to fix this. I have tried a reinstall of deboconf and it did not work. Once again thanks. Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 Same thing happened during the last (today) dist-upgrade on my testing/unstable machine to the latest testing. I fixed it by doing an apt-get install libpaperg from unstable, which automatically installed new debconf, too and the problem went away. Alex.
Re: latest wine config
* Richard Black ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all has anyone had any success with the latest wine version 2001011? When I run it I get: Can't open configuration file /home/rblack/.wine/config This error remains if I copy my /etc/wine.conf to /home/rblack/.wine/config and if I do a fresh install (ie delete and reinstall wine) BTW, I noticed an error in the package script: --- The following NEW packages will be installed: libwine wine 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/3812kB of archives. After unpacking 10.5MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Preconfiguring packages .. libwine template parse error: Template parse error near `#!/bin/sh -e', in stanza #1 of /var/lib/debconf/config.10361 --- thanks Richard Hi, Richard, I just tried to install and get wine running for the first time and though it still doesn't run :-( I got the config issue that you seem to be having, too, figured out. In the wine manual somewhere they mention old and new config format. You can get your old wine.conf converted to the new format by copying it to ~/.winerc After doing that start wine and it will convert the config which you'll be able to copy to ~/.wine/config Alex. ### Oleksandr Moskalenko Department of Agronomy Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
