Re: cdrecord can't get mmap on /dev/zero
hi, there is a bug with cdrecord and kernel 2.2.x try using 2.4.x kernels. Paul On 12 May 2001, Graham Williams wrote: > Using cdrecord 1.10a18-2 on an up to date Debian unstable installation > with kernel 2.2.18 (self compiled) trying to write to CD writer: > > cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on > /dev/zero > > Any ideas what the problem is and a solution? > > Many Thanks, > Graham > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Printer, Sound card
Hi there, it doesn't matter what distribution you use to get things things working because you have to do the same things for each distribution that you try. to get things like sound and printing you have to compile them into the kernel. I forget the exact configuration to get things working. but let me make some wild guesses. choose experimental drivers. in geveral setup choose parrellel support and the option that it spawns choose plug'n'play devices choose the thing under thing goto character devices and choose printer support and bingo you have printing for sound go to sound and pick your card you might want to go and do a lspci -a to show you what your sound card's chipset is and other settings. for software to print you probably want to get magic-filter and lpr or something like that. get sound players. you didn't indicate what the version of the kernel you are using or what you did to the kernel when using debian. I hope this is some help to you. Paul On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Eric Hagglund wrote: > I have had Debian for about two years and never have > been able to get my printer configured. Everytime I > try to print I get "operation not supported by device" > from the command line and a reference to "character > modules not found" in xconsole. > > So I thought , let me try another Distro that's based > on Debian and see if I have more luck. I was extremely > impressed by the install in the sense that it was fast > and set up my software efficiently, but I still have > the same problems with hardware- the printer doesn't > respond and the sound cards, an Ensoniq Vivio and an > Alsa 120 act like they aren't there. Only my pnpdump > says they are there. I have never been able to get my > sound to work no matter what distribution of linux I > work with. > > I could screw with the kernel, but it didn't work with > Debian, so I have no reason to think that it will work > with Corel. Can anyone tell me why they think my > devices are not working properly? > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: What is apt-get
Hi, apt-get is the front end to dpkg is simplest terms. What is dpkg you ask. dpkg is the package manager for debian. get to know apt-get it makes installing debian packages a dream. Here some information about apt and dpkg. Package: apt Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 1391 Maintainer: APT Development Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.3.16 Replaces: deity, libapt-pkg-doc (<< 0.3.7), libapt-pkg-dev (<< 0.3.7) Provides: libapt-pkg2.6 Depends: libc6, libc6 (>= 2.1), libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libstdc++2.10 Suggests: dpkg-dev Conflicts: deity Description: Advanced front-end for dpkg This is Debian's next generation front-end for the dpkg package manager. It provides the apt-get utility and APT dselect method that provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages. . APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features, see the Users Guide in /usr/doc/apt/users-guide.txt.gz [paul:~]$ dpkg -s dpkg Package: dpkg Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 1382 Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.6.7 Replaces: dpkg-doc-ja Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libncurses5 Description: Package maintenance system for Debian This package contains the programs which handle the installation and removal of packages on your system. . The primary interface for the dpkg suite is the `dselect' program; a more low-level and less user-friendly interface is available in the form of the `dpkg' command. . In order to unpack and build Debian source packages you will need to install the developers' package `dpkg-dev' as well as this one. There is too much information to give you in an email. This will give you a start. Go to the debian site at http://www.debian.org and read as much as you can from that site. I hope this has helped you. On thing about apt-get it is better then ice cream. Paul On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, chris Günther wrote: > Dear Gurus, > > I'm pretty new to Debian and therefore have some silly questions. My first > is: > > what is all this apt-get about? > > What is it good for and how does it work > > chris > > +-+ > | chris | > | --- | > | database design & programming | > | agentur fiedler / video.de| > | | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > +-+ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: kernel panic on hda
Hi Steve, it looks like you might have misconfigured the kernel. did you include ext2 filesystem in your configured kernel. Paul On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, steve doerr wrote: > I just compiled and installed the 2.2 kernel with the debian kernel > package and I got the following error on booting: > > Partition check > hda: driver not present > VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 > > Did I do something wrong with the kernel's IDE configuration (I have a > IDE 2.5 GB Quantum Bigfoot)? I reran LILO after installing the kernel > deb. It won't boot from the kernel floppy I created either so I'm > inclined to think the kernel is misconfigured for IDE. > > Any help greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > Steve > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
PPPoE Client?
Hello, my internet service provider is switching from a dhcp connection to a PPPoE connection. We as customers have to install the PPPoE client. I have the client in source code. but unclear how to change my routing, ethernet connection and so. can some please give me step by step instructions on how to get this working. I am on Sympatico's high speed edition. Has any else experienced a similar experience. If you need more information please let me know. Paul
3d cards
hello everybody, can any one tell me what a good 3d card to get in a p2 400. i ordered a voodoo banshee. is that ok? paul
playing music with scsi emulation
Hello everyone, I just noticed a problem playing audio cd's on my cdrom. I have two hardrives on the primary interface. I have an hp7200i cdrw on the secondary master and a liteon 32x cdrom. I have kernel version 2.2.7 compiled and installed from source. I have configured and compiled (successfully) 2.2.7 to include scsi emulation and scsi cdrom support. I have taken out support for ide/atapi support. The error I get when I use cdplay is: sr1: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. cdplay: ioctl cdromplaytrkind The lines in kern.log are: May 6 09:34:13 experimental kernel: sr1: CDROM not ready yet. May 6 09:34:15 experimental kernel: sr1: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. May 6 09:34:27 experimental kernel: sr1: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. May 6 09:40:46 experimental kernel: sr1: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. The weird thing is that I can read from the drive find the contents of the audio cd's. I can also mount and read data cd's that are msdos and other formats. I hope this gives you enough information to give me some ideas on the problem. Paul
Re: reading /usr/doc files
hello there, if these are in text format you could use zless or zmore. Paul On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, This might be an ideal solution for you.. 2.2. Script to view those compressed HOWTOs. Didier Juges, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From a newbie to another, here is a short script that eases looking for and viewing howto documents. My howto's are in /usr/doc/faq/howto/ and are gzipped. The file names are XXX-HOWTO.gz, XXX being the subject. I created the following script called "howto" in the /usr/local/sbin directory: __ #!/bin/sh if [ "$1" = "" ]; then ls /usr/doc/faq/howto | less else gunzip -c /usr/doc/faq/howto/$1-HOWTO.gz | less fi __ When called without argument, it displays a directory of the available howto's. Then when entered with the first part of the file name (before the hyphen) as an argument, it unzips (keeping the original intact) then displays the document. For instance, to view the Serial-HOWTO.gz document, enter: $ howto Serial On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Martin Waller wrote: > > > Use TkDesk (requires X...) and double click on them. They will be > > automatically opened up and displayed in a window for you. > > > > > > Martin > > > > > > > >Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or > > do > > >I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more? > > You can use emacs or xemacs configured to read .gz files or use lynx, mc > or filerunner. > > Johann > -- > | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | > | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South > Africa) | > -- > > "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the > world. If any man love the world, the love of the > Father is not in him...And the world passeth away, and > the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God > abideth for ever." I John 2:15,17 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: man missing ?
hello, why don't you turn that option off in the bios? It will make life a whole lot simpler. just a suggestion. don't let windows dictate what you do with your computer. Paul On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Continuing on would have > > gotten me the man reader, but alas, my modem wouldn't work, so I couldn't > > download any further packages. I can zcat the doc files, but because > > there's garbage in the output of that (ctrl characters, etc), it's not easy > > to read. As a result I've been rebooting into Win95, connecting to the web, > > doing research, rebooting into Linux, making config changes, failing, > > rebooting into Win95, etc etc. > > I don't know why you're having trouble with your modem on linux, but I > would recommend you connect to the internet with W95, ftp the man-db > package from a Debian site (remember to set binary) and install it > with dpkg -i filename in linux. Problem solved. > > Grab what you can at the same time: if you get dependency problems, just > go back to ftp. (Or one can just pick over the packages file by eye. > That's the wonderful thing about having it all driven by simple text > files, not complicated databases.) > > Cheers, > > -- > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 > Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA > Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify > official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. Thanks, but I got the modem going. Win95/PnP Bios set the modem to COM3, IRQ5 (how's that for a non-standard IRQ setting?). So I used setserial to set /dev/ttyS2 to irq 5 and the modem fired right up. Now all I have to do is figure out what file to edit to do this on boot-up.
Re: man missing ?
hello, I don't think you can add optional disks to the boot disks. I maybe wrong but I just made a set of custom boot disks to include a speech synthisizer into the kernel. That was not the hard part, what was hard was that I had to put a different default.map file into the base2_0.tgz file. and do some other stuff with the root.bin It is my understanding that you use a program called floppy-split to split the base2_0.tgz into the base disks. You would be adding one more disk to the mix that everyone would have to download because it was included in the base2_0.tgz file and could not be skipped over during the base system installation section. I could give you a couple of alternatives to get a brief explanation for programs that would be --help and take a little time to familiarize yourself with the directory structure of debian. This really helped me to understand the difference between /bin and /sbin user and superuser binaries. There are howto on the web at http://www.debian.org and at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux those two website are valuable resource to find information on linux. Look in /usr/doc/ ie /usr/doc/ppp/FAQ.gz tells you how to connect to your isp. I hope this helps you. Paul Let me know if you need specific information and i maybe able to help you. If I can't some else on this list probably could. On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: At 11:46 AM 1/27/1999 -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: >hello, I do sympathize with lack of knowledge at installation time. We >were all there at one time or another. (including myself, I have had to >reinstall more then one do to a lack of understanding of linux and the >operating system. I would hate to see the boot disks reach 10 disks but I >can assume that we will be there in the near future. One of the last >steps of the installation is to use a number of different aptions to get >more packages dselect, dpkg, apt-get and others that i am forgetting. It >maybe prudent to search the debian home page to find out what to do after >you got the base system up and running. Recently I downloaded the 5 or 6 floppy images and installed potato on a separate drive on my Win95 (yech!) machine. Got the base installed just fine, and then was offered the choices between Home machine/Scientific Workstation/Network Administration Box/etc, etc. Continuing on would have gotten me the man reader, but alas, my modem wouldn't work, so I couldn't download any further packages. I can zcat the doc files, but because there's garbage in the output of that (ctrl characters, etc), it's not easy to read. As a result I've been rebooting into Win95, connecting to the web, doing research, rebooting into Linux, making config changes, failing, rebooting into Win95, etc etc. It would be a lot easier if I just had the man reader to read the ppp/modem/etc documentation. Having an optional install floppy with the man reader (not necessarily a bunch of non-essential man PAGES) would have been well-worth it to me. Since the floppy would presumable be optional, it wouldn't have to be downloaded by those who feel comfortable with what they are doing. An option install floppy with a man reader sounds like a good compromise to me. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: man missing ?
hello there, to get a ppp connection running. use pppconfig. the package doumentation is store in /usr/doc/ directory. if you need more help i or some one can help you. another good modem package is minicomm is very much like dos's telix. do a dpkg --help. I love dpkg and the flags it uses to find out about what is on my linux box. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Paul On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/27/99 11:23:36 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I'm beginning to think I'm talking to a brick wall on this, but I do have a > > few more comments... > > That's a bit unfair. I'm quite happy to cease this conversation so you > can talk to thin air instead. You're right, that was a bit unfair. I guess I was frustrated with the fact that every response I got was basically, "the boot disks are too big already", and "the man pages aren't necessary to the install", and "what do you want, a full blown Windows-like installation? - then use Windows!". > If, by this, you mean when dselect finishes the first time (Have fun!), > then, as far as I can see, you should have man-db and many manpages > available, viz. > > ii makedev 1.6-32 Creates special device files in /dev. > ii man-db 2.3.10-65 Display the on-line manual. > ii manpages1.19-1 Man pages about using a Linux system. > ii manpages-dev1.19-1 Linux-development man pages. > ii mawk1.3.3-2a pattern scanning and text proces... > > and, of course, all the manpages dealing with the packages installed, > which are contained in the packages themselves. One of the biggest beefs I had about installation was lack of knowing what I needed to do and when. I installed Debian, and ran into dselect. It totally confused me, and I didn't have a clue what to do next and where (the dselect docs weren't a whole lot of help). I got out of dselect and started to read up on it, and ask questions, and search the net for docs. Unfortunately, I didn't read or know that I could use the ftp method to get the files I needed - I thought I had to configure my modem and ISP connection first - and I still don't really know how to do that now. I spent countless hours just figuring out what files dselect had to have (required and important packages), downloading them to my zip drive, and installing them. My biggest frustration was after I first installed Debian (without finishing dselect). I had Linux running, but was clueless as to what to do next. Everyone pointed to the man and info pages, but I didn't have any, and didn't know where to get them. It was another week before I figured out that they weren't part of the basic install, I had to get them and install them. All I knew was I got the usual "bash: command not found" message when I tried to man something. > If you mean earlier than this, I think I need clarification to understand > exactly how you mean to use them, or expect others to. It has always > seemed to me that the HOWTOs are more useful than the manpages at > this stage. Most of the things that one would normally do with a command > (for example, adduser for the first ordinary user) are wrapped up by > the installation script, until dselect exits. I agree with that, in the early stages, the HOWTOs probably are more helpful than man pages. Those, however, are also installed via packages, and for a newbie just starting the install, I hadn't a clue where they were, or what I needed to do to get them. > What I would prefer to hear is "I felt I needed information about foo" > or I needed "man bar" when I was at such-and-such during installation. > Am I being fair? Totally fair, and I agree with you. Thanks for taking the time to actually find out what I was after - I'm still new at Linux/Debian, and it seems now that I wasn't expressing my wishes accurately. > If you really must have man pages as background before beginning to > install Debian at all (and I can understand that), well they are > available in many places and formats all across the internet. You > may have come across them if you've ever used gnu software that's > been ported to other platforms like DOS. I guess the point of all of this is something that I'm sure has been discussed before, under different context; from a newbies point of view, Debian/Linux is confusing, intimidating, and frustrating. Perhaps we need better install docs, perhaps we need better help during installtion or while using dselect. Perhaps a HOWTO on what your first steps should be. I'd certainly be willing to contribute to that effort in any way I can. But in any case, this is something that needs to be added to the base installation. In the simplest form, when you finish the installation (before going to dselect), maybe a line or two could be displayed that would tell you where the help files are and how to get them, s
Re: man missing ?
Hello there, here here! This is what I was trying to get accros but I was not able to articulate my answer as well as you just did. Although I did not say the following "Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/26/99 7:34:37 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I'm beginning to think I'm talking to a brick wall on this, but I do have a > few more comments... I think there are other ways to get answers to "newbie" questions without adding a another bootdisk for man. ie book, mail lists, web pages and the like. Hope this helps. Paul On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, David Wright wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/26/99 7:34:37 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I'm beginning to think I'm talking to a brick wall on this, but I do have a > few more comments... That's a bit unfair. I'm quite happy to cease this conversation so you can talk to thin air instead. [snipped comments on points I don't necessarily agree with] > * I, and I am positive I'm not alone, would be willing to download an extra > (optional) disk at install time so I could get a basic man set, with the full > package being available as it is now - just so I wouldn't be completely in the > dark once the install program completed. I'm really trying to understand what you're saying, believe me. > once the install program completed. If, by this, you mean when dselect finishes the first time (Have fun!), then, as far as I can see, you should have man-db and many manpages available, viz. ii makedev 1.6-32 Creates special device files in /dev. ii man-db 2.3.10-65 Display the on-line manual. ii manpages1.19-1 Man pages about using a Linux system. ii manpages-dev1.19-1 Linux-development man pages. ii mawk1.3.3-2a pattern scanning and text proces... and, of course, all the manpages dealing with the packages installed, which are contained in the packages themselves. If you mean earlier than this, I think I need clarification to understand exactly how you mean to use them, or expect others to. It has always seemed to me that the HOWTOs are more useful than the manpages at this stage. Most of the things that one would normally do with a command (for example, adduser for the first ordinary user) are wrapped up by the installation script, until dselect exits. > Frankly, I don't see why there is such strong resistance to discussing this. > I understand it's policy to include only required packages on the boot disks; > fine, however policies should be flexible or at least allow for consideration > on modifications. It would make things ALOT easier for us new folk to have > something to reference early on - although I'm getting the feeling from > responses to my posts on this issue that some of us aren't really interested > in making Debian a bit more newbie friendly, and that's a shame. I don't see any resistance to, or lack of, discussion. But what I hear you saying is "Why isn't man in the base system? I want it to be. If you don't want it to be, then you're inflexible and uninterested in newbies." What I would prefer to hear is "I felt I needed information about foo" or I needed "man bar" when I was at such-and-such during installation. Am I being fair? If you really must have man pages as background before beginning to install Debian at all (and I can understand that), well they are available in many places and formats all across the internet. You may have come across them if you've ever used gnu software that's been ported to other platforms like DOS. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: man missing ?
hello, I do sympathize with lack of knowledge at installation time. We were all there at one time or another. (including myself, I have had to reinstall more then one do to a lack of understanding of linux and the operating system. I would hate to see the boot disks reach 10 disks but I can assume that we will be there in the near future. One of the last steps of the installation is to use a number of different aptions to get more packages dselect, dpkg, apt-get and others that i am forgetting. It maybe prudent to search the debian home page to find out what to do after you got the base system up and running. Everyone has to go through this steep learning curve to learn linux. I know it can be frustrating at times but resources like this mail list, debian documentation project and the linux documentation project are good resources to start out with. If you need doumentation try looking through the /usr/doc directory that at least can give you a start. I hate the editor they put on the base dists ae it is very crude. i wish they could put something else on there (that would fit) This debate whether to include man on the boot disks or not has been going on for a long time before I got interested in linux and will be here long after I leave. I am sorry if I don't think like you on this subject. But I would always try to help people with linux if they are "newbies" or "guru's" (general understanding relatively useless) If there is anything I can help you please let me know. I would be more then happy to help if I can. Paul On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/99 7:34:37 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Well think about this? do you need to install all of the pakcages under > windows3.x or windows9x to get it to work. games solitaire and > mindsweeper. you don't need man-db to get linux running. that is the issue > not the convience of the "newbie" to make it easier to install. if you > want that try windows operating system. windows comes on a cd to install > the complete windows operating system you need roughly 150-200 megs of > hardrive space. Is this what you want. the next thing people will want who > are new to linux will be emacs. > As I stated in the this thread man-db is not necessary to get linux up and > running it is there for convience. > I'm beginning to think I'm talking to a brick wall on this, but I do have a few more comments... * I'm not saying we should go the Winblows route and install ALL of Linux's packages at initialization time. And, just for the record, you can choose to NOT install the games, and other Winblows "packages" as well (including it's help facility), as needed by the installation. Basic, minimal installations do not take 150-200M, in fact, my current heavy installation doesn't even take up that much space. * I think it's a rather large leap from saying help manuals would be beneficial to saying new installations should include emacs. * I recognize that man isn't required for Debian installation. * I, and I am positive I'm not alone, would be willing to download an extra (optional) disk at install time so I could get a basic man set, with the full package being available as it is now - just so I wouldn't be completely in the dark once the install program completed. Frankly, I don't see why there is such strong resistance to discussing this. I understand it's policy to include only required packages on the boot disks; fine, however policies should be flexible or at least allow for consideration on modifications. It would make things ALOT easier for us new folk to have something to reference early on - although I'm getting the feeling from responses to my posts on this issue that some of us aren't really interested in making Debian a bit more newbie friendly, and that's a shame. Jay
Re: man missing ?
Well think about this? do you need to install all of the pakcages under windows3.x or windows9x to get it to work. games solitaire and mindsweeper. you don't need man-db to get linux running. that is the issue not the convience of the "newbie" to make it easier to install. if you want that try windows operating system. windows comes on a cd to install the complete windows operating system you need roughly 150-200 megs of hardrive space. Is this what you want. the next thing people will want who are new to linux will be emacs. As I stated in the this thread man-db is not necessary to get linux up and running it is there for convience. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: At 11:07 AM 1/26/1999 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 1/26/99 9:55:07 AM Central Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to >> have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why >> man is not included in the base distribution is the space issue. >> > >I see that point, but > >* How big is it, really, especially tarred and gzipped. I can't imagine one >more boot disk is that big of an issue. If it's more than one disk, maybe a >subset of the manpages is warranted that CAN be included. > >* Being that man is the basic help system of Linux, it's too important to NOT >include in the boot disks. ESPECIALLY for new users. > >* Man may not be required, but everyone on this list constantly points to man >pages. The reference manuals constantly point to man pages. It's totally >frustrating to be told to read the man pages, but you don't have them, and >can't figure out how to get them because you don't have the man pages. > >Jay As a relatively new newbie, I have to agree with Jay on this one.
Re: your mail
hello ttyS1 is comm2 ttyS0 is comm1. this should take care of the problem hope this helps. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote: Hi , I'm the person whose mail you'd replied to regarding whether I'd have problems with my mouse since it wasn't plugged in at the time of installing Linux... Anyway now, I'm having problems with my modem. As you advised me, I bought a 56k External modem. It's a Cardinal Connecta V.34. I plugged it into the serial 1 port of my PC. Since the mouse is in the mouse port, which I assume is ttyS0, I configured the modem for ttyS1. I answered all the questions as asked by pppconfig to the best of my knowledge. Then I quit the program having wrote all the files. At the command prompt, I ran 'pon provider' as I have just one ISP. I immediately got the next command prompt...so I did 'telnet' and it didn't work. Then I did 'ps' and it showed the following: PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 105 1 S0.01-bash 106 2 S0.00/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 107 3 S0.00/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 108 4 S0.00/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 109 5 S 0.00/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 110 6 S 0.00/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 129 S1 S 0.00 /usr/sbin/ppd call provider 130 S1 S 0.00 /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider 131 1 R 0.00 ps Then I entered 'poff' at the command line, and then 'ps' again and this time the 7th and 8th lines from above were not there. I dunno, should I have waited.But I didn't here any 'screeching' sound from my modem..nor did I see any wild characters on my screen.. Could somebody out there please give me a step by step approch to how I should do things from the time I connect my modem thru' a 25 pin connector to the computer, connect the line from my telephone to the 'phone' input of my modem, connect the line supplied with my modem to the main telephone jack on one end and the 'line' input of the modem on the other till the time I can issue the command 'telnet 134.68.140.1' and can safely log on to my system at school... Here's my system's configuration: 486 ISA bus IDE controller 120 MB HD 16MB Ram I don't see if any of this will be of use, but I've given it just incase. I wanted to buy a 56k internal, but many people advised me against it saying that it wouldn't work on my 486. So I bought a 33.6K internal modem..Do you think I should use an internal modem instead of the external one..My ISP provides 56k speed. Also my ISP provides PAP (I think ) since almost everyone who connects to it uses Windows 95 or higher. Also, the modem came with some installation floppies for Windows (but, then, what doesn't, nowadays??!), but this is not a Winmodem..at least it doesn't call itself that. Will I have to write some chatscript or something??? If possible, please explain things to me in as much layman's language as you can...A prompt reply would be tremendously appreciated. Thank you so much.
Re: man missing ?
hello, netbase and netstd allow for telnet and ftp access to your machine. the base disks allow for telnet and ftp out but not in. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > PPP is essential if you install through a modem connection to the > internet. PCMCIA is essential if that modem is a pcmcia card in a > laptop. I use the ZIP drive support to save pumping floppies, but > I only started doing this after it became necessary because I had > to install linux on a machine with an LS120 drive (which can only > read a floppy through the BIOS). > I'm not sure where you got printer support from - the lpr package > is not in the list, viz. > I may be wrong about this, but don't you also need netbase to get to the net using PPP? That wasn't installed... and as for the printer support, you're right, lpr isn't installed, but the port drivers are... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: man missing ?
hello, lets start with pcmcia, do you have a laptop? ppp do you want to get more packages then the ones on the base-disks, ie man and manpages. printer support, you can choose it in the modules section of the installation process. ZIP drive, are you going to be installing from this. if yes how do you expect to if you don't have it during the instaflflation process. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/99 10:06:20 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Every package in the base installation has to be potentially /necessary/ > for the installation process itself, not just desirable, i.e. > essential rather than important. For more details, see > /usr/doc/debian-policy/policy.text.gz section 2.3.6 > I installed my Debian system and it came complete with PPP, printer support, PCMCIA support and ZIP drive support - how are all of those necessary for installation? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: man missing ?
Your new, to these boot disks, I remember when there was only five disks. Now there is seven not including the boot disk you made. the man-db would fit on a floppy, but what language are you going to put on it english? what about everyone else. how hard is it to get the man-db file and the manpages of your choice. I agree that is an important package but not essential to get linux up and running. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/99 9:55:07 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to > have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why > man is not included in the base distribution is the space issue. > I see that point, but * How big is it, really, especially tarred and gzipped. I can't imagine one more boot disk is that big of an issue. If it's more than one disk, maybe a subset of the manpages is warranted that CAN be included. * Being that man is the basic help system of Linux, it's too important to NOT include in the boot disks. ESPECIALLY for new users. * Man may not be required, but everyone on this list constantly points to man pages. The reference manuals constantly point to man pages. It's totally frustrating to be told to read the man pages, but you don't have them, and can't figure out how to get them because you don't have the man pages. Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: man missing ?
hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why man is not included in the base distribution is the space issue. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/25/99 6:19:30 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Debian 1.3 is somewhat obsolete, but I think you need to install the > man-db package, which is where the man command in 2.x is located. > Why on earth isn't man part of the standard dist? I'd think it's important enough - not everyone is a Linux guru when the get their first copy. Jay Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
[kirk@braille.uwo.ca: question on keyboard menu choice.] (fwd)
hello my debian friends, can somebody on this list help me and/or us. Paul -- Forwarded message -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kirk Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: question on keyboard menu choice.] --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Kirk Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: question on keyboard menu choice. Dear Sir: I was hoping you might be able to answer a question or two, and help me solve a problem I am having building a special boot disk set. We have written a set of kernel drivers to provide speech output on the console. As part of these patches we build special keymaps to build into the kernel or load with loadkeys. We have started making a set of debian distribution disks with our modified kernel on them. We have no problem until we get to the select keyboarde choice in the installation menu. If we select u.s. our keyboard review functions are overwritten. What we have done is dump a binary keymap file and named it us.bmap to try to get around the problem. I assumed that the us.bmap file was unpacked and loaded once a person selected us keymap at the menu choice. Unfortunately, it just appears to clear the keymap and not actually load the keymap. At least I don't think so because the keymaps.tgz file is still intact after that point and there does not seem to be any sign of the keymaps being unpacked. If we try to by pass the menu choice, things go fine until we get down to installing the base system. We get an unable to find kbdconf, I believe at the time zone prompt. The system seems to just go back to the menu at that point. If you could clear up exactly what goes on at the keyboard choice, that would be very useful. I have looked through as much documentation as I have found so far, and have not been able to find a discussion of the actual installation process. That is not to say one doesn't exist, I just ain't found it yet. Anyway, any help you could give me would certainly be appreciated. Kirk --- End of forwarded message ---
Re: Missing packages files
here is what i get when doing a dpkg -S ldd [paul:~]$ dpkg -S ldd ldso: /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz ldso: /usr/bin/ldd tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/olddig.mf ldso: /usr/lib/lddstub php3-doc: /usr/doc/php3-doc/html/function.hw-getchilddoccollobj.html debhelper: /usr/man/man1/dh_builddeb.1.gz php3-doc: /usr/doc/php3-doc/html/function.hw-getchilddoccoll.html debhelper: /usr/bin/dh_builddeb [paul:~]$ hope this helps. Paul On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: It seems that all the hamm and slink packages files, as well as those for contrib and non-free (but not main) in potato are currently missing on three mirrors I have checked today. Agggh! Bob -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Bells, whistles & Other noise makers
Hello everyone, I fixed my sound problem recently. To bring everyone up to date, I had a pnp sound card that I could not get sound working. I needed to load the soundlow module for it to work. Now that said. I have a question on making a sound with the <^G>. I am trying to insert the bell character in the file debian.txt file found on the bootdists. I am using emacs so at the bottom of the file i do C-q C-g and it is inserts a ^G where i want it. If i cat or do a more on the file i here the bell but when i use the disk i see a diamond just before the boot: prompt. can anyone help me. if sending you the file helps let me know. thanking you in advance, paul
Slink broke after upgrade
Hi all, after upgrade to the latest version of slink using dftp. Wdm is broken it gives me the following error. wdmLogin warning: could not load font set -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed. wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font! wdmLogin warning: could not load font set -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed. wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font! wdmLogin warning: WINGs: could not load widget images file: could not open file wdmLogin warning: could not load font set -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed. wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font! wdmLogin warning: could not load font set -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed. wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font! wdmLogin warning: could not load font set -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed. wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font! xdm error (pid 18519): Greet: guarenteed_read error, UNMANAGE DISPLAY xdm error (pid 18519): Greet: pipe read error with /usr/X11R6/bin/wdmLogin wdm: wdm pipe read error with program /usr/X11R6/bin/wdmLogin, wdm terminating X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning: Q < 10.6667 I have this for my install fonts: ic xfnt100 3.3.2.3a-1 100 dpi fonts for X servers ic xfnt75 3.3.2.3a-1 75 dpi fonts for X servers ii xfntbase3.3.2.3a-1 standard fonts for X servers ii xfntbig 3.3.2.3a-1 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts for X se pn xfntbig5p-cmex2 (no description available) ii xfntcyr 3.3.2.3a-1 Cyrillic fonts for X servers ii xfntil2 2.1.0 ISO 8859-2 fonts for X servers. un xfntil2-nonfree (no description available) un xfntmizi-ko (no description available) ii xfntpex 3.3.2.3a-1 minimal fonts for PEX support in X servers ii xfntscl 3.3.2.3a-1 scalable fonts for X servers I know that x11 is broken under slink but i don't know what else to do. Can and will anyone help me? Paul ps thankyou in sdvance.
kernel 2.1.128 & sound
Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this error message: [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au > /dev/audio bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device tail of /var/log/kern.log shows: Nov 14 23:09:48 data kernel: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 Nov 14 23:09:48 data kernel: sb: dsp reset failed. lsmod shows: Module Size Used by uart401 5696 0 sound 58064 0 (autoclean) [uart401] soundcore 2120 3 (autoclean) [sound] I know that sb.o is not loaded. If I try to load it it say the the device or resource is busy. I took a look at the modules.def file and saw this: /lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/sb.o: /lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/soundcore.o /lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/uart401.o /lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/sound.o Can somone tell me what is going on. I would really appriciate any insight in to this particular problem. Paul
compile error with a source package
Hello there, I got a source package for my hp scanjet scanner and tried to compile it. I'm new at programming or fixing code. I was wondering if you could give me some pointers where to look to fix the error, I am also going to give you the lsm of the package that I am trying to compile. Thanks Paul LSM file Begin3 Title: hpscan - HP ScanJet (Plus) low level device driver Version:0.1.1.8 Entered-date: 09OCT95 Description:This is a low level driver for the HP ScanJet and (hopefully) HP ScanJet Plus scanners. This driver should behave mostly like the HPSCAN device for DOS. Keywords: HP ScanJet HPSCAN Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christer Weinigel) Primary-site: ctrl-c.liu.se /unix/linux/wingel hpscan-0_1_1_8_tar.gz Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scanners hpscan-0.1.1.8.tar.gz Platforms: Linux, HP ScanJet (Plus) Copying-policy: Freely distributable End Error file of output of the make file. cc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DCONFIG_MODVERSIONS -DKERNEL_VERSION=\"2.1.125\" -c hpscan.c -o hpscan.o hpscan.c: In function `hpsj_detect': hpscan.c:127: warning: suggest parentheses around comparison in operand of & hpscan.c: At top level: hpscan.c:511: redefinition of `kernel_version' /usr/include/linux/module.h:95: `kernel_version' previously defined here make: *** [hpscan.o] Error 1 Thanks again.
Yet another lilo question!!!
What I want to do is very simple. Yet i can't find a solution to the problem. Here is the situation. (I am asking for someone else i may not have all the correct informatiofn) partion my drive with the following hda1win98 4gig hda2/ 100megs hda2swap 64mgegs hda3/usr 2gig i want to have a lilo.conf file be able to boot either win98. i can' figure out what the image=? for the win98 part should be. please can somebody email me their copy of the linux.conf or tell me what to do. I looked into the documentation of lilo and looked on the mail archives and couldn't find anything. thank you Paul
emacs where is it?
hello my debian friends. I used dftp to upgrade my system this week and it upgraded emacs20-el to version emacs20-el_20.3-4.1.deb the emacs corresponding to this is only emacs20_20.3-4.deb. What's going on. I tried to install emacs20_2-7.deb from hamm and the corresponding emacs20-el package. I got a whole wack of warnings about other packages not being installed. (this maybe do to the fact that it is stable and i am using unstable) ok that part i understand the other part i don't. If somebody could help me out i would really appreciate it. If you need more info please let me know. Thanking you in advance. Paul
Kernel question
Hello my debian friends, I was wondering if anyone here could point me into the direction of getting the .config file of the default kernel that is on the boot disks. I looked on the debian site and could not find the maintainer of the bootdisks. If anyone could help me out I would really appreciate it. Paul thanking you in advance.
Re: Install question (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Install question hello, i just did a nt, linux install. read the howto of nt-linux. Install Nt first then win98 then linux. use nt's boot loader to boot 98 and linux. if you need more information let me know. install nt and 98 on different partitions. That leave two primary partitions for linux / and swap. make your swap partition double your ram. leave the rest for linux. This does not leave much room for linux. (in my humble opinion) Paul On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT and > Linux. > In which order must he do the process? I suppose that Win98 will try to own > the whole computer when installing, and I don't know what kind of > partitioning is the best. He will use System Commande r to select the OS to > boot. > > He hasn't decided which distribution will use. If he gets a quick response > from Debian people > > Thanks in advance > > Javi > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
kernel manpages?
Hello everyone, does anyone know where the kernel manpages are. they are the ninth section. debian only supports the following: This package contains the Linux man pages for these sections: * 4 = Devices (e.g. hd, sd). * 5 = File formats and protocols, syntaxis of several system files (e.g. wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs). * 7 = Conventions and standards, macro packages, etc. (e.g. nroff, ascii). I went to get the manpages from sunsite and they had the rest 2, 3, 6, and 8. Where is 9? Paul
misc. printer question
Hello everyone, thanks to everyone who helped with my ppp questions. I have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother filter) Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to make a filter. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul
ppp won't work under new kernel
Hello everybody, just compiled the new kernel that is 2.1.122 with ppp, slip and cslip support. I am having some trouble. It works fine the first time I boot up but anytime after that it does not. I searched high and low in the mailing list archives to find the answer. I remember seeing a similar question posed but could not find it. This is an example of what I am doing in the ppp.log file Sep 20 09:48:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: pppd 2.3.5 started by paul, uid 1000 Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: abort on (BUSY) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: abort on (VOICE) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (ATZ^M) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: expect (OK) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: ATZ^M^M Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: OK Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: -- got it Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (ATDT6610010^M) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: expect (CONNECT) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: ATDT6610010^M^M Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: CONNECT Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: -- got it Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (^M) Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: expect (name:) Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: 31200/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS^M Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: User Access Verification^M Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: Username: Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: -- got it Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (??) Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: expect (ssword:) Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: pmcdermo^M Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: Password: Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: -- got it Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (??) Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: expect (>) Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]:UWONET IP Terminal Server^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: TYPE For a connection to^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: ---^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: panther ITS Unix service^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: library UWO library catalogue^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: hpc ITS CRAY service^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: uwovax ITS VAX/VMS service -- "uwovax Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: -- got it Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (ppp^M) Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (\d) Sep 20 09:49:13 hal9000 pppd[1381]: Serial connection established. Sep 20 09:49:14 hal9000 pppd[1381]: Using interface ppp2 Sep 20 09:49:14 hal9000 pppd[1381]: Connect: ppp2 <--> /dev/modem Sep 20 09:49:14 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1] Sep 20 09:49:15 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2b ] Sep 20 09:49:15 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2b ] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x8603f3bb] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 ] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 ] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 ] Sep 20 09:49:19 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x13 ] Sep 20 09:49:19 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x13 ] Sep 20 09:49:19 hal9000 pppd[1381]: not replacing existing default route to ppp0 [129.100.154.13] Sep 20 09:49:19 hal9000 pppd[1381]: local IP address 129.100.154.238 Sep 20 09:49:19 hal9000 pppd[1381]: remote IP address 129.100.154.12 Sep 20 09:49:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:49:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0x8603f3bb] Sep 20 09:50:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:50:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 magic=0x8603f3bb] Sep 20 09:50:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:50:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x3 magic=0x8603f3bb] Sep 20 09:51:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:51:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x4 magic=0x8603f3bb] Sep 20 09:51:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x5 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:51:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x5 magic=0x8603f3bb] Sep 20 09:52:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x6 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:52:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]:
following symlinks?!?
hello everybody, and thankyou for all of the assistance to my recent questions. I have yet another question. I am trying to download debian packages from an ftp site with ncftp or wget. I am having a problem in getting files that are symlinked to other places. I cannot for the life of me find out what flag to turn on or off to get ncftp or wget to follow symlinks. If anyone could and/or would help I would greatly appreciated it. Paul
Wodperfect 8 to pdf format
hi everybody, is there a program for linux or the debian distribution that wil convert wordperfect 8 documents into the pdf format. If any can help I would very much appreciate it. Thanks for the help in advance. Paul
pine installation
Hi everybody, I have downloaded the pine packages and don't know how to install the packages. Please help me. thanks in advance. Paul
Re: Connection Refused
Hello you need the following package: Package: netstd Version: 3.07-2 Priority: standard Section: net Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pre-Depends: netbase (>=3.00), libc6, libreadlineg2 (>= 2.1-4), libstdc++2.8 (>=2.90.26-1), ncurses3.4 Suggests: wu-ftpd, mail-transport-agent Replaces: pftp (<<0.7.6-1), wu-ftpd, wu-ftpd-academ Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/net/netstd_3.07-2.deb Size: 611710 MD5sum: b080885426b364a6c0a9009db621c769 Description: Networking binaries and daemons for Linux The netstd package provides you with the standard networking services (server and clients). This includes services like ftp, telnet, nfs, pcnfsd, bootp, tftp, finger, rsh, rlogin and others. installed-size: 1302 Hope this helps Paul On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Kennedy Mutio wrote: > I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my > network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this > new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files in /etc > and changed them. I might have done this wrong but does anyone know what > else I should change/configure? > > Thanks, > > Ken. > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
X-server problem
hello everyone, well here we are again. I have a new pentium II 300 with a ATI-Xpert-XL 4meg AGP2 with 3D and enhanced MPEG. Ok when I tried to run SuperProbe, SuperProbe did not recognize the card. The message that I got was: Before submitting a report, please make sure that you have the latest version of SuperProbe (see http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ). WARNING - THIS SOFTWARE COULD HANG YOUR MACHINE. READ THE SuperProbe.1 MANUAL PAGE BEFORE RUNNING THIS PROGRAM. INTERRUPT WITHIN FIVE SECONDS TO ABORT! First video: Generic VGA (or unknown SVGA) Now what. I configured XF86Config. As best as i could. I was using the mach64 x-server. This is the output i got from startx. XFree86 Version 3.3.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: March 2 1998 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) Operating System: Linux 2.0.32 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: Mach64: accelerated server for ATI Mach64 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(us)" (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psaux, buttons: 3 (**) Mouse: 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) Mach64: Graphics device ID: "ati" (**) Mach64: Monitor ID: "superview monitor" (--) Mach64: Mode "640x400" needs hsync freq of 43.27 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 43.92 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "800x600" needs hsync freq of 48.08 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 48.36 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "640x480" needs hsync freq of 53.01 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 53.51 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "800x600" needs hsync freq of 55.84 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 56.48 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 51.02 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "800x600" needs hsync freq of 64.02 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 62.50 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 62.42 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 64.25 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 70.24 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 70.88 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 74.59 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 75.00 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 76.01 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 80.21 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 87.50 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 93.75 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "320x240" needs hsync freq of 39.38 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "400x300" needs hsync freq of 48.08 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "480x300" needs hsync freq of 39.56 kHz. Deleted. (--) Mach64: Mode "480x300" needs hsync freq of 48.00 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fon ts/100dpi/" *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I took a look at the file XF86Config and did not see anything out of the ordinary. here is my XF86Config file, may someone on the list can make head or tails of what is probably the problem. It is probably stareing me right in the face. Thanks for anyone who can help me out. I will see if i can get the straight svga xserver to work in the meantime. Paul
Re: CLUE: [Fwd: WordPerfect 8 for Linux Prerelease]]
Hi, you are correct on both accounts the other files are "broken down" of the big one. Hope this helps Paul On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 08:44:44AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > Hopefully they'll come out with Quattro Pro one of these days. > > Does anybody know what those other files are? > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 1002 10 2838533 Aug 7 09:01 linuxgui00.gz > -rw-rw-rw- 1 1002 10 1079665 Aug 7 09:01 linuxgui01.gz > -rw-rw-rw- 1 1002 10 3953832 Aug 7 09:01 linuxgui02.gz > -rw-rw-rw- 1 1002 10 5577576 Aug 7 09:01 linuxgui03.gz > -rw-rw-rw- 1 1002 10 3896832 Aug 7 09:02 linuxgui04.gz > -r--r--r-- 1 1002 10 38139774 Aug 6 16:30 linuxgui8.tar.gz > > The readme says "download linuxgui8.tar.gz", but doesn't say what are the > other files... I suspect is a "broken down" version... or maybe they updated > the readme after I took a look. > > > Marcelo > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: xdm doesn't start properly
Hello, first is xdm started, is there an xdm process in the table? If not do as root /etc/init.d/xdm start That should give the logon screen for X. Let me know how things work. also if you suspect xdm errors look at the file /var/log/xdm-errors. Hope this helps On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Debian 1.3 now for some time. Recently, I thought of using > xdm to log on instead. However when I type xdm, nothing happens and I get > the prompt back. > > So, as root, I typed 'xdm -debug 1' and this is the result: > > ... > creating socket 177 > xdm error (pid 244): error 98 binding socket address 177 > Nothing left to do, exiting > # > ... > > Can anyone help me? I haven't tampered with any of the default settings, > except to insert 'start-xdm' in the config file in the X preferences > directory. > > BG > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Postgres, php question
hello my debian user friends, I've installed Postgres.deb, php3.deb, apache.deb and www-pgsql from the slink area. I've done the postgres tutorial and it was great. Now i want to start on makeing a web interface for a database i put together. I read through the documentation, but i am confused. Is there a tutorial for the php3 program? If so where can i get it. If not is there any documentation that is available for a database novice. I am going to start learning C over the summer. Anyways any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XWindows
hello, you need the following for a mimimum x install. xbase, xbook, xfntbase, xfntbig, xfnt100 xfnt75, xfntcyr, xfntpex, xfntscl, xfntil2, xlib6g, xserver-whatever-your-video-card-is (usually xserver-svga) there is also xmanpages and xext. you can download them via ftp and use dpkg -i to install them. look at the Packages file to see the dependancies of each package. Hope this helps. Paul On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Ivan wrote: > Hi - sorry to trouble you all again ! > > It seems the whole world except me runs X - and I would like to join them. > > I installed Bo via FTP using the dselect defaults which I thought would > include X - does it ? > > If so, how do I activate it - it seems the usual method is xdm or xstart > but neither command exists > > If not, what files do I need to install ? Obtainable from Debian FTP ? > > I sincerely appreciate your help. > > Ivan. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
real audio for slink?
hello my debian user friends, i got my soundcard to work. It was a pnp awe64. ok, is there an installer for the realaudio player for the slink version. I now there is one for bo and hamm. The one under slink uses old libs ie xlib6, g++27, and lib5 i don't want to put them on unless I have to. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD-rom and ZIP
hello, you can mount multiple devices by making directories in / ie mnt2 and mnt3 or what ever you want then mount them normally. I hope this answers your question. Paul On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Marc van der Vossen wrote: > Hi, > > A big thanks to all who have responded to my questions. I can now mount > every thing I want. Is there an automatic mounter ? If I would like to mount > three things, what should they be called? I know /mnt, but that is only one > out of three. These are the things to be mounted: > hda5: misc > hdc4. Zip > hdd4: Cd-rom > > Thanks > > Marc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail woes
hell santiago, [paul:~]$ mail -v paul Subject: test procmailrc test testing tested failed! Cc: write_log:Received FROM:paul PROGRAM:send-mail SIZE:121 director user matched user paul transport local uses driver appendfile appendfile: write to file /var/spool/mail/paul write_log:Delivered TO:paul ORIG-TO:paul DIRECTOR:user TRANSPORT:local write_log:Completed. You have mail in /var/spool/mail/paul [paul:~]$ I don't have a mbox - it gives me an error when i tried cat /var/spool/mail/paul | formail -s procmail it did sort it but it was trying to resend stuff again my inbox said there was 7500 messages only 3 messages but they repeated to make the 7500. But it did sort it to the right mail boxes any ideas? Thanks for everything. Paul On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I would try > > mail -v paul > > to see what smail exactly does. > > When there is no .procmailrc file, procmail should do the delivery as > usual (i.e. everything to /var/spool/mail). You can test your .procmailrc > rules separately by doing something like > > cat mbox | formail -s procmail > > see the log file for details. > > [ BTW: Please fix your e-mail address, the current one bounces... ]. > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: 2.6.3ia > Charset: latin1 > > iQCVAgUBNX0vyyqK7IlOjMLFAQEPDwP/WL7ThamhtNSeRymPCi6fk7karneabwlK > HiztVb0Ae+DtYpRz0rwh2WriYfQ91YE747Eo5EmJkSsf3WNNt1r0sCM0LJJICrnm > Aq4+s8vqFTNZ8tah8W4ChEPL35cr74Nw36PNNk+arCxsChexoRwgLNzz+ltquyvj > Racll9o66yA= > =fE+V > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail woes
hello Santiago, I did as you suggested mv .procmailrc to .procmailrc.not.yet and i still get mail delivered to my main mail box. Just a side not when i had the .procmailrc file i did have the Mail directory and still i got mail delivered to my main mail box or inbox. Do you know of any solution that I can use to make procmail, smail and pine work? Thanks again for your suggestion. Paul On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > > > hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was > > doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where > > I ran into trouble. > > These are the versions of procmail and smail > > > > smail 3.2.0.101-4.3 Electronic mail transport system. > > procmail3.10.7-6 Versatile e-mail processor. > > > > here is my .forward file > > "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #paul" > > > > here is my .procmailrc file (this is simplified debian of course) > > > > [...] > > Your .procmailrc file looks ok to me, as long as you have a $HOME/Mail > directory. It may be a bug in smail. To be sure, do the following: > > mv .procmailrc .procmailrc.not.yet > > so that all mail go to /var/spool/mail. > > This way you will know whether procmail does the deliver right or not. > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: 2.6.3ia > Charset: latin1 > > iQCVAgUBNX0LHCqK7IlOjMLFAQE97gQAmqYdzvpydsNsDVFZ+1VMO3nYrDkEBVsy > jgWvDT5+Z6ke4WarrJtF9jG/Yhwh35HOa4sV5jAswAvSM6v8uR3ynGYomnXXsWpu > ulr75VtUvlS6Z/fFJtebQgxNAWAwHFkz4TOIsyahRb5YkqHYgxCAqBJQEg5TS7S1 > 5SqNr3lmGJA= > =GGy4 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fresh install. Little troubles.
hello Julian, first we have to get your base system up. You have to decide if you want libc5 (bo) or libc6 (hamm) It is not a good idea to have half and half. To upgrade to hamm there is a howto that tells you how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. It is on the debian site somewhere. Once you have that sorted out you can get the programs that you want to install. the trick is to go to the hamm directory structure and get the libc5 and install that then you can install libc6. But read the howto and you should be ok and we can take it from there. I hope this helps you and if there is anything wlse that me or the debian-user list can do, don't hesitate to ask. Hope this helps. Paul On Sat, 23 May 1998, Julián Cardona wrote: > Hi! > > I'm installing Debian (hamm) in two machines, a 386SX with > 4 MB RAM and 80 HD and a 486 with 22 MB RAM and 323 HD. > I was very pleased to see the two new (?) preselections, > a basic system that fits in about 40 MB of disk, and a > standard system that occupies about 120 MB. Great, that > was precisely what I needed! > > Sorrowfully, I had problems with both installations. In > the basic system, libc5 conflicted with libc6 and I was > left with a system without manpages, among other things. > In the standard system I got errors in a couple of > packages (modutils and bibtex, I think -I could check it-). > The standard system also tried to replace my passwords > and group files and asked me twice to select a dictionary > (american/british) ... and keeps asking me that *every* > time I run dselect. > > Of course the resulting systems are usable and work fine, > but I'd like to get rid of those little annoyances ... > How can I: > > a. Install manpages (which depends on things that depend >on libc5) and libc6 on the basic system? I suppose it's >not a problem, since the standard system probably does >something like that. BTW, something in perl also >depended on libc5, but dselect seemed to work fine (?). > > b. Tell dselect passwords, group and dictionary are >alive and well and don't need to be reconfigured >every time? This trouble I had also in a machine I >debianized a month ago (after freeze, before deep >freeze). > > Besides, I might do some testing on the installation > procedures if that helps ... I mean, I can keep installing > on these two machines from scratch and reporting errors if > that's of any use. I think an absolutely clean and smooth > installation might do a very good first impression on every > new user, and the basic/standard preselections are a big > step in that direction. > > Other than that, I have only the most positive things to > say about Debian 2.0, the system and the community (develpers > and users) behind it. Thanx a lot for your *excelent* work! > > > JulianC > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
procmail woes
hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where I ran into trouble. These are the versions of procmail and smail smail 3.2.0.101-4.3 Electronic mail transport system. procmail3.10.7-6 Versatile e-mail processor. here is my .forward file "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #paul" here is my .procmailrc file (this is simplified debian of course) PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail ALOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from :0 * ^To:.*debian Debian :0 * ^Resent-From:.*debian Debian Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think that I have things set up correctly but obviously i don't. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deb package for Netscape 4.05 installer on Debian 1.3.1 ?
hello, just a suggestion the netscape.tar.gz file comes with an install script and does not need the debian package. just run the install script as root and your laughin'. Just a suggestion. Paul On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > > You could download the netscape 4.05 on tar.gz format and netscape 3.01 > package from debian ! > So you copy the netscape 4.05 to the /tmp directory and install the > package. > > I still not found the netscape 4.05 package but it works with the older > one (3.01) ! > > > Best regards, >Nuno Carvalho > > --- > Nuno Emanuel Carvalho > University of Coimbra > Dep. of Informatics Engineering > PORTUGAL > URL: http://student.dei.uc.pt/~nemanuel > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > > > > I am using Debian 1.3.1. > > On which ftp sites can I find deb package for Netscape 4.05 (communicator) > > installer ? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for all of your help.
I just wanted to say thank you to all of you nice debian users for taking the time to help anybody and everybody who comes on the list. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
isapnptools confusion.
Hello my debian friends, I just got a pentium II with an awe64 sound card, and I want to have sound capability. I know I have to recompile the kernel for this to work. I also know that I have to use isapnptools. I am running slink (2.0) kernel version 2.0.33 (from the base disks) I have not recompiled the kernel yet for sound support. I read the awe-sound-howto and other relavent documentaion. I followed it upto a certain point. What I have done so far is: # phpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (as root) it gave me this isaphp.conf file, but I am stumped on what to do next. Do I have to get source awe sound drivers? I thought I could use the awe.deb packages once I got the card to be recognized. Can any one shed some light on my lack of knowledge of isapnptools and how to use them to recognize pnp cards. Thanks in advance. Paul P.S. mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
changing networks?!?
hello everybody, i have a question, who doesn't on this list right? ok here it goes. I have a computer at work connected to the net via eathernet. I have all of my networking working great. My question is when i bring it home what do i have to change? hostname and ip address comes to mind since at work i have my own. i know it has to be something like 192.168.xxx.xxx is right or some variation. I was also wondering about my gateway and resolv.conf in /etc. The computer i am going to take home is going to be connected to the internet by modem (not all the time but sometimes) I don't want to know specifically what to change ie numbers bit what files to change. I have the howto's at my home page but i did not see to much on this subject. I am going to use diald. i don't have to worry about connecting to my computer through the modem - just so i can get out. Any help or directions would be much appreciated. If you need more information to help my conversion, please don't hesitate to ask and i shall provide. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
server up or down?
hello, can anyone read this? :) is the server up or down. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Linux Problem
hello there, this is a comman problem for people who are new to linux and X. The problem is that you installed an Xserver and configured it incorrectly. there is a file in /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver: here is mine. # $XConsortium: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:30 gildea Exp $ # # Xservers file, workstation prototype # # This file should contain entries to start the servers on the # local machine; if you have more than one display (not screen), # you can add entries to the list (one per line). If you also # have some X terminals connected which do not support XDMCP, # you can add them here as well. Each X terminal line should # look like: # XTerminalName:0 foreign # # X servers are automatically added to this file by the Debian # xbase and xserver configuration scripts. :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X take out the last line. this will allow you to use the command "startx" to find out what is going on in your X configuration. What you could do stop the xserver from trying to load is telnet in and kill the xdm process. I hope this helps. I've had this happen to me. do it soon because everytime it is trying to load the xserver it appends the errors to /var/log/xdm-error file. email me if you need more info. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Debian Users ! I have a problem with the way I have done something. I don't blame Linux for its lovely 11 oscars, so it is my fault for not configuring the X-Server properly. Ok, I will start my Super Problem: I have a portable computer from DIGITAL. It is a Hi Note CT475. It is a good system and Debian GNU/Linux works perfectly on it, but a silly user like me managed to download about every single x-server there was on the dselect program and installed one of them (I can't remember which one). Anyway, the configuration was pretty dificult. I had to install a psaux mouse (the portable has a MINIDIM mouse port), the VGA was a super VGA and the board was something I can't remember. Anyway, the final question was if I wanted to start the x-server now, and answered Yes. The problem begins now: The system boots up properly, but when it gets to : Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 onyx tty1 onyx login: _ The system goes crazy and the screen goes off, then turns on as ScreenSaver mode, then flashes the login screen, and then restarts the cicle. The times this happens is : login screen : 0,5 seconds off screen : 1,0 seconds saver screen : 1,0 seconds Anyway, I spoke to a friend who is a Systems Administrator, and he explained to me that I had to but in RESCUE mode and un-mount a partition to solve the problem. I haven't touched anything just in case I wipe something off. I sort of like spent 3 days downloading files for the portable and I don't particularly want to install the System fom zero again. Anyway, I hope that someone can help me with this problem. My e-mails are : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best Regards Neil Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 questions
hello again, this is a reply to my own message. I have found a way to overlap one image onto another on my web page. There is a program in the imagemagick package called combine. It did exactly what I wanted. If anyone had a similar experience try the combine command. Thanks for the help. Paul -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Adam Edwards wrote: At 09:19 AM 3/23/98 -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: >a picture every minute and it is put on my web page. I want to have my >updated quickcam image overlayed onto the quickcam window image. My >question is. Can I? and How do I do it in html. I've looked through the >html help files in lynx and I can't seem to find the answer. I hope this >is understable to you and you have some suggestions. Thanks for your >help. I could be wrong but... assuming you use the same name for the picture as you referenced in the img tag of the html file you should be able to use the meta refresh tag with a setting of 60. This will force most later browsers to refetch the contents of the page. (html and associated images) This would result in the new image of the same name to overwrite the old on the display and in the users cache. I'm sure there are more elegant solutions. (This one forces a complete reload of all text and images on the page, IIRC, not just reloading the picture.) It should do what you want though. My .02, A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2 questions
hello everybody thank you for all of your help. I am using wget to mirror the debian site or part of it anyways. My question is this: Is there a flag to delete files when wget downloads a newer version of the same package. I have to clear my ftp site once a week because i run out of space. I did read the documentation and could not find the answer, The second question is concerning html. I grabbed the quickcam window and saved the file as a gif. I have my connectic quickcam automatically take a picture every minute and it is put on my web page. I want to have my updated quickcam image overlayed onto the quickcam window image. My question is. Can I? and How do I do it in html. I've looked through the html help files in lynx and I can't seem to find the answer. I hope this is understable to you and you have some suggestions. Thanks for your help. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grabbing root window images.
hello and thank you for replying to my message. Can you explain to me on how to use it. thanks again. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul McDermott wrote: > Hello everyone, thank you for all the help in the past and the help in the > future. I was wondering what package can I use to grab images from the > root window. ie an xterm or some other program. Any help would be > appreciated. I think xv will do but i'm not too sure. xv's grab button does this. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX:418-775-0546 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
grabbing root window images.
Hello everyone, thank you for all the help in the past and the help in the future. I was wondering what package can I use to grab images from the root window. ie an xterm or some other program. Any help would be appreciated. I think xv will do but i'm not too sure. Thanks in advance. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
viewing binary files
hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web interface
hello everybody, I was wondering if anyone new of a good web interface for the postgres database project. It does not look like Debian has one. Any one have any ideas. Paul -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
lynx play sound files
hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie .wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a .mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
wtmp upgrade problems
Hello everybody, I am having problems with some programs after the bo to hamm upgrade. when I use last or any other commands that use the file wtmp. I have some problems, ie last does give me garbage for people logged in. The other problem is that wtmp does not update the anonymous ftp account. I have 2 logged in for the past two days. I did the steps after the upgrade to create a new wtmp file. mv wtmp, touch wtmp rm -f /var/log/utmp. touch utmp then shutdown -r now. things did not change. At least this month I don't have garbage from the last output. Anyone else have this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
anonymous ftp permissions
Hello everybody, I have an anonymous ftp site up and running. I want to add some debian stuff to it. The debian is on another drive. There was talk about mounting the drive under the anonymous directory tree. I can't use hardlinks on different drives and/or partitions or filesystems. I was wondering why I can't use symbolic links. I am using ncsa and there is a config file access.conf that has an option of allowing symlinks. What is up I checked my permissions and ownerships for the directory that I want to add to my ftpsite. Can anyone help me. I would really appreciate it. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X-Windows Question
hello, what does your xdm-error file in /var/log say? Paul On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Hubert Fauque wrote: Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > I get the dread: > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X > try xhost in your .xsession Hubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
modconf & whiptail
Hello everyone, I am trying to install modconf but it depends on whiptail. Whiptail is not a package. I installed newt0.20 (gave me /usr/bin/whiptail) but that did not help. There has been discussion abot this topic but no one really knows what to do about this situation. There was a possible responce to this and that was to get the latest modconf & whiptail from the incoming. My question is this how do I get to the incoming directory? Does anyone have any ideas in this particular situation. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mac & linux
hello eric and everyone else. I looked at the web-page but could not find a way to make bootdisks and then use them. Any more help woud be greatly appreciated. I subscribed to the 68k mailing list (that is debian's) but have not heard of anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Eric Green wrote: > hello everyone, I have installed debian on 486, 586. was wondering if > you can install debian or any linux for that matter on a mac ii si? > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Linux does run on several models of m68k based Macs now, including the Mac IIsi. You'll need a math coprocessor for it though. Its in early development still, so don't expect the stability and features of a more mature port. Check out http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/ for the details. Eric -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mac & linux
hello everyone, I have installed debian on 486, 586. was wondering if you can install debian or any linux for that matter on a mac ii si? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6
Hello everyone, my experience with the upgrade howto from debian proved to be an invaluable asset. U had to dpkg --purge the development packages manually using dpkg. That was ok. I downloaded the entire hamm distribution and I have installed the base, admin and am starting on the lib and development directories. I must say that this went very smoothly. I have not tried to compile anything yet. I want to recompile my kernel with libc6 to see how it goes. I am quite familiar with dpkg and like it. Thanks to everybody who helped me in the last few days. I'm quite unsure to do the upgrade because of all the trouble that people were having when upgrading. Oh well I just wanted to let debian-user know of one success story. Paul On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > Scott Ellis wrote: > > > Maybe someone else has an easier way? > > > > Yes, there is now a script a > > http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/autoup.sh that will download all > > the necessary core packages mentioned in my upgrade howto, remove all the > > old -dev packages, and install the new stuff in the exact order necessary. > > Huh.. I just tried this on a machie at home, and the script failed because > debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/ contains no libc5*.deb files. On > any mirror that I could find. > > Tim > > -- > (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > http://www.buoy.com/~tps > "Very Pete Townshendish." "Who?" "Exactly." > -- Anon > ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my > own.** > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6
Hello everybody, i am currently following the mini howto on how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. Everything is going smoothly, up to this point. In part 3 under development it says to purge libc5 *--dev* I know how to use dpkg, and there is an option --purge. My question is how do you perge all of libc5 development packages. Thanking you in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
upgrading from libc5 to libc6
hello everyone, I have a bo system and want a hamm system. I got the howto to do the upgrade, but i can't find libc6_2.0.5c-0.1 that it says you need. It does not say anywhere where to get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
error with dpkg
hi everyone, i was updating serveral 486's over the weekend and I get the
following error.
[root:/home/paul/tmp:]$dpkg -i gcc_2.7.2.1-9.deb
Selecting previously deselected package gcc.
(Reading database ... 6871 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gcc 2.7.2.1-4 (using gcc_2.7.2.1-9.deb) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gcc.prerm: /usr/sbin/install-info: No such file or
directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /usr/sbin/install-info: No such file or
directory
dpkg: error processing gcc_2.7.2.1-9.deb (--install):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gcc.postinst: /usr/sbin/install-info: No such file or
directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
gcc_2.7.2.1-9.deb
here is the file /var/lib/dpkg/nfo/gcc.prerm
#! /bin/sh
set -e
install-info --quiet --remove gcc
what is going on there is a /usr/sbin/install-info
here is that file
#!/usr/bin/perl --
# fixme: --dirfile option
# fixme: sort entries
# fixme: send to FSF ?
$version= '1.4.0.8'; # This line modified by Makefile
sub version {
print STDERR <&STDERR") || exit 1;
} elsif ($_ eq '--section') {
if (@ARGV < 2) {
print STDERR "$name: --section needs two more args\n";
&usage; exit 1;
}
$sectionre= shift(@ARGV);
$sectiontitle= shift(@ARGV);
} elsif (m/^--maxwidth=([0-9]+)$/) {
$maxwidth= $1;
} elsif (m/^--align=([0-9]+)$/) {
$align= $1;
} elsif (m/^--calign=([0-9]+)$/) {
$calign= $1;
} elsif (m/^--infodir=/) {
$infodir=$';
} elsif (m/^--menuentry=/) {
$menuentry=$';
} elsif (m/^--description=/) {
$description=$';
} else {
print STDERR "$name: unknown option \`$_'\n"; &usage; exit 1;
}
}
if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) { &version; print STDERR "\n"; &usage; exit 1; }
$filename= shift(@ARGV);
if (@ARGV) { print STDERR "$name: too many arguments\n"; &usage; exit 1; }
if ($remove) {
print STDERR "$name: --section ignored with --remove\n" if
length($sectiontitle);
print STDERR "$name: --description ignored with --remove\n" if
length($description);
}
print STDERR "$name: test mode - dir file will not be updated\n"
if $nowrite && !$quiet;
umask(umask(0777) & ~0444);
$filename =~ m|[^/]+$|; $basename= $&; $basename =~ s/(\.info)?(\.gz)?$//;
print DEBUG <) { last if m/^START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY$/; }
while() { last if m/^END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY$/; $asread.= $_; }
close(IF); &checkpipe;
if ($asread =~ m/(\* *[^:]+: *\([^\)]+\).*\. *.*\n){2,}/) {
$infoentry= $asread; $multiline= 1;
print DEBUG <) {
if (m/^\s*[Tt]his file documents/) {
$asread=$';
last;
}
}
if (length($asread)) {
while() { last if m/^\s*$/; $asread.= $_; }
$description= $asread;
}
close(IF); &checkpipe;
}
if (!length($description)) {
print STDERR < $maxwidth) {
$infoentry .= $cprefix;
$cwidth= $lprefix+1+$l;
$cprefix= $prefix; $lprefix= $calign;
}
$infoentry.= ' '; $infoentry .= $_;
}
$infoentry.= "\n";
print $infoentry unless $quiet;
$sortby= $menuentry; $sortby =~ y/A-Z/a-z/;
}
}
if (!$nowrite && !link("$infodir/dir","$infodir/dir.lock")) {
die "$name: failed to lock dir for editing! $!\n".
($! =~ m/exists/i ? "try deleting $infodir/dir.lock ?\n" : '');
}
open(OLD,"$infodir/dir") || &ulquit("$name: open $infodir/dir: $!\n");
@work= ;
eof(OLD) || &ulquit("$name: read $infodir/dir: $!\n");
close(OLD) || &ulquit("$name: close $infodir/dir after read: $!\n");
while ($work[$#work] !~ m/\S/) { $#work--; }
do {
last if [EMAIL PROTECTED];
$_= shift(@work);
push(@head,$_);
} until (m/^\*\s*Menu:/i);
if (!$remove) {
for ($i=0; $i<=$#work; $i++) {
next unless $work[$i] =~ m/^\* *[^:]+: *\(([^\)]+)\).*\.\s/;
last if $1 eq $basename || $1 eq "$basename.info";
}
for ($j=$i; $j<=$#work+1; $j++) {
next if $work[$j] =~ m/^\s+\S/;
last unless $work[$j] =~ m/^\* *[^:]+: *\(([^\)]+)\).*\.\s/;
last unless $1 eq $basename || $1 eq "$basename.info";
}
if ($i < $j) {
if ($keepold) {
print "$name: existing entry for \`$basename' not replaced\n"
unless $quiet;
$nowrite=1;
} else {
print "$name: replacing existing dir entry for \`$basename'\n"
unless $quiet;
}
$mss= $i;
@work= (@work[0..$i-1], @work[$j..$#work]);
} elsif (length($sectionre)) {
$mss= -1;
for ($i=0; $i<=
old version of dpkg
hello everyone is there an old version of dpkg before 1.0.8 or something like that. If someone could point me to an ftpsite. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
netscape3.04 installer
hi everybody, i was wondering if there was a deb installer for netscape3.04 file. if there is can somebody point me to the right place. Thanks in advance. paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ms exploer anyone?
hi everyone, happy belated holidays. Has anyone got the new micro$oft internet explorer to work yet. Does anyone want to? I was just asking. Please don't flame me. I hate micro$oft and especially that bill guy who runs it about as much as the next debian user. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xvfb package for stable
Hello everybody is there an Xvfb package for stable. I can find one for unstable but not for stable. I don't want to upgrade totaly to unstable just yet. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
upgrading from libc5 to libc6?
hi everybody is there a howto on upgrading from libc5 to libc6. When I do a dpkg -i of libc6.deb it tells me that it conflicts with libc5. Any suggestions? Where is the howto? I've been looking in the archives but could not see any reference to it. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
pgp package?
hi folks, I am trying to install pine-pgp package and it depends on the package pgp. Does anyone know where it is? I have looked in contrib, stable, non-free, unstable, hamm. Can some one help me please. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Swap Space
Hi, there are a couple of things to consider ie 1) is a single user system or a multi-user 2) how much space do you have to allocate to a swap partition 3) What type of processes are you running ( are they memory hogs) Now that I have probably made you really mad. here is what i think single user system 50meg multi user system 100meg another rule is 3 times the ram you have. probable 100 megs would be fine. paul hope this helps On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: > I have 64 mb of RAM, what is a good size for my swap partition?? > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to delete a directory tree.
hi, rm -rf directory name/* hope this helps. Paul On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > I was looking around the ohter day and found a couple of old > mirrors that there is no interest in any longer and I want to remove > the entire directory tree that they are in. What is the simplest way > to do this? > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
netscape communicator error
Hi folks, I installed the netscape communicator for linux, from netscape ftp site. I unpacked it and ran the ns-install program. Everything works except when I start netscape I get the following error. Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this english language version of communicator. all encryption and decrytion will be disabled. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xterm error (fwd)
Hi folks, my friend gets this error when starting an xterm session. No other X programs gives him any trouble. We have reinstalled the xterm program from /usr/X11R6/bin and that it does not do any good. He installed libc5_4.0.33 but that did not fix the problem and we installed the latest locale.deb package. Any help would be greatly appreciated. the error that he is getting is as follows. Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged Paul if you need anymore info email me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
x question
hi folks, I got xfee86 3.2 on my system and xdm running. How can I setup x to run remote x-servers on other debian machines. there was a file in/etc/X11/Xsession which i have set so that anybody can use the xserver. What else do i need to do? thanks in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with mouse and X on TI Extensa 575CD laptop
hi, what is the problem exactly. do you have errors? What is happening? Paul ps need more information before i can help you. On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > > I have tried to install Debian 1.2.4 on a laptop computer. Everything > seems to be okay except that I cannot get X and the mouse to work. I have > read about similar configurations on Extensa models but none of them uses > Debian and non of them uses the exact laptop models. > > Does anyone know where can I get the program that can try to find the > mouse? The BusMouse-HowTo refers to some selection package buit I could > not find it at sunsite.unc.edu and of course at ftp.debian.org. Anyone has > any ideas that I can try? > > Thanks in advance, > -djm > > ~~~ > D.J. Mashao, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone available that I can call???
Phil is on the right track. libc5... is a base package and gets installed during the base system. the other thing you could try is to dpkg --help and take a look at the force and remove options. try not to install base packages as much as possible. When installing debian you should look at the Packages file and "map" out a strategy on how you are going install the various packages. If you have something wrong with libc5... this file is considered the most important file on the system. If it is not working properly, you have serious problems. Good luck! I hope you still will you the debian distribution. It is one if not the most user-friendly distributons on the earth. Paul On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > [stuff about complete install failure with dselect/dpkg] > > What version of the bootdisks do you have ? > You shouldn't need to upgrade libc5 after a fresh instal... You probably have > something very wrong. > I'd suggest getting a new set of bootdisks and restarting from scratch. > > Phil. > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
playing wav files under netscape
Hi everybody, I am having a problem playing wav files in netscape. I edited the general preferences helpers audio/wav helper. I am using bplay_.096-1 i think. I get the following netscape error: Netscape:subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) bplay: input file less then 20 bytes long I don't know what this error means or how to fix it. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm
Hi, what exactly is the problem with xdm? To get more information about the config file there should be a file in /usr/doc/X11/debian.README It tells you all of the switches and flags for the variables in the config file. Me and other people on the list can't help you if you are not more specific in your questions for help. I would be more then happy to help (if I can) you, but I need more information, ie error messages what you are seeing or not seeing on the screen. Hope to hear from you soon. Paul ps try man xdm to get more information on x related configuration settings. On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > > > Hi all ! > > Sorry to bother with this silly question again, but I > tried to fix my xdm (I mean, make it work :) ) and nothing happened... > > Here is my /etc/X11/config file: > > *** > > run-xconsole > obey-nologin > allow-user-resources > allow-user-modmap > allow-user-xsession > allow-failsafe > xdm-start-server > start-xdm > > ** > > I tried to get information on the manual pages with no > success... > > Any help ? > > Thanks. > > Daniel. > > > > Daniel Doro Ferrante | >|E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CECM - Curso Experimental de | >Ciencias Moleculares - USP. |Tel: >| +55 +11 818-3188 >Course of Molecular | +55 +11 818-3187 >Sciences - University of| >Sao Paulo. |FAX: >| +55 +11 444-6932 > Av. do Anfiteatro, s/n. Favo 22 - Colmeias. | > Sao Paulo, SP. Brasil (Brazil) | > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cleaning Debian Filesystem...
Hi Chris try dpkg -r package name or dpkg -p package name. hope this helps Paul On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Chris Jason Richards wrote: > Has anyone come up with a decent way to audit a filesystem... so the admin > can wipe out tons of stuff that is only partially installed or not > removed completely, etc. ? > > I know when I remove some debian packages usuing dselect, it usually > throws tons of messages like "can't remove /blah/bing/bang/" which scroll > by too fast. In the end, it seems like I have crap just sitting around > everywhere. > > Thanks, > cjr > -- > ___ > Chris Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas A&M University > Project Coordinator| Department of Computer Science > http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/richards | Internet Publishing Services > > A bus stops at a bus station; a train stops at a train station. > On my desk I have a workstation... > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ntalk ??
I don't know of ntalk, but there is a ytalk if that helps. It is in the stable binary directory tree. Paul On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, dpk wrote: > Is there a debian package for ntalk? I have used the search engine on the > web site and searched the ftp site with no luck... > > Thanks, > Dennis > > > + dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + work : 517.353.8892 + > + Systems Undergrad + pager: 517.222.5875 + > + Division of Engineering Computing Services + Quote me+ > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: connectix quickcam difficulties
Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday, and it worked just fine. Another question can you make a script to use xv to save the file from an extention of ppm to jpg? Thanks again for all your help. Paul On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Paul McDermott wrote: > > > Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian. It > > takes really good pictures. I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera. > > For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my > > website. The quickcam man pages say that the format is a portable > > pixilmap or .ppm extention to take a picture. the command is: > > cqcam > filename.ppm If I do this it works fine, the file is viewable > > from xv and xpaint. I also tried to take the picture using the file > > formats of .jpg and .gif and the sam thing happens. From inside netscape I > > can open the file and view it just fine. It doesn't work when I put it on > > my > > web-page. The picture looks like a broken picture icon. (I know that this > > is > > a bad way to discribe it - but it is the only way I know how. If anyone > > can > > help me, or you need anymore information please email me. > > Thanks > > Paul > > Hi Paul, > > If you can view the picture with xv, you should be able to use xv to save > the picture in a standard file format such as jpeg. After xv saves the > file, it should work on your web site. > > > Syrus. > > -- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>UCSD Physics Dept. > > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
connectix quickcam difficulties
Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian. It takes really good pictures. I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera. For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my website. The quickcam man pages say that the format is a portable pixilmap or .ppm extention to take a picture. the command is: cqcam > filename.ppm If I do this it works fine, the file is viewable from xv and xpaint. I also tried to take the picture using the file formats of .jpg and .gif and the sam thing happens. From inside netscape I can open the file and view it just fine. It doesn't work when I put it on my web-page. The picture looks like a broken picture icon. (I know that this is a bad way to discribe it - but it is the only way I know how. If anyone can help me, or you need anymore information please email me. Thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Video confrencing.
Hi Rick, yes there is it is called vic-cqcam it is in the unstable/x11 directory. I've installed it but have not tried it. Give me a shout when you have it running. Description: vic-cqcam is a video conference over the Internet This is a version of vic with a driver for the Connectix Color QuickCam. . Vic was designed with a flexible and extensible architecture to support heterogeneous environments and configurations. For example, in high bandwidth settings, multi-megabit full-motion JPEG streams can be sourced using hardware assisted compression, while in low bandwidth environments like the Internet, aggressive low bit-rate coding can be carried out in software. . Vic is based on the Draft Internet Standard Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) developed by the IETF Audio/Video Transport working group. RTP is an Vic is based on the Draft Internet Standard Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) developed by the IETF Audio/Video Transport working group. RTP is an application-level protocol implemented entirely within vic -- you need no special system enhancements to run RTP. Although vic can be run point-to-point using standard unicast IP addresses, it is primarily intended as a multiparty conferencing application. To make use of the conferencing capabilities, your system must support IP Multicast, and ideally, your network should be connected to the IP Multicast Backbone (MBone). Vic also runs over RTIP, the experimental real-time networking protocols from U.C. Berkeley's Tenet group and over ATM using Fore's SPANS API. . Vic provides only the video portion of a multimedia conference; audio, whiteboard, and session control tools are implemented as separate applications. Our audio tool is called vat and our whiteboard tool wb. UCL developed the session directory tool sdr. Other related applications include ISI's Multimedia Conference Control, mmcc, the Xerox PARC Network Video tool, nv and the INRIA Video-conferencing System, ivs. Vic is backward compatible with RTPv1 and can interoperate with both nv (v3.3) and ivs (v3.3). installed-size: 1206 Hope this helps, if you want to try it give me a shout. Paul On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > Is there any kind of video confrencing program, like CU-SeeMe, in deb > format? I can't find anything like this any place. > > L8R, > > --Rick > > Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US > Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a > State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full > text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X server via network.
Hi Chris, you could /etc/X11/Xserver. and see if this helps. Paul On 9 Jun 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > > The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to > monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to > run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v never run any > applications on X via a network connection befor so I thought this > would be interesting. After doing an rlogin and setting the DISPLAY > environvent variable like so: "foo.bar.com:0.0". I ran the procmeter > and it said that it didn't have permission to connect to the X > server. Somewhere there must be a file that I need to grant this > permission in but I am not familiar enough with X to know about > this one and I'm not even sure where to look. Can someone point me > in the right direction. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? > e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters
If you want to unsubscribe be my guest. Paul On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are > non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong > to other forums. > > Am I the only one which finds the amount of general PC/Linux/Unix > questions unbearable (in that case, I will unsubscribe) or is it time to > plea for more discipline, such as "Please use only this list for > Debian-specific stuff (like dpkg, dselect, discussions of the upgrade > path to 1.3, etc)"? > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: EXT2-fs warning....
hi I have a similar problem with a fijitsu 2.57gig drive. what kind of drive do you have and any other information would be useful to help you out. Paul On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > This is a first for me > > This has just started showing up on the console and in /var/log/messages. > Running fsck reported some "duplicate/bad blocks". > > Any idea what's happening? Time to replace the drive? > > Jun 5 23:55:00 selma kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:01): > ext2_free_blocks: > bit already cleared for block 68297 > Jun 5 23:55:00 selma kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:01): > ext2_free_blocks: > bit already cleared for block 152681 > Jun 5 23:55:00 selma kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:01): > ext2_free_blocks: > bit already cleared for block 83579 > Jun 5 23:55:00 selma kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:01): > ext2_free_blocks: > bit already cleared for block 83580 > > > TIA, > > Kevin Traas > Systems Analyst > Edmondson Roper CA > http://www.eroper.bc.ca > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mirror
hi timothy, you might want to try ncftp, this is a nice program. Paul On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the middle to learn how to setup my Debian/Linux to > connect to an ISP. I'd like to know if there any doc. for > (privately) mirroring the debian distribution. > > Many thanks in advance! > > -- > Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > NEC America, Inc. ASL > 1525 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, TX 75038 > tel: (214)-518-3437 fax: (214)-518-3499 > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SU Problems
thanks jens, is there a way so i don't have to type the command all the time? thanks again. Paul On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Paul McDermott wrote: > > > > Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this past few > > weeks. I am having problems do things as su. ie for the first error > > message is one that I receive whenever I try to run an X program as su. > > This error message is when I was trying to use xclock. I have check > > xclocks permissions, ownership both seem to be in order. Ownership is > > root.root and the Permissions are 755. This error happens when I try to > > run all x programs. > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > open display failed > > InitXWindows failed, exiting > > > > This error is when I try to run emacs as su. > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. > > Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. > > Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit > > connections from your machine. > > > > I cam run things as user paul and if I login as root. If you have any > > suggestions or need any more information please email me. > > Paul > > > > If you log in as paul and then su to root, then after you su type > > export XAUTHORITY=~paul/.Xauthority > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SU Problems
Hi Roberto, I did use su. I can't run any x programs as su, only as user paul. Any other ideas. On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Roberto Magana wrote: > Use su - > > % > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roberto Magana. Escuela de Fisica UCR. > (The Physics Dept. University of Costa Rica.) > > % > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SU Problems
Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this past few weeks. I am having problems do things as su. ie for the first error message is one that I receive whenever I try to run an X program as su. This error message is when I was trying to use xclock. I have check xclocks permissions, ownership both seem to be in order. Ownership is root.root and the Permissions are 755. This error happens when I try to run all x programs. Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server open display failed InitXWindows failed, exiting This error is when I try to run emacs as su. Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine. I cam run things as user paul and if I login as root. If you have any suggestions or need any more information please email me. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with X
sorry lamar, look in the file Xservers in /etc/X11/xdm that is where you change it. sorry for the miss information. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with X
hi Lamar, I had something similar happen to me. The problem is in your /etc/X11/Xserver file the last line should contain the following: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X The reason why you are not getting anything on tty7 is that you are not starting your xserver. I hope this helps. Just for grins do a ps-aux to see if xdm is running. Paul On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Lamar Folsom wrote: > Howdy, y'all. > > Before I explain the problem, let me provide a little background. A > couple of weeks ago, I decided to upgrade my system from 1.2 to 1.3. > Rather than just switching to the frozen directory and upgrading > packages, I did a full install to see if I could help test the new > distribution. Things went well until I got to X. Unfortunately for > me, I had forgotten to save off my working XF86Config file, so I went > ahead and generated a new on using the nice vga16 method. The newly > generated config file didn't work. X would start with no errors, but > tty7 was blank. I thought that maybe I had specified the wrong > parameters for my monitor, so I verified those in /usr/doc/X11/Monitors > and made some minor adjustments in XF86Config. I got the same result; > tty7 was blank. I then decided to try the old tty version of > xf86config and regenerated the XF86Config file. Once again, the same > result. I now must admit to being stumped. I would appreciate any > and all help. I'm including the output from startx, and the Device, > Monitor, and Screen sections from /etc/XF86Config. > > Thanks in advance, > Lamar > -- > Lamar Folsom > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Output from startx: > --- > XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100) > Release Date: Oct 26 1996 > 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) > Operating System: Linux [ELF] > Configured drivers: > ET4000W32: accelerated server for ET4000W32 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel > 0): > et4000w32, et4000w32i, et4000w32p_rev_a, et4000w32i_rev_b, > et4000w32i_rev_c, et4000w32p_rev_b, et4000w32p_rev_c, > et4000w32p_rev_d, et6000 > (using VT number 7) > > XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values > (**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(us)" (overrides other XKB settings) > (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psaux, baudrate: 1200 > (**) ET4000W32: Graphics device ID: "ET4000/W32" > (**) ET4000W32: Monitor ID: "NEC MultiSync 4FGe" > (**) FontPath set to > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" > (--) ET4000W32: ET4000: Initial hibit state: high > (--) ET4000W32: Ramdac: att20c490 > (--) ET4000W32: chipset: et4000w32 > (**) ET4000W32: videoram: 1023k > (--) ET4000W32: clocks: 25.16 28.32 32.64 36.11 40.12 45.07 31.53 > 37.74 > (--) ET4000W32: clocks: 50.32 56.65 65.28 72.22 80.25 90.15 63.07 > 75.49 > (--) ET4000W32: clocks: 12.58 14.16 15.79 18.05 20.06 22.53 25.16 > 32.64 > (--) ET4000W32: clocks: 25.16 28.32 31.59 36.11 40.12 45.07 50.32 > 65.28 > (--) ET4000W32: Ramdac speed: 86 > (--) ET4000W32: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 86.000 MHz > (**) ET4000W32: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 81.000, clock used = 80.250 > (**) ET4000W32: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 50.000, clock used = 50.320 > (**) ET4000W32: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 31.000, clock used = 31.530 > (**) ET4000W32: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 > PEX extension module not loaded > XIE extension module not loaded > - > > Device section of XF86Config: > - > Section "Device" > Identifier "ET4000/W32" > VendorName "NEC" > BoardName "Unknown" > VideoRam1024 > #Clocks 25.16 28.32 32.64 36.11 40.12 45.07 31.53 37.74 > #Clocks 50.32 56.65 65.28 72.22 80.25 90.15 63.07 75.48 > #Clocks 12.58 14.16 15.79 18.05 20.06 22.53 25.16 32.64 > #Clocks 25.16 28.32 31.59 36.11 40.12 45.07 50.32 65.28 > EndSection > -- > > Monitor section of XF86Config: > -- > Section "Monitor" > > Identifier "NEC MultiSync 4FGe" > VendorName "NEC" > ModelName "MultiSync 4FGe" > BandWidth 80 # from /usr/doc/X11/Monitors > > HorizSync 27-62 # from /usr/doc/X11/Monitors > > VertRefresh 55-90 # from /usr/doc/X11/Monitors > > # Modelines from /usr/doc/X11/Monitors > ModeLine "640x480" 31 640 680 704 832 480 489 492 520 > ModeLine "800x600" 50 800 864 976 1040 600 637 643 666 > ModeLine "1024x768" 81 1024 1068 1204 1324 768 776 782 807 > > E
Re: Newbie Question (sorta :)
hi Adam, you go through the install again by choosing your keyboard, activating your swap drive, mounting your hardrives and then choose to configure your device drivers. I hope this helps Paul On Wed, 21 May 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > Hi. > > I was getting a new unix trainee to install debian today for the first > time. They muffed choosing the right module for the ethernet card and made > it all the way through the install. > > The question is: Is there any way to get back to the screen with the menu > interface for loading modules into the kernel once you are done with the > install or is it a once only sorta thing? > > It would make their life easier... otherwise I'll just start teaching them > how to recompile the kernel :) > > Adam > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
