Pam permissions
I'm having problems with Nvidia drivers it would appear from their docs that I need to make PAM not reset permissions on a device. The two files they refer to in their docs do not exist under Debian. So how do I keep pam from resetting permissions on a given device? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exim issue
After setting up exim I can send mail using Mutt it appears to send fine and there are no errors in the logs. When I send to one of my addresses from my ISP it sends it I can go out and look at the mail on the ISP's server. But no messages are getting sent to 3rd parties. I set up exim as a smarthost with home being the visiable the name and mail.sisna.com for the server to send non local mail to. I don't have the logs right now but does anyone know of a common reason why mails are not getting forwarded to a third party person. Thanks.
Re: what i've learned, and explanation.
Having dealt with Lusers for far longer than I care to think about I'm going to go ahead and give some opnions on the subject. Other important questions are: * Specifically, _what_ are people entitled to? Are they entitled to demand that I spend my time catering to their needs? Are they entitled to be rude while doing it? Are they entitled to be rude in demanding that I spend my time catering to them when they have no plans of contributing in any way? The sad and simple fact are yes people do in fact think that. Many of them can not understand that on the lists, IRC or whatever that we are just a bunch of people who do this stuff cause we really do love it. Therefore many of them treat us the way that they treat their sys admins and support people. That is with the attitude fix my stuff, don't make me think or learn I just want it to work and to workt the way I think it should. Then they wonder why things never seem to happen as fast as it should *evil grin*. The simple fact is these people do not understand why techies (using that term in as broad a possible sense)are the way we are. They simply can not understand why we would want the exact wording of an error that means nothing to them. They are very concrete thinkers because the error means nothing to them it must mean nothing to everybody and because they know something everybody must know it. Just like a person today who was shocked and pissed off that I could not restore a file that had been on a HD that the hardware guys had taken away. In any case it comes down to the fact that these people never learn to think, reason, or imagine. I thought I had a point but it turned into a rant. It has been a long week at work. Sorry and thanks. :)
K-Jofol plugin for XMMS
I can not get this to compile I have xmms-dev but it is still complaing about missing files. I'm trying it with .95 and am going to try .94. If any one has it working or better yet know where to get debs for it please let me know how. Thanks Ray.
Kernel panic after upgrade to 2.4.2
Thanks in advance for your help. I decided to go to kernel 2.4.2 on my testing box. Did a apt-get install to get the source. Got my old config file from /boot and put it in the source and did a make oldconfig. I then did a make xconfig and made sure that I had ext2 support and elf and a.out all compiled in (along with the other options that I wanted) It compiled with no errors except it did complain about not being able to find /usr/src/modules but it went on from there (I assumed that was if I wanted a non standard module and ignored it) In any case I got my .deb (make-kpkg revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image was the command I used to make it) and did a dpkg -i it all ran well with no errors. I ran lilo a couple of times just to be sure. :) And did a reboot. And now I am getting a kernel panic saying can't mount the root device 030:030 and to add a correct root paramater. I have the right root paramater in lilo.conf (root=/dev/hda3) and also tried passing it this by hand at the lilo prompt Linux root=/dev/hda3. I'm still getting the same error message. My old kernel still boots fine. So any ideas on how I managed to break it? Once again thanks very much.
Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody
I don't know about the lilo isssue but yes the X issue is a well known problem. Do a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xbase-clients (that one might be xclients-base) xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and run xf86config to create a xf86config file and you should be fine. -- Original Message -- From: Daniel Toffetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:24:53 -0300 Hi All! I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and carried out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others I may not noticed so far): - It broke my lilo, leaving me with a missing library (/lib/ld-linux.so.2). I got the file mailed to me by another user, boot using floppies, and managed to repair the boot. - My X system doesn't starts anymore. I tried configuring, reinstalling, reconfiguring... no luck. It seems that xdm doesn't find a running server and gives up. I've read threads in www.debianhelp.org talking about this, and found others with the same (or related, such as problems with xfs, but after upgrading anyway) problem in #debian. Is it common to have such serious problems when upgrading to woody, or it was just bad luck ? Is there any docs on troubleshooting the upgrade ? I really don't know what else to try with my X system, other than downloading the full woody dist, building the CDs and reinstalling from scratches... :(( Thanks in advance !! Daniel
Re: oops..missed a module
Use modconf to add it. -- Original Message -- From: Jake R. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:38:12 -0600 (CST) I recently installed debian and I missed a module es1688 for my latitude lm sound support. Is there a way that I can add this in now. I miss listening to my tunes at work! Thanks, Jake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no opengl after woody update
If you installed from the tarballs just do a quick make install agian and it should work fine. Before the last one when was the last time you did a upgrade? In the past month or so it has broken twice on me but a quick reinstall has fixed it. -- Original Message -- From: Brad Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:29:02 -0500 I have a geoforce 256 running the newest nvidia drivers (0.9.6.767) I think. and I did a apt-get upgrade 3 nights ago and now opengl is broke. No opengl xscreensaver hacks no quake III no ut. I have checked to make sure I have no stray libGL* files around and ldconfig -v looks good. Anyone have anyidea what might have broke my opengl? Also /var/log/XFree86.0.log does not show any errors. Thanks for any help. Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300
I've always said that a little research before a purchase will save one grief. In any case. I have a BJC 4400 (which also emulates a 600) working fine. What I did is grab pdq and xpdq. I got the debs from unstable but I'm running woody. Install them then go to www.linuxprinting.org and get the pdq drivers for the 4300. Then just follow the pdq directions to install it. It just sets in your home diretory and you point xpdq and it and call it the default printer. Make a sym link from /usr/bin/pdq to /usr/bin/lpr and most apps do the right thing. Also you might have to play with permissions on the port you want to print from. There is really good docs on the linuxprinting website. -- Original Message -- From: Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:37:24 -0300 (BRT) On 21-Mar-2001 Joris Lambrecht wrote: :-( Canon is NOT linux-friendly, they got me crying for hours when i found out my Brand new D660U scanner is and WILL not be supported by Linux because canon won't support such incredibly ludicrous software Ditto. I'm condemned to boot into window$ if i wanna scan something too. (i own a canoscan fb330p). Because of that, I just don't use my scanner a lot :P -Original Message- From: Robert Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 21 maart 2001 14:34 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300 Hi, this printer prints only funny patterns of dots that look like text, but it's definitely not what it's supposed to print. The ghostscript website says this printer is almost fully supportet with the bjc600 driver/input-filter (?). And it actually worked with that driver with suse 6.2. Now when I set it up under Debian with magicfilterconfig there was only bj600 and bj600_draft in the list, no bjc600. First I thought the 'c' wont mean much, and I tried both bj600 and bj600_draft, with the same result. Any ideas? I run Potato r2. Robert -- Carlos Laviola - ICQ 55799523 pub 1024D/3516D372 2000-06-05 Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 3BE1 6591 C78C 2AA4 31DD AEEF 6406 0227 3516 D372
Re: Ximian packages
Go to www.debianplanet.org look at the unofficial apt sources list and search on ximian. It will give you all the lines. -- Original Message -- From: Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:04:09 -0600 Hello, Someone knows which are the lines to include in my source.lists to install the Ximian on my linuxbox? (And the evolution included) Thanks -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apt, Debconf, and Perl.
Does anyone know how to fix this. I have tried a reinstall of deboconf and it did not work. Once again thanks. Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux .) at /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpaperg.config line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpaperg.config line 3. (in cleanup) Can't call method close on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 476 during global destruction. dpkg: error processing libpaperg (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: libpaperg E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails
Not knowing about *BSD's jails I'm not sure if you want to restrict a user to only one part of the filesystem why not use chroot? -- Original Message -- From: Ilya Martynov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15 Mar 2001 17:03:16 +0300 Hi, I'm interested if there is exists some software which allows to implement virtual boxes under Linux (something that provide simular capabilities as FreeBSD's jails). The only thing I know about is user-mode linux kernel. Does anybody had experience with it? How stable is it? Is there any limitations? Is there any other alternatives that can run under Linux? -- Ilya Martynov AGAVA Software Company, http://www.agava.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A SSH question.
I understand that this is not a Debian specific question but I'm hoping someone out there will be kind and explain this one in short easy to understand words. :) I'm trying to ssh into my Debian box on a DSL line setting behind a floppyfw based firewall. When I am at home I can SSH into that box from my Wife's winders box using Terraterm witht he ttssh stuff. Of course this is not going through the firewall but I know that ssh works. Now on the box at my house if I do this ssh -L 9000:myinternetaddress:22 myinternaladdress It connects to WinterMute (My Debian box) nicely. AFAIK at that point it is going through the floppyfw based firewall to connect. Would that be right or do I need to do something else to test this. Now when I come to work and try to do Terraterm with the same command line options it fails. Does anyone know why or what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.
Re: installing communicator
Go to the package search page and do a search it will give you the righ name. apt-get install netscape will work but might give you more than you want. -- Original Message -- From: Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:16:46 -0700 Hi, I looked in the non-free area of the archives and would like to install communicator 4.76. I found an archive communicator-base-476_4.76-1.deb and nethelp smotif ... How do I apt-get it? apt-get install communicator??? Thanks, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: licq broken in woody?
I've noticed this also looks like a bug to me. -- Original Message -- From: David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:19:46 +1030 (CST) Hi, ever since I upgraded to woody, licq hasn't worked. I'm using gnomeicu, but I don't like it as much... this is the error I get: $ licq 23:10:17: [WRN] IniFile: Warning, I/O read error. File = /home/dcpurton/.licq/owner.uin Error = Too many open files 23:10:17: [ERR] Error opening '/home/dcpurton/.licq/owner.uin' for reading. See log for details. 23:10:17: [WRN] IniFile: Warning, I/O read error. File = /home/dcpurton/.licq/owner.uin Error = Too many open files 23:10:17: [ERR] Error opening '/home/dcpurton/.licq/owner.uin' for reading. See log for details. 23:10:17: [WRN] Unable to create fifo: File exists. 23:10:17: [ERR] Unable to start socket monitor thread: Resource temporarily unavailable. [2]+ Exit 1 licq any ideas? Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in order to rush down again. In a way this is funny,... Francis A Schaeffer David Purton http://www.chariot.net.au/~dcpurton/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package quality
When you search for a package it has a column for quality and this has a percentage in it. What does that mean? I've just wondered about this for awhile and just thought I'd ask. Thanks very much.
Re: Installing Debian
Well first of all IMHO most of the defaults make sense. The problem here is you trade off power for ease of use. And I have yet to see a really good way around this. Maybe the best way would be to make levels of install like RH has. Novice-Deity or something like that but I can see how that would be hard to maintain. In short I think the best thing to do is to continue to work on FAQs etc. To help people with coming up with something that will work. Maybe something along the lines of a list of nice reasonable options, what they mean and other places to look for them. Really now that you can do the simple option on a install the rest of it is just knowing what to do. I think I just found a project thanks. Ray -- Original Message -- From: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:07:17 -0500 I know I'm sticking my neck out on this one. Debian seems to making a lot of progress by upgrading modules but is still lacking in ease of installation. It has reputation as being one of the more difficult to install Linux systems which is especially true for someone who is just starting to work with Debian. Yes, there is documentation but unless you print it all out and have it at hand during the installation process, you're on your own. And, even the documentation could be improved. There are a few places in the installation where a first timer need to decide what to type in and there's not one clue what it should be. In other places, you are given a menu to choose from but even here, a wrong decision can lead you in circles and possibly failure. All is not bad; there are places where things are as they should be. Surely, the installation process can be made easier and more positive so that anyone can be assured that the end results will be what is expected. Debian is being touted as a superior system and no doubt it is but does the installation necessarily have to be such a hassle (a rite of passage, so to speak) for beginners? With the reputed development support that Debian has throughout the world, isn't there someone who could take some time and come up with a more fool proof and easier installation routine?. . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: What's up with Mozilla
I have noticed that with .7 that when you closed one Mozilla window (be it a browser or mail client window) that it would close all of the other Mozilla windows open. I think this is what you are talking about. This seems to have been fixed in .8 which I have been using for about a week now. -- Original Message -- From: Joris Lambrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:36:06 +0100 sorry 'bout the crash statement, i was out of line there, i meant that mozilla would competely go _down_ if the mailclient went belly up, wich is a really painfull thing to happen if you're using online documentation wich you finally dug up -Original Message- From: ray p [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:38 PM To: Joris Lambrecht Subject: Re: What's up with Mozilla That would be wrong. Maybe a bit on the slow side but more testing will solve that :) I have never once had the mailclient go south on me yet alone take down Debian. And I have not used Netscape on purpose since December. Joris Lambrecht wrote: That would be a first, mozilla working great, you must have some heavy machinerie. To my humble opinion mozilla is slow and the mailclient can crash your entire system. not ? (please say NOT i've been really annoyed with the weak-browser thang on linux) -Original Message- From: Michael P. Soulier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:44 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What's up with Mozilla On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:11:09PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: As was said in another reply - packaging mozilla is hard. However, installing the tarball is pretty easy. For now, I'm running 0.8 from the tarball available at mozilla.org and it works great. It's a bit of a pig though, and I had to shut off http 1.1 in the debug network menu to get it to stop sending me to the wrong websites. Hey, I've been trying to get it to fire off acroread or xpdf when a pdf is seen, but that refuses to work. No idea why. Have you had a problem with this? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xfree86 4.0.2 problems when using XF86Setup on testing distribution
Don't use XF86Setup to setup X 4. Use xf86config instead. The graphical tools have never worked very well with X 4. You might want to take a look at http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/RELNOTES1.html#1. While they no longer say that the graphical tools won't work you will notice that XF86setup is *not* listed. This is for a reason. As to the other question. I would suggest that you might consider just going to testing. This is what worked best for me. Also keep in mind that if you do go to testing you will most likely have to grabe xserver-xfree86, xbase-clients, xbase-fonts, and the other font packaages by hand. It is kind of a pain but all in all it is worth it as X 4 is much better. Also for me testing as been very stable. -- Original Message -- From: Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:50:50 -0500 (EST) On 27 Feb 2001, Jonas Wolz wrote: Hi, I'm running a Potato (2.2r2) system and want to upgrade it to Xfree86 4.0.2 using the updated packages from the debian server. My question: Will the binary packages run on my system without problems or do I have to take the source package ? Xfree version 4 is different kettle of fish from X 3.3. I am currently having difficulty getting it work as the XF86Setup program claims it succeeds but when I run startx I get errors (looks like it's time to read the manpage): (NOTE. when XF86Setup tries the non SVGA X-server, ATI Mach64 it starts or at least that is the way it looks, alas, I can NOT switch to another tty to confirm whether the process I think is indeed running... sigh... Error message: on 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000 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 2.2.18 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Mon Feb 26 20:25:25 2001 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Device section Primary Card must have a Driver line. (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() See the attached XF86Config-4 file -walter
Mozilla .8
Does anybody know of a deb for Mozilla .8 or failing that how easy is it to create one that just works using alien? What I am looking for here is something that works as well as the Progeny .7 debs. I installed it a entry showed up under Debian and net in my menus it launche ran and does what it is supposed to do. Failing that does anyone have advice on what options to use to do a install from the binaries that will allow me to just go on using the menu and have everything work. I understand that I'm going to have to reinstall any plugins and that history etc. will all be gone but I just want it to work when I'm done. Any advice would be very helpfull thanks.
Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has broken and it is in terms of performance just as stable as Potato, IMHO. -- Original Message -- From: peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:05:42 +0100 Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 14:44 schrieb Nils Crefeld: Hello, i'm running potato r2 with xfree 3.3.6. now i would like to upgrade to xfree 4.0.x. I tried to put a line for the woody release into my sources.list, but then dselect wants to update all newer packages. i just want to upgrade the xserver (and maybe some other packages x depends on) and not everything. is there a way to do this? Nils hi ... try to use apt-get with apt-get update you receive the package informations (provided by /etc/apt/sources.list)... with apt-get install packagename you get the wanted packages... but it's usefull (when dealing with woody) to use apt-get -s install packagename, then apt-get only shows what it would do... i hope i could help you a bit, cos im a newbie either... greets peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has broken and it is in terms of performance just as stable as Potato, IMHO. -- Original Message -- From: peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:05:42 +0100 Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 14:44 schrieb Nils Crefeld: Hello, i'm running potato r2 with xfree 3.3.6. now i would like to upgrade to xfree 4.0.x. I tried to put a line for the woody release into my sources.list, but then dselect wants to update all newer packages. i just want to upgrade the xserver (and maybe some other packages x depends on) and not everything. is there a way to do this? Nils hi ... try to use apt-get with apt-get update you receive the package informations (provided by /etc/apt/sources.list)... with apt-get install packagename you get the wanted packages... but it's usefull (when dealing with woody) to use apt-get -s install packagename, then apt-get only shows what it would do... i hope i could help you a bit, cos im a newbie either... greets peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lower res in X4 than X 3.3.6
Have you created a new config file XF86Config-4 should be its name if not I would suggest that you run through xf86config one time. I got *much* better modlines this way. -- Original Message -- From: David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 23:20:01 +1030 (CST) another weird thing with my X upgrade is that using the X4 server I can't get the same res as when I was using X3.3.6. The modeline is the same, but X4 complains that the vertical timing is out of range. I've tried to fiddle with the timings, but seem only to be succesful in getting illegal vertical timings :) the modeline is as follows: Modeline 1280x1024 110.00 1280 1328 1512 1624 1024 1027 1028 1046 \ -hsync -vsync Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in order to rush down again. In a way this is funny,... Francis A Schaeffer David Purton http://www.chariot.net.au/~dcpurton/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSL
I assume you mean Linux :). DSL is easy. Get a external DSL router (The Cisco 675 works *very* well) Your provider may want to push a internal card on you don't go there. The external is worth the extra money. Get a good supported NIC. (Most providers will give you one insist on PCI and a good brand all that good stuff.) Basically if you then install Debian (This all assumes Potato or better) it will ask you for device drivers. Choose the right drivers for your card. It will then ask you if you want to use dhcp or bootp if you have to tell it yes if you have a static IP tell it no. Then give it the right information for your IP gateway dns servers etc. It will then work just like any other network. Setting up the router is specific to the provider but most provider ship them with sensible defaults and you should be good to go. Just one word of advice if you do get the Cisco give it a password (by default they have none) also consider looking at www.floppyfw.org and spending a couple hundred in hardware to set up a firewall and save yourself alot of pain. That is really all there is to it. Have fun. -- Original Message -- From: Robert Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 22:10:41 -0800 Ok. I'm a lost sheep. I want to install zenix as my operating system (and trash Windows). I have read everything I can find and I find nothing that addresses DSL. What I am looking for is a package that will allow me to use my DSL connection with debian as my OS. I am not familiar with zenix at all and would appreciate whatever help I can get. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After Monday's little X issue....
I'm going to start waiting till the evening to do apt-get dist-upgrade on my testing boxen. So did anything break today? Thanks very much for any info.
Boot disks for testing
Where would one get boot/driver disks for testing on the ftp sites there does not appear to be anything under disksi386 under testing. Thanks much for any info.
Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!
I saw the same thing this morning. I also noticed that it is going to 4.0.2 :) It should rock once I get it to work. On a releated note does anyone know of where one could maybe get .debs of the Nvidia drivers and if not any advice from anyone who has installed them? Thanks much. -- Original Message -- From: Rob VanFleet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:10:39 -0600 On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:03:59PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 29 Jan 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: I just managed to make it through the X upgrade in testing, so I might be able to help you prevent a downgrade to Potato (which is probably more of a pain than fixing X). What sort of problems are you having? I noticed that the upgrade doesn't get all the packages one needs, so you need to apt-get them on your own. -ROb [ private correspondence omitted ] startx was missing for me as well. You need to get the 'xbase-clients' package. You might also want to install xfonts-base, xfonts-75dpi, and xfonts-100dpi as they were all missing from my upgrade. Without xfonts-base, X will refuse to start. HTH -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!
Noticed I forgot to mention the other bit of advice. You might just give it a few hours (all my machines are at work so I have to wait to go home and fix my home box) and then do a apt-get dist-upgrade again. I'm sure the developers are fixing this even as we speak. BTW thanks for the list of packages. -- Original Message -- From: Ray Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:52:28 -0700 I saw the same thing this morning. I also noticed that it is going to 4.0.2 :) It should rock once I get it to work. On a releated note does anyone know of where one could maybe get .debs of the Nvidia drivers and if not any advice from anyone who has installed them? Thanks much. -- Original Message -- From: Rob VanFleet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:10:39 -0600 On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:03:59PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 29 Jan 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: I just managed to make it through the X upgrade in testing, so I might be able to help you prevent a downgrade to Potato (which is probably more of a pain than fixing X). What sort of problems are you having? I noticed that the upgrade doesn't get all the packages one needs, so you need to apt-get them on your own. -ROb [ private correspondence omitted ] startx was missing for me as well. You need to get the 'xbase-clients' package. You might also want to install xfonts-base, xfonts-75dpi, and xfonts-100dpi as they were all missing from my upgrade. Without xfonts-base, X will refuse to start. HTH -Rob -- 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: need help installing unstable
And of course if you remember Toy Story Sid was the kid who broke toys... :) -- Original Message -- From: Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:30:12 +0200 On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:30:07PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: Setting up debconf (0.5.49) ... Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 [...] 1. Is this just a matter of course? Do I need to work my way , slowly and laboriously through these sorts of problems if I wish to install a sid/unstable system , or is there l ikely to be a straightforward fix to this which would enable me to install all of the packages without too much hassle? I remember seeing similar errors while helping my friend upgrading from potato to sid. I don't know exactly where the problem lies, but reinstalling perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base and debconf seemed to fix it for us. You can't use apt-get just yet, but cd into /var/cache/apt/archives, you should find all the packages there. Simply install them using dpkg --install. Your mileage may vary, though. 2. Are there documents somewhere which are specific to installind sid/unstable? The documentation goes like this: 1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace every occurence of 'potato' or 'woody' with 'sid' and 'stable' or 'testing' with 'unstable'. 2. run apt-get update 3. run apt-get dist-upgrade If unstable weren't unstable, you shouldn't have had any problems whatsoever. Unfortunately this is not the case. Problems come and go as new packages are added and old ones upgraded, therefore an installation manual to unstable would always be outdated. Today there are known problems with perl and debconf, yesterday it was X4, day before yesterday glibc was fscked, and so on. Tomorrow it could be dpkg or apt that is broken. When woody was 'unstable' there was this following quote: This release is currently considered ``unstable''. That means that things *will* break if you run it. Naturally the same quote now applies to sid. Have fun. -- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG 1024D/68388EE66FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6
Re: About apt-get dist-upgrade
I agree the ,helixcode stuff needs to be unstable, for everything else you will be much better in the long run if you track one thing and going by stable testing or unstable is better IMHO because when a new version goes stable you will then get that without having to mess with your sources. Also keep in mind that running apt-get update on a regular basis is a good thing as this will get you any packages that have been added. That having been said stable will be very stable and for the most part you will only get new stuff from security and when it goes to 2.2r3 (or whatever in the future). BTW I suggest that you might change to the new name (ximian)for the Xiamian stuff. -- Original Message -- From: will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:50:51 -0600 On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:46:45PM -0600, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro,,, wrote: Hi! I use Debian since some months ago (potato). I did upgrade my box with apt-get dist-upgrade some times. But the last three or for seems like is nothing to upgrade exception from spidermonkey (gnome), so, It's better that I change my source.lists to woody, or to another server? Those are my actual lines: # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ slink updates deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps deb http://galeon.sourceforge.net/nightly/debian galeoncvsm18/ deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main if you're tracking stable, you should expect it to be pretty STABLE. that is, updates will be released only when there's a serious bug or hole that needs fixing. there shouldn't be much activity on STABLE (potato). if you're tracking unstable, then expect new stuff frequently. it's UNSTABLE, after all. your sources.list look like you're after SLINK and POTATO and WOODY all at the same time. i'm not an apt-get guru or a debian wizard, but that looks like trouble to me. i'd pick one and stick with it... ! -- See, if you were allowed to keep the money, you wouldn't create jobs with it. You'd throw it in the bushes or something. But the government will spend it, thereby creating jobs. -- Dave Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED]***http://www.dontUthink.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newbieDoc -- next week's newbie needs your brain: document your experience today! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape Woes
apt-get install netscape Also works well and get all the depends right. I do agree though that three or four installs are about right for learning. I would suggest that you try to apt-get everything you can things IMHO just work better that way. -- Original Message -- From: kmself@ix.netcom.com Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:46:00 -0800 on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:51:45PM -0600, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:12:22AM -0500, Howell Caton wrote: As a complete newbie, I had to install linux 2.2 several times before I got all the kinks worked out. Each time I downloaded netscape 2.76 from ftp.netscape.com. I'd get the error message libstdc++=libc6.1-1.so.2 not available. I solved that by linking it to libstdc++=libc6.1-2.so.3, which is probably not relevant, but I don't know for sure. Anyway, it worked. The last time I re-installed, I used netscape 3.? from the Debian distribution. It worked, but was hopelessly outdated. So I downloaded 4.76 again and installed it over my 3.? installation. When I ran it, I got a bus error message. Thinking that some files from my 3.? version wer still around causing incompatibitites with 4.76 stuff, I ripped everything out and re-installed 4.76. I still got the bus error message. I don't have a clue about how to troubleshoot this problem. Can anyone help? Thanks! First I don't know why you did the multiple installs of debian. Sometimes it is warranted but for the most part you can fix problems without reboots and reinstalling. I'm sure you gained some valuable install experience though. My experience has been that three installs of a new distro are often warrented: once to see how it works, twice to try to get it right, thrice to get it right. And yes, it's a good way to learn. Best thing to do is to keep the install to a minimum, allowing you to cycle through the sequence quickly. I tend to like to play extensively with partitioning and such. I almost always find I did something that I'd prefer to have differently. As to your current dilemma I would suggest you make life easy for yourself and use apt-get. I would clean out the netscape stuff you already have and apt-get install netscape-smotif-476 Ditto. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
Re: certification
IMHO, If you have the knowledge and are doing the certs to impress employers do the Red Hat cert. I say this because that is the name most of them are going to know. Then get the job and do whatever you want to because most of them won't know a Debian box from a Red Hat box. At work now I have talked my boss into letting me set up a Samba server. He has bought a box set or RH 7 to get support I'm installing Debian 2.2 even as I write this. Having said that the LPI certs are general and (at least they used to) have a distro specific part in which you could do Debian. -- Original Message -- From: Howell Caton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:25:16 -0500 Does anyone know how soon we might expect a certification program for Debian Linux. Certification is a good way to assure prospective employers that you know your stuff. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't use X as root
When I try to launch a X application as root it tells me the client can not connect to the server. It is a stock 2.2 X install does anyone have any thoughts on the subject? Thanks Ray
Re: USB and Potato 2.2.18pre21
My Logitech trackball also works like a dream. THis was the doc that got me over the hump. http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html -- Original Message -- From: Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:00:50 -0600 On Wednesday 10 January 2001 06:35, Olivier Billet wrote: Hi everyone, wonder if it's possible to set up an USB mouse under XFree86 3xxx ? I already have a PS/2 mouse so I tried to use the XInput section in the XF86Config with USB as Protocol I had the error USB not supported on this system ? I have a Logitech USB trackball working here with 2.2.18pre21. You need to build the kernel with USB support and add some entries in /dev. Documentation/usb in the source tree will tell you what you need to do. -- Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The OReilly Book distro
It was a hacked kernel that VA put together. This is the only O'Reilly book I've ever been sorry for buying. Read the online version buy Running Linux and get a cd from someplace else. -- Original Message -- From: Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:42:40 -0800 Has anybody else had a particularly hard time getting Xf86 running off of the CDs that come with Learning GNU/Linux? I saw some comment about this version being a mixed bag of versions. Thanks, Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux related employment
This is a general question for some of you who may be lucky enough to be able to use Linux in your jobs. Besides coding what skillsets would really set someone apart as a person looking for a Linux job? I'm currently thinking about what to start learning next and thought I'd ask. Sorry if this offends anyone. Thanks.
Re: Some refreshing news
Wine works well with some of them use the cvs builds. -- Original Message -- From: Gary Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:08:48 +0100 On 5 Jan 2001, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: upgraded my motherboard and CPU last night (from a Pentium 75 to a Celeron 500). The system is a dual boot system (Debian Linux, and Windows 95). I have been unable to boot into Windows (lots of errors, graphics look horrible, and finally kills me with a fatal error), but I have had no problems with getting back into Linux! I will have to reinstall Windows to see if I can get it working again (if they had kids learning games for Linux I would get rid of Windows entirely, but until then I am stuck with it) Wine? vmware? create a debian boot-disk before you reinstall windows; windows will clear the MBR (master boot record) during installation. Indeed. Obviously you wouldn't possibly want to have any other OS on your 'puter as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System security question
If you are printing locally I would suggest pdq and xpdq. Read about them on www.linuxprinting.org You can apt-get them from unstable and I think testing. If you just make a sym link called lpd pointing to pdq alot of things work very well. -- Original Message -- From: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:08:05 -0600 On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:15:53AM +1100, Martin Bishop wrote: Netstat shows the following services on my home machine: Active Internet connections (servers and established) *:printer This is lpd. You only need this if your mascine has a printer atteched to it AND accepts print jobs from other PCs. Id you don't have a printer then don't run lpd. If you have a printer but only print locally, I think you can unbind the tcp port but I'd have to look it up. I really hate lpd; I think it's the worst part of unix-like systems. *:dict This is a dictionary server ... not sure why you're running this :) *:sunrpc You only need this if you're running NFS or NIS (or some other RPC service). Chances are you're not, so remove the start links for portmap. *:auth This is the ident (RFC1412) protocol ... it's stupid but lots of servers want to connect here before they let you use the service. I recommend oidentd. *:smtp Unless you _receive_ mail from the network, you don't need to bind to the smtp port. For sending mail you simply need to run through the queue periodically. Exim used to have a default setup where reception was controlled by inetd and sending was a cronjob. I'm sure this is still documented somewhere (in other words, you don't run exim as a daemon, you fire off a queue runner every 10 minutes ...) HTH, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton
X 4.x in testing
I just noticed the Glibc 2.2 is now in testing. As I understood it this was one of the things that needed to happen before X 4.x went in. Does anyone know how soon this might happen? Thanks for any info.
Re: Debian and Pentium 4
I can't get to linux.com just now to find the article but basically it is Microshaft's fault. It seems that had Intel used the same versioning for cpuid that they have used up untill now it would have broken NT/2000 in a very bad way. (All the details are in the linux.com article I can't seem to get to right now) In any case Intel hacked the P4 to not break winders but they broke everything else in the meantime. This is one of the reasons why I will only use AMB for x86 boxen. When I can find the link I'll post it. -- Original Message -- From: Kay Nettle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:22:20 -0600 One of our profs bought a Dell 8100 Pentium 4 for home use and he wants to install Linux on it. He would like to install Debian, but he says that Debian doesn't support the Pentium 4 yet. Is this true? Kay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.4 kernel release
I have no idea where it will go first but I would think we should see it in Woody in the pretty near future. No the next version of Potato will be 2.2r3. Won't get a new version number till Woody goes stable. IMHO Woody should be 3.0 think about it a new major version of X and a new major version of the Kernel. Not to mention all of the other new stuff. I think it is time for a major version number change. What do the rest of you think? -- Original Message -- From: John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 12:37:14 +1100 With slashdot trumpeting the release of the 2.4 kernel i was wonderng if anyone can tell me where it will fit in the debian plan? Will it go into testing or be put off into the broader Unstable? or can it slot stright into the next Potato 2.2r3? (or would that be potato 2.4?) Cheers John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X window too big
From a xterm run xwininfo and click on the main window, this will give you the resolution that it is running at. Try ctrl-alt-numpad- till you get to the resolution that you want to be at. Odds are it will still look bad not to worry. From the xterm run xvidtune click OK on the scary message. Click on show and make a note of the modline it returns. Now use a combo of the vidtune controls and your monitors onscreen contorls to get it to look like you want it to no rolling flickering and that kind of stuff. Click on show again and it should give you a different modline. Now in your sf86config file find the modline that matches the first one and replace it with the second one. That should take care of it. -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 21:45:49 EST In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, the screen is huge. Actually it is just four times the size of my monitor screen and I have to move around the whole X screen using the mouse. So when I open a new window, I have to look around the other 3/4 of the screen to see where it opened. Any idea why this happened and how to rectify. thanks. nitai I was suggested two solutions for the above problem : 1. comment out the Virtual line in the Screen section. 2. put a virtual line with the mode I want. both these two failed to work. I have 4 screen section for VGA server, SVGA server, Monochrome server and Acclerated server. during Xconfiguration I chose the SVGA and that subsection doesn't have any virtual statement. Still I tried both the above methods. none worked. I have NVIDIA Riva TNT2 video card with 32 MB ram. please help, if you have any guess about the source of this problem. thanks. nitai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.4 kernel release
I had not heard that they where tracking kernel numbers but it would make sense to do it that way. -- Original Message -- From: John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:26:51 +1100 At 08:13 PM 1/4/2001 -0700, Ray Percival wrote: I have no idea where it will go first but I would think we should see it in Woody in the pretty near future. No the next version of Potato will be 2.2r3. Won't get a new version number till Woody goes stable. IMHO Woody should be 3.0 think about it a new major version of X and a new major version of the Kernel. Not to mention all of the other new stuff. I think it is time for a major version number change. What do the rest of you think? I'm hardly an expert.. but wasn't 3.0 waiting for the 3.0 kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Official Debian
This is the only O'Reilly book I regret having bought but the full text is online and has helped me a couple of times. All in all though a copy of Running Linux and a 2.2r2 cd would be the ideal solution. -- Original Message -- From: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:04:20 -0500 On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 08:45:42AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: O'Reilly has a Debian book, I seem to recall it having a 2.1 cd in the jacket. It's not a great book, and it's not 2.1. It's a hybrid from VA Linux systems. I had endless networking problems with the kernel on that CD. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/email.phtml
Re: Surely someone must have a solution to my recording problem?
I had some problems with 2.2 and the emu10k1 module with volume but they went away when I went to the 2.2.18 kernel and just compilied it in. -- Original Message -- From: Barry Samuels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:32:44 + (GMT) I have a SoundBlaster PCI 128 Live and I am running Debian 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17. Using the Emu modules everything works as expected except for sound recording. Sound recording creates a properly formated .Wav file except that the values are so low as to be inaudible! I am trying to record using input via the line input and this certainly gives audible sound via the speakers even when recording is supposed to be taking place. I haven't forgotten anything so silly as to un-mute the appropriate inputs unless there is a hidden mute somewhere that I don't know about. If I boot the machine into Windows and use the software supplied with the SoundBlaster I can create normal recordings, using signals from the line input, which will also play back under Debian. So I have ruled out hardware problems. I did contact the Emu people at Creative and I quote part of the reply below: === I looked at the file, and as you suspected it is a properly-formatted WAV file with almost-null data in it. Quite telling is the fact that the data isn't actually null -- but the values are incredibly small and aren't audible. What this is telling me is that recording _is_ taking place, but on an input which is inactive (through software or hardware -- can't tell). I was not expecting these results. I was thinking that either the file would be formatted incorrectly or that it would have true null data. In either of those cases, the problem would have likely been with either faulty recording software or with the configuration of the Live. As it is, I'm stumped as to what the problem is. === I have tried recording using a number of different Linux applications (e.g. khdrec, kmedia, krecord, gramofile) for recording together with different mixers ( e.g. kmix, aumix ) and various versions of the Emu modules but all to no avail. So - a brief resume: 1. He's stumped. 2. I'm stumped. 3. Everybody else, so far, is stumped. Is there a genius in the house? Barry Samuels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Official Debian
Me again, try www.cheapbytes.com for the cds they also have a book pack at the moment. Also for sure check out the online version of the O'Reilly Debian book but spend your money on Running Linux. -- Original Message -- From: Holp, John Mr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:40:18 -0500 Debian Warriors, Some time back I found a book listing titledOfficial Debian GNU/LInux 2.0 Linux 3 CD-ROM with new manual Does anyone know where I can purchase this book? I cannot find it today with any of the on-line book sellers. What I really need is a complete distribution of Debian on CD/s along with a book that takes the pain out of installing this distribution. The CD in the back of my book - Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed appears to be bad and there is no point of contact to ask questions. Thanks, John D. Holp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Official Debian
It would be quite a wait for Woody as they are now talking about it going frozen about May and then several months after that before it goes stable. -- Original Message -- From: D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:26:12 -0500 Potato is the current stable (version is 2.2r2) but a large number of packages are out of date. Woody is 'testing' now (not unstable any more) so I expect that it is now quite reasonable and will be 'stable' soon. If you don't need to install right away, I would recommend waiting a while and getting Woody instead. (though I doubt you would find a book with woody bundled in it, an older book should work just fine ; also there's this list :-)) HTH, -D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on the O'Reilly book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/
I assume you mean the O'Reilly Debian book. It is worth reading online the website not worth buying. There are a couple of books on the kernel one has all the source and comments (INAC so I have not looked at it) I also noticed that O'Reilly has a kernel book. -- Original Message -- From: Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:41:50 -0500 (EST) Has anyone read it and do you have an opinion on the least painful way to learn about the kernel...reading the source is presumably the only way if one really wants to get into the heart of the matter? -walter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB Trackball
Does anybody have a logitech Trackman Marble wheel working under X? And if so what do the xf86config entry look like for it? Thanks very much. (It is USB and it looks like the kernel is finding it right any advice please?
The Debian way (kernel)
I'm getting ready to go to kernel 2.2.18. I know there is a Debian way to do the kernel but damned if I can think of where I could find it. Could any of you please point me towards it and also anybody run into anything to be aware of with this one. I'm doing it mostly for the USB backports (think I may be getting some devices for xmas :)) In any case any advice would be very cool. Thanks.
Re: Digital Photo in Linux
You need to get the 2.2.18 kernel to get the USB backports after that your best hope is apt-get install gphoto and hope that they have it right now. -- Original Message -- From: Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:44:25 + (WET) Hi I have bought yesterday a (cheap) digital photo camera. It's an Kodak EZ200 (it uses the USB port). How can I use it under Linux? Thanks. -- Pedro Quaresma de Almeida e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A couple of questions
Hi all, Does anybody have a nice recipe for ssh to a machine behind a ipchains firewall with ipmasq? (It is floppyfw) I only have two machines behind the firewall and only want to connect to one of them. Also I can use xvidtune to fix my rolling problem (modline stuff) now how do I get X to use that modline by default. Thanks for your help.
Re: New documentation for Debian available
Not a very free license. Have you thought about using something like the Open Publication License with perhaps one of the optional clauses? I would contribute to something like that as it is I can't really see myself or alot of Debian users helping. Or am I just being anal? -- Original Message -- From: David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:44:25 -0600 (Central Standard Time) I am in the process of writing some documentation for Debian. It is oriented toward end-user desktop systems instead of servers. Eventually, it will give enough information to allow the end-user to set up a ocmplete home system including sound, printer, cd-burner etc. It is also oriented toward education rather than magic incantation. To emphasize this orientation, I have called the document Debian University. The document contains a number of courses that will enhance your knowledge of how Linux works and how Debian is set up. If you are the sort that says Just tell me how to get my wonderblaster 2000 working., then you probably won't care for Debian University. This is still very much a document in the making. Many of the courses I intend to write are still in the future. However, some courses are currently complete, so I am making it available now. I will be adding to Debian University as I have time. Please let me know if you find anything in the document confusing or less than explanatory. Debian University is available at: http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt Cheers, dar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian is not for me
What soundcard? -- Original Message -- From: Clayton Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:38:19 -0700 Yes! Debian is not for me. It does not recognize my sound card even though two other OS do (Win98 and SuSe6.4), that are on this same computer. There is no clear cut instructions on how to make this possible. I have read the Sound Howto and that still leaves me guessing. Then there is the printer and that is the same story. I installed Cups and there is no printer drivers available. You need to go and find a printer filter and that tells you to find the printer drivers elsewhere with no clear cut instructions. I can can get my mouse to work in Gnome with Icewm but then I have to go to a console to kill gpm so that it moves around in Gnome. So no thanks I will stick with distro's that have better instructions. Clay Stapleton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why does xmms take so long to start playing?
It sounds odd but tweaking my HD with hdparm made alot of my mp3 problems go away to understand why try playing a mp3 off of a parallel port zip drive. :) -- Original Message -- From: Thomas Halahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:10:06 +0100 dear deb users, i have xmms 1.2 on debian potato playing mp3's. when i had the same thing running on redhat the mp3 streaming would start after 10 seconds or so. however now on deb it takes up to 2 minutes to start playing after i press the play button. is there a reason for this. there doesn't seem to be any options for changing this. regards tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recipe for installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux?
Have you checked Woody? With many,but not all, packages it is really easy to just add unstable line to your apt sources run apt-get update and then grab the package take the line out run update again and you should be on your way. It has worked for me for a couple of packages that I just could not wait for. -- Original Message -- From: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:44:47 -0600 1) Is there a simple recipe for installing Tomcat and all required Java components for Debian? Last time I did it I got caught in various version incompatibilities w/ JDKs, JVM, etc. Debian did not have current versions at that time. The only JDK in dselect was from IBM, and incompatible with Tomcat. 2) When will tomcat 3.2 (current version) be available for Debian? Any recommendations of waiting, or just doing a straight D.I.Y. Tomcat install? I like to stay in sync with the Debian packages, because they are so intertwined (tangled!). Thanks, Gregory Guthrie Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (641)472-1125Fax: -1103 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: instalation of 'potato'
On any newer machine you should be able to just boot from the CD. -- Original Message -- From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:54:02 -0200 Hi Now, I`m using Windows 95 (with MSDOS), but I yet have the Debian2.2 CD for instalation. But I erased (for a mistake) the CD-ROM`s drive of my computer. To install the potato from debian2.2 CD, will I need to install again the CD-ROM drive (of the windows) , or no ? How must I do ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xmas shopping (will this bit of HW work)
I'm going to be getting a new mouse/trackball for xmas. Before I start telling people what I want though I thought I'd check with you all. So have any of you used the logitech Trackman Marble Wheel and in particular does it work with USB under a straight up 2.2 install? Thanks for any info.
Re: Netscape4.75 as root
This is not a flame but it is strongly worded. First of all Why in the world are you trying to run Netscape as root security matters and that is very insecure that is why by default you can not do it. Now seems like you are pretty new so a few security pointers. First of all DO NOT log in as root always login as a user and su or sudo to root. Also I would *never* run X as root you are just asking for problems at that point. And unless the app demands it (and if you are running such a app you should know why and how you are doing it) never run networking apps as root. This is a great big hole and there is no good reason to do it. -- Original Message -- From: Herman Christiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 07:31:16 -0800 Hello, You wrote: Hi! I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, snip Marcelo Not sure if Corel 2nd version is different from debian in this regard, but if I start Netscape first and then connect it works, if I connect first to the net Netscape won't start. HTH, Herman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Card
IMHO the SoundBlaster Live is a great card and very easy to set up. -- Original Message -- From: Timmy Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01 Dec 2000 15:55:23 -0600 Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone tell me what SOUND CARD would be the best to install on a Debian Box? Also the easiest would help.. I use a soundblaster pci 128. the es1371 kernel module works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Card
With the sblive you go to creative.opensource.com get the latest source snapshot compile and install like you would any other module the readme has good Debian instructions (read the *whole* thing first :)) Very easy and a very sweet card. -- Original Message -- From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:56:48 -0500 On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 04:23:34PM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote: Could someone tell me what SOUND CARD would be the best to install on a Debian Box? Also the easiest would help.. Try a Creative Soundblaster PCI 128 (or 64). I just got the SB 128 for around $25, and all you have to do to get it working is load the es1371 kernel module. That's as easy as it gets. Also the Ensoniq cards are just as easy to set up (and use the same modules, es1370 or es1371), and usually even a bit cheaper. As for best, though, I suppose the Creative Soundblaster Live! is a bit higher quality, particularly for games that use 3D audio. I know that one works just fine in Linux, but I have no experience with it so can't say anything about how easy it is to set up. -- Tom Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creative Labs sound card
Go to www.creative.com and search on those numbers (You might also try google) This will give you a card name at that point the best source of info for Linux drivers is opensource.creative.com. -- Original Message -- From: Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:45:49 -0500 Hi All, I'm trying to get my sound card to work. It's a Creative Labs card but I don't know much else about it. I have found the Model No. which is CT3600 and another number on one of it's bigger chips, CT2502-SDQ. Does anybody know what kernel options I need for it? Thanks, Andy __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hdparm
Ok all I have hdparm installed and working and with the help of a couple of online articles I have what I think is a stable setup for it (It's been running for about 2 weeks now with no problems and a great increase in performance) but now I want to add it to a startup script so my question is where would be the best place to add it? Thanks all.
Re: Command to determine resolution
xwinvid -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) Date: 30 Nov 2000 17:26:02 -0500 Is there a command available in Debian to determine what resolution is being used in an X session? Please Cc: me on any replies. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software Development from Russia! ($15-$20 per hour)
Good luck :) Ahh how I hate spammers. -- Original Message -- From: Frodo Baggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:36:07 +0100 (MET) urbanyon scripsit: isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really complaining... On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear IT Manager: Please consider deploying our highly skilled off-shore programmers on your e-commerce and software development projects. Well, not exactly ad-free... Debian lists are free-ad-free, i.e. people willing to post an ad should pay 1000 US$ per ad. Now, I don't belive for a second that [EMAIL PROTECTED] paid the fare, but I'm known as someone who do not trust human nature, may be I'm too cynical... By the way, If [EMAIL PROTECTED] realy didn't paid the 1000 US$ fare, he/she can be asked to pay 1999US$ penality. :) -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y--(+)+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Monitor rolling in X
Does anyone know of a larger X monitor database or source of info rather than the list that install with X? I'm looking for info on a proview monitor that is rolling in X. Right now I have it running at 1280X1024 at 60? Any hints or suggestions please?
Re: Sound config
Do this and be very carefull. Take a look at your /etc/apt/sources.list add a line for unstable. Do a apt-get update then do a apt-get install sndconfig. Then do not wait do not pass go do not collect $200 comment out the unstable line from your sources. Then do a apt-get update and press on. Yes there are some problems with doing it this way and yes apt might complain at you in the future but with the 1 or 2 packages I really need (pdq and xpdq) that I have done this with I have not broken anything. Maybe others can tell you bad stories but it works for me. -- Original Message -- From: Gian Piero Ascenso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 17:39:45 +0100 Hi, I've got a YAMAHA YMF715 sound chip on my mother board and I used to drive it with OPL3 SAx2 when I used Corel Linux. Now I'm using Debian 2.2 but I can't find the sndconfig tool I had in Corel. Apt-get couldn't fetch package sndconfig. I've looked into the mail-list archive and in Feb 2000 I found a message from Yannick Jentsin which should work fine, but it's a bit criptic for me. I don't know where to start from and what to do next. Is there anyone that can tell me what I should do, step by step? I've only the soundcore module compiled in the kernel. Where could I find opl3, opl3sa2? Thanks in advance. --Gian Piero -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: good sound cards?
The SBLive is a great card with *really* good support. I got mine well over a year ago I have no idea what they cost now but they are sweet cards. -- Original Message -- From: Kevin Krafthefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:56:42 -0600 Hello, I am adding sound to my debian machine and have had bad luck so far*. Could those of you fine list subscribers that have had a positive, enriching experience with installing and using your sound card on your GNU/Linux machine please send me the name of your sound card. Also, if you don't mind, please let me know roughly what it cost you. Thanks, Krafty * I purchased a card (au8810 chipset) based information I found on the LinuxHardwareDatabase only to find that the card required a PnPBios; my bios (for the asus A7V) detects the sound card while in PnP mode but not my NIC (which is only detected in non-PnP mode). So I am returning the sound card and keeping the NIC. Plus, Aureal went out of business recently. Go figure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sblive; kernel 2.2.12?
Just get the latest source snapshot off of opensource.creative.com it is towards the bottom of the page should work fine. -- Original Message -- From: Chris Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:47:19 -0800 (PST) Hi, all... I'm trying to install an SBLive into my linux machine and I'm having trouble getting the sblive module (v0.2) provided by Creative Labs for kernel 2.2.5 to install under 2.2.12. I enabled MODULE VERSION support for my kernel and recompiled everything, which I assumed would allow this module to load, even though it was built for 2.2.5, but insmod/modprobe keeps telling me that it's for kernel version 2.2.5 and refuses to load. Am I missing something? Thanks for any input! -Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Unidentified subject!
Try opensource.creative.com for drivers. -- Original Message -- From: Fran Argiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:09:20 +0100 I am unable to configure my soundblaster pci 128. With make modules I select sound suport- ensoniq pci97 (es1371) and oss modules. I have the 2.2.14 kernel version. When I try to install the es1371 it says device or resouce is busy..may be caused by irq or io inputs... How can I change the IRQ´s an IO values? Could it be a problem of conflict with another device? I say this because when I boot my PC the IRQ 10 is assigned in the PCI table to multimedia device and to a serial bus device. A beer.com Beer Mail fanatic Beer Mail, brought to you by your friends at beer.com. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI238 and kernel
opensource.creative.com -- Original Message -- From: Michael Epting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 06:21:19 -0800 In 2.4.0-test10, it´s Creative Ensoniq AudiioPCI 97 (ES1371). I have heard that some older PCI128´s might be ES1370, which is also available. If you check the archives, you will find several people saying that you need the ALSA drivers to make this card work. I can verify that it works with ALSA, but I recently made a second stab and now have it going with just the kernel modules. The trick is to have only this line in /etc/modutils/audio: alias sound-slot-0 es1371 When I was using ALSA I had problems with the sound breaking up when the CPU got busy (a 900 MHz Thunderbird, yet!), but no such problem now. On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:21:03PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have Creative Soundblaster Audio PCI238 sound card. I can't see this in the menu for the current kernel. Amyone know which entry to use? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
X color depth question
When I start X I get console messages that it is going into 8bpp color depth but once it is up it does not look like 256. I have tried commenting out everything but the 24 bit lines but then I get errors. I think the problem is the x server. I am using the SVGA server with a Viper 770 (TNT2) is there a better server out there for it? Also has anyone had luck with the X 4.0.1 packages from Woody with a 2.2 system? Thanks for any feedback and help.
Re: X for windows...
Try www.microimages.com/mix . It is pretty good and of course free. Then IMHO once you get them to the point they want to pay for a pretty darned sweet package look at exceed. -- Original Message -- From: Dominic Blythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:43:56 - Not strictly a debian question, but does anyone know of a freeware X client/server for MS Win so's I can get my win-addicted workplace running gui *nx ? pls reply direct as this list traffic is too high for me to subscribe __ Dominic Blythe Programmer BCP Ltd BCP House, 151 Charles St, Stockport, SK1 3JY t: 0161 355 3000 f: 0161 355 3001 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** * BCP Technical Services have checked this email for viruses * ** Tel:(0161)355-3000 / Fax:(0161)355-3001 / http://www.BCPSoftware.com If you have received this message in error, please forward the entire document to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and accept our sincere apologies. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Who is this virus sender????
He is stupid but most likely not out to get anyone. This is a melissa variant basically reads a MicroShaft address book and mails itself out over and over again. -- Original Message -- From: Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:14:56 -0500 The truth is that it is very starnge having a person sending over 20 messages to the list, all infected... I have never seen that before. Who is H.C.Hsiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: mouse problems in 'X'
What kind of mouse is it? Is it by chance an Intellimouse? -- Original Message -- From: Virginie-ML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 23:04:31 +0100 On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:31:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked in the archives and couldn't find the answer to my question. It is probably there but I just can't get the search string right. Anyway I've just installed Potato. The mouse works with gpm. The mouse doesn't work using fvwm. If I move the mouse it flits around the perimiter of the screen but there is no control. I've listed it as /dev/mouse in XF86Config. /dev/mouse is a link to gpmdata. It'a a ps/2 mouse. I've edited XF86Config changing to /dev/psaux and changing the permissions to 777. What am I doing wrong? Maybe you should try to stop gpm and take it away from your rc*.d files...that worked for me :) -- ^^ (_/°°-çVirginie | \_`- )/mutt|| \nn \nn -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: soundcard log messages
The Ensoniq message refers to the chipset for the SBLive. Looks like your driver has gone the way of all the world. -- Original Message -- From: Anthony Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Anthony Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 04:44:08 -0500 I have a Soundblaster Live XGamer soundcard for which I have the alsa drivers installed and working fine. When I booted my computer this morning, dmesg gives me the following two errors: Nov 14 09:06:09 driver kernel: snd: card 1 is out of range (0-0) Nov 14 09:06:09 driver kernel: snd: Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard #1 not found or device busy This is strange because 1) I have never seend the messages before and 2) I don't have an Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard. The only thing I have done is unplug the speakers from the soundcard and plug in a set of headphones, but I have don't think this should have affected anything. Does anyone know why I am seeing these messages and how I can get rid of them? Thanks in advance, Anthony -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: soundblaster PCI 128 driver
Tyr opensource.creative.com. The drivers are IMHO really good and although it is a bit hard to get them to work with Debian once you get them set up they work great. -- Original Message -- From: Danny Lathouwers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 11:01:45 +0100 Dear community, I've got a soundblaster audio PCI 128 card. It should be supported but the names of the device drivers did not appear to include this particular name. I also reviewed this list and saw that people had used the es1370 or alsa driver. Perhaps someone can shed some light on what device driver to actually use. Thanks. --- Danny Lathouwers Interfaculty Reactor Institute Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 15, 2629 JB Delft The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +31 15 2781192 Fax: +31 15 2786422
Re: SB Live! (XGamer)...
Or if you don't want to rebuild your kernel go to opensource.creative.com. -- Original Message -- From: S.Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:45:53 -0500 RM == Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RM I keep hearing this and I keep looking and I can't find it in RM my 2.2.17 source (from potato debian package). RM RM _Please_ point me to a file! RM I just looked at the kernel config for 2.2.17, and sure enough its there. Why don't you download the kernel source from http://www.kernel.org ? Unpack the source to /usr/src and start with make xconfig. Its under the Sound configuration menu, and the relevant option is Creative SBLive! (EMU10K1). The help text for that option reads: CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1: Say Y or M if you have a PCI sound card using the EMU10K1 chipset, such as the Creative SBLive! or SB PCI512. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: XFree 4.0.1
Of course since the .debs are apt-getable now would someone please explain to me the advantage of doing it by hand? -- Original Message -- From: Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03 Nov 2000 10:16:59 -0800 Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if you installed into /usr/local like your supposed to your fine, if you just overwrote random stuff in /usr your hosed. X wants to go in /usr/X11R6, /etc/X11, and so on. What you want to do is make a backup of all the relevant dirs before proceeding. On my system, they are /etc/X11 /usr/X11R6 /var/catman/X11R6 /usr/include/X11 /usr/lib/X11 /usr/share/lib/X11 Even if you didn't make a backup, I doubt that you've ruined your life by installing the tarball. Some things may be broken in 4.0.1, but that's about it. In the worst case you can always nuke the X directories and reinstall the debs. Right now I have both X3.3.6 and X4.0.1 installed, the former via debs and the latter via tarball. I switch between the two by symlinking to the appropriate directories, as in ln -s /etc/X11-3.3.6 /etc/X11 I can't recommend this approach without reservations, because I've only been using it for a few days and it may have broken things (though I can't see why it would off-hand). Don't let debian run your life! -chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dead hoarse, crawling away.
Did this make sense to anyone? Cause I sure as hell did not get it. -- Original Message -- From: guran remberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:05:25 + Hi I have just read an article by a chap named Kurt Seifrieds, which was mainly about security on Debian. I was alarmed and have decided to switch to Red Hat as many experts advises can be used to secure it. There are a few remarks I want to make as a sign off: Let me paraphrase a chap called Wittgenstein on a sentence like: This is a blue chair. Many humans could argue about whether the chair is a stool but most humans might start a big row about the correct colour of the object in question. Thus only a computer program might all the time return the same blue chair when asked to find it. In ordinary speak one might say that look at your dog or car and I might say who you are. One might then question whether humans which uses computers most of the time might change to believe that what they do or say in a true and scientific manner are actually a scientific truth. As an example take the warming up of the floppy disk drive when writing a boot disk. I have not locked my setting as advised but instead written down all values found when doing it. On two different machines I have found (1700 +/- 80) and (1600 +/- 80), and disks can be read by each drive. Thus the scientific method is wasted on an 'antenna' whose half-width is larger than the possible gap of settings. To hold on to what is proven science and not change might leave you in a pathetic stone age society. Instead you might learn about a natural way of living in 'Chaos' and not believe that the pendulum is fully mathematically mapped and understood. You can start by using the Lorentz contractor as your screensaver. It is then possible that you may be painting yourself into a corner, with your proprietary way of naming standard libraries and down-patching found bugs instead of upgrading. But it is a free choice and you may reign your way. bye guran -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Windowmaker themes?
Since installing a theme just consists of copying files into the right spots there is no need to have .debs just go to www.themes.org and find something you like and do what it says. -- Original Message -- From: Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:11:37 + Good morning! I've tried Gnome and KDE 2 but am utterly hooked on Windowmaker. But in these dark damp English autumn days it would be nice to have something brighter on the desktop than the tasteful and elegant but quiet themes that came with my Potato CD's - but I don't want to mess up my tasteful and elegant Debian filesystem. So is there a debian way of installing Windowmaker themes - or is there somewhere a repository of .deb themes that I haven't found yet? TIA Glyn M -- * None can love freedom heartily but good men; * *the rest love not freedom but license * *John Milton * -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: XFree 4.0.1
Go to debian.org/~branden Or if you are up with netscape under Debian go to the Debian entry in netscape and the X page it has all the info you need. -- Original Message -- From: Tom Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 19:19:02 +0100 Hi, i'm being downloading the whole debian distribution, quite awesome with ISDN ;) Well, but what i wanted to know, i read that potato 2.2 uses XFree 3.3.2. But my question is ..can i also use XFree 4.0.1 ? Because i want to develop with OpenGL so I should have OpenGL suport =) thx Tom -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie
I think the reason it is doing this is because XDM is running and putting you right into X Try ctrlaltf10 that should drop you out to a command prompt. My suggestion would be to remove XDM which you could do my running apt-get remove xdm. This is will let you play with various configs and boot you into a command line everytime. After you get everything back up right if you want to boot right into X again or use XDM you can of course apt-get install xdm. Good luck -- Original Message -- From: Jim Merante [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:19:27 -0800 Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows command? (BTW, if I have posted this on a non-newbie list, I apoloogize and I will seek help elsewhere) After I have configured X and go to run it, my monitor goes blank and the green light on the monitor turns to a yellow light (no signal). No problem, reboot and run xf86config again until I get the setting correct, right? Wrong. Everytime I boot after I have killed my screen, the OS skips right over the prompt and goes right into the blank screen. Now I have no doubt that this is my fault and perhaps even the fault of my vid card and I can live with having to rectify it. But I don't want to reinstall the system each time I change the config! I don't even mind going in to the file and changing things manually, if only I could get to a command prompt before my screen goes black! There has got to be a keystroke combination that will prompt the boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows command. Right...? Right...? Please help, Thanks -- Jim Merante Utility Trailer Mfg. Dealer Information Systems Administrator 626-854-7341 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Boot Problem
I would try reinstalling Lilo just off the top of my head that is what it looks like to me. -- Original Message -- From: Janos Kramar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:52:14 -0400 After installing Debian without any apparent problems and rebooting the computer without the boot disk, it says: MBR L 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 ... and so forth. It works fine with the boot disk. I have an hda unused approx. 5GB hard drive, a hdb dvd-rom, and hdc cd-rom, and an hdd 30GB hard-drive with an approx. 5GB ext2 partition and swap with Debian on it. What can I do to get it working properly? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
I have the same problem after installing the Sblive drivers. depmod -a does not work though. Any other thought please? -- Original Message -- From: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 02:58:32 -0700 Philipp Schulte wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:17:25AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Oct 25 00:08:06 jojda insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/m odules/2.2.17/modules.dep is somewhat troubling me, I have fairly plain debian unstable install, why do I get the message? Do a 'depmod -a' Phil it does not help at all, the reason why modules.conf is newer is because some program always updates it during reboot but modules.dep is not updated... does anybody else have the same problem? if not, how come I have this problem? I did not change startup scripts, everything is 'the debian way' erik -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato
Add deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distiributions/debian unstable main to /etc/apt/sources.list run apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade This will grab the helix stuff for you and leave everything else alone just to make sure read what packages it is going to upgrade before you say yes. I've done this it works well and I'm very happy with it. Apt? Is there anything it can't do? -- Original Message -- From: Martin Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:54:27 GMT Hello, I have a friend here who abandoned potato 'cos he couldn't get gnome helix running under potato. Can it be done (without resorting to woody)? How? Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Changing background wiht gnome+e
I am trying to change my background in E. The .jpg does not show up in the e background panel. I can change it with the gnome controls but when I switch desktops it reverts back to the background that is under the e panel. Any thoughts on how to solve this. Thanks. BTW to everyone who helped me with the sound driver problem thanks.
Re: mouse not working in x
What kind of mouse is it? -- Original Message -- From: Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:07:33 -0400 (EDT) - Original Message - From: Bob Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:51 AM Subject: mouse not working in x Greetings! Thanks to a kind reply from an earlier question, I now have a running xserver, but I have a different problem. The mouse doesn't work in x. I suspect that i have the mouse set up wrong in X. Question: (1) How can I find out which port linux recognizes my mouse at ? info: PS/2 mouse mouse is on IRQ 12 (according to windows) startup messages state PS/2 port recognized mouse works in windows Regards, Bob Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Do you have installed gpm, the consolse mouse driver? Then remove gpm or kill it with gpm -k before starting X cause the X mouse driver can´t work if gpm is running. Matthias I have gpm running while X runs, and I don't think it makes any difference? Most likely your mouse protocol in XF86Config file has been misconfigured. -walter -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
PGP
When trying to create a new pgp key using pgp -kg it goes through the process and then tries to create the key I get the error. Can't create output file '/home/ray/.pgp/secring.pgp Keygen error. Any thoughts?
Installing kernel sources
Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel sources on 2.2. Thanks very much
Re: xdm
apt-get remove xdm should do the job. -- Original Message -- From: Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:40:17 -0400 Hi, How do I stop debian booting into xwindows? I stupidly must have set it to that. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: xdm
apt-get remove xdm will work and you should not lose anything at least I have not noticed. -- Original Message -- From: Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 21:13:07 -0400 Hi, I have been trying to configure XF86 setup. Some how I screwed up and now debian boots into xwindows which would not be such a big deal but it locks up. I can telnet in but how do I re-configure it to boot to command prompt instead? Thanks again.. Eileen Orbell Software Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Crypto
I'm looking for a good command line tool to encrypt /home with I need something that can handle large (4096 bit) keys. Any suggestions? Thanks very much.
Re: Pine
I have not looked in the recent past but have they cleared up the buffer overflow problems with Pine? If not you might be better off with something else. To try and answer the question have you tried apt-get install pine ? Should work like a charm. -- Original Message -- From: Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:07:10 -0400 Hi, I have just installed Debian 2.2 after being a RH user for quite some time. I currently trying to install the pine package which I downloaded from us.debian.org. The commands I issued were dpkg -i pine4-src.1.deb I then changed to the usr/src/pine4 directory (AND READ THE READ ME FILE) issued the commands in the readme file but I get this error msg when I run debian/rules binary install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin install bin/pine No such file or directory Any help would be appreciated... Thanx Eileen Orbell Software Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Proview monitor
Does anybody have a good working config for a pro-900 series monitior. Thanks much for any help.
Re: Processor
Either one CPU should work well. Just pick your mobo well. What I have done in the past is look at the system specs on VA's and penguincomputing's pages and try to find out what they put in their systems. I have also emailed their sales people and have been given the mobos that they use that way. IMHO that is the important part. -- Original Message -- From: william Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:42:48 GMT For any version of linux i was wondering what the best chooose would be to build a computer for home use. I have a p2 300mhz and was going to upgrade to a 600mhz p2 or 700 mhz athlon processor and was wondering which is the best to choose _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Dialpad
Has anyone been able to make dialpad work under Linux? This is my last step to getting rid of winders once and for all. Thanks for any info.
Re: Books suggestions / ports question
I would add Building Internet Firewall's the 2nd edition to that for sure. Really good book. -- Original Message -- From: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:19:15 +0200 Fellow debs, o First, can anyone tell me if the book UNIX Power Tools is any good? It's from O'Reilly. If not, what alternatives are there to it? Any other book(s) one simply *must* own? :) Topics: UNIX / Linux / Networking / C Programming My current collection comprises DNS BIND, Linux in a Nutshell, Learning the Bash shell, Learning Debian/GNU Linux (sucky) and finally Linux Network Administrator's Guide, all from O'Reilly. o Second, where can I find infos on what ports Napster uses. Seems to work just fine with my current ruleset. I'd like to *know* what's going on though. :) Cheers Sven -- I can't be wrong, my modem's got error-correction. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Two questions: Security and mouse
Hi all, I have a Intellimouse (I know I know I bought it before I knew the one true way) In any case I can get it to work right as a ps2 mouse but using xf86setup I can not get it to work right as an intellimouse. It will jump around and not work at all when I choose intellimouse. Any thoughts on what I need to change to fix this. Also has anyone tried running Bastille Linux on a 2.2 system? According to their webpage it should work. Just wondering if anyone has had good luck doing it. Thanks much, Ray
Re: URGENT Network Config Pb
If you know what your numbers should be ifconfig will let you look at and change them. -- Original Message -- From: Olivier Billet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 18:40:12 +0200 Hi everybody !!! Here's the problem : I have an Ethernet card and it seems like I configure it correctly -- all ping in the first network work. But the problem is when I try to do a ftp on some 'far' machines. So I guess the mask and/or the gateways are not set correctly. But where have I to do this configuration ??? PS: question subsidiaire (maybe OFF TOPIC) What should I do to get a quite secure system (close which port, how, usw...) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
