Re: how to find bad blocks

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi,

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:44:02 +0100
Vadkan Jozsef  wrote:

> We have a samsung hdd, that keeps falling out of raid, but there are no
> bad blocks on it, according to "badblocks" prog.

Did you use the write scan? (parameter -w for destructive write, -n for 
non-destructive write -- both cannot be used on mounted devices).


Cheers

Stephan


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Re: ntfs mount errors

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:51:50 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:17:21PM -0400, Phill Atwood wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Success.  Although I can't say that I really understand. Setting
> > umask=0222 in the /etc/fstab file did the trick.  I don't understand why
> > mounting a ro partition to a directory with just write permissions would
> > work. 0544 or 0555 seemed the more logical thing to try...
(...)
> So I'm not sure how that translates to the first digit since i'm sure
> you don't want a perm to come out 7555 using umask of 0222 but maybe
> someone can enlighten

Well, wikipedia says ;), the bitwise-inverted umask is bitwise ANDed with the 
*default "full permission"*, i.e. 666 for files and 777 for dirs. This should 
mean, 0666 and 0777, if I am understanding it right (see interpretation for 
missing digits in chmod(1)). Thus:

000 110 110 110 AND
not(000 010 010 010) =
000 110 110 110 AND
111 101 101 101 = 0444

For dirs, the result is 0555.

> > c) Even after this success, dmesg shows:
> > 
> > NTFS volume version 3.1.
> > NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): Unsupported volume
> > flags 0x4000 encountered.
(...) 
> i see that a lot and never have any problems. FWIW. but avoid writing
> in ntfs if you can.

That's really strange ... but I'm pretty sure that's not debian-specific (as I 
found this on forums for all kinds of distros).

> > > Another thing: If you also need write access onto ntfs, and want read 
> > > access onto compressed files, then the ntfs-3g driver might be 
> > > interesting for you. For newbies however, it might not be that easy to 
> > > install... you need to make a package for stable yourself. On the other 
> > > hand, if you'd need it, I can just do an update/recompile here on my 
> > > system and send the resulting package to you via email.
> 
> is it in backports?

Yep, that's a good hint: ntfs-3g ver 1.516 (slightly outdated) is available if 
you add the line:

deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

into your /etc/apt/sources.list, do apt-get update, and then install.


Cheers,

Stephan


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Re: ntfs mount errors

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:26:41 -0400
Phill Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Further to my problem of not being able to automatically mount my
> windows xp partition and cd to it as a regular user.
> 
> >from dmesg:
> 
> NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
> NTFS volume version 3.1.
> NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): Unsupported volume
> flags 0x4000 encountered.
> NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): Volume has
> unsupported flags set.  Will not be able to remount read-write.  Run
> chkdsk and mount in Windows.



Hi there,

I have no information about what was discussed before, but to me this looks 
like: Boot into windoze. Click on Start->Execute (don't know how this is 
exactly called on English windoze) or open a command window (cmd.exe). There, 
type: chkdsk /f . Tell windoze you want it to check the disk at reboot. Reboot 
into windoze, and let chkdsk repair the disk. Then reboot into linux and see 
what happens.

Cheers,

Stephan


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Re: ntfs mount errors

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:26:41 -0400
Phill Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Further to my problem of not being able to automatically mount my
> windows xp partition and cd to it as a regular user.
> 
> >from dmesg:
> 
> NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
> NTFS volume version 3.1.
> NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): Unsupported volume
> flags 0x4000 encountered.
> NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): Volume has
> unsupported flags set.  Will not be able to remount read-write.  Run
> chkdsk and mount in Windows.



Hi there,

I have no information about what was discussed before, but to me this looks 
like: Boot into windoze. Click on Start->Execute (don't know how this is 
exactly called on English windoze) or open a command window (cmd.exe). There, 
type: chkdsk /f . Tell windoze you want it to check the disk at reboot. Reboot 
into windoze, and let chkdsk repair the disk. Then reboot into linux and see 
what happens.

Cheers,

Stephan


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Mozilla 1.4 won't display TT fonts (mozilla-xft installed)

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

I've got a woody system; yesterday I decided to compile gtk2.0 v2.2
etc. and mozilla from unstable. Mozilla is now running fine but it
won't display truetype fonts (I also cannot select them in the
preferences dialog), although I've installed xfstt and have the
following lines in /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref/unix.js

// TrueType
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
// if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in
// it is best to leave hinting off
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", true);
// below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results
pref("font.antialias.min",10);
pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 100);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 64);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.8");
// sample prefs for TrueType font dirs
pref("font.directory.truetype.1",
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType");
pref("font.FreeType2.printing", true);



/* reject font if accept pattern does not match it... */
pref("print.xprint.font.acceptfontpattern", ".*");
/* reject font if reject pattern matches it...
 * Current bans:
 * - bug 148470 ("Ban "-dt-*" (bitmap!!) fonts from Xprint")
 *  
pattern="fname=-dt-.*;scalable=.*;outline_scaled=false;xdisplay=.*;x
dpy=.*;ydpy=.*;xdevice=.*"
 */
pref("print.xprint.font.rejectfontpattern",

"fname=-dt-.*;scalable=.*;outline_scaled=false;xdisplay=.*;xdpy=.*;y
dpy=.*;xdevice=.*");


the following lines in /etc/mozilla/prefs.js:

// TryeType
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", true);
pref("font.antialias.min",10);
pref("font.directory.truetype.1",
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType");

and the following lines in /etc/mozilla/mozillarc:

MOZILLA_DSP=none
USE_GDKXFT=true


There is no ~/.mozillarc, so I've got no clue why mozilla doesn't do
what I want... Can anyone please give me a hint?


TIA,

Stephan Hachinger


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Re: Flash player for Konqueror

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:17:05 +0100
Willem-Jan Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a flash-player for konqueror? If it is, where can I find
> it?

Hi!

Take a look at

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/flashplugin-nonfree.html

If you don't run unstable, you can drop me a mail, I'll send you a
package compiled for stable. The package will - when installing -
download the mozilla/netscape plugin from the macromedia server (or
something like that ;) ) and install the plugin; this
mozilla/netscape plugin can also be used in konqueror (see
configuration.. netscape plugins -  you only have to set the right
directory and search for netscape plugins).

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger


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Re: Flash player for Konqueror

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:17:05 +0100
Willem-Jan Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a flash-player for konqueror? If it is, where can I find
> it?

Hi!

Take a look at

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/flashplugin-nonfree.html

If you don't run unstable, you can drop me a mail, I'll send you a
package compiled for stable. The package will - when installing -
download the mozilla/netscape plugin from the macromedia server (or
something like that ;) ) and install the plugin; this
mozilla/netscape plugin can also be used in konqueror (see
configuration.. netscape plugins -  you only have to set the right
directory and search for netscape plugins).

Regards,

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Re: aha-2940 scsi controller problem

[Stephan Hachinger]

- Original Message - 
From: "Andraz Sraka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: aha-2940 scsi controller problem

>> 
>> Are you sure that the controller and drive is properly connected
>and> terminated and that the drive power connector is ok?
>
>i believe so, because if not, the controller wouldn't recognize it
>at the first place while booting (before linux booting), right? 

Hmm, not necessarily... I once had a broken scsi cable and it
produced quite different kind of errors... the drives were neither
fully disconnected nor working properly.

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Re: aha-2940 scsi controller problem

[Stephan Hachinger]

On 06 Oct 2002 12:55:08 +0200
Andraz Sraka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> as aic7xxx_old module. With aic7xxx_old the whole thing doesn't
> work at all, because the SCSI bus is being reset all the time. (see
> enclosed log file), aic7xxx module also dumps a sort of strange
> output and cdrom still doesn't work (cdrecord -scanbus doesn't
> print the right output as well as I cannot mount cdrom), although
> in both cases scsi controller"recognizes" cdrom. What am I missing
> here .. is maybe a scsi controller b0rk3n?
 

Hi!

Are you sure that the controller and drive is properly connected and
terminated and that the drive power connector is ok?

Regards,

Stephan


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Re: alsa help needed desperately!

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Hmm, I think the problem is that your alsa channels are *muted* by
default and you need a suitable mixer application to change the
volume... there also seems to be a mixer setup problem at my machine
here *g*, but at least I can use the kde mixer, when oss mixer
emulation is loaded (module snd-mixer-oss). Maybe you could try
alsamixer from alsa-utils, I think it's even got a little "GUI". Note
that you'll also need the snd-pcm-oss module if you want to use
programs which need the old oss sound system.

Regards,

Stephan

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:25:00 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin A. Hansen) wrote:

> ok, i guess i should not use xamixer2 then. (i never have before,
> but im desperate). anyway you are telling me that xamixer fails of
> natural causes, so back to the drawing table ...
> 
> 
> by the way. user is added to group audio:
> 
> root@homer:/etc# grep audio group
> audio:x:29:maasha
> 
> but again, as im trying to get sound to work as root - this should
> not be relevant (for the time being).
> 
> martin
> 
> > | xamixer2 uses the 0.4 ALSA API. If your alsa version is 0.9,
> > | that would explain why xamixer failed.
> 
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Re: download 3.0 CD's?

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

For 3.0 (woody), the program "jigdo-easy" should work (but not for
sarge or sid)... you will be guided through the menus quite well,
see:

http://cdimage.debian.org/~costar/jigdo/

Regards,

Stephan

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:57:09 -0500
xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi, I am trying to download version 3.0 CD images. I can only do
> this on a Windows machine because that is where the fast connection
> is. All the mirrors I go to still only have 2.2. I don't know how
> the "jigdo" works or if it is available for Windows. 
> How do I do this?
> 
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> thanks you!!
> 
> Jim
> 
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Re: alsa help needed desperately!

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Are the devices /dev/amixer0, /dev/adsp0 etc. there? If not, run
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base/examples/snddevices

Regards,

Stephan

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:31:23 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin A. Hansen) wrote:

> sorry. here goes:
> 
> root@homer:/etc/alsa/modutils# ls -l /dev/mixer0 /dev/dsp0
> crwxrwxrwx1 root audio 14,   3 18 sep 20:34 /dev/dsp0
> crw-rw1 root audio 14,   0 18 sep 20:34 /dev/mixer0
> 
> 
> by the way, i can provoke some errors with xamixer2:
> -
> root@homer:/etc/alsa/modutils# xamixer2
> Unable to get hardware information about card #0!
> Error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> Trying to guess the appropriate values.
> Unable to open mixer #0 on card #0~
> Error: No such file or directory
> Unable to get the info for mixer #0 on card 0!  Error: Invalid
> argument There's not much more I can do on this mixer.  Shutting it
> down. Oh well.  I couldn't even close the mixer.  I suspect that
> something is seriously wrong here.  Good luck.
> --
> 
> perhaps it is useful for diagnostics ?
> 
> martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Nope, that was for the symlink.  Now, let's look at the real
> > permissions those of:
> > 
> > - /dev/mixer0
> > - /dev/dsp0
> > 
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Re: Konqueror slowness

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

I have absolutely the same problem, although my kdebase and -libs are
self-compiled... I'm already talking about this with Dirk Mueller,
one of the kde team. If you don't bother, I'll forward your problem
report to him.

Regards,

Stephan

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:30:50 -0500
Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Konqueror takes an extremely long time to load pages on my system
> compared to mozilla/galeon. Has anyone had a similar problem?
> 
> I went to theregister in konq and then while it was loading, I
> lanched galeon, loaded the site and came back and started typing
> this before konqueror loaded the site (~17 seconds just for the
> main content area showed up). Reload takes roughly the same amount
> of time.
> 
> I don't remember that having been the case in the past, and
> couldn't find anyone else reporting this problem (everyone always
> talks about konq being fast). Any thoughts on what I might have
> done to upset it? I am using the 3.0.3 debs from the kde site.
> 
> 
> -Mark
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Re: true type fonts won't work...

[Stephan Hachinger]

- Original Message -
From: "Ronald Verlaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Debian User" 
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: true type fonts won't work...


> On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
>
> Hi Stephan,
>
(...)
>
> That is exactly what I did!
> And I have read all howtoos on this subject I guess :P
>
> Can it be that something went wrong during compiling kde (with respect to
> truetype support or something...) ?
>

No, definitely not. If the xfstt server supplies the fonts, they can be used
immediately without problems. What does xfstt --sync print out? Can you
select the truetype fonts in xfontsel (xbase-clients package)?

Cheers,

Stephan


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Re: Solved: How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?

[Stephan Hachinger]

- Original Message -
From: "Ivo Wever" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user" 
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 1:37 AM
Subject: Solved: How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?


> Thanks, it worked. I now even have sound under X, even though artsd
> doesn't start with the option for alsa-compatability. I've yet to
> figure out why :)
>

Hi!

The artsd from libarts-alsa doesn't like alsa 0.5 when the alsa option is
activated, I think. If you have alsa 0.5 you'll have to install 0.9.x or so.
Or just keep the OSS setting or "autodetect" ;). And you might have to run
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base/examples/snddevices once if you haven't done so yet
(creates the alsa devices in /dev).

Cheers,

Stephan


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Re: true type fonts won't work...

[Stephan Hachinger]

- Original Message -
From: "Ronald Verlaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Peter Whysall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Debian User Mailinglist" 
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: true type fonts won't work...


> On 16 Jun 2002, Peter Whysall wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> > > Any hints?
> >
> > Are you loading the "freetype" module in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ?
> Yes I did :P
> Thanx anyway!
>
Hi!

Another very easy way is installing xfstt and placing your truetype fonts in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype, adding unix:/7100 (besides unix:/7101 for xfs, I
think) to the FontPath in XF86Config-4. Then install ttmkfdir and tetex-bin
and a package containing "mkfontdir" (i.e. xutils, I think (again *g*)). Go
to the directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype, call the script in the first
chapter of this howto:
http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/howto/HOWTO/TT-Debian/TT-Debian-5.html , call
ttmkfdir > fonts.scale , call mkfontdir and look if ./fonts.dir contains the
font names ;). Then call xfstt --sync . Your fonts should be available to X
now. (after a restart of your X server). Finally, you should make your fonts
available for printing (gs), as described in
http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/howto/HOWTO/TT-Debian/TT-Debian-4.html ; you
should only take care for where your gs Fontmap actually is (I think it's
now somewhere else than in /etc, see dpkg -S *Fontmap* for the right
location), and change the line xfstt --gslist --sync >> /etc/gs.Fontmap
accordingly. The author of the howto describes, that one should edit the
Fontmap file manually afterwards. That's right. If gs cannot find a font
in - for example a kde document whcih you want to print - , though, and uses
the default font instead, the following way helped at my machine (if I
remember correctly):

1) Force printing to ps.
2) Call gs 
3) Watch gs output: It will say which font it does not find.
4) Take a look at  with an editor and search for the font definition
of the font not found - you will find that the spelling differs slightly
from the one at your Fontmap or so.
5) Put a new alias in your Fontmap which "maps the different spelling" to
the one you've used in your Fontmap before.

Aliases work like this:

/Arial/MS-Arial   ;

means: use previously defined font MS-Arial for Arial, if Arial is requested
by a document.

(For further information: The whole howto is at:
http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/howto/HOWTO/TT-Debian/ ).

Cheers,

Stephan


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Re: Problems installing woody

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:57:13 -0300
"Francisco Fialho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Michael,
> 
> I couldn`t mount the /cdrom
> even changing my /etc/fstab
> to /dev/hdc... got the same
> message: /dev/hdc is not a block device.
> 
> regards
> 

Hi!

Do you know which controller your drive is connected to?

If it is...

... at the primary controller, slave position: try "mount /dev/hdb
/cdrom"

... at the secondary controller, master position: try "mount /dev/hdc
/cdrom"

... at the secondary controller, slave position: try "mount /dev/hdd
/cdrom"

... at the scsi controller: try "mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom"

You can also try out all those possibilities. Or you press shift+PgUp
(several times) after having booted, so you can see what the kernel
has printed out (and usually also a message about detected cdrom's);
you come back down by pressing shift+PgDn.


Cheers,

Stephan


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Re: Problems installing woody

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:01:31 -0300
"Francisco Fialho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> I`m trying to install  woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with
Celeron 500> processor,
> 128 mem, and onboard video (SIS530/620) and network
drivers(SIS900)...> 
> when I finished my first installation I could ping the local and
external> network just
> fine, but I cannot enter in graphic mode. I already did an apt-get
install> in almost
> all of the xserver-* that I found...:-/


Hi!

First of all, remove all xserver-* packages except xserver-xfree86
(and of course xserver-common) which must be installed. If you don't
know at all what to install to get a running X system, just remove
the xserver-packages except the both mentioned, and then apt-get
install x-window-system (as Bob mentioned).

Is this a laptop which you're trying to install Debian on? If yes,
then the following could help, if not, read on below the next three
paragraphs ;):

It is quite normal that X doesn't run on such a machine, because the
X driver does not know how to handle a certain part which drives the
LCD display or so. But there's a good sis driver under
http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml which solves the
problem. I'd first try not to change the kernel (If you don't know
what you're doing), but only to install the X driver. Don't get
frustrated because there's so much information on the page - the
setup instructions which'll probably work for you are in the part:
"Variant 4: I want to use X without DRI". You'll just have to
download the precompiled driver for X4.1 and place it in the
directory which is mentioned on the site. Then, you do
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" at the console and choose the
"sis" driver in the configuration process. Choose a monitor type
which can handle the resolution you normally have on your LCD at 60
Hz, and choose the resolution you want to have; choose 16 for the
colour depth (or 24 if you desperately need many, many colours ;) ).
Now, don't start X immediately! First, edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
file (for example, go to this directory with the file manager "mc"
("apt-get install mc" and then just type "mc") and select "Edit") (if
it isn't there, edit the "XF86Config" file!) as described on the
winischhofer site under the link "example XF86Config-4". The most
important sections are, if I remember correctly:

-The Section "Monitor": There must not be any "Mode Lines", if any is
there, delete them (delete lines: F8 key in MC editor). But be
careful not to delete the "EndSection" signature at the end of the
monitor section ;). VertRefresh must be set to 50-75, HorizSync to
30-90. ATTENTION: If this isn't set correctly-The section "Device":
The driver must be "sis" (with those quotation marks!). The option
"MaxXFBMem" should be set to "8192" (also both with quotation
marks!). A "mem" or "video ram" option or something like that is not
needed for those adapters, and should not be used. (if it is there,
just change it to a comment by adding a "# " at the beginning of the
line.

BTW, the format of this configuration file mostly looks like this:
   ""
Option  ""  ""
Option  ""
between keyword and value or between the keyword Option and the
optionname or before any keyword, you can use tabs or spaces, as you
want, I think.

After having configured the file, just try "startx".

If you don't have a laptop, just try to configure the x server
correctly by dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (choose sis driver and
a reasonable monitor (never run a monitor at too high frequencies -
serious demage can occur!)).

If you've got further problems, you can write me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just configured two laptops with similar video adapters ;).

Cheers,

Stephan



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Re: SCSI will not compile into kernel

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

This is quite strange, as the file
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scs/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_symbol.h does not
even contain the string "aicdb.h" here at my machine
(kernel-source-2.4.18). I've also compiled this driver several times
w/o any problems. So I would suggest that you should look into the
aicasm_symbol.h if it contains the string "aicdb" and if it does, 
replace the kernel sources (just delete the old ones, fetch package
kernel-source-2.4.18, uncompress bz2 or gz file lying around in
/usr/src and (in the same directory) ln -s kernel-source-1.4.18
linux). To accelerate the whole configuration etc., you can of course
save the .config file from your current kernel directory somewhere
and just copy it back into the (new) kernel source dir after having
replaced the source, so that you won't have to set the old
configuration options manually.

Cheers,

Stephan


On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 14:07:28 -0400
Robert Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi everyone. I am trying to compile a 2.4.18 kernel and am running
into > problems when the SCSI section tries to complete. I downloaded
the > kernel from kernel.org and have tried many time to get it to
work. Can > anyone give me an idea as to what I may be doing wrong??
The error I get > when doing make bzImage is below:
> 
> 
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi'
> make -C aic7xxx
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx'
> make all_targets
> make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx'
> make -C aicasm
> make[5]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm'> yacc -d aicasm_gram.y
> aicasm_gram.y:694: warning: previous rule lacks an ending `;'
> aicasm_gram.y:708: warning: previous rule lacks an ending `;'
> mv y.tab.c aicasm_gram.c
> lex  -t aicasm_scan.l > aicasm_scan.c
> *** Install db development libraries
> gcc -I/usr/include -I. -ldb aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c 
> aicasm_symbol.c -o aicasm
> aicasm_gram.y:1485: warning: type mismatch with previous implicit 
> declaration
> /usr/share/bison/bison.simple:924: warning: previous implicit 
> declaration of `yyerror'
> aicasm_gram.y:1485: warning: `yyerror' was previously implicitly 
> declared to return `int'
> aicasm_symbol.c:47: aicdb.h: No such file or directory
> make[5]: *** [aicasm] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm'> make[4]: ***
[aicasm/aicasm] Error 2> make[4]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx'> make[3]: *** [first_rule]
Error 2> make[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx'> make[2]: *** [_subdir_aic7xxx]
Error 2> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi'
> make[1]: *** [_subdir_scsi] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
> make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
> mail1:/usr/src/linux#
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
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Re: kernel compile in woody

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

I've always been compiling the kernel without use of make-kpkg etc.,
and so it just stayed the same for me. 

But I also think that the make-kpkg way has stayed the same. I've
recommended it to some friends and I did it like this in woody (on my
friends' machines):

-make-kpkg --bzimage --config menuconfig binary-arch  (or similar)
-install the package you get.

Dunno this is exactly the same as in potato but as I said, I think it
should not be any different.

Cheers,

Stephan Hachinger

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:31:08 -0300
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> are the steps to compile a new kernel in woody the same as in
potato?> 
> TIA
> 
> Marcelo
> 
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Re: SV: Tekram 315U PCI

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

OK, now here is the explanation on the kernel configuration and
compilation. If you have problems with getting the packages required,
you can write me.

1.) The following packages should be installed: libncurses4-dev or
libncurses-dev or libncurses5-dev; kernel-package, binutils, bin86,
make , a gcc package (gcc, gcc-2.95, g++, g++-2.95) and all packages
these ones depend on. (dunno if I'm missing anything here; if the
compilation scripts complain about a missing file, you can search for
the appropriate package at http://packages.debian.org (use the search
form at the bottom).

2.) You now need kernel sources. Firstly, look around which kernel
version you have by "dmesg |more". This command will show you the
kernel output from tehe startup, and you'll see if your kernel is
version 2.2.x or 2.4.x (or if it's very old, 2.0.x). The kernel
sources package you'll have to install depend on the distro you have
and what kernel you have now:

If you have the potato (stable/2.2) distribution and...
... kernel 2.0.x, install kernel-source-2.0.38
... kernel 2.2.x, install kernel-source-2.2.19

If you have the testing distribution and...
... kernel 2.2.x, install kernel-source-2.2.20
... kernel 2.4.x, install kernel-source-2.4.18

if you do not have one of these packages, install the most recent
kernel-source 2.x.y package available, where x must be the same
number which is in your running kernel, y is the higehest number
which you have a package for.

3.) Now, go (that means cd, most the work is done on a console!!!) to
/usr/src/ . There you'll find a file named
kernel-source-2.x.y.tar.bz2 or (...).gz Now, uncompress this package,
by tar xzf .gz or by tar xjf .bz2 ; this depends
on how your sources are compressed. With older tar programs, you must
use xIf (where I is a capital "i") instead of xjf. The kernel-sources
are now uncompressed; you'll find a new directory under /usr/src with
the kernel insinde; now create a symbolic link named linux in
/usr/src, which points onto the kernel directory to do this, do the
following:

cd /usr/src
ln -s  linux

4.) Install the tekram315 patches. For getting the newest patch,
download http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/dc395-138.tar.gz into
the /usr/src dir and uncompress it by tar xzf. Now, go into
/usr/src/dc395 and do the following copy actions:

cp -p dc395x_trm.* /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/
cp -p READ* /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/

and now the patching:

cd /usr/src/linux
patch -p1 < /usr/src/dc395/dc395-integ2x.diff where x stands for the
second number in your kernel version (0,2,4).

Patch will tell you if it was successful, if errors have occured only
while patching readme files or not at all, it will probably work.

5.) Go into /usr/src/linux and call: make-kpkg --config menuconfig
--bzimage binary-arch This will start kernel-configuration and
compilation. You can now choose, which drivers should be built into
your selfmade kernel. There are two different ways of loading drivers
in linux: Either, they are compiled directly into the kernel, or they
are compiled as modules. Modules are drivers which can be loaded
while the system is running; the kernel even can load modules it
needs dynamically. I personally would choose to build all important
drivers directly into the kernel when doing a compile for the first
time, because you won't have to care about loading modules then.
Attention: Don't ever compile the ext2 filesystem driver as a module.
This leads to a chicken-egg-problem: The kernel cannot load the
filesystem where the modules are on and you can only boot by
bootdisk/boot-cd. Compile it straight into the kernel! Cause it would
be too long if I would explain the whole configuration here, I'll
only give some hints; carefully walk through the menus and choose the
options, many also have a help text:

You'll need to enable "Experimental or new drivers" because the
realtek driver is "new" if you're using a 2.2 kernel. Enabling or
switching options to "compile as module" (M) works with the
whitespace key.

Also enable _all three options_ under "loadable module support".

For the Realtek card,  use the "8139too" driver, if you have a 8139
chip.

For the Tekram, use "DC395/U/UW and DC315/U support" under SCSI->SCSI
low level drivers under SCSI, of course, CDROM support etc. must be
enabled

Switch on /dev/agppart under "Character Devices", if available.
 
For the Logitech mouse and keyboard, you'll need the ps2 mouse driver
or an usb hid (human interface devices) driver with mouse/kb option
(depends on if this kb/mouse is usb) enabled. The USB HID driver and
the USB scanner/printer drivers depend on the USB-UHCI /OHCI driver
(depends on chipset, for via/intel choose UHCI).

After you'll have left the menu and have saved the config, make-kpkg
will compile kernel and modules and headers into two .deb packages in
/usr/src. Now, install them by:

cd /usr/src
dpkg -i kern*.deb

You'll be asked a few questions, and the kernel will be copied to
/boot/vmlinuz- or so, a lin

Re: SV: Tekram 315U PCI

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Yes, it's hard only one time. But the time will quite surely come
where you _really_ need to recompile it, so it won't be a bad idea to
do it now. Do you have someone (relative, friend, etc.) who can
advise you or should I write you some tips about how to do it? (if
you'd like this, please give me a short summary of the hardware you
have (mainboard/processor type, cards which are inside))

Cheers,

Stephan


On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 22:30:45 +0200
"Dan Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Have you ever compiled a kernel yourself?
> Only one time is it hard to do ?
> 
> Tia
> Dan
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Re: Tekram 315U PCI

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Have you ever compiled a kernel yourself?

Cheers,

Stephan

On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 22:49:59 +0200
"Dan Christensen,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Im having som problems with sub, i have dl the driver from tekram,
bu it > only a .c and a .h files, ant i dont know how to compile them
so it > works, or some other way of gettign this scsi controler to
work, via a > moduls. Pleas guide me im a total newbe
> 
> TIA Dan
> 
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Re: about network config

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Try to change /etc/network/interfaces like this:

# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
# The loopback interface
iface lo inet loopback
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
installation
# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Also, dhcpcd or pump must be installed. Maybe you will have to configure
dhcpcd or pump further, but I'm quite sure I just attached my machine to a
friend's network, changed the above file and it worked fine. If anyone has
to add something or if it doesn't work, let me know.

Cheers,

Stephan

- Original Message -
From: debianlist
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:38 PM
Subject: about network config


>HI:
>  In win2k, I am using DHCP to connect internet. In Debian,can I use the
information
>(ip,DNS Server..) get from in win2k to manual config network in Debian?
>
>Thanks

Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Thanks very much for your answers.

Cheers,

Stephan

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:39:50 -0800
Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:16:52PM -0800, Tim Moss wrote:
> > You need XFree 4.2.0 for Radeon 7500 support but I don't think
4.2.0 is> > available as Debian packages yet.
> 
> All very true. Before you bug the maintainer (like I did...) Check
his> webpage for updates:
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~branden/
> 

ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

A friend of mine (not on this list) has problems getting X version
4.1.0 (from testing) to start on his box with a Radeon 7500 card
inside. When trying xf86cfg in graphics mode, it doesn't recognize
the card correctly, and when choosing the drivers "ati" or "r128" in
xf86cfg text mode, X won't recognize the card either. I've attached
two different error logs from tries with different drivers or so.

Has anyone got a radeon (7500) running on such a system and does know
what the typical problems are or how they can be solved or can anyone
point me to one of the various threads which have been on this list
about radeon (I just don't know when these threads were here)? Or can
anyone tell me if the xserver_2.log is indeed indicating a bug in
X11?

Thanks very much in advance,

Stephan Hachinger



xserver_2.log
Description: Binary data


XFree86.0.log
Description: Binary data

Re: LAN to Internet gateway problem [solved]

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:21:47 +0100
"Tony Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Stephan Hachinger wrote (on 25 Feb 2002 at 17:36):
> 
> > machine I want to configure as router is 192.168.90.95 (stephan).
> > Stephan has a second network card inside (192.168.37.95) and
> > connects to the internet over this card and dsl (pppoE). Now,
> > this is what I've tried:
> > 
> > -Modifying the route table on pentiumdioxid (see attached route
> > output)-Installing dnrd, a dns forwarder, on stephan (dns
> > resulution seems to work without problems now)-setting ip_forward
> > to "yes" in /etc/network/options on stephan
> > 
> > I've also attached hosts.allow and hosts.deny.
> 
> Been up for over four hours and no answers yet? Well then:
> 
> I don't see anything in the above about any NAT, which you need 
> if those private-IP hosts are going to talk to the Internet. 
> 
> You didn't say what kernel version you're running, so read the 
> documentation on either ipchains or iptables--or go straight to 
> the IP-masquerading Howto. 

Hi!

Ok, I just had to setup masquerading and now it works, thx. Didn't
know this was necessary because I've got no knowledge of IP
networking *g*.

Cheers and thanks,

Stephan

searching for an ICQ application

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

OK, I know this has already been discussed before, but I've tried
several ICQ apps, also the ones recommended in the discussions before
and I'm just not getting any usable solution. So, does anyone know an
ICQ application which can connect to newer ICQ versions like 2001b
without being rejected and is quite nice and doens't need gnome (I'm
using kde at the moment)? The problem with all new licq versions I've
tried etc. is that I cannot send any messages (connnection is
rejected by peer or the msgs simply don't arrive); is this normal or
perhaps related to a bad configuration of my networking?

Thanks in advance,

Stephan Hachinger

LAN to Internet gateway problem

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

I'm trying to configure one of my machines as a router to the
internet, so that I can access the internet from my LAN. My second
computer in my lan is 192.168.90.5 (pentiumdioxid), this machine I
want to configure as router is 192.168.90.95 (stephan). Stephan has a
second network card inside (192.168.37.95) and connects to the
internet over this card and dsl (pppoE). Now, this is what I've
tried:

-Modifying the route table on pentiumdioxid (see attached route
output)-Installing dnrd, a dns forwarder, on stephan (dns resulution
seems to work without problems now)-setting ip_forward to "yes" in
/etc/network/options on stephan

I've also attached hosts.allow and hosts.deny.

The problem is, when I try to ping www.debian.org from pentiumdioxid,
pentiumdioxid gets the ip adress of debian.org (198.186.203.20) but
it doesn't get any packages back.

I'd be very glad if anyoune can help me.

Cheers,

Stephan

P.S.: Into which file can I put the routing table modifications so
that the modified routing table is automatically loadad at startup?

pentiumdioxid.route
Description: Binary data


stephan.route
Description: Binary data


hosts.allow
Description: Binary data


hosts.deny
Description: Binary data

Re: .debs of IBM Java runtime environment?

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Hmm, there should be some on www.blackdown.org !

Cheers,

Stephan

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From: "Morten Bo Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian Users" 
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:35 PM
Subject: .debs of IBM Java runtime environment?


>
> Does anyone know of any unofficial .debs of the IBM Java
> runtime environment?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Morten
>
>
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Re: NE2000 ISA

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

I've got _two_ ne2000 compatibles (one realtek pci and one other isa) in my
machine and they work w/o problems (and this machine also has many other
cards (scsi, sb64 etc.) inside). With my isa card came a disk with a setup
utility to set the i/o port of the isa card. Even if you have pnp enabled,
there should be a diagnostic utility or so which will tell you the i/o port,
and if you're lucky it will work under dos which you can boot from a disk.
Do you have such a setup disk and a dos boot disk??

Cheers,

Stephan


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To: 
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: NE2000 ISA


> * arief muLya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> ...
> > The problem is, I can't just modprobe the module. They says if it's an
> > ISA NE2000 Card, I need to give the right IO and IRQ setting when I
> > modprobe/insmod the module.
>
> Your best bet is to get a different NIC and throw ne2k away
> (yes, I know, finding an ISA NIC may be hard these days).
>
> If it's a jumpered card, you should have (may be able to find)
> the fine manual. If not, you'll need the config utility (IIRC
> ne2k's weren't pnp, even the ne2k+ that claimed to be, so
> fscking around with isapnp won't get you anywhere).
>
> Either way, ne2k had a wide i/o port that overlapped with other
> devices' ports in most configurations (FVO "other devices" =
> sound card, floppy, ide and parallel port). Configuring them
> was a real PITA even if you had the manual and software.
>
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Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA - pls help!

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Sorry for posting the whole message on the list w/o snipping, but I
think some parts of the thread did not make it into the mailing list
and now I really have no ideas anymore what is going wrong here :(.
KDE doesn't recognize /dev/dsp but in fact, everything else seems to
be ok etc... Has anyone had issues like these with alsa 0.9.0b3 or
similar or does anyone know what the problem really is caused by?

Cheers,

Stephan

P.S.: Ross, sorry that I have not replied for so long but I've had
lots of stress the last days :(.

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:25:41 -0800
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The basic sound is compiled into the kernel--not a module.
> Other than that, my sound configuration is as you describe.
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:11:10PM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Is the soundcore.o module also loaded? That's a module directly
from
> > the linux kernel (if you compile the kernel yourself: You have to
> > switch general sound card support to "M" (modularized), but leave
all
> > other options off on the sound card support configuration page;
if
> > you don't compile it yourself: This module should be part of the
> > kernel packages). It it at least necessary with my alsa 5.10
> > distribution. Just try to load it using modconf.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Stephan
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:00:31 -0800
> > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks for the suggestions.  Unfortunately, I already had the
> > aliases
> > > in my modules.conf (except I use sbawe).
> > > 
> > > I tried setting the sound system to OSS, but still no signs of
> > life.
> > > 
> > > I'm reluctant to remove the aliases, since the alsa
documenation
> > calls
> > > for them.
> > > 
> > > Argh!
> > > 
> > > lsmode shows lots of the right modules loaded:
> > >   35744   0
> > > 9184   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
> > 6016   0
> >5312   0  [snd-card-sbawe]
> >   5408   0  [snd-card-sbawe]
> >  48576   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-sb16-dsp]
> >10432   0  [snd-opl3 snd-pcm]
> >2624   0  [snd-card-sbawe snd-sb16-dsp]
> >12576   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
> >10816   0  [snd-card-sbawe]
> > 3952   0  [snd-opl3 snd-rawmidi snd-emu8000]
> > 15392   0  [snd-card-sbawe]
> > > snd-sb-common   6040   0  [snd-card-sbawe snd-sb16-dsp
> > snd-sb16-csp]
> > > snd-hwdep   3680   0  [snd-opl3 snd-sb16-csp]
> > > snd24776   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
> > snd-card-sbawe snd-opl3 snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm snd-timer
> > snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-emu8000 snd-seq-device
snd-sb16-csp
> > snd-sb-common snd-hwdep]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 05:21:55PM +0100, Stephan Hachinger
wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, I don't have no idea :(. But I have looked through my
> > modules.conf and
> > > > found the following entries:
> > > > 
> > > > # ALSA multiplexer
> > > > 
> > > > alias char-major-116 snd
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > [etc]
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe adding the missing entries helps. On this system where
I
> > have those
> > > > entries in modules.conf, respectively in
/etc/modutils/aliases
> > (the best is,
> > > > you add such entries to /etc/modutils/aliases -> run
> > "update-modules" ->
> > > > they are written to modules.conf automatically), strangely
enough
> > only
> > > > setting the arts daemon to "open sound system" makes it work,
but
> > at least
> > > > the sound server works... The system had another soundcard
before
> > and with
> > > > this one, it worked absolutely the right way but now only
with
> > the "oss
> > > > trick".
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Another try: I also have a second system here without any
entries
> > in
> > > > /etc/modutils/aliases (arts runs properly!); on this system
the
> > following
> > > > modules are loaded at bootup:
> > > > 
> > > > snd-card-sbawe (i.e. my sound card module)
> > > > snd-mixer-oss
> > > > snd-pcm-oss
> > > > snd-synth-emu8000 (i.e. the module for my AWE wavetable
device)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, maybe the first or the second entries (or combine both
;))
> > help... Any
> > > > other suggestions by anyone else?
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > 
> > > > Stephan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
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> > > 
> 

Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Is the soundcore.o module also loaded? That's a module directly from
the linux kernel (if you compile the kernel yourself: You have to
switch general sound card support to "M" (modularized), but leave all
other options off on the sound card support configuration page; if
you don't compile it yourself: This module should be part of the
kernel packages). It it at least necessary with my alsa 5.10
distribution. Just try to load it using modconf.

Cheers,

Stephan


On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:00:31 -0800
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions.  Unfortunately, I already had the
aliases
> in my modules.conf (except I use sbawe).
> 
> I tried setting the sound system to OSS, but still no signs of
life.
> 
> I'm reluctant to remove the aliases, since the alsa documenation
calls
> for them.
> 
> Argh!
> 
> lsmode shows lots of the right modules loaded:
>   35744   0
> 9184   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
6016   0
   5312   0  [snd-card-sbawe]
  5408   0  [snd-card-sbawe]
 48576   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-sb16-dsp]
   10432   0  [snd-opl3 snd-pcm]
   2624   0  [snd-card-sbawe snd-sb16-dsp]
   12576   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
   10816   0  [snd-card-sbawe]
3952   0  [snd-opl3 snd-rawmidi snd-emu8000]
15392   0  [snd-card-sbawe]
> snd-sb-common   6040   0  [snd-card-sbawe snd-sb16-dsp
snd-sb16-csp]
> snd-hwdep   3680   0  [snd-opl3 snd-sb16-csp]
> snd24776   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
snd-card-sbawe snd-opl3 snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-emu8000 snd-seq-device snd-sb16-csp
snd-sb-common snd-hwdep]
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 05:21:55PM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Hmm, I don't have no idea :(. But I have looked through my
modules.conf and
> > found the following entries:
> > 
> > # ALSA multiplexer
> > 
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > 
> 
> [etc]
> > 
> > Maybe adding the missing entries helps. On this system where I
have those
> > entries in modules.conf, respectively in /etc/modutils/aliases
(the best is,
> > you add such entries to /etc/modutils/aliases -> run
"update-modules" ->
> > they are written to modules.conf automatically), strangely enough
only
> > setting the arts daemon to "open sound system" makes it work, but
at least
> > the sound server works... The system had another soundcard before
and with
> > this one, it worked absolutely the right way but now only with
the "oss
> > trick".
> > 
> > 
> > Another try: I also have a second system here without any entries
in
> > /etc/modutils/aliases (arts runs properly!); on this system the
following
> > modules are loaded at bootup:
> > 
> > snd-card-sbawe (i.e. my sound card module)
> > snd-mixer-oss
> > snd-pcm-oss
> > snd-synth-emu8000 (i.e. the module for my AWE wavetable device)
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm, maybe the first or the second entries (or combine both ;))
help... Any
> > other suggestions by anyone else?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Stephan
> 
> 
> -- 
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Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Hmm, I don't have no idea :(. But I have looked through my modules.conf and
found the following entries:

# ALSA multiplexer

alias char-major-116 snd

# OSS Emulation multiplexer

alias char-major-14 soundcore

# ALSA card

alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es1968 (the latter is the module for my sound
card)

# OSS Emulator card

alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# OSS Emulation autoload

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

Maybe adding the missing entries helps. On this system where I have those
entries in modules.conf, respectively in /etc/modutils/aliases (the best is,
you add such entries to /etc/modutils/aliases -> run "update-modules" ->
they are written to modules.conf automatically), strangely enough only
setting the arts daemon to "open sound system" makes it work, but at least
the sound server works... The system had another soundcard before and with
this one, it worked absolutely the right way but now only with the "oss
trick".


Another try: I also have a second system here without any entries in
/etc/modutils/aliases (arts runs properly!); on this system the following
modules are loaded at bootup:

snd-card-sbawe (i.e. my sound card module)
snd-mixer-oss
snd-pcm-oss
snd-synth-emu8000 (i.e. the module for my AWE wavetable device)


Hmm, maybe the first or the second entries (or combine both ;)) help... Any
other suggestions by anyone else?

Cheers,

Stephan


- Original Message -
From: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA


> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:52:29PM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Is libarts-alsa installed and is the soundserver configured to use
> > alsa in the control cener? Hmm, sometimes trying different sond
> > system settings on the sound server configuration page in kcontrol
> > also helps.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Stephan
>
> Yes to both questions.  I had the KDE soundserver set to autodetect,
> but I also tried setting it to ALSA.  No dice.  It's odd, because some
> of my apps produce sound anyway.
>
> >
> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:07:12 -0800
> > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > The things is, I ran snddevices when I did the original install.
> > >
> > > I think the can't find /dev/dsp message is more of a complaint
> > about
> > > nothing functioning being there; /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/dsp0
> > for
> > > me:
> > >
> > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Dec 21  2000 /dev/dsp ->
> > /dev/dsp0
> > > crw-rw1 root audio 14,   3 Dec 21  2000 /dev/dsp0
> > >
> > >
> > > I presume the link itself is always there.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > I've had quite a similar problem... maybe this will fix it:
> > > >
> > > > Search all packages for the script file "snddevices" by typing
> > > >
> > > > dpkg -S snddevices
> > > >
> > > > Then cd into the directory where the script is and call it...
> > after that the
> > > > devices should be there.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Stephan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > - Original Message -
> > > > From: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: 
> > > > Cc: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:47 PM
> > > > Subject: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I am running alsa and KDE.  The first time I log into KDE I get
> > an
> > > > > error that /dev/dsp can't be found.  It's there when I look.
> > If I log
> > > > > out and back in, I get no warning, and sound works.
> > > > >
> > > > > I believe I have all the modules.conf setup properly.  I
> > suspect that
> > > > > the relevant module isn't being dynamically loaded properly,
> > but I'm
> > > > > not sure what the cause or the cure is.  Can anyone help?
> > > > >
> > > > > Here's a bit a modules.conf:
> > > > >
> > > > > ###

Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Is libarts-alsa installed and is the soundserver configured to use
alsa in the control cener? Hmm, sometimes trying different sond
system settings on the sound server configuration page in kcontrol
also helps.

Cheers,

Stephan

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:07:12 -0800
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The things is, I ran snddevices when I did the original install.
> 
> I think the can't find /dev/dsp message is more of a complaint
about
> nothing functioning being there; /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/dsp0
for
> me:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Dec 21  2000 /dev/dsp ->
/dev/dsp0
> crw-rw1 root audio 14,   3 Dec 21  2000 /dev/dsp0
> 
> 
> I presume the link itself is always there.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I've had quite a similar problem... maybe this will fix it:
> > 
> > Search all packages for the script file "snddevices" by typing
> > 
> > dpkg -S snddevices
> > 
> > Then cd into the directory where the script is and call it...
after that the
> > devices should be there.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Stephan
> > 
> > 
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: 
> > Cc: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:47 PM
> > Subject: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA
> > 
> > 
> > > I am running alsa and KDE.  The first time I log into KDE I get
an
> > > error that /dev/dsp can't be found.  It's there when I look. 
If I log
> > > out and back in, I get no warning, and sound works.
> > >
> > > I believe I have all the modules.conf setup properly.  I
suspect that
> > > the relevant module isn't being dynamically loaded properly,
but I'm
> > > not sure what the cause or the cure is.  Can anyone help?
> > >
> > > Here's a bit a modules.conf:
> > >
> > > ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa
> > >
> > > ## First, the device major numbers
> > > #alsa native
> > > alias char-major-116 snd
> > > # OSS/Free
> > > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > >
> > > options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
snd_device_mode=0660
> > snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
> > > options snd-card-sbawe snd_index=0 snd_id="AWE" snd_isapnp=1
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ## multiplexer needs top level soundcard
> > > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sbawe
> > > # OSS/Free
> > > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> > >
> > > ## Done with ALSA, but OSS needs more
> > > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> > > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> > > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> > >
> > >
> > > ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa
> > >
> > > ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa-path
> > > # Debian ALSA modules path
> > > # Do not edit this unless you understand what you're doing.
> > > path=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/alsa
> > >
> > > ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa-path
> > >
> > >
> > > Kernel 2.4.12.  System is basically woody.
> > > Here are my alsa packages:
> > >
> > > ii  alsa-base 0.9+0beta9-1  ALSA driver
common files
> > > ii  alsa-modules-2.4.10   0.9+0beta7-2+p0+rb.1  Advanced Linux
Sound
> > Architecture (drivers)
> > > ii  alsa-modules-2.4.12   0.9+0beta7-2+p0+rb.6  Advanced Linux
Sound
> > Architecture (drivers)
> > > ii  alsa-source   0.9+0beta9-1  ALSA driver
source
> > > ii  alsa-utils0.9.0beta4-1  Advanced Linux
Sound
> > Architecture (utils)
> > > ii  alsa-utils-0.50.5.9b-3  Advanced Linux
Sound
> > Architecture (utils)
> > > ii  alsaplayer0.99.32+0.99.33pre3-1 PCM player
designed for
> > ALSA
> > > ii  alsaplayer-alsa   0.99.32+0.99.33pre3-1 PCM player
designed for
> > ALSA (ALSA autput module)
> > > ii  alsaplayer-esd0.99.32+0.99.33pre3-1 PCM player
designed for
> > ALSA (ESD output module)
> > > ii  alsaplayer-oss0.99.32+0.99.33pre3-1 PCM player
designed for
> > ALSA (OSS output module)
> > >
> > > These problems occurred when everything was at beta7, so I
don't think
> > > the fact I haven't compiled the latest source is the problem.
> > >
> > >
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Re: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

I've had quite a similar problem... maybe this will fix it:

Search all packages for the script file "snddevices" by typing

dpkg -S snddevices

Then cd into the directory where the script is and call it... after that the
devices should be there.

Cheers,

Stephan


- Original Message -
From: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Cc: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:47 PM
Subject: /dev/dsp not found: KDE/ALSA


> I am running alsa and KDE.  The first time I log into KDE I get an
> error that /dev/dsp can't be found.  It's there when I look.  If I log
> out and back in, I get no warning, and sound works.
>
> I believe I have all the modules.conf setup properly.  I suspect that
> the relevant module isn't being dynamically loaded properly, but I'm
> not sure what the cause or the cure is.  Can anyone help?
>
> Here's a bit a modules.conf:
>
> ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa
>
> ## First, the device major numbers
> #alsa native
> alias char-major-116 snd
> # OSS/Free
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
>
> options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660
snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
> options snd-card-sbawe snd_index=0 snd_id="AWE" snd_isapnp=1
>
>
>
> ## multiplexer needs top level soundcard
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sbawe
> # OSS/Free
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>
> ## Done with ALSA, but OSS needs more
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
>
> ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa
>
> ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa-path
> # Debian ALSA modules path
> # Do not edit this unless you understand what you're doing.
> path=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/alsa
>
> ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa-path
>
>
> Kernel 2.4.12.  System is basically woody.
> Here are my alsa packages:
>
> ii  alsa-base 0.9+0beta9-1  ALSA driver common files
> ii  alsa-modules-2.4.10   0.9+0beta7-2+p0+rb.1  Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (drivers)
> ii  alsa-modules-2.4.12   0.9+0beta7-2+p0+rb.6  Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (drivers)
> ii  alsa-source   0.9+0beta9-1  ALSA driver source
> ii  alsa-utils0.9.0beta4-1  Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (utils)
> ii  alsa-utils-0.50.5.9b-3  Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (utils)
> ii  alsaplayer0.99.32+0.99.33pre3-1 PCM player designed for
ALSA
> ii  alsaplayer-alsa   0.99.32+0.99.33pre3-1 PCM player designed for
ALSA (ALSA autput module)
> ii  alsaplayer-esd0.99.32+0.99.33pre3-1 PCM player designed for
ALSA (ESD output module)
> ii  alsaplayer-oss0.99.32+0.99.33pre3-1 PCM player designed for
ALSA (OSS output module)
>
> These problems occurred when everything was at beta7, so I don't think
> the fact I haven't compiled the latest source is the problem.
>
>
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Re: transfering linux system to another hard drive

[Stephan Hachinger]

- Original Message -
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "speakup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: transfering linux system to another hard drive


> I apologize for the cross-post, but I'm trying to get info as soon as
> possible; even if somebody has just seen this on one of these lists and
> can steer me toward the correct archive it would be appreciated.
> My hard drive with linux is failing; I have just obtained a 20gig drive
> which will have both my dos and linux on it. All drives--my dying linux
> drive, my old and tiny dos drive, and my new drive--are all connected to
> the computer. I will have to partition the hard drive, but it is being
> recognized correctly in the bios and linux. Eventually, the dying drive
> (hda) will be removed as will the dos drive (hdd) and the new drive (hdb)
> will become hda.  I want to know if there is a way to transfer my linux
> >from the dying 2.5gig drive to the new 20gig; I am assuming I will first
> need to partition the hard drive and the partitioning will probably be
> somewhat different from the old drive due to the difference in size.
> Sorry for the info repeat to those on blinux.
> I know I saw a discussion of just this problem somewhere recently but
> haven't been able to locate it.
> Also, can I make my partition that will hold dos with linux since I have
> no data already onthe hard drive to protect?
> thanks.
> Cheryl
>
>
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Hi!

You cannot install linux and dos on the same partition, at least not without
dealing with umsdos or so and this is not the smoothest solution I think.

But, as far as I have experienced, transferring the system to another hard
drive which is partitioned correctly (one linux native, one linux swap) is
not very difficult: Just use mc to copy the whole hard disk contents
(without /proc, but also dev so that there will be the right entries in the
new /dev directory - mc should only copy the "links" in dev but not the
device contents ;) )  into the new root partition. Then make a directory
named proc in the new root drive. Now, you only have to change some config
files so that the hard drive devices/device numbers are set correctly
(/etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf (for the format of this one see man lilo.conf)
... I cannot remember any other files now but that should be sufficient).
The devices you write into those files must be the ones which will be valid
*after* you've disconnected your bad hard disk (*IDE* hard disk devices:
/dev/hda for prim. master, /dev/hdb for prim slave, /dev/hdc for
sec. master, /dev/hdd for sec. slave;  is the partition number; the
device without  the whole disk). Now disconnect your bad hard drive. For
the first start, you'll need a boot disk or debian bootable cd, type rescue
root=/dev/; system
starts up; once run lilo and the boot block should be installed; mark
partition with lilo on it as active in fdisk.

I think I've made this at least two times and it's really worth a try as
there is no data on your new HDD yet which could be destroyed, if I've
understood you correctly.

If anyone discovers a fatal error in my solution, please tell us
immediately!

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: Printing in KDE

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

I had the same problem; I think installing lprng instead of lpd solves the
problem... if not, try to switch the "print system" setting in KDE from LPR
to BSD and back etc, the problems should go away. Only little syntax
incompatibilites or so.

Cheers,

Stephan

- Original Message -
From: "Nathan Weston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:24 PM
Subject: Printing in KDE


> I am running debian unstable, and I have a local printer that is working
with
> lpr. However, when I try to print from KDE, it calls lpr with the -#num
> option to indicate the number of copies. lpr does not recognize this
option
> and prints out a usage message.
> According to both the man page and the usage message, the -#num option is
> valid, but in practice lpr doesn't recognize it.
>
> Is this a bug in lpr? the documentation? KDE? Does anyone know a
workaround?
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan
>
>
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Re: weird 100% disk usage

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Hmm, I'm also sometimes getting such disk usages on my 2,5 GB hdd machine.
But you cannot write infinite amounts of data on it when it is in this
state... only some dozens of MBytes... maybe this data is just fetched by
the linux cache??

Cheers,

Stephan

- Original Message -
From: "Oliver Elphick" 
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: weird 100% disk usage


> joey tsai wrote:
>   >My drive appears to be full via df:
>   >[corban][05:07pm][~] $ df -h
>   >FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>   >/dev/hda1  61M   59M 0 100% /
>   >
>   >However, I'm not exactly sure I'm even getting 57M used:
>   >[corban][05:09pm][/home/joeytsai] # du -shx /
>   >23M /
>
> One possibility is that there is material written in a mount-point
directory
> such as /usr.  When the partition is mounted, the contents of that
directory
> (if any) will be unavailable.
>
> --
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>
>  "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
>   and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom
>   is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
>James 1:17
>
>
>
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Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

[Stephan Hachinger]

- Original Message -
From: "Dave Sherohman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian User List" 
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04


> On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:17:20PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up a new machine this weekend, and i'm in trouble.
>
> I know you needed a solution by Monday, so this is a bit late, but I
> haven't seen anyone else post an explanation of what the error
> actually means, so...
>
> > Now, I have a problem. The machine will no longer boot from the hard
disk.
> > I get the message from the subject line. I can boot it from the boot
> > floppy.
>
> lilo (or something else) is telling the kernel to mount / from device
> 21:04 and the kernel doesn't know how to do that.  According to
> Documentation/devices.txt in my kernel source tree, major device 21
> is the generic SCSI subsystem and minor device 04 in that system is
> the fifth device, so 21:04 would be /dev/sg4 (or /dev/sge).  Either
> a) you don't have generic SCSI support in your kernel, b) you don't
> have five generic SCSI devices, or c) you have to boot off a SCSI
> drive (/dev/sd*), not a generic SCSI device (/dev/sg*).

Hmm, maybe the kernel has no support for your scsi card/devices, yes.

BTW, probably the magic number written to the real-root-dev file is the
magic number description for your root device (every device in Linux can be
described by such a number combination - for the numbering system see
attached file devices.txt, the format in the real-root-dev file is for
example for /dev/hdb1: 0x365).

Cheers,

Stephan
<>

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

[Stephan Hachinger]

- Original Message -
From: "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian User List" 
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 8:17 PM
Subject: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04


> I'm trying to set up a new machine this weekend, and i'm in trouble.
>
> I installed a minimal "stable" over the network. then upgraded to Progeny.
> Then I wen to istall the 2.4 kernel packages from
> http://people.debian.org/~bunk (thanks for the good work on these BTW).
>
> Now, I have a problem. The machine will no longer boot from the hard disk.
> I get the message from the subject line. I can boot it from the boot
> floppy.
>
> During the install of the 2.4 kernel package. I goot a message about
> needing to add a initrd line to lilo.conf. It sufested puting a line in
> /etc/kern-img.conf (from memory). I have tried this, and also tried adding
> the sugested initrd line to /etc/lilo.conf. But nieht gets me to the point
> where I can boot from the hard disk.
>
> Help Please!

Hi!

Have you called the command "lilo" once at the command line after changing
lilo.conf? Maybe that'll do it.

Cheers,


Stephan

Re: mouse problems in KDE

[Stephan Hachinger]

>On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:16:17AM -0400, tim wrote:

>> I am not sure where this problem lies.  The mouse seems to work fine
>> from the console. It also seems to work fine at the kde login screen,
>> but once kde loads I can not move the mouse smoothing, it mouse jumps
>> all over the place and adds random mouse clicks.

>If you do use GPM, then you
>should be able to tell X (in XF86Config) to use /dev/gpmdata as the
>mouse device.  The protocol information should remain unchanged.

Yes  this is probably the best, but do not forget to switch on repeating
with gpmconfig! Use "raw" as protocol.

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: Getting sound to work

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

I've had some problem sorting my mail in the last days - if wrote a mail
which I did not respond to in that time, please send it again.

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: Getting sound to work

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Hmm, found a neat programm which could tell you if the card is on the pci
bus: lspci or so from the package pciutils. Please try that once. And... you
could try the following module parameter: esstype=0 (and nothing more).
Another question: Have you compiled the kernel yourself, and which system
are you running  (testing=sid or stable=potato or unstable=woody)? If you
have CD's, it's probably potato.

Cheers,


Stephan

Re: Getting sound to work

[Stephan Hachinger]

Oh, sorry, I changed the subject line by mistake although the thread was the
same... so this is a double-posting.

Hi!

>> -then: pnpdump > /etc/insapnp.conf (pnpdump is in the package
>> isapnptools)

>I did this but none of the entries seems to match my I/O Port Info :(

>> -After isapnp succeeds, try again starting the module. Maybe you also
>> have to set io= / irq= / dma= etc. parameters in addition to the ess
>> version paramter I told you when you load the module; you get this
>> values from the valid lines in isapnp.conf.

>So the syntax in modconf is like this?
>esstype=foo /irq=foo /dma=foo /io=foo

No, it's esstype=foo irq=foo dma=foo io=foo

- Original Message #2 -
From: "Steven Farrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Output of pnpdump


> BTW,
>
> here is the output a pnpdump
>

> #
> # Trying port address 0273
> # Trying port address 027b


Hmm, it seems to find no isa pnp board... that's quite strange... Maybe the
card is really attached to PCI; please try to find out about that by looking
at the properties of the sound devices once more... at least at my win2000
box the dialog tells me three lines of information for the device: device
type, manufacturer and location of the device; the third line could contain
something interesting. If you find out nothing that way... could you open
your PC or is there a guarantee seal on it which prevents you from opening?
If you are able to take a look into it, you can see what kind of sound card
is in there:

-If the sound output connector is on the mainboard, it's a on board card.
-If the card behind the output connector is in a black slot, it's an ISA
card.
-If it's in a white slot, it's a PCI card.
-When was your machine built?

I think we won't get any further by this isapnp stuff, but if we won't get
it to work, you can still try out another kind of sound driver, alsa. But
let's still try with this normal solution for some time as alsa may be a
little difficult to install.

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: Output of pnpdump

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

>> -then: pnpdump > /etc/insapnp.conf (pnpdump is in the package
>> isapnptools)

>I did this but none of the entries seems to match my I/O Port Info :(

>> -After isapnp succeeds, try again starting the module. Maybe you also
>> have to set io= / irq= / dma= etc. parameters in addition to the ess
>> version paramter I told you when you load the module; you get this
>> values from the valid lines in isapnp.conf.

>So the syntax in modconf is like this?
>esstype=foo /irq=foo /dma=foo /io=foo

No, it's esstype=foo irq=foo dma=foo io=foo

- Original Message #2 -
From: "Steven Farrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Output of pnpdump


> BTW,
>
> here is the output a pnpdump
>

> #
> # Trying port address 0273
> # Trying port address 027b


Hmm, it seems to find no isa pnp board... that's quite strange... Maybe the
card is really attached to PCI; please try to find out about that by looking
at the properties of the sound devices once more... at least at my win2000
box the dialog tells me three lines of information for the device: device
type, manufacturer and location of the device; the third line could contain
something interesting. If you find out nothing that way... could you open
your PC or is there a guarantee seal on it which prevents you from opening?
If you are able to take a look into it, you can see what kind of sound card
is in there:

-If the sound output connector is on the mainboard, it's a on board card.
-If the card behind the output connector is in a black slot, it's an ISA
card.
-If it's in a white slot, it's a PCI card.
-When was your machine built?

I think we won't get any further by this isapnp stuff, but if we won't get
it to work, you can still try out another kind of sound driver, alsa. But
let's still try with this normal solution for some time as alsa may be a
little difficult to install.

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: Getting Sound to work

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello again!

Sorry that I didn't write for so long but I had the flu. So, I've
finally looked up what this chip is and I've seen... it's an ISA card
chip. So, you probably have to set the resources for this card before
you can load the sb module. Maybe, you can do this by switching the
"PNP OS installed" option of your BIOS to "No" so that the BIOS sets
the resources (but switching that may cause problems with windows) ,
but a common solution is that you have set them by the 'isapnp'
program. To prepare this, do the following:

-maybe delete the current /etc/isapnp.conf
-then: pnpdump > /etc/insapnp.conf (pnpdump is in the package
isapnptools)
-then: edit the /etc/isapnp.conf: Pnpdump has created many possible
configurations, and you must make one valid by removing the '#' signs
before the lines belonging to this one configuration. Also, you must
remove the '#' before the (ACT Y) of this device. Also see 'man
isapnp.conf' for examples.
-now, you can try 'isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf' and see if it takes the
settings without problems. If it sees some problems, maybe a reboot
helps (I don't really know because I have no such devices here at the
moment although I had some); you don't have to call isapnp a second
time after the reboot because it is automatically called at system
bootup. Just look around if there are any error messages from isapnp
or if it has succeeded. Sometimes, isapnp setups can be somewhat
tricky because pnpdump suggests wrong values or so... if that's the
case, maybe you can find more documentation in the kernel
Documentation directory or at howto.tucows.com or at www.esstech.com.

-After isapnp succeeds, try again starting the module. Maybe you also
have to set io= / irq= / dma= etc. parameters in addition to the ess
version paramter I told you when you load the module; you get this
values from the valid lines in isapnp.conf.

Just mail again if you have any problems!

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: Getting Sound to work

[Stephan Hachinger]

 Original Message -
From: "Steven Farrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:26 AM
Subject: Getting Sound to work


> I am trying to esd sound to work on my computer but I just can't do it.
>
> I can get genertic beeps on the command line but that is it.
>
> In windows it says I have a ES1869 audiodrive.
>
> I have read the soundblaster module is supposed to be for that but
> installation failed.

Hello!

Try to pass a parameter "esstype=1869" to the sb module, because this chip
isn't autotdetected by default. Is that a pci card, BTW? Please just drop me
a little mail if this solution worked.

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: Java in Konqueror

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

There's a similar discussion on this list at the moment and we said that
maybe one just needs j2re1.3:

>The only Java package I have installed is the j2re1.3 package from
>blackdown.org.  They have apt-getable deb packages.

Hmm, maybe you could just write a little mail to the list if it also works
for you.

Cheers,

Stephan

> - Original Message -
> From: "Liu Tao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:49 AM
> Subject: Java in Konqueror
> 
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > I am using kde2.2.1 in sid and my web browser is konqueror.
> > I installed jdk package,  and enabled java and javascript globally
> > in konqueror.
> > Then I opend chat.yahoo.com,  but I can't enter a chat room.
> > Konqueror shows "Loading applet",  then nothing happend.
> >
> > Does someone could chat in yahoo with konqueror?
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Liu Tao
> >
> >
> > --
> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> 

Re: java with Konqueror in KDE (woody)

[Stephan Hachinger]

- Original Message -
From: "Alejandro Diego Garin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: java with Konqueror in KDE (woody)


> On Friday 21 September 2001 18:43, you wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> >
> > > I have installed KDE on woody and I would like to use Konqueror as my
web
> > > browser so I enabled Java globally because I need it, but It doesn't
> > > work.
> >
> > (i
> >
> > > have installed jdk of course)
> > > Do you have similars problems?
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Hmm, are you sure that the path to the java executable (KControl->Web
> > Browser->Konqueror Browser->JAVA) is set rightly? I have kde 2.2.0 beta
4
> > or so and it works. What's your kde version?
> >
>
>
> Hello! yes I had the correct path but I solved the problem instaling
another
> java virtual machine. (j2sdk 1.3 Blackdown Java).
> This works fine but I am still having problems with some applets.
> Thanks for the message.
> cheers

Hi!

Hmm, maybe it's true that a j2sdk1.3 or so is needed for Konqueror JAVA to
function properly... I have j2sdk1.3 installed, too. But don't know anymore
where I got it.

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: java with Konqueror in KDE (woody)

[Stephan Hachinger]

> - Original Message -
> From: "Alejandro Diego Garin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 2:58 PM
> Subject: java with Konqueror in KDE (woody)
>
> > I have installed KDE on woody and I would like to use Konqueror as my
web
> > browser so I enabled Java globally because I need it, but It doesn't
work.
> (i
> > have installed jdk of course)
> > Do you have similars problems?
>
Hello!

Hmm, are you sure that the path to the java executable (KControl->Web
Browser->Konqueror Browser->JAVA) is set rightly? I have kde 2.2.0 beta 4 or
so and it works. What's your kde version?

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: Creating Device drivers

[Stephan Hachinger]

> - Original Message -
> From: "Rainer Sigl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 1:57 PM
> Subject: Creating Device drivers
>
>
> > Hi,
> > please can anybody tell me the way to include a new device driver
> > as loadable module AND, alternatively, in the kernel.
> > My special case:
> > I have got a RAid Controller ICP GDT6123RS with the driver files
gdth.tgz
> > and I have kernel 2.2.19
> >
> > At the time I have got a new gdth.o in /lib/modules/2.2.19 but I can't
> > reproduce the way I did it. And then???
>
Hello!

This module is part of the standard set of modules installed by debian, so
you do not have to compile it your self or get any tgz from the web, I
think. Just start modconf and install the module (under scsi), maybe you've
got to user some parameters (irq=xx or so). If you have problems with the
latter, you can install the kernel-doc-2.2.19 package (just apt-get it) and
read the documentation of the module at
/usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.19/Documentation/.

If you have any further problems, just contact me.

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: Mounting a disk using backup superblock (solved now)

[Stephan Hachinger]

 >on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:03:08PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> Below you see a copy of the last thread I'm referring to. My HDD and
> >> especially the superblock no.1 is heavily demaged - but I now have
> managed
> >> to e2fsck the partition using the backup superblock number 32768.
Debugfs
> >> /dev/hda2 can also show me the contents of the partition, but "mount -t
> >> ext2 -o sb=32768 /dev/hda2 /mnt" just won't mount it and says "bad
magic
> >> number" etc. Can anyone please tell me what I'm missing? Does mount
> >> calculate the superblock offset in another way or should I give up
or???
> I
> >> need this data desperately as I mentioned. If anyone can help me,
thanks
> >> thousand times in advance.
> >
> >Can't help you on disk forensics, but I *strongly* recommend you image
> >the disk to known good media before you tweak with it.  Your debug tools
> >should work on the disk image equally as with the physical disk, with
> >the added bonus that it's not likely to go bad (or worse).
>
> Hmm, if I'd only have a HDD to save the data, I would be happy :) ; then I
> could probably do dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/xyz and e2fsck -
> b 32768 /dev/xyz, e2fsck would restore the first superblock and my
problems
> were gone... but I have no second hard disk which is that big :(.
>
> Cheers and thanks anyway,
>
> Stephan

OK, just wanted to tell you the solution - while the block number which must
be given to mount is based on the blocksize which is installed on the hard
disk (4k in my case), the block number which must be given to mount is
calculated on a 1k-block-basis, so I had to multiply 32768*4.

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: Mounting a disk using backup superblock [was: Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!]

[Stephan Hachinger]

>on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:03:08PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Below you see a copy of the last thread I'm referring to. My HDD and
>> especially the superblock no.1 is heavily demaged - but I now have
managed
>> to e2fsck the partition using the backup superblock number 32768. Debugfs
>> /dev/hda2 can also show me the contents of the partition, but "mount -t
>> ext2 -o sb=32768 /dev/hda2 /mnt" just won't mount it and says "bad magic
>> number" etc. Can anyone please tell me what I'm missing? Does mount
>> calculate the superblock offset in another way or should I give up or???
I
>> need this data desperately as I mentioned. If anyone can help me, thanks
>> thousand times in advance.
>
>Can't help you on disk forensics, but I *strongly* recommend you image
>the disk to known good media before you tweak with it.  Your debug tools
>should work on the disk image equally as with the physical disk, with
>the added bonus that it's not likely to go bad (or worse).

Hmm, if I'd only have a HDD to save the data, I would be happy :) ; then I
could probably do dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/xyz and e2fsck -
b 32768 /dev/xyz, e2fsck would restore the first superblock and my problems
were gone... but I have no second hard disk which is that big :(.

Cheers and thanks anyway,

Stephan

Re: Mounting a disk using backup superblock [was: Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!]

[Stephan Hachinger]

> > number" etc. Can anyone please tell me what I'm missing? Does mount
> > calculate the superblock offset in another way or should I give up or???
I
> > need this data desperately as I mentioned. If anyone can help me, thanks
> > thousand times in advance.
> >
>
> if your that desperate are data recovery companies out of the question?
>
> 2cents.
>

Hi!

I'm not _that_ desperate ;) that I'd call a recovery company as a
professional recovery costs tons of money (I'm still a student). I just want
to get the data back because there's about 20 hrs of very nasty work
(self-drawn maps of munich) stored on this hdd. As the hard disk still
responds partially, I only have to mount it (the partition is even clean and
e2fscked already!) and now have the problem that mount does not find this
superblock.

Cheers,

Stephan

Mounting a disk using backup superblock [was: Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!]

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Below you see a copy of the last thread I'm referring to. My HDD and
especially the superblock no.1 is heavily demaged - but I now have managed
to e2fsck the partition using the backup superblock number 32768. Debugfs
/dev/hda2 can also show me the contents of the partition, but "mount -t
ext2 -o sb=32768 /dev/hda2 /mnt" just won't mount it and says "bad magic
number" etc. Can anyone please tell me what I'm missing? Does mount
calculate the superblock offset in another way or should I give up or??? I
need this data desperately as I mentioned. If anyone can help me, thanks
thousand times in advance.

Cheers,

Stephan


> On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:33:51 -0400
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > Hmm, the subject says almost everything... my almost new (!) IBM hard
disk
> > > suddenly had some bad sectors and one was the superblock of my
>>> linux partition. So, I cannot boot into linux any more, and if I try to
>>> e2fsck the partition, e2fsck doesn't find the superblock. (...snip...)
>>> I just desperately want to rescue my data before I send the drive
>>> back to IBM or so because they will probably send me a new
>>> HDD but not my old data, and of course I have not
> > > made backups, stupid me. The partition is /dev/hda2 and about 7.7
>>> GB
(snip)
> > Additional  backup superblocks can be determined by
> > using the mke2fs program using the -n option

Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 23:51:55 -0700
"Karsten M. Self"  wrote:

> on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:19:36PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Hmm, the subject says almost everything... my almost new (!) IBM
hard disk suddenly had some bad sectors and one was the superblock of
my linux partition. So, I cannot boot into linux any more, and if I
try to e2fsck the partition, e2fsck doesn't find the superblock.
Also, if I try with -b 8193 or -b 16385, e2fsck says that these
blocks contain a "bad magic number". Hmm, I've read that these blocks
should actually be superblock backups but I think since my fs was
made with the new default "sparse_superblocks" option, the backups
are perhaps somewhere else. Can anyone please help me with this
issue? I just desperately want to rescue my data before I send the
drive back to IBM or so because they will probably send me a new HDD
but not my old data, and of course I have not made backups, stupid
me. The partition is /dev/hda2 and about 7.7 GB. I also have a
possibility to temporarely store up to 12 GB of data on hda1, a fat32
partition which scandisk could obviously "stabilize" more or less
after a bad block marking. At the moment, I'm trying to dd /dev/hda2
into a file on /dev/hda1 but there seems to be a problem with the
maximal file size on fat partitions (does anyone know about that?).
> 
> Please set your linewrap to 72 characters.
> 
> -- 
> Karsten M. Self  
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
>Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA!   
http://www.freesklyarov.org
> Geek for Hire   
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
> 

Hello!

Sorry but I didn't notice that the sylpheed installation on my old
computer didn't have this as default.

Cheers,

Stephan

Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:33:51 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Hmm, the subject says almost everything... my almost new (!) IBM
hard disk
> > suddenly had some bad sectors and one was the superblock of my
linux
> > partition. So, I cannot boot into linux any more, and if I try to
e2fsck
> > the partition, e2fsck doesn't find the superblock. Also, if I try
with -b
> > 8193 or -b 16385, e2fsck says that these blocks contain a "bad
magic
> > number". Hmm, I've read that these blocks should actually be
superblock
> > backups but I think since my fs was made with the new default
> > "sparse_superblocks" option, the backups are perhaps somewhere
else. Can
> > anyone please help me with this issue? I just desperately want to
rescue
> > my data before I send the drive back to IBM or so because they
will
> > probably send me a new HDD but not my old data, and of course I
have not
> > made backups, stupid me. The partition is /dev/hda2 and about 7.7
GB. I
> > also have a possibility to temporarely store up to 12 GB of data
on hda1,
> > a fat32 partition which scandisk could obviously "stabilize" more
or less
> > after a bad block marking. At the moment, I'm trying to dd
/dev/hda2 into
> > a file on /dev/hda1 but there seems to be a problem with the
maximal file
> > size on fat partitions (does anyone know about that?).
> > 
> > Regards and thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Stephan
> > 
> 
> This is from the e2fsck manpage:
> 
>   The location of the backup superblock is dependent on
the
>   filesystem's blocksize.  For filesystems with 1k
blocksizes, a
>   backup superblock can be found at block 8193; for
filesystems
>   with 2k blocksizes, at block 16384; and for 4k
blocksizes, at
>   block 32768.
> 
>   Additional  backup superblocks can be determined by
using the
>   mke2fs program using the -n option to print out where
the
>   superblocks were created.  The -b option to mke2fs,
which
>   specifies blocksize of the filesystem must be
specified in
>   order for the superblock locations that are printed
out to be
>   accurate.

Yeah, this was exactly what I needed! Now I have the offsets of my
superblocks and I'm running e2fsck at the moment. Thanks very much,

Stephan

My superblock has been destroyed - please help!

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Hmm, the subject says almost everything... my almost new (!) IBM hard disk 
suddenly had some bad sectors and one was the superblock of my linux partition. 
So, I cannot boot into linux any more, and if I try to e2fsck the partition, 
e2fsck doesn't find the superblock. Also, if I try with -b 8193 or -b 16385, 
e2fsck says that these blocks contain a "bad magic number". Hmm, I've read that 
these blocks should actually be superblock backups but I think since my fs was 
made with the new default "sparse_superblocks" option, the backups are perhaps 
somewhere else. Can anyone please help me with this issue? I just desperately 
want to rescue my data before I send the drive back to IBM or so because they 
will probably send me a new HDD but not my old data, and of course I have not 
made backups, stupid me. The partition is /dev/hda2 and about 7.7 GB. I also 
have a possibility to temporarely store up to 12 GB of data on hda1, a fat32 
partition which scandisk could obviously "stabilize" more or less after a bad 
block marking. At the moment, I'm trying to dd /dev/hda2 into a file on 
/dev/hda1 but there seems to be a problem with the maximal file size on fat 
partitions (does anyone know about that?).

Regards and thanks in advance,

Stephan

Re: hardware supportato

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Per favore, iscrivi alla lista "debian-italian" perche io capisco che vuoi dire 
ma non posso scrivere una risposta perche il mio italiano e troppo cattivo :(

Ciao,

Stephan


On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:19:42 +0200
"marco e marisa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ho un computer con processore Pentium 75 Mhz e vorrei montarci una
> versione di linux debian con word processor. Quale verisone open source
> posso montare?
> 

Re: c++ conversion

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Yeah, there are just some packages on your computer missing. Try . If that doesn't help, and there's still a file missing, you can 
go to  ;the lower search form is a 
search for files in the distro. It gives you the names of the packages the 
missing files are in, and so you can apt-get them.

Cheers,

Stephan

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 16:46:09 -0500
David Turetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I would like to migrate some large c/c++ programs from Windows to Linux.
> Right now I'm invoking gcc -- and even for the most trivial program I am
> getting the error message: "installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus':
> no such file or directory"
> 
> I'm also surprised to see that g++ is not recognized on the command
> line, nor included header files such as 
> 
> I've written some decent-sized stuff in c++ and don't recall running
> into such problems, but then my memory used to be better
> 
> I am reading Swan's book on "GNU C++ for Linux" and starting to work my
> way through the info docs
> 
> My response has been to get-apt upgrade gcc, which I am in the middle
> of. Not sure if this will address my problem. Was surprised to see the
> huge size of the upgrade. Of course that means I am running under the
> old code (gcc 2.95.2)
> 
> Any gentle recommendations and pointers toward good documentation is
> much appreciated!
> 
> -- 
> David
> -
> www.richsob.com
> 
> If the master dies and the disciple grieves, the lives of both have
> been wasted.
> 
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Re: Installing KDE2 from cvs

[Stephan Hachinger]

On Wednesday 11 July 2001 23:11, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Installing KDE2 from cvs
>
> > Now that have tried to build the packages I have the following problem:
> >
> >
> > ---code
> > ---moc.y:1128: type clash (`' `string') on default action
> > make[2]: *** [mocgen.cpp] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tim/kdecvs/qt-copy/src/moc'
> > make[1]: *** [src-moc] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tim/kdecvs/qt-copy'
> > make: *** [shared-stamp] Error 2
> > ---code

rm mocgen.cpp
cvs update

(your file has a conflict)

--
David FAURE, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today

Re: Installing KDE2 from cvs

[Stephan Hachinger]

tim wrote:


Hello

Konquereor crashes on me with most javascripts, since the last update 
in sid. Dissable is not really an option so I like to try installing 

from cvs.


I have never compiled Kde or any other "big" thing except kernels0.  
My question is whether I have to uninstall my running KDE or just "make 
it with prefix ".  Will this possibly mess my system ?


In generally any tips are welcome!

tim




There are usually debian packaging scripts included in the sources, so 
that you can download the sources, change into the source directories 
and just call dpkg-buildpackage (from dpkg-dev) to build debian packages 
from the sources. Sometimes, the file /debian/rules cannot be executed 
in this process because of wrong permissions and dpkg complains, then 
you just have to chmod. When you install those generated .deb packages, 
older versions are automatically uninstalled by dpkg. If you've already 
installed something by make install, I'd recommend to do a make 
uninstall first. I think the deb installation is much cleaner than other 
ways.


Cheers,

Stephan

Re:

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

I think you can order debian CD's from the vendors which are mentioned on
the following site:

http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors

Or you can download a cd image at a ftp server and burn your own cd. The
list of servers is here:

http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist (The list in the middle of the page is
the right one for the iso images. For burning them you need an appropriate
burning program).

The latest stable version of Debian is potato (2.2r3). That's the right
distribution for setting up a rock solid system, but the packages tend to be
a little outdated. If you want to set up a desktop system with newest
software, Libranet Linux (a Debian derivate; http://www.libranet.com/) may
be a good choice; I think it's also quite easy to install. You can order it
on cd for $25; you are allowed to make as many copies from the CDs as you
want after having ordered it.

Regards,

Stephan

P.S.: Please switch your mail application to text-only mode for this list
and use a subject line describing the problem you have.

> - Original Message -
> From: Jenner Almánzar
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:32 PM
>
>
> G'day
>
> What's the latest version of GNU Linux Debain?
> How can i get it on CD?
>
> Jenner
>
> Internet & Telecomunicaciones
> Calle Padre Emiliano Tardif No.36, Evaristo Morales
> Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
> Office (809) 541 5652
> Cell Phone (809) 222 5053
> E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

Re:

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hallo!

Jo, ich bin zwar grad wieder mal im Stress, deshalb bitte ich Dich, Dich an
Andere zur Hilfe zu wenden, aber... warum Deine mail bisher anscheinend noch
keiner beantwortet hat... das Format der Nachricht sollte kein HTML
(RichText) sondern nur reiner Text sein; das Betreff möglichst
aussagekräftig. Aja, und es gibt eine spezielle deutsche Liste:
debian-user-de, falls Du in deutsch diskutieren willst; hier in debian-user
gibt es normalerweise nur auf Englische mails 'ne Antwort. Debian ist
übrigens nicht am einfachsten zu installieren; wenn Du aber etwas Erfahrung
mit DOS oder dem was unter der Win-Oberfläche ist hattest, wirst Du es
sicher schaffen und Freude haben :)

Grüße,

Stephan

in English:

Because I'm stressed at the moment, please contact others for help; but the
reasons that your mail has not yet been replied to, are probably: Writing a
HTML mail; missing subject; wrong language - please contact the guys at
debian-user-de for German discussion. Debian is, BTW, not the easiest distro
to install but if you have expirence with DOS or what is behind the surface
of windows, you will succeed.

- Original Message -
From: Firas-Sadat
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 6:45 PM


Ich hab mich bei der Installation von Debian an die Installationsanleitung
von Mark Stone gehalten.
Doch an dem Punkt "Das System konfigurieren" scheitere ich, da
es in der Installationsanleitung so aussieht, als hätte das System nach dem
Login eine Windowsähnliche Oberfläche.
Doch die Oberfläche auf der ich mich befinde, gleicht eher Dos.
Ich hab die Installation mehrfach wiederholt und auch versucht neue packages
über "deselect" zu installieren, aber komme dort einfach nciht weiter.

Wer kann mir helfen?

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

[Stephan Hachinger]

> Hi!
>
>
> > > at these extremes... the diodes wont helpand the dioes will simply
> > > burn up due to the current it has to pass to get to that "voltage"
> > > one side being a diode drop ( 0.7v ) across itself..
> > > - a power mosfet is better suited ...
>
> hmm, mosfet doesn't make sense to me - IIRC they only work like switches
>
> I think you should use "Shotkey-diods" the largest one i know could pass
> 200 ampere - and they've less than ~0.4V voltage drop

Hi!

Mosfets are a kind of transistors with less loss of energy than a bipoar
type. I agree that the only thing you could use is a shottky diode, the drop
is about 0.1-0.2 Volts, I think; therefore it won't produce so much heat and
maybe you won't even need any heatsinks for them. But I think it is
generally not a good thing to reduce the supply voltage by 0.2 Volts this
way, because computers are very sensitive to voltage changes... If there
will be a high load for only a short time, the voltage maybe drops down the
specs and your components are down.

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

Re: AWE64 Configuration...

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

I don't really know what the problem with your config is, but I can tell you
it'll probably work fine if you compile the drivers as modules (don't forget
to give the parameters you've set in isapnp.conf to them). But I guess the
problem with your config is, that the driver initializes first, and then you
change the adresses etc. of your pnp hardware via isapnp. I'd try once with
an empty isapnp.conf file - maybe it works then.

Regards,

Stephan

P.S.: As for myself, I also use alsa, because I've now got a new pci card
which doesn't work with oss drivers.

> "James K. Wiggs" wrote:
> >
> >  Folks,
> >
> >First off, I don't have access to my machine that's receiving
> > mail from the debian-user mailing list right now, so please respond
> > via email as well as to the list if at all possible.  If not, I will
> > not see your reply for 3-4 days.  Now, on to the fun...
> >
> >I've been tearing my hair out trying to get my AWE64 working
> > again after switching from RedHat 6.2 to Debian 2.2r2.  Can anyone
> > tell me what I'm missing, here?
> >
> >Here's the contents of /dev/sndstat:
> > herald:~# cat /dev/sndstat
> > OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
> > Load type: Driver compiled into kernel
> > Kernel: Linux herald 2.2.18pre21 #16 Fri Mar 9 08:23:54 PST 2001 i586
> > Config options: 0
> >
> > Installed drivers:
> >
> > Card config:
> >
> > Audio devices:
> > 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) (DUPLEX)
> >
> > Synth devices:
> > 0: AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM512k)
> > 1: Yamaha OPL3
> >
> > Midi devices:
> > 0: Sound Blaster 16
> > 1: AWE Midi Emu
> >
> > Timers:
> > 0: System clock
> >
> > Mixers:
> > 0: Sound Blaster
> >
> >Here's the contents of isapnp.conf:
> >
> > herald:~# cat /etc/isapnp.conf
> > # $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.21 1999/12/09 22:28:33 fox Exp $
> > # Release isapnptools-1.21 (library isapnptools-1.21)
> > #
> > # Trying port address 0273
> > # Board 1 has serial identifier 89 10 cd b3 70 e4 00 8c 0e
> >
> > # (DEBUG)
> > (READPORT 0x0273)
> > (ISOLATE PRESERVE)
> > (IDENTIFY *)
> > (VERBOSITY 2)
> > (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
> >
> > # Card 1: (serial identifier 89 10 cd b3 70 e4 00 8c 0e)
> > # Vendor Id CTL00e4, Serial Number 281916272, checksum 0x89.
> > # Version 1.0, Vendor version 1.0
> > # ANSI string -->Creative SB AWE64  PnP<--
> > # Vendor defined tag:  73 02 45 20
> > #
> > # Logical device id CTL0045
> >
> > (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/281916272 (LD 0
> > # ANSI string -->Audio<--
> >
> > # Multiple choice time, choose one only !
> >
> > # Start dependent functions: priority preferred
> > #   IRQ 5.
> > # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
> > (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> > #   First DMA channel 1.
> > # 8 bit DMA only
> > # Logical device is a bus master
> > (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
> > #   Next DMA channel 5.
> > # 16 bit DMA only
> > # Logical device is a bus master
> > (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
> > #   Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> > # Minimum IO base address 0x0220
> > # Maximum IO base address 0x0220
> > # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> > # Number of IO addresses required: 16
> > (IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
> > #   Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> > # Minimum IO base address 0x0330
> > # Maximum IO base address 0x0330
> > # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> > # Number of IO addresses required: 2
> > (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
> > #   Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> > # Minimum IO base address 0x0388
> > # Maximum IO base address 0x0388
> > # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> > # Number of IO addresses required: 4
> > (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
> >
> > # End dependent functions
> >  (NAME "CTL00e4/281916272[0]{Audio   }")
> > (ACT Y)
> > ))
> > #
> > # Logical device id CTL7002
> >
> > (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/281916272 (LD 1
> > # Compatible device id PNPb02f
> > # ANSI string -->Game<--
> >
> > # Multiple choice time, choose one only !
> >
> > # Start dependent functions: priority preferred
> > #   Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> > # Minimum IO base address 0x0200
> > # Maximum IO base address 0x0200
> > # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> > # Number of IO addresses required: 8
> > (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0200))
> >
> > # End dependent functions
> >  (NAME "CTL00e4/281916272[1]{Game}")
> > (ACT Y)
> > ))
> > #
> > # Logical device id CTL0022
> >
> > (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/281916272 (LD 2
> > # ANSI string -->WaveTable<--
> >
> > # Multiple choice time, choose one only !
> >
> > # Start dependent functions: priority preferred
> > #   Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> > # Minimum IO base address 0x0620
> > # Maximum IO base a

Re: staroffice5.2 and missing libs

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

I couldn't find any of those files in the debian distribution (searched in
contents of the distro on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages). I know
that probably doesn't help you very much, but I have no idea where those
libs come from... at least you know now that they aren't from any "free"
debian package - could only be in non-free or non-us, perhaps because I
don't know if they are included in the search. Hope this helps a little bit
:)

Kind Regards,

Stepan Hachinger
- Original Message -
From: "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:23 PM
Subject: ot: staroffice5.2 and missing libs


> Hi,
>
> I had installed staroffice a couple of months ago and everything worked
> fine. When I tried to start it again last week, it failed.
> With ldd, I discovered that I miss a lot of libs, all having the number
> '569'.
> One of them is: libgo569li.so
>
> I reinstalled, searched my harddisk for the lib, but I was unable to find
> it.
>
> Does anyone know which package contains these libs?
>
> I am also very happy with the output of ldd, e.g.:
> ldd /usr/local/office52/program/soffice.bin
>
> and tell me in which directory the 569 libs can be found.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Sebastiaan
>
>
>
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Re: burning potato iso's for an older CDROM

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

I'd also give a real cdr media a try if you have previously burned a cdrw...
if you have old drives, it's very probable that they can't read cdrws, but I
could even read cdrs with two old 1x-speed drives I had. And with a
ten-year-old diskman, too.

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Forrest English" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: burning potato iso's for an older CDROM


> are you reffering to a cdr-drive?  or a cdr cd?  i ment the cd in case i
> said somthing stupid.
>
> the drives, it doesn't matter.
>
> some cdroms are to old for rw's, but can read once write just fine.   i'd
> give that a shot.  but i mean, my thinkpad's cdrom is to old to read cdrs
> or cdrws, and it's annoying.  cause i have to do floppy installs.  and i
> don't HAVE any pressed cds.
>
> --
> Forrest English
> http://truffula.net
>
> "When we have nothing left to give
> There will be no reason for us to live
> But when we have nothing left to lose
> You will have nothing left to use"
> -Fugazi
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > does it matter that it was burned on a cdrw instead of a cdr?
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Forrest English wrote:
> >
> > > you can't.   if the cdrom is to old to read burns.  it's just to old
to
> > > read burns.   :(
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Forrest English
> > > http://truffula.net
> > >
> > > "When we have nothing left to give
> > > There will be no reason for us to live
> > > But when we have nothing left to lose
> > > You will have nothing left to use"
> > > -Fugazi
> > >
> > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have an oold cdrom that seems to work fine with commericial CD's.
> > > >
> > > > Reads rh6.x and windows install cd's fine
> > > >
> > > > It will not read the debian potato CD i burned off the web
> > > > fyi: this same CD works read/boots fine in my newer CD-ROM
> > > >
> > > > How can i burn the ISO image so the old drive will read it?
> > > > mode1? 2?
> > > > cdrecord and adaptec easyCD creater instructions would be helpful
> > > >
> > > > thank you
> > > >
> > > >
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Re: 386-4 MB startup question

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

At least inside germany, one can send a letter and the recipient has to pay
for the fees if the sender wants him to... I think I'll try to do that and
if don't succeed, I'll pay the few marks, because any sending of money would
almost cost more than the amount you'd have to send to me. Do you want
Debian 2.1 cds or 2.2 ones or both? Do you need any boot disks (perhaps for
a virus-free boot?)?

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger
Plettstr. 73
81735 München
Germany


- Original Message -
From: "DSC Lithuania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: 386-4 MB startup question


> Actually, probably 8 would be best, just in case there were mismatch
> problems.  (our old
> 4 + your new 4 might cause some kind of mismatch problem, in which case we
> couldn't
> use them.  But getting 8 would prevent that kind of problem.)
>
> Thanks.  Can you give me an address to send payment to?  Also name your
> currency; I can
> probably make the transfer in the proper form without too much trouble
> (probably marks, but
> you might want something different).
>
> - Michael Rudmin
>   8-4 Laisves Kvartalas
>   5730 Silute,  Lietuva
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephan Hachinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: DSC Lithuania <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian User
> 
> Date: Friday, January 19, 2001 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: 386-4 MB startup question
>
>
> >Hello!
> >
> >Hmm, as I said, a mass of those modules are just lying around here, so
you
> >have to pay nothing for it... it would be good if you could pay the
> >transport fees (ca. $4 or something like that), and that's it. How many
> >modules do you need?
> >
> >Kind Regards,
> >
> >Stephan Hachinger
> >
> >- Original Message -
> >From: "DSC Lithuania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:19 PM
> >Subject: Re: 386-4 MB startup question
> >
> >
> >> >Hello!
> >> >
> >> >The parity message doesn't seem like a real error to me, but exactly
> like
> >> >the behaviour of the parity boot b boot sector virus. What do you
> think??
> >>
> >>
> >> I think since the computer I was transferring files between and this
one
> >> *also*
> >> developed the same error, that you are exactly right.  I've got F-PROT,
> >and
> >> am going to go to war against the virus.  Also, I would appreciate the
> >> memory, if you'd be willing to send it.  And if you are going to ship
the
> >> one, then the Debian 2.2 would also be good.
> >>
> >> Sooner or later (probably the latter)  I expect to really upgrade the
> >memory
> >> and/or motherboard, and when that happens the Debian 2.2 upgrade will
be
> >> ideal.
> >>
> >> How much would you like for it all?
> >>
> >> -  Mike Rudmin
> >>8-4 Laisves Kvartalas
> >>5730 Silute, Lithuania / Lietuva
> >>
> >>
> >>  V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V
v
> V
> >v
> >> V v V v V v V v V v
> >>
> >> Below this line:  My own approximate version of the Lithuanian national
> >> fairy tale.  It would
> >> make an excellent HOWTO   8->  .  Read if you want, ignore if you want.
> >>
> >>
> >> The story of Egle and the snake-king
> >>
> >> Once there lived a girl named Egle.  She lived with her parents, two
> >> sisters, and three brothers.  One day, she and her sisters went
swimming,
> >> and when they were done she discovered that there was a snake in her
> >> clothes.
> >>
> >> Now, this snake was of a kind that is considered to be good luck; but
> >still
> >> Egle wanted her clothes back, so she asked the snake "please give me my
> >> clothes".  The snake replied "I will if you promise to marry me."
Egle,
> >> thinking that this was all a joke, agreed, and the snake left the
> clothes.
> >> She put the clothes on, went home, and told her parents everything that
> >had
> >> happened.
> >>
> >> Several days later, her village was inundated with snakes.  The snakes
> >> approached her parents, and asked for Egle's hand in marriage for their
> >> king.  Egle's father decided to try to give them a duck that was
dressed
> >in
>

Re: 386-4 MB startup question

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Hmm, as I said, a mass of those modules are just lying around here, so you
have to pay nothing for it... it would be good if you could pay the
transport fees (ca. $4 or something like that), and that's it. How many
modules do you need?

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "DSC Lithuania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: 386-4 MB startup question


> >Hello!
> >
> >The parity message doesn't seem like a real error to me, but exactly like
> >the behaviour of the parity boot b boot sector virus. What do you think??
>
>
> I think since the computer I was transferring files between and this one
> *also*
> developed the same error, that you are exactly right.  I've got F-PROT,
and
> am going to go to war against the virus.  Also, I would appreciate the
> memory, if you'd be willing to send it.  And if you are going to ship the
> one, then the Debian 2.2 would also be good.
>
> Sooner or later (probably the latter)  I expect to really upgrade the
memory
> and/or motherboard, and when that happens the Debian 2.2 upgrade will be
> ideal.
>
> How much would you like for it all?
>
> -  Mike Rudmin
>8-4 Laisves Kvartalas
>5730 Silute, Lithuania / Lietuva
>
>
>  V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V v V
v
> V v V v V v V v V v
>
> Below this line:  My own approximate version of the Lithuanian national
> fairy tale.  It would
> make an excellent HOWTO   8->  .  Read if you want, ignore if you want.
>
>
> The story of Egle and the snake-king
>
> Once there lived a girl named Egle.  She lived with her parents, two
> sisters, and three brothers.  One day, she and her sisters went swimming,
> and when they were done she discovered that there was a snake in her
> clothes.
>
> Now, this snake was of a kind that is considered to be good luck; but
still
> Egle wanted her clothes back, so she asked the snake "please give me my
> clothes".  The snake replied "I will if you promise to marry me."  Egle,
> thinking that this was all a joke, agreed, and the snake left the clothes.
> She put the clothes on, went home, and told her parents everything that
had
> happened.
>
> Several days later, her village was inundated with snakes.  The snakes
> approached her parents, and asked for Egle's hand in marriage for their
> king.  Egle's father decided to try to give them a duck that was dressed
in
> Egle's clothes, and indeed the snakes left with the duck.  However, as the
> snakes went into the forest, a cuckoo bird said "That's not Egle".  So the
> snakes took the duck back again, and demanded Egle.
>
> Again, the father tried to give them a sheep in Egle's clothes.  Again,
the
> snakes took the sheep, and again the journey was interrupted by the cuckoo
> bird.  At last, Egle's parents gave their daughter to the snakes, and the
> snakes took Egle to a fabulous palace under the sea.  There, the new bride
> met her groom, and discovered that he was not a snake, but a magical and
> handsome prince named Zilvinas.  She fell in love at once, and they were
> married.
>
> Some time passed, and Egle had four children, three boys and one girl.
>
> After this time, Egle was lonesome for her family, and asked Zilvinas if
she
> could visit them.  Now, Zilvinas knew that Egle's family would try to kill
> him if they could, so he said no.  But she begged so hard that he
relented,
> but said  "I set before you three tasks.  When you have completed them,
you
> may visit your family."  The first task was to wear a pair of iron shoes
> until they wore out.  The second task was to make lace without any yarn.
> The third task waa to carry water in a pail full of holes.
>
> Now, if Egle had done these things herself, and figured them out, she
would
> have been fine.  But she considered the tasks impossible, and instead
asked
> an old witch for the answers.  The witch told her how to do each task, and
> she did them.  Her husband knew that she had cheated; but he had promised
> and was true to his word.  So he said "You may go for seven days only, but
> the eighth day you must return.  Come to the seashore and call me by name,
> and I will come to you on waves of milk."
>
> So Egle went off with her children.
>
> For seven days she visited her family, and they pressed her to stay.  And
> indeed, she missed them so much that she decided "what can one day hurt?"
> But when her family saw that she wanted to stay, they decided that her
> marriage to Zilvinas was indeed a m

Re: Burning ISO-Image in Windows?

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

If all else fails, use cdrecord for windows. You can download it and get
documentation about the command line parameters at this site:

http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/
cdrecord.html

binary downloads for win32:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha/win32/

Normally you only need to do the following:

1.) cdrecord -scanbus

It will give you a few device numbers like 2,1,0 or something like that, and
one is the appropriate for your cdr drive.

2.) cdrecord -speed x dev=w,y,z 
where w,y,z are the numbers from -scanbus and x is the recording speed.

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "BUND Regionalverband Stuttgart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: Burning ISO-Image in Windows?


> Hi,
>
> I´ve downloaded the ISO-Image from the Debian-Homepage, but I can´t find a
> way to burn it. Nero doesn´t work with the options told in the faq.
> Fireburner also doesn´t work.
> Can anyone provide me a freely available program that is able to burn the
> ISO?
>
> Bye,
>
> Hanno
>
>
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Re: 386-4 MB startup question

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

The Parity Check message could be the result of bad memory, but I don't
think so, instead I think that this computer is infected by the parity boot
b virus, which does nothing bad except of halting the system sometimes and
displaying this message... you can clean your computer with f-prot, a quite
goot antivirus program; it's free for non-commercial use and if you use it
commercially I think it's 30day trialware. But be sure to have a virus-clean
dos boot disk with sys.com and fdisk.??? on it because the removal of the
virus may corrupt the boot sector so that your machine won't boot up any
more until you fdisk /mbr and sys the harddisk. And... maybe you cannot
find/remove the virus when it's in memory, so you'll perhaps need a boot
disk with f-prot on it... producing this disk is quite complicated as it
f-prot needs much more then the space on one disk... So you should take the
old version which needs less space... if you need it, I could send you a
disk image of a boot disk. But you'll have to switch the date of your PC to
1/1/1998 because if you don't do so this old version will only tell you it's
outdated and it will exit :).

Link to F-PROT: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/virus/fp-308b.zip
old version: ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/Pcibm/antivirus/fprot/fp-228.zip or
search at http://ftpsearch.lycos.com

I can send you an additional 4megs of 1MB SIM 30pin ram modules if you want
because I've got many of them just lying around.
And also, if you want, a Debian 2.1 two-CD distribution, also lying
around... I think it'll install because it's got an older 2.0 kernel.

Hmm, and this problem with the NIC... are you sure you have switched off pnp
mode of this card, because the 386 bios won't handle pnp cards?

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger from Munich, Germany


- Original Message -
From: "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DSC Lithuania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: 386-4 MB startup question


> DSC Lithuania wrote:
> > Does anyone have a suggestion on what I can do to get this system up and
running?  I am hoping to get this successfully installed on the computer
that hasn't run before, because that becomes an increase in our assets
without additional risk.
>
> Have you thought about removing the hard disk and putting it in a
> computer with more memory, and doing the install there? Debian should
> run in 4mb, if you can get it installed.
>
> --
> see shy jo
>
>
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Re: 2.4 kernel rescue disk?

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Hmm, I think the easiest way to create a boot floppy is to take an existing
bootfloppy with the syslinux loader on it (for example a debian rescue),
then compiling a kernel with the necessary drivers and patches (but no
modules!!!; also be sure that you have compiled in some things syslinux
requires - see readme files on the boot floppy), and putting this kernel on
the disk instead of the default kernel. I don't know if this works with the
2.4 ones, but it has worked with 2.2 and 2.0, so I don't think there will be
any problems...

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Jon Pennington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: 2.4 kernel rescue disk?


> Mark Phillips wrote:
> >
> > Is there any way I can create my own custom rescue disk?  Is there a
> > package for doing this?  Is there a HOWTO?
>
> I'm pretty new to this list, but this has come up a lot.  Have a look
> at:
>
>  # man make-kpkg
>  # man mkboot
>
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Re: ALSA with AWE64: help

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

I think it isn't really a problem which has something to do with your alsa
config, but I think that the module for awe32 simply doesn't detect the i/o
port of your awe unit, for example because your isapnp conf has been messed
up. I suggest to you looking at your isapnp.conf and the module parameters
at modconf first, and if this doesn't help setting up alsa because it took a
while for me to setup my alsa properly. Or, if you haven't compiled your awe
driver as a module, I'd try this. If you cannot find any error in your
current configuration and want to give alsa a try, you can send me a mail
and I'll do my best to give you a description of how to set up alsa (don't
know it exactly at the moment- I'll have to take a look at my machine ;)).

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

> - Original Message -
> From: "Maciej Kalisiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "debian-user mailing list" 
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:57 PM
> Subject: ALSA with AWE64: help
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've had sound and MIDI working great on my box for the longest time
with
> just
> > the plain, non-alsa sound stuff (the OSS drivers?), and then I installed
a
> > package which also required the alsa-base package.  Since then I haven't
> been
> > able to use MIDI, and I suspect the digital audio I get is still using
the
> old
> > drivers, and ALSA is simply busted on my box.
> >
> > So are there any docs somewhere on how to properly install a complete
ALSA
> > setup?
> >
> > BTW, I have a AWE64 value sound card (which, again, worked completely
> prior to
> > alsa-base).
> >
> > I think ALSA is busted here because I get stuff like this on bootup:
> >
> >   AWE32: not detected
> >   Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
> >   SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
> >
> > or when I finish running alsaconf:
> >
> >   Loading driver:
> >   Starting ALSA sound driver (version none): no driver installed.
> >   Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50%
> >   The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
> >   Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably
> >   not detected correctly.
> >
> > I suspect that I might need to install alsadriver (which is one of the
> > alsa-modules-* debs), but then I can't use the kernel I built myself
> (which
> > does have AWE and sound support, as it works without ALSA), or rather
I'm
> > weary of having apt-get mess around with my kernel bits.
> >
> > --
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> >
> >
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Re: Setup of X 4.0 and ALSA

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

I neither have woody nor X4.0 but I think I can give you some hints on the
alsa issue. It does a good job at my machine with an ESS card. I compiled it
myself. For doing this, you need the sources of your kernel in
/usr/src/linux. Then download the alsa sources from www.alsa-project.org.
You need alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils. There are scripts included in
these which compile the sources and produce rpm packages automatically. I
called them and then converted the rpms to debs using alien. The resulting
debs are really fine, after I installed them I found a whole bunch of alsa
soundcard modules in my modules directory, and I just configured them by
using modconf. There's also a kind of setup utility included in alsa but I
think I just didn't need it and gave the proper module parameters directly
in modconf. See www.alsa-project.org about the proper parameters and about
the module name which is right for your soundcard - and don't forget to
install the OSS emulation modules, of course. And you mustn't forget to
unmute the devices by using alsamixer or for example the kde mixer before
you want to listen to music because all devices are muted by default if you
use alsa. At my machine, the kde2 mixer unmutes them at kde startup - I only
had to unmute them once.

If you can get the soundcard to work by using oss or kernel-included
modules, then better don't spend time on setting up alsa. If the drivers
included in the kernel distribution aren't working properly, alsa is surely
worth a try - especially because you can create the debs quite easily.

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 10:09 AM
Subject: Setup of X 4.0 and ALSA


> How do I setup X 4.0 on my machine. I upgraded my father's machine to
> woody, and it gave me a world of troubles as I lost the ISDN
> connection, X and sound. But now I have gotten all back. Except
> that I would now like to setup X 4.0 for him and setup an alsa module
> to handle the sound (the ESS SOLO1 has been a little troublesome
> earlier with 2.2.15, but it seems better now with .18pre21) But I got a
> lot of problems after installing the alsa modules. depmode was
> complaining greatly about unresolved things. Is there any point in
> spending time on the ALSA modules at this point?
>
> Is there a tool for setting up X 4.0, I can only find the tools for
> 3.3.6 on my computer and looking at the repository I cannot say I can
> find any packages that sticks out as being the one I need to install.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> PS: On all the machines I have installed Debian I have gotten problems
> with the combination X and GPM, isn't it time to drop GPM at startup and
> let those who only wants the console set it up themselves with rcconf? I
> reckon they are less newbie than those who use X.
>
> --
> Preben Randhol -- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --
> +---+ "There was, I think, never any reason to  believe in any innate
> | ! |  superiority of the male, except his superior muscle."
> +---+  -- Bertrand Russell, Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind (1950)
>
>
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(OT) S3 Vision 964 card under dosemu - video bios config

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Although I must confess this is off-topic: Does anyone know how to configure
dosemu with this card to run 640*480 vga graphics mode applications? I've
already tried the attached config, but when I try to run dosemu, it fails to
start. I think it has something to do with the bios adress and size. Here is
the information given on this issue by the graphics card manufacturer
(ELSA):

Video-BIOS-ROM adress: C-C7FFF

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance and merrry christmas,

Stephan Hachinger


dosemu.conf
Description: Binary data

Re: Netscape 6.0/konqueor

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Thanks for the information, I have the same libssl installed. I think, the
problem with the homebanking site I wanted to access is really that my proxy
server doesn't listen https requests. Hmm, till I can fix it I'll access the
site from the machine this proxy is running on (a windoze one ;) ), maybe
another proxy software has https support.

Thanks, Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Netscape 6.0/konqueor


> On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Can you please tell me which version your ssl packages are (0.95?)
because I
> > also don't have https support and want to veryfy if it's because of the
> > firewall which I use for http connections or if it's because of wrong
libs.
>
> Stephan,
>
> My version of ssl is 0.9.5a-5... it's the current libssl095a in woody.
>
> BTW, I've read that there are some sites that, instead of checking to
> see if you have crypto, they actually just check to see if you're using
> Netscape or IE and assume you don't have crypto if you're not.  That
> may or may not be the problem, but I _have_ noticed that there are some
> https sites that work fine for me and some that just refuse the
> connection.
>
> --
> Tom
> "Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions
> which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to
> one is to make a pillow of the mind."
> -St. John Ervine
>

Re: Netscape 6.0/konqueor

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Can you please tell me which version your ssl packages are (0.95?) because I
also don't have https support and want to veryfy if it's because of the
firewall which I use for http connections or if it's because of wrong libs.

Thanks in advance,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian help" 
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 2:26 AM
Subject: Re: Netscape 6.0/konqueor


> On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:37:13AM -0500, Anderson, Tim   TL33E wrote:
> > On my box konqueror has been a breath of fresh air.. with the exception
of
> > https support, which isn't there.  Anyone know if that's a KDE thing or
is
> > it just not compiled into the packages at kde.tdyc.com?
>
> I don't know about the kde.tdyc.com stuff, but I seem to have
> https support using the woody stuff with the kdelibs3-crypto and
> kdebase-crypto packages installed.
>
> --
> Tom
> "Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come
> through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was
> false."
> -Bertrand Russell
>
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Re: Quick Q: Kernel compiling gcc295/gcc272?

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

I've always compiled my kernels with gcc295 for over a year now and never
run into problems. Seems to work.

Regards,

Stephan


- Original Message -
From: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian" 
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 8:45 PM
Subject: Quick Q: Kernel compiling gcc295/gcc272?


> Hi,
>
> I recently compiled my kernel. However, reading through the docs that came
> with gcc it says clearly that compiling the kernel should be done with
> gcc272 and not gcc295. I had gcc295 loaded by tasksel and the fine print
> said not to worry if you had gcc295 because if you used the kernel-pacage
it
> called on gcc272 by itself.
>
> Q: Looking at my package list I don't see gcc272 on it. Am I in trouble
for
> having run this on gcc295 even with the kernel-package? Or did in fact use
> gcc273 somehow, as it stated, and it's not listed?
>
> I'm sort of worried here now..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan.
>
>
>
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Re: Building kde2 from source packages

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Compiling takes about 24 hours (with kOffice) on my P1/133 machine, so I did
my last install with the packages at kde.tdyc.org, but the packages lead to
dependency problems :(.

These are the steps I did for installing it before I used the packages and
which I will probably do again with the final version:

1.) get qt2.2.1 source and kde source packages (at least kde libs, support
and base)
1a.) :) unpack the qt tarball in usr/local; rename the unpacked subdir into
"qt" and change your bash configuration according to its readme
2.) unpack all other tar.gzs (i suggest using a special directory for that,
although the files will be unpacked into subdirs)
3.) look into the file COMPILING (or something similar) in the kdelibs
subdir, and look for the options for building)
4.) change into the qt dir and do ./configure --opts, where opts are the
different options which are suggested in the above file ("COMPILING") -
*VERY IMPORTANT FOR WORKING GIF/JPG SUPPORT!!!*
4a.) do "make" in the qt dir
5.) change into the kdesupport dir, ./configure, make, make install (will
install it in /usr/local/kde)
6.) do the same with the kdelibs
7.) do the same with all other packages (after kdelibs, you can build and
install any other packages in any order)
8.) switch to /usr/local/kde/bin/startkde as default window manager

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

P.S. If you've got any further questions, just send me an email.


- Original Message -
From: "Alwyn Schoeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:43 PM
Subject: Building kde2 from source packages


> Hi there,
>
> Could anyone maybe give me a quick rundown on the procedure
> used to build kde2 from the source packages.  Do I need to have
> the kde2 sourcetree somewhere?
>
> Thank you
> Alwyn
>
>
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Re: burning CDs

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Have you already downloaded the .img-images or are you using the
pseudo-image-kit and which OS are you using?

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Umum Wijoyo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 6:12 PM
Subject: burning CDs


> Hi!
>
> Can anyone help me to burn some Debian 22 CDs?
> I'm using the Golden Hawk Technology software.
> Any reference would be helpful.
>
> TIA
>
> Umum Wijoyo
> --
> Bandung, Indonesia
>
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Re: Tru Type Fonts Question

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

X cannot handle the ttf dir although xfs is installed. Instead, you must add
"unix/:7100" to your XF86config, because, I think, xfs-xtt (you must install
THIS VERSION, not normal xfs!!!) serves the fonts to X via this tcp port.
And you have to create xfonts.scale etc. etc. etc. in the dir with the fonts
(I don't know these steps exactly any more, see howto) and the ttf-dir has
to be added to the "catalog" line in the file /etc/X11/xfs/config.

> 4)  Ran the "mkttfdir" utility.  Shouldn't there
> be a "ttmkfdir" utility???  Where is it???
Don't know about it, but sounds like they are equal or someone as written
the name in a false way in some howto or description you've read!

But, all of this isn't necessary if you just download the xfstt package,
install and use it. It's really easier to set up, I think, and I don't know
any disadvantage of xfstt in comparison to xfs-xtt. I think I'll do this
after I've wasted my time setting up xfs-xtt instead of xfstt some weaks
ago.

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/xfstt_1.1.deb

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger


- Original Message -
From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian Users" 
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 4:45 PM
Subject: Tru Type Fonts Question


> I know how to set up "xfstt" for true type fonts, but I
> see that Debian 2.2 uses "xfs" as a default font server.
>
> How do I set up "xfs" to use my truetype fonts?  This is
> what I did:
>
> 1)  Installed the fttools package.
> 2)  Created /usr/share/fonts/truetype
> 3)  Copied my 1132 fonts to the above directory.
> 4)  Ran the "mkttfdir" utility.  Shouldn't there
> be a "ttmkfdir" utility???  Where is it???
> 5)  Added "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" to the
> /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
> 6)  Re-started the "xfs" daemon.
> 7)  Re-started X
>
> That is when I got the error:
> Fatal server error.
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> What did I do wrong?  What am I missing?  Where is the
> "ttmkfdir" utility?
>
> I know "xfstt" works but I would rather use "xfs" since it
> is the default installed server.
>
>
> --
> ---
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> chris at cwaiken dot com,   www.cwaiken.com
> Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
>
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Re: 3c509 troubles

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Maybe, it could be a "normal" hardware resource conflict. But, why is the
module loaded properly although the card has a conflict? I think, the card
has a resource conflict, but the 3c509 module doesn't detect it. When
ifconfig wants to configure the interface, it therefore cannot succeed. Hmm,
as I said, the card works absolutely ok in pnp mode in my machine, but if
you use jumperless, but non-pnp mode, you maybe have to assign the resources
to this isa card in bios. In pnp mode, it could be possible that it has to
be configured with isapnp (but not at my machine :)). Just write me some
more about your hardware settings, maybe some interrupt and i/o listings
from /proc and we'll see.

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger



- Original Message -
From: "Jan- Hendrik Palic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: 3c509 troubles


>
>
> Stephan Hachinger schrieb:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > I've also got a 3c509b and it works fine. I switched on PnP mode in the
> > DOS-based "3com utilites" setup program and then you don't really have
to do
> > anything complicated any more, because the bios automatically assigns
> > irq/dma. Perhaps, there's just another pnp card using the interrupt of
the
> > 3com and this could be changed by switching the 3com to pnp. And: You've
got
> > to compile and install the kernel module for 3c509, it normally is able
to
> > autodetect irq, i/o etc.. For the irq etc... configuration, you could
use
> > isapnp, but it doesn't seem to be necessary for this card. I never used
> > linux 3c...setup in my life.
> >
> Hi Stephan...
>
> I've the card, too. My problem is, that, the module for this card is
> loaded succesfully and dmesg says:
>
> eth0 3c509 
>
> so, I thing, the device eth0 is enabled.
>
> But:
>
> "ifconfig etho 192.168.252.10 netmask 255.255.255.0" returns, that the
> resources is temprarily in use!
>
> But why..
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thnx
>
> Jan
>
> PS.:
>
> Please sent a cc to my private adress: [EMAIL PROTECTED], thnx..
>
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Re: printing to a windows printer

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Don't know how to create the trash bin either (because I'm also quite new to
Linux) but I suggest to you to use apsfilter instead of magicfilter. The
newest versions have a *very* good setup script or program or whatever, you
only have to insert the server and printer name and it will be ok... I only
don't know if these new versions are already packaged into .debs, I'm using
a generic tar.gz. Indeed, it seems to me like apsfilter was once installed
on your system and the config is still from that time, but the
apsfilter-scripts are missing. So, a reinstall and reconfigure of apsfilter
should help.


- Original Message -
From: "David Erdman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Philipp Lehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: printing to a windows printer


> sorry, i am pretty new in linuxi understand the lock part (i think),
but
> how would someone create a trash bin dedicated to lpd?
> should I just comment the /dev/null out then?
>
>
>
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Philipp Lehman wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >i have done this in suse, and redhat but am thus far unsuccessful.
> > >I need to print to an HP722C (win printer) that is hooked up to windows
98
> > > on an internal lan.  looking at logs
> > >
> > >Oct  1 19:31:11 ganymede pnm2ppa[1192]: No pages printed!
> > >Oct  1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1195]: cannot execv
> > >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> > >Oct  1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1194]: lp: job could not be printed
> > >(cfA012ganymede)
> > >Oct  1 19:31:24 ganymede lpd[1197]: cannot execv
> > >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> > >Oct  1 19:31:24 ganymede lpd[1196]: lp: job could not be printed
> > >(cfA010ganymede)
> > >Oct  1 19:52:57 ganymede lpd[1347]: cannot execv
> > >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> > >Oct  1 19:52:57 ganymede lpd[1346]: lp: job could not be printed
> > >(cfA013ganymede)
> >
> > Your input filter script seems to be causing problems, printcap
> > looks ok to me.
> >
> > >I configured with both printtool, and magicfilter.
> > >i have also installed pn2pm (or whatever the hell it is)
> > >my printcap is as follows
> > >##PRINTTOOL3## SMB ppa 600x600 letter {} {HP DeskJet 720} ppa720b1 {}
> > >lp:\
> > >
> > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> > > :mx#0:\
> > > :sh:\
> > > :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
> > > :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
> > > :lp=/dev/null:
> >
> > ^
> >
> > Not recommended. AFAIK lpd will *lock* /dev/null. You'd better
> > create a trash bin dedicated to lpd, eg /dev/lpnull or whatever.
>
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Re: 3c509 troubles

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

I've also got a 3c509b and it works fine. I switched on PnP mode in the
DOS-based "3com utilites" setup program and then you don't really have to do
anything complicated any more, because the bios automatically assigns
irq/dma. Perhaps, there's just another pnp card using the interrupt of the
3com and this could be changed by switching the 3com to pnp. And: You've got
to compile and install the kernel module for 3c509, it normally is able to
autodetect irq, i/o etc.. For the irq etc... configuration, you could use
isapnp, but it doesn't seem to be necessary for this card. I never used
linux 3c...setup in my life.

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger


- Original Message -
From: "Helpdesk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian user list" 
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:11 PM
Subject: 3c509 troubles


> Greetings all,
>
> I just installed the latest version of debian and am having problems
> with my nic. The 3c5x9setup program tells me that it can't find a nic at
> 0x300.  This is a 3c509b-tp card that worked fine under NT. I used
> 3c5x9cfg to verify that the i/o address is 300h (i also tried 310h with
> no luck) and the irq is 10. the card passes all the diagnostic tests. I
> have a link light and can ping the loopback and the actual ip address of
> the box but can't get to anything beyond that. I installed ipv4 and also
> ipv6 during initial installation. I am using the version of 3c5x9setup
> that is listed in the debian stable packages. I have downloaded the
> latest source from the nasa page for 3c5x9setup but would rather not go
> through compiling/installing it unless its really necessary. Any ideas
> are appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> ken
>
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Re: 3com 3c509 and the mouse

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Looks like your linux system reconfigures the ethernet card and so WIN
cannot find it at the original resources, I think.

An easy solution: You could switch the 3c509 to non-pnp mode using the 3com
utilities, assigning free resources to it and then do a hardware recogition
(don't konw exactly how it's called in English version) in WIN (and
configure isapnp to not set it up under Linux (this is the default, so you
maybe have to change nothing and you can also try skipping this step)) and
be sure that the 3c509 module recognizes the card properly. If it doesn't
work, feel free to send mails.
But the problem could also be another one: Your 3c509 is in non-pnp but
jumperless mode, and the Linux driver reconfigures it so that windows cannot
find it... seems more reasonable than the above for me!!! A switch to pnp
mode could then fix it.

So, this might be confusing, but I think I would try switching it to the
mode it isn't currently in and see if the problem is fixed by this action.
If you switch to non-pnp, obey the above.


For seeing the mouse at the console, you must install the package gpm. Under
X, I think, your mouse may be configured for the wrong port and you should
fix it in xf86config or it is not plugged in properly or has a broken cable
(like my one).

If you experience problems (I think the above might be new or difficult for
you), you can also mail me under [EMAIL PROTECTED], because I look through this
mailbox more thoroughly.

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger



- Original Message -
From: "Atila Nemet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 12:05 PM
Subject: 3com 3c509 and the mouse


> Hi!
>
> I have just installed debian 2.2 and I have a few problems :o)
> First, my mouse does not work. I can not start the X because it
> reports that there is no mouse. In consol mode there is also no mouse.
> Seems to me (a newbee) like the operating system does not even know
> that there is a mouse around. What is the procedure of installing a
> mouse?
> BTW. The mouse did work under debian 2.1. In consol it worked without
> any problem, and in X I just had to set the mouse type to "auto" in
> the XF86Config and it was ok.
>
> An the second question is, that after a debian session, Win95 almost
> always reports that my 3Com 509 does not work properly. Than I have to
> go to DOS, start the configuration program for the ehternet card, run
> the test, and return to Win. And only after this will the network card
> work again.
> I had the same problem with debian 2.1, and I thought that it will be
> gone with the 2.2 version. But it did not :o(
> I guess that there is some kind of a bug in the network driver?
>
> Attila
>
>
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Re: Adding a Drive Icon [newbie]

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

seems to me like he has KDE??! but I have never created any drive icon on my
desktop

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Shel Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Debian" 
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: Adding a Drive Icon [newbie]


> Shel Johnson wrote:
> >
> > I have an IDE internal ZipDrive.. When I boot my machine, I know Linux
> > sees it as hdd.. My question is: how do I add an icon on the desktop
like
> > the floppy and cdrom??.. Thanks!!
>
> Depends on which window manager you're using. Some wm's don't have
> "built-in" support for icons, so you might not even be able to add icons
> with the wm you're using (at least, not without a "third-party"
> "extension").
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Re: Starting KDE2

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

Don't know if this has got anything to do with your problems, but on my
machine, everything runs fine. I've got a potato distro; kde 1.93 and qt
2.2.0beta2 are compiled from source, I've compiled qt with the
./configure-switches mentioned in the kdelibs package, file "compiling". The
only problem was that startkde was not really started by x, although it was
the first line in my window-managers list, but after I created a symlink
named /usr/bin/x-window-manager pointing to /usr/local/kde/bin/startkde,
everything worked. Has anyone of you experienced the last problem? It semms
to me like I'm doing something wrong and my solution is a quick and dirty
one!?

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Leen Besselink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian User list" 
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Starting KDE2


> On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Mike wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
>
> Hi.
>
> >
> > I managed to get kde2 install but it wont start. I used apt-get to get
it so
> > it hould be fine, I'm using gdm so i added a menu to that which executed
> > startkde but when it starts it sais that it failed interprocess
> > networking and that dcopserver isnt running. Konqueror works fine if i
>
> I've been having the same problems.
>
> > run it from inside gnome but i would like to have a play with kde2 so
> > has anyone got any ideas?.
> >
>
> No such luck yet. I've tried to compile it from source first, this did not
> work either. Although this is not the exact same problem, they fail at
> different things, so it seems to me.
>
> I think this means there are dependencies not met, but they are not listed
> in the .deb-files. I've not found out which ones yet. I've been very busy
> looking at the lists.kde.org and trying things, but it hasn't helped me
> yet.
>
> > Thanks
> >
>
> I wish. :)
>
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Re: Printing via win 95

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

The way I did it is not very good if you want only deb-packages on your
system, because I used a generic tar of apsfilter
(->http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/apsfilter/index.html). But it works very
well. Apsfilter has an own setup program, it's very easy to set it up,
because you almost only have to type in the server and share name and choose
the print filter. It also prints input files of various types if you have
the right tools installed (see apsfilter site). There is also a .deb of
apsfilter, but last time I tried it, it was an older ver which did not
support printing via smb.

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger


- Original Message -
From: "Thomas Halahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 8:55 PM
Subject: Printing via win 95


> Hi Debian users,
>
> Just installed Debian over RH system.  Previously I had printing set up to
> print to a win95 machine using the RH printtool (via samba somehow).  Does
> anyone know of the easiest way to achieve this in debian?
>
> what printing solutions do poeple suggest - pdq?
>
> Tom
>
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Re: Staroffice on Debian Potato

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

I only had a good experience when I installed it (ver 5.0a, 5.1, 5.2). Never
had any problems. But personally, I don't like it.

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Andreas Palsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:41 PM
Subject: Staroffice on Debian Potato



Anyone have experiences on installing StarOffice on Debian Potato?

Any problems at all installing or running the programs?


regards...
Andreas
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Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Hmm, I actually have never upgraded using apt, but manually from 2.1 to 2.2.
No problems (almost). But I can tell you debian is very well-known for that
a install is only needed "one time in a computer life" and then you can
always upgrade without problems. At least since apt came out.

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Ariel Manzur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat


> At 23:42 04/09/2000 -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:54:15PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote:
> >> Here is the situation, I'm a Debian user.  The company I work for, so
far,
> >> will only allow Red Hat as it's Linux OS on it's servers.  I need some
good
> >> reasons to justify using Debian.  So I'm asking you guys to help me out
with
> >> your opinions, and Documentation, to prove to these computer iliterate
> >> people, that Debian is better.
> >
> >How about the fact that it's more stable and doesn't need to be
> >reinstalled every time there's a new version?
>
> I had to reinstall my debian last time a new version came out..
>
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Re: cdr image format to jpg, eps : GIMP?

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

I've got a 1.0.2 ver of gimp and it can open:
bmp,cel,fits,fli,faxg3,gbr,gif,gicon,hrz,jpeg,mpeg,pat,pcx,pix,png,pnm,psd,p
ostscript,sgi,sunras,snp,tga,tiff,url,xcf,xwd,xpm(bz2,gz)

If the format of your file is one of those, you can convert it into jpg
(don't know if you can also convert it into eps).

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 4:18 PM
Subject: cdr image format to jpg, eps : GIMP?


Can the GIMP be used to transform an image in cdr (I suppose it is Corel)
into eps, or jpg format? If not, do you guys know of any program that will
do it?
Please hit reply to all, I am in the office now.
Thanks,
Antonio.


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Re:

[Stephan Hachinger]

For i386, I can recommend the following fast mirror:

ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/ISO/Debian

(this dir contains the images)

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

> - Original Message -
> From: "Jason Walcutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Debian User List" 
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 9:24 PM
>
>
> > Is there a place to download an ISO of Debian???
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jason
> >
> >
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Re: ### a problem with installing Deb 2.1

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

If messages are scrolling down too fast, you can wait till it stops and then
scroll up by pressing shift and the cursor-up key. Do you know at which
controller and position your cdrom is connected? If it's primary master,
it's /dev/hda, primary sl=dev/hdb, sec. ma=/dev/hdc, sec. sl=/dev/hdd. If
it's connected to a promise udma controller add-on card or similar, it maybe
won't work for install! It has to be connected at the mainbrd controllers
(if your mainbord has some).

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

P.S.: I've got many friends actually frustrated by the win2000 installation.
So, don't give up.

- Original Message -
From: "J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Cc: 
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: ### a problem with installing Deb 2.1


> That is all very nice... thanks for the distro advertisements, but I
already have a (what I hope is) an install CD, and I'd like to use the one I
have if I can.  When I got the book, it only came with one CD -- is that all
I need?
>
> Also, when I boot from the CD, one person said that the messages would
tell me which device it is on.  Where do I look for that at?  The messages
scroll by way too damn fast to read what they say -- if I knew just where to
look that would help a lot.
>
> Also, as I mentioned, when I get the list of devices to try, I"VE TRIED
EVERY ONE ON THE LIST WITH NO SUCCESS -- I even tried the SCSI option tho
it's an Atapi IDE drive!!!
>
> If it sounds like I'm getting frustrated, I AM!!!  I prefer constructive
help, not advertisements, thank you.  :-)
>
> - actually considering installing MSWin
> - a.k.a. frustrated Linux installer
> - a.k.a. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Fri, 18 August 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Tal Danzig wrote:
> >
> > > You should really be using potato (Debian 2.2).
> > > It is much more up to date, (and it should auto detect your CD)
> > >
> > > Or, you may want to go for something like Libranet (debian potato
based), with
> > > an easier instal.
> > >
> > > Tall
> >
> > Gee, Tal Danzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, thanks for the suggestion to
> > get the libranet distribution (for about the third time today).
> >
> > Too bad the license on the ISO prohibits cheapbytes from
> > reselling it.  Maybe we should download it, rewrite a new ISO,
> > and distribute it under the GPL.  ;-)
> >
> > You can get Storm for $1.99 at cheapbytes!
> >
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Re: PARITY SIMMS(was: Re: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: etc))

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Why not watch out at ebay.com? Very exotic HW components are sold there!!

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian User" 
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 4:50 PM
Subject: RE: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: Installing D


> Good luck!
>
> I have a 486-33, as well.  I had 8MB of memory when I first installed
linux and
> X.  It worked, but not real fast.  An extra 4MB helped, but I would sure
like
> more.  My system uses 72 pin SIMMS, but it wants PARITY memory.  I can
> occaisionally find non-parity memory in 72 pin SIMMS, but not parity
memory.
> If anyone knows when I can get 1 - 4 16MB 72 pin PARITY SIMMS at a
reasonable
> price (I'm currently unemployed) it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> > On Aug 13 2000, s. keeling wrote:
> >> RAM tends to help more than upgrading to a faster processor would.
> >
> >   Indeed. Really. The chance to avoid swaps is incredible. The
> >   only problem is that not all older boards support that much of
> >   RAM (and not all of them support even 72-way memory chips;
> >   my 486DX33 only supports RAM chips with 30-connectors -- don't
> >   know what these chips are called).
> >
> >   []s desperately looking for upgrading the 8MB to 16MB, Roger...
>
> Marc Shapiro
http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_shapiro/
>  -- Linux IS user-friendly.  It is just picky about who its friends are.
>
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Re: ** Emegancy Request **

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi

If there's not enough space, tar czf or tar cIf and later tar xzf / tar xIf!
Bzip2/tar.gz compression really rocks (if you've got a fast cpu).

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Christoph Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: ** Emegancy Request **


> > Hi All,
> > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to
mirror
> > a Hard Drive,  keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact
> >
> > Thanks in Advance
> > Bill
> >
>
> ( cd  ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd  ; tar
xf - )
>
> HTH
>
> Christoph Simon
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Re: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: Installing Debian on 486)

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hi!

I'm also a 386etc. fan and I can tell you that in fact many stores still
sell 4MB simm (=30pin) modules (at least here in Germany), so that quite
every old machine (if it has four or eight slots) can be upgraded to 16 or
32 MB of RAM. Sometimes you can also get these modules for a very cheap
price at a second-hand market.

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

- Original Message -
From: "Rogerio Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian User" 
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 5:28 AM
Subject: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: Installing Debian
on 486)


> On Aug 13 2000, s. keeling wrote:
> > RAM tends to help more than upgrading to a faster processor would.
>
> Indeed. Really. The chance to avoid swaps is incredible. The
> only problem is that not all older boards support that much of
> RAM (and not all of them support even 72-way memory chips;
> my 486DX33 only supports RAM chips with 30-connectors -- don't
> know what these chips are called).
>
> []s desperately looking for upgrading the 8MB to 16MB, Roger...
>
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Re: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!! 2

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

> Thanks for your help!!!  Everything went fine, except when I did "make
> zdisk".  I got an erorr message saying that my system was too big and I
> should do make bzImage or make modules.  Does this affect anything?  I
still
> couldn't make my sound card to work.  Is there anything else I should do?

Yes. Make bzdisk/bzImage/bzlilo instead, because this produces a better
compressed and therefore smaller kernel. If the kernel is too large, it
cannot be installed and so your sound card cannot work. Or put some drivers
into modules. You should enable the kernel module autoloader in the make
menuconfig-config menu :-), so the kernel loads the drivers you need
automatically.

But if you're a newbie, I'd recommend you to compile support for all devices
directly into the kernel.

Two reasons come to my mind which could be the cause for the not-function of
your soundcard:

- You have configured the IRQs/DMAs/IO ports in a wrong way (see soundcard
manual)
- But now, as zimage did not work, I think you are not really booting your
new kernel, but the old one instead.

I think it's not good to make bzimage or zimage for a newbie, because it
requires a manual kernel install to work. There are two other choices which
are easier, they compile the kernel AND install it:

I agree with Kent that creating a bootdisk at first and testing the kernel
is safer. You can do this by make bzdisk (or make zdisk if the kernel is
very small, but probably it does not work.).
When you see that your machine is booting up ok from the disk (be sure that
you have configured the bootup sequence a: c: in your BIOS!), then I'd
recommend make bzlilo, so that your kernel is automatically configured for
booting from the HDD.

Note that you always need make dep before the bz... and make modules, make
modules_install after it.

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

Re: AMD Processor

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello

- Original Message -
From: "Christian Brandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian User" 
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: AMD Processor


> Stephan Hachinger wrote:
>
> > Linux runs on all i80386 compatible microprocessors. So it also runs on
a
> > AMD K6-2. But I don't know if any Linux application or lib will use the
> > 3DNow! extension. But this isn't very
>
>  actually the Distributed.net-Client, linux-quake3 and some
> opengl-drivers use AMDs 3Dnow and Intels SSE. I guess there is not much
> use for those instructions anywhere else?
>
> Christian Brandt

I guess so, too. Perhaps in a mp3 encoder (I think there's the gogo
encoder - a derivative of lame optimized for 3dnow!).

Regards,

Stephan Hachinger