sudden death of mozilla firebird + gnome-sound-recorder hang
Hello all,
Since approx two weeks, mainly two applications make enourmous problems:
mozilla-firebird and gnome-sound-recorder.
All this happended just after an apt-get upgrade. I do think that the
reason is to be found in some base libs (gtk or so?). I think i can
exlude defect versions of the named software, because both of them have
been updated since then. Totem also cause problems until yesterday but
it's problems were the same.
Mozilla Firebird issues: application suddenly closes, epsecially upon
opening of new tabs or opended menus (but not always!).
Here a strace of mozilla-firebird:
read(3, [EMAIL PROTECTED]...,
64) = 64
gettimeofday({1067289895, 713185}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1067289895, 713336}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1067289895, 713399}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1067289895, 713447}, NULL) = 0
kill(2581, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1067289895, 713534}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1067289895, 713660}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1067289895, 713690}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1067289895, 713726}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1067289895, 713750}, NULL) = 0
write(2, pure virtual method called\n, 27) = 27
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0
kill(2566, SIGABRT) = 0
--- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) ---
unlink(/home/blazko/.phoenix/default/09kafwql.slt/lock) = 0
exit_group(6) = ?
GNOME sound recorder is another way: it opens but as soon as i want to
record, the GUI freezes. Here an strace:
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [64])= 0
read(3, \5\1\224\3\275y\6\0\213\0\0\0002\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\264\0H\0...,
64) = 64
sched_get_priority_max(0) = 0
sched_get_priority_min(0) = 0
pipe([16, 17]) = 0
clone(child_stack=0x81778f8,
flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND) = 2496
write(17, [EMAIL PROTECTED]...,
148) = 148
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
write(17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@PA\27\10\0\0\0\200...,
148) = 148
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigsuspend([] unfinished ...
--- SIGRTMIN (Unknown signal 32) @ 0 (0) ---
... rt_sigsuspend resumed ) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system
call)
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [RTMIN])
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigsuspend([]
** (gnome-sound-recorder:2497): WARNING **: FIXME: guard from double
entry
Maybe you can tell me a hint? I know that a friend of mine has similar
problems w/ gnome / gtk apps. System is actual (problem resited in GNOME
2.2 and 2.6); maybe i got a problem in configs?
Most other apps do fine further, including galeon and epiphany.
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Connecting to a WinCE based PDA
Hello together, I have been searcing the web a long time, but could not find much information. I was given a Windows CE based pocket pc (why not an ipaq?!?). Although it has got a card slot (MMC / SD), i wonder if i can communicate with this device via USB. I mean, it must not be data sync with my apps, but just plain data transmission. This device can be connected via USB serial on /dev/ttyUSB0, and there is an app called minicom that can be used to talk to that pocket pc. However, you have to use AT commands - thus it seems to be usefull for using that thing as a modem. However, i just want to use it for copying data. Has anyone experiences and application hints on doing that? The device: USB major: 0bb4 (High Tech Computer Corp.) USB minor: 00ce This pocket pc is sold by - as: - O2XDA GSM/GPRS Pocket PC - OrangeSPV - T-Mobile MDA Thank you for any hints!!! -- greetings, | /\ | \ / ASCII-Ribbon-Campaign Timo | X Against HTML Mail | / \ -- PUBLIC KEY: D8279D57 Timo Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002/09/25 Fingerprint = DB88 686D 44D8 6F1B 5B1A D24F 037E F898 D827 9D57 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GTK apps: overriding global theme
Hello List! I am currently using GNOME2 from sid and use a custom theme for all my GTK2/GNOME2 apps. However, one app crashes (Eclipse) when using this theme. Are there any options to override the system-wide theme for an app? I know that GTK1 supported this, however, no app lists this param in their options list, but many other GTK-specific options. Mh, another question: how can i tell GNOME2 to use a special session w/o using GDM2? Where do i have to embed this line: gnome-session --choose-session=[Name] ? Thank you for any hints!!! -- greetings, Timo -- PUBLIC KEY: D8279D57 Timo Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002/09/25 Fingerprint = DB88 686D 44D8 6F1B 5B1A D24F 037E F898 D827 9D57 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome2 hang (solved)
Ron Jones wrote: Hi Timo, Hello Ron, Sorry for the late reply. Saw your post on debian-user about hanging at splash screen. I have the same problem, did you get anywhere with fixing this? Yes, the problem on my side was caused by the name scheme change in Debians GNOME2 packages. To allow co-existing w/ GNOME1 packages, the previous name scheme was this: gnome2-[something] gnome-[something]2 Some of my core GNOME2 packages were installed using this scheme. But for the last few months, this name scheme is changing to a form without a appended 2 suffix. So, an apt-get dist-upgrade failed, because the according dependencies were not matched in version, but not causing an error. So, this helped: i removed many packages with a 2 and searched package names on packages.debian.org and looked, if they are GNOME2 already (e.g. gnome-system-monitor2 has become gnome-system-monitor. So i removed the 2ers and replaced them with the new ones, so that all was in sync. This did it for me and i hope that helps! -- greetings, Timo -- PUBLIC KEY: D8279D57 Timo Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002/09/25 Fingerprint = DB88 686D 44D8 6F1B 5B1A D24F 037E F898 D827 9D57 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GNOME2 startup hang
Hello, Yes, I know that one shall no use dist-upgrade... However, after this, GNOME2 does not work any longer. It starts up X, then comes the splash screen, but no icons and text. When launching e.g. XFCE (actual 3.x one, gtk1 thus) and then running apps, half of all apps work. I.e. most apps being tight bound to gnome fail but many others work. Having read the previous nautilus thread, i thught it would be the reason, but after diabling nautilus, GNOME2 still does not launch. Examples for hanging apps: - gnome-session - nautilus - gnome-font-config Examples for working apps - gimp-1.3 - gnome-cd -gnome-character-map Though no app gives any error messages, i do not know the reasons. Maybe some of these?: - OAF / bonobo / whatever - fontconfig (through to a switch to the font renderer, however, most other GTK2/X/GNOME2 apps work...) Any help is highly appreciated, though i also use my laptop for ,my job... thanks -- greetings, Timo -- PUBLIC KEY: D8279D57 Timo Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002/09/25 Fingerprint = DB88 686D 44D8 6F1B 5B1A D24F 037E F898 D827 9D57 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: what BIOS options are accessible (r/w) from the OS?
Rob Weir wrote: Why do you want to disable it? To prevent people accessing it? Well, initially, this was the idea (of course, besides doing the usual iptables etc. stuff). I'm fairly sure that the kernel ignores what the BIOS thinks about disk drives, i.e. disabling it in the BIOS will not affect your system at all, it'll still show up... ...and usable though. Btw.: what BIOS options can an OS read/set in general? Give enough knowledge, root on your machine can set/read any option in your BIOS. To this extend, this is quite new to me. In my Windows days i first heard of such things but was not aware that an OS can gain such influence on the BIOS / bypass it. keep down the number of things running as root. Just unmount the disk when you're not using it, and no one without root will be able to touch it. Of course, if someone gets root, they can do anything to your machine, up to and including mounting drives, erasing files, installing ... yes, that was my first idea, but well - root. Security is always a compromise. I want to care ongoing about security but it shall not eat all my time (no lives depend on my data). But maybe i am going to install a simple power switch in the HDDs power cable... this shall render any attacker harmless. Physical detachment is the best way (just like with Computer M5 in Star Trek Classic :-) ) of protection. -rob Thank you very much for your help and information! -- greetings, Timo -- PUBLIC KEY: [soon] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: what BIOS options are accessible (r/w) from the OS?
Hello Debian users! I marked this posting as OT cos i do not know if it right here. What i want to do: i have a gateway already and plan to do weekly backups of my client PCs on a dedicated hard drive. Due to a question of price, i ask myself if it is okay to plug just a second HDD into the gateway and deactivate the HDD from the BIOS. So, if want to make a backup, i boot my box w/ activated 2nd HDD and do an rsync. My question: is it possible (e.g. by hackers etc.) to activate a HDD by the operating system? I hope it is not! I am using Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody). Btw.: i know, while doing the backup it is vulnerable if i am online. Btw.: what BIOS options can an OS read/set in general? Thanx for any hints! -- greetings, Timo -- PUBLIC KEY: [soon] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: T.120 client?
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 00:53, Vineet Kumar wrote: the actual version, but got the well-gnown GnomeConf not found error What's the actual error message you're getting? It sounds to me like it's a simple matter of installing libgnome-dev . yepp, you are right, installing it solved the error, thought it should be libgconf-dev or that... :-) good times, Vineet too, greetings, Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: T.120 client?
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 06:00, Nick Hastings wrote: I've just started using gnomemeeting as an H.323 client. I quite like it, but its lack of H.120 support is making life difficult. Hello Nick, I recently got into gnomemeeting (had much trouble with firewalling, but it finally works). i am using the current debian package of gnomemeeting that can do audio and video, but also misses T.120 support. Well, i haven't tried it right now, but if you take a look at the official gnomemeeting website (gnomemeeting.org) and regard the screenshots section, it might be that the actual version does support it. At least the images show the chat client. i tried to manually compile the actual version, but got the well-gnown GnomeConf not found error that i am really tired of. But please take a closer look. HTH, Timo Does anyone know of an H.120 protocol client, that I can use to send images etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: toshiba laptop support
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 23:11, chris Parker wrote: Has anyone gotten a toshiba satellite 1005-S157 to work under potato? I haven't been able to get it to even boot---pci unsupported(unknown pci). i have a toshi sat 3000-100 and hat the same probs: any debian version i had did not boot although any suse version did. but there were two workarounds that worked for me: - take a debian bootdisk from the ftp server, it should be the ide-pci favour with more bugfixes and stripped scsi support - this worked for me - take one of the newer bootdisk images using the 2.4 linux kernel version HTH, Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: executables in /xyz
Thanks! Yes, the mount options are the cause. RTFM: well, normally i read a lot but the mount idea came while finishing the mail, thus forgive me :-). Thanks again and see you. p.s. no one knows the bach shell??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
executables in /xyz
Hello everyone, i have a funny thing in my current sid (2 months old, but last update yesterday [dist-upgrade]) but also in the previous installation (also sid): whenever i am developing in C/C++ or bash, i cannot execute the files. they reside in a custom folder /data/devel/[xyz]. Having controlled file permissions etc. and even when trying to launch'em as root, i get e.g. bach: /data/devel/c++/!samples/test.c: permission denied when i copy these files to my home folder or even to e.g. /usr/share/doc/libgtk1.3-dev/examples/base, they work. I can certainly say that file perms are okay. Any ideas why these things won't run in my /data folder? For information: /data is another partition, maybe mount-options are the cause?: /dev/hda3 /data reiserfsdefaults,user 0 0 greetings, Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TV over LAN?
Hello everyone. This question is not meant that serious, but nevertheless with interest: in my LAN i have running a gateway, a workstation and a laptop. The workstation is equipped with a TV card (BT878) and works just fine. Is there a way to view TV on my laptop by using the PC and the LAN? I know this will pollute the LAN, but well, it is my private little one :-) Knowing that USB _almost_ ha enough bandwidth for viewing TV i wonder if i can use my LAN for TV redirection. Any ideas what ways exist? Maybe simple X forwarding, but are there other ways (what about xhost/xauth settings)? My LAN is a normal 100mbit ethernet. Thanx all, Timo
mountd: forcing static port
Hello, I have just successfully configured my NFS shares for OpenSSH tunneling (that rocks!), but i have one problem: On system start i execute a custom init script that (beside other things) creates a mountd tunnel to a remote machine. But on each system reboot (remote one), its mountd port changes, thus the init scripts fail. Has anyone an idea how i can force the remote machine to use the same mountd port each time? The manpages tell nothing and also searching /etc did not bring any hints. The machine i connect to uses woody/testing. Thanx in advance and many greetings to all, Timo
Re: some problems with gnome
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 19:52, Raphaël Scateni wrote: Hello Raphaël, Desk guide alert gnome desktop guide you are running a gnome compliant window manager gnome support by the window manager is strongly recommended for proper desk guide operation. GNOME users often tend to use Sawfish, Enlightenment, IceWM or Windowmaker as their window managers. Do you have them installed? If not, just do (as root) e.g. a: apt-get install sawfish and enter the gnome control center (if there is no link to it, just hack gnomecc in xterm/gnome-terminal/eterm (whatever)) and go to the Window Manager section and select it. On pressing try or ok, you now should have all right (and can move the windows). Moreover, some details are strange : -my mouse pointer is always a cross fixme: should be done by the window manager (see above) -i can't fiw a backgroung picture (i just have a black and white backgroung mh, by default, gnome displays a kind of blue colour. Well, could be changed to whatever you like in the control center -i don't have icons on the desktop i have them seen when using gmc (midnight commander with GNOME frontend/bindings). for a newer (but bit slower) version you should install nautilus, it will handle desk icons and optionally the background -i can't move the windows on the desktop window manager (s.a.) -i have hardly anything in the startup menu, whereas lots of programs are installed most probably you have not installed gnome-media, gnome-utilities etc. when done, most of the menus are filled. note that there are just gnome and pure gtk apps listed. in the debian submenus you may find other bare x apps (e.g. ghosview etc.). Finally, when i close x session, i can read Gdk-warning **: locale not supported by C library you have not installed locale support for gnome. never have done it. just ignore that error; or if needed, install some ISO fonts (e.g. ISO-8859-1 for most european fonts and browse a bit with dselect for locales (done with the / key in deselect). Thanks for your help Raphaël Hope that helps, Timo
Re: 3d with nvidia
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 20:34, Shri Shrikumar wrote: Hi, Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadpex5 Loadrecord Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe Loadxie EndSection You should comment out GLcore, cos it loads before nVidia's glx. Thus the nVidia version cannot act. Dunno if this is all, but i have purged this option and in works on my system. Otherwise, please read the readme shiped with the binary drivers, there is a sample X config an important hints on 3D support, also regarding the right AGP driver. HTH, Timo
scp shall only copy newer files
Hello, Right now I am doing a backup from my laptop to my workstation using OpenSSH's secure copy. The problem is that i would like to copy only newer files, cos it also transports my Ogg/Vorbis files (quite some gigabytes) over net -quite not wanted. Is there a way like in normal cp to tell scp that it should compare file's timestamps/sizes before sending any files? I cannot find any option in the manpages of scp and ssh. Much thanx to you! greetings, Timo
OT: RFC telling allowed/forbidden chars in URIs / email addrs
Hello everyone, sorry for that slightly off-topic posting, but for a project i am currently developing under my sid/unstable, i am on the search on rfc-editor.org to find the FTY or RFC etc. telling me what characters are allowed (or forbidden) in URIs and email addresses. I cannot get it in the search. Thankful for any hints, greetings, Timo
Re: kernel compile question
Hello Willi, On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:34, Willi Dyck wrote: as far as i know, hot-pluggable device support is only needed with PCMCIA cards. i don't have such cards, so i keep that support out of the if i am right, USB also needs id make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.5' I often had comile probs with kernels 2.4.8. I have seen you are using an 2.4.5 image, migrating to the 2.4.17 would surely avoid the error. Also keep in mind that Linux 2.4.12 (2.4.13?) have the local root login exploit. Also, the 2.4.15 has a critical vfs error that silently destroys your file system when unmounting (-powerdown). HTH and greetings, Timo
Re: System hangs during installation
Hello Juergen, On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:23, Juergen Striegel wrote: (BTW: why does debian installs the ispell stuff for a minimal system?) Are there any suggestions/ideas? That's what i hated 'bout SuSE: they installed to much on a minimal system, and debian is sometimes going the same way :-(. I do not know either why ispell is that important; got no need for it. To your problem: that is really strange. If you had not tried another CD, i would say it is a physical image error or corrupt data caused by fault download. I had a similar problem with my laptop; i could not install from potato and woody CDs, but that error came just earlier on init scripts when trying to load MD (multiple devices), although a SuSE CD did it. I suggest another try with an actual woody CD (the german PC mag. Linux Intern had a woody CD some time ago) from the net or maybe a sid CD set. I am sure this will work. The do a minimum install and perhaps downgrade back to woody or potato (if wanted) and use actual security updates. HTH, Timo
Re: problem with executing binaries in bash
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 09:40, Benjamin Sommerfeld wrote: bash: ./pine-bin.linux: Permission denied Hello Benjamin, sorry that i cannot help you, but i have the same problem with self-coded stuff. Even when running'em as root, i get the permission denied error. Maybe some libs aren't there but causing the wrong error msg? Hope to see the solution :-) Timo
Re: using xfwm as gnome's wm
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 04:09, csj wrote: [...] Have your tried IceWM?[...] Hello! Yes, i tried IceWM some time ago, but did not knew that it has GNOME support... wait, let me do a apt-get... :-) Thank you so far, will report in some time. Timo
using xfwm as gnome's wm
Hello, i am a GNOME user and mostly used sawfish and enlightenment as window managers so far. However, i am still quite disatisfied with them, cos they have little but disturbing behaviours. They often place windows out of the screen some bit or do not remeber them right, especially for non-gnome apps like mozilla. i tweaked the wm's options a lot, reset to defaults, reinstalled'em, but i am quite unlucky. Then i installed window maker, which also works not the way i like (misplacing windows, i cannot remove the icons that hinder me from taking applications the whole screen etc.). So far, i have found only two window managers that i am completely content with: -XFWM (from XFCE) -the KDE WM However - although i often gave it a try - some standard KDE apps do not work very stable, so i always got back to GNOME. After a long speech, my questions: -do you have similar experiences with sawfish, enlightenment or window maker? -how can is use the XFWM only (means: no XFCE) for GNOME? The XFCE panel always comes and i cannot choose XFWM from the GNOME Control Center. Any help is very appreciated, thank you, Timo
gtk theming documentation?
Hello, I plan to create an own gtk theme, but i cannot find any documents on how to do this, except for taking existing gtkrcs, but in some details this doesn't also help. I did not find any local manpages and no info on these sites: gtk.org, themes.org, linuxdoc.org Any hints for gtkrc hacking docs or tutorials? Would be very thankful. Greetings, Timo
OpenGL header files: as .deb?
Hello, while - after a long time - being back in OpenGL devel, i was wondering where the include files are. From the nVidia modules, i have these files: /usr/include/GL/gl.h(main header?) /usr/include/GL/glx.h (extensions?) /usr/include/GL/glxtokens.h (???) I remember to have tried sources from SGI once, but these did not work when trying to compile'em in gcc/g++. Actually, the files above are okay for OpenGL development, but I am looking for the very common glu.h glut.h files. Is there a debian package or that? I do not plan to use mesa, cos as far a I know their main purpose was for glide and non-nvidia opengl.just heard rumors, but i know myself to work with perl and mesa modules that totally failed. Any hints for official OpenGL headers??? Thanx in advance, Timo
ps2dvi / pdf2dvi ???
Hello, is there no PostScript to TeX / PDF to Tex converter available? Locally, i cannot find one, and search on debian packages did not reveal any hits. Maybe they are inside a larger package? I can find e.g. html2ps as a single package. Thank you for any hints; greetings, Timo
OT: try Mozilla 0.97
Hello all, the new mozilla is just out, give it a try cos it again gained performance. also interesting: you can toggle javascript features for more things than window.open() finally, e.g. resize, leveling, cookie request etcetera. Favicons are now completely supported. More on mozilla.org. greetings, Timo (nope, i am not from the moz staff :-)
init.d: writing custom init-scripts
Hello everyone, i got a simple problem but cannot fint the cause: i have written a custom bash script (a very simple one) that should be run on machine startup. I put it under the common place /etc/init.d/myscript Then, i placed a symlink called S99myscript pointing to the script under /etc/rc3.d, however, it does not get stalled. The symlink and the script got the same rights and user/group as all the other ones from sid and my one is the only one that does not work. When running the script manually as user root, it succeedes, but it is not run by the init deamon on machine startup. Are there any special aspects to keep in mind when creating init scripts? greetings, Timo
Re: init.d: writing custom init-scripts
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 23:03, Greg Wiley wrote: You've probably checked, but is your default runlevel, indeed, 3? Hello Greg, it should be :-) Well, it is an x-less station and but to go shure i also put the symlinks to runlevels 4,5 and 6 too. Timo
Re: init.d: writing custom init-scripts
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 23:06, Timo --Blazko-- Boewing wrote: Hello, thank you all for your replies! Yes, it was due to runlevel 2!!! I used update-rs.d wich reinstalled the correct symlinks, thanx to MH. In former years i used SuSE Linux, there have been these runlevels: 0: halt 1: maintenance mode 2: single user mode 3: multiusermode, console only 4: n/a 5: multiuser w/ X 6: reboot i completely ignored that debian has other ones. Btw, what command do i use to get the current runlevel? init does not unveil this secret. Or where can i find it directly in proc? Okay, a lazy question; anyhow: Thanx again and greetings, Timo
theory: binary vs. source
Hi again, i got a somewhat theoretical question: in /etc/apt/sources.list there is a destinction between deb abd deb-src packages. Are the deb-src packs make'able packages? *** core question *** :^) But the question of interest: on nowadays PCs - assuming a every user system with e.g. X-Window w/ GNOME etc. - may there be a noticeable performance (e.g. 5%-20%) between i386 binaries or optimized self-comiled apps? *** /core question *** :^) While using apt-get/dpkg only, in the past i nearly always used tarballs with app sources, but compiling made me crazy due to unmatched dependncies and sometimes broken packages. Anyhow, i am still addicted to do self-compiling. Btw.: assuming i only would use deb-src, will it get the source archives including all dependencies so that i can comfortably compile all the stuff myself? Hope for a discussion (will see it tomorrow, time to sleep *g). Thanx in advance greetings, Timo
nVidia: *better* TV out quality?
Hello all, I am using sid w/ X 4.1 and use the latest nVidia dirvers and kernel module interfaces. I use a Toshi 3000-100 laptop with a Geforce2Go w/ a Chrontel TV out chipset. TV-out works fine so far, but i would like to get to know your experiences. What is disturbing is this (on the TV device): -screen width not fully used (two black borders left and right) -distorted picture on sharp contrasts (e.g. on detailed pictures), looks like flimmering blue spots -bad colours, even when adjusting i cannot get nearly the colours as seen on the display anyone knows about X settings or filtering software that can smooth the picture. I primary use it for watching DVDs using TV-out, as long as i got no standalone hardware DVD player :-( *g Right now i am searching the web for specs, but most software hints etc. touch the windoze world :0( Your experiences with GeforceX TV outputs??? Thanx for any hints and comments. greetings, Timo
Re: nVidia: *better* TV out quality?
Should have added that i use PAL (germany), i dunno the exact chip, should be a Chrontel 7001 or 7002. Timo
Re: nVidia: *better* TV out quality?
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 21:11, Jake Di Toro wrote: Hello Jake This is not a Debian/Linux thing. Is e.g. Mozilla a Debian/Linux thing as often discussed here??? :0) Okay, let us get serious here: I was wondering if maybe a free software package oriented to this problem is out there that maybe hang itself into X or framebuffer, so having nothing to do with nVidia etc. On the other hand, the Chrontel seems to be very spread, thus not affecting nVidia only. The problem is that nVidia TVOut sucks. That's true in some way. See the latest article on tomshardware.com for more instances of this. Seems it's a long running complaint w/ nVidia Cards. Was not there for a long time, but thanx for the tip, i will consult the page. Other than that I would suggest ATI if TVOut is that important to you. From a software's point, over the years i had serious problems with ATI cards, no matter what OS (Win, Lin, BeOS, FreeBSD). And it is hard to exchange the VGA of my laptop :-). Thanx for your hints and kind regards, Timo
Re: Fish swimming over my Desktop and ... system locked ?!?
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 21:21, Martin Emrich wrote: Hello Martin, yesterday i had the same thing. Also using the same GNOME; as far as i can remember i had this only twice in the past two years that i use GNOME. I think this is maybe a date-ridden gag of the GNOME folks. However, i think we can exclude a worm/virus i think. n'Abend, Timo
Re: nVidia: *better* TV out quality?
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 22:31, Steffen Evers wrote: Can you hint to a document or anything how I can use the TV out. What do I need to get the DRI working? Hi Steffen, DRI: mh, isn't it on by default? I just had to set DGA (loadmodule) once for a TV card (ALDI, die Monokarte :-)) had to be run. If not already, the first step is to get the latest binary drivers from nvidia.com-drivers-linux, use the dist-independent tarballs and follow the instructions in INSTALL. After make has been done (installs the binary drivers and compiles installs a kernel module interface as well as documentation). Insert NVdriver into /etc/modules to autoload the driver module each sysstart. The doc under /usr/share/doc/nvidia has several docs and X samples, including one dedicated for TV out. Besides that, here some excerpts from my X config for minimal config and use (== no extra features like twin view etc.).: # add this section for your second display devide, i.e. the TV Section Screen Identifier ScreenTV Device NVidia GeForce Monitor TV DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 640x480 ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection Option TVStandardPAL-B #germany Option ConnectedMonitor TV EndSection # add this section and uncomment it to use the TV as output device and # restart X # normally, uncommenting it can be avoided by starting X with the # serverlayout param, but this did not worked for me :-( #Section ServerLayout #Identifier UseTV #Screen ScreenTV #InputDeviceStick CorePointer #InputDeviceKeyboard CoreKeyboard #EndSection good luck, Timo
Re: ethernet question
Alec wrote: How does one connect two computers to the internet throught one ethernet socket? Does one of them have to have two ethernet cards and run special software? Technically, one socket would not do the job. But to your querstion: One computer acts as a gateway. One interface is connected with the internet (eg. ethernet adaptor for xDSL, modem, ISDN adaptor etc.). A second adapter is used to bridge the internal network/te second computer with the internet. The first one (gateway) therefore an ethernet card (will be the second one if using xDSL). You can use NAT (network address translation) to let the other computer send and receive data to/from the internet through the gateway. You do not need external/additional software to do this, just use iptables of the 2.4 kernel series. The gateway will establish a connection like a single workstation while setting up an additional script in /etc/init.d/ will activate NAT (ipforward or ipmasquerading) and additional firewall rules. Thus, a gateway's client will send a request to the gateway. That repackages this request and sends it out in his name (IP). On receive, it knows from which client the request came and sends the results back. Hope thi helped, Timo
Re: RealPlayer
Hello Arlen, Several times i had the same probs with RealPlayer. Do you use GNOME? Sometimes a (on my system!) faulty esd caused trouble (have a laptop w/ i810_audio, 48kHz, esd never worked a long time). Sometimes RealPlayer worked fine until some apt-get upgrade and failed after that. Did much /etc/ research to find modifications but could not find any hints. Fun, having compiled a newer Kernel solved this problem, but dunno why. Btw., after around 2.4.8 this problem never cam up again. Using 2.4.16 right now. But the reason may be the modules for my sound card, not a specific kernel bug. Also, i let out sound.o (OSS), may have solved also the problem. greetings, Timo
Re: Framebuffer VGA settings
Hello, Recently found a table telling all those numbers. Well, with a custom kernel having vesafb enabled and using a Geforce2Go, i am using a simple vga=791 This opens my console to 1024x768 pixels and works very well. Maybe this helps a little bit, Timo
Re: Framebuffer VGA settings
Hi Jan, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: [...] I never found settings to alter the refresh rate. Isn't it possible with vesafb? [...] Mh, goog question, i never thought 'bout that. Cos using a laptop, i do not have to care about this... I forgot to wrote that i have forgotten the source where i found this table with vga modes. Maybe this source also contained refresh rate ino. Today i compiled a 2.4.16 and did not see an option where to do this. But here a link where you may find out more (maybe this was the site where i found the settings?): www.directfb.org These guys create a gui framework without using x but framebuffer. They already got gtk+ working and have some xlibs ports that will allow other apps to work w/o X in the future. May you can post anemail to these people, they should know an answer. If you got info, please post here as a new thread, would be nice, Gruss, Timo
Re: card with IRQ0?
mike wrote: Is your BIOS helpfully breaking PnP for a windows style OS? There should be an option to turn it to other or none instead of windows somewhere. --mike Hello Mike, Thanxs for the reply. In the deeps of the www i found that from Award BIOS' higher than version 6.0 (the ASUS has a higher one...) you should deactivate the option PNP OS installed... interesting, cos it worked for me since i own x86er. And that is exactly what you wrote, thanx. Greetings, Timo
Re: eth0: abnormal interupt, status 0x00....
Rehi, for thos interested: I temp. fixed the error by upgrading to a 2.4.13, but one day later the problem arraised again. I tried to manually force the slots to specific interrupts, but no mater how i did it, my AGP card and the NIC shared the same IRQ. So the solution was quite easy: i put the NIC into another slot and... bingo! Everything works fine now. Timo
Re: info i found !!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: peace anyone a win virus scanner? is this a virus spam? help, not here! Timo
mozilla + sawfish
Hello, currently i am using my GNOME with sawfish again but still having problems with mozilla. With enlightenment, everything worked pretty well, but w/ sawfish all moilla windows have the same size, no matter if a porperty window (e.g. bookmark window, image props, popup etc.). Thus, if a popup window with a commercial appears, it covers the entire desktop. Also, managing bookmarks and other things is not fun. No matter what i try in the sawfish config (window placements and sizes), it seems to have no effect. second, the placement policy for mozilla also is not nice. when opening a new window, it is always out of desktop range at random positions. enlightenment did not have these errors. These strange things only have effect on mozilla, all other (GNOME/GTK?) apps behave normally. has anyone had similar experiences and knows a way out? greetings, Timo
Re: interfaces and ip addressing
Ronneil Camara wrote: I would like to know what file is used for setting up ip addresses and gateway. What about interfaces, how can I create more than 2 lan cards enable. Let say, I got 2 3com nics. The file of interest is /etc/network/interfaces, an example would be: # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information. auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address192.168.1.3 netmask255.255.255.0 network192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway192.168.1.1 This file contains bindings for loopback and an ethernet card. When using two cards, just use a second entry for eth1 with diff. IP address. In redhat, I used rpm. What pkg installer should I use in debian? The packages are .deb, the packager is dpkg, but u mostly use its frondends apt-get (e.g. apt-get install binutils) or dselect (a more graphical frontend). Can I also untar linux-2.2.19.kernel.source.tar.gz under /usr/src and do the same stuff I've been doing for a long time? make menuconfig dep clean modules modules-install bzImage. Should I also copy the compiled kernel to /boot and edit lilo.conf then run lilo? Of course you can! I am doing it all the time with the 2.4 series, works great. Where can I find rc.local? What is the similar redhat init scripts /etc/rc.d/init.d in debian? The scripts reside in /etc/init.d, the dirs /etc/rc1.d ... contain symlinks to those in /etc/init.d; distinguished by numerical order and mode (start or kill service). Timo
card with IRQ0?
Hello all, I have a very strange problem i nevr have had: i build a new computer from scratch and installed woody. The funny problem is that linux detects all cards but cannot use'em cos they are assigned to interupt zero. Thus lspci and modprobe works onn all cards in the pci slots but the BIOS istself cannot detect them. the agp device, onboard sound, ide controller, serial controller etc are listet on system startup (BIOS) and linux detects'em, but i cannot get any card working cos it receives irq0. Has anyone an idea? i tried to manually assign irqs to the approproate slots, but that also does not work. /proc/interrupts does also not list the devices. the system: Athlon 1000C Thunderbird ASUS A7 Board with VIA KT-133 Chipset plus onboard RAID controller BIOS: actual Award nVidia GeForce2 MX400 w/ 64megs 512MB RAM 133 Thus, the only device correctly deteced is the AGP card (via the PCI bus, right?). Any other cards aren't detected. For your info: i tried everything with minimal configuration, means with only one PCI card to avoid eventual incompats between any PCI device. Would very appreciate ANY help, thank you, Timo
Re: xmixer?
Stan Brown wrote: [...] xmixer. Any idea where I can get this program? Hello Stan, i think it is xmix, the pure X Window sound mixer. A simple apt-get install xmix or dselect should do the job. greetz, Timo
eth0: abnormal interupt, status 0x00....
Hello, it is me again. after a strange problem with a friends computer, one of my workstations is getting strange... That computer has a SiS900 Ethernet 100 card that worked pretty okay so far. When i booted my box today, this card caused a strange error message kinda: eth0: abnormal interupt, status 0x00840... (some hex addr.) A modprobe still finishes friendly and ifup -a also does not argue; but as soon as i make use of that device (e.g. ping) i repeatly receive this error. This is leaving my sys quite unoperational some bit. On BIOS startup, this card is recognized also, but sharing it's interupt (11) with a Geforce VGA, but that worked well also in the past. Any ideas? Greetings, Timo
esd sawfish crash
Hello everyone, I have a problem regarding the enlightened sound demon esd and my sawfish windowmanager. If i tell sawfish via the GNOME control center to use sounds, everything works fine for a while but my after a while X hangs step by step. That means technically, sound works but after some sound events occured, first the active window hangs, in panel some icons still focus on mouse, but on click this also hangs etc. Thus, it is more sawfish that hangs rather than X or GNOME, but Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will not do anylonger, i have to do a hardreset or X-kill via ssh from another box. It seems that the problems arises when some sound events occur at the same time (sound mixing), cos when using XMMS via esd everything is fine. debver: sid (days) kernel: 2.4.14 GNOME: 1.4.0.1 Sawfish: 1.00 esd: 0.2.22 The problem exists a long time, seemlessly independent from any versions named above. My audio hardware: Intel 810 (module i810_audio) with AC 97. I am using the Toshiba Satellite 3000-100 Laptop, which may not correctly support APM (maybe that has to do with it?). Other apps not using esd work just fine: XMMS w/o esd, RealPlayer, Loki game demos (okay, i use'em very rearely 8^Q), FreeAmp, Ogg123 etc. Any ideas??? Thank you anyhow, Timo
Re: Which mail user agent do you use?
Hello, if you want a MUA not using console, I recommend these: a) mozilla-mail: faster from version to version, capable of having multiple email accounts per user (in contrast to the old netscape mailer), good filtering, threading (good for majordomo lists like this here) b) evolution: needs lots of dependencies (many from GNOME) and was broken in sid last time, but when it works, it is just the best; a pure Outlook clone but better! (mail, contacts, tasks, calendar, portal...) c) cronos2: very good, but was lacking thread support (did it?). Just needs GTK, afaik d) KMail, if using KDE, is very well also; now with IMAP support (like said before) seeyou, Timo
Re: Linux counter registration?
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I wonder if we really are in second place, or if we are undercounted? well, many counts have been removed cos supposed to be out of date. visitors have been asked to recount'em, this may explain the low number. greetz, Timo
Re: nvidia drivers kernel 2.4.14
Kyle Girard wrote: Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock 2.4.14 kernel? It works well with my 2.4.14. Got it from the FTP of kernel.org and did just a patch for my USB graphic table (Aiptek 8000U), but i think it has nothung to do with the nVidia drivers. I use the 1541 driver interfaces of nVidia and use a GeForce2Go, sorry, besides telling *that* it works, i cannot give further help, i suppose. did u do an upgrade of bu=inutils? or maybe u got a buggy gcc... greetings, Timo
Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter
Original Message Subject: Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:24:34 -0800 (PST) From: Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Timo Blazko Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Debian User (en) debian-user@lists.debian.org hi timo i like to ask more detailed stuff... here's some simpler answers... - as others have said, download and install logcheck or equivalent -- Debian security howto http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ -- patch your kernel - add libsafe, ow1, etc http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Harden/kernel.gwif.html -- to detect incoming email virus http://www.Linux-Sec.net/server.gwif.html#Mail -- to detect that a script kiddie added some files to your maohines or modified your system run tripwire, aide, etc do your own checksums, md5 on files oyu care about http://www.Linux-Sec.net/IDS/ -- to detect that a script kiddies is scanning your ports run snort, ippl, etc http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Scanner -- audit your server for vulnerabilities ( at least take a minute and do the simple stuff run nmap,nessus http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Audit/ -- running log file anaysis is nice...but remember that most script kiddies will erase traces of their attacks from the log files - send all logs to a secure loghost server -- to detect that someone has logged in as root send yourself email from ~root/.login -- More server and network security hardening http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Harden/ -- lots of fun stuff... have fun linuxing alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net ... 500Gb 1U Raid5 ... On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: Hello all, I have some questions regarding system security. Besides of doing filtering with IP tables, disabling inet.d services like telnet, r-tools etc. and setting some general denials in /etc/hosts.deny (plus some other stuff like changing default ports of some demons like sshd), I am looking for some additional security options I can apply to a linux system. Especially, I am looking for a not-too-paranoid-to-setup-tool that can review my logfiles and report me via beep and/or local mail that it found something unusual in a log. Does anyone know of such a tool? Second, as a more theoretical question, is there any open source project available that can inspect network packages on application level, e.g. to detect virusses etc. (like sandboxes on huge firewall systems). I hope not to mix some termini, cos I am not that good in this network stuff...but I hope to learn from your answers. So do not hesitate to post answers 8^). Greetings and have a nice weekend, Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
intrusion detection / logfile reporter
Hello all, I have some questions regarding system security. Besides of doing filtering with IP tables, disabling inet.d services like telnet, r-tools etc. and setting some general denials in /etc/hosts.deny (plus some other stuff like changing default ports of some demons like sshd), I am looking for some additional security options I can apply to a linux system. Especially, I am looking for a not-too-paranoid-to-setup-tool that can review my logfiles and report me via beep and/or local mail that it found something unusual in a log. Does anyone know of such a tool? Second, as a more theoretical question, is there any open source project available that can inspect network packages on application level, e.g. to detect virusses etc. (like sandboxes on huge firewall systems). I hope not to mix some termini, cos I am not that good in this network stuff...but I hope to learn from your answers. So do not hesitate to post answers 8^). Greetings and have a nice weekend, Timo
Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: http://www.psionic.com/ has some good stuff - logcheck, portsentry and hostsentry. Hello Stephen, Hey, that was *exactly* what i was looking for. When i have time, i will try these packages. When i am done, i will let the list know about my experiences; if anyone is interested, of course ;-) see you, Timo P.S. thanx for the quick reply
2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4
Hello, Today I installed an USB graphic tablet under Sid w/ XF86 v4. I installed the tablet as second USB mouse device and it works well in X so far (okay, with no pressure sensitivity, but anyhow...). The problem ist that the pen is slightly too fast. I use GNOME and there I can set the speed of the first pointing device but not of a second. Doe anyone know if I can set this in the X config? Found nothing on appropriate websites such as xfree.org, some distributors, several *.sourceforge sites etc. Any Help is much appreciated. see you and thanks, Timo P.S. my tablet is AIPTEK (6000U?) comliant. If anyone knows of additional available features such as pressure sens., let me know :-)
Re: 2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:30, Aniartia wrote:
I duno about tablets but in mice
Option Resolution {number}
works well for me, T-ball at 255 mouse at 130.. T-ball nice n' fast, mouse
nice n' slow ;)
Ani
Hello Ani,
this option won't work on my USB tablett but also not with my PS/2
Mouse. Mh, what am I doing wrong...
Thank you anyhow.
Timo
P.S. the reason is not misspelling in my config, and I took the correct
sections. Danmned :o)
variable ramdisk greater than 4megs
Hello, I am using XMMS for playing my ogg/mp3 audio. The thing is that XMMS very often accesses my hard drive (approx. all three seconds). On my laptop this is not really wanted... Thus my idea: why not creating a ramdisk, loading an album to it and playing from the mounted ramdisk (automatized with a perlscript). But the problem: I cannot get ramdrives (using e.g. /dev/ram0) greater than 4 megabyte. I found the rsize command which shows no effect. I heard that I can set the ramdisk size in /etc/lilo (I think that is why my limit is 4 megs, due to the LiLo settings...), but that would create a static-and-always present ramdisk, right? What I want is a dynamically settable ramdisk that could be sized to the overall filesize of my ogg/mp3 files, so that they can be loaded there. Having always, let's say, 80 megs wasted even when not using XMMS is not my goal ;-). Has anyone of you an idea? When baking my last kernel (2.4.12), I somewhere activated tmpfs, is it that what I may use? Thanx for your help and best regards, Timo
illegal to link against python 2.x?
On the glimmer website (glimmer.sourceforge.net) I read that it requires Python. However, the author states that it is illegal to link against versions 2.0 and 2.1. Is python not GPL comliant? And if, how could it be changed if versions 2.x where? I cannot find any license hints on python.org, so what is it licensed to? thank you, Timo
RE: illegal to link against python 2.x?
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:31, Justin Hahn wrote: I believe this is out of date. Python 2.1.1 (and some versions or other of 2.0.x) resolve the GPL issue. This is why python2 in debian did not contain readline, but 2.1 does. --jeh Ah, that's it! I was sure having read somewhere that python was somewhat GPL compliant. Thank you for the quick answer, Timo
Re: offtopic: perldoc
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 18:16, Colin Watson wrote: Try pod2html. Ah, yes! Completely forgot a) not all docs reside in /usr/share/doc b) pod2html is on my system thank you for the help, Timo
Re: illegal to link against python 2.x?
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:44, Craig Dickson wrote: As for how could it be changed... the copyright owner can change the license for a new version if they like. The copyright owner is not bound by the GPL; the GPL defines how everyone else can use the software. Hello Craig, a new version is just a number change or complete code rewrite? As far as I know, if you release something under the terms of the GPL, just that piece is forever. A next version normaly implements older stuff that was released under the GPL. Is the LGPL the right thing for that? hope I get it right... ;-) Timo
Re: Debian Installation Prob - DSelect
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:20, Karl wrote: [...] How can I get all the packages from the net? (I have to install PPP and PPPOE for DSL first but I don't manage to de-select everything new...) Any other ideas? try apt-[tab] and you might get something like apt-setup or apt-config. There you might set another source (cdrom, net...). If you already have an alternative connection to the net (ISDN, another box, etc.) you might get your PPPoE as a) debian package from packages.debian.org (to be installed with dpkg -i [packagefile] after download via browser) or b) the PPPoe from roaringpenguin.com. But remind that you need a modified ppp for DSL. Hope that helps, Timo
offtopic: perldoc
Hello everyone, My question may come from stupidness, so be warned :-) I am trying to get the perl core documentation, as found on http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/ It is nice, there I can see the online docs, but no ways to get the offline version as an tarball etc. Either, wget won't also work with simple params (wget --recursive URL). So, my question[s]: a) am I too stupid to get it or b) is O'Reilly hiding offline docs from the user to let them buy the books (well, perl is open source, its doc not?) Thanks for your help and patience, Timo
Re: offtopic: perldoc
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 22:28, Thomas Hallaran wrote: You need to 'apt-get install perl-doc'. If you are having trouble finding package names to update you need to get to know the packages.debian.org website. Tom Yepp, I already hav'em (dselect) and did a apt-get right now on perl-doc. But this package (if it expands to /usr/share/doc/perl-doc) only contains a changelog between the dedicated perl versions and contains some examples scripts plus some very tiny docs. What I am looking for is the classic perl core doc containing e.g. perlfaq, perldata, perlsyn, perlop etcetera. Although dedicated to console, I sometimes prefer the HTML version of that doc, not man nor pod or that; thus an exact copy of the perldoc.com pages. Thanx, Timo
mySAP.com WebApp Server on Debian?
Hello, some months ago [when I was a SuSE user], I tried to install the SAP WebApplication Server w/ a basic R/3 onto my SuSE 7.2. Well, finally it did not run due to an incompatible glibc, it was only certified for SuSE 7.0 (or 7.1?) and RedHat 7.1 Enterprise (am I right?). My question: has anyone heard of running mySAP.com on a Debian sys or calls it his own? Currently, I am running Sid (w/ no broken X :-)). Thanx for any hints on information, greetings, Timo
Re: ping works not on all sites
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 05:21, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Please do note that the ping derived from netkit-ping_0.10-8_i386.deb is broken. But for me, ping from iputils-ping_0ss010824-1_i386.deb works without any hitch. So do look out well, actually the problem is not about ping itself. the problem ist that DNS resolve works (e.g. nslookup), but it is like the webserver on that machine won't give me data when trying with a browser. But I know from my friends that these machines are alive (and well). Even those friends who use DSL via the same provider and living near to me report that those sites work; it must be a local problem. thx, Timo
Re: ping works not on all sites
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 19:26, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: I had a similar problem, i could almost anything, ping, ICQ, dns lookups. BUT i could not browse, fetch pop3 mail, i could browse an ftp but not fetch. Regarding ftp I have similar probs; but - as with http - only some sites seem to be affected. At that time i was using pppoe (the debian one), it suddenly stoped working so i tried the one that my provider supplied me (it was enternet 300), my parcial solution that i don't know how it fixed it was downloading rp-pppoe, it just worked. As far as I know my provider (T-Online) provides Linux PPPoE drivers, but that are also those pppoe from Roaring Penguin. The sad affair: I do not know anymore if I have the direct version from RP or the .deb version...shame... The interesting point: today I talked with a friend who also cannot reach those sites, neither from home nor university. Both use Linux while the other fiends I talked to use Windoze. Thus, in fact it is a prob of the OS/settings, not the provider/net etc. thx, Timo
Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 21:06, Benjamin Diedrich wrote: Thank you all for the fast reply on my problem. I finally figured it out when I looked at the system log. The NVdriver kernel module was complaining that an IRQ was not set for the VGA adapter. So, I rebooted, enabled the IRQ for my video adapter in the BIOS, and X windows launched Wow, a seldom cause. Most of the times the XFree settings are the reason or if I compile a new kernel I often forget to recompile the nVidia binary driver's interface... right up. The 3D acceleration is working great. I installed and fired up Quake III: Arena, and was getting as good a results as I can expect from my PII 400. Yepp, same framerates as under Win. Btw.: tried Return To Castle Wolfenstein already? Sqeeze... Thanks again, Ben Diedrich P.S.: Blame those long lines in my initial message on Web Pine. I didn't realize they hadn't implemented line-wrapping like the original. :-) There are greater probs than that. Thanx anyhow. You could have been posting HTML mail with large attachments... :-) seeya, Timo
ping works not on all sites
Hello everyone, I have a strange problem: I am using german DSL (T-DSL) and can reach almost all sites. However, some sites cannot really be contacted from my station. DNS resolve works, cos I get the IP from that site when pinging as well as the real hostname of a destination machine. I know from collegues that they can contact those sites using the same provider and DSL. Only the same sites do not work since I have DSL. It is not a temporary problem. I am using unstable/sid with pppoe userspace from roaring penguin. Thanks for any help, Timo
Re: ping works not on all sites
Hello, thx for your quick answer. On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:04, James D Strandboge wrote: I had the same problem until I realized it might be ecn related. If you are running kernel 2.4.x, then do: yes, I have kernel 2.4.9 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn and see if it shows '1'. If so, do: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn mh, this file is not there (some other tcp_* are there); may I have forgotten in kernelconfig??? and see if it works. Interestingly enough, one of the sites was www.sun.com that couldn't handle ecn. actually, sun.com works (Star Office announcement as headliner...) Jamie Strandboge Timo
Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on my Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh on my Pentium II 400. I have a TNT2 M64 video card by SIIG Inc. with 32 MB of SDRAM. I am running kernel 2.4.9. I installed the latest nVidia drivers (1541) using the Debian installer packages. The video card worked fine with the stock 'nv' driver that came with XFree86 4. maybe you should alternatively to use the tarballs from nVidia and use their make install With the nVidia driver, however, X tried to load, flashes some dark blue colors on the screen, then quits with the error: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! regarding the log, it may be possible that you have not set a correct colour depth. please try 16bits; but i dunno if it is the error, cos the error message is not more specific. I have included the output of my X server below. Any ideas what may be causing this? I did read in the troubleshooting section of nVidia's README.txt file for the Linux drivers that TNT cards may need the memory type (SDRAM) specified in the source code for the kernel nVidia driver. Might this be the problem? Thanks, Ben hope that helped, once i had the same message, but do not remember the problem; too long ago :-) Timo [...] p.s. dunno if it only hits me, but please check the settings of your mailer, it uses lng lines. plz set it to 80 chars in width, thx.
Re: ping works not on all sites
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:29, James D Strandboge wrote: I know there is an option to have it active. My was set to having it active, and now I just manually set it to 0 (well, in a script at boot). Okay, I will try setting this option from scratch. actually, sun.com works (Star Office announcement as headliner...) This may either mean that this is not your problem, or some router along the way from me to www.sun.com was dropping the ecn packets. Do you have another kernel you could try? eg 2.2.x or maybe the default debian kernels? In other words, something a little faster the recompiling your own since it may not even be your problem. Yes, I have several kernels (some 2.4x and even a 2.2.19, I think, but I suppose the pppoe in my version might not run using the 2.2.19...). But thanks for the tip, I will try it with another kernel at a later time (my girl friend will kill me if I drop the line now...:-) ). But maybe it is not worth the work, I plan to settle my gateway over to netBSD or some, former it was a FreeBSD one, now GNU/Linux Woody :-) Jamie greetings, Timo
Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:45, Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I loaded the latest drivers from the NVIDIA web site and tried them and they kept the xserver from starting. Fortunately I kept the old version (1251) and they worked fine so I reverted. Debian Unstable has packaged up versions of (I think 1512) and I am almost certain I had used them successfully at one stage. Well, as so often it may be just a single option or missing dep; maybe I just had luck, cos all versions from the 1.0 driver series from nvidia.com worked just fine on my machines (woody w/ GeForce DDR and sid w/ GeForce 2 Go). On The other hand (but why works the debian packaged one?) it may be due to some kernel settings (if self-baked); do not know their names. I heard of some people that got their nvidia modules only to work when they DISABLED framebuffer support in their kernel. And: maybe you have not set the DGA and extmod options set in XF86Config.4 just my two cents, Timo
[Fwd: Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)]
-Forwarded Message- From: Timo Blazko Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2) Hi, I am using Moz 0.94 on woody and sid. Cos there is only Milestone 18 as .deb, I installed Mozilla online via Mozillas online installer (binary install; mozilla.org). Once, I compiled an older version from source, but it made symlinks within resources in the code tree (although setting apporpriate ./configure params...); thus did not get a clean distribution to move to /opt/mozilla or that. But installing via their online tool works pretty well. Greetz, Timo
Re: System hang via SSH/scp and NFS]
Did not want to post anonymous here, just saw my entry and corrected it in my mua.thus... Timo
