Re: Sound and NIC problem
When I installed Debian I had problems with my 3c509 net card and PnP SB 32 sound card. The 3c509 wasn't detected before I got the isapnp tools (pnpdump and isapnp). I added the following lines in /etc/init.d/boot : if [ -x /sbin/pnpdump ] then echo Deconfiguring PnP devices /sbin/pnpdump /dev/null fi And right after that these lines: if [ -x /sbin/isapnp ] then echo Configuring PnP devices /sbin/isapnp /etc/pnpdump fi The file /etc/pnpdump is the edited output of /sbin/pnpdump and if I remeber right it's needed to get the SB 32 working. At least it works now, I'm listening to KPIG... The 3c509 driver is a module, not compiled in the kernel. -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALT+CTRL+BS dangerous to X server
See /etc/X11/XF86Config and in there section ServerFlags. Uncomment the line that reads DontZap and that should do it. Man XF86Config tells more. Christian Lynbech wrote: Apparently, the keyboard combinbation of ALT+CTRL+Backspace is set up to kill the X server. Is there any way to rebind/remove this feature? // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mouse and serial ports
Hi, Since you didn't tell us what you have already tried, please check these things. I'm sorry if this is redundant. When you compiled your kernel, did you include the Standard/generic serial support? It can either be compiled in the kernel or as a module but you need it to get the mouse support. Try command 'dmesg' so you can see the kernel's bootup messages and see if there are lines like these: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A If you didn't see these lines, then try 'insmod serial' as root if you compiled the serial driver as a module. If you have the serial driver, then check /etc/X11/XF86Config and try to locate the Pointer section that starts with a line like Section Pointer After that there are lines that tell the protocol and device in use. I, for example have a cheap logitech 3 button mouse and the protocol and device lines look like this: ProtocolMouseMan Device /dev/mouse Where /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to ttyS0 (COM1). Try man XF86Config for more info about the pointer and other settings. There's also XF86Setup program that comes with the 16 color SVGA server (package 'xserver-vga16') if you'd like to try a different program to make the XF86Config file. You wrote: [cut] I installed the packages. OK. I recompiled the Kernel to get free of unused drivers. OK. And now, I run XFree86 to configure X11. The problem, at this You should try 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' to configure X. step, is that my mouse is not recognized (although a true MicroSoft mouse pluged on the serial port 1, fully recognized when DOS/WINDOWS is running).What can be done to check /dev/ttySx ? All that I tried has failed. [cut] -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg-split
Somebody already suggested mounting the DOS partition so that Linux can see it, but if you still want dpkg-split it's in package dpkg. The full path is /usr/bin/dpkg-split // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WordPerfect for Java
This was just today on java-linux list: // Heikki ++ Start of excerpt ++ Hello Java-Linux people, I assume that yall know this, but in case you dont, Corel's Office for Java is available for download from ftp2.corel.com. The file is in the / directory and is called coj.zip. I ran it both from appletviewer and as a standalone java application and it works well. I was not able to get it to run under Netscape, but I have not done any of the library substitutions necessary to get Netscape's java to run under Linux. I have a friend who did get it to run under Java under Netscape under Windows 95. Here are some instructions if you just want to start it up quickly: unzip coj.zip Then: appletviewer coj/Shell.html Or: cd coj java COfficeMain I think I found 1 bug in the linux jdt which probably has nothing to do with Corel's package. The jdk does not like talking to the X server on my Digital Unix system. I have seen other applications behave this way when the default visual was 24 bit TrueColor. I run the X server so the default visual is 8 bit PseudoColor and that makes most things happy. It looks like the jdk is requesting a non-default visual and then dying when it can't handle what it gets. Here is some sample output: [sample output deleted] ++ End of excerpt ++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some help with X11
Cirrus cards use the SVGA X server (xserver-svga) package in Debian. I guess you have this already installed since you can check some XF86Setup generated modes. My suggestion is that you check the /etc/X11/Xserver which tells what Xserver to use. The first line in my Xserver file is '/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA' but you might have the XF86_VGA16 server as the default server. I think XF86Setup uses implicitly XF86_SVGA when testing the modes. After you are done with XF86Setup and type 'startx' then the default server in '/etc/X11/Xserver' gets started and if that is XF86_VGA16 you cirrus card won't work. Paul Rightley wrote: [cut] How can the XF86Setup utility work and start the server with usable modes only to be left with a useless XF86Config. Looks the same here too. BTW I put the new XF86Config's in /etc/X11/ and have a link from /usr/lib/X11R6/ (or whatever the appropriate directory is for XF86Config's) to /etc/X11/XF86Config. [cut] -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's NMI recieved.
There seem to be at least two Debian packages that have some kind of memory test programs. There's memtest86 in utils/hwtools and memtest in utils/sysutils. Don't know though if NMI has anything to do with memory. Shaya Potter wrote: [cut] know which chips to replace. Is there any program that will do an intesive memory check and report if any memory is bad. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Olvwm and Matrox (was: No Subject)
The olvwm package in unstable seems to need libc5 (=5.4.17). There should be libc5 version 5.4.17 in the base section of unstable. If not, then you probably should check some other mirror site. I'm using the SVGA X server with 4 MB Matrox Millennium board all the time. It works quite nice. I'm mainly running it in 24 bit mode, 1280x1024 resolution. The config file was created with the XF86Setup that comes with the xserver-vga16 package. XF86Setup needs the 4 bit server in the xserver-vga16 package even if you don't plan to use it later. Netscape gets some of the colors wrong when it's not running on the localhost but otherwise the server works fine. The latest news about Matrox and XFree86 can be found from http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html Mike wrote: [cut] I'm having trouble installing olvwm, I have installed libc5-dev ( 5.14-17), but needs libc5 ( 5.14-17), but I can only find libc5( 5.14-13). I have installed the x server for svga, I have a Matrox millennium graphics card, has any one had experience using with the Matrox Millennium card ? [cut] // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to build a custom kernel (xconfig)
You seem to have everything you need for 'make xconfig' but you have to tell the X server that it's ok for your client program (wish) to connect to it. Try 'export DISPLAY=:0' before 'make xconfig'. If it still won't work and I guess it won't, you have to use command 'xhost + localhost' as the user that started X. This adds your host to the list of hosts that are allowed to connect to your X server. I assume that you didn't run X as root but did eg. 'su -' to gain root privileges. The problem with 'make menuconfig' is that although you have ncurses libraries and all the other ncurses stuff, you don't have ncurses3.0-dev package that has 'ncurses.h' in it. I guess you also have the package 'kernel-package' that contains helpful scripts etc. to make building kernels in Debian easier. If not, check that 'misc' sections in stable or unstable. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is the best window manager?
You should check http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman/ that has lot's of stuff about window managers. A quick count gave 35 more or less known window managers. // Heikki I like to know more about the window managers. There are many ones, and I think that a good thing would be a list of main resources, memory uses and so on about all of them. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom kernel and boot problems still...
There's a package called 'kernel-package' that has Debian Linux kernel package build scripts in it. You can find kernel-package from section misc. Note that there might be a newer version in unstable than stable. I'm attaching a previous mail from debian-user about the same question. Make-kpkg is one of the files in package kernel-package. You wrote: [cut] How hard is it to compile a kernel on Debian? I suppose I will have to find out :) TIA for any options or ideas! [cut] // Heikki To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: A few questions. From: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Jan 1997 03:56:23 -0600 Hi, About question 2: Jon == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jon 2) I am use to directly building slackware kernals. Will Jon something like make config; make; make zImage; make zlilo; make Jon modules; make modules_install break any dependancy info? I Jon noticed make-kpkg; what options would be comparable to the makes Jon above? The procedure would work, but leave no record with dpkg about the kernel being used. I like being able to use dpkg to track kernel images/sources and easy install/de-install. The above sequence is equivalent to the excerpt from the README file: INSTALLATION NOTES: For the Brave and the impatient: 1% cd kernel source tree 2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig and configure 3% make-kpkg -r=custom.1.0 kernel_image 4% dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_arch.deb 5% shutdown -r now # If and only if LILO worked or you have a means of # booting the new kernel. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! Detailed instructions ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfsiods?
Hi, I also noticed this a while ago and found the answer from /usr/src/linux/fs/nfs/README. The nfsiod processes are started by the kernel with the nfs services. There's more about the subject in the README, I hope this helps. [delete] What script starts the four nfsiod's that are on my stock, Debian 1.2 system (not upgraded from 1.1, but not necessarily 1.2.1)? How can I prevent them from even starting at boot time? [delete] // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java trouble
You should check the home page of Java-Linux porting project at http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html. Among other things they have set up a couple of mailing lists and people there can probably answer better to Java specific questions. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List of installation problems for 1.2
The following list was composed from reports of those who have already installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.2. If you are having any trouble with your installation, consult this list for possible solutions. [cut] 18. Mc fails to declare it's dependence on libgpm. Should declare dpendence on libgpm. Install the gpm package. I'll add one thing that I noticed during a fresh install. There was already discussion about this on the list a couple of days ago. 19. /etc/cron.daily/find from findutils_4.1.-12 fails and locate won't work. /var/lib/locate is owned by root.root but updatedb is runnings as nobodyfrom a cron job. Running 'chown nobody.nogroup /var/lib/locate' seems tofix it. The maintainer has also promised to fix this. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Debian 1.2
Check if there's a line like '/usr/X11R6/lib' in the file /etc/ld.so.conf. If not, you should add it and run 'ldconfig' or 'ldconfig -v | more' for more verbose output. This should fix the problem with libXt.so.6, at least it did for me when I installed Debian 1.2. [cut] Also having a problem with libXt.so.6. texbin will not configure due to not being able to find this library (even though it is there). Subsequently, netscape and other a.out programs also complain about not being able to load libXt.so [cut] I hope this helps, // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial cable pinout??
The Linux Serial HOWTO tells about null modem cables. There are instructions for both minimum and full handshake cables with the pinouts for both the 9 and 25 pin connectors. The URL straight to the section that tells about null modem cables is http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO-8.html // Heikki -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Video card
The people who did the Matrox Millennium port for the XFree86 have a set of W3 pages at http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html . Here's an excerpt from the FAQ that tells about XFree86 3.2 and the status of the other Matrox cards: At this stage, there are no immediate plans for any other chipset other than the currently supported MGA2064W. We hope to do something with the Mystique, and Matrox are currently working on documentation for it. But we cannot talk time frames or delivery dates at all, as we don't have anything started yet. Right now for Comet*, Marvel*, Ultra, Impression, and Mystique owners, there are a couple of choices: Metro Link (MetroX) or Xinside. This means that you have to pay for the server for your Mystique card. Metro Link can be found from http://www.metrolink.com and Xinside from http://www.xinside.com. I've got a Matrox Mystique video cards which seems not to be supported by Xfree86. Have anyone information about it ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing RPMs
It seems to be in package 'debmake' section 'devel'. There is version 1.95 in stable and 2.13 in unstable. Haven't used it myself though. I remember hearing that it was possible to install RPM packages in debian 1.2 via an alien program or something of the sort. Where can I obtain this? // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X clients problem
Add '/usr/X11R6/lib' to the '/etc/ld.so.conf' file and run 'ldconfig' or 'ldconfig -v | more' as root after that. With the latter you should see all the libraries, including libXt.so.6 listed as the cache and appropriate links for the runtime linker (ld.so) are created. This is a known bug, and should have been done during the install. Bit me too ;=) Hope this helps, // Heikki I've just installed the Debian 1.2 distibution with X11 packages, including xlib6, xbase, xcompat, and a few others. Everything is going ok when I start the X server but when I try to run programs such as ghostview or fvwm, I get the error message : can't load library libXt.so.6 (or another lib name). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XF86Setup, it did work
A couple of days ago I complained about XF86Setup not working. The setup program worked all the time but I failed to use it right. In the monitor section XF86Setup asks for the horizontal and vertical sync values. There are default values for the standard VGA which are 31.5 for hsync and 60 for vsync. Being fooled with this I inserted the _maximum_ values like 92 and 160 and not the value _ranges_ like 30-92 and 50-160. I was having a cup of coffee and not even thinking of it when it suddenly cleared :) // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help getting 1.2 rescue to boot
You are not the only person with this problem. This was asked about a week ago and here is Bruce Perens's answer dug from the mailing list archive: [cut] For now, please boot your system with the command: linux reserve=0x340 or linux cm206=0x350 Where 0x350 is any unused address on your system. I'll have to remove this from the next kernel. I wanted to see if more than one person hit this problem, or if it was simply someone with odd hardware. [cut] I hope this helps, // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to find Lebian1.2
http://www.debian.org/ftplist.html tells about mirrors. The list has the following site from France: ftp://ftp.ibp.fr:/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ It seems to have the sources and binaries for i386, Alpha, m68k and sparc. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.2 installation, more notes
I have been installing Debian little by little so I could see what's going on. Here's the most recent findings. o XFSetup didn't work. The configuration utility seemed to work right but when it was the time to test the server the client was not able to connect to it. I had to use xf86config and it worked fine. o /usr/X11R6/lib wasn't added to /etc/ld.so.conf, but I guess this is already known o There was no manual page for sh. Would it be ok to point sh to bash? o /var/lib/locate was owned by root.root so nobody failed to use it as was pointed out earlier on the list. I did /etc/cron.daily/find as suggested by 'Dselect for beginners' and got an error message from locate about missing database file. As you can see these are minor inconvenience except maybe for the /etc/ld.so.conf thing. What a great system! // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with Kernal Source 2.0.27_1.00
There's a separate package that contains as86. The package is bin86 and can be found from section devel. Here's the description: Assembler and loader for kernel compilation. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]you write: kernal. I get most of the way through the make zImage phase and the process stops with the following error message as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make[1]: as86: Command not found -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved (problems with 3com)
Thanks Nils, your PnP fix solved the problem. I was just about to start removing the cards and changing their places, but luckily I don't have to do it. Problem description: I have a new computer with Tyan TomcatIII main board, Plug n' Play aware BIOS, Sound Blaster 32 PnP card and a 3com 3c509b (Etherlink III) ISA card (PnP disabled). I was trying to install Debian 1.2 but the device driver module for the 3c509 card failed to load during the initial installation and in every reboot. The message from insmod was following: 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA bus!! Initialization of 3c509 failed Adding parameters as 'insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' only suppressed the warning about probing, the initialization still failed. The io and irq values were correct. The solution: Nils Rennebarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated that the SB 32 PnP with the PnP motheboard causes the problem. His fix was to get the isapnptools (isapnp and pnpdump) and add the following lines in /etc/init.d/boot if [ -x /sbin/pnpdump ]; then echo Deconfiguring PnP devices /sbin/pnpdump /dev/null f The isapnptools (I used version 1.8) package can be found from http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/other.html Some notes: After getting the isapnptools I reinstalled everything. Just before selecting the driver for 3c509 from the device driver modules, I switched to another virtual console and manually did command 'pnpdump'. However this didn't work because of unresolved symbol '_ioperm'. After 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/target/lib' the pnpdump command succeeded. Right after the pnpdump command I edited the /target/etc/init.d/boot file and inserted the lines above before the lines that load any modules needed. After that I switched back to the installation program, loaded the 3c509 module and finished the install. The reboot was successful and everything works now just fine. The auto-probe works too. It does give the warning but the module loads ok. Thanks again Nils and everybody else who also offered their help. -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shouldn't mh add it's dir to PATH?
Last night I installed part of the debian (going to install the rest tonight) and I noticed that mh doesn't add /usr/bin/mh to PATH in /etc/profile. Is this the correct behaviour? I also noted that there is '.' in the PATH. comp.unix.faq has something to say about this in question 2.13) What's wrong with having '.' in your $PATH ? // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem in some FTP mirrors of Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8
In ftp.lh.umu.se the following files seem to have different sizes than the ones in debian.crosslink.net. o drv1200.bin o drv1440.bin o linux o md5sum.txt o resq1440.bin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
I have both the dos and linux versions of the 3c509 config program. The linux version can be found from ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/setup/ . There seems to be a new version of the program, dated 12/11/96. http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/linux.html has stuff about linux network drivers and config programs. But back to the mission impossible. Last night I tried with different irq and base io addresses using both the dos and linux version of the config programs. The linux version finds the cards, tells the irq and io address but insmod fails. The command I used is 'insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' or whatever irq and base address I happened to try at the moment. The card works fine with Win NT and dos, so it'll have to work with linux too. I guess I'll try the boot floppies from November and see if the program goes away. Is it ok to compile 2.0.27 kernel on a different machine with only the necessary drivers and then put that on the resque disk? It's easy to open the image file with the loopback device and do the modifications. I guess I'll try that too. Find the floppy disk that came with your 3com card and run it (I'm afraid you'll have to boot a DOS floppy to do that). There's also a place where you can get the 3com configuration utility over the net, someone please tell us. It'll tell you what address the card is configured for, or will allow you to reconfigure it. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
Thaks for your mail. I made a record of the terminal session and I'm attaching it here. I made a completely fresh install with the 1996-12-8 floppies and only selected nfs from the device driver modules. I tried to install 3c509 but it failed with or without the irq and base io given as parameter. I also tried the boot floppies from November but they didn't fix the 3com problem either. The motherboard is a Tyan TomcatIII, and there's also a SoundBlaster 32 PnP installed. You wrote: How does exactly insmod fails? What are the error messages? I'm loading the 3c509 module from kernel 2.0.23 here without any trouble. All I need to do is to include a line with 3c509 in /etc/modules, and a line with options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7 in /etc/conf.modules. Everything works really nice with only that. After the first reboot I installed 3c5x9 configure program and the bsdutils package so I could use script to record the session. The 3c509 card was first initialized in dos to it's default settings. Here's the transcript. The new 3c5x9 setup program says that the card is active but there was no such message with the previous version dated 6/9/95. Script started on Thu Dec 12 21:55:41 1996 # lsmod Module:#pages: Used by: nfs 124 # ./3c5x9 -v 3c5x9setup.c:v0.04 12/11/96 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) A potential 3c5*9 has been found, but it appears to still be an active. Either shutdown the network, or use the '-f' flag. # ./3c5x9 -f 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x300, IRQ 10, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # insmod 3c509 io=0x300 Initialization of 3c509 failed # insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10 Initialization of 3c509 failed # lsmod Module:#pages: Used by: nfs 124 # ./3c509 --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 A potential 3c5*9 has been found, but it appears to still be an active. Either shutdown the network, or use the '-f' flag. # ./3c5x9 -f --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Would write new IRQ entry 0x7f00 (old value 0xaf00). Would write new transceiver/IO entry 0x0001 (old value 0x0010). Would write new checksum entry 0x7a71 (old value 0x7ab0). (The new EEPROM values will not be written without the '-w' flag.) Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # ./3c5x9 -f -w --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Writing new IRQ entry 0x7f00. Writing new transceiver/IO entry 0x0001. Writing new checksum entry 0x7a71. Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # ./3c5x9 -f -w --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # insmod 3c509 Initialization of 3c509 failed # insmod 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7 Initialization of 3c509 failed # cat /proc/interrupts 0: 51951 timer 1: 1893 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 8: 0 + rtc 13: 1 math error 14: 7263 + ide0 15: 99 + ide1 # cat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-009f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f0-03f5 : floppy 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR # cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 17, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe080. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x9000. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82439HX Triton II (rev 3). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. # exit Script done on Thu Dec 12 22:00:20 1996 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
Last night I tried to install Debian 1.2 to my new PC using the boot floppies 1996-12-8. I was going to install the packages over ftp either with dselect or by first downloading them after the initial boot disk install. The installation went smoothly until it was time to configure the device drivers. I have a 3com Etherlink III (3c509b) ISA card left from my old computer so I selected the 3c509 module from the list of network adapters and went on to install it. First I tried to install it with no parameters and the driver complained that auto-probing the card is not reliable and the installation did not succeed. After guessing some parameters and how to give them I went on without being able to load the 3c509 driver. The rest of the installation went just fine and I got the base system installed. After the first reboot, I telneted from DOS to my linux box at work and checked the modules.txt in the linux source 'Documentation' directory. There was an example that mentioned you can put a line like 'options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' in the /etc/modules.conf file. I went on and booted to linux, edited the /etc/conf.modules file and also put a line 'alias eth0 3c509' in it. This did not help. Giving 'ether=10,0x300,eth0' as an argument to the kernel during the boot did not help, messing with plug and play did not help, trying to reinstall and configuring 3c509 with the parameters 'io=0x300 irq=10' did not help. I even tried the io base 0x310 but this did not help either. In short, the 3c509 module failed every time to initialize the card either during the boot or when loading the module. The booting also took really long and it was a pain to try out different combinations. I noticed that there is a Mitsumi cd-rom driver trying to probe something at io base 0x300 and irq11, I wonder if this can disturb the 3com card at io0x300, irq10. Otherwise the installation went just fine. Especially I liked the idea of configuring the keyboard as the first thing. It helps a lot if you don't know the US layout. I also put a hard drive from my old computer to the new one which had the /home partition from my previous linux installation. The adduser(?) program noticed this and made the uid-username mapping right and did not try to create any new directories. Very smart and nice feature. Thanks for any help, // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS WORD format
My debian is still uninstalled, but has anyone tried Wine (Windows emulator) with Microsoft Word Viewer, available from Microsoft as a free download? Does anyone know of a document reader/editor that will read Microsoft Word format? // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Invitation for testers of frozen distribution
I hope the boot floppies for a cold install will be uploaded soon. I was just about to install Debian tonight, but I guess I'll have to wait a little. I finally got my new computer last friday and have a nice big partition reserved for Debian. Are there any special testing requests for those who don't upgrade but install from scratch? I would like to also know if there is anything special that I should check during the install. Bruce Perens wrote: There are still known problems (see the bug list on our FTP site), so Where exactly is this bug list? I checked ftp.debian.org but did not find it. -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages install
If the packages that should be installed first are the ones that have their 'Priority' control field set to 'required' then you can find them all with my package finder tool. I guess dselect also selects them all. The finders current location (subject to change) is http://house.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/debian/ . Search for string 'required' and select only the 'Priority' pushbutton. When you submit the query you will get a listing of all the required packages. The 'Priority' button is also a link to a small extract from the Debian Policy Manual that explains what are the values that 'Priority' can have. Is there any document on which package should be installed first? I just got a development CD from I-connect and I seemed to have a hard time to install the packages from the CDROM. There seemed to be packages to have conflict with each other. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: news server
The news server software lives under 'news' section in the Debian mirrors. This section can be found from either the 'stable' or 'unstable' directories. For example ftp://ftp.it.com.au/mirrors/linux/debian/Debian-1.1-fixed/binary-i3 86/news/ 'stable' works too An alternative way is to use the package finder system I have made. Package finder can be found from http://house.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/debian/ . Please note that this is not the permanent location but will change in the future. does debian have a news server software i could use? -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remainder: package finder
Hello all, About two weeks ago I put a small announce about the package finder I have created. This is just the reminder that the package finder still runs on http://house.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/debian/ and is free for you to use. It will move to some other location in the future so this is not the permanent location so beware of changes. This is what you can do with it: 1. Search for a package with a keyword 2. Search for a package with a filename 3. Browse directly any sections in the distribution. Some features: o You can select a mirror site to download from o Dependencies and other interesting information are hypertext links to the appropriate packages o You can view the file list of the package before downloading. It still runs on my personal PC, so please nice to it but don't hesitate to try and use it. -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reading news with Emacs
Hello, As other people have already answered to the Gnus problem, I would like to give you some pointers to the Gnus-related documentation. The Gnus home page is http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding.html and the Gnus FAQ can be found from http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html. The FAQ can also be reached from the main Gnus page. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is nanosleep?
Hi, I tried the following with two Linux systems: od -s /lib/libc.so.5.2.18 | grep nano od -s /lib/libc.so.5.3.12 | grep nano 0152072 __libc_nanosleep 0152113 __nanosleep 0152127 nanosleep 2475401 __libc_nanosleep 2505602 nanosleep 2512322 __nanosleep So it looks like that at least libc 5.3.12 has it. I have a manual page for the nanosleep function in my Debian-1.1 system and according to it the timespec structure should be declared in time.h. It isn't... It is specified in linux/time.h. And when I tried to use that function in my program I got: 'undefined reference to nanosleep'. It seems there is no such function in libc.so.5.2.18. So what library should I link to my program? // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package finder
Hello, I have created a small search system where you can search for a Debian package either with a keyword, file name or direct browsing. The url is http://house.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/debian/ However, this can not be it's permanent location since it resides on the PC I use for the part time work here at the university. If you like it, I'll try to arrange a more stable home for it. Here is a short description what you can do with it: o You can list all the packages that mention a keyword in their Description or other fields. You can also search for a package that contains a file. o With the section browser you can list the sections and see what packages are in them. o The search system also has mirror site selection, so when you find the package you are looking for, you can download it from the nearest mirror. The raw material for all this are the Contents and Package files in the subdirectories 'stable', 'unstable', 'contrib' and 'non-free' of ftp.debian.org. Feel free to use it, but please be nice to it :-) // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ?-html
From archie.sunet.se: Host sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk(155.198.1.40) Last updated 10:36 30 Aug 1996 Location: /computing/information-systems/WWW DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x 512 bytes 11:35 6 Jun 1996 man2html Host ftp.fi.upm.es(138.100.8.6) Last updated 22:01 31 Aug 1996 Location: /pub/infosys/www DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x 512 bytes 04:43 3 Jun 1996 man2html Host ftp.gwdg.de(134.76.12.1) Last updated 14:37 2 Sep 1996 Location: /linux/install/suse/4.2/cd1/suse/contents FILE-rw-r--r-- 517 bytes 07:49 20 May 1996 man2html Host ftp.rediris.es(130.206.1.2) Last updated 15:39 1 Sep 1996 Location: /mirror/infosystems/WWW DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x 512 bytes 22:00 31 Aug 1995 man2html Host unix.hensa.ac.uk(129.12.200.129) Last updated 08:07 2 Sep 1996 Location: /mirrors/yggdrasil.fall95/src/typesetting DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x4096 bytes 23:00 4 Aug 1995 man2html Location: /mirrors/yggdrasil.fall95/disk1/usr/bin FILE-rwxr-xr-x 14462 bytes 23:00 25 Jul 1995 man2html Host ftp.sics.se(193.10.66.43) Last updated 09:16 31 Aug 1996 Location: /www DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x 83456 bytes 22:00 17 Feb 1995 man2html Location: /www/man2html FILE-rwx--x--x 32768 bytes 22:00 9 Jan 1995 man2html Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an html output for my manual pages? or better still act as the front end of man? I have heard that there is some utility for doing this, though I have not come across it yet // Heikki
Re: using filter
I use procmail for this. There are also other mail filtering programs but I have no experience of them. There is also a FAQ about filtering mail and it can be found from http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/top.h tml How could I use filter to filter the mail from mailing lists (such as this one) into different folders. The only thing, I could think of is if [snip] The second example of procmailex (5) man page does this. Also, I was wondering if it is possible to filter the mail, and forward it to anoter computer. i.e. I want it stored on one machine, but also -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland
