RE: DHCP
On 01-Apr-2000 Chris Mason wrote: How do I force the machine to renew it's DHCP IP allocation? I've changed parameters on the DHCP server and I want the machine to reflect those changes. On a Linux box, just run dhcpc eth0, and it should renew itself. If you running Windows (shudder), Start-run- winipcfg, and hit release all, then renew. Or something like that, this is off the top of my head. Also, how do I get a Linux machine to be a DHCP server? apt-get install dhcp, then change /etc/dhcpd.conf to match your network. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: sound hell
Hi James, On 31-Mar-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I LOVE YOU! heh, well, no. but seriously. after installing bin86, the kernel did, indeed compile correctly. after many tries, the soundcard still wouldn't work (i did select sound support for Ensoniq pci 97... the chipset for my card). i swapped it w/ a SB AWE64 i had in another machine and xconfig'ed again and selected support for it and, upon reboot, it worked fine. though, nothing i did w/ my PCI 128 ever worked. does anyone have a success story for this card? perhaps i still did something wrong(?) I just spent a day screwing around with this as well with 6 new computers we got here, all with SB 128 PCI cards. I couldn't get the kernel driver to work, so I installed the alsa-modules,alsaconf,and alsa-utils packages, downgraded the kernel from 2.2.14 to 2.2.13 (apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.13), edit my /etc/lilo.conf, ran lilo. I then ran alsaconf, and rebooted. Upon reboot, you should see a whole load of modules loaded. I'm at home right now, but if you send me mail on Monday morning, I can send you my output of lsmod if you want. I had many troubles trying to duplicate this on the other machines. On some of them I ended up copy /etc, /lib/modules, and /boot. This got it working, and wasn't a horrible solution as I had just mirrored all the hard drives the day before. These machines are sweet: PIII-550's, 256MB RAM, Voodoo 3, sb 128 PCI, the are many times faster than what I had before! I hope that gives you some light, let me know how you make out or if you have any problems, so I don't spend time that you have spent doing the same thing. Later, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home network: will bo play with potato?
I did this at work for a while. I ran VMware with Win98 as the guest OS on a Celeron 466 with lots of ram, (somebody else was using this system), and displayed it to my measly memory-strapped Pentium 166. It worked quite well, except it wouldn't let me do full screen VMWare. On 15-Mar-2000 Brad wrote: It looks like you're planning on running the 486 as the X terminal, with the X clients running on the pentium box and displaying on the 486. In an example, something like this: i486$ ssh pentium -X Password: pentium$ echo $DISPLAY i486:10 pentium$ netscape [ netscape comes up in i486's X server ] Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator.
Re: Boot Linux with LILO
On 12-Mar-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 03:22:27PM +0100, Fagiolino wrote: I have win 95 in the first partition (16 GB) and I want to install Linux in the second partition... how I can boot Linux from this partition?!? And finally -- can Win95 even *use* a 16 Gigabyte partition? I thought it was restricted to 2 GB. Win98 doesn't have this limitation. I'm a bit confused. Some of the later releases of Win95 have FAT32 as well. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: transfering to new HDD
On 02-Mar-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, symlinks, etc). partition (cfdisk, fdisk) the drive, format (mkfs) and mount the new drive. tar cf top_level_dirs; (cd /new_drive_monut_point; tar xpf -) I believe you'll have to pipe the output of the first tar to the second process: tar cf - source | ( cd /target; tar xpf - ) This works quite well, I just tried it. However, I got missed up when it didn't copy symlinks properly. I had a link /var/somedir to the directory /var/SomeDir, and instead of copying the link, it copied the whole directory so that I had to identical copies of /var/SomeDir. Be careful. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automagic boots
This may sound silly... but what when the computer is shutdown at night, what time is being stored in the BIOS? It could be timezone thing... I don't know, just an idea On 09-Mar-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: S. Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OM == Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OM Hi all, I've set up a part-time server for our group. Every OM morning at 7:30 it automagically boots up and at 8:30 in the OM evening it shuts itself down. Works like a charm, really, and OM is very `green'. Not? How have you setup this machine to automatically boot up at 7:30am after it shut itself down at 8:30pm the night before ? Via the machine's BIOS. It has several settings to automagically boot under certain conditions. Apperently I haven't got a clue as to which conditions are causing my problem. Come to think of it, it is likely that neither Debian nor Linux have anything to do with it. But since the boot always take place within a few minutes after the shutdown (it looks an awful lot like a regular reboot but it's not in the logs like that---I mean `last reboot' shows nothing for the times concerned) it just might. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
RE: Using 'dialog'
On 01-Mar-2000 Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I'm trying to write a script that asks you which ROM you want to start up with snes9x (along with sound and joystick options). Right now I have the following: dialog --backtitle Super Nintendo --title Snes9x Options --shadow --menu Wh ich ROM do I load? 0 0 0 1 Final Fantasy V 2 Chrono Trigger Unfortunately, I do not know what to do now. The man page said it dumps the tag to stderr, but I don't know how to use stderr. Please help. I just happened to be playing with the same thing today... I _think_ you do it like this from a bash prompt: dialog --backtitle Super Nintendo --title Snes9x Options --shadow --menu Which ROM do I load? 0 0 0 1 Final Fantasy V 2 Chrono Trigger; echo $? HTH, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Two Questions...
On 28-Feb-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote: Hi, do I have to install additional packages to use XFMail with IMAP? Nope, you shouldn't. But if I'm wrong, post to the xfmail list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may also want to head to xfmail.slappy.org, and get the latest release of xfmail (1.4.4). There are debs there, as well as self extracting compiling source executables. Enjoy XFmail! By the way, XFMail is being ported to GTK! Check http://archimedes.sourceforge.net. | Please reply only to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Other email addresses may no longer be valid... | Why do you have your From: set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll be wanting to change it, I am thinking. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
RE: Two Questions...
On 28-Feb-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote: Hi, do I have to install additional packages to use XFMail with IMAP? Nope, you shouldn't. But if I'm wrong, post to the xfmail list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may also want to head to xfmail.slappy.org, and get the latest release of xfmail (1.4.4). There are debs there, as well as self extracting compiling source executables. Enjoy XFmail! By the way, XFMail is being ported to GTK! Check http://archimedes.sourceforge.net. | Please reply only to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Other email addresses may no longer be valid... | Why do you have your From: set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll be wanting to change it, I am thinking. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Stop searching forever. Happiness is unattainable.
RE: network card problem
Arghh, I haven't had to wonder experiences with this card. Can you ping the IP you assigned to that interface? Is there anything in the syslog? Are the debug options you can provide to insmod via-rhine.o ? Do you have link lights? Just some random ideas... On 27-Feb-2000 Russ Cook wrote: My old pci ethernet card failed, and I replaced it with a D-Link DFE-530TX. I running Debian with kernel 2.2.14. I loaded the via-rhine network card driver, version 1.02b. The system detects the card, but I can't get to my lan. I can't ping or otherwise detect any of my other machines. I've changed none of the kernel compile options except the pci nic card and driver. Has anyone else had this problem? Can anyone offer any assistance? Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim stab_val(stab)-str_nok = 1;/* what a wonderful hack! */ -- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Re: Can't click links in Netscape??
Thanks to all who replied. I always used to start X using wdm, but the last time I started X I used 'startx'. I just quit X now, and restarted wdm, and netscape behaved properly... I think it may have been some bad /etc/X11/Xsession settings. I had changed /etc/X11/wdm/Xsession to allow netscape to make use of the wheel button on my mouse (for line scrolling, Alt+wheel allows me to scroll pages now, all very cool). It would be nice to get netscape to behave when using startx, but it isn't a high priority Thanks, Wim. On 24-Feb-2000 Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Netscape seems to exit and start cleanly... Could it be that the mapping for the mouse buttons are messed up? Do you know where those settings are stored? On 24-Feb-2000 aphro wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: wim Nope, restarting Netscape doesn't resolve the issue, and this happens on every wim link on every site I go to... when you exit netscape make sure there is no netscape process still sitting there, many times netscape may exit(or the user quits it) and the netscape process is still running. if it is, kill it (try -1 then -12 then -9 or just do -9 if you like) nate Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. -- motto of the Christopher Society
ATI Video Card Support
Hi Everyone, What ATI Video cards are best supported by Linux and X Windows? I was thinking of: ATI Xpert 98 ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] XTI Xpert 99 ATI Xpert 128 ATI Rage Fury ATI All-in-Wonder 128 What experiences does anyone else have with these cards? I am getting a new system (Intel Celeron 466), and want a card that will work well with that and a 17 monitor. It should be good for normal X usage at resolutions at and over 1280x1024x32, games, etc. Thanks, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: ATI Video Card Support
How are some of the other brands, like Matrox? I was reading through the documentation and mailing list archives at http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/, and noticed that it supports the MGA G200 and G400, as well as the NVIDIA Riva series. Has anybody set up Utah GLX with any of these cards? What is it like? What is the speed increase noticed with the most? Wim. On 26-Feb-2000 aphro wrote: i believe all of those cards are fully supported in the latest X release (3.3.6) and ATI recently released a new SDK for linux so ATI will probably be the first to have hardware accelerated/assistend video playback! its gonna be a tough choice, voodoo5 or whatever ATI has to offer when vd5 comes out..ack. things were easier when i had less choices :) nate On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: wim Hi Everyone, wim wim What ATI Video cards are best supported by Linux and X Windows? I was thinking wim of: wim ATI Xpert 98 wim ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wim XTI Xpert 99 wim ATI Xpert 128 wim ATI Rage Fury wim ATI All-in-Wonder 128 wim wim What experiences does anyone else have with these cards? wim wim I am getting a new system (Intel Celeron 466), and want a card that will work wim well with that and a 17 monitor. It should be good for normal X usage at wim resolutions at and over 1280x1024x32, games, etc. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Can't click links in Netscape??
Hi Everyone, For some reason, I can't click links in netscape anymore. I can right click them and hit Open Link in New Window, but left click them and have it open in the same window like it should. This is with Communicator 4.7. Ideas anyone? It is a real PITA to have to open in a new window, or type the path in manually all the time... Thanks, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: Can't click links in Netscape??
On 24-Feb-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 07:30:10PM -0800, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Hi Everyone, For some reason, I can't click links in netscape anymore. I can right click them and hit Open Link in New Window, but left click them and have it open in the same window like it should. This is with Communicator 4.7. Ideas anyone? It is a real PITA to have to open in a new window, or type the path in manually all the time... Random thoughts: How have you mapped your mouse buttons in your XF86Config? Shouldn't happen, but it's possible that a modifier key (usually caps lock or numlock) is interfering with your mouse. Under X this can change the interpretation of a mouse button press. I mapped my mouse buttons so that I could use the wheel button on my logitech-mouse-with-a-wheel mouse in Netscape. However, I did that many months ago, and it has worked fine until now. I haven't done any mapping in my XF86Config though. Do you know how I can get the default mappings back? I can't remember what file it was... Thanks, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users?
Re: Can't click links in Netscape??
On 24-Feb-2000 Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 07:30:10PM -0800, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Hi Everyone, For some reason, I can't click links in netscape anymore. I can right click them and hit Open Link in New Window, but left click them and have it open in the same window like it should. This is with Communicator 4.7. Ideas anyone? It is a real PITA to have to open in a new window, or type the path in manually all the time... i see this happen every so often usually after visiting a badly written site (especially if javascript was turned on) quitting the browser and rerunning it solves it for me though. is this permanent for you? Nope, restarting Netscape doesn't resolve the issue, and this happens on every link on every site I go to... Thanks, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: Can't click links in Netscape??
Netscape seems to exit and start cleanly... Could it be that the mapping for the mouse buttons are messed up? Do you know where those settings are stored? On 24-Feb-2000 aphro wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: wim Nope, restarting Netscape doesn't resolve the issue, and this happens on every wim link on every site I go to... when you exit netscape make sure there is no netscape process still sitting there, many times netscape may exit(or the user quits it) and the netscape process is still running. if it is, kill it (try -1 then -12 then -9 or just do -9 if you like) nate Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim #define SIGILL 6 /* blech */ -- Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code
Re: My own bootlogo
I've made a boot logo using the glogo plugin for the Gimp. Search for boot logo on tune.linux.com. This plugin converts a gif image to the linux_logo.h source file that you copy to your kernel tree and recompile. It worked quite well for me... I couldn't get the plugin to work with Gimp1.1, so I had to downgrade to Gimp1. I didn't find the plugin to be all that stable (didn't work with a small image, sometimes it worked, sometimes, it didn't). Regards, Wim Kerkhoff. On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 05:57:52PM +0100, Lars Weber wrote: Greetings, Has anyone here ever succeeded in installing their own bootlogo? I've tried to do this for some time now, but somehow I don't get it. I use ppm2logo from the logo-select kernel patch[1]. The problem is that it segfaults every time after printing out half of the converted file. I don't think that something with the picture is wrong, as I also tried it with one of the original pictures (converted back using `make logos-256'). Pointers to some docs would also be helpful. Thanks for any help, Lars [1] The patch is available at http://www.clifford.at/misc/ -- .. Like I always say -- nothing can beat the BRATWURST here in DUSSELDORF!! -- Zippy the Pinhead -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE:
Try doing a search for lame or notlame on freshmeat.net... On 10-Feb-2000 Shadow_OF_Darkness wrote: i want to get a wav to mp3 convertor ...
RE: PCI modems with Linux?
All you should need to set up the modem is what serial port it is on. For example, my modem is on Com4, so I just told pppconfig, etc, to use /dev/ttyS3, and everything worked. You can use dmesg |more to find out what devices the kernel is finding. You can use the command lspci to find out what PCI devices are being detected. For an explanation of why PCI support is not great in kernels 2.2.x, read the PCI Bus Not Yet Well Supported in the Modem-Howto. If you have the Linux Howto's installed, you can find that in /usr/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Modem-HOWTO.txt. That howto suggestes to email the output of the lspci command to the maintainer of the serial driver. Once you get Linux talking to your modem, you need to install some packages, and run the debian ppp configuration tool: $ apt-get install pppconfig ppp $ pppconfig On 10-Feb-2000 gou.dedalus wrote: Hi, I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI Rockewell compatible modems (no winmodems) without any Linux- relate thing. I'd like to ask some kind of short tutorial about how to install the needed software-pieces and what steps to follow for a functional internet-connection. Sorry, if this is a boring question. In this case, please anyone who answer, do it to my own addres. Thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
RE: VMware
I HAD good experiences with VMware under Debian. It worked fine for me last summer, but somehow somewhere something messed up. At the moment, vmware causes my system to lock up. It brings up the gui and the wizard just fine; however, just before it brings up the guest Bios, my system freezes. I can't kill X, and I can't telnet in, but I can ping the system from another computer. Has anybody seen this before? Does anybody have an ideas as to what is happening here? I would really like to get this issue resolved. When I had it running, Windows 98 w/IE5 ran fine. This was at 1024x768 @ 24bit color. It was quite fast (considering...) on my AMD K6-2 with 128MB SDRAM. I had VNC, ipmasq, samba, etc, set up on my system, so I could play lots of interesting tricks with it. I did find that shutting down extra things on my debian system like apache, postgres, staroffice, etc, really helped performance as well. I've heard scary tales from someone who loaded an existing Windows 98 partition on its own partition... It tooks hours and hours to detect, add, remove all the changed hardware. After that, he couldn't dual boot into Windows 98 natively. Your best off not to take this route... I know someone else who runs Mandrake, Windows 98, and Windows NT as guest OS's on his Debian laptop with little problems. Then again, he has one of those nice new Dell laptops, so the system has lots of extra juice... On 01-Feb-2000 Lance Heller wrote: What experience good, bad, or otherwise have Debian users had with VMware? I have a requirement to use an application that only runs on one or another flavor of a Redmond virus and am deciding whether to convert my laptop to dual boot W98, or use VMware instead. Thank you for your comments. Lance Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Corel Linux debs
Hi, Has anybody tried installing the Corel debs from ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/CorelLinux/dists/corellinux-1.0/corel/binary-i386/ ? I've tried them, but they depend on libapt-pkg2.5, which I can't seem to find anywhere... Does anybody know where libapt-pkg2.5 can be found? Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: VMware
On 02-Feb-2000 Bernhard Rieder wrote: Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I HAD good experiences with VMware under Debian. It worked fine for me last summer, but somehow somewhere something messed up. At the moment, vmware causes my system to lock up. It brings up the gui and the wizard just fine; however, just before it brings up the guest Bios, my system freezes. I can't kill X, and I can't telnet in, but I can ping the system from another computer. I have this problem when running xawtv in DGA mode. Do You have any applications running using DGA? No, as far as I know I don't. All I have running is a couple windowmaker docapps, xfmail, X, and that's about it. I've attached ps axf and lsmod. Do you run into this problem when ever you run xawtv in DGA mode? At one point I thought that maybe vmware was having troubles loading or unloading its kernel modules, but I disabled networking and it still happened. Strange thing is, that my dialup connection to my ISP is still up, and my workstation is still IP masquarding for the rest of the network here... it seems everything that is in userspace is gone. Thanks, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Law of Continuity: Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail the same way.
Re: VMware
On 02-Feb-2000 Wim Kerkhoff wrote: On 02-Feb-2000 Bernhard Rieder wrote: Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I HAD good experiences with VMware under Debian. It worked fine for me last summer, but somehow somewhere something messed up. At the moment, vmware causes my system to lock up. It brings up the gui and the wizard just fine; however, just before it brings up the guest Bios, my system freezes. I can't kill X, and I can't telnet in, but I can ping the system from another computer. I have this problem when running xawtv in DGA mode. Do You have any applications running using DGA? No, as far as I know I don't. All I have running is a couple windowmaker docapps, xfmail, X, and that's about it. I've attached ps axf and lsmod. Arggh, now I've attached that. Do you run into this problem when ever you run xawtv in DGA mode? At one point I thought that maybe vmware was having troubles loading or unloading its kernel modules, but I disabled networking and it still happened. Strange thing is, that my dialup connection to my ISP is still up, and my workstation is still IP masquarding for the rest of the network here... it seems everything that is in userspace is gone. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people. lsmod Description: lsmod tmp Description: tmp
Re: suidmanager broken?
Hi,
We had the same problem here. Just edit /usr/sbin/suidregister, and add
the line at line 170:
my ($username, $groupname, $inode);
You will also need to edit the following lines so they look like this
(basically, just remove the my word out of each line:
-
# If a [ug]id has an associated user name, return that; otherwise, return the id
sub getunam ($) { return ($username = getpwuid($_[0])) ? $username : $_[0] }
sub getgnam ($) { return ($groupname = getgrgid($_[0])) ? $groupname : $_[0] }
# Return the inode of the file named by the argument
# or -1 if there's a problem opening the file
sub getinode ($) { return (defined($inode = (stat $_[0])[1]) ? $inode : -1) }
--
Regards,
Wim Kerkhoff
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On 15 Jan 2000, eric k. wolven wrote:
Yeah, I get the same.
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RE: Newer LICQ?
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 23-Sep-99 Bill wrote: Hello everyone, I've been using the licq package that is standard with slink, this version is very old something like version 0.44. On the net the latest stable version is .701. Is there a deb for this anywhere or is there a better client that I can use? A Debian package should be available shortly. I believe it is the best client you can use. The next version will have an ignore feature too :) That'll be cool. I compiled the new licq, but recieved some beautiful error messages with chat, and syncing my own profile with the icq servers did not want to go. Has anybody else had that? Wim.
Re: Newer LICQ?
On 24-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: Bill, rumor has it from the maintainer that he uploaded .7 to the servers two weeks ago, or more (for unstable) -- but I have yet to see it. (Well, apt has yet to see it. :) Yep, you're right. To get the new licq deb, go to: ftp://ftp.netgod.net/debian/Incoming/ Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five.
Re: Newer LICQ?
On 24-Sep-99 Brad wrote: licq 0.70h != licq 0.70 final != latest (0.70.1) Just in case anyone cares, h is still technically a beta version. i haven't had much trouble compiling it myself, but then again i've been doing so since 0.70c ;) I had a rough time trying to compile licq 0.70.1. The plugin would not see the qt2-dev stuff, even when I specified it with -- libs include options. I had problems chatting to people with the Windows Mirabils client. Can someone try sending me a chat request? (23284586) Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim [Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Winston Churchill
Re: A clueless newbie writes in
On 24-Sep-99 Brad wrote: As for dselect, check the archives. We seem to have one of these discussions how horrible dselect is for newbies every month or two ;) Oh-oh... It's about that time of month again. I think you might just have lit the wick :-} Regards, Wim Kerkhoff The trouble with money is it costs too much!
RE: Apache, cgi, and users...
On 24-Sep-99 Ron Farrer wrote: Hello all; How can I setup apache to allow cgi (.cgi, .pl, C/C++, etc) to run in users 'public_html' dirs? I've looked for this in various HOWTO's and the apache manuals, but I don't see this anywhere. If I've missed this in a doc, PLEASE tell where to find it! Please CC me as I am a digest subscriber. I put this in httpd.conf, to allow .cgi and .pl files to run. I believe I found this somewhere in the online manual at apache.org. FilesMatch \.(cgi|pl)$ Options ExecCGI Includes /FilesMatch Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim If you continually give you will continually have.
Re: mysql seg faulting
Hi Christian, Thanks for your reply. On 21-Sep-99 Christian Hammers wrote: On Mon, 20.09.99 13:12 -0700, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I just installed the latest versions of *mysql*, and all seemed to work fine. However, now everything (mysql, mysqladmin, xmysqladmin...) seg faults on me. MySQL also depends on some libs. Which versions of these packages do you have ? It is working with: mysql-server 3.22.25-9 libc6 2.1.2-1 libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 2.91.66-1 mysql-client 3.22.25-9 I just did a dist-upgrade (potato), and have these versions (or newer). I purged the *mysql* packages, and reinstalled them, and she still segfaults. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment. -- seen in a posting in comp.software.testing
RE: sblive skips?
On 21-Sep-99 Aaron Solochek wrote: One of the things I like when I first installed on my system (PII 400, everything scsi, 128mb ram) was that I could play mp3's and they would never skip when I was doing stuff in the background. That was back when I had a SB AWE64gold... since then I have moved that to a different machine and installed a sblive. Now the sounds skips every now and then... I know for sure that xearth makes is skip when it refreshes. Does anyone know why this is? Is the system priortizing its self differently? Is it because I went from an ISA to a PCI sound card? This is really starting to annoy me, especially because this was one of my big complaints about windows. I have a sblive PCI, and haven't noticed this too much. What kind of hardware do you have? Are you using swap? Is something else running at 100% CPU? Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: sblive skips?
On 21-Sep-99 Aaron Solochek wrote: System configuration: PII-400 128mbram 2 UW seagate cheetahs 1 U2W cheetah 1 jaz 2 plextor cd drives (one ro, one writer) I have 300mb of swap, which usually doesn't get touched. The arrival of this very email caused my machine to skip I am connected to a 10baseT network which is always SWAMPED. Its a slink system, running 2.210 I'm running ftp, telnet, finger, and a few others, but not a web server What else should I tell you? I don't know what could be causing this. I have lots of stuff running: postgresql, mysql, apache, X (!), netscape, etc. As I test, I started Staroffice, and the mp3 I was playing did not skip. I am using XMMS. BTW, I wouldn't mind having your system :) Nothing should be slow with that stuff :-) I take it that everything is SCSI? I have no ideas what could be happening. Perhaps check top. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. -- Sir Winston Churchill, 1952
Re: sblive chopy audio
You'll probably find it easier to start reading here: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9909/thrd5.html On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Jim Ruby wrote: Ok, I was dumb and deleted the posts on this subject, could somebody resend me information about the emu10k1 driver for the sblive? as I'm having the same problem. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
mysql seg faulting
Hi, I just installed the latest versions of *mysql*, and all seemed to work fine. However, now everything (mysql, mysqladmin, xmysqladmin...) seg faults on me. Has anybody seen this? gateway:/# mysql Segmentation fault gateway:~$ xmysqladmin [2] 11510 [1] Segmentation fault xmysqladmin gateway:~$ gdb xmysqladmin GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as i586-pc-linux-gnu... (no debugging symbols found)... (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmysqladmin (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x40024a40 in free_defaults () from /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x40024a40 in free_defaults () from /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.6 #1 0x40029d40 in _no_db_ () from /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.6 #2 0xcea00 in ?? () Cannot access memory at address 0x8. (gdb) Thanks, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Clocking Modem Speed
On 19-Sep-99 bwarsing wrote: Hi, what is the way that most people clock their modem connection speeds? is there a specific script fo this? Thanks, bw You can try 'pppstats -w 1'. This will output a line every second, showing how many bytes were downloading per second. I use wmppp.app, a graphical WindowMaker dock app that I find very handy. I don't know how to find out what speed I am actually connected at (56000, 36600, 28800 or whatever), but as long as I keep getting over 5kb on my 56k modem, I am happy :) Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
RE: anyone using sblive under kernel 2.2.12
Just get the emu10k1 package from developer.soundblaster.com/linux. Unpack it, and edit the 2.2.10 module with a text editor, changing 2.2.10 to 2.2.12. I got it to work under 2.2.11 by forcing it with insmod -f, that may work as well. On 18-Sep-99 Jim Ruby wrote: Hi, If anyone is using the sblive under kernel 2.2.12, would you be willing to email me the sblive .o module? I don't have a way to edit the file with a hexed as the speach output I'm using makes this hard. Thanks. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: anyone using sblive under kernel 2.2.12
I don't think I am following you. My suggestion was just what somebody else posted to the list a few days ago, you don't even need a hex editor to do that; vi or whatever should do the trick. What do you mean by text-to-speech program? That Jim is blind and using text-to-speech to 'see' what he is working on? Or in one terminal he has the text2speech program reciting, and he is hexediting in another term? On 18-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: Wim, nice thought, but if you can hexedit while using a text-to-speech program, I will be VERY impressed. I bet Jim would LOVE to do it himself. As for me, I haven't got 2.2.x, nor do I have the sblive, nor do I have the module. Sorry Jim. On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:29:19AM -0700, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Just get the emu10k1 package from developer.soundblaster.com/linux. Unpack it, and edit the 2.2.10 module with a text editor, changing 2.2.10 to 2.2.12. I got it to work under 2.2.11 by forcing it with insmod -f, that may work as well. On 18-Sep-99 Jim Ruby wrote: Hi, If anyone is using the sblive under kernel 2.2.12, would you be willing to email me the sblive .o module? I don't have a way to edit the file with a hexed as the speach output I'm using makes this hard. Thanks. Wim.
RE: Entry in apt/sources.list to install StarOffice
On 07-Sep-99 Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: Hello, Can someone tell me what entry must I add to my apt/sources.list in order to install StarOffice? You don't. There are no debian packages for StarOffice. What you have to do is download Staroffice (all 70MB of it!) from www.stardiv.com, get a license for it, then follow the directions that come with it to unpack and install it. --- Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Security check: INTRUDER ALERT!
RE: excel under Wine?
Ok, I haven't gotten Excel 4 to run, but I have had Excel 97 running. Check http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim/screenshots.shtml. Since most Windows 3.1 programs work under Windows 95, couldn't you run Excel 4 under -winver win95 ?? Just a guess, perhaps worth a try l-) On 05-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten excel 4 to run under the latest Wine? I've never used Wine before, but believe I have it set up properly, going with: wine -winver win31 -dosver 6.2 -name excel /mnt/C/excel/excel.exe with C:\ defined as /mnt/C and other places as appears appropriate. I can't get winehq to respond right now (some internal software error) and haven't found an answer elsewhere (I'm fairly clueless about places to search). Has anyone else achieved getting it running? Thanks, Kenward --- Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug someone with it. -- M. Devine, Computer Science 340
RE: ide-scsi emulation problem
On 03-Sep-99 M. K. Honeycutt wrote: Hi, I have an ide/ATAPI cd writer and a cd-rom. I compiled my kernel with scsi emulation and at boot-up they're recognized, but, not correctly. This is what's listed at boot-up: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host Vendor:Model:36x CD-ROM Rev: 2.F0 Type: CD-ROMANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel0, id0, lun0 Vendor: MITSUMIModel: CR-2801TE Rev: 1.06 Type: CD-ROMANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel0, id1, lun0 scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdroms total. sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 2x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/8x writer xa/form2 cdda tray When running 'cdrecord -scanbus', it lists both devices correctly, however, it gives a (obvious) warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities. I get the some error here. I don't know what it means, but I can still use my cdrw just fine. I use xcdroast, which figures out all the adaptor/bus/etc stuff for me. Just to make sure, do not have the normal CDrom module compiled into the kernel or loaded. You only want to have ide-scsi and sg loaded. I mount my cdrom through /dev/scd0, and the cdrw through /dev/scd8. The cdrw is not /dev/scd1. Can you mount /dev/scd8 /cdrw? How can I fix this? I followed the directions in, both, the kernel and cdrecord, as far as I know. M. p.s. The cd-rom does work. I can mount and use it. The cdr doesn't work at all. --- Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Reactor error - core dumped!
RE: program that play VCD
See http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/ On 04-Sep-99 a wrote: I have Debian 2.0. Is there any program that play VCD? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I will leave the list in a minute. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim No extensible language will be universal. -- T. Cheatham
Re: more net install
On 03-Sep-99 Ron Stordahl wrote: : Oh woops, that was supposed to read 'do that before running dselect' : : : the apt step after doing all I can from the CD. The apt step is very useful : as it updates anything which is old from the CD's and perhaps adds new : things which are not on the CD, all while saving me hours and hours of : download time if I were to do 100% network install. Its a very good : combination! : : You can get APT 0.3.11.1 from http://www.debian.org/~jgg/ which has : native support for CD-ROMS, run the apt-cdrom tool and you can combine the : CD with the downloading with preference given to the CD. : : Jason : Maybe I am not making it clear that at that point I am in the middle of executing an install script from the CD. I see no way to abort it while retaining the profiles completing the execution of that script, which does additional needed things after dselect completes. At any time, press Alt+F2 to switch to another console. During the install, simply pressing Enter will give you a command prompt where you can do other things. Once you have linux installed, you can do this is a well, from F1 - F6. Then, when you are done doing your stuff there, press Alt+F1 to get back to dselect or wherever you left off. --- Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Nearly every complex solution to a programming problem that I have looked at carefully has turned out to be wrong. -- Brent Welch
Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
On 03-Sep-99 Ron Stordahl wrote: David said: How does zero floppy install stack up? I installed my latest Debian slink from a single CD with no floppy at all. In fact the floppy did not work at all, a fact I didn't discover until much later. Once the system was up, I pulled all the updates off the net. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes it can be done that way (no floppy and single CD), but with the binary now occupying 2 CD's, its best to boot from CD-1(most modern pc's support CD booting), do all the preliminary thingswhen you get to the dselect step you first do the U and I steps using CD-2, then repeat the U and I steps with CD-1 THEN do the A (Access) step selecting 'apt' and repeat the U and I steps and THEN do the C (configure step). I am pointing this out simply for the benefit of beginners like myself who initially did not know the correct sequence for the 2 CD's. Of course you could skip the U and I steps with the CD's entirely, but unless you have a fast network connection downloading much of which is available on your CD's will be a lot slower than first taking advantage of what is on your CD's. What I did with my system, and worked very well, is use both CD's at the same time! I have a CD-ROM drive and a CDRW drive. I booted off the bootable one, installed the base system, rebooted, mounted /dev/hdc on /cdrom, and /dev/hdd on /cdrw, and added these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main contrib deb file:/cdrw/debian stable main contrib I then ran apt-get update, switched back to the Debian Install on console 1, skipped [U]pdate, and ran Install. Simple, no problems. Of course, you have to have the second cd-rom. I've also done floppy-less and cd-less installs on other machines, by copying the base to another partition from Windows, installing the base, then pointing dselect to the computer with the CD. --- Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with the handbrake on. (Unknown source)
RE: boot from hd (was RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?)
Try pressing 'a', for 'A'dvanced. That should give you some more options, if my memory serves correct. You probably have more partitions that 1, but they aren't showing up. On 03-Sep-99 Paul McHale wrote: I was mistaken, it is 1FA. I am not sure how to enter 1. The exact prompt is 1FA: When I press a key I get nothing. When I press enter, I get another prompt: 1FA:1FA: Is there a special way to enter it ? On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote: Thanks for the help ! I'll give this a try. When I boot I get 1F0 in the upper left part of the screen. I think this is also the address of the CDROM drive. Probably coincidence. Actually the 1F0 is a prompt provided by the mbr package that replaces the master boot record of your harddrive. If I remember correctly 1 boots the first partition, F boots floppy A, and 0 allows selection of booting from any partition 1-4 regardless of their active setting. --- Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequilla. -- Mitch Ratcliffe
RE: Hardware Compatibility
At one time I had Linux installed on a (very ugly!) IBM Aptiva M50. It has the video on board, and the sound card and modem are on a single BIG card. As long as you know what chipset the video uses, you shouldn't have a problem. Mine was a Trident, but I've seen S3's onboard as well. Ask the vendor for the chipset (if it is on demo you can do it through Windows' Control Panel), and check out the xfree86.org to see if it is compatable. I had no luck with the modem part of my sound card, as it was a WinModem, and ran in software. The sound I managed to get to work by first booting in to Dos/Windows, then warm booting to Linux using Loadln to keep the sound drivers in memory. My current computer used to have a motherboard that had onboard sound -- but I could hear the mouse rolling around through the speakers!! That was an Asus P5A, but I have since switched for another normal motherboard and an SBlive!. Basically, Linux treats onboard stuff like seperate cards. However, keep in mind that those cheap systems often have Windows only hardware -- no drivers for linux. You shouldn't have to worry too much, but find out what kind of modem/sound card is in there, and check out the kernel source / alsa / hardware-howto / linux hardware database sites to see if other people have managed to get that hardware to work. I would stay away from this top contender -- all three on board probably is a signal that it will be a hassle to get to work. I hope that answers your question, Wim. On 02-Sep-99 Mark Hendriks wrote: Hello This is question that I couldn't find the answer to on either the Linux or Debian web site. I've also been considering FreeBSD, but I couldn't find the answer on their web site either. I am finally aproaching the day when I will replace the ancient piece of junk which I am currently using. As I do not have a large amount of money to put into a computer, I have been looking at some less expensive systems. The top contender so far in terms of price/value is one that has video, sound and a modem on the motherboard. How do I find out if Linux will run (and recognise the video chipset) on this type of motherboard? Would Linux distinguish between this type of motherboard, and a standard motherboard? If not, would Linux treat the video chipset as just another video card? What kind of video card? I don't even know if I need to worry about this, or if I'm asking the right questions. Any answers you can give would be greatly appreciated. Mark /--- | Wim Kerkhoff | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.canadianhomes.net/wim | ICQ: 23284586
Psql Segmentation Fault
Hi, I am having problems running psql: it is segfaulting on me. The database is working, because I was able to create a table using a CGI script and the Postgres module. What is happening here? --- gateway:~/data/base$ createdb test gateway:~/data/base$ psql test Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor: Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL [PostgreSQL 6.5.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.95] type \? for help on slash commands type \q to quit type \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query You are currently connected to the database: test Segmentation fault gateway:~/data/base$ I am running the lastest versions of Postgres*, on Debian 2.2. Thanks, /--- | Wim Kerkhoff | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.canadianhomes.net/wim | ICQ: 23284586
RE: new release of xfmail?
I have been using xfmail for a while, but find it crashing often on me, ie, serveral times daily. It doesn't give any errors, though, besides the Xfmail crashed... etc dialog. What is the best way of reporting bugs? By the way, there is a new xfmail mailing list at http://slappy.org/mailman/listinfo/xfmail. On 20-Aug-99 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 20-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: It looks as though there is a new release of xfmail. Is that correct? I recompiled xfmail against gdbm and a few other clean-ups, closed all open bugs, etc. I have been unable to find the maint and upstream is also dead. I am the maintainer now until someone else takes over. Thanks, /--- | Wim Kerkhoff | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.canadianhomes.net/wim | ICQ: 23284586
Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!
I have seen this before on my machine, but it has been a couple of months ago. I have no idea what I did to make the problems go away. I had it in Windows 98 as well, but with Windows that is understandable. It was only with mail that I had it -- downloading normal stuff as well. On 20-Aug-99 Greg Baker wrote: I connect via dial-up with a usual connect of 50666/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS. When I send a large email with attachments or upload a file it is VERY SLOW. Watching the traffic on something like pppload or wmppp show only short bursts of intermintent traffic, often there is a 5-7 second pause between the upload bursts. I don't have any problems with dowloads. I don't set mtu or mru in the ppp config files, after the link is up ifconfig shows that mtu is set at 1500. My latest upload test via ftp gave '725473 bytes sent in 1187.13 secs (0.6 kB/s)' and a download test gave '725473 bytes received in 133.82 secs (5.3 kB/s)'. That's a factor of 8.87 speed difference between download and upload! Do I have to live with this or do I have something configured wrong. I am running kernel 2.2.11 and ppp 2.3.7-3. I've observed the same thing with a variety of different configurations. I always blamed it on some inherent inefficieny in SMTP or sendmail or something. That probably isn't the case, though. SMTP should be no more inefficient that HTTP--the data transmission happens in more-or-less the same way. It probably isn't sendmail's fault either since I've seen it with sendmail, smail and exim at various ends of the connection. Maybe the SMTP servers at our respective ISPs are under heavy load? Sorry I haven't helped much, but you're at least not alone. Greg /--- | Wim Kerkhoff | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.canadianhomes.net/wim | ICQ: 23284586
RE: Sound programs
It sounds like a simple permissions problem. Check what your groups you are in. If you are not part of group audio, make it so. Check /dev/cdrom: is that a correct link to your CD-rom? (hdc?) On 18-Aug-99 Jocke wrote: Hi all, Just some small wonderings concerning sound configurations. I have a Soundblaster Live that I can play .au files on by piping (AS ROOT ONLY) $ cat sound.au /dev/audio Been reading the Howtos and understand that I need some more things installed. Is there a list of a basic working sound package (mixers, cd-player, mp3 etc) for debian. I am running WindowMaker and got hold of wmcdplay, wmsoundserver, wmsoundprefs. If I try to startr wmsoundserver I get segmentation fault and wmcdplay says: unable to open cdrom device '/dev/cdrom'. In addition to this I also have the following installed xmms, playmidi, xmix, tracker, sox, tcd, sound-recorder. So how should I proceed. Its all just a big mess at the moment. Running Debian unstable. 2.2.10 with emu10k1.o in /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc I can load it as root (do I have to do that ?) Any suggestions on where I can find some more information other than the 2 sound related HOWTOs would be much appreciated. Best Regards Joakim /--- | Wim Kerkhoff | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.canadianhomes.net/wim | ICQ: 23284586
Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?
Thanks Aaron, Crazy as this may sound, I'm trying to simulate a local connection to my hosted domain so I can see how different perl scripts will react _before_ I add them to my hosted domain. I know i could simply ftp them to my hosted domain and then test them but that is a pain because it takes soo long to ftp files, access them with a browser to see if there are errors, edit the scripts, and re-ftp them all over again. Of course instead of connecting my two os's I could run netscape on my linux system as http://localhost and see how the scripts handle with netscape, but there are other browsers, etc that function differently. I want to to see how the other browsers respond to the scripts. Some scripts work just fine on one browser but return blank pages on another. Since not all perl instructions work in a win95 environment I can't test them on my win95 pc. Instead I have to run them on linux to get them to work locally, then ftp them to my domain to see how they respond to different browsers by accessing them with my win95 pc. At 56k connections FTP'ing files to test them online is a very slow process. I wish to avoid these hassles of ftp'ing the files to my hosted domain to find out if the scripts work properly with a variety of browsers when I can simply g connect my win95 pc to my linux pc and go for broke locally. What I do is telnet to my hosted domain, and edit the scripts there. You can use whatever editor you like. It definetely saves the time spent ftp'ing, setting perms, etc. Just don't download anything else at the same time. As for a variety of browsers, I use Netscape 4 on my linux box, and then with VNC Internet explorer 3 and Netscape 3 on a 486, and NS 4 and IE 4 on another pentium 100. This works allright: a variety of browsers, versions, and platforms. I've considered purchasing that $299 software that allows me to virtually run multiple os's on the same linux platform and at the same time but I haven't found a recommendation from an actual user. I have tried the beta of Vmware, but at the time I had only 64MB of ram and it was rather sluggish. I am sure it would much more peppy if I tried it again because I have 128 MB now. Alas, the beta is over :( My 3 of the computers on my home network run on coax. Recently I got a small (9 port) hub with a coax crossover in order to get another box that didn't have a combo card to work. The network runs on a combination of Windows, Debian, and Redhat. Later, --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: Weird swap growth
On 13-Aug-99 Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 05:47:48PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I am running Debian potato on a box with 128 MB RAM. My swap file is 64 MB. This was the size I got recommended when partitioned the disk. That should be plenty for 'normal' use. If you have a particularly high intensity server you may need more. `normal' without netscape. I I'm regulary goint to about 200 MB on swap (with 96 MB RAM). Oh-oh, their must be a problem, then: wim 10664 0.8 17.4 30644 22396 tty3S14:03 4:45 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape gateway:/usr/src/set4# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:128096 105388 22708 62108 6084 26656 -/+ buffers/cache: 72648 55448 Swap: 128516 7708 120808 I am barely using swap, and that with bloated X, netscape, and all the rest of the whistles running. --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: Wtf? puzzling lock-ups
On 12-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: On 12-Aug-99 Keith G. Murphy wrote: Wim Kerkhoff wrote: On 11-Aug-99 Jim wrote: Hi. As the subject suggests, I get strange freeze-ups on my machine. Yes, it's definitely frozen... I can't ping it from my lan, and nothing responds... no keybd, no mouse, no nothing. Which kernel version are y'all running? I notice you, Wim, are using setiathome. Are you using diald? I'm seeing lockups right after boot, using 2.0.36, when diald has dialed out due to named trying to sysquery its cache nameservers (I don't know why it wants to do this). I am using Potato with kernel 2.2.10 and I am not having those problems. Thought about upgrading your kernel? Or maybe trying one of the diald versions from stable? I seem to recall that the stable diald versions had problems with the 2.2.x kernels, so perhaps the diald versions from stable work best for 2.0.x kernels. If you are using Slink, then none of what I just said would apply. I am using 2.2.10, with the latest potato versions of everything, including diald. I have diald installed, but even though It is running, I don't use it. I ill-configured anyways. When I have time, I am going to upgrade to 2.2.10, and at the sime time check out the Magic SysRq stuff (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt). --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: Wtf? puzzling lock-ups
On 12-Aug-99 John Hasler wrote: Wim Kerkhoff writes: I am using 2.2.10, with the latest potato versions of everything, including diald. Can you make a connection to your ISP? I'm having trouble with pppd sending empty LCP packets when I try to use it with 2.2.10. You bet I can connect. I am connected 12+ hours a day, as I tele-commute. Pppd isn't giving me any wierd errors... Maybe my kernel didn't compile properly. I got the patch to 2.2.11, but when I run make-kpkg, I get the error: make[4]: Entering directory `/hda5/src/linux/drivers/char' make[4]: *** No rule to make target `pc_keyb.h', needed by `pc_keyb.o'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/hda5/src/linux/drivers/char' Ideas anyone? Thanks, --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
RE: Wtf? puzzling lock-ups
got any ideas about where I might look for a solution to this? Unfortunately I cannot make this happen at will, it seems to be quite unpredictable. Same here. Also, any (free) software I can get that would be able to perform some thorough tests on my RAM and CPU? Perhaps it's one of those ubiquitous hardware issues. Maybe the ol' kernel recompile? Thanks for any assistance provided. See http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9908/msg00293.html for somebody's idea to use Magic SysRq in the kernel. Summary: I have a totally different hardware, and different kernel/x/other software versions, but we are still experiencing the same symptoms. Regards, --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
RE: USB for Linux???
On 11-Aug-99 John Gay wrote: Does anyone know what the current status of USB on Linux is? I've been to the site listed on www.linux.org, but the page says that the person who started it has left to pursue other things now that he's graduated. I've got an Agfa 1212U USB scanner that I'd like to get working. I bought it in the states and need to get a European power supply for it. But right now it seem I can't use it with either Debian 2.1 OR WindowsNT 4.0 SP5 : ( Right now it is just sitting on my desk collecting dust. The latest word at the Linux USB page is mice and keyboards and such are working, but not image devices like printers or scanners. I'm willing to donate my time and scanner to help development, but I'm not a programmer and I'm fairly new to Linux. I've got Debian 2.1 installed on a PII 350 and am willing to test software for USB scanners if some one needs some debugging done. I realise I could just upgrade the Windows partition to 98 or 2000 to get USB, but I just don't trust either. I'd rather use Linux. If someone could tell me who is working on USB, I'd be glad to offer as much time as I could spare to test software for them. Go to http://edge.kernelnotes.org/changelist.cgi?show=2.3. (mind the last pe riod) and search through that for USB. I figure that USB support will be a lot better as the kernel branch 2.3.x gets closer to 2.4.x. USB support right now for printers and scanners is pretty miserable, AFAIK. --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
RE: script to remove blank lines ?
cat --help cat -s temp temp1 This will reduce multiple blank lines to 1 blank line, see the other responses if you want that line gone too. If you have a long file with a page of blank space, cat -s README would fix that for you. On 10-Aug-99 venu wrote: hi all shell scripters ! if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i remove the blank lines ? -- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Realplayer woes
Hi All, I have been having troubles getting Realplayer working. I've tried different versions different methods. With some methods, it wouldn't even come up, but segfault right away. Other times, it would segfault when it started to buffer a clip. The furthest I've gotten is by installing the RPM from http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html with the Debian install script. With that, I was able to watch a clip, but there was no sound. I'm running potato. Does anyone have a success story they can share with me? Thanks, --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: 56K internal modems
On 07-Aug-99 Salman Ahmed wrote: At 03:13 AM 8/7/99 , you wrote: Hi all, here at Brazil is very difficult to find a 56K internal modem that is not Winmodem. I want to buy an internal 56k modem (external are expensives) but cant find a model. Anyone with a real 56k internal modem can give me your specification of model etc? Is there 56kbs USRobotics real modems? If so, what is the specification? Thanks a lot,Paulo Henrique I use an Acer/AOpen 56K internal ISA modem : Acer/AOpen FM56PVS-DL I jumpered it to COM2, IRQ3 and it works like a charm with both Windows and Linux. I have basically the same modem (Acer/AOpen FM56 ITU or something like that). Works awesome in Linux, never any problems. Sometimes in windows I got the _/^\__/^\_ effect when downloading, but that was most likely a Window 98 problem. My old computer, an IBM Aptiva M50, has an Mwave card in it. The card is a big huge combo sound modem. I got that sound to work under linux, but the modem part runs in software. I got disconnected from the net when I played sound files with the piece of garbage. I get downloads upwards of 5kb/sec: 5299 4 3 1 0 | 112 2 0 2 0 5271 4 3 1 0 | 112 2 0 2 0 5343 3 2 1 0 | 112 2 0 2 0 5246 4 2 2 0 | 112 2 0 2 0 5359 3 2 1 0 | 56 1 0 1 0 5261 4 2 2 0 | 112 2 0 2 0 I really suggest it as well. Here in Canada, I've seen it for less than $70. --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
RE: Java 'n' Netscape
Which communicator did you install? I got got ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_l ibc5/complete_install/communicator-v461-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz, and it properly created all the java stuff for me. Move it to /tmp/communicator-v461-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0-glibc2.tar.gz, and install it using 'apt-get install netscape4' to wherever you want. To find a specific file, try the dpkg bot on #debian on irc.debian.org. do a '!find java40.jar', for example, and he will tell you :) On 06-Aug-99 Chris Mayes wrote: Hello, all. Well, after gritting my teeth about the java40.jar not found message I see every time I hit a Java-fied website, I decided to investigate. Forsooth, there wasn't a java40.jar anywhere on my Debian installation. It shows up on my (dusty) RH 6.0 dist, but not on the Debian side of the disk. Next, I tried to piece together where it would go. I went to the communicator directory, which had a hard link (red means a hard link, right?) back to ../netscape/java. I went to look there, and there wasn't a java directory at all! Have I forgotten to install something? What package would make said Java directory? Also, so that I don't have to ask such questions in the future, is there a way to search the dpkg or apt database for a specific file? Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system)
/usr/local is about 760Mb (723Mb of that is a partial mirror of Debian) I presume you mean that these are potato packages you have downloaded since an initial install of slink. What would the best easiest way of making such a partial mirror or all packages in potato that are different from slink? With such a mirror, I could install what I want using my official slink CD set, then update to my current state with the partial mirror. This would be really, really handy in case my system buggers up (or I bugger it up). When apt-get downloads packages, it puts them in /var/archive/apt/cache --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complet
On 05-Aug-99 Wim Kerkhoff wrote: /usr/local is about 760Mb (723Mb of that is a partial mirror of Debian) I presume you mean that these are potato packages you have downloaded since an initial install of slink. What would the best easiest way of making such a partial mirror or all packages in potato that are different from slink? With such a mirror, I could install what I want using my official slink CD set, then update to my current state with the partial mirror. This would be really, really handy in case my system buggers up (or I bugger it up). When apt-get downloads packages, it puts them in /var/archive/apt/cache Damn, I am getting pissed of at xfmail. It keeps flushing the outbox on me when I don't want it to. Anyways, I want to set up something, so that whatever apt-get downloads is stuc k into a proper hierachy like the mirrors do, and possibly a package file as well. That way, when I want to reinstall, I just install whatever off the CD, and upgrade to potato with my partial mirror. It does *kinda* suck to have to re-download all those packages again at 5kb/sec :) --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Unidentified subject!
I have had this happen a couple of times --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
RE: Banshee and X
There are drivers for both. For the ATI card, get the mach64 X server, it should support it. If have an AGP ATI RagePro that uses the mach64 server, and it works great. As for the Banshee, go to http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/, you will find all sorts of Creative Binary-only drivers there. Hope this helps, wim. On 03-Aug-99 Alec Smith wrote: In the next few days I'll be getting an AGP ATI Mach64 and a PCI Banshee-based video card. Will I be able to use either with Debian? I'm not afraid to download X 3.3.4 from XFree86's website if its required. Ideally I'd like to use the Banshee since its much faster for gaming in Windoze. --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.
Ah, that may be why. I was still running Netscape. In my mind, it shouldn't matter though... IE, AFAIK, doesn't work this way. On 03-Aug-99 Daniel Barclay wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops, sorry everyone, I messed up. I have tried deleting my ~/.netscape/cookie file, but it reappeared a while later, just like the original. Where did it get that info from? Were you still running Netscape or had you exited when you deleted the file? --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Linux freezing up
Hello, I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del don't do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either. What did find kind of strange, though, it was still connected to my ISP via modem, and masquarading for the rest of the network. I could ping it from a win95 box, and 'see' the Internet through it. I couldn't telnet/ftp into it though, only ping and masq. I had an uptime of 12 days when this happened. It has done it before. Where would the problem lie? Hardware? Kernel? I'm running: -Kernel 2.2.10 -Potato -AMD K6-350 on an A-trend Motherboard Thanks, --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: Linux freezing up
On 03-Aug-99 Patrik Magnusson wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Hachinger) writes: - Original Message - From: Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:21 AM Hello, I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del don't do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either. What I did find kind of strange, though, it was still connected to my ISP via modem, and masquarading for the rest of the network. I could ping it from a win95 box, and 'see' the Internet through it. I couldn't telnet/ftp into it though, only ping and masq. I had an uptime of 12 days when this happened. It has done it before. Where would the problem lie? Hardware? Kernel? With the exception of being perfectly able to telnet/ftp I've had the exact same problem myself. It turned out that it was 'just' my Xserver crashing. So I'm going to ask a potentially stupid question just to make sure: You can telnet/ftp into it under normal conditions right? Yep, no problems before, or now after rebooting. From the Windows box, I telneted to a shell account at my ISP, and from there I could ping wim.dhis.org, a hostname for my dynamic IP. So... ping is working, and the kernel is still working fine, because it is forwarding IP's properly. The three-fingered salute mentioned by someone else did not work. Basically, the keyboard/mouse were dead. Before this motherboard, I had an Asus P5A with an intel 740 AGP Real 3d starfighter, and that was continually locking up, even in Windows 98. I am not overclocking, just running at normal board speed of 100mhz x 3.5. I have a fan on the cpu, and a power supply fan. Do I need another case fan? I was using the netscape, just html pages. [snip] Sounds like a processor overheat problem or so, I think. But it's quite strange that you could ping it. Isn't the processor needed for beeing pinged?? Yes, I thought so too. I am running the [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuff fulltime. I was gone for a week, and a couple of those running, but there were not problems when I got back. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger. /Patrik. --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: Linux freezing up
On 03-Aug-99 Patrik Magnusson wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Hachinger) writes: - Original Message - From: Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:21 AM Hello, I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del don't do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either. What I did find kind of strange, though, it was still connected to my ISP via modem, and masquarading for the rest of the network. I could ping it from a win95 box, and 'see' the Internet through it. I couldn't telnet/ftp into it though, only ping and masq. I had an uptime of 12 days when this happened. It has done it before. Where would the problem lie? Hardware? Kernel? With the exception of being perfectly able to telnet/ftp I've had the exact same problem myself. It turned out that it was 'just' my Xserver crashing. So I'm going to ask a potentially stupid question just to make sure: You can telnet/ftp into it under normal conditions right? [snip] Sounds like a processor overheat problem or so, I think. But it's quite strange that you could ping it. Isn't the processor needed for beeing pinged?? Yes, I thought so too. --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: Linux freezing up
I am using Netscape glibc 4.61 right now, quite unstable (window closing stuff). I have the lastests gnome using apt-get from cybertrails.com, as well as enlightenment. I update/dist-upgrade almost daily. I don't use gnome/kde/enlightenment, even though I have them installed. I use WindowMaker. I don't really think it is a windowmanager/browser problem. I would rather a think the X server, or hardware. Yet, the kernel is working fine (I can ping), but the software on top is not running: ftpd and telnetd don't work. This freezing up is not a daily occurence for me; I have been up for 2 weeks before it froze (or I bumped the power cord :-p ) On 03-Aug-99 Raphael clancy wrote: hmm sounds familliar, I had a very similar system, which would lock up completly while using netscape (version 4.08-4.6). I found that upgrading gnome from 1.0 to 1.06 fixed the problem. There are instructions on the gnome website on how to add them to your sources list, then you can use apt to get the newest version. Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03 1:14 AM Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del don't do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either. What did find kind of strange, though, it was still connected to my ISP via modem, and masquarading for the rest of the network. I could ping it from a win95 box, and 'see' the Internet through it. I couldn't telnet/ftp into it though, only ping and masq. I had an uptime of 12 days when this happened. It has done it before. Where would the problem lie? Hardware? Kernel? I'm running: -Kernel 2.2.10 -Potato -AMD K6-350 on an A-trend Motherboard I've had similar problems that weren't limited to potato or 2.2.10, they happened when I ran slink and a 2.0.36 kernel too. I also had a similar setup as you: amd-k62 250, kernel 2.2.10, and an epox mobo. My system would lock up hard, I couldn't even ping the net from my windows box. I can't count how many times I gave the old three finger salute to my system. I thought it was netscape that gave me all the problems, and it did seem to be a common denominator. I tried different windowmanagers too with the same results. Last week I through in the towel and dropped my 333 MHz celeron into my box and I've had almost no problems (today it crapped out for some reason). I'm running a libc5 version of netscape and I'm using Enlightenment and gnome for X. So, I guess I'm trying to say is that you're not alone :) -- --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: Linux freezing up
With the exception of being perfectly able to telnet/ftp I've had the exact same problem myself. It turned out that it was 'just' my Xserver crashing. So I'm going to ask a potentially stupid question just to make sure: You can telnet/ftp into it under normal conditions right? Yep, no problems before, or now after rebooting. From the Windows box, I telneted to a shell account at my ISP, and from there I could ping wim.dhis.org, a hostname for my dynamic IP. So... ping is working, and the kernel is still working fine, because it is forwarding IP's properly. The three-fingered salute mentioned by someone else did not work. Basically, the keyboard/mouse were dead. Before this motherboard, I had an Asus P5A with an intel 740 AGP Real 3d starfighter, and that was continually locking up, even in Windows 98. ^^^ Are you serious about that? I am serious. It was locking up 2-3 times a day, doing random things like starting a program, doing nothing, clicking a button. The demo programs that came with the card to demonstrate the 3D capabilities caused to to freeze especially. I think it was just a bad motherboard/video card combo, the video card didn't really like the chipset on the motherboard. I now have the A-trend mb and an ATI 3d rage pro. ^^^ Are you serious about that? I am not overclocking, just running at normal board speed of 100mhz x 3.5. I have a fan on the cpu, and a power supply fan. Do I need another case fan? I'm far from an expert when it comes to stuff like this, but I simply can't believe that hardware-problem could crash one part of the computer but not another. Except possibly bad SIMMs. I'm still going to push the theory that the Xserver is to blame. Since you're on a network, maybe you could get X-win32 (an xserver for windows) and use that for a while, and see if this hangs the computer, (the one with linux on.) What do you mean by this? Connect to my Linux box through another computer? One of the other boxes is a 486-66, the other is a Pentium 100, both with windows 95. Rather painful speed wise :) not an option for full-time use. I don't want too boot into Windows, it is just to painful. I can't remember that last time I rebooted (into Windows). I was using the netscape, just html pages. This sounds familiar. I meant to say that I wasn't doing anything that had Java or any of that fancy stuff. Thanks, --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: Linux freezing up
On 03-Aug-99 Mark Wagnon wrote: Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del don't do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either. I'm running: -Kernel 2.2.10 -Potato -AMD K6-350 on an A-trend Motherboard I've had similar problems that weren't limited to potato or 2.2.10, they happened when I ran slink and a 2.0.36 kernel too. I also had a similar setup as you: amd-k62 250, kernel 2.2.10, and an epox mobo. My system would lock up hard, I couldn't even ping the net from my windows box. I can't count how many times I gave the old three finger salute to my system. I thought it was netscape that gave me all the problems, and it did seem to be a common denominator. I tried different windowmanagers too with the same results. Last week I through in the towel and dropped my 333 MHz celeron into my box and I've had almost no problems (today it crapped out for some reason). I'm running a libc5 version of netscape and I'm using Enlightenment and gnome for X. Has anyone else had problems with AMD being less stable than Intel? --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
RE: Anyone using an S3 Trio3D/2X graphic card ?
Check this for info on supported cards for X 3.3.3: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3/README3.html or for 3.3.4: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.4/README3.html I think that at one time (6 weeks ago?) I tried to get this card working for a friend, but I read the docs for the current (at the time) X versions, and that card was not supported. We swapped it with a Banshee 16MB, which worked fine. Seems to be one of the only s3 cards that are not supported :( On 28-Jul-99 Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: Hi, I bougth recently a new computer with an S3Trio3D/2x graphic card: Chip Type: S3LC2X DAC Type: S3SDAC Memory: 4MB Unfortunally I only can get it to work with XF86_SVGA on 300x200 resolution! ;( It doesn't work with the XF86_S3 accelerator server. At XFree86 official site they say that are working on that graphic card as well Savage. I would like to know if someone have any graphic card like that working on Linux. Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: netscape 4.61 dies around window destroy in potato
On 24-Jul-99 Kain wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 06:38:23PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 24-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netscape 4.61 as packaged in potato dies intermittently around window destroy events. Does anyone know why? We can only guess it to be glibc related ( it is compiled against 2.0 not 2.1 In that case, I would bet that it is also likely that these netscapes use some of the 'reserved for internal use' symbols/function in glibc and is thus broken in a manner similar to StarOffice... I've actually been having this problem for quite awhile now with Netscape and glibc2.1. Unless Netscape releases a fix for this, I don't know what else would fix it. (you could probably do fun things with ldconfig and paths and make NS4.61 use a glibc2.0 dumped somewhere else...) Hmm.. That reminds me. A while ago (check the debian-user archives) (before SO 5.1 came out), somebody prepared a mini-howto to get StarOffice 5.01 working under a potato system. I have the mini-howto mirrored here: http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim/downloads/StarOffice501_glibc21.gz A suitable minimal Debian 2.1 (slink) base install [6.9MB] can be found here: http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim/downloads/slink.tar.gz. Basically, the mini-howto describes the procedure: create a chroot environment, install the slink base install,` and run the scripts included in the mini-howto. If somebody wants to hack up those scripts to get them to work, be my guest. Later, --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: parallelizing fsck
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 00:38:32 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wim Kerkhoff writes: A couple of days ago, the power went out. Now, when I boot into potato, the boot procedure sticks on Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-jan-1999). So, I booted of a Hamm rescue cd and ran e2fsck a couple of times on my root partition. The first time it fixed a slew of problems. However, it still won't boot properly. If I do a Ctrl-C during while it sits at the 'parallelizing' line, it does mount the root partition as read only, but that prevents me from logining in, and the services don't start. What do you suggest? What do you think went wrong? This reminds me of Bug#35595. Brent, did you finally attempted to strace ? Wim, can you have a look at the last mail exchanges in this bug report, and try to provide me an strace log ? I am not very familiar with mail exchanges related to bug reports; how do I check that? How would I send get an strace log, if I can't even login? Well my problem happened 12 days ago, and since I hadn't gotten any replies, I spent last weekend installing debian onto an empty partition I had kicking around. This was a lengthy process, because the only Cd's I have are a year old (2.0) and I in order to get back to potato i had to re-download 150MB worth of packages over a 56k connection. It may have been worth it; I had a lot of cruft collected because of trying so many different packages out, I had 70% used up of 3GB on the old partition, now I have only 300MB used. I may just dump the old partition and split it up into a /home, /usr, or something like that. I think I know what's going on. Check and make sure /dev/null exists and is a device file. If it isn't e2fsck will hang in a loop in reserve_stdio_fds(). This fix is obvious; if open of /dev/null returns -1, print an error message and break out of the while loop. - Ted Why would this have happened all of a sudden? A bad package in Potato? Would it have anything at all to do with the power going out? I'm not the one to fix the code (yet). Does this have anything to do with Linux caching stuff in memory and not writing to disk right away like other OS's do? Thanks for replying! Wim Kerkhoff
re: hp 7200i
Check read this, UDF enables you to read those CDRW disks you make in Windows. In order to burn CDR disks in linux, you need to recompile your kernel. DISABLE IDE Atapi CD-rom support, and ENABLE scsi emulation and scsi generic support. This will make your IDE burner appear to cdrecord, etc as a scsi drive on /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0, or something like that. There is no write support for CDRW disks in linux like Adaptec DirectCD lets you make your 7200i appear as a letter under Windows 9x. HTH, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:22:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UDF/cdrw CD's (fwd) Oops, I mean -not- quite ready with the writing part. Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:20:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UDF/cdrw CD's Well, there is read-only support for UDF disks, but this project is ready with the writing part yet... Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:38:48 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: positive feedback Just thought I'd share this with you. :-) Dave Boynton From: Ivan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I just wanted to say that I tried the udf-0.8.0.1 driver for linux in my machine (kernel 2.2.5) with an ide Philips CDD3610 drive (firmware 3.01), and it compiled and worked out of the box. I think you said on the web site that you wanted feedback from people with ide drives, so there it is. I have compiled the kernel for SCSI emulation (all the usual options to write CDs under Linux); cdrecord and other programs like cdrdao (and the kernel itself, to judge from /var/log/dmesg) use the generic SCSI-3/mmc driver for this recorder, so I guess other drives working like that should be OK too. And by the way, I created the UDF sistem and wrote the files under Win95 with DirectCD *2.0* (in case that should make any difference to the v2.5 you talk about in the documentation). I have also checked out that it works fine to mount the CD with mount -t auto /dev/scd* /mnt This will correctly predict if the CD is udf or iso9660. Thanks a lot for the nice job. Eagerly awaiting full write support. -- Ivan Fern?ndez [EMAIL PROTECTED] _
Boot sticks on Parallelizing fsck...
The other night, the power went out, and after it came back on, Debian 2.2
hangs on boot. I don't know wether my problem is related to that or the
kernel compile as listed below, but it sits forever on the line:
Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-Jan-1999).
When I do a Ctrl-C, it mounts the root filesystem (/dev/hda3) as read-only,
which gives tons of errors and prevents me from logining in ('unable to
chane to ttyx for users foo').
I had some Debian 2.0 CD's around, so I installed that onto an unused
partition /dev/hda4. I ran e2fsck on /dev/hda3, and it fixed several screen
fulls of errors.
Before the power went out, I was experementing, trying to get my IDE cdrom
to work as an ide device, and to get my ide atapi HP 7200i CDRW to work as a
scsi-emulation device, as suggested by a posting in the linux-kernel
archives. This requires a special append=.. line in /etc/lilo.conf.
Perhaps something went wrong with the compile, so I tried the following:
1.I booted of the Hamm cd, and did a linux root=/dev/hda3
2.copied the kernel 2.0.33 to my win98 partition, and used loadln
But had the same problem as described above.
Any Ideas so that fsck runs properly, and /dev/hda4 will mount read/write?
From hamm install on /dev/hda4, I could mount hda3 read/write.
Thanks,
wim.
Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution
Great, it works now. Add me to your list of people for whom it works! The only problem I have know is that on startup, StarOffice pops a dialog saying "Error opening document /usr/share/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: Nonexistent object. Filter not found." I click OK, and everthing works fine. Later, Wim. "eric a. Farris" wrote: See my message posted to the list on Monday; i had the same problem and fixed it. Basically you have to do the same thing with xlib6g as you did with glib. (that is, extract it from the .deb manually, put it someplace, add someplace to soffice's LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > Okay, I finally got around to trying your 'receipe'. I picked up on a few of > spelling errors, as noted below. > > Here are the errors I still get: > > SlimeCity:~$ cd Office50/bin/ > SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$ ./soffice > /usr/share/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: __bzero > SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$ > > Any idea why? Do you know if anyone has made up a howto page yet? > > Wim > www.canadianhomes.net/wim > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- SNIP> -- eric Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Microcomputer Support Specialist Academic Computing Frostburg State University www.frostburg.edu This message composed in an MFCE (Microsoft Free Computing Environment) Will work for happiness. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim begin:vcard n:Kerkhoff;Wim tel;fax:604-795-2935 tel;home:604-795-7419 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim adr:;;43810 Chilliwack Mountain Road;Chilliwack;BC;V2R 4A1;Canada version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Student note:http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim x-mozilla-cpt:;-960 fn:Wim Kerkhoff end:vcard
Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution
Okay, I finally got around to trying your 'receipe'. I picked up on a few of
spelling errors, as noted below.
Here are the errors I still get:
SlimeCity:~$ cd Office50/bin/
SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$ ./soffice
/usr/share/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: __bzero
SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$
Any idea why? Do you know if anyone has made up a howto page yet?
Wim
www.canadianhomes.net/wim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Brad wrote:
That's pretty close to the system i came up with, i was just waiting to
hear back if it worked for anyone else before i claimed i solved the
problem ;)
Let's see... diffs. psetup works for me without patching, did you try
that? Also, if you put the glibc 2.0 libs into ${StarOffice}/lib you don't
have to change the packages scripts at all. The extra '/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2'
in the very last line to exec the soffice.bin is unnecessary once the
binary itself is patched to call the correct lib loader, and that fixes
the system() call to /bin/sh and the error on startup that it can't find
the file $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary.
i think i will write that mini-HOWTO, although it might be a few days
[weeks] before i can get anything done on it...
The directions i have currently are attached. Given your post, i think
they work for at least 2 people. Out of the alpha stage now. Bug reports
to this address.
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Bernard de Rubinat wrote:
I got into the same trouble as many people who tried to get staroffice
5.0(1?) to work with glibc2.1. I also did try many things I have seen, and I
also had many failures to make it work with most recepes,
BUT I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK.
Here is a recipe I made out of my various attemps. I made a simplified
version of all my attemps, so I may be wrong somewhere, but hopefuly it is
correct.
1/ mkdir /tmp
2/ get libc6_2.0.7.*.deb from a debian ftp mirror (slink).
3/ ar -x libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb
4/ tar xvzf data.tar.gz
5/ mkdir /usr/local/glibc2.0
6/ cp -a lib/* /usr/local/glibc2.0
7/ ln -s /usr/local/glibc2.0/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2
8/ cd /full/path/to/Office/lib
^^^
'lib' should be 'bin'
9a/ mv soffice.bin soffice.bin.orig
9b/ mv setup.bin setup.bin.orig
9c/ mv psetup.bin psetup.bin.orig
10a/ cat soffice.bin.orig |sed -e
's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \
soffice.bin # this is a single line or use '\'
10b/ cat setup.bin.orig |sed -e
's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \
setup.bin # this is a single line or use '\'
10c/ cat psetup.bin.orig |sed -e
's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \
psetup.bin# this is a single line or use '\'
11/ update the /full/path/to/Office/bin/soffice script
change :
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
into :
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/glibc20/:$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
^^^
Their should be a '.': glibc2.0
and change :
exec $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8
$9
into :
/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2 $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary $1 $2 $3 $4 $5
$6 $7 $8 $9
Hope this helps. If this helps, does anyone feel to write a mini-HOWTO?
Best regards,
Bernard
--- here is a post not beloging to this list ---
Subject: Star Office with Glibc 2.1 (howto doit and what is broken)
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 07:27:27 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: stardivision.com.support.misc
The instructions have already been posted to this group, but here they are
again (with more details).
You can get already installed soffice to work by doing the following:
1) cd /full/path/to/Office/lib
2) tar xfz glibc2.tar.gz
3) mv glib*/* . ; rmdir glib*
4) cd ../bin
5) emacs *.bin
6) using overwrite mode change /lib/ld-linux.so.2 to /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2 in
all binaries
7) ln -s /full/path/to/Office/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2
After this soffice starts and works as it should.
Unfortunately soffice uses system() call, which execvp /bin/sh, when
printing (even to file) and thus the printing does not work. I tried to
patch the libc itself (changed /bin/sh in the library to /old/sh, copied sh,
cat and lpr to /old and patched them as well. Also soffice starting script
must be edited. After this printing to file does not give errors, but
results to empty file. Normal printing still tries to exec /usr/bin/lpr for
some reason).
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On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:35 -0400, Christian Lavoie wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Brad wrote:
By putting together ideas from a few posts here and in linux-kernel,
i've
managed to get StarOffice 5.01 working on my Potato box. Now, i have
two
problems:
1) i know it works on my box. But
Re: C2-HP CD-Writer Plus 7200i ReWritable CD-Rom compatibility]
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has been able to uses cdrw disks using other drives than the hp 7200i, and if you can read/write a Windows formated cdrw under linux? It would be great to be use my 'big floppy disks' at other school, etc. Thanks, Wim Kerkhoff Surestore Support wrote: Hello Wim, Thank you for contacting the Alternative Resource Center of Hewlett-Packard. CD-RW discs can only be read in re-writable CD-Writers and MultiRead CD-ROM drives. They cannot be recognized in most standard CD-ROM drives, due to the lower reflectivity of the CD-RW media. This is a hardware limitation and there is no way to alter it, other than replacing the CD-ROM drive itself. There is currently no support for the CD-Writer in any operating system besides Windows 9.x and NT40. Sincerely, BillP Hewlett-Packard Americas Customer Care Center Alternative Resource Center -- Copyright Hewlett-Packard Co. 1999 This information is subject to change without notice and is provided as is with no warranty. Hewlett-Packard shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with the use of this material. * Hewlett-Packard is seeking to continuously improve their service to you, our customer. Please take a few minutes to answer several questions related to your service and support experience with Hewlett-Packard. The survey can be located at: http://www.hp.com/cposupport/survey/email_isg.html * Original message date: 2/17/99 2:56:40 PM E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message follows: - Subject: ReWritable CD-Rom compatibility Region:Canada - Wim Kerkhoff (Name) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Email) - HP CD-Writer Plus 7200i (Product) - Windows 95 CD-Writer Software (from HP) (SW) - can't read cdrw disk (Error) - Pentiums w brand new 30x plus cd-rom drives (PC) - IDE Controller (built into mainboard) (SCSI) - Other (Please specify in your message) (CPU) - Other (Please specify in your message) (OS) - 64 MB or more (RAM) - IDE above 1 GB (HardDrive) - HP CD-RW C4404A (Media) Hi, I am having problems reading my CD-RW disks in drivers other than my 7200i internal. How Can I use my cdrw disks in other computers? I really need this capability. Also, How can I rewrite disks in Debian/GNU Linux as there is no Adaptec or other HP software for that excellent operating system. Waiting for your reply, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:Kerkhoff;Wim x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.canadianhomes.net/wim adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Student note:http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim x-mozilla-cpt:;-18272 fn:Wim Kerkhoff end:vcard
