Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 03:49:50PM -0400, Andrew Whitlock wrote: I'm a newbie, I started with Debian ^_^ greetings from another once-newbie that also started with Debian (four years ago). As a newbie to Debian and proud owner of a mere 56Kbps connection, I'd have to say I much prefer stuff on the distribution CDs ^_^;; It's not clear to me at this juncture whether the motion really means the non-free will be pulled from the distribution altogether, but it seems logical. i think that'll be the kicker. those of use with (slow|no) connection at home will pay a price, either through long download times, or having to find/burn our own non-free CD. i would hope that, if non-free (and i assume contrib must follow) is pulled that it would be relatively easy to make a non-free CD, even if it's suddenly Unofficial Debian. I'm blessed enough to be able to use Debian at work and am in a position to make it our official Linux distro. if non-free gets pulled, a simple /etc/apt/sources.list entry would suffice where there's a fast internet connection (perhaps real Debian could even come configured that way), just like HelixCode did for their wonderful debs of GNOME. but, i have been playing around a bit with the new Mandrake 7.1, and it sure is sweet... -- eric a. Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Systems Administrator Appalachian Laboratory, UMCES www.al.umces.edu If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... oh, wait, he does. For a list of ways technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3.
can't get lm-sensors-source to compile
After installing the lm-sensors-source package on my potato system, cd-ing to /usr/src/modules/lm-sensors , and running 'make all' as root, the system goes along fine for a while, compiling, and then stops with this error: gcc -o prog/dump/isadump prog/dump/isadump.ro prog/dump/isadump.ro: In function `main': prog/dump/isadump.ro(.text+0x395): undefined reference to `outb' prog/dump/isadump.ro(.text+0x3a5): undefined reference to `inb' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [prog/dump/isadump] Error 1 which appears to me to be an error in the source code, which also means it's quite beyond my powers to fix, or even investigate thoroughly. can anyone shed some light into this? -- eric a. Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Systems Administrator Appalachian Laboratory, UMCES www.al.umces.edu A computer without Microsoft is like chocolate cake without mustard. Practice does NOT make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
New boot-floppy images?
i am trying to install Debian on an older Gateway system that boots from an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card. the boot floppy i built from slink is fine until it reaches that card and stops between instructions downloaded and the recognition of the SCSI devices. i found where adding aic7xxx=no_probe to the boot command may help, but in this case it did nothing. i panicked and installed Red Hat, which i am using right now. GET ME OUT OF HERE! i want Debian back. can anyone point me to working floppy images?
Re: A stylistic question?
i use a $HOME/bin for scripts. On 28 Jun, Revenant wrote: Hi. I finally worked out how to do the Linux equivalent of batch files (scripts) and was wondering if there was a generally accepted directory for keeping user (and/or root) scripts in. Thanx. -- 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) courtesy of Debian GNU/Linux www.debian.org The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Re: MP3 -- WAV
On 24 Jun, Hans van den Boogert wrote: Does anybody know of an app that decodes MP3 to WAV or AU? All *nixes excel at providing little tools that, when used together, can replace a lot of stand-alone tools on other platforms. if you have mpg123 and sox (both available as debian packages), you have everything you need. this line has worked for me: mpg123 -b 1 -s file.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - file.wav -- 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) courtesy of Debian GNU/Linux www.debian.org The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Errors compiling mpg123 with esd support
I love that esd mixes sounds on the fly. one of my biggest complaints with WinAmp under when-doze was that it didn't allow other sounds to come through. under esd, my mp3s (now playing on xmms) seamlessly mix with my GNOME and licq sounds. GQMpeg has some awesome skins. it uses mpg123 as its back-end. the Debian package of mpg123, however, doesn't seem to have esd support. so... i downloaded the source for mpg123-0.59r and am attempting to compile it with esd support (make linux-esd). the compile begins smoothly, then stops with the following error: audio_esd.o: In function `audio_open': audio_esd.o(.text+0x17e): undefined reference to `esdserver' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [mpg123] Error 1 i have the esd library packages installed (libesd0 and libesd-dev) a search on the Debian release page on esdserver shows nothing. I have a potato system, running Windowmaker and GNOME. has anyone seen this/tried this? -- 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) courtesy of Debian GNU/Linux www.debian.org The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Re: menus for wmaker 0.60
On 22 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Of course, wmaker 0.60 is now available in .deb format, so perhaps it's easier to just download the .debs :-) --tim :-) SNIP and while we're on the subject of wmaker 0.60 debs... does anyone else using them have root menu wierdness like this: Debian Debian - Debian Apps ...(etc)... Workspace - Workspace Appearance - Debian Appearance - Appearance Background ...(etc)... That is, some of my menus (the Root menu for one) have only one choice on them, which leads to the other choices that used to be there. -- 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) courtesy of Debian GNU/Linux www.debian.org The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Can't change gmc's icons on the desktop
Since one of the latter updates from potato, the icons that appear on the desktop (home, mountable devices) now have the standard folder icon and efforts in changing them (via right-click - Properties - Options) seem to fail. i am using gmc 4.5.33 and the gnome-core is 1.0.6 . -- 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) courtesy of Debian GNU/Linux www.debian.org The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Re: A better telnet?
I heartily recommend Tera Term Pro, a much better telnet client than M$ could ship. it's on par with commercial solutions like SmarTerm, IMO. It is free (in the beer sense, with source code available) and can even do ssh with a free addon. It'll do ansi and vt100 emulation, and is pretty configurable. Tera Term Pro home page: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html On 8 Jun, Mark Wright wrote: I often need to telnet from my NT box to my Debian server. Of course, this means I lose everything from Vim syntax highlighting to sensible Delete and Backspace key mappings. What I really want is the equivalent of the Linux console, but remotely from a Win32 machine. Does such a thing exist? --- Mark Wright -- 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) The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Re: Mirroring the distributions
An excellent discussion of mirroring, along with several scripts, can be found at http://www.debian.org/mirror/ . On 7 Jun, Paul Sargent wrote: Hi all, I want to set up a site mirror (i.e. one to be used just on this site) of the stable and unstable distributions. Does anybody have any suggestions on a nice way of doing this. Does apt have any options for doing this type of task? Is it practical to have it mirroring from several sites, so if one is unavailable...? Thanks Paul -- 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) The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Replacing NT/Netware with Linux (LONG)
well, it's happening. my boss wants me to take the summer to evaluate using Linux to run our labs as an alternative to Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows NT. We currently have 55 Pentium IIs and 40 Pentiums running Windows 95, and 30 iMacs running MacOS 8.6 in our labs.there are 6 labs in all, and they each have one networked laser printer. right now, they all authenticate, and use drive and printer mappings through an aging Netware 3.12 server. I have Linux (Debian, of course) running on my machine (no Windows here!) and i have Samba and netatalk running. the Macs already rely on my machine for file services, but not print services. the Samba share is just to participate in our workgroup administratively. My questions/concerns as i begin planning this are many. One has to do with Linux itself: Can i rely on it to do a good job with this? Our server will be a fair machine (in fact, it should arrive tomorrow): PII-350 (room for a second) 128MB RAM 2x9.1GB SCSI drives DAT drive this is a machine that we would need to grow, obviously. what i want to do is just bring one or two of the smaller labs up with it for testing. With only two drives, i won't be able to RAID5 the thing as i was hoping, but i thought i saw someplace where RAID5 isn't Linux's Very Good Friend yet anyway. As far as backing up, is anyone using Amanda? i am interested in this as it would give me a chance to back up other machines (ahem, mine) with this drive as well. Can Amanda back up Win95/NT/Macs as well? if not, is there an Free Software solution that would? My second main concern is with Samba. Can i do authentication with it? The server's role would be departmental (ie., about 10 office machines) as well as the labs, with 7 networked printers. other than the 30 iMacs, there will be a couple more Macs, and then my Debian Linux box, and the rest are Win95/98 machines. So i'm going to be placing a lot of responsibility on Samba to make this work. I basically need it to function to the client just like an NT server would. we don't have any software that requires NT on the server end, don't need it to do web or ftp or mail, just as a traditional FP server. right now our offices are only doing local 'authentication', that is, not relying on a server. so there's no PDC/BDC conflicts. it'll be a new server to the offices, a replacement for Netware to the labs. Print queueing through Samba/netatalk has be concerned as well. we would not be opposed to scarfing an old 486 and sticking Debian on it to just handle the printers. To ease the migration, i'm planning to get ncpfs and ipx loaded on this machine so i can copy from the existing Netware volumes. it's summertime, so the labs are hardly used, anyway, and i'm using Imagecast to handle that stuff so it's a piece of cake on the client side. I SO want this to be sucessful. My boss is observant enough to see that NT isn't as reliable as BigBrotherBill wants us to think, and even simple changes require a system reboot. Client licences for NT are free for us through an agreement selling our soul to Microsoft. Netware, while a superior system for our needs than NT, is not free, and very costly. Linux seems to have a place here. I have certainly demonstrated its usefulness and stability to him. i can't believe he'd give me a project like this! i'm so excited! please let me know, if any of you have done this before, what i can expect. as soon as i can get my hands on this machine i'm whipping out my Debian floppies. i'm very interested in any of your horror/success stories, web sites you can point me to, etc. thanks very much. -- 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) The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Problem with PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro (i82865)
I would appreciate it if someone that is on the kernel list could forward this. please send all replies to my address as well as the list. I cannot get any kernel to utilize my Intel EtherExpress Pro card. it is a PCI 10/100 card, and i am using the 2.2.x kernels in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1. When the eepro100.o kernel module is loaded (via modprobe) i get init_module: Device or resource busy. /proc/pci shows the card as detected, here's the relevant part of /proc/pci: Bus 0, device 14, function 0: Ethernet controller: Intel 82865 (rev 3). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffafefc0 [0xffafefc0]. I/O at 0x7f00 [0x7f01]. Non-prefetchable 20 bit memory at 0xde000 [0xde002]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff90 [0xff90]. As you can see, /proc/pci reports this card as being based on the Intel 82865 chip. From the /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/eepro100.c file, i see that this module is for the 82557 and 82558 cards. Apparently this doesn't work with my chipset. Does anyone know if there is a different driver that i should be using? Does anyone have a card based on this chip working? how? -- 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) The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Re: modem speakerphone commands
On 20 May, Rob wrote: snip Umm, isn't this the Debian list? Or did I miss the release of Visual Basic for Linux? oh, PLEASE say i missed it too. ;) one of the very few worthwhile microsoft products. -- 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) The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
garbage display in X using RageIIc
i'm trying to win a convert from Win95 to Linux, and X is not behaving. We had things running fine last night, everything looked great, he was quite happy. This morning, things are not well. The display in XWindow is garbage. Fonts, Menus, etc., don't display properly (but function: i can click on menu choices, icons, and they do what they should). This happens regardless of Window Manager (even XDM's display is toast) and regardless of color depth resolution. The kicker is that everything was working perfectly yesterday. I've removed the Xserver, fonts and re-installed them through dselect. The system is a Compaq Deskpro 6300 (PII-300) 64MB with an AGP ATI RageIIc video card with 2MB. we are using the Mach64 server and kernel 2.2.9. i have set up identical systems before and not had this particular problem. ideas, anyone? -- 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) The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution
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.
Star Office broken again AND FIXED
I think xlib6g in the latest potato (3.3.3.1-2) has broken StarOffice. the message i got from soffice is: /home/eafarris/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: __bzero to fix, i d/loaded slink's xlib6g and extracted it manually (via ar and tar). then i put the usr branch into the same area i had made for the glibc2.1 hack. then i added this path to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the soffice script, so now the line reads: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/eafarris/glibc2.0/lib:/home/eafarris/glibc2.0/usr/X11R6/lib:$sd_inst/lib:$sd_jthr:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH looks like it's working again. Has anyone applied the print 'fix?' does it work? -- 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) And what i wouldn't give to find a soul mate Someone else to catch this drift And what i wouldn't give to meet a kindred...
Adobe Type1 Fonts in X
I just got some Type1 fonts off of Adobe's TypeOnCall CD. When I run these through type1inst to update the fonts.scale i get First Byte in Packet not 0x80 from pfbtops and it refuses to go any further. (1) is this fixable? (1a) how? (2) is there a better/different way? i have the afm, pfm, and inf files for the fonts as well. can they be used to generate the apropriate, mystical line in fonts.scale? -- 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) We all had delusions in our heads We all had our minds made up for us We had to believe in something... So we did.
Adobe Type1 fonts in X
I just got some Type1 fonts off of Adobe's TypeOnCall CD. When I run these through type1inst to update the fonts.scale i get First Byte in Packet not 0x80 from pfbtops and it refuses to go any further. (1) is this fixable? (1a) how? (2) is there a better/different way? i have the afm, pfm, and inf files for the fonts as well. can they be used to generate the apropriate, mystical line in fonts.scale? -- 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) We all had delusions in our heads We all had our minds made up for us We had to believe in something... So we did.
Adobe Type1 Fonts in X
I just got some Type1 fonts off of Adobe's TypeOnCall CD. When I run these through type1inst to update the fonts.scale i get First Byte in Packet not 0x80 from pfbtops and it refuses to go any further. (1) is this fixable? (1a) how? (2) is there a better/different way? i have the afm, pfm, and inf files for the fonts as well. can they be used to generate the apropriate, mystical line in fonts.scale? -- 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) We all had delusions in our heads We all had our minds made up for us We had to believe in something... So we did.
