Linux, Solaris, KDM

2002-01-06 Thread iehrenwald
I'm having a lot of difficulty getting my Sid box to serve KDM to an Ultra
5 w/ Solaris 8.  I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers (added
ultra5:0 foreign).  I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess (uncommented * and
* CHOOSER BROADCAST).  I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc (in the [Xdmcp]
section set Enable=true).

The Linux machine shows up in the dtlogin Chooser screen, with the number
of users and load avg and whatnot.  If I select the Linux machine, the
Solaris box tries to connect a couple times and then returns to the login
prompt.  On the Linux box, the logs say :

[daemon.log]
Jan  6 13:13:58 bp6 kdm[912]: server open failed for 192.168.1.10:0,
giving up
Jan  6 13:13:58 bp6 kdm[902]: Display 192.168.1.10:0 cannot be opened

[syslog]
Jan  6 00:06:09 solvent kdm[18137]: Hung in XOpenDisplay(ultra5:0),
aborting
Jan  6 00:06:09 solvent kdm[18137]: server open failed for ultra5:0,
giving up
Jan  6 00:06:09 solvent kdm[18103]: Display ultra5:0 cannot be opened

I can't even remotely run an X app on either box.  I took out the
-nolisten tcp option from Xservers on the Linux machine but still nothing
pops up.

I'm not too familiar with Solaris (I bought the Ultra5 to learn on) so
I don't know what files are where and which I'd need to edit to play with
it's login manager.

So... has anyone else run into this before?  Suggestions?  Pointers?  Any
and all help is appreciated.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Canon BJC-250

2001-12-26 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Jack Dodds wrote:

 How can I configure it to print to my old Canon BJC-250 through a
 standard (non-ECP) parallel port?

apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-pstoraster
cupsomatic-ppd

Add yourself to the lpadmin group, log out/in.  Open up a web
browser to localhost:631, enter your username/passwd.  It's pretty easy
from there on in.



Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-19 Thread iehrenwald
On 19 Dec 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote:

 Yeah, I'm a white (I'm not a nazi tho) 17 year old that lives in

Uh, what does one have to do with the other?  Are you such a stupid and
brainwashed mess that you feel the need to apologize for being White?
What a sick person.  Oh, I'm White so I'm responsable for all the
world's ills.  Why?  I dunno, Jesse Jackson and MTV told me so.  Fucking
PC liberals...



Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-19 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Thomas Hallaran wrote:

 I am a white 22 year old very very far to the left debian user and though
 I am not personally responsible,people of my race ARE responsible for much
 of the world's woes. White males like : John Zerzan, Wendell Berry, Howard
 Zinn, and myself told ME so --

Oh, OK.  Boy was I wrong!  We should all pay dearly for other peoples
fuckups, right?  Screw you, buddy.  Just because someone thought it was a
good idea to buy and sell people 200 years ago doesn't mean that I should
be paying for current day people's food stamps and hair extensions and
press-on finger nails.  Black reparations?  Suck me, you lefty jackass.
You and Teddy Kennedy deserve eachother.

 Tom, who is looking forward to a time when we have all f*cked race out of
 existance.

Ian, who is looking forward to a time when leftists are shipped off to the
places they so religiously defend; then they find out the areas really ARE
shitholes.

Consider this a reminder that not everyone that uses Linux is a Communist
long-hair who is hell-bent on destroying the evil USA.  You dripping
sack.



CUPS prints small text

2001-12-09 Thread iehrenwald
I'm having trouble printing text.  CUPS is set up fine and I can print and
all that good stuff.  But the text itself is way too tiny.  I notice when
hit the Print icon in any KDE app, the text in the window turns very small
and then returns to normal a few seconds later.  Do I not have the right
ps fonts installed?



RE: Setting up devfs

2001-11-30 Thread iehrenwald
Once you convert all your config files to use devfs names, you might want
to comment out the first REGISTER and UNREGISTER commands in
/etc/devfs/compat_symlinks and then reboot.  You'll get a much cleaner
looking /dev.  eg:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev]$ ls
MAKEDEV  dsp  input  mixer  printers  rdvdstderr   v4l
cdromdvd  kmem   mixer1 ptmx  rootstdinvc
cdroms   fd   lognull   pts   scsistdout   vcc
console  floppy   memnvidia0pty   sequencer   tts  xconsole
cpu  full midi   nvidiactl  randomsequencer2  tty  zero
cua  gpmctl   midi1  port   raw1  shm urandom
discsinitctl  misc   ppprawctlsound   usb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev]$

Some programs are hardcoded to look for things at /dev/foo
*cough KMIX cough* so you should add a couple of lines to the bottom of
devfsd.conf that REGISTER the sound devices like so

REGISTER ^sound/dsp CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink sound/dsp dsp
REGISTER ^sound/mixer CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink sound/mixer mixer
REGISTER ^sound/mixer1 CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink sound/mixer1 mixer1
REGISTER ^sound/midi CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink sound/midi midi
REGISTER ^sound/midi1 CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink sound/midi1 midi1
REGISTER ^sound/sequencer CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink sound/sequencer sequencer
REGISTER ^sound/sequencer2 CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink sound/sequender2 sequencer2

HTH,
--ian




Re: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Randy Orrison wrote:

 times.  Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every 5-10 minutes,
 then hanging up after the idle timeout.  I've looked at all the /var/log/...

Maybe you have exim/sendmail/$YOUR_MTA set to send a queue every 10
minutes?




Re: cupsomatic

2001-11-14 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, ben wrote:

 when i run cupsomatic, it returns an error relating to missing ppd
 files. where do i get them and where should i put them?

apt-get install cupsomatic-ppd



Re: cupsomatic

2001-11-14 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, ben wrote:

  apt-get install cupsomatic-ppd
 
 this returns an invalid operation error.

Well Ben... All I can say is PEBCAK.




Re: Help: Load win2k with lilo 21.7-5

2001-11-06 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Liu Tao wrote:

 I want to load win2k, using lilo 21.7-5, how to edit /etc/lilo.conf?

Add a line like :

other = /dev/discs/disc0/part4
label=win2k

Replace /dev/discs... with the device that Win2K is installed on.  Run
lilo to set the configuration.  Reboot and you should be able to get into
Win2K.



Re: nvidia driver's opengl is slow

2001-11-01 Thread iehrenwald
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote:

 I was just wondering why the NVidia driver's OpenGL is so slow when I

Did you run 'make install' from the NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541 directory?  This
removes the software OpenGL and installs the NVIDIA stuff.  You'll need to
re-run 'make install' every time you update your Debian xlibmesa
packages.



List traffic

2001-10-28 Thread iehrenwald
Is it just me, or has the traffic on the list died to about 1/100 of what
it was a week ago?   I used to get probably 180 messages a day from this
list and now I get.. 4.  I wonder if my ISP is screwing around with
something.


Time is like a fuse; short and burning fast.



Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-09 Thread iehrenwald
On 9 Sep 2001, Ross Burton wrote:

 I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian

'apt-get install junkbuster' and install the cron files in
/usr/share/doc/junkbuster/examples

Then read /usr/share/doc/junkbuster/squid.txt



Re: Killing your keyb.controller...

2001-08-22 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Emil Pedersen wrote:

 is an 600-650MB, so it's recognized.  I intenden to shit in two smaller
 disks and use it as a firewall, but I think now it's going to be tough

I know it's a typo, but it's still funny.



OT : Monitor dying?

2001-06-30 Thread iehrenwald
In the past week, the picture on my monitor has gotten progressively
lighter and lighter.  I haven't touched the contrast or brightness
wheels.  I checked all the connections to and from the tower and
monitor.  Even opened up the tower and re-seated the video card.  No
luck.  The only thing that has changed is [drumroll] the weather.  It's
extremely humid and has been for about a week, coinciding with when the
monitor started having it's problems.  Is it possible that humidity can
make a monitor display the picture much lighter than normal?  If so, does
this cause permanent damage?  Right now it's like I'm looking at the
screen through heavy fog. 

Thanks
Ian Ehrenwald



Re: OT : Monitor dying?

2001-06-30 Thread iehrenwald
 I suggest that he should get a replacement soon.

After weighing the options I had (repair, replace, wait till it dies) I
went with the 2nd option and bought a KDS AV-7TF which seems
very nice.  Super flat Trinitron tube, .24 dotpitch, and refresh rates
high enough so I'll never have to worry about my eyes bleeding.  The
picture is awesomely clear and crisp - I'm very impressed with it
considering I paid a mere $230 USD.  

Thanks to all for your suggetions and hints.

Ian Ehrenwald



Re: [ot] netscape popup-windows

2001-06-27 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote:

 from the autoresponder... Now, Is it possible to disable such popup
 windows generally? This would be really great

You could disable JavaScript when you visit that site and turn it on again
when you need it.  Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Enable JavaScript.




Re: XFree86 cannot initialize NVdriver

2001-06-07 Thread iehrenwald
 I have NVdriver in
 /lib/modules/2.2.19/kernel/drivers/video
 
 Does anyone know of a solution?

Run update-modules.  Make sure the permissions on NVdriver are 0644.



Re: XFree86 cannot initialize NVdriver

2001-06-07 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Steven Isaacson wrote:

 That still didn't fix the problem.
 
 If I copy NVdriver to NVdriver.o and insmod NVdriver.o the module will
 be loaded, but XFree still won't start.
 
 I still cannot get debian to find the module.

I forgot, are you using the Debian package or the tarballs from
ftp2.detonator.nvidia.com?  I use the tarballs and don't have a
problem.  Untar/gzip NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251 and run make.  Untar/gzip
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1251 and run make.  Run ldconfig.  Run xf86config and
choose everything as your normally would, including the apropriate video
card.  Save the changes and then edit XF86Config-4.  Look in the module
section and make sure 'glx' is being loaded.  Also comment out 'GLcore' 
and 'dri'.  Go to the Device section and comment out Driver nv and
replace it with Driver nvidia.  Save the changes and startx.  you should
be in business.




Re: apcupsd: How to make the shutdown?

2001-05-29 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 29 May 2001, John Plate wrote:

 Hi
 
 I've tried to make apcupsd (version 3.6.2) do the shutdown of the
 server when power fails. It didn't work. The status reported seems ok,
 though.

I gave up on apcupsd for my BackUPS Pro 1000 and switched to nut.  It
works well for me.  

To get it to work, I added the line
UPS myups /var/lib/nut/genericups-ttyS0 genericups -t 9 /dev/ttyS0
to /etc/nut/upsd.conf

and the line
MONITOR [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 [PASSWORD] master
to /etc/nut/upsmon.conf

My BackUPS Pro 1000 doesn't speak APC SmartSignaling so I have to use the
generic type 9 cable.  YMMV.  nut-doc is a good package to have installed.



List errors?

2001-05-19 Thread iehrenwald
Is it just me, or is the normal English debian-user mailing list getting
messages from the German debian-user list?  



Re: APC ups problems - backupspro

2001-04-18 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Lindsay Allen wrote:

 The daemon clearly talks to the UPS.  It knows the voltages and the times
 and the events.  When the power fails it stops people logging in.  But it
 does not shut down the server.

I have a BackUPS Pro 1000 with the simple gray cable so my suggestions 
might not be totally applicable.. 

Make sure the BATTERYLEVEL, MINUTES and TIMEOUT in apcupsd.conf are set
with sane values for your system.  

Is apcupsd being run by root and/or in a group with shutdown privs?  I'm
leaning towards that as the problem if everything else completes except
shutting down.



Re: any women here?

2001-04-16 Thread iehrenwald
 have?  the only thing missing i guess would be something to the effect of
 they could bake us cookies at conferences.

Well?  Can you?  'Cuz I'm hungry and I'm sure everyone else is too.  While
you're at it, a refresher on the beer would be nice.   And could you grab
that bag of nachos?  The game's about to start and I don't feel like 
getting up.  Thanks, hun.  Oh I invited the boys over to watch, hope you
don't mind.  Yes yes, they'll be out of here by
12.  Yes dear.  Yes.  OK.  OK!  [grumble].  Nothing, sweety.

Grin.



Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread iehrenwald
 server), SCSI offers a strong performance advantage, for about twice the
 price.

No kidding.. A month ago I paid about $360 for a Seagate 68pin UWSCSI 
18.4GB drive (model ST318416W).  But it's worth the price because if a
drive dies  they'll ship one out to you UPS Red at no cost.  I've never
had a problem with Seagate SCSI drive but I've had a Quantum SCSI die on
me once. 



Re: soundcard volume too low.

2001-04-15 Thread iehrenwald
 a SB PCI 128 and got it working. however, the volume is very low. i
 used aumix and set it to 100% on all channels, but it's barely

Make sure your speakers are plugged into the right OUT jack on the back of
the soundcard.  Line out and Speaker out are two different things.



Re: CD-RW recommendations

2001-04-13 Thread iehrenwald
 $250 
 Yamaha 16x10x40 CD-RW   ,   part number in ad: CRW2100EZ
 If I get the Yamaha, I can get 128MB PC13 RAM for free (after
 rebates)

If this Yamaha one is SCSI then go for it.  I have the CDRW8824SZ
(8/8/24) and it works fine.  I don't like IDE at all except for cheap
desktops so I'm kind of biased towards SCSI.



Re: Debian 2.2 won't boot up

2001-04-12 Thread iehrenwald
 I cannot get Debian 2.2 to boot up. I tried the following 2 methods, to no 
 avail:
 
 ATTEMPT #1:
 
 _
 Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Well, that could be your problem.  Grin.



Re: Cheap video cards

2001-03-31 Thread iehrenwald
 Does anyone have a recommendation for cheap PCI video cards that work
 well with X?  Thanks!

Matrox Millennium II PCI or G200 PCI.  You'll have to go digging on EBay
or something to find one, but Matrox makes the best cards for crisp
text.  Or if you want a more modern solution with 3D acceleration I think
you may be able to find PCI Voodoo cards around still.  I don't think I've
seen any NVIDIA PCI cards in a while.  



Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

2001-03-25 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, jh wrote:

 I am in the process of upgrading my motherboard and don't want to take any 
 chances. Thank you. -Jeff H 

It's all about the environment in which you're performing the surgery.  Do
it in a room with no carpet.  Don't wear big wool clothes that rub
together.  Short sleeves and a very bright open space is the best.  Touch
the case of your tower and de-zap yourself before you touch
components.  I've never had a problem that I've created with static
electricity and I'm always in the guts of my machines at home and work.



Re: ?!: 2.4 kernels, modules_install

2001-03-25 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Tony Crawford wrote:

 It seems the behavior of make modules_install has changed 
 radically with linux 2.4. Or is it just me?

RTFM.  Line 55 of Documentation/Changes.  You need modutils version 2.4.2
or greater.  insmod -V to see what version you have.



Re: GDM background image

2001-03-18 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:

 on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:47:25PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger ([EMAIL 
 PROTECTED]) wrote:
^
 Fix your system clock.

The list was flooded with old messages again, I don't think it's his box.



Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael J. Micek wrote:

 If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it?
 /var/local/swap0?

On a very fast drive (7200RPM U2WSCSI or faster) seperate from all other
filesystem tasks.  Mount it under /swapfiles and add the apropriate
entries in fstab.  Don't forget to use swapon to bless the file.



Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread iehrenwald
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote:

 Has anyone else experienced problems with their reiserfs partitions
 after upgrading to 2.4.2?

All systems a-go on this box.  

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux solvent 2.4.2 #3 SMP Sat Feb 24 21:37:46 EST 2001 i686 unknown

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on / type ext2 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 on /usr type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 on /var type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 on /tmp type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 on /storage-1 type vfat (rw)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/part1 on /storage-2 type reiserfs (rw)
none on /dev/shm type shm (rw)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df
Filesystem   1k-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
116648 31995 79835  29% /
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
 2  3842 18287  18% /boot
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
   5421716493312   4928404  10% /usr
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
   5336664   2725552   2340020  54% /usr/local
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
   5421716   1836328   3585388  34% /home
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8
650568266132384436  41% /var
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9
650568 32840617728   6% /tmp
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1
   6317220   5768984548236  92% /storage-1
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/part1
  17935960   4620544  13315416  26% /storage-2




Re: unstable breaks kernel compile

2001-02-27 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote:

 I just ran a distupgrade to debian unstable.  I tried to compile my
 2.4.2 kernel and I get this:

[snip]

From /usr/share/doc/binutils/changelog.Debian.gz : 

  * Added text during postinst that informs users
to modify their i386 kernel Makefiles for the
--oformat change (closes: Bug#86995)

When you install the new binutils it clearly states that you have to make
this change.  Unless you disabled all alerts with debconf.



Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote:

 Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs
 and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each
 boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition.

I don't know if this helps, but here is my fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# file system mount point   type  options   dump  
pass

/dev/discs/disc0/part1  /   ext2defaults0   
1
/dev/discs/disc0/part10 noneswapsw  0   0
proc/proc   procdefaults0   0
/dev/discs/disc0/part2  /boot   ext2rw  0   
2
/dev/discs/disc0/part5  /usrreiserfsrw  
0   0
/dev/discs/disc0/part6  /usr/local  ext2rw  0   
2
/dev/discs/disc0/part7  /home   reiserfsrw  
0   0
/dev/discs/disc0/part8  /varreiserfsrw  
0   0
/dev/discs/disc0/part9  /tmpreiserfsrw  
0   0
/dev/discs/disc1/part1  /storage-1  vfatrw  0   
2
/dev/discs/disc2/part1  /storage-2  reiserfsrw  
0   0
/dev/discs/disc3/part1  /mnt/win2k  autoro,user,noauto,uid=ian,gid=ian  
0   0
/dev/discs/disc0/part4  /mnt/win2k-boot autorw,user,noauto,uid=ian,gid=ian  
0   0

/dev/floppy/0   /floppy autodefaults,user,noauto0   0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0  /dvdiso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0   0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1  /cdrw   iso9660 defaults,user,noauto0   0
/storage-2/SWAP noneswapsw  0   0
none/dev/shmshm defaults0   0

Notice how I have the last field (pass) set at 0 for all reiserfs
partitions?  

Ian



Re: NFS hangups.

2001-01-29 Thread iehrenwald
 This box is fairly important, being our main server (NFS, DNS, NIS,
 etc...)...
 
 Any suggestions?

I know this is going to sound rather crass, but.. Don't use Linux for
NFS.  Linux NFS really is awful.  I'd throw that task to a BSD. 

Ian




Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs

2001-01-07 Thread iehrenwald
  chgrp wheel /dev/somedevice
  chmod 660 /dev/somedevice 
  
  and have it stick.  (past reboots)
 
 With devfsd this is also very simple possible.

Can you give us a rundown on how to get this to work?  I followed the
instructions in the README but the permissions and owner/group bits never
stayed the way I wanted them.  (eg: root.audio for all of /dev/sound,
root.video for all of /dev/v4l, etc).  I'm using the devfsd from unstable
now.

Also, I use the NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.0.1 driver.  This driver needs
five entries in /dev to work.  I can't get devfs to keep those entries 
there across reboots.  I made a script to do make those entries every time
the system is booted but I'm sure there is a prorper way of doing it.  

Any help?  Thanks.



Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs

2001-01-07 Thread iehrenwald
 That installed a script(s?) in /etc/init.d, which start devfsd at
 boot-time. Of course, you have to have the kernel automatically mount
 devfs in /dev, which is available as an option in the kernel
 pre-compilation configuration. If you didn't select it there, add
 devfs=mount as an argument to the kernel, either through
 /etc/lilo.conf, or at the boot-time LILO prompt.
 
 Then, it Just Worked(tm). All ownerships and permissions are as I'd
 expect, including /dev/sound and friends.

I did the same thing and now it Just Worked(tm).  Shrug.  Don't know what 
I was doing wrong before.  I had to add the following lines to 
/etc/devfsd/devices:

# devices file
# format: name [bc] major minor uid gid mode

nvidia0 c   195 0   rootvideo   0660
nvidia1 c   195 1   rootvideo   0660
nvidia2 c   195 2   rootvideo   0660
nvidia3 c   195 3   rootvideo   0660
nvidiactl   c   195 255 rootvideo   0660


It appeares that /etc/init.d/devfsd reads this at startup and creates the
devices listed.  I'm going through my conf files and changing them all
over to the new devfs style entries and then will remove backwards
compatability through the /etc/devfs/devfsd.conf.  Thanks for the ideas.



Re: xdm doesn't start

2001-01-07 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote:

 I installed xdm, but x doesn't start up.  It says starting x display manger: 
 xdm, but it never does.  Anyone know why?
 (i'm running potato w/ x4)

Maybe it started but didn't switch vts for you?  Try alt-F7?  Im not sure,
I don't like booting into X.  If I have to diagnose a problem it's just a
waste of time and pain in the ass.




Re: kernel - contact

2001-01-06 Thread iehrenwald
 2.2.18pre, but I can not get it work correctly, so I guess there is an
 error somewhere.

PEBCAK.

--
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. -Robert A. Heinlein




Debian CD in store

2000-12-14 Thread iehrenwald
I was browsing Software Etc and saw the Debian retail CD.  Is this Debian
2.1 or 2.2?  It didn't say on the box anywhere.  If it's 2.2 I'll pick it
up.  Thanks.



Re: Sawfish 0.34

2000-12-05 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:

 Hi, does anybody else have the problem where this version of Sawfish 
 won't save your personal settings anymore? Know of a fix? Thanks. -Jeff

I thought it was something broken here.  I guess not.  If I change a
key-binding it doesn't seem to stick.  Same with window decorations,
etc.  Upstream?  Can't really help you, this is just a 'me too!' so you
don't feel alone :)

Ian

--
White pride world wide



Re: PS/2 mouse on serial port?

2000-12-03 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, jakemsr wrote:

 works as a PS/2 on a PS/2 port with X), and a PS/2 to serial 
 adapter. I've got the mouse/adapter in com2. /dev/mouse is a symlink

Why did you put it in COM2?  Plug the mouse into COM1/ttyS0 and smylink
/dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS0.  Then give gpm a shot.  I don't know the
apropriate args to gpm but you'll figure it out.

Ian
--
White pride world wide



Re: your mail

2000-11-27 Thread iehrenwald
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jodi Pullen wrote:

 Please remove me from all your mailing lists.

See that little blip of info at the bottom of _EVERY_ message on the
list?  Follow its nice, helpful instructions and the world will be a happy
shiny neato good place.

Ian

-
Tremble you weaklings, cower in fear.  I am your ruler, land sea and air.
-- Megadeth [Rust In Peace, Polaris]



Re: failed to connect port 25

2000-11-14 Thread iehrenwald
Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have just installed Postfix mailerdeamon, and now I am unable to send
 email out of the network. After searching, I discovered that I am also
 unable to telnet to the smtp port of the delivery-mailserver. That is:
 
 $ telnet mail.somewhere.nl 25
 Trying 194
 
 and then it hangs. It is with every mailserver I tried. Other ports work
 correct. What is going on? Has it something to do with my Postfix
 configuration?

I had something like this happen to me last month.  I found out the reason
this is happening is because my ISP is blocking SMTP connections to any
other ISP but their own at the router.  They are doing this to stop
Spam.  While this may be a pain in the ass, it does help cut down Spam.  

Ian




Re: need help locating a file

2000-11-07 Thread iehrenwald
On 7 Nov 2000, Hubert Chan wrote:

[snip]
 what package they are from.  The font that I remember was called neep, and
 the foundry was jmk.  Can anyone tell me which package it's in?
[snip]

apt-get install xfonts-jmk

 Hubert

Ian



Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-11-07 Thread iehrenwald
 I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a TNT2 
 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III.  Quake
 3 runs fine until I try to start a game.  It load game media and all
 that other stuff, but as soon as I go into the real game it dumps me
 with a GLX error.  I compiled the garbage myself and had to do a little
 editing (comment out the modversions.h because it isn't in kernel 
 2.2.17), and after I did that it ran everything fine.  In fact,
 everything seems to run fine except for quake III ( and a little bit of 
 X with the window managers and the screensavers not working.)  Anyone
 know anything about this or had something like it happen to them?

Set word wrap on your MUA to 75 or so.

Which GLX are you trying to use?  Utah-GLX is for 3.3.6 servers.  The
GLX stuff included with XFree86 4.0.1 isn't for NVIDIA cards.  If you're
using the NVIDIA supplied drivers, be sure you follow their directions for
a tarball installation.  This includes removing/renaming the 
software-rendering libs.

modversions.h is created when you compile a kernel.  Obtain, install, and
compile your kernel.  I suggest 2.4.0-test10 because It Works For Me And
Many Others Very Nicely(tm).  But if you're too chicken-shit to use a test
kernel then stick with the 2.2 series.  Like I said, compile a kernel.  It
puts hair on your chest.  Once you do this, go back and 
recompile/reinstall the NVIDIA kernel driver.  EMail the list back if all
this doesn't work.

   Brandt Dusthimer

Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Thanks everyone! Still problems though.

2000-11-07 Thread iehrenwald
 Thanks everyone!!!  Quake 3 runs almost fine now!  The only problems I 
 really have are with X.  The screen tries to go blank all the time
 (especially when playing Q3) and when I boot my machine, I have to
 re-make the NVidia drivers everytime.  It doesn't take that long, but if
 I could get rid of it, it would be very much appreciated.

 Why do you have to remake the kernel module?  Do you get any error
messages spit at you?  I've never heard of that problem before.  The 0.9-5
Makefile should of installed NVdriver into
'/lib/modules/2.4.0-test10/kernel/drivers/media/video/'.  Can you verify
if it is there?  If not, cd to the dir with the NVIDIA_kernel source in it
and re-run 'make install'.  Make sure you have 
'alias char-major-195   NVdriver' in your '/etc/modutils/aliases' and then
run 'update-modules'.




Re: X4.0.1 crashing -- help!

2000-11-04 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Dan Griswold wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 I was hoping that somebody could help me figure out what's going on.

[snip]

Make sure you're using the NVIDIA supplied GL and GLX libs.  Follow the
instructions on their web site for manual installation.  Try adding
Option NvAgp 0 to your XF86Config under the Screen section.  Verify
that you have Load glx in your XF86Config.  Do you have the correcet
nvidia devices in /dev?  Are you using the nvidia driver instead of the
nv one?  Lots of places you can go wrong.




Re: game board

2000-10-30 Thread iehrenwald
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, kenneth and elizabeth oatis wrote:

 i played mille bourne as a child and i'd love to share it with my
 children. where can i order the game?

apt-get install xmille  ?

Ian

-
Religion stops a thinking mind.



Re: killing old netscapes

2000-10-15 Thread iehrenwald
On 15 Oct 2000, Matthew Emmett wrote:
 
 Hi all,
 
 When netscape screws up and dies, it sometimes leaves it's dns

[snip]

I made a script caled 'killzilla' that I run when netscape pukes.  I have
it assigned to a hotkey in sawmill.  The script:

#!/bin/sh
kill -9 `pidof communicator-smotif.real`
rm ~/.netscape/lock

You might have to change the communicator-smotif.real part if you don't
have communicator installed.  (eg: if you installed only the navigator
part).  Works For Me.

Ian




LAN upload speed slow

2000-10-07 Thread iehrenwald
Has anyone ever seen the following situation:

There are three machines on this 10bT LAN:

iansbox (linux 2.4.0-test8, woody)
crapbox (freebsd 4.0)
caseylaptop (windows 98 SE)

caseylaptop can upload and download from crapbox with no problem. FTP,
SAMBA, WWW, whatever.  caseylaptop can download but NOT upload any files
to iansbox via any protocol.  It transfers 50k and just stops.  No
packets going back and forth.  The FreeBSD and Windows machines can toss
files back and forth via SMB and FTP all day long.  When I use the Linux
machine and copy files from either one of the other machines, the network
freezes happen.  

There are no errors in the logs.  Packets just stop getting sent and
received.  

iansbox - crapbox: OK
iansbox - caseylaptop: OK
crapbox - iansbox: Broken
crapbox - caseylaptop: OK
caseylaptop - iansbox: Broken
caseylaptop - crapbox: OK

Do I have a flag set wrong in /proc somewhere?  This is very annoying.
Thanks.
Ian

-
Religion stops a thinking mind.



Re: PINE -- Full headers

2000-09-24 Thread iehrenwald
 I don't use Pine anymore so I can't remember what the command is, but if
 you look at Pine's help and browse through the list of commands you
 should find it.

Shift+H will give you the full headers while viewing a message.




Re: Please recommend internal modem

2000-09-22 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:

 I need a good internal (controller based) modem for a potato server.

USRobotics Courier v.Everything.  It's expensive but it will be around
forever.  My friend has one that started life as a 14.4 and then upgraded
to 19.2Terbo/bis and 28.8 and 33.6 and now 56k.




Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote:

 I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it anywhere?
 What is so good about it and where can I get it?

http://www.helixcode.com/




RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote:

 This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the games
 and stuff I don't use.  I will have to suggest this to the developers.

Uhh.. So why not just purge the games along with task-helix-gnome?
Problem solved.



Re: strange /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread iehrenwald
  Sep  3 17:37:30 stimpy -- MARK --

Those are from syslogd.  I think it defaults to every 20 minutes making a
-- MARK -- in the logs.  I occasionally find them useful for finding out
an aprox. time when an even occured.  The interval can be changed with the
-m arg.

Ian Ehrenwald




Re: Netscape color problem

2000-09-02 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, James Clawson wrote:

 Help: When I run Netscape (4.73) the colors keep
 changing-from gray to brown, for example.  This occurs
 when I move the mouse pointer off the window.  I get
[snip]

If I remember correctly, Netscape misbehaves like this when you're using
24bpp color depth.  Try using 16 or 32. 

Ian




Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:

 Just read it and tell me what you think about it.

I think it has some valid points.  He brings up issues that make sense and
should of been taken care of a long time ago (eg: commenting out archaic
services in inetd.conf, default homedir perms, etc).  Maybe Debian
maintainers should go over 2.2 with a fine-tooth comb and release a 2.2.1
security/system update?

Ian Ehrenwald




Re: Linksys LNE100TX ethernet lan card

2000-08-25 Thread iehrenwald
So the long and the short of it is, I'm looking for anyone who might
 have installed this card and gotten it running on a debian box,

lspci -v:

00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX Fast
Ethernet Adapter (rev 25)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc: Unknown device c001
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
I/O ports at c400
Memory at dd001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: available only to root

ifconfig:

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:E1:4D:12  
  inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:720 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
  Interrupt:18 Base address:0xc400 

/proc/interrupts:

 18:349369   IO-APIC-level  eth0


I didn't have to do anything special to the card.  I just plugged it in
and selected DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support in the kernel
(2.2.16) config options.  You might want to hunt around in your BIOS
settings and see what you have for PCI Options.  Maybe you can
force-assign an IRQ to the card?

Ian




Re: over 400 msg's this am

2000-08-25 Thread iehrenwald
 Someone in Hong Kong has a broken mail-news gateway that is
 regurgitating the list.

As a slight aside, why does so much spam and other troublesome things come
from/get routed through Asian systems?  Do sysadmins over there just set
up a box and forget about it? 




Re: I've got me a sourceforge project for something I really don't think exists, but haven't much any coding experience

2000-08-22 Thread iehrenwald
 nothing that has the ability to have a playlist that fades from 1 song to

apt-get install xmms-crossfade



Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread iehrenwald
   /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos'
   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Try adding -lm to your compile command.   That tells gcc to use the math
lib.

Ian




Re: XFree86 4.0.1 from source

2000-07-31 Thread iehrenwald
 Could not init font path element /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,
 removing from list!
 Could not init font path element /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
 removing from list!

I did the same thing you did and I get those same errors.  It doesn't seem
to hurt anything so I always ignored them.  Probably not the answer you
were looking for but it's better than being ignored.

Ian




Re: Good 2D PCI card?

2000-07-24 Thread iehrenwald
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I wanted some opinions on a good 2D PCI card that has good support in
 linux/xfree86.  Needs to support 1600x1200 @32bit 

Try to find an 8MB or larger Matrox Millennium II PCI. 

Ian



Re: XF4.0 deb eta?

2000-05-27 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote:

 
 
 Ok,
   Not trying to tick anyone off, but I need the NVIDIA driver for my new
 video card and it appears to require XF-4.0.  I'd rather keep to .debs and
 not go source or converted .rpm, so I can keep my box clean...
 Anyone got an eta or a really cookbooks install/config for putting 4.0 
 on a woody system.
 
 Robert

Just compile everything yourself.  It's not hard.  Edit the config file,
install to /usr/local/X11R6.  Put /usr/local/X11R6/lib before
/usr/X11R6/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf.  Put /usr/local/X11R6/bin before
/usr/X11R6/bin in your path.  Grab the NVIDIA drivers and compile away.
Works great here.  

Ian




Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Gould wrote:

 Sorry, but this is rubbish! The SCSI controller will have no effect on the
 disk rotational velocity. However this is not what the poster asked! If
 you put an Ultra 2 wide on a non wide channel the transfers will be eight
 bits at a time instead of 16, i.e. half the speed, but it will work
 fine. Some cards like the AHA2940UW have a wide and a narrow channel, if
 the Ultra wide disk is put on the UW channel and the Ultra disk is on the
 standard channel there will be no effect on performance.
 
 HTH JohnG

On a somewhat related note.. I have a 2940UW.  Can I use a 50 pin Ultra2
drive on the 50 pin Narrow channel?  I know I wouldn't get U2 speeds, but
the 50 pin narrow channel is all I have to use.  68 pin UW is too
expensive and hard to find these days.  I can find 50 pin Ultra2
18 gig drives for pretty cheap.  Thanks.

Ian




Re: problem with 2.3.99 kernel

2000-05-05 Thread iehrenwald
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Pollywog wrote:

[snip]
 shmget: shm filesystem not mounted
[snip]

Ghhh RTFM!

  Shared memory is now implemented using a new (minimal) virtual file
  system, which you need to mount before programs can use shared  
  memory. To do this automatically at system startup just add the
  following line to your /etc/fstab:

  none   /var/shmshm defaults0 0
   
That was taken straight from the HELP option of SysV IPC in the kernel
config.

Ian



Re: terminals

2000-01-15 Thread iehrenwald
 and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7.  At least I *think*
 you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that one.  But this should at

I think you can just 'init q' and it will re-read the inittab.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread iehrenwald
 Does anyone know if it is possible to get the SCSI card that came with
 my Umax Astra 600S to work under Linux?

My Umax Astra 1200S came with a piece of crap $5 SCSI card that worked
under Windows only.  I picked up an Adaptec AHA1520 for $20 at a local
used computer place and it works fine.  I have to manually set the IRQ and
ioport and all that in the drivers/scsi/Makefile beacuse it has no
autodeteection/onboard BIOS.  But it still works.  

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread iehrenwald
 So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection?

Yes.  (Wow, wasn't that a waste of bandwidth)

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread iehrenwald
 My UMAX Astra 1200S uses a DB25.

Whoops.  My fault.  I missed some details on my end.  After I used to AHA
card for a while I replaced it with a Tekram 390 PCI.  The 390 has an
external 50 pin, so I needed an adaptor.  I'd rather have a PCI card than
an ISA one.  Brain fart.  Sorry.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: acer modem?

1999-12-15 Thread iehrenwald
 never takes the fax call, manually i can receive fax, but not
 automatically

Are you using mgetty?  If not you might want to take a look at it.
apt-get install mgetty mgetty-docs

 erasmo

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs

1999-11-20 Thread iehrenwald


On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:

   Hi,
   I'm building an ISP and I have 56 Kbs modem's and configured mgetty but
 I cant connect with my clients above 31200 kbs.
   What can be wrong?

Right.  You cannot do 56k - 56k using modems.  You have to have
USR/3Com's specialized hardware rack modem setup in order to do 56k to
your customers.  Unless you invest in one of these, you will only connect
at 33600 maximum.

--Ian Ehrenwald


Re: PPP problems on potato

1999-11-18 Thread iehrenwald
 Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0
 Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1
 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests 
 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Connection terminated.
 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
 Nov 17 21:29:47 debian pppd[137]: Exit.

I had this stupid pain in the ass problem also.  It seems that
/etc/serial.conf sets your ttyS1 as a 16450 instead of 16550A.  Change the
entry in /etc/serial.conf reguarding ttyS1 to 16550A.  I don't know why it
does that.  But it took me a week to debug that stupid stuff.  It never
donned on me to check something like that.  Finally I just did cat
/etc/*|grep ttyS1.  The rest is history. 

--Ian Ehrenwald


Re: TNT2

1999-10-18 Thread iehrenwald
 are there any drivers for the TNT2 AGP (not the new ultra) available?

I'm using a TNT2 Ultra with Xfree 3.3.5 and the glx module from
http://pandora.debian.org/~crow.  I'm 99% sure that the X server and glx
module will work with the normal TNT2. 

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-17 Thread iehrenwald
 If you have an ATX case and motherboard, shutdown -h -p now or the
 shorter poweroff also turns power down. You should have compiled
 your kernel with APM poweroff option for this to work.

Note: If you are on a SMP machine, APM will break things badly.  So don't
use it then.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: booting from SCSI

1999-10-16 Thread iehrenwald
 Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root
 partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ?

Look in your BIOS and check out the boot order options.  Stuff like
A,C,SCSI  C,A,SCSI  SCSI,A,C  CDROM,A,C   etc

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: linux unformat

1999-10-15 Thread iehrenwald


On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Luis wrote:

 HI

[snip]

You've mailed this message four times now.  Please stop it.  If anyone has
ideas, they'll say something.  

--Ian Ehrenwald


Re: install, I'm in over my head

1999-10-15 Thread iehrenwald
   Linear, paride, raid0, raid1, raid5.

You probably don't need any of them.  paride is for parallel port IDE
devices.  All the RAID ones are for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.
I'm not sure what linear is for.

 I could not install one module though it really sounds important: 
   xd xt hard disk controller

I don't think you need that either unless you have a REALLY anchient
machine.  The normal IDE drivers should suffice.

 fit my setup. I have a Mitsumi cd-rom manufactured in September 1993. I see

[snip]
Dunno what to suggest here.  I have an all SCSI system and the systems I 
work on are all SCSI also so I don't usually deal with that stuff.

 for my home use. If I cannot complete the install tonight do my partitions
 stay intact? I am a man but I am nearly having tears of frustration, for as

The partitions aren't going anywhere if you turn the computer off.  But
I'd suggest just leaving it on until you get some answers.  Just turn the
monitor off.

 I was typing this out a few minutes ago with a Win98 sitting nearby I
 suffered a fatal exception and lost all the detailed questions that I am
 asking here just before sending it. Agh

Ugh.  Sorry man.  The quicker we get you running Linux, the quicker the
road to recovery :)

--Ian Ehrenwald


Re: Banner

1999-10-15 Thread iehrenwald
 I have Debian (slink) installed in a Packard Bell, and I want to get rid
 of the Packard Bell banner that shows up at the beginning, when it is
 rebooted. I would like to replace it with the Debian logo, or the Linux
 penguin may be. How do I do it?

This is part of the BIOS and as far as I know you cannot change this
unless you have a EEPROM burner, a blank,  and an image of a BIOS without
the logo.

I remember some time ago there was some sort of movement to include
advertisments in the computer POST stages.  Hopefully that died.  Quickly.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread iehrenwald
 I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux
 server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer
 from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH
 faster and more stable that all of the previous versions I have used.

Does it fix the problems that make me hate Netscape so?  The Java that
crashes/freezes NS, the DNS lookups that freeze NS, the random crashes if
you don't close windows in the correct order, etc.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread iehrenwald
 I am using the latest .deb packages (4.7) and I _never_ have any of these
 things happens. Perhaps your problems lie elsewhere. No offense

I dunno.  Ever since I started using Netscape 4.0x and everything later it
always would exhibit those problems on certain sites.  I know others have
these problems, I see messages about them every now and then.  Maybe
you're just lucky.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
 So it only cleared 700K. This pisses me off. Any ideas, anyone?

Netscape's cache features never worked right.  Netscape is a stupid and
terrible browser.  

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
 So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some
 important features. I use lynx quite often, but it's only good when
 one wants to read some text pages. Emacs/W3 eats memory like crasy,
 and is slow and lacks features even more...

Heh.  Nope.  No alternative.  You learn to live with it.  Untill Mozilla
is done, that is.  Hopefully Mozilla will be good.  I was playing with
Mozilla M10 a few days ago and was very impressed.  It still crashed often
and didn't handle somethings right but it was a giant step in the right
direction.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Debian menu

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
 I accidentally deleted the Debian menu while playing with
 WMakerconf. Is there a way I can get it back?

Try running 'update-menus'

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
 If you're looking for a better lynx than lynx, try w3m, found at
 http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/.  I've been playing with it
 recently and it's not perfect, but I'm very impressed.

I saw this mentioned on slashdot so I look a look at it and am very
impressed with how it handles frames and tables.  Much much better than
lynx.  

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
 I saw this mentioned on slashdot so I look a look at it and am very

WHoops.  took a look :P



Re: video accelarators under linux

1999-10-10 Thread iehrenwald


On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Micha Feigin wrote:

 I was wondering whether video accelerators work undre linux (such as
 vodoo ( i think 3000 or somethink like that ) which is popular at list
 around here).

I like my AGP Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 Ultra 32MB.  You need to do a lot of
fiddling with files to get it to take advantage of its 3D acceleration but
its worth it.  I run Quake3Test in 1024x768x16bit with all the lighting
effects on and its beautifal.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: customized-hdrs (Pine)

1999-10-10 Thread iehrenwald
 Hi,
 
 before I compiled Pine source, I set the right options. But Pine send the
 [Not allowd to change header From] message when I start compose. I have
 an elder version, too. It workd fine before I install this newer 4.10. But
 now it says also Not allowd What did I do wrong? (It's not allowd
 for each user e.g root :(
 
 Thanks for your reply.

At the main pine screen, press 'S', then 'R'.  Press 'A' to add a role.
Bring the cursor down to Set From.  Change it to where you want mail to
look like its coming from.  The rest of a values you can probably leave as
defaults.  Press 'E' to exit the role and answer yes to any Do you want
to save ... questions.  Now back at the role screen you should see the
role you just created.  

When you want to send mail using that role, press '#' at pine's main
screen.  Select the role you created, and proceed as normal.  

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: filenames beginning with -

1999-10-10 Thread iehrenwald
 Apparently about an hour ago something made a few files in my homedir
 that began with -, and now I can't read them and can't remove them:

Try using midnight commander or some other tool like that to remove them.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: X crashed, keyboard blocked...

1999-10-08 Thread iehrenwald


On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Debian Mail wrote:

 XF86_Mach64 crashed on my system, leaving it in graphics mode. No the
 keyboard is blocked and I can't change to a virtual console
 anymore. ps aux tells me that the X server is gone. How can I unlock
 the keyboard?
 
 Stef

Next time you're compiling your kernel, go to the kernel hacking section
and select magic keys.  Then read linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt

--Ian Ehrenwald


Re: Pine 4.1

1999-10-08 Thread iehrenwald


On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, ping.win wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I'm new here. My English is poor, sorry. I'm trying to compile the
 $SUBJECT :( There is
 ...
 ranlib libpico.a
 
 cc -g - DDEBUG -Dlnx -DJOB_CONTROL -DPOSIX -DMOUSE main.o libpico.a
 -ltermcap -o pico
 ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory
 make: *** [pico] error 1

Replace -ltermcap with -lncurses in the Makefile of pico, pine, and the
rest of the Makefiles.  If you read the docs, you'd see it.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: telnet banner

1999-10-08 Thread iehrenwald


On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote:

 How can I set my linux to display a banner before it prompts for login?
 I can do it in solaris by editing /etc/default/telnetd

Edit /etc/issue.net for remote logins and /etc/issue for local.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: Sound Config Probs

1999-10-06 Thread iehrenwald


On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

 I have compiled the sound support into my kernel for a
 SB16 card also using isapnp.  A few points which I
 noticed.
 
 1. you MUST not compile INTO the kernel, make sound
 drivers a module.  After installing your new kernel

[snip]

Not always true.  I have a Creative Labs AWE64 ISA PNP.  I use kernel
2.3.18ac10 and the built in isapnp routines.  I also compiled sound
support INTO the kernel and it works fine.  The kernel iaspnp inits the
card at bootup and then a few processes later the kernel sound finds the
card and it works fine.  

Then again, not everyone likes using bleeding edge kernels.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Re: dual celeron m/b

1999-10-05 Thread iehrenwald


On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Kam Yee Lo wrote:

 Just curious about Debian running dual celeron with better FPU? I'm
 thinking of  installing Debian on dual celeron for CAD. Is dual celeron
 500mhz faster than Pentium III 500mhz? I want good debian linux and
 cheap dual celeron :)
 
 Anyone have dual celeron AbIT motherboard?
 
 Thanks
 Griz

Hi Kam,
I am running an Abit BP6 with 2 x Celeron 400s.  It usually behaves itself
but is very sensative to heat.  I get lockups every now and then because
of the BX chip overheating.  The heatsink that comes on the board on top
of the BX doens't provide enough heat dissipation sp.  What I and a few
others from the linux-smp list have done is put a small Socket7 CPU 
fan+heatsink on top of the chip and it seems to cool things down somewhat.
My case is a mess of fans.  I have one fan sucking air out the back, one
fan blowing air in the front, and one fan laying directly on top of the
two processors [each CPU gets 1/2 the fan].  

Use MPS v1.4 mode selectable in the BIOS because it gets you a lot more
IRQs and other stuff that I don't know enough about.  If you have a bus
mastering PCI SCSI card put it in PCI2.  USB and the last two PCI slots
share IRQs I think.  The onboard ATA66 doohickey works with a patch from
The Linux IDE Guy (tm).  

Ian Ehrenwald



unix:0

1999-10-03 Thread iehrenwald
What controls what appears when you 'w'?  I just noticed that when I am in
X and I 'w' all my X terms are from unix:0 instead of plain old :0 like
they used to be.  extace doesn't work with unix:0, it just likes :0.  Is
there a non destructive way I can change it back to :0?  Thanks.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Kerneld guilty of module descrimination

1999-06-05 Thread iehrenwald
Good [morning|afternoon|evening],
Can someone give me a little help with kerneld and my sound modules?
kerneld loads every module automagicly when needed, but not my sound
modules.  It was working fine then just broke one day.  Probably when
I got the new modutils.  I have modutils 2.1.121-23 installed on a
bleeding edge potato box.  When I take a peek in my system logs I see:

solvent modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-0-3
solvent modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-0

But if I manually 'modprobe sound' everything works fine.  Anyone have
expirence with this?  If you reply, please CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
because I am not subscribed to debian-user anymore.  

Thanks
Ian Ehrenwald



PAM trouble

1999-06-04 Thread iehrenwald
Hi, 
   I'm having a little trouble with PAM on my bleeding edge potato system.
When I am in a rxvt term and try to 'su' I get the PAM_RUSER error
described in the NOTES.su file. But if I 'su' in xterm or Eterm,
everything goes fine.  I compiled rxvt with utmp/wtmp support thinking
that would fix it but no dice.  If you respond, please 
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'm not subscribed to d-u-d anymore.
Thanks for the help.

--Ian Ehrenwald



Pine question

1999-04-17 Thread iehrenwald
Hi everyone,
I am using pine to read/send mail.  I am also using a dial-up connection
for my Internet access.  My login name for my machine is 'ian'.  My
account on my ISP is 'iehrenwald'.  How do I get pine to send mail from
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and not '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or whatever it is at now?
I tried playing with the passwd file using chfn but that didn't seem to do
it?  Anyone have some ideas?  Thanks.  

--Ian Ehrenwald
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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