Re: [SLUG] Wiki suggestions?
Confluence is a good start for a wiki: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing?_mid=206e3e3a242fb80ba4d7ba972f52c657&gclid=CIbO5Y-M9scCFYkrvQodRNoAOw#server Doesn't cost heaps and it's a solid wiki. On 11/09/2015 11:21 AM, DaZZa wrote: Learned ones,. I'm looking for a Wiki to setup for the company to make available to contractors semi-private documents I don't mind if I have to pay a little for it, but open source would be most excellent. So, I'm looking for suggestions for some form of Wiki. I'd like 1) Secure - two levels of access (view/edit) 2) Lightweight 3) Linux (obviously, 'cause f**k paying Microsoft tax where I don't have to) It'd be nice if I could integrate it with AD (or at least LDAP query for usernames/passwords), but that's not critical. It'd also be nice if I could put some kind of skin or theme on it customised by the marketing nazi's to make it look all company-ie. Any suggestions? Thanks. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] patch your bash shells now
Hey SLUG, I'm sure everyone's aware of this issue. But just for the people that may have missed the fan fair yesterday: http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/09/25/236256/first-shellshock-botnet-attacking-akamai-us-dod-networks If your running debian, they re-released a patch this morning (a complete fix now). If you think you are not affected, YOU ARE AFFECTED, patch all your systems (this has so many vectors). Regards Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] flashing motherboard with no floppy drive
Now that you mention it, the computer did recently loose its clock once. Caused me to really panic as the linux boot reported all my partitions to be corrupted! (turned out that was from an apparant incorrect date). So, where do I get a CMOS battery from? Thanks Jon On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:33:02 am Martin Visser wrote: > Ah, yes. The checksum might be on the CMOS NVRAM settings rather than the > BIOS executable code. If the BIOS considers the settings invalid (by > comparing to some stored checksum - also stored in the CMOS NVRAM) then it > might failing back to what you are seeing. This can be confirmed by > defaulting the BIOS settings (making sure you have recorded any system > specific settings that are important, such as drive geometry) and > rebooting. If you keep system power on between reboots and the problem > does not reoccur, yet does have problems when your system gets powered > down (and the CMOS NVRAM needs to rely on the battery) then it could well > be your battery is at the end of its useful life. (Usually the first sign > is the system clock no longer operates when powered down). > > > Regards, Martin > > martinvisse...@gmail.com > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: > > On 29/08/10 18:48, Jonathan wrote: > >> BTW, just realised I typed the motherboard code wrong, its actually: > >> GA-7VT600 1394 > >> > >> cheers > >> > >> Jon > > > > Just checking, its not the CMOS battery gone flat causing your problems > > is it? > > It sounds similar in symptoms. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] flashing motherboard with no floppy drive
BTW, just realised I typed the motherboard code wrong, its actually: GA-7VT600 1394 cheers Jon On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:22:05 pm Martin Visser wrote: > Just wondering in what way the BIOS is corrupted. I managed to create a > customised Award BIOS that simply wouldn't work after I had fiddled with > it. My impression is that if the BIOS not found the fall-back is to load > the boot-block from a floppy. That did happen in my case. > > It could be that you BIOS is still half-working so the fall-back doesn't > occur. > > No guarantees, but you might get joy can follow a procedure such as the > attached to temporarily disabled the BIOS (basically by shorting a pair of > pins) by forcing a checksum error. Following is an example I found by > googling for "short BIOS pins" - > http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=76346 > > (I don't think a USB connected floppy drive will work with this procedure). > > Regards, Martin > > martinvisse...@gmail.com > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Jonathan wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have an old gigabyte motherboard GA-7VT300 1394 whose BIOS has become a > > bit > > corrupted. I need to reflash the bios, but the floppy drive doesn't work. > > I've > > trued pluging in other floppy drives all to no avail. Does anyone know > > how to > > resolve this? > > > > Currently using version F4 f the bios. > > > > Thanks > > > > Jon > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] flashing motherboard with no floppy drive
Hi Martain, I'm not sure what it is that is corrupted with the bios. It fails the check sum, and is a pain to boot, but once grub loads succesfully the computer is fine. The bios flashing options availabe - that I can see, only allow for a traditional floppy drive. I was wondering if someone knew a way around that. My main problem seems to be that the floppy drive system doesn't work. I've tried multiple floppy drives and floppy disks, anyone have any ideas where the problem could be? Thanks Jon On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:22:05 pm Martin Visser wrote: > Just wondering in what way the BIOS is corrupted. I managed to create a > customised Award BIOS that simply wouldn't work after I had fiddled with > it. My impression is that if the BIOS not found the fall-back is to load > the boot-block from a floppy. That did happen in my case. > > It could be that you BIOS is still half-working so the fall-back doesn't > occur. > > No guarantees, but you might get joy can follow a procedure such as the > attached to temporarily disabled the BIOS (basically by shorting a pair of > pins) by forcing a checksum error. Following is an example I found by > googling for "short BIOS pins" - > http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=76346 > > (I don't think a USB connected floppy drive will work with this procedure). > > Regards, Martin > > martinvisse...@gmail.com > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Jonathan wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have an old gigabyte motherboard GA-7VT300 1394 whose BIOS has become a > > bit > > corrupted. I need to reflash the bios, but the floppy drive doesn't work. > > I've > > trued pluging in other floppy drives all to no avail. Does anyone know > > how to > > resolve this? > > > > Currently using version F4 f the bios. > > > > Thanks > > > > Jon > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] flashing motherboard with no floppy drive
Hi All, I have an old gigabyte motherboard GA-7VT300 1394 whose BIOS has become a bit corrupted. I need to reflash the bios, but the floppy drive doesn't work. I've trued pluging in other floppy drives all to no avail. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Currently using version F4 f the bios. Thanks Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] SATA pci Card question
Hi Bill, Sometimes there is a jumper to disable SATA2 and run the disk using SATA1. This may help for compatibility with your older controllers. Kind regards, *Jonathan Molyneux* Infinitedepth Consulting jonat...@infinitedepth.com.au bill wrote: I recently purchased a SATA Terabyte HDD and am having problems with various PCs not being able to even boot the Bios past discovering this HDD. I'm assuming that the mobos are too old to have Bios's that can handle Terabyte HDDS. My newest PC has an Intel Atom mobo and I have had success with this PC. However, the mobo has only 2 SATA connectors, 1 being used for my DVDRW and the other for the boot HDD. I formatted the terabyte HDD by substituting it for the boot hdd and using a LiveCD. This PC has a PCI SATA card, but the terrabyte hdd wont work with it, though a 320 gb SATA hdd will. All of the mobos in question have the latest Bios ( at least 3 yrs old except for Atom mobo) Question:- what is the command to determine the type of card and its bios revision? When I have this info I can try to find a bios update. Final solution is to get a more up-to-date SATA card. Google hasnt helped. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux and VOIP
Hi All, Maybe I'm just typing the wrong thing into Google, but this seems a hard topic to get info on. Here's what I want to do: Connect my existing land line phones into some piece of hardware so I can then use my cable internet connection to make calls. Some people seem to think you can use a normal 56K (voice) modem to do this, with some software on my linux box. (seams like the cheapest option!) Others seem to think there is specific hardware to connect a landline phone into an ethernet to convert the phones to VOIP phones. Infact netcomm sell these, but require direct connection to the modem, which sounds like it could present problems with the bigpond heart beat, and my remote access. Apparantly netcomm don't make reliable hardware anyway, something I would think inportant for this application. Oh, and I know all this could be done easily if I just went to an ADSL2+ plan+voip, but I'm a long way from the exchange (3.8km by google maps) Any thoughts? Cheers Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recovering removed files
Hi David, I dablled in this once before. I would recomend you go for a Live CD, although you don't need (as the disk isn't monted for system use. I think you'll find that as they tend to prepackaged for this kind of thing, they might just be easier to use. Also saves stuffing around with non-repository software, which is touch and go if your not a developer. I can't remember which it was but I used either: System Rescue CD The Ultimate Boot disk My copies were/are a few years old now, but one of the two i found was able to resurect scarily large amounts of supposedly deleted files. I think that is/was their actual names. Both free, both based on a combination of linux, free BSD and FreeDOS. Good Luck! Jon On Thu, 14 May 2009 12:14:57 pm david wrote: > Long story, but I have a photo that has been removed (rm file.jpg) on an > ext3 filesystem, Ubuntu 8.10 > > The hard drive is NOT the root drive and it has been unmounted and > remounted read only - <# mount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mountpoint>. > Nothing was written on the drive as far as I know before unmounting. > > The obvious question: how to attempt recovery? I've stumbled on a thing > called ext3undel but it's not in the Ubuntu repositories, which made me > suspicious. > > There are lots of google comments saying "can't be done". > > What are my chances? any suggestions? Would be nice to have some success > stories before I try the wrong thing and mess things up. > > thanks > > David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Mythbuntu SD tuners connecting to digital set top box
These cards can tune to any ONE of the following: Standard definition digital TV(works in linux) HD digital TV(works in linux) Analogue TV(partialy works in linux I think, with a lot of effort) Analogue FM radio.(doesn't work in linux, without rewriting the driver - i think) I'm pretty sure there is no way to get it to tune to even an analogue signal and a digital one at the sam time. Only one at a time. On Mon, 11 May 2009 01:32:53 am Jake Anderson wrote: > elliott-brennan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Looks like I'll be trying out something like the > > Leadtek 2000H twin digital tuner card in my > > mythbuntu box rather than checking out set top > > boxes :) > > > > I'll let you all know how I go. > > > > The only thing I'm curious about is these cards > > don't have onboard hardware encoders. I've read a > > comment that these are not necessary for digital tv > > > > - anyone know anything about this? > > > > - anyone used one of these cards before? > > > > Regards, > > > > Patrick > > I'm pretty sure they aren't "dual digital" > They are a hybrid card, so they can get 1 digital and one analogue signal. > > What I would really like is a (decently supported) dual digital low > profile tuner card. > divco was releasing one, > http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/ENG/products/DVBTDualExpress.aspx > but driver support still seem dodgy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Mythbuntu SD tuners connecting to digital set top box
I Use one of these cards. I find sometimes they seem to have a bandwith problem craming the HD through the computer to watch or record. I get it on an old AMD 2gHz chip and a new AMD quad core. A similar card (put with PCIE rather than PCI) had a similar problem, so that may not be the card. Apart from that these cards work great on kubuntu with mytubuntu extensions - hwich is what I run. I think they run out of the box now, when I set it up it a while ago needed to be told what card number it was. I had talked to some developers a while ago and helped them develop the analouge tuner models for this card (I only asked and tested patches, no idea about how it works) so that part worked flawlessly with their patches. This then ofcourse got lost in an upgrade :( but it is now part of a bleeding edge release I do belive, but don't think it has filtered through to ubuntu yet. Biggiset issue I've noticed with this card is the quality of the tuner. We have a Sony TV, only analogue, but clearly has a much better tuner in it. It gets more TV stations, with good (analogue) reception. This card... not so good on the tuning, and reception poor in heavy weather. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much choice in the quality of the cards available. Just make sure you have a good aerial or live close to the towers. Cheers Jon On Sat, 9 May 2009 10:54:32 pm elliott-brennan wrote: > Hi all, > > Looks like I'll be trying out something like the > Leadtek 2000H twin digital tuner card in my > mythbuntu box rather than checking out set top > boxes :) > > I'll let you all know how I go. > > The only thing I'm curious about is these cards > don't have onboard hardware encoders. I've read a > comment that these are not necessary for digital tv > > - anyone know anything about this? > > - anyone used one of these cards before? > > Regards, > > Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu SD tuners connecting to digital set top box
Call me slow, but are you: Trying to connect the set top box into the computer or connect the set computer into the set top box or connect the computer into the TV Or everything into the TV? All of which should be possible. though I've only done the last one. Jon On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:11:12 pm elliott-brennan wrote: > Hi all, > > Not having a digital set top box at the present, I'm wondering if > anyone has any experience connecting one to a mythbuntu box with SD > PCI tuners? > > I have a Mythubuntu 8.04 box with two PVR-150s and a telly cable > splitter running aerial cables to each tuner: > > 1. Do I need to have a 'twin-tuner' set top box to simultaneously > record two stations like I can now? > > Or > > 2. Do I merely plug the incoming aerial into the set top box then run > a cable to my aerial splitter box? > > I'm guess in short I'm assuming that I only need to put the digital > box in between my incoming aerial and my mythbox and nothing more > needs to be done - or is it more complicated that this? > > Many thanks for any advice/cluesticks given. > > Regards, > > Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?
Hi, I remember that there was at some stage, soemthing with the EULA with Windows. Essentially, it can only be valid if you voluntarily accept it, therefore, if you don't you can uninstall it, send the CD's and documentation back to Microsoft and they have to "refund" you the value. Never tried it, or talked face to face with ayone that has tried it though. Any thoughts? Cheers Jon On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:19:02 pm Meijer, Luke wrote: > Hi > > I bought a Dell XPS 1330 as these came with Ubuntu pre-installed. > > Soon as I got it I uninstalled Vista then installed my Linux OS (opensuse). > > As they ship with Linux you can be sure the drivers are no problem, so > nothing is stopping you from uninstalling the Windows OS yourself. > > Unless you want to save ~$100 by not getting Windows in the first place? > Would be nice I guess, but shouldn't stop you. > > Luke > > -Original Message- > From: slug-boun...@slug.org.au [mailto:slug-boun...@slug.org.au] On Behalf > Of Erik de Castro Lopo Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 3:12 PM > To: slug@slug.org.au > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed? > > Craig Ayliffe wrote: > > If you go to a product and click on Build Your Own, their is an > > Operating System option where you can select Ubuntu OS Preloaded. > > Found it. > > Its rather well hidden and the window logo to the left hurt my eyes. > > Thanks. > > Erik > -- > -- > Erik de Castro Lopo > http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mythTV mySQL woes
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:26:59 am Jake Anderson wrote: > Jonathan wrote: > > Hi ALL, > > > > So after a few months at out new home, I eventualy realised that our TV > > antena pointed a different direction to everyone else. A bit of a tweak, > > an wolla! I had (some) digital TV back on the computer. > > So with this new found victory i decided to re-configure my Myth TV so I > > could use it over my network. > > > > Here begins the problems > > > > After changing the permisions on MYSQL I can no longer access it from > > Myth. Yet I can log into it from KMySQLAdmin. > > > > How can one programme access it and another not? > > > > HELP!!! > > this is the only error I could pick up: > > driver error 1/1044 > > > > Running: > > Kubuntu (presumably the latest version, I'm always installing updates) > > Card: PVR2000(H?) rev j > > > > Thanks > > > > Jon > > try connecting from the command line > mysql -u mythconverg -p -h localhost > > to see what usernames and passwords you should be using > cat /etc/mythtv/mysql.conf (i think its a .conf) > > what do you mean by changed the permissions on mysql? > > Reading between the lines I reckons you might be having a localhost > socket/tcpip mojo problem. > if you want to run other myth front ends you want to change the user > mythconverg to 'mythconverg'@'%' rather than 'mythconverg'@'localhost' > (note the quotes, if you do the grant without the quotes it can all go > pear shaped) > you will also need to edit /etc/mysql/my.conf and change "bind address" > to "0.0.0.0" or to the ip address of your network adaptor Hi Jake, > mysql -u mythconverg -p -h localhost but mythconverg is the database not the user? > what do you mean by changed the permissions on mysql? I use the webmin module to change the settings for MYSQL. I told it allow user mythtv to connect from any port > you will also need to edit /etc/mysql/my.conf and change "bind address" > to "0.0.0.0" or to the ip address of your network got me: /usr/bin/mysql: unknown variable 'bindaddress=0.0.0.0' what do you mean by change the user? I did notice that sometimes for some weird reason when I typed int the network IP of my server 192 it came up as 'myth' '@' ' ' in the log window, which I thought was weird. Cheers Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mythTV mySQL woes
Hi ALL, So after a few months at out new home, I eventualy realised that our TV antena pointed a different direction to everyone else. A bit of a tweak, an wolla! I had (some) digital TV back on the computer. So with this new found victory i decided to re-configure my Myth TV so I could use it over my network. Here begins the problems After changing the permisions on MYSQL I can no longer access it from Myth. Yet I can log into it from KMySQLAdmin. How can one programme access it and another not? HELP!!! this is the only error I could pick up: driver error 1/1044 Running: Kubuntu (presumably the latest version, I'm always installing updates) Card: PVR2000(H?) rev j Thanks Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] VLC to TV
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:35:02 pm Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to > play video files. Sort of like home theatre. > > or video files over a lan connection from a server. > > recording tv is not necessary but may be good. > > Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware > appliance? > > Thanks > Ben Hi Ben, No matter what you do, make sure you get a working remote control. Otherwise, don't bother with a TV specific setup and just go for your favourite linux distro, as after you go to all the hastle of getting a keyboard and mouse out to watch the TV, it's lost the appeal. This happened to me, I couldn't get the remote on my leadtek winfast DTV2000H TV card to work, so I just got a 5m VGA cable, a spare flat screen monitor (yes I know, how luxurious just to so happen to have a LCD monitor with speaker kicking around) and set up a computer in the lounge area, which can go into the TV when we want. If you have gone to the expense of getting a big flat screen tv, why not spend the extra $80 for a TV tuner so you can at least record programmes to watch later. Trust me, if you have a wife, it saves arguments (agreed to by fellow married friends with a tv card) Cheers Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Merry Christmas and why did I get a message saying I had <4% of my HDD space left?
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:42:56 pm Daniel Pittman wrote: > elliott-brennan writes: > > I got home (from a very good day) and found my machine with a message > > on the screen (in front of Thunderbird) saying that I had less that 4% > > of my /home space left and did I want to start Konqueror to resolve > > this. > > > > Of course, I said yes. Then the whole GUI froze and I ended up > > rebooting and logging-in in safe mode. On checking the disk space: > > > > df -h > > > > I found I had used 79% of my /home space (500G SATA drive with 412G on > > /home). > > [...] > > > Can someone please provide me a bit of an idea as to what this may > > have been about? > > Well, I can't explain why you got the warning, or if it is a genuine > warning or a bug, but I can perhaps shed some light on a corner of Unix > that might explain things: > > Under Unix, if a process opens a file, then deletes it, without closing > the file, it remains in existence until the process exits. It can, for > example, continue to write to the file. > > One of the traditional ways to run out of space on a Unix machine, and > to confuse the heck out of a new sysadmin, is based on this: > > You start a process that, for some reason, spews a huge amount of junk > out, such as bogus warnings or over-verbose logging, and send that to a > file. > > Then, the new admin notices the huge file after a while and deletes it, > but the process doesn't close the file — it continues to write it in the > background. > > Give it a little time and the admin starts to wonder why there is only a > few percent of disk space free, but nothing shows up using it with du(1) > and friends... > > Worse, a reboot cures this — because as soon as the daemon stops running > the file system will free the file, returning the disk space to the free > pool... > > Regards, > Daniel Hi Daniel, Not my problem, but interesting! Is there then such a utility that shows actual disk usage and one which shows effective disk usage, ass mentioned by your email above. cheers Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Bentley Car Manuals
Hi All, Has anyone ever used a CD version of a Bentley car manual on Linux? It's pretty expensive, and needs to be specially imported from half way round the world (for my car) So I don't want to go to the trouble and expense for something not likely to work. Thanks Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's
Hi All, I just saw someone was unfortunate enough to have a ZTE mobile. I just wanted to encourage all people not to get a phone from them. I had one. It constantly crashed, dropped out calls, and eventually broke itself. Yes, it broke itself. I had it sitting on my leg while I was sitting down, no pressure on it, just body temperature, and the screen cracked. The leaking then destroyed the phone. The warranty wasn't honoured. Enjoy! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Problem with USB ports
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:04:51 pm you wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:54:04 +1100 > > Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Allen wrote: > > > I have a Dell system loaded with Hardy Heron. > > > The screen has 2 USB ports. > > > With Dapper drake they worked just fine. Every time I plugged in a > > > Flash Drive or digital camera, an appropriate Icon appeared on the > > > desktop (and in the places menu) for me to view and transfer data. > > > I have lost that since my upgrade to Hardy Heron. With the flash > > > drive I get no response at all. The digital camera detects that > > > the PC is connected but the PC will acknowledge the camera. > > > > > > Can any one advise how to solve this problem? > > > > Start with tail -f /var/log/messages, plug in the device, see if it > > gives you any insights. > > > > Also lspci, lsusb. > > I just had a similar problem on a Lenny installation. The problem was > permissions. Check under System -> Users and groups. Make sure that you > have permission to access external storage devices. > > Alan Yeah, I have a similar problem. I've been getting around it by setting up a mount point through webmin (something ubuntu hasn't had, and still doesn't have in its repository for ages for some reason) Anyway, today I realised if I simply made the folder it mounted to readable by all users, then "KwikDisk" does a good job of mounting and unmounting. Have a look though at the error message in dolphin/ Konqueror, mine said that HAL was unavailable or something like that. cheers JOn -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] remote mail system
Hi All, I have quite a neat system set up with my email. Fetchmail downloads it via POP3 from ISP (evil telstra). Dovcote Imap along with squirrelmail allow me to access my email (nicely filtered and sorted) over the net. Problem: I can't send email using this system. I have to use a work around from KMail (set up like I had it before all this, just simple POP3 client). This means I can't send emails from my computer over the net. I think port 25 is blocked, so It needs to take the email (which does appear in the sent folder) and then pump it up to the ISP with SMTP. Seems to be plenty of people saying that is what needs to happen, but no one who is willing to explain how that actually works, with any recent setup. Any ideas? cheers Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] wireless broadband?
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Andrew Cowie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 16:01 +1000, Del wrote: >> So, who uses wireless broadband here? > > Not telco, but I can put in a brief mention of Unwired. One of the cafes > in town just got an access point (yeay) provisioned by Unwired (oh). > > It's only been installed for a couple weeks, but I am rather > underwhelmed. It's ok for email, but I was trying to to get some remote > systems administration done this morning, and it was a most unpleasant > experience - poor latency and worse, dropping connections. > This has also been my experience with Unwired. jml -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Lange wrote: >> >> Of course, the more interesting question is WHY!?!?! > > Apologies, I had thought it was obvious. > You've missed the spirit of my question, I think. I looked only at Kenneth's post and saw something that described a complex and (I think) wrong way to generate a random byte. More broadly, generating your wireless key with a cryptographically secure RNG seems to me to be overkill for most people. Buying specialty dice for it seems plain silly.[1] Flipping a coin eight times doesn't take much longer than rolling 4d4, 2d16 or rolling 3d8 and dropping a bit, and saves you a trip to the shops. Recent events have reminded us that randomness is just as important in SSH key generation. I'd save my dice (and my time) for things that actually guard my data. jml [1] The last time I went dice shopping, I didn't see any d16s for sale. They are uncommon even in the world of tabletop roleplaying. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Kenneth Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Surely a fair die could have only 4, 6, 8, 12 or 20 faces. > I guess one solution would be to throw three dice consisting of two > octahedrons and a tetrahedron and multiply the results. Is there a more > elegant solution? > You can have a fair die for any even number. Lots of roleplaying games use ten-sided dice, which are a little like two five-sided pyramids stuck together. If you don't have a d16 handy, you could do something like this: Roll a four-sided die, subtract one, multiply by four, roll a four sided die, add to first number, subtract one. Of course, the more interesting question is WHY!?!?! jml -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spider a website
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Peter Rundle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for some recommendations for a *simple* Linux based tool to > spider a web site and pull the content back into plain html files, images, > js, css etc. > > I have a site written in PHP which needs to be hosted temporarily on a > server which is incapable (read only does static content). This is not a > problem from a temp presentation point of view as the default values for > each page will suffice. So I'm just looking for a tool which will quickly > pull the real site (on my home php capable server) into a directory that I > can zip and send to the internet addressable server. > > I know there's a lot of code out there, I'm asking for recommendations. > I'd use 'wget'. From what you describe, 'wget -r' should be very close to what you want. Consult the manpage for details about fiddling with links etc. jml -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Running a Linux Demo Zone at CeBIT
Hi LA and SLUG, We have been given the opportunity to run a huge Linux Demo Zone at CeBIT in a couple of weeks - this is in addition to the "normal" Linux Australia stand that Pia is organising, and will be a place where we can run a bunch of computers for people to come and try Linux for themselves. But to make it happen we're going to need a lot of resources in a very short time. CeBIT are providing an enormous 12m x 3m stand for the Linux Demo Zone but it's up to us to arrange everything else. At the very least we're going to need: * Computers * Furniture of some kind to put them on * Power boards and extension cables * People to help with setup, answering questions, and tear-down Although not essential it would also be great if we could arrange Internet access through a wireless provider and network them all so people can use them to check email and do general web surfing while at the show. That could make the stand a real hub of activity and expose even more people to Linux. If you have *any* ideas about sources for any of the above please let me know ASAP. For example, maybe there's a Linux training company in Sydney that would be willing to let us use some of their computers in exchange for exposure to potential Linux users. Being based in Melbourne I'm not really familiar with who's who in Sydney so I'm going to need all the help I can get to make this happen in a hurry. You can contact me on 03 9723 9399 (BH) or 0438 516 600 (most times) if you have any suggestions. This is probably the biggest opportunity we've ever had to expose Linux to a large number of people first-hand so it would be good if we made the most of it. Cheers :-) Jonathan Oxer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Fatal: could not open default font 'fixed'
Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've had some trouble with the latest dist-upgrade. > > My Xserver went but creating the symlink This is a common problem over the last couple of days; see debian-user. People have fixed it different ways. It's caused by the font and module path (amongst other things) moving to different directories. You probably(?) also have a customised xorg.conf. Probably the easiest way to fix (and what worked for me) is to move your /etc/X11/xorg.conf out of the way (eg $ mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.mine) and run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. This will write a new xorg.conf with the correct paths; you can customise it later with changes from your own xorg.conf later (once you've ascertained that x window now works). One other thing; I don't know where that v41 module lives (tried to find it using aptitude) but commenting it out didn't seem to hurt. -- Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Hello fellow SLUGers, >> >>Does anyone know of any LISP user groups in our fair city ? >> >> >Nope, but I'm willing to get involved with one. > > I'd probably pop along to such a thing largely out of curiousity. I think there are many people on this list who have at least had a passing infatuation with LISP, or something like it. If you like LISP, you might like Smalltalk as well. >The entire book is available from there, but I bought the hardcopy version >anyway. It's easier to read on the bus, and it seems only fair to support the >publisher when I'm getting that much value out of it. > > http://www.paulgraham.com/books.html is probably worth browsing through as well. Mark, doing consulting work in python. Life's not so bad ... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Nokia now selling Linux/Debian tablet-PDA
Jeff Waugh wrote: http://mobile.gtascraper.com/article.php/153/Nokia-770-Recieves-FCC-Approval/ It runs Debian and a tablet-optimised user interface built with GTK+/GNOME components on open hardware. It is righteous. Nokia have done *everything* right, at least from an Open Source community point of view. :-) Check out the Maemo project: http://www.maemo.org/ I'll have one to demo at SLUG soon. Any idea of what these might cost? Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Work wanted
Hi everyone, I'm currently looking for Linux related work in the Sydney area. I've been using Linux since '97 (Red Hat 4.2) and have 4 years solid commercial experience in medium and large companies. I have strong skills in web and network applications, pretty much covering the whole gamut of services necessary to run a companies intranet (i won't bore you with a long list of open-source applications). I've also used OpenBSD, FreeBSD and OS X in commercial settings. I have skills with Windoze but not strong on the AD side. I have intermediate skills with Perl and Shell. I'm a quick learner. I'm looking for all sorts of work including casual and my rates are reasonable (read: i'm desperate). If you're interested or know someone who is, drop me a line and i'll send you a copy of my resume. Jonathan - This email was brought to you by Dropzone.com http://www.dropzone.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Out of Office AutoReply: Delivery Server
Does anyone know how to create one of these for Linux/PostFix setup, or is there something else I should be tinkering with? try Gnarwl if you need intelligence (ie won't talk in a circle with another auto-responder) and you want ldap we use that here :) j -- Jonathan Soong Information Services Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.imvs.sa.gov.au Tel : +61 8 82223095 Fax : +61 8 82223147 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Proxy ACL (e.g. squidguard) opinions
Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with blocking malware/spyware sites at a squid proxy? We're finding that many users' computers are being infected by webpages that try to install things on their machine. I came across SquidGuard which seems to do what i want, but the last update was in 2001! Is anyone doing this at the moment? Cheers Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] DHCP configuration opinions?
Question regarding how people setup DHCP..
I want to set it up so that only certain MAC addresses can get an IP.
I want to do this without assigning static-ip's to each of these
machines (i.e. i really want a 'pool' of MAC addresses which can get an
IP, this means that if someone wants to bring a laptop in they will have
to 'register' their MAC address into our 'pool').
Is this possible?
Note 1: i realise that MAC addresses are no substitute for
authentication and can be changed easily.. but this is really to just
stop people walking in and plugging laptops into our network..
Note 2: i know that you can assign static IP's like:
host pcfin00{
hardware ethernet 00:02:b3:62:cf:ed;
fixed-address 10.20.1.1;
}
- this isn't really what i want - i want the MAC addresses to just
grab any IP in the range - not a specific fixed one.
any help/advice would be most appreciated!
Cheers
Jon
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[SLUG] Re: DSPAM vs SpamAssassin FYI
> Now if you really want to advocate something start out with a > positive mindset and worse say, "don't expect a response". Hi Ken, I apologize if you took this the wrong way - what I said in my original email was that I was not a member of SLUG, and therefore if you expected a response from me you'd need to email me directly. By no means did I mean "do not expect a response from me"...only that you would need to use Reply-All otherwise I wouldn't get it. > I am responding to ensure that Open Source as a whole is represented in > a positive light. Imagine if I posted a tirade about how bad the other > open source projects that provide the same facilities as > OpenOffice.org. I do not declare it the best for every instance, > gnumeric possibly is the better spreadsheet for simpler sheets for > example. Again, I didn't mean my email to be negative...if it was taken that way, then either I wrote it wrong or it was read wrong... it was intended as a [good spirited] rebuttal to the previous, more malicious message that started this thread - which I feel was more guilty of negativity than my own reply was. Completely void of any real facts and designed as more of a poke than a real informative message. I hope I provided enough information to balance the original thread out, but being nasty was not my intention. > If you genuinely want to convert people then subscribe for a while and offer > assistance to help others to install dspam. I actually wasn't originally looking to convert anyone, just rebut an email...but I am more than glad to help anybody who is looking to use DSPAM, as are the many other members of the dspam-users mailing list. Please feel free to email me directly or email the dspam-users list and I'll be glad to help out. For obvious reasons, I can't be a member of every open-source mailing list out there, but I do appreciate the invitation. Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: DSPAM vs SpamAssassin FYI
Greetings to all, I'm not a member of SLUG, so if you expect a response from me, please respond directly to my email address. While doing a Google search today, I noticed some drivel about DSPAM vs. SpamAssassin back in October, and how obvious it is that the information posted was done so by SpamAssassin bigots as evidenced by the utter lack of any real information and an abundance of bullsh*t. I felt compelled to send my rebuttal to this list so that the individuals on the list could get a better grasp of the issue and make an _informed_ decision - something they've apparently been deprived of as a result of the poor construction of a decent comparison. As always, you're free to disagree with me - and I'm sure some will have plenty of personal comments which are quite irrelevant to the issue (evidence that the individual really has nothing useful to say). A dying animal is always at its fiercest. I'm sure some will agree with this rebuttal, some will disagree, and some on the list may continue to not have a clue or not care. In any event, I felt an accurate rebuttal of the DSPAM vs. SpamAssassin thread was necessary. So necessary that I've decided to add this to my FAQ. It's possible some of the information about SA's accuracy may have changed since October, and if that's so - wonderful - but the result is still the same. Finally, if you receive no response to this email from the original authors of the thread, you may assume that they didn't receive it because SpamAssassin marked it as a False Positive. On with the show! =) Q. Why should I use DSPAM instead of SpamAssassin? A. SpamAssassin is a heuristic anti-spam tool which has been well-respected among the open-source community due to its longevity. It is, however, a dying animal. Statistical filters have greatly exceeded heuristic filter capabilities in terms of both speed and accuracy. The answer as to why DSPAM is a more sensible solution involves first dispelling several myths about SpamAssassin: * Myth 1: SpamAssassin is accurate enough for my network. SpamAssassin is programmed to detect very specific characteristics of emails. As a result, its rulesets require a significant amount of updating and tuning, and it is only around 95% accurate at best (as reported by the documentation, and most users), which is more than one HUNDRED times less accurate than DSPAM! While 95% may sound pretty close to DSPAM's level of accuracy, it's worlds apart. 95% translates to 1 misclassification for every 20 messages. DSPAM can easily achieve 99.95% (which is 1 misclassification in every 2000 messages) and even up to 99.984% (1 in about 6250). Out of the box, SpamAssassin is nowhere near 95%, but closer to 90%, which is 1 misclassifications out of 10. While some users may be able to tune SpamAssassin to squeeze 99% out of it, that's still only 1 in 100 compared to DSPAM's 1 in 2000 minimum. Even at 99.5%, this is only 1 out of 200 and is very poor compared to even the most naive of statistical filters. * Myth 2: SpamAssassin requires no training The 95% accuracy level represents only well-tuned applications of SpamAssassin. Unfortunately, SpamAssassin requires both frequent updating of its rulesets and tuning in order to make it live up to this mediocre level of filtering. While your users won't spend time training it, your high-paid sysadmins will. If you are an ISP, it is generally best to use a filter that allows your users to train instead for two reasons: 1. it gives the users something to do with spam, to improve the accuracy of the filter. 2. it gives the user a sense of satisfaction rather than futility, so they don't spend that time calling your abuse department. * Myth 3: SpamAssassin makes a good front-end "firewall" for spam Heuristic Anti-Spam tools are significantly less accurate than statistical filters, and in the case of SpamAssassin, much slower than DSPAM. Many people argue that SpamAssassin makes a good front-line filter because it requires no training. Not so. For starters, it requires significant tuning to achieve even tolerable levels of accuracy. Many of the newer features supported by DSPAM such as pre-seeded dictionaries and shared groups make learning very fast. Secondly, if you're being mailbombed then SpamAssassin is the last thing you want running on your servers - I've seen it take up 99.9% CPU on some _small_ systems during a mailbomb. This is primarily due to the fact that SpamAssassin is written in PERL, an interpreted language with high overhead. DSPAM is written in C (a compiled language) and experiences execution times between 0.03s and 0.10s on
[SLUG] Yuk
Please, someone tell us that there is something happening about these distasteful spam posts. Jonathan Kelly. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] PPP connect to my ISP
Hi there, I thought I'd make this offering to the God-of-all-technical-knowledge that is Slug, because it's very annoying that the windows solution "just works" (dammit). I'm trying to set up a dialup ppp connection to my ISP (Inspired) while my ADSL connection is transfered to my new address. Of course, they can't tell me what protocols are used, or any useful information about what I need to do as I'm not running RH, and they only know how to run the RH setup, which apparently works. There's a whole other story there about the evil-ness of Linux-for-dummies approach of RH hiding the need to understand how things work ... but I won't go there. I have the dialing and connection working, but the ISP goes straight into some protocol (I'm guessing PAP) without asking for username/password, like every other ISP I've ever used. here are my ppp options, in /etc/ppp/options ... # General configuration options for PPPD: lock defaultroute noipdefault modem /dev/ttyS0 115200 crtscts passive asyncmap a usepeerdns noauth my /etc/pap-secrets and /etc/chap-secrets the same with ... # client server secret "my-user-name" * "my-password" I'm guessing this is the problem somehow ... but those are the only two bits of information required by Win2K to get the connection working. All the PAP and CHAP stuff is voodoo mumbo jumbo to me, I mean, what's wrong with usernames and passwords! Sigh. and the log of the connection from /var/log/pppd/current ... [pppd] Serial connection established. [pppd] using channel 1 [pppd] Using interface ppp0 [pppd] Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 [pppd] sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] [pppd] rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xa7 ] [pppd] sent [LCP ConfRej id=0xa7 ] [pppd] rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 ] [pppd] rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xa8 ] [pppd] sent [LCP ConfRej id=0xa8 ] [pppd] rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xa9 ] [pppd] sent [LCP ConfRej id=0xa9 ] [pppd] rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xaa ] [pppd] sent [LCP ConfRej id=0xaa ] [pppd] rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xab ] [pppd] sent [LCP ConfRej id=0xab ] [pppd] rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0xac] [pppd] sent [LCP TermAck id=0xac] [pppd] sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] [pppd] sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] [pppd] sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] [pppd] sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] [pppd] Hangup (SIGHUP) Strange ... despite the "noauth" option pppd sends a ConfReq, and rejects all ConfReq from the Server. Any ideas? Cheers, Jonathan. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] X Window Manager config question
Hi, does anyone know if of a minimalist X WM that allows configuration of WM functions like windows resize? I have an app that uses ALT-right-mouse-button for a key function, and my windows manager (icewm) uses that for windows resize, though I think it's a pretty standard WM function binding. Or a way of changing the binding, or cancelling it. cheers. Jonathan. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] PCI ADSL Modem success
Hi all, you may remember me, some time ago, asking if anybody had experience with PCI ADSL modem cards, and that there wasn't alot of feedback, mainly just "better not do that". Anyway, as no-one seemed to have had any actual experience, I went ahead, and am now connected, and am pleased to NOT have *another* set of cables to deal with! The card is the Pulsar PCI ADSL card from www.traverse.com.au. I must say I was happy with the support I got from traverse, and the only problems were actually with getting their driver engine web page working, and in the end we did it manually via email. Oh the joys of broadband! Cheers. Jonathan. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] RedHad versions ...
Hi all, I want to run some software that is only certified for RedHat, but would prefer not to use that, so need to find out what RedHat 7.3 (or 8) actually is, like what versions is it using eg. kernel, xfree, glibc ... and what what it's compiled with (gcc-2.95 or gcc-3.?) Cann't find anything on redhat. Anyone know where I can find this info, or someone who knows? Cheers. Jonathan. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mixing Memory Brands
Hi, does anyone have any knowledge/experience of there being problems mixing *brands* of memory. The memory is PC2100 (266MHz) Reg Ecc. I currenty have one 512M stick of Crucial installed, and need another, but there seems to be upto about 25% difference in price depending on brand (and of course Crucial seems the most expensive). Also, any recomendations for good people to buy from? Cheers. Jonathan Kelly. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Trouble getting SCSI to work
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:29:17 +1100, you wrote: >I'm trying to get the redhat kernel source to work with Debian Woody. The >kernel compiles fine, but I'm getting the following error when booting: > >kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8 > > >and then the system fails with an unable to find root filesystem error (root >filesystem is on a SCSI disk) Well, there is really no point compiling the scsi stuff as a module if you're running a scsi root disk just compile it into the kernel ... it needs to know about scsi disks so it can read the scsi disk to boot. Cheers. Jonathan. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Daylight saving didn't happen
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:17:39AM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: [...] > On debian systems: >/etc/timezone should contain >Australia/NSW >/etc/localtime should be a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/NSW >/usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime should be a symlink to >/usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/NSW My system says ~$ cat /etc/timezone Australia/Sydney ~$ ll /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 36 2002-10-22 23:58 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney ~$ ll /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 14 2002-10-22 23:58 /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime -> /etc/localtime This, I think, should work as well. > Then if TZ is unset, glibc will use whatever /etc/localtime says the > timezone is. OK, I'll unset TZ; no point in having it if it's not needed. Thanks Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Daylight saving didn't happen
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:15:59AM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > [...] > What is your TZ env variable? It's not set to anything. Should it be? > Also, do > ldd `which zdump` libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001c000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) ~# ll /lib/libc.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Oct 22 23:58 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.1.so ~# ll /lib/libc-2.3.1.so -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1109900 Oct 22 00:41 /lib/libc-2.3.1.so This is what dselect has; Debian packages site shows unstable libc6 2.3.1-3 (3106.6k) GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data so I guess it's correct. So is the culprit the TZ environment variable? tzselect says to add TZ='Australia/Sydney'; export TZ to my ~/.profile which I've done. But would that be better off in /etc/environment because I would prefer to set it system wide? Thanks for your help. Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Daylight saving didn't happen
Hi The time shown by my computer didn't change to daylight saving last Saturday night. So I manually set it forward an hour (which has now forwarded UTC in the hardware clock by an hour, I guess). I'm running Debian unstable. The hardware clock is set to UTC. /etc/timezone contains Australia/Sydney I'm following "16.1 Setting time, time zones and Daylight Saving" of the Debian System Administration manual. It says that I may have old timezone files; libc6 contains these files. dpkg -l libc6 reveals ii libc6 2.3.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data I didn't notice any bug(s) relating to daylight saving on a quick perusal of the BTS. zdump -v Australia/Sydney|less reveals Australia/Sydney Sat Oct 26 16:00:00 2002 UTC = Sun Oct 27 03:00:00 2002 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600 Australia/Sydney Sat Mar 29 15:59:59 2003 UTC = Sun Mar 30 02:59:59 2003 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600 So, my computer should have changed to daylight saving but didn't. One of the reasons I noticed was that I downloaded and burnt knoppix 3.1 (a Debian based cdrom demo distribution; pretty awesome -> it recognised all of the machines I ran it on including a Toshiba laptop); knoppix set time forward 1 hour. Any ideas? Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Video editing software
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:30:44 +1000 Heracles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Came across an unusual request today. > My daughter is studying Digital Imaging at Uni. One of her lecturers > wants to start teaching the students to use The GIMP as a replacement > for (or complement to) Photoshop for image manipulation. However, he > also needs to teach video editing etc. He was wondering if there was an > open source program similar to Adobe Pinacle (sp?) which will allow > video manipulation, splicing and editing including the transition > effects etc. Does anyone know if such a program exists? Hmm, is it just me, or does that seem like a strange sort of question for a *University* Lecturer in Digital Imaging to be asking? What is the world coming to? Flabbergasted-ly yours, Jonathan Kelly. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] aarnet mirror
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:28:32 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:16:24 +1000 > Jonathan Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Weelll, > > > > maybe ... but how do they know it's me trying to ping them??? > > That depends on how they implement the blocking. It may be that they > block by adding to their firewall rules. That may also block pings. > > However, the traceroute that someone else posted seemed to indicate that > arrnet may consider TPG a foreign host and block it for that reason > instead. > > > And anyway, > > they should love me, because I went to the trouble of installing squid > > to save multiple downloads ... > > How much is squid actually caching? Squid has a number of rules for not > caching files larger than a certain size. Is it possible that your squid > cache is full and not caching as much as you think it is? > > You may want to look into apt-proxy instead. > Hmm, well, I just checked and the cache is ... EMPTY! Go figure ... squid must clear the caches or something because it was definitely cacheing stuff when I was loading debian onto a batch of alpha boxen a few weeks ago. I guess I should RTFM and find how how it works. BTW, I did configure it to accept large files. Cheers. Jonathan Kelly. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] aarnet mirror
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:46:00 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:32:30 +1000 > Jonathan Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I guess it could be blocked, but why would my ISP (tpg) do that??? > > I belive that mirror.aarnet.edu.au actually blocks abusers of their > system (ie more than 1 download at a time) for short periods. Have > you been a bad boy? ;-). > Weelll, maybe ... but how do they know it's me trying to ping them??? And anyway, they should love me, because I went to the trouble of installing squid to save multiple downloads ... which is why I want to get back to aarnet because my cache is full of woody packages from aarnet and I'd like to save the bandwidth, not that I care anymore because I'm on unlimited download plan, and of course they were a more reliable mirror than planetmirror. Cheers. Jonathan. > Erik > -- > +---+ > Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) > +---+ > Microsoft owns Hotmail. Hotmail runs Sun Solaris on their > servers, not Windows NT. Does NT have problems? > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] aarnet mirror
Hi, I guess it could be blocked, but why would my ISP (tpg) do that??? My firewall has no site specific stuff, and I can ftp from other sites, so it's not a generic ftp/firewall issue ... but I can't even ping aarnet? See .. -- # ping -c 3 ftp.au.debian.org PING www.planetmirror.com (203.16.234.20): 56 octets data 64 octets from 203.16.234.20: icmp_seq=0 ttl=236 time=512.9 ms 64 octets from 203.16.234.20: icmp_seq=1 ttl=236 time=495.5 ms 64 octets from 203.16.234.20: icmp_seq=2 ttl=236 time=515.1 ms --- www.planetmirror.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 495.5/510.5/515.1 ms # ping -c 5 mirror.aarnet.edu.au PING mirror.aarnet.edu.au (192.42.62.2): 56 octets data --- mirror.aarnet.edu.au ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss -- I'm stumped ... I guess I could ring my ISP, but they officially don't support linux (despite running linux on their servers??) so they're likely to be absolutely clueless, at least the people answering the phones. While I'm at it, how do I get iptables to log what it's doing ... I can't seems to see anything in my logs. I'm running a bog-standard IPMASQ firewall script that's in the IPMASQ howto. Cheers. Jonathan Kelly. On 30 Jul 2002 11:03:40 +1000 Richard Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello People > > I was downloading gcc 3.2 (mdk rpm) on aarnet.edu.au last Sunday and it > was working fine, could be your ISP is blocking it or your firewall is > blocking it ?? > > Regards > > Richard Neal > > > > On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 17:34, Jonathan Kelly wrote: > > Hey, > > > > does anyone know what's happened to the aarnet mirror > > (mirror.aarnet.edu.au)? It's been uncontactable for weeks. > > > > Cheers. > > Jonathan Kelly. > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] aarnet mirror
Hey, does anyone know what's happened to the aarnet mirror (mirror.aarnet.edu.au)? It's been uncontactable for weeks. Cheers. Jonathan Kelly. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] X WM discrepancy weirdness ...
... it probably won't be weirdness when someone explains it, but right now, it is! I'm looking at switching to blackbox WM and was trying out Acrobat4 reader but I get the following error messages ... X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 88 (X_FreeColors) Serial number of failed request: 346 Current serial number in output stream: 347 I was invoking it from the xterm using the path /usr/share/Acrobat4/bin/acroread which is some shell script that does setup stuff, I guess. When I run Gnome, invoking it the same way, it works. Cheers. Jonathan Kelly. Sydney. Australia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Keeping up with Kernel releases?
Hi All, I was wondering what others do in regards to keeping up-to-date with kernel releases. Doesn't anyone know a good site that gives an overview of what's happening in the kernel? It's getting harder to know these days what to go with. I had some bad experiences with going with the latest and greatest recently, and decided to go down the Alan Cox branch (2.4.13-ac8), as that seemed a bit more conservative (and stable). That seems to be a bit behind the times now as their upto 2.4.17 pre releases. Cheers, Jonathan Kelly. Sydney. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] sed quiz
Hi all you sed-heads, I was sure it was possible to get sed to match a line containing a re "and the next n lines" by doing something like /find text/,+3s/old text/new string/ ... or was I dreaming it ... Cheers, Jonathan Kelly. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Galeon hangs: FIXED
Galeon now works! I had removed mozilla-mailnews; that had caused galeon to stop working (I know galeon depends on mozilla but this is ridiculous; not even the mozilla browser depends on the mozilla mailnews to work). A reinstall of the mailnews component fixed galeon. Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Galeon hangs
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:01:12PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: > dpkg --purge galeon mozilla-broswer > > apt-get install galeon OK, I'll try this. I compiled the sources for Galeon; compiled OK but still the same problem. Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Galeon hangs
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:16:35AM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > What package versions are you using? (dpkg -l galeon mozilla) ii galeon 0.12.7-0.1 Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look an ii mozilla-browser 0.9.5-5Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser > Also, apt-cache show galeon, look for the version of mozilla it's depending > on. Depends mozilla-browser (>=2:0.9.5) Conflicts: mozilla-browser (>=2:0.9.6) My version of mozilla-browser is right in the middle so should be alright. I'm attempting to compile Galeon sources to see if that makes any difference. I'll keep the list posted. Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Galeon hangs
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:15:33PM +1100, Andre Pang wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:07:23PM +1100, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wrote: > > > A few days ago Galeon stopped working. I normally have it open a local > > bookmarks file when I start it. Now, when I start Galeon, the spinner > > spins and the status bar says "Loading site..."; and nothing else > > happens. The same thing happens on other URLs (local or otherwise). > > Have you tried destroying the .galeon directory? That works 9 > times out of 10 for me. I tried this; no luck. What I'm trying now is to compile the galeon source; I'll report back how it goes. > You can assign your own keys to any menu item by locating the menu > item and then pressing the new key combination while it's > selected. Yes, sorry, I should have been more specific; I understand assigning keys to menu items; that can go some way to getting what I want. However, it doesn't have all the key combinations that I like in w3m. eg. / means find; I know there is C-f but that brings up a dialog. Some of the things I like to do don't have menu items. See the extract from w3m. Well, anyway the current key combinations sort of do what I want. One, in particular, however, would be very useful. "SPC" gets you the next page of the current HTML document; what key combination takes you back? In w3m it's "b" or "ESC v". Jonathan Extracted from w3m: Page/Cursor motion SPC,C-v Forward page b,ESC v Backward page l,C-fCursor right h,C-bCursor left j,C-nCursor down k,C-pCursor up JRoll up one line KRoll down one line ^,C-aGo to the beginning of line $,C-eGo to the end of line wGo to next word WGo to previous word >Shift screen right <Shift screen left .Shift screen one column right ,Shift screen one column left g,M-<Go to the first line G,M->Go to the last line ESC gGo to specified line ZMove to the center line zMove to the center column TAB Move to next hyperlink C-u,ESC TAB Move to previous hyperlink [Go to the first link ]Go to the last link Hyperlink operation RET Follow hyperlink a, ESC RET Save link to file uPeek link URL iPeek image URL IView inline image ESC ISave inline image to file :Mark URL-like strings as anchors ESC :Mark Message-ID-like strings as news anchors cPeek current URL =Display information about current document C-g Show current line number C-h View history of URL FRender frame MBrowse current document using external browser (use 2M and 3M to invoke second and third browser) ESC MBrowse link using external browser (use 2ESC M and 3ESC M to invoke second and third browser) File/Stream operation UOpen URL VView new file @Execute shell command and load #Execute shell command and browse Buffer operation BBack to the previous buffer vView HTML source sSelect buffer EEdit buffer source C-l Redraw screen RReload buffer SSave buffer ESC sSave source ESC eEdit buffer image Buffer selection mode k, C-p Select previous buffer j, C-n Select next buffer DDelete current buffer RET Go to the selected buffer Bookmark operation ESC bLoad bookmark ESC aAdd current to bookmark Search /,C-sSearch forward ?,C-rSearch backward nSearch next NSearch previous C-w Toggle wrap search mode Dictionary look-up M-w Execute dictionary command (see README.dict) M-W Execute dictionary command for word at cursor Mark operation C-SPCSet/unset mark ESC pGo to previous mark ESC nGo to next mark "Mark by regular expression Miscellany !Execute shell command HHelp (load this file) oSet option C-k Show cookie jar C-c Stop C-z Suspend qQuit (with confirmation, if you like) QQuit without confirmation Line-edit mode C-f Move cursor forward C-b Move cursor backward C-h Delete previous character C-d Delete current character C-k Kill everything after cursor C-u Kill everything before cursor C-a Move to the top of line C-e Move to the bottom of line C-p Fetch the previous s
Re: [SLUG] Replacing Windows!
Ta-Dah! It worked ... finally. I had to add FEATURE(masquerade_header) MASQUERADE_AS(mail.sunink.com) in the sendmail.mc source thingy and run m4 on it, move the output to sendmail.cf in /etc/mail/, restart sendmail and Voila! I love Linux. Now I just have to find out what's blasting every terminal with mail receipt notifications in a *very* annoying manner, and I'll be a happy little vegemite! Cheers. Jonathan Kelly. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] iptables & logging
Hi
I run Debian Sid and have recently thought to tighten security on my
single dialup box. I went through commenting out various unneeded
services in inetd and compiled a 2.4.3 kernel with all the netfilter
stuff as modules.
I put 'Rusty's Really Quick Guide To Packet Filtering' of his Linux
2.4 Packet Filtering HOWTO into a script and added some logging stuff
just to see in syslog that packets are coming through. When I'm
satisfied that the script works OK I'll remove all logging rules but
the 'packets dropped' one.
My question is this. Do all of the packets go onto the next rule after
the first LOG rule? That would make sense but the HOWTO was for me a
bit ambiguous. ie. It says basically that each rule specifies a set
of conditions and what to do if a packet meets them. So, if the
packet meets the conditions for the DROP rule; then the packet is
dropped. It doesn't go onto the next rule. But in this case,
logging, it really only makes sense if the packet does go onto the
next rule.
So, can anyone confirm this?
I thought I would put the script in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory so
that when I dialed into my ISP (via pon) the packet filtering would
start.
I also created a script, packet-filter-down, to basically flush the
chains and remove the modules when I 'poff'; this script will go in
/etc/ppp/ip-down.d.
Are there any better ways? Anything wrong with the above?
Here are the scripts:
packet-filter
#!/bin/sh
# Insert connection-tracking modules (not needed if built into kernel).
/sbin/insmod ip_conntrack
/sbin/insmod ip_conntrack_ftp
# Create chain which blocks new connections, except if coming from inside.
/sbin/iptables -N block
/sbin/iptables -A block -m limit --limit 3/minute --limit-burst 3 -j LOG --log-level
DEBUG --log-prefix "$0: "
/sbin/iptables -A block -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A block -m limit --limit 3/minute --limit-burst 3 -j LOG --log-level
DEBUG --log-prefix "$0: check "
/sbin/iptables -A block -m state --state NEW -i ! ppp0 -j ACCEPT
#/sbin/iptables -A block -m limit --limit 3/minute --limit-burst 3 -j LOG --log-level
DEBUG --log-prefix "packet DROPped: "
/sbin/iptables -A block -j DROP
# Jump to that chain from INPUT and FORWARD chains.
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -j block
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j block
exit
packet-filter-down
#!/bin/sh
# Flush the chains; remove the block chain.
/sbin/iptables -F block
/sbin/iptables -F INPUT
/sbin/iptables -F FORWARD
/sbin/iptables -X block
# Remove the iptable modules.
# This removes modules beginning with ip; that could
# be dangerous. Perhaps I should explicitly list them?
for mod in $(/sbin/lsmod | awk -- '/^ip*/ {print $1}'); do
/sbin/rmmod $mod;
done
exit
Jonathan
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Re: [SLUG] Aarnet mirror - Debian probs?
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:54:47PM +1100, David Fisher wrote: > Evenin' all, > > For about a week now apt-get dist-upgrade against woody for i386 at > aarnet has yielded no upgrade packages. [snip] > It seems that although the packages are making it to the mirror, the > package lists are not, which prevents apt-get from knowing that they > are there at all. [snip] > > Does anyone know what is going on here? I second that; what's going on? Does anyone want to say? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] happy hacker keyboards
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 08:14:01PM +1100, Brent Miszalski wrote: > does anyone know where I can get one these happy hacker > keyboards?They're so cool. Ridge Technologies 593 Hull Road, Lilydale, Victoria, 3140 Phone: (03) 9735 1888 Fax:(03) 9735 3830 I like mine (Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite 60 key ps/2) but it does cost: COD 126.90 in February this year. Just had to wait a couple of days. Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Long: Kernel Compilation questions & sound
Just want to thank this list; been lurking here a while and picked up lots of useful info. Sound now works. The debian-user list is also great. On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:25:57PM +1100, Conrad Parker wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:53:17AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > > > > I have a Debian Woody system running on a asus k7v motherboard with an > > Athlon 700 cpu. I have a SB Live! value card. > > ... > > > > So, my questions: what is the procedure for loading modules into the > > kernel? Is there some good resource somebody could point me at for > > learning about modules in general for a Linux|Debian newbie? > > General module info: > Documentation/modules.txt in the Linux kernel source > (/usr/src/kernel-source-*/Documentation/modules.txt in debian) > man modprobe (also insmod, rmmod, lsmod etc) Thanks for the info; did some reading but didn't end up using modules. > > Debian specific info (Debian manages modules.conf for you): > /usr/share/doc/modutils/* > > > What is the best driver for the SBLive? - the kernel driver, the > > emu10k1 or alsa? or does it depend on what you do? I just want to > > play CD's, listen to MP3's and play games. > > dunno, sorry (but I wish I had one ;) > > more info is at: > http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/quality/#bad_digi Nasty! Says my sblive isn't a good card. Never mind, it sounds alright to me. > > > And, in compiling the kernel what process family should I pick for my > > Athlon? 386, 486, 586, Pentium? (I know 386 works for everything?) > > IIRC newer kernels (later 2.3.x and 2.4) have a specific Athlon option. > There's more Athlon info over at http://www.linhardware.com/ Well, in the end I compiled kernel-source-2.2.17 with kernel-patch-2.2.17-ide. Since the emu10k1 driver was right there I included it. So, like I said before - no modules. And now, the kernel loads quicker (I left out drivers for devices I don't have.) and I'm listening to ABBA (yeah, don't laugh). So, it was relatively painless using that make-kpkg. > > > Plus I have a IBM Deskstar 75gxp which is udma66; how can I tell how > > fast it's going; are there kernel options I can set to improve speed > > (not that I'm complaining - seems fine to me; just that I'm curious). > > use hdparm: read about it at > http://www.moisty.org/~brion/linux/Ultra-DMA-8.html#ss8.1 > > (Part of the Linux Ultra-DMA mini-howto, probably also in your > /usr/doc directory) > http://www.moisty.org/~brion/linux/Ultra-DMA.html hdparm is great; after doing a bit of tweaking buffered disk reads went from about 9 MB/sec to 34 MB/sec. Thanks once again. Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Long: Kernel Compilation questions & sound
Hi [I'm sending this again because I may have stuffed up by replying to something when I didn't mean to.] I have a Debian Woody system running on a asus k7v motherboard with an Athlon 700 cpu. I have a SB Live! value card. Currently, I'm trying to get sound to work so (I found from the mailing lists I've subscribed to) that there are a few options: 1. compile the kernel; there is a sb driver 2. use the emu10k1 driver from opensource.creative.com and load as a module 3. install the ALSA debs I started on option 2 thinking that may be the easiest but could not compile because I lacked the kernel sources. So, I apt-get install'd kernel-source-2.2.17. And then thought (since I wanted to, anyway) why not compile the kernel while I'm at it with the sb driver. But I discovered (you can learn a lot on mailing lists!) that the config file (/boot/config-2.2.17) for my current kernel (think it's 2.2.17; that's what uname -a says) has CONFIG_SOUND=m | CONFIG_SOUND_PAS=m CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m | CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y So, if I've got the sb driver as a module why not load it and see what happens? But this is where my knowledge is hazy; I don't know how to load modules. I followed the instructions in the kernel source documentation for the soundblaster: - modprobe sound - insmod uart401 - insmod sb irq=9 etc. But got this error /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: device or resource busy ... says that the IO or IRQ parameters could be wrong. win98 says that the SBLive! has irq 9 (but so do other things: via pci to usb host controller [serial controller?]; irq holder for pci irq steering. The SBLive! has no dma but it does have ioports. win98 also says that Creative sb16 emulation has irq 5, dma 1 and 5 and 3 ioports. What's going on here? tail /var/log/messages revealed 'dsp reset failed'; this was caused by the insmod. What's this? So, my questions: what is the procedure for loading modules into the kernel? Is there some good resource somebody could point me at for learning about modules in general for a Linux|Debian newbie? What is the best driver for the SBLive? - the kernel driver, the emu10k1 or alsa? or does it depend on what you do? I just want to play CD's, listen to MP3's and play games. And, in compiling the kernel what process family should I pick for my Athlon? 386, 486, 586, Pentium? (I know 386 works for everything?) Plus I have a IBM Deskstar 75gxp which is udma66; how can I tell how fast it's going; are there kernel options I can set to improve speed (not that I'm complaining - seems fine to me; just that I'm curious). Thanks Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Long: Kernel Compilation questions & sound
Hi I have a Debian Woody system running on a asus k7v motherboard with an Athlon 700 cpu. I have a SB Live! value card. Currently, I'm trying to get sound to work so (I found from the mailing lists I've subscribed to) that there are a few options: 1. compile the kernel; there is a sb driver 2. use the emu10k1 driver from opensource.creative.com and load as a module 3. install the ALSA debs I started on option 2 thinking that may be the easiest but could not compile because I lacked the kernel sources. So, I apt-get install'd kernel-source-2.2.17. And then thought (since I wanted to, anyway) why not compile the kernel while I'm at it with the sb driver. But I discovered (you can learn a lot on mailing lists!) that the config file (/boot/config-2.2.17) for my current kernel (think it's 2.2.17; that's what uname -a says) has CONFIG_SOUND=m | CONFIG_SOUND_PAS=m CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m | CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y So, if I've got the sb driver as a module why not load it and see what happens? But this is where my knowledge is hazy; I don't know how to load modules. Well, I did a modprobe sound; don't know exactly what that did. lsmod reveals sound, soundlow and soundcore (but no sound) and so I tried modprobe sb which says that /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: device or resource busy ... says that the IO or IRQ parameters could be wrong. That may well be the case - I will have a go at that later. And, at some other time (trying insmod maybe) I got a bunch of unresolved symbols) So, my questions: what is the procedure for loading modules into the kernel? Is there some good resource somebody could point me at for learning about modules in general for a Linux|Debian newbie? What is the best driver for the SBLive? - the kernel driver, the emu10k1 or alsa? or does it depend on what you do? I just want to play CD's, listen to MP3's and play games. And, in compiling the kernel what process family should I pick for my Athlon? 386, 486, 586, Pentium? (I know 386 works for everything?) Plus I have a IBM Deskstar 75gxp which is udma66; how can I tell how fast it's going; are there kernel options I can set to improve speed (not that I'm complaining - seems fine to me; just that I'm curious). Thanks Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] The 1024 Cylinder Problem
Greetings, I have just installed a 20Gb Seagate hard drive on my system and had one large partition (taking up all of the space) for Windows 98SE. Then, I decided to split the partition using FIPS and worked fine. When I started installing RedHat 6.2 and came across the "boot partiton too big" error. Undoubtably this has to be the 1024 Cyl problem and I'd really like to have my Windows partiton left the way it is. I heard that the latest version of Lilo works with this provided that my BIOS supports it - which I am not sure of. The motherboard in my system is a Gigabyte 6VXE7+ with an Award BIOS (Revision F3 - the latest). The problem is, I can't update the Lilo because I am unable to install RH Linux on my system. Is there a way of me installing Red Hat 6.2 on my system without comming into this problem? I heard that Mandrake (7.1) can handle this because it has the latest ver of Lilo and GRUB, but I have no idea of where I can get a copy for any sort of reasonable price. Regards, Jonathan Thorpe Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
