I've been working on getting the newest atari800 code to build for Debian, and I've run into some problems. (Well, yes, I'm having some compilation problems as well, but this isn't about those...)
There are several sites that are pretty critical to the proper opperation of this package that I can't get to at all. I've been having problems with my new 2.2.19 kernel and mozilla's proper behavior, however this behavior is also seen when running 2.2.17, like I am using now. Also, on a clean running kernel and netscape I get consistantly poor results. http://atari800.atari.org/ is listed as the canonical source for all things atari, but a ping of this address simply hangs. On the other hand: http://www.signus.demon.co.uk/david/atari/atari.html is even more important as it is the repository of all the various machine ROM images needed to make the emulator do something useful. If I ping www.signus.demon.co.uk I get an immediate "unknown host" error. I _can_ ping other sites with no particular problem. If my local network configuration is fragged, it is a very subtle situation, and not likely anything I intentionally set up ;-) Even once I can compile the current release, I'm not happy doing all this work, only to be unable to make it work to any good purpose when complete. Can anyone verify the existance/non-existance of these sites? The site that _does_ work for me is: ftp://ftp.sophics.cz/pub/Atari800 and you can pick up the source for 1.0.6 (the latest version) that includes several other links in materials found in the DOC subdirectory. I'm not sure whether I can trust my browser (or ping) to tell me the truth, as I currently have my Sparc in such a state that I can't ping out the ppp connections ;-( so it wouldn't surprise me to find something subtly broken on my main intel machine as well... And I know from extensive testing that an NFS enabled 2.2.19 kernel will royally fragg mozilla's ability to make certain kinds of connections. These symptoms go away when the previous kernel is booted. So at this point I don't feel like I can trust anything I "know" about my system, or what it's doing to me this time. Does any of this make any sense at all? Are the above sites really unavailable? Help, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux" _-_-_-_-_-_- _- _- _- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 _- _- Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road _- _- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _- _- _- _-_-_-_-_- Released under the GNU Free Documentation License _-_-_-_- available at: http://www.polaris.net/~dwarf/
