Re: size of kernel too big?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:43:14 -0600, rich wrote: >monkeyhouse kernel: Memory: 30616k/32768k available (1000k kernel code, >416k reserved, 629k data, 44k init)Feb25 Memory: 63416k/65536k available (824k kernel code, 412k reserved, 856k data, 28k init) >Is that saying that my kernel ids 1MB? If it is, is that too big? Will I >make it faster, leaner, smoother, etc bu sticking sound (+anything >else?) into "modules"? Only if you don't use those frequently. My kernel has lots of things in modules that I might use. I don't know they will autoload properly, but it is there just incase. Floppy suport, v/fat support, iso9660 support, etc. but 1Mb? Nah. My kernel message is from my router/server/workstation machine. My laptop, for comparison, which is running 2.0.34 is: Memory: 18864k/20480k (664k kernel code, 384k reserved, 568k data) - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNtXliXpf7K2LbpnFEQLvgQCfacU9jyhHM+Z2a7SQrddxrOFFiW0AoJVO lL8KlMq4fM1/wjtuPyvfrEI8 =kfmk -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Pine 4.10
Is it my imagination or does pine 4.10 seem a lot faster than 4.05? Faster in terms of navigating mail folders and such.
Re: Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...
I'm hardly an expert on this, but I can tell you what I did to get it working. First of all, check the xfstt man page, especially the --sync option. When I set this up a few weeks ago, I also had no luck until I ran xfstt with the --sync option. What this apparently did was generate two files in my /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory named ttinfo.dir and ttname.dir, and after that, when xfstt started up on boot (from the /etc/init.d/xfstt script), I had the ttf fonts available in Netscape etc. I believe the command line I used was just: /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --sync The man page also states that xfstt should NOT be already running when you use xfstt with the --sync option. It doesn't explain why :-) Then you do also need the 'xset fp+ unix/:7101 &' line in your xinitrc or whatever. You can also just execute that line manually just to see if things are working. Verify it with the 'xlsfonts | grep ttf' command, as you were doing before. Good luck, Tom rich wrote: > > Howdy all, > > I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my > TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's loaded during boot-up), but when I do > a "xlsfonts | grep ttf" I get nothing... I've also done "ln -s > /dos_c/windows/fonts /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts" as per xfstt > documentation... I know that I'm probably supposed to add the line "xset > fp+ unix/:7101&" to my xinitrc (?), but that doesn't do anything any > ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > Rich > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Try Debian GNU/Linux - it's free, it's open source, and it rocks http://www.debian.org
Re: Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Dimitri Patakidis wrote: >> I want to connect an external ISDN to my system using the MB's >> standard serial ports. However, everything's telling me I can only >> push 115K through these serial ports - far less than the theoretical >> max of an ISDN TA that does V.42bis. >> Any comments/suggestions on >> "overclocking" ;-) built-in serial ports to 230 (or 460) Kbps? How good are you at making changes to multilayer PC boards? The limitation of 115.2Kbps is a limitation of the bit-rate clock on PCs. You cannot go faster than this without having a higher bit-rate clock. However, with a higher bit-rate clock you can get speeds of up to 1.5Mbps. The problem is that you can't change that clock without modifying the circuit that generates it, which is kind of tough if the serial port is built in to your motherboard. >> Note: I realize that HS serial ports/boards are available, but I don't >> want to shell out the money if I don't have to >> Note2: If you can recommend a good external ISDN TA (North America) or >> an internal that supports DialD, I'd love to hear from you. > The best way to get the most bang for your ISDN buck is to use an ISDN > router. ISDN IN ---> ETHERNET OUT > No RS-232 translation in between. Speaking as the owner of an ISP that has to support this sort of thing, I'd like to encourage Mr. Traas to get a router. It's a whole lot easier to make a router work than an ISDN TA. However, if he doesn't want to spend the $50 to use a high-speed serial port, he sure isn't going to want to spend $500 extra to get a router. My recommendation would be to look for someone who is using an old, say, Pipeline 25 that wants to move up. I believe my company got one for $100 six-eight months ago. That's less than a decent ISDN TA is going to cost and it does routing. Not that I'm wedded to Ascend equipment, or anything, I just have more experience with them than other things. You can also use the Netgear or the Cisco or the 3com. I would recommend you stay away from the "Danube" and its ilk. They are not pleasant devices to set up. You'll need to do some work to find used equipment, though. Ebay is a definite option, here. Drop me a private line and I'll give you the Web addresses of a couple of people that deal in used equipment that you may not be aware of because they mostly sell to ISP's. You will need to get something that knows how to do NAT (like masquerading, only different) if you want to use it with a regular dial-up account. (With Ascend gear, it's mostly a matter of making sure you have a recent enough firmware revision, and you can update the firmware for most models. I don't know about the others.) -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
initialization scripts question
Are the initialization scripts used in Debian similar to those in RedHat or Slackware? I can't find information that is specific to Debian. thanks -- Andrew
Obsidian's OCS web-based utilities
While perusing Freshmeat today I ran across Obsidian's OCS web-based set of "intranet" utilities. These include a e-mail, calendar/scheduling, chat, and other modules which fit nicely into an integrated web-based system. They're licensed under the GPL and appear to be highly polished and I was surprised I have never ran into them before. Has anyone else heard of them? Can someone give me some reviews and/or general info on this package? TIA. -- . | Celebrate the Linux "WE'RE NEVER GOING OUT Randy | OF BUSINESS SALE" by downloading an entire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | operating system, apps, games, utilities, http://www.golgotha.net | and source code at http://www.debian.org
Re: StarOffice 5
Hi Micha Feigin; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote: > > > Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian? > > > > there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (like there is for > > SO3)? > > If its like staroffice 4, > Then use the setup supplied with staroffice, > and then install it with the net option as root > (although it still takes quite some space for each user); > > I've installed it simply following the setup provided by StarOffice (part of the download), following the instructions in their README. It worked flawlessly. HTH Damir
Re: Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my >TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's loaded during boot-up), but when I do >a "xlsfonts | grep ttf" I get nothing... I've also done "ln -s >/dos_c/windows/fonts /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts" as per xfstt >documentation... I know that I'm probably supposed to add the line "xset >fp+ unix/:7101&" to my xinitrc (?), but that doesn't do anything any >ideas? Istr that if you make a symlink from your windows fonts directory to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/FOO, then the font family will be "FOO". So, I have: bash$ ll /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ total 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 11 04:13 net/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 4 01:30 windows -> \ /windrive/windows/fonts/ Producing: bash$ xlsfonts | grep net -net-startrek film bt-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 bash$ xlsfonts | grep windows -windows-arial black-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -windows-arial narrow special g1-bold-r-normal-bold-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -windows-arial narrow special g1-medium-i-normal-italic-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 ..etc.. I also seem to remember that you should do "xfstt --sync" (as root) when you add new fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype, and that you can't do this while xfstt is running... (irritatingly). Also, you can avoid having to "xset fp+ ..." in your xinitrc by adding FontPath "unix/:7101" to the "Files" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config, although this will make your X server refuse to start if xfstt is not running for some reason (and if you use xdm you may be in big trouble). SRH -- Steve HaslamValidation Engineer, ARM Limited, Cambridge, England I will protect you from your visions to save you from illusions I will protect you from ideals to save you from defeat[covenant]
Weird: Name resoultion for root only?!
Please help! I have already posted about this weird thing to comp.os.linux.network, but nobody seems to be able to help me, maybe one of you Debian specialists will have a clue... Here is my problem: My newly installed Debian 2.0 box (I'm new to Debian, but not to Linux in general) can see IP addresses and correctly resolved names if I'm logged in as root, and everything works just fine; however, if I'm logged in as a _regular user_, I can only get IP addresses, no names are recognized at all, meaning that for instance ping would not even see my ISP's host name. -- Now shouldn't the name service work for _all_ users on a given machine (or for none of them)? Any permission issues to be taken into account? I have a suspicion that /etc/nsswitch.conf could be involved, but I couldn't figure out what the whole thing is actually about, and the documentation that I have found on the net isn't exactly human readable :-) It seems related to glibc6, though. To describe my setup, I do no networking whatsoever apart from connecting to my ISP via modem/ppp, no special network daemons (inetd, portmap) are running. On bootup I just run the /etc/init.d/network script, which merely does the following: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 Again, the netbase script which came as the default for runlevel 2 has been unlinked (and even when I booted with this script enabled, it didn't matter). Then I have these config files: /etc/host.conf: order hosts,bind multi on /etc/resolv.conf: search berlin.snafu.de ###my provider nameserver 194.64.64.1 ###my provider's nameserver As you can see, this is a very simple setup, BTW the same thing has been running smoothly for a long time on the same machine with Suse installed. So there must be something wrong Debian-wise, but I don't see where to look further. Now I have even compiled a new kernel to keep out firewall stuff etc., but it didn't help either. Oh please make me stay with Debian, I really began to like it, until I discovered this ugly thing :-| Any help is greatly appreciated. -- O. Niepolt
HELP. My chat script doesn't work.
I have been trying to connect to my ISP for some time but without any luck. When I use Windows I can connect without problems. Following is the script that works in Windows: ; This is a script file that demonstrates how ; to establish a PPP connection with Compuserve, ; which requires changing the port settings to ; log in. ; ; Main entry point to script ; proc main ; Set the port settings so we can wait for ; non-gibberish text. set port databits 7 set port parity even transmit "^M" waitfor "Host Name:" transmit "HOSTNAME^M" waitfor "User ID:" transmit $USERID, raw transmit "/go:pppconnect^M" waitfor "Password: " transmit $PASSWORD, raw transmit "^M" waitfor "One moment please..." ; Set the port settings back to allow successful ; negotiation. set port databits 8 set port parity none endproc I have confirmed with minicom that I need to provide a host name, next a user ID, and finally a password. I edited my /etc/chatscripts/provider to the following: ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT VOICE ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "NO ANSWER" "" ATZ OK ATDTPHONENUMBER CONNECT ^M "ost Name:" HOSTNAME "ser ID:" USERID "assword:" /qPASSWORD When I try to login using pon, this is what happens: Feb 26 11:07:20 uxtjp51 pppd[186]: pppd 2.3.5 started by LOGIN, uid 1000 Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: abort on (BUSY) Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: abort on (VOICE) Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: send (ATZ^M) Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: expect (OK) Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ATZ^M^M Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: OK Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: -- got it Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: send (ATDTPHONENUMBER^M) Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: expect (CONNECT) Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ^M Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ATDTPHONENUMBER^M^M Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: CONNECT Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: -- got it Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: send (^M^M) Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: expect (ost Name:) Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: 33600^M Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ^M Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ^M Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: 0005TJD^M Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ^M Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: Host Name: Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: -- got it Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: send (HOSTNAME^M) Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: expect (ser ID:) Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: HOSTNAME^M Feb 26 11:08:32 uxtjp51 chat[187]: alarm Feb 26 11:08:32 uxtjp51 chat[187]: Failed Feb 26 11:08:32 uxtjp51 pppd[186]: Connect script failed Feb 26 11:08:33 uxtjp51 pppd[186]: Exit. It looks to me as if it gets stuck on the Host Name. When it gets the UserID promt it sends the Host Name again Please advise how to do it right.
Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.
"Jens K. Olsen" wrote: > I have been trying to connect to my ISP for some time but without any > luck. When I use Windows I can connect without problems. Following is > the script that works in Windows: > > ; This is a script file that demonstrates how > ; to establish a PPP connection with Compuserve, > ; which requires changing the port settings to > ; log in. > ; > ; Main entry point to script > ; > proc main > >; Set the port settings so we can wait for >; non-gibberish text. > >set port databits 7 >set port parity even > >transmit "^M" > >waitfor "Host Name:" >transmit "HOSTNAME^M" > >waitfor "User ID:" >transmit $USERID, raw >transmit "/go:pppconnect^M" > >waitfor "Password: " >transmit $PASSWORD, raw >transmit "^M" > >waitfor "One moment please..." > >; Set the port settings back to allow successful >; negotiation. > >set port databits 8 >set port parity none > > endproc > > I have confirmed with minicom that I need to provide a host name, next a > user ID, and finally a password. I edited my /etc/chatscripts/provider > to the following: > > ABORT BUSY > ABORT "NO CARRIER" > ABORT VOICE > ABORT "NO DIALTONE" > ABORT "NO ANSWER" > "" ATZ > OK ATDTPHONENUMBER > CONNECT ^M > "ost Name:" HOSTNAME > "ser ID:" USERID > "assword:" /qPASSWORD > > When I try to login using pon, this is what happens: > > Feb 26 11:07:20 uxtjp51 pppd[186]: pppd 2.3.5 started by LOGIN, uid 1000 > > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: abort on (BUSY) > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: abort on (NO CARRIER) > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: abort on (VOICE) > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: abort on (NO ANSWER) > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: send (ATZ^M) > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: expect (OK) > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ATZ^M^M > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: OK > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: -- got it > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: send (ATDTPHONENUMBER^M) > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: expect (CONNECT) > Feb 26 11:07:21 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ^M > Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ATDTPHONENUMBER^M^M > Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: CONNECT > Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: -- got it > Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: send (^M^M) > Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: expect (ost Name:) > Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: 33600^M > Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ^M > Feb 26 11:07:46 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ^M > Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: 0005TJD^M > Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: ^M > Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: Host Name: > Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: -- got it > Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: send (HOSTNAME^M) > Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: expect (ser ID:) > Feb 26 11:07:47 uxtjp51 chat[187]: HOSTNAME^M > Feb 26 11:08:32 uxtjp51 chat[187]: alarm > Feb 26 11:08:32 uxtjp51 chat[187]: Failed > Feb 26 11:08:32 uxtjp51 pppd[186]: Connect script failed > Feb 26 11:08:33 uxtjp51 pppd[186]: Exit. > > It looks to me as if it gets stuck on the Host Name. When it gets the > UserID promt it sends the Host Name again > > Please advise how to do it right. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Have you tried using 'pppconfig' command? dyer
DHCP client for 2.2.x/token-ring???
Does a DHCP client exist which can handle token-ring on 2.2.x kernels? Neither dhcpcd not dhclient (ISC's client) can deal with it. Thanx!
Creative Labs DVD Encore Dxr2 and Linux video problems
I just bought a Creative Labs Encore DVD-ROM with the Dxr2 mpeg board, and I'm having horrible video problems running X windows. The video bleeds all over the place. I see a little problem in winbloze (the reason I bought the stupid DVD-ROM drive is because a) I needed to install windows and b) well, I *was* going to buy a CD-ROM but I had an extra $200 burning a hole in my pocket :) -- the video in windows has a little ghosting, but that *might* be from RF interference But X windows is horrible. Colors bleed and shimmer all over the place and the video is offset. If I disconnect the video pass through and connect the monitor straight to my video card the problem goes away. Ideas? Should I send the DVD-ROM back? :) -- Christopher Fury [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APT - Uninstall Leftovers
I'm having problems with apt and it's removal of packages. I tried to install xrn (the x news reader) and it installed cnews and inews removing my leafnode. I then had it reinstall leafnode, since it was properly configured and working. Of course this removed what I had just installed. Anyway, I'm getting tons of mail saying the /usr/lib/news/sendbatches, /usr/lib/news/input/newsrun, and /usr/lib/news/maint/newswatch do not exist. They appear to be in a cron job, but I can't find them. Any idea where they might be at? Also, should'nt this have been removed by the removal of the packages? TIA, Chris
X news reader
I'm looking for a good X based news reader that will work with leafnode (since I already have it installed and running). Any ideas on one. I tried xrn, but it installed cnews and removed leafnode. Thanks, Chris
Re: Totally OFFTOPIC: tournament scheduler program
Hmm, mayby octave. Sounds like it could be getting to be an interesting combinatorical problem :) __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to bug you with this, it is totally off topic. I'm looking for Linux > program to build a basketball tournament schedule, several rounds, so that > teams would have same number of back-to-back games, with different opponents > in different rounds etc. With number of teams greater than 10 it's getting > really hard to trace all possible conflicts. > > Sasha. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
semop() SEMMSL constant gone?
I'm trying to compile a SEMOP intensive program and am wondering what happened to this constant if anything, or if it's just me. Mayby I'm leaving out a critical header? Here are the ones I'm using. #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin
ppp help
Hello, I'm a 1.5 debian-year old, and I'm on my second round of debian installs. I recently acquired a PII-266 motherboard, and built it into a second machine. Naturally, withing a couple of weeks, I had to network my two machines, and thanks to a kind, knowledgeable friend, I have my own LAN. However, we have not been so successfully getting this machine to dial in to my ISP (aka Dartmouth College). I ran pppconfig, and set everything up the way the docs told me too, and after a little fiddling, got what seemed to be a ppp connection. That is, I received an IP address, and pppd appeared to be sending acknowledgements back to Dartmouth periodically. However, when I went to ping the other end of my link, it reported "ppp: sendto: Operation not permitted", As I said before, I have an ethernet card in my machine, although we did try taking down the network link (ifconfig eth0 down) and that didn't seem to help matters any. We looked at the relevant docs and man pages, and couldn't find anything that helped. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Modemless in New Hampshire (Larry Gariepy - [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.
> It looks to me as if it gets stuck on the Host Name. When it gets the > UserID promt it sends the Host Name again No. That is the other end echoing the "HOSTNAME^M" you sent. It is hanging waiting for "ser ID:" Try telling it to expect just "ID:" . Are you sure you are supposed to send the string "HOSTNAME" and not the actual name of a host? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: APT - Uninstall Leftovers
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having problems with apt and it's removal of packages. I tried to > install xrn (the x news reader) and it installed cnews and inews > removing my leafnode. I then had it reinstall leafnode, since it was > properly configured and working. Of course this removed what I had > just installed. > This is because Apt knows all, and you are a mere user. ;-) It knows that xrn requires cnews/inews, and cnews/inews conflict with leafnode. Thus you want an impossible situation, and it will not give it to you because you are wrong. Always remember that Apt is God and you will be fine. ;-) Havoc
Re: Weird: Name resoultion for root only?!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Please help! > >I have already posted about this weird thing to comp.os.linux.network, >but nobody seems to be able to help me, maybe one of you Debian >specialists will have a clue... > >Here is my problem: My newly installed Debian 2.0 box (I'm new to >Debian, but not to Linux in general) can see IP addresses and correctly >resolved names if I'm logged in as root, and everything works just fine; >however, if I'm logged in as a _regular user_, I can only get IP >addresses, no names are recognized at all, meaning that for instance >ping would not even see my ISP's host name. -- Now shouldn't the name >service work for _all_ users on a given machine (or for none of them)? >Any permission issues to be taken into account? No. Resolution of domain names is done by libc under the same user id as the program that is being run (ie it is not done by the kernel). This implies that the config files in /etc that you have mentioned below needs to be world readable. >I have a suspicion that /etc/nsswitch.conf could be involved, but I >couldn't figure out what the whole thing is actually about, and the >documentation that I have found on the net isn't exactly human readable >:-) It seems related to glibc6, though. > [...] >/etc/host.conf: [...] >/etc/resolv.conf: [...] >From my perspective, it really sounds like the permissions on one of the above files is wrong. Try: ls -l /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/host.conf and see if anything looks suspicious. If you aren't sure yourself, then send a copy to this mailling list.
Mail and finger problems
I received a disturbing report that the mail port is intermitingly working. Is this a serious bug or what? jh 17:08:37 ~ $ ifconfig ep0; telnet linux.axs.org smtp ep0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 205.216.162.143 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 205.216.162.255 ether 00:20:af:db:d7:9a Trying 192.190.237.130... Connected to linux.axs.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 linux.ccil.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:53:23 -0500 quit 221 linux.ccil.org closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. jh 17:08:40 ~ $ It looks like we have a problem with finger as well. finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [linux.ccil.org] 500:The name given for the Common DUA is not a known socket name. Thanks, Chuck
Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.
dyer writes: > Have you tried using 'pppconfig' command? Pppconfig is really just a special-purpose editor. It's great for ordinary ISPs, but given Compuserv's whacky special requirements he is better off just editing /etc/chatscripts/provider by hand as he has done. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
X11 and potential monitor problem
Hi all, I purchased a Sony CPD-200ES monitor a couple weeks ago and have been using it with Debian without any sort of problem. When I bought I re-ran XF86Setup and configured for my new monitor. Today when I came home from school, I noticed that my monitor was brighter than normal. I checked the settings and they were still set to the default levels. The first thought that ran through my head was that I was frying my monitor. Is this indicative that my video card is driving my monitor too hard? The specs for my monitor are (from the manual): Deflection frequency, horizontal: 30 to 70 kHz, vertical: 50 to 120 Hz The specs also indicate that there are factory preset modes for 1024x768 @ 60 kHz (horizontal.) and 75 Hz (vertical) and1024x768 @ 68.7 kHz (horizontal) and 85 Hz (vertical). My video card is a Matrox Millennium II with 8 megs of RAM. I don't have the specs for the card handy, but it is listed as a supported card. When I set up X11, I made sure to enter refresh rate frequencies that were within the limits of what the specs above show. I think I entered 32 to 68 kHz for horizontal and 55 to 110 Hz for vertical. Is there something else I should be doing? TIA
Re: APT - Uninstall Leftovers
On 25 Feb, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: > >> This is because Apt knows all, and you are a mere user. ;-) It knows that >> xrn requires cnews/inews, and cnews/inews conflict with leafnode. Thus you >> want an impossible situation, and it will not give it to you because you >> are wrong. Always remember that Apt is God and you will be fine. ;-) > > Right, it should be something like: > > xrn requires news-transport > leafnode provides news-transport conflicts with cnews, inn > cnews provides news-transport conflicts with leafnode, inn requires inews > inn provides news-transport conflicts with leafnode, cnews, inews > Better yet: xrn requres news-transport leafnode provides news-transport and is installed end of story - install xrn and leave leafnode installed.
Re: size of kernel too big?
Hello everybody, hi I recently compiled kernel 2.2.1 (my 1st attempt), and everything seems to be going smoothly (except for playing .wav files, but that's another story...) Anyway, did not put anything into "modules" (is that bad?)... Now, when I look at my /var/log/messages, I see this... monkeyhouse kernel: Memory: 30616k/32768k available (1000k kernel code, 416k reserved, 629k data, 44k init)Feb25 more than 384k reserved? hmm... Is that saying that my kernel ids 1MB? If it is, is that too big? Will I make it faster, leaner, smoother, etc bu sticking sound (+anything else?) into "modules"? well, if you're going to use modules all the time, it will make kernel a bit bigger, not smaller. If you're going to put some stuff into modules and use them occationaly and unload them when job is done (manually or automatically via kerneld/kmod), better compile most stuff as modules. i usually compile into kernel only what is really for everysecond usage: ext2, psaux and ethernet. All other stuff - floppy, sound, all filesystems, ppp... - is compiled as modules and managed by kerneld Thanks, Rich OK on 32meg PC my numbers for 2.0.36+patches are Memory: 31168k/32768k available (496k kernel code, 384k reserved, 720k data
Re: X11 and potential monitor problem
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:56:20 -0800 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org From: Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/38397 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Length: 1287 Hi all, I purchased a Sony CPD-200ES monitor a couple weeks ago and have been using it with Debian without any sort of problem. When I bought I re-ran XF86Setup and configured for my new monitor. Today when I came home from school, I noticed that my monitor was brighter than normal. I checked the settings and they were still set to the default levels. The first thought that ran through my head was that I was frying my monitor. Is this indicative that my video card is driving my monitor too hard? The specs for my monitor are (from the manual): Deflection frequency, horizontal: 30 to 70 kHz, vertical: 50 to 120 Hz The specs also indicate that there are factory preset modes for 1024x768 @ 60 kHz (horizontal.) and 75 Hz (vertical) and1024x768 @ 68.7 kHz (horizontal) and 85 Hz (vertical). My video card is a Matrox Millennium II with 8 megs of RAM. I don't have the specs for the card handy, but it is listed as a supported card. When I set up X11, I made sure to enter refresh rate frequencies that were within the limits of what the specs above show. I think I entered 32 to 68 kHz for horizontal and 55 to 110 Hz for vertical. Is there something else I should be doing? i do not believe X will use video mode which is out of monitor specs. You can run "xvidtune" and check what horizontal and vertical frequencies are OK
Re: X11 and potential monitor problem
-Original Message- From: Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >i do not believe X will use video mode which is out of >monitor specs. You can run "xvidtune" and check >what horizontal and vertical frequencies are > >OK > I didn't think so. But it sure is weird. I seemed to have messed up my installation. I can't XF86Setup anywhere. I was trying to install the latest windowmaker from potato, so I think something has gone wrong :( I had spent 10+ hours upgrading my hamm installation to slink. I guess I'll have to wait until 2.1 is released (next week hopefully) to get things going again. Thanks for the reply. It looks like I'll be using windows for the next couple weeks :( Mark
Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.
John Hasler wrote: > > It looks to me as if it gets stuck on the Host Name. When it gets the > > UserID promt it sends the Host Name again > > No. That is the other end echoing the "HOSTNAME^M" you sent. It is > hanging waiting for "ser ID:" Try telling it to expect just "ID:" . Thank you very much for your advice. I tried it, but unfortunately the result was exactly the same. Can you suggest anything else to try ??? > Are you sure you are supposed to send the string "HOSTNAME" and not the > actual name of a host? Oh, I am sorry. I am not sending the string HOSTNAME. I edited the copies of my /var/log/ppp.log and /etc/chatscripts/provider. I substituted the actual phone number, host name, login, and password with PHONENUMBER, HOSTNAME, LOGIN, and PASSWORD. I don't want to put that information on the net. The actual string I use for the Host Name is OK though. It works when I use minicom.
lilo
I had lilo working just fine on my machine, but because of a stupid move on my part, I had to repartition and reformat all my drives. To avoid re-installing and re-setting up everything on my box, I simply copied my Debian partitions to a drive I didn't have to format. I've copied it back over and ran lilo, and it seemed to work fine. When I try to compile a kernel, it gives this error at the end: Checking for LILO...\nYes, but I couldn't find a LILO signature on /dev/hda Check your /etc/lilo.conf, or run /sbin/lilo by hand. When I run lilo by hand there's no problem so why is this error being thrown? My /etc/lilo.conf follows: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only other = /dev/hda1 label = win95 table = /dev/hda other = /dev/hdb3 label = beos table = /dev/hdb Can anyone help me out? TIA. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh "Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled." ===
xcdroast
I just got an external SCSI CD-R for my box. After some doing, I got it working in windows, but would realy like to burn in Linux. I had xcdroast running at one point in time, but now I get this error: ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" ERROR at text.tcl line 455: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" Error: Some or all Generic-SCSI-Devices are missing. Please create first the devices. Run "./MAKEDEVICES.sh" in the xcdroast-0.96e directory. I'm not sure what it's talking about because I can't find the MAKEDEVICES.sh anywhere on my system, let alone in the xcdroast-0.96e directory. A related problem to this is no scsi hosts are detected on bootup of my system. My CD-R has SCSI ID 6, but the kernel doesn't appear to be finding it at all. I have scsi disks and scsi cd-roms included in my kernel and I run kernels 2.2.1. Anyone have any ideas to try? TIA. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh "Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled." ===
Re: xcdroast
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Robert Rati wrote: >Error: Some or all Generic-SCSI-Devices are missing. >Please create first the devices. Run "./MAKEDEVICES.sh" >in the xcdroast-0.96e directory. A few days ago I had the same problem. You find MAKEDEVICES.sh in the source code of xcdroast, just untar xcdroast-0.96e.tar.gz. >My CD-R has SCSI ID 6, but the kernel doesn't appear >to be finding it at all. I have scsi disks and scsi cd-roms included in >my kernel and I run kernels 2.2.1. Anyone have any ideas to try? > You have to select generic Scsi Support in compiling a kernel. -- Daniel Faller Fakultaet fur Physik Abt. Honerkamp Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Tel.: 0761-203-5875 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where to find the files?
Hello: I'd really apreciate if you could tell me what files are required to install the Debian Linux OS. I have been in the FTP sites you're site links to, but I haven't been able to find some README file that exactly tells the directories from wich I must download the files. I want to develop in Linux, What tools are available for your OS? Can the JDK 1.2 for Linux offered by Sun run on your OS? Thanks for your time and attention. Sincerely, Gustavo Valdes __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Disk-Disk
Are both disks IDE ? Are they both on the same controller ? Which disk is the master, which disk is the slave ? You can only boot from a master disk. Set the jumpers right (I hope you still have the documentation for the disks) Success, Joop
Install bombs on Swap disk initialization
Hello, I'm tired of looking at the blinking cursor while the swap disk is being "initialized"... It just sits there doing nothing for as long as I care to leave it there. Sooo, I tried creating the swap partition again, and this time I told it to check for bad sectors [which I had already done with dos's scandisk before even trying the install] and it seemed to run this time, but again bombed, with a message that says OOPS: 0 and a lot of other binary dump stuff that I don't have a clue how to read. I then tried to install with no swap disk after removing the partition for it. I created only a root partition, and a logical partition for data, etc... Once again, I get the bomb with the message "file system not created" when I try to initialize either of these partitions. OUCH! Can anyone help me figure this out so I can get on with my experience of learning Linux? [be gentle, I'm an old dos/windows user so I'm green with Linux] I'm trying to install on my old 386 with 32 meg of ram, a Quantum 340AT, and a Maxtor 7120AT drive. I have the slave/master jumpers on these drives set correctly. There is also a Panasonic CD rom drive with Panasonics' proprietary interface card, and a 512K ATI VGA 1024 video card in the system. Thanks for any help you can be, and THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME GET AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 8-)
acroread-colours
I have a greyscale screen in combination with a S3 graphics card. Acroread's menus are all black to me and I cannot read them. The rest of the colours seems OK. I have looked at the .acrorc-file, but cannot figure out how to correct the problem. Help will be appreciated. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
Re: StarOffice 5
On 25. February 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > I've installed it simply following the setup provided by StarOffice (part of > the download), following the instructions in their README. It worked > flawlessly. I tried to install it some days ago and it frose my X. I havnt tried to fiddle about with this but could it be that I run my X in to much color for SO to handle it? I run it in 24bpp and my resolution is 1200 times ehh.. 1000 or something like that, forgott what it is. Any suggestions on what to do? I run Hamm btw. -- ** * Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson | Olafur Jens Sigurdsson * * Eðlisfræðinemi | Physics Student * * Háskóli Íslands | University of Iceland * * [EMAIL PROTECTED]| [EMAIL PROTECTED] * **
custom kernel install floppy problem
I am helping a friend installing debain on a laptop with a backpack cdrom, and have some trouble. (A compaq thing, 486/75 with 16M ram & 500 or so of harddisk) The 2.0 install floppy was used for partitioning the disk, but it couldn't see the backpack cdrom. So I compiled a 2.2.2 kernel. This one autodetects the backpack cdrom at bootup, but it fails mysteriously, believing that there is no harddisk! Yes - the driver for the ide disk is in place. And I can press alt+F2 and mount /dev/hda1 just fine and access the empty partition waiting for installation. I can run cfdisk too - no problem. But the install program stubbornly insist that there is no harddisk, so it won't even let me try partitioning or use the swap partition. Needless to say, the install stop there. Does the install program depend on some particular kernel feature for discovering the disk, beside the driver that work already? I tried enabling the automounter - that didn't help. Is there anything else that must (or must not) be configured? Helge Hafting
rc.boot for regular users
I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time as a regular user, not as root (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to my account) Can regular users also have boot scripts ? Andreas
Re: rc.boot for regular users
> > I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time > as a regular user, not as root > (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to > my account) > > Can regular users also have boot scripts ? I don't think so, but you could use the `setuid' command to run fetchmail as an ordinary user. On the other hand, it doesn't seem a very good idea. Why don't you just put a .forward file on root's account? HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054
Re: Pine 4.10
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > Is it my imagination or does pine 4.10 seem a lot faster than 4.05? > Faster in terms of navigating mail folders and such. > Hi, I'm having the exactly opposite feeling. Pine 4.10 is very slow in opening mail folders; it's stay Busy far more than 3.96L (from official Debian). Every time I need to switch from one folder to other is a pain! BTW, the installation was clean. Thanks Paul! []s, Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails" Prov. 19.21
Re: DHCP client for 2.2.x/token-ring???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Does a DHCP client exist which can handle token-ring on 2.2.x kernels? > Neither dhcpcd not dhclient (ISC's client) can deal with it. Try using dhcpcd v1.3, earlier versions (not remember which versions exactly) did not support 2.1/2.2 kernels. I use Ethernet. But I think dhcpcd has no problems with Token Ring itself. I hope tihs helps Ulisses - - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key available at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNtaDRg/N+5+NQ63pAQFO7QL/SdJIp3QPMblsb/a2uv5pu1Ch7MuVzjGU vsuf9OigQgtYiokToeMPN8UdTr0J+6HvRBSKFjKvGztPGNRfAsGeoetQFmAz2BOY frRUYObnxlZ+zHqNdhZ7p2/wZHafrVUb =LQGq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter
I recently begun to receive messages with information like this: X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_920025339==_" Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:35:39 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your file X-Attachments: C:\eudora\Attach\File.doc; --=_920025339==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Conrado: Here you have the file requested. I'm sorry but I wrote it with MSWord. Your mom --=_920025339==_ Content-Type: application/msword; name="File.doc"; x-mac-type="42494E41"; x-mac-creator="4D535744" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="File.doc" 0M8R4KGxGuEAPgADAP7/CQAGAAABIgAA EAAAQQEAAAD+ACMAAAD/ ... (700 lines of letters and signs) /w== --=_920025339==_-- How can I restore the file "File.doc" from the attachement made with Eudora?. I have tried with uudecode but it doesn't work (it seems it is not uuencoded). Is there a program to restore files from Eudora? Is it within any Debian package? I cannot tell the senders to use other mail programs or coding strategy. -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34-63864350 SPAIN| Fax: +34-63983385
Problema con dselect
Hola, cuando instalo la ultima version de linux (debian) desde CDROM todo va bien hasta que llego a la parte de instalacion de los paquetes software. El programa dselect me pide la fuente, le digo CDROM, luego me pide el "block device type" y es cuando no consigo continuar. He probado varias opciones entre otras : /dev/hdb pero en este caso me dice que el kernel no soporta la norma iso9660 cuando me ha hecho toda la instalacion previa desde el mismo CDROM. Si me pongo en un shell, me pasa que no puedo montar el CDROM porque me pone el mismo mensaje iso9660 aunque lo monte con el comando siguiente: mount /dev/hdb -t iso9660 /cdrom He probado con versiones anteriores de debian y tambien me pasa lo mismo. Tengo un pentium 166MMX. Donde tengo que acudir para tener respuesta a mi problema. Nota: He conseguido instalar por ejemplo la ultima distribucion de RED HAT y luego montar perfectamente el CDROM pero preferiria instalar la distribucion de Debian. Gracias. Un saludo.
tex package installation
Hi
I'm trying to install a new tex package (ppchtex).
After downloading the package from ftp.dante.de
I copied all files in /usr/local/lib/texfm.
To find the new packages / macros I did run the program
texhash. Unfortunately using \usepackage{package}
(m-pictex and m-ch-en) the files won't be found. So I had to
softlink the files to /usr/lib/texfm/tex/context .
Now latex finds the packages.
where is my mistake ??
BTW: As I' m not subscribed to the list, mailing to me would
be very nice.
Thanks in advance
Niki
P.S.
Does someone have experience with the ppchtex package.
Despite the fact that the files are found, latex complains about
some "Undefined control sequence":
) (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/context/ppchtex/ppchtex.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.80 \doifundefined
{gebruikextras}
The faq coming with the package said it works with latex by using:
\usepackage{m-pictex}
\usepackage{m-ch-de}
I did include these lines in the prambleof my latex file but
see above. :-<
Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT
What graphic server should I use in order to make my riva TNT work with X? The problem is that X only starts in 320 x 200 resolution, even with the SVGA server. Thanks __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Kevin Traas wrote: > My big thing is that I want/need Dial- & Bandwidth-on-Demand support - > very big requirements. I don't think these little ISDN routers > provide the level of control that I want. (If you know different, > please let me know.) All of the "little ISDN routers" I've ever worked with support those. That's basic functionality. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
Re: Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT
Howdy Leonardo Have you tried setting the default resolution using the XF86Setup? See what happens... You may have to toy around with the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to fine tune it... HTH, BrantW "RAM... Rarely Adequate Memory..." >From: "Leonardo Bermudez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT >Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 05:00:22 PST > >What graphic server should I use in order to make my riva TNT work with >X? > >The problem is that X only starts in 320 x 200 resolution, even with the >SVGA server. > >Thanks > > >__ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Creative Labs DVD Encore Dxr2 and Linux video problems
Christopher Fury wrote: > But X windows is horrible. Colors bleed and shimmer all over the place and > the video > is offset. If I disconnect the video pass through and connect the monitor > straight to my video card the problem goes away. There you have it. The bypass cables that come with that kit suck. I'm having that same problem here. My suggestion is to call Creative and complain. Maybe they've got replacement cables. Or buy a replacement cable. They look like they're just male to male video cables.
Re: StarOffice 5
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > On 25. February 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > > > I've installed it simply following the setup provided by StarOffice (part of > > the download), following the instructions in their README. It worked > > flawlessly. > > I tried to install it some days ago and it frose my X. I havnt tried to > fiddle about with this but could it be that I run my X in to much color for > SO to handle it? I run it in 24bpp and my resolution is 1200 times ehh.. > 1000 or something like that, forgott what it is. Any suggestions on what to > do? I run Hamm btw. > > Couldn't it be a problem while dowloading? I dowloaded my SO and It didn't work the first time, I had to log me as "someone else" and get it again in order to make it work, ___ Daniel Doro Ferrante email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network/System Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cecm.usp.br/~danieldf http://www.latt.if.usp.br/~danieldf CECM - Curso de Ci?ncias Moleculares - USP Course of Molecular Sciences - University of S?o Paulo - Brazil
Debianized cdrecord-1.6.1? (for HP7200e)
Hi! Is there debianized cdrecord-1.6.1 available, or it is necessary to download the tar.gz, compile it and put in /usr/local. The 1.6.1 supports the parallel port CD-R's ... TIA Wojtek Zabolotny
Re: Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 05:16:53AM -0800, Brant Wells wrote: > >What graphic server should I use in order to make my riva TNT work with > >X? you need to upgrade to the latest version of XFree86 (3.3.2?). i'm not sure what the latest version is, but AFAIK the version that's packaged in hamm doesn't support the Riva TNT chipset in any of the servers. HTH, vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
Debian clusters
Hi, I'm looking for info/experiences of how to make a Debian cluster for mission critical web/DB/... server? Are someone doing/using this? Should be difficult to do this with Debian? I'm not a expert in this subject, so a brief report of success and/or some steps in the way to go would be great. Thanks []s Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails" Prov. 19.21
Re: Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter
> I recently begun to receive messages with information like this: > > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="=_920025339==_" [...] > Content-Type: application/msword; name="File.doc"; > x-mac-type="42494E41"; x-mac-creator="4D535744" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="File.doc" [...] > How can I restore the file "File.doc" from the attachement made with > Eudora?. I have tried with uudecode but it doesn't work (it seems it is > not uuencoded). Nope, it's base64-encoded (look at the Content-Transfer-Encoding header line) Install mpack, and you can probably flush mails like these through a nifty little program called munpack to unpack end decode the stuff. Of course, that won't make the Word files any more readable, but perhaps WP or SO can do the trick... Better yet, teach your mom to send you text files, or html if formatting is so important! TTFN, -- Hans Peter Verne ( hpv @ kjemi.uio.no ) Phone: (+47) 22 85 54 14 Dept. of Chemistry, University of Oslo. Fax: (+47) 22 85 54 41 `It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever, have you thought of going into teaching?'-- Terry Pratchett, "Mort"
Re: Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT
Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you need to upgrade to the latest version of XFree86 (3.3.2?). It's version 3.3.3, and I _think_ that it just appeared in potato. If not, just grab the SVGA server binary from www.xfree86.org and install it over your current server binary. Later, Dale -- +- pgp key available --+ | Dale E. Martin | Clifton Labs, Inc. | Senior Computer Engineer| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]|http://www.clifton-labs.com | +--+
Re: Xfree86 and nVidia riva TNT
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 09:16:13AM -0500, Dale E. Martin wrote: > It's version 3.3.3, and I _think_ that it just appeared in potato. If not, > just grab the SVGA server binary from www.xfree86.org and install it over > your current server binary. you may also find it informative to have a look at this page: http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html because there's a Great Reorganisation going on with X at the moment -- some of the existing packages were getting a bit unwieldy. -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
hda: unexpected_intr: Error=0x41 { DriveStatusError }
Hi again!
I have tried several ways of istalling debian, I have formatted my disk
with BIOS, with fdisk, with fips. I am getting an error message that
repeats its self:
had: unexpected_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: unexpected_intr: status=0x41 { DriveStatusError }
Can anyone help?
Sky Goodhew
Carleton University
'Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'
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Configuring Exim
I have installed Exim but I am not able to configure it. I have read a lot of documentation files on Exim, but since I don't know a lot about mail and mailing, I don't realy understand most of it. I just want to configure Exim to sent mail to my ISP's smtp server (smtp.kabelfoon.nl) and to get mail from my ISP's pop server (pop.kabelfoon.nl). The mail address to be uses is [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no local mail to be sent or received. I have tried to configure Exim using eximconfig, but I don't know what answers to give to eximconfig. Could someone please tell me how to configure Exim in my situation? TIA, Robert-Jan
Re: Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...
Subject: Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts... Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 05:29:44PM -0600 In reply to:rich Quoting rich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Howdy all, > > I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my > TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's loaded during boot-up), but when I do > a "xlsfonts | grep ttf" I get nothing... I've also done "ln -s > /dos_c/windows/fonts /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts" as per xfstt > documentation... I know that I'm probably supposed to add the line "xset > fp+ unix/:7101&" to my xinitrc (?), but that doesn't do anything any 1. fp+ unix/:7101 & 2. In XF86Config Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/ttfonts" # Pointer to ttf files HTH -- You know you've been spending too much time on the computer when your friend misdates a check, and you suggest adding a "++" to fix it. ___ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5
Subject: Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5 Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 08:26:58PM +0100 In reply to:Anthony GGP Quoting Anthony GGP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > This has been answered over a dozen times in the last two months. > > Could I suggest that you check the mail archives on www.debian.org > > before asking questions here. Many of the European readers have to > > pay big bucks to get mail off this list and a lot of your questions > > have been asked before, and are in the archives. > > Wayne: > Did I answer your question with this message? If so, I was in error. I thought I was answering a msg from a 'pollywog'. I had been deluged with 'pollywog' messages and thought I was responding to him. My apologies. > > No offense taken. > I have actually checked out various online resources including the Netscape > Website, Debian.org, man pages and HOWTOs and have been monitoring the > mailing list for some time and have not found an answer to my question. > However, I must admit I did fail to check out dejanews. I'll be sure to > check it out next time. > And I forgot to mention it as well. :-( > Living in Europe myself and having to pay "big bucks", I sympathize with > those annoyed by repeatedly asked questions. However, I would like to ask > you to be a little more considerate in this regard as, with the current > Linux boom, there are many newbies out there with many unanswered questions, > despite doing a great deal of research on their own. And when these people > actually do post a question I think they'd appreciate a helping hand. > > Besides, isn't that what this mailing-list is about, to offer help and > advice to those who need it? > Yes, and I try to help whenever I can. But as an instructor myself, I find that ' some people ', tend to get in the habit of asking for answers to problems without doing any research themselves. This list is populated with people who 'know' so much and it is such a good resource, some seem to take advantage of it. I believe that if you give a person a pointer to where the answers can be found, you do more for them in the long run. If I answered a question with " Do x, y & z ", if might solve your problem but it would not have educated you. Best regards, Wayne -- Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much. ___ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Problem with booting from hard disk
Hello I installed Debian 2.0 the other day. I had a problem in the beginning because I had to give the physical dimensions of the hard disk as a parameter to the installation kernel. Anyway, it is now installed but I'm not able to boot from the hard disk. I chose not to install lilo in the master boot record and then I use a boot manager to choose which OS to boot (WinNT/Win98/Linux). The boot manager is called System Commander and should be able to recognize Linux well enaugh. Here's some output from fdisk: Disk /dev/hdb: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 13328 cylinders Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 *11 433 204561 83 Linux native /dev/hdb2 4096 4336 8670 2048287+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hdb3 8192 867113328 2200905 17 Unknown /dev/hdb4 434 434 4335 18436955 Extended /dev/hdb5 434 434 3642 1516221 83 Linux native /dev/hdb6 3072 3643 4075 204561 83 Linux native /dev/hdb7 3072 4076 4335 122818+ 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/sda111 128 1028128+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/sda2 256 256 1106 6835657+ 5 Extended /dev/sda3 129 129 255 1020127+ 17 Unknown /dev/sda5 256 256 510 20482567 OS/2 HPFS /dev/sda6 511 511 765 20482567 OS/2 HPFS /dev/sda7 766 766 1020 20482567 OS/2 HPFS /dev/sda8 1021 1021 1106 690763+ 7 OS/2 HPFS sda is the boot disk and hdb1 is the "/" partition. I've tried this lilo.conf (and yes, I ran lilo afterwards) boot=/dev/hdb1 root=/dev/hdb1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 append="hdb=13328,15,63 mem=128M" read-only default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux alias=Debian vga=normal image=/vmlinuz_orig label=Linux_orig alias=backup but all I get when I choose it from the boot menu is LI and then nothing. If anyone is able to help me with this I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Ãli __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: lpr and text formatting
*- On 25 Feb, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Re: lpr and text formatting" > Guenter Schmidt wrote: >> >> If you use an HP printer, you may use PCL commands at the end of the >> magicfilter-script. mine looks like that: >> >> # Original default entry >> #defaultcat \eE\e&k2G\e(0N \eE >> # My default to change Font and Margins: >> default cat \eE\e&k2G\e(0N\e(s0p12h10v0b0s8T\e&a8L \eE > > That's interesting. Could you point me to a list of PCL commands and > their explanantions? I'm using an HO Laserjet 6L and would like to > experiment :) > > TIA http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpl02705.html -- Brian - "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." - unknown Mechanical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
slink iso images
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Re: X11 and potential monitor problem
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 09:53:21PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I can't XF86Setup anywhere. > > I had spent 10+ hours upgrading my hamm installation to slink. XF86Setup has been split off into its own package. Have you installed that? -- Matt Folwell, P2 Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo
Subject: lilo Date: Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 01:34:55AM -0500 In reply to:Robert Rati Quoting Robert Rati([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I had lilo working just fine on my machine, but because of a stupid move > on my part, I had to repartition and reformat all my drives. To avoid > re-installing and re-setting up everything on my box, I simply copied my > Debian partitions to a drive I didn't have to format. I've copied it back > over and ran lilo, and it seemed to work fine. When I try to compile a > kernel, it gives this error at the end: > > Checking for LILO...\nYes, but I couldn't find a LILO signature on > /dev/hda > Check your /etc/lilo.conf, or run /sbin/lilo by hand. > > When I run lilo by hand there's no problem so why is this error being > thrown? My /etc/lilo.conf follows: > > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda2 > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > > other = /dev/hda1 > label = win95 > table = /dev/hda > > other = /dev/hdb3 > label = beos > table = /dev/hdb > > Can anyone help me out? TIA. > > Rob > Bob I am _not_ a lilo expert but I have checked the lilo manual and I can only come up with two things. 1) wipe out the MBR on hda with DOS fdisk /MBR and run lilo by hand again. 2) I don't use that install= line that you have and the manual seems to show examples only using install= for a floppy. (???) Other then the install line your lilo.conf looks OK to me, for whatever that is worth. HTH -- "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society Convention, 1977 ___ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: X11 and potential monitor problem
Hi Matt, I didn't know that. Thanks, I'll look for it this evening. Mark -Original Message- From: Matt Folwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 8:58 AM Subject: Re: X11 and potential monitor problem > >XF86Setup has been split off into its own package. Have you installed that? >
NFS client.
I have a debian box at work mounting a few (well, I guess a lot) of NFS shares on various Solaris machines. It was working just fine until yesterday (two months solid uptime) when all of a sudden, I started getting many errors like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~/naetwt2]$ ls ls: 800pts: Stale NFS file handle the relavent line in /etc/fstab is: picea:/disk19 /disk19 nfs defaults 0 0 A mount -o remount /disk19 seems to have no effect, and I cannot read any files in /disk19/dbroseme/naetwt2/800pts because of this error. I would like to solve this without rebooting, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -Dano
/etc/hosts on one machine
Is it possible to have /etc/hosts on only one machine on the lan and have the other machines use it?
Re: Pine 4.10
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, [iso-8859-1] M?rio Ol?mpio de Menezes wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > > Is it my imagination or does pine 4.10 seem a lot faster than 4.05? > > Faster in terms of navigating mail folders and such. > > > > Hi, > I'm having the exactly opposite feeling. Pine 4.10 is very slow in > opening mail folders; it's stay Busy far more than 3.96L (from official > Debian). Every time I need to switch from one folder to other is a pain! > BTW, the installation was clean. Thanks Paul! Opposite feeling also. Am running diald and eachtime I try to change a folder I have to wait for the net connection to come up before the folders will switch! I'm aware it's more of a diald.filter problem, haven't jumped into it yet. However, why would pine try to bring up a net connection to switch folders? Ditto Thanks to Paul for the package. Couldn't get the tarball to compile on my machine. Pico & Pilot success, Pine died! Mike +--+ | Mike Nachlinger (408) 446-9914 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Apres Ski Club 1-888-APRESGO www.apres.org | +--+
Re: rc.boot for regular users
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time > > as a regular user, not as root > > (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to > > my account) > > > > Can regular users also have boot scripts ? Why not edit your user crontab to fetch mail? Very easy to do. Been using that system for years. Slick! -Mike +--+ | Mike Nachlinger (408) 446-9914 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Apres Ski Club 1-888-APRESGO www.apres.org | +--+
RE: /etc/hosts on one machine
On 26-Feb-99 Clyde Wilson wrote: > Is it possible to have /etc/hosts on only one machine > on the lan and have the other machines use it? > It's called NIS. Give it a peek.
RE: Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter
On 26-Feb-99 Conrado Badenas wrote: > I recently begun to receive messages with information like this: > > Dear Conrado: > Here you have the file requested. I'm sorry but I wrote it with MSWord. > > Your mom > > --=_920025339==_ > Content-Type: application/msword; name="File.doc"; > x-mac-type="42494E41"; x-mac-creator="4D535744" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="File.doc" > > How can I restore the file "File.doc" from the attachement made with > Eudora?. I have tried with uudecode but it doesn't work (it seems it is > not uuencoded). This is your clue: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 base64-encoding is not the same as uuencoding. Eudora, as such, has nothing to do with it. Lots of mailers use base64. A base64-encoded file can be decoded with the command cat codedfile | mmencode -u > decodedfile However, note one important difference: An encapsulated uuencoded block begins with a line like begin 664 filename and ends with a line like end and so you can submit a text file which includes a uuencoded block to uudecode, and it will decode the block into "filename". This is a very convenient way to handle it when encapsulated in email, since it ignores everything except what's between the two encapsulating lines. base64 encoding knows nothing about that sort of thing, so you have to separate out the encoded block on its own, with nothing else at all. If the encoded block is a separate (and clean) email attachment, then you should be able to save the attachment and run "mmencode -u" on it. However, if the base64-encoded block is within the text of the body of the message (as sometimes happens), then you have to save the message and edit out by hand everything except the encoded block. Hope this helps. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26-Feb-99 Time: 17:40:14 -- XFMail --
Re: Pine 4.10
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, [iso-8859-1] Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > > > > Is it my imagination or does pine 4.10 seem a lot faster than 4.05? > > > Faster in terms of navigating mail folders and such. > > > > > > > Hi, > > I'm having the exactly opposite feeling. Pine 4.10 is very slow in > > opening mail folders; it's stay Busy far more than 3.96L (from official > > Debian). Every time I need to switch from one folder to other is a pain! > > BTW, the installation was clean. Thanks Paul! > > Opposite feeling also. Am running diald and eachtime I try to change a > folder I have to wait for the net connection to come up before the > folders will switch! I'm aware it's more of a diald.filter problem, > haven't jumped into it yet. However, why would pine try to bring up a > net connection to switch folders? I found that using tab to go to 'next folder with new message in' is fast enough. []s, Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails" Prov. 19.21
Re: Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: > I recently begun to receive messages with information like this: > > X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="=_920025339==_" > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:35:39 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Your file > X-Attachments: C:\eudora\Attach\File.doc; > > --=_920025339==_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear Conrado: > Here you have the file requested. I'm sorry but I wrote it with MSWord. > > Your mom > > --=_920025339==_ > Content-Type: application/msword; name="File.doc"; > x-mac-type="42494E41"; x-mac-creator="4D535744" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="File.doc" > > 0M8R4KGxGuEAPgADAP7/CQAGAAABIgAA > EAAAQQEAAAD+ACMAAAD/ > ... (700 lines of letters and signs) > /w== > --=_920025339==_-- > > How can I restore the file "File.doc" from the attachement made with > Eudora?. I have tried with uudecode but it doesn't work (it seems it is > not uuencoded). > > Is there a program to restore files from Eudora? Is it within any Debian > package? I cannot tell the senders to use other mail programs or coding > strategy. The key part of the header is: > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Use the -m option of uudecode. bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Log messages
Hi, all! I'm using iplogger in my box, and I'm getting the following messages: Thu Feb 25 19:15:37 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:17:38 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:19:38 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:21:39 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:25:40 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:27:38 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:29:39 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:31:38 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] Thu Feb 25 19:35:39 destination unreachable from [w.x.y.z] where w.x.y.z is a valid IP address (located by ping, and this domain has a web server too), but I have never accessed some host of this domain. Is this messages generated by an "trojan horse"? Or just some route query? Or another thing? Thanks in advance. Carlos Marcos Kakihara (bacate) Escola de Engenharia de Piracicaba E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.
Jens K. Olsen writes: > Oh, I am sorry. I am not sending the string HOSTNAME. I edited the copies > of my /var/log/ppp.log and /etc/chatscripts/provider. I substituted the > actual phone number, host name, login, and password with PHONENUMBER, > HOSTNAME, LOGIN, and PASSWORD. I don't want to put that information on > the net. While you certainly should not post your password and login, there is really no point in concealing the rest of the information. It looks as though Compuserv is not getting your HOSTNAME. Try adding a \d in front of it so that chat will pause before sending it. You might also try adding various permutations and combinations of line feeds and carriage returns after the HOSTNAME. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Problem with Netscape browser!
Dear friends, I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to do... Any help??? thanx giulio ps: I run Debian 2.0R3
RE: Problem with Netscape browser!
On 26-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear friends, > I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to > launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to > do... > Any help??? thanx > giulio > ps: I run Debian 2.0R3 > Install xpm4 from oldlibs.
Re: Problem with Netscape browser!
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear friends, > I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to > launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to do... > Any help??? thanx > giulio > ps: I run Debian 2.0R3 It seems to be the case that you need some 'old-libs' libraries installed. Please, try to do that with dselect. I don't remember exactly the package names but probably dselect info will tell you quite exactly what you'll need. Or someone better informed will tell you the exact package name...? Actually I just yesterday managed to get a Netscape 4.04 working which I installed using rpm -package coming out of SuSE distr 5.2. ... The dep installer for Netscape didn't work as expected when I made first a tarball out of rpm and put that in /tmp as informed to do by dselect, but it neverthless works now, after using alien -i. hv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp failure to connect
I am having trouble connecting to my provider. I have configured the chatscript and the /etc/ppp/peers/provider files correctly, and if I run plog I see communication. the "gist" of the communication is: sent [LCPConf Req id=0x1... (IP addresses are assigned) cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Local IP address: 206.27.215.142 Remove IP address: 206.27.215.80 sent ( received (... a series of "magic" numbers, which I assumed meant I was connected and "talking" with my provider. I cannot get a ping (it just hangs) If I go into Dselect, it says its connecting and just sits there forever. If I go into FTP and attempt a connection, I get similar results. Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Re: /etc/hosts on one machine
> Is it possible to have /etc/hosts on only one machine > on the lan and have the other machines use it? Either make that one host a DNS server and point all the other machines to it, or make it a YP server and ypbind them to it. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | --
Re: StarOffice 5
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olafur Jens Sigurdsson) writes: > On 25. February 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > > > I've installed it simply following the setup provided by StarOffice (part of > > the download), following the instructions in their README. It worked > > flawlessly. > > I tried to install it some days ago and it frose my X. I havnt tried to > fiddle about with this but could it be that I run my X in to much color for > SO to handle it? I run it in 24bpp and my resolution is 1200 times ehh.. > 1000 or something like that, forgott what it is. Any suggestions on what to > do? I run Hamm btw. StarOffice hangs on my laptop with only 256 colours, if at the same time I'm running Netscape that allocates its own colour registers. The work around is to use VNC to connect to a second X session running on the same laptop. In the second session I only run StarOffice. You may be able to do the same thing to control the screen resolution that StarOffice runs under. Cheers, -- Brett Wuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 1251-U, Pincher Creek, Alberta T0K 1W0, CANADA Tel:+1 403 627-2460 [EMAIL PROTECTED] has mine; Print=E4F8EDEECBE01AD2FA3D8B2D94B1A292 What is the meaning of life?! Yes.
Re: Creative Labs DVD Encore Dxr2 and Linux video problems
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Steve Rothanburg wrote: > Christopher Fury wrote: > > > But X windows is horrible. Colors bleed and shimmer all over the place and > > the video > > is offset. If I disconnect the video pass through and connect the monitor > > straight to my video card the problem goes away. > > There you have it. The bypass cables that come with that kit suck. I'm having > that > same problem here. My suggestion is to call Creative and complain. Maybe > they've got > replacement cables. Or buy a replacement cable. They look like they're just > male to > male video cables. I also have an Encore Dxr2. When I'm at high resoultions (1280x1024) (but not at 1024x768), I notice a slight ghosting effect, especially on vertical lines (which a number of characters in our Roman alphabet seem to have). I hate the idea of a pass-thru cable, you'll always get some amount of noise with analog signals. I want my video card to be able to do MPEG2 decoding and MP3 decoding (into Dolby Digital, of course) without any additional cards (well okay, I'll settle for a sound card doing the sound decoding). But alas, such video cards are probably about 9 months away For now, I think you have a few choices: 1. Try to improve the pass-thru cable quality. Try adding ferite cores (this seems to help a little, but not much). And/or try spending a lot of money on a high quality male-to-male cable. 2. Do what I do, normally plug in the monitor's cable directly into your video card, and everytime you want to view a DVD, put back in the pass-thru. This is the cheapest solution and keeps the video quality best. (Try not to short out your video cards if you're doing this hot :) 3. Setup an A-B switch box and switch between the video card+MPEG2 decoder card and just video card (you'll probably need a Y-splitter cable as well). This is more expensive than 2 and will probably introduce noise as well. 4. Don't use the video pass-thru on the card. Only use the S-Video or composite out to a TV. This is probably the best solution, but does require a TV near your computer. 5. I suppose you could also complain to Creative, but I doubt that will get you very far. Cliff W. DraperForte Software, Inc. (510) 869-3462 food for thought "Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code."-- Dave Storer
Fwd: Where to find the files?
Forwarded to the list, so please include Gustavo in your reply. >X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Originating-IP: [209.198.228.5] >From: "Gustavo Valdes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Where to find the files? >Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:04:53 PST >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 08:44:39 +0100 >Resent-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/38406 >X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hello: > I'd really apreciate if you could tell me what files are required >to install the Debian Linux OS. > I have been in the FTP sites you're site links to, but I haven't >been able to find some README file that exactly tells the directories >from wich I must download the files. > > I want to develop in Linux, What tools are available for your OS? >Can the JDK 1.2 for Linux offered by Sun run on your OS? > > Thanks for your time and attention. Sincerely, > > Gustavo Valdes > >__ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null
Re: Dependency problem with libc6
crp wrote: > > I must say that does seem a little drastic. > Should I use dpkg to force the downgrade of libc6 > from the t version to the u version and then rerun > apt-get upgrade? > Will it break the packages that depend on > libc6_2.0.7u only temporarily? > Or are there other options? > In potato, there exists libc6 v2.0.7.19981211-6. It includes the dev and pic packages as well. Maybe you should get these out of potato and install them with dpkg? -- Ed C.
Compiling my kernel - but it's not working as I planned
I have some kernel compliling issues: * I'm using kernel-package (and boy does it make life easier!) * I'm running slink, compilng kernel 2.0.36 * I'm using menuconfig Questions: 1) I'd LOVE to have the .config file used to create the distribution version of kernel-image.2.0.36. I can't imagine this is hard to obtain. Can someone tell me where to get it? Why? Because I want to create the kernel as it already exists on my PC but with options I want added. Granted, I can set everything up myself - but I haven't been successful - read on... 2) I can't seem to get the cdrom.o module created. I selected (as per the HOWTOs) enhanced ide/mfm/rll disk/cdrom/tape support' and 'include ide/atapi cdrom support' and 'iso9660 cdrom fs'. But after install the /lib/modules dir doesn't contain a cdrom dir - as it did with my base install. What am I missing? (Those options that allowed it I opted for the module version) 3) On the same lines, the vfat module isn't being created in /lib/modules. I do have the filesystem option checked in menuconfig. (Again, I selecte the module version for vfat). (On both 2 and 3 - I checked the compile listing [which I can provide if you want it] and in fact vfat and cdrom aren't compiled as modules. 4) Do I need to recompile pcmcia-cs since I recompiled my kernel? The docs mention this - I'd like to know the reason. Also, how do I do this without overlaying all my existing config files for pcmcia and serial and PPP? Sure wish there was a kernel-package option for pcmcia-cs. :) -Jay
Re: Problem with Netscape browser!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear friends, > I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to > launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to do... > Any help??? thanx > giulio > ps: I run Debian 2.0R3 I highly reccomend going back to ftp.netscape.com and getting the libc6 version of NS (4.08 or 4.5). Or upgrade to slink and get NS from Debian's distribution. 3.01 is very old. In the /pub/communicator/ branch look for a supported/unsupported sub dir. The unsupported branch will take you to the libc6 versions (they have 'glibc2' in their name). Otherwise you'll need libc5, xlib6, and xpm4.7 from oldlibs (I think that is all). -- Ed C.
web based mail
hi all, i was wondering if there's anyone here who gives web based mail services to their customers. if so, what package/application can you suggest w/c, based on ur experiences is proven to work in a nice and stable way. (and also those w/c will allow u to sort ur email in diff folders just like hotmail and rocketmail. TIA, chad
RE: Compiling my kernel - but it's not working as I planned
On 26-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have some kernel compliling issues: > > * I'm using kernel-package (and boy does it make life easier!) > * I'm running slink, compilng kernel 2.0.36 > * I'm using menuconfig > > Questions: > > 1) I'd LOVE to have the .config file used to create the distribution version > of kernel-image.2.0.36. I can't imagine this is hard to obtain. Can someone > tell me where to get it? > Grab the source for kernel-image. Should be in there. > 2) I can't seem to get the cdrom.o module created. I selected (as per the > HOWTOs) enhanced ide/mfm/rll disk/cdrom/tape support' and 'include ide/atapi > cdrom support' and 'iso9660 cdrom fs'. But after install the /lib/modules > dir > doesn't contain a cdrom dir - as it did with my base install. What am I > missing? (Those options that allowed it I opted for the module version) > > 3) On the same lines, the vfat module isn't being created in /lib/modules. I > do have the filesystem option checked in menuconfig. (Again, I selecte the > module version for vfat). > > (On both 2 and 3 - I checked the compile listing [which I can provide if you > want it] and in fact vfat and cdrom aren't compiled as modules. > You need to compile them AS modules, not included. Type instead of . > 4) Do I need to recompile pcmcia-cs since I recompiled my kernel? The docs > mention this - I'd like to know the reason. Also, how do I do this without > overlaying all my existing config files for pcmcia and serial and PPP? Sure > wish there was a kernel-package option for pcmcia-cs. :) > pcmcia-cs is actually kernel modules. So if it is compiled for a specific kernel version. You only need to re-make them if a) you want less/more/different b) you get a new kernel version. and yes, there is a kernel-package option for pcmcia. Read the pcmcia docs to find out more (make-kpkg modules_install will compile the pcmcia-modules).
Re: Compiling my kernel - but it's not working as I planned
In a message dated 2/26/99 2:29:24 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > 1) I'd LOVE to have the .config file used to create the distribution > version > > of kernel-image.2.0.36. I can't imagine this is hard to obtain. Can > someone > > tell me where to get it? > > > > Grab the source for kernel-image. Should be in there. There was a .config.save when I unpacked kernel-source.2.0.36 - but something along the way removed it when I made my first compile. Guess I'll unpack and try that. > > > 2) I can't seem to get the cdrom.o module created. I selected (as per the > > HOWTOs) enhanced ide/mfm/rll disk/cdrom/tape support' and 'include ide/ > atapi > > cdrom support' and 'iso9660 cdrom fs'. But after install the /lib/modules > > dir > > doesn't contain a cdrom dir - as it did with my base install. What am I > > missing? (Those options that allowed it I opted for the module version) > > > > 3) On the same lines, the vfat module isn't being created in /lib/modules. > I > > do have the filesystem option checked in menuconfig. (Again, I selecte > the > > module version for vfat). > > > > (On both 2 and 3 - I checked the compile listing [which I can provide if > you > > want it] and in fact vfat and cdrom aren't compiled as modules. > > > > You need to compile them AS modules, not included. Type instead of . > If you reread my question - I did select all those options as 'm' - which is why I'm asking the question. :) > > 4) Do I need to recompile pcmcia-cs since I recompiled my kernel? The > docs > > mention this - I'd like to know the reason. Also, how do I do this > without > > overlaying all my existing config files for pcmcia and serial and PPP? > Sure > > wish there was a kernel-package option for pcmcia-cs. :) > > > > pcmcia-cs is actually kernel modules. So if it is compiled for a specific > kernel version. You only need to re-make them if a) you want > less/more/different b) you get a new kernel version. > > and yes, there is a kernel-package option for pcmcia. Read the pcmcia docs > to > find out more (make-kpkg modules_install will compile the pcmcia-modules). > Cool. I didn't see the make-kpkg reference for pcmcia - but I'll look again.
Re: Problem with Netscape browser!
Netscape 3 may be old, but it works fine. I believe it may also be smaller and possibly even faster than 4 on an older machine. Apart from the use of old libs, I can't think of any good reason to upgrade, although I'm quite willing to listen if anyone thinks otherwise. Just my opinion (I'm running NS 3.04 btw). Rich (PS ok, you can't get netscape 3.04 to reject all cookies, but that's a small thing) Ed Cogburn wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Dear friends, > > I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to > > launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to > > do... > > Any help??? thanx > > giulio > > ps: I run Debian 2.0R3 > > I highly reccomend going back to ftp.netscape.com and getting the > libc6 version of NS (4.08 or 4.5). Or upgrade to slink and get NS > from Debian's distribution. 3.01 is very old. In the > /pub/communicator/ branch look for a supported/unsupported sub > dir. The unsupported branch will take you to the libc6 versions > (they have 'glibc2' in their name). > Otherwise you'll need libc5, xlib6, and xpm4.7 from oldlibs (I > think that is all). > > -- > Ed C. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Problem with Netscape browser!
Richard Harran wrote: > > Netscape 3 may be old, but it works fine. I believe it may also be > smaller and possibly even faster than 4 on an older machine. Apart from > the use of old libs, I can't think of any good reason to upgrade, > although I'm quite willing to listen if anyone thinks otherwise. > Just my opinion (I'm running NS 3.04 btw). > > Rich > > (PS ok, you can't get netscape 3.04 to reject all cookies, but that's a > small thing) > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Dear friends, > > > I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to > > > launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to > > > do... > > > Any help??? thanx > > > giulio > > > ps: I run Debian 2.0R3 > > > > I highly reccomend going back to ftp.netscape.com and getting the > > libc6 version of NS (4.08 or 4.5). Or upgrade to slink and get NS > > from Debian's distribution. 3.01 is very old. In the > > /pub/communicator/ branch look for a supported/unsupported sub > > dir. The unsupported branch will take you to the libc6 versions > > (they have 'glibc2' in their name). > > Otherwise you'll need libc5, xlib6, and xpm4.7 from oldlibs (I > > think that is all). > > If all you want is the www browser capability then I won't argue with you. IIRC, v3.0x is for the NS standalone browser?. I've never used the v3 versions, but if you also want to use the mail/newsgroup capability then at least v4.08 is reccomended (I'm using 4.5). -- Ed C.
SMC EtherEZ PCI 10/100 (1211 TX)
Hi, I have an SMC EtherEZ 10/100 PCI network card and I'm having trouble getting it to work. I've read the Ethernet-HOWTO and Hardware-HOWTO, both of which mention several SMC cards, but none that match this one. It's a brand new card with a single chip marked with: SMC EN5030A 89141T1 838k /proc/pci shows it as: SMC 1211 TX (rev 16) lspci shows it as: Accton (unknown device 1211) (rev 10) I've tried building all of the network drivers as modules (with 2.2.1 kernel), but none of them detect the card at boot. I can't translate the chip markings to any of the chipsets listed in the Ethernet-HOWTO. Can anybody help me with this card? At this point, even 'That card is not supported' would help. Thanks, Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680
Re: rc.boot for regular users
Andreas Rapp wrote: > I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time > as a regular user, not as root > (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to > my account) > > Can regular users also have boot scripts ? > > Andreas > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null You can use crontab for that. First setup the file ~/.fetchmailrc for each user in your system. Then add a line to /etc/crontab for each user, there you will tell crontab how many times to check for email. This is how mine looks like: /etc/crontab # Added by rosarior for automatic mail check # Min-Hr-Dom-Moy-Dow-User-Command 05 7,17,21,0 * * * rosarior fetchmail -s 25 7,17,21,0 * * * apontet fetchmail -s 45 7,17,21,0 * * * gordonc fetchmail -s The line "05 7,17,21,0 * * * rosarior fetchmail -s"; tells crontab to execute the command "fetchmail -s" as user rosarior every time the minutes is 05 and the hour is 7,17,21,0 (7:05 am, 5:05pm, 9:05pm and 12:05am) the * is a wildcard character (Dom- every day of the month, Moy every month of the year and Dow- every Day of the week) and in case of error any output is sent to that user's mailbox and not to root. I use increments of 20 minutes for each user to lower the traffic in case the ppp connection speed is slow. Hope this is of help. Later/Robert.
Re:/etc/hosts on one machine
you can achive this using nis. alternatevely you could create a symlink from /etc/hosts to an nfs mounted parition where you would actually keep the host file. i would however *not* recommend this (second) option. if your network went south you would not have any name resolution, if in fact you only rely on /etc/hosts. //daryl -- Daryl Williams Network Administrator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ShareWave, Inc. Phone: 916-939-9400 x3212 5175 Hillsdale Circle Fax: 916-939-9434 El Dorado Hills, CA. 95762Web: http://www.sharewave.com
Re: Detailed query from an interested person. (fwd)
Can somebody of you please answer him. Thanks, Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I own the following (I don't actually *UNDERSTAND* most of this stuff, I've > just copied it off the manual and the Acer web site.): > > Acer 1242M desktop system. > The details: > > Processor/System Memory > 166MHz AMD-K6 MMX Enhanced Processor > ZIF Socket > 16MB EDO system memory > 256KB pipeline burst cache > > Devices: > One 2.0GB 3.5" hard disk drive > One 3.5" 1.44MB diskette drive > CD-ROM drive (12X) (enhanced local bus IDE) > > Graphics > 64-bit accelerator > 1MB EDO video memory > MPEG video playback > ATI Rage (I *THINK*) graphics card, or some kind of ATI doodad > > Minitor > AcerView 34T > > Telecomm > 33.6K fax/modem > > I/O > Two high-speed serial ports (dual 16C550) > One high-speed parallel port (ECP/EPP) > PS/2 compatible keyboard port > PS/2 compatible mouse port > BIOS is Plug and Play, so I guess that means that all the installed cards > are also plug and play. > > Expansion > One PCI slot open > One ISA slot open > > Input devices > 104-key PS/2 compatible keyboard > PS/2 compatible mouse > > I intend to get the following hardware: > More memory (but how much is a good idea?) > 56K modem (internal or external? External would give me another slot...) > graphics tablet (my wife is an artist, > "http://www.elfwood.com/lothlorien/artists/kirsten/kirsten.html"--come on, > give her work a look) > Webcam or other moving video input device > A second HD (recent decision based on how much space my wife's artwork is > starting to take up, and it would let me put infrequently use applications > on the other drive to free up main HD space). > > > The computer gets used for the following functions: > Word processing, which includes pictures, charts, graphs, etc. cut and > pasted into the documents. I want to preserve this cut-and-paste > functionality. > Use of a spreadsheet to create charts/graphs and do basic statistics. > Creation of slides for scientific presentations. > Art creation, both original artworks _de novo_ and altered scans of photos > and pencil works. > Game playing, especially by my children. My sons especially like the > Broderbund, Disney, and Sesame Street games, and I won't give up their > pleasure. > Likewise, I want a full desktop environment. > Finally, installation should be automatic, requiring nothing more than > manufacturers' drivers to load if needs be. > > Once I get the camera, I also want to do video conferencing--in color, not > black-and-white. > > I am not a programmer, nor do I wish to become one. > > So, given the preceeding list, and given that I've an interest in Linux, > what are specific recommendations regarding such interest in regards to > your company's implementation? Will Linux do what I want or should I stick > to Win95? -- No question is too silly to ask, but, of course, some are too silly to answer. -- Perl book
Re: ppp failure to connect
kurgan writes: > a series of "magic" numbers, which I assumed meant I was connected and > "talking" with my provider. Please post an exact copy of the log, include the "magic numbers". > I cannot get a ping (it just hangs) Try ping -c10 206.27.215.80 What do you have in /etc/resolv.conf ? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Gnome programs crash
After installing gnome programs from slink, the programs won't run. I get the following error message gnome-session: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libgnome.so.31: undefined symbol: poptHelpOptions Any ideas cheers matt
Intent to Party like its 1999
TIME: Slink release - 3 days 1 hours We are mere hours away from the largest IRC party Debian has ever thrown -- bigger than Bo, bigger even than Hamm. :-) The release of 2.1 "Slink" will happen: in Australia: at 11:00 AM ACT on Tuesday Mar 2 in Europe: at 0:00 midnight UTC on Tuesday Mar 2 in America: at 7:00 PM EDT on Monday Mar 1 4:00 PM PDT Debian's developers and users are already gathering on IRC channel #debian, irc.debian.org. Everyone is invited for the Great Event, which will begin 2 hours before and probably last well into the night -- or afternoon as the case may be. There's a live countdown page at http://netgod.net/ which will also cover the LinuxWorld Expo that begins the same day. Debian developers will be there in force to give away thousands of CDs. Over 80 people are on the #debian channel already. If you'd like to join us just point your IRC client at one of these servers: irc.us.debian.org irc.eu.debian.org irc.au.debian.org irc.linux.org (See http://www.openprojects.net/services/irc.html for more servers.) And since irc.debian.org is linked with the Linux Internet Support Cooperative (http://www.linpeople.org/), there are plenty of experts around to help with things like ppp, sound, and X setup. If you don't already have a linux console IRC client, try installing this: ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/net/bitchx_75-2.deb And invoking it like this: bitchx "-c#debian" Chat clients for other operating systems are available at http://www.irchelp.org/. Hope to see you there. :-) - PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C __ _Debian GNU Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mm mm / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ www.netgod.net irc.debian.org mm mm / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / m m m / /__| | | | | |_| |> < World Domination, of course. mm mm \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ And scantily clad females. GO BLUE
Re: hda: unexpected_intr: Error=0x41 { DriveStatusError }
> I have tried several ways of istalling debian, I have formatted my disk
> with BIOS, with fdisk, with fips. I am getting an error message that
> repeats its self:
>
> had: unexpected_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: unexpected_intr: status=0x41 { DriveStatusError }
>
A few weeks ago I started getting this error. At first it only appeared
intermittently, but over a period of a few days things became worse, with
serious corruptions of the file system. There was a point reached where the
hard disk was totally unusable and had to be replaced. Initially only a few
bad blocks were reported when running badblock, but a point was reached where
something like 50% of the blocks were bad and then the system just refused to
boot. A new hard disk fixed all of the problems.
In response to a question I posted on this new group, others reported that
this error is shown on their systems during boot up with no ill-effects. It
seems that this error is most likely to be reported during system start-up.
Some times just pressing the reset button and allowing the system to reboot
seems to make the problem go away for a while.
If you have another hard disk available I would try using it.
Regrds ...
