GDM background image

[Jeff Hornsberger]

Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it
is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to
an image not a color. As far as images go, xsetroot apparently can only
handle bitmaps. I'm wondering how I can set the background of gdm to a
.jpg? Thanks. -Jeff

installing Mach 64 Xserver

[Bob Edwards]

I installed debian from a 3 CD set. When I tried to use 'XF86Setup' I
got as far as trying to install my video card and XF86Setup gave me the
following message:

"The server required by your card is not installed. Please install the
MAch 64 serever as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64

When I went through the install program with the 3 CDs, I don't recall
having had the opportunity to install an X server.
I can only access the internet from the windows side of my system, so
how in the world can I install the MAch 64 server from the 3 CD set ?

Regards,
Bob Edwards
aka "desperately seeking to get debian fully installed and operational"

Re: Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

[Sergey Suleimanov]

> "Shaul" == Shaul Karl writes:

Shaul> I haven't clarified myself properly: I was not reffering to the
Shaul> executables. I was reffering to the menu entries, the ones that
Shaul> you get when you use your left mouse button in the root of the
Shaul> X windows system.  Assuming that is installed on your system,
Shaul> do you have entries for ftp and telnet? Do you see the
Shaul> corresponding files in /usr/lib/menu? Which packages installed
Shaul> them?

/usr/lib/menu/default/netstd:

?package(netstd):needs="text" section="Apps/Net" title="Telnet" \
command="/usr/bin/telnet"

?package(netstd):needs="dwww" section="Apps/Net" title="Telnet" \
  command="/usr/man/man1/telnet.1.gz" dwwwtype=man\
  longtitle="telnet - user interface to the TELNET protocol"\
  description="The telnet command is used to communicate with another\
 host using the TELNET protocol.  If telnet is invoked without the host\
 argument (as is done when executed from the menu), it enters command mode,\
 indicated by its prompt (telnet>). In this mode, it accepts and executes\
 the commands listed in this manual page.  If it is invoked with\
 arguments, it performs an open command with those arguments."

?package(netstd):needs="text" section="Apps/Net" title="ftp" 
command="/usr/bin/ftp"

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Re: Install Debian on a PS/2 9557 with 486 & integral SCSI controller?

[Jeremy Gaddis]

> I am considering buying a set of Debian installation CDs to install on
> my PS/2 with a 486 SLC CPU, and an integral SCSI controller on the
> motherboard.  The bus is MCA, of course. I have a 540 MB SCSI hard
> drive, and a 4X Sony, SCSI CD-ROM.
> 
> With this equipment, is it likely that a Debian install will work?

I have an 8595 and a 9595, both of which have ran Debian.
The 9595 ended up dying (no fault of Debian) and the 8595
will again be running Linux as soon as I can get a transceiver
for it's NIC.  Everything worked great right out of the box.
The installation found the SCSI card and all five SCSI drives
the first time, with no help from me.

YMMV, but I don't think you'll have any problems with it.

-jg

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Re: Multiple X consoles on LINUX

[Sergey Suleimanov]

> "suraj" == suraj vijayan writes:

suraj> I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC.  I'm
suraj> able to switch to a different console by ,
suraj> but I'm unclear how to get xdm get running on all the consoles.

See /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers

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man stl?

[Jonathan Lupa]

Is there a man package for stdC++/STL?

Something like ~$ man std::map::operator[]   ?

I find myself having to keep open a web browser to SGI's docs.

Thanks!
-Jonathan

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Creative Live Value !!

[Debian GNU]

Hi All,

I am using Creative Live Value !! card and Debian
Potato. Earlier I was using RH 6.1, on which, it was
giving excellent performance, with drivers downloaded
from developer.soundblaster.com, even better
performace than in Windows 98. I installed the same
drivers in Deb, but unfortunately, the sound quality
is very inferior, with distortion and all. I tried
alsa drivers also, but didn't help. Is there any known
problem with Potato - Live value compatibility ? Is
there any known solution ?

Tnx in advance and Regards,

Deb

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Re: Multiple X consoles on LINUX

[kmself]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:40:58AM +, suraj vijayan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC.
> I'm able to switch to a different console by ,
> but I'm unclear how to get xdm get running on all the consoles.

I played with this briefly, could point you in a direction though I'm
not sure it's the right one.

Look at /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.  You may be able to add additional
displays to be managed here, though I ran into problems (translation:
hosed my existing X session) when I attempted to do so.

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DIVX?

[Krzys Majewski]

Anyone got divx working? I guess I mean divx;) and not divx, gah. 
chris

Re: GDM background image

[Craige McWhirter]

There are a number of ways to do it. I've never done it on Debian as since I
switched over I've always used a black background with a nice image in GDM 
chooser.
However on other distro's I used xv, xbanner and I think Electric Eyes at
different times. I'm sure one or the other of these is available under Debian 
and
they have have "inroot" options which will do what you want. 

Redhat used xrsi (or something similar) which was the nicest I'd used.

Give one of the above a whirl and drop me a line if you have a prob.

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:17:49 Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it
> is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to
> an image not a color. As far as images go, xsetroot apparently can only
> handle bitmaps. I'm wondering how I can set the background of gdm to a
> .jpg? Thanks. -Jeff
> 
> 
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Re: Framebuffer Console ???

[JP Sartre]

> # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
> vga=791
> 
> Is there any way to do this in Debian 2.2?  
> The Debian lilo objects to the 791 value.
> 
> ---   
 Yup.. but you need to recompile your kernel and under console drivers
select yes for Support for frame buffer devices and  VESA VGA graphics
console..  you should be able to get a frame buffer.. everything else you
need I think should be selected by default. Hope that works...

JP

Re: GDM background image

[Christian Lemer]

You can use any other program 

/usr/bin/X11/display -window root 
/usr/share/enlightenment/themes/BlueSteel/backgrounds/images/All-Good-People-4.jpg


Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it
> is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to
> an image not a color. As far as images go, xsetroot apparently can only
> handle bitmaps. I'm wondering how I can set the background of gdm to a
> .jpg? Thanks. -Jeff

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Re: LILO to boot FreeBSD

[Marek Habersack]

** On Oct 17, Joel Dinel scribbled:
[snip]
>  hdd: timeout waiting for DMA
>  hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
>  hdd: DMA disabled
>   [PTBL] [1245/255/63] hdd1
>   
> How can I tell Linux to leave hdd completely alone ?
try appending 'hdd=noprobe' to the linux kernel boot parameters (settable in
your boot loader's config file)

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[Rino Mardo]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:03:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, Veit Waltemath wrote:
> Change to 16 or 32bpp. This is an know behaviour from Netscape.
> -- 
> cu Veit   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   [de]

only 16 or 32?  what about 24?  i'm running at 24bpp and it still is in black
and white.


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Re: DIVX?

[John Travis]

Krzys Majewski wrote:
> 
> Anyone got divx working? I guess I mean divx;) and not divx, gah.
> chris
> 
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Like a charm :-)...



jt

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[John Travis]

Rino Mardo wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:03:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, Veit Waltemath wrote:
> > Change to 16 or 32bpp. This is an know behaviour from Netscape.
> > --
> > cu Veit   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   [de]
> 
> only 16 or 32?  what about 24?  i'm running at 24bpp and it still is in black
> and white.
> 

Yes :-(.  Strange how you can go down or up to fix the problem eh?

jt

Re: man stl?

[Eric G . Miller]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:24:04AM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote:
> Is there a man package for stdC++/STL?
> 
> Something like ~$ man std::map::operator[]   ?
> 
> I find myself having to keep open a web browser to SGI's docs.

Those SGI docs are available as a *.deb for local browsing.  Same deal,
but faster turn around ;)


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Re: LILO to boot FreeBSD

[Sven Gaerner]

Hi Joel,

try grub. This bootloader is in development still but for me it works
great. With this bootloader you can boot BSD partitions and others like M$ and
Linux with reiserfs.
You will find this program on the GNU website or you can also install the
Debian version.
When you download the latest GNU source (I think it should be 0.5.96) you
can easily compile it by...

$ tar xzf grub-0.5.96.tar.gz ; cd grub*
$ debian/rules
$ su -
$ make install

That's all.

Bye,

Sven

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[kmself]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:01:41AM +0400, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:03:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, Veit Waltemath wrote:
> > Change to 16 or 32bpp. This is an know behaviour from Netscape.
> > -- 
> > cu Veit [EMAIL PROTECTED]   [de]
> 
> only 16 or 32?  what about 24?  i'm running at 24bpp and it still is in black
> and white.

Netscape displays B&W icons at 24 bpp.  It's a bug.

Set your X session to *either* 16 or 32 bpp to get colored icons.

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[Rino Mardo]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:13:00AM -0700 or thereabouts, kmself@ix.netcom.com 
wrote:
> > 
> > only 16 or 32?  what about 24?  i'm running at 24bpp and it still is in 
> > black
> > and white.
> 
> Netscape displays B&W icons at 24 bpp.  It's a bug.
> 
> Set your X session to *either* 16 or 32 bpp to get colored icons.
> 
> GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0

hmm, thanks for the inputs.  i'm using Galeon now or was forced to use it
because of this bug.  anyone who is still having problems with netscape should
switch to either Galeon instead.  just my 2cents.

btw, i noticed my pgp is still flakey. still under construction.


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Re: Scheme/lisp and music was: Common Lisp

[Thomas Guettler]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:45:00AM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> 
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > I want to learn lisp or scheme, too. I have read the faqs at
> > www.faqs.org, and I am still not convinced which language I should
> > start to learn. Scheme is much smaller, Common Lisp has more
> > libraries
> > 
> > What I want to do: I want to make some electronic music. I am dreaming
> > of accessing the ALSA-sequencer via lisp. A song could be a list of
> > parts, and a part a list of notes...
> > 
> > Can some help me choosing a language (lisp/scheme).
> > Book-recommendations are welcome!
> > 
> 
> A few years ago I was working on an experimental expert system project
> using an expert system shell that was written in LISP. All of the actions
> that happened when a rule fired were LISP functions. It was great and I
> loved programming in that language. I would probably recommend Scheme as I
> think it is an improvement to LISP in some ways, most dealing with the
> structure of the language. The problem with Scheme is that there haven't
> been practical interpreter/compilers for it, unlike LISP which has more
> mature tools for doing practical programming. By "practical" I mean having
> useful libraries for doing real work, such as Python or Perl have. 

Hi Stephen.

As long that there is a binding to "normal" libraries written in C, I
think I will have all I am searching for.

> Scheme
> seems to be a little more academic and frankly, functional computer
> lanuguages (like Scheme or LISP) are not in vogue right now. I think
> object oriented languages are the "thing" right now, so Java and C++ seem
> to be very popular. 

I programmed a little LISP some years ago. I had the idea to start to
learn it when I worked with XML. In XML you have one element which can
elements, in Lisp you have a list of lists. 

> But I must admit it has probably been a couple of
> years since I searched around for a good Scheme interpreter/compiler. I
> was hoping that Guile would become that and maybe it has. I suppose I'll
> have to check back with that project and see where its at.

I heard good things from Guile.

> In terms of a book recommendation, one of the classics (IMHO) of computer
> science uses Scheme as its example language. It is "Structure and
> Interpretation of Computer Programs". Great book.

I will look at it.

> You realize, I hope, that you will have to use Emacs if you intend to
> program in LISP or Scheme. It is simply the only editor that will do :).

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[Sanjeev Gupta]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Rino Mardo wrote:

> hmm, thanks for the inputs.  i'm using Galeon now or was forced to use it
> because of this bug.  anyone who is still having problems with netscape should
> switch to either Galeon instead.  just my 2cents.

What is galeon?  A browser?

I am looking for a www browser, graphical, no java, but
should support mpeg plugins.  Something light, for a kiosk.

Thanks

Re: DIVX?

[Damien]

> Anyone got divx working? I guess I mean divx;) and not divx, gah. 
> chris

yep. you still need the windows dll though, and xmps is still very alpha. but
hey, better than nothing :)

cheers

 damien


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[Rino Mardo]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:48:02AM -0500 or thereabouts, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Rino Mardo wrote:
> 
> > hmm, thanks for the inputs.  i'm using Galeon now or was forced to use it
> > because of this bug.  anyone who is still having problems with netscape 
> > should
> > switch to either Galeon instead.  just my 2cents.
> 
> What is galeon?  A browser?
> 
> I am looking for a www browser, graphical, no java, but
> should support mpeg plugins.  Something light, for a kiosk.
> 
> Thanks
> 

yes it's a lightweight browser but i'm not sure if it has mpeg support.
there is also mozilla aka. netscape 6 if i'm not mistaken.


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Weird X Problem

[Francesco Bochicchio]

Hi all!

yesterday, I experienced a very weird problem with X : the background of
my Laptop become suddenly black, excepting two areas : one showed a fragment
of a picture with a dog in it ( only the head an part of the body ),
the other showed an half-schetched drawing which could be a dog, a penguin
o similar.

The weirdness of all this is that I don't have these pictures on my hard disk:
after the fact, I also made a 'find -name "*.[jpg,jpeg,xpm]" -exec display {}'
without finding them (apart from that, I am the only user of the laptop,
so I should know ).

Apart from that, X was still running and all the window stayed open,
except for the one showing a Netscape download, which aborted. 

Since my laptop was attached to the Internet with a statical IP and 
behind a proxy/gateway which does no firewall/filtering, I also thought
of an attack. I searched the obvious logs and such, but couldn't find
anything. I have no secrets on the laptop, so I'm not worried, but
I'd like to know what the heck happened.

I was running WindowMaker : exiting and restarting it restored normality.

I was running also xscreensaver, so it could be (I guess) a joke within it
(like the fake kernel crash screensaver) : only, it did not disappear when 
I pressed keys or moved the mouse.
 
One last thing : I was downloading a fairly large file ( the Java SDK :
30 MB ) and my laptop small disk is nearly full. Wasn't for the weird
pictures, a file system full could have justified the thing ( except I
whas downloading the file in th /home partition, not in the /system one ).

That's all. I don't know what to think about. Suggestions ?  

Ciao
-
FB

Re: GPM + Xfree86

[Francesc Oller]

Cancer Omega wrote:
> 
> I installed GPM and got it working flawlessly with my Intellimouse PS/2. Now, 
> I start X, and my mouse will refuse to move. I commented out imwheel from my 
> ~/.xinitrc, same result. The only way I can get my mouse to work in X is to 
> kill GPM.
> 
> Anybody else experienced this ?
> 
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> 
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Try to put 'repeat_type=raw' or (nothing) 'repeat_type=' in gpm.conf

Francesc Oller

Samba prints extra page

[Dwight Johnson]

When I use Samba to print from my wife's Win95 box to my PostScript printer
on my Debian 2.2 box, it always prints an extra blank page. Ordinary
printing using Linux over the network does not print an extra page.

Here is my /etc/smb.conf printing section:

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   path = /tmp
   printable = yes
   public = no
   writable = no
   create mode = 0700

   printing = BSD
   load printers = yes
   print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -P%p %s
   lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P%p
   lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -P%p %j
   printcap name = /etc/printcap
   postscript = yes

The first 7 lines are the Debian Samba package defaults. The final 7 lines
were suggested in the book 'The Linux Problem Solver' by Brian Ward and I
inserted them when I couldn't at first get it to print at all.

Thanks for any help,

Dwight
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oracle8i

[juan carlos zorzi]

 Hi!

 I would like to know if there is a possibility to install oracle in
debian and if there is some
documents about it.

 regards

 /Juan Carlos

Re: DIVX?

[Andres Salomon]

yes.  search for avifile on freshmeat.   There's also an xmms-avi plugin 
(still in a pretty primitive state) and an xmps-avi plugin (distributed
with avifile).  Expect to have to muck around w/ it a bit, as avifile's 
autoconf is a bit...lacking.. 

Oh, and you'll need to get the win32 DLLs for it as well.   read the avifile
docs.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:47:03PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> 
> Anyone got divx working? I guess I mean divx;) and not divx, gah. 
> chris
> 
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What's with the Oracle for inux?

[Jonathan Gift]

Hi,

I've seen Oracle 8i on a CD ROM in a Magazine and was wondering if this was
a Linux version of the Lite or Personal edition? I looked on their web site
and found no mention of Linux for eiether and don't see them giving away the
Standard.

Anyone know what version and/or limitations it has?

Thanks,

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Re: installing Mach 64 Xserver

[Harald Thingelstad]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:34:46 Bob Edwards wrote:
> I installed debian from a 3 CD set. When I tried to use 'XF86Setup' I
> got as far as trying to install my video card and XF86Setup gave me the
> following message:
> 
> "The server required by your card is not installed. Please install the
> MAch 64 serever as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64
> 
...
> Regards,
> Bob Edwards
> aka "desperately seeking to get debian fully installed and operational"


The package you're after is xserver-mach64.
You can use dselect (command dselect as root) or 
apt-get install xserver-mach64

When installing from dselect, you will get suggestions about other packages you
might want to have, so I'll suggest you use this to begin with. 
At least as a learning experience. Apt-get is a better tool when you know what
to do but take your time to learn dselect for now.

You'd also want xdm or gdm, which makes you computer boot up in graphical mode
and gives you more of an environment to work in.
The difference is xdm is just plain x (with possible window managers) while gdm
includes gnome.
I personally like to use gdm and sawfish (aka. sawmill), but this is rather
sluggy on old computers and tastes may vary.
If you feel like it, check out the helix-gnome packages on woody (unstable). Or
kde, for that sake. Also on woody.

Harald

problems with udma66

[Francesc Oller]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use UDMA66 in my computer but haven't suceeded
until now.

Configuration:

Epox EP-MVP3G2 with VIA MVP3 AGPset, K6-3D 450Mhz
hda: Seagate ST313021A, ATA66 capable. hdparm -iI /dev/hda says:

/dev/hda:

 Model=ST313021A, FwRev=3.03, SerialNo=3CT0A95K
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=0(?), BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=32, MultSect=off
 DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=2
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=25434228
 tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
 UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2 mode3 *mode4


 Model=TS130312 A, FwRev=.330, SerialNo=C30T9AK5
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=0(?), BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=32, MultSect=?32?
 DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=2
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=25434228
 tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
 UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2 mode3 *mode4

I use Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.17-ide with Andre Hedrick's IDE
patches applied.

kernel at boot time says:

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VT 82C597 Apollo VP3
 Chipset Core ATA-33
Split FIFO Configuration:  8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
   8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
hda: ST313021A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST1144AT, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CD-ROM 48X/AKU, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: ST313021A, 12419MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1583/255/63
hdb: ST1144AT, 124MB w/16kB Cache, CHS=1001/15/17
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache

In this preconfigured kernel CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is disabled so
DMA is disabled at boot time.

I've a secondary HD which is an old IDE drive. hdparm -iI /dev/hdb says:

/dev/hdb:

 Model=ST1144AT, FwRev=rev 5.50, SerialNo=00KA89451500
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>5Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=1001/15/17, TrkSize=9792, SectSize=576, ECCbytes=7
 BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=16kB, MaxMultSect=0
 DblWordIO=yes, OldPIO=0, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0


 Model=TS1144TA, FwRev=er v.505, SerialNo=00AK98545100
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>5Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=1001/15/17, TrkSize=9792, SectSize=576, ECCbytes=7
 BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=16kB, MaxMultSect=0
 DblWordIO=yes, OldPIO=0, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0

Questions:

1.- If I execute hdparm -d1 -X34 (DMA mode 2), the kernel starts
panicking
and halts. Why? (after that, I haven't even tried -X68 (UDMA66))

2.- How come the kernel recognizes 'VT 82C597 Apollo VP3' instead of the
more
logical 'VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3'?

3.- I guess that since beginning with kernel 2.2, CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is
disabled by default, there must be some faulty HD/IDE controller combos
out there when working in U/DMA mode. Whose fault is it? ST313021A works
perfectly in UDMA33 with ALI15X3 chipset.

4.- Would you recommend to put the old IDE drive as slave? does it slow
down the access to the ATA66 one?

Please, CC to my e-adress.

cheers

Francesc Oller

Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data'

[Harald Thingelstad]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 03:51:40 Matthew Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, ian mckerrow wrote:
> 
> > I've had that same spontanious error using netscape
> > under MS.  I tried to discover the cause but gave up
> > after a few hours and went to bed.  The next morning
> > the error was absent.  I concluded that it was caused
> > by my internet connection and not an onboard error.
> > 
> > I've had it once since for 10 minutes and then
> > everything was fine.  My C++ error correction did not
> > run on either occasion.
> > 
> > Ian.
> 
> The thing is, on my system it has been there consistently since Saturday
> night (US Pacific time :) when I got home.  I get the same error under
> Netscape whether it's running on Linux, MacOS or Win98, whether outside my
> firewall or behind it.  IE under Win98 just times out and says the page
> can't be displayed.
> 
> ???
> 
> > 
> > --- Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I'm running IMP as the frontend for my mailserver. 
> > > Oddly enough, things
> > > were working fine before I left out of town for a
> > > week.  I got back, and
> > > whenever I try to send a message (whether as a
> > > Reply, or as a new
> > > message), I get a Netscape: Error window that says
> > > 'The document contained
> > > no data.  Try again later, or contact the srver's
> > > administrator.'
> > > 
> > > Well, that would be me, so rather than contacting
> > > myself, I come to the
> > > list for assistance. :)
> > > 
> > > TIA for any help.
...

Me too.
The error message I get is:

Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_pconnect() in
/etc/horde/db_pgsql.inc on line 40

I'm using the latest netscape on the same Debian box I run
horde/imp/exim/imap4/fetchmail/etc. on.

My best guess is the php3 (and php4) security update this weekend fucked
something up with horde/imp.

Harald

username?

[guran remberg]

Hi

I have a computer, that is connected to the Internet from within a LAN,
through a gateway. Thus my net was set up as 10.0.4.15, &c. According to
the 'NET HOWTO'  those numbers nor the name, Archimedes.brisen.rings.se,
should never be sent out on the Internet.
How come my name is set up in mc as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where is this information stored so that I may change it to my email
address?

regards
guran

Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data'

[Harald Thingelstad]

Whoops, forgot.
All relevant packages are potato, (except for the netscape from
proposed-updates) and everything worked fine last week. No configuration 
changes. Did security
updates during the weekend. Suddenly above error message.
The setup is Horde, Imp, Php3, Postgresql, Netscape, Imap4, exim and
fetchmail.

Harald

ssh client for windows

[Rino Mardo]

Hi.  I've now concluded that my timeout problem was with PuTTY.  I'm using
SecureCRT now and have left it idle for more than hour without being
disconnected.  Many thanks to those who responded!



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Re: installing Mach 64 Xserver

[Douglas Eck]

You can also find the xserver-mach64 package at www.debian.org
under "Distribution-->Debian packages"...
Just do a search for the pacakge name in "stable".
You can download the package using Windows and then transfer
it to your Linux partition via any means possible. Then just do  
 dpkg --install ./ where package name is
the full name of the xserver-mach64 package. 

PS You can mount and read Windows partitions. NTFS
partitions are read-only (at least unless you like
to live dangerously).  

I'm  mentioning all this in the event that you don't have 
PPP up and running, and you're not on a network. If that's
the case, apt-get won't (of course ;-) work. But if
you are online, use Harald's suggestion...

Doug Eck

Harald Thingelstad wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:34:46 Bob Edwards wrote:
> > I installed debian from a 3 CD set. When I tried to use 'XF86Setup' I
> > got as far as trying to install my video card and XF86Setup gave me the
> > following message:
> >
> > "The server required by your card is not installed. Please install the
> > MAch 64 serever as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64
> >
> ...
> > Regards,
> > Bob Edwards
> > aka "desperately seeking to get debian fully installed and operational"
> 
> The package you're after is xserver-mach64.
> You can use dselect (command dselect as root) or
> apt-get install xserver-mach64
> 
> When installing from dselect, you will get suggestions about other packages 
> you
> might want to have, so I'll suggest you use this to begin with.
> At least as a learning experience. Apt-get is a better tool when you know what
> to do but take your time to learn dselect for now.
> 
> You'd also want xdm or gdm, which makes you computer boot up in graphical mode
> and gives you more of an environment to work in.
> The difference is xdm is just plain x (with possible window managers) while 
> gdm
> includes gnome.
> I personally like to use gdm and sawfish (aka. sawmill), but this is rather
> sluggy on old computers and tastes may vary.
> If you feel like it, check out the helix-gnome packages on woody (unstable). 
> Or
> kde, for that sake. Also on woody.
> 
> Harald
> 
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Re: exim help needed (fwd)

[Philipp Schulte]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:30:37PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: 

> > Doesn't your ISP offer you a SMTP-Relay-Server? If you are connected
> > most of the time you don't need one anyway...
> 
> Dunno, what's that? I want my mail going to/from my school server. 

To me it seems like you are assuming that mails _from_ you have to go
the same way like mails _to_ you. That is not the case!
An SMTP-Relay-Server may be located somewhere in the Internet, you
just need to be able to relay over it. Exim calls this a Smarthost and
asks you after installation if you have one. Usually your ISP has one
and so you can relay mails over this server.
So it is possible to receive mails from POP3-Server A and send mails
over SMTP-Server B.
Phil

Help: woody libc amd -ldb

[Edgar Denny]

I'm developing a gnome app, and with the recent changes to libc in
woody, I can no longer compile it. The -ldb library fails to link
with the error:

/usr/sbin/ld: cannot find -ldb.

Is there a work around for this?

Thanks,

Edgar.

Re: problems with udma66

[Philipp Schulte]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:05:40PM +0200, Francesc Oller wrote: 

> I'm trying to use UDMA66 in my computer but haven't suceeded
> until now.

> /dev/hda:
...
>  UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2 mode3 *mode4

Should work

> I use Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.17-ide with Andre Hedrick's IDE
> patches applied.

Stupid Question: Did you try without the patch first? I experianced
the problem that I could set my HD to UDMA66 with no patch applied but
only to UDMA33 with the patch.
So if patching the kernel is not necessary I wouldn't recommend to do it.
 

> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success

OK, DMA is enabled by BIOS.

> In this preconfigured kernel CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is disabled so
> DMA is disabled at boot time.

Then why didn't you change it?
 
> I've a secondary HD which is an old IDE drive. hdparm -iI /dev/hdb says:
> 
> /dev/hdb:
> 
>  Model=ST1144AT, FwRev=rev 5.50, SerialNo=00KA89451500
>  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>5Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
>  RawCHS=1001/15/17, TrkSize=9792, SectSize=576, ECCbytes=7
>  BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=16kB, MaxMultSect=0
>  DblWordIO=yes, OldPIO=0, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
>  (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0

You got this drive at the same Controller? Of course it slows down and
causes problems.

> Questions:
> 
> 1.- If I execute hdparm -d1 -X34 (DMA mode 2), the kernel starts
> panicking
> and halts. Why? (after that, I haven't even tried -X68 (UDMA66))

See above
 
> 2.- How come the kernel recognizes 'VT 82C597 Apollo VP3' instead of the
> more
> logical 'VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3'?

AFAIK this information is read directly from the HD so please ask your
vendor.
 
> 3.- I guess that since beginning with kernel 2.2, CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is
> disabled by default, there must be some faulty HD/IDE controller combos
> out there when working in U/DMA mode. Whose fault is it? ST313021A works
> perfectly in UDMA33 with ALI15X3 chipset.

Sure there are soma faulty BIOSes but you are able to make your own
kernel, aren't you?
 
> 4.- Would you recommend to put the old IDE drive as slave? does it slow
> down the access to the ATA66 one?

It is slave right now. You should put in on a seperate controller. I
would give the UDMA-HD a controller by itself.

Phil

Re: username?

[Philipp Schulte]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:09:54PM +0200, guran remberg wrote: 

> I have a computer, that is connected to the Internet from within a LAN,
> through a gateway. Thus my net was set up as 10.0.4.15, &c. According to
> the 'NET HOWTO'  those numbers nor the name, Archimedes.brisen.rings.se,
> should never be sent out on the Internet.

?

> How come my name is set up in mc as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Are you looking for /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname?

> Where is this information stored so that I may change it to my email
> address?

This setting doesn't have much to do with you mail-address. Of course
local users have a mail-adress in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] and this is
necessary - maybe some cronjob wants to tell root that somebody went
wrong. This is accomplished by those mail-adresses.
Your _real_ mail-adress should be set in the config-file of your
mailer. Maybe you need to rewrite it, then have a look at
/etc/email-adresses.
HTH,
Phil

debian-user@lists.debian.org

[Kristian Rink]

switch to either Galeon instead.  just my 2cents.


What is galeon?  A browser?

I am looking for a www browser, graphical, no java, but
should support mpeg plugins.  Something light, for a kiosk.

Thanks



yes it's a lightweight browser but i'm not sure if it has mpeg support.
there is also mozilla aka. netscape 6 if i'm not mistaken.




Actually, the galeon browser utilizes the Mozilla HTML rendering engine 
(gecko) to display sites, so if you want to get galeon running, you'll 
not get very far without having a current release of Mozilla installed 
(galeon in version 0.7.7 needs the latest M18 release to be picked up at 
www.mozilla.org) :) Thus, galeon *really* is a light browser system, but 
I *think* it should work well with the plug-ins installed in Mozilla 
(which works fine here with Netscape 4.x- plugs, like flashplayer, for 
example). So all you probably need to do is to find yourself a good 
mpeg-plugin. :))


Tchau,

Kris

--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with udma66

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

>> I use Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.17-ide with Andre Hedrick's IDE
>> patches applied.

If you're using 2.2.17, I assume that's Andre Hedrick's patch...

>> 2.- How come the kernel recognizes 'VT 82C597 Apollo VP3' instead of the
>> more
>> logical 'VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3'?

Hedrick could never actually run his patch on a VIA system, because he
has none. He wrote it reading the docs only...

So now another person volunteered to mantain that driver (Vojtech
Pavlick). Unfortunately, it seems taht his driver will only run on 2.4
kernels (I'm using 2.4.0-test10-pre3).

And the old VIA driver (from Hedrick) has a few problems, including
the fact that it didn't always recognize the chipset properly
(happened with me).

Not sure what you should do, though...

It seems taht you didn't enable all you needed in the kernel to use
UDMA. Maybe you'd like to try that first? 

J.

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Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
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Re: Help: woody libc amd -ldb

[Damien]

> I'm developing a gnome app, and with the recent changes to libc in
> woody, I can no longer compile it. The -ldb library fails to link
> with the error:
> 
> /usr/sbin/ld: cannot find -ldb.
> 
> Is there a work around for this?

you really should be on debian-devel and/or debian-changes

but for the record, i'm not and i got the same problem today :)

easy fix. 'ahh they must have encapsulated it in its own library'

 apt-cache search libdb

'ahah!

 apt-get install libdb2-dev

cheers

 damien


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Description: PGP signature

Building kde2 from source packages

[Alwyn Schoeman]

Hi there,

Could anyone maybe give me a quick rundown on the procedure
used to build kde2 from the source packages.  Do I need to have
the kde2 sourcetree somewhere?

Thank you
Alwyn

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

[Daniel Reuter]

Hello all,

You were right, Brian, and Karsten, /var/tmp is NOT wiped on bootup.
Sorry, my fault, didn't remember it exactly.

Regards,
Daniel

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Daniel Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
> > Hello there,
> > 
> > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp
> > > > 
> > > > That would have been my suggestion.  Anything wrong with that?
> > > 
> > > Check your init scripts.  /tmp is wiped on boot.  /var/tmp may not be.
> > 
> > In a standard installation (i.e. you havn't modified the init-scripts
> > yourself), /var/tmp is wiped. So the symlink way worked for me without the
> > slightest problem.
> 
> Are you sure?
> 
> If you've created the symlink and /var/tmp is mounted, you will wipe
> /var/tmp at boot along with /tmp.
> 
> If you're running the tmpreaper utility, you'll automatically wipe
> everything in /tmp not accessed within the past 7 days.
> 
> /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh wipes /tmp only, not /var/tmp.

RE: What's with the Oracle for inux?

[Jason Holland]

Jonathan,
  I don't know what version that magazine had, but if you got to
http://technet.oracle.com, and register, you can download, or order a free
version of Oracle 8i (8.1.6) for linux, either enterprise or standard
edition.  its a pretty sweet deal!  kudos to oracle!

Jason

>
> Hi,
>
> I've seen Oracle 8i on a CD ROM in a Magazine and was wondering
> if this was
> a Linux version of the Lite or Personal edition? I looked on
> their web site
> and found no mention of Linux for eiether and don't see them
> giving away the
> Standard.
>
> Anyone know what version and/or limitations it has?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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Re: Creative Live Value !!

[Thomas Guettler]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:22:23PM -0700, Debian GNU wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am using Creative Live Value !! card and Debian
> Potato. Earlier I was using RH 6.1, on which, it was
> giving excellent performance, with drivers downloaded
> from developer.soundblaster.com, even better
> performace than in Windows 98. I installed the same
> drivers in Deb, but unfortunately, the sound quality
> is very inferior, with distortion and all. I tried
> alsa drivers also, but didn't help. Is there any known
> problem with Potato - Live value compatibility ? Is
> there any known solution ?

I have the same soundcard. I am using a alsa-version
which I got directly from their site. I sounds good.
But Midi-synth is not working.

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RE: oracle8i

[Jason Holland]

Juan,
  I've installed Oracle 8i on a woody box.  I didn't use any documentation,
I am not sure if there is any, but I just ran the installer off the cd.  it
worked perfectly.

Jason

>
>  Hi!
>
>  I would like to know if there is a possibility to install oracle in
> debian and if there is some
> documents about it.
>
>  regards
>
>  /Juan Carlos
>
>
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Re: First Install

[Thomas Guettler]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:41:27PM -0700, ian mckerrow wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm a newbie who's constantly getting tripped up by MS
> baggage.  I recently installed slink from CD onto a
> amarda 4160T laptop as a trial and it all worked (up
> to a point).  I read docs which indicated the pcmcia
> works better under potato so with false confidence I
> decided to install it from the web.  I downloaded the
> files from debian.org to a dos partition.  I have also
> dowloaded selected packages, keeping the file
> structure, also to the dos partition.  When I boot to
> Linux I'm fine until 'Apt Configuration'.  I have 5
> choices, CD (not auto detected), filesystem, http, ftp
> & edit sources by hand.  It asks me to enter the
> mirror directory.  Slink had an auto detect which
> worked but I can't figure out the the keystrokes for
> the dos partition.

Mount your dos-partition (man mount).
Then use "filesystem". HTH
BTW, if you are doing a new installation, I would
use potato. It is stable since some weeks. 

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backup and rebuild strategy

[Mike . Jones]

Hi,

I'm using a cheap, low-spec PC (running Debian 2.2) as a dial-up server,
firewall, proxy webserver, etc. for my main home PC.

Now I have it configured as I want it, I'd like to make some backups. The
problem is that the only backup device available is a 100MB parallel-port
Zip drive. This isn't supported by any of the 'standard' rescue disks, and
anyway it is a bit small to back up everything. Fortunately, I can afford a
few days off the Internet if I ever have to rebuild the PC, so here's my
plan:-

To backup:
1. Back up /usr/local, /home, and /etc to the Zip disk.
2. Capture the output of 'dpkg --get-selections' to a file and back it up
to the Zip disk.
3. Back up /usr/src/linux/.config to a floppy - I won't be able to read
from the Zip disk until I have rebuilt a custom kernel.

To rebuild:
1. Install the base Debian system, plus the kernel source package,
make-kpkg, and any dependencies.
2. Copy the kernel config file from floppy to /usr/src/linux. Build and
install a custom kernel with parallel-port Zip support.
3. Now I can read the Zip disk, and run 'dpkg --set-selections' against the
saved output from 'dpkg --set-selections'.
4. Run dselect (or apt-get ...) to fetch and install the selected packages.
5. Restore /usr/local, /home, and /etc (this should restore all the
original configuration files).

Will this work? Is there anything I have missed? Any comments and
suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks,

Mike

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Re: GDM background image

[Moritz Schulte]

Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it
> is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to
> an image not a color. As far as images go, xsetroot apparently can only
> handle bitmaps. I'm wondering how I can set the background of gdm to a
> .jpg?

You can do this with 'xloadimage'; it can load an image on the root
window. See the manpage, 'xsetbg' is equivalent to 'xloadimage -onroot
-quiet'...

moritz
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Disk files

[Simon J. Bale]

Hi,

Is it possible to install Debian to a disk file so that I don't have to
re-partition my hard disk.

Thanks, Simon J. Bale.

Re: First Install

[ian mckerrow]

Thanks Thomas.

I am using potato and when i use filesystem i'm asked
to "Enter the dirctory the Debian mirror is located
in.  Enter mirror directory".  It defaults to
"/debian" and i have placed the pkgs there (on the dos
partition).  Unfortunatly it then says "Mirror not
found. The directory does not exist". 

I cannot mount the dos partition prior to this as on
reboot, after first install of the Debian Linux files
from the dos partition, it automaticly runs this
Debian configuration sequence.

Any further ideas?

Thanks again.  Ian.


--- Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:41:27PM -0700, ian
> mckerrow wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I'm a newbie who's constantly getting tripped up
> by MS
> > baggage.  I recently installed slink from CD onto
> a
> > amarda 4160T laptop as a trial and it all worked
> (up
> > to a point).  I read docs which indicated the
> pcmcia
> > works better under potato so with false confidence
> I
> > decided to install it from the web.  I downloaded
> the
> > files from debian.org to a dos partition.  I have
> also
> > dowloaded selected packages, keeping the file
> > structure, also to the dos partition.  When I boot
> to
> > Linux I'm fine until 'Apt Configuration'.  I have
> 5
> > choices, CD (not auto detected), filesystem, http,
> ftp
> > & eit sources by hand.  It asks me to enter the
> > mirror directory.  Slink had an auto detect which
> > worked but I can't figure out the the keystrokes
> for
> > the dos partition.
> 
> Mount your dos-partition (man mount).
> Then use "filesystem". HTH
> BTW, if you are doing a new installation, I would
> use potato. It is stable since some weeks. 
> 
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Re: Creative Live Value !!

[Kristian Rink]

I am using Creative Live Value !! card and Debian
Potato. Earlier I was using RH 6.1, on which, it was
giving excellent performance, with drivers downloaded
from developer.soundblaster.com, even better
performace than in Windows 98. I installed the same
drivers in Deb, but unfortunately, the sound quality
is very inferior, with distortion and all. I tried
alsa drivers also, but didn't help. Is there any known
problem with Potato - Live value compatibility ? Is
there any known solution ?


I have the same soundcard. I am using a alsa-version
which I got directly from their site. I sounds good.
But Midi-synth is not working.



I'm running the same card in potato but with a kernel 2.4.0-test7 and 
the kernels own SBLive driver (seems to be the one Creative put 
OpenSource some time ago), and... for what I tested by now, it *rocks*, 
sound quality is much better than on the Window$9x. H, but just for 
curiosity I wanted to try the alsa drivers, which I didn't do because 
I'm not really familiar with the way ALSA handles the sound modules... 
Can anybody help me with *what* exactly put to modules.conf to get 
SBLive running with ALSA on potato?

TIA

Kris

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Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

[Ethan Benson]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:56:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote:

> Wrong - shutdown.allow has no affect for ctrl+alt+del. You
> can press this even if you are not logged in.

Wrong, the existance of /etc/shutdown.allow means that a listed user
must be logged in on any of the console tty's for control-alt-delete
to work.  it does not require a login per se, but someone [listed in
shutdown.allow] does have to be logged in for it to work.  that is
what the -a switch does, man shutdown.

if NOBODY is logged into the console and shutdown.allow exists
control-alt-delete is disabled.  i use this to disable user directed
shutdown one a machine i administer remotely.  (so they don't kill it
while im working) 

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Re: LILO to boot FreeBSD

[Ethan Benson]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:11:31AM +0200, Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> try grub. This bootloader is in development still but for me it works
> great. With this bootloader you can boot BSD partitions and others like M$ and
> Linux with reiserfs.
> You will find this program on the GNU website or you can also install the
> Debian version.
> When you download the latest GNU source (I think it should be 0.5.96) you
> can easily compile it by...
> 
> $ tar xzf grub-0.5.96.tar.gz ; cd grub*
> $ debian/rules
> $ su -
> $ make install
> 
> That's all.

0.5.96 is in woody, and works perfectly in potato.  


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How to read pdf-files

[Stephan Kulka]

Which program should I use to view a pdf.? AFAIK there is no acrobat
reader for linux.
Is there a possibility to read them at the command line?

Stephan

Re: How to read pdf-files

[Ethan Benson]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:44:45PM +0200, Stephan Kulka wrote:
> 
> 
> Which program should I use to view a pdf.? AFAIK there is no acrobat
> reader for linux.

xpdf will do it and is Free software unlike the proprietary acrobat
(which is available for x86 GNU/Linux iirc) 

> Is there a possibility to read them at the command line?

don't know on this.  it would be handy though.  

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Simple sh or alias to list directories

[Thomas Halahan]

Hello,

I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list
only the directories in a directory.  It should have similar
functionality to the ls command.  E.g.

[tom]$ lsd ~

should list only the directories in my home folder, not the files.

Does  anyone know of a way to do this please?

Regards 
Tom.

Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

[Chris Gray]

On my home box I run Windows 98 for games and Debian(Woody) for serious
(non-graphics-intensive) work.  I want to upgrade my video card.  I'm more
interested in something that will be straightforward to install on both
platforms and will give respectable performance for a while to come.  I want
to avoid the situation I'm in now.  I have a cheap S3 Savage4 based AGP card
for which there is no X server in the Debian packages.  I can get X servers
elsewhere but on exit they crash my system.

At the moment I'm leaning toward an ATI Fury.  I'd be grateful for any
advice, opinions, or caveats.

AdTHANKSvance
Chris

Network printer

[Timothy C. Phan]

Hi 

  Can a Linux box controls a network printer?  Please email me the
  solution.  Thanks!

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Re: How to read pdf-files

[Tommi Komulainen]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:44:45PM +0200, Stephan Kulka wrote:
> 
> Which program should I use to view a pdf.? AFAIK there is no acrobat
> reader for linux.

gv, gnome-gv, xpdf or maybe even acroread, which btw. is the Acrobat
reader that didn't exist. :->
acroread is in non-free, but the others are in main, I think.


> Is there a possibility to read them at the command line?

If you mean reading them in text mode with a vt100 terminal etc. there
is pdftotext program in xpdf-package which supposedly converts pdf to
text. Though I have no idea how good job it actually does...


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ippp0 dials wrong number

[Clemens Hermann]

Hi,

as told in the subject: My ISDN-Card always dials a wrong number. I am
in Germany and according to syslog my ippp0 always tries to dial to the
netherlands (I am looking forward my next phone bill ;-).
My environment is correct (DE).

The according lines in the /etc/isdn/device.ippp0 seem to be correct

REMOTEMSN=191011
LEADINGZERO=0

I want to dial to 0191011.

But when I make a isdnctrl dial ippp0 I get the following results in
syslog:

Oct 17 15:43:13 ramses kernel: ippp0: dialing 1 0191011...
Oct 17 15:43:13 ramses isdnlog: Oct 17 15:43:13 * tei 84 calling ? with
?  BEARER: Unrestricted digital information, CCITT standardized coding 
Oct 17 15:43:13 ramses isdnlog: Oct 17 15:43:13 * tei 84 calling ? with
?  64 kbit/s, Circuit mode 
Oct 17 15:43:13 ramses isdnlog: Oct 17 15:43:13 * tei 84 calling +31
/191011, Netherlands with +31 /546978522, Netherlands  RING (Data) 
Oct 17 15:43:14 ramses isdnlog: Oct 17 15:43:14 * tei 84 calling +31
/191011, Netherlands with +31 /546978522, Netherlands  CHANNEL: BRI, B1
needed 
Oct 17 15:43:15 ramses isdnlog: Oct 17 15:43:15 tei 84 calling +31
/191011, Netherlands with +31 /546978522, Netherlands  Time:Tue Oct 17
15:43:00 2000 
Oct 17 15:43:15 ramses isdnlog: Oct 17 15:43:15 tei 84 calling +31
/191011, Netherlands with +31 /546978522, Netherlands  CONNECT 
Oct 17 15:43:16 ramses ipppd[377]: Local number: 978522, Remote number:
0191011, Type: outgoing
Oct 17 15:43:16 ramses ipppd[377]: PHASE_WAIT -> PHASE_ESTABLISHED,
ifunit: 0, linkunit: 0, fd: 8
Oct 17 15:43:16 ramses kernel: isdn_net: ippp0 connected
Oct 17 15:43:16 ramses kernel: isdn_net: chargetime of ippp0 now 50866
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses isdnlog: Oct 17 15:43:17 tei 84 calling +31
/191011, Netherlands with +31 /546978522, Netherlands  Normal call
clearing (User) 
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses isdnlog: Oct 17 15:43:17 tei 84 calling +31
/191011, Netherlands with +31 /546978522, Netherlands  Free of charge 
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses kernel: ippp0: remote hangup
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses kernel: ippp0: Chargesum is 0
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses kernel: ippp_ccp: freeing reset data structure
c9c0f000
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses kernel: ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state:

Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses kernel: ippp_ccp: allocated reset data structure
c9c0f000
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses ipppd[377]: Modem hangup
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses ipppd[377]: Connection terminated.
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses ipppd[377]: taking down PHASE_DEAD link 0,
linkunit: 0
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses ipppd[377]: closing fd 8 from unit 0
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses ipppd[377]: link 0 closed , linkunit: 0
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses ipppd[377]: reinit_unit: 0 
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses ipppd[377]: Connect[0]: /dev/ippp0, fd: 8
Oct 17 15:43:17 ramses isdnlog: Oct 17 15:43:17 tei 84 calling +31
/191011, Netherlands with +31 /546978522, Netherlands  HANGUP ( 0:00:02
I= 51.0 b O= 82.0 b) Normal call clearing (User) 
Oct 17 15:44:04 ramses init: Switching to runlevel: 0

thanks in andvance for any help

Clemens

Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

[Greg Gilbert]

I like my Nvidia Geforce 256. I've always found the drivers easy to
install, and it gives very respectable performance now. I've heard
from some people that the drivers can be a nightmare if they don't
like your system(don't know there). The drivers are also binary
only, and slower to update than some of the open source drivers.
You can also use the drivers built into XFree86 under linux if you
just want the 2d support under linux, that code is open source.

Greg
* Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On my home box I run Windows 98 for games and Debian(Woody) for serious
> (non-graphics-intensive) work.  I want to upgrade my video card.  I'm more
> interested in something that will be straightforward to install on both
> platforms and will give respectable performance for a while to come.  I want
> to avoid the situation I'm in now.  I have a cheap S3 Savage4 based AGP card
> for which there is no X server in the Debian packages.  I can get X servers
> elsewhere but on exit they crash my system.
> 
> At the moment I'm leaning toward an ATI Fury.  I'd be grateful for any
> advice, opinions, or caveats.
> 
> AdTHANKSvance
> Chris
> 
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Magicfilter's filter files

[Petteri Heinonen]

Hi.
Does anybody know which package includes magicfilter's filter files, eg.
files in directory /etc/magicfilter? I accidently removed those, and they
don't come back by reinstalling magicfilter.

Thanks in advance,

Petteri Heinonen
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel.:  +358 (0)50 3363 286
addr.: Pehkusuonkatu 21 B 38
33820 Tampere, FIN

Re: How to read pdf-files

[Dwight Johnson]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Stephan Kulka wrote:

> Which program should I use to view a pdf.? AFAIK there is no acrobat
> reader for linux.
> Is there a possibility to read them at the command line?

Try pdftotext in the xpdf package.

Dwight
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RE: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

[Chris Gray]

Greg,

Thanks.  I'll check it out.  Yes, I only really need or want 2d under
GNU/Linux.

Chris

-Original Message-
From: Greg Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:06 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

I like my Nvidia Geforce 256. I've always found the drivers easy to
install, and it gives very respectable performance now. I've heard
from some people that the drivers can be a nightmare if they don't
like your system(don't know there). The drivers are also binary
only, and slower to update than some of the open source drivers.
You can also use the drivers built into XFree86 under linux if you
just want the 2d support under linux, that code is open source.

Greg
* Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On my home box I run Windows 98 for games and Debian(Woody) for serious
> (non-graphics-intensive) work.  I want to upgrade my video card.  I'm more
> interested in something that will be straightforward to install on both
> platforms and will give respectable performance for a while to come.  I
want
> to avoid the situation I'm in now.  I have a cheap S3 Savage4 based AGP
card
> for which there is no X server in the Debian packages.  I can get X
servers
> elsewhere but on exit they crash my system.
>
> At the moment I'm leaning toward an ATI Fury.  I'd be grateful for any
> advice, opinions, or caveats.

Re: First Install

[Thomas Guettler]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:34:42AM -0700, ian mckerrow wrote:
> Thanks Thomas.
> 
> I am using potato and when i use filesystem i'm asked
> to "Enter the dirctory the Debian mirror is located
> in.  Enter mirror directory".  It defaults to
> "/debian" and i have placed the pkgs there (on the dos
> partition).  Unfortunatly it then says "Mirror not
> found. The directory does not exist". 
> 
> I cannot mount the dos partition prior to this as on
> reboot, after first install of the Debian Linux files
> from the dos partition, it automaticly runs this
> Debian configuration sequence.
> 
> Any further ideas?
> 

With alt-fX you can switch to a shell. there you can 
mount the partition.

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Re: What windows ssh client you use?

[Diarmuid Drew]

I'm using TeraTerm with the TTSSH extension, but I can not get my keyboard
map correct. Cant seem to map F5 or the page up. I know its way off topic,
but has anybody got a keyboard .cnf file they would like to share ??

Derm.
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From: "Andy Bastien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: What windows ssh client you use?


> There are those who would have you believe that kmself@ix.netcom.com
wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:21:37PM +0400, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> > > I'm using PuTTY from windows to ssh to my debian box but I find that
it
> > > disconnects my session after some idle time.
> > >
> > > Is it a ssh setting (coz I can't find it) or it's my ssh client?
> >
> > Could be either.  If it's a high-latency connection, you may be getting
> > a timeout, though I'm not sure where that's configured.
> >
> > There are several java ssh clients which run inside Netscape (or IE)
> > which you might want to play with as well.  Try searching Google.
> >
>
>
> Another good (and free) client is the TTSSH extension to TeraTerm.
>
>
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Re: Magicfilter's filter files

[Daniel Reuter]

Hello Petteri,

Strange, in my /var/lib/dpkg/info/magicfilter.list the filter-files in
/etc/magicfilter are listed, so they should have been installed by
magicfilter. Have you tried purging your broken magicfilter first?
(dpkg --purge magicfilter).

Regards,
Daniel

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Petteri Heinonen wrote:

> Hi.
> Does anybody know which package includes magicfilter's filter files, eg.
> files in directory /etc/magicfilter? I accidently removed those, and they
> don't come back by reinstalling magicfilter.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Petteri Heinonen
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> tel.:  +358 (0)50 3363 286
> addr.: Pehkusuonkatu 21 B 38
> 33820 Tampere, FIN
> 
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Re: What's with the Oracle for inux?

[Jonathan Gift]

Hi,

Very. But for us poor miserable slobs here in 56k land, what's the dl size?
No limitations on use, ie 60 days?

Thanks.

>   I don't know what version that magazine had, but if you got to
> http://technet.oracle.com, and register, you can download, or order a free
> version of Oracle 8i (8.1.6) for linux, either enterprise or standard
> edition.  its a pretty sweet deal!  kudos to oracle!

Jonathan

System.map problem

[Lazar Fleysher]

Hi everybody,

after upgrade to 2.2.17 (from 2.0.36) I have noticed that when I give the
ps command I get the following error:

{aic7xxx_patch6_func} {rpc_debug}
Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data.
Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map has an incorrect kernel version.
after that, normal ps output...

Could someone tell what the problem is and how to fix it?

Thanks,

Lazar

/etc/nologin

[Jaume Teixi]

hi

each system boot ereases /etc/nologin

there's a way to solve this ?

thanks,
jaume.

RE: What's with the Oracle for inux?

[Jason Holland]

The download size is i think 300 megs??  I would order the cd though.  It
comes in a few weeks, and its a full working, unlimited version.  I can't
remember anything about the license though, that is probably where they get
you.

Jason


>
> Hi,
>
> Very. But for us poor miserable slobs here in 56k land, what's
> the dl size?
> No limitations on use, ie 60 days?
>
> Thanks.
>
> >   I don't know what version that magazine had, but if you got to
> > http://technet.oracle.com, and register, you can download, or
> order a free
> > version of Oracle 8i (8.1.6) for linux, either enterprise or standard
> > edition.  its a pretty sweet deal!  kudos to oracle!
>
> Jonathan
>
>

[OT] gcc-warnings

[Daniel Reuter]

Hello there,

I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc:

sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
without a cast

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a pointer on warning messages in the
gcc-doc.
Perhaps someone could enlighten me. Thanks.
Regards,
Daniel

Re: Weird X Problem

[Erik Steffl]

  xscreensaver has a screensaver that downloads random images from the
net... called web collage (or similar name)... could have been the
screensaver? they all can be ran independently (they are just programs
that xsreensaver run), so you might have one way or another run it...

erik

Francesco Bochicchio wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> yesterday, I experienced a very weird problem with X : the background of
> my Laptop become suddenly black, excepting two areas : one showed a fragment
> of a picture with a dog in it ( only the head an part of the body ),
> the other showed an half-schetched drawing which could be a dog, a penguin
> o similar.
> 
> The weirdness of all this is that I don't have these pictures on my hard disk:
> after the fact, I also made a 'find -name "*.[jpg,jpeg,xpm]" -exec display {}'
> without finding them (apart from that, I am the only user of the laptop,
> so I should know ).
> 
> Apart from that, X was still running and all the window stayed open,
> except for the one showing a Netscape download, which aborted.
> 
> Since my laptop was attached to the Internet with a statical IP and
> behind a proxy/gateway which does no firewall/filtering, I also thought
> of an attack. I searched the obvious logs and such, but couldn't find
> anything. I have no secrets on the laptop, so I'm not worried, but
> I'd like to know what the heck happened.
> 
> I was running WindowMaker : exiting and restarting it restored normality.
> 
> I was running also xscreensaver, so it could be (I guess) a joke within it
> (like the fake kernel crash screensaver) : only, it did not disappear when
> I pressed keys or moved the mouse.
> 
> One last thing : I was downloading a fairly large file ( the Java SDK :
> 30 MB ) and my laptop small disk is nearly full. Wasn't for the weird
> pictures, a file system full could have justified the thing ( except I
> whas downloading the file in th /home partition, not in the /system one ).
> 
> That's all. I don't know what to think about. Suggestions ?
> 
> Ciao
> -
> FB
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Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

[Robb Kidd]

Jesse Goerz wrote:
> 1.  I'm trying to create backup CD's that I can scan into my
> sources.list file just like the distribution set does.  Does anyone
> know or have a source of information for this?

You would use apt-cdrom for this.  That designates the CDROMS as
removable media to apt to avoid the "File not found" errors you
mentioned below.
For the actual creation of the CDROMs, I recommend using the Pseudo
Image Kit to create ISO images for burning.  Or purchase the CDs from
some online vendor.

> 2.  [snipped]  Any suggestions?
> 3.  I was using the old deb file:/cdrom pathToDebs/ in my sources.list [...]

If you've got the space (just shy of 2 GB), what I've done is created
ISO images with the Pseudo Image Kit and mounted the ISOs through FS
loopback. 

Relevant lines from /etc/fstab:
/usr/local/src/binary-i386-1_NONUS.iso /mnt/debian1 iso9660
loop,defaults,ro 2 2
/usr/local/src/binary-i386-2.iso /mnt/debian2 iso9660 loop,defaults,ro 2
2
/usr/local/src/binary-i386-3.iso /mnt/debian2 iso9660 loop,defaults,ro 2
2

Relevant lines from /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb file:/mnt/debian1 potato main contrib
deb file:/mnt/debian1 potato/non-US main contrib
deb file:/mnt/debian2 potato main contrib
deb file:/mnt/debian2 potato/non-US main contrib
deb file:/mnt/debian3 potato main contrib
deb file:/mnt/debian3 potato/non-US main contrib

If you're in a networked environment, you can use the machine you've
got the ISOs mounted on as an FTP/NFS source for network installs, too. 
Zehr cool.

Re: oracle8i

[Kasatenko Ivan Alex.]

Hello juan,

Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 1:23:48 PM, you wrote:


jcz>  Hi!

jcz>  I would like to know if there is a possibility to install oracle in
jcz> debian and if there is some
jcz> documents about it.

jcz>  regards

jcz>  /Juan Carlos

There is a possibility. I did so.

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Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

[Michael Stevens]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:36:05PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list
> only the directories in a directory.  It should have similar
> functionality to the ls command.  E.g.
> [tom]$ lsd ~
> should list only the directories in my home folder, not the files.
> Does  anyone know of a way to do this please?
> 

In zsh, do:
ls -d *(/)

(you may or may not need to setup extended globbing of various kinds. See
the docs.)

Michael.

Re: /etc/nologin

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote:

> each system boot ereases /etc/nologin
> 
> there's a way to solve this ?

If you consider it a "problem" you can always modify the script that
does it, namely /etc/init.d/rmnologin, it's a "conffile" so the change
will be preserved in upgrades (unless you explicitly tell dpkg to put the
new version).

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

[Timo Benk]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Thomas Halahan wrote:

> I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list
> only the directories in a directory.  It should have similar
> functionality to the ls command.  E.g.
> 
> [tom]$ lsd ~

Try this one:


#!/bin/sh

if [ $1 ]; then
find $1 -maxdepth 1 -type d
else
find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -type d
fi


 Ciao,
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Re: System.map problem

[Moritz Schulte]

Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> after upgrade to 2.2.17 (from 2.0.36) I have noticed that when I give the
> ps command I get the following error:
> 
> {aic7xxx_patch6_func} {rpc_debug}
> Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data.
> Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map has an incorrect kernel version.
> after that, normal ps output...
> 
> Could someone tell what the problem is and how to fix it?

Linux searches for the correct System.map, which gets generated during
the Linux build process, in /boot/System.map-. Where 
is the suffix, which the linux image itself has.

For example:
If your Linux image is in /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-foobar-pre2, your
System.map should be /boot/System.map-2.2.17-foobar-pre2.

Have you compiled Linux yourself and forgotten to copy the System.map?
The kernel-deb's generated by kernel-package manage the System.maps
automatically.

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Re: /etc/nologin

[Moritz Schulte]

Jaume Teixi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> each system boot ereases /etc/nologin
> there's a way to solve this ?

Remove the init-links for the script "rmnologin" (with update-rc.d)...

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Re: Network printer

[Moritz Schulte]

"Timothy C. Phan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   Can a Linux box controls a network printer?  Please email me the
>   solution.  Thanks!

Sure. :)
Have you read the Printing Howto?
What is your problem?

While configuring magicfilter (a printer filter), you only have to
give the Printer's IP address.

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Re: Creative Live Value !!

[John Travis]

> 
> I'm running the same card in potato but with a kernel 2.4.0-test7 and
> the kernels own SBLive driver (seems to be the one Creative put
> OpenSource some time ago), and... for what I tested by now, it *rocks*,
> sound quality is much better than on the Window$9x. H, but just for
> curiosity I wanted to try the alsa drivers, which I didn't do because
> I'm not really familiar with the way ALSA handles the sound modules...
> Can anybody help me with *what* exactly put to modules.conf to get
> SBLive running with ALSA on potato?
> TIA
> 
> Kris
> 
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Sorry I can't help with that but there is something else you might want to have
a look at.  If you grab the source from  you
will gain 2 (at least, I can't remember) extra channels in the mixer :-).

jt
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2.4.0-test9-ReiserFS
You mean there's a stable tree?

Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

[Moritz Schulte]

Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc:
> 
> sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
> without a cast

Well, that means, that you use an integer, where an pointer is
expected.

See the following program:

int main (void)
{
  int *foo;

  foo = 5;

  return 0;
}

Here we have an variable 'foo', which is defined as an int pointer.
But, we want to assign an int to 'foo' and not an int pointer.

...Just an example.

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Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

[Erdmut Pfeifer]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:03:35PM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc:
> 
> sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
> without a cast

Hi,

this basically means exactly what it says:

at that specific point in your code you have an assignment where an
integer (a function return value, expression or whatever) is being
assigned to a pointer, without anyone telling the compiler what type
of pointer your integer is supposed to represent.

It's a warning and not an error, because under various circumstances
integers and pointers are assigment-compatible (at the machine-level,
both are just integer numbers).

Although there are usually better ways of doing it, if you really need
such an assigment, you have to tell the compiler precisely what you
mean -- by using a type cast, e.g.

  double * p;
  p = (double *) func_that_returns_int();
  ^^
Keep in mind, however, that in this case you are fully responsible
for what you do. You can no longer rely on type-checking assistance
from the compiler...

HTH,
Erdmut


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Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

[Colin Watson]

Erdmut Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:03:35PM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote:
>> I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc:
>> 
>> sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
>> without a cast

There's some documentation on warnings in 'info gcc' / "Invoking GCC" /
"Warning Options".

>It's a warning and not an error, because under various circumstances
>integers and pointers are assigment-compatible (at the machine-level,
>both are just integer numbers).

Watch out; this isn't necessarily true on 64-bit architectures ...
(well, they'll still both be integers, but the lengths are likely to be
different).

-- 
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Re: DIVX?

[Krzys Majewski]

Hmm..  I got the  xmps from  "unstable", compiled  the avi  codec from
xmps-0.1.1beta, put it in /usr/lib/xmps/Codecs, got the divxc32.dll,
but when  I click "configure" after  selecting the avi  codec in xmps,
nothing happens. How did you get your xmps working? -chris

Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Anyone got divx working? I guess I mean divx;) and not divx, gah. 
> > chris
> 
> yep. you still need the windows dll though, and xmps is still very alpha. but
> hey, better than nothing :)
> 
> cheers
> 
>  damien

Re: Building kde2 from source packages

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Compiling takes about 24 hours (with kOffice) on my P1/133 machine, so I did
my last install with the packages at kde.tdyc.org, but the packages lead to
dependency problems :(.

These are the steps I did for installing it before I used the packages and
which I will probably do again with the final version:

1.) get qt2.2.1 source and kde source packages (at least kde libs, support
and base)
1a.) :) unpack the qt tarball in usr/local; rename the unpacked subdir into
"qt" and change your bash configuration according to its readme
2.) unpack all other tar.gzs (i suggest using a special directory for that,
although the files will be unpacked into subdirs)
3.) look into the file COMPILING (or something similar) in the kdelibs
subdir, and look for the options for building)
4.) change into the qt dir and do ./configure --opts, where opts are the
different options which are suggested in the above file ("COMPILING") -
*VERY IMPORTANT FOR WORKING GIF/JPG SUPPORT!!!*
4a.) do "make" in the qt dir
5.) change into the kdesupport dir, ./configure, make, make install (will
install it in /usr/local/kde)
6.) do the same with the kdelibs
7.) do the same with all other packages (after kdelibs, you can build and
install any other packages in any order)
8.) switch to /usr/local/kde/bin/startkde as default window manager

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

P.S. If you've got any further questions, just send me an email.


- Original Message -
From: "Alwyn Schoeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:43 PM
Subject: Building kde2 from source packages


> Hi there,
>
> Could anyone maybe give me a quick rundown on the procedure
> used to build kde2 from the source packages.  Do I need to have
> the kde2 sourcetree somewhere?
>
> Thank you
> Alwyn
>
>
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Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

[Erik Steffl]

  it means that an integer value was assigned to pointer variable,
pointers are quite often some kinds of integers but not neccessarily so,
I guessfollowing code would produce such an error message:

int main(void)
{
  void *ptr;
  int   i = 319;

  ptr = i; /* problem here */

  return 0;
}  

  to understand a most of these warnings you need C++ book, not gcc
manual...

erik


Daniel Reuter wrote:
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc:
> 
> sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
> without a cast
> 
> Unfortunately, I couldn't find a pointer on warning messages in the
> gcc-doc.
> Perhaps someone could enlighten me. Thanks.
> Regards,
> Daniel
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Re: What documentation and what order

[Snowfox]

David -

You're asking a million questions at once. Your best answer is to dig
in and start doing things.

Your best place to start would be in /usr/share/doc where you'll find
the Debian-specific documentation, as well as documentation for most
of your isntalled software.

The reason much of the documentation is compressed is that it can be
viewed that way, and they take up far less space. Use 'zgrep' to
search through files and 'zless' or 'zmore' to view them.

Look at the man pages for apt-get and dpkg for more information on how
to find where files are placed, and to better understand the packaging
system.

Presumably the reason for the kernel not being unpacked straight away
is that it's huge, and uses non-standard compression. (bzip2) Further,
people often fetch kernel source to build for other machines; without
knowing more about your intent, it would be difficult to prevent
something getting replaced which shouldn't have been.

Take it one step at a time. Spend some time on a problem before asking
for help and you'll find that you get really good at finding answers
yourself. Debian is put together very consistently, and it'll all be
second nature before you know it.


   From: "David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   I've used Unix and other Linuxes for some time now, but I am just starting to
   use Debian.  What documents should I read and in which order to get up do
   speed on how Debian does things?  Would it be better to read a book?  If so,
   which one?

   I particular, I am interested in:
   - Setting up X.
   - Setting up mail (end user not server) i.e. I have an ISP that stores my 
mail
 and forwards it.
   - Recompiling the kernel
   - Setting up sound (either OSS or ALSA)
   - Debian tips and tricks - I found out about alternatives on this list.  Cool
 idea.
   - Debian uses a lot of indirection.  Ex. The contents of /etc/modules/ALSA
 gets plunked into modules.conf after update-modules is run.  Where is stuff
 like this documented?

   Some things I've run into already.

   Both the alsa source and kernel source were installed as packed files.  Why
   didn't apt-get unpack them for me?

   I finally figured out where the were.  How was I supposed to know where
   apt-get put them?

   Under Mandrake, the standard module drivers for the Crystal sound cards have 
a
   really annoying click every time a sound is played.  Is this true for Debian?

   I've been trying to get ALSA set up.  From searching the web, it looked like
   pervious kernels had matching alsa-modules-(kernel version number) packages.
   alsa-cache search doesn't find one for 2.2.17 (potato).  It looks like I've
   got to build them.  Why the change?

Re: update 2.0.35 -> 2.0.38

[robert_wilhelm_land]

Dwight Johnson wrote:
> > Would someone kindly help in understanding all those new files after
> > launching "make zImage"?
> 
> They are artifacts of the kernel compile and link.
> 
> > In /usr/src/linux/ a vmlinux exe file, ~1,2 MB large.
> > In /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ a zImage with -rw-.. and 0.5MB 'small'.
> 
> This file must be copied to /boot and edited into /etc/lilo.conf so that
> you can boot your new kernel.
> 
> > In /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/ -
> >   vmlinux (executable, -rwx...) ,>0.5 MB small
> >   vmlinux.out (executable, -rwx...) and >0.5 MB small
> 
> > I'm quite pertubed about these files since I never had heard/read of
> > and noone seems to bother about them.
> 
> Quite understandable -- you didn't expect that a kernel compile would
> generate so much disk overhead. And the compile has generated many hundreds
> of other files that you have not mentioned. Better do a 'df' and see what
> disk space you have left.
> 
> I hope you have enough left to do 'make modules'. It generates a ton more.

The compile and installation procedure worked without a failure. What
are these "artifacts" for and why are they not removed by the make
script?



> Yes. You'll have to discuss the uselessness of these files with Linus
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

Did you ever get a answer from Linus?



> After you are finished, 'make clean' will remove a lot of them.

I did so before compiling - make clean after installing the kernel in
the boot directory would not affect my system?



> > Additional - where does "dmesg" extract the messages out of? The files
> > mentioned in man dmesg are empty, so I guess they're in RAM?
> 
> They are in /var/log/messages.

Alec sent me a message to look into /var/log/dmesg. The messages are
indeed there but differ from var/log/messages by displaying only the
kernel related stuff. /var/log/messages additionaly seems to  include
the startup messages.



One question related to kernel compiling: I tried "make zdisk" in
mounting the floppy before compiling and the second time only
inserting the floppy into the slot. After make zdisk linux refused to
accept the floppy and trying a floppy-boot resulted in a periodicaly
printed hex table on screen with the device sounding like a mashine
gun!
How can I mount this disk to reformat?




Robert

Re: problems with udma66

[Moritz Schulte]

Francesc Oller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> In fact, I'm using the patch because the other computer I own has an
> ALI15X3 chipset and AFAIK it's only supported through the patch.

Just BTW:
This chipset is now supported by Linux 2.2, since 2.2.18pre5.
>From the 2.2.18pre5-Changelog:

o   UDMA support for ALI1543 & 1543C IDE devices(ALI)

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Linux Novice needs help with SPARC install

[Mark Mohrmann]

Good Afternoon:

Anyone care to help me with the install on a SPARCstation 5.
I've had exactly 6 days experience with Linux software and
SUN hardware.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.



-
Mark Mohrmann
Video Broadcast Technician
Lyndon State College
Lyndonville, Vt.
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Re: install-mbr vs lilo

[Kent West]

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

Can anyone explain to me the difference between install-mbr and lilo?  



the layout of a (pc) hard drive:

+---+---+---+--
| partition | few   | first partition   | second partition
| table | wasted| +---+---+ | +
| + mbr | kilobytes | |boot sector|data...| | |boot ...
| sector|   | +---+---+ | +
+---+---+---+--

the mbr is run by the bios.
the normal (i.e., dos-compatible) mbr now detects the active partition
from the partition table (which is in the same sector). it just loads
the boot sector (i.e. the first sector of the given partition) and
executes it. the boot sector usually contains the bootstrap code of the
operating system.
install-mbr installs such dos-compatible mbr with additional features
like inteactive partition selection and floppy boot.

with lilo you have two choices: 
1) install it into the boot sector of some partition. then it only gets

activated, if this partition is the active one.
2) install it into the mbr. then the normal active partition selection
gets overriden and lilo.conf says, which boot options you have.

usual problem: the "LI [hang]" or "L 01 01 ..." problem: 
lilo cannot find it's stage 2(?) loader.

as a single sector is too small for an entire boot loader like lilo,
the lilo boot sector/mbr only takes care of loading the main binary, which
then does all the work. this main binary usually lives in /boot/boot.b.
problems usually arise due to lilo's misconception of the drive(s) it 
is operating on. possibly it's the drive's geometry.

in your case some other problem may arise: lilo has a different idea about
the order of the disks than the bios. lilo normally assumes, that ide disks
are detected before the scsi disks. however, on some systems this is not
true. in this case you must insert something like this in your lilo.conf:

disk = /dev/sda
  bios = 0x80

this would force lilo into believing, that the first scsi disk is really 
the first disk in the system.


hth
good luck!



I don't think I every said "Thank you" for this. This was a great 
explanation! I appreciate it very much!

Re: DIVX?

[Krzys Majewski]

Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> with avifile).  Expect to have to muck around w/ it a bit, as avifile's 
> autoconf is a bit...lacking.. 

Yeah, noticeably.. Two problems I got now are:
1) configure: warning:  
Could not find jpeg lib! Motion JPEG support is disabled. 

(I've got libjpeg62-dev, what's the problem??)

2) checking for SDL - version >= 1.1.3... no
*** Could not run SDL test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means SDL was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved SDL since it was installed. In the latter case, you
*** may want to edit the sdl-config script: /usr/bin/sdl-config
config.log says:
configure:3351: checking for SDL - version >= 1.1.3
configure:3439: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -w -g -O2
 -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -w  conftest.c -lpthread -ldl  -L/usr/lib -lSDL
 -lpthread 1>&5
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined reference to `getpwnam_r@@GLIBC_2.0'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined reference to `getpwuid_r@@GLIBC_2.0'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I've  got  sdl-config  and  the  /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6  from  the
"unstable" xlib6g. 

Any suggestions? -chris

Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

[Kjetil Ødegaard]

* Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hello there,
> 
> I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc:
> 
> sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
> without a cast
> 
> Unfortunately, I couldn't find a pointer on warning messages in the
> gcc-doc.
> Perhaps someone could enlighten me. Thanks.

As others have pointed out, this means exactly what it says: you're
trying to assign a integer value to a pointer variable.  However, I've
find that this most often happens when one tries to use a function which
hasn't been declared.  Without a proper function prototype, your C
compiler will assume that the function returns int.

Consider, for instance the following program:

int
main(void)
{
char *p = strdup("fisk");
return 0;
}

When compiling this, you will get the above error, since the code does
not

#include 

-- 
Kjetil

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

[Krzys Majewski]

Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To me it seems like you are assuming that mails _from_ you have to go
> the same way like mails _to_ you. That is not the case!
> An SMTP-Relay-Server may be located somewhere in the Internet, you
> just need to be able to relay over it. Exim calls this a Smarthost and
> asks you after installation if you have one. Usually your ISP has one
> and so you can relay mails over this server.
> So it is possible to receive mails from POP3-Server A and send mails
> over SMTP-Server B.
> Phil

No I get my mail from the  school's IMAP server. I want to send it via
it's SMTP  server, or SMTP relay  server, or any  server whatsoever at
cs.ubc.ca. Surely it can't be that hard! -chris