[OT] Minimum CPU speed for playing DIVX avis?
Hi folks, I got mplayer (http://mplayer.sourceforge.net) working very nicely, only that CPU utilization is constantly at 100% (~ 92% user, 8% system) and sound is very broken after 10 seconds playing. The video is fine though. I have a 333MHz Celeron with MMX, use X 3.3.6 from woody, and have a very shitty 4MB PCI graphic card. My question is if a 333MHz is even fast enough for playing those DIVX files (the one I have is at 810 kbps). I guess that using xv as output would be faster, as I'm currently using x11/shm. But fast enough? How about a better graphic card (e.g. Voodoo3 or Matrox G400) on the AGP? And which output system is faster: XV (using X 4.0.3) or the framebuffer under Linux? TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: Low Memory Install?
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux > for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The > last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM > was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHat 4.2. RedHat's installer > wouldn't even run properly on a machine with that little RAM, and I > ended up falling back on an older "low memory" version of Slackware. > > My question is: can I successfully complete a minimal Debian install > with only 4MB of RAM, or is this a losing proposition that's just going > to frustrate me? Debian is ultimately designed to be a full fledged linux system. You may very well get it to fit... but it will be a squeez. You may want to look into something like Small Linux (http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/), which was specifically designed to work within 4 mb's of ram. You can even run a tiny version of X with it. I'm not sure what you could do with such a system, but it may be fun. -- John Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my GnuPG public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." - General John B. Sedgwick Last words, 1864
MSN internet dial up connection problem
Does anyone have successful experience dialing in to MSN (micrsoft network) with wvdial. I keep getting bad password error. I have rechecked the configuration file and the correct password is entered. Is there a security string of characters before or after the password perhaps? I have emailed MSN support for help but have not yet received a response. Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: PDAs
On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:04, Darryl Röthering wrote: > I too need to buy a PDA this week. Could those offering advice on this > thread also consider any knowledge they have about cell-phone/modem > integration? I understand that the Palm 7 can come with a modem. But can > you get a cell phone in there too? If you want a cell phone, try the new Kyrocera (sp?). It's fully integrated. It's got a slight battery problem in 1.0, in that when the battery needs recharged it deletes all the memory. They're supposed to come out with a patch for that bug any day. Other than that, it's the cat's meow of PDAs. Screen size is reduced from a normal PDA. > > I also looked at the literature for a cell phone service (from Verison) > that has a palm integrated into it. But it appears that this mobile service > doesn't permit connection to a server (probably only to their mail server) > or transmission of images. Although I don't see how they could practically > screen this kind of thing out, I wonder if anyone has ever telneted into > work off a PDA? Can it be done? I've heard it can. There was an article about this somewhere off of PDABuzz I think. > > Regards, > > James Rothering > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Audio CDs [solved]
Hi Robert, On Thursday 07 June 2001 06:08 am, Robert Mosher wrote: > I'm now able to play audio CDs and would like to say thanks to every who > gave advice. I ended up solving the problem by giving "others" permission > to read cdrom. Though I do realize this may not be the best solution. I > think I'll try playing around with groups like David suggested. Though I > didn't realize you could be in multiple groups. > You can indeed :-) > Also a lot of you mentioned mixers. Right now I don't have any mixers > installed, and I'm not entirely sure if I have mixer support compiled > into the kernel (though if having /dev/mixer means I do, then I do). I > would assume that if I do have mixer support all that I have to do is > apt-get one. Anyone have some good suggestions for a mixer? I noticed > there was a lot of them listed. > It depends on which environment you're using. KDE: kmix Gnome: gmix Anything else: xmix I don't know of any console based ones, although I know they're out there. > And also will a mixer help my crappy sound? Right now everything is > pretty low quality compared to playing it in windoze. Though I'm sure I'll > figure most of this stuff out once I get back to my machine and have a > chance to play around with it. > Not sure about that, but if you play with the levels it may work. If I turn up my volume too high on the computer, my sound gets scratchy, so I have to compensate by turning up the speakers themselves. > Thanks, > Rob Mosher Good luck! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDAs
I'm using a Palm IIIxe and a Siemens S25 with the infrared port to login with SSH on my machine when I'm on the road, works good. The onlything is I've got to findout how to adjust my terminal settings because the fonts are very small. But overall I'm rather happy with it. Mark -- - Gnu PG- key:0F16EB250A16 Fingerprint:B483C4967998E25476A81EA0F16EB250A1628F6 Icq:16345639 (invisble) Mark Lamers Fotograaf 00 31 71 5120308
Re: package libcommonc++-dev kept back
Alex Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libcommonc++-dev: Depends: libcommonc++-1.4 (= 1.4.2-1) but it is not >installable >E: Sorry, broken packages >-- > >What's wrong? Does anybody know this? It's quite annoying to see >that message every time I upgrade my beloved woody box. The archive seems to be confused about what version of commonc++ is in testing: it has version 1.2.4-2 of most of it (which had libcommonc++1 rather than libcommonc++-1.4), but has a newer version of the -dev package on a few architectures for some reason. Of course, that newer package is uninstallable due to exactly the problem you're seeing. The quickest way to get woody fixed there is to have the newer package fully installed, but it seems to have a release-critical bug filed against it. Since the bug tracking system is down, I can't find out what it is. If it's not something that would affect you, upgrading to the version in unstable would solve your problem. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web based email client
hi ya my collection of web-based emails http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Mail/webmail.txt c ya alvin http://www.Linux-Sec.net On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Cleto Pescia wrote: > Hello, > > > I would like to hear from you about the best web based email client > > that would run on a debian potato machine. > > I don't know if it is the "best" Web mail system, but I'm very happy > with NOCC: http://nocc.sourceforge.net. >
Re: impement a virus scanner to postfix
hi tim i dont have a specific one for postfix...but...here's the collection of linux-based anti-virus scanners http://www.linux-Sec.net/server.gwif.html#Mail have fun alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > "tim.tim.tim" wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > i am using debian potato with postfix. I like to implement a virus > > scanner on the mail server. do you have any recommendations ? > > > > > > thanks in advance > > > > > > tim > > > >From your e-mail adress I asume you're German. Have a look at the > LinuxMagazin 6/2001. They describe in detail how to implement Amavis > in postfix.
Re: fetchmail, procmail, and bad mbox formats
Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just recently got fetchmail and procmail working together with ssmtp > to bring my pop email to my machine and throw it into an mbox. The > problem I'm having, though, is that with MUAs like Mutt and Pine are > saying that the format of the mbox the procmail is dumping to is bad. > Is there something that has to be set with procmail to make this look > like a normal mbox? If not, are there any ideas as to what may be > wrong? (if I 'less' the mbox file, all the emails are in there, but I > don't really want to read them that way) No-one else has tried yet, so I'll start with questions ;-) Exactly what message do you get from Mutt? Have you listed your mailbox in your .muttrc AS a mailbox?? Glyn -- so here we are then http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk Running Debian/Gnu Linux 9:04pm up 9:32, 2 users, load average: 1.10, 0.86, 0.49
XF86Setup problem
Hello, I already asked this question in my local linux ng, but the answer were not that helpfull. So I hope somebody can give me an answer here. I would like to reconfigure X windows on my machine. Especially the grafical settings need some finetuning. I would like to change resolutions and add virtual screen. So I start XF86Setup as root, but I get this error: Tomsk:~# XF86Setup & [1] 23274 Tomsk:~# Error in database, invalid reference: ET4000/W32 (generic). Error in database, invalid reference: ET4000/W32 (generic). Error in database, invalid reference: ET4000/W32 (generic). Error in database, invalid reference: Generic VGA compatible. Error in database, invalid reference: Generic VGA compatible. Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry S3 Savage4 (line 1442). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9420 (generic) (line 2186). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9440 (generic) (line 2191). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9660 (generic) (line 2196). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9680 (generic) (line 2201). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident Cyber 9320 (generic) (line 2218). Any idea what the problem is? Also some guy suggested using xf86config instead. So I tried this too. However, when I restart gdm using the new XF86Config file I get a black screen, so no X. Actually there is a small '+' sign in the upper left corner. I guess this has someting to do with the graphical card I choose from the database. I have an Nvidia Riva TNT II Pro. In the specs of my graphics card I also find 128-bit high performance accelarator. In the database there is RIVATNT2 and RIVA128. I don't really know which one to choose. I tried both but none seem to work. Any suggestions here? Thanks, Regards -Jeroen- -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com ICQ# 30116911 Home page: http://www.valcke.com/jeroen Phone +32(0)56 32 91 37 Mobile +32(0)486 88 21 26
equivs package usage
At the beginning of May, Colin Watson kindly gave me the following advice to solve a problem I then had. I changed my whole approach to an email setup and did not use his advice. Now, having again 'changed direction', I need to change 'postfix' for 'nullmailer'. ( I had installed nullmail after compiling from a tarball, was having problems, and discovered Adam McKenna had produced a .deb) > (1) Make a dummy qmail package with equivs, and have it provide > mail-transport-agent; > > (2) dpkg --install qmail.deb > > (3) Watch dpkg automatically remove ssmtp in favour of qmail. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had a couple of fruitless attempts. Can't seem to create a dummy nullmailer package - there doesn't seem to be a suitable example to put into ns-control. Then again, if I do get a dummy package what do I do with it (I presume (2) refers to the main .deb and not the dummy). I can create packages by following the docs, but not the right kind. Can anyone let me know what an acceptable ns-control file should look like? Grateful for any help, John.
Re: METAFONT
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 05:42:28PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Sunday, June 3, Robin Gerard did write: > > hello, > > I tried to use METAFONT and when I did > > mf dessinmf.mf I got this message : > > proofrulethickness .05u > > (1) mf: Window support for X was not compiled > > into this binary . > just run mfw instead of mf. mfw runs fine, but I make two errors in "dessinmf.mf" instead of "variable = variable# - hdpi" should write "variable = variable# * hdpi" instead of "makgride..." should write "makegrid ..." Thanks to those who give me advices. -- Gerard
3 problems: Printing with CUPS, Kernel boot parameters, and KDE login.
1. I Have a lexmark 3200 printer. Using Kups, i configured my printer. The cupsomatic driver doesnt work at all, and the gimp print will print, but with some problems. When i tried to print a test page, it got about a quarter way down the page, then stopped, the head moved all the way to the right, and both lights on the printer started alternately blinking. When i printed a jpeg, it printed fairly accurately, but when it was done, the lights were blinking on and off in the same way. It seems it does this every time when it prints something. 2. using Grub, my linux entry looks like this: title Debian kernel 2.4.5-k6 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5-k6 root = /dev/hda2 ro idebus=66 hdd=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.5-k6 however, when it boots, it does not set idebus to 66, it defaults to 33, and tells me to "add idebus=xx", which i did. It also does not insert the module ide-scsi, and does not start emulation. Also, how do i set my AGP speed to 2x instead of 1x? 3. When i log into KDE, it takes an abnormally long time to load everything. it takes nearly 30 seconds. I have an AMDk6-2 450, with 256megs ram. It should be super fast, but is not. what is going on here? any help would be great, thanks!
Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!
I had the same problem. I ran update-menu, apt-get remove/install but still could not get my menus back. I then useradd noone,(created a bogus user) and logged in with wmaker. Lo and behold noone had the original menu. So I copied the contents of home/noone/GNUstep/defaults to the other users directories, allowed overwriting of existing files and was all set. Good Luck smokez wrote: > > On Thursday 07 June 2001 4:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know that this must be a common problem, but the archives for the mailing > > list are unavalable. I ran wmakerconf as a normal user to change some of > > the look and feel of windowmaker. However, when wmakerconf started up, told > > me that it needed to update the menus. I told it to keep the current > > menus,and now all my menus are gone!!! I don't have anything under the > > application menu. > > > > How do I get my menu's back? This has become a real pain not having any. > > > > Thanks, > > try 'update-menus' > > on debian systems it seems that you will be unable to > directly edit the menus via wmakeconf > > because it includes a menu (from somewhere i don't > rember via menu.hook) which is generated from > installed packages (thou im _not_ 100% sure on this) > > have a look in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/ > > adam > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I get my menu's back? This has become a real pain not having any. > Check ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu. Try moving it out of the way completely and copying /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu to its place. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpJVaWRbJjAk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ascii formatting package
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:39:22PM -0700, Robert L. Yelvington wrote: > can anyone suggest a good package to format ascii docs to be converted > to pdf? > what i am looking for is something that can outline blocks of text with > boxes, selectively shade lines or single words as wells bold, italicize, > underline text, etc. > i have looked into enscript...but can't figure out how to make it do > what I want it to do(YET)... > the formatting has got to be done on the fly, from cron for instance and > I guess I could use standard > PCL or PS and write it myself, but am hoping that there's a simpler (and > less time consuming) way to do this... If you adopted formatting guidelines for the ascii text (for example, one blank line is a paragraph, two is a section, three is a chapter, text after an underscore is underlined, etc.) it wouldn't be too hard to write a script in Python or Perl to convert it to docbook; the docbook could then be converted to pdf using any of several tools; alternatively there is a Python library that can generate PDF files directly, so you could write a Python script to generate the PDF directly from the ascii text. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE pgpUKZg2dIzbY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: ascii formatting package
Let me throw my $0.02 cents in. Rather than using whitespace to delineate those elements, for the little extra effort involved in coding it might be worthwhile to use some non-standard (for ascii that it) characters. That way you could do some consistency/error/ *whatever* checking.. Then again, perl IS made specifically for text parsing is it not? Maybe a combination of... Marc. > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:39:22PM -0700, Robert L. Yelvington wrote: > > can anyone suggest a good package to format ascii docs to be converted > > to pdf? > > less time consuming) way to do this... > > If you adopted formatting guidelines for the ascii text (for example, one > blank line is a paragraph, two is a section, three is a chapter, text after > an underscore is underlined, etc.) it wouldn't be too hard to write a > script in Python or Perl to convert it to docbook; the docbook could then > be converted to pdf using any of several tools; alternatively there is a > Python library that can generate PDF files directly, so you could write a > Python script to generate the PDF directly from the ascii text.
Re: MSN internet dial up connection problem
> Does anyone have successful experience dialing in to > MSN (micrsoft network) with wvdial. I keep getting bad > password error. You can try two things: 1. I think MSN needs a "MSN/" prefixed to the username, i.e. MSN/username 2. Try adding "debug" to the /etc/ppp/peers/whatever file, then post the results from syslog, maybe something will be obvious. -- Kevin
Re: HOME NETWORK
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:05:55PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi Don... > > A good place to start might be here: > > www.linuxdoc.org almost everything is documented there. if yuo can find what you're looking for. :) > ipmasq is probably what you want definitely. apt-get install ipmasq should take care of most of your trouble (if you've got your /etc/network/interfaces set up properly; "man interfaces" for more details). -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #4 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Want to know WHAT FILES ARE PROVIDED BY PACKAGE x-y-z? This is a job for dpkg: enter "dpkg -L " at the command prompt. Try "dpkg -L netbase | pager" for example. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: /etc/apt/preferences
>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joey> I've been using a simple pin-to-testing with unstable available on Joey> command Sounds cool. How do you do that? -- Mike
ascii formatting package
can anyone suggest a good package to format ascii docs to be converted to pdf? what i am looking for is something that can outline blocks of text with boxes, selectively shade lines or single words as wells bold, italicize, underline text, etc. i have looked into enscript...but can't figure out how to make it do what I want it to do(YET)... the formatting has got to be done on the fly, from cron for instance and I guess I could use standard PCL or PS and write it myself, but am hoping that there's a simpler (and less time consuming) way to do this... thanx, robt
RE: [OT] windows networking issue
You've probably looked at this already...but... Have a look in Control Panel / System / Device Manager on the 95 machine and go Properties on the network card. See if it reports that the network card is operating correctly. Chech the settings for the card, I/O, IRQ etc. Windows occasionally gets them wrong !!! Check the driver... is it correct ? Next try swapping the connection on the hub of the non-gateway linux machine and the 95/98 machine and test them both to eliminate a faulty hub. Last resort, try turning off Plug and Pray (Play) and setting the IRQ for the card manually in the bios and try again. Ian -Original Message- From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:41 PM To: debian-user Subject: Re: [OT] windows networking issue On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:27:21PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi Rob... > > I would guess its a hardware issue > > Either the nic in the win9x box is flaky... or the cable or something > > Keep troubleshooting... do you have an extra nic or cable...? > > Hmmm ... I took the card from one of the working linux boxes (bravo) > and put it in the windows box, and had similar if not identical > behavior. Also, the windows box does correctly get its DHCP > information on boot; it just mysteriously stops using the interface > after that. > > I'll try the switcheroo again in a few days, hoping that something > easier gets suggested; the box doing my routing/gatewaying is > headless, which makes this sort of thing hard. > > > what about duplexing? Is your nic set for half or full? > There may be another way but I usually nab a utility program from the manufacturer and run a diagnostic on the card. I've mostly worked with older 3Coms. The utility fits on a bootable windows floppy so it doesn't matter which operating system your running. hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can i get my printer to work??
Le Dimanche 3 Juin 2001 16:30, Wayne Topa a écrit : > Subject: Re: How can i get my printer to work?? > Date: Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:45:48PM -0500 > > I use lpr and magicfilter and a2ps and haven't found the need to try > any of the other printer packages yet. I use lpr and magicfilter only (my printer is a Canon Bj200). What's the use of a2ps ? -- Jean-Michel Le Bot - mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sociologue - LARES - Université Rennes 2 www: http://www.uhb.fr/sc_humaines
Re: How can i get my printer to work??
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:04:58PM +0200, jean-michel le bot wrote: | Le Dimanche 3 Juin 2001 16:30, Wayne Topa a écrit : | > Subject: Re: How can i get my printer to work?? | > Date: Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:45:48PM -0500 | > | > I use lpr and magicfilter and a2ps and haven't found the need to try | > any of the other printer packages yet. | | I use lpr and magicfilter only (my printer is a Canon Bj200). What's the use | of a2ps ? a2ps is similar to enscript. It converts ASCII to PostScript and in the process it uses a nice font and adds a header to the page. It can also render the text in 2-up or landsacpe formats. -D
Re: gnome and gpm
Derya PALANCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DP> Anybody know how i can manage these: DP> DP> I don't want the gnome starts when i boot DP> DP> I don't want the gpm starts when i boot You can remove the packages you don't care about, with 'dpkg --remove gpm' or 'apt-get remove gdm'. If you have any X display manager installed (gdm, xdm, wdm), it will by default start at boot time. (You could also leave the display manager installed but disable it by changing the links in /etc/rc?.d.) DP> And i want to see the tops of the windows when i'm working in DP> gnome... in mandrake i can just click somewhere in the window and DP> drag it but in debian?? This sounds like a function of your window manager, not of your Linux distribution. You might try using a different window manager, of which many are included in Debian. There's a nice overview page at http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ containing screen shots of most of the available X window managers. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
Alien question??
I need to use Alien convert several .rpm files to .deb to run on my
Debian system. I noticed this error.
Warning unrecognized substution {shlibs:Depends}
Am I missing something? I do not do this very often and mostly it seems
to work with no messages. This is one I have not seen before.
Thanks.
John
Help configure XFree 4.0
Does anyone know how to configure a Diamond Speedstar Plus with an Tseng ET4000 chipset on woody with X 4.0? I have tried all the possible settings in xf86config that I can think of - with no luck. The error from the end of /var/log/XFree86.0.log is included at the end of this message. Here is what I did : 1) apt-get install task-x-window-system (to install X Window System (complete)) 2) run xf86config and choose above card from the list. I used the same horizontal and vertical sync settings and resolution that has worked for me when configuring the display in potato with X 3.6. The same settings that works in potato simply won't work for me in woody. I don't understand this because the XFree86 website states that cards with the ET4000 chipset should work with X 4.0. I next tried to install the package xserver-svga to see if this was the problem, but X still wouldn't start. What is going wrong here? Any ideas to fix this? Thanks, Lars. - /input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.1 (II) TSENG: driver for Tseng Labs chipsets: ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32p, ET6000, ET6100 (II) Primary Device is: ISA (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
q ad junkbuster-config
Hi!
I´m using junkbuster for quite some time now, and am impressed and
quite happy with it.
Now today I wanted to install it on some server of mine, to get its
goods to some windoze-using friends of mine. I´ve configured it to
listen on the external IP of the box, and connected there. But nope,
doesn´t work. It listens there on the right port, takes
tcp-connections but refuses to do the proxy-job ("TCP connection
to 'www.blafasel.at' failed: Operation not permitted.").
After some hours of tweaking around and even with a debugger on the
source I wasn´t really much further. Until I discovered that when I do
not only put the clients IP in the acl-file, but also the external IP
of the box itself, it works.
Anyone some clue why?
cheers,
&rw
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Re: PDAs
I too need to buy a PDA this week. Could those offering advice on this thread also consider any knowledge they have about cell-phone/modem integration? I understand that the Palm 7 can come with a modem. But can you get a cell phone in there too? I also looked at the literature for a cell phone service (from Verison) that has a palm integrated into it. But it appears that this mobile service doesn't permit connection to a server (probably only to their mail server) or transmission of images. Although I don't see how they could practically screen this kind of thing out, I wonder if anyone has ever telneted into work off a PDA? Can it be done? Regards, James Rothering _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
emacs
HI All, Does anyone know how to change the keybindings in emacs? Specifically I'd like to make my Backspace key delete the character before the cursor (seems like a natural thing to me) instead of what it's doing now (which is being wierd). Thanks, Andy
Re: SNMPD bug ?
Steve Kowalik writes: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:53:55AM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker uttered: > > > > doing this > > > > snmpwalk localhost public system > > > > get the snmpd agent down for a feew minutes > > > > other way to hit the bug is > > > > cfgmaker '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' from mrtg package. > > > > I've tried woody packages, same behavior. > That means you haven't allowed localhost access to the snmpd. > edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf > > -- > Steve > "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding > contest." > --Me > Yes i have access. One simple snmpget command works fine, even the snmtpwalk works but after some output the agent stops responding, and then, after about 5 minutes it responds again. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tels. 665.99.41 - 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qlsoft.cl/ http://ql.cl/ __
Re: Low Memory Install?
said Kenneth Pronovici (on 2001-06-07), > I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux > for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The > last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM > was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHat 4.2. RedHat's installer > wouldn't even run properly on a machine with that little RAM, and I > ended up falling back on an older "low memory" version of Slackware. > > My question is: can I successfully complete a minimal Debian install > with only 4MB of RAM, or is this a losing proposition that's just going > to frustrate me? you can easily do it with debian 2.1. you could then do an apt-get dist-upgrade to run debian 2.2. i have a 486 laptop with 4MB RAM and 125MB HDD. average free disk space is around 10MB! it swaps a lot but otherwise works fine. geordie. -- "The number of Unix installations is now six, with more expected."
Re: package libcommonc++-dev kept back
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >The quickest way to get woody fixed there is to have the newer package >fully installed, but it seems to have a release-critical bug filed >against it. Since the bug tracking system is down, I can't find out what >it is. If it's not something that would affect you, upgrading to the >version in unstable would solve your problem. It turns out that the bug is a build problem with autoconf 2.50, so I think you can safely ignore that and install the package from unstable. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem about imp and horde
Hello patrick, Sunday, May 27, 2001, 2:13:22 PM, you wrote: pq> --- Arian Novruzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to configure my ppp in my new Debian 2.2 (well, I think >> these >> developers guys can make more easy the installation ;-) >> My modem is a lucent one and I use the appropriate package to install >> it. >> I'm using the same script which worked perfectly in RH6.2. >> Running "ppp-on" gives these messages: >> >> /usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself >> /usr/sbin/pppd: but I couldn't find any secret (password) for it to >> use to >> do so >> /usr/sbin/pppd" (none of the avalaible passwords would let it use an >> IP >> address) >> >> Thanks for any suggestion how to establish my ppp connection. >> Arian. hi all, Under woody, I use apt-get installing imp and horde. After installing,I find there isn't horde database in mysql. So imp cann't run normally. My operation steps are: apt-get install apache mysql-server php3 phplib apt-get install imp horde Under potato,I installed imp successfully with the above steps. Why not successfully under woody? -- Best regards, fgmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PDAs
I'm going to buy a PDA within the next week or so. After fairly extensive research it looks like I have to get a PalmOS device. EPOC is seemingly dead in the water, Compaq isn't selling their devices without Windows on them, and Agenda VRs (bizarrely) can't sync with Linxu systems, according to PDA Buzz. So, anyone on this list have a "gotcha" warning for me? I'm thinking of going to a computer show this weekend and buying a used Palm or Visor, if they have any. I don't want to invest $400 only to find out I don't like PDAs. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Text Processing Question
I have about 400 little 2 line files to create, that I'm sure should be scriptable, but can't seem to figure out the right tools. The file format should be as follows: DBUSER=username/password export DBUSER I'd like to be able to run something like: scriptname username password and just have a file created and saved as the user name parameter. Is this a sed or awk kinda thing? Any help is greatly appreciated! jdk
Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3
Alex Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I will use Partition Magic for this. It never failed me, and it is > very easy to use. You can just pop in the 2 floppys and you have a > fully-featured UI to shrink, move, convert, delete, create partitions. I've never used Partition Magic, but if it can resize ext2 filesystems, then it will do the trick. I used parted because I already had it, and it did what I needed it to do. > Does re-partitioning the drive not affect lilo? Will it still be > able to find the kernel ie. boot? I don't think that the re-partitioning affected lilo, which makes sense, since the boot partition isn't being moved, it's just being shrunk. If it does affect lilo, then add a step after the parted and before rebooting: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt chroot /mnt lilo -v I honestly can't recall if I had to do that or not. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! Are you mentally here at UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | Pizza Hut?? Seattle, WA, USA| http://www.rudedog.org/ |
Re: CD Paranoia problem
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Vincent Foley wrote: > Hi, > > I have a ide-scsi CDROM on a GNU/Linux system. But I have a little problem > and > I was hoping that maybe you could help me with it. > > See, I cannot rip a CD if I'm not root. I could when my cdrom wasn't > ide-scsi. > Now, I get the following error message: > > [Shell] > > $ cdparanoia 1cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) > (C) 2001 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus > > Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ > > > /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default, > cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here. > Consider using -sv to force a more complete autosense > of the machine. > > More information about /dev/cdrom: > Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... > Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface > /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. > Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface > No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/scd0 I think the generic SCSI devices are /dev/sg0, /deb/sg1, etc. It sounds like cdparanoia may be needing one of those. You might try checking to be sure they exist and are accessible to you/your group. Britton > [/Shell] > > So I thought about check the permissions related to /dev/cdrom and /dev/scd0 > and > what group my user was in: > > [Shell] > > $ groups > vince cdrom sudo audio dip log www > $ ls -l /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0 > lrwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 4 Jun 6 13:20 /dev/cdrom -> scd0 > brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jun 1 15:34 /dev/scd0 > > [/Shell] > > > I have no idea on what I could do. Please help me > > > > Regards, Vince
Re: Text Processing Question
you could do it with perl... -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Adahma wrote: > I have about 400 little 2 line files to create, that I'm sure should > be scriptable, but can't seem to figure out the right tools. > > The file format should be as follows: > > DBUSER=username/password > export DBUSER > > I'd like to be able to run something like: > scriptname username password > > and just have a file created and saved as the user name parameter. > > Is this a sed or awk kinda thing? > > Any help is greatly appreciated! > > jdk > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: equivs package usage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >At the beginning of May, Colin Watson kindly gave me the following >advice to solve a problem I then had. I changed my whole approach to >an email setup and did not use his advice. Now, having again 'changed >direction', I need to change 'postfix' for 'nullmailer'. ( I had installed >nullmail after compiling from a tarball, was having problems, and >discovered Adam McKenna had produced a .deb) > > > >> (1) Make a dummy qmail package with equivs, and have it provide >> mail-transport-agent; >> >> (2) dpkg --install qmail.deb >> >> (3) Watch dpkg automatically remove ssmtp in favour of qmail. > > > >I've had a couple of fruitless attempts. Can't seem to create a >dummy nullmailer package - there doesn't seem to be a suitable >example to put into ns-control. If you run equivs-control, it'll create a template control file for you. The equivs-build man page explains the extra fields that aren't seen in normal Debian packages. >Then again, if I do get a dummy package what do I do with it (I presume >(2) refers to the main .deb and not the dummy). At the time, I think I meant the dummy package. If you have Adam's proper package, though, you don't need an equivs dummy; since nullmailer does provide mail-transport-agent, can't you just apt-get install it (or dpkg -i, or whatever)? That should have pretty much the same effect, I think. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Text Processing Question
Adahma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have about 400 little 2 line files to create, that I'm sure should >be scriptable, but can't seem to figure out the right tools. > >The file format should be as follows: > >DBUSER=username/password >export DBUSER > >I'd like to be able to run something like: >scriptname username password > >and just have a file created and saved as the user name parameter. > >Is this a sed or awk kinda thing? The shell will do nicely: #! /bin/sh -e cat >"$1" <
Java Mozilla problem
Hi, well I installed java plugin when mozilla ask me to do, but it failled. then I download the j2sdk-1_3_1-linux-rpm.bin from Sun, Install it, etc...; now Java in Mozilla works (I test it with all the demo) but only in http://chat.yahoo.com/ this applet causes Mozilla crashed. dont know it is mozilla issue or Sun or yahoo, I suspect it is yahoo ; but ; Any ideas how to make it work? thanks... = S.KIEU _ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
How to change domain name???
How do you change the domain name on a already running box? When I originally setup my lan, I did not have a true domain and I called my network foo.bar (instead of yahoo.com for example). Now I have a real domain name and want to start changing machines over to it. TIA, maillst
Re: Next up....Sound..was Re: Next up...printing
Thanks all for the help. CUPS got me fixed right up. Now I'll be trying to configure sound. I have a soundblaster AWE32 sound card. I configured the sound into my kernel during installation. dmesg output: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.13 detected OK (220) sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - Probable IRQ conflict I know my sound card used to be IRQ5 in w98. How do I change it in Linux. I am running debian 2.2.18pre21 . any help would be appreciated. I have already read more how-to's and man pages without much success. Thanks, lorens Colin Watson wrote: > > Lorens Kulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have spent the last 2 days trying to set up an Epson Stylus Color 800 > >on my machine. From root I can cat 'textfile' > /dev/lp0. But that is > >all. I have magicfilter installed with stcolor filter specified. From > >what I've read, only root can access the printer? > > What print server are you running? (lpr, lprng, cupsys ...) Most of them > have a way to grant permission to groups of users. If all else fails, > you can always add users you like to the 'lp' group so that they can > write to /dev/lp0, but that may not be the most elegant solution. > > >I can not access lists.debian.org for some reason. > > lists.debian.org is down due to a server crash, I'm afraid. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Low Memory Install?
I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHat 4.2. RedHat's installer wouldn't even run properly on a machine with that little RAM, and I ended up falling back on an older "low memory" version of Slackware. My question is: can I successfully complete a minimal Debian install with only 4MB of RAM, or is this a losing proposition that's just going to frustrate me? Thanks for the information. KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal Homepage: http://www.skyjammer.com/~pronovic/ "The phrase, 'Happy as a clam' has never really held much meaning for me."
Re: Text Processing Question
This could be done quite easily with Perl as previously mentioned, but from a security standpoint do you think it's a good idea to store a database username/password in an environment variable (at least this is what I'm assuming your doing) ... As far as I'm concerned that's a hacker's paradise... Leonard Leblanc Webmaster / Intranet Administrator www.emergeknowledge.com - Original Message - From: "Adahma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian List" Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:17 PM Subject: Text Processing Question > I have about 400 little 2 line files to create, that I'm sure should > be scriptable, but can't seem to figure out the right tools. > > The file format should be as follows: > > DBUSER=username/password > export DBUSER > > I'd like to be able to run something like: > scriptname username password > > and just have a file created and saved as the user name parameter. > > Is this a sed or awk kinda thing? > > Any help is greatly appreciated! > > jdk > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Low Memory Install?
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: | I have a friend who's interested in getting my help to install Linux | for the first time... but his spare machine only has 4MB of RAM. The | last time I tried to install Linux on a machine with that little RAM | was in 1996 or 1997 when I was using RedHat 4.2. RedHat's installer | wouldn't even run properly on a machine with that little RAM, and I | ended up falling back on an older "low memory" version of Slackware. | | My question is: can I successfully complete a minimal Debian install | with only 4MB of RAM, or is this a losing proposition that's just going | to frustrate me? I don't know for sure, but it might be difficult. Can you take the hard drive out of that machine and put it in a newer machine just for the install? Also, with only 4MB RAM you will spend a lot of time swapping when you try and run things. I have a 486 with 8MB RAM and it swaps quite a bit. I couldn't do the install directly on it because it couldn't boot from a CD, and loadlin doesn't work after windows starts, and DOS didn't have a CD-ROM driver. (the cd drive was borrowed from another machine just for the install) I ended up taking the hd out and using a different machine to install Debian, then moving the hd back to the 486. -D
Re: SNMPD bug ?
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:53:55AM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker uttered: > > doing this > > snmpwalk localhost public system > > get the snmpd agent down for a feew minutes > > other way to hit the bug is > > cfgmaker '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' from mrtg package. > > I've tried woody packages, same behavior. That means you haven't allowed localhost access to the snmpd. edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf -- Steve "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest." --Me
Re: Loadlin question
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:31:57AM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: | Hey, | | I just finished dual-booting my computer here at work, and I want to be able | to use Linux. I was wondering, though, how do I get a kernel image onto the | dos partition? Do I just copy the /vmlinuz file to a vfat partition? That may or may not work. I did that with a previous machine I had with Win98 and RedHat and it worked fine. I tried doing that with the Debian kernel when I was triple-booting the machine, but the kernel got corrupted. While I was trying to figure out why loadlin wouldn't boot with the debian kernel (but would boot debian with the RH kernel) I learned about rsync. I then used rsync to "copy" the kernel to C:\ and it worked fine. Just out of curiosity, why are you using loadlin.exe instead of the more common lilo? On that box I mentioned above LILO couldn't boot from /dev/hdc where Linux (RH) was installed. After I learned about grub I tried it and it had no trouble (with Debian, RH was gone by that time, but it was the same hard disk). I highly recommend GRUB. I think it is much better than starting DOS, and using config.sys to jumpstart Linux. -D
RE: Kernel upgrade.
To all that replied, thanks... I am working on it now.. Debian rocks in comparison to other unixes and linuxes for that matter that I have grown attached to over the many years... thanks -- Matt Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.duhnet.net http://www.mattchapman.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:34 PM To: Chapman, Matt Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade. On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:41:38AM -0400, Chapman, Matt wrote: > Hi, > > I am running the sparc version potato.. > > I changed my sources.list for apt to woody and was able to do a successful > apt-get dist-upgrade > > Now how do I get the new kernel? > > -matt > With x86 architecture I would either apt-get install kernel-image or apt-get install kernel-source where one has to find the full name of the desired kernel-image and kernel-source on packages.debian.org or by grep-available or similar methods. I guess that this is similar with other architectures. Of course when you get kernel-source you'll have to compile and install the kernel yourself. kernel-package can help here a lot. In case you knew all that, what exactly do you mean by `how do I get the new kernel?'? > -- > Matt Chapman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.duhnet.net > http://www.mattchapman.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me? Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$VIMRUNTIME
Hi, everytime I install vim I get this problem... I have a work-around, but I'm pretty sure it's The Wrong Way to do it. Anyway, opening a file in vim which has some syntax will cause vim to say like - Error detected while processing Syntax Auto commands for "conf": Can't open file /usr/share/vim/syntax/conf.vim Press RETURN or enter command to continue with the second line changing to whatever type of file I'm editing (for instance, it just said it couldn't find the mail syntax file). The ":help" doesn't work, either. I'm guessing it's looking there because of the $VIM or $VIMRUNTIME parameters, both of which are /usr/share/vim for me. But Debian is installing vim's "syntax" and "doc" directories in /usr/share/vim/vim58, why vim can't find what it's looking for. My current work-around is to sym-link the syntax and doc directories so it works. I'm guessing changing the $VIMRUNTIME variable would work, too. But neither of those solutions seem to me to be best way to do it. Do I just have a strange setup? Is the vim package meant to be like this? Thanks in advance, // joey tsai -- joey tsai | CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more cs1322 ta | unfortunate than yourself. | -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Re: Total Confusion
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 02:18, Sidney Brooks wrote: > Eamon Roque asked: > > Nonetheless: what does your authentification process look like? Do > you require the host to authenticate itself, do you agree on a > protocol ( usually in /etc/ppp/options )? > > The following is a list of uncommented things in /etc/ppp/options: > auth > crtscts > modem > proxyarp > lcp-echo-interval 30 > lcp-echo-failure 4 > noipx > > Everything esle in this file is commented, hence not operative. I have never managed to make it work with "auth". alpha:~$ egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options asyncmap 0 noauth crtscts lock hide-password modem proxyarp lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 noipx
Re: www.emdebian.org -- dead ?
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, ktb wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:47:59PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > does anyone of you know what happened to www.emdebian.org. > > > > When I try to fetch data from there or to access the web-space, it's > > simply dead -- at least trying on my computers. > > Works for me is your nameserver down? Today, I could access it by lynx. dig reported the same address. Yesterday, it was different. But ping could not report any success. Lukas -- Lukas RufSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Office: ETZ-G61.2 Computer Engineering and Phone: +41/1/632 7312Networks Laboratory (TIK) Fax: +41/1/632 1035 ETH Zentrum PGP 2.6: ID D20BA2ED;Gloriastr. 35 Fingerprint 6323 B9BC 9C8E 6563 B477 BADD FEA6 E6B7CH-8092 Zurich
Total Confusion End
I have tried every suggestion posted on this web site, including the latest by csj and Robert Ruzback. It seems that I have two choices: give up on linux or buy a new computer. Since my computer is less than two years old, I do not plan to buy a new computer soon. Redhat and Debian on two separate partitions have the same problem, they can get connected but do not get onto the internet. As far as I know, they have only two things in common, the same swap partition and BIOS. Since I had the same trouble with only one of these operating systems installed, I doubt that it is the swap partition causing my problem. Thanks to all of you who tried to help.
All packages ... again.
Hi ... Thanks to all the guys who answered my last question, in resume ... you say that it's not a good idea, (installing everything) since there are more than one program for some tasks and then, they can conflict each other. Besides, there are a lot of packages. Ok ... so, I was used to the fact that, my system just have one program for the main tasks. If debian has more than one option, I'd like to ask again, a couple of things: a) If I'm not wrong, the programs can conflict each other, just in the case of simultaneous usage. For example, they can compete for the same directory, the same TCP port, etc. But what could be wrong, if I install all the programs for the same tasks, and just "activate" one of them by configuration. (and maybe, also configure the others to desactivate them). b) Aprox., How much disk space will be requiered to install ALL the packages??? I want to install all the packages, just because I like having the program already installed, in the moment I need them ... maybe I install some programs that never will be used, but it doesn´t matter for me, I prefer that to loose some time downloading, maybe compiling and installing the program. One posible trouble could be, that in the case it's posible, installing everything also means configuring everything, at least, it seems things are this way in the installation process. It'd be cool to have an option that configure just the "indispensable" for the system to survive, and permit configuring the rest "optional" things later. Or maybe, force the default configuration, but in the case of servers, don´t add them to the rc.?, just let them for later(posible) activation. Thanks again ... seya saludos dario estepario ... ps: I´ve already tried selecting all the groups in the "simple" installation option. However, not all the packages were installed, just to mention some of the missing: vim, pine, netscape, mtools, etc. Things like these don't conflict each other, do they? I want to install EVERYTHING, even if they are not freeware. It doesn't matter the category they belongs. - Obtén tu correo en www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunicándonos
Re: hdd time-out??!!
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:01:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| hai List,
|
| Since a couple off hours I have this output on screen just after the
| system freezes. Is this an software or hardware problem and what should
| I do?
|
| hdd: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
| hdd: drive not ready for command
| ide1: reset: success
It's a hardware problem. I used to see this sometimes with one of my
disks, and the only thing I could try was a hard reset. In my
situation it turned out that the power supply was too small to handle
the disks (it was only 110W, in a Compaq nano-tower). Other people
suggested that the disk might be crashing, so I too recommend that you
backup any data on the disk you really don't want to lose.
HTH,
-D
Re: SiS6326
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:58:04PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: | At 07:20 p.m. 06/06/01 +0100, Peter Paul Millard wrote: | >Hello All | > | >I have the above card which fails to get started. | >Storm does not have it on the web site as supported | >progeny debian also said that they have had problems with all SiS cards but | >will get it sorted on the next release | > | >Does not mean it does not work I have been trying 2.2r2 to get past this text | >mode which xf86config will not work any ideas any body my monitor I have all | >the vert and hoz figures. | | That card has been a real nigthmare to me. I finished by confiugring it Doh! Too bad I didn't know that before I bought my card. The XFree86 website says it works... Which xserver are you using, BTW? The SVGA one or the SiS one (the SiS one I found has a different prefix in the name and seems to have been built by some company, I don't have the box in front of me right now). | manually. If you are intrested, I can send you the xf86config file from home. | I could successfully use it with less memory than it has. Yes! Please send me your XF86Config file. I have the same card (8MB model) and haven't yet gotten X configured the way I want it (so I'm still using it console-only, but I have gotten even more proficient with bash :-)). I was able to get 800x600 at ~16 bit color, I think, but I want 1024x768 at 24 or 32 bpp (which I used to have with my previous ATI Rage LT Pro). Then I saw nice pink blocks when a window or menu was closed. I'm not sure if it was the card or the monitor since I was using an old monitor that I don't have any specs for. (I did read the man page and was configuring by hand, but I don't think I quite "get it" yet) -D
Re: anyone succeeded in compiling kernel 2.4-xfs
> i've got the xfs sources from the sgi cvs tree but if i try to compile the > kernel image i get the following error msgs: > > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory > cpp: output pipe has been closed > gcc: file path prefix `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/egcs-2.91.66/' never used > > any idea what's wrong? Yes. In the Makefile, around line 30, change the CC variable to: CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc BTW, this question has come up many times on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. -- Kevin
ET4000 with X 4.0 won't run (woody)
Does anyone know how to configure a Diamond Speedstar Plus with an Tseng ET4000 chipset on woody with X 4.0? I have tried all the possible settings in xf86config that I can think of - with no luck. The error from the end of /var/log/XFree86.0.log is included at the end of this message. Here is what I did : 1) apt-get install task-x-window-system (to install X Window System (complete)) 2) run xf86config and choose above card from the list. I used the same horizontal and vertical sync settings and resolution that has worked for me when configuring the display in potato with X 3.6. The same settings that works in potato simply won't work for me in woody. I don't understand this because the XFree86 website states that cards with the ET4000 chipset should work with X 4.0. I next tried to install the package xserver-svga to see if this was the problem, but X still wouldn't start. What is going wrong here? Any ideas to fix this? Thanks, Lars. - /input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.1 (II) TSENG: driver for Tseng Labs chipsets: ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32p, ET6000, ET6100 (II) Primary Device is: ISA (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cryptographic file systems for use with 2.4 kernel?
Hi Forrest, Quoth Forrest English, > i was looking into TCFS but it looks like it is only supposed to work on a > 2.2 kernel, and my laptop is using a 2.4 kernel (if it's stolen, i don't > want some of the data on here being read...) > > so basicaly i'm wondering if there are any options out there for a crypto > file system that is compatible with linux 2.4.5. CFS works well. I've been using it quite successfully for a few years now. There is even a debian package for it (and it even works these days). It doesn't seem to be under active development, but it does work for me. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Homicide is, no matter what else it might Department of Criminology | be, a social relationship. University of Melbourne| -- Paul Bonnana
Re: information request
Here is another file, describing the isntallation process very well: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install I don't understand why this document is not displayed in a clearer manner and at a more accessible place than it is currently. It took me 2 or 3 days of combing over debian.org to find it. Then again, I might quite possibly not be a very proficient searcher. > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:15:53PM -0700, carmex83078 wrote: > > Dear Debian.org, > > > > I recently downloaded linux-2.4.4.tar.gz and I can't read most of the files because I am running Windows Millenium Edition. I was hoping you could help me with installing it since I don't know how to. I read through some documentation and the situations it described required me to already have a previous linux version. Would it be best for me to order it on cd, or would I have the same problem? Any information provided will be greatly appreciated. > > > > You should really take a good look at debian.org. The installation > instructions for Potato (2.2). > kent > > -- > From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted > First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Galeon and Mozilla builds
You can use my packages by adding the following lines in your sources.list : deb ftp://ufies.org/pub/galeon/people/christophe ./ #deb ftp://ufies.org/pub/galeon/people/christophe/cvs-build ./ Comment the second line if you want to use the last galeon release. You need to remove the kitame entry in your sources.list and to remove the four mozilla packages by hand (mozilla, mozilla-dev, libnspr4, libnspr4-dev). You can still use the nautilus but I believe nautilus packages are now in the normal tree. Christophe On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 19:11:00 Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the following Mozilla and Nautilus packages from T.Kitame: > > | # Mozilla > | deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./ > | # Nautilus > | deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla/nautilus ../ > > Now I am searching for an suitable galeon package. I am not that good in > building and installing own packages. I tried to build galeon 0.10.5 > (apt-get -b source galeon) from > > | deb-src http://galeon.ufies.org/galeon/ sid/ > > But it failed because of an unmet dependencie to for Mozialla 0.8. > > Any suggestions or tips for me? > > Kai. > -- > k a i w e b e r | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >w w w | http://www.glorybox.de/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Christophe Barbé Software Engineer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lineo France - Lineo High Availability Group 42-46, rue Médéric - 92110 Clichy - France phone (33).1.41.40.02.12 - fax (33).1.41.40.02.01 http://www.lineo.com
Re: laptop instillation via a PCMICA cd rom
Hi I just had a similar problem with a Libretto. I solved it by creating a small DOS partition and using packet drivers and packet driver type ftp software to ftp the basic files needed for an install (see the Debian install documents on www.debian.org). Basically you need the kernel and a couple of driver disks and the base system archive. Once I ran the basic install off the DOS partition I switched the rest of the install to FTP and installed from rest of the packages from a Debian mirror site but you could equally well FTP from the CDs mounted on a local machine. Also with a PCMCIA CDROM you could probably mount that and install from it once the base system was installed from the DOS partition. Good luck Pat
Re: Using tar saving Disk-space [was: apt-get offline]
Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for. Except the line > tar -u $foo -f packages.tar has to be changed into tar uf packages.tar The script I was referring to is the one created by apt-get -qq -print-uris etc. I would have to add the above line to every downloaded package. I think your foreach loop is easier joerg John Galt wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > >Hi list > > > >Now that I can transfer my downloaded .debs in a .tar file, I wonder if > >I could create this .tar file saving disk space, e.g. in the following > >way > > > > > >create a tar file (touch packages.tar?) > > unnecessary, and in fact will break the script... > > >for *.deb in this directory > > foreach foo (./*.deb) > > > 1.) add it to the tar file > > tar -u $foo -f packages.tar > > > 2.) rm this .deb > > rm $foo > > >end > > end > > > > > > >Is this possible for (non-GNU)-tar? > > I think that I made it basic enough to be portable... > > >How would this look for the csh? > > That's what I was writing it for (actually, tcsh, but it should be > backwards compatible...) > > >Even better: Could this be included in the wget-script? > > ?! you have a script already that you want to add this stuff to? That'd > be easier by far, because you'd only have to select once and not select, > then select on *.deb. > > >thanks > > > >joerg > > > -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
Re: Strange problem with Plextor IDE-Drive W121032A
On (26/05/01 20:31), Alex Suzuki wrote: > I have 2 IDE-Drives, one of them is a Plextor CD-Writer. .. > I cannot mount it as a user nor as root. I'm shortly going to be buying one of these drives myself and I found a possible solution to your problem at a Linux hardware site:- http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?1979 HTH Simon -- Simon Hooper GnuPG 1024D/F3D1353A 64AF 1419 4B67 CE13 E312 7C80 CFB0 9414 F3D1 353A
Re: filtering email via perl?
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't > > see eye-to-eye any more. > > I don't know what MTA you use, but if you're on speaking terms with exim, > it's got a pretty good set of filtering capabilities that you can just > put into .forward. Not perl, though. but it uses the same regex engine that perl does, and the syntax is nice and clean, so the learning curve nearly disappeared. to procmail, i say: "feh!" compare these two-- # .procmailrc :0: * ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED](g|inance).com agf :0: * ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cmc :0: * ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snoog :0: * ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snoog :0: * ^Subject:.*free-thinkers flint-school versus # exim filter if $return_path matches "agf(g|inance)\.com" then save Mail/agf elif $return_path ends "cmcone.com" then save Mail/cmc elif $return_path matches "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or $return_path matches "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" then save Mail/snoog elif $h_subject: contains "free-thinkers" then save Mail/flint-school endif i'm feeling much better, now. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #16 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) considered spawn of Satan? Because the Debian package system is a lot more sophisticated than the one Red Hat uses; lots more inter-dependency information is built in to a *.deb package. If you bypass that with an *.rpm file, you're taking chances with your system. Try to "apt-get install " packages if possible. (Also check out the "alien" package if you must.) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: $VIMRUNTIME
Hi... I don't know if this is much help. but have you tried this? dpkg --purge vim dpkg --purge vim-rt apt-get install vim apt-get install vim-rt Mike - Original Message - From: "joey tsai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:14 AM Subject: $VIMRUNTIME > Hi, everytime I install vim I get this problem... I have a work-around, but I'm > pretty sure it's The Wrong Way to do it. > > Anyway, opening a file in vim which has some syntax will cause vim to say like - > Error detected while processing Syntax Auto commands for "conf": > Can't open file /usr/share/vim/syntax/conf.vim > Press RETURN or enter command to continue > with the second line changing to whatever type of file I'm editing (for > instance, it just said it couldn't find the mail syntax file). The ":help" > doesn't work, either. > > I'm guessing it's looking there because of the $VIM or $VIMRUNTIME parameters, > both of which are /usr/share/vim for me. > > But Debian is installing vim's "syntax" and "doc" directories in > /usr/share/vim/vim58, why vim can't find what it's looking for. > > My current work-around is to sym-link the syntax and doc directories so it > works. I'm guessing changing the $VIMRUNTIME variable would work, too. But > neither of those solutions seem to me to be best way to do it. > > Do I just have a strange setup? Is the vim package meant to be like this? > Thanks in advance, > > // joey tsai > > > > -- > joey tsai | CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more > cs1322 ta | unfortunate than yourself. >| -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
filtering email via EXIM -- question
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't > > see eye-to-eye any more. > > I don't know what MTA you use, but if you're on speaking terms with exim, > it's got a pretty good set of filtering capabilities that you can just > put into .forward. okay, i've got a grasp of the filtering available in exim's .forward files -- very nice! plus, it's easy to do test cases with exim -bf filterfilename < sampleemail which is really cool for debugging! so of course i've got questions-- 1) is the exim filtering mechanism uncharacteristically lethargic? seems like processing takes heap long time forever. maybe i missed an option or feature...? 2) does the exim filtering mechanism somehow bork the timestamps on mailboxes? when i hopped into mutt a moment ago, i have five boxes with new mail; i checked into one of them, nosed around and switched, and suddenly only two were marked as new. grok-challenged, here. (what else might munge that datum?) 3) anybody got some high-power, dual-exhaust, chrome-plated, twin overhead cam examples of exim filters to get us .forwarding newbies off the ground? i've seen the simple ones they've got in /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.html ... -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #11 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Which COMMANDS pertain to ? Try "apropos ", "info ", and "man -k ". Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Babel and LaTeX
I tried to reach lists.debian.org to search the archives, but I
haven't been able to reach it for some days now.
In the beginning of my LaTeX document I use the following:
--
\documentclass[norsk,a4paper,openright]{book}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{epsfig}
--
Then, when I try to run latex on the file I get:
--
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(document.ltx
LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1
Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/norsk.ldf
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)the language `Norsk'
(babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.
)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/epsfig.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
--
OK, so it doesn't find Norwegian language support for hyphenation.
How do I get this? I cannot understand which package I should
install. (I have inorwegian, ispell, tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-doc
and tetex-extra packages installed.)
Woody on my box.
--
Ole Sebastian Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
``It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems with just
potatoes.'' - Life, the universe and everything (Chapter 24), D. Adams
Re: dselect, can't do update
Daniel Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >since yesterday i've a strange problem with dselect. i tried to look >for new packages at the mirror ( i use sid ), and did a update in >dselect, everything seemed to work, but at the end of operation the >following errormessage came. > >|Reading Package Lists... Done >|Building Dependency Tree... Done >|Merging Available information >|Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. >|dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/cache/apt/available' near line 1020 >package `blt': >| `Replaces' field, reference to `blt-dev': error in version: version >string has embedded spaces >| >|update available list script returned error exit status 2. >|Press to continue. dpkg changed somewhat in version 1.9.8. I've been told that replacing /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update with the contents of http://people.debian.org/~bod/update helps with this. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HOME NETWORK
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:25:51AM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: | D-Man | Sorry for grabing you email address from the Debian | users list, but I have been on the mailing list from Not really a problem, but sending your questions to the list provides a wider audience and you are likely to get a lot of helpful replies and comments on personal experiences. | What I want to do is use a Debian box for a firewall and access to | the internet for a win98 machine. This is easy enough, just install the 'ipmasq' package. It comes configured to work out-of-the-box. I have a Debian firewall/router that I haven't yet gone though and done any ip masquerade configuration (time constraints ...) but it works beautifully. | The Debian box will also be a BOT in one of the chat rooms on | Chatnet. This is a bit more complicated -- you will need to write the BOT logic and interface with whatever interface Chatnet provides. I have no experience with this (Chatnet), but I have dealt with screenscraping and automated programatic interaction over telnet. | Is there some documentation on setting up the Network that I can | read to do this? I've seen all sorts of people having problems with | this. The debian box will be using a 3Com905 NIC card, and will be | using a Diamond Modem, as the dial up. There are the Networking HOWTOs on www.linuxdoc.org. I think the 3Com card should work fine using the 3c905 kernel module. Check on www.scyld.com for more information on NIC drivers. Donald Becker is the Really Smart Guy who wrote all the drivers (or the majority of them anyways) and presently works for Scyld. The modem shouldn't be a problem as long as it is a Real modem (not a cheap imitation commonly called a WinModem). Use minicom to interactively determine the authentication procedures your ISP uses, then write a chat script to do the dialing (really easy, see the Modem HOWTO for more info). Then just configure pppd to start up a PPP connection with the ISP over the modem link chat has set up. If you have problems with that, check the logs for an error message, reread the docs, try other options, and ask the list. That is how I got my dial-up to work -- basically trial-and-error. HTH, -D
Re: HOME NETWORK
Hi Don... A good place to start might be here: www.linuxdoc.org ipmasq is probably what you want check out the how to's and stuff... If you run into trouble the list will be happy to help :) Mike - Original Message - From: "D-Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 12:49 PM Subject: FW: HOME NETWORK > > This was sent directly to me, I'm forwarding it to the list so Don > can have a wider audience and get better responses :-). > > -D > > - Forwarded message from "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > From: "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 11:25:51 -0700 (PDT) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > D-Man > Sorry for grabing you email address from the Debian > users list, but I have been on the mailing list from > some time and I think that you are one of the people > that give the most information on you responses. What > I want to do is use a Debian box for a firewall and > access to the internet for a win98 machine. The > Debian box will also be a BOT in one of the chat rooms > on Chatnet. Is there some documentation on setting up > the Network that I can read to do this? I've seen all > sorts of people having problems with this. The debian > box will be using a 3Com905 NIC card, and will be > using a Diamond Modem, as the dial up. > Thanks > Don > > - End forwarded message - > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: How to setup rsync system to keep copy of packages locally????
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:44:16PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote: > Can someone help me and/or point me to a doc that describes how to setup a > local debian package mirror using rsync? I have looked at the man page for > rsync, but am still clueless as to how to do it. apt-get install apt-move Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but it should be close. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI D G e* h r y+
Re: .vimrc
whoops. this is technically correct, but misleading. vim-rt isn't required in order to have mutt colorization. On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:57:08PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > just to be sure, try > > $ apt-get install vim-rt > > then you can have your own ~/.muttrc color-designator specs, s/then/okay --/ > including something like > > set editor="vim -c 'set ft=mail tw=64'" [snip] -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #16 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) considered spawn of Satan? Because the Debian package system is a lot more sophisticated than the one Red Hat uses; lots more inter-dependency information is built in to a *.deb package. If you bypass that with an *.rpm file, you're taking chances with your system. Try to "apt-get install " packages if possible. (Also check out the "alien" package if you must.) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: middle mouse button
Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > > Curtis Hogg wrote: > > > > > > > > What do you have your repeater type set to for your gpm configuration? You > > > may have a problem there. > > > > > > > Here are the relevant lines in my gpm.conf: > > > > device=/dev/ttyS0 > > responsiveness= > > repeat_type=ms3 > > type=ms+ > > append="" > > > > Try changing "repeat_type=ms3" in "repeat_type=raw"... > > Andrea That's it. Cheers, Frank
Re: 486 router is very slow
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I set up a router with my old 486 computer [potato, kernel 2.4] > > Normally i have have rates of 7.8 kb/s (ISDN) throughput. But if i try it > over my new router the rate is not more than 2 kb/s. Is it possible that the > Masquerading process takes too much recources on that machine? It's a 33 Mhz > Intel DX Processor. I think your 486 computer is not the limiting factor. I have a firewall-router with masquerading on a 33 MHz 486 compu, connected with a ne2000 compatible ethernet card to a cable modem. The operating system is "Linux on a flop" (Linux Router Project, kernel 2.0.16). Often data transfer rates have values like 30 kb/s. > > Any hints to speed that up? > No. sorry. Regards, Paul Huygen.
Re: AVI Player
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:11:06PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > > Mplayer works great. (http://mplayer.sourceforge.net) > > > > I'll second that. > > I've just compiled a recent version, and it seems pretty self-contained > (no need to play find-the-library). Also has a nice On Screen Display > (you have to download the fonts separately). > > Would be nice if it was packaged for Debian... On the website it says packaginb would not make much sense since mplayer is highly optimized. Maybe a Installer package would be useful. Bernhard -- Bernhard Rieder & Nagetiere: /""\ ___,-""-. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ `.o\ (0)),-".-.'. Ratte - Mailingliste: /o O o) :-"o ,__/,__( :*'^'-.__.-' [EMAIL PROTECTED] /o_.--_( "^---'---'--'"
anyone succeeded in compiling kernel 2.4-xfs
hi, i've got the xfs sources from the sgi cvs tree but if i try to compile the kernel image i get the following error msgs: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory cpp: output pipe has been closed gcc: file path prefix `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/egcs-2.91.66/' never used any idea what's wrong? tia martin
Re: Babel and LaTeX
Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OK, so it doesn't find Norwegian language support for hyphenation. > > How do I get this? I cannot understand which package I should > > install. (I have inorwegian, ispell, tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-doc > > and tetex-extra packages installed.) > > use the texconfig command as root. it's menu-driven, and will allow you > to edit the config file for hyphenation. uncomment the norsk line, and > save. My texconfig doesn't seem to be the menuversion. I had to run the command ''texconfig hyphen latex'' and learn how to use vi :) and then it worked. Thank you for your quick reply, also to Alexis Roda. -- Ole Sebastian Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems with just potatoes.'' - Life, the universe and everything (Chapter 24), D. Adams
Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'"
On 04 Jun 2001 09:15:01 -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > My suggestion, purge your system of the > Ximian stuff and use the Gnome packages from the Debian distro. Yeah, I know, standard answer :) -- I did not vote for the Austrian government
Re: logcheck gaps in time
Am 05. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Dave Sherohman so: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:58:50AM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > > > I have added the following else statement to the script so there is > > always a report. I would appreciate it if the utility's owner would > > consider adding this to his/her next revision and giving a small credit > > if they do. > > I would not appreciate it. I suppose adding an option (so long as the > current behaviour remains the default) would be OK, but I'm of the opinion That's the way I set it up when I changed logcheck. > that, if there's nothing to report, I don't want to be bothered with null > mail. The absence of a problem report is itself confirmation that there > is no problem. (Same principle: Create an empty directory, cd into it, Not necessarily. It could also be evidence that someone's turned off logcheck, which is mostly what this thread was concetrating on :). I need to add a mail handler that will expect the mail from logcheck and inform me if it doesn't come in. In priciple I want to only get the bad news, but I want to make sure something is checking that the local machine is still working properly ( well, it's still not a guarantee it hasn't been tampered with, but it's one more level they have to overcome ). A mail filter, snmp query or network monitoring module could be used to eat the empty reports, but let me know if they didn't get one they expected. ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # I'm not anti-social, I'm pro-individual. - der.hans
Re: pump sometimes must be restarted (cable modem)?
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > periodically (perhaps every other week) my Internet connection via > Optimum Online (Cablevision) freezes, and I have to kill and restart > pump in order to get everything freed up. Yes, kill, pump -R does > not work. Hmmm... it shouldn't happen every week, but if your IP changes, pump will _not_ try to get a new lease... all it knows how to do is renew. When I was running pump, every few months I'd lose the lease on the old IP (they do renumber once in a while) and I'd have symptoms like that. For more specific help on lioptonline (including Linux) check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lioptonline . -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Sit-stand-kneel; sit-kneel-stand -- Sun am exercise time!
Audio CDs
Hi Not too long ago I installed Debian2.2r2 on my computer. Since then I have slowly been getting things the way I want them. One thing I have yet to do, and would appreciate any help on, is playing (mounting) Audio CDs. I don't know if this will make a difference, but I have run 'apt-get upgrade' since release 3. I've read about cdfs for mounting audio CDs, but that requires kernel 2.4.x. Will I need to upgrade my kernel, and if so, how? Also, I noticed when browsing through the available packages that there are several CD players. I'm assuming this means I can play CDs somehow, without too much trouble (relatively speaking), since it would be pointless to include these packages if you can't. Thanks, Rob Mosher
Re: How to configure Terratec souncard. (Potato)
Hi,
Joan og Jesper wrote:
> I have a Terratec ISA PnP sound card based on a AD1816 chip. (AD MPU401
> PnP says the Manual).
>
> I have read out following settings from WinNT: I/O: 0130-013F,
> 0330-0331, 0388-038B
>
> IRQ: 5, 7
>
> DMA: 1, 3
>
> I can't figure out how to add those settings in modconf (The syntax).
Are you sure about those numbers? I have a ISA PnP Terratec Soundsystem
Base 1 and it only shows one irq and one io port range in use (values
taken from /proc/{interrupts,ioports}. You might have a different card,
but the ad1816 driver will only take one irq and one io port range as a
parameter in any case.
Try the following
modprobe ad1816 # this will insmod all modules ad1816 depends on
If this fails, try:
insmod ad1816.o irq=5 dma=1 dma2=3 io=130
and play around with those values, until one works. BTW, if you're
using a 2.4.x kernel, you can save yourself all the hassle and compile
ISA-PnP as a module. Everything will work automagically in this case.
HTH,
Viktor
--
Viktor Rosenfeld
WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Re: MSN internet dial up connection problem
On Thursday 07 June 2001 12:37 pm, Abner Gershon wrote: > Does anyone have successful experience dialing in to > MSN (micrsoft network) with wvdial. I keep getting bad > password error. I have rechecked the configuration > file and the correct password is entered. Is there a > security string of characters before or after the > password perhaps? I have emailed MSN support for help > but have not yet received a response. Thanks. > Maybe it's just me, but I doubt you'll get any response from MS if you ask them "Hey, I can't get my Linux machine to connect to your network, can you help?" :-) - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LyX & libxpm4?
Running Woody, I recently installed LyX 1.1.5fix2-1. I receive the following error "In CreateXPM [pixmap.c 332] error converting: (Can't get color)" several times when I run lyx. Several of the toolbar buttons show only a "p" and opening a new document gives me a black-on-black workspace. apt-cache show lyx gives "libc6 (>= 2.1.94), libforms0.89, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, *libxpm4*, xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4)" for dependencies. apt-cache search libxpm4 returns nothing. packages.debian.org lists "libc6 (>= 2.1.94), libforms0.89, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, *xlibs*, xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4)" as dependencies. apt-cache show xlibs says that it provides libxpm4 and dpkg -s xlibs says it is installed ok. I can't find pixmap.c (from the error message) or libxpm4 on the machine anywhere. What have I messed up?
Re: FYI : LINUX Users Tutorial and Exposition
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 15:34, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:17:59AM +0200, Lambrecht, Joris wrote: > > To those who are looking for some tutorial-reference-resource on the > > Linux Operating System, have a look at ... > > > > http://rute.sourceforge.net > > <> > > okay, what the heck does RUTE stand for? :) > > awesome project, by the way. nice job! Looks like another one of those recursive acronyms like GNU's Not Unix... -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
XFree86 cannot initialize NVdriver
I am having problems setting up XFree86 with the nvidia drivers. I can get all of the packages to install correctly but when I try and run X. I get the following error. From XFree86.0.log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. If I run modprobe I get modprobe: Can't locate module NVdriver I have the following in /etc/modultils/nvidia-kernel-2.2.19 alias char-major-195 NVdriver I have NVdriver in /lib/modules/2.2.19/kernel/drivers/video Does anyone know of a solution? -steve -- Steven Isaacson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://spi.panaverse.com
Re: SiS6326
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 13:58, Miguel Griffa wrote: > At 07:20 p.m. 06/06/01 +0100, Peter Paul Millard wrote: > >Hello All > > > >I have the above card which fails to get started. > >Storm does not have it on the web site as supported > >progeny debian also said that they have had problems with all SiS cards > > but will get it sorted on the next release > > > >Does not mean it does not work I have been trying 2.2r2 to get past this > > text mode which xf86config will not work any ideas any body my monitor I > > have all the vert and hoz figures. > > That card has been a real nigthmare to me. I finished by confiugring it > manually. If you are intrested, I can send you the xf86config file from > home. I could successfully use it with less memory than it has. Mine works, sort-of. when i first log in, it wont render text, and i have to switch to console, then back. when I log out, it barfs all the textures left in the ram onto the screen and i have to go console, then back, and it works.
Re: filtering email via perl?
exim filter is pretty nice. nearly spot-on what i was looking for. and yet... On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:23:07PM +0200, Mark Weinem wrote: > Filtering e-mail with perl: > > * mailagent > http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=dist&query=mailagent okay, i've got mailagent, and i can tell it's driven by perl, but it looks like they've rolled their own syntax into the filtering mechanism. how do you tell it "set some variables and send this message through my perl script xyz.pl"? i'm sure it's in the documentation somewhere, but it hasn't popped up on my radar. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #15 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Is there a good place to learn snarky PERL TECHNIQUES? One of my favorites is http://webtechniques.com, where Randall Schwartz contributes a monthly sample, explaining line-by-line what his code does, and why. (Look under "Programming with Perl" in the archives.) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: SVGATextmode and Banshee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hai List, > > I would like to setup SVGATextmode on my Debian box with an 3d Blaster > Banshee card, but I can't find no modes in the configfile. Can I use > something from my XF86Config or should I look further? Or can I use the > settings from any other card who is listed in Textmodeconfig? > Thanks in advance > Mark Lamers Some file in the SVGATextmode mentions it is not supported anymore, one reason for that is that you can change resolution for the console from the kernel (but, alas, only at boot time I gather) so just give the 'vga=ask' parameter to the kernel at boot time to get a list of available resolutions (check /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.4/Documentation/svga.txt (fill in your kernel version)). jorgesantos
Problems with glibc and name service switch in potato?
Hello folks, I am struggling with getting nisplus to work on Debian. I installed the (unofficial) nisplus packages from http://www.realbodo.de/ and set everything up correctly. I've already set up nisplus successfully on RedHat, so at least I know what I'm doing and that I can get it right. Here's the problem though: When I set up /etc/nsswitch.conf as following: passwd: compat group: compat passwd_compat: nisplus group_compat: nisplus programs like login and ssh will segfault. This happens _after_ the login is successful as shown by this output of ssh: ---snip--- 01:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # ssh homer [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Thu Jun 7 01:15:37 2001 from bart on pts/2 Linux homer 2.2.17 #1 Mon Feb 12 01:28:45 CET 2001 i486 unknown Have a lot of fun. Could not set [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s secret key, maybe the keyserver is down? Received disconnect: Command terminated on signal 11. ---snip--- (BTW, the keyserver is not down, dunno what this is all about. It doesn't happen on another machine though, maybe this has something to do this machine acting as a masq router over ISDN. Doesn't have anything to do with the problem at hand, though.) login also segfaults on me. Everything else e.g. the pam module (libpam_unix2.so) is working. This is a up-to-date potato system (well, too actually). Any idea what might be going on? TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
Sniffer for ISDN
Hi, does anybody know a good packet sniffer for ISDN lines? I'm running a HDLC connection (ie isdn0) to my workplace and need to find out, what's going over the wire. I tried ehtereal on the isdn0 interface, but it only shows my "Ethernet II" frames with an unknown type (0xd10a) and some additional data. This is ethereal on potato, but the documenation on http://ethereal.zing.org/ doesn't indicate that ethereal understands HDLC (or any other ISDN flavor except for async -- whatever that is). Any ideas, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
[OT] windows networking issue
Hello, Sorry for the non-linux question, but I haven't found an answer elsewhere. I have a functioning network of two Debian boxes, bravo (10.0.0.2) and peon (10.0.0.1). bravo is capable of IP routing, forwarding, and masquerading. peon has a fully-functioning TCP/IP connection with bravo, and when bravo dials in to the internet, peon's traffic is forwarded appropriately. I am trying to add to this network my fiancee's Win98 machine, named gow, with IP 10.0.0.3. gow is physically connected to the network through the same (Netgear 4-port) hub as the two Debian boxes; plugging in its cable illuminates the "connected" light on the port. Assigning a static IP, however, left gow unable to ping or be pinged. I set up dhcpd on bravo, and told gow to use that, and something interesting happened: gow correctly recives its IP information, sends 6 or 9 netbios broadcasts, and then stops sending traffic over the ethernet. Here is a "tcpdump | grep gow" : 18:58:04.943737 bravo.study.bootps > gow.study.bootpc: xid:0x721ddc08 Y:gow.study S:bravo.study [|bootp] [tos 0x10] 18:58:04.944643 arp who-has gow.study tell gow.study 18:58:05.848933 gow.study > 224.0.0.2: icmp: router solicitation 18:58:06.618817 gow.study.netbios-ns > 10.0.0.255.netbios-ns: [five more of these over the next second] 19:00:51.832071 bravo.study.bootps > gow.study.bootpc: xid:0xcf05ee00 Y:gow.study S:bravo.study [|bootp] [tos 0x10] 19:00:51.833017 arp who-has gow.study tell gow.study 19:00:52.825376 gow.study > 224.0.0.2: icmp: router solicitation 19:00:53.574929 gow.study.netbios-ns > 10.0.0.255.netbios-ns: [five more of these over the next second] However, after the boot is completed, I'm not able to ping or be pinged; no packet is sent to the hub (neither the light flashes nor does tcpdump show anything), and the error message on the windows box is "Request timed out." Furthermore, attempting (via winipcfg) to renew the DHCP lease gives 'Error: DHCP Server Unavailable: Renewing Adapter "*"'. Releasing the correct information obtained on boot and renewing again gives the same error, after which --- get this --- the IP assigned is 169.254.136.191! To summarize: 1. peon and bravo, two Debian boxes, are fully and correctly connected to each other. 2. gow, a win98 box on the same physical hub, correctly reads DHCP on boot and then stops sending packets to the hub. I believe I have eliminated: 1. DNS, since it doesn't work with IP numbers, either 2. Masquerading, since it's the local network that's broken 3. Faulty equipment, since a) the 'connected' light comes on when the card is plugged in b) gow correctly obtains its internet configuration on boot c) putting bravo's NIC in gow (though not the other way) exhibited the same behavior. My only possible lead is the line from tcpdump that says: 19:03:24.154942 gow.study > 224.0.0.2: icmp: router solicitation I don't know where this is configured, if it is configurable, but my local network is 10.0.0.0 (with netmask 255.0.0.0). Any advice, FMs to R, diagnostics to run, programs to install, etc. are more than welcome. I have been tooling around with this for weeks and I just want it to work. Thank you for any help. Rob -- You can rent this space for only $5 a week.
Re: tabs / was [OT] Coding w/ vim
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:17:46PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > >one tab, indent one level. done. (why clutter up your source >code with all those spaces?) and if you really go overboard >overindendinting a really deep algorithm, you can always >redefine tabs to be 3-wide, or 2-wide. don't have to revisit all >those extraneous spaces. > >but eight is for 1969-era wonks. eesh. > Personally, I still think that 8-space tabs are for people who like their files to look right on the default state of any system. Other schemes have caused me too many problems in the past when shifting from one system to another for me to believe claims that they're good. I have a distinct sense of déjà vu about this argument, though. :) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/mailname ?
walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After a recent dist-upgrade I started getting >empty email messages every day from root, with >a domain name the same as in /etc/mailname . > >I don't remember when /etc/mailname was generated, >or by which config program, so I don't recall >what purpose the file serves. > >Any thoughts on what I need to reconfigure to >get the daily system notices arriving again? /etc/mailname is the file all packages are supposed to use to get the hostname for outgoing mail and news messages they generate. If it's wrong, go ahead and change it. My guess is that that isn't related to why you're getting empty mails, though; you could check root's crontab and /etc/cron* for a start as to what you might need to look at, but from a distance it's hard to tell. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Next up....printing
Lorens Kulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have spent the last 2 days trying to set up an Epson Stylus Color 800 >on my machine. From root I can cat 'textfile' > /dev/lp0. But that is >all. I have magicfilter installed with stcolor filter specified. From >what I've read, only root can access the printer? What print server are you running? (lpr, lprng, cupsys ...) Most of them have a way to grant permission to groups of users. If all else fails, you can always add users you like to the 'lp' group so that they can write to /dev/lp0, but that may not be the most elegant solution. >I can not access lists.debian.org for some reason. lists.debian.org is down due to a server crash, I'm afraid. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: filtering email via perl?
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't > see eye-to-eye any more. I don't know what MTA you use, but if you're on speaking terms with exim, it's got a pretty good set of filtering capabilities that you can just put into .forward. Not perl, though. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI D G e* h r y+
Re: installing unstable version
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:13:27AM +0200, Tobias S. Hofer wrote: :hello people : :i'm interrested in installing an unstable version of debian. :what's the best way to do this. i prefere to download the :packages from ftp servers. :it seems to me that an unstable package tree does not contain :all the required packages. I've installed a number of "unstable" machines. My prefered method is to use a "stable" CD or floppy install and when prompted for install method, pick edit sources by hand replacing "stable" with "unstable" or "testing" *except* for the security.debian.org listing. one note the editor you will be in is "ae" to save use "C-x C-w ", this is hell on us emacs guys, close but not quite... -Jon
