Re: RE:GeForce4 MX

[Alex Malinovich]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Hey everyone,
> 
> >I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows
> >system stopped working.  I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv
> >driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at
> >least taht's what the string listing the supported cards says.  Do i really
> >need a new driver, and if so, how do i get it and load it?

Well, for starters, going from a GeForce DDR to a GeForce 4 MX isn't
really much of a step up. Especially considering that the GeForce 4 MX
isn't really a GeForce 4 at all. I'd suggest taking it back and saving
up for a Ti 4400 or 4600. (Or at the very least a 4200) But that's
besides the point. :)

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src
Read the docs in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src and
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-src. They'll tell you how to compile and
install the drivers. Part of the process is going to be editing your
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the "nvidia" driver instead of "nv".
It's all quite well documented. Since we do have the wonderful Debian
package system to work with, don't bother going to nvidia.com and
downloading tarballs. The debs make life a LOT easier. Good luck. :)

-Alex

p.s. There's a known issue with the latest nvidia drivers 41xx something
or other, being really slow with 2d stuff. Either downgrade or just deal
with it for the time being. :) (I've been dealing with it since it
doesn't really bother me much.)




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Re: Frozen cursor-no /dev/psaux

[Ognyan Kulev]

alex wrote:

Nowhere during the installation did there seem to be an opportunity to 
install a mouse.  Is there something that
could have been done other than what I did?

During the installation of package xserver-xfree86 such questions are 
asked.  Did you set debconf message to appear only when their priority 
is high or something like that?  Try `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' too.

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upgraded kernel to 2.4.20 and modules don't load

[karrottop]

I have just upgraded my kernel to version 2.4.20 and now it does not
load my modules in /etc/modules at startup. any ideas?

Thanks,
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Mounting Debian Partition in Windows 2000 Pro

[Kevin Smith]

Hi All,

Can someone tell me if it is possible to mount a filesystem from Debian
3.0r1 (powerpc) into Windows 2000 Pro?

If so, can you give me step-by-step instructions, or point me in the right
direction, on how to do this?

Thanks,

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Sound Problem

[Hurschler]

Hi, I'm running Woody and have found that when I enable system notifications
sounds in KDE that XMMS runns very, very sluggishly.  Songs start to play
only after more than a minute of waiting.  Systems sounds seem to be "held
up" only playing after I kill or quit XMMS.  Can these two programs share
the sound server?  Otherwise sound seems to work well.

Chris

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Orthopädische Klinik der MHH
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Re: Mounting Debian Partition in Windows 2000 Pro

[Ognyan Kulev]

Kevin Smith wrote:

Can someone tell me if it is possible to mount a filesystem from Debian
3.0r1 (powerpc) into Windows 2000 Pro?


Start from http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

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Re: Mounting Debian Partition in Windows 2000 Pro

[Geert Stappers]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:51:21AM -, Kevin Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
Yes, this is crosspost.

> 
> Can someone tell me if it is possible to mount a filesystem from Debian
> 3.0r1 (powerpc) into Windows 2000 Pro?
> 
> If so, can you give me step-by-step instructions,

> or point me in the right direction, on how to do this?

Perhaps that
 http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
can help.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 

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Re: Mounting Debian Partition in Windows 2000 Pro

[Ognyan Kulev]

Kevin Smith wrote:

Can someone tell me if it is possible to mount a filesystem from Debian
3.0r1 (powerpc) into Windows 2000 Pro?


Windows 2000 Pro on powerpc?  What's that?  Do you mean something like 
Samba share?

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Linux with BSD libc..

[Atifa Kheel]

Hello,
i have a small doubt,
i want to know whether the Debian GNU
Linux has BSD libc or glibc?
On the debain site is there any project
which uses BSD libc for a Linux platform?
thanx in advance
Atifa


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Re: Linux with BSD libc..

[nate]

Atifa Kheel said:
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> Hello,
> i have a small doubt,
> i want to know whether the Debian GNU
> Linux has BSD libc or glibc?
> On the debain site is there any project
> which uses BSD libc for a Linux platform?
> thanx in advance
> Atifa

(spam results included intentionally)

while I didn't use *BSD back in the day, perhaps your referring to
a linux libc5 based distribution? Such a distribution would be very
old, Debian I think came out with their first glibc distribution in
1998. I know that slackware 3.2 and 3.4 which were my first distros
used libc5. Debian 3 still has libc5 compadiblity to some extent
via the libc5 package

not sure if libc5 on linux was at all related to libc on *BSD..

nate




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Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:38:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok - I'll give it a try.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Incidentally how are the mere mortals supposed to know this ?
> 
> I spent a lot of time at the dri site and didn't see this mentioned
> anywhere.

No idea. I don't remember how I spotted it in the first place ...

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DOSEMU PROBS

[Joris Huizer]

Hello everybody,

I've got some probs with dosemu;
First I installed a dosemu from elsewhere but I
couldn't get it to work so I removed it;
I didn't install the debian version the first time
because apt-get kept saying it couldn't find it (How
can I make it find more packages such as dosemu ??)

Anyway when I enter "dosemu" I get this

--

   DOSEMU will run on _this_ terminal.
   To exit you need to execute 'exitemu' from within
DOS,
   because -C and 'exit' won't work!

   Note, that DOS needs 25 lines and xterm per default
has only 24,
   so you might want to enlarge it before continuing.


   Hint: if you want $HOME as DOS drive D:, use
'-home' option

   Now type ENTER to start DOSEMU or C to
cancel\n



Hitting enter gets me here:



Linux DOS emulator 1.0.2.1 $Date: 2001/10/13 $
Last configured at Sat Mar 23 09:22:41 EST 2002 on
linux

Sorry, there is no operating system.
Have a nice day!



I've got no idea what this mess means - I do know the
thing won't respond to anything after that :-(

What should I do to get dosemu working ?
Thanks in advance,

Joris Huizer

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Re: Linux with BSD libc..

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:22:01 -0800, nate wrote:
> not sure if libc5 on linux was at all related to libc on *BSD..

AFAIK Linux libc5 and libc4 had their roots in GNU libc 1.

Ray
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Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 23:30:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Just guessing, but maybe it's segfaulting because some data or other
> > has changed format and is barfing apt.  Thus, "old data" may not
> > cause the problems?
> >
> > Also, maybe it would just be best to do a fresh install, and promise
> > yourself that you'll never get so far behind again?
> 
> Possibly... it handles my single slink CD OK.
> 
> I tried upgrading apt first, but of course it required me to upgrade
> the @$?% C libraries... which breaks every other piece of software on
> the system...

I'm confused ... how does upgrading libc6 break everything else? (It
doesn't.) You may have to upgrade a few other core packages, but not
many.

> So I took a deep breath, hid my existing system in a /oldstuff
> directory, and installed woody afresh... pretty smooth, congrats to
> the Debian team.

Oh well, glad this worked at least. :)

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Re: Error while running apt-get update

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:56:14AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:22:07PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> > Or maybe, the software is buggy.  At the very least, the error
> > message should be changed.  Why _should_ people need to tweak this
> > value?  (Personally, I find it ironic that the "Dynamic MMap" is
> > based off a statically configured value)
> 
> Look:
> 
> 1) I agree it's a "bug", or at least a poorly designed feature.
> 
> 2) A bug should be filed if it hasn't been already.  Somehow I don't
> get a warm fuzzy that everyone bitching here has bothered to see if
> there is a bug and if now, opened one.

It's definitely been filed. apt hasn't been released at all recently,
though.

> 3) Even if the bug has been filed 8192 times and fixed for the last
> month, everyone running stable is still going to run into this
> problem.  Everyone.

Not everyone. As I said somewhere else, I don't believe it affects
people who haven't decided it's a good idea to put multiple
distributions in /etc/apt/sources.list. (Of course, if sarge grows to
two or three times its current size by the time it releases, I guess it
could affect all upgraders ...)

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HP 840 Share Problem

[Willem-Jan Meijer]

Hello again,

I've got a problem with my HP840 printer. I shared the printer and he's 
accesible from Windoze XP buit when I want to print there happens nothing. 
When I look by print jobs there's said there's an error. 

What's going wrong?

My cupsd file:

# ServerName: the hostname of your server, as advertised to the world.
# By default CUPS will use the hostname of the system.
#
# To set the default server used by clients, see the client.conf file.
#

#ServerName myhost.domain.com

#
# ServerAdmin: the email address to send all complaints/problems to.
# By default CUPS will use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
#

ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]



 Server Options


#
# AccessLog: the access log file; if this does not start with a leading /
# then it is assumed to be relative to ServerRoot.  By default set to
# "/var/log/cups/access_log"
#
# You can also use the special name "syslog" to send the output to the
# syslog file or daemon.
#

AccessLog /var/log/cups/access_log

#
# Classification: the classification level of the server.  If set, this
# classification is displayed on all pages, and raw printing is disabled.
# The default is the empty string.
#

#Classification classified
#Classification confidential
#Classification secret
#Classification topsecret
#Classification unclassified

#
# ClassifyOverride: whether to allow users to override the classification
# on printouts. If enabled, users can limit banner pages to before or
# after the job, and can change the classification of a job, but cannot
# completely eliminate the classification or banners.
#
# The default is off.
#

#ClassifyOverride off

#
# DataDir: the root directory for the CUPS data files.
# By default "/usr/share/cups".
#

#DataDir /usr/share/cups

#
# DefaultCharset: the default character set to use. If not specified,
# defaults to "utf-8".  Note that this can also be overridden in
# HTML documents...
#

#DefaultCharset utf-8

#
# DefaultLanguage: the default language if not specified by the browser.
# If not specified, the current locale is used.
#

#DefaultLanguage en

#
# DocumentRoot: the root directory for HTTP documents that are served.
# By default "/usr/share/cups/doc-root".
#

#DocumentRoot /usr/share/cups/doc-root

#
# ErrorLog: the error log file; if this does not start with a leading /
# then it is assumed to be relative to ServerRoot.  By default set to
# "/var/log/cups/error_log"
#
# You can also use the special name "syslog" to send the output to the
# syslog file or daemon.
#

ErrorLog /var/log/cups/error_log

#
# FontPath: the path to locate all font files (currently only for pstoraster)
# By default "/usr/share/cups/fonts".
#

#FontPath /usr/share/cups/fonts

#
# LogLevel: controls the number of messages logged to the ErrorLog
# file and can be one of the following:
#
# debug2Log everything.
# debug Log almost everything.
# info  Log all requests and state changes.
# warn  Log errors and warnings.
# error Log only errors.
# none  Log nothing.
#

LogLevel info

#
# MaxLogSize: controls the maximum size of each log file before they are
# rotated.  Defaults to 1048576 (1MB).  Set to 0 to disable log rotating.
#

#MaxLogSize 0

#
# PageLog: the page log file; if this does not start with a leading /
# then it is assumed to be relative to ServerRoot.  By default set to
# "/var/log/cups/page_log"
#
# You can also use the special name "syslog" to send the output to the
# syslog file or daemon.
#

PageLog /var/log/cups/page_log

#
# PreserveJobHistory: whether or not to preserve the job history after a
# job is completed, cancelled, or stopped.  Default is Yes.
#

#PreserveJobHistory Yes

#
# PreserveJobFiles: whether or not to preserve the job files after a
# job is completed, cancelled, or stopped.  Default is No.
#

#PreserveJobFiles No

#
# AutoPurgeJobs: automatically purge jobs when not needed for quotas.
# Default is No.
#

#AutoPurgeJobs No

#
# MaxJobs: maximum number of jobs to keep in memory (active and completed.)
# Default is 500; the value 0 is used for no limit.
#

#MaxJobs 500

#
# Printcap: the name of the printcap file.  Default is /etc/printcap.
# Leave blank to disable printcap file generation.
#

Printcap /etc/printcap.cups

#
# PrintcapFormat: the format of the printcap file, currently either
# BSD or Solaris.  The default is "BSD".
#

#PrintcapFormat BSD
#PrintcapFormat Solaris

#
# PrintcapGUI: the name of the GUI options panel program to associate
# with print queues under IRIX.  The default is "/usr/bin/glpoptions"
# from ESP Print Pro.
#
# This option is only used under IRIX; the options panel program
# must accept the "-d printer" and "-o options" options and write
# the selected printer options back to stdout on completion.
#

#PrintcapGUI /usr/bin/glpoptions

#
# RequestRoot: the directory where request files are stored.
# By default "/var/spool/cups".
#

#RequestRoot /var/spool/cups

#
# RemoteRoot: the name of the user assigned to una

Re: Linux with BSD libc..

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:54:26AM -0800, Atifa Kheel wrote:
> Hello,
> i have a small doubt,

The usual English word is "question", by the way. "Doubt" has a slightly
different meaning but seems to be used a lot in its place by non-native
speakers for some reason ...

> i want to know whether the Debian GNU Linux has BSD libc or glibc?

glibc.

> On the debain site is there any project which uses BSD libc for a
> Linux platform?

I don't believe that the BSD libc has been ported to Linux. No, there
isn't.

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Re: hard crash despite UPS

[Mike Dresser]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote:

> Grab the MIB and roll your own tool using, for example, perl +
> Net:SNMP
>
> I have the MIB somewhere (or know someone who does :-) if you need it.

Now that's even harder than putting up with their crappy software!

I used snmpwalk once to grab the important values that I needed, and never
played with it again.

Mike


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Re: hard crash despite UPS

[Mike Dresser]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote:

> I had a couple APC units with the SNMP cards, used APC Network shutdown
> on the systems, worked pretty well. only downside was tryin to get
> java workin on some of the more obscure platforms(AIX 4.3, Solaris 2.5-2.6,
> Tru64). On debian and redhat it was a snap though. solaris 7 and 8 was
> pretty easy too.

That's the annoying program, it works, but I'd rather not have java and X
and all that jazz installed.
>
> I haven't tried the load estimator. my biggest APC unit was a 2200 with
> 2 rackmount battery packs, at about 60% load it gave me approx 2 and
> a half hours of runtime. Keep in mind that the rackmount battery packs
> count as 2 battery packs, so when configuring the UPS to make it aware
> of the battery packs double the amount if its a rackmount(4 batteries
> vs 2 in the floor models).

Yeah.  The battery back I have in the unit now counts as 5 batteries :)
4 batteries approximately the size of car batteries.

Mike


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How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

[Lloyd Zusman]

Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?  I tried
various comment characters, but none worked.  I couldn't find anything
about this in the documentation.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

[Lloyd Zusman]

Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:08:09PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> ...
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>  apt-get update && apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade
>  ^^
>  Why -t is set here
> -t set priority of that "testing" to 990 overriding 1001
> This is what went wrong.
>
>   # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> This is what you needed :-)

Yes, it indeed is what I needed.  It worked great.  Thank you!

Is it also true that setting /etc/apt/apt.conf to contain
`APT::Default-Release "testing";' also sets "testing" to 990?


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Re: HP 840 Share Problem

[Gabriele Persia]

Alle 11:56, giovedì 23 gennaio 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer ha scritto:
> Hello again,
>
> I've got a problem with my HP840 printer. I shared the printer and he's
> accesible from Windoze XP buit when I want to print there happens nothing.
> When I look by print jobs there's said there's an error.
>
> What's going wrong?

What happens if you try to print from the client using the cups web interface?
(http://cups-server:631/printer/dj840 ... print_test_page)


---
this is my cupsd.conf: (cupsys 1.1.14-4.3)
(comments and ampty lines removed)
(my clients have address 192.168.1.*)
--

ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin root@localhost

Classification none
DefaultCharset UTF-8
DefaultLanguage en
Printcap /etc/printcap.cups
PrintcapFormat BSD

RemoteRoot remroot
SystemGroup lpadmin
ServerCertificate /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt
ServerKey /etc/cups/ssl/server.key


Encryption IfRequested
Satisfy All
Order deny,allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.1.*


AuthType Basic
AuthClass System
Encryption IfRequested
Satisfy All
Order deny,allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1


HostnameLookups Off
KeepAlive On
KeepAliveTimeout 60
MaxClients 100
MaxRequestSize 0m
Timeout 300

Listen *:631

AccessLog /var/log/cups/access_log
ErrorLog /var/log/cups/error_log
PageLog /var/log/cups/page_log
MaxLogSize 1m
LogLevel info
PreserveJobHistory On
PreserveJobFiles Off
AutoPurgeJobs No
MaxJobs 0
MaxJobsPerPrinter 0
MaxJobsPerUser 0
User lp
Group sys
RIPCache 8m
FilterLimit 0
DataDir /usr/share/cups
DocumentRoot /usr/share/cups/doc
RequestRoot /var/spool/cups
ServerBin /usr/lib/cups
ServerRoot /etc/cups
TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp
Browsing On
BrowseProtocols CUPS
BrowsePort 631
BrowseInterval 30
BrowseTimeout 300
BrowseAddress 192.168.1.255
BrowseOrder allow,deny
ImplicitClasses On
ImplicitAnyClasses Off
HideImplicitMembers Yes
BrowseShortNames Yes
-

P.S. I would like to know if my previous e-mail (the reply, not this one) was 
of some help ;-)


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Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

[Nicos Gollan]

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 23:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've got a voodoo3 using X DRI which _was_ working just fine
> until I "upgraded" to testing.
>
> Now it's broke.
>
> Things I _know _ are OK (after all - it _was_ working):
>
> * kernel 2.4.19 has got tdfx compiled in

This might actually be the problem. Remove the kernel builtin tdfx support and 
use the module from drm-trunk-module-src. The DRI drivers use rather strong 
version control, so it'd be best to always use their stuff.

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Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

[Ron Johnson]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 05:39, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?  I tried
> various comment characters, but none worked.  I couldn't find anything
> about this in the documentation.

The hash (#) always works for me...

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Re: NVidia source compiling problems

[Michael Bartl]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:48:14PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
> 
> 
> > Do you have kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7 installed? I've
> > never built the
> > nVidia stuff for use with a precompiled kernel. I've
> > only done it as
> > part of compiling my own kernel. At a minimum, I'm
> > guessing, you need
> > to install the kernel-headers package that
> > corresponds to your running
> > kernel in order to compile the nVidia drivers.
> > 
> > Gary
> > 
> > 
> 
> I suddenly realised the /usr/src/linux symlink should
> point to kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7/include - as that
> dir has a subdir linux which contains the needed .h
> file.
> I did the following:
> 
> ln -s kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7/ linux
> ...
> cd
> modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123
> 
> make
> make > /usr/src/new-error.txt
> 
> ...
> 
> Unfortunately, after some compiling stuff the Makefile
> suddenly stopped again with this as last output before
> the error. 
> Now I really have no idea what this means anymore :-(
> 
> ld -r -o NVdriver Module-linux Module-nvkernel
> size NVdriver
>text  data bss dec hex filename
>  894496 55476   52396 1002368   f4b80 NVdriver
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.20/video/NVdriver
> make: *** [package-install] Error 1

Hi!

Something seems to be very wrong, because it wants to link against the
2.2.20 modules!!! Set the KVERS=2.4.18-k7! It took me a long time
to figure out why NVIDIA driver didn't work for me. It's very picky
about the kernel headers you use, which have to be exactly the ones that
your kernel is built with.

HTH,
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Re: RE:GeForce4 MX

[Calber Chainy]

El jue, 23-01-2003 a las 06:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
> >Hey everyone,
> 
> >I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows
> >system stopped working.  I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv
> >driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at
> >least taht's what the string listing the supported cards says.  Do i really
> >need a new driver, and if so, how do i get it and load it?
> 
> >Chris~
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I have GeForce4 MX card and I got it working by forst downloading the latest drivers 
>from nvidia website.
> 
> I have not tried the nv driver, but I googled and the only alternative was vesa 
>driver. It's your call, anyway.
> 
> This is what worked for me.
> 
> You will be downloading two files: nvidia-kernel and nvidia-GLX (there will be 
>number next to it that has to be matched).
> 
> Please note that these are non-free (as in free speech), but they work (until 
>someone writes a GPL implementation).
> 
> Download tarballs of course.
> 
> Once you download them, you can compile them by running make install.
> 
> After that comes the debian-specific step.
> 
> go to /etc/modules.conf and in the last line put as follows:
> 
> alias char-major-195 nvidia
> 
> This will get the card working.
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> 
> Davor
> 
> 

The documentation under /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel and
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx is very usefull.  I added the commands that
this docs contain to my kernel upgrade script and never fails.

Works perfectly under GeForce 4 MX

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Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

[Kent West]

Jay wrote:


Headless???

What part of the machine constitute the 'head'?

- Jay



The monitor and/or video card (and/or keyboard/mouse in some contexts). 
Usually used as a server of some sort; stick it in a closet and ssh into 
it to maintain it.

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Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

[Lloyd Zusman]

I'd like to maintain a "testing" system, with only one program (and its
dependencies) coming from "unstable".  I think I understand what to do,
but I'm hoping that someone here could confirm that my guessed-at setup
is correct ... before I start making lots of "apt-get install" runs with
this configuration and then possibly mess up my system.

What I want to do is always just enter "apt-get install ",
without having to use the "-t distribution" parameter.  This way, I
don't have to keep remembering when to use and not use "-t ...".

So ... here's what I have:

In /etc/apt/apt.conf ...

  APT::Default-Release "testing";

In /etc/apt/preferences ...

  Package: mplayer*
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 700

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=testing
  Pin-Priority: 650

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 600

In other words, all packages come by default from "testing" except
"mplayer", which comes by default from "unstable".

My desired results are:

  apt-get install mplayer-686 => installs latest from "unstable"

  apt-get install other-package   => installs latest from "testing",
 unless "other-package" only exists
 in "unstable", in which case it
 installs from "unstable"

Do I have it right?

Thanks.


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Re: Brute force reinstall

[Nicos Gollan]

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that
> > flags all packages as "reinst-required" or something?
>
> I think  'dpkg --get-selections;' & 'dpkg --set-selecections does this. I
> haven't used them myself so I can't say for sure. 'man dpkg'

Is there a state that tells the package management to reinstall? "reinstall" 
doesn't work and the manpage doesn't really help either.

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Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

[Lloyd Zusman]

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 05:39, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>> Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?  I tried
>> various comment characters, but none worked.  I couldn't find anything
>> about this in the documentation.
>
> The hash (#) always works for me...

But the hash doesn't work for me on /etc/apt/preferences ...

  # cat /etc/apt/preferences
  Package: mplayer*
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 700

  #Package: ruby*
  #Pin: release a=unstable
  #Pin-Priority: 700

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=testing
  Pin-Priority: 650

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 600

  # apt-get update
  ... normal `apt-get update' output, followed by:
  E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header

If I remove the hashes before lines in the "ruby*" section, I no longer
get that error.

This seems to imply that the hash mark is not considered to be a proper
comment character in /etc/apt/preferences.


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mail relay ???

[Martin A. Hansen]

hi


i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account
forwarded to another mail address. how is this done?



martin


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Re: IDE for java

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On 2003.01.22 15:56 Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:

Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where
should
I point my sources to install it?


At work and at home I use Xemacs/JDE/speedbar/ANT and have a great 
development environment.

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Re: IDE for java

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On 2003.01.22 15:56 Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:

Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where
should
I point my sources to install it?


There's always Xemacs/JDE/speedbar/ANT. That's what I use both at home 
and at work and it works fine.

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AudioCD

[Sergey A. Ovchar]

Hello.
How can I play the Audio-CD's ?

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xfwm4 'Application lost its connection'

[Eamon Roque]

Hi!

Has anyone gotten xfwm4 to work? I keep getting "Application 'xfwm4'
lost its connection ..." or "Could not connect to session manager"
messages.

Calling xfwm4 from .xsession doesn't seem to have any effect, the same
errors are logged.

Could someone point me in the right direction?!

Thanks!

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Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

[Sergey A. Ovchar]

Hi.
How can I convert several *.wav to *.mp3, by the _one_ command, using lame. I'm 
interesting about batch mode.
Reading This F.. Manual didn't take desired effect :(.

And how can I redirect output trom "cdparanoia -B" to the lame ?

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Re: Brute force reinstall

[Dale Hair]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:04, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > > Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that
> > > flags all packages as "reinst-required" or something?
> >
> > I think  'dpkg --get-selections;' & 'dpkg --set-selecections does this. I
> > haven't used them myself so I can't say for sure. 'man dpkg'
> 
> Is there a state that tells the package management to reinstall? "reinstall" 
> doesn't work and the manpage doesn't really help either.
> 
> -- 
> Got Backup?

If you wish to reinstall all installed packages use aptitude.  Go to the
line --- Installed Packages and press L.  This will mark every installed
package to be reinstalled.

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Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

[Dale Hair]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:06, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 05:39, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> >> Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?  I tried
> >> various comment characters, but none worked.  I couldn't find anything
> >> about this in the documentation.
> >
> > The hash (#) always works for me...
> 
> But the hash doesn't work for me on /etc/apt/preferences ...
> 
>   # cat /etc/apt/preferences
>   Package: mplayer*
>   Pin: release a=unstable
>   Pin-Priority: 700
> 
>   #Package: ruby*
>   #Pin: release a=unstable
>   #Pin-Priority: 700
> 
>   Package: *
>   Pin: release a=testing
>   Pin-Priority: 650
> 
>   Package: *
>   Pin: release a=unstable
>   Pin-Priority: 600
> 
>   # apt-get update
>   ... normal `apt-get update' output, followed by:
>   E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header
> 
> If I remove the hashes before lines in the "ruby*" section, I no longer
> get that error.
> 
> This seems to imply that the hash mark is not considered to be a proper
> comment character in /etc/apt/preferences.
> 
> 
> -- 
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>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Leave a space between # and the line you're commenting out.
 
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Re: mail relay ???

[Thomas Krennwallner]

On Thu Jan 23, 2003 at 02:21:41PM +0100, the boisterous
Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote to me:
> i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account
> forwarded to another mail address. how is this done?

create file named .forward in your homedir and put the email address you want
to forward to into it.

so long
Krenni

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Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

[Dale Hair]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> I'd like to maintain a "testing" system, with only one program (and its
> dependencies) coming from "unstable".  I think I understand what to do,
> but I'm hoping that someone here could confirm that my guessed-at setup
> is correct ... before I start making lots of "apt-get install" runs with
> this configuration and then possibly mess up my system.
> 
> What I want to do is always just enter "apt-get install ",
> without having to use the "-t distribution" parameter.  This way, I
> don't have to keep remembering when to use and not use "-t ...".
> 
> So ... here's what I have:
> 
> In /etc/apt/apt.conf ...
> 
>   APT::Default-Release "testing";
> 
> In /etc/apt/preferences ...
> 
>   Package: mplayer*
>   Pin: release a=unstable
>   Pin-Priority: 700
> 
>   Package: *
>   Pin: release a=testing
>   Pin-Priority: 650
> 
>   Package: *
>   Pin: release a=unstable
>   Pin-Priority: 600
> 
> In other words, all packages come by default from "testing" except
> "mplayer", which comes by default from "unstable".
> 
> My desired results are:
> 
>   apt-get install mplayer-686 => installs latest from "unstable"
> 
>   apt-get install other-package   => installs latest from "testing",
>  unless "other-package" only exists
>  in "unstable", in which case it
>  installs from "unstable"
> 
> Do I have it right?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
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>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

This should work but I don't pin individual packages on mine just the
distributions.  Once a package is installed from unstable apt-get
upgrade or dist-upgrade will upgrade those from unstable and testing
will follow testing.  My preferences file contains 

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 550

I always use the -s option for apt-get dist-upgrade to show me what will
happen before I actually perform the upgrade.  I use gnome from unstable
and for the past week dist-upgrade wants to remove gnome and a few
others so I used apt-get upgrade.

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Re: mail relay ???

[Rus Foster]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Martin A. Hansen wrote:

> hi
>
>
> i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account
> forwarded to another mail address. how is this done?
>
>
>
> martin
>

Create a file in your home directory call .forward with your second email
address in it and all your email will be forward

i.e. on the unix account

echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ~/.forward

Rgds

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Re: mail relay ???

[Rodrigo Agerri]

you can create a .forward (in your home directory) file with the email 
address you want to forward the mail to. 

rodrigo

That remarkable Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 14:21, Martin A. Hansen wrote:

> hi
> 
> 
> i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account
> forwarded to another mail address. how is this done?
> 
> 
> 
> martin
> 
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CUPS problem

[Robert Estes]

Hi,

I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure
how to handle the bug reporting.  I've spent quite a bit of time debugging
this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ... 

Do I have to figure out exactly where the problem is before submitting a
bug report?

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Re: mail relay ???

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:21:41PM +0100, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account
> forwarded to another mail address. how is this done?

Create a .forward file in your home directory containing the other
e-mail address (and nothing else).

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Re: DOSEMU PROBS

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:53:16AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I've got some probs with dosemu;
...
> 
> Sorry, there is no operating system.
> Have a nice day!

I don't have a direct reference for you, but if you Google/linux for this
using dosemu, debian, and part of the error message (that part in quotes)
for keywords, you will find help. It involves getting hold of the rest of
the setup (freedos) and properly putting that into place.

Personally, I found that this approach didn't work as well as simply going
to the freedos site and DLing both packages from there (following their
directions). This I set up in my own /home directory.  I'm introducing my 8
yr. old son to Basic in the form of qbasic, and this worked while the Deb.
implementation didn't (video problems).

HTH,

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Trusted md5sum for files in debian packages?

[Qian Gong]

Hi,

Is it possible to download only md5sum's of the files in debian packages
from a trusted server, e.g., security.debian.org? If it is, the integrity 
of installed packages can be safely verified with the trusted source. And
the downloaded file would be small. Thanks a lot.

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Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

[Ray]

thank you for the suggestions, but it seems the list agrees that i need to 
dig up a head somewhere and at least start the install that way.
though it will only need base + ssh (which i think ssh is in base anyways) 
and then i can remove the head again.

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 18:45, nate wrote:
> Ray said:
> > can debian be installed on a headless pc? and if so, anyone know where a
> > nice  howto is?
>
> I have read that it's possible to install off the serial port, by passing
> the standard serial port options to the kernel(there are serial port HOWTOs
> which describe this). But you need a way to get that info to the kernel
> which means having a head on the system if only for a few minutes.
> Otherwise you may be able to make a custom bootdisk(not sure how) which
> uses the serial console by default.
>
> or if you meant can you install it, and run it headless, that of course is
> easy, and is a common configuration of linux/unix no special howto
> required, just unplug the mouse/keyboard/monitor.
>
> never tried installing a system w/o a video card at all though if that's
> what your attempting.
>
> nate


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Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

[Lloyd Zusman]

Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:06, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>> 
>>   # apt-get update
>>   ... normal `apt-get update' output, followed by:
>>   E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header
>> 
>> If I remove the hashes before lines in the "ruby*" section, I no longer
>> get that error.
>> 
>> This seems to imply that the hash mark is not considered to be a proper
>> comment character in /etc/apt/preferences.
>>
>Leave a space between # and the line you're commenting out.

That still doesn't work for me ...

  # cat /etc/apt/preferences
  Package: mplayer*
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 700

  # Package: ruby*
  # Pin: release a=unstable
  # Pin-Priority: 700

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=testing
  Pin-Priority: 650

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 600

  # apt-get update
  ... normal `apt-get update' output, followed by:
  E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header
 
Once again, when I remove the leading "# " from each of the "ruby*"
lines, everything works fine.

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Re: RE:GeForce4 MX

[Chris Burns]

I chose to get the cheapest most recent card i could find, because I plan to
upgrade to a kickass card this summer, but i'm buying a new system now and
didnt' want to have something as old as a GeForceDDR in a new system.  I got
the GF4MX for $45, it's a 440 with 64MB

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debmirror timeout

[Shree Raman]

Hi !!

while maintaing debian mirror using debmirror. I am experiencing few
problems as the process stops in between with some error message.

Processing standard using ftp.iitm.ac.in
releasing 1 pending lock... at /usr/lib/perl5/LockFile/Simple.pm line 182.

or sometimes

dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz:
#Timeout at /usr/share/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 468 
releasing 1 pending lock... at /usr/lib/perl5/LockFile/Simple.pm line 182

It leads to inconsistency in mirror. Is there any way to update the 
mirror fastly ? 

I have tried using rsync option but it doesn't show any progress. Please 
tell me why is it happening. 

Please suggest me a way to get it done faster. 

Thanking you in advance.

Shree  


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Re: Brute force reinstall (SOLVED)

[Nicos Gollan]

On Thursday 23 January 2003 14:50, Dale Hair wrote:
> If you wish to reinstall all installed packages use aptitude.  Go to the
> line --- Installed Packages and press L.  This will mark every installed
> package to be reinstalled.

Yep, thanks a lot. Hope I'll never need it (again) :-P

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Re: mail relay ???

[Nicos Gollan]

On Thursday 23 January 2003 14:21, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account
> forwarded to another mail address. how is this done?

Normally, you just put a .forward file in your home directory with the address 
in the first line.

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Re: GeForce4 MX

[Rob Weir]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:09:01PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Chris Burns wrote:
> > I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows
> > system stopped working.  I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv
> > driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at
> > least taht's what the string listing the supported cards says.  Do i really
> > need a new driver, and if so, how do i get it and load it?
> 
> I can't tell you if you really need a new driver or not but I have been
> having some problems myself. This is how I solved it:
> 
> - my NVdriver is loaded as a module. 
>   - lsmod showed that after I updated my pcmcia-cs package the
>   NVdriver was no longer loaded (no idea)

Woah, that's weird...

>   - I may have been able to just insmod NVdriver to get it to
> work; however, I didn't realize it at the time so I reinstalled
> the driver
> 
> INSTALL NVDRIVER based on:
> http://wojas.vvtp.tudelft.nl/acertm
> apt-get install nvidia-glx-src
> apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src

Yep.

> (This site also recommends installing nvidia-glx but I can't "find" the
> package. There's a reference to it in dpkg but it's no longer found. It
> doesn't /seem/ to matter...)

nvidia-glx is the package that gets built from nvidia-glx-src.  It
contains the new version of libGL, amongst other things.

> cd /usr/local/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123
> make

Did this really work?  Last time I played with these drivers, they
dropped tarballs in /usr/src/.  To build the kernel module, I just used
make-kpkg like normal, and to build the userland GL library I just cd'd
into it's dir and ran 'dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us'.

> Unfortunately I don't understand how to load the module automatically each
> time I restart my computer. Rumour has it you can do so by editing
> /etc/modules (note do not touch /etc/modules.conf)

Yep, you're right.

-rob



msg25704/pgp0.pgp
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Memory usage on debian

[Nils-Erik Svangård]

Hi
My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent
show which process that eats all the memory.
Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or
something?
I use kernel 2.4.21-pre1

Here is the output of ps aux
USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY  STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root 1  0.0  0.0  1204  104 ?S 2002   0:03 init
[2] 
root 2  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:02 [keventd]
root 3  0.0  0.0 00 ?SWN   2002   0:00
[ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 4  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   1:49 [kswapd]
root 5  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:00 [bdflush]
root 6  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:01
[kupdated]
root 9  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:00 [khubd]
root95  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:00
[kjournald]
root96  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:01
[kjournald]
root97  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:02
[kjournald]
root98  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:00
[kjournald]
root99  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:00
[kjournald]
root   100  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:00
[kjournald]
root   101  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:00
[kjournald]
root   102  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:18
[kjournald]
root   103  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:01
[kjournald]
root   104  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:01
[kjournald]
root   105  0.0  0.0 00 ?SW2002   0:02
[kjournald]
daemon 132  0.0  0.0  13324 ?S 2002   0:00
/sbin/portmap
root   206  0.0  0.0  2000   80 ?S 2002   0:01
/sbin/syslogd
root   209  0.0  0.0  20004 ?S 2002   0:00
/sbin/klogd
root   254  0.0  0.0  19484 ?S 2002   0:00
/usr/sbin/inetd
root   317  0.0  0.0  4188   52 ?S 2002   0:00
/usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon
root   322  0.0  0.0  20884 ?S 2002   0:00
/sbin/rpc.statd
daemon 326  0.0  0.0  13324 ?S 2002   0:00
/usr/sbin/atd
root   339  0.0  0.0  12124 tty4 S 2002   0:00
/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
root   340  0.0  0.0  12124 tty5 S 2002   0:00
/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
root   341  0.0  0.0  12124 tty6 S 2002   0:00
/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
nisse  785  0.0  0.0  5164   12 ?S 2002   0:04 oafd
--ac-activate --ior-output-fd=6
schuer   12510  0.0  0.0  36564 ?S 2002   0:00 oafd
--ac-activate --ior-output-fd=11
bobo 19929  0.0  0.0  25644 ?S 2002   0:00 SCREEN
bobo 19930  0.0  0.0  27644 pts/6S 2002   0:00 /bin/bash
bobo 29978  0.0  0.0  3100   28 pts/6S 2002   0:00 mc
bobo 29980  0.0  0.0  27724 pts/7S 2002   0:00 bash
-rcfile .bashrc
root 28614  0.0  0.0  20004 ?SJan05   0:00
/usr/sbin/lpd
snort 4762  0.1  1.4 53816 7692 ?SJan07  29:58
/usr/sbin/snort -m 027 -D -S HOME_NET=[192.16
8.0.0/16] -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -l /var/log/snort -b -d -u snort -g
snort -i eth0
root 16352  0.0  0.0  2496   40 ?SJan08   0:00
/usr/sbin/sshd
nisse24431  0.0  0.0  3980   40 ?SJan09   0:00 smbmount
//CLAUDIUS/nilsva-9 /home/nisse/mnt/
CLAUDIUS/nilsva-9/ -o username nilsva-9% fmask 644 dmask 755 uid
1000 gid 1000 ip 130.240.42.44 debu
g 0 workgroup STUDENTS
leiken   28101  0.0  0.0  3980   40 ?SJan10   0:00 smbmount
//CLAUDIUS/johlei-9 /home/leiken/mnt
/CLAUDIUS/johlei-9/ -o username johlei-9% fmask 644 dmask 755
uid 1013 gid 1013 ip 130.240.42.44 deb
ug 0 workgroup STUDENTS
root 32132  0.0  0.0  6280   40 ?SJan10   0:00
/usr/sbin/sshd
nisse32134  0.0  0.0  6828   40 ?SJan10   0:00
/usr/sbin/sshd
nisse32135  0.0  0.0  2832   28 pts/9SJan10   0:00 -bash
bobo 14647  0.0  0.0  2776   40 ?SJan11   0:02 SCREEN
bobo 14654  0.0  0.0  2748   28 pts/11   SJan11   0:00 /bin/bash
bobo 31583  0.0  0.0  2664   40 ?SJan11   0:00 SCREEN
bobo 31584  0.0  0.0  2752   28 pts/12   SJan11   0:00 /bin/bash
bobo 31739  0.0  0.0  2748   28 pts/13   SJan11   0:00 /bin/bash
root 14961  0.0  0.0  6280   40 ?SJan13   0:00
/usr/sbin/sshd
nisse14963  0.0  0.0  6776   40 ?SJan13   0:03
/usr/sbin/sshd
nisse14964  0.0  0.0  2792   28 pts/8SJan13   0:00 -bash
nisse17381  0.0  0.0  2728   16 tty1 SJan13   0:00 -bash
nisse16678  0.0  0.0  3980   40 ?SJan17   0:00 smbmount
//tranquillity/friends /home/nisse/m
nt/tranquillity/friends/ -o username nisse% fmask 644 dmask 755 uid 1000
gid 1000 ip 130.240.200.160 debug 0
 workgroup CORPUS
nisse1  0.0  0.0  3980   40 ?SJan17   0:00 smbmount
//tranqui

Re: AudioCD

[David Z Maze]

"Sergey A. Ovchar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can I play the Audio-CD's ?

Use an audio CD player.  gtcd is buried somewhere in the GNOME stuff
and has always worked adequately for me; you might also install the
'cdtool' package, which gives you command-line programs like 'cdplay'
and 'cdstop'.

If it doesn't work, typical things to check are your sound card mixer
settings and whether there's an audio cable from your CD-ROM drive to
your sound card.

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Re: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

[David Z Maze]

"Sergey A. Ovchar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can I convert several *.wav to *.mp3, by the _one_ command, using lame. I'm 
>interesting about batch mode.
> Reading This F.. Manual didn't take desired effect :(.
>
> And how can I redirect output trom "cdparanoia -B" to the lame ?

It sounds like you really want abcde, which is a nifty little
console-mode program that rips, encodes, and tags everything off of a
CD.  Also, the standard Ogg Vorbis encoder, oggenc, will take multiple
files on its command line, so 'oggenc *.wav' will produce a directory
full of .ogg files for you.

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Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

[andrej hocevar]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> That still doesn't work for me ...
> 
>   # cat /etc/apt/preferences
>   Package: mplayer*
>   Pin: release a=unstable
>   Pin-Priority: 700
> 
>   # Package: ruby*
>   # Pin: release a=unstable
>   # Pin-Priority: 700
> 
>   Package: *
>   Pin: release a=testing
>   Pin-Priority: 650
> 
>   Package: *
>   Pin: release a=unstable
>   Pin-Priority: 600

You should remove at least one of those empty lines -- either
before or after the comments -- or both of them.

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Re: mail relay ???

[Travis Crump]

Martin A. Hansen wrote:

hi


i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account
forwarded to another mail address. how is this done?



martin




echo  > ~/.forward

If that doesn't work you are going to have to give more info or ask 
whoever administers your system.


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Changing deb installation root directory

[Colin Ellis]

I am trying to set up a 'virtual filesystem' where I can add/remove debian
packages without harming the real system.  This will be for testing purposes
for building new debs and checking that the files are installed in the
correct place.

I would like to be able to install the packages under a different directory,
e.g. /usr/local/src/debpkgs/ and would like to read and modify the package
database.

Is there a switch to change the root directory for installing/deinstalling
deb packages?

Is it possible to defer the setting up of the packages until a later date
(so that any user can install the packages)?

Is there a good debian package reference that explains advanced usage of the
debian package manipulation tools?

Regards,

Colin Ellis
Solution City Ltd
http://www.solution-city.com


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Asus ME-99 mobo manual

[Larry W. Irwin Sr.]

  Hi,
  
  I just got an Asus ME-99 mobo and need to find a manual for it in text,
pdf, html, whatever. I have the CD that came with the mobo but the manual
is a Windows executable. No MSBSOS on my machine. Motherboards.org lists
a pdf file for it but it is zero bytes long.

  I have searched for it on Google and the Debian User archive to no avail.
  
Thanks,
Larry


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Flash player for Konqueror

[Willem-Jan Meijer]

Good afternoon,

Is there a flash-player for konqueror? If it is, where can I find it?

HTH,

Willem-Jan Meijer


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OT: march 2002 article on debian

[will trillich]

y'all see this?

http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=2002-03&article=debian

more press like this wouldn't hurt. :)

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RE: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

[Narins, Josh]

I can't speak to it's very nature, but the command line tool abcde says in
it's man page it does exactly as you wish.

apt-get install abcde
man abcde


> -Original Message-
> From: Sergey A. Ovchar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD
> 
> 
> Hi.
> How can I convert several *.wav to *.mp3, by the _one_ 
> command, using lame. I'm interesting about batch mode.
> Reading This F.. Manual didn't take desired effect :(.
> 
> And how can I redirect output trom "cdparanoia -B" to the lame ?
> 
> -- 
>  ,''`.  Sincerely yours
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RE: AudioCD

[Ernst-Magne]

check out grip if you want gui player. it can rip and play.

/ernst

-Original Message-
From: Sergey A. Ovchar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 23. januar 2003 14:39
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AudioCD


Hello.
How can I play the Audio-CD's ?

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Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

[Lloyd Zusman]

Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>> 
>> Do I have it right?
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>
> This should work but I don't pin individual packages on mine just the
> distributions.  Once a package is installed from unstable apt-get
> upgrade or dist-upgrade will upgrade those from unstable and testing
> will follow testing.  My preferences file contains 
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 600
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 550
>
> I always use the -s option for apt-get dist-upgrade to show me what will
> happen before I actually perform the upgrade.  I use gnome from unstable
> and for the past week dist-upgrade wants to remove gnome and a few
> others so I used apt-get upgrade.

OK.  So I guess a better way to do what I want is to remove the pinned
packages like you said, and then simply use "-t unstable" when
installing a package that I'd like to get from that distribution.  And
from that time forward (unless I do a downgrade or fool around with my
apt configuration), when I do an upgrade or an install, I'll always get
those packages from "unstable" and the others from "testing".

Is that correct?


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Re: Installing on a FACELESS pc?

[will trillich]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:52:09PM -0800, Jay wrote:
> Headless???
> 
> What part of the machine constitute the 'head'?

they mean "faceless" of course. no video/monitor driven from the
machine. instead, you can use the serial port if you know the
voodoo required.

headless would be a monitor, keyboard and mouse, with no cpu
box.

:)

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Re: Mozilla won't start

[James Hughes]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:19:41PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> James Hughes wrote:
> 
> >This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the
> >command line generates no output. I can see several instances of
> >mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out at around 80% cpu before
> >just dying.
> >
> >I've tried running mozilla-bin directly, with the same
> >results. Nothing shows up in any logs that I can find. I've tried
> >removing and re-installing as well. No luck.
> >
> >James
> > 
> >
> Move your ~/.mozilla directory out of the way, and try starting moz again.

Tried that, no avail. Here's the contents of it, btw:

jhughes@jpath:~$ ls .mozilla
appreg  default  fonts  pluginreg.dat  plugins

The version string that mozilla prints:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Debian/1.2.1-9, build 2002122616



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Re: Problems with own 2.4.18

[W. Paul Mills]

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Michael Schlottke wrote:

>  
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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> 
> I compiled and installed my own kernel from source (2.4.18).
> 
> Now there's following problem:
> 
> The system can't find my second realtek 8139 ethernet card...
> 
> I still have kernel 2.2 installed and booting with it gives
> following:
> 
> card 1 (just to name it) is available as eth0
> card 2 as eth1
> 
> That's the way it should be. But with kernel 2.4 it looks like this:
> 
> card 1 is not available at all (modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate
> module eth1)
> card 2 is now known as eth0.
> 
> Does anybody know, what my mistake could be?

I have 4 dlink cards with this chip. The two newest cards will NOT work 
with the 2.4.18 drivers and the drivers from dlink will not compile on a 
2.4.x kernel. Don't know if later kernels have a revised driver that will 
work or not. Did not have time to figure out what was going on myself and 
just used another card. I think dlink changed the ID numbers the PCI bus 
sees on the later models. Perhaps you are caught up in something like this?

Paul
 

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Filesystem error?

[Paladin]

Hi to all!

>From some time now I've been experiencing some problems with my
sarge debian box, ranging from gcc crashes (any of the three
versions I have installed), to corrupted files (in particular the
/var/dpkg/status), and I don't know how to discover where the
problem is! I've even used the memtest86 utility to see if it was a
problem in the motherboard (I have an ECS K7S5A and there are some
reports of bugs in it). As anyone experienced any kind of these
problmes?
I have kernel 2.4.20 installed, compiled and installed "by
hand". I'm using ext3 filesystems converted from ext2.

Thanks in advance for any advice/idea/opinion,

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Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

[will trillich]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:07:04PM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> > That still doesn't work for me ...
> > 
> >   # cat /etc/apt/preferences
> >   Package: mplayer*
> >   Pin: release a=unstable
> >   Pin-Priority: 700
> > 
> >   # Package: ruby*
> >   # Pin: release a=unstable
> >   # Pin-Priority: 700
> > 
> >   Package: *
> >   Pin: release a=testing
> >   Pin-Priority: 650
> > 
> >   Package: *
> >   Pin: release a=unstable
> >   Pin-Priority: 600
> 
> You should remove at least one of those empty lines -- either
> before or after the comments -- or both of them.

hmm. if that's the case, it looks like you might be able to ADD
a has to one of the blank lines, to accomplish the same trick.

no?

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Re: GeForce4 MX

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Chris Burns wrote:
> > I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows
> > system stopped working.  I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv
> > driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at
> > least taht's what the string listing the supported cards says.  Do i really
> > need a new driver, and if so, how do i get it and load it?
> 
> I can't tell you if you really need a new driver or not but I have been
> having some problems myself. This is how I solved it:

I upgraded to the unstable version of XFree86 and that works just fine.
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Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:30:25AM -0600, Ray wrote:
> thank you for the suggestions, but it seems the list agrees that i need to 
> dig up a head somewhere and at least start the install that way.
> though it will only need base + ssh (which i think ssh is in base anyways) 
> and then i can remove the head again.

ssh is in standard, but not base.

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Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:32:29PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:25:24AM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > Could you try updating to Potato first?  That way, you won't be
> > > > making such a huge version leap in almost every bit of software
> > > > in one step.
> > 
> > This is definitely the recommended option...
> > 
> > > Would I not then need a set of Potato CDs? (Doing it over dialup is
> > > not an option...)
> > > 
> > > But I can't upgrade to anything if apt-get update is gonna segfault on
> > > me!
> > 
> > Upgrade apt and dpkg first, before you try anything else.  apt would
> > have undergone enormouse changes in the, what, 3 years between slink and
> > woody.  Anyhoo, give that a shot...if that still doesn't work (and I'd
> > imagine you'll have further difficulties later on...), upgrade debconf
> > and other important looking things first as well.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 23:30:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Just guessing, but maybe it's segfaulting because some data or other
> > has changed format and is barfing apt.  Thus, "old data" may not
> > cause the problems?
> >
> > Also, maybe it would just be best to do a fresh install, and promise
> > yourself that you'll never get so far behind again?
> 
> Possibly... it handles my single slink CD OK.
> 
> I tried upgrading apt first, but of course it required me to upgrade
> the @$?% C libraries... which breaks every other piece of software on
> the system... which is why I'd wanted apt to upgrade it all in one
> hit, to avoid this, which I'd gathered it could cope with. Maybe I
> expect too much.
> 
> So I took a deep breath, hid my existing system in a /oldstuff
> directory, and installed woody afresh... pretty smooth, congrats to
> the Debian team. No real problems apart from some things like exim and
> jed changing the syntax and location of their config files, so
> transferring my old configs wasn't totally hack-free. Oh yes, and
> svgatextmode didn't work properly - the cursor didn't wrap to a new
> line when typing in a long command - so I reinstalled the old one.
> 
> It's a cloud with a silver lining; it gives me a system which I am
> better able to clear of accumulated cruft.
> 

The directions you were given to upgrade apt and the problem you
encountered rang a bell so I dug around a bit and found the
information. There were static versions of apt and dpkg in the potato
tree (in debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/), which were prepared
specifically for upgrading from slink to potato.  The use of these
would have avoided the C library conflict and allowed the system to be
upgraded, although it wouldn't have helped with the old config files
and other cruft.

Bob



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cyrus21-imapd: imapd killed by signal 7 (SIGBUS)

[Erik Steffl]

  when I rebooted yesterday (first time after recent dist-upgrade) I
got number of messages about cyrus db being currupted (and there was a
huge number of cyr_* processes running), the messages recommended to
recover the db, so I stopped cyrus21 and ran db3_recover (output
below).

  then I started cyrus again, it does not complain about db anymore but
when I try to read email (from mozilla or mutt) the imapd process dies,
here's what syslog says:

Jan 23 09:09:00 jojda cyrus/imapd[8145]: login:
robota.dhs.org[207.214.64.208] erik plain+TLS User logged in
Jan 23 09:09:09 jojda cyrus/imapd[8145]: skiplist: recovered
/var/lib/cyrus/user/e/erik.seen (121 records, 12352 bytes) in 9 seconds
Jan 23 09:09:09 jojda cyrus/imapd[8145]: seen_db: user erik opened
/var/lib/cyrus/user/e/erik.seen
Jan 23 09:09:10 jojda cyrus/imapd[8145]: open: user erik opened INBOX
Jan 23 09:09:11 jojda cyrus/master[8139]: process 8145 exited, signaled
to death by 7

  here's the db3_recover output:

jojda:/home/erik# db3_recover -v -h /var/lib/cyrus/db
db_recover: Finding last valid log LSN: file: 17 offset 4636212
db_recover: Checkpoint at: [17][4633823]
db_recover: Checkpoint LSN: [17][4633823]
db_recover: Previous checkpoint: [17][4633244]
db_recover: Checkpoint at: [17][4633823]
db_recover: Checkpoint LSN: [17][4633244]
db_recover: Previous checkpoint: [17][4633093]
db_recover: Recovery starting from [17][4633244]
db_recover: Recovery complete at Thu Jan 23 08:38:46 2003
db_recover: Maximum transaction ID 8013 Recovery checkpoint
[17][4636358]
db_recover: Recovery complete at Thu Jan 23 08:38:46 2003
db_recover: Maximum transaction id 8000 Recovery checkpoint
[17][4636358]
jojda:/home/erik#

  and here are the original errors:

Jan 23 07:48:22 jojda cyrus/imapd[2990]: DBERROR db3: region error
detected; run recovery.
Jan 23 07:48:22 jojda cyrus/imapd[2990]: DBERROR: dbenv->open
'/var/lib/cyrus/db' failed: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
recover
y
Jan 23 07:48:22 jojda cyrus/imapd[2990]: DBERROR: init
: cyrusdb error

  no similar bugs found... any ideas on what's going on?

  TIA!

  btw I'd appreciate if you'd cc me on reply this time, I can't read my
account where I receive debian-user (because of the problems described
above:-)

erik

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Re: Memory usage on debian

[will trillich]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
> My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent
> show which process that eats all the memory.
> 
> Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or
> something?

so here you've got 512mb of ram -- and you don't want to use it,
is that right?

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phoenix and java?

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

Hey everyone:

Is there a way to add java support to Phoenix by using debian packages? I
did a quick google and came up with these:

Installing from source:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:Wk-BJCSYLc8C:www.fiddlesticks.com/show383.html+debian+phoenix+java&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
(note: the page has moved so I'm using the cached version)

Request for package (javavm):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=170719

When I install the plug-in directly from phoenix's site (running the
browser as root) I get the following error when I go to the web site I
want (running the browser as either root or as me):

java_vm: relocation error:
/usr/local/phoenix/plugins/java2/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait,
version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from browser
System error?:: Resource temporarily unavailable

Is this an install issue with the plug-in or is it the web site?
I'm trying to renew my books at: http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca. The browser
crashes when the pop-up window opens to renew my books. (Link is on the
left hand side second big button from the top.)

I'll post the error message to phoenix as well, just in case.

thanks!

emma :)

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Re: DOSEMU PROBS

[Torrin]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:53:16AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
[SNIP]
> Sorry, there is no operating system.
> Have a nice day!

It means that you don't have a version of DOS installed and configured
correctly.  You can get DOS from http://www.freedos.org

As for configuring it, I'm not at the computer I have it installed on
right now, so somebody else will have to take it from here.

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pam_limits problem

[Andrew Och]

Hi

My issue was that after doing a apt-get dist-upgrade on one of my Debian
servers, logcheck started sending me constant messages as seen below:
pam_limits[19331]: setrlimit limit #6 to soft=-1, hard=-1 failed: Operation
not permitted; uid=1045 euid=1045

And in fact this error would pop up constantly in auth.log whenever any user
SSH-ed to the server.

Trawling through newsgroups and mailing list archives the only thing I found
was that the fault stems from my not configuring /etc/security/limits.conf
properly.

So after rtfming the man pages and failing miserably to solve my issue I
gave up and bodged it by commenting out:

# Line commented out because it gave errors in auth.log as below:
# sessionrequired pam_limits.so

from /etc/pam.d/ssh

This means I no longer get error messages in auth.log or logcheck ;-)

Ugh, any helpful pointers in the right way of fixing would be appreciated.

Best regards
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firebird database on debian

[J. de Boer]

Is there anyone out there that has experience with running (and 
installing) a firebird database-engine on debian?
If so, i would appreciate any information on the how's, what's, do's and 
dont's.

Jan de Boer
The Netherlands


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Re: BF24 and Promise Fasttrack problem

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hello,
Is there someone who had succes, using RAID1 with a Fasttrack controler.
OK, the installation succeeded (thanks to these messages ) and I'm only 
seeing 1 harddisk while using the server in a normal operation 
(/dev/ataraid/).
When I unplug disk 2 (/dev/hdg) and reboot everything still works fine, but 
if  disk 1(/dev/hde) is unplugged, and disk 2 is plugged (plugged in port 1 
or 2 ), lilo is starting ,but soon giving up.

Messages like these apear : (by head, if you wanna need more, no probs)

printing eip : ...
..
oops 
...
not tainted
..
bad eip value
kernel panic : Attempted to kill init


ps. If I mount the second disk (/dev/hdg), everything looks fine, the OS 
and data are nicely mirrored.

Someoneone has an idea or should I just give up on the fasttrack controler?

Hans



On Tuesday 07 March 2000 23:37, Yann Lollivier wrote:
Hi,

I tried it, it did  work...After a wee trick :

Actually I can see 10 different hex numbers, on five lines :

0xd000 [0xd007]
0xd400 [0xd403]
0xd800 [0xd807]
0xdc00 [0xdc03]
0xe000 [0xe03f]

I tried your magic formula with the first set of number (without 
brackets),
and it just reduced my screen to a very narrow one...So I disabled 'set 
IRQ
for VGA'  in bios and it worked perfect !!!

Many thanks, I was going depressive about that...

By the way, what are those numbers exactly ? might be obvious for you but
I'm a kind of newbie...

Yann
IIRc they are IO adresses. I found it somewhere on the web (can't remember where, 
I remebered the solution) while having the same problem as you.
At 01:05 06/08/2002 +, Meir Kriheli wrote:
>On Thursday 01 August 2002 14:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying without success to install the bf24 flavour on a server
> > containing a Promise Fasttrack 100 Raid Card. I've got 2 disk on 
linked
> > to the raid card, so I created a RAID1 array and enabled raid support
> > in BIOS. I cannot install debian as the installation process does not
> > detect any hard drive, however this card is supposed to be supported 
by
> > the 5.4 kernel...and is also apparently known to cause problems with
> > bf24. Anyone has a workaround on that ?
>
>Seems that bf24 cannot pick it autmatically (while Gentoo's kernel on 
the
>install cd picked it up with no problems). Here's what you should do:
>
>In a terminal window (alt+f2 or alt+f3 can't remember) run:
>
>cat /proc/pci
>
>and look for the info about the PDC controller. As part of the info 
you'll
>see
>5 hex numbers listed one after the other, let's name the (a)-(e)
>
>Write down the numbers, reboot the install cd again and at the boot 
prompt
>write:
>
>bf24 ide2=0x(a),0x(b+2) ide3=0x(c),0x(d+2)
>
>b+2 means the value of b incremented by 2, and same applies to d+2.
>
>Now the controller and raid should be detected.
>
>This is from memory, so tell me how it goes
>

To be complete, I had to add the string, append="bf24 ide2=0x(a),0x(b+2) 
ide3=0x(c),0x(d+2)" in my lilo.conf as well (/target/etc/lilo.conf) to be 
able to boot from harddisk.


> > More, Promise FastTack is not a real HW Raid, does someone knows how 
it
> > compares to software Raid (performance, fault tolerance...) ? If it's
> > as good I might go for it..
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yann
>
>I was very disappointed by it. While working I pulled the plug on one of
> the hd's (RAID1 config) to simulate a dying HD, lot of timeout message
> started appearing and the systems froze. Once restarted the system 
didn't
> boot.
>
>I bought a real IDE Raid soultion (LSI Logic), and it is awesome 
(although
> a bit expansive). It handled to dying hd trick with no problems, after 
a
> short pause the system continued working normally. When re-connected 
the
> power it started rebuilding the array automatically, I was very pleased
> by it.
>
>HTH
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RE: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

[Ernst-Magne]

you could search in google, there was someone that had some nice scripts 2-3
weeks back, I think the subject was something like 'howto conwert wav'.

good luck

/ernst



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Hi.
How can I convert several *.wav to *.mp3, by the _one_ command, using lame.
I'm interesting about batch mode.
Reading This F.. Manual didn't take desired effect :(.

And how can I redirect output trom "cdparanoia -B" to the lame ?

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Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

[briand]

> "Cameron" == Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  Cameron> Hi, try removing libglide2 (i think that it actually was
  Cameron> detrimental to me in the past--i'm not using a voodoo right
  Cameron> now tho, so i can't check my settings).  also, have you
  Cameron> checked your XF86Config-4 to make sure that it hasn't been
  Cameron> overriden?

The messages from the x startup all look good indicating that DRI is
being loaded, etc..

As for libglide2 - when I started it was NOT installed so I'm
relatively certain that's not the problem. But I'll try it anyway.

A perusal of the DRI mailing list shows others with different video
cards with the same problem so this is not an isolated incident and
almost certainly a bug of some sort.

I just wish something would give me an error message so I could track
it down.  Right now it's a silent failure.

Brian


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nvidia driver

[Alexis Roda]

Hi,
recently I've purchased a MSI Geforce MX440. X is configured with the
latest nvidia drivers, dualhead (twinview), one monitor 1600x1200 and
the other 1240x1024 with a virtual desktop of 1240x1200, 16bits. It
works great but when I run top I see that X is eating 271Mb or RAM!!! Is
this normal or I'm missing something?

I'm runing debian woody with a custom kernel 2.4.18



Thanks in advance
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Re: hard crash despite UPS

[Glenn English]

Take a look at http://www.tripplite.com/

I'm using a couple of theirs, and they work 'real good.' I had the same
problem with APC: plug in the serial cable, and the power goes off. The
tripplites don't do that, but their monitoring software is a bit of a
resource hog.

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Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:50:09AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>   Colin> X 4.2 changed the direct rendering architecture somewhat, and
>   Colin> requires an upgrade to kernel 2.4.20.

[Please just reply to the list, not to me as well.]

> Well I found one minor glitch.
> 
> The upgrade to testing left xserver-xfree86 at 4.1.0 instead of
> upgrading it to 4.2.1 although xserver-common was upgraded properly.
> 
> Is this a bug ?  Shouldn't they both be upgraded to the same level ?

Depends how you did the upgrade - did you use 'apt-get upgrade' (which
probably won't be suitable), 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (which should work),
or something else like dselect or aptitude?

All of those should have given you some indication that xserver-xfree86
wasn't being upgraded.

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Re: xfwm4 'Application lost its connection'

[James Tappin]

On 23 Jan 2003 14:56:02 +0100
Eamon Roque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Has anyone gotten xfwm4 to work? I keep getting "Application 'xfwm4'
> lost its connection ..." or "Could not connect to session manager"
> messages.
> 
> Calling xfwm4 from .xsession doesn't seem to have any effect, the same
> errors are logged.
> 
> Could someone point me in the right direction?!

Have a look at:
http://members.home.nl/jbhuijsmans/xfce4-cvs.html
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Re: AudioCD

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

Install an audio CD player.  Personally, I would run xmms, or gnome-cd
player.  The gnome-cd player can be found in gnome-media typically.

Make sure your cd-rom can play audio disks however.  This is more of a
hardware issue, if you have problems let me know.

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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote:

> Hello.
> How can I play the Audio-CD's ?
>
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Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

[briand]

> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  Colin> X 4.2 changed the direct rendering architecture somewhat, and
  Colin> requires an upgrade to kernel 2.4.20.


Well I found one minor glitch.

The upgrade to testing left xserver-xfree86 at 4.1.0 instead of
upgrading it to 4.2.1 although xserver-common was upgraded properly.

Is this a bug ?  Shouldn't they both be upgraded to the same level ?


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Re: Memory usage on debian

[Charlie Imbusch]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:30:18 +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:

> My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent
> show which process that eats all the memory. Can anyone figure out what
> to do this could be a kernel issue or something? I use kernel
> 2.4.21-pre1

As far as I know Linux in general tries to use a lot of your ram to
achieve best performance. It buffers data which have already been read
from your hdd, for the case that these data are requested again.
I hope it's not non-sense I'm writing, please correct if something is
wrong.

HTH
Charlie

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Re: CUPS problem

[Dave Sherohman]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:26:24AM -0800, Robert Estes wrote:
> I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure
> how to handle the bug reporting.  I've spent quite a bit of time debugging
> this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ... 
> 
> Do I have to figure out exactly where the problem is before submitting a
> bug report?

It helps, but isn't entirely necessary, as the maintainers can
reassign it to a different package.  In this case (without knowing
anything about the specific problem), I would just file the bug
against cupsys, since that's the core piece.

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Re: Memory usage on debian

[Michael Naumann]

On Thursday 23 January 2003 16:30, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
> Hi
> My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent
> show which process that eats all the memory.
> Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or
> something?
> I use kernel 2.4.21-pre1

What makes you think your memory is used up?
If you issue 'free' and only look at the 'free' - column (I hope
you get what I mean), you may see very little memory left.
But that does not necessarily mean, that all your memory is used
up. Look at the cached column. If this has a considerable amount
of your memory, then that is no reason to worry. Your kernel
simply uses free memory to cache the files you already read.
This memory area can be viewed as beeing free.

HTH, Michael


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Re: Cannot open SCSI driver

[Marcelo Chiapparini]

Hi!

In spite of a couple of suggestions,  I am still trying to put my 
cdwriter to work :(
First of all, make sure that the scsi support is loaded. The output for 
the dmesg command is:

nostromo:/home/chiappa# dmesg |grep scsi
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=306 hdc=ide-scsi 
hdd=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/56x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

remember that my problem is this message:

nostromo:/home/chiappa# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.


Now, after surfed google a little, I am wonder if I have a problem with 
the /dev/sg0 device. The MAKEDEV manual says that /dev/sg* are used to 
speak to scsi devices, so...

In a potato system, which runs cdrecord OK, I have the following output 
to the command "cdrecord -scsnbus /dev/sg0"

dft:/home/chiappa# cdrecord -scanbus /dev/sg0
cdrecord: No tracks allowed with this option
cdrecord: Usage: cdrecord [options] track1...trackn

the command is wrong, but the output proves that cdrecord does interact 
with the /dev/sg0 device in some way.

In my woody, kernel 2.4.18, system I get for the same command:

nostromo:/home/chiappa# cdrecord -scanbus /dev/sg0
cdrecord: No such device. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'.

cdrecord says that the device doesn exist... but actually, this device 
does exist:

nostromo:/home/chiappa# ls -l /dev/sg0
crw---1 root root  21,   0 Jun 13  2001 /dev/sg0

So, I have two questions:

a) does cdrecord use the /dev/sg* devices?
b) why cdrecord can see this device in my system?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Marcelo


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Re: Memory usage on debian

[Gary Hennigan]

"Nils-Erik Svangård" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent
> show which process that eats all the memory.
> Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or
> something?

Linux uses unused memory for a disk cache. This is dynamic and so if
you start a process that needs the memory the kernel will shrink the
disk cache. Use free (/usr/bin/free) to see how much disk cache is
allocated.

Gary


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Re: Memory usage on debian

[Dave Sherohman]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
> My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent
> show which process that eats all the memory.
> Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or
> something?

It's normal.  You didn't say where that 95% usage figure came from,
so I'll use free to explain what you're (probably) seeing, since it
shows it all quite clearly.  Here's what my mail server looks like:

~$ free
 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:256904 247056   9848  42176  56616 155868
-/+ buffers/cache:  34572 222332
Swap:  252   84361991616

256M of RAM and look at that first line - 247M used and only 10M
free!  Heavily loaded?  Nah...  Look at the rest of the line - of the
used memory, 57M is in buffers and 156M is cached disk.  All of this
can be discarded at a moment's notice without hurting anything, so
it's still available even though it's in use.

The second line tells the real story - 35M is being used by things
that can't just be forgotten on a whim and, for all practical
purposes, there's 222M available.  Plenty of memory to go around.

What you're probably seeing is that the kernel, when presented with
lots of available memory, starts caching everything in sight on the
off chance that it might be needed at some point.  If you do end up
needing it, a trip to disk can be avoided, and you get a nice
performance boost.  If it turns out that the memory is needed for
something else, no problem - it just takes a microsecond or two to
make a note that the memory is no longer being used as cache and away
you go.

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Re: CUPS problem

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Robert Estes said:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure
> how to handle the bug reporting.  I've spent quite a bit of time debugging
> this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ... 
> 
> Do I have to figure out exactly where the problem is before submitting a
> bug report?

No, not exactly.  The bug will be reassigned by the maintainer if you
file it on the wrong package.  Why don't you tell the list what the
problem is, first, though - it may not be a bug per se, but some poorly
documented or unexpected 'feature' instead.

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Re: upgraded kernel to 2.4.20 and modules don't load

[Pigeon]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:22:39AM +0100, Jaume Guasch wrote:
> karrottop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I have just upgraded my kernel to version 2.4.20 and now it does not
> > load my modules in /etc/modules at startup. any ideas?
> 
> Update modutils to 2.4.19 (in testing). 
> 
> In general, for any kernel version, you need a modutils with the newest 
> possible modutils (but it can be modutils version <= kernel version).
> 
> Example:
> 
> modutils 2.4.15 (Debian stable) Need it for kernel >= 2.4.15, but won't
> work for kernel >= 2.4.19
> modutils 2.4.19 (Debian testing) Need for kernel >= 2.4.19, but won't
> work for kernel >= 2.4.21
> modutils 2.4.21 (Debian unstable) Need for kernel >= 2.4.21 (when it is
> released) 

Huh? I've got modutils 2.4.15 and it works with kernel 2.4.20 with no
problems that I can see. Before that I was using modutils 2.4.6, also
with 2.4.20. That worked too.

How did you do your kernel upgrade? If you compiled it by hand did you
get the sequence of makes correct, and did you remember to do make
modules_install as root? Do you have either the kernel-headers-2.4.20
installed or links from /usr/src/linux and
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.20 to the top of the kernel source tree?
(Not sure if you actually need both links).

If you did a Debian-style kernel upgrade, sorry, no ideas, I've always
done it by hand. Someone else probably knows though!

Pigeon


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Re: Mozilla won't start

[A. Ensle]

James Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb:

> This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the
> command line generates no output. I can see several instances of
> mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out at around 80% cpu before
> just dying.
> 
> I've tried running mozilla-bin directly, with the same
> results. Nothing shows up in any logs that I can find. I've tried
> removing and re-installing as well. No luck.
> 
> James


try compiling it on your own, or use older version of mozilla.
that problem seems to be a bug in newer version.
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Oh no, what a really heavy bummer

[Pigeon]

Hi,

Having installed woody I'm now wanting to compile stuff that is used a
lot and/or is CPU-intensive (C libraries, shell, gcc, gzip...)
optimised for my CPU. I've done the kernel and X already; gcc has gone
from egcs-2.91.66 to gcc-2.95.4; definitely looks slower than with
slink.

With all my woody CD images copied onto hard disk and mounted under
/scsidrive:

$ for x in `find /scsidrive -name source`; do ls -Rl $x; done | grep -v '^.r'
/scsidrive/woody1/dists/woody/contrib/source:
total 56
/scsidrive/woody1/dists/woody/contrib/source/admin:
total 0
/scsidrive/woody1/dists/woody/contrib/source/base:
total 0
...
...
...
/scsidrive/woody7/dists/woody/main/source/x11:
total 0
/scsidrive/woody7/dists/woody/non-US/contrib/source:
total 0
/scsidrive/woody7/dists/woody/non-US/main/source:
total 0

I thought the presence of the source code was part of the reason why
it took seven CDs!!! W!!!

Is there a separate set of Debian source CDs, or whatever? Or do I
just have to download the source for everything separately?

Having put appropriate deb-src lines in sources.list, pointing to CD
images or websites as appropriate, have I got this sequence right?

apt-get source --download-only whatever   # get source package
dpkg-source -x whatever.dsc   # unpack it
# fiddle with Makefiles etc.
dpkg-buildpackage -b -ai686 whatever.dsc  # create binary .deb
dpkg -i whatever.deb  # install it

Pigeon


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Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

[Pigeon]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:17:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:41, Pigeon wrote:
> > Oh yes, and
> > svgatextmode didn't work properly - the cursor didn't wrap to a new
> > line when typing in a long command - so I reinstalled the old one.
> 
> Congrats!
> 
> Maybe the desired svgatextmode properties could be altered by a config
> file or switch?  But you've already thought of that.  Never mind...

I hadn't actually. It looked like a bug; it looked like what you get
when trying to read a text file written on a Mac, except it only
happened when typing in a long line, normal scrolling being OK. It
never occurred to me that such behaviour might be thought desirable in
certain situations and so could be turned on or off by a config file
or switch...

Checking the version numbers, it seems that my 'old' svgatextmode was
actually newer than the woody version anyway! (1.10 vs. 1.9)

Maybe it's something to do with my video card - svgatextmode's 'SiS'
driver doesn't cover my SiS6326, so I had to write a ClockProg for
the 6326 to get it to work. Maybe the slightly older woody version has
a slightly different SiS driver which is less compatible with the 6326.

What a shame that such a useful program has undergone no development
since 1999. What does everyone do - use 80x25, use framebuffer or run
console apps in xterms? The svgatextmode docs give framebuffer as the
reason for freezing development, but you have to compile your own
kernel with experimental features turned on to get it, and Linus
himself says it's a nasty fudge which is only there so you can get a
console on non-VGA hardware (list passim).

Pigeon


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