cant start gaim, amule and bluefish etc.
I upgraded my debian etch several days ago, it seems that i got problems starting these programs: gaim, amule, bluefish etc. the error shown in the terminal: $ amule & Cheching if there is an instance already running... *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0888ac38 *** & bluefish & *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08369080 *** and the gaim could be started, but after a while it will quit automatically, the terminal shows the same as the bluefish : *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x083b6290 *** Could anyone tell me what the reason is? Thank u Best Regard, Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cant start gaim, amule and bluefish etc.
Paras pradhan, Thanx a lot, the programs could be also started by valgrind, eg. $ valgrind amule & i dun noe y, maybe it's debian's internal error...i guess btw, r u using debian etch as well? and got this problem just after the upgraded? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font Size
Hi Paddy Hackett, as i know in debian, u can adjust ur system font size in the menu: Desktop -> Preference -> Font Regards, Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wont install
file will unzip with winzip. dbg_log.tgz Description: application/compressed
Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM
I have a couple of systems I am trying to setup as production servers using Debian stable. They have dual P3s and 2GB RAM. It looks like the standard kernel images in Debian stable do not support the 2GB of RAM. I'd like to avoid compiling my own kernel images if possible but it looks like that may be my best option. Are there any other suggestions? Thanks, Stuart Johnston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM
Bob Proulx wrote: Stuart Johnston wrote: I have a couple of systems I am trying to setup as production servers using Debian stable. They have dual P3s and 2GB RAM. Should work very nicely. So far they seem a little slower than had I hoped (particularly the RAID 5). But then they have been running at half capacity without the proper kernel. It looks like the standard kernel images in Debian stable do not support the 2GB of RAM. The 2.4.18 kernel in woody does not. (So I assume you are looking at woody stable. The later kernels for sarge testing does have the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G option enabled. So I deduce you are running woody.) Yes, thank you. But if you look at the 2.4.20 kernels in woody-proposed-updates you will find a precompiled kernel that does have CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G enabled. I'm not familiar with woody-proposed-updates. Does it imply that these packages will eventually become default in woody/stable proper? Perhaps 3.0r2? I'd like to avoid compiling my own kernel images if possible but it looks like that may be my best option. Are there any other suggestions? Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ woody-proposed-updates main contrib Install the kernel from there. That is also a modular kernel and will need an initrd setup. Just follow the directions during the install. It will also pull in some other packages as dependencies such as initrd-tools and cramfsprogs. That is fine. apt-get update apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.20-2-686-smp Then I would comment out the proposed updates line from your sources.list file so that you don't get anything that you don't specifically want and rerun 'apt-get update' My main reason for not wanting to compile my own kernel image is so that I can easily get security updates from security.debian.org without having to recompile. I assume that using proposed-updates I would loose this simplicity as well if the proposed-updates packages are not updated frequently. Note that if you search the mailing list archives you will find lots of discussion about the 8139too driver being a module. If you happen to be using that you will need to add it to /etc/modules or run modconf and let it add the driver for you. Since that is built into the bf24 kernel it has tripped up many people when they upgraded to later modular kernels. Yes, I noticed that too when I switched from bf24 to 2.4.18-686-smp. (Plus, the SCSI card and the RAID card switched places for some reason.) Is there an easy way that I can find out which options a kernel-image package has compiled? Thanks, Stuart Johnston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: top showing cpu-states on woody
Johann Spies wrote: How do I get top to show the usage of each cpu on a server with more than one cpu? On woody there is no "1" option to toggle it like on Sid or other distributions. I was wondering this exact thing just yesterday. What I found is that the version of top (procps) included with woody does not support this. You have to get the newer version, for example by backporting the version in testing. I also found a post suggesting the sysstat package with the mpstat program which provides some similar functionality. I use this: mpstat -P ALL 1 http://qclug.org/pipermail/qclug/2003-May/002208.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09618.html http://procps.sourceforge.net/changelog.html Stuart Johnston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Partitions and format
Hello all, I'm two days into my first debian install *hurrah* (how nice is apt?) Sorry. Question: I've forgotten what kind of format my linux partitions are (I suspect I chose 'linux' (ext3?)- how can I tell and if I really would prefer a journalling format can I change it without a reinstall? For info: started with plain bf24/stable then dist-upgraded to testing, then again to unstable. I'm pleasantly surprised that worked actually! Thanks in advance Stu signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Partitions and format
Paul, Joachim, Gavin and Monique, Thanks folks that was all very helpful... i've confirmed I am running on ext3 Cheers, Stu -- Stuart Robinson http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD881978E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: BUG in package, what to do?
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:52, John Hasler wrote: > Arnaud writes: > > I found a problem with a package. I want it to be fixed since it hasn't > > for days. What do I do? > > File a bug report. 'apt-get install reportbug', run reportbug, and follow > instructions. hehehe - #211601 - Reportbug Broken *grin* -- Stuart Robinson Leeds, United Kingdom http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD881978E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Boa and Users
I'm playing with the boa package (from unstable) and I'm curious about the user boa runs on? does www-data exist in debian as a user from install, or does the boa package create it? I'm presuming it has no password? Should it? FYI I've previously run boa on redhat (I don't know it it was the right thing to do) as 'nobody' Cheers, Stu -- Stuart Robinson Leeds, United Kingdom http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD881978E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Enlightenment's mini-desktop windows
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I'm using Enlightenment 0.15.5 with GNOME, and > every time I start up four mini-desktop windows > appear at the top left of the screen (I have four > desktops configured in E). I can't find any way > of stopping these appearing, and closing them > every time is becoming tedious. I would love to know the answer to this too, but here's a cheat that I found - instead of closing the windows, size them very small and hide them under the panel. They'll then reappear in that position, and you won't see them. If anyone knows the RIGHT way to do this, add me to the list of people who'd love to know. Hope this helps, Stuart.
Re: problem with libgnomeui32 1.0.9-3
"Luis M. Garcia" wrote: > > ""Raphaël\"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED], > wrote: > > > > I have d/l gnome-apt with apt-get and it of course has d/l and installed > > some others package like libgnomeui32. But now, every gnome application > > tells me: > > gnp: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: > > undefined symbol: gdk_imlib_get_cache_info > > > > I do have imlib installed. I've tried recompiling libgnomeui but it > > complained about a bad version of libz.I have libz.so.1.1.3 wich was > > with the slink I think > > > I had the same problem, and it was caused because the gdk-imlib1 package > was not updated during the gnome install (is this a bug in the dependencies?). I believe it is - I posted with it to the mailing list some time ago and was told that it wasn't a valid/useful bug report because I couldn't say exactly what package was missing what dependency. My thoughts on the most likely problem, and someone pointing out a flaw in my theory, can probably be found in the list archives. If other people are having the same problem, then it should probably be fixed. By the way, I should amend the comments I made at the time. I postulated that some package (I forget which) didn't depend on another; the reply pointed out that the dependency actually was there. My theory now is that the dependency didn't specify the correct version of the package (I remember it just named the package, not a specific version). Hope this helps, Stuart.
Apt-get and dpkg --force-overwrite
Did apt-get stop passing --force-overwrite to dpkg in the last few versions? I just did a dist-upgrade last night and for the first time got fatal errors for "xfree86-common: trying to overwrite file 'something/X11' which is also in package afterstep". I had to locate the debs in /var/cache/apt and dpkg -i --force-overwrite them myself. The other one that had a problem was emacs20. I believe I can change /etc/apt/apt.conf to tell apt-get to always pass --force-overwrite to dpkg, but it isn't obvious that this is the right way to solve this problem. What should I do? Stuart.
Gnome-pager losing its state
Since my last upgrade, gnome-pager no longer seems to store the properties I associate with it. Is this a bug, or is there a known workaround? Thanks, Stuart.
Using gnome-apt as non-root
Is it possible to arrange for gnome-apt to be usable by a non-root user? To run it as root I have to mess about with X authorization and even once that is done my GTK themes aren't respected. I guess my question can be broken down as follows (and an answer to either part would be enough) 1) Is there a way to run programs as root from X, respecting such things as the current GTK theme; OR 2) Is there a way to enable a regular user to run apt/dpkg/gnome-apt? Thanks in advance, Stuart.
XDMCP without xdm?
Is there any way I can allow remote hosts to access my machine via xdmcp without running xdm on the machine itself? (running xdm seems to lock the machine completely on a regular basis). Would running xdm without managing any local displays solve the locking-up problem? Alternatively, does anyone have any experience with whether any of the other display managers (kdm, wdm, gdm, login.app, ...) solve the problem of locking machines up? Do those provide xdmcp? Failing all this, is there a way to get a similar effect using startx? (ie, start an x session but run all programs from another machine). TIA, Stuart.
firewalls for dummies?
Hi, I am planning to setup a firewall for a public network containing two class C subnets. The machine is a potato box running 2.1.10 compiled with the appropriate firewall stuff turned on. I have studied the various HOWTO's (ipchains, firewall, ...) but I think I am missing something. My preliminary tests have failed. I would really like to get an example of a similar setup from someone that knows better. The current network looks like: X.Y.(116 or 12).xxx upstream router -- switched_hub local_machine_a X.Y.116.254 ||\___ local_machine_b X.Y.12.254 (alias) switched_hub || I would like it to look like: upstream router -- firewall -- switched_hub local_machine_a X.Y.116.254 ||\___ local_machine_b X.Y.12.254 (alias) switched_hub || The local machines have addresses in the ranges X.Y.116.3-252 and X.Y.12.3-252 most of which are unused. There are ~100 used between the two subnets. These are suns, macs, win98/nt pc's, and a few linux machines. The local net machines are set up like: IPADDR=X.Y.12.16 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=X.Y.12.0 BROADCAST=X.Y.12.255 GATEWAY=X.Y.12.254 The one test so far was set up as: upstream router -- firewall -- switched_hub local_machine_a X.Y.116.254^ ^ X.Y.12.254 (alias) | | | | eth0 = X.Y.12.2 | |_ eth1 = X.Y.12.242 Here local_machine_a was configured as: IPADDR=X.Y.12.107 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=X.Y.12.0 BROADCAST=X.Y.12.255 GATEWAY=X.Y.12.242 I put a "1" into /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and set the chain policies all to ACCEPT hoping to create a simple pass-through system. No bytes would go from the inside to the outside or the other way round. It seems like I don't understand the routing system. Do I need to turn on "arp" for the interfaces (like "ifconfig eth0 arp"). Also, how is the upstream router supposed to know about the addresses behind the wall? Can anyone point me at a source of examples of this sort. Almost every example I have seen to date is for a private network using the 192.168.x.x series addresses. It seems problematic that my upstream router has addresses on my subnet (I think it is one interface with an extra aliased address). It seems like this is a common situation. I want to insert a firewall in a public network where there is currently a single wire (fiber really). It should be very similar at most university departments. Thanks for listening, any advice is appreciated and naturally I can provide more info, Stuart
xdm chooser "choosing" between local and remote
Oops - misspelt the address. The actual mail is in the forwarded attachment...--- Begin Message --- Is it possible to configure xdm to run the chooser by default, but provide "itself" (ie localhost, or its own hostname) as one of the options? The setup I am envisaging is one in which I want to do most of my work on a remote server, but the remote server will not always be available (in my case, it is a dual-boot and may be running windows; the situation might also come up on a sometimes-networked laptop, for example). In that case I still want to be able to work locally by picking the local machine from the chooser. I've looked at the xdm manpage, but the section on the chooser is very brief, very cryptic, and seems to be geared towards X stations that cannot run programs themselves. Thanks in advance, Stuart. --- End Message ---
Re: mozilla don't run
Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > > Hi, > > when i type "mozulla" in a shell i get : > > bash-2.02$ mozilla > *** Registering html library > Registered Ok > bash-2.02$ > > but no mozilla window's opened. > > is it normal ? > > potato+last packages+kernel2.2.10 I don't know about normal, but I get the same thing. I also noticed (because I ran it in the background with '&') that the return code is 1, which usually means an error. No indication of what the error is though. On my setup I actually get "registered Ok" *before* I get "registering html library". Makes no sense to me though. Anyone with any clues would be appreciated here too. Thanks, Stuart.
Re: mozilla don't run
Christian Lavoie wrote: > > > > potato+last packages+kernel2.2.10 > > Mozilla M7 won't run on neither RH6.0 nor Debian 2.2 (I presume this > to be related to glibc :), though you *SHOULD* see a Segmentation > Fault message appearing. Actually, following the advice of another poster, running it one time as root solved the problem. I presume that it tries to access some file in a global location, and when not found, tries to create it. I would guess a bug should be filed on this, as it seems to be a packaging issue rather than an upstream bug (which I'd expect a lot of, mozilla being pre-alpha). I'm thrilled to finally be able to run mozilla - thanks to the great efforts of the Debian and Mozilla people :) I feel rather like I felt when, after evangelizing Java for 2 years, there was finally a Java application that I had a use for on a daily basis (jEdit). I've been evangelizing mozilla ever since the code release, and now I can see it really beginning to live up to it's potential. I can't wait till it reaches beta! Just my 2c to encourage anyone involved in debian and mozilla - your work is MUCH appreciated. Stuart.
Re: Kernel 2.2 with Debian potat0
Evan S wrote: > I'm just wondering, if I want to upgrade to 2.2.10 in potato, how do I > do that? I want to apt-get the source code so I can enable sound and > such, do you know what command I do? And what steps are involved? There's a package "kernel-package" (warning, dependent on Perl, so you won't be able to do apt-based install under Potato). 1) cd to /usr/src/linux and run 'make menuconfig' 2) do 'make dep' 3) do 'make-kpkg clean' 4) do 'make-kpkg --revision=_your_text_here_ kernel-image' 5) do 'make-kpkg --revision=_your_text_again_ modules-image' 6) do 'cd ..' 7) do 'dpkg --install kernel-image-2.2.10__your_text_here__i386.deb' 8) reboot This is, of course, the easy part. The hard part is in part 1): configuring the kernel! Have fun, and don't forget the rescue disk, or alternative boot option so that you can get back in after you cock it up ;-) -- --==**==-- Ian Stuart - University computing services. - Opinions are funny things: Mine are mine and mine alone http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/
Questions after recompiling kernel
I just compiled kernel 2.2.10 on my potato machine. This is the first time I've ever compiled a kernel, so these questions are probably elementary, but I can't find the right docs anywhere... I used the build sequence from /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.10/debian.README.gz, which essentially was "make xconfig; make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg (some other options); dpkg -i (filename). Firstly, I compiled the kernel with everything I wanted compiled in, rather than as a module. This includes an NE2000 network card. In the past (using the stock kernel-image packages) I have specified the IO and IRQ for this in /etc/modutils/modconf. But since it isn't a module any more, this won't work. Is there a way to specify this information when NE2000 support is compiled into the kernel, or do I need to make it a module? (I don't get any messages about NE cards when I boot up, and I get "SIOC"something errors and "eth0: no such interface" errors later, presumably in the init.d/network scripts) Second, on bootup, I get messages of the form "xxx cannot find module xxx" (this is approximate as I'm not in front of the machine right now). The xxx's are the names of modules that *used* to be in my kernel, but are now compiled in. I'm guessing that this is due to my conf.modules file, which didn't appear to get changed during the upgrade. How can I find out what is supposed to be there and what isn't? Thank you for your help, Stuart.
Re: Questions after recompiling kernel
David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I just compiled kernel 2.2.10 on my potato machine. This is the first > > time I've ever compiled a kernel, so these questions are probably > > elementary, but I can't find the right docs anywhere... > > [Snipped question about providing startup parameters to "ne" module when it's NOT a module] > I think you need "append" in your boot parameters (depending on > which way you boot). I prefer my NIC as a module as very occasionally > it gets its interrupts in a twist and can then be reloaded. I recompiled and made it a module this time. No problems now. Thanks :) [Snipped question about startup errors] > It's /etc/modules which needs emptying. This worked too - thanks much :) Just one more question... I still get the notorious "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument" error on bootup. I've read all over the place that the solution to this is to comment out the "route add -net" line in /etc/init.d/network. However, I already did this, and I still get the message. Any ideas, anyone? Still, everything seems to be working great now, so thank you for all your help :) Stuart.
Re: Mozilla
"P. van Tilburg" wrote: > > I also, saw an mozilla binairy in /usr/bin, but if I start that: > > target(/1):~$ mozilla > *** Registering html library > Registered Ok > target(/1):~$ > > and I get my prompt back, nothing happens? This has been asked before on the list - nobody seems to know why, but if you run "mozilla" once as root, then it will work as a normal user from then on. HTH, Stuart.
X server for crappy Packard Hell machine
Hi, I have installed debian slink on an old Packard Hell computer. Most things work fine, but the standard XF86_SVGA xserver appears to have some problems - it works, sort of, but once the screen gets busy I get random pixels going the wrong color. It appears as if video memory is sometimes getting randomly corrupted. If I was running windows, I would suspect a bad video driver - but I'm not running a video driver. I am sure that this is a case of crappy hardware, but I also know that windows managed to work around it somehow, so it can be done. Since the only documentation I have on the hardware is a sticker on the box which says "1Mb video memory upgradable to 2Mb", I configured X by accepting all the defaults I could find, and probing for anything it would let me probe for. This, of course, is probably what went wrong. Does anyone have any tips on how I can figure out how X *should* have been configured, or whether it would have been possible to use one of the accelerated servers instead of the basic one? Thanks a million, Stuart.
Installation suggestion: recommend recompiling kernel
Hi there,
I was just thinking about the fact that the answer to many questions
that I see on the list (mostly "how do I get sound?") is "recompile your
kernel". Also the fact that recompiling the kernel is pretty much
recommended in any situation.
It occurred to me that perhaps, after the rest of the installation is
finished, it might be possible to ask "Recompiling your kernel is
required to enable sound and is recommended in any case in order to tune
the performance of your machine. Do you wish to configure and recompile
your kernel now?" [default yes].
"What version of the kernel would you like to install? [list of
available kernel-source versions]"
Then, after [downloading and] installing kernel-source, you would be
dropped into a restricted version of "make menuconfig" - I say
restricted because many of the options are confusing to a newbie ("if
you enable this option and type mknod bananana, you will get a device
/dev/ook. You can use ioctl on this file with the SIOCHEDGEHOG parameter
to move your computer through lspace and murder your grandfather") and
could be hidden behind an "advanced" tab somewhere. Even better, look at
the modules that were enabled when the user did their modconf and take
all the other modules out of the kernel by default. Also, some of the
modules could be defaulted to compiled in, when there are no parameters
needed.
The installation process could then run an appropriate make-kpkg and
dpkg command for you.
Of course, this whole sequence should be available again later by
running an appropriate command.
Thoughts?
Stuart.
Re: System freezes unexpectedly
Chris Mayes wrote: > > Hello, everyone. Well, I had hoped that the problem was a freak occurrence, > but it's happening about 2-3 times a week, now. Unfortunately, there isn't > much fanfare, no flurry of error messages. Nearly every time I've encountered > a system freeze, the screen had been blanked, so I couldn't see the desktop. > For the most recent time, I was actually sitting at my desk working on stuff > when the system froze. Everything stopped. I couldn't kill the X server or > switch consoles. The thing was totally frozen. I've checked the logs, but I > didn't see anything special. In syslog, messages, user.log, etc., it looks > just like normal messages until crash time with boot messages following. Does > anyone have any suggestions for diagnosing and possibly fixing this problem? > I am running Debian Potato (Last full update was the middle of June) on Kernel > 2.2.6. TIA! When I had a similar problem, it was fixed by turning off xdm and using startx to start my x sessions. I have no idea why. It seems to be a bug, but one that's so infrequent that it hasn't yet happened to somebody with the X or kernel experience to figure out why it happens and fix it. It's worth a try, anyway. HTH, Stuart.
startx fails/freezes machine (hamm)
Hi,
On a fresh Debian 2.0 installation I am having severe
problems running X. It seems like some hardware incompatibility
and I've exhausted my own knowledge of what to try. I have to
suspect the video and scsi cards but they work together just
fine in text mode.
Now for the details:
Symptoms: When I "startx" the monitor clicks, and appears to go into
text mode with a blank screen. No further keyboard input
is recognized except Crtl-Alt-Del which cleanly reboots
the machine. None of {Crtl-Alt-Backspace, Crtl-Alt-F2, etc..}
work to get back out of X. Output from startx and
"strace -f startx" show nothing helpful.
Software: A fresh Debian 2.0 install with XF86_S3
as the xserver (xserver-s3_3.3.2.2-4.deb).
Hardware: Number Nine GXE64 2Mb video card (~4 years old)
Symbios 53c875 based scsi card (Diamond Fireport 40) (new)
5 scsi devices of various ages (cdrom and disks)
Abit BX6 motherboard w 64MB PC100 memory (new)
Intel PII 233 MHz cpu (given to me -- unknown history)
Sony 200sx monitor (~2 years old)
modem, soundcard, ethernet card (old)
PS/2 style mouse, keyboard
I tried with the soundcard and ethernet card removed. Same problem.
During the installation, the xbase-configure program worked fine
up to the point where it tries to run XF86_S3. The XF86_VGA16
server works fine during the xbase-configure program. Naturally
rebooting at that stage of the installation caused a few problems.
I had previously been running Debian 1.3 on an Intel 486 66MHz machine
that used the same video, monitor, modem, soundcard, nic. I used to
use an ncr53c810 scsi card also but had to buy the Diamond Fireport 40
since the new motherboard bios did not recognize the old scsi card.
I tries various bios settings. I made sure there are no memory
holes or memory shadowing settings enabled. I also tried having
the bios assign an irq to the video card -- it made no difference.
So, can anyone recommend a solution or course of action? I will try
another video card if I can borrow one but I am really suprised that
my old faithful S3 based card is not working with this new setup.
Perhaps I should have bought a buslogic scsi card instead?
thanks in advance,
Stuart
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passwd vs. yppasswd under nis setup question
Hi, I have a small network of machines with one of them acting as the nis master. Currently it looks like using the "passwd" program on the master will change the password file but not update the nis map. I seem to recall long ago that the nis installation made passwd call yppasswd? I am confused as to how it should be set up. If I use the "+::" entry in the /etc/passwd file on the master, then the nis maps are used for logins, etc. But since the maps are unchanged after using "passwd" the passwd program reports success and the password appears to be unchanged to the user. The next time root runs make in /var/yp the maps are updated and the password is changed. This is a source of confusion naturally. I read the debian nis howto and thought I followed it. It appears that the solution is to disable "passwd", or make "passwd" a link to yppasswd. If so let me know and I will file a bug report. Otherwise please let me know what stupid mistake I made. thanks very much, Stuart
apt-get to get stable-updates?
Hi, Can I use apt-get to go after the packages in the stable-updates directory at ftp.debian.org? If so, how? I could not find anything mentioned on the web pages or the apt docs. thanks, Stuart
Re: Config PCMCIA-LAN card on a laptop
Alex Kwan wrote: > If someone have the PCMCIA ethernet card on Hamm, > would you please share your experience with me? > I need your help, I can't go on. As I type, Laptop to ethernet... Have you got the pcmcia stuff in? 1) get the pcmcia source code 2) configure a new kernel with 1) TCP/IP enabled in the Networking options 2) Network Device Support and Ethernet enabled, but don't specify the card at all. 3) do a make dep, followed by a make-kpkg clean 4) next, do "make-kpkg --revision=personal.1 kernel_image" to make a .deb file of your new kernel 5) now do a "make-kpkg --revision=personal.1 modules_image" to make the pcmcia modules. 6) now change to "../" and find the two .deb files linux...deb and pcmcia...deb 7) finally install the two deb files (dpkg -i lin... pcm...) 8) reboot. * I make no warrenty for anything - if it blows up, it blows up. Make a backup boot image & get LILO working before you start! -- Ian Stuart Computing Services The University of Edinburgh
Re: PCMCIA-CS: configure?
Remo Badii wrote: > I have an IBM THinkpad 760CD on which I have been using an Accton > Ethernet Card with success in a previous Linux installation (SuSE 4.2, > made for me by a person who has left in the meantime). > I have installed the pcmcia-cs package: what should be done next? As I type, Laptop to ethernet... 1) get the kernel source code 2) configure a new kernel with * 1) TCP/IP enabled in the Networking options 2) Network Device Support and Ethernet enabled, but don't specify the card at all.** 3) do a make dep, followed by a make-kpkg clean 4) next, do "make-kpkg --revision=personal.1 kernel_image" to make a .deb file of your new kernel 5) now do a "make-kpkg --revision=personal.1 modules_image" to make the pcmcia modules. 6) now change to "../" and find the two .deb files linux...deb and pcmcia...deb 7) finally install the two deb files (dpkg -i lin... pcm...) 8) reboot. * I make no warrenty for anything - if it blows up, it blows up. Make a backup boot image & get LILO working before you start! ** The pcmcia drivers will pick up whatever devices are in the pcmcia slots, don't be tempted to force the selection in the kernel - it won't work. -- Ian Stuart Computing Services The University of Edinburgh
Re: Netscape 4.06 Messenger
David Warnock wrote: > I have installed netscape 4.06 communicator but I am concerned that the > message filter is not working correctly. Basicly I want to move all the > messages from various lists into folders. When I define multiple rules > (which are after all very simple) it appears that messages go missing ie > I see it collect 7 messages but only 4 show up as new mail. David, Are you using POP3 or IMAP? Personally, I'm using IMAP so that I can always telnet in to read my mail (using PINE) if I'm not at my workstation. As I'm using IMAP, I can use procmail to pre-filter my mail ;-) If you're using POP3, you'll have to get messanger to do the filtering. This will be done each time mail is downloaded, however you may need to do a refresh on the open mailbox to show any new entries. -- Ian Stuart Computing Services The University of Edinburgh
cable-modem woes (TCI/@HOME)
Hi, I am having trouble getting my cable-modem working and I am wondering if somebody out there knows the right way. Here is the info: - works in win98 - looks like a subnet of a class A network (this could be my problem) - ip address is 24.1.106.xxx (xxx not shown) - netmask from provider is 255.255.240.0 - gateway is 24.1.104.1 - dns server is 24.1.64.zzz - domain set in resolv.conf I am really unsure about the network address I should use. >From the HOWTO's it looks like I should use 24.1.96.0 since the is the result of ANDing the ip address and netmask. I tried lots of things but none seem to work. Win98 only asks for ip address and netmask -- I guess it figures out the network address. I also don't know if I should try a broadcast address either. I can bring eth0 up with no errors and set the routing but I can't connect to anything. Any ideas? Am I doing something stupid? thanks very much, Stuart
Re: OFF TOPIC - UK TV PROGRAM ABOUT LINUX???
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "The Finnish programmer Linux Torvalds, whose software could > threaten Bill Gates's Microsoft empire" The program is one of these programs that does 5-minute bites at a number of topics, with Linus as one of the topics. PS - this follows what promises to be an absolutely hilarious Rikki show.. -- Ian Stuart Computing Services The University of Edinburgh
Re: OFF TOPIC - UK TV PROGRAM ABOUT LINUX???
Ian Stuart wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "The Finnish programmer Linux Torvalds, whose software could > > threaten Bill Gates's Microsoft empire" > The program is one of these programs that does 5-minute bites at a > number of topics, with Linus as one of the topics. The program actually did a 10-minute piece on Linus & "his" OS. Even Alan Cox was interviewed. Overall, it was quite positive, though it didn't mention much in the way of the commercial support available from the likes of SuSe, Caldera or Redhat. My only downer comment would be to Linus: "White socks and sandles? Please!" -- Ian Stuart Computing Services The University of Edinburgh
Re: Few Questions
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Pete Poff wrote: > 1. How do you tell how much disk space you have left? df df -k for a more readable output. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Few Questions
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Pete Poff wrote: > 1. How do you tell how much disk space you have left? Just checked and the -k flag seems to be the default under linux - at least in RH5. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)
On 26 May 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > There are several Linux solutions that provide an extended subset of > the ICQ functionality. You may want to take a look at ytalk and IRC. Or you could use ICQ for Java. I've used it with Solaris x86 and RedHat 5. It seems to be pretty stable. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xwindow from win95?
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Mikhali Mifsud wrote: > >Is there any program that people know of that will allow my to xwindow > >to my debian box from my win95 machine? Thanks. > > I'm not entirely sure that I know what it means "to xwindow", but I'll > assume you mean create an entire Xwindows environment, not just telnet, or > something like that. I have used an Xwindows emulator called xwin32 that > seemed pretty good. Last I checked, it was not free, but they had a free > crippled version that would run for 2 hours at a time and would only allow > one use at a time per network. Check out http://www.starnet.com/ The best one I've seen is eXceed from Hummingbird. It works quite well. Under NT you can get OpenNT with an X server. That works nicely too. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple IP numbers, one for each Subnet
I'm using a i386 portable with 2.0.34 installed. I have a requirement to plug this machine into various subnets, depending on where I'm working within my organisation. Is there a way to configure the system so that I can use (a) 4 or 5 different gateways (only one of which will be reachable at one time) and (b) 4 or 5 IP numbers, only one of which will be valid at any one time? An example: IP Gateway 111.222.1.1111.222.1.254 111.222.2.5111.222.2.254 111.222.10.2 111.222.10.254 111.222.200.210111.222.200.254 IP Aliasing seems to only work within the same subnet, and has to be re-initialised at each bootup. many thanks... ----** Ian Stuart Land Rover : A British car that was meant to survive the charge of an adult bull rhino and be field-stripped in the jungle with essentially a screw-driver and a crescent wrench. WWW: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: telnetting to a host behind ip_masq
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > Is it possible to telnet directly to a host behind ip_masq? -- Something > like connecting to a different hostname at the same ip, and acting as a > different computer. -- Apache does this with virtual hosting. Unless I completely misunderstand ipmasq and NAT, no you cannot do this. routed sees an outgoing connection on port whatever and sees what MAC address or "fake" internal IP it's coming from. Then an incoming connection to the same port is obviously for that same internal machine. And you can setup various rules. I suppose you could setup a rule to direct all incoming telnet sessions to a particular internal host. Or all incoming telnet sessions from a particular IP address or block... But there is no way to directly telnet in. The outside world sees your network as having one (1) IP address. Any addresses used internally cannot be seen by the outside world. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD-rom and ZIP
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Marc van der Vossen wrote: > Hi, > > A big thanks to all who have responded to my questions. I can now mount > every thing I want. Is there an automatic mounter ? If I would like to mount > three things, what should they be called? I know /mnt, but that is only one > out of three. These are the things to be mounted: > hda5: misc > hdc4. Zip > hdd4: Cd-rom What do you mean by "Automatic Mounter"? As several people have said, putting an entry in fstab will mount the various devices at boot, however you won't be able to change the media without unmounting the device first. A guy called Steven Tweedy (sp?) wrote a patch for the kernel source code called Supermount (latest version is 0.6). This will detect the change-line in both floppies & CD-Roms (no idea about zip-drives) and remount the device if the media is changed - like MessDos and MickyOs ** Ian Stuart Land Rover : A British car that was meant to survive the charge of an adult bull rhino and be field-stripped in the jungle with essentially a screw-driver and a crescent wrench. WWW: http://www.tardis.vet.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
any cvs users out there? (and bug #22392)
Hi, We use cvs for managing the source code of a multi developer project. On 13, May 1998 after a "frozen" update I discovered a new cvs "feature/bug" and filed a bug report (#22392). I haven't heard much about it since then so I thought I would ask the other users if anybody has the same problem or if anyone knows a good work-around. Here is the problem: cvs repository is in /dev/sda6 (/usr/local/cvsroot by link) home directories are in /dev/sda6 (/home by a link) cvs's default tmpdir is /tmp which is in /dev/sda3 (/) When I check in a file, cvs apparantly wants /tmp and cvsroot to be on the same physical partition. I get errors like: cvs [commit aborted]: cannot rename file /tmp/cvs03139haa \ to apapi.c:Invalidcross-device link If I setenv TMPDIR to something like ~/tmp which is on the same partition as cvsroot things work. But I don't think the location of TMPDIR should have anything to do with the workings of cvs as long as I have write permission there. I can't imagine that this is the default behavior from the cvs sources since most installations that are compiled from source would have their cvsroot as a seperate partition from /tmp. I guess I will check the sources just to be sure. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Managers
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: > Could anyone suggest some good windows manager packages and where to get > them? I'm using debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.33-9, x11R6. I'd like to be I prefer Afterstep 1.42, I'm using it right now on a RH 5 system and it is very functional, plus it is good-looking. Stability seems to be good too. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Complex passwords
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > that password again makes passwd accept it. This isn't so good - I'd > like to force these "administrators" to choose complex passwords. As it > stands, one can hit the enter key three times and passwd will enter a > null password! I don't know of any way to force passwd to do this. But, there are a number of password generators around. I use one written in expect. Maybe you can just make it a policy that the generator has to be used. We used to have fun with passwords... things like b0ne.hEad or Uf0o1 :-) -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA question
M.C. Bezemer wrote: > I've a problem: my laptop doesn't seem to see a Fujitsu LAN card (10 > base-T). Is the problem in the kernel or is it somewhere else? To get a PCMCIA card to work, you need to remake the kernel, and the PCMCIA modules, and then reinstall the kernel. For this, you'll need the kernel source and the pcmcia source. Ensure that networking and Ethernet are enables, but that all the specific manufacturer options are turned off. I use make-kpkg, so I run make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image # custom.1.0 is kernel name now do the PCMCIA modules: make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 modules_image finally, install the .deb files dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.0.3x_custom.1.0_i386.deb \ ../pcmcia-modules-2.0.3x_3.0.1-2+custom.1.0_i386.deb -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of Edinburgh http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ LandRovers - a 50-year-old stop-gap that has become the most successful 4x4 production vehicle in the world. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA question
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > What are you trying to do? The modules are included in the kernel-image > .deb package you made with make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image. > There is noo need for a separate module_image package. I do sometimes > have problems with the installation of modules if I don't remove the > /lib/modules/ directory entirely before installing a new > kernel-image*.deb. I am using version 3.03 of kernel-package. The problem is with the PCMCIA modules, which are not part of the standard distribution, so they need to be compited and installed with the kernel. I have also found that any time I remake the kernel, I have to re-do the pcmcia mudules as well (but that may just be me misunderstanding the system...) -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of Edinburgh http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ LandRovers - a 50-year-old stop-gap that has become the most successful 4x4 production vehicle in the world. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (oops) loading pcmcia eth0 II
Micha Kersloot wrote: > > Michael Roark wrote: > > > > /lib/modules/2.0.30/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol . . . > > (there are several lines of this) > > Looks like you've got diverent versions of the Kernel and the pcmcia > modules That would tie in with my experiences - you need to redo both the pcmcia modules and the kernel at the same time - no idea why... I use make-kpkg for both, then dpkg -i with the resultant .deb files - it even sorts out lilo for me ;-) -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of Edinburgh http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ LandRovers - a 50-year-old stop-gap that has become the most successful 4x4 production vehicle in the world. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dosemu
Robert Kerr wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm having a very frustrating time with dosemu. I've gotten to the point > where I can actually type dos at the prompt and I get a very nice c: > prompt. From there I'm lost. I've read the docs, and they are very > confusing, contradictory and not very helpful. I try to lredir my drives, > but I keep getting error 3e 3c 42, depending on how I'm trying to do it. > Do I need to have my dos partitions mounted already? > Do they need to be listed in dosemu.conf? > How can I edit the autoexec.bat file if I can't access an editor? I too am having problems... After reading copious HOWTOs & READMEs, I think my problem lies with LILO. I have one disk, split into 4 partitions: hda1 is the suspend partition for my laptop hda2 is the windows95 partition, with a shell statment in the config.sys to load 4Dos 5.55 hda3 is swap hda4 is linux ext2 hda2 is mounted, at boot, to /dos using the following fstab entry: /dev/hda2 /dos vfat defaults,user 0 0 How on earth do I get dosemu to use my 4Dos dos rather than freedos? As a sub-question, is there any way to run SPX packets (ie run netadmin from a Novell4.11 server?) -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of Edinburgh http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ LandRovers - a 50-year-old stop-gap that has become the most successful 4x4 production vehicle in the world. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dosemu
The Gecko wrote: > > On 24-Jun-98 Ian Stuart wrote: > > How on earth do I get dosemu to use my 4Dos dos rather than freedos? > > dosemu uses a disk image that's been created before hand. To get dosemu to > use > another *dos than the one it's currently using.. build another/different disk > image.. I built my image off of a floppy formated with MSDos 6x. I forgot the > exact commands I used (this was a few months back)... See if that little bit > of information helps you... if not.. let me know and I'll dig out my notes > back > when I was working with it. OK - I've now got 4Dos loading from a floppy, however when I run setup-hdimage, I get compalints from mcopy. I have a feeling this is due to supermount. Anyone any thoughts? -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of Edinburgh http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ LandRovers - a 50-year-old stop-gap that has become the most successful 4x4 production vehicle in the world. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trying to install Gnome 0.2
I'm trying to install Gnome v.2 and I need to find libgdk-imlib1 where is it? -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of Edinburgh http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ LandRovers - a 50-year-old stop-gap that has become the most successful 4x4 production vehicle in the world -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installed kernel-source 2.0.34 package and half the filesystems are not supported.
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > I installed the 2.0.34 kernel source package and did a make menuconfig > and when it comes time to select the filesystems to include support for, > a ton of them appear to be missing, most notably msdos and vfat. When I > installed hamm, I configured vfat support during the installation and it > worked fine, but when compiling the new kernel, they don't give the > option to support this. Do I need to use a different kernel source > package, or what? This really has got me confused. I'm using the the wong machine, so this is from memory In Filessystems, theres an entry for MSDOS systems. This will then give you a largew number of extra menuitems, includeing page-code- and uni-code- support. ** Ian Stuart Land Rover : A British car that was meant to survive the charge of an adult bull rhino and be field-stripped in the jungle with essentially a screw-driver and a crescent wrench. WWW: http://www.tardis.vet.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Require gnome file
I'm trying to install gnome 0.2 but I've discovered I need a file called "libgdk-imlib1". Anyone know where I can get it from? I've tried Jim Picks pages, debian.org & the UK SunSite mirror... -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of Edinburgh http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ LandRovers - a 50-year-old stop-gap that has become the most successful 4x4 production vehicle in the world. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Config for Laptop display..
I'm trying to get my laptop into 1024 by 768 by 16bit colour (it's currently stuck in 8-bit colour) The Chipset is Chips & Technologies CT65550 and it appears to be doing funny things with the clock-line. thanks.. -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of Edinburgh http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/ LandRovers - a 50-year-old stop-gap that has become the most successful 4x4 production vehicle in the world. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Aarrgg! where in the latest imlib?
I'm trying to get a Gnome desktop installed, and I'm trying to find gdk_imlib1.1_1 I've spent two hours trawling several ftp archives, to no avail. please could some kind soul tell me where to get then d**n thing. many thanks. -- Ian Stuart Computing Services The University of Edinburgh -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?
Hi, I am a happy debian user (since 0.93R6) and I am wondering if I can do something a bit unusual. I suffer from having 2 computers in my office, one is a debian PC, the other a sun workstation. I would really like to cut that down to just the PC by using a remote sun computer. Is there some way to run more than one X session on my debian PC? Ideally I would do something like run an 8-bit depth xdm session that logged me into a remote sun computer and a second X session that is 16-bit depth that is my local session. If it requires a second video card it is no problem. I would then be able to switch between the two sessions via ALT-F7, ALT-F8 or something. Is this pie-in-the-sky or is there some way to do something close to this. Stuart PS. I realize I could just run remote X clients on my local display but I need to run the Sun solaris applications (saoimage, ximtool, idl) etc in 8-bit mode. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?
Hi, Thanks for the help but it does not quite work. I did just what you said but when I start the second X session it fails. The output of "startx -- :1 -bpp " is appended below. It looks like a problem with the first X session locking things up. Could it be the default security (xauth) stuff? Stuart XFree86 Version 3.3.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: March 2 1998 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.32 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0): NV1, STG2000, RIVA128, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b, ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b, ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1, wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, ati, sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, tvga8200lx, tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000, tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, tgui9420dgi, tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682, tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430, clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543, clgd7548, clgd7555, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, oti067, oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308, ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv, ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, AP6422, AT24, AT3D, s3_virge, s3_svga, ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546, ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct6, ct68554, ct64200, ct64300, generic (using VT number 8) XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) XKB: model: "pc101" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/mouse, buttons: 3 (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Primary Card" (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "Primary Monitor" (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/local/Office40/fonts/75dpi,/usr/local/Office40/fonts/type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/,unix/:7100" (--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA 2064W rev 1, Memory @ 0xff00, MMIO @ 0xffbec000 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xFF00 (--) SVGA: MMIO registers at 0xFFBEC000 (--) SVGA: Video BIOS info block at 0x000c7b60 (--) SVGA: chipset: mga2064w (--) SVGA: videoram: 4096k (**) SVGA: Option "dac_8_bit" (**) SVGA: Option "power_saver" (**) SVGA: Using 8 bits per color component (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 888 (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 220.000 MHz (**) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024": mode clock = 135.000 (**) SVGA: Mode "1152x864": mode clock = 135.000 (**) SVGA: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 115.500 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1280x1024 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 (--) SVGA: MCLK set to 60.000 MHz (--) SVGA: Using hardware cursor (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) (--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles (--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy (--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 color expand pattern fill (--) SVGA: XAA: CPU to screen color expansion (TE/NonTE imagetext, TE/NonTE polytext) (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 10 128x128 areas for pixmap caching (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples (--) SVGA: XAA: General lines and segments (--) SVGA: XAA: Dashed lines and segments _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 4 failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/local/Office40/fonts/75dpi,/usr/local/Office40/fonts/type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/,unix/:7100' Fatal server error: co
Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?
Hi, Sorry to reply to my own post but it looks like the reason the second session failed was because I am running the extra font server that is using the socket. When the second session tries to open it it fails. I won't know until tomorrow. Stuart Quoting Stuart Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > Thanks for the help but it does not quite work. I did just what > you said but when I start the second X session it fails. The > output of "startx -- :1 -bpp " is appended below. It looks like > a problem with the first X session locking things up. Could it > be the default security (xauth) stuff? > > Stuart > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
CVS Version: 1.9.29-1 breaks wrappers?
Hi, I just upgraded my system from cvs 1.9.26 to 1.9.29 and now get this message: cvs checkout CVSROOT/modules cvs [checkout aborted]: -t/-f wrappers not supported by this version of CVS Does anybody know what gives? The html docs still have the -t/-f wrapper stuff but it says something about not working with client/server CVS: The file `cvswrappers' defines the script that will be run on a file when its name matches a regular expresion. There are two scripts that can be run on a file or directory. One script is executed on the file/directory before being checked into the repository (this is denoted with the -t flag) and the other when the file is checked out of the repository (this is denoted with the -f flag). The `-t'/`-f' feature does not work with client/server CVS. ^^ ^ I guess I must have a client/server cvs? I am running it locally on the machine that hosts the repository. Is there any substitute for wrappers? Should I file a bug report. For now I have removed the wrapper commands. thanks, Stuart
suggestion to installation team regarding /var
Hi, I have one suggestion to the folks who write the installation instructions. Please mention that Debain uses piles of space in /var/lib/dpkg and that consequently, those folks who make their /var be a separate partition should make it 20MB bigger than they think it should be. Same goes for the TeX packages. I've got a 46 MB /var/ and I've overflowed it on a few too many occasions because dpkg uses ~17MB and tex uses 6MB currently. Now I feel better. Stuart PS. A mostly happy debian user since 0.93R5.
lp error
I'm running potato, with a 2.2.1 kernel. I've just moved my /usr tree onto a new partition (I used "cp -av /usr/* /tmp" to do the copy). Everything seems to be OK - I'm posting from Netscape 4.07 within Enlightenment 0.15 - except for my printing. I print to an external network printer (which was working fine until this point) and now I get the error "Get_local_fqdn: no host name" what does this mean, and how do I fix it? -- --==**==-- Ian Stuart - University computing services. - Opinions are funny things: Mine are mine and mine alone
Re: Where is pine?
Debian Mail wrote: > > I did a > zgrep pine Contents-i386.gz | grep bin > which shows no result (the Contents-i386.gz is from potato). > Where is pine? Stef, There isn't a .deb binary for pine (something about licencing or distributing binaries or something that Washinton Uni. put in.) What you get are (1) the pine source and (2) the Debian patch Patch the main source and compile - install. It's actually quite easy and well explained in the disrtibution files... -- --==**==-- Ian Stuart - University computing services. - Opinions are funny things: Mine are mine and mine alone
Re: apt-get downloading packages question
> you might want to use it.. (but not with gnome-apt) > Dare I ask why not with gnome-apt? -- Stuart Miles[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Transfering mail from netscape
Or from the tkrat menu select - Take mail from Netscape -- Stuart Miles[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading slink -> potato
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:22:00 +0100, you said: >then selecting some gnome stuff i get: >gnome-gnometris depends on libaudiofile-cvs0 >libaudiofile-cvs0 does not appear to be available >gnome-gnometris depends on libesd-cvs0 >libesd-cvs0 does not appear to be available > >from where should those files come? They're available from Brian Almeida's area, you need to add the following line to your sources.list: deb http://www.debian.org/~bma/e-cvs/debs ./ You do have to be a bit careful about what you install though, most of the gnome packages are using libgnome31 but some like gmc are still using libgnome0. I made the mistake of installing gmc and breaking the rest of gnome. -- Stuart Miles[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LCP EchoReq over and over again
On 27 February 1999 at 13:30, "Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" wrote: > >Hi, > >I'm having this problem for quite some time. I keep on seeing this >message about "LCP EchoReq" on /var/log: > >[...] >Feb 26 06:35:12 localhost pppd[23168]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4e magic=0x30c5f >b97] >[...] > >As you see, it happens once every minute. > >Is this a problem? How can I make it stop? /etc/ppp/options: Comment out the line that says debug. -- Stuart Miles[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hamm -> Slink PROBLEMS
On 1 March 1999 at 15:15, Ed Cogburn wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have instal >led >> apt for hamm. I did changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to >> ftp://ftp.us.debia.org/frozen main contrib non-free. I then did an >> apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade. While trying to >> d/l, apt gave me the following errors: >> >> ERROR ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/ >> locales_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb >> 550 /debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/ >> locales_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb: not a plain file. >> >> [other errors snipped] > > > I had to give up on us.debian about a week ago because of these >kinds of errors. Switch to another mirror, or ftp.debian.org, >until us.debian is fixed. > > I've had these errors before from other sites, I had it at the same time as other errors telling me files didn't exist, I think it's linked to the site updating. -- Stuart Miles[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: potato -"heyho!" message?
On 5 March 1999 at 16:43, "Anthony Mulcahy" wrote: >I upgraded from hamm to potato yesterday without any trouble, however after >the upgrade was completed, I noticed a strange problem. > >I had several Eterms open when the message "heyho!" (followed by a newline >character) started to be repeatedly printed on one of them. The keyboard did >not seem to have any effect (even CTRL-C) and the only way to stop the >message from being repeated was to close the Eterm window. > Are you running Enlightenment by any chance, I had this a couple of days ago and I think it was esd (Esound) that choked -- Stuart Miles[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
did ldd disappear?
Hi, Did the "ldd" program go away? The man page is still there from the ldso package in slink but I don't have an ldd anymore. Anyone know where/why it is gone? Stuart
Re: did ldd disappear?
Hi, Sorry to answer myself but I re-installed ldso (1.9.10-1) and ldd is back. Don't know what happened. Stuart
epic100 ethernet module with Debian 2.1
Problem: Couldn't install epic100 (etherpower II)
ethernet driver during debian2.1 standard
installation.
Installed debian2.1 from scratch and included the
epic100 ethernet driver. Got an error message
"Parameter documentation for this module is unavailable"
The next message was a prompt:-
"Please enter any command-line arguments for the epic100 module"
I simply pressed the {Enter} key and the installation apparently
suceeded.
On completion of the debian2.1 installation, including the
network configuration, I rebooted
and the following bootup messages appeared:-
...
Loading Modules: epic100 epic100.c:v1.03 8/7/98 Donald Becker \
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/epic100.html
eth0: SMC EPIC/100 (chip ID0005) at 0xdc00, IRQ 9, 00:e0:29:1b:69:f6
eth0: MII transceiver #3 control 3000 status 7809
eth0: Autonegotiation advertising 01e1 link partner 0001
...
This looks OK to this untrained eye, but when I logged in
and tried to run any internet command (eg ftp)
there was a long wait and then the message:-
ftp: connect: No route to host.
Note that exactly the same installation procedure with other
ethernet drivers (eexpress and tulip) resulted in
working network connections.
Has anyone out there had similar problems with this module
and does anyone know of a fix or workaround (other than
replacing the cards in 25 workstations?)
TIA
Stuart
--
Stuart Cook
I.T.Services (St Luke's Campus)
University of Exeter
Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks
I'm trying to set up my machine to use two networks: I occasionally access an ISP (who requires that all non-web access is done only through their modem-banks) on my workstation which is connected to my academic LAN. what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up) all requests for the ISPs network is routed via ppp0, whilst all other traffic is routed via eth0 how? (Assume that my academic lan is the class B 129.1 and my ISP is the class B 130.2) many thanks... ** Ian Stuart Land Rover : A British car that was meant to survive the charge of an adult bull rhino and be field-stripped in the jungle with a Leatherman and a lump-hammer WWW: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/
Re: Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: > > > > what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up) all > > requests for the ISPs network is routed via ppp0, whilst all other traffic > > is routed via eth0 > > > > Try something like: > > route add -net 130.2.0.0 dev ppp0 > > Your default route should stay on your ethernet. I think there are ip.up > and ip.down scripts that are executed automatically by ppp. Add the > above line to ip.up and a similar line with delete instead of add to > ip.down. Yup, it works fine for me (though Xemacs barfed this morning.. :( ** Ian Stuart Land Rover : A British car that was meant to survive the charge of an adult bull rhino and be field-stripped in the jungle with a Leatherman and a lump-hammer WWW: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~kiz/
where to look for linux programmers?
Hi, Is it appropriate to mention (part-time) job oppurtunities on this list? thanks, Stuart
sendmail config behind firewall?
Hi, I have several machines behind a firewall. Let's say they are named cam1,cam2,cam3,cam4 with addresses 192.168.1.[2-5] with a firewall machine at 192.168.1.1 having 2 eth interfaces. The firewall also does ip masquerading. I want to be able to send mail from the cam? machines with the firewall machine acting as a smart host. I tried using the current slink sendmailconfig which asks for smart host and masquerading etc. The problem is that when these machines boot sendmail insists on using dns to look up itself. But is has no real address so it takes a while to timeout. So I tried following the directions and I have tried messing with $j in sendmail.cf but it still does not work. Can someone tell me what sendmail.mc should look like for this configuration. I suspect it is a common enough config. thanks a million as usual, Stuart
Machine freezes with xdm but not startx
Hi, A while ago I posted to this list a question about the fact that my machine completely freezes up on a regular basis (with a pretty pattern of stripes on the screen) when I start X with xdm, but works fine when I start it with startx. I got a reply in a private email from someone who's address I've lost (sorry!) asking me whether by any chance I had an S3VirGE DX graphics card, which I do (at least according to SuperProbe). I was just wondering if that person (or anyone else) has made any progress on tracking down or fixing this problem, because I'd love to get my machine running xdm again... startx is so much clumsier. If more information about my system would help just let me know! (I can give software configuration information very quickly, but hardware information may take a while to figure out unless there's some command, like SuperProbe, that will tell me). Thanks, Stuart.
Installation stalls with new kernel
I am trying to make a new install/boot disk because the standard one doesn't like my IDE controller cards. I compiled a new kernel with the drivers I need and set it up with rdev. It now boots fine but when the installation program comes up, it seems to stall. It shows the display selection screen but I can't move or make a selection. All I can do is Alt-Fx to the other consoles and reboot. Any ideas about what might be wrong? Perhaps some option I forgot to compile into the kernel? Thanks Stuart Johnston
Apt is misbehaving
My "apt" and "dpkg" seem to be very confused. I just finally got hold of a slink Official CD set and installed it on my new computer. The installation process went off with hardly a hitch - a first for me with Debian ;) What follows is pretty much the first thing I tried to do after finishing installing and getting X set up. The problems started when I tried to use Apt to start the slow process of upgrading to potato (I'm on a modem, so I'm going to do it bit by bit... just the packages I want). I edited /etc/apt/sources.list to change "stable" to "unstable" wherever it appeared, and also added the gnome-stage-2 url (I don't mind a bit of instability, but I do want to be able to show off gnome). Just out of curiosity, I typed apt-get update; apt-get -s dist-upgrade to see exactly how huge a download would be needed if I were to try to do it all at once. Apt told me that only two packages would be upgraded/installed - Glib and Gtk 1.2. How strange, I thought, and went to bed. The next day I tried to do some real upgrading, so I tried doing apt-get install on an actual package (the package for netscape 4.51). Apt told me it couldn't install it because it had broken dependencies, and listed them for me. After spending a while trying to chase them manually down to the root, I gave up. I thought apt might have been out of date, so I tried apt-get install apt. "Sorry, apt is already at the latest version". Wrong! The website lists the current version as 0.3.4, I have 0.1.9. I looked at dselect, and noticed that every single package on my system is listed as an "obsolete/local package". This seems like an Important Clue to me, but I have no idea what it means. These are all the things I can think of to do. I've tried various "clean" options to apt and dpkg, and they all return without problems, but don't change anything. Any help would be much appreciated. Apt is one of the few programs I've *never* had a problem with before (although I've also never installed from a CD before - always floppies+apt). Thank you very much for your time, Stuart.
secure Xterminal scheme?
Hi, I am hoping to set up some low end pc's running debian where we use them as xterminals. That is, we do: X -query It works well and allows running an 8-bit color display off of a sun host while keeping a 16-bit color display on the local linux host. In this case we want to replace some old ncd xterms and sun ipcs with faster video but still make it look like we are running solaris for a while. But the X stuff going over the network is not encrypted. (Nor was it on the old machines, it is just desirable.) Does anyone know a way to achieve the same result but with some form of encryption. The ssh docs talk about assigning arbitrary port connections etc., but I can't think of a way to run an entire xdm session though such a channel. I have searched around in all the usual places (howto's, faq's, X web sites) but can't find any mention of such a scheme. thanks, Stuart
Java crashes in recent Potato?
Java, Javac and all other java commands appear to be crashing since a recent apt-get upgrade of my potato system. I get the following message: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined symbol: _dl_symbol_value This must have happened in the last two or three weeks. I can't pinpoint it closer than that because I've done several upgrades, but only just noticed the problem. Doing an upgrade right now, though, didn't fix it. Anyone else experienced this, or have a fix? Thanks, Stuart.
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > Well I decided to go ahead and upgrade to glibc2.1 when I found all the > new packages in unstable were compiled with it. It meant I couldn't get, > for instance, the new Gnome stuff. > > I had three problems. The first, JAVA, has now been resolved. What was the problem and how did you resolve it? I think I am being bitten by this, and I would very much like to know how to fix it... Thanks, Stuart.
Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine)
I have a dual-boot RedHat 5.2 / Debian Slink system. The RedHat system has a symlink /dev/mouse -> /dev/cua1 and works fine with both gpm and X. However, gpmconfig and X both fail to recognize the mouse at all under Debian. I've tried both allowing gpmconfig to guess the device (it always guesses ttyS0, which is my modem) and specifying ttyS1 on the command line. Either way, it receives no packets at all. In X, the mouse doesn't move at all. The mouse is a logitech 3-button mouse, and I'm pretty sure the protocol should be "mman" in gpm (or MouseMan in X). I've also tried "ms" (and Microsoft in X) which is what the redhat system uses. Nothing gives me any mouse movement at all. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this? Thank you very much in advance, Stuart.
GNOME minor problems
I recently managed to get GNOME from potato installed onto my hybrid slink/potato system (despite the dire warnings I've heard, I have had no problems from the conflicting glibc versions - apt seems to have dealt with it very well). The only problem I had was a missing dependency somewhere that meant I was able to get the whole thing installed without ever installing (the right version of) imlib-base, so everything core-dumped. I spotted this by doing apt-get -s dist-upgrade, and looking for anything relevant. Should I file a bug on this somewhere? if so, what package? Now for the current issue (it's a minor one, but infuriating). When I download a GTK theme from themes.org and try to install it from the GNOME control center, everything gives the appearance of working fine - but only a few of the settings from the new theme are applied. The ones that seem to be applied are basic coloring and font changes. Everything else (ie border styles, special images for buttons, pixmap backgrounds, gradients... basically all the cool bits) are ignored. A couple of other minor things: * My menus don't animate, despite the fact that I selected that they should in the control center. is this a bug? * Is there a way to get E to animate minimizing and unminimizing? It's the only window operation that I don't get animated feedback on, and it's a bit disconcerting. * Both E and GNOME want to control the background. I can disable setting it from GNOME, but I'd rather let GNOME do it and disable it in E. Is there a way to do that? Other than that, let me just say that Gnome *rocks*. Kudos to the GNOME team, and the Debian people that packaged it all up for us. You guys rock. I've used KDE for ages, and found it amazing to start with, but right from the start I had little annoyances, that grew into big annoyances over time. GNOME seems to avoid all of them... I haven't found any yet! Stuart.
Re: GNOME minor problems
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "SB" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SB> The only problem I had was a missing dependency somewhere that > SB> meant I was able to get the whole thing installed without ever > SB> installing (the right version of) imlib-base, so everything > SB> core-dumped. > > As you can't be more specific about the packages involved, then I am > afraid it is hardly a useful bugreport, as it can't be reproduced. My best guess is that imlib-gdk doesn't depend on imlib-base (and all the gnome stuff depends only on imlib-gdk). But there may be a reason for this (maybe the dependencies are supposed to be somewhere else), which is why I say that I don't know what package to file a bug against. > SB> Now for the current issue (it's a minor one, but > SB> infuriating). When I download a GTK theme from themes.org and try > SB> to install it from the GNOME control center, everything gives the > SB> appearance of working fine - but only a few of the settings from > SB> the new theme are applied. The ones that seem to be applied are > SB> basic coloring and font changes. Everything else (ie border > SB> styles, special images for buttons, pixmap backgrounds, > SB> gradients... basically all the cool bits) are ignored. > > You are most likely missing one of the gtk-engines-* packages (maybe > the pixmap one). Thanks - installing every gtk-engine package I could find solved the problem (although it probably was the pixmap or gradient one, or both). Thanks again, Stuart.
Re: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine)
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine) > Date: Sun, May 16, 1999 at 11:24:25AM -0400 > > In reply to:Stuart Ballard > > Quoting Stuart Ballard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have a dual-boot RedHat 5.2 / Debian Slink system. The RedHat system > > has a symlink /dev/mouse -> /dev/cua1 and works fine with both gpm and > > X. However, gpmconfig and X both fail to recognize the mouse at all > > under Debian. I've tried both allowing gpmconfig to guess the device (it > > always guesses ttyS0, which is my modem) and specifying ttyS1 on the > > command line. Either way, it receives no packets at all. In X, the mouse > > doesn't move at all. > > > > The mouse is a logitech 3-button mouse, and I'm pretty sure the protocol > > should be "mman" in gpm (or MouseMan in X). I've also tried "ms" (and > > Microsoft in X) which is what the redhat system uses. Nothing gives me > > any mouse movement at all. > > > > I have a 3 button Logitech Trackball that works in every dist I have > tried. Here is some info thet 'may' help. > > ls /dev/mouse > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root5 Jan 19 15:29 /dev/mouse -> ttyS1 > > less /etc/gpm.confless /etc/gpm.conf > device=/dev/ttyS1 > type=mman > append="-a 3" > > less /etc/X11/XF86Config > [snip] > Section "Pointer" >Protocol"Mouseman" >Device "/dev/mouse" > EndSection > [snip] Pretty much identical to my setup :( > You don't mention which kernel you are using. The 2.2.x series has > changed the use of cua device names. From the kernel Changes file > " Also, please remember that cua* devices are now obsolete. Switch to > the corresponding ttyS* device instead (e.g., cua0 -> ttyS0, cua1 -> > ttyS1, etc.)." I'm using 2.0.36 as installed from a slink CD. The use of cua1 is only on RedHat (I seem to remember trying ttyS1 on that, and having it fail too, but that was a long time ago and my memory of it is sketchy). Could I need to add a kernel module for this? Or might I have added one which conflicts? (I might have added PS2-mouse by mistake, now that I think of it) Stuart.
Re: loading module for NE2000 Ethernet card
David Karlin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a box running slink and am trying to install an NE2000 > ethercard. > > When I do: > # insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o > I get: > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ethdev_init > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_debug > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_interrupt > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol NS8390_init > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_close > > Needless to say, the installation fails and when I do: > # ifconfig eth0 > I'm told that the device is not recognized. > > I must be missing something...anyone have a clue? > > Thanks, Try using modprobe instead of insmod: # modprobe ne io=0x220 I believe (although I've never tried this) that PCI ne2k cards don't need the io value, but ISA ones definitely do. I found out my io address by doing: for io in 200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 do echo $io modprobe ne io=0x$io sleep 1 done This successfully loaded the card for me (although it's still not working - I suspect there are other problems somewhere in the system). Stuart.
Is it possible to create cua[0-3] devices in Slink/Potato?
I have a computer running mostly slink, with a small amount of potato thrown in. It completely fails to recognise my serial mouse, no matter what device or protocol I give it. gpmconfig instantly decides that the modem device must be the mouse, I guess because it's the only one with any activity. Giving it the "correct" device, ttyS1, it just gets no activity at the next step. Putting ttyS1 in XF86Config doesn't work either. What is strange is that Red Hat works perfectly well on this system. After a bit of looking, I noticed that on Red Hat, /dev/mouse was pointing to /dev/cua1 instead of ttyS1. This reminded me that I had similar problems when I installed Red Hat itself, which I solved by pointing to cua1 because ttyS1 didn't work. I know that the cua devices are obsolete under recent kernels, but I only have the kernel that came with slink (2.0.36?). However, /dev/MAKEDEV cua1 doesn't work. Is there any way I can create it? Failing that, does anyone have any ideas why my mouse would work with cua devices and not ttyS devices, and how to fix it? Thanks in advance, Stuart. PS If the solution involves upgrading some components to potato, I have no problem with this. A complete upgrade isn't possible due to bandwidth limitations, though.
Kdevelop package on kde.tdyc.com/kde2
apt-get just informed me that kdevelop depends on kdelibs2g (>= 4:1.1.2-19990906-1.0) but it is not installable. Does anyone know if this is a bug, a package that isn't yet uploaded onto the server, or something that I need to go get somewhere else? Thanks, Stuart.
Re: Kdevelop package on kde.tdyc.com/kde2
Stuart Ballard wrote: > > apt-get just informed me that kdevelop depends on kdelibs2g (>= > 4:1.1.2-19990906-1.0) but it is not installable. Does anyone know if > this is a bug, a package that isn't yet uploaded onto the server, or > something that I need to go get somewhere else? Sorry to reply to my own mail, but after trying to install other bits of kde, I can't seem to get *any* of it to install. The only packages that exist seem to end in -cvs, and all have unmet dependencies or conflict with each other. For example, kdebase-cvs depends on qt2, but when I tried to install qt2 it tried to *remove* kdelibs3-cvs, which is about the only part that I *have* been able to install. Does anyone have any information as to which packages need to be installed in order to get a kde2 installation on potato? If this is currently not possible, how about a kde 1 installation with a recent version of kdevelop? Thanks, Stuart.
24-bit graphics woes
I just upped my X server to 24-bpp display, and I have two questions regarding this: First, netscape suddenly started displaying all its icons in a rather fetching grey/black color scheme. Is this always the case in 24-bit, is there a known fix, or is my system just weird? :) Secondly, of course, this made everything slow to a crawl, so I started wondering for the first time whether there is an accelerated server for my graphics card (I'm currently running the SVGA server, on potato). SuperProbe tells me the following information about my card: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: Trident ProVidia 9685 (PCI Probed) Memory: 4096 Kbytes RAMDAC: Trident Built-In 15/16/24-bit DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) My question is - how do I know whether there is an accelerated server that applies? I have looked through the xserver-* packages in potato and there are none that obviously apply to this card. But how can I tell definitively? If there are no accelerated servers, are there any other ways of speeding up display apart from the obvious? (ie, switch back to a lower bpp or buy a new graphics card) Thanks in advance for any help, Stuart.
Re: 24-bit graphics woes
Bryan Allen wrote: > > You might want to check out xfree86.org, they've got spiffy infos on the > supported cards. and yeah.. the 24 bit ugly netscape thing is netscape > being ghetto and ugly in 24 bit. try jumping it up to 32bit as soon as you > can. x is generally a lot prettier when it's got the color depth behind > it. :) Woohoo! It never occurred to me that 24bit might be simply worse-behaved than 8, 16 and 32 bits. My card is accelerated in all modes except 24... typical huh? Switching to 32bit solved the speed issue, but the graphics seemed to get corrupted, giving an interesting "color bleeding"-like effect. Usually the left-hand side of any object didn't seem to get drawn correctly, or sometimes at all, leaving holes in the sides of my windows, and strange graphical artifacts on my menus. If anyone has any ideas about *that*, I'd be *really* grateful (background: Trident ProVidia9685 graphics card, SVGA xserver, current potato) For now I'm in 16 bit and working fine (and fast) - thanks bryan :) Stuart.
Any way to install modconf on current potato?
Is there any way to get modconf to install on the current release of potato? Failing that, what are the necessary commands at the console to: 1) See what modules my kernel is compiled to support (I know what they are, just not the module names - they were never mentioned in make xconfig) 2) See the help on a module's parameter format 3) Attempt to add a module into the running kernel with a given set of parameters 4) Set things up so that the module I just added will be added next time I boot as well On a related note, I can't seem to get gnome-apt to install either - it wants an unavailable version of libapt-pkg2.5. Any ideas on this one? Thanks, Stuart.
Where is smbmount?
Hi, What package do I need to install to get the smbmount command? I have samba, samba-common and smbclient installed, but mount -t smbfs doesn't seem to do anything, and there is no smbmount man page. Even better, if possible, would be a way to get gmc (or kfm/konqueror) to dynamically browse windows hosts just as microsoft explorer (ugh) does. Does gmc support dynamically mounting/unmounting things? TIA, Stuart.
Debian packages? - MP3 encoders; Mozilla M10
Two questions related to whether there are debian packages available for things. The first is, is there a debian version of any MP3 encoders or "rippers" (disclaimer: I'm only going to "rip" my own CDs for use only by myself)? I couldn't see any under the "sound" section of the packages website. The second package I'm interested in: recent Mozilla. By all accounts, M10 was the first Mozilla to be really usable as a browser, but the debian package is still at M9. Even better would be some location to get debianized nightly builds... TIA, Stuart.
jserv or libapache-mod-jserv?
I just tried to install gnujsp on my system and it went to install a package named "jserv". However, my system already has "libapache-mod-jserv" installed. Looking at the packages website, these seem to be the same thing, so I assume they will probably conflict (the authors are presumably unaware of each other). What should I do? Thanks, Stuart.
Moving the iconbox in Enlightenment 0.16-1
How do I move the Icon box? I can change it's orientation, and features about it, but I cannot move it, or any new ones to different screen locations. Any ideas anyone? -- --==**==-- Ian Stuart - University computing services. - Opinions are funny things: Mine are mine and mine alone http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/
Unidentified subject!
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kerneld won't go away!
Why is it that, even after religiously running update-rc.d -f kerneld remove and /etc/init.d/kerneld stop, kerneld keeps coming back every time the modutils package is upgraded? I get a warning that I almost certainly shouldn't be running it, and then it starts it back up and installs it back into rc.d. How do I make kerneld go away? Thanks, Stuart. PS does *anyone* know what's up with mozilla? Will debian ever get M11?
